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Glenn Beck takes on the latest conspiracy theories, including the death of Benjamin Netanyahu and a video of him being killed, and how to debunk them. Glenn Beck is a conservative radio host and host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on the Christian Science Monitor.
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How do you get people to help you destroy something?
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It's all in the stories that we read every day and we're missing it.
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Then Rick Scott, senator from Florida, talks about the new deal that possibly might be happening in Washington.
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You need to hear that. And I also tell you trust, but verify a story with an AI video
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on the left that shows the left doing really bad things. And then also a video of Benjamin
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Okay, so I'm at this birthday dinner last night.
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Somebody said to me, do you think Benjamin and Yahoo is dead?
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and this is something my wife who is a she takes care of the family and we've always had this
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really healthy agreement that um she takes care of the family she keeps our life normal i can't pay
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attention to all of this stuff because if the two of us we'd get into a we'd get into a doomsday
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loop if the two of us were involved she came to me and she was like you see the video on
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benjamin and yahoo and i said yeah it's it's ai honey it's not real um but that wasn't that wasn't
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it was weird it was just weird it was weird um because people and it wasn't just these people
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people everywhere they believe that's real they just believe it's real and i was thinking about
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it last night and there's another claim on the other side that people believe is just real um
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and that is there's a claim that this Irish band kneecap was playing a
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concert in Cuba and somehow it caused a nationwide blackout and the blackout
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killed every patient on the vest on the ventilators there in Cuba,
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but it was caused by a failure at the power plant hundreds of miles away.
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not the communists that were partying with the band, okay?
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The hospital deaths, we don't know, unverified, no names, no records,
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no confirmation, but the story is out there and it spreads.
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It spreads because people are saying it on the internet
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and it feels kind of true in some way or another.
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It fits a narrative and you want to believe it.
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The trick is we have to be able to see through these fake stories.
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we have to slow down enough and think through logically.
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And I think the BB story is the best example of this.
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If Benjamin Netanyahu were dead, let's think this through.
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The first layer that is required for this is total silence
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That's family, personal staff, security detail, medical personnel,
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driver's aides schedules uh schedulers and these are not anonymous figure these are dozens of
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individuals many with independent loyalties some who disagree with them strongly politically
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some who would have every every incentive financial ideological even personal to speak up
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if something this enormous were true okay not one critical credible defection can happen not one
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He has to constantly interact with military leadership, the intelligence, the cabinet members, the opposition leaders, the foreign diplomats.
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If the man were gone, every single one of those interactions has to become a performance.
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every meeting becomes a theater and it's not just internally okay the response was well he's missed
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all of these meetings but he hasn't he hasn't there's video of him meeting with all of these
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people since he supposedly was dead he they even have him in a press conference where he's like
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uh you know i'm very much alive well that's ai well we'll get to that so you got to go
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his personal. Then you got to do everybody in his country that is around politics,
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people that don't like him. Then you have the United States government. You have the European
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allies, regional adversaries, intelligence services across the globe. They all have to
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either be fooled or actively participate in the deception. Think about that for a minute.
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Rival intelligence agencies, some of which exist specifically to expose weakness or deception
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in Israel. They would all have to miss or suppress it. That's just not how intelligence
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services behave. They leak, they compete, they expose, they just do. Now bring in the media.
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Not one outlet, all of them, just, I mean, ABC, NBC, CNN, all of that, the hostile press,
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the friendly press, the foreign press, the independent journalist, you would need
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dozens of reporters in physical proximity, camera crews filming in real time, because that's what
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exists. You would need audio technicians capturing unscripted speech, editors reviewing every raw
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footage, all either deceived by something flawless or complicit. And remember, journalists break
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careers for stories far smaller than this. This would be the biggest political cover-up in modern
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history. And no one has the human instinct to cash in on that, on Israel. Now let's deal with
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the hardest claim, the one that people always retreat to. It's all AI. Okay, well, someday
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it is going to be like this, but it's not there yet. You would need the technology that could
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generate full motion, real-time video. We're not there. Handle unpredictable environments,
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lighting, background noise, interruptions. You would have to allow unscripted interaction with
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other humans. We're not there on any of these things. Maintain consistency across multiple
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appearances, different angles, different days, and do it so perfectly that video experts cannot
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detect it. Foreign intelligence could not detect it. Political opponents can't expose it.
