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00:00:30.000 A lot of really good stuff we covered today.

00:00:32.020 We start with the United Health CEO that was gunned down in New York yesterday.

00:00:37.260 And the difference between actual justice from the Declaration of Independence and Marxist vigilante justice.

00:00:43.440 And the horrible tweets that came out yesterday.

00:00:46.600 Also, the trilogy of holidays.

00:00:49.180 Why this time is so important for each of us.

00:00:53.380 And we talk about Norway.

00:00:55.300 What is happening in Norway?

00:00:57.280 It's about to be lost forever.

00:01:00.380 All this and more on today's Pest Up podcast.

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00:02:19.580 All right, the wife of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot at a hotel yesterday morning in New York.

00:02:37.700 It was premeditated, preplanned, a targeted attack.

00:02:42.040 She said to police that he had said that he had been receiving threats.

00:02:49.580 She didn't know really anything more than that.

00:02:52.640 He didn't have any security.

00:02:54.360 I am telling you right now, I said in 2010, maybe, Stu, when I was on Fox, I remember it clear as a day.

00:03:03.880 You people that are supporting the left, you think you're fine.

00:03:09.000 But when this really comes to a head, they are going to drag you out into the middle of the streets and beat you to death on live television, and they won't care.

00:03:22.820 Hopefully, that's not going to happen because we had a revolution.

00:03:27.340 And make no mistake, spend the hour with me here, because I have a couple of takes that I think are so important that nobody's talking about.

00:03:37.820 So let me start with the good news.

00:03:40.140 What is the purpose of government?

00:03:44.180 What is the purpose of government, specifically American government?

00:03:48.420 Everywhere else, it's to, you know, enforce the law and keep the peace and everything.

00:03:54.480 And that's true.

00:03:56.340 However, in our mission statement, which is the Declaration of Independence, governments are instituted among men, meaning you create the government.

00:04:06.980 And they're instituted among men to protect our rights, the rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, the ones not just written down in the Bill of Rights, but all the other rights that are ungiven that are talked about in the Ninth and Tenth Amendment.

00:04:24.420 OK, so there's all these rights.

00:04:26.960 And when governments become hostile to those rights, when they start oppressing people and taking those rights away, it is the right and the duty to overthrow that government and replace it with a government more likely to protect those rights.

00:04:45.740 Now, I have talked about this a lot.

00:04:48.980 And every time in the last few years that I have said this, I've always had to have the caveat.

00:04:54.120 That doesn't mean a revolution with guns.

00:04:59.280 That means go to the ballot box.

00:05:01.980 But later on, just a couple of sentences later, it talks in the Declaration of Independence.

00:05:06.740 And I'm badly paraphrasing here, but people are more apt to live with the pain that they know.

00:05:14.340 OK, until that pain becomes so horrible that they have to change. 0.99

00:05:20.840 And the reason why, and honestly, I can relate to this as an alcoholic, when I was drinking, I was more, in some ways, more comfortable with the pain of, you're such a loser. 0.99

00:05:35.740 You're an alcoholic. 1.00

00:05:37.100 You're a loser. 1.00

00:05:37.880 What are you doing? 1.00

00:05:39.500 You're a wino, dude.

00:05:40.840 I was more comfortable with that up to a point than I was of, yeah, but I don't think there's anything inside of me. 0.97

00:05:51.160 I don't, I think I am a loser.

00:05:53.360 I don't, what happens if I sober up and there's nothing good inside?

00:05:58.580 And this is as good as it gets.

00:06:00.840 Now, I know that sounds crazy, but that's what the Declaration of Independence is talking about.

00:06:04.920 You're more apt to live in pain until that pain becomes so bad that it's better for you or easier for you to go into the unknown.

00:06:20.260 And that's when people change, when they're broken so bad and in so much pain that they're like, I'll try anything.

00:06:28.580 OK, that's what we did.

00:06:30.900 That's what people, people crossed lines.

00:06:35.640 RFK, do you know?

00:06:38.140 That would have never happened 10 years ago.

00:06:41.100 Never.

00:06:42.100 We wouldn't have accepted it.

00:06:44.200 The people voting for Donald Trump, we wouldn't have accepted it.

00:06:48.620 But we were in such bad pain after COVID that we were like, you know what?

00:06:53.140 Somebody's got to do something because there's something really wrong.

00:06:57.920 So we went into the unknown.

00:06:59.740 How many times are you saying to yourself right now?

00:07:02.800 I don't know, but I trust Donald Trump.

00:07:05.360 I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

00:07:08.000 That's walking into the unknown because of our pain.

00:07:12.640 So congratulations to the founders and congratulations to you, the American people.

00:07:18.800 This is a grand and noble idea that has inspired generations of people all around the world to stand against tyranny, to demand justice, and to strive for equality.

00:07:35.180 So now let me bring this to the other side of the Declaration of Independence and what you're fighting against.

00:07:47.940 That second paragraph that describes everything that I just said in the Declaration of Independence then clearly is also a warning that you do not take justice into your own hands.

