The Glenn Beck Program - September 20, 2022


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552

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Glenn and Stu talk about Joe Biden's mental health, the January 6th riot in the U.S. Capitol, and how the FBI misclassifies domestic terrorism cases in order to make them seem more serious than they actually are.

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00:00:00.000 So I know we were getting ready for today's podcast, but right at the end of today's podcast,
00:00:04.980 Stu and I started talking about something that we each thought it's only me thinking that.
00:00:11.700 And it has to do with Joe Biden's mental health.
00:00:15.320 Yeah, it's interesting how this happens.
00:00:17.120 I think we all get into this position where something in the news happens and we all think,
00:00:20.360 am I the only one?
00:00:22.300 Usually you're not the only one.
00:00:23.920 Yeah, I didn't think, am I the only one?
00:00:25.840 I thought I am the only one.
00:00:27.740 I wasn't questioning it.
00:00:28.980 I thought, oh, it's just me.
00:00:30.300 I must I must miss something.
00:00:31.820 Yeah, I must have missed something.
00:00:32.820 I must not know the reference.
00:00:34.200 And no, he's just incoherent.
00:00:35.660 Yeah, that'll be on tomorrow's podcast.
00:00:37.880 On today's podcast, we did talk to you all over the country.
00:00:42.240 We talked to people that were in different phases of their life with different points of view on on what is happening in our country.
00:00:54.020 You don't want to miss that.
00:00:55.460 Also, we talked a little bit about what Russia is planning and what is coming in our economy with the new emergency powers that are being recommended by the EU, you know, so they can fix the energy problem.
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00:02:50.820 All right.
00:02:52.180 Let me give you a couple of stories here.
00:02:54.080 Whistleblower has now accused the FBI's Washington field office of using cases related to the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot to overstate the threat of domestic violent extremism in America.
00:03:07.840 What?
00:03:09.860 This is a shock to me.
00:03:11.780 Whistleblower alleged the FBI office did not follow standard investigative practices for January 6th cases when it moved the cases to various local field offices around the country based on where the case subjects were from.
00:03:27.960 In a letter, January 6th cases should all be officially led by WFO, the Washington field office, and categorized as WFO cases.
00:03:40.420 But instead, a task force dispatched instructions to open January 6th investigations at local field offices nationwide.
00:03:51.040 Those local field offices received the cases, making it look as though as if they were conducting the investigation on the cases when in reality, the Washington field office was doing the bulk of the work.
00:04:04.160 According to the letter, a manipulative case file practice creates false and misleading crime statistics.
00:04:13.020 Instead of hundreds investigations stemming from a single black black swan incident in the Capitol, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violence, extremism and terrorism around the country.
00:04:26.600 Such an artificial case categorization scheme allows FBI leadership to misleadingly point to significant increases in domestic violence, extremists nationwide.
00:04:42.560 So here's here's what they did.
00:04:45.420 They took one event, broke it up as if it was multiple things all around the country.
00:04:52.200 Yeah, we've got field offices all over the country working on domestic violence.
00:04:56.080 It's one case.
00:04:57.160 And that's the way it should be categorized.
00:05:01.300 But instead, they're breaking it up to mislead, to intentionally mislead.
00:05:09.680 When, when in American history, were we okay when we found out that our Justice Department was corrupt and intentionally smearing American citizens?
00:05:23.440 When did we think that we think that we think that we think that we think that we think that was okay?
00:05:26.960 Answer, never.
00:05:29.080 When did any liberal, any Democrat in America think that was okay, except when things were out of control in the Wilson administration,
00:05:40.760 out of control in the FDR administration, and out of control in the Nixon administration?
00:05:48.100 No Democrat ever, ever thought it was right when we were spying on Americans, when we were abusing the FBI power.
00:06:01.180 Where are you now?
00:06:03.660 The answer is you've been lulled into sleep and you've been made to believe that these things are true and they are not true.
00:06:13.100 How many whistleblowers do we need? 0.95
00:06:14.900 I think this is our 16th or 17th whistleblower on the Justice Department and the FBI.
00:06:21.540 Now, all you have to do, if you tell people something over and over again, they'll believe it.
00:06:29.100 So what is it, America, we are being told to believe?
00:06:33.080 We are being told to believe that everybody who voted for Donald Trump, that's 90 million people.
00:06:38.900 By the way, I so urge you, with everything in me, please, read this book.
00:06:47.800 We're going to have this author on.
00:06:49.660 He was supposed to be on with us today and then he couldn't make it.
00:06:52.600 It is The Psychology of Totalitarianism.
00:06:57.040 It is fascinating.
00:06:59.240 The guy takes everything that we learned from the 20th century, fascism, communism, totalitarianism, and he looks at it and says, how do you get there?
00:07:14.740 What are you doing to people?
00:07:17.300 And I don't think he's a conservative.
00:07:20.320 He's from Brussels.
00:07:21.380 He's a university professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ghent.