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If that technology exists at that level, not in a lab, but operationally deployed, it would be the most valuable and destabilizing capability on Earth, and it wouldn't be used for Benjamin Netanyahu.
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It would be used for something far, far greater than that, okay?
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There are dozens of appearances that are verified by dozens of observers.
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How do you stop that? How do you explain that? Especially when you stack all of it together. For this to be real, you'd need total silence from the inner circle, total coordination against this entire government, total compliance or total failure of government intelligence from all over the world, the globe.
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You'd need total complacency or total incompetence of the international media and flawless, undetectable AI that could replace a human being in dynamic public settings.
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Or the alternative is it is a rumor born in a chaotic information environment amplified by really bad actors picked up by social media repeated by people who trust the source more than the verification because they have in many cases rightfully so been so burned by everybody else.
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They no longer trust any other media, so they trust this video.
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One requires a global airtight conspiracy of unprecedented scale, and the other one just requires human nature.
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If you can convince people that a sitting leader is dead when he's not, you don't just spread confusion.
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you don't just fracture trust you destabilize perception you make people doubt everything
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that follows and once people doubt everything they can be led everywhere now who would benefit
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from that well if you're an adversary of israel and i think there's a few what's more useful
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defeating netanyahu on the battlefield or convincing the world he's already dead and
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gone and signal chaos weakness collapse it will boost morale on one side erode it on the other
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but it doesn't stop there there are entire networks and state actors and ideological groups
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even engagement driven platforms that profit from the confusion
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it's hard to i found myself at a loss because they're really the people i was talking to
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really kind really intelligent i have a lot of respect for them and all i could think of
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on the drive home was how did those guys fall for this most likely because they're overwhelmed
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Most likely flooded with more information in a day than previous generations saw in an entire lifetime.
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Our brains are just trying to keep our head above water.
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We trust what aligns with what we already suspect.
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So if you're already suspecting that this is dirty, we trust things when we see them.
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The brain intelligence, remember, is just pattern recognition.
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If we trust that it's not dirty, we don't trust that.
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And slowly without realizing it, we stop verifying and we just start absorbing.
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this is not this is not a new problem but it's an epic proportions now because of social media
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and it's only going to get worse if we don't understand how our brain works and what is
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happening to us you know you you won't you're just not going to make it you're just not going
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to make it okay because this is not about netanyahu this is about everything this is about
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absolutely everything that we're facing right now the use the the answer used to be trust the
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institutions trust the press trust authority all of that's gone okay the answer now is harder
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trust but verify but you have to verify you have to cross-check you you have to hold your own
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conclusions loosely until they're earned and there's lots of sources that are mainstream
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sources that would have that would have absolutely been gleeful to report this story but don't agree
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with, you know, don't agree with Israel. They, they have a, you know, they don't have a soft
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spot for Benjamin Netanyahu at all. There would have been tons of sources that would have been
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saying this legitimate, big sources. I hate to use the word legitimate, big sources. None of
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them are saying it. You have to become comfortable saying, I don't know. I don't know because that's
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what I said last night. I said, you know, I don't, I don't think so. Um, I, I haven't really done my
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deep dive on this, but I don't think so. But I don't know. I don't know. Because I don't know
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is the beginning of truth. But certainty without evidence is the beginning of manipulation. And
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that's what we all have to avoid. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I'm happy to say one of the good guys in the Senate is Senator Rick Scott, who is now my
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senator now that i am a resident of the great state of florida it's it's hard to leave texas
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but it's good to be in uh florida um senator welcome uh last night i know you guys had a
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very late late night last night uh mark wayne mullen uh became the new secretary of dhs which
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is not even running 54 45 and then i heard that the president was on the phone like at 1 a.m
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trying to broker a deal are we close to some sort of deal that at least opens up our airports and
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gets dhs and and tsa funded well it's it sounds like if there is a deal it's a bad deal um the
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the democrats are trying to use this they want they've been clear they said they want to hold
