RADIOAugust 29, 2024

The REAL PRICE of living in Kamala Harris’ America: Inflation, housing taxes, & crime

What’s the real price of living in America right now? Glenn takes a look at how inflation has skyrocketed in Pennsylvania, where the economy is the #1 issue for the 2024 election. Then, he reviews how progressive policies have destroyed California and forced businesses to flee. These same policies will go nationwide under a “President Harris,” Glenn says. And she has some of her own, including for taxes on unrealized gains, AKA your house. A vote for Harris, Glenn argues, is a vote for MORE inflation, MORE taxes, and also MORE crime. Glenn reviews how the Biden/Harris immigration policies have allowed a terrifying Venezuelan gang to take over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, and they won’t stop there if Harris wins the White House …

Transcript

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GLENN: Okay. So if you're in Pennsylvania, voting begins in, what a week and a half?

I can't believe that. But let's -- let's look at what the prices have done in Pennsylvania.

According to the website. Bob inflation, which -- which targets Bob Casey and vice president Harris, for the prices that we're experiencing. And they are both responsible for those things.

According to the website, a one-day ticket at the famous Hersheypark, now costs $60 a day. That is a 50 percent increase. From the admission in 2019. 50 percent increase. A six-inch shorty hoagie from Wawa, was $4 in 2019. It's now almost $7. A gallon of gas in Pennsylvania, is averaging 3.62. Which is up from 2.29 when Trump was in office. Other favorite items have gone up in the Biden/Harris economy. Plain cheesesteak from John's Roast Pork is up 23 percent. A Pittsburgher, and -- and cheese from Primanti's is up 37 percent.

Let me just say the word again. Primanti's. Oh. It is a reason to go to Pittsburgh. It really is. There's not a lot of reasons to go to Pittsburgh right now, but Primanti's is at the top of the list.

Anyway, everyday items such as eggs, bread, and milk have also skyrocketed in the last 5 years, according to the website.

Now, the economy, according to another survey is in Pennsylvania, the number one issue for Pennsylvania voters.

Okay. So this should be easy, right.

Because all of the progressive madness, has come from Kamala Harris. Literally, she was the deciding vote on many of these massive projects, like the Inflation Reduction Act.

Which was not designed to decrease inflation. It was designed as the green new deal.

Even Joe Biden has come out and said, I didn't want to name it that. Because that's not what it did.

Even he wanted -- oh, my gosh.

So they lied to you. Kamala Harris lied to you, about the Inflation Reduction Act.

They named that because they knew you would go, oh, well, we have to have that because inflation is out of control.

By the way, so you understand, this is happening all over the country, but where things are really, really bad, in a couple of categories, is California and Minnesota. In California, Shake Shack is closing six of its -- of its restaurants.

Why? Because progressivism made them increase the minimum wage, to $20.

They can't afford to stay open. Because nobody wants to pay $20, for a hamburger.

So where are they shutting them down?

Well, in the most progressive areas. In Oakland, and Los Angeles.

Another reason for shutting those down, I'm guessing, is because that's where most of the crime is.

Why?

Because that's where the homelessness is. Another affect of the progressive policies.

And that is also where the crime is!

Also, because of George Soros, and Kamala Harris.

And their crazy, reimagining of the police.

Footlocker is ditching New York City. For St. Petersburg, Florida. Why is that?

Well, it's too expensive in New York.

Why? Because of high taxes.

So what does Harris want to do?

Harris wants a tax on unrealized gains.

Now, this is -- this is just the beginning. She has a 5 trillion-dollar tax idea.

And part of that, a big part of that is unrealized gains. What is an unrealized gain?

Let's say, that your house goes up $100,000 in value, this a year.

Okay?

You have to pay, 25 percent of that, in tax. So that will mean on April 15th, because your house went up in value, that means, you'll to have cough up 25 grand. On April 15th. In addition to what you really pay. Okay?

Well, wait. What if my house goes down?

Does the government pay me?

No. No.

So wait a minute. If I pay 25 grand, because it's gone up 100 grand, if I have to pay you 25 percent of that. Well, wait.

Hold it just a second.

But that could go down, before I sell it.

I mean, I get that, before I sell it.

Why are you taking this from me? I don't have 25,000. That is what is you're facing. That is what you're facing.

How do you make a population have nothing?
You tax them to death.

This will absolutely collapse the economy. She is the Hugo Chavez, or the Maduro of the United States of America. By the way, another way to collapse things is keep the borders open.

Kamala Harris has said over and over again. That the border wall is nothing, but a vanity project for Donald Trump.

That it is completely worthless.

It will not make any difference.

It is the largest boondoggle, for American taxpayers.

Well, now she suddenly is for it.

Well, how can -- how can that be?

Well, she's for it. If we pass the massive amnesty bill. So she'll give a few things. As long as we give amnesty, to everybody that's here.

No!

No!

Did you know that Massachusetts now is hiding a billion dollars?

They've spent a billion dollars, on illegal aliens.

And they haven't talked to the -- to the residents of Massachusetts, who pay for that.

