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I think today's theme of the show is, hey, why don't we take a second and think it through, okay? There's a lot on Mamdani that I did on the full show. You're going to have to go and get it, because I thought some things through. First was his tax the rich policy that he's so proud of. Oh, my gosh, I can't even take it. I did a chalkboard on that one. Also, Rachel Bovard was on with us. She can take swamp speak and turn that bullcrap into English. So she's telling us what's really going on the ball Less rhino. I almost had an aneurysm today talking to her. And then getting into Senator Lankford, who got defensive when Larry Kudlow, his friend, says, what are you doing? You guys aren't doing enough. I about popped a blood vest. I mean, my aura ring went off and said, are you swimming? And I'm like, nope, I'm not doing anything. Nope. I'm just talking about the GOP. But I did burn 112 calories in that 20 minutes that you don't want to miss. Also job. The greatest job on earth. You can be wrong at the opposite ends of the spectrum. You can be wrong in this direction and then reverse yourself and say, no, I'm absolutely right this time, and then be wrong in that direction. Wait until you hear what's causing the heat wave in Europe. Oh, you're gonna love this. All on today's podcast. Hello, America. You know, we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and leave a comment. Because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movie. And you're part of it. A big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program, Thune, the Balless Rhino. I gotta tell you, he's not the only ballist one Larry Kudlow last night had Senator Lankford on who's a good guy, nice guy, but he's like, you know, you guys never take on the Democrats. Are you kidding me? We take on the Democrats every day. We take on the Democrats more than you take on the Democrats. So don't start with me on that one. Um, and then, you know, it's their fault. It's their fault. No, it's your fault. You have the numbers. You have the numbers, and if you don't, then Thune is a ballist. Rhino, how come you guys can get everything that the. The GOP voter is against? How come you can get that done, but when you have 80% of the GOP behind you? Somehow or another, we just don't have the votes. We just don't have the votes. You know, Mitch McConnell got things done. You know how he got things done. Gee, there's a senator up in Maine that needs help with her reelection. You know who's not getting a dime? The senator from Maine. You're not getting a dime on your reelection unless you fold and you help us on this, then we'll help you. That should have been done months ago, but we got a ball less Rhino. Who I am going to award the Nobel Prize to? I'm making one just for Thune. Now, am I being too pessimistic? I doubt it. But the one person who actually would know who's been in that septic system that might know is Rachel Brevard, and she is with us. She is vice President of Programs for the Conservative Partnership Institute. She's been on before saying, you know, don't get your hopes up. Where are we on the SAVE Act? Where are we on this whole thing? Is it going to pass or not, Rachel?
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Well, just give me pause to choke on the no Ball Rhino award that you're creating. That was made my Friday. Thank you. So. Well, what's fascinating about this Save America debate is that, you know, we have John Thune out there saying, well, we don't have 60 votes. We've always needed 60 votes. We don't have 60.
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You don't.
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Well, yes, we can get into the procedural leverage that is available to these, but what the President has said is, okay, fine, if you're not going to physically impose exhaustion on the minority, on the filibustering minority. If you're not going to do all of that, then fine, I'm going to try to find a way to. To give this to you at 51 votes, and I'm gonna try to do it through Reconciliation. No one's ever tried this before. Donald Trump has said, I do not want this to be some sort of voluntary grant program that you can just get out of. I want this to be. I want this to have teeth. And so he said to the House, pass this. They did. And now he's saying to the Senate, do the same. And you have John Thune, who said, well, we don't have 60. We can't pass this now, saying, Donald Trump has given to him, given it to him at 51 votes because reconciliation passes that way. And John Thune saying, oh, can't do that either. So what he's doing, which is shocking in my mind, is telegraphing his own incompetence. He has 53 Republicans, and they cannot pass at simple majority a reconciliation vehicle that may. We don't know if it will. We haven't run through the process yet, but he's not even willing to try to make the program as reconcilable as possible to get it through this vehicle.