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up funding for ice to get amnesty they don't want the save america act done uh this is an
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opportunity for them to get everything they wanted they got all their earmarks along with
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the republicans got all their earmarks and now they say oh we got to open up we got to open up
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tsa but we're not going to fund ice we're not going to fund the people that get rid of the
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bad guys i've got a wife two daughters and a granddaughter okay i don't want anything to
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happen to them like what happened to what um rachel marin or lincoln riley and what this
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what the proposal is on the table supposedly is oh yeah we hope we take care of tsa which we should
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but don't fund enforcement removal operations from ice i mean how can you in how can you feel good
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if what you're saying is oh yeah we we want to get the airports open the democrats shut them down but
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we're going to get those darn airports open but the people want to kill or rape your kid
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we're not going to fund them no we're not we're not worried about well we trust the democrats
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they'll still work with us on this down the road i don't trust one of them they don't want to help
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us they want to open borders they don't care that all these criminals are in our country this is
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disgusting and there's nothing about save america in it there's nothing to get that done and by the
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way these democrat senators are against this they're getting paid they said oh we got a mortgage
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we got to get paid so i've had a bill no budget no pay since i got up here seven years ago and
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Every time I bring it up, every day I would get Democrats and, oh, no, that's not fair.
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What's not fair to TSA or Secret Service or Coast Guard or ICE to not get paid either?
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Oh, no, I'm, I'm very mad about not funding these people.
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uh so why why is the president then on board he's not saying he's doing it
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oh he's not he's not saying he's doing it no he's not have you seen a public statement
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he's not said no i've not i've heard i've heard from sources from i've heard from sources near
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the president anonymous sources yeah anonymous sources okay so look the president look the
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He's doing everything he can to get these criminals out of the country.
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We're not going to let these Democrats get something passed that doesn't fund ICE.
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And by the way, they say, oh, they say, well, they'll get funding for the big, beautiful bill.
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In the big, beautiful bill, all it covers is hiring and training, okay, performance, retention, and signing bonuses.
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Does that sound like that can pay everyday salaries?
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it doesn't to me i want i want somebody to explain to me how if they want to go down this path how
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are these ice agents going to be because i get paid i want the people they're doing enforcement
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and removal operations to get more money i want the criminals gone so how long before their
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salaries how long before their salaries are not covered because i mean how long are you going to
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to be able to keep them watching over our airports if they're not covered when does that
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well run out well mike i can i don't know how they're paying them now if you look at the if
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you look at the big beautiful bill they said oh we can pay them to the big beautiful bill
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well it says hiring and training performance retention signing bonus so i'm just asked i'm
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just asking everybody tell me how you know because here's what happened they'll say oh yeah we can
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pay them and then what will happen they'll go along and then some liberal judges say no i looked
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at the big beautiful bill you can't pay these people so now what are we going to do then we
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have no leverage and the democrats are the ones who did this they're the ones shut down the governor
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and this part of government january 30 i completely opposed it i said this is this we will never i
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said at the time ice will never be funded by these democrats they care about illegal aliens they do
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not care about americans that's where we are no that's that's very very that's very very clear you
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know when when you have jd prisker come out and say or who was it that said yesterday uh chris
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murphy that you're in the wrong place at the wrong time no no who was that yeah that was a
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yeah i don't know politician yeah another politician yeah that that you know the victim
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was in the wrong place the wrong time no you know who's in the wrong place the illegal alien
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not the american citizen the illegal alien but they just don't care about that they'd be alive
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how what is it one of these democrats are good how what do you say to lincoln riley's family
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When you say, well, I'm not worried about getting those people funded up or, you know, what do you say to them?
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If it happened to your kid, you'd be pissed as hell.
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Well, I was disturbed this morning when I heard that this was going through.
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And because it was one of my questions I was going to ask you, they said, well, the Democrats said we'll bring that up in September.
