The Glenn Beck Program - April 18, 2022


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rabbi Daniel Lapin ｜ 4⧸18⧸22


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Glenn and Stu are back with a special on Project Groomer, a plan to brainwash your kids in the public school system. They are joined by special guest Jason Batrillo to talk about what is going on in our schools and why you should be worried.

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00:00:00.440 Holy cow, it's our tax day extravaganza, because we feel so charitable today.
00:00:07.020 Don't you, Stu?
00:00:07.840 Oh, I sure do.
00:00:10.020 Yeah.
00:00:10.560 You're great.
00:00:12.000 So, we gave you even more today on today's podcast.
00:00:17.860 Actually, it's the same amount, but they'll never know.
00:00:19.920 No, they'll never know.
00:00:20.760 They'll think it's special because it's tax.
00:00:22.160 It's the same amount of effort that the government puts into spending your tax dollars wisely.
00:00:25.760 Why is it not that high?
00:00:30.000 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:00:40.480 This is the Glenn Beck Program.
00:00:42.580 We're so glad that you've joined us today.
00:00:44.520 We've been talking about the grooming that is going on in our schools, and that is exactly what it is.
00:00:51.520 It is grooming.
00:00:53.680 And Wednesday, we have a special on Project Groomer.
00:00:58.520 It is a plan to brainwash your kids. 1.00
00:01:03.540 And I know that sounds crazy, but it's all right there if you choose to look for it.
00:01:10.420 Jason Batrill is with us now, and he's outlining all of this and getting it ready for Wednesday's program.
00:01:20.720 You want to touch base on that just a little bit?
00:01:22.620 There are times in this job when I wish that I didn't know what I know.
00:01:26.800 It's like that scene in The Matrix where that guy's like, should I eat the steak and know that it's not real or just is ignorance is bliss?
00:01:34.140 And I'm on that verge of, is ignorance bliss or should I know this?
00:01:38.020 I don't want to know this.
00:01:39.260 I know.
00:01:39.560 It's one of those things.
00:01:40.860 Stu, you remember us having that conversation about 2010?
00:01:43.420 2010, we were all, we were all being red pilled and we're all, we all went, I, oof, we go down this road further and we're really going to not be happy people because we won't be able to just relax and enjoy things.
00:01:59.760 Yeah.
00:02:00.160 And it's hard.
00:02:01.520 Yeah.
00:02:01.780 You go numb after a while, Jason.
00:02:03.480 Oh, I, I'm definitely there.
00:02:05.620 I think, I mean, after this many years, I'm still amazed by how shocked I can get over everything.
00:02:11.920 And you think that you're safe, like in the Bible belt, you know, I got Texas, you know, places in the South.
00:02:16.480 We're fine.
00:02:17.520 I'm, I'm just reading curriculum from Austin ISD and it's all in there.
00:02:22.560 It's all in there.
00:02:23.640 And you know, we've, we've have parents, we've done a good job, I think over the past year.
00:02:27.460 And I think we've been winning the culture war on this.
00:02:29.720 I mean, I think one of the big reasons the Democrats taking such a hit, but then it's because of this.
00:02:33.840 Yeah.
00:02:33.980 But then we go back to sleep.
00:02:35.820 Yeah.
00:02:36.360 They say, okay, it's fixed.
00:02:38.020 And then we all go back to sleep and they put it in anyway.
00:02:40.860 They say things like, oh, we're not teaching CRT.
00:02:43.560 Don't worry about CRT.
00:02:45.020 Oh, we're not teaching comprehensive sexuality education.
00:02:48.080 We're not doing that.
00:02:49.480 And one of the things we're going to show is there's a reason why they can deny these things.
00:02:53.700 It's because there is, I'm just going to call it a triangle.
00:02:56.800 There is a triangle.
00:02:57.740 It's part of a curriculum and it goes all the way up to the CDC, all the way up to the
00:03:01.920 CDC for years, brought in by woke activists, leftist activists.
00:03:06.500 And there's three different parts of their overall plan.
00:03:09.880 If you think you're fighting CRT and that's your battle, that's one third of the battle.
00:03:15.180 One third.
00:03:16.260 Comprehensive sexuality education, radical gender theory.
00:03:19.740 Another third of the battle.
00:03:21.740 There is a larger plan here.
00:03:23.420 And I just discovered this.
00:03:24.920 I'm like, oh my gosh, I've got questionnaires, Glenn, that we're going to show on.
00:03:27.720 Wednesday, where they're showing five-year-olds, giving five-year-olds a questionnaire to ask
00:03:33.440 them what their gender identity is.
00:03:35.100 Five-year-olds.
00:03:36.720 Here's the thing.
00:03:38.180 I really think it's time for somebody, and I back it a hundred percent, somebody needs
00:03:46.520 to start abolish the Department of Ed.
00:03:49.540 Oh, absolutely.
00:03:50.180 Abolish the Department of Ed.
00:03:52.400 It is past time to abolish that.
00:03:56.480 And it has to be.
00:03:58.060 You must have local control.
00:04:01.000 And it's much easier to pay attention to it when all of this stuff isn't being fed down
00:04:06.680 the pipe with national money.
00:04:08.900 Yeah.
00:04:09.820 Abolish the Fed.
00:04:10.880 All right.
00:04:11.820 Let me turn the topic here to what Durham said, because you and I worked closely on the
00:04:20.800 impeachment thing, and we did the impeachment specials and everything else.
00:04:25.480 I wanted to get your opinion.
