How Biden Accidentally Gave Trump a LOT More Power ｜ Guests： Sean Spicer & Ezra Levant ｜ 2⧸18⧸25
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Glenn Beck talks about the government spying on its own employees and how to keep calm and carry on in the midst of chaos. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and radio host who has been in the business for a long time. He is a frequent guest on Fox News and conservative talk radio. He is also a frequent contributor on the conservative radio show The Glenn Beck Show.
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I don't know about you, but my life is out of control since Donald Trump got in.
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I don't even know what that felt like until doge.
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Now I know what discombobulated actually means.
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America is falling apart because they're making cuts too fast.
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What do we do with the homeless population that's about to be beaten to death?
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Because people in America are so transphobic, but there's no classes to learn.
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He went into the Treasury, and he started having his people work with the Treasury people.
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And it was actually the Treasury people that found, well, $4.7 trillion in payments that don't have any, you know, don't have any code or anything.
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So it's almost untraceable to see where that $4.7 trillion went.
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It's these doge people that just keep hyping everything and saying that there's problems.
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$4.7 trillion that we just can't identify where it went.
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Government employees are reportedly plagued with anxiety over the Department of Government Efficiencies, DOGE, the access to various computer systems, fearing surveillance of their communications.
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Some employees are paranoid that their conversations, their emails, their texts could be surveilled with some purchasing Faraday bags to block electromagnetic signals or to inhibit potential surveillance.
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One employee at the General Services Administration, responsible for government procurement, say they no longer carry a phone outside of the office.
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I used to carry my work phone around with me everywhere after hours on the weekend in case anything was needed.
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Now, the GSA says it doesn't have a plan to surveil its employees, but people are worried that they're being surveilled now.
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Now, I don't, I mean, I, I mean, I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but the government's been listening to you and everybody else for a very long time.
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Now, add to that anything in your emails or whatever could just be taken without a search warrant.
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Your banking records could be given to the FBI.
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But only if you're on the right and were in Washington on January 6th.
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This is a reason to make sure the government is transparent.
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I don't think there's anybody that wants to be surveilled by the United States government.
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Hey, they could become really dangerous because they have all of our information.
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And you were like, no, that's not going to happen.
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So yesterday, anti-Trump critics have called for another boycott against the co-founder
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But he came out and he said that he was going to go ahead and volunteer time for Doge.
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I mean, the people who are the elites in Washington.
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You know, the ones that are having to sacrifice right now might lose their cushy government job.
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I need some more sad music for the government employees that might lose their job.
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Can you imagine not knowing if you could keep your job?
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And you don't know if he's going to like you, not like you, change direction.
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But for the very first time in American history, these poor employees of the government who were promised a job for life and pension better than any kind of pension you could ever get,
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they now question whether this new boss of theirs might fire them.
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By the way, Department of Education has canceled $600 million in woke teacher training grants.
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Are you telling me nobody's going to be teaching our teachers that little Susie could have a dinky sewed on to her body so she could be a boy?
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And nobody's going to teach that to the teachers.
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So the teachers won't be able to teach that to the kids.
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But the teachers are now going to have to go into school.
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And what they've known to be true their whole life, you know, that gender is fluid, that a boy could be a girl, that, you know, trans is cool, that drag queens.
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I mean, they grew up their whole life knowing that drag queens were cool for kindergartners.
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And then all of a sudden, Trump gets in, and everything changes overnight.
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Now all of a sudden, you can't relate to this kind of chaos in your life because this kind of chaos has never happened to you where you believe something your entire life.
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You think everybody believes something for their entire life.
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And then a group of people get into power, and they're like, no, there's no such thing as kids being able to change their gender.
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Has been running advertisements on Facebook soliciting donations to disrupt Trump's deportation machine.
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Now, you might not have ever heard of this NGO, but the federal government has heard about it.
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In fact, they received just last year $9 million as a subcontractor to provide legal services through the Department of Justice Legal Orientation Program.
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I mean, didn't they promise us at one point we wouldn't take federal tax dollars to pay for abortions?
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Why are my tax dollars going to fight against the law?
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Are you somebody who doesn't understand that the biggest threat to the planet, an existential threat, will be dead in 10 minutes?
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We'll all be dead if we don't take care of global warming in the next, well, about nine and a half minutes now.
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You're one of those people, and you're for Elon Musk, you know, a guy who believes the same things that you believe about global warming and has done more, you know, for global warming than anybody else alive on the planet.
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But I see why you hate him so much because of things like this.
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He's going to make sure that every dollar that you pay into tax, which I know you love because it's patriotic, right?
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You love taxes, and you just want them as high as they can possibly be.
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He's just making sure that the tax dollars aren't going to something that you don't necessarily agree with because it's unconstitutional, you know?
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But can you imagine if those tax dollars, $9 million, Donald Trump used that to prop up, you know, a pro-Second Amendment NGO?
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They have zero credibility on any of this, any of this.
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How do you defend this, just this, just this $9 million?
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I don't know if you know this, but $9 million here, there, and everywhere kind of adds up.
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Usually adds up to, oh, my gosh, where did I pull this number up?
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$4.7 trillion that the Treasury just has no idea where they put that.
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Our government and what's happening is really easy to explain.
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Why don't we just imagine for just a second that our government is a restaurant, a bustling restaurant, okay?
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Where every section in the restaurant plays a vital role, okay?
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Because they want to create a memorable dining experience and make the people happy.
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In this restaurant, that would be called the president.
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He crafts the menu and oversees the culinary creations all in line with the original purpose of the restaurant.
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So if it's an Italian establishment, he can't put goulash on the menu.
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Every four years, the diners, the citizens, if you will, the diners have the opportunity to review the chef's performance and say, yeah, you know, I don't like his fare.
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After all, we, the people, the diners, own the restaurant.
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So in the dining area, the servers, our elected members of Congress, interact directly with the patrons.
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Everybody in the restaurant, all the patrons have to say, you know what?
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But the servers do that because they're attuned to the immediate needs and the feedback of the diners.
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Now, they can relay compliments and concerns to the chef, suggesting adjustments or new dishes based on patrons' desires.
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However, they do not step into the kitchen to alter recipes or dictate cooking methods or tell the chef who to hire and fire.
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Their role is to represent the diner's voices and ensure their satisfaction.
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The chef, in turn, selects his own kitchen staff, the sous chefs, the line cooks, the dishwashers, without any interruption from the dining room.
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He can't interrupt and tell which servers are hired or fired or which are assigned to which tables.
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Now, the servers don't influence the chef's hiring decisions and vice versa.
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It's a clear boundary, front of house, back of house.
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Now, just to make sure that this Italian restaurant remains an Italian restaurant, you've got a critic who comes in once in a while when there's a problem or a dispute.
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And when they start happening between the kitchen and the dining area, the role is to assess whether the chef and the servers are adhering to the restaurant's founding recipes and standards.
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They don't rewrite the menu or manage the staff instead.
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All they do is just say, yep, that was what was on the menu and looks like he's creating that.
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Recently, there's been a stir in our governmental restaurant.
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The chef has decided to revamp the kitchen, bringing in new staff because it's been wildly inefficient and lacking of good flavor.
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However, some of the servers are attempting to stop the chef from hiring and firing his own staff, challenging the chef's authority to manage their own team.
