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Glenn Beck is back from the holidays and ready to talk about all kinds of stuff. AT&T spying on millions of Americans, Dolly parton, the hostages in Argentina, and much, much more!
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Hey, welcome back from the holiday. How you feeling, turkey?
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Oh, man. That's great. I worked all week on that one.
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Well, anyway, we've got a great program lined up for you.
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They're spying on millions of Americans with the federal government.
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I mean, you know, I mean, something had to be said.
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We will talk to you about what's happening with Hamas.
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We'll talk to you about what's happening in Argentina.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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There's a surveillance program that affects anyone who has AT&T's phone network.
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AT&T is part of something called the Data Analytical Services, or DAS.
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And it's coordinated with federal and local law enforcement agencies.
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They have been secretly collecting and analyzing over a trillion domestic phone records.
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If you have AT&T, you're being snooped on by the federal government.
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It used to be called Hemisphere, and it's run by AT&T in coordination with different agencies.
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But may I just, let me just, I'll just throw this in.
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It goes after anybody who has been in direct contact with a criminal suspect.
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And anyone else who has had communication with them.
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So, some guy that you don't know called somebody who's a criminal of any sort.
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You know, Kevin Bacon, I mean, we'll finally have absolute proof that it is seven phone calls away to Kevin Bacon.
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And Biden is working really super, super, super hard.
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But let's remember, it's the Palestinians that want a two-state solution.
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It was taken November 14th by a West Bank polling firm.
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They asked Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank what kind of state they would like to establish.
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One state for two peoples garnered the support of 5.4%.
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Two-state solution was supported by a whopping 17%.
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But the clear winner with 74.7% was a Palestinian state from the river to the sea.
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Well, they could put, maybe they could put the other, the Israeli state in the ocean.
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I mean, they just said from the river to the sea.
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Yeah, because that's, I mean, I don't know if that's the opposite.
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I'm just saying, technically, when they say from the river to the sea, it's actually,
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Glenn, an aspirational phrase that means freedom for all, according to our friend in our government,
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Is that like, gee, let's fire the ovens back up in Auschwitz.
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Is that kind of the same kind of aspirational kind of?
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It does make you think about what they're aspiring to.
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It does make you want to have the other side of that.
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And Palestinian journalists, who anonymously has let this out, has provided details.
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Apparently, they were drug through the streets.
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The Palestinians in the streets then just kicked their bodies with everybody else just, you
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Then they were, well, they were stomped on and then they were hung up from an electrical
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And then, you know, then they were dumped in a waste container.
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So, I didn't hear any, I've heard a lot of stories about Gazan citizens dying.
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It's been on the news a lot, but those two, those two, I haven't, no, they haven't, no,
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By the way, US destroyer took five individuals into custody yesterday as they attempted a terrorist
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hijacking of an Israeli owned tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
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They also responded to the not only distress call, but the Houthis, which don't even mess
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The Houthis, Iranian backed, fired two ballistic missiles at the destroyer right as they were
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going to respond to that pirate hijacking or whatever.
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I, you know, I, we have to brush up on our pirate terms.
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It's been a while since we've really had to talk about pirates and what is it when a pirate
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Ever since Johnny Depp's gone through his problems, I've lost, I've lost the plot on that one.
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So Seattle, they had their Christmas tree lighting.
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Surprised they even have Christmas in Seattle anymore.
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Um, but, uh, Antifa and pro-Palestinian activists were there to vandalize, uh, the, uh, local
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I think they might've thought it was a little, uh, different kind of tree lighting.
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The public library now $75,000 just to, just to clean up after the vandalism of the, uh,
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the, uh, protesters, which is, you know, no big deal.
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Hey, the prime minister of Ireland has just welcomed home, uh, their hostage, nine-year-old
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Israeli hostage, um, kidnapped by Hamas and taken as hostage.
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Turned nine while in, uh, while in captivity there for what, what was it, 50 days, something
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Um, he came out and he said, this is a, an enormous day of joy and relief for Emily Hand
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and her family, an innocent child who was lost and now been found and returned.
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As we breathe a massive sigh of relief, our prayers have been answered.
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You know, sometimes the puppy, you let them out to go pee pee.
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I particularly love how they're basically trying to cover this.