00:07:29.600 And he noticed what was happening in Europe with COVID, how everybody was just kind of corralled and put into a chute.
00:07:43.020 And he realized, wait, I've seen this somewhere before.
00:07:46.420 So he breaks it down.
00:07:47.760 And we are honestly in one of the last phases.
00:07:52.740 We are in the phase just before it gets truly ugly.
00:07:58.360 If we don't wake up.
00:08:01.000 And when I say us, I don't mean necessarily the people on the right.
00:08:05.980 The people on the right have got to stay calm, have got to reflect goodness, happiness, decency.
00:08:14.480 We, the Christian, Judeo-Christian values that this country is known for.
00:08:22.780 We must rediscover that and stand clearly in that light.
00:08:28.300 The Democrats need to start waking up to their own conditioning.
00:08:34.080 When people start to do the final phase of totalitarianism, they give speeches like President Biden gave just a few weeks ago in Philadelphia.
00:08:48.800 That's what leads people to say, exterminate.
00:08:53.000 These people have to be exterminated.
00:08:55.560 These people are a virus.
00:08:57.500 There's no dealing with these people.
00:08:59.400 I got news for you.
00:09:01.800 If you think you can't deal with Democrats, you're mistaken.
00:09:05.960 If you think you can't live side by side with leftists that want to destroy the nation, I get it.
00:09:15.280 I get it.
00:09:16.100 And I'm with you.
00:09:18.140 But most Democrats, we cannot fall into this trap that they are in.
00:09:25.100 Here's here's the latest from the New York Times yesterday.
00:09:35.200 Former President Donald J. Trump appeared to more fully embrace QAnon on Saturday, playing a song at a political rally that prompted attendees to respond with a salute in reference to the cult like conspiracy theory song.
00:09:50.660 While speaking in Youngstown in support of J.D. Vance, whom he has endorsed as a Republican nominee for the Senate, Mr. Trump delivered a dark address about the decline of America over music that was all but identical to the song.
00:10:07.920 So it's not the song.
00:10:10.360 It's all but identical to the song.
00:10:13.840 Now, the president delivered this same speech.
00:10:17.820 He's been delivering this same speech for about three or four months now.
00:10:21.380 And he describes the America that we have become and then turns it around and says, we don't have to be that.
00:10:29.240 It's almost mourning in America.
00:10:32.780 Now, can we play the real song here?
00:10:35.800 Now, tell me, tell me that you haven't heard a million different scores that sound just like this.
00:10:43.360 There's one that we use, and I cannot remember, and Sarah is gone today, but I know we have one that sounds almost exactly.
00:10:51.520 It's all but identical, but I can't find it.
00:10:54.920 But here's the original song that he played.
00:10:58.840 No, the first one that I gave you.
00:11:02.900 This is the original song that they say he played, one that sounded like it.
00:11:09.460 Tell me if you've ever heard anything that sounds like this in a movie.
00:11:13.360 I mean, Stu, do you hear what I hear?
00:11:24.620 We have one.
00:11:25.660 We've used one that sounds just like I can't put my finger on it.
00:11:31.400 But there is hope.
00:11:33.580 Yeah, yeah.
00:11:34.300 Right?
00:11:34.460 I can almost hear you doing the voiceover on it.
00:11:36.540 Yeah.
00:11:36.800 Right.
00:11:37.060 Okay, so that's the one that they said.
00:11:40.680 He played!
00:11:42.100 It was, yes!
00:11:43.860 That's just like a genre.
00:11:45.320 That's like a cinematic genre.
00:11:47.360 Play another one for me.
00:11:49.700 Play another one for me.
00:11:51.220 Let's just see what we, what do we have here?
00:11:53.420 What do we have in our, in our library?
00:11:56.060 Here's one.
00:11:57.600 See if it sounds, ooh.
00:11:59.320 Could be the same, could be the same one.
00:12:04.460 But there is hope.
00:12:08.000 Call now.
00:12:12.000 And help those children born without faces.
00:12:16.980 Right?
00:12:17.680 Okay.
00:12:18.240 This is a genre of music.
00:12:19.840 It's a genre, it's a genre of music.
00:12:22.000 Here, here, I've got one.
00:12:23.140 Can you open, uh, can you open, uh, my, mine up?
00:12:26.420 Um, how about this one?
00:12:27.880 Cause this one sounds kind of like that.
00:12:30.960 There is trouble on the horizon.
00:12:34.500 America has turned into a very dark, dark place.
00:12:39.900 There's all kinds of trouble.
00:12:41.820 The FBI is lying to us.
00:12:45.500 The DOJ is out of control.
00:12:48.100 An energy crisis like we've never, ever seen before.
00:12:54.100 People on the streets burning cities down.
00:12:58.780 People crying out, where is the answer?
00:13:03.800 The answer can be found in one place.
00:13:08.800 The Crown.
00:13:13.540 It's the theme from The Crown!
