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‘He talked about jobs’: ‘Roseanne’ revival isn’t afraid to speak up for Trump voters

What’s going on? 

TV’s “Roseanne” is back with a 10th season, and the first episode premiered Tuesday night.

Actress Roseanne Barr hasn’t been shy about her support for President Donald Trump. In the first episode of the season 10 revival, her character explained why Trump voters were drawn to him.

What did she say? 

The Roseanne character didn’t agree with everyone in her TV family on politics. In a key scene from the new episode, Roseanne Conner explained why she voted for the president.

“He talked about jobs, Jackie,” Roseanne told her sister. “He said he’d shake things up. This might come as a complete shock to you, but we almost lost our house the way things are going.”

Glenn’s take: 

Glenn commended Barr and the show for giving a perspective we don’t often see in entertainment. Trump voters feared losing their jobs and their homes and wanted someone willing to fight for them.

“I think she actually spoke to the American people, both left and right,” Glenn said on today’s show. “She is speaking the words that the media doesn’t understand.”

This article provided courtesy of TheBlaze.

GLENN: So -- so -- but if Donald Trump said, the full force and might of the United States and it's going to be shock and awe, I think people around the world will look at that differently. You know, I think people around the world would go, he -- he might launch nukes. And that is something, that, you know, when your back is against the wall, you don't ever want to bluff. But you -- you want people to question whether or not you will do it. You want to have enough credibility to say, I'm -- I'm going in this direction. And people to believe you.

Now, the one thing that you need to -- to do crazy things in today's world is to be a little bit crazy or to be known as a little bit crazy.

STU: Yeah, deterrents only work when you believe the other side might do it. To quote the great documentary, Spies Like Us, a weapon unused is a useless weapon. And it's like, if you don't ever get to the point where you think the other side will ever pull the trigger on it -- I mean, look at the red line stuff with Syria. You know, the reason why Obama was so ineffective on foreign policy, is nobody believed he would ever do anything, other than an occasional drone strike or something like that. Nobody believed it.

And, you know, they believed Reagan. They believed Trump, I think.

GLENN: I think they believed Trump more than Reagan.

STU: I think they fear the outer bounds of what's possible with Trump. Right?

Where, with Reagan, I think they believed nuclear war. I think they believed he used it as a deterrent. But they did believe he would use it as a deterrent.

GLENN: Here's the difference, I think, I think, and I could be wrong. I think the world looked at Ronald Reagan -- some, the left, looked at him as a crazy man. But the right looked at him as a righteous warrior, you know what I mean? Somebody who said, communism is evil, and it's going to be destroyed.

And so they knew -- they knew what he believed and the correspond of his being.

STU: Ideological fuel.

GLENN: Correct. And there was that fuel that would not ever go out. And he would not allow it to be extinguished. And if he was pushed into a corner, that was what was going to drive him. I think the world looks at Donald Trump as pro-American.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: But just nuts enough to be able to do it.

Unlike Ronald Reagan, it was an ideological thing. It's not an ideological thing with Donald Trump. He believes in America. And he wants America to be great and to win. But it's not -- this is clearly evil. This is clearly good. He's just, that is what I want. And that's what I'm going to take.

And so you don't know what -- you don't really know what's driving him. Does that make sense to you? Do you think that's accurate or not?

STU: I think that's how the world sees it. And I think they see it too as -- you know, they definitely play to his ego a lot. And I think that's a standard thing the media does. For example, the New York Times goes in there and compliments him 500 times and gets all these quotes out of him when they have all these interviews. You know, they -- that is something we've seen from world leaders, consistently. They've consistently tried to frame Trump in winning these battles because they think that will lead to better treatment from -- from the administration.

I think that's largely been probably proven true.

But still, that's what I think he wants.

GLENN: Yeah. And I will tell you, I think this is what the average person wants.

STU: Yeah, yeah. I think that's true.

GLENN: The average American, I should say.

STU: No, South Korean, not so much on that.

GLENN: If you watched last night, if you saw Roseanne --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Now, I don't know how a woman who actually called for the I think the beheading or hanging -- seriously called for the hanging of all of the bankers. A devout communist. I don't know how she's allowed to be on TV again. But she took on her Roseanne character last night. And I think she actually spoke to the American people, both left and right, and vocalized -- can we play the clip, Sara, where she's talking to her sister and she says, look, he talked about jobs. And that was really important.

STU: Yeah. That's Roseanne on why she voted for Trump.

