RADIOApril 04, 2022

The FACTS behind Biden’s BLATANT LIES on economy, oil & gas

No one could dismantle America faster than the Biden administration. And it becomes even worse when President Biden tries to outright LIE about how he’s doing it. On Friday, Joe Biden said the U.S. economy is ‘on the move,’ touting the jobs he’s created and the deficits he’s lowered. WHAT?! Is he living in an alternate universe? Glenn and Stu break down these BLATANT LIES, giving you the FACTS to how this far-left federal government is destroying our economy and our oil & gas industries…

Transcript

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GLENN: Okay. So Biden said a couple of things. One, we all know the right way to build something is build an economy from the bottom up. You know, I don't think we all know that. I certainly don't know that. I've never worked for a poor man. They are generally not the ones hiring. As we have pointed out earlier this week. But he says, things are great. What is the new unemployment number?

STU: 3.6 percent.

GLENN: Wow. That is incredible. 3.6 percent.

STU: It's quite low.

GLENN: Yeah. It's almost like unemployment. When you're getting into the threes. You're headed towards unemployment. Where there's just no one else available for the jobs. Now, if I listen to Joe Biden, things are going so well. New jobs are being created. He's created, what was it? 7.5 million new jobs?

STU: Oh, all creating them.

GLENN: In the last year alone. Can I ask I a question? I haven't seen any of these new jobs, I haven't seen the new job creation. I live in Texas. And I do see the empty stores and restaurants and things that used to be there. And maybe there's a few new stores, but I'm not seeing them.

Now, I'm in Texas, that just has been on the ropes. There's no new job creation here at all.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Wait a minute. So let me ask you this: Did we lose that many people? I mean, it must have been millions. The media, I know, is lying to us. But did we lose tens of millions of Americans, in covid?

STU: No. We did not -- not that many. A lot. But not that many.

GLENN: Okay. So why is there a help wanted sign in almost every store, restaurant, everywhere?

STU: It's because of Joe Biden's raging economy.

GLENN: But these were the same jobs that were filled by people, just two years ago, and now they can't fill them. Did they all go someplace? Did they die? Or are they all working in this mystic mountain, you know, machinery, this -- this great corporation in the sky, that I haven't seen or heard from?

STU: Hmm. It may be that. Maybe that's why. And maybe because that's such a jarring scenario, that's the reason. They can't seem to recognize all of this bounty that they have. People are not recognizing the economic brilliance, of Joe Biden. And all the things he's brought to them.

GLENN: Well, I mean, he did stand in front of the American people, just about 15 minutes ago, and say, look, here's the thing. People have more money in their pocket, than they did a year ago.

STU: I mean, it's technically probably true. Because the money has inflated so much. That they need extra dollars to do anything. It's a fascinating thing. You know, because we were talking about this with Michael Malice a few minutes ago. It's good to go on offense. Republicans don't go on offense a lot. But it's not the only answer. You shouldn't be on offense, when you have absolutely no argument. And Joe Biden has absolutely no argument.

GLENN: Oh, I won't hear that. He just pointed out that he cut the deficit.

STU: Oh, this one was really frustrating.

GLENN: No. Listen. Not the debt. The deficit. He cut the deficit last year, in 2021, last year, by 350 billion. This year, he's cutting it by $1.3 trillion. That's the biggest reduction in deficit in our whole history.

STU: Think of what -- this disingenuous doesn't cover it. Think of what a pathetic lie that is. First of all, he's comparing this to a year, where all of the businesses were closed. And millions of people were fired, because there's nowhere to work. So, yeah. Tax revenues work pretty far down. We also spent multiple trillions of dollars, on a pandemic.

GLENN: Only 5.6. Only 5.6.

STU: It's much more than that. But still, okay. 5.6 trillion on the front. We recover the fed stuff I guess another time?

But still, $5.6 trillion+ on covid, just added on top.

He reduces it by $350 billion, from that number, which is terrible. But it's a terrible job. And he just -- just by showing up to work, you should have been able to do a trillion dollars off that budget. It was supposed to be a once in a lifetime pandemic, and you basically repeated it in year two, when everyone wanted to go back, and you kept telling them not to.