00:04:26.680 Special Counsel John Durham asserted in court on a filing on Friday that the CIA concluded
00:04:33.560 data from the Clinton campaign lawyer, Michael Sussman, alleging coordination between Donald
00:04:40.680 Trump and Russia was, quote, not technically possible, and it was, quote, user-created.
00:04:49.060 What does that mean?
00:04:50.700 User-created.
00:04:51.700 So, I mean, go back to one of the indictments that's already happened, that lawyer, the FBI
00:04:56.820 lawyer, Kleinsman.
00:04:58.600 So he was indicted for lying, basically for drumming up evidence.
00:05:03.380 He changed an email so that that could continue to go.
00:05:07.420 For the FISA.
00:05:08.360 So this is basically the same thing.
00:05:09.760 User-created is the people that were working for the Clinton campaign actually injected
00:05:15.640 and created this damning information so that they can get, so basically they fabricated
00:05:21.240 evidence and then handed that off to the FBI.
00:05:24.440 Now, I think it's really interesting that the FBI is not being implicated here.
00:05:27.380 They're not saying, hey, there's no evidence that the FBI doubted this at all.
00:05:33.940 But of course they didn't, right?
00:05:35.820 Because they were all in bed.
00:05:37.160 All the way from the top, from the director, down to people like Andrew McCabe.
00:05:40.260 They were all involved with this.
00:05:42.620 Now we have people from the CIA saying, well, we looked at it and it's kind of obvious and
00:05:46.200 of course this is leaked as well.
00:05:48.200 So none of this was real, making this even worse.
00:05:51.240 So it's injecting false information into this.
00:05:54.140 Now, you and I have done so much digging on this and reporting on this.
00:05:58.300 We know all the other people that were involved.
00:06:00.520 And this is what's pissing me off about this.
00:06:02.500 Me too.
00:06:03.160 Because who is getting hit with this?
00:06:06.300 A lawyer?
00:06:07.500 Yeah.
00:06:08.000 Listen to this.
00:06:08.640 In the filing, Durham responded to objections from Sussman's defense regarding what evidence
00:06:13.120 could be admissible at his trial, which is scheduled to begin next month.
00:06:16.880 Sussman is accused of lying to the FBI saying he was not attending a meeting on behalf of
00:06:23.040 a particular client when he was actually presenting the information on behalf of the Hillary Clinton
00:06:28.400 campaign and a technology executive with whom he had worked.
00:06:33.200 So why isn't the Hillary Clinton campaign in trouble? 0.99
00:06:39.360 Why is the lawyer going to be the fall guy?
00:06:42.760 Do you think he did that on him by himself?
00:06:45.400 Do you think that that she was shocked and horrified when she found out?
00:06:50.620 Compare this to like a mob investigation.
00:06:53.720 Yes.
00:06:54.120 Or I'm deep into the motorcycle community, like a motorcycle gang or something like that.
00:06:58.620 Now, how do they go after those two organizations, you know, specifically?
00:07:01.940 Leaders.
00:07:02.840 RICO.
00:07:03.640 Leaders, right.
00:07:04.500 They use RICO to go after the leaders.
00:07:06.460 Now, why aren't they doing that to the Hillary Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton herself? 1.00
00:07:09.480 Can I tell you something?
00:07:10.360 What?
00:07:10.520 There are so many RICO cases that are out there right now that should be RICO cases.
00:07:16.060 This is one of them.
00:07:17.540 This is one of them.
00:07:18.620 The Federal Reserve, I think, is a RICO case.
00:07:24.120 ESG and what's happening with BlackRock.
00:07:27.660 That's a RICO case.
00:07:28.760 There are so many RICO cases right now, and all they're ever going to do is fish for the
00:07:34.720 small fish.
00:07:35.520 They're never going to go for the big ones.
00:07:37.420 Oh, my gosh.
00:07:38.140 People like, I mean, think of all the people that were involved here, not to mention the
00:07:41.860 FBI.
00:07:42.440 We've got people from the DOJ.
00:07:44.800 We know this.
00:07:45.480 This is fact.
00:07:46.220 People like Bruce Orr funneling in for all this information, funneling it directly to
00:07:51.500 the top.
00:07:52.100 Why aren't they implicated in this?
00:07:54.180 Why is it the lawyer, the guy in the middle, that he's the guy that accepts it?
00:07:58.340 He's like, OK, fine.
00:07:59.160 If I screw up and I'm going to jail.
00:08:00.820 Why is that accepted?
00:08:02.060 Why is it just him?
00:08:03.780 He's the fall guy.
00:08:04.960 We've got a fall guy.
00:08:05.900 Everybody knows he's the fall guy.
00:08:07.100 For the bigger fish, they won't go after the bigger fish.
00:08:10.180 It's ridiculous.
00:08:10.820 So then what we found out on Friday is, do you remember that thing where they said they
00:08:16.840 had this computer server that was pinging the Russian bank alpha completely made up
00:08:22.900 the fact that Donald Trump has a Russian phone with him and we can track it.
00:08:28.600 It's with him all times.
00:08:30.120 He can make calls to somebody.
00:08:32.500 We don't know who, but somebody in Russia anytime he wants.
00:08:37.160 And it's with him in high level media and meetings.
00:08:41.200 Untrue.
00:08:42.120 Right.
00:08:42.620 Untrue.
00:08:43.840 The the the FISA filings.
00:08:49.800 Untrue.
00:08:50.600 Proven now.
00:08:52.080 Untrue.