00:08:04.620 This is not mob justice.

00:08:08.400 This is not a call for violence.

00:08:11.180 It's not a license to spill blood on the streets or take justice into your own hands because that's what the Declaration of Independence. 0.98

00:08:21.160 That paragraph where it says it's the right and the duty, the reason why that's so dangerous is because uninformed people, people who are stupid or people who are desperate, read that as, we've got to get our guns. 0.98

00:08:35.400 No, no, no, no, you stand together because you realize you have the power. 0.99

00:08:45.080 Now, that's the American idea.

00:08:48.820 Everywhere else in the world, it is go get your guns because everybody else's manifestos, if you will, starts with the grievances.

00:08:59.440 It starts with you did this, you did this, you're doing this to these people and we hate you because of this.

00:09:06.400 Ours starts with, here's what we're going to build.

00:09:10.340 It starts with a grand idea and then it says, we have to do this now and we have to overthrow you because here's all the things you did to stop us from doing these grand things.

00:09:24.240 So, you have to proceed with prudence, reason, and care.

00:09:30.120 And when revolution becomes necessary, it has to be lawful and peaceful and anchored in the systems and the principles that protect justice, not destroy justice.

00:09:44.940 Now, here's the pattern that is going to unfold here soon.

00:09:49.800 And there's a couple of things and I want to get into more of them, you know, here in a few minutes.

00:09:54.480 But I just want to stay focused on this one shooting of this health care official.

00:10:00.520 People who are disillusioned by the failures of the institutions, people who are true Marxist revolutionaries, people who are anarchists.

00:10:14.720 And as I will talk about later, perhaps coming, those who are making themselves look like revolutionaries to protect themselves because radical transparency is coming.

00:10:28.980 They are going to cause chaos and they will they will use violence as their answer.

00:10:39.040 However, as they target like they did yesterday with the CEO, they'll target people.

00:10:48.980 Pharmaceutical companies, you better have security and not because of regular Americans, but because of Marxists, because of revolutionaries.

00:10:58.420 Pharmaceutical executives, health care leaders, et cetera, et cetera.

00:11:02.700 These people will come out and act as judge, jury and executioner, all in the so-called name of justice.

00:11:11.180 But let me ask you, what is justice?

00:11:15.300 What is it?

00:11:17.240 Is shooting someone in the street, even if they're guilty or not, let's just say this guy is just guilty.

00:11:23.240 He's been experimenting on babies and none of us knew shooting him in the streets.

00:11:29.680 Is that justice?

00:11:32.680 Yesterday when this happened, Taylor Lorenz came out and made one of the just grotesque statements I've ever seen. 0.70

00:11:42.640 You know, they wonder why people wonder why these executives are dead because she she started to justify the gunning down of this executive because, you know, they they they just don't they don't cover people.

00:12:01.240 They just let people die.

00:12:02.500 They they hassle people.

00:12:03.980 And, you know, there is no justification.

00:12:06.400 And as I'm reading, I'm thinking to myself, she's horrible.

00:12:11.380 And then I read the comments after and other people on the left.

00:12:15.800 This is who the left is.

00:12:17.860 The left. 0.99

00:12:19.060 They are despicable. 0.99

00:12:22.140 They justify everything involving death. 0.93

00:12:27.180 Is this justice?

00:12:29.380 No, no matter what the guy did, it's not justice.

00:12:32.360 It is vengeance.

00:12:35.040 And because of people like Taylor Lorenz, it is vengeance masquerading as righteousness.

00:12:44.420 And that is very dangerous.

00:12:46.920 Chaos wearing the mask of morality. 0.96

00:12:51.960 And it's not only incorrect, but it is profoundly dangerous and deeply immoral.

00:12:58.000 Now, in my book, Propaganda Wars, I talk about if somebody has betrayed you and your and your your values and principles and they have lied to you, never, never trust them on anything again.

00:13:15.980 This is a great example.

00:13:17.620 I haven't trusted her.

00:13:18.520 I haven't read anything from her in a long time.

00:13:20.260 But she is showing you, not only is she out of step with the truth, she is a danger.

00:13:28.180 She is reading her is putting poison into your soul.

00:13:32.180 And be careful.

00:13:33.220 Be careful of these people.

00:13:35.040 Street justice ignores the principles that underpin our society.

00:13:41.780 Justice, true justice, requires what?

00:13:47.100 Due process.

00:13:48.660 It's why I have a problem with all the smears.

00:13:52.100 It's why people have a problem with everybody saying Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:13:55.480 What?

00:13:55.720 What?

00:13:56.000 What?

00:13:56.440 What?

00:13:57.040 What?

00:13:57.360 What's the evidence?

00:13:58.640 Or Donald Trump.

00:13:59.920 He he acted to overthrow the government.

00:14:03.000 He is a he's a revolutionary that overthrow.

00:14:06.200 And he was part of you never charged him with anything.

00:14:09.660 Charge him.

00:14:10.860 Charge him.

00:14:12.080 Due process.