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Now, the situation, again, akin to the chef trying to dictate which servers should attend specific tables.
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I feel like there's a million voices crying out and then suddenly silenced.
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The restaurant has the servers, the chef, and the critic.
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In the early 20th century, some proposed a different model for our restaurant, Woodrow Wilson.
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They suggested that a group of experts should oversee both the kitchen and the dining area, believing they knew best what patrons should consume.
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This sidelined all of the direct feedback from the diners and concentrated the decision-making power leading to a disconnect between the establishment and the owners of the restaurant.
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In fact, it was never fully understood what they were doing or run by the patrons who only eat there.
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All three, restaurant, chef, the servers, and the critic, were part of a covert plan to hire someone unknown to the patrons who wanted to run the kitchen and serve only goulash.
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The chef is now making the changes to restore it to an Italian restaurant.
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I was just talking to you a minute ago about the chaos in Washington and how troubling it is for those in Washington.
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They're just, they're just, they just don't know what's coming next.
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Here's Eugene Vindman, a Democratic representative.
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We've already seen that this doge, I call the Department of Government Inefficiencies, is causing a reign of terror, chaos across the federal government.
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Just this week, they released classified information about a U.S. intelligence agency.
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They have access to the American people's personal information, bank accounts, and things like that, that they're frankly not entitled to.
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And so I have a major, major concern about going into government defense and futzing around with the internal systems there and U.S. national security.
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Now, Vindman, is there any relation to the whistleblower Vindman?
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Wait, did you get, though, when he said Department of Government Inefficiency?
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You should put the fascist and put the t-shirt and put the word fascist on it.
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So I just think this is sad because your life has been, since Doge started.
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I haven't gotten the $35 million that the government usually sends me.
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About every quarter they send me another $35 million.
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Because I need to change my, the paper that the gerbils are on top of.
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Well, I mean, the whole, can you, listen, can you not hear the chaos in the screams in
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Is there anybody at the nuclear power plants or are they going to melt down?
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Is Elon Musk stealing my social security check, even as we speak, for that extra $1,200 this
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They gave control of all of our money to 19-year-olds.
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Who we are not supposed to listen to, as opposed to Greta Thunberg, which we should listen
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They are mature, kind of like the other guy we should listen to, who's very mature, Joe
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He's running circles around his aides right now.
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Well, I don't think he does, but we know that's not been confirmed or tested.
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Well, we don't know because the aides programs have all been canceled.
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He did address, Biden did address that, at least in the debate.
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So, he did actually, at least at that point, did not have aides.
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And I'd be terrified if I happen to be Elon Musk because, you know, it's interesting.
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And I think I might be wrong here because I don't see what's happening now doesn't fit into my understanding of the world.
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So, my understanding is the greatest existential threat to this world.
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I didn't know that because I thought the greatest existential threat to this nation and this world.
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I think it's global warming and then white supremacy.
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So, that threat, the 0.9 degrees Celsius temperature rise over a century.
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Was such a big threat that we have to spend trillions of dollars.
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So, there's one guy who's been able to actually make some inroads on this.
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He's built the largest electric car company in the world.
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He's built one of the largest solar companies in the world.
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He's built a spaceship company and the possibility that the global warming is so bad we need to escape to Mars.
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And that guy is now Hitler because he wants to cut spending in our government.
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So, if I honestly want to know from liberals, would you trade Elon Musk right now?
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If you could get a guy who, like, let's say Elon Musk doesn't build the electric car company.
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No, it's going to be a draft pick and a player to be named later.
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But what I'm saying is you give up Musk and the electric cars and the solar power and the spaceships to Mars.
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And in exchange, you'd have him not cutting government spending, which I'm curious which one they think is actually a bigger problem.
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Because they've taken this person and made him into Adolf Hitler after he solved all the problems you said were the biggest.
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After he was the guy who did everything you were asking for, now you think he's Hitler.
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It feels almost as if that whole bull crap about global warming and how it was their biggest problem wasn't true at all.
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That's why I said it was my understanding, and I don't think that understanding could be wrong.
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No, he was the greatest man to ever live until he became Hitler.
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So the guy who's Hitler basically solved all of our global problems when it comes to global warming.
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And this one, you know, the one thing the left has that we don't have.
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So I just want to give you this beautiful, beautiful song written and sung by a guy just
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oust the musk regime yeah it's good i just want you to know he's holding his phone up to his face
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to read these lyrics well they're complex they are they are trump is not a king
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uh no turning back stop the fascists now no turning back oust the musk regime regime and
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that's the first time i heard it it's that catchy yeah and i don't need a phone to read the lyrics
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how did you do that i said it's a musical did you have a photographic memory photographic yeah
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yeah plus it's going to be in your head all day all day long all day long that's incredible singing
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that your your co-workers will be driven nuts that really kind of stays in your head the whole time
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because it's really it's sure it's catchy uh but uh there's no union talk in this one no union talk
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at all that's sad you hear union well the yeah and the musk regime would be a very pro union song
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i suppose because elon musk not a big union guy maybe that's the biggest problem right not a union
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guy but i mean the hole in the sky where the tree once was somebody's making money yeah that i mean
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good stuff good that's really good that's the classic they're good yes guys why is there's a
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hole in the sky the tree was in the sky the street he was right there and they took the tree so now
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you see this hole the big hole so the tree used to was in the sky and it rose up higher into the
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sky made a hole in the sky no no are you really this stupid i think i might be so the tree was