00:08:53.220 All of these things, including the Steele dossier, proven untrue.
00:08:59.120 And it all goes back to Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton's use of the FBI, Justice
00:09:08.240 Department, the NSA, the CIA, all of them, all of them were in on this.
00:09:15.380 Yeah.
00:09:15.520 And so and we know from the so from the CIA leaguer that's saying, look, we knew it was
00:09:19.300 usually created.
00:09:19.880 We knew it was bullcrap.
00:09:21.060 I'm sure the FBI did, too.
00:09:22.360 The CIA can't get involved.
00:09:23.680 So that's the FBI.
00:09:24.460 The whole point of this, remember, the whole point in the beginning was just a funnel false
00:09:28.700 information, get it to the FBI so that the media can then get that leaked and say, look,
00:09:34.040 the FBI is looking into this.
00:09:35.240 This looks really dirty.
00:09:36.340 Donald Trump must be a Russian asset. 0.66
00:09:38.140 And then public opinion takes it from there.
00:09:40.700 This I mean, this is election interference is what this is.
00:09:43.800 I mean, they never intended, I don't think, to get an indictment on Donald Trump.
00:09:47.960 They just wanted public opinion to take it from there and to tank his campaign.
00:09:51.860 That's what this was all about.
00:09:52.660 But again, I don't want you look at you have people involved, the bigwigs of the FBI, Hillary
00:09:58.400 Clinton herself.
00:09:59.340 All these these are the people that we should be looking at.
00:10:01.720 Not a lawyer like all these other people.
00:10:04.100 They were the ones directing it and facilitating it.
00:10:06.780 I don't care about this lawyer.
00:10:08.120 I mean, sure, he should go down with the rest of them if he's found guilty of funneling
00:10:11.680 all.
00:10:11.940 He's not the guy.
00:10:12.800 But he's not the guy.
00:10:13.860 It's like, you know, delivering the message.
00:10:15.480 The justice of Watergate is not happening.
00:10:18.840 You know, even with Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden, he'll go down.
00:10:24.680 Most likely he'll go down.
00:10:26.180 But will his dad.
00:10:27.220 I mean, we have stories that are much.
00:10:31.180 Gee, who said this in 2008 when it all is said and done?
00:10:35.240 This administration, meaning the Clinton, Biden, Obama era, will go down as the most corrupt
00:10:45.980 in all of American history.
00:10:48.840 And it is all of the things that they built at that time are all those chickens are now
00:10:55.020 coming home to roost.
00:10:56.080 And is anyone at the highest level going to pay?
00:11:00.220 This is the problem with America.
00:11:02.140 I think most Americans, Republicans and Democrats, independents, we all want the same thing.
00:11:10.100 We all want the bad guys, legitimate bad guys to go to jail.
00:11:15.820 I don't care if they're Republicans or Democrats.
00:11:18.560 I don't care.
00:11:19.960 I want the bad guys to go to jail.
00:11:23.220 And they won't.
00:11:24.620 I mean, the bad guys will get away with it.
00:11:26.840 And I would have been there on the front lines with.
00:11:29.140 Remember when we started the impeachment thing?
00:11:32.520 And what did I say to you?
00:11:34.100 We have got to turn over every stone.
00:11:36.600 And if the guy is guilty, he's guilty.
00:11:39.860 Let the chips fall where they may.
00:11:42.940 That's not the way it's done in America anymore.
00:11:46.200 And that makes us just another awful, awful country that's run, you know, like a banana republic. 1.00
00:11:55.460 Yeah.
00:11:55.760 You talk about countries like Ukraine or whatever.
00:11:57.960 It seems like they have like a corruption officer at the airport.
00:12:01.080 And they'll just like kind of pull you into whatever scheme the moment you step off.
00:12:04.300 That's what it felt like when we were doing all that, you know, all that research on Ukraine.
00:12:07.660 That was then.
00:12:08.480 Of course, you say that now and they'll call you a Putin stooge.
00:12:11.860 But pointing out the obvious, you know, now is is a crime.
00:12:15.000 But I mean, how different are we?
00:12:17.760 Really?
00:12:18.580 I mean, this is embarrassing.
00:12:20.300 And the entire world is watching this.
00:12:22.620 I mean, we laugh when people like Putin get like 97 percent, you know, favorability rating,
00:12:27.180 you know, or whatever.
00:12:27.720 And we're like, oh, my gosh, that's so stupid.
00:12:29.360 Look at us.
00:12:31.480 Look at us.
00:12:32.680 I mean, we can't even acknowledge the obvious.
00:12:36.180 We have to let a lawyer go down for the things that he's being told to do by the highest echelons
00:12:42.080 of government with the FBI, the Clinton family.
00:12:45.940 I mean, come on.
00:12:47.840 I mean, it's I highly at this point, it's sad to say I highly doubt anything even happens.
00:12:53.060 I highly doubt it.
00:12:54.020 And I think we even call this out on one of our show where like the middlemen or the low
00:12:57.560 level people are going to be the ones that go down.
00:13:00.240 There's another story.
00:13:01.580 Democrats now are blocking the Republican efforts to upload Hunter Biden's laptop into a searchable
00:13:10.300 digital format into the congressional record.
00:13:12.800 It's already been accepted.
00:13:15.580 But are you ready?
00:13:16.880 Apparently, Jerry Nadler has said, we don't have the technology to upload that into the congressional
00:13:28.760 record.
00:13:30.160 And so so he wanted everything on paper so it could be scanned in.
