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00:00:30.000 Oh, on today's podcast, Virginia has gone full-fledged nuts. 1.00

00:00:35.000 They're going Marxist.

00:00:36.000 What does that mean?

00:00:38.000 And why the progressive income tax, which they're talking about,

00:00:42.000 you know, raising more money with taxes again in Virginia.

00:00:46.000 Oh, and letting federal employees pay less. 0.87

00:00:49.000 Interesting. 0.95

00:00:50.000 Why that is so screwed up.

00:00:52.000 Why that constitutionally doesn't work. 0.78

00:00:54.000 Morally, it doesn't work. 0.98

00:00:55.000 Also, Hawaii has tried just the dumbest thing I've ever seen 0.97

00:00:58.000 in an absurd gun case in the Supreme Court, 0.97

00:01:02.000 arguing black codes to tell people they can't use their guns

00:01:06.000 because that's what happened after the Civil War in the South.

00:01:10.000 And we should bring that back now for the Second Amendment. 0.98

00:01:12.000 It's nuts.

00:01:14.000 And a really important look at Minnesota and what is happening on the ground.

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00:03:45.000 OK, so the Democratic legislators are proposing major policy changes in Virginia.

00:03:52.000 And if you thought that Virginia or any of the Democrats are moderate, they are only getting worse.

00:03:59.000 And this should be remembered when it comes to the midterms.

00:04:04.000 Let me just give you a few things that they are proposing.

00:04:07.000 Taxes and economic policy is becoming full fledged Marxist.

00:04:11.000 They are proposing new and expanded taxes.

00:04:15.000 What a surprise.

00:04:16.000 They have introduced bills now that will expand the sales tax space to include services like landscaping, gym memberships, vehicle repairs, food delivery, home repairs, raising the revenue beyond the traditional goods.

00:04:32.000 The progressive income tax brackets.

00:04:33.000 The progressive income tax brackets.

00:04:35.000 They are now proposing creating new tax brackets, higher tax brackets, meaning with people with taxable income over a certain a certain threshold.

00:04:44.000 They're saying six hundred thousand will pay higher rates than those with lower incomes.

00:04:51.000 This one I really love federal employee tax.

00:04:55.000 The federal employee will get a tax break versus everybody else.

00:05:00.000 There are proposals now that will give special tax subtract subtractions for retired federal employees and incentives for federal retirees.

00:05:10.000 While you who didn't ever work for the government, you'll see a broader tax increase.

00:05:16.000 What what is the purpose of that tax?

00:05:19.000 Remember, you cut taxes on things you're trying to encourage.

00:05:23.000 What are they trying to encourage more people working for the federal government?

00:05:26.000 They're also trying to have a mandatory waiting period on gun purchases, a ban on leaving your gun unattended in your vehicle.

00:05:36.000 I don't ever who leaves it.

00:05:38.000 I mean, I used to.

00:05:39.000 I grew up in Washington state.

00:05:41.000 We used to have a gun rack in the back of our truck and it would be in the back window and you'd have, you know, three rifles there and you'd pull up into school.

00:05:47.000 You'd leave your doors, your your car doors or your truck doors unlocked and nobody would say anything was not a problem.

00:05:53.000 But who's leaving it unattended in their vehicle?

00:05:56.000 I mean, unless it's locked in your your trunk or locked in your glove box.

00:06:03.000 Also, a state firearm purchaser license licensing system.

00:06:08.000 That sounds really good.

00:06:09.000 And 11 percent tax on ammunition and guns and civil liability for the gun industry participants for crimes committed using guns that they sold or built.

00:06:18.000 Oh, OK, that's really good.

00:06:20.000 By the way, I can't wait to get into what they're doing in Hawaii on guns. 0.55

00:06:24.000 Wait until you hear this nonsense.

00:06:26.000 I've got a few things to say about that.

00:06:28.000 Also, there is they're trying to enact, you know, more DEI and ESG stuff.

00:06:35.000 And in this one have to be really, really careful because they want to expand the racial bias and diversity training for professionals, nurses, nurses, real estate agents and law enforcement.

00:06:51.000 Now, why does the real estate agent need diversity training, law enforcement and nurses? 1.00

00:07:03.000 Let me lay down the biggest warning I could possibly lay down and I'm not going to dwell on it or spend time today on this.

00:07:09.000 The scariest people in Nazi Germany did not wear the black uniforms. 0.58

00:07:13.000 They wore the white coats.

00:07:15.000 They were the nurses and the doctors. 0.54

00:07:17.000 Do not train them in any of this DEI, any of this bullcrap.

00:07:24.000 It's very dangerous.

00:07:26.000 They want to change the curriculum in school.

00:07:28.000 They're doing all kinds of stuff.