00:14:13.060 You don't just smear people.

00:14:15.780 It requires evidence.

00:14:17.360 It requires deliberation.

00:14:19.420 It requires fairness.

00:14:21.360 And when we abandon those principles, we replace the rule of law with the rule of rage.

00:14:27.420 And that's what we just overthrew.

00:14:30.360 And if Donald Trump, and he's not, I've talked to him a million times, he is not engaging in rule of rage and revenge.

00:14:40.680 That's wrong.

00:14:42.260 He is going to the rule of law.

00:14:44.360 And when we descend into a world where might makes right, where emotion supplants reason, where the powerful prey on the weak, what happens?

00:15:00.120 I mean, think about it.

00:15:00.800 Who decides who's guilty in a world of street justice?

00:15:04.620 Who decides what a fair punishment is?

00:15:07.520 That guy who wore a mask?

00:15:09.080 We don't even know who he is.

00:15:10.820 In the absence of law, it's not virtuous.

00:15:14.340 It's not the virtuous who even prevail.

00:15:18.460 It's the violent and the bullies that prevail.

00:15:22.600 The loudest voices drowned out.

00:15:25.260 The reasonable ones.

00:15:26.680 We've just lived through this.

00:15:27.900 But this is what I said, this is a dangerous period now.

00:15:34.320 I've said, I really kind of want to take this holiday to just kind of refresh and not bog you down with a lot of stuff and a lot of worry because we're going to need our strength.

00:15:46.320 When we come back January 20th, they're not done.

00:15:50.360 They are not done.

00:15:51.560 They're not just going away.

00:15:54.580 They are anarchists.

00:15:56.400 This is anarchy, plain and simple.

00:15:59.560 Anarchy.

00:16:00.300 There is no foundation in anarchy for liberty.

00:16:03.740 None.

00:16:05.140 And when it's condoned like it was yesterday, it spreads like a wildfire.

00:16:12.300 The act of vengeance inspires another act of vengeance, especially if people up at the top start to say, oh, that's good.

00:16:21.800 You know what?

00:16:22.480 Maybe they deserved it.

00:16:23.860 Then the streets run red with the blood of our neighbors.

00:16:28.260 Today, it's a corporate executive.

00:16:30.340 Tomorrow, it's a politician.

00:16:31.700 The next day, it might just be somebody who disagrees with the mob.

00:16:35.140 We've seen this.

00:16:36.500 It's why we just voted return the law to justice, blind justice, because history has already shown us where this goes.

00:16:48.820 Where this kind of stuff goes is to the French Revolution, which began with noble ideas, I guess.

00:16:55.720 Liberty, equality, fraternity.

00:16:57.380 The people who were being screwed by the people at the top, they wanted a better, fairer society.

00:17:05.440 But then justice gave way to vengeance.

00:17:08.460 The revolution just devoured itself.

00:17:10.460 The guillotine was rolled out.

00:17:13.660 That was the arbiter of morality all of a sudden.

00:17:16.660 Reign of terror.

00:17:17.460 Everybody who led anything, it was neighbor against neighbor.

00:17:21.660 Everybody was just being killed.

00:17:23.000 That's the legacy of street justice.

00:17:29.820 The thought that we can indulge violence without consequence, that we can achieve justice by abandoning its principles, it's a lie.

00:17:40.320 Violence begets violence.

00:17:42.040 Hatred breeds hatred.

00:17:43.200 And when we take justice into our own hands, we do not create a better world.

00:17:48.640 We create a broken one.

00:17:50.560 A society without law can never be free.

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00:19:07.920 Now, back to the podcast.

00:19:09.840 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:13.660 I want to talk to you.

00:19:14.740 This time of year, I do a lot of reflecting on family and my life.

00:19:22.200 And what have I done with my life as my life?

00:19:26.560 Have I done anything?

00:19:27.800 Am I a better person than I was last year or not?

00:19:32.220 This year, I can't decide.

00:19:37.500 But I look back not just – I try not to look at other people because that always screws me up.

00:19:43.900 Well, where are you in position to – what difference does that make?

00:19:47.780 And then I try to be grateful for all of the things that maybe I have done wrong that I know, even though it hasn't happened yet perhaps, is going to put me in a better position.

00:20:04.900 It was around Christmas time that I was absolutely at my worst.

00:20:08.400 I was about – I mean, I had a choice.

00:20:11.480 I'm either going to live or die. 0.55

00:20:12.440 I'm going to repeat the suicide of my mother or I'm going to stand up and stop feeling sorry for myself. 0.99

00:20:19.400 And I was feeling really sorry for myself.

00:20:21.000 And I had a lot of reasons to feel sorry for myself.

00:20:23.240 I mean, I had wrecked my whole life.

00:20:28.660 And I wish I could say that I made the decision on this green shag carpeted floor of this horrible apartment building that was really made just for a divorced man. 0.98

00:20:40.760 And we just – you know, all of us would pass each other in the hallway. 0.99

00:20:43.540 Hey, dude, your life still suck. 0.98

00:20:45.340 Yeah, good to see you. 0.99

00:20:46.700 See you tomorrow.

