On today's show Glenn Beck talks about the importance of memory and how it is the key to who we are and what we are meant to be. He also talks about Elon Musk and his insane attack on the media.
00:00:36.640First, I so want to urge you to prepare.
00:00:42.960I told you a few, what, about two months ago, that I was putting my family on high alert to make sure that everybody knew where we were supposed to meet and everything else if things went to hell in a handbasket.
00:00:55.640That I was preparing to make sure that we had everything that we needed, and then maybe just a little bit more for some of our neighbors.
00:01:04.600That we had curtailed our spending as much as we could to make sure that we were getting out of debt because trouble is coming.
00:04:51.520Memory hole was a door in every room where people were being taught the truth.
00:04:58.500And you'd open up the little door and you'd take whatever the truth was, all of the photos, the documents, and you'd throw them in the memory hole.
00:05:08.560And at the bottom of the memory hole was a fiery furnace.
00:05:12.540And so it would burn up all the record and it was in the memory hole.
00:05:17.140You don't retrieve that in the memory hole.
00:05:23.080When you lose the knowledge of yourself, the knowledge of your purpose, what you were meant to be, you are truly lost.
00:05:36.380Think of any movie or series that starts with a hero waking up to find their memory gone.
00:05:41.780Their fundamental character traits may remain, but they're unmoored.
00:05:50.480Not only unable to recognize family from strangers, but without knowledge of who they are and what that means and how they should act next.
00:06:00.500All of a sudden, somebody throws a blow and they're like...
00:06:03.780And they're able to just take on anybody.
00:09:32.820They truly believe the new stories are true.
00:09:35.700But they often openly believe that they believe this all while denying the foundation of the old stories.
00:09:44.060Still, they can enjoy the fruits of what's built on that foundation, the material and moral benefits that they take for granted and are currently destroying because it's all they've ever known.
00:17:10.380And I think the simplest way to understand it is they're building a giant digital gulag for all of humanity.
00:17:15.960So the U.N. development program has officially launched this.
00:17:19.220It was officially launched at the end of last year where they're going to get 50 government.
00:17:22.520They call them countries, but really they mean governments to impose at least some major element of this digital public infrastructure on their population within five years.
00:17:31.040So it's 20, 20, 20, digital IDs, and those are already emerging.
00:17:35.380In fact, many states are developing these.
00:17:37.320I just went through the airport yesterday.
00:17:39.040You can scan your digital ID, QR code, right?
00:18:21.460We just had the head of the World Health Organization talk about this recently.
00:18:24.700The digital health certificates, the digital vaccine passports.
00:18:28.840They're taking what the EU developed during the COVID, which, by the way, the European Commission was promoting vaccine passports in May of 2019.
00:18:37.280Long before anybody ever heard of COVID or anything like that.
00:18:40.540So they're taking all of this together and they are using it to build a control system that will not just be able to surveil and monitor everything you do on an unprecedented scale.
00:18:51.700When you combine it with AI, the ability to make sense of all this data, it's just mind blowing.
00:19:00.140And so they're talking about this, again, pretty openly.
00:19:02.140If you look at the World Economic Forum meetings, they talk about the benefits of programmable central bank digital currency, where they will be able to say who can buy what, when, under what conditions.
00:19:12.940And then the Bank for International Settlements.
00:19:14.840You know, Carol Quigley, to go back to him for a moment, Bill Clinton's mentor, the guy who really exposed this global agenda to create a one world system.
00:19:22.620He said the apex of the system was going to be the Bank for International Settlements.
00:19:27.440This is an institution that's almost entirely unknown to Americans.
00:19:30.840And what they are working on right now, and this is not a secret, it's not a conspiracy because it's not happening behind closed doors, is what they call a universal blockchain ledger.
00:19:40.900They want to tokenize every asset in the known universe, every farm, every car, every house, every tree, put it on this ledger, this blockchain ledger.
00:19:49.420And then you're only able to interact with this blockchain ledger using your biometric digital ID, using your central bank digital currencies.
00:19:57.340And so if I want to buy something from you, I can't just hand you a $100 bill.
00:20:00.740I've got to go on my device, connect to this blockchain system, transfer the central bank digital currencies to you.
00:20:07.360And so this is a mechanism for controlling humanity that I think is really unprecedented in human history.
00:20:13.820And when you take it all together, it's very obvious.
00:30:17.840You know, if they were out making money, not taking money, but making money, and buying assets with that, that we could go, all right, that's going to appreciate in value.
00:30:47.840So two years ago, I had this guy on, Christopher Bedford, and he was writing for the Federalist at the time.
00:30:56.840And he said, he had written a piece, I think it was, two years after the lockdowns, the West Troubles aren't ending, they're just beginning.
00:31:05.760And I thought he had some real foresight.