00:07:30.000 OK, but I want to concentrate here for just a second on taxes because there is a quiet lie, a quiet lie that we have accepted in America that the same dollar that is earned by two different

00:07:44.000 Americans is not the same dollar at all, that if one man earns it after years of sacrifice and years of risk and failure and another one earns it with less risk, less responsibility.

00:07:57.000 The first man's dollar is someone somehow or another less his own.

00:08:02.000 This is really dangerous because this is the the moral foundation of the progressive income tax, not the government should be funded.

00:08:12.000 That's not in question.

00:08:16.000 But who is punished, punished for making that possible?

00:08:21.000 We're not talking about, you know, anything even you are punishing certain people.

00:08:27.000 OK, the progressive tax does something very, very dangerous.

00:08:33.000 It doesn't tax behavior.

00:08:35.000 It taxes outcomes, which you never, ever want to get into.

00:08:40.000 It doesn't ask, has this dollar been earned honestly?

00:08:44.000 It only asks who earned this dollar.

00:08:48.000 Now, does that sound fair?

00:08:50.000 See, fairness always breaks down because of the stories we tell ourselves around it or the stories we've allowed others to construct around.

00:09:00.000 That's why the Constitution is common sense.

00:09:03.000 That's why progressivism breaks down once you really start thinking about it, because you can't follow the common sense.

00:09:12.000 It's not fair.

00:09:14.000 It doesn't.

00:09:16.000 A progressive tax does not tax behavior.

00:09:19.000 It taxes the outcome.

00:09:21.000 Once you accept the principle that you don't care how honestly the dollar was earned, what you really care about is who earned it.

00:09:32.000 Once you accept that principle, equality under the law dies.

00:09:37.000 And this is why you start with the taxes.

00:09:40.000 Everything else follows from here.

00:09:42.000 You know, our founders understood this better than we understand it today because they lived under a system where the crown decided who could be squeezed and who, who could not be squeezed and how much to squeeze.

00:09:54.000 And they knew that once the states gained the power and they could gain the power to decide which citizens would owe more than the other citizen, that liberty would become conditional.

00:10:07.000 James Madison was all over this.

00:10:09.000 He warned against laws that would divide people and citizens into different classes.

00:10:13.000 By the way, James Madison was from Virginia.

00:10:17.000 Hello, Virginia. 0.98

00:10:18.000 Hello, Virginia. 0.98

00:10:19.000 Can you read your own founding principles?

00:10:22.000 Alexander Hamilton also cautioned against this.

00:10:26.000 He said taxation can never become arbitrary.

00:10:29.000 So what they were saying at this point was they were not afraid of taxes.

00:10:35.000 They didn't fear taxes.

00:10:36.000 What they feared were unequal taxes because that's what they had come out of.

00:10:42.000 Okay.

00:10:43.000 And this is why our founders, this is why they avoided income tax altogether.

00:10:47.000 We didn't have an income tax.

00:10:49.000 The federal government was broke.

00:10:51.000 The federal government had to raise money through tariffs.

00:10:54.000 We didn't have an income tax up until 1913 because Americans knew this would become unfair because you're choosing who to tax, who to squeeze and not and who not to squeeze.

00:11:08.000 Okay.

00:11:09.000 And when, when you have, uh, taxes, indirect uniform and visible, then you have, then you have real equality.

00:11:21.000 But the moment the government claims a larger share of one man's labor than another man's labor, because that's month time is money.

00:11:30.000 Look at your money as the time it took for you to earn that.

00:11:34.000 How many hours did you, did it take you to earn that money?

00:11:38.000 That's what it means.

00:11:39.000 Time is money.

00:11:40.000 So how much time did it take?

00:11:43.000 So they're not taxing you the dollar they're taxing your time.

00:11:48.000 Time.

00:11:49.000 And once, once you can take somebody's time, somebody's labor and take more of it from one guy than another, and not for what they did, but just for what they achieved, you're no longer dealing with justice.

00:12:03.000 It would be just to say, I'm going to tax people who do poorly more than the people who do well, because the people who do well, let me make this argument just quickly.

00:12:12.000 If you do well, you're creating jobs.

00:12:15.000 You're better for the community.

00:12:17.000 You're, you're leading us into prosperity.

00:12:19.000 But if you do poorly, and you're not doing that, maybe it's because you're lazy, maybe because you're not working.

00:12:25.000 I don't know whatever it is, because that's, that's the argument on the other side with the progressives.

00:12:30.000 They say it's because every rich person is greedy.

00:12:33.000 So let me just flip this over.

00:12:34.000 Would it be fair for me to say every poor person should be taxed because they're not creating enough? 0.99

00:12:39.000 They're not creating jobs.

00:12:41.000 And it's only because they're lazy.

00:12:43.000 Of course not.

00:12:44.000 You would never accept that.