00:20:50.040 And I decided to get up.

00:20:51.240 And I wish I could tell you that the next day it was brighter, but it wasn't.

00:20:54.200 But over time, once I made the decision, my life changed, and I can't believe the miracles that I have seen in my life.

00:21:05.420 And it's not the fame or the fortune or anything else.

00:21:08.340 It's not.

00:21:09.020 It's my friends.

00:21:10.540 It's my family.

00:21:13.160 It's – honestly, it's my integrity, which I value more than anything else that I have.

00:21:19.240 When the road ahead seems shrouded in darkness, we all wonder, I don't think I have the strength to do this.

00:21:30.700 I don't even know if I have the will to take another step.

00:21:33.540 I don't know if I can get up tomorrow morning and do this all over again.

00:21:37.020 Everything is against me.

00:21:38.500 I mean, you know, just the idea just of debt.

00:21:44.000 My gosh, debt bothers me so much.

00:21:46.380 I don't like owing people money.

00:21:48.060 I don't like owing people the bank or anything else.

00:21:50.340 It drives me out of my mind.

00:21:52.020 I can't sleep at night.

00:21:53.060 I hate it so much.

00:21:53.920 And whatever it is with you, if you're hearing me right now and you feel any of that ache, that loneliness, that despair, that angst, let me just tell you right now, you're not alone.

00:22:11.300 I'm feeling it.

00:22:13.140 I think everybody's feeling it one way or another.

00:22:16.680 But most important, it's not that you're just not alone.

00:22:21.760 You're not without hope.

00:22:23.320 It might feel like it.

00:22:24.900 You might feel like, Glenn, you have no idea what I'm dealing with.

00:22:27.500 I don't.

00:22:29.260 But you have no idea what I was dealing with.

00:22:31.800 And I thought it was the end for me several times.

00:22:35.720 I mean, geez, Stu, you remember?

00:22:37.820 I built up.

00:22:40.760 I went from zero, nothing, having nothing.

00:22:43.220 You had a better apartment when you were 18 than I did when I was 30 because I was so broke.

00:22:50.120 Remember that?

00:22:50.640 And then I built a fortune and we started the blaze.

00:22:57.620 And then I went broke again or I was this close to going broke.

00:23:03.500 And it's just a horrible feeling.

00:23:07.640 Just a horrible feeling.

00:23:11.120 And it just goes in cycles.

00:23:13.020 And you have to see that.

00:23:14.720 But you'll see that once you conquer some of the things that you have to deal with.

00:23:21.020 Life is like a video game.

00:23:22.380 You just you cannot go to the next level until you've completed the first level and then you get to the next level and you're like, oh, this is going to be great.

00:23:31.560 And then the next level is harder and you keep being set back and you can't go to the third level until you convince until you get past the second level.

00:23:39.560 That's what life is really like.

00:23:41.480 And if you look at it more of a challenge, you can handle it a little better.

00:23:46.220 But I want you to look around this season because this is, first of all, we have a lot to be thankful for.

00:23:54.780 But this is every year, no matter what, every year.

00:23:58.900 This is a strange and wondrous time of year.

00:24:02.080 And I think in some ways we're losing that.

00:24:05.600 Christmas felt different when I was a kid.

00:24:08.060 It's becoming more commercial and less about people, more about, oh, look how they have their tree lit up in their yard.

00:24:18.900 There is something about the, well, I don't think it's a coincidence, but the coincidence of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's all in such close succession.

00:24:30.540 It's as if it's the rhythm of the universe or perhaps something divine that's whispering a message of hope and redemption and showing us what we have to do.

00:24:45.340 All you have to do is recognize it.

00:24:47.540 That's really the secret of life.

00:24:50.140 Get past what you're, get past yourself.

00:24:54.440 Get past, and I don't mean that like get over yourself.

00:24:57.240 I mean, get past the things you've been telling yourself that are lies.

00:25:03.580 They don't seem like lies right now.

00:25:05.640 I know that.

00:25:06.520 I used to tell myself I'm worthless.

00:25:08.520 I have no talent.

00:25:10.460 I'll never make it.

00:25:11.600 I used to tell myself all those lies, and they were true at the time until I decided I don't like that.

00:25:21.540 I don't like that life that that's giving me.

00:25:25.720 Let's start with Thanksgiving.

00:25:27.240 This is how I think we should look at the holidays.

00:25:33.640 At first glance, it seems, you know, it's a day for gratitude.

00:25:36.920 But how many of us even really, truly took the time at Thanksgiving around our table and said,

00:25:43.180 my gosh, look at the miracle that we just saw.

00:25:48.240 We saw a founder-style miracle happen again in America.

00:25:53.460 God has not given up on us.

00:25:54.960 He's given us the opportunity to now do our job.

00:25:59.280 He's not going to keep doing it.

00:26:00.720 He did what we couldn't do.

00:26:03.420 And now it's up to us.