Then this year, he's taking credit for $1.3 trillion in -- in budget -- in deficit reduction. When that number is, first of all, not impressive. Considering what he's comparing it to. But secondly, it only exists because his plan, Build Back Better, didn't pass. If it did pass, he wouldn't have saved $1.3 trillion off of the budget. It's only because of his failure, that he can claim the success. That is his argument to the American people today.

GLENN: So this is a little like, your house is on fire. And it's burning down. And the fire department comes. And starts putting it out. And you're like, dude, it is still out of control. And the five or six department saying. I just reduced the temperature of your house by 400 degrees. And you're like, but it was 1400. It's still 1,000 degrees! In the house.
(laughter)

I mean --

STU: No. And not to mention, the fact that even before the pandemic, the -- the deficits were too high. So he's taking it -- a worst case, monumental, once in a century, terrible number. Reducing it slightly. Then bragging about it, while the American people, identify correctly, as one of the biggest challenges we have, is inflation. And what is his answer? He's talking about spending more money. And then telling you, it's going to fix inflation. He's talking about releasing millions of barrels from the strategic oil reserve, which will do nothing. It's not going to help the problem. If anything, it puts it, at higher risk, in a time of potential world war, which is -- so it's a terrible idea.

But if you really wanted to knock a few cents off of the gas prices for a short time, your job would not be to release oil from the strategic oil reserve. You could no change out the tax. The federal tax of 18 cents. And get it to go down 18 cents in a day. Now, should I you do that? There's economic arguments against it. But at least there would be a straight line through some sort of sane, coherent thought process, to change the gas prices in the short-term.

Whether that should be his goal or not -- I mean, I want that tax to go away for other reasons. And it should stay gone away forever. And so should the state taxes. But this was -- this makes absolutely no sense.

GLENN: Oh, boy. You haven't listened to the president. Look, he said.

STU: He said, come on, man?

GLENN: This is a moment of consequence and peril for the world. And pain at the pump for American families.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: It's also the moment of patriotism. I want to acknowledge those companies that have already announced that they're increasing immediate production. They're investing money to produce more oil, and also clean technologies, we need to reduce our dependence on oil in the future. They're investing money, really? Because no bank is giving them money to invest. No bank is giving them money to pump more oil right now. Because that is a reputational risk, to the banks. Don't believe me? Ask the oil companies, that are not under the thumb of their new, wildly progressive environmentalist cabinet members. Or their board members. Like Exxon. No bank is giving these people any money. So they say, they have everything they need. These oil companies. Everything.

STU: Of course.

GLENN: Literally nothing. Nothing. Nothing, I'm quoting, is standing in their way. And they've indicated, they will be producing an extra 1 million barrels of oil per day, probably starting as early as this fall. Now, that's progress. Is it? Is that the best we can do?

STU: No. That is not the best we can do. But some companies have been pretty blunt. They don't want to increase supply. Because Putin's price hike, means higher profits for them.

STU: Right. Because they wouldn't want more to sell, in a market that's higher. That makes a lot of sense. These greedy guys are stupid.

GLENN: One CEO even acknowledged that they don't care if the price of a barrel of oil goes to $200 a barrel.

You know who says that? People who are environmentalists. They want it to go to $200 a barrel, so you can't afford gasoline, and then you will cry out, for the magical electric car, that will not be ready, because we don't have the energy capability, for everybody to plug their car into the wall!

STU: Or the nickel, we never to make the batteries.

GLENN: Oh, no. We're getting the nickel.

STU: Oh, we're --

GLENN: We're getting it, because he just took over the industry. Another War Powers Act. Can America wake up to the fascism? Another War Powers Act, he just enacted yesterday to take over the nickel industry. So he can force these companies, to go get more nickel.

Oh, my gosh.

STU: And, of course, when government runs industries like that, it always works out really well.

GLENN: It always works out. Yeah. Look at Cuba. I mean, do we need to say? Look at how well all of these policies worked in Venezuela for their oil industry.

STU: Really, really well. By the way, too. It was Steven Colbert the other day, making a joke, about how he doesn't care if it goes to 15. Fifteen dollars a gallon. He has a Tesla.

GLENN: Uh-huh. You know what, there's somebody else that talks specifically about this. Now, it's a conspiracy theory. She doesn't have any power whatsoever, to actually get people to do something.

Here's cut three. Nancy Pelosi.