They haven't given them any details. No details.

Wait. What?

You just spent a billion dollars, on illegals?

What is that billion dollars? Who is that billion dollars going to?

In New York, do you know how much they're paying for illegals to be put up in hotels?

Entire hotels!

These hotels are getting rich. Anybody who owns one of those hotels, rich!

I -- I mean, I just -- how is America buying into this?

How is America not seeing?

I mean, if you want a town, that has police, with no teeth.

If you want gang violence. If you want crime, like you haven't seen.

If you want enclaves of Muslims, that are Islamists, they want Sharia law. They don't want to integrate.

They don't want to be Americans. They want Sharia law, to be the rule of the land. If you want that, move to Tim Walz state.

Minnesota.

You can get it. You can get it now, in new -- in new buildings. In some places in Minnesota.

These really nice bathrooms, where there's just a -- just a stainless steel hole in the floor.

Because Somalis, that's the way they usually do. They just -- they just squat, and take a dump. And leave it in a hole in the floor.
That's not our way of life.

Okay?

That's not who we are.

If I want that, I'll move to Somalia. Or I'll move to Iraq.

I don't want that.

Learn to sit on a toilet.

It's the way we do things in America, and in the West?

I'm sorry. You're not used to it. I'm sorry, that you're getting all of this money, and a free pass, to live here, in America, and you don't like it. I'm sorry. You want this?

You'll get much more of this. You'll get an unleashed amount of this.

If you vote for Harris. Do you -- do you remember the gang that beat up the police officers in New York?

And, you know, went to -- were hauled in, eventually, but then just released.

Yeah. Well, that's a reimagining of the police. And no bail.

Or, I mean, yeah. No -- no bail. You don't have to make bail to get out. It's just a catch and release program, which is Kamala Harris' idea. She loves that.

So you remember that, gang?

That was a Venezuelan gang.

And Venezuela has sent up a gang, that is kind of a public/private partnership with Venezuela.

They use it to enforce things in Venezuela.

And cause disruption in communities, that won't play along.

Well, this gang, has been sent to America.

That gang was the one that beat up the people in New York. The cops in New York.

That gang, one of its members is responsible for the death of Lincoln rile peep

That organic now is in aurora, Colorado.

Where in Aurora, Colorado, there's this Venezuelan gang, that is just taking over the town.

They went into an apartment complex. Knocked on the doors.

And said, time to pay your rent. And now you're paying rent to this Venezuelan gang. Not to the landlord.

And they just have taken the town over.

Hmm. Now, this gang is engaged in human smuggling.

Violence. Money laundering. Elicit drug trafficking, all throughout the US. And they now have an apartment complex on Gnome Street in Aurora. Okay.

Is the city going to do anything about that? I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

So in 2022, there were 41 reported crimes in aurora. In 2023, there were 84 crimes.

There were 66 crimes, the first half of this year. If you want crime on the streets, you know who to vote for.

If you like all of this craziness on, I can't tell what a woman is.

We're going to have non-gendered bathrooms. So anybody can go into anybody's bathroom.

Yeah. Of course, that boy who says he's a girl can shower with your daughter in school. If you like all of that, keep voting for progressive people.

Vermont Health Department has just come out and has discouraged now, anyone who to say, son or daughter. Now, that's just in the classrooms.

You can't sues use the word son or daughter. Now, why would that be? Why would that be?

Because they're grooming your children, to believe that parents are not in charge of their children.

Every -- but children belong to everyone. Really? Even the pedophile teachers? Well, of course. But those don't exist.

Hmm. Okay. All right.

After all, they care much more than you do.

Uh-huh.

So now, in Vermont, home of socialism and communism and Bernie Sanders.

The health department is now telling the teachers unions, that you really shouldn't say son or daughter in school anymore.

Use child or kid, instead.

Oh.

Okay. All right.

If this is what you want, you're going to get plenty more of it.

In fact, you will snuff out capitalism, and the Western way of life.

And you will do it with this one vote.

Or we can turn the corner and turn around, and stop going down this dangerous road. We'll be the only ones doing it, in all of the western world, and we will once again lead the world to freedom!

Are we going to be those people, like our grandparents.

Or are we going to be so fat, lazy, and stupid, that we will let the first time man ever tasted freedom, was through this system of government.

Are we going to be so stupid, to let it slip through our fingers? And lose freedom, the world over?

That's what this election is all about?

They're trying to make it about Trump. They're trying to -- because they can't have Trump in office.

Trump really is the only one standing in their way.

They cannot have him in office. They'll put him in jail.

I believe they tried to kill him already. They'll kill him!

They will cause riots on the street. Which one is worse?

The devil that you know, Donald Trump. Which, by the way, gave us peace. And gave us a roaring economy.

It was the left and the Faucis of the world, that gave us COVID. It's the Democrats and the pharmaceutical companies, that gave us the Draconian lockdowns. It was the teacher's unions that destroyed your kid's education. You want that, you can get it.

I think the devil that gave us the good economy. And freedom.

And no wars. I think -- I'm going to go that way, myself.

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.