GLENN: Yeah.

VOICE: How could you have voted for him, Roseanne?

VOICE: He talked about jobs, Jackie. He said he would shake things up. I mean, this might come as a complete shock to you, but we almost lost our house, the way things are going.

VOICE: Have you looked at the news? Because now things are worse.

VOICE: Not on the real news.

VOICE: Oh, please. You just can't stand for anybody to have their own opinions about anything. Can you?

So you tell them how stupid they are all the time, and you get them to question what they believe in their heart is the right thing to do, until they make some enormous mistake that tears America apart and brings the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.

VOICE: So I'm guessing this isn't about Becky's eggs anymore?

VOICE: You kept saying what a disaster it would be if she got elected and how I wasn't seeing the big picture and how everything was rigged. And then I go into the booth, and I voted for Jill Stein!

VOICE: Who is Jill Stein?

VOICE: Some doctor. You did such a good job of making me doubt myself and feel so stupid, that I choked. Which helped get him elected.

VOICE: Well, the important thing is that you voted.

GLENN: It is -- this is an amazing thing. Here's an avowed socialist, really almost communist, who is -- is in real life, pro Donald Trump. It's a weird bed fellow. But she is speaking the words that the media doesn't understand.

When she was sitting at that table in that kitchen of the Conners that we've all grown up seeing. When she was sitting at that table and she said, you know, we almost lost our house, that was one of the most important lines I think of the entire show. Because a lot of people listened to this and they were watching last night and they thought, damn right. They don't understand how close to the edge we really are.

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Meet the pro-Intifada candidate NYC Democrats just elected

New York City Democrats just elected 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a "socialist Muslim", as the Party's candidate for mayor. But Glenn Beck argues that his radical beliefs are actually communist and Islamist.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

VOICE: Z10852. Something weird is going on. The World Trade Center is on fire.

VOICE: Seriously the top of the building. We're trying to get information.

VOICE: Top level of one of the --

VOICE: To unfold from New York City.

VOICE: A plane crashed just --

VOICE: My sister is in that believe. I hope she's okay. I have to come to New York.

VOICE: It's pandemonium.

VOICE: It's raining papers.

VOICE: Wait a minute! Stop just a second. Why are we -- why are we -- I've got breaking news. Breaking news, yesterday. New York City just elected as their mayoral candidate for the left. And the Democrats, a -- a Muslim radical, who is also a communist!

So, you know, it only took you 25 years. It only took you 25 years, New York, to go completely insane.

Somebody who is -- well, I mean, if I might quote Michael malice today. I am old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.

But you've got a -- you've got a communist jihadist apologist now.

Who was -- you know, well, CAIR put $100,000 behind his bid for New York City mayor.

So you have somebody who is endorsed by CAIR. That's really good.

He also was somebody who said, you know, he was -- he was for the shooting of the United Health Care CEO.

Said he was looking forward to driving down magnum Joan avenue. I don't know. Sounds like supporting people in the streets. Maybe it's just me.

Then he also said that he was going to globalize the intifada, which I think that's -- maybe -- maybe that's just me.

I mean, what do I know?

Tim Miller who is a podcaster. Asked him a few weeks ago. Asked him about his pro Palestinian slogan. Globalized the intifada. And he said, for me, ultimately, what I hear in so many, is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in standing up for Palistinian human rights. Oh, is that what you hear, Mr. CAIR?

Really? Huh, that's interesting.

Right. So globalize the intifada.

I mean, I mean, sure, that's -- I mean well, let me go on.

Because I don't want to take him out of context.

He then delved into the semantics of the intifada, citing the United States Holocaust memorial museum's use of a word for a translation for uprising, in an Arabic version of an article, a museum published about the Warsaw ghetto.

Oh!

So this is just a comparison, about the -- the armed rebellion against the Nazis!

I don't know if that makes me feel better!

I mean, if we're globalizing that.

We're the Nazis in this scenario.

Because I don't think it's the Palestinians.

I certainly don't think it's anybody who is like, hey.

Global jihad. I don't think it's those guys.

Or the Nazis. Who are the Nazis in that?

And it seems, if that's what you mean, then it's not just a harmless kind of slogan about human rights. It is a call for violence on the streets.

Because I don't know if you know, that's what happened when the Jews had their uprising against the Nazis.

I'm just saying!

But, hey, hey, free Palestine.

Oh, that's not what that means, gang. That is not what that means, but don't worry about it. He's just going to be possibly the new mayor.

