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00:02:18.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:22.160 Glenn Beck is on.

00:02:24.360 Hello, America.

00:02:27.340 From the Mountain West and the Standing Rock Ranch, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:33.340 We are glad you're here.

00:02:34.820 Well, the Democratic Party is interesting.

00:02:38.780 We just leave it at that.

00:02:39.740 It is interesting.

00:02:41.320 The Overton window is deep in its work.

00:02:46.240 I want to talk to you a little bit about what's happening with, well, I mean, we could get into Pride Month a little bit because it is Pride Month.

00:02:55.000 Is it?

00:02:56.080 Nobody seems to be mentioning Pride Month.

00:02:58.240 Isn't that weird?

00:02:59.220 Also, Graham Plattner, we're going to talk about him and what this guy is doing.

00:03:05.340 You want to talk about the Overton window.

00:03:06.980 And I want to start with James Tallarico.

00:03:09.400 Who is this guy?

00:03:11.000 We go there in 60 seconds.

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00:04:12.720 All right. Welcome to the program. We're so glad that you're here. Democratic Party trying to

00:04:17.380 paint themselves as, I don't know what. I don't know what. We're going to talk about patriotism

00:04:22.620 here a little while because we got lectured by patriotism. But I couldn't get further down on

00:04:27.760 this story from the New Yorker than just his sources of who he's going to. I just looked

00:04:33.600 into some great people that talk about patriotism. Really? Really? Because those aren't the sources

00:04:38.300 that I would go to for patriotism,

00:04:39.960 but maybe it's just me.

00:04:41.280 So I want to get into that

00:04:42.200 because everything is being redefined right now.

00:04:44.960 Patriotism this summer

00:04:45.860 because of the summer of 250.

00:04:48.360 You know, we have to redefine this now.

00:04:51.860 What is it?

00:04:52.560 What does it mean?

00:04:53.500 Well, let's start at something simpler.

00:04:55.000 What does it mean to be a Democrat?

00:04:58.440 I'm not sure exactly what it means to be a Democrat.

00:05:02.900 It certainly does not mean moderate.

00:05:06.120 That's for sure.

00:05:06.960 James Tallarico, is being painted by the Democrats as a moderate.

00:05:10.820 You know, he's just like any other Texan.

00:05:12.420 You saw him in his t-shirt, right?

00:05:14.140 He was wearing a red, white, and blue, and he's got his Texas flag shirt,

00:05:19.240 and he's eating a turkey leg, and he wears cowboy boots.

00:05:22.320 Come on.

00:05:24.700 Really?

00:05:26.420 Is that what we're down to?

00:05:28.180 Yeah, and I know who you are because you wear a red hat.

00:05:31.540 Even though it doesn't say mag on it, I know what all red hats mean.

00:05:35.780 What?

00:05:36.260 What? What does a red hat mean?

00:05:39.020 Oh, simpletons.

00:05:41.860 How dare Ken Paxton take this poor man, James Tallarico,

00:05:47.360 his words out of context.

00:05:49.120 He's not a radical leftist.

00:05:51.000 Right, right.

00:05:51.740 Neither is anybody in Virginia.

00:05:53.640 So I asked my researchers, you know, can we look at these claims?

00:05:57.500 Because I want to see, you know, I want to be able to present to you

00:06:00.620 who James Tallarico really is in his own words, okay?

00:06:04.660 Now, earlier this month, he said to CBS News about his past statements and Paxton's attacks.

00:06:11.060 He said this.

00:06:12.200 There are some statements that I've made that I certainly regret.

00:06:15.580 There are statements that I've made where I've missed the mark.

00:06:18.140 I'll be the first to admit that.

00:06:19.980 But Ken Paxton is intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption.

00:06:29.900 Okay, cringey comments.

00:06:31.520 Okay, first of all, let's give credit where credit is due.

00:06:33.320 anybody makes mistakes we all make mistakes and to be able to say hey i've made mistakes

00:06:37.620 and i own up to him unfortunately what he didn't say was which were the mistakes and which were

00:06:42.800 the cringy comments that that paxton is taking out of context so let's start one of the biggest

00:06:48.340 criticisms of talarico is that he believes god is non-binary now we're in bible country

00:06:54.800 not really not really i don't think so um pretty radical a lot of people on x are sharing a short

00:07:01.640 clip of him making that claim on the shore on the floor of the texas senate uh or legislature but

00:07:07.740 was that taken out of context of course it was of course it was so let's look at the longer clip

00:07:16.180 so we can all see here it is the first two lines in genesis use two different hebrew words to

00:07:25.480 describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity. The second is the feminine Hebrew noun

00:07:35.880 for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary.

00:07:46.680 in genesis 1 26 god speaks of god's self in the plural saying let us make human beings

00:07:58.760 in our image to be like us that's the infinite multitude of god the masculine the feminine

00:08:09.000 and everything in between trans children this is are god's children made in god's own image

00:08:18.900 there's nothing wrong with that

00:08:21.500 wait wait wait there's a lot to unpack here first of all let us make man in our image has been

00:08:32.240 debated forever forever he's coming out and stating it like it's just a fact you know what i mean

00:08:40.420 it's like what what was it uh one of my favorite comedians said you know uh the the frank sinatra

00:08:46.900 song if you can make it here you can make it anywhere and frank sinatra just said it and it

00:08:51.980 was just a fact it's not a fact it's a line what he's saying is not a fact it might be his opinion

00:08:59.280 but it is not a fact okay take more than one bible study class james take take more than one

00:09:07.880 take more than one i think there's lots of arguments on what god was talking about there

00:09:12.360 and what genesis means by that but maybe this is just one of these statements he missed the

00:09:17.460 mark on because it sounds to me like he believes that god's non-binary so i don't know i don't

00:09:23.980 know but here's what he told cnn about it listen what is your response to them using that and

00:09:30.400 explain what you were talking about well i understand that that comment is a little

00:09:36.460 provocative i said it on the house floor when the extremists in the republican legislature were

00:09:42.160 picking on school kids who were different but i don't think it's controversial theologically

00:09:48.320 Most Christians would acknowledge that God is beyond gender.

00:09:52.780 In fact, the Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ, there is neither male nor female.

00:10:00.300 And so if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me.

00:10:03.860 They should take it up with the Apostle Paul.

00:10:07.740 I'm pretty sure that's not what the Apostle Paul meant, but I wouldn't call this an exact backtrack.

00:10:14.080 okay beyond gender is not non-binary beyond gender means no male or female i mean i'm just

00:10:21.680 using your argument here this is not mine but your argument he's beyond gender means there is

00:10:28.000 no male or female it just is okay that's not non-binary okay i don't know what you're talking

00:10:37.640 about here. Okay. But what's even harder than gender? Here's a radical claim. Another one

00:10:44.600 from Tallarico. Listen to this. Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more

00:10:50.500 than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six, which honestly, Representative Hefner surprised

00:10:56.460 me too. Surprised me too, because I am not well-versed in this issue area. I'm not a scientist.

00:11:03.840 I'm a politician, a lot worse than a scientist.

00:11:05.720 Ah, not a scientist.

00:11:07.500 Clearly, you're not a scientist.

00:11:09.660 You know what?

00:11:10.260 I think people who say there are six genders, they also are not scientists.

00:11:13.860 But that's just me.

00:11:14.800 A few days ago, he tried to walk that one back as well.

00:11:17.560 He apparently now, quote, knows there are two sexes, a man and a woman.

00:11:23.620 But he also suggested that he was referring to a very small percentage of people who were born with chromosomal abnormalities.

00:11:31.000 uh abnormalities you know they're born they're born with i guess six different genders i i don't

00:11:39.660 know but god still non-binary okay he also believes that because god is non-binary he made some

00:11:47.460 children trans here he is talking about trans children something that you love that's not

00:11:53.940 family, or friends? I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children who

00:12:04.060 showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn't have 1.00

00:12:08.720 to, but it was an inspiration to watch. Okay. All right. So this is the moderate

00:12:16.760 democratic platform in texas this is the moderate version okay he's not an extremist he wants you

00:12:24.680 to know in the democratic party and everybody's screaming he's a moderate he also wants you to

00:12:29.960 know that some of those trans children will eventually need abortions before we go further

00:12:36.760 i want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too defending trans texans

00:12:43.780 It's something we have to do every day at the state cap.

00:12:46.640 Right.

00:12:47.100 And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that too. 0.95

00:12:50.460 So when I use the word woman,

00:12:52.220 it should not be understood as an exhaustive term,

00:12:54.380 but rather as a,

00:12:55.420 as a lens through which to understand,

00:12:59.300 examine and interrogate patriarchy.

00:13:06.300 Ow.

00:13:07.780 Ow, my head hurts.

00:13:10.200 Okay.