00:13:36.060 But then that doesn't make it searchable, does it?
00:13:39.200 So they are now conferring with lawyers back and forth.
00:13:46.100 It's been accepted as bizarre.
00:13:48.200 Yeah.
00:13:48.360 We just don't have the technology.
00:13:50.740 Like, why would a New Yorker have that accent?
00:13:53.200 I don't know.
00:13:54.220 That is bizarre.
00:13:58.800 Such a jerk.
00:14:00.440 Thank you very much, Jason.
00:14:01.660 I appreciate it.
00:14:02.320 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:11.980 Rabbi Lappin.
00:14:14.360 Everybody needs a rabbi and you are mine. 0.91
00:14:17.720 How are you, Rabbi?
00:14:19.260 Couldn't be better, Glenn.
00:14:20.640 It's so lovely to hear your voice again.
00:14:23.100 I was trying to think how long you and I have been friends.
00:14:25.600 It's a long time already.
00:14:26.780 Yeah, it's been.
00:14:28.340 I cherish the friendship.
00:14:29.580 Yeah, likewise.
00:14:30.300 So I want to talk to you, first of all, about this op-ed.
00:14:36.060 Oh, yeah.
00:14:37.760 Your thoughts on it.
00:14:39.740 Well, it's written by just yet another infantile, secular Jewish neurotic. 0.97
00:14:45.160 And there's a lot of them around.
00:14:47.220 It's tiresome.
00:14:48.220 You know, frankly, life's too short to waste time with that rubbish.
00:14:53.600 Okay.
00:14:55.140 I like that.
00:14:56.000 I mean, your first clue is that the New York Times published it.
00:14:59.200 Right.
00:14:59.860 Right.
00:15:00.720 The problem here is, is that I think...
00:15:02.760 No, seriously.
00:15:03.340 I mean, honestly, this is a guy who has been shaking a defiant fist against God, you know,
00:15:12.440 since he's Bar Mitzvah.
00:15:14.080 And it's tiresome to be subjected to it.
00:15:17.320 You know, his aunts and uncles probably tried to shut him up all through his adolescence,
00:15:22.300 but now he has an audience, so he keeps at it.
00:15:24.540 And it's an interesting thing, but...
00:15:27.000 Would this have been printed 20 years ago, Rabbi?
00:15:33.120 In the New York Times?
00:15:34.040 Probably, but not in the New York Times.
00:15:35.740 Right.
00:15:35.980 So, there's always been this interesting phenomenon, which is when, you know, when, for the most part,
00:15:45.600 when Christians lose their faith or never accept their faith, then they're neutral.
00:15:50.660 You know, they really don't waste a lot of time and energy blasting Jesus.
00:15:56.120 I mean, you just don't get a lot of that.
00:15:57.860 Yeah.
00:15:58.080 But it's a weird thing about Jews, and probably one of the most valuable and credible validations 1.00
00:16:07.380 of the story of the Bible, the fact that Jews are so different from everybody else in this area. 1.00
00:16:12.940 When Jews abandon the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they don't become neutral. 0.54
00:16:18.000 They become rabid secularists and invariably join the ranks of radical socialism, almost always.
00:16:25.920 I was watching the Ten Commandments this weekend with the kids, and I noticed something that I had never noticed before.
00:16:32.460 By the way, did they play the opening of Cecil B. DeMille?
00:16:35.600 Oh, yes.
00:16:36.580 Yes, we did.
00:16:37.640 Because that's really important.
00:16:38.720 No, I know.
00:16:39.940 And I really kind of listened to it kind of for the first time.
00:16:43.640 I mean, I used to always watch it, but I never really listened to it.
00:16:46.940 It is very important.
00:16:47.940 And I stopped it there, and I told the kids, do you know that the first scene that they shot was Exodus?
00:16:56.360 I don't know if you know this, Rabbi.
00:16:58.060 He shot Exodus first, that big scene with all those extras.
00:17:02.320 He was sitting on a chair, and he reaches over to the assistant director and puts his hand on his arm and said,
00:17:08.400 I don't want you to react to what I'm about to tell you, but I'm having a heart attack.
00:17:14.220 And he looked at Cecil B. DeMille and went, wait, wait, what?
00:17:17.740 And he's like, I told you not to react.
00:17:20.980 If we stop filming today, this film will never be made.
00:17:25.660 So I'm going to sit here and have my heart attack, and you're going to listen to what I say, and you're going to direct it.
00:17:33.320 And he did.
00:17:34.360 And that night, they took him to the hospital, and he had a heart attack.
00:17:38.740 But anyway.
00:17:39.420 My goodness.
00:17:40.260 Something you may not know is that the prop of the actual Ten Commandments, he arranged to be carved out of rock from Sinai.
00:17:49.200 You may not know this.
00:17:51.620 But we have the Ten Commandments from that movie.
00:17:58.500 Oh, my goodness.
00:18:00.080 But I didn't know that.
00:18:01.600 When I've been with you, I really have.
00:18:05.160 Please, I've got to look at it next time.
00:18:07.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:18:07.740 So it's the rock of what?
00:18:09.600 It was carved out of rocks from Mount Sinai.
00:18:13.500 Wow.
00:18:14.200 Have you seen the video of the area in Saudi Arabia that's being protected by the king?
00:18:23.480 Yes, I'm quite sure they're correct.
00:18:25.260 I'm quite sure that that is actually the real location.
00:18:28.200 Really?
00:18:28.540 Really?