00:13:16.700 I mean, you could do this all day long.
00:13:21.760 With any dramatic series or dramatic movie, action movie, Patriot, like, you could pull
00:13:27.820 that from anyone, I can't believe that's the song they were talking about.
00:13:30.580 That's the song they were, I had to look it up.
00:13:32.480 I've only read the reporting on it.
00:13:33.160 I am now on all kinds of lists at the FBI, cause I went to Apple and I looked that song
00:13:37.440 up.
00:13:38.420 But I looked that song up and when I heard it, I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
00:13:43.560 That's the song that made them write an article that says that they're giving the Nazi salute.
00:13:53.760 Trump rally plays music resembling QAnon song.
00:13:58.520 Crowd reacts.
00:13:59.580 That is embarrassing.
00:14:00.460 I mean, I don't, here's the thing, they would, they would accuse and have accused you of being
00:14:08.360 involved in all sorts of things as it revolves around the election and QAnon and who knows
00:14:14.320 what else, even though you're not.
00:14:16.840 But I didn't, neither one of us even knew what the song was.
00:14:20.320 I didn't know what the song was.
00:14:22.060 I had, wait a minute, are you saying that maybe, is this the song or is this the crown?
00:14:30.600 You don't know, do you?
00:14:31.200 I have no idea.
00:14:31.720 That's the crown.
00:14:32.420 Okay.
00:14:32.860 Okay.
00:14:33.240 I don't watch the crown either.
00:14:34.600 Yeah, I know.
00:14:35.300 But I mean, come on, man.
00:14:37.740 It is a basic cinematic piece of audio.
00:14:42.060 In fact, when we do production pieces here, we are subscribed to a production music library.
00:14:49.660 I know.
00:14:50.000 And they are categorized by genre.
00:14:52.000 One of them is cinematic and there's like 12 different CDs, but when they were CDs and
00:14:56.680 now folders.
00:14:57.840 I know.
00:14:58.280 Now Sarah happens to be gone today.
00:15:00.700 Is she back tomorrow?
00:15:02.140 No, she's off for a couple of days.
00:15:05.540 It would be the one day.
00:15:06.720 She's taking a trip very similar to one someone from QAnon took once.
00:15:11.240 Oh my gosh.
00:15:12.440 That's why she pointed to me yesterday.
00:15:14.900 That was a Nazi salute. 0.63
00:15:16.220 Was that a Hitler salute?
00:15:18.060 Oh my gosh.
00:15:19.840 Well, it wasn't a Hitler salute, but it was a salute that resembled a Hitler salute. 0.55
00:15:27.020 It used the hand.
00:15:29.480 Hey, I, that's.
00:15:31.400 She was reaching out to shake his hand.
00:15:33.640 Yes, the hand, the arm was extended and the hand was flat.
00:15:38.180 I think we know what Sarah was doing.
00:15:41.400 I think we know where she really is.
00:15:43.380 Probably out back burning books.
00:15:49.840 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:15:52.740 John is calling us from New Hampshire and, uh, he's a truck driver.
00:16:09.720 Hi, John.
00:16:10.380 Welcome.
00:16:12.020 Hi, how's it going?
00:16:13.200 Uh, Glenn?
00:16:13.760 No, I'm actually in Connecticut right now.
00:16:15.780 I'm at driving an 18 wheeler and, uh, the cost, uh, for people like owner operators, I'm luck.
00:16:22.460 I'm fortunately and blessed by Jesus Christ to be a truck driver here.
00:16:26.840 And, uh, you know, we got to give them thanks and praise.
00:16:30.320 Um, but, you know, these owner operators, I'm a truck driver and, you know, everything has a cost.
00:16:37.300 When you buy that candy at the store right now, I'm hauling fish.
00:16:40.120 I'm pulling, I'm hauling, uh, 42,000 pounds.
00:16:43.240 And I just went to go to the fuel station.
00:16:46.220 Cost me $379 for 59.8 gallons of fuel.
00:16:50.960 Uh, or no, it was 200 and, uh, 370, uh, 321 and I bought death at $4 and 49 cents a gallon.
00:17:01.560 And I bought 14 gallons of that.
00:17:03.560 So that, that's why the, the added price is 379.
00:17:06.780 Jeez.
00:17:07.400 So I, I mean, I have to go somewhere else.
00:17:11.720 I can't, I mean, my company can't afford to, uh, keep going.
00:17:15.560 So I have to go to a, you know, a place in Pennsylvania to fill up the rest of the fuel.
00:17:19.280 Um, and we, it doesn't have to be this way.
00:17:23.040 And, uh, the regulations on truck drivers are, um, tough.
00:17:27.620 The, the DEF fluid, it pollutes the environment.
00:17:30.760 California made it mandatory.
00:17:33.980 Um, good job, Nancy Pelosi on that. 1.00
00:17:36.360 And, uh, you know, now they realize that it's actually a negative impact, uh, for the environment.
00:17:42.800 It's not going away though.
