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Today's podcast is a little different. You might want to listen to the entire podcast, but the best of you'll get a good feel for it. I started the show out with what I believe we voted for, what I voted for, at least who we are, what the Constitution means.

And then I open up the phones and I ask people for those who are still listening to media, mainstream media, and think that we voted for Hitler and we're going to round people up and that's what we're for. We're for racism. I ask the audience, tell me what you voted for. There's a lot that we have in common, especially with those who are Democrats, not crazy leftists, but Democrats who have been lied to.

They think they were voting, I believe. They think they were voting for what we voted for. Only one of us can be right. Which one? It remains to be seen, I guess. Proof will be in the pudding. But what did you vote for? Let's explain that to not just the media, but to your next door neighbor who thinks you're a fascist.

Now, I value my sanity, such as it is. Which is why, you know, when we look for things like selling our house...

I really want to make sure that I've got somebody on my side that, you know, can help me sell that house. I need to have somebody who is competent, an active real estate agent, somebody who that's their full-time job, somebody who knows the best practices, somebody who understands the internet. That's the way to advertise. That's the way. When I post my house someplace, I want to post it where all the traffic is already. So how do they do that?

Well, this is why I formed Real Estate Agents I Trust. It's a company that just vets real estate agents in your area and then recommends them to you. We expect you and want you to do your own homework on them. But I think we've done a lot of the heavy lifting. We know that these are the people who are full-time best in your area as far as sales. And then we get to know them personally. I mean, it's everything but a rubber glove when you're dealing with my company because I want to make sure...

It's my name that is making you call these people. And when I say we can trust them and they're just like you, they kind of have the same values as you, you're going to find a friend. I want to make sure that's right. By the way, I was just talking to the guy who, John Wells, who runs all this part of the division of the company.

And I said, how are we doing? Are we checking up on everybody? He's like, Glenn, we check up on them after every sale. We make sure. And he said, remember, we have a one-strike policy.

You violate any of the principles that we're telling people about, you're out. One strike. You don't get a second chance. You're going to like these people and they'll help you sell your house and find the right house whether it's across the street or across the nation. Realestateagentsitrust.com. Realestateagentsitrust.com. Realestateagentsitrust.com.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. So one of the op eds in The New York Times today is Trump's America. His comeback victory signals a different kind of country from The New York Times.

In her closing rally on the Ellipse last week, Kamala Harris scorned Donald J. Trump as an outlier who didn't represent America. That's not who we are, she declared. In fact, it turns out that that may exactly be who we are, at least most of us.

The assumption that Mr. Trump represented an anomaly who would at last be consigned to the ash heap of history was washed away Tuesday night by a red current that swept through the battleground states and swept away the understanding of America long nurtured by its ruling elite of both parties. No longer can the political establishment write off Mr. Trump as a temporary break from the long march of progress.

Populist disenchantment with the nation's direction and resentment against elites proved to be deeper and more profound than many in both parties had recognized.

While tens of millions of voters still cast their ballots against Mr. Trump, he once again tapped into a sense, among many others, that the country they knew was slipping away under siege economically, culturally, and demographically. To counter that, those voters ratified the return of a brash 78-year-old champion willing to upend convention and take radical action even if it offends the sensibilities or violates old standards.

Any misgivings about their chosen leader was shoved to the side. As a result, for the first time in history, Americans have elected a convicted criminal as president. They handed power back to a leader who tried to overturn a previous election, called for the termination of the Constitution, and aspired to be a dictator on day one, and vowed to exact retribution against his adversaries.

To Mr. Trump's allies, the election vindicates his argument that Washington has grown out of touch, that America is a country weary of overseas wars. The Trump presidency speaks to the depth of marginalization felt by those who believe they have been in the cultural wilderness for too long and their faith in this one person who has given voice to their frustration and his ability to center them in American life.

Rather than be turned off by Trump's flagrant, anger-based appeals along the lines of race, gender, religion, national origin, especially transgender ideology, many Americans found them bracing. Rather than be offended by his brazen lies or wild conspiracy theories, many found him authentic. Rather than dismiss him as a felon found by various courts to be a fraudster, cheater, sexual abuser, and defamer,

Many embraced his assertion that he has been the victim of persecution. This election, quoting, was a cat scan on the American people. And as difficult as it is to say, as hard as it is to name, what it revealed, at least in part, is a frightening affinity for a man of borderless corruption. That is from the former strategic advisor to President George W. Bush.