00:18:28.940 If you haven't seen this online, you should watch it.
00:18:31.300 I don't remember what it is.
00:18:32.020 I can't remember the name of the terrific guy who did that whole thing and made the movie.
00:18:35.980 But I do think he's correct.
00:18:37.840 Oh, that's unbelievable.
00:18:38.980 Because it's all right there.
00:18:40.760 I mean, you see the altar with the calf.
00:18:44.340 You see the split rock.
00:18:45.800 I mean, it's incredible.
00:18:47.060 I think he has the geography and the timeline exactly right.
00:18:50.580 Wow.
00:18:51.260 Okay.
00:18:52.040 So, Rabbi, I wanted to ask you a couple of questions.
00:18:57.120 One, as I'm watching the Ten Commandments, it is so important.
00:19:01.740 And I noticed it for the first time that Cecil B. DeMille is saying, this is the beginning of freedom, the end of slavery.
00:19:13.400 Yes.
00:19:14.240 Tell me about that.
00:19:15.480 Because that's not the way, I mean, it's more of a, I've always perceived it as more of a story of God than Ten Commandments.
00:19:23.200 But that part is really important.
00:19:25.280 The role it plays is very significant.
00:19:28.620 In other words, we don't observe the SEDA just as a commemorative event of a historic event that took place 3,300 years ago.
00:19:37.040 No.
00:19:37.920 It's actually, we play it as an annual, I don't want to use the word vaccination anymore.
00:19:44.320 I'm down on those.
00:19:45.860 So, I'm going to say an annual, how about if I say inoculation?
00:19:49.120 Okay.
00:19:49.420 Yeah, good.
00:19:49.960 Against being subject to the voice of the powerful and the many.
00:19:58.440 And so, it could hardly be more applicable to our current time in the United States of America, where people's lives are being oppressed by wokeism and by radical leftism.
00:20:09.740 And the theme is this, Glenn, you know, in May 1954, something really significant happened, which is that, well, if you're into athletics, what happened is that for the very first time, the four-minute mile was broken.
00:20:24.480 Roger Bannister broke the tape at 3.59 and nobody had ever done it before.
00:20:29.580 But here's the funny thing, in the following year, about seven athletes broke the four-minute mile, and then every subsequent year to the present day, more and more and more athletes were.
00:20:40.400 To this day, you know, college athletes regularly break the four-minute mile.
00:20:44.120 So, what changed?
00:20:45.780 Why is it that a year later, seven guys were able to do it, but prior to that, nobody had been able to do a four-minute mile?
00:20:52.240 Now, what Roger Bannister did was profound.
00:20:55.440 He showed that it could be done, because up until then, doctors had said that people would die in a four-minute mile attempt.
00:21:03.220 It's not doable, because, you know, the experts always know best.
00:21:07.580 But Roger Bannister, a medical student himself, paid no attention to that and just calmly went ahead and ran a four-minute mile.
00:21:13.580 Now, the fact that something can be done is hugely important.
00:21:18.960 The deep human belief that something is impossible will absolutely tyrannize one and render one's efforts completely futile.
00:21:28.300 If you don't believe, and this is part of what athletics coaches do.
00:21:33.980 It's part of what motivational work does.
00:21:36.660 If you don't believe deep in your heart that what you're attempting to do is doable, you probably won't make it.
00:21:42.620 And your likelihood of success is vastly increased by the knowledge, conviction, belief that you will and can do it.
00:21:51.780 And so, up until that point, the concept that people can free themselves or be freed by God from a tyrannical set of circumstances is hugely important.
00:22:03.500 And perhaps in my lifetime, perhaps no more important than it is right now, where, you know, people are being oppressed by the United States government.
00:22:15.200 People are being oppressed by wokeism at colleges and in the university system, in the public school system, which I call government indoctrination camps.
00:22:24.680 I don't call them public schools anymore.
00:22:27.620 You know, people, you know, there is a whole area of research, which, interestingly enough, Russian scientists have done some good work on,
00:22:36.300 that oil is not the result of decaying vegetable matter, but it's actually a chemical process that takes place under high temperature and pressure deep underground,
00:22:46.680 which suggests an explanation for why it is that many oil fields, like one in Louisiana, most notably,
00:22:53.140 that was declared to have a lifespan ending very soon, seems to have been reborn and the reserves have increased.
00:23:01.720 It's as if new oil is being made.
00:23:03.880 You're not allowed to say this, because it violates the whole doctrine of shortage and scarcity and people's lives.
00:23:13.220 There are scientists who have told me, I'll point you in the direction of some research, I'll give you some books,
00:23:19.800 but I will not publicly allow you to quote me as saying this, because I don't need my life destroyed.
00:23:26.020 And this is a message of Passover.
00:23:28.300 You know, are we able to stand up to the tyrants?
00:23:31.200 And some of us can, and some of us can't.
00:23:33.460 It's as simple as that.
00:23:34.420 You know, I don't blame anybody who says, look, I want to be able to continue feeding my family.
00:23:40.080 Back with Rabbi Lappin here in just a second.
00:23:46.460 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:23:58.300 I know what you're thinking.
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00:25:07.600 IRS is scrambling today.
00:25:09.200 They, they, they only have 15,000 employees to answer thousands of calls and, uh, wow.
00:25:17.640 I feel, I feel, you know, I feel really bad for them.
00:25:21.180 Do you?
00:25:21.540 That's how I feel today.
00:25:22.900 Right.
00:25:23.340 I feel bad for the IRS employee.