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they're they're going to pass all of these things that the republicans like in september not a
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chance right so and then they say oh we'll do it in reconciliation reconciliation is only mandatory
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funding and by the way in reconciliation you can't pay normal salaries and and the the big
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beautiful bill was reconciliation the tax cuts were great the rest of it we spent money like
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truck and sailors so how do you because part of this has to be now how do you sell this to the
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american people we are in a war with a terror you know the biggest terror state in the world
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um we know we have sleeper cells here we're seeing terrorist activities we had we had drones flying
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over one of our nuke bases and they were not you know from home depot or from best buy
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they had jamming capability we could not jam them and bring them down they had capability of staying
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up against us we don't know who that is how how do you sell this to the american people
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um because the democrats are going to spend this so we did a deal but the republicans just didn't
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want it yeah we'd be honest and you've got to you've got to go you've got to go on television
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and you have to be honest with the american people we care about you they care about illegal aliens
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let me show you and do the vote every day let's take a vote every day to open up open up all of
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homeland security let's take it every day and say we don't get why they don't care about you
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so we have to just go tell people and be completely honest with them we want to we want
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to make sure you're safe we like right now think about this we we have um the cyber security threat
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okay i think it's two-thirds of people that are protecting the country on that are are furloughed
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right now because of this shutdown uh coast guard shutdown i mean i mean i say they we got to be
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honest the democrats are not the people that care about you and don't act like they're normal it's
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not normal for them to say i don't care about sheridan gorman or she was just the wrong place
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at the wrong time no she didn't she didn't move she didn't go to some faraway country and walk
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and go out in the middle of the night she was in the united states of america which should be safe
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okay so tell me what you and your fellow senators would like the american people to do because the
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american people well i think the american people are the ones that have kept the save america act
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alive in the first place and they don't understand you know i just i got it i got an email in from
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let me see uh one of our listeners and she said um gosh where is it um who who are these senators
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that just won't get this done on our side well here so what here's what i tell everybody to do
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all right though i want to get the save america act passed the only way it's going to get done
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Let people know, this is representative government.
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and say, get your button gear and get this done.
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You vote not to pay people, you don't get paid.
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We don't pass budgets up here, you don't get paid.
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All these Democrat senators are fine with people not getting paid.
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What about those poor TSA agents that only make $50,000 when U.S. senators here make $174,000?
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And by the way, the average Democrat senator is worth $3 million.
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So they're not hurting, but guess who's hurting?
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These people are worried about their car payment, their home payment, their kid's school,
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They can't do it now because they're worried about getting a paycheck.
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Three shutdowns in six months by these Democrats.
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so we've got to be honest and and get out there and tell people this is what's going on and quit
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letting the democrats act like oh we care because they don't they don't care they don't give a damn
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about americans senator rick scott from florida thank you sir thank you for fighting thanks for
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standing up and and at least trying to push the truth we're gonna get there appreciate it
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thank you all right bye-bye senator rick scott from the great state of florida
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Now, Congress and the vice president now in charge of looking at fraud.
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We are estimating that a third, a third of our budget is going to fraud.
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you're a household that's having trouble and you find out that a third of what you're bringing home
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and spending every month is going to fraud and waste, wouldn't that be the biggest priority?
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You're barely making it. That would be the biggest priority, wouldn't it? I mean, besides,
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hey, by the way, we've just let some people move into our house that we have no idea who they are
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and they might be raping our children at night. That might be a higher priority, but it's pretty
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high up there isn't it Democrats I just I really want to know I want to know what you say this is
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a distraction for more important things what are those more important things uh making sure our
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elections are secure um how about TSA you know we are in a war with the the biggest terror country
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in the world maybe maybe we can maybe we can have a little you know Department of Homeland Security
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or TSA? Can we do that? Do you care about people waiting six hours in line, missing their flights,
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stopping everything, border security? By the way, FAA couldn't make it up to LaGuardia yesterday.
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Some didn't arrive until 2 a.m. this morning. Why? Because they were standing in line. Why?