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So, Rachel, tell me, because this is where Thune, you're absolutely right. He is telegraphing his own incompetence. Do you remember when they passed the Obamacare bill? I don't remember who it was. He was, like, pro abortion. I mean, pro life, all of these things. He was, like, dead set against it. He was a Democrat, dead set against it. And he came out finally, and he was crying, and he's like, okay, okay, they made a deal with me, and I'm gonna pass it. I mean, where's the strong arm here? What. What do you have if you can't? If you're just like, well, I've talked to everybody, and everybody doesn't, then what use are you? What use are you? You can't make any deal with anyone.
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This gets to the point of what the Senate actually is for, which is to solve problems. And the Obamacare example is very instructive because, again, what the Senate provides you as an institution is the ability to leverage the physically grueling process of deliberation. And what Harry Reid did when he passed Obamacare, people may remember, it actually passed in two parts. It passed one as part of a reconciliation vehicle at simple majority, but the second part passed the major policy. Obamacare passed the Senate in its traditional form, subject to a filibuster. Now, Harry Reid had 60 Democrats, but he didn't have 60 votes, okay? He had Lieberman and he had Ben Nelson. He had to chase those votes, and he had Republicans on the other side throwing every possible delay tactic at him. And so what Harry Reid did is he didn't walk around and say, well, I just don't have 60 votes. Sorry. He used the institution. I was in D.C. when this happened. He said, we are not going home. You want to obstruct, you want to vote no, fine, you can do that, but you're going to do it 247 in the chamber, nights and weekends, and we're not leaving until it's done. And do you remember when that statutory part of Obamacare passed? It passed on Christmas Eve. Christmas. Because he leveraged every single opportunity he had to say, fine, you can oppose me, but you are going to physically pay for your opposition. This has been how the Senate has operated for 200 years, except now under John, when it cannot do anything.
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Yes.
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So what the hell is his problem? Have you figured that piece out yet? What is his deal?
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It's bigger than John Thune, unfortunately. And it is that the conference now has won loyalty. And it's to their own comfort. Right. What John Thune doesn't want to do is to announce to his conference, by the way, guys, we are going to start doing midnight quorum calls. We're going to start working Fridays even, or Mondays during the day, things that they never do. If John Thune announces that his conference is going to whine, they are going to grumble. A lot of them will just go home anyway, and it will be John Thune becomes the enemy of his conference. They have one loyalty, and it's to their own comfort. And that is really hamstringing the Senate because the Senate for, again, for 200 years has operated in this deliberate environment which takes work. And this current Senate works 2 1/2 days a week. Glenn. Okay. They work Monday night to Thursday at noon, and they go on recess, you know, for weeks. They don't stay in Washington and do this work. And what we are talking about doing, a true deliberative environment where you are dealing with an obstructive minority like you are with the Democrats. It takes work, and these senators simply do not want to do it. So can John Thune as leader, right. Show some, you know, small l leadership and say, guys, you know, get in the locker room. I'm going to give you a pep talk. We are doing this. Yes, he could do that, but he's chosen not to. But the problem is bigger than John Thune. Honestly. It's the entire Republican conference outside of a field, doesn't want to put in the work.
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That's. That's totally fine. But it takes a leader to Say, I don't give a flying crap, you're staying, you're staying. It takes a leader who's willing to take the arrows and the slings and the bruises and say, go ahead, punch me again. I'm not going anywhere. It's going to end up between you and me. And I know I'm not going anywhere. So we're doing it. That's what a leader does. John Thune has absolute. I would. He doesn't need hormone therapy. He's already a woman. He has absolutely no balls. Tell me why he's not doing the reconciliation thing. What is his excuse on the reconciliation thing?
