SPECIALSSeptember 30, 2020

Civil War: The Left's Election-Night War Game | Glenn TV

The Left has big plans for this election, and we could be just four weeks away from the fundamental transformation of America. They've been building a network of street activists since 2008, and the plan is to unleash them on November 3. Tonight Glenn reveals everything: how the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street weren't spontaneous uprisings, how they inspired a new era in left-wing activism, and how this newly evolved street movement has been behind nearly every major leftist movement over the past several years. But in their own words, that was just the warm-up. The real movement begins in about one month. Glenn takes you line by line, from their own documents, to show you the four scenarios Democrats have planned and also equips you with the action plan to prepare for election night and the weeks to follow.

View the research and supporting documents for this special here.

White House timeline HUMILIATES media’s Trump “demolition” lie

The mainstream media has been fear mongering nonstop about President Trump's "demolition" of the East Wing and plans to build a ballroom - WITHOUT taxpayer money. But the White House just obliterated this narrative with a timeline that had Glenn cracking up!

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GLENN: So this -- this White House reconstruction thing is just killing me. I just think it is hysterical, the way the left is just figuring. Donald Trump's destruction of the White House is now complete!

Yes. And he's moving the grave of Adolf Hitler. And going to bury him, in the rose garden!

Anyway, the White House has responded, and this is hysterical. And I don't know if you can -- yeah. Good. You have it up on the screen.

If you're watching TheBlaze. I'll take it through radio. If you're watching TheBlaze. This is fabulous.

The White House, at WhiteHouse.gov has just put together, a major events time line, the history of the White House, 1791 to 1800. Design plans commence for the White House. Then the rebuilding after the war of 1812. After the fire, that the British set.

Then the addition of the South Portico in 1824. Then addition of the North Portico, 1829, 1830.

Addition of the West Wing, 1902. 1909, addition of the Oval Office. 1913, addition of the Rose Garden. 1934 to '42, the addition of the East Wing. Forty-eight to '52, total reconstruction of the White House. 1970 to '73, addition to the briefing room.

The next on the time line. 1998, the Bill Clinton scandal. President Bill Clinton, his affair with the intern, Monica Lewinsky, exposed, leading to the White House perjury investigations. Oval Office tryst. Fueled impeachment for obstruction.

Then 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood visit. Obama hosts members of the Muslim Brotherhood. A group that promotes Islamic extremism and has ties to Hamas.

Then 2020, the addition of the Tennis Pavilion. 2023, cocaine discovered during the Biden administration.
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STU: The picture for that one is fantastic.

GLENN: It's fantastic.

STU: It's a picture of Hunter Biden in the bathtub.

GLENN: Yeah. Hold his nipples. Then 2023 to 2024, Trans Day of Visibility.

STU: Oh, gosh, this picture is not as great. Same pose though.

GLENN: It does. It does. Then 2025, north and south flagpoles are installed.
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I mean, it is -- it is -- the White House -- what are they saying there? What are they saying?

Get your scandals in order!

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Let's look at scandals in the White House!

Is it the scandal that I redid the Rose Garden, or that I'm tearing this down, that was built 100 years ago?

And I'm going to now replace it with a ballroom, and we're paying for it, entirely with private money, no tax dollars?

You didn't care about the cocaine in the White House.

Or the -- the sperm room in the Oval Office.
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I mean, I'm sorry. I was thinking much worse than that. It was a lot worse than that, Stu.

STU: Good. Good, you're on proficient at editing yourself. That you did get --

GLENN: I am.

I'm very good. Very good.

I mean, it's amazing. I love this White House. They're willing to do it.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: They're just like, let's look at the big scandals here of the renovations.

STU: I saw someone asking yesterday, give me one argument as to how you could possibly be okay with this?

I don't know. It seems like it will be nice and useful. That's kind of my argument. I think it will be useful for future presidents, to have something on campus, big events.

GLENN: Yeah. And he won't have it. So he won't be using it. It's not for him. It will be for the country. And it's free! And it's free. Let me say it again: It's free.

