On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck talks about the use of tear gas by police in the wake of the recent shooting in Aurora, Colorado, and why you should always carry a gun in your purse.
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00:46:14.780I tell you, it's been quite a weekend, you know, between setting people on fire in Colorado, which is always a personal fave.
00:46:23.580If you missed that monologue, pretty passionate one that every American should hear.
00:46:29.920You can get it on the podcast after the program.
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00:46:35.200There's a lot of important stuff, including what I have next.
00:46:37.720Jason Buttrilk is coming in, and Jason is our security expert, geopolitical expert, head writer and researcher for the Glenn Beck television program.
00:46:49.580And he and I were talking early, early this morning about what happened in Ukraine.
00:47:08.380War is going to be absolutely nightmarish.
00:47:14.560The next war that is fought, and it is getting very frightening in Ukraine and Russia.
00:47:20.360And what happened over the weekend, I don't think is going to bring people to the peace table.
00:47:27.240We'll talk about that with Jason here in just a second.
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00:49:20.360And signals to, I think, basically what I've been saying for, what, the last couple of years, I think, that the next war, you know, everything that we're building, stop building them.
00:49:33.340Because AI is going to change everything.
00:49:37.380Drones are going to change everything.
00:49:39.180Our aircraft carriers are just sitting ducks now.
00:49:42.500What we saw happen from Ukraine thousands of miles into the interior of Russia is striking.
00:49:58.040I mean, gosh, you have been talking about what's coming for a very long time.
00:50:02.880If you think about it, you know, wars have always pushed technology, you know, things that were coming, but just push them out there faster than they probably would have before.
00:50:34.160You look at, you know, the oil wars when oil prices were collapsing.
00:50:37.500There were a few enterprising people in Texas that could not pay their workers anymore.
00:50:41.420So they were like, well, let's come up with these gigantic automated platforms so that we can frack and not have to pay tons and tons of money, you know, and start, you know, in operating costs.
00:56:25.420But they, I mean, I had these videos, like, random bloggers and stuff are like, so we're on the front lines of the new drone warfare program.
00:56:32.580And there are multiple, like, secret locations in Ukraine where they have full-on remotely powered vehicles that are leading the charge.
00:56:40.060Not, you know, armored mechanized units.
00:57:47.060But, like, there's an argument that if drones are killing drones, like, that's maybe a better place than where we've been over the past century, where it's people that are doing all the dying.
00:58:01.540I want a t-shirt because, with what you just asked, because that is the question of our times.
00:58:27.720I think when you look at modern warfare, it always ends to the, in my mind, it goes to the same conclusion that the war planners of World War II had when they created the nuclear bomb.
00:58:37.780It's, you know, before you look at World War I, it was, you know, massive body counts on both sides, just take out troops.
00:58:46.660Then, in World War II, they were like, well, let's take out industrial centers.
00:58:50.540So, then let's deplete the enemy's ability to wage war by hitting it where it starts.
00:58:55.880Now, the problem is, or where it's manufactured.
00:58:58.660The problem is that's where the city centers are.
00:59:02.220So, eventually, after you've gotten through all this drone warfare, you know, militaries are decimated on the battlefield, eventually, you have to go to where they produce the drones, where they, you know, command and control.
00:59:15.540That is what Vladimir Putin and his security council are sitting around the table right now.
00:59:20.240They're thinking, okay, where are these things being produced?
01:00:18.720That's what they're trying to bring up into this negotiation point.
01:00:23.460And essentially, we're not coming from a piece, a place of weakness.
01:00:26.920Yeah, but how do you, that's a really good point.
01:00:30.020But how do you, as Vladimir Putin, address your people and say, hey, we just made peace after they just took down 30% of our strategic bombers?
01:00:41.240Yeah, and that narrative is kind of crap to me because Russia, I think on the same day or the day before, sent its largest drone arsenal themselves, I think, to date.
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01:03:39.080Jason, you are going to respond on what else is coming and what's happening.
01:03:54.080Yeah, in my mind, I think that both – this is kind of piggybacking off what Stu was saying – is I think both countries wanted to show a very big – or make a very big statement going into these peace talks.
01:04:04.580And I think that one of them wanted to sit at the table and say, this is what you're looking at.
01:04:09.120Bend to our version of what's written down here in these list of demands.
01:04:14.200Well, Russia didn't expect Ukraine to respond the way they did.
01:04:16.920So now they both have a pretty strong packet of demands.
01:04:21.500And I think right now they're hovering around – both of them want to end this war.
01:05:12.900Do you know anything about that, Jason?
01:05:14.400Some interesting movements in Europe in general.
01:05:16.800Germany actually deployed, I think, a 5,000 troop deployment, I believe, to Lithuania.
01:05:22.920Not because the EU told them to do that.
01:05:26.440Not because NATO told them to do that.
01:05:28.440Germany, who does not like to move troops because the history is not so great for them when they deploy in Europe.
01:05:34.500I didn't think they could have troops.
01:05:36.500It's actually something huge that the media hasn't been talking about, but they did that, which I think is part of the Donald Trump leadership in saying, look, you need to be able to police your own neighborhood.