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Because the Democrats have refused to fund the TSA. I don't know why. By the way, if we had a DHS,
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maybe we could look into those drones. We don't know where the drones came from, but they were
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all hovering over one of our biggest nuclear bases and these weren't stuff you buy at Best Buy
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okay these are drones they couldn't shut them down we have jamming technology we couldn't jam them
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who just sent those drones can we look into that is anybody looking into that do we have can we get
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can we get the Department of Homeland Security on that because that seems like that does seem
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like a big priority, doesn't it, Democrats? Maybe not for you. You know, I look at all
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of the stories of the day, and I think to myself, I'm so angry. I am so angry all the
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time. I am so angry. I am worried about our country. I'm worried about my business. I'm
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worried about my family. You are too. You're worried about gas prices. You're worried about
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making the bills every single month. You know, you're shuffling. You've got credit cards that
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you're juggling. Everybody's in this. Everybody's in this. You're worried about all kinds of things
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and you're on the edge and you're angry and disenfranchised and you don't think anybody's
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listening to you. Oh, man. I want to start there with the way all of us feel, because I want to
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show you what happens when a whole society feels that way. Every civilization, everyone that's
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ever risen, everyone that's ever collapsed has been built on the same raw material, us,
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flawed human beings. Now, every civilization tells stories of, you know, monsters and saints,
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but generally everybody's just a normal person, okay? And we're normal people with predictable
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weaknesses. You can call them sins, you can call them drives, you can call them personality traits,
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whatever, but it's just the way nature is, okay? The pattern is as old as we are.
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Some people are driven by pride and they need to be seen as, you know, really, really good people, even when they're not.
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Some people are driven by anger, believing that the world has to be corrected no matter the cost.
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I'm just not able to tolerate somebody having something that I don't have.
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A lot of people are just motivated by fear. They're so desperate for safety, they will trade
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anything for safety. Others, deceit. Lying not just to others, but most importantly,
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to themselves. And then the rest of us kind of fit and sloth. You know what I mean?
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Not laziness in the physical sense, but just a refusal to engage, to think, to stand. I have
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somebody else do it okay there are nine variations of all of these things that you know humans have
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but the one reality is we're humans and we're frail okay well civilization everybody thinks
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civilization is natural it's not natural it's not the default setting of humanity chaos is the
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default setting of humanity. Civilization is an achievement and it's held together by guardrails,
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some sort of guardrails or guards. If you don't have the guards, you have to have the guardrails
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and those things restrain all of our weaknesses. And we think it's natural because we've been
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living in a civilization that has been built over two millennia and it grew out of another
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civilization that was thousands of years older, the Judeo-Christian worldview, okay?
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Out of that worldview, we built systems over centuries. We got it wrong for a long time.
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We had kings, and we had serfs, and we had barbarians, all of these things.
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But it grew over time to compensate for what we knew what was broken in us. How do we hold
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society together. And we built families to teach values early. We built faith traditions to call
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us to something higher than ourselves. We built laws to restrain what that faith guardrail
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sometimes fails to control. We built schools to pass down knowledge. We built a free press
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so truth could be challenged, you know, with power. We built social norms. We built shame
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and honor and duty to keep all of our behavior because we're all flawed human beings inside the
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lines. None of these systems are perfect, not one, but together they form kind of a scaffolding,
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okay? And all of that scaffolding, listen to me, all of this scaffolding comes from the Judeo-Christian
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worldview. And that worldview is now under attack. It's that structure that allowed all of
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us flawed people to live in relative freedom without destroying one another. It is the miracle
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of the West. It's not perfection, but it's balanced. And now we are living in a society
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where there are millions of people that believe that civilization is just something that just
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pops up. We can destroy this civilization, and out of that vacuum is going to appear something
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better and brighter and more enlightened. It's going to be fabulous. Out of what? How? When has
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that ever happened? What fills a vacuum is whatever is strongest, fiercest, with the biggest club.
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that's the root of civilization when you don't have any principles
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so now we are intentionally targeting all of these guardrails we're taking them down one by one
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one at a time they're all disappearing so what happens when truth becomes negotiable
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when the press no longer informs it just persuades when education stops teaching you
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how to think and starts telling you what to think curiosity is going to die when faith is hollowed
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or mocked, there's no higher authority than just me, me, me, me, me, me. When the laws
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are all selectively enforced, what happens? Justice becomes a weapon instead of a shield.