00:26:05.520 And that's the way it always works with God.

00:26:07.140 You know, it's more than just giving thanks for the easy blessings, the warm home, the family that's around the food, the food on the table.

00:26:16.860 Thanksgiving begins when we learn to be grateful for the things that have broken us, the family members that are not around the table.

00:26:26.860 Whether it's from death or from political arguments.

00:26:32.860 The things that broke us, when we can be grateful for those things, for the struggles that knocked us down, for the moments of pain, of failure, of loss.

00:26:44.260 We will understand, if we don't yet, we will understand that those are all crucibles that forge who we are.

00:26:54.720 Those are the things, that's the refiner's fire.

00:26:58.300 Gold is not pure until it goes through a fire.

00:27:03.520 And the struggle, it's so bad sometimes.

00:27:10.680 I know, please, if you're struggling now, know that I have been where you are, and I know this sounds maybe a little like gobbledygook, but it's not.

00:27:20.480 I am telling you this because I was where you are perhaps right now in many different ways.

00:27:28.840 Struggle goes unnoticed.

00:27:31.300 You just see it as, I can't get past this.

00:27:37.080 A heartbreak that taught you to love deeper.

00:27:41.480 That's only understood long after that heartbreak.

00:27:45.580 When that heartbreak is happening, it's heartbreak, and you're like, I can't go on.

00:27:50.380 But that heartbreak, now that you're going through, will teach you to love deeper.

00:27:55.560 Remember, the loss that teaches you resilience, the failure that redirects your path to something much better that you can't even see or understand right now.

00:28:05.900 I'm so glad there are so many unanswered prayers in my life.

00:28:09.520 Because if I would have gotten, I'd be married to Farrah Fawcett right now.

00:28:13.000 And, you know, I don't think that would have probably been a good relationship.

00:28:18.020 But when life brings us to our knees, that is not a sign of defeat.

00:28:24.680 It's an invitation.

00:28:25.800 When Donald Trump was shot and he's laying down on the ground, he had a choice.

00:28:36.400 Do I do what most people will do, what my instincts tell me to do, and that is get out of danger, or do I stand up?

00:28:48.480 Do I take this as God's invitation to stand up and say, you're not stopping me?

00:28:57.560 That's a remarkable person.

00:29:00.700 I don't know if I would be that person, but he is.

00:29:03.920 So, things that knock us down, it's not defeat.

00:29:07.860 It's an invitation to be a better person, to step up higher, because you can.

00:29:16.060 An invitation to be low enough to see life for what it truly is.

00:29:23.060 I think that moment is what changed Donald Trump and gave us the man he is today, not the man he was in 2020.

00:29:30.340 He saw, this is a chance for me.

00:29:35.600 What is truly important?

00:29:38.720 What am I really doing here on life?

00:29:42.480 Why am I here?

00:29:43.620 Why am I in this position?

00:29:44.880 That changed him.

00:29:47.280 And that takes humility.

00:29:49.660 Something that you don't think of when you think of Donald Trump.

00:29:52.660 You don't think of humility.

00:29:53.520 But that was a humbling moment.

00:29:56.900 And it's that gratitude, the raw, unvarnished, and born of humility that has the power to heal everything.

00:30:08.980 Gratitude.

00:30:10.060 Being thankful.

00:30:11.540 We just had that with Thanksgiving.

00:30:13.600 Have you truly done that yet?

00:30:16.580 If you haven't, do it today.

00:30:19.540 Start by writing three things.

00:30:20.780 I just, I wrote, I'm starting to write them down every day.

00:30:23.840 Three things you're grateful for.

00:30:25.660 I wrote air travel.

00:30:27.620 I'm really grateful for air travel.

00:30:30.040 The way I can be in one place and the next.

00:30:32.800 The miracle of a second chance.

00:30:35.700 And it's never too late to understand family is the only thing that matters.

00:30:41.060 Those are the three things I wrote down today.

00:30:43.580 Be grateful for things.

00:30:45.520 Okay?

00:30:46.700 Now, Christmas.

00:30:48.080 Once you're grateful, this is a story not just of a child's birth, but as a gift that's so profound, it reshaped the entire world.

00:30:56.980 It gave us the Western world and all of the best things about it.

00:31:03.120 Now, think about this.

00:31:04.540 Here comes the Christ child. 0.55

00:31:06.520 He's not born in a palace.

00:31:08.260 There's no fanfare.

00:31:09.720 He's in the humblest of settings.

00:31:11.520 He's in a stable that smelled.

00:31:14.000 Cows were, have you ever been in a stable?

00:31:17.180 That's not really great.

00:31:19.400 Imagine giving birth in a stable.

00:31:22.940 Now, for decades, I believe, because he had to be fully human and also fully God.

00:31:29.540 He had to be human.

00:31:32.040 I'm not sure he understood the enormity of his purpose from the beginning, you know?

00:31:37.540 I think for maybe at least the first 20 years of his life, he wasn't sure of what was coming.

00:31:44.620 And that's a mirror of our life.