00:17:43.900 It doesn't last as long.
00:17:45.060 No, it's definitely not.
00:17:46.300 But as long as they, as long as they have the reins in this economy, they're going to
00:17:51.800 continue, uh, strangling our necks and, and suffocating us, uh, with our taxes and their 0.54
00:17:59.040 legislation.
00:17:59.740 And I'm blessed to have you on the radio.
00:18:02.220 I'm blessed to be part of your radio station right now.
00:18:04.860 Thank you.
00:18:05.280 Don't want to take too much time.
00:18:06.480 Um, and, uh, I'm blessed to have people like you and, uh, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh,
00:18:10.960 God bless his soul.
00:18:12.080 And other people that fight hard.
00:18:14.060 You guys are the, the future of the, uh, America along with Trump and DeSantis.
00:18:19.860 Right.
00:18:20.180 We need to run a, we need to run a ticket.
00:18:23.660 Sorry.
00:18:24.300 No, no, go ahead.
00:18:25.180 We need to run a ticket.
00:18:26.080 Yeah, we need to run a, uh, a, a MAGA conservative or just a conservative ticket.
00:18:31.800 Uh, you know, we have Chris in New Hampshire, New Hampshire, we have, uh, Bunduck, uh, and
00:18:38.740 I think he's running for, uh, Senate or Congress.
00:18:41.960 Senate.
00:18:42.420 And then we have, uh, uh, Caroline LeVette and she's, uh, she's a, uh, she was an advisor
00:18:48.700 for Trump and, uh, these people are great.
00:18:52.200 And, uh, I just, I was during the phone call there, the 40 seconds there, I bought a, um,
00:18:59.040 a thing from Starbucks.
00:18:59.900 Not that I really care for them.
00:19:01.220 They're kind of a liberal company, but, uh, $6 and 46 cents for, for an iced tea, uh, lemonade.
00:19:09.740 So I don't know.
00:19:11.880 Yeah.
00:19:12.380 I don't know what people are going to do.
00:19:13.740 I know.
00:19:14.560 Uh, John, thank you very much for checking in.
00:19:16.980 Uh, I don't know what, um, people are going to do.
00:19:21.340 This is, people should know this is by design.
00:19:25.700 This is the largest transfer of wealth, um, ever.
00:19:30.640 And it is not going to the little guy.
00:19:33.400 It is going to the big guys.
00:19:35.760 This is a massive change in the entire Western world.
00:19:42.140 It is, it is happening.
00:19:43.780 I, I, I, I want you to know that what is happening with our fuel, if you're going to pump the gas,
00:19:51.980 you've seen that our fuel price is down.
00:19:55.440 However, that's just because we're draining the oil from our strategic reserves.
00:20:01.560 It, we, we are sitting here at a time for the first time in, since I was in high school,
00:20:08.620 are we worried about possible nuclear war?
00:20:13.380 And yet we are draining our entire strategic oil reserve.
00:20:18.660 We have auctioned off another 10 million barrels and, uh, we're delivering the oil from November 1st through November 30th.
00:20:29.420 So we're bringing this, we're, we're releasing all of this to our own detriment.
00:20:34.260 And why are we doing it?
00:20:35.940 We're only doing it because the election is here.
00:20:40.160 And if, if it does continue into December and January, that then is just putting us behind the eight ball.
00:20:51.340 God forbid something happens.
00:20:54.060 This is immoral.
00:20:56.280 What's going on in Europe?
00:21:00.040 What a surprise.
00:21:03.040 They, the EU has now, uh, proposed a supply chain emergency powers act.
00:21:09.900 Whenever a government asks for emergency powers, be aware.
00:21:17.420 Uh, the companies now in Europe are going to be made to prioritize production of key products
00:21:24.880 and stockpile goods under draft EU rules that would give Brussels emergency power to tackle supply chain crisis.
00:21:33.420 Is your solution more government?
00:21:39.200 If your solution is more government and more emergency powers, then by definition, you are on the fascistic side.
00:21:49.140 If you believe in the free market, if you believe in the average person and reducing the burden on the average person from a federal government,
00:22:01.420 then you are not on the fascistic side.
00:22:05.640 They're saying, listen to this.
00:22:07.280 We need new tools that allow us to act fast and collectively at whatever kind of, uh, risk we might face.
00:22:17.600 Hmm.
00:22:20.220 Okay.
00:22:21.280 That's good.
00:22:22.260 Sure.
00:22:23.340 Now what's happening because of not the war, but because of the Paris accords, France and all of Europe started going to green energy,
00:22:37.780 renewable energy.
00:22:39.140 It is not stable, nor can it produce the amount of energy that is needed.
00:22:45.780 Then you add one crisis on top one.
00:22:52.400 You don't have a secure life.
00:22:55.300 If you are only based on one, uh, one source, if you only have, there's no backup for your entire life.
00:23:06.720 You're in trouble.
00:23:08.320 You're in real, real trouble.
