Glenn Beck talks Hunter Biden's plea deal, UFOs, the Fed, and Hillary Clinton's climate hysteria. Plus, Preborn is offering a day of free ultrasounds to help save babies in need of birth control. Glenn Beck is the host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Program" and is a regular contributor to conservative media outlets.
00:05:31.220The Biden administration does not care.
00:05:33.700And you have ignored the sign as going full speed towards the end of that fiscal cliff.
00:05:39.100You know what people don't understand is that if you don't get inflation under control, people will be like, well, we have a target of 2% inflation.
00:05:47.440Right now, we ought to target a 3% inflation over the next 10 years.
00:05:53.260That seems like that's not that big of a deal.
00:05:57.660But 3% inflation means in 10 years, the loss of about 34%, 34 cents on every dollar you have.
00:06:09.700So if you're saving for your retirement, if the Fed says, we're going to take 3% inflation, we think that's reasonable.
00:06:17.040We all go, oh, yeah, that's not so bad.
00:06:19.880That's 35 cents on every dollar you've saved for retirement.
00:06:27.940Yeah, it's a huge debasement of the currency, which means that reduces your purchasing power.
00:06:34.520And if your wages don't keep pace with that inflation, or if you're somebody who is a retiree or not in the workforce, this is just the slow eating away of the middle class.
00:06:47.320And compounding works for something like inflation the same way it does for investment.
00:06:52.600You know, it seems like it's a small gain.
00:06:55.080But when you add that up and you compound it over time, it's incredibly meaningful.
00:06:59.940And that's really, I think, what's going to happen here.
00:07:02.540I think the reality of the fiscal situation of the United States, the shifts in the global economy, and just the core financial management is going to create this eating away, slow eating away of the middle class until it doesn't exist anymore.
00:07:19.540So this is something we need to stay on, and we need to turn it around.
00:07:22.900I have to tell you, I was with a bunch of people from Idaho.
00:07:28.360I'm up in Idaho at my ranch, and they were talking about the health of the state.
00:09:34.660This is basically the degrowth idea is the resurgence of something that started in the 1970s.
00:09:40.820It's being targeted heavily at young people.
00:09:43.620And if you just think about the concept of degrowth, it's basically, growth means prosperity, expansion, progress, improvement, advancement.
00:10:31.120And then through forms of direct or participatory democracy, so forms of it, whatever form they want, they would organize the economy.
00:10:40.280So, again, central planning, not actual democracy, to ensure that everyone's basic needs are met.
00:10:46.460So, you know, the government who doesn't produce anything is going to make sure your needs are met and then redirect our energies away from economic expansion.
00:10:55.060And then, so this is the – that's the you will own nothing part, the you'll be happy part, is we would tend to reduce our working hours in the formal economy in exchange for more home production and leisure.
00:11:07.940We would have less income, but more freedom.
00:11:10.820Thus, in our simplicity, we would be rich.
00:11:17.380It is crazy, and this is what they're putting out and bringing in the young people who feel desperate under the guise of this is better for the climate, this is better for the environment, and the people who feel like they can't have the American dream.
00:11:33.480So what do we do to bring down everybody to the lowest common amount?
00:11:38.460You know, I'm looking at a website called beyondgrowth2023.eu, and it says the pathway towards sustainable prosperity in the EU, and it's a big meeting that is happening.
00:12:09.560If, you know, everybody who knows anything about business or even human growth, if you are not growing, if you are not learning constantly, you're regressing.
00:12:55.160It's been the democratization of ownership, you know, where people have that opportunity to participate in the economy and lift themselves and their families up.
00:13:05.400And if you look at the, quote-unquote, richest nations, the ones that they seem to hate, you know, those are the ones that, you know, have actually gotten the technology and harnessed the opportunity to create cleaner technologies.
00:13:21.300It's the emerging nations that haven't gone through that renaissance yet.
00:13:35.340And he went on this rant and basically said that climate change is being driven primarily by the consumption of the global north.
00:13:44.700So it's incumbent on rich countries to shrink their economy.
00:13:48.780And then when somebody challenged him and said, but, yeah, isn't it these emerging economies that are really creating the issue and says, no, no, no, no, it has nothing to do with poor countries.
00:13:58.320Quote, the real problem is that there are too many rich people.
00:14:10.580So we're going to use this climate catastrophization and this, you know, fake emergency as a way to get young people to buy in.
