Something just isn’t right about what our country has become, and we all know it. Glenn reviews 9 stories that reveal how crazy things have gotten. New York City, for one, is facing crisis after crisis, including inflation, illegal immigration, and crime. When entire hotels are being rented out to house migrants, Glenn argues that we should stop and ask, WHO is paying for that?! And when there’s a horse running on a highway in Philadelphia, maybe it’s time to just completely rethink the direction we’re heading in …
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GLENN: I saw this last night, and I thought, can you play it? There it is. Yeah.
Now, that's somebody with their phone. Outside of their window, on the driver's side, going, I can't -- I can't -- am I seeing this. I have to film this. Because I don't think anyone has ever seen that before.
STU: Keeping up nicely with traffic though. Those were quick animals.
GLENN: Yes. Yeah, I think that was an expensive -- well, it was -- it's that close to Philadelphia.
You know, you don't keep one in a walkup. You know, a park -- you know --
STU: That would be a strange choice.
GLENN: It would a strange choice.
STU: But, again, you also don't keep it on the highway. So who knows what's going on?
GLENN: Right. Right.
I mean, how did they find the onramp? It's a horse. How did they find the onramp?
STU: Really fascinating.
GLENN: There's a lot of questions on that one, but I don't think we're going to get to them.
Now, let me show you some of the other things.
And let's see if you can tie together, what I'm driving at.
Okay. There is a method to the madness on the things I'm going to show you.
These things I just saw last night.
This isn't like, yeah. Well, I saw this a month ago.
I've been saying.
These are things, that I spent 20 minutes, just scrolling, going, wow.
That one. That one.
Okay.
Let's so on let's start with cut 12, please.
GLENN: All the New Yorkers in New York City, please, pay attention to what I'm about to say.
I know this morning got a list from my controller, to tell us the tax annual assessments and values. This happens every January to February. I got mine. Just on a few of our properties, just a few of them, every single one of them are going up. Some of them are going up ten to 15 percent. All the way up to 60, 75 percent. You have no clue what this means to this industry.
Now have clue, what this means to every average New Yorker.
Everybody in New York City, is affected.
Because I have stores here, supermarkets. $12,000. $14,000. I have -- I have small three-family buildings, renting them. Going up $9,000. Increase on top of the 30 thousands that I'm paying.
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GLENN: That's crazy. That's crazy. Okay.
So everybody is paying a lot more. That's weird.
Cut -- cut 13. This is one about the hotels in New York.
VOICE: Here is the hotel.
VOICE: This is one of the hotels as transformed into the shelter.
VOICE: We will walk in there. And see what kind of operation they're running inside.
VOICE: Really nice hotel.
VOICE: How is it going?
VOICE: Oh, yeah. We're just checking in on the hotel. There's a ton of people in here.
GLENN: Because it's a shelter.
VOICE: Oh.
VOICE: Migrants going in?
VOICE: Yeah. It's no longer --
VOICE: How many floors is this?
VOICE: Thirty floors.
GLENN: Thirty.
Is it full? Yeah.
VOICE: You guys aren't allowed to talk about it? Why do you think it's a big secret, Duke?
GLENN: I don't know. We just follow orders.
VOICE: They signed the contract with an outside source, saying they will pay them rent, in order for them to house the migrants. And the hotels love it because it is guaranteed money every single night. And that array of $200 per night at the hotel.
And with 1,331 rooms, that is $260,000 a day. $1.8 million a week. And $7.2 million a month.
GLENN: Okay. $7.2 million a month.
For one hotel.
One.
Hotel.
Who is -- who is writing that check again?
Isn't that kind of important?
Who is writing that check?
One month, 7.2 million dollars.
Oh, that makes me understand the -- the other guy, who is like, look at our assessment on our buildings.
Bada bing.
Up 75 percent tax.
Bada bing.
Okay. All right.
So can we just play the horse running town, just because I need -- oh, there he is.
Running down.
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Now let me show you, can we take cut six, please.
Cut six.
VOICE: Some of those suburban areas.
Are having double-digit car thefts with be in a week.
Sometimes in a day. People are stealing tires at a record rate. There's no consequences, accountability, repercussions.