NANCY: But we cannot allow the fossil fuel industry to use this as an excuse to reverse everything that we're doing to save the planet. One of the things that I think that the president may say. I don't have this as a fact, is that we will use the defense production act, to speed up diversification, so that we're not so dependent.

GLENN: More power. More power.

NANCY: On oil.

STU: Wait. She doesn't have it as a fact. The president might say. Then she looks down at a piece of paper and reads the words, Defense Production Act. What do you mean she doesn't have it as an act?

GLENN: Jeez. So she is saying, but the good news is, we cannot let these oil companies use this as an excuse, to go back and producing more oil. Did you hear what she's saying there?

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: They can't use this as an excuse. Meanwhile, he's saying, they don't want to do it, because they're making so much money. Which one is it, guys?

STU: Nothing makes sense.

GLENN: But both of them, stay calm. Are invoking the War Powers Act. Oh, and one other thing. The president announced yesterday. And he repeated it again, in his speech. We are now going to be releasing one million barrels of oil, from our strategic reserve every day, until some time in the fall. 1 million -- do you know what the strategic oil reserve is for?

The name kind of gives it away. It's strategic. It's in case the United States has to go to war, because we learned you're lesson in World War II. He should know it. I mean, you know, I think Biden was 47, when we fought that war. It -- we learned our lesson. We have to have oil. We must have oil. Or we're not going to be able to -- we're not going to be able to fly our planes. Or sail our ships. Aircraft carriers won't work. Tanks won't work. Jeeps won't work. Nothing works, without oil!

So if we had to fight a war, we wanted to make sure, that we had enough oil, for that war! He's taking that down almost 40 percent! If we had it filled to the rim, we're left just with this tan. Not the last one. Just this tap, is going to take us to 60 percent of oil reserves. Okay? 60 percent. We probably have lost another 10 percent of our oil reserves, from the last one he just did. We're sitting at 50 to 60 percent of our oil. Assuming we started full. We're sitting on half of the strategic reserves. And they're seriously still talking about a nuclear war. What the almost used the word wrong for broadcast. Is wrong with these people! No, I know what's wrong with them. What's wrong with the American people? What is wrong? Are we this stupid? Are they going to get away with releasing our oil reserve? Everybody who is barely making it. Barely making it. If you want to save the country, you should still be saying, no. No. No. No, on that much oil, being -- it's the largest release in the history of our country. Good God, I could not dismantle this country faster. If I had all the experts in the world, and they all hated America, I could not dismantle this country faster. Than this administration is doing it. And, by the way, mark my words, soon they're going to have the final solution for America. They will tell us, let's -- we have to do these really crazy emergency things. We have to do it. But it's the only way to survive.

Yeah. America, their solution, will not actually be an economic shower. Don't go into that room.

Why Jim Acosta’s AI Parkland victim “interview” is GROTESQUE

Former CNN host Jim Acosta recently “interviewed” an AI-generated depiction of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver. Glenn Beck calls the stunt dystopian and sick, asking: “What does it truly mean to be alive if, in death, you’re more useful?”

Transcript

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GLENN: So here's a story that I think, if we don't stop and pay attention to right now, just one small story, it may seem like something small. But if we don't pay attention to it right now. I don't think we recognize what it means to be human in a generation, from now, if that long. Journalist. I shouldn't say journalist.

Publicity hound Jim Acosta just did an interview -- I can't even say that. Just did -- I don't even know what you would call it.

Did a publicity stunt, not with a witness.
Not a grieving parent. He sat down with an AI ghost.

It's an AI recreation of a 17-year-old kid, named Joaquin Oliver. He was murdered in the Parkland Massacre.

And then he called it journalism. He called it a conversation, but it wasn't.

It was neither!

It was -- it wasn't even human. Let me play this grotesque pantomime for you. Listen.

VOICE: Joaquin, I would like to know, what your solution would be for gun violence.

VOICE: Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard.

It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding; what do you think about that?

VOICE: I think that's a great idea, Joaquin.
(laughter)

STU: That is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. I had -- I had seen all the headlines. I hadn't actually seen the...
(laughter)

GLENN: Now, it is so --

STU: Sorry.

GLENN: It's so bad, it's funny, at this point. Right? It's just horrible.

I want to put this into perspective: This is a digital ventriloquist act. He's a puppet. It's the image of a dead kid, long buried, animated. Like a puppet, for the politics of those who are still living.

