RADIOApril 03, 2024

JK Rowling DARES the Wrongthink Police to ARREST Her

“Harry Potter” author JK Rowling has dared the Scottish government to arrest her for violating its new laws against “hate speech.” But despite the police denying that her tweets about transgenderism are illegal under the law, she has promised to keep a lookout for other non-famous individuals being punished for the same expression of free speech. These kinds of laws are a growing trend around the world, Glenn says, and America is no exception. Glenn discusses Washington state’s new “hate speech hotline,” which will allow people to rat out their neighbors for wrongthink and will DEFINITELY NOT be abused. Plus, Glenn explains how the groundwork for expanding this unconstitutional law has already been laid out across the country.

Transcript

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GLENN: Okay. A few stories, I wanted to discuss today. A couple from Scotland and Canada. And one from right here in America. Let's start in Scotland. Did you hear the latest about J.K. Rowling. She's been speaking out recently about the Scottish hate crime act, a bill that has criminal consequences for saying anything deemed to be hateful. To quote Rowling in a recent viral post on X, quote, the new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girl's single sex spaces.

The grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

She then ended her post with a direct challenge to the Scottish government. Saying, quote, if what I've written here qualifies as an offense, under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish enlightenment.

She's challenging. Now, I guess, lucky for Scotland, that her tweets have been declared as not criminal. By the Scottish police.

They're not going to go after her.

Really?

Well, she's responded, and said, okay. I'm probably the loudest voice on all of these things. What happens to the little people?

And, by the way, if you're a little person, and you want to speak out, I'll retweet what you say.

Maybe they'll arrest me then.

She's going in to challenge this. Now, let's look back on something that I've already told you about, and Canada. Remember, Canadian online Harms Act.

That could lead to life in prison, for individuals found guilty of certain types of speech. The bill's purpose is to increase punishments for what it teams, quote, the willful promotion of hatred.

But what is willful promotion of hatred?

Well, whatever those in control deem to be hateful.

Saying bless you, when someone sneezes. Raising your biological son to be a boy.

Anything that the powers that be, don't agree with.

And it's happening all over the world.

And America is now laying the groundwork for it to happen here.

Don't believe me.

According to the Seattle times, Washington State lawmakers have passed a bill, to create a hotline, for hate crimes and bias incidents.

Washington will soon establish, a nonemergency hotline, to assist people who have, quote, been targeted by hate crimes, and bias.

The bill defines bias as incidents, quote, that are hostile expressions of animus.

Toward the following categories. Actual or perceived race.

Color, ethnicity.

Religion, ancestry. National order. Gender. Sexual orientation.

Gender expression or identity. Or disability.

Hmm. So don't worry, there's no chance of anything backfiring here.

Not in a country full of microaggressions. No. No. No. Don't worry.

Americans would never take anything you say out of context. You know, because if they did, this would be a bloodbath.

Oh. Hmm. Well, wait a minute.

STU: He's done it again.

Amazing. That's -- you can see how that one might backfire a little bit. Although, I guess it's not really backfiring, if that's the outcome you want.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Exactly right.

I mean, if you're a Democrat, and you use the word bloodbath. Well, I mean, if you're a Republican or named Trump, you should be immediately reported to the hotline for an act of verbal violence.

How about the firefighter that flags a thin red line flag at their firehouse?

Nobody would be offended by that, right? I mean, it's not like they're the police. People like firefighters. Oh, no. Wait. I'm sorry. New York has decided that the flag was too offensive to fly. Apparently, only the pride flag is allowed bit LGBTQIAPK2S.

STU: Missed a Q. Missed an I. There's the I.

GLENN: I. And infinity.

STU: Did you put two in there?

GLENN: Yes, I did. Only, one two, though. Should I have two two's or just one?

STU: I mean, if you're two spirits, you should probably hit both sides of that.

GLENN: Okay. So two two's, and we can even throw a second -- a third two in there, just to be safe.

Surely, you will have the First Amendment right to protest. I mean, the hotline will never be against you protesting, say, I don't know, an abortion center. Oh. Dang it, that's right.

Biden administration has already started the precedent for that one. I guess, if you're -- if you're just protesting for a leftist cause, you know, if you're doing that, you're fine. If you're not part of the left, you're going to get reported.

Because being offended is the number one goal in this society.

And this bill gives people the outlet, they've been searching for.

You'll probably be reported if you're a leftist, but nobody will do anything about it.

This bill is a direct violation of the First Amendment. The bill, by the way, doesn't have any way for you, if you're innocent, to clear your name.

You're just falsely accused.

And that's it. How soon will that list of people, who have been accused of hate crimes. And bias incidents.

Be used against them to take away other basic human rights. Like the right to bear arms.

The right to actually open up a bank account.