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growing from the ground okay okay and you couldn't see the sky because the tree was there but now that
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they've taken the tree around there's there's a hole no no that doesn't make any sense the tree
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once was i'm with you glenn normally i wouldn't abide the the stupid shaming but in this case i
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gotta make an exception because it's appropriate right yeah he's so stupid so stupid yeah the hole
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in the sky where the tree once was so there was not a hole there before no no because it was filled
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by the tree yeah but now but now it's gone but now we can see the sky there's no hole there we can
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see the sky there's a hole where the tree was the hole but i mean there's a hole you're just stupid
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he's just butt stupid but stupid no no no you're saying the hole is in the sky she specifically says
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the hole is in the sky she doesn't say there's a hole where there's a hole in the tree some people
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you just can't help glenn no i know you try try it's true i know it's it's fair it's fair i didn't
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understand the whole existential threat let me ask you this dummy okay let me ask you this yes
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washington state uh-huh they're thinking again about getting rid of washington george washington
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on their flag yeah because they say rightfully so george washington has nothing to do with their
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state right so there's a hole in the state where washington once was and somebody's making money
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when they remove him okay yeah yeah but but you might notice the name of the state
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is similar is similar but it's not it's not the same it's not the same i think it's i think it was
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named after like bob washington yes yes he was one of the first timber fellers really yeah tim he was a
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timber feller he was a timber feller he helped create the hole not a timber lady he's a timber feller
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yeah well at one point he was a lady now he's a yeah okay now he's a man but you just
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dead shamed him and i did i'm really darn it man this is really hard it's very difficult
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created a lot of problems just one more song oh yeah another song yeah okay
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which side are you on which side are you on i'm doing this without looking at my phone too
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which side against josh we'll fight evan musk no we let scab within our walls we'll fight from dawn to dusk
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dusk dusk and musk which side are you on which side are you on hey hey hey which side are you on
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which side are you oh that is yeah yeah yeah that was beautiful man and i feel the energy out on the
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streets to go and sing those kinds of songs and stand in the cold in washington don't you feel it
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it's electric in america people are just wandering around going i don't know what to do i can't even feed
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my children because all the stores are closed because of doge what do i do what do you do
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whose side are you on okay it's that simple thank you pat pat gray from pat gray unleashed let's talk
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welcome to the glenn beck program we got a couple of things uh happening next hour we're going to
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talk about uh does the united states want to leave nato did i say that out loud do you are
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you're that far on it uh yeah the way they are behaving right now i don't think we have a lot
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in common with with nato with you know the direction the leadership is going uh and yesterday starmer in
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uh england said you know we'll put boots on the ground uh uh in uh in ukraine if we have to
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hmm not me uh no no i mean we've been promised over and over again we would not be doing that
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so no we will not be doing that um we don't have to leave i mean it'd be nice if they did if they paid
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for most of it you know we can be there as a helper it still is a pretty big um deterrent
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yeah it is i will say to what to russia to places like russia yeah for example um you know
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russia i think again i mean they're pretty clear about that and that they don't want ukraine joining
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it for that reason sure because they want to they want to go into ukraine and they don't want to start
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a war with nato sure but that probably means they don't want to go into finland or they don't want
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to go into poland as well so i don't know i mean i i do think there are problems with the organization
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i don't know that like leaving it or having it dissolve is necessarily a good outcome for the
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world though well i don't i you know i don't see us doing that unless uh they just become uh you know
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hello america welcome to the glenn beck program uh i've got a fantastic story to share with you
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i read about it the other day and call up sean spicer and like can you come on to tell this story
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my friend sean spicer how are you sir i'm fantastic how are you i'm so good i'm so good i don't want
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you to tell the end of the story yet i want you to start yeah i want you to start at the beginning
00:44:36.680
what happened when you left the white house and biden took over as president i'll make you back one step
00:44:44.820
further okay so i stepped down as white house press secretary and the president has always been kind
00:44:49.280
and and and offered to appoint me to a couple boards i he appointed me to two of them one of
00:44:54.160
them was the white house commission on fellows as a commissioner there and then he also was kind
00:44:58.620
enough to make me uh one of the his appointees to the board of visitors of the u.s naval academy so i
00:45:04.520
sworn into office joe biden comes into office and uh and and so on january 20th myself and all of the
00:45:12.660
white house commissioners at that fellowship committee resigned because it's a white house commission
00:45:17.740
and the new president has a right to have people for white house commission fair enough well
00:45:23.280
september 1st i get an email of 2021 and it says dear mr spicer thank you for your service in the u.s
00:45:30.240
naval academy board of visitors um by six o'clock tonight please submit your resignation or you will
00:45:37.300
be fired and i thought whoa what now just for context remember glenn september 1st my term ended
00:45:45.120
november 1st 60 days later i was like you couldn't wait 60 days just to have it for free
00:45:51.300
so so i was like i'd been sworn into office my term was you know ended that time and i obviously wasn't
00:45:57.600
going to get reappointed biden had his right to appoint his people great so it turns out that he
00:46:02.400
fired everybody myself from the naval academy board rest vote from the naval academy board and then a guy
00:46:09.460
named h.r mcmaster for the west point board who by the way h.r mcmaster you remember was the national
00:46:14.780
security advisor to trump three-star army general who was a graduate of west point a distinguished
00:46:19.820
professor at west point and the friday after that that tuesday email was going to be honored at west
00:46:26.160
point as a distinguished alumni in their awards ceremony so anyway he fires us september 1st i don't
00:46:33.400
resign i said if you i'm not resigning you can fire me if you want and then steven miller in america
00:46:38.980
first came to me and said we have an idea i said okay what's the idea he goes we want to sue biden
00:46:43.940
now glenn i'm not a lawyer but i said guys i watch a lot a lot of a lot of law and order but how in
00:46:50.360
god's earth if we sue the guy in september i mean my term ends november 1st we're never going to get
00:46:56.940
back on the board and they said no no no let's go to court and make joe biden argue that he has
00:47:04.360
the absolute authority to fire anybody and because you're we're not going to win the case
00:47:09.240
they'll they'll rule against us and i was like oh this is brilliant so the only people but here's
00:47:15.280
the kicker the only people who were willing to put their name on that lawsuit are myself
00:47:20.160
and russ vote of all of the other people that were so honored that president trump
00:47:25.200
had appointed them and they went to everyone said hey will you sign on to this and they said
00:47:29.900
uh thanks we're busy russ vote so the case became spicer et al v biden it goes up to the court
00:47:36.440
the court says the president has the absolute authority to that we appeal the decision it goes
00:47:41.740