Then they go on for two paragraphs about, you know, oh boy, they were bad.

but then they write, then they're right back into, um, Donald Trump, the coalition that elected them, wanted them to unite the country and they failed to do so. And their failure resulted in further disillusionment with our country's politics and empowered the Trump base. Um,

Trump has been conditioning Americans throughout this campaign to see American democracy as a failed experiment, said historian and author of Strongman. Let me say that again. Trump has been conditioning Americans throughout this campaign to see American democracy as a failed experiment. No, I've never heard him say that. I've never heard anybody that supports him say that.

A victory for Trump would mean that this vision of America and the recourse to violence as a means of solving political problems has triumphed, she continued.

Talking to Mr. Short, whoever Mr. Short is, predicted another four years of chaos and uncertainty. I would anticipate a lot of volatility. Personnel, but also significant boomerangs on policy. Not boomerangs from Biden-Harris, but boomerangs from himself. You'll have one position one day and another position the next. Okay, so they go on and they really, truly do not understand politics.

What's happened? Now, this is self-imposed ignorance because it's really not that hard to figure out. And I do believe it comes from a misunderstanding of what our country is. They're looking at our country the way Woodrow Wilson defined it, and that is an administrative state. What is in the American soul is something entirely different now.

We see America more in the tradition of the founding fathers. Now, I know if you're somebody on the left, if you're somebody especially, you know, in the elite government or, you know, somebody who went to Harvard, you might roll your eyes at this because you think this is all trite.

But many Americans believe this. We believe that the American spirit is a force that inspires dreams. It also has fueled revolutions. It's also driven some of the greatest innovations and achievements the world has ever seen. We believe that. We believe in the American individual. Now, you might say you do, but I don't think you do.

Because you want somebody to tell all of the individuals exactly what they must believe, what they must live, what they must eat, what they must drive, what they must teach their children. We don't believe that. We don't believe that. And it's not just for us. It is for people who want to live a transgendered life. I don't care if you want to live a transgendered life. I feel for you. I do. I feel for you. I feel your pain.

The pain that you must have gone through your whole life. I don't want you to go through that pain. But don't force me and my family to lie about science because you feel bad. You might feel horrible. I know I did as an alcoholic, as somebody who actually considered suicide. I know what feeling bad feels like. But only the truth will set you free.

I can't further the lie because it only will hurt more people. Now, the American spirit, this is what brought settlers across the oceans.

across rugged mountains that nobody thought, they risk life and limb just to get away from the big European state that told them, you'll never make it. You can't do it. Your family's worthless. You don't have the right credentials. They crossed oceans to get away from that. To put that into perspective, that is almost like going to the moon today.

These were people who were like, screw it, man. This is the spirit that took on the tyrants and the empires that declared that there were such thing as free men and free women and distant rulers and aristocrats and those in the black robes. They don't determine our destiny. We do. And it's something that transcends race and religion or class.

You know why a lot of people, a lot of people that you say are racist, I know racism exists, but not the way you think it does. You think we're all born racist. I don't believe that. You have to be taught how to hate.

You have to be taught how to hate the other side. And many of us believe that is what you're teaching with anti-racism. Only racism, you believe, can stop racism. So I have to be taught to hate to stop hate? That doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. We're just looking for common sense. We're looking for science.

and reason to be fixed firmly in her seat. When we say we believe that America is exceptional, why do you think we say that? Because we're arrogant? Because we're white? Because... What? Because we believe in God? It's none of that. What makes us exceptional is this American spirit. It's not chance. It's not entitlement.

It's through toil and courage and vision of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. That's what makes us exceptional. We are exceptional because the rest of the world has been told, shut up and sit down. You cannot do that. What makes us exceptional is that we say, for you to tell me that. You don't control my life. You don't control my vision.

You don't control my every movement. I believe we can do extraordinary things. That's why every American should embrace Elon Musk. And every American did embrace at least the spirit of Elon Musk until politics were introduced.