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Well, it's that his conference does not want to do another Votorama before the midterms. And if people are familiar with this process, it's an unlimited amendment process. In the Senate now, debate is limited under reconciliation, but amending is not. So ironically, the objection to the talking filibuster is, oh, my gosh, they can offer unlimited amendments. Well, every budget resolution and every reconciliation vehicle also comes with an unlimited amendment process. Now, what happens is that, you know, Democrats think they can offer a bunch of poison pills. They have already done this. Right. The Senate has already been through multiple vote Aramas. I don't personally think Democrats have any new ideas that they haven't already forced Republicans to vote on. But these are grueling exercises. They go, you know, into 4:00am, 5:00am they go all night, but then they're over. The Senate does simply just does not want to do that. And, you know, if you believe Thune, there's also substantive objections to the bill. You have the farmers who are getting billions of dollars, they want more. You have the defense hawks who are getting billions of dollars, they also want more. So there's a number of those issues as well. Thune has said, I would prefer to take that budget resolution coming over from the House, carve out the substance and replace it with a CR with a government funding bill.
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Oh, God. Okay.
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But, yeah,
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I can't take these CRs anymore. We have no government. If you're just continuing resolution, you have no government. You have. It's just a giant blob of money out there. And we haven't made a single decision since 2008. These people are worthless. They're worth at least the leadership is worthless. You know, I have senators who call me and say, I can't. I don't even know why I'm here anymore. We don't actually do anything. This is a deliberative body. We don't do Anything. Why am I wasting my time here? And I'm running out of reasons for them to stay. I really am.
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No, I. It really. What you've hit on the current state of the Senate. It's. It's an existential threat to the Senate itself, because I think you have a number of senators who are rightly asking that question. What do I even do? It's funny, you know, I talk a lot about the Senate to various groups in Washington, and I talk about when senators were titans, when they moved history, when senators were statesmen, and they really, honestly, there were times where senators were more famous than presidents because they were more powerful than presidents in many ways, and they wielded power with dignity and authority. And you have a Senate now that is literally run like an adult daycare. You know, you know exactly when you're gonna vote, you know exactly when you're gonna have lunch, and you know exactly when you're gonna go home. And for all of the remaining time, you sit on your carpet square and sip on your juice box and wait to be told by the leadership what he says.
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So true.
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That is not.
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You are.
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Yeah, you are exactly. That is not what the Senate is for. Right. A senator. And the more that it behaves that way as an institution, the quality of senators are gonna go down, because why would any respectable member of society wanna put themselves through that? But two, you're also at a critical point in the conference where members have never seen a Senate that operates any differently. They don't know how to aspire to what the Senate used to be. And so I do think we are at a very dangerous point, a tipping point for the Senate, where it's either gonna save itself or it's going to continue into this complete irrelevance and decline.
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So what's Trump's move here? What's next?
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Well, Trump has said in clear terms, you're starting to see him throw hands at John Thune, which he hasn't done before, you know, and to say to him, look, this is unacceptable. I think it's time. It seems as though Trump is starting to realize that the Senate Republican Conference is actually the problem. He's talked about the filibuster being the problem and the parliamentarian being the problem. And those are foils, those are proxies for what the actual problem is, which is the conference itself. So Donald Trump cannot force the Senate to pass legislation, but he is the leader of the Republican Party and he has a lot of power at his disposal. So I think he can try to make life painful for these senators in a way that he really hasn't. I hope he doesn't have to do that. I hope the Republicans continue to midterms. But you have a situation now where the Senate has given its members nothing to run on. Right. Donald Trump is trying to help them, save them from themselves and say, just give the voters something to show up for. Nobody remembers what you've done. They remember what you're doing. So, you know, I think you're going to start to see more pressure from this White House against the Senate than I think you've seen before. And it's over.
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Well, but what they're going to say, what they're going to say when they get home is, I'm on your side. I'm on your side. We just need this election. If we can just get a few more, then we'll have the power to do. I'm so sick of that excuse. And I don't think it's gonna, I don't think it's gonna, you know, be bought by anybody in America. I really think GOP voters have shown their, they've tipped their hand. They've. They've shown. We're done with you guys. We're done. John Thune, good luck on your next, your next election. It can't come fast enough. And feel free to stop by at any time. We're in the same area. I'm out in the Mountain west, too. John, you can stop by and get your Nobel Prize anytime. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. You can hang it where your ball should be. Anyway, Rachel, thank you so much. I appreciate you being on with us. I'm sorry that it just ran into this, but I'm in no mood for those Always happy to be here.