00:13:11.520 So when he talks about women, 1.00

00:13:13.780 that are going to need an abortion,

00:13:19.540 he wants you to understand that women is just a lens

00:13:24.600 and not an actual fact, 0.51

00:13:27.840 but it would be the trans men that would need the abortion, 0.92

00:13:33.540 the ones that are actually female, that claim to be men. 0.97

00:13:37.040 They're the only ones that can get pregnant, 0.99

00:13:38.980 not the trans women. 1.00

00:13:40.500 The trans women were guys. 1.00

00:13:42.240 They don't have a uterus. 1.00

00:13:43.780 they don't have ovaries, they don't have a vagina, they have none of it. They cannot push a baby out, 0.99

00:13:50.680 they can't create a baby. I don't understand what he's, more on that later. He was saying this,

00:13:55.800 in a church, and delivering, quote, a sermon on that. But it explains an awful lot about what

00:14:03.760 this guy believes. Here's something also you may not have heard from anywhere else. To Tallarico,

00:14:09.800 the abortion debate is not about what you think it is. Because here's what he said later in that,

00:14:16.240 and I'm quoting sermon. The disagreement about the legality of abortion is not a disagreement

00:14:23.920 about life. It's a disagreement about personhood. No one disagrees that an embryo is biologically

00:14:31.280 alive. We each have trillions of living organisms inside of us right now as we sit and talk in the

00:14:37.340 sanctuary. So the question is, is an embryo a legal person whose rights trump those of a woman? 0.98

00:14:47.100 I don't know many people who would seriously answer yes to that question. Legal personhood 0.92

00:14:53.660 evolves with life, and life is change without clear or definite boundaries. But the only way

00:15:01.300 we can allow the rights of an embryo to trump the rights of a woman is if we believe a woman 0.99

00:15:07.080 is not a full person and let me remind you that that has been the default belief throughout most

00:15:13.200 of human history being christian and being pro-choice are absolutely consistent because

00:15:22.360 christianity is a feminist religion ah oh my gosh i don't know ow again this is the moderate

00:15:32.980 Texas this is the moderate that they're trying to sell you okay where do I even begin on that one

00:15:41.140 okay so we have a ton of living organisms in us is that like we might have a tapeworm so like the

00:15:48.300 baby could turn into a tapeworm I'm not I'm not really sure how to where to go with that one

00:15:53.720 that organism that's living inside of you it is a baby it's a baby it might not look like a baby

00:16:01.940 at the beginning but it turns into a baby the tapeworm stays a tapeworm so i want you to

00:16:08.920 understand yes abortions do kill humans just not necessarily full humans well now let's just get

00:16:17.660 into that let's just get into that as a as a day as a dad with a child of special needs

00:16:25.080 let's just get into can you define what a full human is what is a full human is a full human

00:16:32.200 somebody who has a fully functioning body arms legs brain eyes ears nose mouth what is a full

00:16:42.240 human because once you get into well that's not really human well that's not really life

00:16:48.880 then you get into well that's not a life worth living and then you could just kill anybody

00:16:54.080 so denying women the right to elective abortions is akin to enslaving women and jesus who was 0.93

00:17:06.600 quote a radical feminist empowered women to kill their own babies whenever they wanted to i guess 0.76

00:17:13.720 because screw the patriarchy what what uh by the way it is not in line with christianity 0.92

00:17:21.660 it used to be called the quickening it wasn't called abortions look it up look it up it wasn't

00:17:27.180 called an abortion they didn't know they didn't know when they were pregnant they didn't have a

00:17:31.140 pregnancy test they didn't sit cop a squat and look at the you know color and the is it a plus

00:17:36.020 sign is it pink is it blue what is it they didn't do that they didn't have any of that they only

00:17:42.200 knew they were pregnant when it was called the quickening when something happened inside of them

00:17:46.960 and the woman could feel it.

00:17:49.240 Then you throw yourself down the stairs.

00:17:52.100 You're going into colonial jail 0.98

00:17:53.700 because you're intentionally trying to kill a baby 0.98

00:17:57.400 you know is in there. 0.99

00:17:59.380 Hello?

00:18:01.240 So what's going on here?

00:18:03.480 Does he actually believe all this stuff?

00:18:05.500 And there's a lot more.

00:18:06.600 The answer is very clear.

00:18:08.580 Once you learn where this guy, learn this, okay?

00:18:13.680 Because in that same sermon,

00:18:15.500 Tallarico gave his testimony, not for his decision to follow Christ, but why he became a radical

00:18:22.560 feminist. And it actually starts with a tragedy, a real tragedy. And I want to share that so you

00:18:28.960 can understand him. And you know when he's lying and when he's not, when he's saying, oh, no,

00:18:33.400 I'm really just like you. Look up my Texas flag shirt. No, no, no. We didn't have all the

00:18:39.600 experiences that you had, James. And I feel badly that you had these, you were horribly, horribly

00:18:47.620 misled. And I can understand how it happened, but the rest of America and certainly the rest

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00:20:52.480 okay so why is it important to know our country's history why is it important to know our country's

00:21:01.680 history it is really important to know our country's history because if you don't know

00:21:05.180 how you got here you will never know where you're going right okay who are you how did you arrive

00:21:12.780 to this it's one thing for us to say oh he's just a radical progressive well why how did he get here

00:21:18.960 Why is he different? Does he actually believe these things?

00:21:22.480 Well, I can say absolutely positively, he's lying to you when he says he doesn't believe these things

00:21:28.660 because it will betray everything he was raised to believe and everything he believes about his mother.

00:21:34.380 His mother, and this is a really tragic story, so there's no judgment really of him on how he got there.

00:21:41.940 It's just you need to understand.

00:21:43.840 His mom was a victim of real nasty domestic abuse.

00:21:47.080 She escaped, saved her son from having to suffer, and raised him away from all of that.

00:21:53.600 Good for her.

00:21:55.320 But because of that, she developed what kind of sounds like a deep hatred for men, and she passed that on to her son.

00:22:03.480 So in this sermon that he gave, Talrico told the congregation that his mother, quote,

00:22:09.360 was now seeing firsthand how men and systems designed by men hurt women every single day.

00:22:16.240 Well, that's not true.

00:22:17.080 Some of them do. Some of them don't. That's why I'm a conservative conservative. You are to look

00:22:22.640 at everything and go, this one is good. This policy is bad. Get rid of that one. Keep this

00:22:28.240 one. You don't just throw everything out. He said, and I quote, that experience radicalized my mother

00:22:35.320 and it led her to become a leftist activist for women's rights. She volunteered at Planned

00:22:41.500 Parenthood and took him to the office of Planned Parenthood and to the Texas Abortion Rights Action

00:22:47.740 League, T-Roll. And that's where he learned all of this. And he recounted a story from one night

00:22:56.120 driving home from the T-Roll offices. And I need you to hear this part of his story because it is

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00:24:31.420 so i want to get to uh i want to get to platner here in just a second because i can explain

00:24:44.120 what's happening with the democratic party and you need to you need to understand it um but

00:24:49.180 right now everybody is trying to make talrico look like oh no no no he's he's great he's just

00:24:54.720 you know he's just a normal democrat he's not he's not and i started telling you i told you

00:25:00.020 of some of the radical things he said. Now, why can I say with confidence, this is actually who

00:25:04.800 he is? This is what he believes. Because he would be betraying his mother in his own mind. He would

00:25:10.500 be betraying his mother if he wasn't this guy. He talked about his mother, I just told you a minute

00:25:16.800 ago, was domestic abuse, escaped, got away from it, started teaching her son that men are bad,

00:25:23.500 hate men, blah, blah, blah. And the systems that men built then started taking him to

00:25:29.000 to um tayral uh which you know is an abortion activist group and one night driving home from 0.70

00:25:36.400 the offices uh she told him quote women will never be free until they belong to themselves

00:25:42.240 okay slavery that women are slaves as long as they can't choose to abort and that's why he believes

00:25:49.900 that the pro-life movement is the patriarchy way of keeping women enslaved so when he says that

00:25:56.940 he means it. It's also why he believes that Jesus and Christianity were meant to end the

00:26:02.420 patriarchal oppression system. It's 100% true that Jesus treated women radically different 0.72

00:26:08.640 from the culture of the time, both good and bad. But this is not the first century. 0.82

00:26:14.800 True freedom is not the sexual revolution of just doing whatever you want and killing the

00:26:19.260 consequences, because that's what the vast majority of abortions really are, both pro-life

00:26:25.460 and pro-choice research groups agree 95% of abortions are elective. Less than 1% are rape,

00:26:33.620 incest, or life of the mother. Less than 1%. Now, that also doesn't mean that men should be able to

00:26:39.500 do whatever they want, but if you want to quote Paul, he said in Ephesians that wives should

00:26:46.200 submit to their husbands. Oh my gosh, did I just say that? Yes, but he also said husbands should 0.73

00:26:53.320 love their wives as much as their own bodies and that the way that christ loved the church and gave

00:27:00.320 himself for it here's the deal the solution isn't more killing more arguing more abortion it's more

00:27:07.540 love but it's not just talrico i want to show you what his church now this is a guy who's remember

00:27:15.680 so i'm telling you he believes these things because of his mother in his childhood and look

00:27:20.240 at the church that he goes to. He's a member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas.