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Like it's a reality show reunion where they're like, Oh, and then the swelling music comes
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up and look Hamas, these lovely Hamas people are dropping off these lost citizens back to
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What a wonderful thing Hamas is doing for the Jews.
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They're returning these people who had wandered off.
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And what a, it's like those soldiers coming home videos, you know, when like they're, they're
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at their basketball game and the referee comes out.
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And the music swells up and then they give a bunch of money to charity to, I don't know
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It's like these people, the four-year-old that was taken, which is an American, again, thrilled
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And they're like, they're, but, but they're treating it like, Oh wow, that was really nice
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of Hamas to drop off this four-year-old who was lost wandering in the park.
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And in reality, she was in her father's hands as he was shot in the head.
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And that wasn't the end of her story because then she was taken prisoner next door.
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They kidnapped the entire family and brought them over to Gaza.
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Listen to the way this, listen to the way this so-called journalist will frame this.
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She luckily wandered off where a group of Palestinians gathered her and the family next door.
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They didn't know what was going on and they rushed them to safety.
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They probably rushed her to safety in a hospital.
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That doesn't seem to have a lot of medical equipment, but does have a lot of firearms.
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Well, firearms are a big cause of medical problems.
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So, I mean, if you're going to have firearms, have them at the hospital.
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So, Argentina had their runoff election and the news is stunning.
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He is the exact opposite of really anything, any kind of politician that we have seen here that is even close to being president of the United States.
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Donald Trump still plays within some of the norms.
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This guy in Argentina is often compared to Donald Trump.
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I think just because he's outspoken, like it seems to be the largest similarity there, right?
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Like he's super outspoken, but he describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist, which is not how Donald Trump would describe himself at all.
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What he says he's going to do, get rid of the peso because it's falling and he's going to put the dollar in good luck with that one.
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He is also getting rid of their Federal Reserve Bank.
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He is just going to cut this government to the bone.
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Have you seen the video of him walking in front of the whiteboard and he's just pulling off the stickers of all the different agencies?
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Probably a lot of those agencies are incredibly pointless just as they are here.
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No, not knowing the full story of the structure of the Argentinian government.
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I'm going a little bit on guesswork there, but I mean, every government is like that, especially in South America.
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I will bet you that Art Laffer would like this guy.
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We should call Art Laffer because he knows Argentina real well.
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Argentina always, you know, succeeds, becomes wealthy and then goes to socialism and destroys itself.
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And then, you know, goes back to its roots and then it destroys itself.
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You know, there's a lot of ifs that could happen here.
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Who knows what he what policy he actually implements when he's in office?
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He at some level, he's still a South American politician.
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But the things he said are really good, really positive.
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If he actually does them, if if they work, it could be an incredible thing.
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I mean, you know, it might inspire countries all in the region and all over the world to replicate that process.
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So there's really high hopes for someone who would come in and actually do this.
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You know, what's really interesting is how cautious people are on on saying, I like this guy.
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Gert Wielder's could become the next prime minister, the next Dutch prime minister.
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He didn't win enough seats to become prime minister.
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But if he cobbles together a few more seats, he he may become prime minister.
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And we were told by everybody, don't have money.
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We thought he was delightful, at least in the interview.
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So but we always have to say, well, but I'm not sure.
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But do you ever hear anybody backpedaling on Justin Trudeau?
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I mean, the things that that guy has done and nobody ever says, well, I don't agree with
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I hold myself to a higher standard than the left holds themselves.
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So I hope I hope that we would have higher standards than them.
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Yeah, I don't have a I don't have a problem with it.
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Yeah, I just I do have a problem with it doesn't matter what you do on the left doesn't matter.
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Apparently, you can kidnap and murder thousands of people and you'll still get cheered on by
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And and, you know, the situation is, you know, with I don't know, as a conservative, like
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And I'm much I'm much I'm happy to criticize someone who's supposedly on the right if they're
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Like, I just don't want to stand by them just because they they align themselves with my
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And, you know, you can make the argument that politically, you know, in a pragmatic
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political sense, you know, where the ends justify the means, that's the right approach.
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I don't think that's how you look at the world.
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And I don't think that's how most conservatives look at the world, maybe to our detriment when
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So there's two people now that the press say out of control.
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It's not my country, so I don't follow them as closely.
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I hate to say that because I don't know enough about them.
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But here's what you should take away from all of this movement politically, because it's
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happening in Europe and it's happening in South America.
