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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today, we talk to Brad Meltzer, who is on the program. We also have

00:00:06.300 an update on the current emergency going on. And you might say, well, which one of the 27

00:00:11.420 Biden emergencies are you talking about? Well, none of them. I'm talking about, of course,

00:00:17.000 the emergency in the solar energy realm that is justifying all sorts of executive action.

00:00:23.980 We'll get into that today as well. And all of the new gun laws being passed around the country

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00:02:00.440 Los Angeles, San Francisco, and California. We are going to know a lot about the direction

00:02:12.640 of our country by this time tomorrow, depending on what the left does in California. Their primary

00:02:20.100 is today. And it looks pretty grim for Democrats. Now, the Democrats are throwing around a poll right

00:02:27.920 now that shows some interesting things about Kamala Harris. I'll get to that here in a second. But I

00:02:33.540 want to also show you the poll numbers just to show you the direction of America. The support for late

00:02:43.640 term abortion is 15% in the country. 63% say our country is on the wrong track. Only 16% of America

00:02:55.760 thinks that we will avoid a recession. 62% think Biden is unfit. 74% want a balanced budget. 68% want a

00:03:08.400 keystone pipeline restored. 67% want Biden to be more moderate. 73% want drilling and gas open. 61% think

00:03:20.940 more spending will increase inflation. 69% of the people think fetus is viable at or before 16 weeks.

00:03:30.500 77% thinks that the SCOTUS leak was only to subvert the ruling. 82% want tougher prosecution and

00:03:40.440 sentencing to solve crime. 65% say we need enforcement, not new gun laws. And 53% think Biden

00:03:50.100 uses violence for political advantage. Now think of that. You think that America doesn't get it. She's 0.64

00:03:59.980 waking up. Those numbers are astonishing. Now the Mark Penn poll that comes out shows that

00:04:08.740 Kamala Harris is slightly beating DeSantis. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And I'm sure that is that's good.

00:04:19.940 Just, you know, questioning average Americans. I think Kamala Harris is somebody that everybody can get

00:04:27.160 behind. So let's look at what California's, uh, Californians have to decide. They're holding their

00:04:34.660 primary elections today. Um, and, uh, some high profile incumbents are up for reelection.

00:04:43.380 52 house races, um, a senator running in two separate races and a competitive showdown for Los

00:04:50.640 Angeles mayor. The guy who looks like, do you know anything about him, Stu? The guy that looks like

00:04:56.700 he may win, uh, just became a Democrat. He's a lifelong Republican, I guess. Uh, and he is now,

00:05:05.240 uh, uh, uh, running to take over, uh, the mayoral, um, office in Los Angeles. Um, he's a major real

00:05:16.220 estate developer. He just recently joined the Democratic Party, received a rare endorsement from,

00:05:21.840 uh, Elon Musk, has spent more than $34 million on his campaign. That's 10 times more than his main

00:05:29.360 opponent. Uh, his opponent is a six-term Democrat, Karen Bass. And, uh, he has tapped in to the idea

00:05:38.800 that Democrat, Democratic leaders have taken California and pushed it into the ocean.

00:05:44.240 That would be remarkable if he would win, uh, in the primary today. Yeah. Elon Musk kind of throwing

00:05:54.520 his weight behind him was a big, uh, got a lot of attention there. Although Karen Bass was one of

00:06:01.960 the people, if you remember, discussed as one of the potential vice presidential picks, uh, when Joe

00:06:08.360 Biden limited the field to only one of the two genders and one skin color. And when he did that,

00:06:15.640 he decided to, uh, Karen Bass was one of the finalists, but no one really knew kind of who she

00:06:20.540 was. And, uh, but she's turned that sort of increased notoriety into this run, which may be 1.00

00:06:27.440 successful. I mean, you'd think Los Angeles would pick the most crazy progressive option possible, but

00:06:33.220 they've had to deal with the results of these policies for a very long time. And I think

00:06:38.520 someone who, who's on the Democratic side is still a D on the ballot, but is endorsed by someone like

00:06:48.060 Elon Musk might be something they're interested in and changing it up a little bit. So it's what we

00:06:52.380 talked about with Michael Schellenberger yesterday, who's running as an independent,

00:06:55.300 you know, someone who is different and, and maybe could change the dynamics of the state in a way that

00:07:03.120 I think people in California would really like. I have to tell you, I think that there is, um,

00:07:10.920 there tomorrow at this time, we could see a very different, uh, look at what is coming.