00:27:25.540 Remember, we all said the church that Barack Obama goes to doesn't matter, and we found out,

00:27:31.040 yes, it does. If you go to this church's website, the first thing you'll see is the commandment,

00:27:37.020 love thy neighbor, and a bunch of logos, including LGBTQ, feminism, and transgenderism.

00:27:43.060 You scroll down, there's an image of a cross draped in the super mega pride flag, okay? The

00:27:49.220 one that includes intersex below that you'll also see a sign that says no human is illegal with

00:27:56.740 border imagery so it's pretty clear what the church he attends believes and if you even need

00:28:03.240 more proof just go to their about us page the church proudly proclaims that presbyterian that

00:28:10.600 it is presbyterian and progressive it's a believer in the five points of progressive christianity

00:28:17.740 look those up also proud reproductive justice congregation a proud affiliate of more light

00:28:25.340 presbyterians and an lgbtq a is it i a plus advocacy group okay it has a whole page dedicated

00:28:36.340 to inclusive language the church doesn't use gendered language to refer to god or quote what

00:28:43.300 they say, is feudal language,

00:28:45.360 meaning they don't ever call him the king of kings

00:28:48.080 or the lord of lords

00:28:49.540 because that's associated with the feudal system.

00:28:52.540 That's how crazy this place is, okay?

00:28:55.420 Now, given how Tal Rico was raised,

00:28:58.060 the church he's a member of,

00:28:59.700 and the claims he has made,

00:29:02.100 I don't think those are cringy comments

00:29:03.680 taken out of context.

00:29:04.780 He's a radical leftist through and through.

00:29:08.080 And if you need more proof,

00:29:09.820 here's a clip went viral over the weekend.

00:29:11.520 Here's Tal Rico back in 2021.

00:29:13.300 telling then Fox News host Pete Hegseth what he thinks about voter ID.

00:29:18.360 Listen.

00:29:18.660 Are you OK with voter ID?

00:29:20.300 So voter ID is currently required in the state of Texas.

00:29:22.620 I opposed having to have a driver's license to vote.

00:29:25.440 How about having to send your ballot in?

00:29:26.860 Should you have to prove who you are?

00:29:28.420 Because that's what Democrats are opposing.

00:29:30.340 Pete, I just said I oppose voter ID.

00:29:32.480 Currently, it's a law in Texas, but I oppose that law because I think you don't need an ID.

00:29:35.760 You oppose voter ID?

00:29:37.160 You don't think the most sacred obligation of our republic?

00:29:40.440 Look, you should have to prove who you are in order to vote.

00:29:44.200 So there are a lot of Texans, actually hundreds of thousands, who don't have a driver's license.

00:29:49.100 They don't have a driver's license.

00:29:51.220 Really? Hundreds of thousands.

00:29:53.560 Okay, driver's license, first of all, that's not the only way to prove your identity.

00:29:57.660 There are plenty of options out there.

00:29:59.160 You know, pass a simple voter ID law, state-issued, non-driver photo ID, military ID, student ID, government employee ID, passport.

00:30:09.300 support any kind of ID. You need an ID to open a bank account. You need an ID to buy an ID to buy

00:30:16.480 alcohol, apply for government benefits, a whole bunch of stuff. I gave the list. It's like a 10

00:30:21.940 minute list and I read it quickly. If you can't find the time to get any form of ID, maybe you

00:30:28.500 should refrain from voting. Just a thought, just a thought. By the way, 80% of Americans support

00:30:33.000 voter ID. So why doesn't Tallarico? Ask him. One more thing. One more thing. Just because

00:30:40.480 it's being tossed around everywhere. Is Tallarico a vegan? Well, here's what he told CBS News about

00:30:47.900 the controversy. The other one they keep harping on, and it's perhaps the most curious of all,

00:30:53.900 they say you're a vegan. I'm not a vegan. I'm an eighth generation Texan. I've been eating

00:31:00.560 barbecue since before Kim Paxton's first indictment. And this campaign basically runs on Texas

00:31:05.940 barbecue. If all they have is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this

00:31:12.400 November. Okay. It's true that Tallarico has never claimed to be a vegan or dislike meat or

00:31:19.560 anything else, no matter how awkwardly he eats a turkey leg. But what's really telling is that

00:31:25.660 Neither Tallarico nor CBS News mentioned that during the interview.

00:31:30.180 The controversy came from a commitment that he made in a 2022 campaign.

00:31:35.500 Pay very close attention to what his argument against meat actually is.

00:31:40.920 Listen.

00:31:41.780 But also, it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change.

00:31:45.680 It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society.

00:31:53.940 And so I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign.

00:32:00.600 So we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.

00:32:08.580 Some of you may know Big Nonas.

00:32:10.080 They were little Nonas, and then they opened up Brick and Mortar, some of their Big Nonas.

00:32:13.940 But we just got our pizza from there today.

00:32:16.400 And so the point is that I think all of us, not just policymakers, but everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort. 0.97

00:32:26.220 Okay, so is he hypocrite?

00:32:28.180 Is he saying that we have to do these things because it's existential? 0.99

00:32:31.740 The world is, we're all going to die from global warming unless we stop eating meat.

00:32:36.960 So I've made my whole campaign about that.

00:32:40.040 We're not even buying pizzas from a place that isn't vegan.

00:32:44.140 And everything is vegan, not meatless, vegan.

00:32:48.600 But then I'm eating all the meat I want because this is all about Texas barbecue.

00:32:52.760 That doesn't make any sense. 1.00

00:32:53.840 So you're either a liar or a hypocrite. 1.00

00:32:55.600 Which one is it? 1.00

00:32:56.880 Which one is it?

00:32:58.020 By the way, he sounds an awful lot like the people that are running up in Oregon.

00:33:02.680 Did you hear about what's happening in Oregon?

00:33:04.060 They want to ban all hunting, ban all butcher shops, everything.

00:33:10.600 You won't be able to hunt or cut meat up.

00:33:14.540 You won't be able to kill an animal for food, any animal.

00:33:19.160 That's Oregon, okay?

00:33:21.960 Oh, and by the way, where else have we heard this?

00:33:24.520 The World Economic Forum, it's a bugs.

00:33:28.040 If the Democrats take control again, they will bring all of this back.

00:33:33.020 If this guy is elected senator, he will fully support it.

00:33:36.520 He'll do it while he's campaigning at, you know, barbecue shops wearing a Texas flag shirt.

00:33:43.760 But that's not what makes a conservative a conservative. 0.96

00:33:49.100 They think we are so dumb that if they just dress like you, that we're like, oh, okay, he's just like me. 0.98

00:33:57.380 He's not like you. 0.99

00:33:58.840 He's not a moderate.

00:34:00.500 He's not even close to a moderate.

00:34:03.920 And you know what?

00:34:04.460 this whole thing is happening again still it's getting worse and worse with Graham Plattner

00:34:10.440 Graham Plattner is the guy who's running for senate uh in uh Maine here's the latest here he

00:34:18.980 pushes his wife out he doesn't even he pushes his wife out to talk about these explicit sexting

00:34:26.440 texts that uh you know he had as an extramarital i guess sexting he doesn't say anything here honey

00:34:35.880 go out to the microphones listen if anybody knows me and graham personally you know that

00:34:41.600 we got married in 2023 um we live in sullivan we've got two dogs and we love each other deeply

00:34:50.820 so it makes me really angry disappointed and I find it really shameful that there's a group

00:35:03.400 of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about

00:35:13.720 real issues that Graham is running on, like health care and education and child care.

00:35:24.720 Okay, so by the way, it's my understanding, I could be wrong, but she was married in the fall

00:35:31.720 of 2024. That's the reports I've seen, but let's take her at a word. It was 2023. These sexually

00:35:38.840 explicit sexts where he was sexting came out in the spring of 2025. Okay. But apparently it's no

00:35:50.140 issue. You're a year, maybe year and a half into your marriage, maybe half a year, year and a half

00:35:58.620 into your marriage and he is on dating sites and he is explicitly sexting people and you're okay

00:36:09.400 with that. Okay. To each his own. But I will tell you, that's not a guy who I would trust in any

00:36:15.560 room. If his wife, look, everybody makes mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has their own

00:36:22.440 issues. I'm not condemning anybody. But if you send your wife out to say, these are no big deal

00:36:31.280 and this is our marriage. Well, okay. All right. Your wife should be a little pissed, quite honestly.