Why did NBA stars risk it all in a mafia poker ring?

The FBI has torn into a gambling scandal that links NBA players, the Mafia, and poker… and Glenn couldn’t be happier?! Glenn and Stu explain this scandal and why it reminds them of the good ol’ days “when crime made sense” and pizza tasted incredible…

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GLENN: You know, can I talk to you a little bit about the basketball gambling scandal?

STU: I'm sorry.

GLENN: I know. I know.

STU: Wait. What? You know about the basketball gambling scandal?

GLENN: I do. I do. I know a little about it. Don't know the names of the people involved.

STU: Hall of Famer, no big deal.

GLENN: Yeah. So, but I have listened to this story. Ask one of the things that caught my attention was how sophisticated it was. You know, x-ray tables that could read the cards from underneath.

STU: Yeah. This is the illegal poker game of this scenario.

GLENN: And the contacts where they could read the back of the cards. All of these different things. I thought, that was kind of cool. Kind of James Bondy. Kind of interested in that. Then it got to the point where it was four on out of the five crime families. And the newscast I heard was it was the Italian Mafia.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And, you know, Genevieve's crime family, blah, blah, blah. And I actually got to the end of that story and I'm like, oh. Do you remember when we just had the five crime families? They were killing each other in New York?

Oh, it's like my childhood coming back. Oh, I understand this news!

STU: Yeah. Warm and fuzzy memories of the mob. Right!

GLENN: What? Yeah.

It was like when crime made sense.
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STU: I like that take. That makes me feel a lot better about it.

GLENN: That's what I'm here for today.

STU: It feels antiquated. Quaint.

GLENN: It's old-fashioned. Somebody came in and robbed all the sarsaparilla from the mountain.
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STU: I like that.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: That's the way to go with this, I think.

GLENN: It really is. It really is.

STU: It does feel. You know, you think about these players. Some of them have made hundreds of millions of dollars at their careers.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: And they're worried about illegal poker games and, you know, a couple of hundred thousand dollars betting on the under, Ontario Rozier assists or something.

GLENN: That part. Did you ever see any of those games?

Because the way I heard it. This is the way I interpreted it.

STU: Sure.

GLENN: That they got hurt, and then they had to leave early, or whatever.

STU: There was -- yeah. The main one they highlighted was a guy who basically told people in advance, he was going to leave the game early.

So everybody -- at the under. They scored less -- fewer points, and then he left after nine minutes of the game. So he didn't hit any of those.

GLENN: Right. So did he get hurt?

Did he like, ow, ow. Ow.

Was it obvious?

STU: I think it was a faked injury. Yeah.

GLENN: Was it obvious?

STU: I don't remember watching that game. There have been highlights released on him.

Just to give you a background quickly on this player. Very good player for many years. And over the last two years, his entire player has mysteriously fallen apart. It was like outside of the gambling, like what happened to this guy? Terry Rozier was, like, a good player for a long time. Twenty points a game type of guy, and then couldn't even get on the court.

Was traded for a number one pick, and then all of a sudden, just fell apart. And some of the highlights of games of his are so bad. Like, there are plays that I would see when I was coaching my 7-year-old's basketball games.

Like, they are horrible. Like, you would never see an NBA player make. And the insinuation now is, it had to be something related to the game. Though, in the indictment, I don't think it was charged like that particular game he had done anything with.

But he looked so bad, that either something was really going on with him physically. Or he -- you know, allegedly was gambling.

GLENN: And what was the NBA's tie to the card table?

STU: So the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, Chauncey Billups.

GLENN: Portland. I was happy with the Italian Mafia.

STU: Hall of Fame player. Right.

GLENN: And now you have to remind me, Portland.

STU: Right. So he was playing. Fascinating part of this, he was playing. They had set up these illegal poker games. And, like, a lot of people are like, I can't believe now that they made gambling legal, all these scandals are happening. Let me just remind you of the word "illegal" in illegal poker games.