This type of censorship is happening all over the world. And legal consequences are happening all over the world. They're trying to strip your rights away, chunk by chunk.

And pretty soon, you won't have any left.

What J.K. Rowling is experiencing is a window into what they're trying to do here.

But she's not backing down.

She kind of knows, about oppression.

She wrote in one of her Harry Potter novels. Which I think is -- is pretty astute, and should be applied here. Dumbledore said, have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

All of them realize that one day, amongst their many victims there is sure to be one, who rises against them. And strikes back.

Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling.

EXCLUSIVE: Chip Roy Explains His FIERY Rejection of Spending Bill

According to the media, there’s a big fight going on between Republicans over the House’s new slimmed-down continuing resolution spending bill. Some, including President-elect Donald Trump, wanted the bill to pass. But others, like Texas Representative Chip Roy, argued that it still wasn’t ready. However, is the Republican “unity coalition” really crumbling, like the media claims? Rep. Chip Roy joins Glenn to explain what’s really going on. He argues that he IS trying to give Trump and DOGE a 100-day “runway” to fix the country. But he makes the case that, by increasing the debt ceiling by $5 trillion without agreeing on other cuts, this bill gives bad actors the ability to be an “obstacle” to Trump’s agenda further down the line. Plus, he reveals to Glenn that he believes some of these bad actors LEAKED false information about his stance to Mar-a-Lago.

Transcript

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GLENN:

I think we have a great opportunity today. To show you how to have a -- tough conversation, with friends, friends. Where you deeply disagree on something.

But you know that their intent is good. They know my intent is good. Or our intent is good.

And we actually have the same end goal, but we disagree on the path. And we're going to walk away friends.

Chip Roy is joining us today. And, Chip, I love you. And I always will. And I agree with your, we've got to cut spending. We have to. But Liz Wheeler is with me. And we've been talking about it all morning. It's the -- the -- the -- the system of DOGE and Trump, the call-out to the world, in saying, you've got to surrender the Capitol. You know, the bad guys are in and about to take all the money.

Surround, and tell them, come out with your hands up. And that happened. And we scored a massive win, in an entirely new way.

Ask then you stood on principle, one we both agree with.

And it failed!

And so here's -- here's what Liz and I were talking about. Here's what we want to say to you.

And then get your response.

LIZ: Hi, Congressman Roy, this is the way I see it. I want your take on it. I love you. I think you're one of the best members of Congress. I disagree with you on the process that's happening. And I think that is the difference. The process. We elected Donald Trump to be a disruptor. Because Republican members of Congress for decades have been telling they're fiscal conservatives. They want to decrease the debt SEAL. It hasn't happened.

It hasn't -- it hasn't been done. And so Donald Trump comes in with Elon Musk, and uses this DOGE process to first identify these pieces of garbage in the first 1500-page bill. And take those things to the people. We took them to members of Congress. Congress said, okay. We'll listen to you.

So that new process was very effective.

And my question to you is: Once that process was proved to be effective. Which I think is exciting and wonderful.

How do we bridge this divide, with you, to say, okay.

Let's put some faith in this new process. And trust Elon Musk and Donald Trump and the Dow Jones process, to eventually address the debt ceiling, but get this done right now?

GLENN: And not blind trust. Chip.

CHIP: So appreciate you guys. Appreciate being on the show. Particular order. I have to go through a couple of things.

GLENN: Yep.

CHIP: Number one, it's important to remember that my job and my duty is to the Constitution, to God, and the people I represent. I told them, when I came to Washington, I would not -- I would not let the credit card and the debt ceiling and the borrowing of the United States without the spending restraints necessary to offset it.

GLENN: Okay.

CHIP: Right now, all we have are promises and ideas and notions. What I know, that neither of you respectfully no, and that none of your listeners respectfully no are the people that are in the room, that I was in with yesterday. And the day before, who are recalcitrant.

And do not want to do the spending cuts that we need to do.

That I believe the president and the DOGE guys. And everybody want to do.

My job, is to force that through the meat grinder. To demand that we do our damn job. Okay?

GLENN: Okay. So hang on. Okay. So wait. Wait. You're right. You're right. You're right. Go ahead.

CHIP: Number thee, when we were going through the bill, I'm glad the bill dropped from 1,550 pages to 116 pages. Three-quarters of Twitter or X or whatever you want to call it, have been out there spreading false facts that we supported a bad bill and didn't like the better bill.

That's not true. But let's be Lear. The 1400 pages that were cut out. It's a panacea.

There were some good stuff in there. There were some bad stuff in there. There was a lot of disinformation.

There wasn't a $70,000 pay raise. There was a 3,000-dollar pay raise.

I didn't support any pay raise. I didn't support a lot of the stuff in there.

But there's a lot of misinformation. And here's the thing: The 116 pages that were left, and I opposed violently the first bill. I was leading the charge on fighting and killing the first bill.

