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Garrett Lewis (0:00)
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Glenn Beck (0:01)
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Garrett Lewis (0:20)
To just $15 a month.
Glenn Beck (0:22)
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Garrett Lewis (2:02)
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Glenn Beck (3:08)
Lewis with you in for Glenn Beck. Happy New Year's Eve. I'm in Arizona. It was 72 and sunny yesterday. You should be jealous. I'm Normally on, in afternoons on KFYI in Phoenix, KNST in Tucson, and I'll be back to work there Thursday afternoon. I'll get one whopping day off tomorrow, so. But of course, with two kids and a wife, there's never really a day off. Never really a day off. So 2024 is about to come to a close. Trump wins a big giant election. America pretty much gives the middle finger to all the leftist policies, including wokeness. President Trump has said in the past. It's a great quote I played on my show in Arizona all the time. Everything woke turns to S. We believe out the S. It's one of the best things that President Trump has ever said. And it's, it's just utterly brilliant. And we've seen what's happened, right? We've seen what's happened. So that's why I am. I am kind of amazed. At Costco. You shop at Costco, I shop at Costco. We'll see about that from now on. Costco's board of directors is urging shareholders to vote against a proposal that would eliminate dei. So Costco's board wants to keep dei. Two words for you, Costco. Bud Light. Another word. Target, if I recall. Actually Bud Light in some Costcos around America stopped selling Bud Light because nobody bought it. Did they not see the billion dollar hit to Anheuser Busch? Did they not See Target lose 9 billion in value with their wokeness and sick stuff of selling all kinds of crazy clothes, promoting there's sex, trans surgery, mutilation stuff to kids? I mean, did you not see that stuff? Everybody seems to be getting away from the woke stuff. And all of a sudden Costco is like, nope, hold our Bud Light. We're going in. What are you talking about? What are you doing? It's so stupid. I mean, look, we, we belong. My, my family, we belong to Costco. And, and Sam's club. And Sam's club, of course, owned by Walmart. And Walmart, uh, they, they took the heat from Robbie Starbuck, who does an excellent job of using all of the leverage he has to pressure all kinds of companies, whether it was Nissan, Toyota, Walmart, Harley Davidson. He tells them, listen, this is what you're doing. You're promoting all these crazy things. You're paying money to this. You're forcing DEI training. We're gonna put it out there. And now these big giant corporations get the phone call from him, and before he even says, I'm Robbie Star, they're like, all right, we're done. We're good. We're not gonna do that anymore. And look, maybe, maybe part of it is some of these big shots at these big corporations don't even know what happens, right? They hired somebody, and then this, this somebody is a secret nut job, and they just want to feel good about themselves and powerful and they're making a difference in corporate America, blah, blah, who knows? At the same time, I really think it's all about cash, right? I mean, when, when America is fat and happy, people tend to feel a bit guilty, and then people tend to reach out and then others feel guilty sometimes about whatever their success, their wealth, whatever it is. And they say, yeah, you know what? I have it too. Good. Stop thinking that way. You've earned it. Someone's earned it. Someone who's earned it has given it to you. Whatever it is, it's your business. Enough with this stuff. Like, it's okay to feel good about yourself. It's okay to be happy with success. You work hard for it. So you have, you have these companies now. And Walmart was one that said, we're going to stop all this crap. And they, they did it pretty quickly. They did it really quick. And now Costco, I, I always thought Costco was smart. I mean, they run a hell of a business, but they want to go with this. Uh, the board of directors wrote a message to investors. It said, our success at Costco Wholesale has been built on service to our critical stakeholders, employees, members, and suppliers. Our efforts are on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Follow our code of ethics. What for our employees, they wrote. This is from the board of Costco. These efforts are built around inclusion, having all of our employees feel valued and respected. Wow. Our efforts at diversity, equity, and inclusion remind and reinforce with everyone at our company the importance of creating opportunities for all. We believe these efforts enhance our capacity to attract and retain employees, will help our business succeed. So that was what they wrote to shareholders. And I guess they're gonna have their annual meeting coming up January 23rd, and they want to keep this. This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. New York Post reports shareholders are going to vote on this on a proposal brought by the national center for Public Policy Research that challenges the legality of Costco's DEI program. Supreme Court had ruled that discriminating on the base of race in college admissions violates the equal protection clause, the 14th Amendment. So I guess that could, that could work here as well. And, and again, you think about this. I mean, they have a lot of employees. And in this story, I mean, Costco, they, they Have a chief diversity officer. So they, Costco apparently picks people for jobs based on their