Part of this was done on legal betting surfaces on the sport stuff, but the poker is illegal.

This all still happened. Okay?

So you're not allowed. What's funny is, they're not really getting in trouble for having illegal poker games. They're having trouble for cheating at illegal poker games.

Which is the technology you were mentioning. What they did was say, hey. We're going to have these underground poker games. Some of them underground in Vegas.

By the way, you can play legal poker games in Vegas.

Don't go to illegal poker games, when you're getting this type of pitch, which was, hey. Come. You'll sit next to Hall of Fame players. Former players. They're all big money. And they're not even top-notch players. Who knows? They might lose.

GLENN: And everyone was in it, at the table, except the fish.

STU: Right. A couple of fish that would come in. You did read this indictment, and you're using poker terminology. It's impressive.

But like, so these guys would come in. Some of them were professional poker players. And, of course, their motivation for being there, we should note was to take advantage of the stupid players that would do dumb things during these games, in a legal way.

GLENN: Was this -- were these the NBA players that were kind of muscled into it because of their poker debts?

STU: I think there are some stories about that, in the -- in the indictment, where they -- the players had debts, so they had to come and participate in the illegal games to essentially pay off their Mafia gambling debts that were unrelated.

STU: Now, of course, the stuff has happened forever. The fascinating part of this --

GLENN: No, the mob does not exist.

STU: The mob does not -- if the mob does exist, I want them to know, I love them. I'm a huge fan of the Mafia.

STU: You're a huge fan, if they existed. But they don't.

GLENN: But they don't exist, so let's not even talk about them.

STU: One fascinating part about this.
GLENN: You can tell we've lived in Connecticut for a while.
STU: The pizza is delicious.

GLENN: It's really good. It's really good.

STU: It's really good. So the -- there are now clips being unearthed. I saw one yesterday of a 2023 clip of a professional poker player saying all of this was going on.

This is now two years ago.

Saying, he knew people who would go to these games. And they would play against Chauncey Phillips. It was a guy you mentioned. And obviously, you were cheating.

Because they would go all in on combinations of cards that you would never go all in on. And they would just win every time.

And so it was really obvious to the professionals who were going there, saying, oh, I see what's happening here.

And they would stop going.

This is like a known thing.

Now, it's a comical situation, when it comes to the poker stuff.

Because, you know, again, you're talking. Chauncey Phillips made nine figures in his career. He's not a guy who certainly is short on money. Some people --

GLENN: Well, apparently he was. If he had gambling debts to the mob.

STU: Well, I don't think he was the guy in that particular. I could be wrong on that.

There's a lot -- multiple people involved in this. I may have missed up the details. Some people can gamble $100 million, it's certainly possible.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: If you're an addict, right? It doesn't matter. You talk about alcoholism. Right? If you're a big alcoholic, people would say, wait. You've got all this to live for. Why would you ruin this with alcoholic?

You're addicted. You're having a real problem. They would call it a disease. It's a serious issue. It's not easy to drop off.

GLENN: What you know makes me stop drinking? Mob threats. That's when I'm like, I think I have a problem.

STU: If they existed.

GLENN: If they existed. And they wouldn't threat -- we know -- for anyone in this fictional Costa Nostra thing, we know you wouldn't threaten anyone. The pizza is great.

STU: It is fantastic. The best sauce you'll ever have. You'll ever have.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

STU: So it's a pretty amazing story.

And, you know, it is not as bad I think as previous gambling stories, where referees were actually fixing games. Like, that is a much, much worse statement than what we've seen so far on this. But it's a pretty big story. I'm impressed, Glenn.

You're aware of it. You seem to have actual information about it. What's going on with you?

We used to have conversations about sports, that would just be non-stop comedy, because you were so embarrassing about your knowledge.

GLENN: Well, this wasn't really -- this is a mob story. This is a mob story. I have zero interest in the NBA. Zero.

STU: Okay. So this is basically your version of a mob movie?