00:12:46.000 So why do you accept the reverse?

00:12:49.000 Okay.

00:12:50.000 You've accepted the reverse in this country because we have been taught over and over and over again that you're not going to be able to make it.

00:12:58.000 You'll never be that person.

00:13:00.000 And all of those people over there, they're all so greedy.

00:13:05.000 Okay.

00:13:07.000 You then get to a point to where you are, you're dealing with resentment dressed up as policy.

00:13:15.000 Does that sound like anything that we're dealing with today?

00:13:18.000 Resentment.

00:13:19.000 Is there anything in our society that Marxists, Leninists, and progressives are, are shoving into your face resentment?

00:13:27.000 That's why the progressive income tax goes hand in hand, because that's what you're dealing with.

00:13:33.000 You're resenting the people who have made it.

00:13:36.000 And then teaching people you can't make it yourself.

00:13:39.000 So it's so corrosive because a progressive tax tells the most productive people your success is tolerated, but we don't respect you.

00:13:50.000 Your effort is useful, but it's not fully yours.

00:13:54.000 It belongs to us.

00:13:55.000 It teaches everybody else something even worse that the guy who makes more than you that lives down the street.

00:14:03.000 He's not a full citizen.

00:14:04.000 He's not really one of you.

00:14:06.000 He is a funding source, but that's really all he is.

00:14:10.000 And that's how societies fracture.

00:14:12.000 That's how things fall apart.

00:14:14.000 And our, our founders knew this, and it doesn't start with riots at first.

00:14:18.000 It starts with ledgers.

00:14:20.000 Yes.

00:14:21.000 The 16th amendment does say that we can have a federal income tax.

00:14:26.000 That was the progressives back in the Woodrow Wilson years, but it doesn't require Congress to abandon equal treatment.

00:14:34.000 Why do we allow this to happen?

00:14:37.000 A flat tax completely complies with the constitution.

00:14:41.000 A consumption tax would honor it even more because it's not what you make.

00:14:45.000 It's what you buy.

00:14:46.000 It's what you consume.

00:14:47.000 But what the progressive tax violates is something deeper than a clause or an amendment.

00:14:54.000 It violates the understanding that, that law judges, judges actions, not outcomes.

00:15:00.000 The law is supposed to look at actions, not outcomes.

00:15:05.000 It's supposed to be actions and not people.

00:15:10.000 The government is, is there to protect effort, not to take effort.

00:15:16.000 But every single progressive tax begins by targeting the rich.

00:15:21.000 Notice the new ones.

00:15:22.000 They're going to go after the rich, the super rich, the 600,000, uh, and above $600,000 a year.

00:15:29.000 That's a businessman.

00:15:30.000 That's not rich.

00:15:31.000 That's not rich.

00:15:32.000 You know what rich is? 0.84

00:15:34.000 George fricking Soros.

00:15:36.000 But you'll notice those guys are never at the end.

00:15:42.000 They'll all talk a good game.

00:15:43.000 They were at Davos yesterday going, you know what?

00:15:45.000 You should tax us more.

00:15:47.000 It's not going to happen.

00:15:48.000 It's not going to happen because it never does because they'll find a way out of it.

00:15:53.000 And every single time you start to expand the income tax, it always expands downward.

00:16:01.000 And history is relentless on this point, because once you accept that rights are proportional to income, there's no logical place to stop.

00:16:09.000 You know, we, we didn't, we didn't fight a revolution so we could be free on a sliding scale.

00:16:14.000 They thought that citizen meant something, the same thing meant something.

00:16:18.000 And it was the same thing for everybody.

00:16:20.000 So the question is not what the government costs.

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00:17:45.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:48.000 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:53.000 Have you been seeing what's happening in the Supreme Court?

00:17:55.000 I mean, something that is just nuts is happening in the Supreme Court right now.

00:18:03.000 And I guess the best way to explain it is I want you to imagine something for a second.

00:18:07.000 Imagine that you have just inherited an old family house.

00:18:11.000 Okay.

00:18:12.000 And the deed is really clear.

00:18:13.000 It's been in your family forever.

00:18:15.000 The property is clearly yours.

00:18:17.000 But then the city knocks on the door and all of a sudden the the city says, yeah, yeah, we saw that you just inherited this house.

00:18:28.000 Yeah.

00:18:29.000 And here's the deed.

00:18:30.000 Well, but look, we just found this.

00:18:32.000 It's a it's an old rule from 1787.

00:18:37.000 And boy, it was written in the city of a really dark time, really dark time back then.

00:18:43.000 And it was written for that dark time and really ugly reasons.

00:18:47.000 But it says you can't use, you know, some of the rooms in your house unless somebody gives you permission.

00:18:52.000 So you can't use part of your house.