00:14:20.060And, of course, if you capture the young people, right, and you tell them not to get married, not to grow, not to work hard, not to have kids, that's a very easy and evil way for them to fulfill their agenda.
00:14:34.080This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:15:21.560But you wrote a very, very, you know, we've written several, but one very big bestseller, Reasons to Vote for Democrats.
00:15:30.520And I understand that it is now a Hungarian translation.
00:15:34.780Yes, I will admit that it had been an aspiration of mine as an author that one of my books with words would make it into a foreign translation.
00:15:46.120But I'm perfectly happy that it was my book without any words that has received the Hungarian translation.
00:15:53.180And that title, Glenn, just in case any of your listeners are walking around Budapest and want to pick up a copy, is, of course,
00:15:59.100So your listeners can write that down and hurry up and pick up a copy.
00:16:07.640Yeah, that just flows right off the tongue.
00:16:11.280Now, it is like 300 pages that are completely blank.
00:16:16.160Have you thought about Mandarin and other languages?
00:16:20.500Well, I'm pleased that it's now six years after I published what I'm sure will be my magnum open.
00:16:28.220I'm pleased that interest remains strong, not only in America, but around the world.
00:16:33.040And I think that since the message has resonated, not only in our own country, but throughout the West, soon enough,
00:16:38.620I think it will spread to the Far East, perhaps the Southeast in India, maybe to Africa and Latin America as well.
00:16:47.040Well, I think geopolitics is moving quickly.
00:16:50.940And that's really good that it's in Latin America, too, because Latin is a dying language.
00:25:20.520And so the only question for us now going into 2024 is if you've got a broad consensus among the people that this wacky leftism has gone too far,
00:25:31.300do the people still possess enough political power to overcome an entrenched and corrupt establishment that's going to try to take their power?
00:25:39.800Yeah, because that is the that's the only thing that keeps me up at night is not how the American people are going to move.
00:25:47.600But do is it even possible to have a real, honest election anymore?
00:25:55.220Because the Democrats just don't seem to be worried about anything.
00:25:59.900Poll numbers going down, everything is so unpopular.
00:26:03.500And yet they're just like, no, it's great.
00:26:12.940And I know that we're not allowed to question the most perfect election that was ever conducted in the history of democracy going back to Pericles.
00:26:19.300But but what's ironic about the left trying to shut down any discussion of some of the irregularities in 2020 is that they themselves brought up the risk of fraud just 10 or so years ago.
00:26:31.620Barack Obama is on record as raising serious doubts about widespread mail in ballots and pointing out that that opens up the possibility of fraud to say nothing, ballot harvesting to say nothing of the illicit practices that the Democrats engaged in, especially in Pennsylvania back in 2020.
00:26:49.260And so to your point, the fact that they seem so complacent when they have weekend at Bernie's in the White House should should raise Republicans concerns, because in an ordinary year, in an ordinary election with a candidate who can't pronounce his own name, a party should be worried.
00:27:06.180And so the question is, do they think they can just push Biden across the finish line, whether he knows where he is or not?
00:27:11.440Or do the Democrats have a trick up their sleeve and do they believe that Joe Biden won't actually be the nominee in 24?
00:28:02.700This is the best of a Glenn Beck program.
00:28:05.480You know, I was reading something just a couple of days ago about the gig economy.
00:28:13.680And, you know, that's something that the Biden administration and Gavin Newsom and everybody else wants to shut down because it's just not this is not right.
00:28:22.940And I was reading about people who are involved in the gig economy.
00:28:26.360That's, you know, you're doing Uber Eats or you're you're driving for Uber.
00:28:30.120You're doing something on your own time.
00:28:32.440Something that stuck out in this article was the people who are in the gig economy are generally the ones who are in the least amount of credit card debt.
00:28:46.420And they do the gigs so they can have the extra money that they don't have to put it on the credit card.
00:28:55.740They're people that are generally more disciplined.
00:28:57.900And it's it's crazy that the federal government would take something like the gig economy where you could work your own pace, whatever you want to do.
00:29:09.360I was reading about a guy who's he's like, I want to make eight hundred dollars a day or whatever it is, two hundred dollars a day.
00:29:17.440And all that's all I that's all I need.
00:29:20.700And so I'm only going to work that sometimes it's five hours, sometimes it's eight hours.
00:30:10.260There's a there's a commercial that looks like it's a commercial for Donald Trump, but it was just done by, you know, somebody at home who was putting something together and then put, you know, Donald Trump for president.