GLENN: Uh-huh. That's as close as I can get to a mob movie today, and I love mob movies.

Anyway, mainly I like watching mob movies. Well, I mean, I like the characters in them, but I really like the food. You know what I mean?

You know, you get to eat like that. I don't know. Is it worth it? Is that blood or tomato sauce? I don't know.

STU: As someone who grew up near New Haven, Connecticut, and you worked at New Haven, Connecticut for years.

Like, there's a calculation made by the community, that they're kind of fine with the mob, if we can have the pizza. We're actually, the pizza is so good. You guys can commit a certain number of crimes.

GLENN: Can I tell you something? That's the only part of New Haven though, that makes any sense.

STU: Yeah. That's pretty much true.

GLENN: New Haven is just a crap hole. It is. Come on. It is. Not the surrounding areas.

New Haven itself, crap hole.

STU: It has some bad situations around. Yes.

GLENN: It starts at Yale. And then goes downhill. Okay? Except Wooster Street. This whole area, completely, not run by the mob.

And it is the safest place you could -- you could -- you could take a woman and have her take all of her clothes off. And take 100-dollar bills to her. And say, walk down this street at 11 o'clock at night. And she's totally safe! Totally safe.

This is like one of the mob bosses are like, you know what, I think maybe we've got to bring it -- you know.

Otherwise, there's no crime happening there.

STU: And we should -- all of this outside of the pizza quality is a legend. And we don't have any --

GLENN: I'm a fiction writer. I'm a fiction writer.

STU: Not the pizza. The pizza is that good. Anyone who knows pizza. You'll hear a lot of people who say, New York pizza. Oh, New York style pizza. That doesn't mean you know anything about pizza. If they say New Haven pizza style --

GLENN: It's truly the best pizza out there. But I tell you, on that particular street, do not ask anything about the pizza.

And if it -- because it's brick oven. And so, you know, it will come a little burned. That's the way it comes.

STU: Supposed to come.

GLENN: Do not say anything about it.

STU: Can I have white crust?

Don't do that.

GLENN: They'll just take it away from you. They look at you. Then they look at the picture of Frank Sinatra on the wall. And they look at you, and you're dead. Just leave!

STU: It's like a suit Nazi situation a little bit. It can be.

GLENN: It really is.

Glenn Beck exposes media hypocrisy over Trump's White House renovations

Glenn Beck breaks down the absurd outrage surrounding President Trump’s privately funded White House renovations and exposes the double standard that the media refuses to admit. From FDR’s taxpayer-funded swimming pool to Nancy Reagan’s privately raised china, every president has upgraded the people’s house. But when Trump uses his own money to restore historic rooms and fix century-old fixtures, the press calls it “grotesque.” Glenn lays out the forgotten history, the hypocrisy, and why this outrage says more about today’s media than about Trump.

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GLENN: All right. So let me give you some perspective on this White House nonsense. Nonsense.

Every time a president dares touch the plaster or paint of the White House, the press loses its collective mind. And seeming, unless the name is Obama, we have seen this happen over and over and over again.

So let me give you some history.

When FDR built the East and west wings. Okay. Those were not there before FDR.

The east and west wings built by FDR, Washington reporters acted as if he were electing a palace while the people starved. I looked up the headlines. These were fabulous. Now, I think you could probably make the case, with the East Wing. Because it -- it included a swimming pool that was just for FDR.

Examine it was all paid for bit taxpayers. And at the time, America was in the Great Depression. And bread lines were circling the blocks. Families lived on ration books, and the government was picking up the tab for the president's expansion of the White House, which included a giant pool for him. Yet, history has been kind to him. And now, The East Wing is revered.

All of the buildings, the press cried outrage over them. They are the now the same buildings they are crying outrage now. Except, this time, the east wing is too historic to change. Just how dare he do this. So let me give you a first of many huge differences here.

What Trump is doing will not cost the American people a dime. Not a dime. Even when the press and those on the left admit that it is private funding. They say, yes. But it is a grotesque waste of money.