GLENN: And I love you.

LIZ: The second bill for 116 pages. Turned off -- turned off the pay go requirement. That we slash 1.7 trillion automatically.

And added a 5 trillion that are increase.

My view was, I could not support that, without a clear understanding of what cuts we would get, in mandatory spending next year. And undo any of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The undoing of the student loans. The undoing of the crap with the food stamps.

And everything else. I yield back.

GLENN: Okay. I yield back.

Chip, you're not in a hostile room. We love you. And we agree with your end goals. It's our end goal too. We didn't make that promise that you made to the people that voted for you. So we have more wiggle room here.

But you say -- I think our big difference is, you say, I know the guys in the room.

You're right. You do. And we -- we ceded that earlier today on the show.

You are -- one of us is wrong on trust.

I don't trust any of the weasels in Washington.

But I think Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have earned enough trust, to get a grace period, here for the first -- maybe the first year.

Or at least six months.

To turn the economy around, and also reduce the size of the government.

And totally flip this thing.

And I know, as somebody who is -- you know, run a company, mainly into a ground. But run a company, and have to switch it, in the middle, and totally reshuffle. That -- that actually costs money, while you're doing it, to bridge the gap.

Because you have to fill up holes while you're filling in the gap.

You don't trust the people in the room. Neither do we.

But we do trust the system that worked on Wednesday with DOGE and Donald Trump.

Where do we disagree?

Can you give them --

CHIP: We don't disagree. And yesterday morning, I was making that precise argument in a room full of conservatives and then a follow-up room with people who will call it, less conservatives.

GLENN: Republican. Yes.

CHIP: And so we were making this argument. And then someone infamously. Something leaked out of the room, somehow out to Mar-a-Lago. That I was being resistant. Because I was negotiating trying to get the agreement to achieve the objective that you just said. I was trying to get, okay. In fact, yesterday morning, I made the argument to a group of conservatives. We need to give the president runway. We need to give him his first 100 days. We need to appreciate JD, and Vivek, and all the people -- and everybody involved. For the president to achieve the objective.

But to get there. We have to make sure that the guys in the room, that are an obstacle to that, don't have the ability to block it.

Because information flow matters. And when those guys tell the president, they can't achieve X.

Then the president will not achieve X. Our job was to force and demand, guys, we need actual understanding of what the cuts will be.

And because otherwise, we're asking us to accept a 5 trillion-dollar limit in our credit card increase. In exchange for nothing!

Literally, in exchange for nothing, but -- but hope.

So our job was to force that change.

Unfortunately, while I was trying to make the argument that we needed something in order to get the votes, someone leaked that down to Mar-a-Lago, and the president reacted.

But now I have to now manage that.

GLENN: Right. I know. I know.

CHIP: They're trying to enforce change in town.

GLENN: So hang on.

We have to leave this. Because I'm going to run against the clock.

I could talk to you all day about this. You were in a meeting this morning about J.D. Vance. Can you tell us anything about that meeting?

CHIP: That meeting happened, because despite what happened yesterday, I'm trying to get this done. Last night, talking to JD, we worked to get this meeting done. We had some good progress this morning.

But there still remains people concerned about spending. That we can work out, what agreement we can reach. On what spending cuts. We can actually get next year, in exchange for giving the vote on a debt ceiling increase.

So it remains fluid. Progress was made. But we have to keep working on it.

And I left that meeting to talk to you. Soil get an update in a minute.

GLENN: Thank you for that, by the way.

I hear there is a new bill that may be coming today.

Is that the one you're talking about?

Or is this another bill that could be another nightmare?

CHIP: Despite other people leaking crap, I refused. I can't say, because it's not been decided by the speaker.

And it's not right to talk about things they're talking about in private meetings.

GLENN: Yeah, but it's -- it's this speaker. I mean, is he really the speaker anymore, Chip, really?

CHIP: We need to hear what bill we need to get forward. And I can't talk about the private meetings. But, look, I'm going to keep fighting for what I promised people that I represent.

I'm going to fight to cut spending. I am going to represent article one.

I'm going to support the president's agenda, but we've got to do that together.

GLENN: Okay.

Chip, thank you.

I think we can -- I think we agree, but I await to see what that means to you. Because we may just have to agree to disagree on this.

But I love you. And I still want you to replace Cornyn.

CHIP: The short version is, for inflation's sake, we cannot increase the debt ceiling $5 trillion without knowing what we're getting for it.

And I don't think anybody should disagree with that.

GLENN: But you don't disagree that Elon Musk and Trump and Vivek are serious about gutting the system.

CHIP: I believe that is their objective. I believe there are obstacles to that objective. And I need to know the sincerity of how we deal with those obstacles, both structural, and human. And we have to figure that out. And that's my job.