00:31:48.460 How often do we walk through the seasons of our life in confusion?

00:31:52.580 Like, I have no idea.

00:31:54.500 Wondering if what we're doing has any meaning or significance at all.

00:32:00.060 I don't know.

00:32:01.020 There's so many things I do that I'm like, is this really even going to make a difference?

00:32:05.380 I mean, why am I doing that?

00:32:07.680 But just as his birth wasn't understood until much, much later, our struggles, the ones you face right now, the ones that you think are pointless, unbearable, that's just part of the story that hasn't been finished yet.

00:32:25.160 That's just the tough part of the story.

00:32:28.940 You haven't gotten to the part where you're like, oh, my gosh, what a miracle that was.

00:32:33.640 And his life was the promise of forgiveness, a second chance in a broken world, a clean slate.

00:32:42.500 God himself would enter into the mess of humanity to give us, you personally, a second chance.

00:32:51.320 Forgiving others is easy.

00:32:56.180 Forgiving yourself is damn near impossible.

00:32:59.900 And if you don't, if you're not humble enough and grateful for even the worst things in your life, you're not down on your knees to recognize that there is a second chance.

00:33:11.160 And it was given by the man that we celebrate his birth at Christmastime.

00:33:19.160 The knowledge that no matter how far you've fallen, no matter what you've done, you can start all over again.

00:33:26.420 And then, as if the universe, or God, doesn't want you to miss the message, he's kind of like, okay, dummies, listen up.

00:33:38.840 Just a few days after Christmas, we stand at the threshold of a brand new year.

00:33:46.060 Old father time and the young baby.

00:33:48.980 It's a whole new life.

00:33:50.420 It's a whole new year.

00:33:51.500 The world hands us a calendar full of blank pages where you don't have to write the same stuff in that you wrote last year.

00:33:59.780 It can be completely different.

00:34:02.040 It's a fresh start.

00:34:03.220 You can completely embrace a different you.

00:34:09.940 And it's not lose weight, make more money, work harder.

00:34:13.280 Those are good things.

00:34:14.120 They are.

00:34:14.520 They're good things.

00:34:15.220 But a real New Year's resolution has to be deeply true.

00:34:23.080 Instead of striving to fix what you think is wrong with you, why not this year embrace what is already right?

00:34:33.740 What about embracing and forgiving yourself for your own failures?

00:34:39.220 The bitterness that you've been holding on to, that argument that you had with a very good friend about politics, that's meaningless.

00:34:51.700 It's hard to forgive others, harder to forgive yourself.

00:34:55.520 Take responsibility for the things that you did because God's already done it.

00:35:01.580 But who are you to say, I'm unforgivable or they're unforgivable when God has already forgiven?

00:35:11.560 Weight loss is fine.

00:35:13.440 Earning is, you know, fine.

00:35:16.460 But that doesn't mend a broken spirit.

00:35:20.160 Money and fame are poison.

00:35:24.160 Forgiveness, self-compassion is the cure.

00:35:29.160 However, that's the miracle in the days ahead.

00:35:34.700 I've always thought this collection of holidays is not just time off.

00:35:40.360 It's a journey.

00:35:41.960 You start with gratitude, not just for what's easy to celebrate, but for the struggles that shaped you.

00:35:48.700 You look to Christmas as a reminder that your mistakes, your sorrows, your regrets don't define you.

00:35:53.380 They're gone as soon as you let go of them.

00:35:55.340 And then you get a whole new life, a whole new calendar with blank pages.

00:36:03.200 What are you going to do with them next year?

00:36:07.320 If you feel broken right now, broken things can still shine.

00:36:11.940 It's through those cracks that the light gets in.

00:36:16.900 You are not alone.

00:36:18.860 You're not beyond redemption.

00:36:21.360 You are not without hope.

00:36:23.560 Just be ready.

00:36:24.660 Get ready.

00:36:25.280 Take a deep breath.

00:36:26.760 Look at your hands, your heart, your life, and start all over again.

00:36:31.900 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:36:41.060 I want to introduce you to a journalist from Norway.

00:36:46.540 Her name is Rebecca Mr. Agin.

00:36:50.080 I like to call her Mr. Reagan because it's just cooler, you know, for us Americans.

00:36:55.360 Rebecca, how are you?

00:36:57.340 I'm good, thank you.

00:36:58.740 How are you doing?

00:36:59.600 I'm good.

00:37:00.080 I've been following what's been going on, and most Americans have not.

00:37:05.200 You know, we've talked off the air.

00:37:07.320 You know, I was in Sweden, I think, and was doing a piece exactly like 60 Minutes in Australia was doing about a year before, and the same thing happened.

00:37:20.380 I was surrounded by a Muslim gang, and it was scary as hell. 1.00

00:37:25.240 What's happening now in the Scandinavian countries, it looks like you're losing the country entirely.

00:37:36.700 We are losing our country entirely, and like you said, many Americans may not be aware of it, but Europe is no longer Europe, and Scandinavia is no longer Scandinavia.