I wasn't against Elon Musk and his cars and everything else when he was, quote, on the other side. I don't think he's changed. He still believes all that stuff about global warming that I don't believe. But I didn't wish him ill. I didn't want him deported. I didn't want him shut up. I didn't want to destroy his company. I rooted for him to go to Mars. I still root for him to go to Mars. You know why? Because that's an ordinary person.

who has an extraordinary vision, who can articulate that vision and execute it. I want man to win. Our founders knew that governments left unchecked would accumulate power at the expense of the individual. We have been on this road that you in the New York Times may say is traditional politics.

You may say it's accepted, it's the way we are. Well, but that is a perversion. We switched train tracks about 1916. We developed this new idea that man cannot rule himself. This is actually an ancient idea, but it was new in America. Man cannot rule himself.

Man has to have an overseer, a government, somebody in the government, somebody preferably not elected, just a faceless bureaucrat that could nudge people the right way. We don't want to be nudged. We're much more direct than that.

You don't understand who Americans are. We are frank and blunt. We're polite. We don't want to argue about politics. We don't want to argue about sex. We don't want to argue about religion. We don't want to argue about any of that stuff. So we're polite in polite company. Most of us were taught you don't talk about those things. Why? Because it deepens the division. Just you be you, boo. I'll be me.

But we can't have those conversations anymore. And we need to because that's who we are. I'll fight for your right to be whoever it is you think you are. Oh, you're a marshmallow, a unicorn that turns into marshmallows at night. Okay. Hey, she's not a marshmallow. That's right. She's not. But she has a right to believe that. She wants to say that. She has every right. Shut up. Sit down.

But you want me to say, no, she is a unicorn that turns into a marshmallow at night. No, no. I'll fight for your right to say what you believe. But I'm also going to fight for everybody else's right, including mine, to say you're wrong. This system of government that started with Woodrow Wilson is ancient. We call it progressivism now, but it was...

It was the tool of the tyrants going all the way back, I'm sure, to cavemen. This government has become corrupt. Corrupt. We should all be on the same side. If Donald Trump was taking money from China and he was enriching his children...

Because they were meeting with the Chinese and then trying to influence him. I would want them to go to jail because I don't want corruption. You don't take foreign money on the down low. I think we're being consistent, but you don't because you fundamentally misunderstand. You keep quoting the Constitution, but I don't think you understand the Constitution.

This is a framework that is designed to empower people and restrict the government. You interpret the Constitution as something that empowers the government and restricts the people. Only one of us can be right. And if you actually read the document, you'll know which one is true. That's what leads us back to American exceptionalism.

All right, more in a second. I feel like we need to explain to the left in a very clear way, but a very kind way. I'm trying to be kind. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what we want.

We don't want to control your life. We have no desire to be in your bedroom. We have no desire, nor will we, round groups of people up. That's what progressives did with FDR, not constitutional conservatives. ♪

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes. So what is it that, what is the vision that we are looking for?

Well, when Donald Trump says make America great again, it has been mocked or made into MAGA and dismissed. But it is what we mean. Make America great again. Make it a place where our aspirations are bigger than what we're looking at today. That our aspirations are so big that maybe our children can accomplish those things.

In a world that increasingly values conformity and control, everybody must march in the same line.

America is the only place that remains a testament of what free people can do and accomplish. And we're losing that. You know, one of the things I'm a car collector. I love cars. And I said to my son the other day, tell me what car is out today. That's not a supercar that you will look back and go, oh, I remember that in my childhood.

Nothing. They all look exactly the same. I mean, you're driving down the road. You can't tell the difference between cars. The reason I like the Cybertruck, because I think it's pretty ugly, but the reason why I like it is because it's totally different. That's America. Something totally different. Liberty is not just an abstract principle. It is a living, breathing force that drives individuals to be better, to reach higher, to give more.

But to have that, you have to have your own free will. You have to, that's going to leave a mark. You have to make mistakes and you have to feel the impact of those mistakes.

The American way of life is not about following orders or accepting limitations. It's about pushing boundaries, breaking barriers, redefining what's possible. I'm not going to take ADD medication and sit into a class and learn exactly what everybody needs to learn to be a good person that stands in line and makes widgets. Because I don't want to make widgets. Some people might want to make widgets, but that's not me.

I'm still rooting for Elon Musk. I was rooting for him at the beginning when he supposedly didn't agree with me on stuff. And now that we agree on who should be president, the people who were rooting for Elon Musk, all for the right reasons, have changed. Well, wait.