00:36:37.180 We just got married and I couldn't trust him to keep it in his pants for 18 months. What kind of 0.99

00:36:43.560 marriage are we going to have in 10 years, in 20 years, in 30 years? It's obscene.

00:36:48.680 ricky you have a comment on this oh yeah you would think his wife would be ticked and that

00:36:55.780 you know a lot of people were saying this looked like a hostage video and the poor wife and actually

00:36:59.720 when i first saw the clip i felt sorry for her too i had great empathy i know marriage in the 1.00

00:37:04.620 first year is difficult however uh she's opportunistic uh she's on their payroll she's 0.97

00:37:10.500 on the campaign payroll and as of november 2025 we've known that so she's getting paid to do a

00:37:16.920 video like that because she's not just protecting her husband or her marriage she's protecting her

00:37:21.140 salary so that's my two cents so uh the wall street journal um you know is reporting over

00:37:31.300 the weekend and showing the there's pictures of him you know only in a towel in the bathroom

00:37:36.680 i mean it's just it's and sexually explicit texting to several multiple women on this

00:37:44.820 on this website that was called um let's see what was it called here

00:37:52.540 oh where is it what is it oh kick kick k-i-k kick there was an i've never heard of it there 0.69

00:37:59.220 was another apparently pedophiles love it pedophiles love it oh oh good okay um so 0.85

00:38:08.720 he is, he's doing these things. Now, does anybody care? No. And Ricky came to me today and she said,

00:38:18.260 I think this is the Overton window. I think this is the Democrats trying to move the Overton window

00:38:24.740 so far over that, you know, you just won't care about anything anymore and blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:38:30.560 blah. And I disagree with her. I think this shows that the Overton window has already moved.

00:38:35.720 and I know Bill Maher doesn't care about what the Overton window is but it's very important the

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00:38:46.920 the window and you see that out there and you're like oh that's normal okay I see that view every

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00:39:11.240 it was halfway in between the madness and where it was and you're like oh okay good that's normal

00:39:18.880 it's not normal that's not where it was that's what they've done and they keep moving it to more

00:39:25.500 and more extreme positions but notice this is not going to affect this campaign this will not affect

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00:45:02.520 the fusion of entertainment enlightenment and empowerment this is the glenn beck program

00:45:17.900 hello america welcome to the glenn beck program we're glad you're here

00:45:25.380 i saw something on patriotism from the new yorker that is really sad it's very sad but i think a lot

00:45:34.400 of americans might feel this way but then you introduce the typical raising of the typical

00:45:41.200 american and you put them even back into a time period that is before my time period where you

00:45:47.800 were fighting the you know the hippie movement and the in the vietnam war and all of that crap

00:45:52.780 and so you get a real taint there but then you add modern elitists on top of it and you get

00:46:00.280 the New Yorker's essay how problematic is patriotism and I just want to show you how to

00:46:07.940 spot things quickly in this then I want to talk to you about patriotism because it is June we're

00:46:14.180 in the summer of 250 America's 250th birthday I went to church yesterday and I my faith did an

00:46:22.380 hour just on the constitution i was so happy to see that thank you for that um and it was really

00:46:28.540 heartwarming and um positive and a way to not only celebrate but also remind us that

00:46:37.500 we are here to form a more perfect nation meaning we're not perfect we never have been perfect we

00:46:45.100 need to try to strive to that perfection knowing that we'll always fall short as a nation

00:46:52.020 But let's admire some of the things that we have done right, you know, just at least for the birthday party.

00:46:57.880 You can hate Grandpa all you want for some of the things Grandpa did, but on his birthday, maybe we should all get together and say,

00:47:03.260 Hey, Grandpa, you know, I know we disagree on a lot of stuff, but there's a lot of great things that you did in your life.

00:47:08.220 And celebrate those things. Can we do that? Apparently, some can. The elitists don't want you to.

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00:48:40.240 so let me just give you a little bit of this this uh essay from the new yorker it says i did not

00:48:45.960 grow up loving america not because i thought i didn't it didn't deserve love but because i

00:48:50.360 didn't think about it america was the pledge of allegiance and the star spangled banner it was

00:48:54.420 maverick and gun smoke it was ed sullivan and high school dances and big cars with big fins

00:48:58.740 it was soda fountains and elvis and stickball it was valley forge and george washington was also

00:49:03.880 white mostly male and invincibly middle class and i hardly gave it a thought uh with race or

00:49:09.760 class as much for that matter. Depending on where you hail from, America could be the evening sky

00:49:14.840 above Northfield, Connecticut, or the fields of Blue Bonnets in Texas. To a teenager living in

00:49:20.300 New York in the 1960s, America was pretty great. It had saved the world from fascism and now stood

00:49:25.320 as a bulwark against communism. Mickey Mantle good, Nikita Khrushchev bad. My memory may be

00:49:31.620 faulty, but I can't recall anyone I know declaring a love for America, not anyway, until I was 25

00:49:38.520 and living in Charleston, South Carolina.

00:49:42.440 He talks about how he grew up, you know, in the era of the draft,

00:49:45.980 and, you know, he was singing about draft dodging, you know,

00:49:49.040 flee to Canada or Europe, blah, blah, blah.

00:49:51.260 Vietnam was the first time he actually thought about, you know, the war,

00:49:55.860 and then you had Nixon.

00:49:57.640 I mean, he grew up in a really bad period in America.

00:50:00.360 He did.

00:50:01.020 Grew up in a bad period.

00:50:01.960 And I can understand if that is what you grew up seeing all the time,

00:50:06.100 um that's how you can get to where you where you are but then you add on top of that you live the

00:50:12.820 life of an elite because i want you to listen to this he talks about you know the history of

00:50:19.160 patriotism the concept if not the word probably emerged during the formation of you know the

00:50:24.440 greek polis in the 8th century bc blah blah blah blah blah and then he talks about um you know

00:50:31.280 Johann Gottfried Herder's notion of the Geist des Volks all made national pride seem like a

00:50:38.440 rational outcome of shared habits, traditions, and language. So he goes right to Germans and the 0.74

00:50:43.940 German Volk. And the Germans, you know, it's interesting how the Germans get a really bad rap

00:50:51.380 because the Germans were the ones that came up with the doctoral system that we have here in

00:50:57.540 America. I mean, in the late 1800s, early 1900s, if you wanted to be a doctor, you would go to 0.63

00:51:03.560 the best German schools. And the German schools were teaching you all of this crap, okay? That's 0.99

00:51:09.060 how we got progressivism introduced here into America. We went over and we got it from the

00:51:14.020 Germans. But then he goes back into patriotism. He says, since then, writers have spilled a great

00:51:18.360 deal of ink over patriotism. Mark Twain, who was an American, had written about it. Okay, so

00:51:25.440 Mark Twain, good guy, American, 1800s, got it. Then he goes into H.L. Mencken, he said,

00:51:34.640 and also H.L. Mencken, who is that? Well, this guy was a deep critic, fierce critic of democracy,

00:51:43.360 progressivism, and the New Deal, and mass politics. But he was also an elitist, and real

00:51:50.480 key here, anti-eglitarian, how do you say this word? I sound like such a moron all the time. 1.00

00:51:57.320 Galitarian? 1.00

00:51:58.080 Eglitarian. Yes, thank you. 0.99

00:52:00.080 Galitarian.

00:52:01.460 Egalitarian, thank you. Egalitarians, 0.54

00:52:06.740 they believe, egalitarian means that you believe in the principle that all people are created equal.

00:52:13.960 that's america okay but he was an elitist and an anti-egalitarian okay that kind of guy believes

00:52:24.880 that um it's ruled by the best okay it's ruled by the best inequality is good this is a modern

00:52:34.800 progressive because some people are smarter and they should tell everybody what else to do okay

00:52:40.380 so you don't listen to that guy for patriotism he also admired Nietzsche okay problem George

00:52:47.060 Bernard Shaw is the next on this guy's hit parade list of people he looked to for patriotism George

00:52:54.540 Bernard Shaw was an Irish Fabian socialist advocated for socialism his views are so extreme

00:53:03.120 for eugenics. He also loved certain dictators. He's the guy who literally came up with gas

00:53:11.000 chambers for the unfit that would later be used by the Nazis. So you immediately throw this person

00:53:17.840 out. Then he goes to Ursula K. Le Guin. She distrusted patriotism. Yeah, I bet she did.