00:18:55.000 You'd be like, wait, what?

00:18:57.000 Well, you know, it's part of our tradition, you know, that restriction proves, you know, as part of our tradition here in the city.

00:19:04.000 You'd be like, wait, wait, that doesn't wait.

00:19:07.000 That rule was evil the day it was written.

00:19:10.000 And then the city would say, yeah, I know.

00:19:12.000 Shameful.

00:19:13.000 Wasn't it shameful?

00:19:14.000 But part of our history and tradition.

00:19:16.000 So you can't use, you know, that part of the house.

00:19:20.000 Now, as crazy as that sounds, that's what's happening right now at the Supreme Court.

00:19:25.000 Hawaii has passed a law saying gun owners can't carry on private property open to stores and restaurants and churches unless the owner explicitly allows it.

00:19:39.000 That means your constitutional right only exists if somebody else says yes.

00:19:45.000 And and the judges are like, I'm sorry, how are you doing the math on this one?

00:19:50.000 And Hawaii steps up to the microphone says, yeah, your honor. 0.96

00:19:54.000 Don't worry.

00:19:55.000 History supports us on this.

00:19:57.000 History supports us on this.

00:19:58.000 Yeah, we got history.

00:19:59.000 It's not the founders, not even early American practice.

00:20:03.000 But we found in 1865, Louisiana had a black code and it was a law written after the Civil War.

00:20:11.000 And what it was meant to do was to disarm newly freed black Americans so they couldn't defend themselves from mobs or the clan or corrupt authorities. 0.97

00:20:20.000 Now, this is when Gorshitz stopped and said black codes. 0.84

00:20:27.000 Really? I mean, that's an outlier.

00:20:28.000 You know, you need to look at the mainstream of American history, not statutes that were unconstitutional the moment they were passed.

00:20:37.000 I mean, why are you relying on this?

00:20:39.000 And then he says the quiet part out loud.

00:20:42.000 People who normally recoil from black codes, you know, like garlic with a vampire suddenly embrace them because it helps restrict guns. 0.87

00:20:52.000 He's like, why?

00:20:55.000 And just as Alito says, weren't these laws designed specifically to stop black Americans from defending themselves, to leave them at the mercy of the clan and the racist law enforcement.

00:21:06.000 And then the hammer comes down.

00:21:08.000 Isn't it the height of irony to cite a law written to destroy the second amendment is proof of what the second amendment allows.

00:21:16.000 Kavanaugh then comes in, seals it up.

00:21:20.000 He reminds the court.

00:21:21.000 They've already rejected racist jury laws, even though they had history because history rooted in oppression cannot justify limiting constitutional rights.

00:21:29.000 We've always had oppression.

00:21:32.000 Yeah, but we're trying to be a more perfect nation and not have oppression.

00:21:37.000 Okay.

00:21:38.000 Exceptions must be deeply rooted, broadly accepted, widely recognized.

00:21:45.000 Not isolated, not shameful, and certainly not born in black codes.

00:21:51.000 But the case isn't really about guns.

00:21:54.000 And that's what I think everybody who is analyzing this case is missing.

00:21:58.000 It is not about guns.

00:22:00.000 It's about whether your rights exist before government or only after permission is granted.

00:22:09.000 Hawaii says your right exists if someone else allows it.

00:22:15.000 The Constitution says, no, no, your rights exist because you exist and you're free.

00:22:22.000 And the court's being asked to answer the question, do we define American liberty by its highest principles or by its darkest moments?

00:22:28.000 And once you use poison history to limit rights, rights stop being rights.

00:22:32.000 Okay.

00:22:33.000 They become permission.

00:22:34.000 And permissions can always be remote, revoked.

00:22:37.000 And this is what Hawaii is arguing right now. 0.98

00:22:42.000 Their argument boils down to this.

00:22:44.000 A thing existed in history.

00:22:46.000 Therefore, it can define our tradition.

00:22:48.000 But I mean, are we really down to these are the lawyers that are the smartest to argue in front of the court?

00:22:58.000 I mean, this seems to me to be like a four year old argument, you know, and not I don't mean like something that people have been thinking about for the last four years.

00:23:07.000 I mean, an argument made by a four year old.

00:23:09.000 It's not how constitutional law works.

00:23:11.000 It's not how morality works.

00:23:13.000 It's not how history.

00:23:14.000 It's not how anything works.

00:23:16.000 If that logic were accepted, then couldn't I say slavery is really a deeply rooted American tradition?

00:23:23.000 I mean, we had slavery in here for a long time.

00:23:27.000 Slavery existed, you know, at the founding, it existed for generations.

00:23:30.000 It was written into state law.

00:23:32.000 It's in the Bible.

00:23:33.000 It was accepted in, in large parts of the country and all over the world for centuries.