00:25:25.840 Amen.
00:25:26.500 Who's sitting there just not able to get through all those times they need to harass the American people over the money they didn't earn.
00:25:33.260 Yeah.
00:25:33.580 You know, that is what I feel today.
00:25:35.900 And I've just overwhelmed that side of the feeling with the feeling of great charity and the work that I'm doing for this nation.
00:25:45.180 Thank goodness you said that.
00:25:46.180 Yeah.
00:25:46.580 Because I have, I'm sure I have built countless turtle tunnels all over the country.
00:25:55.020 You know what, Glenn?
00:25:56.360 Even you, a man who's been taxed up like, like a probe from an alien.
00:26:02.080 Yeah.
00:26:02.500 For the past 20 plus years.
00:26:04.200 Without the alien baby.
00:26:05.640 You probably have still not paid for any full turtle tunnels because they probably cost a billion dollars a piece.
00:26:15.320 You're right.
00:26:15.820 You know, every once in a while I think about that.
00:26:17.680 This is, this is the, this is the darkest, this is the darkest you'll get about your country.
00:26:21.840 You'll see some dumb program that cost $7.9 million on a turtle tunnel.
00:26:28.820 And you'll just be like, gosh, that's unbelievable.
00:26:30.160 And then I want you to stop and think about it.
00:26:33.400 Because if you're the average American, you, in your entire life,
00:26:39.420 all of the taxes you will ever pay will not even fund that one turtle tunnel.
00:26:46.580 Nope, not one.
00:26:47.200 Not even one turtle will cross underneath the road because of you.
00:26:52.240 All of those hours, all of those hours, all of those hours that you have worked, half the year for some people,
00:26:59.840 half of the time that you spend working.
00:27:03.040 Yep.
00:27:03.220 It won't even finish a turtle tunnel.
00:27:06.960 Nope.
00:27:07.380 Not even one government waste project will you fund in your lifetime.
00:27:16.500 Let me, let me.
00:27:17.080 Think about how, think of the despair you should feel today.
00:27:20.760 Today.
00:27:21.740 Because, you know, it's not even, like, you're like, oh, well, you know, there's a lot of people who need things.
00:27:26.300 And the government does important things for important people, or for certain people.
00:27:29.520 It does a lot of important things for important people, too.
00:27:31.620 That's a whole nother situation.
00:27:32.860 But, like, the basic idea that, okay, we're helping.
00:27:35.400 There's a, you know, there are people who cannot do it, and they need help.
00:27:39.780 There's an orphan somewhere who needs a meal, and, you know, somehow they've fallen through the cracks.
00:27:45.880 And we need, okay, let's just say that person exists.
00:27:49.040 I'm sure somebody does.
00:27:50.400 Certainly some people are helped by government funds at some level.
00:27:54.640 But it's like, you know, so little of your money ever goes to anything like that.
00:28:00.400 It's just a waste.
00:28:01.900 If they turned it all off tomorrow, if they turned the income tax off tomorrow, we would go, have to go, we'd have to figure out how to go back and live like we did when we spent, like, the Barack Obama presidency.
00:28:17.240 Just the time from the beginning of Barack Obama to now is the entire income tax is how much we've increased the budget.
00:28:25.520 So you could turn it off, off, and we'd have to go back only to Barack Obama's spending levels.
00:28:33.800 We are so completely out of control.
00:28:37.440 And now we've come to a point in our political back and forth in which there is no other side to the argument.
00:28:43.960 There's only let's spend, you know, $3.5 trillion and let's spend $2.5 trillion.
00:28:51.260 When the Republicans get in control, they do the exact same thing as the Democrats, except maybe a little less spicy.
00:28:58.760 And so we're all eating the same foods.
00:29:00.860 Just one has more Tabasco than the other.
00:29:03.300 And that is not a way to control.
00:29:05.760 You did your own taxes, didn't you?
00:29:07.600 Yeah.
00:29:08.000 I could tell.
00:29:09.040 Did?
00:29:09.960 What do you think my afternoon is?
00:29:11.680 If tonight's Stew Does America sucks, you know why.
00:29:14.640 Because I couldn't spend a minute on it.
00:29:16.240 Instead, I had to work on my stupid taxes and not my actual taxes, Glenn.
00:29:20.900 No, no.
00:29:21.780 I have to spend more time today, like I did all Easter weekend, on my extension to my taxes.
00:29:29.300 Because I don't even have all the forms yet.
00:29:32.020 The people who I have to go and get forms from are not even able to turn them in.
00:29:37.200 They need an extension to send me the forms.
00:29:40.380 So now I need an extension to send in my taxes so that they can hold on to my money for just a little longer.
00:29:47.400 A little longer.
00:29:48.220 And then maybe I'll be lucky and get a refund of my own money.
00:29:52.940 Won't that be a miracle?
00:29:54.920 Well, let me...
00:29:55.320 It will.
00:29:56.320 Because the money you gave them, you know, a year ago.
00:30:00.320 Yeah.
00:30:01.620 That's worth about 17 cents less on every dollar.
00:30:07.420 Right.
00:30:08.100 Right.
00:30:08.360 Yeah, taxes during inflation, it makes it even more fun.
00:30:11.480 Oh, yeah.
00:30:11.860 Because everyone looks at this, like, I got a refund.
00:30:14.020 Like, this moment of pride.
00:30:15.500 The government has given you a gift of a refund.
00:30:17.980 They've held your money hostage through a high inflation period.
00:30:24.500 And now they might give some of it back to you.
