Stu Burguiere (9:03)

Because a lot of times they're like, oh, asylum. Well, if you are being harassed by gangs in your town, like, you got.

Glenn Beck (9:09)

To be able to.

Stu Burguiere (9:10)

So that's not one of the tests at all. Actually, there's two step tests. First, has to be, what are the grounds of your persecution? Not just that you're persecuted, but what are the grounds for your persecution? Has to be one of these five.

Glenn Beck (9:21)

My government has. My government has come out against all Christians. I'm a Christian. My government has come out against all Muslims. I'm a Muslim.

Stu Burguiere (9:29)

Right. Religion is one of them. Race is one of them. Nationality is one of them. Political opinion.

Glenn Beck (9:34)

Hang on just a second. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Because let's talk about. Let's not forget South Africa. I'm sorry, what is one of the reasons?

Stu Burguiere (9:43)

Race, Religion, Nationality, by the way, race. One of the reasons, and one of the reasons I was looking into this was because of the. Of the South Africa situation. They fit this completely. Like, they are completely, perfectly aligned with. Exactly.

Glenn Beck (9:59)

White farmers are perfect for this for habeas corpus, and the asylum. Perfect for it. Fitted exactly. Yeah.

Stu Burguiere (10:10)

It's funny because they keep talking about how they can. Why would you allow them in? Well, they actually check the legal boxes quite well. So it's race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group are the five grounds. So you have that as test number one. If you pass that test number one, there's a test number two, which there has to be a specific government failure. So it's not just that you are persecuted. It has to be that the government has failed you to Avoid that persecution.

Glenn Beck (10:38)

Or perhaps I've done everything I can. I've tried to go to my government. I've tried through the court system. I've tried, I've tried, I've tried, and the government has failed me. Yeah, so that's what these. Go ahead.

Stu Burguiere (10:49)

Yeah. Just to finish that up. So it has to be that your home government is unable or unwilling to protect you and. Or they can't safely relocate you in the country. So if you're in, you know, you think about a country like, again, you have these situations where the entire government breaks down or the government is the one persecuting, It's a lot easier to check those boxes. But those are things that we can be aware of in advance.

Glenn Beck (11:15)

Right.

Stu Burguiere (11:15)

Like we know if we, for example, know about South Africa and the way, what the government's doing, they're passing laws to take the land, they're allowing some of this violence, it seems like sometimes cheering it on. So that would be something that would check these boxes quite clearly if just because, you know, the case we talked about with the guy who was sent to El Salvador, he was saying that his mom's pupusa stand.

Glenn Beck (11:41)

Right.

Stu Burguiere (11:43)

Was being hit by gangs. That doesn't check these boxes at all.

Glenn Beck (11:46)