01:05:47.800But there are a lot of troop movements going around Europe right now.
01:05:51.240And I actually think that that's a good thing.
01:05:52.860I think that them taking more of an active role in showing deterrence and not just relying on us is a positive.
01:05:58.640Well, it's a good thing for us, perhaps.
01:06:01.620I don't like it when Europe mobilizes and Russia mobilizes and Germany is sending troops across borders.
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01:09:15.940But I have to tell you, I mean, he goes into some of the most frank speech of anybody I have heard in a long time, especially in business, telling us exactly what is coming our way.
01:09:53.300But I think the initial salvo between great powers like, say, China and Russia or China and the U.S. would be probably cyber, just to kick things off.
01:10:05.280And then non-conventional type attacks like these drone strikes that will cause devastating impact, that will equal the type of impact that, say, a nuclear weapon would.
01:10:14.920And the fact that it's very targeted or it knocks out an industry, that's how they can use it.
01:10:19.160You know, when we were looking into doing this show, which we're still going to do, but on one day, China announced to the world their new aircraft carrier, in air quotes.
01:10:29.520It was a gigantic drone airplane that its entire purpose was to hover over an area and then launch hundreds of little first-person drones, just like what was used.
01:10:43.840I started looking into if we had anything similar.
01:10:46.660The only person that was thinking like this was Palmer Luckey and his Enduro Defense company.
01:10:52.800You know, I've been trading emails with Palmer lately, and we're going to have him.
01:11:00.660That's why we delayed the show is because I really want him to be part of that show, and we just haven't aligned things yet.
01:11:06.780But Palmer is way ahead, way, way, way ahead.
01:11:10.120And, you know, he says that he's kind of like the opposite of Tony Stark in that Tony Stark was in weapons and then got out of weapons, and he's like, I wasn't in weapons.
01:11:23.000I was in, you know, entertainment and tech, and I'm going into weapons because I think what's coming is just horrendous, and we have to be on top of it.
01:11:40.240He's not like your typical defense contractor where defense contractors will bid and say, hey, we've got this concept, and we want to build this for the U.S. government.
01:11:48.280And the government says, okay, well, here's five gazillion dollars.
01:11:53.880His company dreams these things up in a lab somewhere like Taco Bell, you know, making a quesarito, and says, we don't have a concept of the quesarito.
01:12:04.280And so right when I was looking up this drone ship from the Chinese, almost the exact same day or week, his company announced, like, through 60 Minutes, this drone, completely autonomous fighter jet.
01:12:16.400So if you can think about it, like, there'd be, like, an F-22 flying into combat.
01:12:20.880He would have – this pilot would have, like, four of Palmer Luckey's autonomous vehicles that would fly out ahead of him, all coordinated through AI and also the pilot.
01:12:32.420And they go out kind of like in swarms ahead of the aircraft.
01:13:49.360And you're talking thousands of people on board.
01:13:52.680I mean, it would be horrendous if you took out a couple of aircraft carriers.
01:13:56.980Right, and look at the cost breakdown.
01:13:59.000I mean, like we said earlier, it costs billions of dollars to produce one of these aircraft carriers and all the lives that are involved with it.
01:14:06.760An aircraft carrier in the sky of 200 first-person drones that costs, what, 300 bucks a piece?
01:14:14.020If you would have tried to say in conventional warfare, let's take out 30% of strategic air command of Russia, how difficult would that have been?
01:14:26.760And how expensive would that have been in lives as well?
01:14:33.620I don't even think you could even plan it, because you would be using, you know, like missiles or planes that would have to go through, you know, their air defense network that you would lose probably three-quarters of your forces just to get to the point to where you can attack them.
01:14:47.340And they would launch if we launched missiles.
01:15:13.220They were able to get these things all over the country.
01:15:16.200But I think open borders is a good idea.
01:15:24.180I mean, I think we should start checking Harvard to see if they have a, you know, a how to build drones and destroy America 101 at Harvard University, because they may be doing that.
01:15:36.080I mean, we've got so many people in our country that, I mean, look at the guy this weekend with just the Molotov cocktails.
01:15:43.760Imagine, with somebody that's not that well-funded.
01:15:48.620I mean, honestly, we probably ourselves could have funded what happened in Ukraine.
01:15:54.980Don't know if, you know, we would have been the ones to pull it off.
01:17:57.320How long before it's used against us internally?
01:17:59.760I mean, by not necessarily even a foreign power, but just by, you know, radicals.
01:18:06.980I mean, that's clearly on how fast you think China wants to retake Taiwan, probably.
01:18:12.660I think that would probably be the biggest flashpoint.
01:18:16.500Everything will, you know, kind of go downhill from there.
01:18:19.100But if you're looking at, I mean, I've seen some people try to guess around 2030, you know, that that could be a moment where they really start ramping that up.
01:18:45.140And I, last week, I think I shared some of this with you, that I put into ChatGPT and Grok some things and said,
01:18:55.380how long does this last without any problems, without war, without, you know, power grid going out, without Taiwan, any of that stuff, without that.