race, based on their sexual, not based on merit, but that's what it is. I think America can send the message to Costco that they either reward this racism and sexism or they don't. And it's very easy, very easy to send that message. It's been sent to, like I said, Anheuser, Bush, to target, to so many others, John Deere, Harley Davidson, you name it. Like, they, this has happened. This has happened. And this is at a time where companies, look, the economy's tough, companies are looking to act. Some people and, you know, companies want to keep revenue generators and they want to get rid of, well, people that just cost you money. And, and DEI people, they don't generate revenue, they just cost you money. It's like a tax. So a lot of companies have gotten rid of them, scaled back. Matter of fact, New York Post reports Alphabet owns Google, right? They, they've laid off DEI departments. Meta, Microsoft, Zoom, John Deere. Wow. But Costco is keeping it. They wanna, they wanna keep their racist, sexist, discriminatory hiring practices, I guess, and they're going for it. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. I don't know what they're thinking. But it's also in this, in this proposal. It says here, and this is, this is a big deal, right? Because the national center for Public Policy Research wrote in its shareholder proposal that Costco has 310,000 employees. At least 200,000 are likely potential victims of illegal discrimination because they're white, Asian, male or straight. Even if just a fraction of these employees of the 200,000 estimated were to file a lawsuit, and only some of those prove successful, Costco could be out tens of billions of dollars. So why the hell would shareholders say, you know what, yeah, let's keep going with this. That could cost us billions of dollars and make our shares worthless. So we'll see. We'll see. But Costco, I, I, I just, I. Beyond stupid, beyond dumb. Even. Universities and colleges are doing everything they can to try to get rid of DEI stuff and gender studies and all this woke crap and woke garbage and all this stuff. Some are just trying to rename it to trick people. So we have that, but this is only part of it. You know, look at the stock market, right? What is going on the stock market? Stocks are up. Why? Government spending, right? We're just, they're printing money. They're doing this stuff. But the nasdaq, the tech Heavy Nasdaq, apparently they also have decided to go woke. What it again? We are trying to get rid of this. It's the last year of 2024. It should be the end of wokeness. We elected Trump, we gave a mandate. We, we have the House, we have the. The Senate. What is going on here? But apparently the Nasdaq, as you're getting ready to maybe do some investing work with your financial advisor, the Nasdaq has diversity rules. Charlie Gasparino wrote about this in the New York Post. Diversity rules from Nasdaq. They're trying to force every company that lists on the Nasdaq to choose a board of directors that stresses intersectionality, race. Yes. Sexual and gender diversity. Again, there's no such thing as gender, but whatever. So instead of companies that have boards, right, that say we need to grow, we're going to have the best people with the best ideas, the best thinkers, and we're going to base everything on merit. Instead of that, what are they doing? Nasdaq is saying we need to go with woke stuff. DEI diversity. We need as many people of different colors, different sexes, different this, different that. Again, instead of actually the smartest. That's why sports is always great, because sports is the ultimate, right? I mean, look, sports leagues go woke. They go stupid and stuff like that. I get it. But when it comes down to it, when you want to put guys on a basketball court, when you want to put guys on a football field, when you put guys on the ice, you want to put the best team out there. I mean, coaches get paid to win. If they don't win, they get fired. So they're not going to sit back and say, you know, I think I'll be able to keep my job if I have a gay guy, a bi guy, a black guy, a white guy, and a guy that identifies as none of the above, we'll put those five out there, plus a goalie. We'll be okay. No, they're putting the best of the best out there because they want to be able to keep their job and make money. That's how it works. That's how it works. And now the Nasdaq is putting through diversity rules, forcing every company that lists on the Nasdaq to choose board of directors that pushes dei. Holy smokes. This is another stupid move. But what do you expect, right? This is. I mean, they'll. They'll face it. I mean, do they not know what just happened in November? Do they not know that Americans have had enough with this crap? Americans have had enough with Kids having sex, mutilation, surgery. We've had enough of this stuff. We've had enough of this being forced to be taught to kids in school. We're done with this. And yet what do they do? They. They go for it. They go for it. Wait till you hear this stuff that they have being taught in College. We H1B visas. People are up in arms. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and other companies claim they we don't have enough engineers, which by the way, that's crap. They just hired cheap people from other countries. That's what happens there. We, we don't have enough. Really. Do you know what they are teaching even in Ivy League schools? Do you know what they are teaching in schools? Wait till you hear it. My name is Garrett Lewis sitting in for Glenn Beck and I have it for you. Coming up right here on the Glenn Beck program.