Now, let me ask you something, that, you know, we haven't dared to ask out loud yet.

And that is, what does it mean?

What his it truly mean to be alive?

In death, you're more useful.

What are the Republicans saying. Or sorry, the Democrats saying right now to some of the people in Congress.

They're saying, you need to take a bullet. Why?

Because you're more useful, if you're dead.

If somebody assassinates you. So what does it mean to be alive, if in death, you're more useful?

What does it mean when your image. Your voice. Your soul as captured by a memory or photograph, can be summoned back again.

Not by God. But by algorithms and agenda.

I hate to go all religious on you. But I have to tell you, if this isn't the making of a graven image, I don't know what is.

Thou shall not making a graven image.

You don't make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in heaven, above, or on earth beneath.

You know, the Native Americans used to -- they would never let you take your picture.

Some of them. Some tribes.

They would never let you take your picture. Because they thought it would steal your soul.

This doesn't have a soul. This is taking your image, bringing you back to life, without a soul.

When man starts creating a likeness, to wield power or emotion, we stop serving God. And we start serving ourselves.

And I'm going to be generous here. And say, don't blame the parents.

I don't -- I don't question their grief, in any way, shape, or form.

But this -- this -- this is no longer theirs.

This is not their son. This is a political puppet.

The minute Joaquin's AI avatar spoke political opinions into a camera, it stopped being about grief, and became propaganda!

And this, my friend, is only the beginning.

What happens when governments use AI resurrected faces for propaganda?

What happens when terrorists Use Deepfake hostages?

Hostages who are already dead? Pleading for help?

You don't think that could happen with Hamas?

You don't think that Hamas couldn't have made an image, in fact, the video that we say last week, could have very well been AI.

And the kid could be dead.

Now, it's not. But that's what's coming.

What happens when we begin to trust synthetic testimony, over human -- actual human experience?

This isn't just immoral.

This is very, very dangerous. This is soul-erasing.

This is post-human.

You are entering a world now, that is -- it's post-human!

This is the dystopian world. And we're just beginning to step into it. We're entering an age, where the dead can be programmed, to speak the words of the living.

Where the brief is nothing more than a marketing tool.

Where death is not your end!

But just the data set now, to be parsed and projected. And used politically.

And here's the real sick part of this: The more meaningful your death, the more valuable your ghost.

If that doesn't shake to you your core, nothing is going to.

If this doesn't wake you up to the dangers of AI, nothing will.

If this doesn't wake you up to go, oh, dear God, I've got to get back to the basics, I have to start asking the questions, what does it mean to be human? Nothing will!

We -- we have to draw really strong, ethical hard lines in the sand, on the use of AI. The use of likeness of the dead. It should be codified into law, internationally. And I'm not saying, you know, you're not bringing characters back. You know, you're not bringing -- you're not bringing things back to, you know, show them in movies, or for entertainment or whatever.

But when you're bringing dead children back, I don't know. I think there's a problem here.

There's a problem. We -- and we also have to teach our kids discernment here. Critical thinking.

You know, and more than critical thinking. Moral reasoning has got to be taught.

We need a generation that knows the difference between the real and the artificial.

Between the sacred and the synthetic.

Because that's going to be blurred.

All of it is blurred. How long before a Jim Acosta clown isn't the one doing it, but somebody serious? Transparency, from media. From tech.

Not after the fact. But before the images even appear on the screen.

Now, to his credit, he did say, this was AI. Of course. But it's a ghost!

We have to reawaken the soul, the concept of the soul. This is why I've said for years, that Ray Kurzweil is one of the scariest guys I have ever met. Because he doesn't believe in the soul.

He believes that that -- what you just saw, is just as real, as the real kid.

Some -- the soul can't be copied. It can't be coded.

It can't be commodified.

Because we lose our soul, in our culture.

If we lose it in our -- in our culture, in our politics. In our mourning. In our journalism.

Then you've got nothing left.

And doesn't Joaquin Oliver deserve dignity in life? Everybody knows he deserves peace in death.
Right?

What he didn't deserve, is to be animated by code, to deliver a political message like a branded mascot.

I'm sorry, but if this is the parents' doing, the parents -- the parents, shame on you. Shame on you.