00:07:19.080 I mean, we think it's going to be good for Republicans. If this happens in California,

00:07:24.700 because there's another story coming out of San Francisco, uh, and, uh, it, it looks like,

00:07:31.840 uh, the prosecutor is going to be thrown out. Now, this is, this is somebody whose parents were

00:07:39.640 members of the weather underground. Uh, they were in prison during his childhood. Uh, he went to Yale,

00:07:46.960 earned a road scholarship and, uh, then became a, um, uh, DA with the help of George Soros,

00:07:55.580 embraced black lives matter, called for a new approaching to policing. And that's why you have,

00:08:01.840 the reign of criminals, uh, there in, uh, in San Francisco. So now, and remember, this is,

00:08:10.640 this is where, uh, you know, Kamala Harris was the DA in now, and now it looks like, uh, there is a

00:08:19.920 real chance that he goes night, night in California, another shockwave, another shockwave.

00:08:28.520 Uh, some of the others that are happening around the country. Do you have any of them? I know in

00:08:35.080 Iowa, uh, there's a couple of, a couple of shockwaves, um, in, uh, Montana. Um, a second congressional

00:08:47.300 seat that has just been gained loud in the latest redistricting. Um, Ryan, is it Zinke who served as the

00:08:56.700 Interior Secretary under, uh, President Trump is expected to win the GOP nomination as the

00:09:01.940 Republican leading district? That's really good.

00:09:07.480 Yeah, there's a, there's a bunch. I think there's 16 primaries today, 16 states, uh, or 16, um,

00:09:14.920 sorry, I'm reading the wrong headline there. Let's see. We've got New Jersey. You got, uh,

00:09:20.280 flipping through here. Uh, Mississippi is today. South Dakota is today. Iowa is today. New Mexico

00:09:28.680 is today. Montana is today. So you got, I don't know, six or seven states there. Um, a bunch of

00:09:34.880 races, uh, that are, you know, there's, I don't think there's anything like headline grabbing like

00:09:39.280 there was in Pennsylvania and Georgia. Those are the states that were kind of big news. We, I don't know

00:09:45.020 if we did, I think we did mention yesterday, Dr. Oz did officially win that, uh, McCormick, um,

00:09:50.120 conceded that race. Yeah. So he will be going up, uh, uh, uh, against, uh, you know, Fetterman in that,

00:09:56.460 uh, primary in Pennsylvania. Um, but I mean, you know, it's like, we're getting into this. This is,

00:10:02.880 you watch the way the left is acting right now. And that tells you exactly how well they think this

00:10:09.080 is going to go. And they do not, they see what I think we all see, which is a potential potential

00:10:16.240 for a historic wave election. This is it. I mean, this is a, there is a real opportunity here. Rarely

00:10:24.740 do you see a president after only two years fall to the depths of 34% approval rating. This is being

00:10:34.020 handed to Republicans on a silver platter. It's just a matter of if they knock it over or not.

00:10:39.080 So here is the problem, uh, that I see Stu is, I don't know if you saw the, um, executive order

00:10:47.280 that went out. The emergency powers was used now, uh, for this climate emergency, which hasn't

00:10:54.060 officially been declared, but that was the, that was last week's episode on the Wednesday night special

00:11:01.800 that they are going to declare a climate emergency, which will give the, the president all kinds of

00:11:08.760 unlimited power. Uh, and, uh, yesterday, did you see that he enacted the defense production act?

00:11:16.960 Yeah. On solar panels. Was it? Uh, so he says we're having an energy crisis and a global warming

00:11:27.340 crisis, and we've got to get the solar panels, uh, done. Now it surprisingly, and I'm sure he didn't

00:11:34.840 know this helps China, but, uh, he's got that one done for us. And now it's in a fascistic sort of way.

00:11:43.920 The government has declared, the president has declared the defense emergency act where he can

00:11:51.820 go in and, and say, producers, you have to produce these things. I don't care what you say.