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Are we not seeing that? When culture stops honoring responsibility, what happens?
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entitlement comes in and fills the vacuum. And then what happens?
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All those human frailties, they don't disappear. They now are expanding and growing stronger and
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stronger and stronger. Pride becomes moral superiority. Fear is compliance. Envy is just
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redistribution by force. Deceit, lies. It's just a narrative. Sloth is disengagement. Millions of
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people watching, but not acting. We're just, I'm too tired. Do you see this pattern?
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Because history is really clear. When individuals stop compensating for their own weaknesses,
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they don't just harm themselves, which is another lie that was one of the first ones
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start dismantling us. What you do doesn't matter. It does. Because once you start dismantling these
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things in yourself, you become vulnerable. You're vulnerable to manipulation. You're vulnerable to
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ideology. You're vulnerable to anyone who knows how to pull the right lever. And that's not a
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theory. How do I know that? Have you ever watched a spy movie? Have you ever watched how espionage
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works? How the mob works? A foreign power? Anybody who wants somebody on the inside that will do
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their dirty work? Who do they go to? How do they find them? Every intelligence agency in the world
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knows this. They don't recruit spies by accident. They don't recruit spies that are happy with their
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life. They look for patterns. Find somebody who feels overlooked. Find somebody who is drowning
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in debt. Find the person that believes they've been wronged by the system. Find the one who just
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craves importance. Find the one that is afraid. When you're looking for somebody to turn against
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their own country or whatever it is, they don't create the weakness, they exploit it.
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Now, take that same principle and scale it from the individual to our entire society.
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what happens when an entire society millions of people are angry they're afraid they're envious
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they're disconnected from truth you don't need an invasion you have the pressure point
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and if and i can't imagine this happening if someone foreign or domestic knows how to press
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that pressure point everything begins to fracture from within that's how societies fall
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and that's what's happening to us right now do you not think that around we just
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data republican proved this just i think was yesterday or last week iran iran iran is funding
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rallies that are happening in our cities we know that china is doing the same thing do you not
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think that all of our enemies are not involved in our public discourse, looking to exploit all of
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those things, those natural tendencies that Western civilization and all those guardrails
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used to keep in check. Civilizations are not just conquered when somebody rolls in. They're
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compromised first. Look at history. Rome didn't fall because the barbarians were strong. Rome fell
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because it was weak everybody was just detached the institutions were hollowed out nobody believed
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in anything its values now whatever by the time the gates were breached the collapse had already
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happened now look now look around you think about how you just felt when i was reading those stories
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because it's all those things that somebody if they're doing espionage would look and look for
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and you and me. This is the part that matters. Not the noise, not the daily outrage, not the
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headlines. It's a question none of us are asking ourselves. Are our guardrails holding?
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Truly, it's not. Is truth still anchored or is it fluid? Are people being taught to think
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or just repeat? Are institutions trusted because they're trustworthy or because dissent is
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punished? Are we becoming more resilient or more easily manipulated? And are we as individuals
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compensating for our own weaknesses or indulging them? Here's the thing I'm trying to remind
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and there's a lot of blame going to the politicians.
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begins and that's where it can still be stopped.
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And they choose discipline over impulse, truth over comfort, courage over fear.
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Those are only as strong as the people who live under them.
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They're all lived every day in the choices that you and I make every single day.
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The question is, can we recognize the moment we are all in before the fall becomes inevitable?
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Are we willing to do the hardest thing in a collapsing age?
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because that is where every civilization is either saved or lost its people think about this
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who saved the world from fascism the united states of america was it our government was it fdr
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or was it our grandparents and our great-grandparents they were the ones that went over
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and fought it they were the ones that didn't turn into animals afterwards they're the ones that
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didn't go on rape gangs after. They could have. Every other country does. Was that our laws or
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was that our Judeo-Christian values, our civilization that had guardrails and then we
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didn't need the guards? Some did, but most of us didn't. We had our own internal guardrails
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based on those values. We're like, that's not us, man. That's not us. We're losing that.
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that will not be passed on to the next generation.
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