to the appeals level and the the court again reaffirms the decision that joe biden and the
00:47:47.140
president of the united states have the absolute authority to fire everyone and the media started
00:47:52.500
calling glenn and they go you lost the case and i said at the time did i so donald trump gets elected
00:48:02.080
and i this is where it gets really fun you'll love this because you know you know the rest of the
00:48:07.340
story here it comes yes thank you paul harvey so so so the new york i write this story in the
00:48:13.200
this op-ed for the new york post saying hey guess what spicer v biden has given president trump the
00:48:18.280
authority to fire anyone he wants i hope that president trump executes it and the white house
00:48:23.200
is tweeting it you know sending me messages back guess who we just fired guess who we just fired
00:48:27.180
and i'm living in this glory well i write this piece for the new york post explaining hey here's what
00:48:33.060
we did here's the legal basis all these people who are about to get fired by trump should thank
00:48:37.640
president biden for this now here's where it gets fun the new york post in the edit editing process
00:48:43.660
says to me okay well was it just the service academies and i said no they had the right to fire
00:48:47.920
anyway and they said well give us some examples and so i've got the list of boards and commissions
00:48:53.240
that the president can appoint to there's like a couple hundred or two and i start reading one of
00:48:58.500
the editors i said well they could fire you know there's the battlefield commission there's the
00:49:02.080
truman scholarship there's the kennedy center she goes oh what's that in the op-ed what that people
00:49:07.160
will identify with that and then we went we added a couple other examples to the op-ed so the op-ed
00:49:12.500
gets published in the new york post and i it gets a lot of coverage whatever and president trump
00:49:17.900
continues to fire people and when they fire the board of the kennedy center the washington post
00:49:24.140
calls you know the spokesman for the kennedy center and he says are you going to be opposing president
00:49:30.160
trump firing you and on the record the spokesman for the kennedy center says we can't
00:49:36.080
get spicer b biden sets the precedent for this gives the president the authority to do this
00:49:41.240
so the now here's the kicker the washington post called me and says what do you think about what the
00:49:47.420
kennedy center saying now i have a hard enough time keeping up with president trump i don't focus on what
00:49:53.040
the kennedy center saying i'm sorry that's really not my thing so i said so i said i don't know and they
00:49:59.500
go are you serious you don't know that they just cited your case as the reason that they can't oppose
00:50:05.200
or uh or object to what president trump just did and i said oh my god that's amazing i'm glad to
00:50:11.460
have played a small part a day later the reporter calls me back and says i went and read all of the
00:50:17.800
court documents and you're right and i said of course what do you mean i'm yeah i wasn't lying to
00:50:23.460
you and he said i've got to write this big story and i said to my team at the time my family i was like
00:50:27.880
oh my god this is not going to go well the washington post wants to write a story about spicer b biden and why
00:50:34.220
it's given the president the authorities and sat then i get a text and it says hey we're running
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we're putting the story up and i go oh like these don't these things don't end well for people like
00:50:43.840
me and people like you it's like you don't get that it's like getting a call from the irs it doesn't go
00:50:48.740
well and they go hey i'm from the washington post and i'm writing a story about glenn beck yeah thank you
00:50:54.420
yeah so so i i click on the story and i'm reading and i'm like okay okay okay like when's the bad part
00:51:03.840
coming and the only part is i normally you know there's that phrase glenn where people say that
00:51:09.180
they they hate watch msnbc or something yeah yeah and i hate i hate read the comments i had to do it
00:51:15.400
i had to do it i normally will not read the comments i don't read the twitter replies whatever
00:51:20.420
but i read the comments and these snowflakes they're so offended they're like sean spicer's
00:51:26.960
an evil person for suing the president i'm like wait a second you you have to understand the context
00:51:32.300
never in the history of the united states had any president ever removed somebody from a service
00:51:41.360
academy board prior to their term being done for anything less than malfeasance and even that we
00:51:47.160
can't find an example never joe biden was so petty and the point is they're mad at me
00:51:54.520
the comments there's like thousands of comments when you click on the washington post story and i
00:51:58.700
posted it on my social media stories if someone wants to go read it and i was like wait a second
00:52:03.060
you're mad at me they're like i can't believe you did this and i'm like wait wait wait i did nothing
00:52:09.380
i literally had 60 days to go i'm sure i would have gotten some little you know medallion from the
00:52:14.740
naval academy said thanks for your service be on your way and yet here they are like all these
00:52:21.380
snowflakes putting comments in the washington post that like i'm the bad guy because why because i
00:52:27.800
stood up and said hey you want to argue that you have to do this then give a future republican
00:52:32.680
president now at the time myself and russ vote had no idea president trump hadn't even declared for
00:52:37.140
re-election yet but we thought to ourselves hey you know what we'll stand up now like i said i watch a
00:52:42.760
lot of law and order but that's my legal prowess here um so so the idea that this case now which
00:52:49.640
we thought at the time hey let's try it has now become the basis for which president trump can run
00:52:55.520
around and say you're fired legit is amazing and i'm just i'm like it get the post wrote in the story
00:53:02.180
that i was giddy i think that's an understatement i am so ecstatic that not just that president trump can
00:53:08.280
execute on this strategy and that it was joe biden that set the president and gave us this gift
00:53:14.620
is such sweet poetic justice you know whenever anybody tries to force their way it it never ends
00:53:21.900
well never ends well but think about this they tried to de-platform trump they censored him they took
00:53:27.280
him off the ballot they sued him civilly and criminal and it just it's backfire backfire backfire
00:53:31.920
learn your lesson folks like i just to me i get such a kick out of this because these dum-dums
00:53:38.960
keep thinking if we just go after them one more time it'll work and it doesn't so what is the
00:53:44.820
strategy now do you think they have what i mean because none of this is working no no i i hope that
00:53:51.980
it's continue i mean i just love the fact that they keep trying they double down on stupid and they're
00:53:57.300
like what if we just try it one more time and i'm like god bless you but the idea is just at some
00:54:03.780
point you know you you take i was i was take the loss and just say let's regroup let's retreat he's
00:54:10.420
not running again maybe we stop making it about him and we think about what we're for i don't tend
00:54:15.860
to give a ton of advice to the democratic party but at some point recognize it for 10 years you've
00:54:20.720
tried to say that donald trump's the problem we're going to come up against him and it hasn't worked
00:54:25.280
so maybe just maybe you try to rethink this whole strategy so i look i don't really care if that's
00:54:34.120
their problem not mine uh i uh you know i performed at the kennedy center 10 12 15 years ago uh and it
00:54:42.420
was like it almost took an act of congress uh to make that happen i mean you can you can rent out
00:54:47.420
the kennedy center and do whatever you want on there well they had a problem with me uh and they told
00:54:53.860
me at the time i was the first show ever done at the kennedy center that displayed the american flag
00:55:01.900
on stage i found that incredible but i don't care what happens at the kennedy center it doesn't matter
00:55:08.180
to me but the left is freaking out they're just freaking out what i see here's the thing there's a
00:55:16.220
bigger arc that i think is taking place in the first term we were somewhat apologetic we were like yeah
00:55:22.980
you know that remember just think about this and remember the kennedy center is just one thing so
00:55:27.840
president trump can keep firing everybody but but the the when in 2017 we came into office the kennedy
00:55:33.520
center honors right which is supposed to be this annual thing where all these leftist awards and and
00:55:38.240
they celebrate each other they said we won't come if trump shows up and so trump was actually magnanimous
00:55:43.900
and said you know what i i just you guys go on have your event i won't go okay and and i think that
00:55:50.500
there was a lot of feeling around and trying to understand the trappings and and like i said i
00:55:55.280
it was it was just it was new what do we do how do we approach this this term he says screw it you're
00:56:02.280
all fired i'm taking over the board i'm in charge i'm putting my people and i love it this idea that
00:56:08.400
we have learned and this is what i mean about the arc it said don't be don't be you know don't be
00:56:15.000
afraid don't be apologetic fight go out there why are we ceding ground at the kennedy center
00:56:20.840
why is it that glenn beck is the only person that puts an american flag on it why aren't we saying you
00:56:25.520
know what let's bring in more people who do that let's be proud let's be patriotic let's use this
00:56:31.520
institution to celebrate america but i don't understand like the mentality is so different now
00:56:37.260
it's let's fight yeah let's do this i think it's this is i think i love it i think it's absolutely
00:56:44.180
fantastic i thank you for what you did and you know the only thing that would make it better is if
00:56:48.780
you or i were on the board of the kennedy center and we could announce that lee greenwood's residency
00:56:54.260
was now taking place at the kennedy center i think you just like just so you know i now that you've like