I wanted him to go to Mars when the left was celebrating him. I want him to go to Mars because his politics don't have anything to do with what he's doing. You celebrate him then and now for his vision. I want the single man with an idea that it can overcome all of the art, the obstacles, bring people together from all walks of life and accomplish what the world says cannot be accomplished.

That's America. That's not South Africa. That's not Europe. That's America. There's a reason people say, only in America. And that's becoming a slam on us. That's becoming a sign of insanity. Look, there's a bunch of people dressed as dogs with a dog collar and somebody dressed in leather spikes walking them. Well, only in America. That's not who I want to be known as.

Now, you can do that all you want, but I don't have to celebrate it, and I don't want it to be the hallmark of our country. In defending the American spirit, in renewing the American experience, in having someone articulate, you don't need to live this way. We can be better than this.

That's a defense not just of a way of life, but a vision of humanity at its best. America has been a vision that believes in the potential of every person to make a difference. Every person. And to make a difference, sometimes it means you fail and fail horribly, loudly. But then you change your life, and in doing so, you change the world.

It's a vision that holds that true greatness comes not from power or money or privilege or race. It comes from character and courage and conviction. And yeah, that's hard. That's hard. When your ancestors came here long ago, they probably weren't accepted either, which is so strange because we are a nation of immigrants. But that's human nature. That's not American. That's human nature.

The founders knew this, so they put a check on government. So while those things might happen, the government shouldn't have and can't have the power to round people up. I'm not for rounding people up that disagree. I celebrate the fact that the view is on. I just wish ABC, I wish ABC wasn't just open to those voices and didn't hate the other point of view.

But that's why I started the blaze only in America. Now, the world is valuing conformity and control more and more every day. And there are those that argue, many of them in the last administration and the administration before Trump, that the American spirit is the spirit of the past. It's a relic of the past.

that the rough, rugged individual is old-timey, that we need to be a global community. Well, we need to be a global community as much as we need to be good neighbors to each other. That's what I think a global community is. Let's be good to each other. Hey,

You know, the government wants us all to live in an HOA that's run by, you know, the United Nations or whomever, some faceless dictator that doesn't really live in our community at all. No, no, no, no. If we have an HOA, we should be the ones that decide it. We should be the ones that vote for it. And it should be for only our local neighborhood because there are going to be a lot of people that don't want to live in an HOA.

I'm one of them. It's the individual. Some people want to conform. Others don't. We've always been a country that could handle both. But it's this view, the view that says this is all outdated because we live in a complex and interconnected world. Yeah, we can figure that out. We got it. We got it. I mean, we really didn't have a problem with the internet until it all became about politics, right?

Don't underestimate the adaptability and ingenuity of the American people because it is precisely those American values that has been, that the individual uses that has helped us thrive in the face of constant change. The principles of liberty and self-reliance are not limitations. They are the foundation of America's success. And that does not come from the government.

That comes from the people everywhere else. So I don't want to live in a dictatorship. I'm not for any of that crap. I don't support fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, any ism really. I don't want to have a Christian prince or a church ruled government. I'd fight by your side against that. Well, Glenn, you don't believe in Christian principles? Of course I do.

But Jesus didn't force anybody into that. Nobody. Nobody. And certainly he never said, my government is of earth. My kingdom is someplace else. My kingdom is above. I ask you to follow me and do as I do. I believe the freedom of the plan of salvation would be all about choice. The choice. And this is why America is so important today.

why Christianity and religion can thrive here unlike any other place. Because we have choice. We have the choice to worship the way we want to worship, define our God the way we define our God as individuals. We can live in communities where we're wildly different as long as we understand that human life is sacred and choice is

is a gift given by God to the individual. There's nothing more important than your freedom to choose, especially your freedom to choose who you serve and how you serve. And some people are going to make mistakes. Some people are going to serve their car. Some people are going to worship their AI. They're going to worship the awards and the fame that they have.

Those are mistakes. Why? Because my Christian faith tells me that. I can't stop people, nor should I stop people from making mistakes. I should say, that's going to leave a mark. I don't recommend that. That's not good. But I don't want a government that says, you will not dress that way. No, no. Making America great again means to dare to dream, dare to build,

Believe in the power of your neighbors and your friends and your community. Believe that people are naturally enemies of God, okay? They're naturally. Everything that feels good isn't really good, you know what I mean? Eating just nonstop 20% fat ice cream, not going to be good for my health. Promiscuous sex, not good for my health.

uh, you know, greed and fortune and fame out of control, not necessarily good for your spiritual health. Knowing that tells us you need something as an individual, not imposed by others, something as an individual that will help you self-regulate all of those things to get that under control. Our government is there when people cannot get that under control.