00:53:29.280 she was an anarchist she liked socialism she was a feminist uh she was a critic of capitalism

00:53:36.960 okay her fiction that she wrote explored anarchist and anti-authoritarian themes of course she didn't

00:53:43.680 like patriotism then the next one on his hit parade is uh Tolstoy he likened it to slavery

00:53:50.780 Tolstoy was also Christian anarchist pacifist he was a Russian that's the most important thing

00:54:00.060 he didn't even understand America okay George Orwell was kinder than most he writes

00:54:07.500 patriotism he wrote devotion to a particular place or a particular way of life which

00:54:12.460 one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force upon people

00:54:16.240 good that's that's good you be patriotic like that the problem is nationalism which he maintained

00:54:22.780 was inseparable from the desire for power well yeah in some people i just because i really love

00:54:29.640 my country doesn't mean i want to crush all other countries you again you're talking to the elitist

00:54:36.960 the average person that is patriotic loves the flag loves america loves the bill of rights the

00:54:43.940 Declaration of Independence, loves our history, but they don't want to dress their kids up into

00:54:49.880 uniforms, put guns in them, and tell them, go take over the world. We're tired of that.

00:54:56.980 You know, it is the progressive elites, mainly in the State Department, that have always been

00:55:04.740 pushing this stuff, that we've got to go, this is a Republican progressive idea, that we've got to

00:55:12.100 go and spread democracy. You know what? The best way to spread democracy is the way we used to do

00:55:17.840 it. You know what? I've told you the story about the Statue of Liberty a million times. France

00:55:22.620 didn't give it to us because they liked us. They were fighting Marxism in their own country, and

00:55:28.620 they were trying to show America has the best idea. Why does the Statue of Liberty have a broken

00:55:35.060 chain on her foot. Did you know that? She wears a shackle and it's broken. Why? Why does the

00:55:43.920 Statue of Liberty have a chain around her foot? Because America broke that chain. Not at the 1.00

00:55:53.540 beginning. With the Civil War, we broke the chain of slavery. And how did we do it? Here's a tip.

00:56:02.320 with what's in her hand hand by her side she's holding the declaration of independence and the

00:56:09.700 constitution that's why it says july 4 1776 on the statue right there on the book that is the idea

00:56:17.760 of independence and all men are created equal that breaks the chain of slavery and what makes

00:56:24.960 man man the ability to invent the ability to dream the ability to do that's the torch the

00:56:32.960 torch is imprisoned lightning that's what they used to call the electric light bulb it was

00:56:39.820 imprisoned lightning and so it's the imprisoned lightning it's the free man that can come here

00:56:46.180 under the law and dream that can light the entire world

00:56:51.360 it so anyway he goes into george orwell by the way george orwell was a democratic socialist so

00:57:03.300 again i don't think i'm going to him or voltaire which is a a french enlightenment where did the

00:57:10.180 french enlightenment get us and more recently the philosopher richard rorty capable of defending

00:57:19.860 patriotism. Richard Rohde, he is much more, again, of a, he's an American, but much more of a

00:57:31.300 continental thinker, okay? And then Martha Nesbaum. Martha Nesbaum, a popular philosophy who

00:57:40.500 advocates cosmopolitanism over strong patriotism and emphasizes global justice and often aligns

00:57:48.320 with progressive left liberal academic thought so throw this entire thing out this guy grew up

00:57:55.560 in the 1960s where there there were real scars and america was really wrestling but up until

00:58:03.500 barack obama we were making real progress on that we were healing those scars we were starting to

00:58:11.380 have color blindness and then barack obama and his progressives came in and they started saying

00:58:16.560 no, no, no, you've got to notice color.

00:58:19.140 No, you don't.

00:58:21.340 You don't.

00:58:30.020 Patriotism is not about red hats.

00:58:32.500 It's not about waving flags or chanting slogans at rallies.

00:58:36.660 It's not about God bless the USA.

00:58:40.000 It's not about any of that stuff.

00:58:42.160 That can make you feel good temporarily,

00:58:44.120 but that's sugar highs real patriotism is deeper much deeper it's the it's the steady

00:58:55.240 bone deep love of the country that raised you even when it didn't get things right 1.00

00:59:02.740 do you hate your parents because they made mistakes if you did you're a fool you're a fool 1.00

00:59:10.500 I didn't plan on telling you this 1.00

00:59:16.640 but I'm going to tell you this

00:59:17.480 because I feel compelled to

00:59:20.560 my father was horribly abused

00:59:25.000 when he was a kid

00:59:25.780 horribly

00:59:26.580 he ran away when he was 16

00:59:30.760 he ran to the YMCA

00:59:32.620 in Los Angeles

00:59:34.240 where he was repeatedly raped 0.62

00:59:35.840 none of us knew this 0.65

00:59:38.140 I'm the only one in the family he told

00:59:40.280 None of us knew this.

00:59:42.460 He spent his whole life trying not to be his father.

00:59:46.180 And so when you try not to be something, you're just not there.

00:59:51.740 And my father wasn't there when I was growing up.

00:59:53.820 He just wasn't there.

00:59:54.660 He was working all the time.

00:59:55.680 He was a great guy.

00:59:57.240 He never abused any of us, yada, yada, but he was just not his father.

01:00:01.820 And when he told me this, when I was in my 30s, I began to understand him.

01:00:07.600 He was just not my father.

01:00:10.040 Because he was not his father.

01:00:11.780 So he didn't know what to do.

01:00:13.620 And so he did really nothing.

01:00:14.940 Unfortunately, he married an abuser.

01:00:17.200 He married two of them. 0.97

01:00:18.660 And he abused and she abused my sisters. 0.95

01:00:22.300 Both my mother and my stepmother.

01:00:30.760 I had a falling out.

01:00:31.880 I never was close to my dad.

01:00:34.220 Then in my 30s, I sober up.

01:00:36.380 I get to know him.

01:00:37.760 We have a close relationship.

01:00:39.100 We're on the phone all the time.

01:00:40.040 with each other. He taught me more than any other human being.

01:00:44.320 Then

01:00:44.740 abuse started again

01:00:47.220 of my sisters, again

01:00:50.000 older as they have children.

01:00:53.260 And

01:00:53.700 I saw that this was going to be

01:00:56.060 passed on.

01:00:57.660 And I said to my dad, Dad, you got

01:01:00.040 to stop it right now. Because if you don't, I will.

01:01:02.420 I will stop it. But it will cause

01:01:04.100 so much damage, we won't

01:01:05.420 see each other again. It just

01:01:07.300 please, please.

01:01:10.040 And he said, son, you have to do what you have to do.

01:01:11.840 And I said, you're telling me, dad, that you agree with me stopping this.

01:01:17.000 But I'm telling you, please, please help me so we don't have to go through that.

01:01:22.380 Well, he didn't.

01:01:23.400 And my father and I had a horrible breakup.

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01:02:58.500 Life is such a journey.

01:03:02.000 And you make so many mistakes along the way.

01:03:05.460 And the question is, do you learn from them?

01:03:08.660 I can't wait to get to heaven and apologize to my father.

01:03:14.260 Not for what I did and the stands I took,

01:03:21.940 but because I didn't understand him at all at the end.

01:03:28.260 And I judged him.

01:03:30.120 And no matter what he did, I shouldn't have judged him.

01:03:35.460 I should have loved him, period.

01:03:46.660 The reason why I told you this story

01:03:48.900 is because anybody who hates the country

01:03:58.860 because it's made mistakes,

01:04:00.520 you're declaring yourself

01:04:02.660 above human.

01:04:06.660 You're saying, I'm better than all humans

01:04:08.680 that have ever lived.

01:04:10.180 I know. I would have never made those mistakes.

01:04:13.020 And you're making them right now. I guarantee it.

01:04:15.680 I guarantee it.

01:04:16.960 You're making those mistakes.

01:04:20.240 And I know,

01:04:21.720 because I am already,

01:04:23.540 being judged.

01:04:26.260 And I know in the final chapter

01:04:28.240 I will be judged.

01:04:29.140 And exactly how I judged people is how I'm going to be judged.

01:04:32.920 And I look sometimes for compassion.

01:04:36.540 And I'm like, how can nobody have compassion to see what that person is going through?

01:04:40.900 Well, you know why?

01:04:41.860 Because I didn't.

01:04:43.440 I didn't even with my own dad at the end.

01:04:47.020 And I so regret it.

01:04:50.600 But I did what I thought was right at the time.

01:04:54.980 And that's the way I can sleep at night.

01:04:57.180 I did what I thought was right at the time.

01:04:59.380 Would I do it again?

01:05:00.600 No.

01:05:01.540 Or at least do it that way?

01:05:03.000 No.

01:05:08.960 That's where we should be with our country.

01:05:13.760 If you grew up in a time when, you know, the Vietnam War and everything,

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01:05:18.600 It was going through horrible stuff.

01:05:19.920 We made huge mistakes.

01:05:21.460 It's messy.

01:05:22.400 We've done it again and again and again, over and over again.

01:05:25.440 But is that all we are?

01:05:26.800 Because, again, let me say, if you're judging your country this way, let me judge you this way.

01:05:32.840 Are you only a collection of your mistakes?

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01:05:51.440 We're doomed. 1.00

01:05:52.760 Why don't you just kill yourself now? 1.00

01:05:54.440 You're doomed. 1.00

01:05:54.940 because that's not the message of Christ.