And that's great. By the way, the Columbia faculty members signed a letter defending Hamas.

They were also among the donors to his mayoral campaign.

So, you know, you don't have anything to worry about.

And his father, who used to work at Columbia. Do you know, Stu?

Is his Dad -- is he still a professor at Columbia University?

He said that -- this violent terror thing of Islam, is not a part of Islam. Now, I've read the Koran, and much of the hadith.

And I'm pretty sure the violence is a part of that. But no.

No. This is something entirely new.

And his father while at Columbia university, wanted everybody to know, that this is actually -- this is something that came out of America!

America is really responsible for this.

And, you know, it really started with the Reagan administration, you know, when he started -- when he started with his very religious terms, to finish the war against the evil empire.

So, you know, that's where -- that's where 9/11 came from.

Is what -- don't worry about it! Don't worry about it!

Because who am I? I'm clearly just -- am I an anti-Semite today, or am I an Islamophobic? I can't remember which one.

Oh, it's probably both. Anyway, Islamophobia. Let me just explain Islamophobia. I haven't even gotten to the Communist part of it. Which is really, really -- New York, you're in one for hell of a ride. Buckle up.

It will be a fun rollercoaster for you. My gosh, I've never been happier that I've been away are if New York.

Anyway, I just want I to know, there is Islam. And then there is Islamists. Now, an Islamist is somebody who really wants Sharia law.

That's political Islam!

That's not a faith. That's political Islam.

Now, let me make really -- something really clear. Criticizing Islamism, is not Islamophobia. Pointing out the dangers of, oh. I don't know.

Political Islam. The ideology that seeks to use the tools of democracy, ultimately to destroy democracy, is not an attack on Muslims.

No. Uh-uh.

You know why?

Because Muslims are often the first people in line.

The first victims of the ideology.

So let's draw a bright, bright line between Islam as a faith, millions of people can practice that faithfully and peacefully.

It's mostly peaceful, okay?

Then there's the Islamism.

Islamism is something entirely -- that's a political project.

A theocratic political -- oh. Left loves theocracies. They love it.

Of course, you never see a problem with it.

See it when an Islamist is touting it. Anyway, it's not about prayer. It's not about fasting. It's not about spiritual life.

It's all about power. It's about merging of mosque and state. It's about implementing Sharia, not as a personal code of conduct. But as a governing legal system.

And it's -- it's supremacy.

Absolutely. Faith.

Religion.

It's -- there's one thing that's supreme.

It's misogynistic.

Deeply intolerant of all kinds of things.

Descent. Secularism. Other faiths. Even competing interpretations from inside the faith itself.

It will behead them too.

So let's -- let's be honest here for a second.

You know, CAIR should be labeled an international terror organization.

In my opinion. In my opinion.

Oh, does that make me -- that makes me an Islamophobe. I'm sure. I'm sure they will start a campaign against me on being an Islamophobe.

Stand in line, guys. You've been doing it since 2001, okay?

I don't really care. And I don't think the American people. I think that record, all the grooves are worn-out on that one, okay?

This is not a religion we're talking about. When we're talking about Sharia law. And we're talking about globalize the intifada. What does that mean, actually, to globalize it?

Does that mean we now want to do what is happening to Israel? All over the world?

Has the Palestinian plight become our plight you now, as Americans?

That there has to be an intifada here!

Because it's the kind of the same. You know. It's kind of the same over, you know, with what the Palestinians are going through.

Well, it's very much like what the Jews went through with the Nazis.

That's a weird one. That one makes my head hurt. It's very much the same as that. And very much the same as the fight against Donald Trump.

Oh, this is going to be fun. It's fun!

Really fun. You know, the irony here is, the ones that will scream Islamophobia the most, are the ones in the progressive left, the champions of feminism, LGBTQ rights. And secularism.

They're going to -- no. You want -- they're going to stand with the people, who want to kill them first.

See, this is how smart they are!

This is why it's going to work out well, in New York City.

Let me just say. If you have an ounce of common sense, you run a business, you have an ounce of wealth. And I don't mean wealth like, you know, hey, Lovey.

Let's get on the boat for a three-hour tour with a suitcase full of cash. I mean you saved anything, anything, get the hell out of New York City.

I mean, this is about survival. This is about free speech. This is about women's rights.
Religious pluralism. Secular legal systems. Liberal democracy.

But it's also about failed principles of Communism. Okay?

First, you have to call out political Islam for what it is. Okay?