00:23:38.000 Uh huh.

00:23:40.000 So why don't we make that case?

00:23:43.000 Hawaii.

00:23:44.000 The entire constitutional project after the civil war was built on a single radical idea.

00:23:51.000 Some things existed, but they were always wrong.

00:23:56.000 The 13th, 14th, 15th amendments were not adjustments to tradition.

00:24:01.000 They were repudiations of, of centuries of tradition.

00:24:10.000 The court here is not asking, you know, can we find any historic example?

00:24:16.000 It's asked, it's asking, was this restriction part of the legitimate mainstream understanding of the right?

00:24:24.000 And that's what Gorsuch keeps, you know, repeating.

00:24:28.000 You know, that's why Alito is talking about the purpose.

00:24:31.000 That's why Kavanaugh says deep and broad and commonly recognized tradition.

00:24:36.000 A law passed.

00:24:38.000 It was to disarm free slaves to empower radical terror groups and to nullify a constitutional right.

00:24:48.000 And it can't suddenly now be used as proof of what rights allow.

00:24:54.000 Okay.

00:24:55.000 That's not legal reasoning at all.

00:24:57.000 That's let me be kind.

00:25:00.000 That's historical cherry picking.

00:25:04.000 Um, and the slave thing is precise.

00:25:07.000 If Hawaii's theory were valid, then I could stand up in court and say slavery was part of tradition for nearly a century.

00:25:14.000 It deserves weight in constitutional interpretation.

00:25:17.000 And do you think anyone in their right mind would not laugh you out of the room and rightly so?

00:25:26.000 Of course they would because history is filtered through moral and constitutional judgment.

00:25:31.000 The constitution is to correct those things that man has done for a very long time that were immoral and say, no, that violates human rights.

00:25:43.000 The things you were born with.

00:25:44.000 We don't treat lynching and literacy tests and poll taxes or slave patrols as tradition.

00:25:51.000 That's shameful.

00:25:52.000 We treat that.

00:25:54.000 We treat those things as evidence of betrayal of our own principles.

00:25:59.000 And the black codes fall into the same category. 0.88

00:26:02.000 And it's so dishonest because they know that nobody on the left is arguing for black codes and say, you know what?

00:26:09.000 It's part of our tradition.

00:26:10.000 And I think we should bring this back.

00:26:12.000 No, they're arguing for slave codes because it accomplishes what they want.

00:26:17.000 And it's not just about guns.

00:26:19.000 It's about all rights need permission.

00:26:22.000 I mean, this is the most intellectually unserious argument I have ever heard in the Supreme Court.

00:26:30.000 Okay.

00:26:31.000 It mistakes what happens, what happened for what was right principle or power for principle oppression as tradition.

00:26:41.000 And that's why I think the judges sounded yesterday.

00:26:44.000 I don't know.

00:26:45.000 Little offended.

00:26:46.000 You know, not because the argument is clever, but because it's so dangerously shallow.

00:26:51.000 Is this really the best we can do?

00:26:53.000 Honestly, Hawaii, you should be ashamed of yourself that you send people over with this argument.

00:27:00.000 If you allow evil to define tradition simply because it existed, then no right is safe.

00:27:05.000 No injustice will ever truly be condemned.

00:27:08.000 It'll be used.

00:27:09.000 And that's the line they're drawing.

00:27:11.000 And that's the only line that makes sense.

00:27:14.000 Draw that line.

00:27:15.000 Nope.

00:27:16.000 Nope.

00:27:17.000 Just because it happened in the past, if it was evil, it doesn't mean it's part of our tradition.

00:27:21.000 It means it's something we conquered.

00:27:24.000 The left just, I mean, it is amazing to me how the left just doesn't seem to have any universal principles.

00:27:36.000 Like I would never use this, never use this because it would violate my principles.

00:27:42.000 It would be like, no, we're, we're against that.

00:27:45.000 We're against those things.

00:27:46.000 But the left's understanding of winning, it is the most important thing.

00:27:53.000 I mean, they hate Donald Trump because the most important thing to him is winning.

00:27:56.000 And yet the ends justify the means with the left.

00:28:00.000 They will use black codes to not just take out guns, but also to say your rights must receive permission to exercise them. 0.98

00:28:12.000 That is just some of the most evil, stupid at the kindest level, but some of the most evil reasoning I have, I've ever heard. 0.98

00:28:21.000 And I can't believe that that, that argument ever advanced to the Supreme court. 1.00

00:28:27.000 I mean, we are in real trouble.

00:28:30.000 If that's, if that's what our best law firms are churning out and saying, you know what, you should go to the Supreme court and make that argument.

00:28:37.000 Cause I think you might win.

00:28:39.000 If the, if that's the best you can do, holy cow, Hawaii, you should talk to that Congressman that thinks that islands can capsize, uh, because he's got a, he's got a boatload of stuff to sell you.