I -- I understand your grief as much as a person can, that hasn't lost a child. I understand your grief, but this is sick.

You know where this road leads? It lees to a future where grief can be licensed.

Where every dead child becomes a campaign.

And where being alive, no longer requires a pulse.

Just a well-trained AI model.

You never die!

That's not compassion. That is not progress. That is hell, wearing the mask of empathy.

Shame on you, Jim Acosta!

Because out of all the people that could have done this, you're only doing it for PR. You're only doing it because you need the attention.

It's sick. And Americans have to stand up and say, no more. You have to at least, in your personal life, make a decision, what is life?

And what is death worth?

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For almost a decade, Glenn Beck has tried connecting the dots between Ukraine, Russiagate, the Open Society Foundations, and the weaponization of government under Obama and Biden. Recent revelations from the ODNI disclosure from Tulsi Gabbard and the Durham annex reveal a scandal that goes deeper than Russiagate to expose the full scope of the operation to take out President Trump. Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of "Blood Money," reveals the depth of Hillary Clinton and George Soros' corruption and how it all ties into the Trump Ukraine impeachment. Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of the Federalist, discusses whether people like former CIA Director John Brennan or even Obama will face justice and what crimes the DOJ could charge them with.

Why Democrats SUDDENLY “care” about gerrymandering

What is gerrymandering? And why are Texas Democrats suddenly screaming about it while ironically fleeing to Illinois, the most gerrymandered state in the nation? Glenn Beck breaks down gerrymandering and why he believes the Texas Democrats don't really care about "justice."

Transcript

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GLENN: All right. I want to play a couple of sound bites that came out yesterday.

First of all, let me start here with cut seven. This is a state representative from Texas, Ron Reynolds. He went on CNN.

And said, he wasn't worried about anything that the State of Texas was -- was claiming to do to him, because they were fleeing the state. Because they're on the right side of history. Here's cut seven.

VOICE: I'm not worried about Governor Abbott's threats of going to jail, or a $500 fine, because we're standing on the right side of history, making our own trouble, to fight, to preserve, and protect our democracy. We're on the right side of history. We're not beholden to the MAGA extremists, that are trying to disenfranchise black and brown communities. We're doing everything we can, to protect Texans. And so we're not going to cower to Governor Abbott's attempts to put us into jail. This is worth our democracy. This is not just about Texas. As Dr. King said, injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. This is about protecting our democracy.

Because if they can do it in Texas, they can do it anywhere else. So we're going to stand strong.

We're not going to back down. And we're going to keep pressing forward. To protect every single Texan. So they won't be disenfranchised.

We won't go back to the days of Jim Crow. We will stand up to racial gerrymandering.

GLENN: Okay. This is -- this is crazy.

There's so much there.

I mean, first of all, be really careful when you say you're on the right side of history.
I mean, I don't know about you, but I question all the time. And I think this is really healthy. Am I on the right side of history?

I don't know. I don't know what the answer. History will tell me the answer. Am I on the right side?

Am I -- am I fighting for the things that are right, correct, eternally true, and righteous?

I don't know. I mean, there is so many things that I go back and forth on, that I just don't know.

And I think that's really important to question yourself. So anybody, when they are firm on, you're on the right side of history. And we know. We don't question. We're on the right side of history.

Really? Because you were the ones with ESG. Forcing people to follow these rules like, you know, there's no difference between a man and a woman.

You know, men in women's sports.

Men can have a baby.

Really?

That's not working out well.

You know, that you're on the side that Dr. Martin Luther King was wrong.

That -- that the color of the skin does matter. That was your position. And you said, you were on the right side of history.

I don't think you're on the right side of history won that one. You know, it seems to be falling apart on you. Because now you're quoting Dr. Martin Luther King.

I thought we didn't -- we didn't agree with Dr. Martin Luther King.

I mean, that was your position, two years ago!

So when you're -- when you listen to anybody who says, they're on the right side of history. Be very, very careful.

You know, the one thing that I'm absolutely certain of. 100 percent certain of, is I'm not certain of anything.

The more I learn, the less certain I become, on certain things.

Right side of history, I don't know. I'm going to do my best. And let God sort it out, at the end.

I don't know. And then they say, if they can do this in Texas. If the Republicans can do this in Texas, they can do it anywhere.

They have been doing it everywhere, since 1812!