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And you're very welcome.
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All right, thanks. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Let me start with James Carville. You know, James Carville, the guy who proves that there is alien life. James Carville telling the Dems what they should do with voter ID. Cut 3.
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We are not going to win the war against some kind of id. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't fix anything, but maybe you just go along with it and move to the next. Of all the things, people, if every poll shows 75 or better, say we should have some kind of an ID to vote. Some say, I don't know what it is, but just, just quit fighting and go along with it and move to the next thing.
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That's James Carville, space alien, even from I guess he's in bed. I don't know who he's in bed with. Probably some socialist, but he's in bed doing the interview from bed. The space alien saying, just do this. People are for it. Saying that to the Democrats, Bethune, the Ballos Rhino just can't get it done. Now, the President has given him several different ways to do it, but he just can't get it done because he just doesn't have the votes. What is your job? Your job is to whip the votes. Your job is to get it done. Your job is that you're not the accountant. You're not the one that's like, I counted. We don't have votes. Your job is to get the votes. Your job is to make deals. This is the one time that you're not doing a backroom deal. This is the one time where you're not negotiating with somebody, okay? The damn guy, he wants a bridge in his town named after him, and it's gonna cost us a billion dollars to build. This is the one time that you're like, no, we're not gonna do anything like that. That would just be wrong. Oh, my gosh. Now listen to Larry Kudlow talking to a good guy. Senator Lankford, listen to this.
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I'm sorry you had to bear the brunt of that opening, but I'm telling you right now, you, the leadership in both houses are bungling everything. Sir, I say that with all due respect, and we are personal friends. It's not per. But you're bungling everything. Nothing is getting done. Your messaging is non existent. You've lost your swag, your swagger, your riz, or whatever the young people say. No one knows what the heck you're doing, sir. They had no idea.
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Yeah, you're welcome. And this is part of the challenge we've got with all of our media friends out there that are continuing to be able to beat up on Republicans and say Republicans are all the problem.
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Stop.
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What does he do? He immediately says, you're welcome. Taking a shiv into our chest. Yeah, you're welcome. Okay. And then his first. Sorry. His set. His first reaction is to shiv. His second reaction is to say, that's the problem with all our media friends. That's the problem with all our media friends. They just won't talk about the good things we do. Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me. I will open up three hours. I'll give you three solid hours. You tell me the good things you have done in the last year. Tell it to me. I want to hear about all of the things that you've done to pass all of the great things that are just life changing for the average American. Well, we did that one, Bill. You know, the great something bill. Big, big bill something that we. We did that one, huh? Okay, we've got two hours and 58 minutes left. Tell me what you have done. Well, I'd like to, but nobody in our side will ever.
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I'm.
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I would love to talk about all the good things that you've done. I love to talk about how you have codified things so when the next jerk gets in, he doesn't just say, yeah, all of those executive orders, they're all gone. I'd love to talk about that. You haven't done any of it because you haven't done any of it. The president has had to do all of the heavy lifting, all of it. You are like the friend you, you are. Honestly. You're like me. Good, good friend. Good, good friend. But you call me and you're like, glenn, we're moving this weekend. Can you come over and lift boxes? Now, now. Not going to be. That's who you are. That's who you are, okay? And everybody understands it. When it's a Saturday, you're moving your friend. You're like, no, not going to do that. Nobody is with you on this. Nobody is with you. Oh, yeah, you're trying to save the country. Nah, I'm busy. I'm. I'm working two days this week. I really just don't have the time. You know, I get in here on a Monday night, and then I have to work all day Tuesday. Then I have to work all day Wednesday. When I say work, I mean, you know, I talk to people, you know, walk around. We have lunch, then we go to dinner. I meet with donors so I can get reelected. But then by Wednesday, I am wiped out. And then I gotta get onto a plane on Thursday and go home. And I'm only home Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. And then I gotta do it all over again starting next Tuesday. Oh, my life is such a hell. Nobody relates to you. Nobody, nobody feels sorry for you. Everybody is waiting. We want to cheer you on. You've given us zero reason. And it's not because we can't see it. It's because you're not doing it. Now, I'm sorry. I got into the first two sentences, which I didn't even plan on talking to. My real problem is still yet to come. Go ahead, play the rest of this.
