“Free Palestine” protesters connected to the group “A15 Action” recently blocked roads and even the Golden Gate Bridge to demand the America stop supporting Israel. This caused Glenn and Stu to wonder if there has ever been ONE person whose mind was changed by these kind of disruptive protests. Glenn also reveals that this group is far from “grassroots.” You’ll never guess who is paying for the bail and legal fund for A15 Action...
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GLENN: The free Palestinian protesters.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: Love them.
STU: They're doing a great job out there. In the streets. Blocking airport access for people.
GLENN: Bridges. Bridges.
If I were in San Francisco traffic. And I had to use the Golden Gate Bridge, and you blocked it, I would be having great thoughts about you.
You could be there and saying, you know, we love Jesus. We love Jesus. And by the end, by the time I got home, I think I might hate Jesus, because of you. You know what I mean?
I'm serious. It's the fastest way to turn me against you, is to block me from going home.
STU: Right. And I mean this sincerely. Has there ever been an example of this tactic working?
Has any person, in history, ever been convinced by not being able to access the thing that they wanted to go to?
Gosh, you know, I was really pro-Israel. And then I got stuck in traffic for eight hours. And now I love the Palestinian cause. Has that ever occurred?
GLENN: No. No.
But here's the good news.
They are being arrested.
And they're being immediately released.
Yeah, because there's somebody stepping in to give them bail money.
And legal support.
Yes. Yes, so it is. Come on. Come on. Come on. Guess. Guess. Guess.
Come on.
STU: Kamala Harris.
GLENN: No. That's too obvious.
STU: Kamala. Tweeting. Tried to bail out criminals.
GLENN: Yeah. But not this time.
STU: Thanks, Kamala.
STU: More obvious?
GLENN: Yeah. More obvious.
STU: George Soros.
GLENN: George Soros.
STU: We figured it out.
GLENN: George Soros is bailing people out. Now, who would have seen this coming?
The protest which took place in dozens of US cities, including San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, were organized by A15 Action. A newly formed group, that worked to coordinate, a multi-city economic blockade, on April 15th in solidarity with Palestine.
You know, I really -- I forgot, you're blocking me, from going home on tax day. That makes me even more favorable to your point of view.
STU: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
GLENN: The group's website, directs users to bail and legal defense fund, hosted through Act Blue, the Democratic Party's online funding juggernaut. Those who donate to the fund, the Act Blue page said, are sending money to the community justice exchange, which provides money, bail, court fees, and fines and other legal services to community-based organizations that contest the current operation and function of the criminal, legal, and immigration detention systems.
Oh, my gosh!
The exchange is the project of? Come on. Come on. You've got George Soros.
Come on. Who else is in there? What organization? Come on.
STU: Open Society.
GLENN: Oh, that's good. That's good.
Think bigger. Think bigger. What do they start?
STU: Oh, gosh.
GLENN: The Tides Foundation. Yes. The Tides Foundation.
It's a network funded by Soros and other liberal billionaires. The protesters, who organize the global event, under the title A15. Targeted economic choke points, with the express purpose of causing as much financial disruption as possible, according to their website.
You know, that's the kind of thing I really want to be involved in. I go to the websites. And I'm like, I don't know.
How can we inflict as much damage on this country, fiscally as possible? And then I realized, I've already done my part. I voted for people in Congress.
And so, really, that's all you have to do. There's nobody that can do more damage that than people in the House and the Senate.
That's why I don't protest. Anyway, the A15 protesters on Wall Street, were photographed wearing Hamas bandanas and flying Hezbollah flags.
STU: But they're just -- Glenn, they're just --
GLENN: They're for the people.
STU: A humanitarian cause.
GLENN: Absolutely.
STU: That happens to also.
GLENN: Problem with the Hezbollah flag.
STU: Right. Hamas. Hezbollah. They seem like wonderful people.
GLENN: Banks located to the protests were vandalized with red stray paint and graffiti that read, funder of genocide, and free Gaza. Those protesters later blocked the Brooklyn bridge. Which is one of my favorite bridges to block.