00:37:50.200 I think Oriana Feles, she said it in 2003 already, but we've been watching you guys with horror for the past four years,

00:37:59.220 because if you don't stop the illegal immigration that you're having, America will no longer be American.

00:38:04.280 You're being the same boat as else.

00:38:05.720 So, the American people have spoken out, and my hope is that Donald Trump, he's not the same man he was four years ago. 0.97

00:38:16.220 He has changed, and he is on a mission, and he's going to stop all this crap.

00:38:21.720 And my hope is, is that there will be other leaders around the world that will now step up into place and say, 0.97

00:38:28.720 this is killing our country.

00:38:30.900 There is not going to be a Western world left unless we do something.

00:38:36.480 Is there any kind of movement in Norway like that?

00:38:40.920 That's not racist?

00:38:42.060 No. I would say, everybody's racist if you're not on board the socialist agenda.

00:38:48.720 We have, you know, Gert Wilders, Georgia Maloney, Victor Orban, Marilla Penn in the big European countries,

00:38:56.620 but as in Scandinavia, you have, I guess the best translation would be the Sweden Democrats,

00:39:05.660 which is not a fitting name for their party, in my opinion, but they are doing some great work in Sweden.

00:39:11.460 In Norway, unfortunately, we do not.

00:39:13.540 And they made it extra hard, I think that was last year or two years ago, to even create new parties.

00:39:21.480 So to come along with a new political party is nearly impossible.

00:39:25.980 And mind you, we have about eight or nine, don't quote me on that.

00:39:28.740 I don't remember exactly the number that we have in Parliament.

00:39:31.540 But they all agree on the globalist agenda.

00:39:33.820 So they bicker about the smaller things, and then behind closed doors, they're pretty much agreeing on the international stuff,

00:39:42.760 which is the policies of the day.

00:39:45.400 We don't really have any national politics anymore, right?

00:39:48.660 So that's the situation.

00:39:50.680 You start to see people, I mean, in our Declaration of Independence,

00:39:54.740 it says people are more likely to endure the pains, even when they start to really become very painful of a government that's out of control,

00:40:05.220 than to go into the unknown and change that.

00:40:09.020 But there is a breaking point, and we're seeing that breaking point in Germany.

00:40:14.140 We're seeing that breaking point, I think, in England.

00:40:16.960 And is there a breaking point?

00:40:20.380 When do the people of Norway stand up and say, we count, we don't want to lose this culture?

00:40:31.240 I am not sure, and this is kind of strange, but the whole Boisvert feed for the cows, the milk situation,

00:40:41.000 I don't know if you're aware of it, because it is going around Europe.

00:40:44.400 But in Norway, that has created a lot of engagement in the past week, and a lot of pressure.

00:40:50.500 And a lot of people are on, like, if you screw with people's food, they get pissed off.

00:40:56.120 Mind you, we've been paying terrorist organizations and states and giving money to everything else but the Norwegian people,

00:41:05.360 but people aren't pissed off enough, basically.

00:41:08.200 But the milk has actually turned something around in the last week.

00:41:13.060 So I'm curious to see where that takes us.

00:41:16.040 Yeah, it's weird.

00:41:17.620 COVID is what broke the back in America.

00:41:21.080 Once this COVID lockdown and we saw, oh, my gosh, they will put people in jail for going to church,

00:41:28.060 that's what began to break the back.

00:41:30.460 It's always something that you don't necessarily expect that is just the final straw.

00:41:34.700 So hopefully that is happening.

00:41:37.360 You also have a two-tier justice system where it's so insidious, where Sharia law now is being enforced over Norwegian law, correct? 0.94

00:41:51.780 Yes, you could say it like that.

00:41:55.700 I mean, I view it like that.

00:41:57.840 So we had a case now recently.

00:42:01.600 It was about a teenage boy.

00:42:03.740 He was in school.

00:42:04.680 He had, I think, six or seven perpetrators.

00:42:08.180 They beat him severely.

00:42:10.760 It was in court a couple of weeks ago.

00:42:12.540 And the case was the eldest boy or man because he's 18, the 18-year-old, he got off because he said that this kid that got beaten,

00:42:26.880 he had said the word Negro behind closed doors.

00:42:30.420 He didn't, in fact, hear it, but he was told that behind that door he called somebody a Negro.

00:42:35.700 So they went and they beat him, and then he got off because he was provoked.

00:42:40.640 And if that is not closing into Sharia law in a justice system, I don't know what is.

00:42:48.120 Because you're breaking the law, basically.

00:42:50.320 You're violent, and then you get off.

00:42:52.560 Rebecca, you watch the United States.

00:42:55.440 You watch what's happening over here, and we've gone insane, but we're turning this corner.

00:43:00.780 Do you think Europe is noticing this?

00:43:05.740 Is any of this giving them hope that things can reverse itself, or do we just, is the media just made us look insane?

00:43:21.040 Both. 0.98

00:43:22.020 The media is making you look insane.

00:43:25.380 But for sure, there's a lot of hope.