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Friends out there that are Continuing to be able to beat up on Republicans and say Republicans are all the problem. But apparently the socialist Democrats in New York City, they seem to be perfect because most conservative media right now is beating up on Republicans and just ignoring the socialists.
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Stop.
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Stop. I. I've never believed in lizard people. I think the guy might be a lizard. I think he might be a lizard.
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That's.
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That is the most reasonable explanation on how this guy is. Is arriving. He blinks sideways. It's the only way he could be seeing the world this way is he's a lizard person. What are you talking about? No, but the socialists in New York, they're great cause. No, no, Nobody on. On media and media for the conservatives are even talking about. Mom, Donnie. I know when I heard him say the stuff in New York, the socialists, I'm like, what socialist in New York? I don't even know what you're talking about. I just did an hour and a half out of a three hour show. I probably done half of my monologues this week have been on socialism. Yeah, we're not covering that at all. We're just beating up on. You know what? You know who I haven't beaten up on this week? Republicans. Because I really thought the hammer of Donald Trump would be a big enough hammer that maybe you'd go, I don't wanna screw with him. Oh, Donald Trump. Please unleash, please unleash, please, please. An eye for an eye for a head. Let's. Let's use that. Metaphorically speaking, please start taking these guys on. This is absolutely. It's shameful. It's shameful. All right, go ahead. So what else excuse. What other excuse does he have?
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Ignoring the socialists who are running rampant all over the country? So I look back on what happened with the one big beautiful bill. Look at the housing bill we just passed. There's a lot of things that are going on that are good.
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And I understand nobody attacked Madami more than I have. For heaven's sake. That wasn't the point.
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I wasn't saying that just about you.
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I was saying isn't the point.
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This is the challenge that we're up against.
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What is it that your policy is, Senator Lanford, my friend? What is your. Where are the tax cuts? Where the spending cuts? Where's the waste, fraud and corruption? Corruption reduction? Where is all of that? Where is the reconciliation bill? Where's the straight talk and messaging for the midterms? Where's the growth messaging? Where's the we're going to make it better for taxpayers and Working folks, messaging. Come on, Senator.
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Well, he did it. I mean, he told you. He told you. The big beautiful bill that we just passed. Has time collapsed? Is Sen. Is Senator Lankford okay? Is he going. Is he experiencing time collapse where. He just thinks he did that yesterday, not a year and a half ago. We just passed the big beautiful. That's the only thing anybody could ever quote, because that's the only thing you can only quote that come up with anything other than the big beautiful bill. You can't. And how hard was it to get the big beautiful bill? Donald Trump had to hammer all of you on the head. It wouldn't have happened if Donald Trump hadn't done your job as well. Big beautiful. I'm not done yet. I'm going to take a little sip of water. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Are you out of your mind? Senator Langford, do you really think we're this stupid? You guys, if you were in there every week and you're like, we're staying here till we're getting this done and you failed, but you stayed there for a month and you didn't go home and you were taking midnight roll calls and you were voting and you were working hard and you didn't get it done, we'd be on your side. You're not working at all. Larry is asking you, what is your strategy? Well, you know, nobody's taking on the socialist. You know who's not taking on the socialist? You. By not doing. By not doing anything. By not. By not passing simple, simple bills. Not. Not clearing the way for people to actually get into business. You know, not taking on the fraud, not doing just nothing but a committee and then never, ever getting anybody to the point to where you can have them arrested or go to jail. You know what? We're tired of it. We're tired of the show. Because that's all you are, is a show. Some of us don't want a show. We want a country. When you decide to save the country, let us know. We'll be there for you. Until then. Until then. I got no time for you. No time. You're not my friend. You are my representative. Do your damn job. You're listening to the Best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more. Check out the full show podcasts anywhere you download podcasts. My aura ring just asked. Are you swimming? No, I'm talking about politics and the Save Act. That's what I'm doing right now. But now I got to talk to you about this. This, this, this, this, this story will Boggle your mind will boggle your mind. Study has come out in the Geophysical Research Letters this week with an explanation on why Europe is so hot. Now why do you think?