Wait a minute. From the people that just took 294 million dollars from billionaires. Over a quarter of a billion dollars, for The No Kings movement, you're lecturing me on what people should do with private funds?

Please, give it a rest. Okay. So not a cent of taxpayer money is going into this. It's privately funded by him and those friends that he's called and said, "Can you help us out on this?"

Okay. Privately funded. The second difference is, it's not for his use. There's no swimming pool. There's no tennis court. You know, there's no Obama basketball court. It's not for his use.

And even, you know, if it had things that the President would use in it. It's not going to be completed until after he leaves office. After he's gone.

So it's not private. It's being funded privately. It's a state dining room and ballroom.

The only thing private about this is the funding. We should all be celebrating this. America is getting an upgrade, and we're not paying for it.

And don't get me wrong. If this was done by really, anybody else, including George Bush or any of the Republicans, presidents past. I would probably have a bigger problem with this. But I am -- I am under an agreement that I cannot share all the things that I know about what the president is doing, and has done to the White House.

Not for any other reason of, he just -- he's not like that. He does not want credit for really great things. I can tell you -- no, no, no, no.

STU: What are we talking about here?

GLENN: No, no. It's weird. It's weird. He doesn't like that softer side of him. It's weird.

STU: Yes. So let's clarify about it. He absolutely does want credit for really great things. He takes it all the time and a lot of times deserves it.

GLENN: Right. But not in this --

STU: But this is a different type of thing?

GLENN: And I looked at him, and I had to sign this.
And I'm like, "Why? Why?" Because I signed a non-disclosure. And so I know what he's doing. I have seen what he has done, up front personal. And there is no one better to work on the White House than him. Okay?

No one better. He's upgrading things that -- that and he's doing it the right way.

Yet, the media, their outrage, it's identical to 1933.

Only, this time, the facts don't fit the fury.

Okay?

Let me remind you of another scandal at the White House.

Nancy Reagan and the White House China. Okay?

Let me give you the headlines from this one. Quote, out of touch Nancy spends $200,000 on plates. While Americans starve!

Americans were starving in the 1980s? Really?

Reagan royalty dine in luxury, as cuts hit the poor.

This was for White House China.

Now, the press made her look like she was royalty and she just couldn't eat off of everyday plates. That's not the truth.

And I know the truth. Because before the White House butler.

And this was under George W. Bush.

The butler who had worked there since the Johnson administration, the White House butler is the head guy!

Okay? He oversees everything in the White House.

I spent the day with him. And just talked to him as I really wanted to do, a podcast or a video with him, but he wouldn't.

And his stories were unbelievable. And he told me a story about the White House China. Because we went down. And he was showing me all the China and everything else from all the different presidents. And he said, you know, one of the best first ladies we ever had. That I ever worked for. Was Nancy Reagan.

I said, really? Even with the China thing, huh. Because she was out of control.

He said, no. Let me tell you that story. He said, Nancy came to him and said, what does the White House need? Because every President -- most of them -- some don't steal the furniture.

Every president tries to leave the White House better than they went in. So she said, "What is it that the White House needs? I'll raise the money for it."

He said, "We need a complete set of state china. We don't have enough, you know, matching plates for official dinners. So we have all this mismatched stuff, and it looks like terrible." So she, again, didn't use taxpayer dollars. She raised private funds so the White House could have a matching set of China for foreign dignitaries when they come. Well, the press turned her into an absolute villain. And the butler told me, he said, "I begged her. I begged her. Please, let me go public. Let me defend -- let me tell the press this was me, not you." And she said, "I'm a big girl, this comes with the job. Now, you just do your job. I'll take the heat from this."

Now, that used -- that's the kind of strength that people used to really respect in America. But, you now, not if it's coming from a Republican. That's the kind of dignity that Melania showed when the press tore her apart recently on absolutely everything.

But before I get to that, let me just -- let me stop at Hillary Clinton. Because she's one of the loudest critics of what's going on. Okay.

The ballroom. It's an outrage.