01:05:57.860 That's not the message of how life works.

01:06:00.560 You're more than your mistakes.

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01:07:20.580 Glenn breaks it down next on a Glenn Beck program.

01:07:23.660 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:07:47.760 So glad that you have tuned in.

01:07:50.260 I want to talk to you a little bit about patriotism.

01:07:52.260 I started this at the top of the hour with an article from The New Yorker where, you know, I get the person who's writing it.

01:08:00.880 They're overeducated, quite honestly, and undereducated on America and American thinking.

01:08:07.180 They're much more European in their thinking, I believe.

01:08:10.440 But, you know, they also grew up at a time that I don't really understand.

01:08:14.140 You know, they grew up during the hippie era and the Vietnam War.

01:08:17.500 I grew up right after that, and I have a completely different view.

01:08:21.280 But I also grew up in a family that was very patriotic.

01:08:25.000 And so I understand patriotism differently than maybe some people do.

01:08:32.280 But I'm tired of this red hat thing.

01:08:41.640 I've never had an American flag on any of my sets before.

01:08:47.500 In fact, if you're looking at me, I'm at the ranch, and I'm trying to look.

01:08:52.880 There's no, nope, there's no American flag anywhere on this, and I've never done it.

01:08:58.040 And I used to have a flag on a TV set, and I took it off.

01:09:02.880 It was on, sorry, radio, and I took it off immediately right after 9-11.

01:09:07.140 And I said, because everybody's wearing little flag lapel pins, and I said, flag's going to become sides.

01:09:13.860 You know, whose side are you?

01:09:14.920 For the war, against the war, are you a Republican, are you a Democrat?

01:09:16.980 I don't want to play any role in that. So everything that I ever have on anything in

01:09:21.380 the background, and it's kind of the way I live my life anyway, it's the greatness of America

01:09:25.380 in objects. It's just the great things that scream America without the flag on it. Because I don't

01:09:34.000 like the symbols, you know, the red hat now. Oh, that means you love America. No, no, that means

01:09:43.580 you like Trump, Trump likes America, and you agree with his policies. It doesn't mean if you

01:09:50.140 like America, you have to love Trump. To me, it's just so simple-minded. Now we had this Freedom

01:09:58.020 250 thing that is happening in Washington, D.C., and it was supposed to be a state fair, and

01:10:02.600 God bless him for trying to put this together. We weren't doing anything for America 250.

01:10:07.880 And Trump gets in, and he's like, hey, we've got to have some celebrations that really celebrate

01:10:12.240 america yada yada yada and so he puts this whole thing together and he does it in a year well you

01:10:17.300 can't put something like this together in a year but he did and now because of listen to my monologue

01:10:23.780 from friday um these weasels these look america is america it belongs to republicans democrats

01:10:33.980 independence okay belongs to all of us good and bad all of us um and that's what a celebration

01:10:40.680 of her should be it shouldn't be about donald trump it shouldn't be about the republicans

01:10:44.320 or anything else but because the the the left started threatening a lot of these people and

01:10:52.320 the people you know in the in their own industry said you'll never work again if you attend this

01:10:56.900 thing they all started to quit and so now there wasn't a show to put on so donald trump says well

01:11:02.920 i'll do one well now it is about donald trump congratulations you've just made it about donald

01:11:07.380 Trump. Because what are the options? What are the options, America? You tell him no one can work

01:11:15.120 with him. Well, then he has to do it himself. So self-fulfilling prophecy. Congratulations on that.

01:11:22.020 And I'm sick of it because none of these people understand what real patriotism actually is.

01:11:28.840 You know, it's looking at the long arc of a messy and improbable experiment called America.

01:11:38.220 You look at all of it and you say, yep, that's me.

01:11:40.820 These are my people.

01:11:41.800 That's my home.

01:11:43.380 And not because it's perfect, but because it chooses at its best

01:11:48.100 to keep reaching up toward its own ideals after falling short.

01:11:53.320 That was the point of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.

01:11:56.180 I have a dream that America is going to read the Declaration of Independence

01:12:00.280 and live by those ideas.

01:12:03.300 That was his dream.

01:12:05.440 I have that dream today.

01:12:07.380 Please live by these ideals and these ideas.

01:12:11.700 And if you grew up and you were taught to hate America first,

01:12:15.540 see America only as the catalog of her sins and conquest and hypocrisies, 0.57

01:12:20.420 then I get it.

01:12:22.080 Your love of country will feel alien, but you can't love any country

01:12:25.380 because all of them, all of them are doing that or did do that.

01:12:30.640 And you were just handed this ledger of mistakes

01:12:33.260 without ever being invited to feel the wonder of what this country could be and what it has been

01:12:40.180 for many a refuge a promise a stubborn belief that ordinary people can govern themselves

01:12:48.260 and that love for this country doesn't mean that you ignore the ledger i get it believe me i get it

01:12:56.300 but are we capable of being adults here because as an adult you have to be able to hold

01:13:05.960 two truths at the same time because everything everything religion is really great well yes it

01:13:14.960 is but a religion has also done some really bad things so which is it it's both it's both

01:13:21.100 everything you you're really good and at times admit it you're really bad you've done some

01:13:27.220 really horrible things but are you striving to be better because you're both good and bad we all

01:13:35.120 are patriotism love for country or a healthy love of self allows you to see all of the scars the

01:13:44.580 slavery the broken treaties the internments the riots the assassination the wars of choice

01:13:49.720 and chooses to still sit at the table and say,

01:13:53.120 you know what, but this idea that all men are created equal,

01:13:56.140 endowed by their creator, and certain inalienable rights,

01:13:59.060 life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,

01:14:00.780 and governments are instituted among men to protect those rights,

01:14:04.520 that's still worth trying for. 0.81

01:14:07.400 Because I don't see any of you sitting at the table

01:14:09.280 telling me a better idea than that one.

01:14:10.980 Anybody has a better idea? Give it to me.

01:14:13.080 You have a better idea than that one?

01:14:15.000 I'm waiting. I'm waiting. Tweet it to me.

01:14:17.500 whatever get it to me because if it's an actual better idea than that one you might talk me into

01:14:23.440 going into a different direction but until i hear a better idea that all men are created equal and

01:14:28.000 endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights i'm sticking with that one and i'm saying

01:14:32.000 that's what we should be striving for and should be trying to create every day stop harping on the

01:14:38.080 failures. What do we do after we fail? It's the amendments, the movements, the Supreme Court

01:14:49.520 decisions, the GI Bill, the Civil Rights Act, the self-corrections. It's the strange American habit

01:14:55.880 of arguing with ourselves in public, loudly, messy, until we drag the country just a few more

01:15:04.780 inches closer to that more perfect union. Real patriotism is not blind loyalty to a government

01:15:12.740 or a party or a politician. It's loyalty to an idea that human beings are capable of more than

01:15:20.740 their worst impulses. We all should end it today if that's not true. I am more than my worst

01:15:30.660 impulse I am more than my worst deed I have made horrible mistakes horrible decisions but I am

01:15:37.660 better than that I am worth more than that and I'm trying to be better but I can never be better

01:15:43.480 if I live in a world that has no forgiveness that that's all they'll think about is my mistake

01:15:50.280 well that's why I'm a Christian because I have a right and a gift to start all over again and so

01:15:59.780 does our country.

01:16:03.640 Our liberty,

01:16:06.080 however imperfectly

01:16:07.480 practiced, is still worth

01:16:09.640 defending and fighting for. 0.97

01:16:12.320 That the English

01:16:13.880 speaking peoples on this

01:16:15.760 continent somehow or another

01:16:17.680 built institutions durable

01:16:19.560 enough to survive

01:16:21.500 their own citizens'

01:16:23.760 worst tendencies.

01:16:24.960 it's the farmer in Iowa who never left his country

01:16:31.040 maybe he even never left his own state but feels a tug when he hears the national anthem

01:16:37.580 it's the immigrant who arrives with absolutely nothing but then works three jobs so his kids

01:16:44.660 can argue about politics in college and go to school for art it's a soldier who absolutely 0.79

01:16:52.520 despises war but goes anyway because the country asked it's a teacher who still believes the next

01:16:59.920 generation should know the whole story the glory and the shame because only people who know both

01:17:07.320 can be trusted to steward what comes next make a decision america are you defined by your lowest

01:17:14.860 moment is our civilization always to be defined by the worst things we've ever done

01:17:22.640 or are we to be defined by whether we learn from them and strive to do better next time

01:17:31.160 i know the answer because i know the constitution the constitution was written by

01:17:39.140 very brilliant men. And these very brilliant men have what a lot of very brilliant men don't have

01:17:46.280 today, and that is humility. They knew they were flawed, and that's why they put the amendment

01:17:52.180 process in, because they knew they couldn't see everything. They knew other generations might have

01:18:00.120 a more enlightened view of the world, and they could course correct. That humility is one of

01:18:06.420 the most patriotic things about our founding fathers. So when somebody tells you that patriotism

01:18:13.020 is about flags or red hats or performative anger, they're wrong. That's meaningless decoration.