00:30:23.620So it's not coming from his campaign, but it is very effective.
00:30:29.160And Frank Luntz tweeted it yesterday and said, this is the most dangerous thing I've seen.
00:30:36.640And I don't understand that because some of the things that are there, I'm not sure I agree with.
00:30:47.140But this is also one of the most accurate things I have seen in a campaign ad.
00:30:55.700If I were the deep state, if I was the deep state and I wanted to destroy America, I would rig the election with a puppet candidate, one that was so compromised that they would never say a word about it.
00:31:08.940I would create a false flag that allows for mail-in ballots.
00:31:12.820If I was the deep state, I would make everyone an example why you should never question a Democrat ever winning an election.
00:32:47.940I know Frank has been very sick lately, but he's on the men.
00:32:51.280But I have the opposite take from Frank Luntz on many things, but that's one of them.
00:32:59.680And the deep state we have gone in five years from at least I have six years when Donald Trump first said that I was a little uncomfortable.
00:33:09.980And I was like, I don't know, because it was right around the time where he said the media is the enemy of the American people.
00:33:17.220And I'm like, I agree kind of, but I don't I wouldn't say it that way.
00:35:12.060This one, I cannot believe, happened and I didn't know.
00:35:18.620Believe it or not, there was an Islamic terrorist attack in Fargo, North Dakota earlier this month.
00:35:28.340One that local law enforcement believes could have resulted in countless casualties instead of the one police officer that was killed.
00:35:36.980Like so many people from Syria last decade, Mohammed Barakat was brought to the U.S. as an asylum seeker, became a citizen in 2019.
00:35:52.140He returned the favor on July 14th by randomly firing 60 rounds from his car near the site of a car crash on 25th Street in Fargo.
00:36:04.320Now, likely waiting for the police and first responders to come to the scene, he allegedly gunned down three police officers in an unprovoked attack.
00:36:14.120He killed one police officer, Jake Wallen, seriously injured two other officers, as well as a female, allegedly female, civilian.
00:36:25.860There has been almost a complete blockade of this story.
00:36:35.900It took over a week for any information about his immigration history to even come to light.
00:36:44.300As we were watching the streets of France burn, this story happens and nobody reports on it?
00:36:54.360Now, so you know, this is not your average, you know, street thug, mentally ill person.
00:37:02.940Given the lack of criminal record or manifesto left behind, this has the hallmarks of targeted jihad.
00:37:13.120Because, listen, police found in his car 1,800 live rounds, along with three rifles, four handguns, all of which were loaded.
00:37:25.640He also had a grenade, gas canisters, and explosives in his car.
00:37:31.800According to the North Dakota Attorney General, Drew Wrigley, the car was filled with also large amounts of tannerite, a highly explosive compound made from ammonium nitrate.
00:37:46.640Wrigley also said that Barakat was looking for significant crowd events in the area.
00:37:59.800If it wasn't for Officer Zach Robinson taking out the gunman's rifle from 75 feet, listen to that, 75 feet with a 9mm handgun, that's an incredible shot.
00:38:14.100It would have been a mass casualty event because he appeared to be on the way to the downtown street fair.
00:38:22.140The FBI found his computer in his apartment, and it contained a search history revealing that he looked up mass casualty events and how to cause certain injuries.
00:38:35.880The last article that appeared in his search history was a local news article titled, Thousands Enjoy First Day of Downtown Fargo Street Fair.
00:38:46.880So, the FBI still doesn't know the motive at all.
00:38:55.240They are just, they're surprised by this.
00:39:59.020600 Somali families have occupied Fargo.
00:40:03.100Somalis outnumbered Hispanics in Fargo in the public school system.
00:40:08.180Refugee resettlement led by the Lutheran social services continued to bombard the state with foreign migrants.
00:40:15.00070% of them embedded in the Fargo area.
00:40:19.400According to census data gathered by the Center for Immigration Studies, 23% of all students in the Fargo school district are foreign-born.
00:40:29.080That number was close to zero before the global war on terror.
00:40:35.820Even though the people who are, listen to this, are most persecuted in the Middle East, and in the Syrian war in particular,
00:40:47.040most of them were Christians, almost all of the refugees that have been sent to Fargo are Muslim.
00:40:55.020From fiscal year 2012 to 2022, 1.6% of the 30,000 Syrians that were resettled, almost all of them were Sunni Muslims.