00:11:59.240 The government is now telling you, do these things for energy. Yeah. The, uh, absolutely terrible new

00:12:07.200 press secretary was asked about this. This is clip one, by the way, um, which, and, you know, she is

00:12:12.920 not prepared for any of this stuff. She doesn't seem to have any idea what's coming. Everything is a

00:12:17.740 surprise. And the only way she responds to this stuff typically is reading it. She was asked about

00:12:23.320 this solar emergency that we were just learning about. Uh, this is yesterday. What emergency is

00:12:29.460 the president using to invoke the defense production act? Cause historically it's been

00:12:32.400 in the 1950s, uh, for the Korean war and during COVID it was enacted. What emergency is it? What's

00:12:38.060 the real emergency in the solar industry for the defense production act? Um, so let me, uh, I was

00:12:44.140 going to say first the president, you know, when he takes the defense production act is to make sure

00:12:48.220 that he's delivering for the American people. Uh, it is an important tool that he has used a couple

00:12:53.080 of times and it has been incredibly effective, effective. What's the emergency in the solar

00:12:57.340 industry? Has it been used since Korea war to get to, to a place where we do have a clean

00:13:02.360 energy arsenal. And so this is a very important part of the president's, uh, this is a very

00:13:07.220 important part of the president's, uh, uh, agenda and getting to that clean energy, uh, uh, system

00:13:13.660 that he's been talking about since he walked into the administration. So this is that, and this

00:13:17.560 is a way that we feel that we can act to get moving in that way. Now, that's just not how this

00:13:22.220 works. That's not how any of this works. You don't just come up with an agenda and start doing

00:13:26.900 forcing companies to make the products you want. That's not how this country operates.

00:13:30.860 You have to have an agenda. That's fascistic, right? Yes. Yes. That is fascistic. And on top,

00:13:36.600 this is the great reset. He's just moving forward with it. Now, remember what he just said,

00:13:43.380 what that reporter just said, the president, uh, has used this now two times in his first term,

00:13:51.240 the last time it was used was during war in Korea. This is not something you used to and take it

00:14:03.340 lightly. This is defense production. And he's now saying we're trying to defend ourselves against

00:14:11.300 global warming. And this is extraordinarily dangerous. Now, just like now in theory, you have

00:14:18.700 a president who, when you have a president that bumbles and doesn't know what he's talking about

00:14:22.220 as much as Joe Biden, you have a press secretary that comes in and cleans it up. We saw that with

00:14:27.160 Jen Psaki occasionally, and she was not a great press secretary by any means, but now they need to have

00:14:33.700 people come in and clean up the words of the press secretary who had absolutely no idea, apparently, 0.86

00:14:41.380 that you can't just use the defense production act to forward your policy agenda. That's not what

00:14:47.800 it's for. So they did come in later and clean up and said, the emergency that justifies this is the

00:14:53.860 drought. So in theory, what we're seeing is we have a drought in the West. And what we're going to do is

00:15:00.760 force companies to build solar panels, which if we did it at, in a scale that no one can possibly

00:15:07.600 imagine might shave off one tenth of a degree Celsius over the next 50 years. But that's how

00:15:15.380 they're going to deal with the emergency drought. Unbelievable. Incredible. Wait until we have a food 0.87

00:15:21.740 emergency, an energy emergency, the climate emergency, a monkey pox emergency. This is how you lose your 0.99

00:15:30.580 nation to fascism. No matter what Antifa says, this is a fascistic move. This is the best of the

00:15:40.980 Glenn Beck program. We welcome now Alex Berenson. Hello, Alex. How are you, sir? Hey, Glenn. Good to

00:15:50.140 talk to you. Good to talk to you. Thank you for coming on. I think what you're doing here is

00:15:56.180 extraordinarily important. Whether you agreed with the, you know, the vaccine or not, it doesn't

00:16:07.460 matter. What's the truth on that? And is the government shutting people up in collusion with

00:16:14.820 these drug companies? And that's what you're looking for, correct? Well, so so yeah, I mean,

00:16:21.920 look, I'm a big believer in free speech. Um, and you know, I, I, uh, I think that used to be

00:16:29.000 something that, you know, people on the left generally agreed about, uh, you know, and I think

00:16:33.460 actually, you know, the ACLU famously, you know, they would, they would support neo-Nazis and they

00:16:39.820 would defend anybody's right to speak. And, um, and, and, you know, I, that's where I stand on this.