This is the same First Lady who upon leaving the White House, carted off more than $250,000 of White House furniture! The only thing that got her to routine it was the backlash in the press. By the way, her staff also, if you remind, and her husband, they left penny vandalism behind. Prying all the Ws off all the keyboards. Before the George W. Bush team arrived. So they vandalized and stole furniture. Let me show you the flip here. When Donald Trump arrived, and he entered office the first time, what he found was a greatly aging White House and executive West Wing. Okay.

The -- all the doorknobs were mismatched. They were loose. They were cracked. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Worn carpets. Almost century-old bathrooms that desperately needed updating. In America's most symbolic home, can we have some nice bathrooms here, that just work, they are not 100 years old. You would want that in your house!

He took out of his own pocket, to restore these things, in ways that were absolutely appropriate and beautiful for the White House.
The doorknobs alone, he had them cast. Custom brass doorknobs. Engraved with the presidential seal. They are some of the most beautiful doorknobs, I've ever seen.

I can't imagine how much they've cost him. Okay?

They were not cheap.

But you weren't built for it.

You most likely don't even know any of these things. Okay?

Because it's the people's house. He's restoring the people's house. And trying to make it nicer. With Trump, however, no good deed goes unpunished.

Just the doorknobs alone, beautiful and historic. Okay. Just that. But let me tell you when Biden's team came in. Those very fixtures, the doorknobs, some of them just mysteriously disappeared.

Souvenirs for the adults who were back in charge.

The Forgotten Meaning of the 'Pledge of Allegiance' | Glenn Beck's Patriotic Wake-Up Call

Glenn Beck revisits the true meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance revealing how each word holds the key to restoring America’s moral and spiritual foundation. More than a schoolroom ritual, it’s a sacred promise: to defend liberty, pursue justice, remain united, and acknowledge a higher power beyond government. Have we forgotten what this pledge really stands for and what it asks of us as Americans?

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GLENN: What is the solution to fixing our country?

Let me take this line by line.

I pledge allegiance.

Those first three words, that's a solemn vow. Okay?

That's -- that's not a casual statement. It is a binding promise.

You are pledging allegiance. And allegiance is more than just an agreement. It is loyalty!

It means, I choose to stand. I'm going to stand here. I'm going to stand with. I'm going to defend. And I'm going to uphold something. I pledge, more than a promise. I pledge allegiance.

And I'm going to do it even when it's hard, even when it costs me. I pledge allegiance. That is not lip service. That is a declaration of devotion to the flag! The flag is not just cloth and stitching.

And you are not pledging your allegiance to that piece of cloth.

You're -- you're pledging can't allegiance to the flag, which is the embodiment of an idea. It is a visual representation of the nation itself.

When I pledge my allegiance to the flag, I am pledging not to the fabric. But to the principles! The history. And the sacrifices that that flag represents.

Every fold, every star, every stripe, is a reminder of lives given, dreams pursued. And a promise kept through centuries of struggle.

I pledge allegiance, to the flag.

Of the United States of America. We look at the United States of America now, and you see that kind of just as words on a map. The United States.

That's not what the United States is. That was never what -- what it was designed to be.

Okay?

The United States means separate, sovereign states. That has joined this union by choice, into one republic!

It reminds us that our strength is not found in our diversity.

It's -- nor is it found in our uniformity. It is found in our unity. The United States of America.

That's diverse people. Diverse cultures. Defers communities. That are all bound and share the principles of liberty and law.

America is not just a place. We have to reframe this.

It's not a place. It's not a map.

It's a covenant between free people in individual states, to -- to build something greater together than any of us could do, by ourselves. Or as a single state.

Maybe except for Texas. But that's a different story.

And to the republic, for which it stands.

This line is crucial!

We are not a democracy. Because a democracy always devolves into mob rule.

Okay?

We are a republic for a reason.

And what a republic means is that you are governed by law. Not whims. It means, our rights are -- are not the subject to popular vote. They are endowed by our creator. And protected by a constitutional system, designed to guard them, even from the passions of the majority!