No. So all you have to do is expand the courts and you put them at the place of entry or departure. Let me hear your case. Do you hit these two? Nope. Thank you. Bye. Oh, you. Wait a minute. You hit these two. Or at least there's a serious question that you hit one of. You hit both of these. Great. You stand over there. We're going to put you into another system and another court to actually hear more of that case. You don't need anything else but that. You just need to hear, do you fit those things? Okay, now all we have to do is have a surge court core, if you will, and expediate all of these. All of these hearings, because it doesn't work to overwhelm the system. That is the suicide pill that they know they're doing. You have to de. Emphasize illegal entry. You have to expand the state enforcement power where you can massively expand Article 1 immigration courts. I think Congress has to do that, but I'm not an attorney. I hope the president also has that ability, just like he did in the Civil War. And as FDR wrongly suspended habeas corpus for the Japanese, okay, this president can take habeas corpus and suspend it and then it's done. But I would prefer, and I think he would prefer that we, you know, stop the weaponization of the court system and find a way to get this to happen quickly. Now, here's what we do. We have to reframe this whole thing. First of all, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Do you think everybody should would agree with that? If the constant. If they were. If we decided we could come after all transgender people and the Constitution, it was there. And, and you lived in San Francisco. Would you have to put up with that? Would. Is that a do? You're in. You're in California and everybody is, you know, all trans. Would. Would you have to stay a part of that union? Would you have to follow that? No, you wouldn't. It's not a suicide pact. It doesn't. You don't. Because one state doesn't. And it's. It's destroying it. We don't have to do that, okay? It's a covenant. It is a contract with the living and the unborn, and we cannot honor that, that covenant by allowing its deliberate abuse. We know this is deliberately being abused, so we cannot allow that. You can't protect liberty by handing the keys to the people who just broke in through the back door. You can't also offer fairness to the world if we destroy that house. So how do we do it? You can't preserve the Republic by abandoning its moral core. We have to be just but firm. So first we act out of resolve, not rage. You fix the courts, you accelerate justice. You respect the personhood of all but the citizenship of the few. You rewrite laws if needed, but you do not ignore the laws. You start to enforce the laws that are already on the book. And when political leaders refuse to act, we organize, legislate, litigate, and vote as if your western civilization depends on it. Because it does. A government without the power to defend its own laws ceases to be a government at all. That's what the founders said. Our job is to remember that, to educate ourself, know what it is, reframe the argument in the correct framing. Stop using their frame to talk about this. You know the frame now. That's what we must do. That's what we're fighting for. We're not fighting against, we're fighting for. Let me tell you about relief factor. I have to tell you, they're among us. People who stand up without making any sound. No groaning, no. No hands on the knees while wincing. You know, they just stand up. Who are these freaks? Oh, they're just taking relief factor. Well, that's a little anti climactical. Climatic. I mean, that's awful, right? Relief Factor is a daily supplement that fights the inflammation responsible for pain in your back and your knees, your shoulders, your hands. You can get up going, oh, it's drug free. Developed by doctors, trusted by millions of people. Try the three week quick start right now. Three week quick start. You'll know in three weeks whether it's going to work for you or not. I want you to go to relieffactor.com try the three week quick start 1999, relieffactor.com or call the number 1-800-for relief. 1,800-the number for relief. Now back to the podcast. You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Program. So there's a, there's a couple of things that all tie into what we were just talking about with, with Whoopi Goldberg saying, what difference does it make now? Why do we need to know who was running the White House? Why? I mean, it's so insane. It is honestly like saying, all right, so the bank was robbed. They got their money back through insurance. Everybody's made whole. Why does this matter? Why are we still going after these bank robbers? Are you crazy? I mean, the logic just does not work anymore for a lot of people because ends justify the means. You cannot take the position that Whoopi Goldberg has held for so long with and then say, wow, you know, we should go after those people. We should look into that, because that's a danger to the republic. And once you say that, then you're like, wait a minute, I've been saying Donald Trump's a danger to the republic. I denied all of this. What do I really believe now? Who, what side am I really on? What, I don't have to like Donald Trump, but I, I do have to recognize