00:16:46.900 Okay. That people should have the right to speak even as long as they're not, as long as they're

00:16:51.180 not saying, you know, as long as they're not telling somebody, you know, go murder, you know,

00:16:55.360 my, you know, the president or there, there, there can be limits. Okay. But they're correct. Very

00:17:01.020 narrow. Okay. So, so that's where I come from on this issue. And it's, and it's incredibly

00:17:06.560 disappointing to me that my former colleagues at the New York times and other places, uh, you know,

00:17:10.720 on the left don't seem to agree about this anymore. So yes, Twitter banned me in August of

00:17:16.680 2021 for a, for a tweet that begins the, the, it doesn't stop infection or transmission. And I was

00:17:24.120 writing about the vaccines. Now, I don't think anybody in the world at this point disagrees with

00:17:28.740 that. The vaccines do not stop infection or transmission. Um, so, so, so, so I in December

00:17:36.500 sued and said, um, you know, you violated my free speech rights and, um, you breached your contract

00:17:44.500 with me and specifically Twitter knew who I was. And I had been in communication with a pretty senior

00:17:51.900 executive there who for more than a year in 2020 and 2021 told me that what I was doing was okay.

00:17:59.960 So, and suddenly in July of 2021, everything changed and it changed when in a week, when Joe Biden said

00:18:08.880 that the social media platforms were killing people, that was his words, he said, they're killing

00:18:13.460 people. Wow. So, so something changed to, in terms of Twitter's posture towards me in July, 2021

00:18:22.360 and August, 2021. So, so, so in late, okay, so wait, wait, wait, when did you say, when did you say

00:18:29.780 that it doesn't stop transmission? When did you make that tweet? In August, in August, but I had been

00:18:36.860 in August. Okay. I would say I had been aggressively skeptical about the value of the vaccines almost

00:18:43.200 since they were initially released. And we could, we could talk about why I felt that way, but that's

00:18:47.920 a whole nother conversation. But by the way, I wasn't saying, Hey, the vaccines are a part of a

00:18:52.160 depopulation campaign. I didn't talk about stuff like that. I just said, I don't think these things

00:18:56.120 work as well as, as has been claimed. Okay. And, and because as you, as you mentioned to your

00:19:02.240 listeners, I used to cover the pharmaceutical industry for the New York times. So I'm very

00:19:06.980 skeptical of the way they run clinical trials. I'm very aware of the games they play, which again,

00:19:12.580 is something that people on the left used to understand. They used to understand that these

00:19:16.440 companies, you know, they're nobody's friend. Okay. They're, they, they, they may sometimes make

00:19:21.660 good products, but they're in it for the money. Can I, can I ask you a question? How shocking is it

00:19:28.180 that you and I, me and you agree on freedom of speech, that you have the right to question

00:19:36.460 anything? Uh, and that we would agree that it's not part of a depopulation plan, et cetera, et cetera.

00:19:43.800 But pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical companies should always be questioned. They're very dangerous

00:19:51.640 if they're not questioned. That's, that's right. And, and, you know, I mean, everything from the price

00:19:57.700 of insulin to the price of EpiPens. I mean, these companies don't act in the public interest. They

00:20:02.720 act in their own interests and, you know, that's kind of what a capitalist system is, but we need

00:20:06.940 to know that and question it. So, so I had been questioning the vaccines with Twitter's full knowledge

00:20:13.720 and, and essentially approval for, for months and months. And then in July, 2021, everything changed.