But first the local, then the state, and then the very last resort is the federal government. Look, there are some people, because this is the most important thing that I voted for. I voted for the right to choose and the right to choose my own God. And that's why I say I will fight. If you're an atheist, I'll fight right next to you. No, no, no, no, no, no. We're not outlawing atheism. What are you even talking about? No, no, no.

Some people have a really dim view of faith and I can understand that. Maybe they had a bad situation or maybe they just look at history, but you know, you have to understand men progressively do not get better from generation to generation. It's a choice each of us have to make.

And we begin that journey at birth and we ended at death. And some place or another, maybe some unfortunately never hit that. But when we come to a place where we've made so many mistakes and we're like, okay, I got to reset. That's why I'm a follower of Jesus, the man and the Christ. But I'm not the best example of it. I'm a bad example many, many times. But every day I can get up and say, I want to be better than I was yesterday.

And you change your own life. And you change the world because you've changed your family and your neighborhood, your town. Every person has value. Hear me. Anybody who says we're going to scoop people up and we want to shut people down, no, I value your voice. Why won't you value our voice?

Every life is important and has value. The old, the infirm, the Jew, the Gentile, the gay, the straight, even the unborn. This is a vision that holds true to greatness, comes from power and privilege. No, it comes from character and courage and conviction. That's the spirit of America. That's what I voted for. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

You know, there's two op-eds today that I really struggled with on whether I should share them with you or not and take the time to share them. They're in my show prep today. You can get them at glenbeck.com, but they're from the New York Times, and they so grossly...

and miss assign things, uh, to the people who voted for Donald, Donald Trump. They really do not understand or don't care to understand what's really going on and what this election was about. It was not about a vote for fascism, a vote for, you know, taking Liz Cheney and putting her in front of a firing squad. He never said any of that. Um, however, uh,

Nobody's listening. Nobody's listening. Well, let's try something different. I wanted to take this show, and quite honestly, I want to try to keep doing this as much as possible because I'm excited about the future. For the first time, I mean, you know me. I've been like, that's all things. I actually think there's a chance because of the coalition now that is coming together from all sides with Donald Trump, there's a chance that we can win.

find the best in ourselves again and a golden era of America can be right in front of us. I haven't thought that in a long, long time. So I'm excited. But I want you to articulate now, the first half of this program, I have been articulating what I voted for, what I believe America and the golden era should be like. So maybe they could understand us a little better. Now it's your turn.

What did you vote for? Not against, for. What is it you want and expect and hope for? Joe in Texas.

Hello, Joe.

And I just want, I want to see, I want to see more Elon Musk. And I want to see the days where our founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton and, and Thomas Jefferson can go at each other's throats, but then come back together and, and create things out of thin air that never, ever in the history of our world ever existed and, and be able to find that common ground. That's what I, and you know, it's, uh,

I'm with you. And you know, it's interesting, Joe, you bring up Hamilton and Jefferson. Jefferson was for the smallest government possible. Hamilton was actually fighting for a new king. And that's kind of where we are now, where half of us are saying, no, no, no, small government. The other half say, no, we want a king to rule. And I don't think that the average Democrat wants a king to rule. They've been just convinced that

That that's what we want. And so, you know, they're voting for the opposite. But we can come back together, even with those profound differences. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Let me go to Jan in Pennsylvania. What did you vote for, Jan?

I voted for the excitement of Trump and J.D. Vance. I voted for the potential to reopen the Keystone Pipeline, to close the border, to put safety back in girls' sports, to put RFK Jr. in the Food and Drug Administration to clean up all the chemicals we're throwing in our children, to make them morbidly obese before they're even weaned from the bottle. I voted for the potential

potential of this country because I am 75 years old and I have not been able to wipe the smile off my face for two days because I'm so thrilled to see honesty and truth come back to government instead of lying to the people and feeding them BS on a regular basis and then creeping and crawling and sucking on kids toes and sniffing their hair and

and doing all the other things that this administration has done to feed ignorance, stupidity, and I'm also voted to make sure that we took favoritism out of political jobs and put people in that need to be there to do the job, not to sit on their rear end and collect a paycheck because they kissed somebody's right end. Jan, I appreciate that.