00:30:29.140 Which is worth almost 20 cents less.
00:30:33.720 And they're not even going to give it back to you on time.
00:30:35.780 Yeah.
00:30:36.020 As they're saying now, they're delaying these quote-unquote refunds for months and months and months.
00:30:42.960 Because as you know, Glenn, they only have 15,000 people to harass everyone.
00:30:46.360 So, all the time that you could have had that money, even if you put it in the most basic account and get a couple of percent, you'd still be able to close the gap as to what they're going to give back to you.
00:31:00.700 But you can't even do that.
00:31:02.100 Mark this show on the calendar because I think we're going to come back to it in a couple of years.
00:31:06.540 And we'll be like, look, we talked about it and everybody said it wouldn't happen.
00:31:11.480 Just imagine how much we're going to love it when we have a Fed coin.
00:31:15.240 Oh, my gosh.
00:31:16.200 And you won't have to worry about paying your taxes.
00:31:19.000 It will just never be put into your account.
00:31:22.700 That'll be great.
00:31:23.320 Because the Fed will be able to decide what's taxable and what's not.
00:31:27.920 So, you won't have tax day.
00:31:29.680 They'll just take it.
00:31:32.020 And really, in the way of you're guilty until proven innocent.
00:31:36.800 Because there's got to be some way to go, no, wait a minute.
00:31:39.700 Part of that was, you know, a deduction for this, this, and this.
00:31:43.780 And then they'll have to look at that and go, well, I'm not sure.
00:31:47.920 All right, we'll give you a Bitcoin.
00:31:51.120 Go get some mouse food.
00:31:53.540 Incredible.
00:31:54.140 And there's no way to know.
00:31:55.460 I mean, the amount of work that I've put into this.
00:31:58.500 Now, look, I do procrastinate a bit.
00:32:00.460 And I will admit, although the forms come in so late, there's no way.
00:32:03.380 You can't start it in January.
00:32:04.560 You have to wait until all the stuff comes in to actually be able to do it, to go through everything.
00:32:09.840 It's, you know, some tax returns I've done in my life were pretty easy.
00:32:14.180 You know, and by the way, I should point out, I'm not doing it.
00:32:17.000 I'm just doing the preparation work so that the accountant can do it.
00:32:19.980 I have no idea what she does.
00:32:22.300 She gets all these pay. 1.00
00:32:23.440 I send thousands of forms.
00:32:25.260 I have no idea what happens.
00:32:26.740 It is magic.
00:32:27.360 And I've said it.
00:32:28.320 I've said, because I've been audited before.
00:32:30.840 And oh, my goodness.
00:32:33.700 I thought I was being visited by aliens.
00:32:37.700 Anyway, it's not a fun process to go through.
00:32:42.540 In my case, it ended up, it was either even or they owed me like $200, something like that.
00:32:50.060 Because I overpay.
00:32:52.700 Yeah, I say the same thing every time.
00:32:54.500 No, at least that's what I say.
00:32:56.860 If it's a question, if there's any doubt, let it fall that way, not my way.
00:33:03.540 Error in the government's favor because I don't want to freaking be harassed.
00:33:06.380 Right.
00:33:06.640 I don't want to be harassed.
00:33:07.880 I don't want to go through it.
00:33:09.140 I don't want to have to cough up money.
00:33:11.340 Just let it go in there.
00:33:12.280 But I don't know.
00:33:14.080 And so many things now, like cryptocurrency.
00:33:16.460 Oh, my God.
00:33:16.980 How do you even?
00:33:17.760 They don't even have the laws.
00:33:19.360 They don't have the rules.
00:33:20.120 They don't have any idea how to prepare it.
00:33:23.880 You could go to the IRS and they won't really even know.
00:33:27.440 It's all guesswork.
00:33:29.300 It's so true. 0.84
00:33:29.940 Go look at some of the cryptocurrency tax forums on Reddit and all these.
00:33:36.340 And it's everyone just asking, like, what the hell are we supposed to do with this?
00:33:38.980 And people linking to article after article after article trying to explain how to treat
00:33:44.180 some complicated cryptocurrency transaction on your taxes.
00:33:49.560 It's like, you know, people look, I really hate taxes.
00:33:54.280 I really hate them, as you may be able to tell in this segment.
00:33:57.260 I love them.
00:33:58.720 I mean, don't.
00:34:00.560 But I'm trying to be like, I, you know, when people are like, well, I don't want X, Y, 0.98
00:34:05.600 and Z, and that's why I don't do it.
00:34:07.140 I don't follow the law.
00:34:08.120 I just, you know, look, I want to follow the law.
00:34:10.460 I believe that following the law is an important thing that a civilization needs, even with laws
00:34:16.200 that you don't love.
00:34:17.180 I think that I couldn't, I could not gauge America today anymore.
00:34:21.720 But I think when I was growing up and I still have this ethic, I don't mind paying taxes.
00:34:30.560 I do mind paying unfair taxes, but I still pay them.
00:34:35.280 Yes.
00:34:35.460 But I'll make my voice heard.
00:34:37.920 I don't like this.
00:34:39.580 This isn't right.
00:34:41.160 However, I'll pay them.
00:34:43.300 And I think most Americans don't approach their taxes with anything other than, I just want
00:34:49.780 to get this done and I want to get it right.
00:34:52.060 I just, you know what?
00:34:53.140 I don't want any hassle.
00:34:55.120 Just let me pay my fair share, whatever that is, even though it's probably not fair.