00:20:23.380 And, and, and these companies at that time, uh, Twitter and Facebook, especially were under

00:20:28.100 tremendous pressure from the federal government about vaccines and vaccine uptake. So I sued in

00:20:34.480 December and in, in April, uh, about a month, uh, just over a month ago, the, a federal judge in,

00:20:41.860 uh, California, um, and he's not a Trump judge. He's a Clinton judge, by the way, uh, said that some of

00:20:49.320 my claims could go forward and that Twitter was going to have to provide information to me about

00:20:53.820 what they'd been saying about me, but also about what other people, including in the federal

00:20:59.400 government, including drug companies, including everywhere had been saying about me. And so I'm

00:21:05.840 going to get a look at how this censorship process works. And that is unique. I mean, even the Trump

00:21:11.480 lawsuit was dismissed. These lawsuits are almost always dismissed. And so what, whatever it is,

00:21:17.480 and I don't know what they have in there. I'll find out. That's why it's called discovery.

00:21:21.440 Um, and maybe, you know, maybe nobody said anything to them. We will find out, but I'm in a unique

00:21:27.480 position here and I'm pretty excited about it. Um, you know, from the point of view of being a reporter

00:21:32.880 and from the point of view of, you know, being able to tell other people about this. So I, so I have

00:21:38.920 the lawsuit and I'm raising money right now with this, with a go fund me campaign because it is

00:21:43.640 expensive, but I'm not going to run out of money. People have donated a lot of money to this.

00:21:48.720 How can, if people want to join you on this fight, how can they donate money?

00:21:52.400 Uh, they can go to go fund me, put in my name, which is Berenson B E R E N S O N. Uh, and, 0.99

00:22:00.140 and it should come up. It says fight social media censorship. That's the name of the campaign

00:22:04.080 fight, social media censorship. So I know people don't like, do you think Alex yours? Sorry.

00:22:11.400 Right. I know. I know. I know. Um, Alex, why do you think that this, it did go for a forward

00:22:19.680 where Trump's didn't, et cetera, et cetera. Why do you think the judge singled yours, your case out?

00:22:26.720 Um, I think, I think he looked at the facts and he said, uh, you know, this guy was in

00:22:33.820 communication with Twitter for more than a year and he was writing all this stuff. But in 2020,

00:22:40.400 before the vaccines came out, well, you know, I sort of first came to people's attention

00:22:44.020 because I was saying things like, look, the school should not be closed. Kids are not at risk.

00:22:48.820 And, you know, the teachers unions hated that Trump got in trouble for that. And that's now

00:22:53.320 accepted wisdom. Okay. I was, I was pretty early on that. And I was arguing, Hey, we don't have very

00:22:59.500 good evidence that masks work. They don't really seem to work very well. This is mainly theater.

00:23:03.600 You know, I would say that's largely accepted wisdom now. So, so I was prominently questioning

00:23:10.520 all of the non-vaccine stuff. And I have, again, I have these communications with Twitter

00:23:16.280 showing that they knew what I was doing. And, and I would say they were even encouraging me to do it.

00:23:22.000 So because of the facts pattern that I have, where things changed dramatically in 20, in July of 2021,

00:23:29.840 I think we got a judge who was willing to look at the facts and say, this guy's got a real case here.

00:23:37.120 He's got a real case that Twitter violated its own contract with him. I'm going to let this go forward.

00:23:42.660 Alex, can you, you know, back in the 1850s, 1860s, Abraham Lincoln had what he called the wide awake

00:23:50.800 club. And it was for people who were wide awake about slavery, et cetera, et cetera. Why do you suppose

00:23:58.740 so many people, and I would say on both sides are just fighting this, this political fight,

00:24:08.180 and especially on the left right now, where you have some really fascistic things happening

00:24:16.400 that the left has always been against. Why have so many people fallen asleep?

00:24:24.320 You know, it's a, it's a great question. It's funny. I, Tucker Carlson, who I talked to from time to

00:24:29.160 time, he has a theory about this. I think there may be some truth in it, which is that, you know,

00:24:34.340 we're living, especially on the left in sort of a post-religious world, you know, a world where,

00:24:40.480 where a lot of people don't believe in God. And so they're searching for something else to take the

00:24:46.340 place of that faith. And so politics for some people has become that, and look, that could happen on the

00:24:54.440 right or the left. But I think when you, when you, you know, when you don't have any sort of acquaintance

00:24:59.520 with, with spirituality, or with God, I think it can be easier for that to happen for you. I think