I want to be you when I'm 75. I want to be you. Just say it like it is. Thank you, Jen. Notice that there's a... The girls' sports thing is really big to this audience, which I really believe that the average Democrat believes the same things. They just think we...

By saying that, want to round up all transgender people. No, we want our kids to be able to be kids. We want our daughters to be able to compete in a category where, I mean, you didn't put Muhammad Ali in, you know, with Sugar Ray Leonard. Please check that, Stu. I think that's the right analogy. You know, they have different class weights. You don't put everybody in to compete against each other. That's what we're looking for.

Let me go to Tim in Wisconsin. Hello, Tim. Hello, Glenn. Hi. Go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to say what I voted for, I didn't vote for racism. I voted against racism. All of the things that the leftists try to say that we're for is what they're actually for. So often it seems that they are...

foreshadowing their own agenda. I know it does seem that way. So let's be instead of saying it that way. Give me some examples of what you voted for that you think that they do. Well, I voted. So in other words, go ahead.

I voted for fairness and they, they claim that they're all about fairness. I know Tim, I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I don't mean to, you know, hound you on this, but I think that if we want to expand, we have to be specific on things like, for instance, I want fairness. I want my daughter to compete against other girls, right?

You know what I mean? So when you say fairness, you're for fairness, what does that mean? I'm for the meritocracy as opposed to DEI. I'm opposed, I mean, I'm for the fairness of someone getting a job based on their ability, not on, I mean, judge them by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. You voted for Martin Luther King.

Somewhat. Yeah. I mean, it's weird that we live in a country now that is arguing against Martin Luther King, but I think that's what's happening. Lisa in Oklahoma. Hi, good morning. Hi, guys. How are you? Oklahoma. Fine. How are you doing? I'm great.

Hey, so first I just want to say thank you guys. Y'all are like my morning cup of coffee every day and I really appreciate all the hard work of y'all and kind of enlightening the community.

So what I voted for in this race was, you know, first, freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of right, peace, unity, the overreach of the government on, you know, racism.

diminishing our speeches and then the rhetoric of the mainstream media. So, you know, I think Scott Jennings on CNN said it so poetically. You know, the American people set a mandate out there. We're tired of being crushed and insulted. And we...

I agree. I think the Democrats have to, I think they inherently have to believe that men shouldn't be in women's sports. You know, we have women who have worked for years to achieve, you know, where they have, where they've gotten to, and then just to have those medals stripped from them because a man has entered into the races. I think under Trump and, you know,

And the guys that he has surrounded himself with, these incredible men, you know, Bobby and Elon and Charlie Kirk and Tucker Carlson and you guys, you know, a lot of the American people had their eyes closed and turned or chose to be blind for so many years. But COVID, I think, was really the catalyst for so many of us. It was for me.

I was one of those people that just didn't pay attention. Things were okay. Things were good. I was making ends meet. But then when your world falls down around and these mandates start coming out and your freedom of choices start getting trampled on, it really makes somebody think. And I think God opened eyes to so many people. Unfortunately, some of those eyes haven't been opened yet, but you know, um,

Some of our eyes are not even fully open yet, and I appreciate that concern, Lisa. Thank you so much. I think you're absolutely right. You know, when we say freedom...

And the government is oppressive and freedom and we want to rule our own lives. Let me give you a clear example of this for the left. I believe in the federal government being a safety net. Okay, not the tent, the polls, the performers, the sellers of the seats and makers of the popcorn, the safety net. If something goes catastrophically wrong, there is that net you can fall into and

Government is taking the poll, the tent, the tickets, and everything else as part of their purview. It is not. I support the safety net. Now, war, disaster, overwhelming need, anything that the state or local government cannot handle, there are things the government needs to do.

rescuing people from their housetops during a hurricane with rescue helicopters, I would put into that category. Now, we did it, but we only did it because they didn't do it. And they've always done that. But they didn't do it this time. And I'm fine with that. I'm for the 10th Amendment. I'm so constitutional. I am for the 10th Amendment. 100%. We should remember that. The government should help us with illegal immigration.