00:28:53.000 Do we have an update Ricky on the pilot situation?

00:28:56.000 Pilot situation.

00:28:57.000 We had somebody call in a little while ago from California.

00:29:01.000 Yeah.

00:29:02.000 I got something for you.

00:29:03.000 Go ahead.

00:29:04.000 Um, thanks to my good friend, Matt Court, right?

00:29:08.000 Uh, one of our researchers working on the insider program, but Jason Buttrell, we found that it is in fact, a mostly true story.

00:29:15.000 Uh, Breitbart covered this, but their original source documents for it were from Peter Schweitzer.

00:29:20.000 Um, he referenced it and research in his new book where that became a bestseller this week.

00:29:25.000 Okay.

00:29:26.000 So what is happening?

00:29:27.000 What's happening is we are training a bunch of Chinese pilots in Atwater, California.

00:29:33.000 It is a majority Chinese nationals.

00:29:36.000 Um, according to a caller, um, who called in after that first caller, they say it's like Cessnas, not military jets.

00:29:44.000 So I don't know if that comforts you at any level that it's just Cessnas we're training them on.

00:29:49.000 Oh yeah.

00:29:50.000 Yeah.

00:29:51.000 That makes me feel much more comfortable because I mean, we've never had anything where individuals came up in and trained in small little planes and then did anything with those planes that nobody could imagine.

00:30:03.000 That's never happened before.

00:30:04.000 That's never happened before.

00:30:05.000 So I'm perfectly comfortable with that.

00:30:07.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:10.000 So let me just give you a couple of things.

00:30:15.000 Nakima Armstrong, uh, she is one of the people I believe that Pam Bondi, uh, arrested today. 0.97

00:30:22.000 She is one of the activists that was storming, uh, the church the other day.

00:30:28.000 She apparently took home over a million dollars from the anti-poverty nonprofit that she led. 0.75

00:30:34.000 Wow.

00:30:35.000 And I got to get into these anti-poverty, you know, I'm helping the poor people things.

00:30:41.000 Cause wow.

00:30:42.000 You can make a lot of money.

00:30:43.000 Apparently that a lot of money in that.

00:30:45.000 Um, meanwhile, the NGOs left wing NGOs, um, are planning an economic blackout across Minnesota.

00:30:55.000 And what they're doing is the democratic party has aligned with dark money NGOs.

00:31:01.000 We've known that left wing militia groups and anti-Trump, uh, labor unions.

00:31:07.000 And one of the big labor unions in Minnesota is the, is the, uh, not just the teachers union, but the nurses union.

00:31:13.000 And the nurses union is, is saying that you need to go out on a general strike and you need to get involved in this.

00:31:20.000 Um, because quote, it's time to suspend the normal order of business and demand immediate cessation of ice actions in Minnesota, accountability for federal agents who have caused the loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene.

00:31:35.000 And you know, I was, I was thinking about all of this, um, yesterday, last night and talking to a friend of mine and, and, and I'm like, I've seen this before.

00:31:45.000 What is this?

00:31:46.000 What is this?

00:31:47.000 It's delusional, right?

00:31:51.000 Nobody is talking about the crimes that have been committed.

00:31:55.000 Now let's just be fair and say, okay, ice committed a crime.

00:32:00.000 I don't believe they did, but let's just say, but that doesn't mean you excuse everything else.

00:32:05.000 There's no logic in any of this.

00:32:07.000 Okay.

00:32:08.000 So where have I seen this before?

00:32:12.000 Where have I seen this scene?

00:32:14.000 And then I remembered, then it became very, very clear.

00:32:18.000 Ah, there were two guys that were offered to a crowd.

00:32:23.000 Okay.

00:32:24.000 And, uh, and the governor said, Hey, one of these guys, I'm going to let go.

00:32:34.000 And one of them was Jesus, right?

00:32:37.000 Innocent, unarmed, a teacher, not an enemy to Rome, but anybody who opposed the will of God, he was an enemy.

00:32:45.000 Okay.

00:32:46.000 The other one that he said, or you can take Barabbas, the enemy of the crowd's enemy, Rome.

00:32:52.000 He, he was in prison.

00:32:55.000 If I'm not mistaken for murder, at least violence and rebellion.

00:32:59.000 Um, he was tied to violent, uh, rebellion, insurrection, murder, robbery.

00:33:04.000 He was not a good guy.

00:33:06.000 Well, when they're given this choice, who does the crowd call for?

00:33:12.000 Call for not Jesus. 0.86

00:33:15.000 It chanted for Barabbas.

00:33:18.000 Now this is the part where, where I think anti-Semites always say, well, see, they just hated Jesus so much.