00:57:01.240
that's definitely not going to be the last time that we hear that you can take credit for it but
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i have a feeling we would be leading the residency of like several other country artists
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that would be fantastic thank you so much i appreciate it sean spicer you bet sir all right
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can you imagine how they would freak out they just freak out i don't know what they expect us to do
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you know what are they what are they or well it's just gonna be people with banjos up there playing all
00:59:08.100
the time well banjos i thought that was artistic i thought we should appreciate those kinds of
00:59:13.720
things i know npr will have banjo bluegrass nights from time to time is that not belong at the kennedy
00:59:21.200
center i mean what do they expect us to do i that's why i really want a meme of donald trump
00:59:26.600
announcing lee greenwood's uh residency at the kennedy center i would not be surprised if that happens at
00:59:33.380
all and they would believe it they would absolutely the left would absolutely believe i would believe it
00:59:38.040
and would not be surprised if it happens at all i don't know if residency but i have absolutely a
00:59:43.120
show oh of course 100 and what's wrong with that there's nothing wrong there's nothing wrong with
00:59:47.800
that i mean he should be able to you remember the trouble we had getting into the kennedy center
00:59:52.220
it was impossible basically and it was all history it was all legitimate there was nothing in it that
00:59:58.600
was anti-anything uh they want these institutions though right they oh yeah institutional capture
01:00:04.640
very important on the left and the arts are probably the place they've targeted the most
01:00:09.360
and you know i mean they've succeeded largely they have succeeded and it's time to to push back
01:00:17.400
against those things i mean i don't to me honestly the kennedy center what we should do with it is listed
01:00:22.340
on zillow frankly and i know and get rid of it completely there's no reason for to even have
01:00:27.640
anything like that no but especially with when it has to do with the federal government someone
01:00:31.620
will take that over privately and they'll be happy and they'll make a lot of money with it sure or lose
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a lot of money but i don't care yeah uh but uh the bottom line is that shouldn't be the business of
01:00:40.980
the federal government at all but considering it is it should be at the very least representative
01:00:45.940
of the country right not just a left-wing only institution
01:00:50.140
what about lee greenwood as the phantom of the opera
01:01:00.520
i like it you could direct it are you going to get on the uh kennedy center board or what oh i would
01:01:08.900
i would kill to i would kill to be on the board you should i mean legitimately should be
01:01:13.640
i legitimately should i mean seriously it would be a really good choice you're one of the very few
01:01:20.000
conservatives who have taken art seriously for decades you legitimately were on the 100 most
01:01:25.820
important people in the world of art by a real art magazine uh several years ago you have uh i mean
01:01:32.620
you sell paintings for more than hunter biden can even sell them for like legitimately you should be
01:01:38.500
on that that would be a really a really good thing i think if this thing is going to exist
01:01:45.240
you should be on that board well i think they already have appointed all the members of the
01:01:49.780
kick somebody out yeah expand the board do whatever you need to do i'm the person that could bring the
01:01:55.660
residency of lee greenwood yeah kennedy center you know you couldn't put me on a board because i would
01:02:03.080
want to do things like that just to drive them insane oh and that's totally inconsistent with the way
01:02:08.080
trump thinks that's that's what he lives for what are you talking about
01:02:13.800
we absolutely he's you seriously like there should be a movement to get you on that board
01:02:20.660
you do it i mean number one you would actually take it seriously i would and you would do a good job
01:02:25.620
and also you would have many ideas that were serious ideas that would piss the left off
01:02:31.620
to no end this is what you were made for oh yeah it would your entire life is leading to this
01:02:38.380
moment you should absolutely be on this board it could be well i wrote the president a letter yesterday
01:02:43.540
uh and posted it and elon musk retweeted it right away and said yes uh and i was asking for
01:02:51.200
a role in something else that he's doing uh and there's a chance he just might do it maybe maybe not
01:02:59.520
with me but he's there's a chance he's going to do this i'll talk about it in uh the next break stand
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so it is weird uh it's almost like great minds think alike and then i think that way sometimes too
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or a stunt but a serious journalistic endeavor to restore confidence in what should be an unquestionable
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truth that the wealth of the american people is indeed intact and accounted for the implications of this
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cannot be overstated restoring trust in our monetary system with inflationary concerns rising and increasing
01:07:18.260
discussions about digital concerns currencies and central bank interventions proving the existence of
01:07:24.400
our gold reserves would reinforce the strength and stability of the u.s dollar
01:07:28.940
b shutting down speculation from wall street insiders to everyday citizens many have questioned whether
01:07:36.520
the gold we claim to have is actually there a definitive answer provided through an open and
01:07:42.100
verifiable process would put an end to decades of uncertainty c defining act of transparency you have long
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been the champion of exposing corruption and inefficiency in our government what better way to demonstrate
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your commitment commitment to the people than by doing what no administration has done in nearly a
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century opening the doors to america's vaults and letting people see the truth for themselves as
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someone who has spent my career seeking the truth i believe this moment is not about gold it's about
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reaffirming the principles of honesty and accountability that made america great if our reserves are indeed secure as
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the government claims there should be no reason why the american people cannot see them with their own
01:08:28.840
eyes i understand the sensitivity surrounding national security but i am more than willing to work
01:08:34.240
within the necessary parameters to ensure that this is done in a responsible manner but i firmly believe
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that this is a unique opportunity for you to demonstrate once again that you stand with the american
01:08:46.400
people against the forces of secrecy and unchecked power i'd welcome the opportunity to discuss this further
01:08:52.320
at your convenience and explore how we can make this a reality this could be a defining moment in your
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legacy of fighting for transparency and putting america first thank you for your consideration
01:09:01.480
sincerely glenn beck uh sent that letter to the white house yesterday uh and i also tweeted it i would
01:09:09.200
love for you to retweet um immediately uh elon musk retweeted it and said yes uh and uh senator mike lee
01:09:20.080
uh got into the fray somewhat because people were saying oh that's not true they haven't no there hasn't
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been full transparency since the 1950s in 19 i think it's 1974 they let some senators in without camera
01:09:36.300
crews to verify that yeah the gold is there well that's not an accounting where is the accounting of
01:09:45.300
our country's gold there were and i'm i'm pulling these numbers out of my butt here so don't hold me
01:09:50.920
to these exact numbers but in like 1940 we had like 697 million ounces of gold okay that's a lot of gold
01:10:01.540
it's my understanding we're down to about 160 million uh ounces of gold okay i think i'm not sure but
01:10:14.080
i would do my homework on this i think most of that is because we are we rebuilt europe we took our
01:10:21.740
resources and sent it back to europe to rebuild europe uh don't know if that's what happened to it
01:10:28.540
but you know those numbers are out so there's something that is clearly that happened and it was all on the
01:10:35.500
up and up i believe uh but those 167 million ounces of gold are those at fort knox they say half of it
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is underneath the streets of new york in the federal reserve vault where they are holding it for us
01:10:53.680
i'm not really comfortable with the federal reserve holding our gold i don't know why we wouldn't have it
01:10:59.200
in fort knox but that's a different story but both of them need to be audited audited meaning somebody
01:11:05.520
needs to go in and count every brick and not just count up and across okay right you take each brick
01:11:14.560
weigh it uh and do an analysis on it and count it and put it back in it'd be fascinating i mean we it's been
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a while since we had an al capone's vault type of special and we can go in there and there's be like
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papers on the floor and it'll be fascinating yeah that would be it was a letdown with al capone
01:11:33.200
not on this one it would be big news it would be big news if there was nothing in the vault yes
01:11:37.540
yeah and i don't know i mean i it's hard to know exactly what's going on with all that but we should
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know and and honestly like they have this bill coming up this reconciliation bill i think it would be