01:18:29.320 The real thing is love. And just like the love of my father that I now deeply understand,

01:18:35.360 all of his flaws, all of his struggles,

01:18:38.580 all of the decisions he made at the time

01:18:41.280 he was doing the best he could.

01:18:45.020 Who am I to judge and hate him

01:18:47.720 for his experience of the past?

01:18:51.180 I can correct it.

01:18:53.820 I can stand even against it.

01:18:57.960 But who am I to judge him

01:19:00.820 and hate him for it?

01:19:05.360 we need the kind of love that can see things clearly,

01:19:12.060 see our country clearly, love it clearly,

01:19:16.120 love it despite what we see in its past,

01:19:18.360 and then work to make things better.

01:19:22.140 Not because our country owes us perfection,

01:19:24.900 but because we owe ourselves, our children,

01:19:29.500 our country, our world, humanity.

01:19:32.600 We owe it our best effort.

01:19:40.000 I think that's what it loves to be America,

01:19:42.740 to love America, to be an American.

01:19:47.600 Not to spite her contradictions,

01:19:51.160 but because of what she keeps trying to become

01:19:54.260 in spite of those.

01:19:58.760 More in a minute.

01:20:03.400 Listen, you wouldn't give money to somebody throwing rocks at you, would you?

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01:21:54.940 If you were just listening to us on Torch, if you're a Torch Insider at glennbeck.com,

01:22:00.480 you heard Jason and I have kind of a frank conversation here because sometimes I have such little time,

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01:22:11.620 But he has the Torch Insider show that happens during the commercial breaks,

01:22:15.120 and we were just talking about some breaking news that is coming out of Fox that is not good news,

01:22:20.760 but uh it's that the uh irgc or the the republic of iran now has cut off all diplomatic communication

01:22:32.140 with the united states that's not good obviously can you give me any more on that jason that's

01:22:39.300 coming from iranian state media so that really that could also be just another trick within

01:22:43.980 their bag of tricks we're not entirely sure so but didn't we have the president didn't we have

01:22:49.640 the president of iran resigned this weekend or is that not true that's coming from iranian iran

01:22:55.660 international which is usually pretty uh pretty solid but that that that's that only goes so far

01:23:00.380 as well because he can submit his resignation but then the supreme leader if if he's even conscious

01:23:05.540 at this point or just being controlled by the rgc has to accept that resignation so it's all smoke

01:23:10.440 and mirrors coming out of iran i don't think anyone knows really what's going on but what

01:23:14.340 what the reason why that came out was he's the the message that was released was the irgc which

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01:23:27.340 of iran at every level if that is true um what we were talking about and i will share with you later 0.98

01:23:34.600 jason and i have a lot of talking to do and working it out but you'll probably get a chalkboard later

01:23:38.880 this this week um on iran and russia and europe um but i i don't think if what we just heard from

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01:27:30.880 Welcome, America, to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:27:33.340 We're so glad that you're here.

01:27:36.680 There's a lot going on.

01:27:38.180 We have to talk to you about Iran.

01:27:39.460 There's some breaking news happening with that.

01:27:43.080 I don't think it's necessarily good, but let's take it step by step.

01:27:49.240 Also, Bill Gates is in the news.

01:27:52.040 What a fraud this guy is.

01:27:53.460 Now we find out that he's actually paid people to help create this Mr. Rogers kind of version of him.

01:28:02.520 He's a terrifying guy, quite honestly.

01:28:05.100 And we have Alex Adams on.

01:28:07.460 He is the HHS Assistant Secretary for Family Support.

01:28:11.880 The president has taken the Administration for Children and Families,

01:28:16.520 and they are launching a new initiative

01:28:24.140 to make sure that no child is left behind.

01:28:28.060 And this is specifically talking about families

01:28:32.940 that are foster care families.

01:28:35.720 And this was a hard decision to have Alex on,

01:28:40.260 not because it's not worthy or anything else,

01:28:42.160 but because I know so many people

01:28:44.600 that have been raised in foster care that had the worst, most horrific movie style kind of upbringing

01:28:53.100 that I've ever heard of. And I'm very interested to see how we're fixing all of this and what we're

01:29:01.380 doing to make sure that we don't leave children behind, but we also don't put them into foster

01:29:06.540 care that is a horror show. We'll talk to Alex about that here in just a second. First, let me

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01:30:26.960 Alex, welcome to the program.

01:30:28.640 The Assistant Secretary for Family Support from HHS, Alex Adams.

01:30:33.480 Alex, excited to have you on.

01:30:35.420 As I said a minute ago, I have so many friends that have grown up and coworkers that grew up in foster care.

01:30:43.340 families that were just from hell. And I'm sure there are good ones out there. I know there are.

01:30:49.580 But what are we doing to make sure that we increase the number of people that want to

01:30:54.840 take children in for foster care and also catch the bad guys? For sure. Well, thanks for having

01:31:02.880 me, Glenn. Last November, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump signed an executive

01:31:07.580 order called Fostering the Future. It was a whole-of-government approach to improve

01:31:11.940 child welfare across the board. Many agencies have a role. My agency, the Administration for

01:31:16.940 Children and Families, has a specific role. We launched a campaign called A Home for Every Child

01:31:22.240 where we're trying to increase the ratio of foster homes relative to the number of foster kids.

01:31:28.360 Right now, we have a national shortage. If 100 foster kids come into the system,

01:31:32.920 we only have 57 homes to care for them. And what happens to the remainder is they get placed in

01:31:38.860 bad situations. Many of them get placed in Airbnbs, short-term rentals, government office

01:31:44.500 spaces, places that are not conducive to a safe, stable, loving family environment that many of us

01:31:50.580 were fortunate to grow up in. So we're trying to get states to commit to increasing their ratio

01:31:55.120 of homes to kids. And there's certainly two ways to do that. First is to recruit and retain better,

01:32:00.740 higher quality foster families. The most important way to do so is to shrink the number of kids

01:32:06.100 coming into foster care in the first place. As President Trump said, the best foster care system

01:32:11.260 is one that is not needed. And we're looking to ensure that foster care is used as a tool of last

01:32:19.200 resort when it is in the best interest of the child, when it is necessary to protect them.

01:32:25.400 But the first and foremost goal is to preserve families, keep families together when it is safe

01:32:31.300 to do so. Okay. So, so how do you make that judgment? Because I mean, you get into foster

01:32:36.880 care, how? Because either all your, your, you have no, you have no relatives left and your,

01:32:43.840 your parents either abandoned you or died, or most likely it's because the Department of Children

01:32:49.080 and Families comes in and says, we got to get these kids out of here. That's a dangerous situation,

01:32:54.160 right yeah well uh most states define neglect and abuse and in the cases of

01:33:03.200 if a court makes a finding the child can be removed from the family and enter into foster

01:33:09.120 care i used to run a state child welfare system i'm from idaho as well so we're neighbors glenn

01:33:15.680 and uh we um one of the things that we started doing is we started building predictive analytics

01:33:24.080 into hot into the hotline so usually the first step in a child welfare case is a medical

01:33:29.440 professional or a school personnel calls a hotline alleging neglect or abuse of a child

01:33:35.600 that sends off an entire cascade of events that cascade of events can change the entire trajectory

01:33:41.360 of a child's life and the family's life and it was very interesting to me how subjective

01:33:47.040 that whole process felt so a couple counties had experimented with predictive analytics where it

01:33:53.120 brings additional data into the decision-making, it helps triage, and it helps right-size the

01:33:58.240 response from the agency. Idaho is the first state to go live using predictive analytics,

01:34:05.040 and based on that experience and others, my agency, the Administration for Children and Families,

01:34:10.240 just announced competitive grants to allow up to 10 states to experiment with predictive analytics

01:34:15.680 as well. We think that will right-size responses and allow agencies to focus on the most egregious

01:34:25.060 cases where safety is truly at risk. So this predictive analytics, it's not to

01:34:34.280 widen the scope. It's possibly to narrow the scope. Because I know people who have,

01:34:40.280 their baby fell off of the bed, which my son did, broke his collarbone. I know I have a friend who

01:34:47.140 same thing happened in a different state. And man, they were all over, and good parents,

01:34:51.860 and they were broken. And the state was all over them for months and months and months,

01:34:57.760 and there was nothing going on. So is this to try to weed those kinds of things out and get to the

01:35:04.040 most serious? Certainly the goal. The goal is to right-size the agency's response to the cases

01:35:10.620 where there is true situations going on, where a child's safety is at risk, where foster care may

01:35:18.160 be appropriate. So that's one of the things. I mean, certainly, you know, we talked about