my errors. And most people just can't do that. And it is really sad. But that is what makes people leaders and then also makes people either leaders for the dark side or just, they just destroy themselves. Because the truth does matter. And if you don't reconcile that in you, you're you. There's no way you can connect into the flow of life. For those of you who are listening in California, there's a couple of things on this. Here's why it matters. Is anyone above the law? We know that's against the law. And it matters when it's happening and after it's happening. Okay, you have a couple of people. You have. The New York mayor was arrested for protest and charged with trespassing by the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. And she also arrested MacGyver. Who could be against MacGyver. Not that MacGyver. Congresswoman MacGyver. Now they. It's on tape. They are seen pushing through guards, ice guards. This is not. They were part of a protest. And they use that protest to storm the gates to get past the guards. That's not, that's not doing your constitutional duty. That's not so. Why. Why are we persecuting? Because if you want to, if you want to assemble peacefully and protest, I'm all for you. I'll stand. I, I get despise what you're protesting for, but I'll stand with you. Okay? Because you have that right to do it. But you don't have the right to whip up a mob and storm the gates. You don't. That, that's, that's where your, your, your constitutional rights stop. Right at that door. Does it matter? Yes. If we would have put people behind bars who were looting Macy's and burning cities down, and we would have concentrated on the people who actually believed that there was a problem with the police and wanted a real solution. If we would have listened to those, quote, peaceful protesters and put the other protesters behind bars, we wouldn't be sitting in this situation. Once you ignore something, you teach bad people or even people who are just frustrated with the system. Oh, well, if they can do it, I can do it, too. I mean, as soon as we stopped enforcing the law because of blm, what happened to crime? Do you think crime going up all over the country is for no reason whatsoever? No. We stopped enforcing the law. We stopped arresting people for small crimes. You know, you. Now, you could steal up to a thousand dollars. Well, what do you think happened? Everybody went, well, I can steal a thousand dollars. I'm gonna know exactly what I'm gonna steal, and I'm gonna take those things and I can walk out. No, no. No harm, no foul. That's why you lost your CVS in many stores all across or in many states all across the country. Because once you teach that, well, then everybody's just going to capitalize on it. You have to teach the opposite. Your actions matter to our society. Now, yesterday, Jay Bhattacharya hosted his first staff town hall meeting. Sorry, it was on Monday at the National Institute of Health. He's the NIH director. This is, this is Fauci's old stomping ground. So he's holding a, an open town hall, and he's taking questions and he's answering questions, and there were 1200 submitted questions. He took the questions Answered as many as he could. It was on in public and, you know, you could go there and you could also watch it online. And he said, if it's true that we sponsored research that caused the pandemic, then that's a different story. And if you look at the polls of the American people, that's what most people believe it is. I'm quoting. It is possible the pandemic was caused by research conducted by human beings. It is also possible that the NIH part partially sponsored some of that research. Now, as soon as he said that, dozens of NIH officials got up and walked out of the room. And his response was, it's nice to have free speech. You're welcome, you guys. Free speech. If it is true that we sponsored research that caused the pandemic, and if you look at the polls of the American people, that's what most people believe. I've looked at the scientific evidence, and I believe it's true. What we now have to do is make sure that we do not engage in research that's posing any risk to human populations. They got up even though the CIA, Everybody, everybody is now coming to the conclusion this was cooked up in the lab. Okay, EcoHealth looks like it was involved. Eco Health was a recipient of cash from the nih. We know that Fauci covered things up and was in bed with Eco Health. We know all of that stuff. Right? We know it. Is it as. Do we have absolute proof? No, but we have. We have beyond. I believe, beyond reasonable doubt. Okay, but still, let's pursue that. Let's find out. I predict you're going to start seeing arrests on Covid. You're going to start seeing arrests of people that covered up, and that is essential. Why? Because you just hate science. Why? Because you're just for Donald Trump. And anybody who is against Donald Trump is. Should go to jail. No, listen to what he said. If it's true, we sponsored research that caused the pandemic. And I've looked at the scientific evidence, and I believe it is. Notice he said I believe. He didn't say it is. He said, I believe it is. If it's true, what we have to do is make sure that we do not engage in research that's posing any risk to human populations. That's