00:35:00.840 Let me just pay it.
00:35:02.500 I think most people go that way.
00:35:05.060 I think you're right.
00:35:05.520 I don't think people necessarily are trying to evade their taxes.
00:35:08.720 They want to just get it done and get it right.
00:35:10.480 They prefer if the government did something of value with their money, which they never
00:35:14.520 seem to do.
00:35:15.760 But, you know, like you put up with it.
00:35:17.440 It's just, it's a part of life.
00:35:18.720 Like there are roads I want to go faster than the speed limit.
00:35:21.660 And, you know, sometimes maybe I do a little bit, but generally speaking, you keep it in
00:35:25.380 line because, you know, we're a rule following society generally.
00:35:30.100 How did we get this system other than it has to be because the progressives did it?
00:35:35.340 How do we get the system in a country where you are innocent until proven guilty?
00:35:40.940 How is it we are with the IRS?
00:35:43.740 We are guilty until we bring this stuff to show we're innocent.
00:35:47.500 Yeah, it's incredible.
00:35:48.700 It's just a total reversal of everything the country stands for.
00:35:52.080 Yeah.
00:35:52.220 And, you know, remember the country, when it was founded, didn't have this.
00:35:55.920 No.
00:35:56.460 They were, they specifically needed to pass a constitutional amendment to even allow this
00:36:02.540 to occur to you.
00:36:03.620 Yeah.
00:36:03.780 This was not supposed to happen to you.
00:36:06.080 Progressives.
00:36:06.820 Yeah.
00:36:07.540 They passed it.
00:36:08.360 And what did they say, Glenn?
00:36:09.400 Never higher than what?
00:36:10.540 Nine or 10 percent?
00:36:11.640 No.
00:36:11.820 They said it would never be for anyone that made less.
00:36:17.000 I can't remember.
00:36:17.660 Then, like, it was an extraordinary number back then, like $100,000, which was like two
00:36:22.640 millions today.
00:36:23.920 And they said it would be never more than five to seven percent.
00:36:28.540 And then it was only a few years later.
00:36:30.400 It was like two years later.
00:36:31.080 It was a 10.
00:36:32.080 And then it was.
00:36:33.200 And it was.
00:36:33.780 And it was way down for everybody.
00:36:36.020 Everybody started to pay taxes.
00:36:37.720 And then as soon as one of the wars hit, was it the First World War?
00:36:42.260 It went up to, you know, 70.
00:36:44.500 It was at some point it was at 95 percent.
00:36:48.740 Top income tax rate.
00:36:49.640 That was, I think, under Roosevelt.
00:36:50.980 Yes.
00:36:51.600 But there were all kinds of loopholes.
00:36:54.160 Right.
00:36:54.500 You know, if you were newly rich, you know, you hit the non-existent lottery back then
00:37:00.460 and you had all that money, you wouldn't have the sophistication or the attorneys to be
00:37:05.520 able to find all the loopholes for you.
00:37:07.560 You just paid and it was 95 percent.
00:37:10.220 But if you, you know, if you had the money and knew how to work the system, you didn't
00:37:15.280 pay that.
00:37:15.740 And a lot of that's still happening.
00:37:16.880 Still happening.
00:37:17.480 Still happening.
00:37:17.960 Like, I mean, if you're mega, mega, ultra rich, you find ways to pay lower taxes.
00:37:25.000 I mean, you know, there was a big.
00:37:25.840 But they're all legal.
00:37:26.740 Yeah.
00:37:27.060 Yeah.
00:37:27.240 I mean, you know, Donald Trump was amazing when he was accurate, when he said, yeah, I
00:37:34.180 may pay lower taxes.
00:37:35.940 That's the way the system works.
00:37:37.980 Change it if you don't like it.
00:37:39.420 Yeah.
00:37:39.920 And he's absolutely right.
00:37:41.800 Everybody, of course, is trying to pay as low a tax as they can.
00:37:45.280 Who is trying to pay more?
00:37:47.460 Nobody.
00:37:48.080 And you know this because they put an ad, an address where you can give gifts to the U.S.
00:37:53.080 government every year.
00:37:54.000 If you believe your tax burden is too low, you can give gifts to the U.S.
00:37:58.540 government to spend against their general fund in which they can pay for taxes.
00:38:02.440 Every progressive should be doing that.
00:38:03.820 And no one does.
00:38:05.060 No one does.
00:38:06.080 I think they, I think there's like one or two, isn't there?
00:38:08.740 Yeah, they usually get a few every year.
00:38:10.020 Yeah, they get a few.
00:38:10.680 A few bucks, but it's like not a lot.
00:38:12.500 It shows that this idea that taxes should be higher is something they utilize to punish
00:38:19.100 others.
00:38:19.660 They don't care about it themselves.
00:38:21.600 They want to punish others, you know?
00:38:24.180 And they do, they've done this forever.
00:38:26.200 People, you know, Bernie Sanders.
00:38:28.260 Bernie Sanders comes out there.
00:38:29.500 I mean, he was asked about it in one of the debates.
00:38:31.400 It's like, hey, you keep saying taxes should be higher on the wealthy.
00:38:34.840 You're the wealthy and you don't give more than you, than you're supposed to.
00:38:38.880 Why?
00:38:39.240 Why don't you just implement this policy for yourself?
00:38:42.160 Wow.
00:38:42.880 Because it's not the system that I would think that would really be able to handle.
00:38:46.740 Okay.
00:38:47.260 All right.
00:38:47.680 Thanks.