00:25:05.740 that's one reason. I also think, you know, there's now, I mean, to some extent, you know, you're an

00:25:10.420 example of it, you know, on one side, and a place like MSNBC is an example. On the other side, there is

00:25:15.620 this, there are so many places where people can go just to hear their own side. And so, and that's one

00:25:23.660 reason I really want to be back on Twitter. I think it would be important for me to be back on Twitter is

00:25:28.040 people say, Oh, just go on truth social. And I said, I don't want to talk to people who just

00:25:32.100 want to hear who already agree with me. I want to talk to people. Exactly right. I don't want that

00:25:36.640 either. Right. And let them try to convince you. That's how, that's how it gets better. And that's

00:25:41.560 what the last has forgotten there. It's important. I mean, it's, it's, uh, it's a religious idea from

00:25:51.340 the scriptures, uh, uh, opposition in all things. There must be opposition in all things. We need

00:25:59.840 each other. We don't, we're not successful without somebody going, wait a minute, that doesn't make

00:26:05.260 any sense. It's that give and take that, that I honestly think what made us who we are, uh, and gave

00:26:14.340 us the great technology and the life-saving drugs and everything else. If you're not allowed to think

00:26:20.180 you're back in the dark ages, if you're not allowed, if you're only listening to one side,

00:26:25.320 and I would go a step further. If you are the kind of person that if somebody makes a great case,

00:26:33.900 you don't say, well, now, wait a minute. I never thought of it that way. Hang on.

00:26:38.980 And it would admit that that changed your mind or it might change your mind. Then you're, you're,

00:26:46.340 you're playing the same game that is going to get us in trouble. Yes. And by the way,

00:26:50.580 it's not just politics. That's true of science too, right? The notion that these people don't

00:26:57.820 want to be challenged, that Fauci doesn't want to be challenged or, or the, you know,

00:27:02.020 the epidemiologist can't be challenged. It's crazy. And, and it, it, you know, it's led to a lot

00:27:08.580 of trouble the last couple of years. Science. Uh, you know, you, you were, you know, you said

00:27:14.060 that, uh, you thought that, uh, Tucker Carlson had a, uh, may have something to that point,

00:27:19.320 but that's actually Nietzsche. Uh, and he's, and he was absolutely right. When there is no God,

00:27:24.820 you will replace it with something. And I think we're replacing it with politics or politicians

00:27:29.480 or science. Um, and we have developed a religion. You will bow to these gods and you will say nothing

00:27:39.220 or you're a heretic and we'll burn you at the stake or drive you out of society. 1.00

00:27:44.020 Yep. Uh, you know, somebody of all the emails, I've got so many emails from so many people the 0.99

00:27:49.300 last couple of years. The one that struck me more than any other was somebody who emailed me. He said,

00:27:55.380 you know, I thought before all this started that the two most powerful emotions were love and hate.

00:28:00.300 He said, but I was wrong. The most powerful emotion is fear. And it's true. If you scare people and,

00:28:06.300 and the left has done, I mean, look, the right does it too, but the left has done just a tremendous

00:28:10.880 job of scaring people about COVID about Donald Trump, about, you know, about lots of stuff.

00:28:16.480 When you scare people, they stop thinking and we can't stop thinking.

00:28:21.580 Amen. It is great to talk to you. And I wish you the best of luck.

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00:29:07.320 to be a part of it. Alex, thank you so much. Alec Berenson, his last name is spelled B E R E N S O N.

00:29:14.340 Thanks, Alex. I appreciate it.

00:29:19.980 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:22.100 I want to talk to you about a growing fascistic movement with actual teeth attached to it. This

00:29:39.100 isn't like, Oh, he's a fascist. I will show you what they're doing. Uh, that is literally fascistic

00:29:46.940 in nature, literally, uh, by the actual dictionary definition of the word fascism. Um, let me start

00:29:55.680 with this. If we were building nuclear power plants and we were encouraging hydrogen use for our

00:30:04.480 automobiles, I would be so deep into it. It, uh, it is the answer between nuclear power, which is the

00:30:14.520 cleanest and safest form of energy the world has ever seen. Stu, can you back that up? The safest form

00:30:24.620 of energy in the history of the world? Yes, I agree with that analysis. Okay. Thank you for those