01:11:47.160
very easy to put in there an annual a biannual review uh for to check this out and make sure it's
01:11:55.380
all in there i mean do you know that nobody knows no one single person knows how to get into the vault
01:12:00.520
it's like several people that have their portion of opening the door at the vault so it takes several
01:12:07.600
people to open it really yeah i mean i just love just for i mean they and they wouldn't show that to
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us you know uh you know and here's what you do next to open the vault i mean they're not going to
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show that but it would be fascinating to know the security just on that building do they have a get
01:12:23.060
smart type of thing going on yeah you get into a phone booth and you go down yeah yeah they should
01:12:27.840
just put that in even if it's not necessary right right we're wasting money on so much other stuff
01:12:32.400
why why not this we spent what 10 million dollars on people getting circumcised in mozambique
01:12:37.940
right we can't get a phone booth why not get a cool phone booth yeah that whole um situation with
01:12:43.340
the social security numbers where there's millions of people that are like 130 years old yeah uh that
01:12:49.420
are uh have social security numbers and are technically still in the books they say you know
01:12:54.220
it's it's actually not that big of a deal that you know they've been a lot of it is you know it's
01:12:58.840
just paperwork stuff and they're not actually receiving payments i think something like 98 percent
01:13:03.440
of the people uh over 100 are not receiving payments now it does indicate that there's
01:13:09.020
probably a few people that are and we should find out who is on that list because there are some
01:13:14.140
people that actually of course are over 100 years old so some of those should be fine but we should
01:13:18.400
be able to check that out pretty quickly and they're like you know the question is cost benefit
01:13:22.560
analysis here it's like the benefit really just to take a bunch of you know numbers off of a list
01:13:27.840
doesn't really do much good for the american people and would cost five to ten million dollars to do it
01:13:32.780
why why would it cost five to ten million dollar let's just start here everybody over 130 you
01:13:41.240
just immediately delete if one of them says hey what's going on with my social security payments
01:13:46.140
i want them in the world record i want them in the world record book let's meet them right and
01:13:49.760
let's triple their payments until they die right just for fun right you know maybe at 130 we
01:13:55.020
automatically triple your payments if you can make it that long at 105 i'm thinking about doing that
01:14:00.040
okay fine congratulations you made it to 105 but 110 i cut you off but like there's no
01:14:05.400
secondary question as to why it would cost five to ten million dollars to remove a bunch of names
01:14:11.840
from a list of people who can't possibly be alive that that's going to cost us 10 million dollars
01:14:18.140
it's like when they always say that with the wall there was like it's going to cost 10 million
01:14:21.900
dollars a mile why why is it going to cost 10 million dollars a mile well i i mean i just it's
01:14:30.180
just absurd and they keep doing these things to us over and over and over again and the left of course
01:14:35.260
puts all sorts of weird restrictions on it it's not as if every single thing you see because when you
01:14:41.220
see oh gosh there's people that are 190 years old with social security numbers that are active
01:14:45.840
the immediate thought understandably would be okay well that's a real scheme and someone's stealing
01:14:53.340
money or whatever in reality there are government reports on this that say that those people and it
01:14:58.580
doesn't seem like they actually are receiving money it's just a record-keeping thing but like
01:15:01.820
why not clean it up take 10 minutes that's a 10 minute database delete so the story that's
01:15:08.720
going around with this is that elon musk repeatedly claim that he found all kinds of fraud
01:15:14.560
in social security but i look at the quote and in the oval office press conference he said
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a cursory examination so first exam examination of social security we got people out there that are
01:15:27.100
150 years old now do you know anybody at 150 i don't know they should be in the guinness book of
01:15:31.880
world records so that's a case where i think they're probably dead now the articles that i'm reading
01:15:39.000
immediately go into that's just the broken system there there's nobody it was 150 that's scamming the
01:15:48.980
you know the system there that money is well you don't know that for a fact just like you can't say
01:15:55.300
elon musk elon musk can't come out and say massive fraud you can say massive fraud if all of these
01:16:03.960
numbers are still active and paying out you could say that it would be massive fraud you can't say
01:16:11.540
it's not massive fraud you can say it probably isn't but this war on words is just insane because
01:16:22.760
what stu just said is the point why do we have a question on it there was a story out today 4.7
01:16:30.880
trillion dollars not marked for anything from the treasury department now elon musk didn't find this
01:16:38.780
his people who are working with treasury people they're the ones who found this and brought it to
01:16:44.800
the attention and what it means is there's 4.7 trillion dollars of checks where it doesn't you
01:16:51.580
know where it says at the bottom next to your signature four nothing's filled in in that space
01:16:57.800
they'd have no idea what 4.7 trillion dollars where it went what it was for now that could be fraud
01:17:08.860
but shouldn't we know shouldn't we just look into that i mean i don't understand how people are
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you ever seen a liberal's hands smoother than a snake on oil guess they're more worried about the
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meaning of the word female than the word work glenn beck will be right back
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welcome to the glenn beck program we are so glad that you are here thank you so much for listening
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you know the thing on uh the gold that we have to be very very aware of uh and why it is important
01:19:52.960
is we are talking about um putting more assets on our balance sheet so in other words i mean we're not
01:20:01.040
broke if you want to count all of the oil that we have in alaska you put that on our balance sheet
01:20:06.960
and that takes a lot of debt uh worry away so they're looking at rebalancing everything but when
01:20:14.820
you go in and look at the the gold you have to make sure that all of the gold is marked u.s treasury
01:20:21.420
when we when i saw not us when the federal reserve returned the gold of germany to germany they demanded
01:20:29.840
it would be released from new york sent back to germany took us about two years to transfer that but
01:20:36.000
they got it but when they got it uh it wasn't stamped german uh it had been re-poured
01:20:43.900
why why why wouldn't you return the german gold to germany the speculation is is re-hypothecation
01:20:56.220
that we have used this gold for several countries and just kept counting our gold and their gold is our
01:21:03.400
gold and our gold and their gold as their gold and it doesn't there's not enough money to there's
01:21:09.960
not enough gold to cover all of it and that all of the countries were in on it uh and that a lot of
01:21:16.680
this gold is not there anymore i hope that's not true uh but i don't trust the federal reserve
01:21:23.560
at all and i don't think we should they've been they've been the ones who have brought us this
01:21:29.140
golden golden era of the stock market where the rich just keep getting richer and the average person
01:21:36.840
is struggling that's the federal reserve uh i don't think we trust them with our gold
01:23:12.820
Well, hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
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Tom Brokaw narrated a special about the allyship between Canada and the U.S.,
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On September 11th, as the United States shut down its airspace,
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landing 239 U.S.-bound flights with 33,000 passengers
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entire communities housed and fed those thousands of passengers for days afterward.
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In the long history of sovereign neighbors, there never has been a relationship as close, productive, and peaceful as the U.S. and Canada.
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Speaking before the Canadian Parliament, President Kennedy summarized the relationship this way.
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Those from nature have so joined together, said Kennedy.
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But we're going to go into what's happening in Canada and Europe.
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All right, let's go to Canada and one of our good friends up in Canada, Ezra Levant.
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You know, I love America, and I love Canada, too, and I don't think I have to choose.
01:26:18.840
And so it's been a bumpy few weeks because Trump said, hey, Canada, fix your border problem or we're going to slap you with tariffs.
01:26:27.500
And when you think of open borders, you think the Mexican border, right?
01:26:30.900
And it's true, the vast majority, numerically, of the smuggling of people and drugs is from the Mexican side.
01:26:41.020
There's actually more would-be terrorists that are nabbed on the northern border than the Mexico border.
01:26:51.040
And the cartels are active in Canada, including not just the Mexican cartels, but, you know, there's big meth labs being found in Canada every week.
01:26:59.980
If you look at the announcement that Trump made, this was back, I think, in November.
01:27:04.020
He said, look, by the time I'm inaugurated on Jan 20, I want you, Mexico, and you, Canada, to basically do the preparatory work to seal the borders.