00:33:18.760You know, there's a way that he seems to negotiate, whether it's government funding, impeachment, FISA, now Ukraine.
00:33:25.360And step one is a major decision comes along his way.
00:33:28.960And then he goes back and forth, step two, and he's not sure what to do.
00:33:32.240He delays it as long as he possibly can.
00:33:35.160But he kind of, he tweaks what was originally offered.
00:33:37.800He pretends that it was a win, and he asked Democrats to bail him out.
00:33:41.460That seems to be what's going on here.
00:33:43.900So, when you look back at this Daily Beast piece, and you look back at the people who've known him, and have known him to be a good man, which, by all accounts, he is in his personal life, you have to wonder what could be driving him.
00:33:58.200And it seems to be kind of a classic case of Washington, D.C., extreme ambition, an ability to deceive himself, which is not too uncommon.
00:34:07.720You think a lot of the folks here in Washington are real hypocrites, are real bad men who claim to be doing the Lord's work when, in fact, they're just doing their own.
00:34:15.320But a surprising amount of them have really convinced themselves they are on the good side, that they are on that really creepy quote, the right side of history, that they are the good guys who are going to come and save the day, and this is why the Lord put them there.
00:34:29.700And it really feeds into an incredible ego, an incredible amount of ambition, and also just the sad reality that a lot of these folks are pretty weak as leaders and people.
00:34:41.420They're capable, like many of us are, of standing at the back of the crowd and saying, I agree, this is bad, or being a backbencher who says, I'm not sending any more money to that bloodbath, or I'm going to vote to, I don't care what the defense industry puts on me, I'm not going to let women be drafted.
00:34:59.500It's easy to say that when you're not the leader, but when you're in the center and you take all those arrows and all those slings and all those scary skiff meetings from the intel community, and it's all on you, you have to answer for that.
00:35:10.720Well, that's when you find out who's really a leader and who's just ambitious.
00:35:15.280You know, there's a, in your article for Blaze, you've talked to a lot of his colleagues, and one of his senior staffers that worked with him in 2018 said,
00:35:27.980the Speaker is someone who could forgive himself for lying because he thinks it's for a higher purpose.
00:35:34.200He has an exceptional capacity for self-justification.
00:35:41.600No, it's not good, and it's something that I found repeated over and over again about Johnson.
00:35:47.640You know, when he ran for Speaker as kind of a dark horse surprise candidate, a lot of his colleagues, Republican colleagues, and even the ones who are much more conservative, were willing to say, you know, I know him personally.
00:36:00.660He's a man of God, and therefore I trust him.
00:36:03.360But they didn't want to look at the record.
00:36:05.860They didn't want to look at, well, what happens when leadership puts a little bit of pressure on him?
00:36:11.900Will he actually, his personal religious beliefs and his commitments aside, how do those actually shine as a statesman, as someone who's willing to take the arrows for those causes?
00:36:24.960But he looked at this, as what I've been told by his colleagues, as something that he's been put in this position.
00:36:31.380He's been chosen for this, and if he needs to lie, if he needs to deceive, if he needs to twist arms to further it, then he is on the right side.
00:36:41.480Again, that creepy quote that I've heard him saying since, the right side of history, that the other people are on the wrong side of history, and that his actions can therefore be justified.
00:36:52.800You see it on levels like this with politics.
00:36:54.780You see it, of course, a lot since 2016, with a lot of the left saying that people who support Donald Trump are basically the Nazis.
00:37:03.340Well, once you say that you're on the side of God or they're on the side of Hitler, then you can justify a lot of actions that I think a moral person would not otherwise be able to justify.
00:37:13.760So what do you think's coming for him, for the rest of us?
00:37:18.540Are we just stuck with a guy who is pathetic and weak now because the Democrats would absolutely vote to keep him in?
00:37:31.800You know, I'm curious about that because everyone's on recess right now and things are quieted down.
00:37:36.960But the question is, with everything that's coming down next, how is he going to be able to continue to govern here?
00:37:43.620Right now, he's essentially, even though he's the Speaker of the House and supposedly the head of the Republican coalition, he's really governing as a kind of a prime minister of a center-left coalition, the Uniparty, which has always kind of governed D.C., but now is really being open about it, where he's got half of Republicans on his side and about two-thirds of Democrats on his side.
00:38:07.400So how is he actually going to be able to pass anything with that coalition?
00:38:15.040The Republicans, a lot of them, are never going to come back to him.
00:38:18.260What's he actually going to be able to do in the next couple weeks?
00:38:22.520I kind of wonder if he's a lame duck speaker because he's got these folks, but they've accomplished their $95 billion.
00:38:29.560Then again, there's also already leaked rumors that they're planning the next big handout to the Ukraine war, that they're planning to come in September.