00:30:32.400 stats. Um, you just said it was the safest. He's a good guy. Yes. Yes. Glenn confirmed number one on

00:30:39.480 the list. I, I don't know what stat you want to book. Number one is because I know you're into these

00:30:45.540 things. Yeah, no, I know you're into these things and I know that you, uh, you know, that you have

00:30:50.100 looked through the history. Everybody thinks it's so dangerous, but it is not, it's not dangerous,

00:30:55.800 especially in the United States. So if we were pursuing this and opening these, uh, baby

00:31:02.380 up and letting them run at full capacity at night and when nobody's using electricity, making hydrogen

00:31:09.460 for our cars, it would be a miracle. It would be a miracle. It would be everything we're looking for

00:31:17.600 good for the planet, safe, effective, and we could move on with our lives. We would be world leaders

00:31:26.800 again in almost everything. If we just did that, but that's not what we're doing. Instead, we are doing

00:31:34.680 solar panels and wind power. Let me tell you about solar panels. If solar panels were something that

00:31:46.080 would work, I'd be all for solar panels. I am your, this broadcast is being powered now by solar,

00:31:55.540 wind, wind, and, uh, natural gas, natural gas, only if we get into trouble and we don't have enough

00:32:05.080 power for the broadcast, but it has taken me 11 very long and expensive years to get the solar panel

00:32:15.920 system up and hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is not something the average American or the average

00:32:25.320 company can do. I'd love to have the blaze be the first green, uh, network that was all solar energy

00:32:35.400 and wind power, but it's impossible to do. It's too expensive and it's not reliable. I can't tell you

00:32:47.180 how, if you are listening to this broadcast today, you're hearing delays. And the reason why you're

00:32:54.180 hearing delays is I don't have internet. I am here, um, on an isolated kind of mountaintop,

00:33:02.400 and I don't have all of the electricity, all of everything coming in. I have to create everything

00:33:09.160 myself. So we're having to use all kinds of different technology. And let me tell you,

00:33:14.900 when you come off the grid, when you start to do things differently, you almost have to reinvent

00:33:23.160 everything. Right now, uh, my farm, we bought our diesel fuel for our tractors. We spent filling

00:33:34.140 that tank up that underground tank. We've, we spent, uh, as much money filling it up once this spring,

00:33:43.960 as we spend filling it up all summer long into the fall last year. This cannot last, but is Biden

00:33:58.380 doing anything about it? No. Instead, what he is doing is fascistic. Yesterday, he invoked the defense

00:34:05.980 production act, not for oil, not for diesel, not for anything, but for solar panels. Do you know how

00:34:17.580 long and how much money it will take to get solar panels, enough of them into play to defray any of

00:34:28.680 your costs for heating? By the way, if you live in Seattle, fat chance, good luck to you. You live

00:34:37.120 where it's cloudy and snowy. Good luck. I have these gigantic solar panels to be able to put this

00:34:46.460 broadcast in my house, uh, online and you still have to change all the light bulbs. You have to change,

00:34:51.780 uh, everything. It is literally, I'm my, I'm my grandfather. You don't need that light. Why do you

00:34:57.720 have that light on? Grandpa? It's, I mean, it's really not costing us. Put the light off. I've become

00:35:04.320 that guy because you just run out in the winter. You have to go out and you have to scrape all of

00:35:10.360 the ice and the snow off of your solar panel. This is not something America is prepared to do,

00:35:18.020 but because we have a global warming crisis and a power crisis that is growing,

00:35:26.900 yesterday, Biden invoked something for the second time in his term that hasn't been used since the

00:35:36.660 Korean war. It is the defense production act. And here's what it does. It allows the president to 0.85

00:35:45.520 have emergency powers to tell companies exactly what they can and cannot do. That is the definition

00:35:55.540 of fascism. Now,

00:36:02.300 are we okay with that?

00:36:09.820 Is this what we want? A guy who has destroyed everything he has touched now running our companies

00:36:19.980 and our businesses and telling us what we can and cannot produce. That's what he did yesterday.

00:36:29.740 He also did something else. He waived all of the solar tariffs yesterday. This is a massive win for China.