STU: Oh, really? See, I only like to get the Brooklyn bridge.
I like to sit in traffic on the Brooklyn bridge, for 12 to 15 hours.
For climate-related purposes.
I like the bridge for Gaza purposes.
GLENN: Yeah. I do really want to know. Those people who are Gluing themselves to freeways and things.
Because whatever. I don't listen to you. I just look at you, as a moron. So I don't really check in on you what you're protesting for.
STU: I am of the opposite.
I will absolutely oppose anything that you're doing.
If you are -- if you're Free Gaza. I'm going to -- if I was pro-Palestinian, I think I would flip my viewpoint just based on the fact that I was sitting in traffic.
GLENN: Well, see, I don't look. Because I never think it's anything I'm for already.
STU: It never is. More capitalism!
That never happens.
GLENN: It's not like, I'm gluing myself to the freeway because I like steaks.
No. Not happening.
STU: No. You're right. That's true.
And I don't think it's any secret of their success. Right?
The left does a lot of things strategically that I think are -- are -- I don't want to say admirable. But like things that are -- if conservatives can benefit from learning a little bit from, at times. Not necessarily, certainly not the ends.
And some of their tactics are down right evil. Some of them are smart. They message things well, at times. There are certain things they do.
You can look at. This is not one of those tactics, I won't want to keep up.
You're taking -- you're taking life, and you're making it bad for the people you're trying to convince. This is the opposite of what you're supposed to do.
GLENN: Okay. Let me just point out. How do you learn that lesson, when you've burnt cities to the ground?
STU: Yeah. And everybody in the city is like, I support you. I don't think they did, though. Did they?
Even in Minneapolis, the defund the police thing, died on the vibe. None of this stuff has worked.
Like, there are certain parts of the movement, right?
That have occurred. I think you can even look at those. I don't remember anyone blocking streets for gay marriage.
Right?
I don't remember that. They worked, they tried to persuade people over a long period of time. And were successful.
GLENN: Be really hard to not just step on the gas.
I saw a guy who was trapped by these people. And someone glued themselves to the freeway in Germany or something.
Don't piss the Germans off. Man, don't do it. Especially if they're driving a Volkswagen. Hello!
But, anyway, he was -- the guy was trying to get through, and these people were sitting there. And one of them was glued. And he just kept going. And they were like, what are you doing? You're trying to kill us. And he's like, no. Just trying to get through.
And -- and he did almost kill one of them. But he got through. He got through.
And, you know, I didn't have a lot of sympathy for the people that were glued to the streets. And maybe that was just me. But I don't know how they expect this to work. Other than causing real damage. Kind of like Occupy Wall Street. I don't know. Did it work? Did it work?
I contend it did.
STU: You think Occupy Wall Street worked?
GLENN: Uh-huh. Why did they go away? Why did they go away?
STU: They kept raping each other all over the place. Lots of rapes.
GLENN: Lots of rapes. Lots of bad things. Why didn't they go away all of a sudden?
They had everything. They had the media on their side. They had Hollywood on their side. They had everybody on their side. What happened?
It's almost, I'm going to go out on a limb here. It's almost as if the big banks. And all the big corporations got together and said, look, just leave us alone.
Like me, I always joke. Someone comes into my house.
Just leave me alone. You can do whatever you want to the wife and children. Just leave me alone.
It's almost what they get, I think. Look, just leave I say alone.
Why did their funding of all of these things that BLM, and the extreme left was all about?
Why did they start funding all of those things coincidentally, just about the time that Occupy Wall Street left?
Why?
Leave us alone.
And we'll fund you. Leave us alone, and we'll help you.
I think that's what happened. So when you say, well, gluing them themselves to the streets.
I don't know. I don't know. Except, they're blocking I, now. And not the big bankers.
And I'm not sure you have anything they want, besides, oh, I don't know. Oh, everything of yours.