If you knew the history of gerrymandering, it comes from elder -- or Gerry Elbridge. Right? Gerry Elbridge, I think. Or Elbridge Gerry, that's it. Elbridge Gerry. He was a founding father. 1812, he is the governor, I think of Massachusetts. They start to draw these squiggly lines for the Congressional map. It's later, in the 1840s, called gerrymandering.

But that's how it started. They've been doing it forever. And the worst place, well, I'll get to that here in just a second.

So let me play the second clip here. And that is, on the Don Lemon show. Who knew he still had a show?

Another Texas state rep. Yolanda Jones said this, cut six.

VOICE: Then immigration happened, and everybody thought they accepted this. They don't accept this. They are showing us who they are.

We should believe them. And we better have the courage to stand up. Otherwise, we will follow for anything.

And in this country, we will be defeated, deported. I mean, we will lose all of our rights. And if you think it can't happen. It can. And I will liken this to the Holocaust.

People are like, well, how did the Holocaust happen?

How is anybody in the position to kill all these people?

Well, good people become silent.

Or good people didn't realize, that what happens to them, can very still happen to me and somebody I love.

And so even if you made it, you have an obligation to help people who can't. Because God forbid, they end up targeting you, and your family.

VOICE: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

GLENN: Okay. I agree with everything she said, except what she's applying it to!

How is this the Jerry -- I mean, I think it's a little insulting to those who had relatives stuffed into ovens! To say, that gerrymandering is like the Holocaust!

But maybe that's just me!

But you know what this is all about?

This is all about when a group of people in the government, no longer believe in its own people!

When 57 elected Democrats from Texas, they didn't just walk out on their duties, they walked out on the people.

They fled the state to avoid voting on redistricting maps, they say, are unfair.

They say, they're standing up for democracy. But where did they run?

This tells you a lot in the story. Illinois. New York. Massachusetts.

The states, whose maps are textbook examples of political gerrymandering!

They ran to Massachusetts, where it was -- it was Elbridge Gerry, that gerrymandering is named after, he was the governor of Massachusetts!

They fled to the belly of the beast, while crying wolf back home. So the first thing you need to know, this is not about justice. This is about power. And they are betting that you are too distracted and your friends are too distracted or discouraged to notice.

So let me be clear on what is actually happening here.

GLENN: Okay. So the Department of Justice in Texas. This is what's really happening. They decided that the Texas congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act. Not because it eliminates minority representation. But because it doesn't create coalition districts where different racial groups are lumped together to form artificial minorities.

So what they're saying, in bureaucratic doublespeak is, Texas has to draw maps, that elect Democrats. That's the game.

This is not about race. It's about arithmetic. If a Republican map spreads voters to thin its race, but if a Democratic map does the same to Republicans, it's equity!

That's -- that's not -- that's not the law. That's manipulation. And our Founders talked about this. In Federalist Papers number ten, James Madison warned us of the dangers of factions. Organized groups that put their own interests above the public good, and that's what we're experiencing everywhere.

He said, let me quote: The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have been the mortal diseases which popular governments have everywhere perished, end quote.

That's what this is. This is a faction. A political machine. So drunk on power. That it can't even pretend to be consistent, anywhere.

They invoke democracy. And then they run away from their duty to vote. They wear shirts that say, let the people vote. While ignoring votes in New York, that ignore an independent redistricting commission.

This is the rot Madison warned us about. Faction over function. Power over principle.

So let's look at Illinois for a second.

In Illinois, they didn't try to just gerrymander there.

They eradicated the Republicans.

They drew a map, so surgical. So cynical.

That analysts have now said, this is the worst gerrymander in the country!

It's in Illinois.

Republicans, now. I want you to hear this.

Republicans now hold three out of 17 seats.

Okay.

Well, the voters spoke.

Well, did they?

They won over 40 percent of the vote.

40 percent of the vote!

But they only hold three out of 17 seats.

That's not representative.

That's gerrymandering!

And now, Texas Democrats, they're running for cover.

They're hiding behind the very injustice they claim to oppose.

They also don't recognize, that by millions, because of their policies. Millions of people have moved in to Texas.

Since the census.

There is no real representation of -- of the people. Because millions of people have moved in.

So what do we do?

Well, this is something I think you're going to hear me talk about a lot lately. Is look to the future. And rebuild.