And we have to do it with the clarity that we call out white nationalism.

Got to do it with that. Got to -- you know, the Klan. Really bad people.

Really bad people.

Anybody who is shouting for globalized intifada?

Pretty bad. Pretty bad people.

Okay?

Now, let's get to communism.

Because that's another cool, cool angle of the new Democratic candidate for -- for mayor of New York City.

That I just -- I think is cuddly and cute. Sure, it led to 100 million deaths. But this time, New York is going to be radically different. Oh, did I use the word radical?

I didn't mean to use that. What's radical about this guy?

Nothing. He's just like you!

Well, not exactly.

But let's talk about communism, next!

Now, the new mayoral candidate that's running there in New York City. That so many young people rushed to defend and vote for. He's promising free buses.

That's going to work out.

Where are you going to get the money for free buses.

It's free!

City-run grocery stores.

Oh, rent freezes. And finally somebody has done it. A 30-dollar minimum wage.

So under the banner of equity. And, you know, we will tax the wealthy. And the corporations. You know, we're going to squeeze another $10 billion out of them.

Really?

Because they're going to call a U-Haul.

You know, they will call something like U-Haul. There will be a lot of -- there will be a lot of movers that are like, how do I get the truck back from Texas or Florida back up to New York? Nobody is moving up there.

But he's going to do it.

Now, his vision isn't really new. You know, just -- just tax people, so we could have city-run grocery stores. You know, I remember -- I'm old enough to remember those city-run grocery stores in Moscow.

They were great.

The shelves were empty.

But that's just Moscow.

It worked out completely different in Venezuela.

Where, oh, no.

It didn't. That's right. The grocery store.

They were eating the zoo animals.

But it will be different in New York.

Because they have rent controls too.

And that will just choke the housing supply, but don't worry. As a young family.

You know, you voted for it.

You know better.

It will work this time.

So, you know, I like building ideas, I just don't like usually building on the graves of 100 million people.

But, you know, why not? Why not?

You know, use this dogma.

And this time, it will be different. It's not like it was in China. Where the great leap forward, was a gross -- a gross parody of progress. Venezuela, which was oil rich. One of the richest nations in the hemisphere now sees 90 percent of its population in poverty!

Yeah. Darn it. You know what they did?

They decided to take state control of things.

You know, like grocery stores. And it worked out well. How is that free busing working out in Venezuela?

I just want to -- I just want to know.

Anyway, then you've got the globalize the intifada. Which is going to drop a little violence in, and anti-Semitism in with your communism.

Which is weird!

Because violence and anti-Semitism, always happen. When it -- when it comes to -- when it comes to communism.

This is weird!

I've got to play something for you. Because this has talked about on me earlier this morning.

Oh, wow.

Wait a minute. This is -- this is the whole coalition coming together here.

So this is going to be good. New York, this is going to be great.

It's going to be great for you.

No. He's going to uplift you. Then the social fabric of New York City is just going to be -- just one.

It's going to be fantastic. Don't worry about your 120 billion dollars in debt. Or your 10 billion-dollar deficit that you have right now.

You are going to charge the rich more taxes, and they will stay right there.

They will be like, you know what, that 46 percent in taxes that I'm paying, this is just not enough. It's just not enough.

I need to pay 60 or 70 percent to be able to pay my fair share. So that's good. That's good. That's good.

You know, they're not risking 100 million people. It's just 8 million people.

This time, it's just 8 million people.

But, hey. For those of you in upstate New York. That aren't going to be part of this experiment.

Don't worry, you get to pay for it. Because they'll kick it up to the state. The state will have to subsidize everything. And don't you love it?

Really, don't you want to subsidize the really crazy ideas of New York City?

I mean, why don't you have a -- why don't you have a democratic socialist. A/k/a communist mayor.

Why haven't you done that? Are you not progressive enough? Are you not looking into the future?

Are you stuck in the past?

I don't know. I don't know. The graveyard is pretty big. I have a hard time getting past that one. You know, yeah, so I'm stuck in the past. Because I can't seem to pass that graveyard, and get to be down the path with you. But it's going to be a paradise.

Forget arithmetic. You know, or human nature. This time, it's going to work. It's going to work. So all right!

Wish I lived in this morning.

No wait. Nope. I don't. Nope, I don't.

And Ted Cruz, stop it. Stop writing, hey, come to Texas. No. No. Don't come to Texas. Don't come to Florida. Go to California. It's beautiful this time of year. Go there. Go there.