01:27:21.140
So I think a grown-up would say, okay, he wants us to seal the borders.
01:27:25.840
We should probably do that in our own interest anyways.
01:27:28.360
And he's got an or else in there that maybe stings a bit, but let's just do the work because it's in our interest, too.
01:27:34.420
Trouble is, Trudeau said, no, I'm not going to seal the border.
01:27:38.860
I'm not going to crack down on illegal migrants and illegal drugs, even though that's something we should do.
01:27:43.060
I'm going to focus on the or else, and I'm going to get into sort of a staring contest with an ally 10 times bigger than us.
01:27:58.680
But here's the thing, and I don't know if Trump really thought about this because he's dealing with bigger fish, like he's dealing with Ukraine.
01:28:05.140
He's dealing with Gaza, and he's dealing with the economy and the fires in L.A. and getting his nominees through the Senate.
01:28:13.340
I don't think he's following the minutia of Canadian politics because let me tell you one thing I think Trump didn't count on.
01:28:20.020
I mean, Trump's a master negotiator, and the thing about a negotiation is the other guy, you know, you've got to be willing to walk away, and you've got to make it so the other guy sort of doesn't want to walk away because his alternative is worse.
01:28:36.100
I don't know if you remember this, Glenn, but in January, Justin Trudeau announced he was going to resign, and that's going to take effect on March 9th.
01:28:47.620
So Trudeau doesn't have the interest of getting a deal.
01:28:51.020
He wants his final few weeks as prime minister to be, you know, an epic superhero coming to save Canada.
01:28:58.940
He wants to be Captain Canada fighting against the big bad Trump.
01:29:02.780
He doesn't actually want a deal, Glenn, because that's boring, and that looks like he's taking orders from Trump.
01:29:10.580
If he fights Trump, if he says, no, no, no, I don't want to spend a few billion on border security.
01:29:19.180
See, Trump's not used to negotiating with a guy who actually wants to hurt himself.
01:29:30.500
He's the Captain Canada saving our country from the big bad Trump, and we've got a lot of Trump derangement syndrome over here.
01:29:36.380
But number two, Trudeau has wrecked our economy through taxes and debt and inflation and cost of living.
01:29:43.180
And so if Trump actually does bring in punitive tariffs, Trudeau can say, uh-huh, this is on Trump.
01:29:52.860
So the thing is, Trump is dealing with a guy who is acting in bad faith.
01:30:04.640
I've been watching the reaction of some Canadians, and they're like, we're not going to become the 51st state.
01:30:12.920
Donald Trump, he's calling Trudeau the governor of the 51st state to minimalize him as a mock of Trudeau.
01:30:27.140
We're not offering to buy you, and we're certainly not sending troops up there to take you.
01:30:34.480
I think it's a combination because here's the thing.
01:30:37.340
For the last 10 years, Trudeau has tried to denature Canada.
01:30:41.960
Our founding prime minister is named John A. McDonald, Sir John A. McDonald, our version of George Washington.
01:30:53.700
Trudeau presided over his statues being knocked down.
01:30:58.060
Trudeau has told us that we are a country that committed genocide against Indian people.
01:31:07.180
He says, and he told the New York Times, we have no core values.
01:31:21.000
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
01:31:22.400
He changed your national anthem from O Canada to what?
01:31:30.780
He went on Anderson Cooper's show, and Anderson Cooper said, well, tell me what's a Canadian?
01:31:35.580
Okay, that's a question you'd expect a prime minister to answer.
01:31:45.420
And so here's a guy who, for 10 years, has derided what it means to be Canada, and he's
01:31:53.320
So I think Trump, in his uncanny way, detected within Trudeau a bit of an inferiority complex,
01:32:03.840
And so that 51st state thing, governor thing, it actually stings because Trudeau has spent
01:32:12.520
And Trump must have grokked that somehow, because every time Trump says that, it actually
01:32:18.960
hurts because we have spent 10 years destroying what's made us Canadian, and Trump figured it
01:32:28.060
He's very good at knowing where people's weaknesses are.
01:32:31.980
I think that's one of his real skills in negotiating.
01:32:36.040
He knows what the other side is thinking and what they're afraid of.
01:32:44.380
Uh, are we, is this going to turn into something?
01:32:49.700
Well, you know, there was some booing and there was a hockey game between our two.
01:32:55.520
And, and the boo, I think people are, there's some people sort of startled because the idea
01:33:02.720
Like we're, you really, you almost can't tell a difference between a Canadian and American
01:33:07.080
other than how we pronounce a few words, like a boot, the hoose, how long you'll wait for
01:33:15.400
I mean, there are some differences, of course, but I can't think of two countries that are
01:33:19.640
So the idea that we're in some battle with America, it's confusing to Canadians, but
01:33:25.200
And let me just say a quick thing about the first 51st state.
01:33:27.280
You know how California is this huge electoral college that always goes Democrat every time.
01:33:33.480
Let me say this to my brothers in the United States.
01:33:35.820
You do not want another 41 million people who will vote Democrat.
01:33:45.020
I myself would be a Trump supporter in a heartbeat and maybe the province of Alberta where I'm
01:33:51.180
But, and by the way, I know you have some challenges with French, sorry, Spanish bilingualism.
01:33:59.180
So, I mean, get ready for French to be spoken in your Congress.
01:34:03.080
I'm just saying, you know, there's probably a few details you didn't think about, but let
01:34:09.960
I don't know if you know, but the, our free trade agreement, the Trump renegotiated with
01:34:14.340
Canada, it already gives you everything you want.
01:34:17.540
We have 170 billion, with a B, barrels of oil in our oil sands and you have access to
01:34:28.920
And so when Trump talks about slapping that with a tariff, my phrase is, how's that American
01:34:35.820
You need that oil to displace the conflict oil you're buying from OPEC.
01:34:39.780
Like, how about instead of slapping oil with a tariff, since that's just going to your
01:34:45.600
refineries, we're the number one source of American oil other than America.
01:34:48.740
You make about half of your own oil in Texas and other places, but the other half, we're
01:34:56.960
How about replace that OPEC oil with more Canadian oil?
01:35:02.320
And I know Donald Trump's a dealmaker, art of the deal.
01:35:09.420
You could buy every one of those 170 barrels of oil, 170 billion, and that would last you
01:35:17.760
You would be able to displace every single foreign barrel of crude, $13 trillion deal.
01:35:29.600
But most of the companies operating there are American-owned.
01:35:33.280
Even the Canadian companies, they're all listed on your American stock exchanges.
01:35:36.520
You own the companies that are making the money.
01:35:41.740
And you don't want China to get access to that oil.
01:35:53.900
And I just, I think that Trump is shooting at Trudeau, but hitting us.
01:35:59.560
I have a creative way to get back at Trudeau, but don't do it by attacking Canada.
01:36:07.080
I mentioned before that Justin Trudeau said Canada has committed a genocide against our
01:36:22.480
What if Trump were to issue an executive order saying, taking notice of Justin Trudeau's
01:36:28.560
confession that he is presiding over a genocide.
01:36:32.500
We hereby put sanctions on Justin Trudeau and his cabinet.
01:36:40.920
So just like Trump is doing with that international criminal court.
01:36:47.920
If you smack Justin Trudeau around, he loves going to New York.