01:19:06.740And both Grok and GPT came up with almost exactly the same time frame of around 2030 is when it just all falls apart and you can't hold it together anymore.
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01:22:12.260You get a call from a bank demanding payment on a loan that you never took out.
01:22:17.300They claim that your house is collateral.
01:22:19.560You think it's a mistake, whatever, until you discover that someone actually now owns your property on paper.
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01:22:30.180These days, online criminals target home equity with laser precision because the internet is their playground and they know exactly what they're doing.
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01:22:48.840You wouldn't even think it would be possible to do something like this, but it is happening right now across the country.
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01:22:58.720Most homeowners don't even know that this is going on.
01:49:51.380I'm going to cancel Netflix, switch to generic cereal, and only eat out twice a week.
01:49:56.500Yeah, you just save $17 a month while still drowning in a mortgage that's bleeding you dry in credit cards that are also accruing interest faster than your teenager accrues socks on the floor.
01:52:19.400It took something that was actually finding its natural place in our culture, and they weaponized it.
01:52:26.380So let me give you the stats from Gallup.
01:52:29.240In 2025, Gallup now tells us that support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has dropped to 41%, the lowest it's been in nearly a decade.
01:52:41.340Democrats have now hit a record high of 88%.
01:52:45.080But here's what the headlines don't focus on.
01:59:55.260The relationship of respect and purpose between a husband and a wife, a father and a mother, and the role with their children that they bring into this world.
02:00:04.580How many of us grew up with an idyllic family?
02:00:09.500My mom was an alcoholic that committed suicide.
02:00:12.540My dad never admitted he was an alcoholic, but I'm pretty sure he was.
02:00:19.000And yet we try to bring ourselves above and do better.
02:00:28.000The deep yearning to be more than beasts, to build families, to hold sacred power, to create life, comes not from man, but from a higher law, from God, the author of nature and nature's God.
02:00:41.700It's he that taught us to honor the family, to respect the body, to love truth.
02:00:49.720And that is the truth progressivism seeks to erase, piece by piece, word by word, letter by letter.
02:00:57.980So, no, Americans are not rejecting love.
02:01:00.480They're not even judging people's lives.
02:02:30.700And one has a group of new ideas that have either never been tried or have been tried over and over again and have always failed.
02:02:40.520And then the other side, the one that's currently strangely losing, it seems, is the one that has the ideas that have been tried and tried from the beginning of time and always end in stronger families and a stronger civilization.
02:02:57.620I don't know, the choice doesn't seem really tough for me, but I guess it is tough when you're at the AP or ABC or CNN and you can't understand.
02:03:13.140You just think that people, because they're conservative, they just hate them gays and all that brilliant, you know, progressivism lotion that you slathered all over their heads, not taken anymore and they're going back into their hate.
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02:06:36.000Well, there's one thing I think we can all agree on when it comes to recent history is that we do have a real problem with modern-day Nazis.
02:06:58.920And I'm not talking about the Nazis that throw Molotov cocktails at Jews.
02:07:05.540The real Nazis, like Elon Musk, you know, the type of Nazis that develop spaceships and electric cars, those types of Nazis.
02:07:20.680We saw the Elon Musk Nazi salute, which was quite clear, where Elon Musk took his hand, touched his chest, and then held it straight out in a salute that was as clear, the clearest association with Nazis that we could possibly imagine.
02:07:39.840Much more clear than actually murdering Jews.
02:07:44.580And that bizarre path we've taken recently took an interesting turn over the weekend when Cory Booker decided to do, quite frankly, the exact same thing that Elon Musk did a couple of months ago.
02:08:02.200If you haven't seen this footage, we'll show it to you on Blaze TV.
02:08:27.960But it is almost identical, even in the pacing of this salute.
02:08:33.500And we're supposed to sit back here and criticize Elon Musk and call him a Nazi, and that this is the most clear sign that he is a Nazi.
02:08:43.500But then Cory Booker does the same thing, and we're not supposed to care about it at all.
02:08:46.960Now, of course, the appropriate reaction is to do the reaction that we are having with Cory Booker.
02:08:51.600That's actually the right reaction, which is it doesn't mean anything at all.
02:08:55.900Obviously, it doesn't mean that Cory Booker is a Nazi.
02:08:57.960He might have terrible viewpoints in a multitude of ways, and his ideas for how much government should control your life might seem Nazi-esque at times.
02:09:07.080But it is not the exact same thing, quite clearly.
02:09:10.240It certainly doesn't prove he's a Nazi.
02:09:12.080What's fascinating about it is the fact that the media is doing both of those things, saying Elon Musk is and completely ignoring that Booker did the same thing.
02:09:24.000And that's, of course, because of their predetermined belief.
02:09:26.340When you believe Elon Musk is a Nazi this week because he's supporting Donald Trump as opposed to when he thought he was a hero last week because of his electric cars,
02:09:34.360well, it's easy to call him a Nazi because you already believed he was a Nazi.
02:09:36.960This just confirms your previously held belief.
02:09:39.660When it's Cory Booker, well, he's a good guy.