00:33:25.000 No, that is not the lesson you should pull from that.

00:33:28.000 That's not what they were saying.

00:33:30.000 Crowds are like a weather system.

00:33:33.000 They move on pressure, not principles, pressure.

00:33:37.000 And they're not choosing who to condemn and who to good, uh, and who to go free based on good or evil.

00:33:44.000 They were actually choosing what kind of hope felt the most satisfying in that moment.

00:33:51.000 Okay.

00:33:52.000 And the, the two choices are the slower hope of Jesus that demanded repentance and true change in everybody's life or the faster hope of the revolutionary Barabbas.

00:34:03.000 Barabbas, the people always want to go the fast way.

00:34:06.000 They chose revolution, not repentance because they hated Rome more than they hated sin.

00:34:14.000 They, they let what they were against lead them instead of what they were for.

00:34:20.000 And so they lost the ability to see, uh, the truth of the situation because of their anger.

00:34:26.000 They were truly blind.

00:34:28.000 Now take that human pattern from that time, because that's what it is.

00:34:34.000 It's a human pattern.

00:34:35.000 We all can go through this easily and put it up against what we're seeing in Minnesota.

00:34:41.000 This is possibly the biggest fraud case in American history.

00:34:46.000 Okay.

00:34:47.000 And there's no way the Democrats in power didn't know about it, but no one's talking about that.

00:34:54.000 No one's talking about how you, the taxpayer, the people who are now saying Barabbas, how you were ripped off, how maybe your children were hurt because your government, the state government and the local government was giving money knowingly to people who were abusing the system.

00:35:14.000 And when the government comes in to arrest, they start shouting for revolution and they're shouting for it because of the leaders, the same leaders who likely allowed the fraud know the people in the streets will look past their egregious sins.

00:35:35.000 If it means stopping Trump.

00:35:37.000 Okay.

00:35:38.000 Now let me make this really clear.

00:35:40.000 We're not talking about Trump or whether the federal government is right or wrong.

00:35:45.000 Okay.

00:35:46.000 You can protest government power.

00:35:48.000 You can distrust the federal government.

00:35:51.000 I do.

00:35:52.000 You can demand accountability and transparency.

00:35:55.000 I do.

00:35:56.000 Those things are saying, even if we disagree on what should be transparent or exposed.

00:36:01.000 Okay.

00:36:02.000 They're saying those things make you an American distrust is not an American sin.

00:36:09.000 It's a survival instinct in a fallen world.

00:36:12.000 Okay.

00:36:13.000 But there's a line and it's quiet and it's invisible where distrust becomes devotion, where you stop evaluating the facts because you're devoted, where your movement stops being about justice and becomes about being against something so completely that it doesn't matter what you're now defending.

00:36:40.000 When, when people are told these arrests are targeting truly dangerous criminals, the sober response isn't blind faith in the government.

00:36:51.000 Okay.

00:36:52.000 I don't have that.

00:36:53.000 I'd like to see.

00:36:54.000 Can we see the evidence here?

00:36:56.000 The sober response is separation case by case.

00:36:59.000 Show it to me.

00:37:00.000 Show me the evidence that person does that match up with what you say.

00:37:04.000 And if the claim is true, if people are being swept up, who are really violent, predatory, destructive, then the society is indeed standing at a knife's edge, cliff's edge.

00:37:17.000 Okay.

00:37:18.000 Not because enforcement can't be abused.

00:37:21.000 It can not because the state can't lie.

00:37:25.000 It can, but because a crowd can begin to treat evil as an acceptable ally.

00:37:32.000 As long as it wears the right costume resistance, I would like to coin a term here.

00:37:41.000 This is the Barabbas trap.

00:37:44.000 Barabbas doesn't win because people suddenly love murder.

00:37:48.000 They didn't want Barabbas out because they loved the guy.

00:37:52.000 Barabbas won because he was a symbol.

00:37:56.000 He was a symbol of a weapon that the crowd thinks it can aim at the government it hates.

00:38:03.000 And in the heat of that hatred, something breaks.

00:38:06.000 It's human.

00:38:07.000 It breaks.

00:38:08.000 And it's the ability to distinguish between a righteous cause and a righteous person.

00:38:13.000 This is where the blindness becomes really lethal because once you lose the habit of judging separately, once you refuse to say, wait a minute, this government action may be wrong.

00:38:24.000 And this individual over here may be dangerous.

00:38:29.000 You don't lose just accuracy.

00:38:31.000 You lose the moral language that keeps a civilization a civilization and keeps you safe.

00:38:37.000 And it's not going to be just the country that pays for that collapse.

00:38:41.000 It's you and me and the protesters.

00:38:45.000 When you make yourself unable to name evil, evil will happily borrow your body for a while.

00:38:56.000 It will happily stand behind your slogans.