00:23:10.900 Right now they are shutting factories down and they're shutting these factories down because they can't afford the fuel to keep them running.
00:23:26.840 And there's a great story from, um, Yahoo finance today.
00:23:33.200 Firewood is the new gold, the new goal, gold, firewood.
00:23:39.600 Right now countries in Europe are facing a very, very cold winter, the possibility of no energy.
00:23:51.120 So people theft and firewood are the two biggest things right now.
00:23:58.140 People are, people are, people are being broken into their houses are being broken into.
00:24:03.160 People are stealing whatever they can.
00:24:06.500 And people who are trying to survive are just holding on to firewood.
00:24:13.120 The energy prices in Europe have climbed as much as a thousand percent.
00:24:20.420 One thousand percent.
00:24:25.040 Now, if the people in charge of the EU actually cared, they would see what a disaster the Paris Accords have been and they would back away.
00:24:39.720 But they're not right now, as they're asking for emergency powers, the EU is upgrading its commitment to the Paris Agreement climate target.
00:24:53.240 So they're saying we're going to reach it even faster than promised.
00:25:00.900 What does this mean for us?
00:25:05.220 Why are you paying for, why are you paying the price you're paying at the gas pump?
00:25:09.720 Why?
00:25:10.940 We have more oil than Saudi Arabia.
00:25:14.880 Why are you about to pay what you're going to pay for heat if you have gas heat?
00:25:24.960 Why?
00:25:26.100 Why are you paying so much for natural gas or LP?
00:25:29.340 Why?
00:25:30.700 We have more natural gas and LP than, than anybody and anybody.
00:25:36.020 We can put more natural gas into a tank and put it at your house or run a line to your house than anybody else.
00:25:50.420 Why are you paying for more?
00:25:55.020 Natural gas prices have doubled just this year.
00:26:00.900 The price now for fuel and for an hour of power at your house is up 124%.
00:26:16.460 In New England, up 96%.
00:26:19.620 Why?
00:26:21.340 Because the elites feel that their solution is the right solution.
00:26:31.340 The problem is the elites.
00:26:35.520 The people who think they know better than you.
00:26:39.900 I don't think I or anyone else knows better than you for what you are facing.
00:26:46.580 What is happening in Europe this winter will be here next winter.
00:26:53.820 Winter is coming.
00:26:55.920 And we now have politicians all over the world that are just playing Game of Thrones.
00:27:07.340 That's it.
00:27:08.660 That's what this is all about.
00:27:12.780 Did you notice how the people suffered when they're playing Game of Thrones?
00:27:17.000 Did the little people ever, were they ever part of consideration?
00:27:30.060 We're going back to a feudal system.
00:27:33.620 We're going back to the, we're on the road to serfdom.
00:27:36.920 And as soon as we stop trapping ourselves in this game that Republicans are Nazis and everybody else, everyone who's a Democrat is a communist, we're never going to get past it.
00:28:03.440 The real problem are the leaders all over the world.
00:28:08.540 That's the problem.
00:28:10.280 The ones who are making the Paris Accord Agreement, the ones who are making the agreement for ESG, the people in power at the biggest corporations, the biggest banks, and the governments of the world.
00:28:25.280 You didn't have any part of it.
00:28:27.020 Did you even know what ESG was?
00:28:28.820 Most people at banks didn't even know what it was a year ago.
00:28:34.540 So who came up with it?
00:28:36.260 When was it decided?
00:28:42.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:28:44.540 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:28:58.820 Hey, so Stu, looks like he's going to be, he's going to be talking about annexing the, the places where they were just chased out.
00:29:15.080 He's just going to annex those tonight.
00:29:17.240 Looks like that.
00:29:18.220 That's the, that's the reporting so far.
00:29:20.260 Yeah.
00:29:20.740 Now, I don't know, I guess he's annexed Crimea, right?
00:29:23.840 But he has not annexed Donbass or any of these other regions.
00:29:30.180 Donetsk.
00:29:30.700 What's the one they've, they've lost?
00:29:32.400 Luhansk.
00:29:33.040 They've lost the territory to the north recently to Ukraine.
00:29:37.300 So they're going to what?
00:29:37.900 Try to hunker down in the other two regions.
00:29:40.900 And I, I don't really, I don't know.
00:29:44.800 He's saying that they are saying now that there is a, um, there is a bill in the upper house, I guess, uh, of, of Russia, the Russian parliament.
00:30:00.120 And it is just to say, well, that area is ours.
00:30:03.440 And they're afraid that, uh, they, he may be, um, uh, going harsher, um, than just a special military operation.
00:30:17.220 In fact, there's speculation that Putin may opt for a national military mobilization, including a draft.
00:30:24.440 Now he's avoided this so far because it's, it would be deeply unpopular.
00:30:29.400 Um, and, uh, and, and, but it's the only thing he can do to really win because he's lacking soldiers.
00:30:37.520 They don't have them.