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It is moving away hard from the left and going right.
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In the case of Argentina, a small government right.
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A libertarian government is not powerful enough to make you do anything.
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It's not spying on you because it's not big enough.
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This is going to be a huge move for the world back to more freedom and common sense.
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The Dutch are tired of having people just rape their daughters, kill on the street and
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The you know, when when you go over to Sweden, you go spend any time in the Norwegian countries,
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countries, you will see how accepting they are, how loving they are.
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But it is a very, very non-diverse population until recently.
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And now the non-diverse population coming up from the Middle East doesn't want to be Swedish.
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They want the free stuff, but they'll have their own no-go zones.
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You're now seeing the immigration be a problem all through Europe.
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You're going to see it as a problem here in America soon.
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I mean, I can't believe how much has changed in on our border and relatively nobody's talking
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That's one of the biggest changes in my lifetime.
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When that poses a problem, when we start to have terror attacks or whatever, we start to
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collapse our economy because we're overrun in this lifeboat called America, there are too
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many people trying to get into the boat, then you really have problems.
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So I'm glad to see that before things catch completely on fire over in Europe and in South
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America, there's a couple of places that may turn things around.
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And I think, too, this idea that maybe turning, just leaning, err on the side of liberty.
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That's what's encouraging about the guy in Argentina, Malay, for me, is that he might, look, we
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all know Ronald Reagan wanted to get rid of the Department of Education.
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Will this guy be able to get rid of all these agencies he pulled off his stickers off the
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I assume there's a million different people that are inside the government and have been
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inside of the government structure forever that will do everything they can to stop
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But just the fact that he's attempting to do these things and pushing in that general
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direction, it's hard to see how they can make the country worse.
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You know, at the very least, they take a little bit less of your money.
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Your reputation, your life, everything will be assassinated by the press and by the left.
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And if you get these people in who are serious about taking apart the Fed and some of these
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things that are absolute institutions that are deep, you start having a president take
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on the intelligence community here in America, you may be looking at worse than a political
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And I never thought I'd feel that way in America, but I do.
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And look what you what I think they're willing to do to Donald Trump.
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Somebody steps up and is effective at taking on the deep state.
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I mean, like you're standing up against people who have entrenched interest in something that
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you don't want and you're trying to you're trying to destroy and they have all kinds
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One of the first things we talked about with Donald Trump and in a critical way at some
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level was to say, hey, like you better be sure if you're going to critique our critique
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is not the right word for what Donald Trump was doing, but like go after the intelligence
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Because they're not going to sit back and just let that go on.
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Now, he did it anyway and he had to deal with the effects of it.
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But he's dealt with lots of personal discomfort and continues to over, I believe, those attacks
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I mean, like they're not going to just give up their power.
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I Donald Trump is so focused now has to be so focused on what's going on in his life.
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I wish we would put a coalition together where everybody gets behind somebody and just says,
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All of us getting together right now and developing something that a majority of Americans can get
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Because I just I won't believe it if if this guy, Joe Biden, can win.
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I mean, I've never seen a guy who has done this with war and made things as unstable do
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well in a presidential election, never seen a president who has an economy like this do
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I've never seen a guy who is more incompetent do well in.
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I mean, I mean, this guy has everything going against him and it's still competitive.
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So they're close to release of a fourth hostage group.
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Biden administration is now actively working to extend the truth.
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I hope Israel does what it feels it needs to do for its security and damn the rest of the world.
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I know that's horrible to say if you're somebody who has a member of your family as a hostage.
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But at least in America, we've up until this administration, we never dealt with hostage takers.
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It doesn't set a good example and it will only lead to worse things.
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But as we look at some of the people coming back among the grander disasters, we see the personal tragedies and we see it so much.
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It's hard to even focus on one story of one kind or another illness, the rape, the abuse, the wars.
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The list of what people can do to other people is enormous.
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And the problem, I think, is that none of us ever really follow up on it, especially the long term.
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But are we going to go back in three or four years and see what happened to them?
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What happened to that woman who was raped in Chicago?
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The man that was beaten and mugged in New York?
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The children that are rescued from abuse or sex slavery?
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Did they perhaps even turn their story into something positive for themselves or others somehow?
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was especially grateful for forgiveness and a chance to start all over again.
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I can't imagine if I just would have wallowed in my own garbage, which was a choice.