GLENN: Hmm. Hmm. And there's problems CNN said with homelessness. Cut seven please.
VOICE: The number of people experiencing homelessness in a single night. Went up 12 percent in a single night in 2023.
In part, because COVID programs preventing evictions and housing losses came to an end.
A quarter of those people were unhoused for the first time in their lives.
VOICE: How many people fell into homelessness during COVID.
VOICE: Before COVID, there were probably about 20 or 30,000 people. Now it's 46,000.
GLENN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Here is -- here, I think this is Curtis. Just standing on third avenue. Which when I lived in New York.
You can't -- you can't stand in the middle of the street.
Here he is on third Avenue.
VOICE: This is something you'll never see in the middle of the day. Third Avenue in New York City.
This is the future. When everybody leaves and heads to Florida.
They're on the way to Texas. Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina.
Look. So what do we have here?
Because they've all fled the city. And it will only be a city of criminals. Emotionally disturbed migrants. I am Nostradamus. I see what's coming in 2024. Vast sea of emptiness.
GLENN: Well, that's good. That's good.
So let's see, we have too many migrants coming in.
More migrants, the collection of migrants that have been added to our country in the last three and a half years. Equal the population.
Of 38 states in America.
Equal or above the population of 38 -- we only have 50 states. I just want you to know that.
We only have 50.
38 of them are now smaller, than the people we have let in.
That's into -- I mean, I mean -- that's interesting.
And then we have some really, really.
I mean, we have some real problems. And I'm glad that we're dealing. What are we focused on.
Go ahead.
VOICE: The whom who runs the bullying account, lives of TikTok. Was given a spot on the Oklahoma library board. The statewide board.
She is not from --
GLENN: Now, could I just stop for a second.
This is a man in a dress.
Who clearly has --
STU: You don't like him.
GLENN: I don't. I don't. I think it's a little. And you might want to shave just a little bit. And the low cut tress there is nice. But if we know maybe you would shave just -- anyway, this guy is having a serious conversation, about what's acceptable in the library. And people are just watching it and going, well, he's making a good point.
He's not -- how!
Play the damn horse, running down the --
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: How about this one?
Cut 17.
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Just
VOICE: I've seen this question. My problem is, I'm too hot. I'm too successful in my career. I make too much money. I have too many amazing friends and family. Too many cute clothes. Do you know how hard it is, to choose an outfit each day?
People sliding into my DMs every day.
GLENN: Okay. Stop. It's a man with boobs. It's a woman with a beard. I don't -- I have -- I don't know.
STU: They never had to deal with problems like that. They're too hot. People slipping into your DMs. This person has to deal with that every day.
GLENN: Do you know how hard it is to pick out a set of clothes every day?
No. I have no idea. I wear the same clothes. I have been wearing them since the third grade.
What the hell is wrong with you?
I swear to you, I mean, this story makes more sense than any other story I've seen today.
Oh, wow. Look, a horse running down a highway in Philadelphia.
When that becomes, eh.
STU: That's the most sensible story we've talked about in this segment. Sometimes horses run county the highway.
GLENN: Now, I would just like to point out. And maybe I've been in a coma. So I don't remember it. Sometimes you won't remember a coma. And you're all being nice, and you're like, don't say anything to him. He's forgotten he's been this a coma for 400 years. And we were in -- I don't know. Some freezer.
I don't know how this happened. But maybe I've been in a coma. But from where I'm sitting, none of this is normal.
May we just all take a moment and go, none of this is normal!
This is not the way a civilization behaves.
Am I alone on this?
I don't --
STU: Apparently so.
GLENN: Apparently, I --
STU: Apparently so. By the way, the horse is okay.
GLENN: The horse is --
STU: Yeah. The horse is okay.
GLENN: That would be the thing. Out of this monologue. Somebody -- well, what happened to the horse?
STU: I was --
GLENN: It's those damn cars, and those SUVs. I don't know what they're doing there. They're killing the planet. Have you heard about the big umbrella that we want to put in space?
Don't put big umbrellas in space. Are you out of your minds?
Oh, man. I just -- if I was in a coma, I want the doctors to know, put me back into the coma, please.