why it matters. That's why this matters. Because if you don't admit it, if you don't track down how did this happen, you cannot prevent it from happening again. You can't save the Republic by ignoring that the President wasn't in control of his faculties or the government. You can't ignore that and save the Republic. You can't ignore the truth that the nih, most likely. But you don't move until you know that they were involved in a cover up because they were funding things they weren't supposed to be funding. But Foushee was so arrogant that he thought it was okay for him to do. You can't predict, you can't prevent the next pandemic if you don't fix what was. Was causing this pandemic. That's why it matters. Whoopi. They're going after Andrew Cuomo now over the nursing home deaths. Okay? DOJ is opening up an investigation on that. Whether he goes to jail or not. Stu, I know he has an opinion on this. Whether he goes to jail or not, whether he's guilty of it or not, has to be proven in a court of law. I've seen the evidence. We've talked about it before. To me, it looks very. It looks beyond a reasonable doubt to me. But this isn't a court of law. It needs to be investigated. It needs to be tried in open and fair court. And if he's guilty, he needs to go to jail. Why? Why would you do that? Because you hate the Cuomos? No, because I love people more. And I don't want people to be able to be killed in a nursing home because they're expendable, they're old. It doesn't matter anyway. I don't want that happening. And you can't solve that unless you put the people behind bars that, that encouraged that, because they'll just do it again. And if they don't, somebody else will do it. This is why yesterday, Trump just unloaded on the New Jersey Democrat charged with, you know, storming the gates at ice. Give me a break. Did you see her? She was out of control. He said out of control. She assaulted a federal agent outside a New Jersey ICE facility. The days of that crap are over in this country. We are going to have law and order. That's all I want. I don't want vengeance. I don't want anything done in anger. I want the system to work. I want law for all people to be equal, and I want order. We do it the right way. That's what he was asking for. Why does it matter? Because you can't. You can't have it if you don't enforce it. Now this, by the way, is why his approval ratings are surging. Did you see? He's up again in the polls. All of These things are connected. All of our problems. I would say I shouldn't say all of our problems. Most of our problems are caused in our country politically because we no longer care about the Constitution. We don't even know what it is. And I'm not talking about the politicians. They give lip service to that. They don't know it. They don't know it. They don't care. That never comes up in conversations. I know. I've talked to senators. I've talked to representatives on both sides of the aisle. They never talk about the Constitution. Constitution. When they're putting anything together, they don't care. Okay. They think they know better. Rules are different now, but they're not. So there's two reasons why we're in the situation we're in. One, Three. One, nobody knows the Constitution. Nobody's following it. Two, nobody's listening to the sage advice of three presidents. One, George Washington, what was his farewell address about? Don't get involved in these parties. These parties will kill you. They will figure it out. Don't. Don't overspend. Don't get involved in everybody else's affairs overseas. Be a friend to everybody. Now, if they attack you, we have to be strong. But we're not involved in anybody else's business. Stay out of that business. Don't run up debt. Well, there. All you have to do is listen to that guy, that one. Then we don't listen to Eisenhower who said, okay, we have to do things now to have a strong defense. So we're gonna have a standing army now. And because defense is now about nuclear weapons, we're gonna have to have science, which means we're gonna have to have education. And so the money to education, to universities, to science and to the military has to be guarded by the American people because the universities will train everybody to give what the government wants. They won't be pursuing science anymore. For science, they're going to give it what the government wants. So you're going to get the answers the government wants. Science will do the same thing. And the military will also start to promote foreign wars and wars of all kind because they want to sell weapons. Warning. Do we listen to him? No. No. Educational, scientific and defense, all of them sold out. And we don't really have any control. And the. The last one is Ronald Reagan, who said, within this generation, if we don't teach now, this is 1988, if we don't teach them now, the next generation will not be able to defend this country because they won't know our history. History is being lost. It must be restored in schools and in our homes. If we would have just listened to those three and known the Constitution, we would not be in any of these situations we're in now. So what do you say? Let's repair those three. Listen to those three guys. Repair that and learn the Constitution. That's what you can do as a citizen.