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Why do you think?
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Ricky? Do you know the answer to this? If you do, I don't want you to answer. If you don't know the answer to this, take a guess. What is your guess on why it's so hot? I. I can't hear her now. I don't know why she there. Okay. I don't know if anybody else heard her. I couldn't hear. I'm guessing you said what? Say it again, let me see.
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Something brilliant. I said something really brilliant.
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Okay, what did you say? What is. What really. What is it that you think is.
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I know the answer because I get the Morning Brief newsletter every morning at 8:30 M Eastern.
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All right.
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What?
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I'm not going to give it away. Oh, okay. All right.
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All right.
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I would guess it's global warming, right? Global warming. Why is global warming because of pollution. We just aren't doing enough for pollution. Here's what the study came out and said. It's not the pollution, it's the lack of pollution. Europe has cut its sulfate emissions by roughly 80% over the last 30 years. Acid rain rules, low sulfur fuel standards, scrubbers on smokestacks and all kinds of things. We were told to do it, we were strong armed to do it. We were penalized if we didn't do it. We were called horrible human beings if we thought this isn't really what the deal is. And one of the study authors told the Telegraph that since 1980 Europe now has warmed about 1 degree more than the rest of the northern hemisphere and 1.5 degrees more than the global average. And that's most, most of that is traced back to cleaning the air. How do I get a job where I can be that wrong, that public about it and get a bigger budget? I want to know. I really do. Okay. By the way, the physics in this study. 242 years old. And you know who figured it out? A guy with a frickin magnifying glass. You know what his name was? Benjamin Franklin. It's June 1783. There's a fissure that opens up in the Icelandic Highlands and all kinds of, you know, toxic gas spews out of this, okay? Spends eight months venting the largest lava flow of the last thousand years. And there's a haze that drifts across Europe and they called it a dry fog. And the crops withered and livestock died and Iceland. A quarter of the population died. Okay. Ben Franklin was in Paris that summer. He just signed the Treaty of Paris. And he noticed, wow, the sun looks wrong. So he takes out a magnifying glass and he focuses the sunbeam like you used to do, probably when you were a kid. You take a leaf and you focus the magnifying glass and you set the leaf on fire. Okay? But he found that the wheat, the light was so weak, it wouldn't k. Let me quote him, wouldn't scarce Kindle Brown paper. Okay, so In December of 1784, he writes for the Manchester Literally and Literary and Phil Philosophical Society, and he writes a paper, and he calls it Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures. Okay, what's his conclusion? His conclusion is the haze is blocking the sunlight. The ground froze early. The snow never really melted, and that's why winter has been so brutal. Sulfur in the air cools the ground. Benjamin Franklin, 1784. No satellite, no supercomputer, just a piece of glass and a scrap of brown paper. Okay? Now, July 1971, Science magazine publishes some, you know, two boneheads from Goddard, NASA Goddard, okay? Their finding that is that quadruple the aerosols in the atmosphere and you'll drop global surface temperature by three and a half degrees. They say it's going to be sufficient enough to trigger an ice age. Oh, so wait, they're just saying the science that we already know from Ben Franklin, who only had a leaf at a magnifying glass. April 28, 1975. Newsweek runs the cooling world. Earth's climate is cooling. Food production is about to collapse. The drop could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. We can be in an ice age. I grew up in this era. I remember all this crap. The wheat belts of Canada and the Soviet Union, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, they're all gonna be gone. We're all gonna be dead.
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We're all at. It's.