If they don't, just like we did with helicopters, the state should be able to protect themselves. But that is their purview. They should be making the policy on immigration and then enforcing that. Instead, what they chose to do is to ship people into our towns in the middle of the night.

They didn't ask us if we wanted, you know, all these illegals in our towns. They didn't even tell us. They just did it in the cover of night. No warning to our hospitals. No warning to our schools. Police are overrun. You can't get services. Crime seems to be out of control in some cities. We have Venezuelan gangs. That's not a government that is protecting its people.

That's a government that abuses its citizens. And it takes the right that no one actually has. God did not give any man the right to move a whole group of people into a town without talking to people. That's not a right. We have to inform one another. We have to talk about things that affect all of us. They didn't. They didn't. And it wasn't a surprise. It was coordinated.

We are going to move a lot of people out of these cities. But at least this time around, you will know about that movement. You will know in advance about that movement. And we voted on doing that. Let's go to Kelly. Hello, Kelly.

I am a educated white woman who lives in the suburbs and I voted for Trump and I did it because of the First Amendment. All five tenants. This was not some boogeyman, nonexistent threat. They had been chipping away at that.

All four years, and I feared that another four years would totally wipe us out completely. The freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the freedom to assemble, the freedom of the press, the freedom to petition. All of those, we were tamped down, couldn't do it. Go ahead. Kelly, can I put you on hold for a minute? I just want you to speak to the person who...

as if you're in the same room with them and they're reasonable, that says, no, you guys are the ones trying to do that. How do you mean you want freedom of the press and freedom? Where has that been?

Where has that been abused, and how can we unite? Try to find the uniting principle there, because they will tell you that's what they were fighting for. So what's the difference? Can you do that? Are you ready? Specifically on the press? Is that what you're looking for? Yeah, or whatever. You said the five tenants. So tell me if I'm somebody, and I say...

Kelly, you guys are the ones trying to silence us. You guys are the ones that are violating the First Amendment. I'm for it, too. And then there's this crazy speech that you guys are for. You wanted to kill people and round them up. How would you respond to that? To somebody who was asking that as an honest question.

Well, somebody said that they were, we wanted to kill and round up people. I'd like them to tell me where they got that information and where they got that. Give me, you know, the follow-up question that everybody complained that Kamala and none of the left actually...

respond to. And none of the left in the media even actually present. But in any case, so specifically for the media, we saw this repression of voices, especially around COVID, around the transgender issue. You were cut off. You were not allowed to speak about it. The voices, I am a recovering journalist and

And I remember when I worked in newspaper, we had to have so many sources on each side and the both sides. Well, when there was an actual physical paper, both sides had to be presented before the jump. Right. Before you like it was on one page and it went to another page. You had to have both sides at the front because most people would only look at the front page. And now we see those.

They'll say, well, we do have that voice, but it's at the very end of a very long article of an online post. But we saw people who were kicked off of media. We see the demonization of even just alternative media. Even the free press, Barry Weiss's, gets a lot of flack from the left and traditional people. They just blow them off. And I felt like...

Elon Musk with X, which is going to be the new media, I truly believe. Your voice. People, just the threatening of boycotts by taking away money from different advertisers. They were doing that. They've been doing that for the last four years. And I just, it was going to ramp up even more. So it's not some...

shadowy, you know, scary in the dark threat that we built in our heads. They've been doing it. The right to speak again, if you are a pro-lifer, praying out in front of them, like you've covered all of this, is that praying in front of a

abortion clinic. People went to jail and the fear of, I do have the fear, I don't know if this is truly a fear, you know, a true fear, but the right to assemble, like you had talked about using the, um, the clan act, would we be able to go to the national march?

in DC the day after inauguration day, because that's always when the right to life marches. It was on the 21st, I believe. And being rounded up, they'd already started putting those pieces into place. I want to commend you. I hope...

that you talk to more people because you've done so many things right here, including the last thing you said. I don't know my fear, and I don't know if it's a true concern or just a fear. Fantastic. Give people the understanding that you don't know what's going to happen. You're concerned about that. But also, the first thing you led with was, can you show me who said that and where?

And you can't continue a conversation until you can agree on basic facts. So what Kelly did there so expertly was, first, where did you hear that? Now, let's go online. Let's find that so we can discuss that and agree or disagree on that first before we go any further. Excellent. Really well done, Kelly. Na, na, na, na.