00:30:39.040 And the military staffing is because people are surrendering.
00:30:43.480 Um, they are deserting.
00:30:46.000 Um, they're sending volunteers from the right to the front line with very little training and they're enlisting prisoners now.
00:30:54.920 Yeah.
00:30:55.400 One of the things that's been interesting about this is we all know the concept of total war, right?
00:31:00.520 It's not even just you, if you're a soldier going to war and fighting the actual battles, but it's everybody at home is at war too.
00:31:08.520 We're all, it's, it's every aspect of our lives.
00:31:11.100 This is the struggle of our lives.
00:31:12.980 And that's an approach that, you know, obviously we saw fascist governments from the thirties take with their people saying that you must sacrifice everything.
00:31:20.740 And the fact that there's economic hardships is just part of it.
00:31:24.820 This is, this is the struggle for our lives.
00:31:27.300 Uh, Russia with Putin this time has really tried to attempt the opposite here, which is give almost no effect to the lot.
00:31:35.460 It changed no effect of the lives of the average citizen, where this is just a special military operations going on outside our borders.
00:31:42.340 We'll get this done.
00:31:43.560 Don't worry about it.
00:31:44.440 You continue with your parties and, and your life as, as it goes.
00:31:47.880 And they've had, you know, some economic, uh, uh, issues, but I mean, by some measures they've done better.
00:31:54.520 Yeah.
00:31:54.860 Some, by some measures they have.
00:31:56.760 It's, it's a, no one I think believes it's a longterm solution to their economic woes, but you know, because of arrangements with other countries, China, India, in particular, they've been able to kind of hold the economy up.
00:32:08.740 And the average citizen has not had their lives destroyed other than McDonald's going away, which of course is would destroy your life, would destroy our times.
00:32:16.420 I did, I was on vacation and away from McDonald's in a place you wouldn't want to eat McDonald's.
00:32:21.840 You know, the local food was so good.
00:32:23.560 And yet towards the end of vacation, I passed a McDonald's and I was like, I kind of want to stop.
00:32:28.340 Yeah.
00:32:28.720 I kind of want to stop.
00:32:29.880 So here, this could be the escalation, right?
00:32:33.040 Where he's decided we no longer can shield the everyday citizen from the effects of what's going on.
00:32:40.060 And that is a major escalation.
00:32:42.460 In some ways, it seems necessary.
00:32:46.020 And if you're going to a military draft, I mean, that is a, that's true.
00:32:49.460 We don't know that for sure.
00:32:50.600 That's a speculation.
00:32:51.420 And we'll just have to see.
00:32:53.860 But if he is going to make a major escalation, please pray for our president that he is, that he is touched by the finger of God and, and does not escalate himself.
00:33:11.980 This could be very, very bad news.
00:33:14.460 I'm more worried about him and the Pentagon and the decisions that we're making than I really am of Vladimir Putin.
00:33:22.660 Let me go to Han in Texas. 0.92
00:33:25.060 Hello, Han.
00:33:27.080 Hey, Glenn.
00:33:28.180 How are you, sir?
00:33:29.940 Real good.
00:33:31.320 I'm in El Paso, Texas.
00:33:33.440 And seeing the news about Martha's Vineyard and 50 that they can't handle migrants.
00:33:38.960 The news just reported that we're now up to 1,500 per day, every day in El Paso.
00:33:47.580 And that is nonstop.
00:33:49.600 How is this changing?
00:33:50.660 How is this changing El Paso?
00:33:52.540 What is it like to live there?
00:33:55.760 Well, every, all the migrant shelters, they're now calling on all the churches to try to take in migrants, to provide food for migrants.
00:34:04.900 People are buying shoes because they don't have shoes.
00:34:08.080 And they were all downtown.
00:34:11.580 And then the city and the county are buying these buildings to house the migrants. 0.96
00:34:18.560 And they're talking, you know, like 2 million, 8 million.
00:34:21.520 That's going to affect the taxpayers here. 0.95
00:34:24.440 Oh, my God.
00:34:24.920 And El Paso already has the highest property taxes in Texas.
00:34:29.760 And this is just going to add to that.
00:34:34.320 And, you know, and then with the appraisals doubling, the taxpayers in El Paso are getting squeezed.
00:34:41.360 And this is really a federal issue.
00:34:44.040 It shouldn't be on the taxpayers of El Paso.
00:34:47.480 No, it shouldn't be.
00:34:49.280 And that's the thing that infuriates me so much when, you know, places like New York City say, we're overwhelmed.
00:34:58.800 You know, four bus loads.
00:35:00.260 We're overwhelmed.
00:35:01.240 This isn't a border town.
00:35:03.440 What does that even mean?
00:35:05.040 Do you think border towns just magically have money, you know, spewing from their noses?
00:35:09.840 I mean, it's so weird.
00:35:10.860 It is so strange.
00:35:12.140 All of the complaints that we're hearing from Martha's Vineyard in New York City and Washington, D.C. and Chicago are all the complaints that we have here in border states.