00:38:59.000 It will march and even carry your banners.

00:39:02.000 It will hide inside of your crowds because crowds are the perfect cover for evil.

00:39:09.000 And if you insist that every badge is tyranny, you will eventually protect the tyrant who doesn't wear a badge at all.

00:39:20.000 Just the one who wears your language, your anger, your righteous pose. 0.98

00:39:25.000 Okay.

00:39:26.000 Blindness is not neutrality.

00:39:29.000 Blindness is recruitment.

00:39:32.000 It turns ordinary people into shields for causes that they, they don't, they don't fully understand for actors who don't love them back for criminals who are not going to hesitate to burn your neighborhood down or the neighborhood that fed them.

00:39:50.000 I mean, think of, they already burned down Minneapolis once and people were putting signs on the door.

00:39:58.000 I agree with you.

00:39:59.000 Don't burn down my business, burn it down anyway, because that they don't care.

00:40:03.000 And then comes the bitterest part.

00:40:08.000 When the inevitable violence arrives, when the bad guy you excused becomes now the bad guy you can't control, the state has to respond harder and the crackdowns get uglier.

00:40:25.000 And the liberties you thought you were defending begin to shrink.

00:40:30.000 But then what do you do?

00:40:33.000 If you're blind, you protest even harder.

00:40:36.000 You grab your gun.

00:40:38.000 You grab a Molotov cocktail.

00:40:40.000 You start lighting fuses.

00:40:42.000 And the ones who light the fuse, the first fuse, like the governor and the mayor and some of these that are being arrested today, they're never the ones who stand closest to the blast.

00:40:58.000 It will not be their house that is burned down.

00:41:00.000 It will be yours.

00:41:01.000 That's how a protest becomes a trap.

00:41:05.000 That's how a movement becomes a machine.

00:41:08.000 I mean, these are paid for by oligarchs.

00:41:13.000 These are being paid for by George Soros of the world.

00:41:20.000 And you're comfortable with that.

00:41:22.000 And I don't understand that other than to say it's because you haven't thought it through because you are so wrapped up in the emotion.

00:41:32.000 You cannot separate things piece by piece.

00:41:35.000 Once everything just is one thing, you have no reason left.

00:41:41.000 And that's how you get the oldest story in the world.

00:41:45.000 A crowd demands victory right now.

00:41:50.000 It's going to make us feel good right now.

00:41:53.000 And in the process, it trades away the very thing it claims to cherish.

00:41:58.000 Human dignity, truth, moral clarity.

00:42:06.000 We're living in an amazing time because such dramatic things are happening.

00:42:12.000 And yet the answer is really boring.

00:42:17.000 The discipline that feels boring until it saves your life is this.

00:42:24.000 Judge things separately.

00:42:26.000 Hold two thoughts at once without losing your mind.

00:42:30.000 A government can overreach.

00:42:33.000 And that overreach should be resisted lawfully and loudly.

00:42:36.000 And those conditions should be corrected.

00:42:38.000 And criminals can be criminals.

00:42:41.000 And protecting criminals is not resistance.

00:42:44.000 It's surrender.

00:42:46.000 You can say, investigate the shooting, demand transparency, require accountability.

00:42:52.000 I'll be with you.

00:42:53.000 But you must also say, if this person is a danger, we have to get them off the streets.

00:42:59.000 That's not betrayal.

00:43:01.000 That's called adulthood.

00:43:03.000 And the opposite, refusing to separate, leads to a very specific kind of national ruin.

00:43:10.000 And not just disorder, but moral inversion, where people can no longer tell the difference between justice and vengeance, between liberty and license, between courage and chaos.

00:43:20.000 And when that inversion becomes a habit, society becomes really easy to govern by fear because it's forgotten how to rule itself or govern itself by truth.

00:43:33.000 The crowd at Pilate's platform thought they were choosing freedom.

00:43:38.000 They instead chose a shortcut.

00:43:40.000 Shortcuts never take you to freedom.

00:43:43.000 They take you to the place where freedom is always promised and never, ever delivered.

00:43:49.000 Because people who live by blind rage are always just one chant away from being used.

00:43:55.000 Distrust the government if you have to.

00:43:58.000 Distrust the government if you have to.

00:43:59.000 In fact, I encourage you.

00:44:00.000 Protest if you choose.

00:44:02.000 Demand accountability with every breath.

00:44:05.000 But do not go blind because the moment you cannot name evil, especially when it's standing right beside you, cheering at the same volume, you've entered a new level of trouble.

00:44:15.000 Not political, but spiritual trouble, the kind that follows you home and sits with you in quiet until you're asking that one question when the moment came.

00:44:25.000 Did I choose justice or did I choose the chant?

00:44:29.000 And who am I now sitting next to?

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 22, 2026

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