00:43:27.220 So we have seen the, I guess you could call it the right-wing wave over Europe, right?

00:43:33.580 It's the same thing in most European countries, but it doesn't reflect the media reporting.

00:43:40.780 So I think we had, before the American election, we had some surveys saying that most people in Norway would vote for Kamala.

00:43:50.580 And then all of a sudden, this little survey comes along, which says that men under 30, 47%, support Trump.

00:43:59.160 And so it really depends on who they ask.

00:44:02.040 And a lot of people aren't very vocal in the Scandinavian countries.

00:44:05.440 It's a cultural thing.

00:44:07.020 We're just culturally introverted.

00:44:09.060 And so they don't really speak up against the media.

00:44:11.420 But the media is still portraying Trump as Hitler to this day, you know? 0.53

00:44:15.940 So I would say the elitist class is very much saying and portraying and speaking of America as an insane country.

00:44:26.100 But the masses think differently.

00:44:28.320 It really is amazing to me how Norway and the Scandinavian countries, most of them, were on the front line of welcoming the Jewish refugee and protecting them and doing so much.

00:44:47.080 The history is remarkable.

00:44:49.700 And because you had such a homogenous society, everybody pretty much thought the same way.

00:44:55.020 It's the only reason why those, you know, the socialist system that you have has been able to work a bit because everybody kind of thought alike.

00:45:03.060 They were all, you know, they're not so disparate as we are here in America.

00:45:09.800 But now that that's been used against you, and I can't imagine the fear.

00:45:16.620 I see the things that are happening over there.

00:45:18.440 And I think my wife, my daughters, I would never let them walk the streets in some of these cities.

00:45:26.020 No, for sure not.

00:45:27.320 And we're not allowed to protect ourselves either.

00:45:29.400 Even pepper spray, we're not allowed.

00:45:31.400 Just mind you, we're not allowed to carry weapons.

00:45:34.180 And you have these gangs roaming the streets.

00:45:36.300 I think I saw, let's see what it was.

00:45:39.500 It was, it's a 200% increase in violence from children between the age of 6 and 15 in Oslo.

00:45:47.220 Just in the past 19 years, and 86% of these repeat juvenile offenders have a Muslim background.

00:45:54.180 We're talking about children stabbing, shooting, and robbing people. 0.98

00:46:00.260 It is absolutely insanity.

00:46:02.440 And what does our government do?

00:46:04.180 We have a Labour Party like the UK, so they are of the same mindset in many ways.

00:46:10.340 And a lot of the stuff that Sweden has tried in the past, because we're about 10 years behind Sweden,

00:46:15.760 they try to implement it here to, quote unquote, solve the problems.

00:46:20.160 So the problem solving that they're discussing at the moment is hiring people, putting more state and government positions in place

00:46:30.200 to have people follow these kids from 12, 13, and 14-year-old criminals, pick them up in the morning,

00:46:39.280 stay with them all day at school, pay for the taxpayers, pay for sports activities of their choice

00:46:46.740 that they're also followed to and then taken back to their parents.

00:46:49.780 So in principle, that is hiring new parents for these children.

00:46:55.060 So these are the solutions our social estate is coming up with to fight crime.

00:46:59.940 And so, as you may understand, it's not going very well.

00:47:03.700 Yeah, it's not.

00:47:05.880 Rebecca, I'd love to stay in touch with you a little closer than we have, and the producers too,

00:47:12.160 because what's happening in Europe is very important.

00:47:16.020 And if America can turn the corner and start to lead the way again out of this mess, 0.93

00:47:22.280 we have a chance.

00:47:23.980 But if we don't start finding our spine in Europe, I feel like it's the 1930s in Europe.

00:47:30.920 You better go visit Europe now, because it's just not going to be the same.

00:47:34.580 It's not already, but you just won't see.

00:47:37.280 It is 1930s.

00:47:38.360 It is.

00:47:38.980 It is here.

00:47:39.820 We have armed police outside the Jewish kindergarten here.

00:47:43.960 We don't have an ambassador from Israel anymore.

00:47:46.420 He left Norway, and there's no replacement coming for him.

00:47:51.040 Our foreign minister is a persona non grata in Israel, and we're sending tons of money to Hamas. 0.69

00:47:58.800 This is Norway today, and we are already in the 1930s over here, Glenn.

00:48:04.500 It's horrible.

00:48:05.660 Rebecca, please pray for us that we are able to navigate these waters and can restore ourselves back to who we are,

00:48:14.580 because there's got to be a leader, and I don't see a leader anywhere in the world except for possibly Donald Trump

00:48:21.880 and this new understanding here in America of what's coming.

00:48:25.820 So please pray for us.

00:48:26.980 We'll pray for you.

00:48:27.940 Thanks, Rebecca.

00:48:29.480 Thank you.

00:48:30.440 You bet.

00:48:30.700 We're in a weird, weird time.

00:48:37.100 Very weird time.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 05, 2024

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rebecca Mistereggen ｜ 12⧸5⧸24

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