First thing we have to do is expose the hypocrisy on this.

Not with shouting. But with actual facts.

You have to use your voice.

You have to first teach what gerrymandering is.

It's legal. Okay. I don't like it.

I wish -- I will do a beach blackboard today.

You know, I don't have a blackboard anywhere near my house. But I do have a beach near my house. And I was out explaining this to somebody the other day. And I just took a stick, and I wrote it out on the beach. And I'm going to do this today. Because there is a way to fix this.

But you have to share the map. You have to show the math. Because the truth still matters. We have to defend the Constitution. The tenth amendment. State sovereignty. It's not a throwaway line. Texas has the right to draw the maps without DC micromanagement. Okay? They can draw the maps the way they want to draw the maps. The same thing with Illinois. They can draw the maps the way they want.

It's not fair. I don't like it. But it is the law!

Then we have to call for local reforms. We have to have independent redistricting commissions, that actually mean something.

Not performative democracy.

But actual checks and balances. I don't know if you can get there.

But the more local we make this, the better!

See, you know, gerrymandering makes us more extreme.

Because they'll run a line of constituents through a neighborhood. One side of the street, because this group on this side of the street, votes for Democrats. And on the other side of the street, it's Republicans. They literally will run that line, through to gather up all of the Democrats on the street, and forget the Republicans.

So that means that that Congress person no longer has to moderate at all.

They don't -- they don't -- the more extreme they become, the better off!

Because they're only talking to their side.

When you gerrymander, which we have forever. Our Founders warned against it.

Because you're creating these factions. You're creating distance between each other, and you have to equip your neighbors on this.

If they don't understand this, walk them through it. Print the maps. Compare the numbers. Build an informed electorate.

That's what -- that's our job. That's our job. Nobody will do this for us. Don't look to the Republicans to do it. They will spin it their own way.

And the other way, is refuse to retreat.

If 57 lawmakers can run away from their posts, make sure everybody knows, you're not going to run away from yours. We stay. We vote.

We hold the line.

You know, this -- this whole thing. Everything we do today, everything. Everything in the news you see, this isn't about Epstein.

This isn't about redistricting. This isn't about immigrants. This is about the restoration of trust! Trust! All of it. Can you trust the people who are redesigning the maps?

No.

Why?

Because it's in their best interest to gerrymander.

Well, I'm only doing it because they're doing it.

Okay. Then maybe you do that, bit let's work towards stopping this. Let's -- let's work towards a system where we don't gerrymander. Okay? But that's only going to be solved at the state level, where it belongs. You know, America can't survive a political class that lies with one face, and governs with another. But it can survive if her people, the remnant of those who really understand America and understand our history. If we rise with open eyes, with strong backs. And hearts grounded in principle, when we realize, we're not powerless. We're not pawns.

We're the ones with power.

That's when everything will change.

And I will tell you, I think I said this earlier today.

I'm not sure where the storm is.

I know the storm is on the beach.

I know it's on shore.

I just don't know what part of the storm is on shore. I don't know if we're hitting the worst part of it yet.

I don't think so.

But I know it's onshore now.

We have to batten down the hatches, and then start, you know, piling supplies up. And I'm not talking about boards to board up the windows.

I'm talking about building up our supplies to rebuild. Because this storm is going to pass us.

And I don't know what the devastation is going to be like on the other side.

But, you know, just like Mercury One does.

We -- we put supplies, just outside of the storm's pattern.

Because we know, we've got to get them as close as we can, to where the storm is supposed to hit.

Without it being hit itself, so once the storm passes, we can push in, and we can rebuild fast.

When this storm is over, we're going to have trouble, if we're standing here with no supplies, nothing prepared.

To rebuild quickly.

Because that's when people will realize, there's nobody coming.

There is nobody going to rebuild.

There's no help.

If we're not there to help, that's when things get really nuts!

So I -- I just -- I'm very excited for next year.

And you'll understand a little more, you know, in the coming days and weeks of -- of why I'm not talking about it yet.

But I can't wait to get started. Because I just know what we have to do.

And that is something that I don't feel like I understood for a very long time. You know. I knew I was supposed to warn. But I always felt there was something more to do.

I think my mission has changed. I've been given a new calling.

And it's to rebuild!

Rebuild and rebuild right now.