00:35:20.480 Right.
00:35:20.640 It's like, hey, we, you have to understand, we didn't even know they were coming.
00:35:24.520 Neither did we.
00:35:25.440 We didn't even know how many beds to have.
00:35:27.540 We don't have the resources.
00:35:29.220 Yeah, that's what we've been saying for the past half century.
00:35:33.820 Right?
00:35:34.440 They don't register with the equivalent of open table and make reservations when they're coming across the border.
00:35:39.740 They don't go to the open border app and say, hey, we're coming with five.
00:35:43.400 I hope you guys are ready.
00:35:44.280 That doesn't happen.
00:35:45.340 They just come and we don't have the resources and we just try to figure it out.
00:35:49.140 And then they get shipped halfway across.
00:35:51.140 They wind up either.
00:35:52.680 Most of them wind up staying in the border states.
00:35:55.420 Some of them go all across the country to red states and blue states.
00:35:58.140 But the vast majority of them wind up staying in border states with and we do not have the resources to handle it.
00:36:05.160 It's a it is a burden.
00:36:06.620 And you guys up in the blue states have been denying this on Martha's Vineyard.
00:36:11.060 You've been saying they're a blessing and there's nothing.
00:36:13.240 Now, look, we could send you 10,000 blessings.
00:36:16.680 Yeah, we could say we are.
00:36:18.180 We thought we were helping.
00:36:19.340 It wouldn't even make a dent.
00:36:20.880 Our buses are just buses of blessings.
00:36:22.920 And you guys can take them with your multimillion dollar homeless budgets and deal with it.
00:36:27.180 These these border towns don't have that.
00:36:29.420 They're just forced to get screwed all the time by policies, by the way, that are being implemented with people who are living on Martha's Vineyard, who have houses on Martha's Vineyard.
00:36:40.960 Those people are the ones incentivizing this behavior and then limit limiting the government's ability to stop it.
00:36:49.220 Well, but they were very enriched by their 48 hour stay.
00:36:53.300 I mean, the people of Martha's Vineyard, I mean, they use the word we were enriched by them.
00:36:58.180 Really?
00:36:58.820 You were enriched in a 48 hour visit where you didn't do anything but call the National Guard and say, can you guys come and get these people?
00:37:05.560 What an enriching experience that is.
00:37:08.120 Yeah.
00:37:08.360 So sickening.
00:37:09.540 Usually they're enriched because they get below cost labor for their incredible gardens.
00:37:17.720 Now they're getting it in another way.
00:37:19.920 So, Han, what is happening in El Paso?
00:37:24.060 How are you guys standing?
00:37:26.780 Well, it's tough, but I did want you to research a candidate.
00:37:31.920 Guadalupe Hiner is the first independent candidate to run in Texas history for county judge.
00:37:41.100 And she's going to...
00:37:42.060 What's her name?
00:37:44.200 Guadalupe Hiner.
00:37:45.380 G-I-N-E-R. 1.00
00:37:47.840 And if you could get her on sometime, she's fantastic.
00:37:52.200 She's conservative, but she's not bending towards any party.
00:37:56.600 She's trying to set a new path. 1.00
00:37:58.520 And that's the only hope we have because we keep getting bond issue after bond issue being placed on the ballot for voters.
00:38:07.300 And they keep voting for more and more bond issues for things that are not in the realm of El Paso, like our UMC.
00:38:17.120 It's a hospital, and it's supposed to take care of indigent care.
00:38:20.540 But they are wanting a bond so that they can build robotics and state-of-the-art that competes with the private sector.
00:38:28.560 And they always get approved.
00:38:30.700 Yeah, they do.
00:38:31.720 That's really bad, too.
00:38:33.660 Really bad.
00:38:34.540 You cannot gut the private sector.
00:38:38.720 By taking that on, your taxes go up.
00:38:41.180 And quite honestly, usually, scientific advancement slows down because there's no competition for it.
00:38:53.360 This is my ultimate pet peeve, this stupid issue.
00:38:56.460 Because people do it all the time.
00:38:58.880 All the time.
00:38:59.500 Even in super red conservative areas, you throw a bond up for people to vote, and people do what we call a benefit analysis.
00:39:08.620 Not a cost-benefit analysis, but a benefit analysis.
00:39:11.720 Hey, I would like this new thing.
00:39:13.860 Therefore, I'll check this box with no cost whatsoever.
00:39:17.160 Of course, that means taxes go up, and it's much worse than that.
00:39:21.680 For example, a lot of cities do this, where they build these incredibly nice rec centers with gymnasiums and beautiful facilities.
00:39:31.540 I don't know if this is happening in your state, but in Texas, this happens a lot.
00:39:37.360 A lot.
00:39:37.620 While we're building $90 million high school stadiums for football, $90 million high school stadiums.
00:39:51.460 Right.