And the flag stands for that system. The balance of our liberty and order.

One nation. One.

Not fractured by reason. Region. Not fractured by race.

Not fractured by ideology.

Not red states and blue states.

But one single nation. Made up of 50 sovereign states. All different.

This is a reminder that despite our differences, we share a common destiny, a common goal.

We rise together. We fall together.
And that oneness is not automatic. That oneness has to be chosen by each generation, by each citizen.
And defended. And renewed by every generation. One nation under God.

People try to make this all about a theocracy. It's not about a theocracy. This is humility. This is a humble admission that our freedom and our rights come from a source higher than government.

Therefore, they cannot be taken away or changed by government.

Because the government doesn't have the power. They're not issuing the rights.

They can't control the rights.

They can't take the rights away or add new right. Those all are issued by a power greater than man. And certainly, greater than government. It's a reminder also, in humility, that power must be restrained. That we are accountable to more than just ourselves.

It's the acknowledgment that liberty without virtue will collapse!

And that virtue requires something greater than yourself, or greater than man!

One nation, indivisible.

When I was a kid, I always thought, it was invisible. I don't think it is.

But indivisible. This is not a description.

This is a challenge. And one that we have forgotten. Indivisible means we don't allow hatreds. We don't allow division.

We don't allow ideology or faith to rip us apart!

It means that even when we disagree fiercely, we hold on to the bonds, that we have all chosen, as individual sovereign people. And sovereign states. To bind us together.

We hold on to those bonds, that make us one people.

We don't secede from one another. We do the hard work of staying united. Because division is the surest path to tyranny. With liberty. This one has gotten so screwed up over the years. Everyone thinks freedom means, I don't know. Freedom to do whatever you want.

Liberty is not license. It's not doing whatever you want, whenever you want.

It is the freedom to live by conscience. To -- to speak truth. To pursue happiness without coercion.

It's freedom that has been purchased with blood and preserved with vigilance. It's the foundation that everything else stands on. All other rights stand on that.

And it must be exercised responsibly or it will be lost. We are not exercising it responsibly. That's why we're having so many problems. We misunderstand liberty and justice, the next line. Justice is not revenge. Be it the Democrats or the Republicans. Be it Joe Biden or Donald Trump. It's not revenge. It's not equity or equality of outcomes. That's not justice.

Justice is the fair and impartial application of the law. Blind to wealth, to power, to politics.

Justice is glue that holds liberty with responsibility, together! And without it, without justice, freedom devolves into chaos.

With it, even the weakest among us are protected.

That should be the goal for all of us, is that kind of justice.

And the final two words are the most radical.

For all! They're also the most difficult. For all.

Not just those who look like me. Not those who think like me. Not those that go to my church or don't believe in God.

Not just those who vote like me.

Not just for the deserving. The ones who followed the rules with COVID. They got the shot!

No. Not those who are popular. Liberty and justice are promises extended to every soul, because the worth of this nation is not measured by how it treats the powerful.

How it treats the popular. But how it treats the least among us. The most despised. The poorest.

The most invisible.

As a kid, I said the Pledge of Allegiance a million times. I still say it.

But I don't think any of us think of each word and why it's there.

It's not a poem. You're not reciting a poem. You're making a personal commitment.

And this is the solution to fixing our country. You want to fix the country?

There's the grand dream, right?

There's the big dream. How?

When you think small, think every single line of the Pledge of Allegiance. Because that's the answer!

No matter how you voted, if you believe in those lines and understand what each line and each word means and why it was chosen, now, you can make a personal commitment.

You can make the commitment to defend liberty, when it's under threat. To pursue the -- to pursue justice, when it's inconvenient.

To remain united, when division is much easier and much more popular.

To place principle above party. And creator above state.

I pledge allegiance to the flag. This is not a vow to the flag. It is a vow to a living idea. That free people bound together, under God, humble under God, can govern themselves with liberty and justice for all.