00:38:39.880And I suspect that he'll still be Speaker through September.
00:38:42.720But what's going to happen in November is either Republicans are going to lose their slim majority, in which case he won't be Speaker, or they'll win it.
00:38:50.260And then he's going to have to look around and find out, amongst those liberal Republicans, who are his allies, who is actually going to put him up for Speaker, and what are the alternatives.
00:39:01.340Right now, he's kind of running against no one.
00:39:03.800So he could maintain that, but it will be difficult.
00:39:06.200You being in Washington, hanging out or around these people all the time, watching them, listening to them, what do you think they think is coming in November?
00:39:20.260I think Republicans are cautiously optimistic for a Donald Trump victory.
00:39:26.920But, of course, there are a huge amount of shenanigans that are already unfolding.
00:39:33.460There's worries about what's going to be the new COVID, what's going to be the new moral panic that causes it, so that voting can't be done squarely and sole view of the public.
00:39:43.340I think the Republican National Committee has been trying to mix up its plan for how to, whether it's going to do early voting, where its lawyers are going to be.
00:39:54.080We know that it's going to be, I think, chaos.
00:39:57.240Either Donald Trump actually wins and the left wing takes to the streets like they did in 2016, burning cars, attacking people, or Donald Trump loses.
00:40:07.460And either way, I think that large parts of this country are going to not be satisfied with the election results.
00:40:15.060The tension that exists in 2016 has not gotten any less.
00:40:25.760No, they were significantly more worried before Joe Biden's State of the Union.
00:40:30.540And you saw that in the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, people openly wishing that they could have a different candidate.
00:40:37.720Just like you saw in 2020 with people wishing that it was Cuomo instead of Joe Biden.
00:40:42.960But, and we'll see a lot, actually, this weekend with the White House Correspondents Dinner, where everyone's going to be paying attention to Joe Biden's remarks.
00:40:53.460Is he funny like he can be when he's on, like he was at some point to the State of the Union?
00:40:58.360But there's a real fear amongst Democrats that Donald Trump is coming back, that the constant cycle of drama that they surrounded his entire four years with hasn't stuck with the American people because so much of it was fake.
00:41:13.500So much of it was just impossible to remember because there were fake scandals.
00:41:17.940Democrats in town are not confident that they'll get the White House, but they are feeling fairly confident about Congress.
00:41:51.080Real quick, any thoughts on the Trump trial this week?
00:41:58.040Biden said, the DOJ said actually, that Trump is the first president to face criminal prosecution because predecessors, other presidents, just didn't commit any crimes.
00:42:11.400I remember when Barack Obama left office, the Washington Post said it was a scandal-free administration.
00:42:25.280The judge is obviously against them, but the prosecution has embarrassed itself so far.
00:42:30.000The case is so weak that, and you kind of forget that in the hubbub of all the news,
00:42:34.960that it's relying on a bunch of liars to turn a misdemeanor that is outside of the statute of limitations into a felony because of another misdemeanor that can barely be cited.
00:42:44.780And it took the prosecution two days even to come up with that argument.
00:42:49.480And at the same time, the Supreme Court seems like it's going to crack down and at least limit what the president is able to do with his authority.
00:42:58.440So that will help push some of the other trials back to after the election if that happens.
00:43:03.160But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if Trump's in a prison cell or not because he's not out campaigning.
00:43:10.980He wasn't able to weigh in on these last Capitol Hill fights.
00:43:14.780They haven't put him in a prison cell, but they somewhat put him in a room.
00:43:18.940And that's something that you'll see, and you'll probably see some jokes about it, that this big fancy dinner they're having this weekend,
00:43:26.080they'll be laughing at us about how they still managed to stop probably the greatest campaigner in modern history from being able to campaign.
00:43:36.200I mean, because the people who are going to vote for him are going to vote for him anyway.
00:43:39.580And the ones who are the ones who, you know, really, they they vote for him, but they really don't like his tweets and his personality and everything else.
00:43:49.080By keeping him off the road and yet still in the public eye, you keep the focus on Joe Biden.
00:43:57.600And is there any case to be made that's good for Donald Trump?
00:44:02.100So far, it actually hasn't hurt him exactly to your point.
00:44:06.360And the folks in the suburbs who maybe voted for Trump in 2016 and voted for Biden in 2020, they're to your point, they're not going to be swayed by a rally.
00:44:15.260They're not going to be swayed by the kind of popcorn and rah-rah that goes on at those fun events.
00:44:20.680And but they are being swayed a little bit by the incredible unfairness.
00:44:24.400The question is whether or not they're going to be able to actually get felony charges on him, because that's the kind of thing that does spook those those easily frightened voters.
00:44:32.100Yeah. All right. Thank you so much. I really, really appreciate it, Chris. Thank you.