00:36:40.140 China makes all of the most of the solar panels. Okay. They do most of the technology. Why?

00:36:50.020 Because no matter what anybody tells you, solar energy is very dirty for the earth. You can't really

00:36:58.820 make them here in America because the EPA would lose their mind. But in China, you can do whatever you

00:37:07.300 want. So now they have not only most of all of the minerals that are needed to make these solar panels.

00:37:15.340 They can make them with slaves and they can make them in hell holes that doesn't they don't care about the 1.00

00:37:22.400 environment at all. But we had some really bad tariffs against these solar panels. And so now we have to get rid of

00:37:34.300 those. So now the Chinese have us by the, you know, what on solar panels, Russia has us by the same things

00:37:49.500 now on, on energy, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, um, and Russia have all of the control of the oil. And are they

00:38:02.040 helping us? Of course not. Of course not. Meanwhile, we leave all of our resources, all of our minerals,

00:38:11.820 all of our companies, all of the brains that we have, all of the brawn that we have,

00:38:17.280 all of the oil and natural gas resources in the ground.

00:38:23.980 America, is America, is this who we want to become? By the way, this is not the only emergency.

00:38:33.260 I'm telling you, I will be shocked if by the end of the year, we don't hear coming out of the

00:38:40.300 president's mouth, a declaration of a, of a national global warming emergency that will give him all

00:38:50.120 kinds of power. They are already setting it up. That's what they're using here for this directive,

00:38:59.420 a climate emergency.

00:39:05.780 We're going to have a food emergency by the end of the year as well. I don't know if you've been

00:39:11.160 following this, but please do. We're about now eight weeks away from knowing for sure what's going to

00:39:18.580 happen. Uh, yesterday we had, um, Russia bomb one of the ports where a lot of the Ukrainian wheat

00:39:29.980 leaves. NATO, the United Nations, and we have even hinted that if they block the Russian wheat,

00:39:40.440 steal, uh, sorry, the Ukrainian wheat, steal the Ukrainian wheat, destroy the Ukrainian wheat,

00:39:45.600 or stop, uh, boats from picking it up and shipping it to the rest of the world, that will be an act

00:39:52.340 of war. Well, we are 12 weeks away from that. Sorry, eight weeks now. And the former NATO chief

00:40:01.480 yesterday said, you are going to see another front open in the Ukrainian conflict. It will

00:40:08.680 include escorting grain tankers in and out of Odessa. He said, I think that will be taken by

00:40:17.980 the United Nations, by NATO and the United States and our allies, but it will be a new front in the

00:40:24.720 war that will emerge over the next few weeks. When that happens, anything that goes wrong with that

00:40:33.640 wheat, if Russia doesn't let it out of Ukraine, if we lose a ship of that wheat, wheat prices will go

00:40:44.340 through the roof and starvation will happen in Africa. What happens to our military when all of Africa 1.00

00:40:54.720 is on fire because they're starving to death? Why is our government taking on diesel right now and

00:41:04.360 saying, no, we got to get away from this petroleum stuff. Why are they doing it when starvation is

00:41:11.520 around the corner because of war? We cannot as Americans stand by while the world starves and we

00:41:21.860 have the ability to do something about it. But for the very first time, we have seen now Germany 0.91

00:41:28.680 send an airlift of baby food to Texas this week. And you're about to see the most charitable,

00:41:39.100 the most giving, the most powerful nation on the planet not have the ability to help feed starving

00:41:46.960 people all around the world. And I love the fact that the Biden administration is saying,

00:41:52.920 this is not going to affect the United States and, and, you know, the, the hunger here in the United

00:42:00.480 States. Are you out of your mind? We're not going to be starving here in the United States. But if you

00:42:06.660 think that a third of the world could be starving to death, and we're going to be paying normal, 0.94

00:42:12.860 even half rational prices for food, you're crazy. Oh, and by the way, it won't just be Africa. It will 0.98

00:42:23.540 also be Central America. It'll be parts of Mexico and South America. So don't worry about any problems

00:42:35.260 on our border. This is what's coming. And it's coming this fall. Please, America prepare.

The Glenn Beck Program - June 07, 2022

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