Stu Burguiere (30:37)

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Glenn Beck (30:42)

All right, I want to. I want to tell you a story here. And it's not just a story. It is actually now happening in Australia, and it could be coming to a state and a government near you soon. So let me tell you a story guy. Let's just call him David. David's not a billionaire. He doesn't have a private jet. He doesn't sip rare wine, you know, or hedge currencies in the Caymans, okay? He's. He's a builder. Literally. He bought some land, let's say, 25 years ago on the edge of town. No one had ever heard of this town, let alone this area. He poured some concrete, he raised walls, he rented the space to small businesses. And over time, that dusty little outskirt became a thriving community. He kept the land, the equity grew, but he never sold anything. He just reinvested, he repaired, he paid property taxes. Maybe he developed houses on some of that land. He hired help. Well, today on paper, David is now worth $3 million in real estate assets alone. Okay? Is that guy a fat cat that's calling the shots that needs to pay their fair share, or have they already paid their fair share because they're just like you. They started with nothing. They worked hard, they invested, and now they have assets that they don't really. It's not spendable, but he's worth $3 million in real estate. Okay, now let me tell you the part of the story where it goes a little dark. It's called unrealized gains tax. That paper value becomes a real problem because the state now wants to tax him. Not on the money he's made, because they've already done that, but on the theoretical increase in the value of his properties. Now, he hasn't sold them. He doesn't want to sell them, and. But they're going to tax him because he's made a profit, but he hasn't. Because he hasn't sold them. It's all on paper. So. But he has to pay taxes on that profit. That is unrealized. He doesn't have. And if his property values plummet the next day, they don't give him the money back. He just doesn't have to pay any more taxes because the value has gone down. So he doesn't have to worry about that. This is not hypothetical. This is what's happening in Australia right now. A 15% tax on unrealized capital gains for accounts exceeding $3 million. Okay, is there anybody in this audience that has put money into bitcoin and you put maybe $1,000 into it because you're not rich. You put a thousand dollars into it, you put $5,000 into it. But you really. I mean, it was scary to put that money in and you left it alone. And now maybe you're approaching $3 million. Now they're going to tax you when they take that money out, but this is in addition to that. They're going to tax you on the gains, not when you take it out. They're going to tax you on the gains that you haven't taken. So if it goes up to 109 and now all of a sudden you're in Australia and that account is now worth $3 million, guess what? You now have to pay income tax on that account. So you have to. What would you do? What would you do? You just go to your magic money printing machine that the government would do, or do you have to sell something, maybe the property, maybe some of the bitcoin, and then you never get that money back? If it goes back down, which it will. If it goes back down, they're not going to pay you. Wait a minute. I paid it on $109,000 and now it's worth 80. Do I get any of my money back because I just lost money? Nope. No. Imagine, Imagine those who lived in California, who maybe their parents bought a house and it was $5,000 in 1960. They still have the house. They can barely afford the taxes on it now to keep it because it might be worth $3 million, might be worth $5 million, but it was 5,000 when their parents bought it. And they haven't gone up in their status. They're not hobnobbing it with Bill Gates. They're just regular people who happen to get a house from their parents and they did well with it and that's the only asset they really have. But it's worth over $3 million now. How are they going to pay that tax? Because now if it's $4 million, I got to pay taxes on that. I have to pay 15% on that million dollars. Excuse me, I don't have that money. Well, all you have to do is sell your house. Now let's just follow this logic here. Consider who wins now, who's going to have to really pay this tax? Is it going to be the ultra wealthy with the teams of tax attorneys and offshore accounts because they have the means to navigate around the taxes? No, no, no, this is going to help. This is going to hit the self made man. That's who this is going to hit. The self made individual, the entrepreneur, the farmer, the small business owner. They have built their wealth through hard work and prudent investment. They have, they have value in that land that maybe their grandparents bought and were farmers before them. And they decided, you know what, I'm going to stay in farming. And they struggle every day. But now their land is worth over $3 million. So now they have to pay 15% tax on that in addition. Wait a minute, wait a minute. What? And it's assessed every year. What? So who sells that or who keeps that? What do they do? They have to sell it? Most likely the average person or the entrepreneur, the person that is not the billionaire. They're going to have to sell some of those assets to be able to afford keeping it to afford, just staying