01:36:51.860
He goes down to New York and parties and he sort of does, you know, what happens in Vegas
01:36:59.320
If you took that away from him, Trudeau would be floored.
01:37:13.620
And by the way, you do a $13 trillion deal to buy all our oil for 50 years.
01:37:18.480
Now we got some money to build up our armed forces and be your best buddies again, like
01:37:25.960
Ezra, hang on just a second, because I want to switch because Europe is freaking out
01:37:31.140
about Trump saying, you know, I don't know, maybe we don't involve ourselves in NATO anymore.
01:37:36.760
What he said in Germany, or what J.D. Vance said in Germany was absolutely right.
01:37:41.820
The people of Germany look like they were with the United States, but Europe has changed
01:37:49.860
And I want to talk to you about that here in just a second.
01:37:53.740
He's the founder of Rebel News, which is kind of the blaze of Canada and host of the Ezra
01:38:04.380
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Here's a little event from Rebel News in Canada.
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Did you see the speech by J.D. Vance last week and then in Germany?
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When he was talking to the Munich Security Conference, and he just said, look, why are
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you guys abandoning our values of freedom of speech?
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It was incredible, and I think it really wobbled them a bit.
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I mean, the guy who was, you know, head of the conference cried at the end, saying that
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we don't have anything in common with America anymore.
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But Canada and the European Union, they're kind of headed in the same direction.
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It's especially Europe, it feels like they're just an organ of the WEF, and they're not
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I mean, if we keep our values and they are opposed to our values, we're no longer allies,
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I agree with you, but there's one difference between the EU and Canada.
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Whereas Canada, we are just weeks, or at most months, away from a new election.
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And all the polls show that Trudeau's party, even if someone else leads it, will be thrown
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into the dustbin of history, and a new conservative leader named Pierre Polyev will win.
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He's pro-conservative, pro-military, anti-woke.
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He's pledged to get rid of our state broadcaster, the CBC, which is very left-wing.
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So I'd say one huge difference is that Canadians are waking up.
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The last poll I saw for Trudeau, until this latest superhero revival that he's been able
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to do by being Captain Canada, he was as low as 16% in the polls.
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But funny enough, Trump sort of pumped him up a bit by giving him the 51st state battle
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Europe buys a lot of its energy from Russia, which is why Russia couldn't afford to evade
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If you bought Canadian oil instead, you wouldn't have to be so militarily deployed in the Persian
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You could be there by choice, not by necessity.
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You spend $50 billion a year on the U.S. Fifth Fleet defending the Persian Gulf sea lanes.
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How about just fill up the Keystone XL pipeline and get Canadian ethical oil instead?
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That's my counter-argument to the tariffs on Canada.
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Okay, replace your OPEC conflict oil with Canadian ethical oil.
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And then if you want to play around militarily in the Middle East, fill your boots.
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But you're not doing so just to be the security guard to escort that oil to America.
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You divide $50 billion a year into the oil America buys from the Persian Gulf, it's like
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$100 a barrel in military costs just to get that oil.
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This is my argument, Glenn, for our countries becoming closer friends, not pushing each other
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I think we launch military plans against Canada this afternoon and just take all that oil.
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You've already got all the access to it in the world.
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There's one other thing that we really, I'd like to get into here, and that is this rumor
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There's a story about Ukraine today, and it is about all of our allies freaking over in Europe.
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But Poland, or sorry, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands are like,
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well, we need a seat at the table for this Ukraine thing.
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Remember, it was Boris Johnson that went over and said, don't take the peace deal.
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You weren't for peace then, and I don't think you are now.
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But they're all claiming that they have to have a seat at the table, and Donald Trump said,
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It's between Russia and Ukraine, and we're the ones making this happen.
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And importantly, it's not between Russia and us.
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We have a role in that, because really, without us, Ukraine has no defense.
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I mean, is Europe going to step up and spend all those hundreds of billions of dollars?
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Do you know they spend, if they're lucky, they spend 3% of their GDP.
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I think Poland is the only one that is doing more than that, and it's 4%.
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Most of them do less than 2% of their GDP for defense.
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Do you know how much we spend on defense as a percentage?
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Fiscal years of spending has typically accounted for 15% to 20% of total federal budget.
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Federal spending was approximately $6.2 trillion.
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So, yeah, that's which is, you know, we spend about $850 billion-ish on defense.
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Which is actually pretty low, historically, for us.
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Yeah, I mean, look, this is quite clearly much more a European issue than an American issue.
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That's not to say that we have no interest in deterring Russia.
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Like, are you willing to put boots on the ground to be peacekeepers?
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I want to stay away from nuclear war with Russia.
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Starmer is saying the United States needs to be there as peacekeepers.
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Honestly, I don't think there's anybody who wants that.
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If Europe wants to be the sugar daddy for that war, they can be the sugar daddy for that war.
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Like, I won't sit back and be like, oh, gosh darn it.
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I'm not going to sit here and I'm not going to worry about it all that much.
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Russia is going to be being attacked by Ukraine still.
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I don't think it's a good thing for the Ukrainian people.
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I don't think it's a good thing for the Russian people.
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But I do think that, you know, pushing back on Russia has some understandable benefits
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when you're talking about weakening whatever...
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One of the closest countries that could compete with us as far as superpower status.
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That being said, my much larger concern is not being involved in a war with Russia.
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I don't want something that can spiral out of control in days, in minutes,
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and lead to half of our country being destroyed by nuclear weapons and half of theirs.
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it has only ended in total nuclear annihilation.
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No matter how it starts, no matter where it starts,
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And even if you're completely confident in our side of things, right?
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Which I know the left doesn't seem to be at all.
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I don't know why they are so still pushing for this,
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Donald Trump's a fascist dictator with a temper.
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But even if you are convinced that Donald Trump will never launch a nuclear weapon
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in response to something that Vladimir Putin does,
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you still have to be worried about Vladimir Putin.
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We are in a situation now that this has gone on for multiple years.
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Ukraine had an opportunity with a counteroffensive that we funded,
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and they, I'm sure, fought valiantly in that effort.
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But it didn't work, and now we're at a stalemate,
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and if we can get this thing over with, I'm sorry.
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They got invaded, and they're going to lose a giant chunk of territory
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on their eastern side if that's the way this thing settles.
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But that being said, our interest as Americans,
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America first, is to make sure we are not drawn into a giant war against Russia
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One, I believe Donald Trump may be the only president that is actually America first,
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not just some wuss, but actually American first,
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and a strong president that would not launch nuclear missiles.
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I wonder, I mean, I hope we don't ever test it,
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but I wonder if somebody launched against us if we would actually launch
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because he knows what that means, and he might just say,
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take it, we lose a couple of cities, go launch.
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You know, you're saying it's not, you're arguing with me that it's not the worst thought,
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That it would be worse if it goes back and forth.
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why are we thinking that our interests are aligned with Europe?
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You know, the one thing that I think is happening in America right now
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of all of the deals that were made after World War II.
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and I think our allies have become the World Economic Forum.
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we were aligned with the Soviet Union against the Nazis, right?
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the world's not set up all that terribly for the United States.
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He's able to wield this power because it exists.
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Holding on to this world order the way it stands now
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Recognizing this is actually a positive for us, right?
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We want to have the ability to wield it when we need it.