00:39:52.120 They'll build a rec center that's got facilities, places to meet, you know, whatever.
00:39:56.580 And they might be very nice.
00:39:58.380 And what they will do is they will build this facility with your tax dollars.
00:40:01.760 And then your taxes will go up, so you're paying for this facility.
00:40:05.260 Then they will charge you a membership fee.
00:40:07.960 But this membership fee will be below market, right?
00:40:10.920 It's not—for this facility, you would pay much more for a membership fee.
00:40:14.180 So they'll cut it by 30% or 40%, so lots of people will join it.
00:40:18.080 Now, of course, there's another gym that is in the private sector that's built across town and is an existing business that gets put out of business because now they've been undercut in the market by 30% or 40%.
00:40:29.260 And if they somehow remain to stay open, they get to pay taxes to their competition.
00:40:35.520 Now, here's the great thing.
00:40:36.680 Here's the great thing.
00:40:38.540 If you think your gym membership is hard to cancel, you can never cancel your gym membership with your taxes.
00:40:48.780 It never ends.
00:40:51.040 Never ends.
00:40:51.900 It's the Hotel California of gymnasiums.
00:40:54.460 It really is.
00:40:55.860 David in Virginia, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:41:00.180 Mr. Beck, how are you, sir?
00:41:01.740 I'm very good.
00:41:02.460 My wife and I had been married 20 years, even before then, back at 9-11.
00:41:13.160 I owned two restaurants, and because of 9-11, it shook the West, and I had my restaurants were in Idaho, and I had to shut them down.
00:41:22.960 So I rebuilt and met my wife, and then we bought—we were living in Houston, and we bought a home there,
00:41:31.320 and then we both took positions in Las Vegas.
00:41:36.480 We're both chefs.
00:41:38.500 And then 2008 came along.
00:41:40.740 We lost both of our homes.
00:41:42.540 Oh, geez.
00:41:43.380 We rebuilt again, and we moved to your favorite city, Portland, Oregon, and opened a restaurant, which was very successful for five years.
00:41:54.640 And then COVID came along, and we lost all of it again.
00:41:57.660 And so here we are, rebuilding after these real disasters in America that have just been one after the other.
00:42:11.020 I'm wondering if maybe you're the problem, David, to all of our problems.
00:42:15.280 My wife might agree with that.
00:42:17.140 I tell you, this is one of the bigger problems, I think, with the younger generation.
00:42:23.840 Your kids have watched you go out of business over and over and over again, and this is happening all across the nation, with no fault of your own.
00:42:33.460 And they are being convinced that that's the capitalist system, that you just can just go out of business, and then you rebuild, and then you go out of business.
00:42:42.280 And so my parents really never got ahead.
00:42:45.500 That's a huge issue, because it's proving to be true right now, because the government is in everybody's face and way.
00:42:56.540 So you can't get ahead.
00:42:58.500 Just as you get ahead, something else that most likely they are responsible for, it happens and it collapses.
00:43:07.160 That's what 08 was all about.
00:43:09.540 In some ways, that's what 9-11 was about, all of our policies of the past coming home to roost.
00:43:18.420 08 was definitely about that.
00:43:20.040 All of the strapping of trying to get back on your feet while you were bailing out the banks, that was a problem.
00:43:27.520 That's coming home to roost.
00:43:30.440 COVID, absolutely.
00:43:32.980 I mean, Fauci, we now know that Fauci was lying to us about gain of function.
00:43:41.500 So the governments of the world, China, us, maybe both of us, I don't know, we created that.
00:43:50.420 And then we made it worse by what our government did.
00:43:53.140 Boy, I wouldn't believe in this system either if this is what I grew up seeing.
00:43:58.500 Would you?
00:44:01.280 It's very interesting.
00:44:02.860 My son is a doctor.
00:44:04.580 I mean, what he did was after school, he would come and sit in my restaurant and see how hard I worked.
00:44:12.120 And then he went on to just excel.
00:44:16.940 He became an anesthesiologist and then is going back for a Ph.D. in psychology.
00:44:24.200 Wow.
00:44:24.720 So, but, uh, I hope it was the influence that he needed that I gave him through the hard work and determination that I proved.
00:44:35.720 And he's seeing it now come to roost in his, um, in his field now to government involved in absolutely everything.
00:44:43.820 And doctor after doctor getting really frustrated with that.
00:44:48.120 But again, those are the ones that, you know, actually knew what freedom was like.
00:44:52.640 Young doctors coming into it, they may not understand what's, what this system used to be.
00:44:58.640 Thank you so much, David.
00:45:00.020 And, and God bless you.
00:45:01.980 Uh, God bless you.
00:45:03.820 Cause we're headed for another, um, real problem, uh, down the road.
00:45:09.960 I have a question for this audience, uh, of somebody I would really like to talk to a group of people,
00:45:19.000 but I don't know if they have the guts to call in.
00:45:23.880 I'll tell you about them next.
00:45:25.200 Na, na, na, na.