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We're all gonna be frozen to death. Woolly mammoths will be roving the Earth again, and they'll be impaling you with their big tusks. The melting ice cap, it's not melting. It's growing. In fact, it's so big, what we should do is this was an actual scientific trick. Take black soot and put it all. Sprinkle it. I don't know how many bags we'd need, but sprinkle the black soot all over the polar ice cap because the black would attract and hold in the heat. And so we'd melt the polar ice cap. Good thing we didn't do that. Huh? That's 10 years from 1975 to 1985. In that 10 years, world grain production more than doubled. The UN's food agency has this year global cereal harvest at a record of 2.96 billion tons. And the wheel continues to turn and nobody, nobody notices. Nobody notices. March 20, 2000 Independent of London Snow, Paul. Snow falls are just a thing of the past. We're not gonna have any more snow. Oh my gosh. David Viner, he's from the climate research. Whatever he says winter snow is is going to become rare and an exciting event. Children just aren't going to know what snow is. February 22, 2004. The observer obtains a Pentagon commission report. Major European citizen cities under rising seas. Britain is going to be plunged into a Siberian Climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict by 2020 over water. The threat, the paper said, vastly, vastly bigger than terrorism. 2007 the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report states the Himalayan glaciers are going to be gone by 2035. The source turned out to be a World Wildlife Fund pamphlet which got it from a magazine interview which was one glaciologist speculating out loud. The panel expressed regret when none of this stuff happened. December 2009 Copenhagen. Al Gore tells a conference there's a 75% chance the entire north polar ice cap will be ice free within five to seven years. Check your calendar. Not happening. The scientist that he cited said publicly he had no idea where the number came from. He would never estimate likelihood that like that, okay. Last September, Arctic minimum came in around 4.6 million square kilometers. That was the 13th consecutive year with a, without a new record low. The record is still belonging to 2012. And here we are. Let me take it one more step. 2020, when the International Maritime Organization cut the sulfur allowed in ship fuel from 3.5 to, to half a percent. Sulfur dioxide from global shipping fell about 80% overnight. Researchers writing in Communication, Earth and Environment in 2024 called it what it was an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock and estimated it could double the warming rate of this decade compared to the rate since 1980. So we ran a planetary experiment on the entire ocean without hearing, without, without a hearing, without a vote, without anyone in position of authority saying out loud what Benjamin Franklin knew in 1784. I mean, where do we, honestly, where do we, where do we go from here? Where do we go from here? It's not the science that is a scandal, it's the arrogance that is we took the pollution out and now because we might get a point five to one point change in the temperature. So we take the. We, we take the sulfur out, we clean up the air. And now they're saying, well, that could give us a 1 point or 1.5 increase in temperature in a decade. Every one of these headlines came attached to a demand, to a treaty, to a tax, a mandate, a deadline, a thing you have to give up by Tuesday. Don't eat meat. For the love of God, just don't eat another hamburger. Not one of them came attached to a sentence a scientist is really supposedly saying. And this is what they should say. This is our best estimate. And we could be wrong. Good chance we're wrong. Okay, Franklin titled his paper think of this Imaginations and Conjectures. That's a man telling you exactly how much weight to put in on his work. He was right and still labeled it, I don't know, I could be wrong. A guess. The modern version doesn't label anything a guess. It labels dissent. I mean, we've been here before. 1784, a man in Paris holds up a piece of glass, watches the light fail to catch brown paper on fire, and told the world, I have an idea, but I'm probably wrong. Two and a half centuries later, we have satellites, supercomputers, 100,000 credentialed experts, and the one word we've lost is the one that Franklin put in his title. I gotta tell you, there are days I would love to have a job like that. I mean, I would love to be. I'd have to be willing to be wrong in public twice in opposite directions and call it settled both times, and then never apologize for it and possibly set Europe on fire. You know, there's times I'd really like to have a job like that. And then I think, nope, I don't have the stomach for. I'm not that evil. I wouldn't have the stomach to be able to do that. It would bother me too much. None of these scientists are bothered by any of this stuff. They'll just go on and say their next thing is absolutely right and the science is settled. Just know none of it settled. None of it. Because now they're telling us the air is too clean over Europe. Now it's getting super hot because. Not because of global warming, but because we cleaned the air too much. The arrogance of these people. But here's the good news. We're going to give the same people like that artificial super intelligence because they know what they're doing.
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