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Will people become bitter and angry at themselves, at society, the world at large, God?
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Will they forever be ruled by their past post-traumatic nightmares?
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Are their lives just going to be nothing but a long memory of pain?
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Or will we celebrate the lives of those who died, the lives of those who struggle, all those who are suffering today that might take that experience to help others so all that suffering is not in vain?
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Even if it's just help themselves, they stand up, they speak, they live, and they do it to show that the hell that is life can be overcome.
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I have had many cryptic conversations about my children over the years, especially as they have gotten older.
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And if you're a longtime listener of this program, you know that we have had very frightening issues with a couple of my kids in particular.
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I went to Tony Robbins with my son, and I called Tony, and I said, Tony, these are some of the problems.
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And he said, Glenn, take your son, come with him.
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He said, I'd be shocked if that didn't turn around.
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I have never seen a bigger turnaround in anyone like I've seen in my son.
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And Tony at one point has you scream out your biggest obstacle.
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And I'm screaming something, and my son's screaming something.
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And I listen, I hear my son say something, something in regards to, I can be greater than my father.
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Something like that, which I was both humbled and horrified by.
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Because I just, my son just needs to be himself, and he'll be greater than me.
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It is, it's remarkable to see him go from a young man, confused, lost, on the trail, off the trail, on the trail, off the trail, to a kid that is just a man who is determined to do whatever it is he sets his mind to, without hesitation.
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And this is a kid who have at times been completely hopeless and thinking, I'll never amount to anything.
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Somebody who, as a kid, filled himself with just this negative tape of not being worthy.
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And we tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried.
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He just stopped believing the lies that he was telling himself.
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And he just started to believe, oh, I can do it.
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In a world that teaches us that you are not good enough.
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You are not complete unless you wear this brand, buy this brand, go to this place, vacation, look, your living room looks like this.
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And then on top of it, it feels at times like the world is just turning inside out and doing all kinds of things to you.
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No, God's not going to give you something you can't handle.
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I certainly don't know it for you because I barely know it for me, honestly.
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Other than we're supposed to be happy and productive.
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It's amazing to me how many things our body does that reinforce good things.
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It creates endorphins that all of a sudden your mood goes up.
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I don't know how anybody can say that there is no God.
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No, I mean, we have to accept the things that we can't change.
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But we also have to look at the things we can change.
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This is one of the reasons I have a hard time sometimes with this job.
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Because I'm telling you a lot of the things that you can't change.
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I mean, you might be able to change them with the election.
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But that's not where you're going to find your answers.
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You're not going to find them in the next politician.
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And so, I feel defeated sometimes because I feel like I'm not giving you any answers that are worth anything at all.
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But then again, we all affect each other's lives.
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And it's spiritually healthy to remember that we don't have the final say or we don't control the final outcomes.
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Sometimes our prayers are answered in the negative.
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But it's also important to spin things around and maybe think that things aren't being done to you.
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But perhaps if we just look at life and saying, this is happening for me, it will require sacrifice and suffering and faith and everything else.
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But maybe if we choose to see it in a different light, we'll be better.
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If we're in such a bad, dark place, wouldn't it make it easier for us to see others in that place and relate to them unlike anyone else can relate?
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Over the holiday, I thought of faith being an active thing.
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And if it's good and it lifts people, if it builds and not destroys, it makes things better.
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Especially if you don't want to do it, it's definitely.
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And it makes future generations smarter and stronger, should we choose.
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My addiction, my abuse to alcohol and everything else, all the bad things, it turns out I can break the pattern of generational addiction, abuse.
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But more importantly, perhaps, in some ways, that happened for me.
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Whatever is happening in your life is happening for you, at least in part.
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In a world where babies get sick and die, a drunk driver will leave you in a lifelong coma.
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God's not to blame for anything and everything.
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God built a world where we all have free choice for good or for evil.
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But he made us able to choose what to make of all of this.
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Maybe all of the things that are happening, I mean, I don't know if anybody else has felt this way, but it's all broken.
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Yeah, no, I understand, you know, the concept of a strong foundation, but I'm going to build it here on the beach.
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And now we're just reaping the consequences of those choice.
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But perhaps, as we all share this pain and this path, we can be somebody else's opportunity.
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If we choose our tragedy, our lives can happen for us and others as well.