in line and you know, not going to jail because you didn't pay your taxes to the sheriff of Nottingham. So now you have to sell and you have to sell at a distressed price. Who wins? Who wins? Because you're forced to sell at a loss to cover the tax bill. Guess who's standing there ready to wake rake in your property. The billionaires, the large corporations, the Bill Gates of the world that wants more farmland. Hey, it's going for a song. I can get this now. That's who wins in this. It destroys anybody from trying to get, get ahead. It destroys them. It is immoral. But that's what's happening in Australia. So watch Australia burn itself to the ground. It's gonna start happening. This thing goes into effect I think in July. You watch. Let's see how this works out for Australia. Now. Meanwhile, we have our own problems here in Washington state. The Democrats who claim they were all for adding jobs and clean energy, have now blocked a nuclear manufacturing plant. Okay, good. If you know you work, you strike. It doesn't matter. Employees now are required to pay union members not to work if they're on strike. And Governor Ferguson signed the largest tax increase into state law with the passage of the biannual budget, which he said, we can't, we can't afford this. We can't. We have to make cuts we have to compromise. Nah, I just went for taxes. I mean, the election's over. Let's just go for taxes. So what happened? Well, they are already ranked 45 out of 50 states for business climate. I mean, would you go work, Would you go set up a new place in Washington state? Would you start a business? Would you bring your business to Washington state? I wouldn't. I'd get the hell out of there. In fact, I'm telling you right now, if you're in Washington state, get the hell out. Because once they run out of all of this money that they're taxing from people, what they're going to do is they're going to say, oh, your moving. You can't transfer that money out. You're going to have to pay an exit tax. And that sounds crazy, but it's going to happen. They will trap you and your money in that state because they're already on that path. They already said if there's another pandemic, they just passed a law in Washington state that says you will have no right to your own healthcare. They will tell you what you have to put in your body, what you have to do, how you have to live. All they need is a medical emergency. Don't think they learned anything from COVID other than how to control people. So they are. They just passed House Bill 2081. It increases the business and occupation, the B and O tax. This. This is a tax that taxes you on the gross. Okay? Which is crazy. If you're in business, you don't get that money. You're. I'm being taxed on the gross. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I've got things I got to pay out of that. Tax me on what I take. No, no, no. Not good enough for Washington state. We're going to tax you on the gross. So if you've got a business, even if your business makes a loss because you've got bills you're paying and it's costing you more, you're taxed on what you take in, not your net. So even if you lose money, you still have to pay a gross income tax. Oh, that's gonna work out well. And the state has just said, you know, it's just gonna be passed on to the consumer. Oh, well, that's even better for the people in Washington. They also have a new GROSS Surcharge of 0.5% on taxpayers with a taxable income over 250 million will. Which will expire on December 31, 2029. Cause they're just in this little place. Now don't worry. This, this, all these taxes are going to stay like this. They're not going to get any worse and they're going to expire anyway, so don't worry about it. Then they put a massive sales tax expansion on adding sales tax for the first time for IT services. Custom website development, custom software, security services, advertising services. Now need to charge customers sales tax on every transaction. They also vetoed the removal the governor did of the tax preferences for community banks. Let's not help the community bank. No, let's, let's, let's, let's help the Fed and the banks that make up the Fed. You know, the big ones like Citi and, and all of those banks. Let's help them put the little banks out. Okay. Then there's a new gross tax on storage units of almost 2%. Let's see what else they increase the capital gains on assets sold valued over a million dollars from 7 to. So you don't want to sell your home? Better do it quickly. Larger estates, if you have something of $9 million or up, the tax rate now is going from 20% to 35% capital gains. What has Washington done for you? What has the state of Washington done that deserves that increase alone? I'm not talking about your property taxes, your state income taxes, but now they're gonna take 35% of what you've made on your home. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Hmm. It's gonna work out well for them. Meanwhile, California, the Democrats there won't rule out new taxes to pay for healthcare for undocumented immigrants. What? Are you crazy? Yes. The answer is yes. Why do you think gold is going up in price? Why do you think bitcoin is going up in price? Why do you think anything that is outside of this corrupt system is going up in price? Because the whole world knows this is not going to last.

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