01:35:23.580 preventing entry into foster care, but recruiting and retaining good, high-quality foster homes is

01:35:30.300 another. And too many states have larded up foster care licensing with red tape. Certainly

01:35:35.620 things are necessary. Let's do criminal background checks. Let's do child abuse and neglect registry

01:35:41.960 checks and all of those things. But too many states larded up foster care licensing with just 0.74

01:35:49.100 superfluous things like requirements for pet vaccines and other things. Where when I was a

01:35:55.060 former state child welfare agency director, when my choice was having a child stay in the red roof

01:36:00.080 in or putting them at the family's home who is a good high quality family but we don't know the

01:36:05.280 vaccine status of their pet rabbits that's a very easy yeah i think it would be you know we

01:36:13.720 we had a lot of red tape like we required foster homes to have four foot fences around every body

01:36:19.480 of water i bet no farm in weston has four foot fences along all of the irrigation canal

01:36:24.980 let's uh let's roll up a brick carpet and let's make it easier to get good high quality foster

01:36:30.860 families into the system okay so so tell me about the orphan tax yeah it's another thing we've been

01:36:39.300 focused on and i always say this is something straight out of a charles dickson dickens novel

01:36:45.080 where essentially a child's parents died that child's parents had worked so they were entitled

01:36:53.980 to some social security through earned benefits through work traditionally the child would be

01:37:01.180 eligible for the survivor's benefit but in 29 states when that child entered foster care

01:37:09.180 the state was saying we are now the parent of that child we're going to take that survivor's

01:37:14.060 benefit from them and they're essentially taxing it at a hundred percent and using it to offset

01:37:21.020 permanent costs these states were essentially stealing from orphans and using it to cover

01:37:27.420 government bureaucratic overhead so we sent a letter to 29 states asking them to end that

01:37:33.260 practice which i find morally objectionable they had luckily 10 states changed their laws this year

01:37:40.060 governor pillin in nebraska governor landry in louisiana governor braun in indiana right away

01:37:45.660 signed an executive order saying we are going to end this that other states um took legislative

01:37:51.820 action in kentucky the republican legislature ran a bill that governor beshear vetoed but luckily

01:37:58.860 the legislature in an overwhelming bipartisan fashion absolutely steamrolled governor beshear

01:38:04.380 and i think the house vote was 91 to 3 so his scheme to tax orphans has been effectively ended

01:38:10.620 in that state. But we still have a number of states to go. Probably the most pernicious one

01:38:17.440 is Minnesota. During the campaign, Governor Walz talked about how he was a recipient of

01:38:23.320 survivors' benefits and how it gave him, quote-unquote, dignity. But he is removing that

01:38:29.000 dignity from his own orphans in his foster care system, presumably to give it to Somali pirates 0.93

01:38:35.260 or whatever so uh we still have a long way to go and we're going to continue pushing on states to

01:38:41.260 try to end the orphan vaccination i mean we have a congress that's doing nothing we have an

01:38:47.580 administration that's doing everything it seems um but all of this stuff can be undone um you know

01:38:55.080 with a flick of somebody else's pen i'm really concerned about that um the the to me the thing

01:39:02.260 to do is to encourage our houses of worship to get more involved. One of my big phrases that I

01:39:14.520 use at my charity is, if we want the government to do less and we have to do more, if we want

01:39:19.540 our government to not be involved on all of these levels, because they usually will screw things up,

01:39:25.620 we need to have our churches do more. Do you have anything that is involving our houses of worship

01:39:32.000 and our faith to get involved and encouraging them to get involved in this more?

01:39:38.420 Well, first and foremost, I agree with you wholeheartedly. 0.99

01:39:41.400 The message that we send to the faith-based community will make or break our success in 1.00

01:39:45.220 child welfare long-term. 1.00

01:39:48.080 And families of faith are the most likely to raise their hands and volunteer and run

01:39:52.460 towards the foster care system, get licensed as foster families, provide preventive services

01:39:57.360 that will prevent kids from entering into foster care in the first place.

01:40:00.580 So the message we send to the faith community is really critical.

01:40:04.440 We've been working with the White House Faith Office and the HHS Faith Office to signal that we are open for business.

01:40:11.240 I've sent letters to 13 states alleging that they have policies in place.

01:40:16.680 They're preventing people from stepping forward that have sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions.

01:40:23.400 And two states have committed to change their policy as a result, both Vermont and Massachusetts.

01:40:27.760 and we're going to keep chipping away at those 11 other states.

01:40:32.460 So, as I said at the beginning, we have too few foster families nationwide.

01:40:37.180 I've got 57 homes for every 100 kids.

01:40:39.760 We need to be rolling out the red carpet for the faith community,

01:40:43.500 and the message that we send to them is so important.

01:40:46.520 And also, just as an example, in my home state of Idaho, in southeast Idaho,

01:40:51.940 I had 150 families for every 100 kids.

01:40:55.260 There's a heavy faith influence from the church, and it made placement much easier, relatively speaking.

01:41:03.240 I could customize placement based on the needs of the child and the demonstrable capabilities of the families, because in Southeast Idaho, we had a strong faith commitment, and I had more homes than kids.

01:41:15.800 I had homes waiting on kids, not kids waiting on homes, and we're trying to get that going nationwide.

01:41:22.360 That's why I live in this community.

01:41:23.840 It's a great community. Alex, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Thanks for all your hard work and best of luck to you. I mean, there's nothing more heartbreaking than orphans and childcare for orphans when it goes bad. And I know a lot of people that just are great people in spite of how they were, you know, abused in the foster care system. And I'm glad to see that you're working on that. Appreciate it.

01:41:54.300 Thanks for having me.

01:41:54.860 Make Melania Trump too, will you?

01:41:56.400 I know she's involved in this a great deal.

01:41:58.500 Thank you.

01:41:59.580 Thank you.

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01:43:36.360 So Bill Gates has apparently spent years now trying to keep,

01:43:44.440 I mean, they have actually purchased customized mannequins to test out different outfits for him to change his public opinion.

01:43:57.380 Dude, it's not your outfit.

01:43:59.960 It really is not.

01:44:02.420 They have spent decades now trying to change the way he looks, transform him from the architect of the blue screen of death.

01:44:13.300 you know into something wearing a cardigan just he's an oracle of compassion that's what he is

01:44:20.040 and i i don't i mean it's not working it's not money well spent you know uh he just wants to be

01:44:27.900 you know known as literally uh mr rogers they're trying to make him look like mr rogers it's like

01:44:34.720 taking darth vader and saying you know what take off the helmet and the cape we're gonna put a

01:44:39.260 sweater on you and maybe some glasses and uh you're still going oh yeah be a father i mean

01:44:44.880 nobody's buying that it's still darth vader dude it's still darth vader but you know they if you

01:44:51.340 watch him now watch him the gentle blinking a little like clippy the paper clip the measured

01:44:57.880 pauses the soft reassuring tone you know that one thoughtful head tilt you know i i don't know it's

01:45:05.660 like he's offering you cookies instead of a polio vaccine that will probably put polio into the

01:45:11.040 water. I don't know. This is product placement. Product placement. This is one of the spookiest

01:45:19.160 things I've heard. You have to read this story. We have it in our show prep today about all the

01:45:24.840 things they're doing to make him look like Mr. Rogers so he can do a TED Talk and tell you he

01:45:33.620 knows what's best for you and your children uh you know because it's gonna he's gonna take care

01:45:37.860 of you and your farm and your future you know meanwhile he's buying up all of the farms and

01:45:45.820 what was it 2019 he had the the gates foundation had the uh event 201 where they had the global

01:45:54.020 pandemic thing and then a couple months later a global pandemic and they're following the script

01:45:59.960 and he's on, you know, the screen in his sweater

01:46:02.680 and the little clippy eye blink

01:46:04.180 and the, you know, just lockdown in mass.

01:46:06.900 That's what we have to do, you know,

01:46:08.340 and try my preferred vaccines.

01:46:10.420 Oh, okay.

01:46:11.660 Okay.

01:46:12.340 All right.

01:46:15.020 I don't know.

01:46:16.840 I don't know.

01:46:18.520 And he's going to save us from climate disaster

01:46:20.180 because he's very generous.

01:46:21.280 He's bought up all the pharma.

01:46:22.320 You know, he's the biggest land owner now in the country

01:46:26.640 because, you know, hey, we all have to make sacrifices.

01:46:30.580 And so you sacrifice his farm, your farm to him,

01:46:33.220 and he'll make sure we're all good.

01:46:35.360 And then the insects, we got the insects too that he's doing.

01:46:38.180 That'll be good.

01:46:39.080 And we'll all own nothing and we'll feel good about it.

01:46:41.240 And he'll feel, you know, prophetic

01:46:43.700 and he'll help in all the fields and it'll be good.

01:46:46.920 And he'll look like Mr. Rogers,

01:46:48.620 except when he gets on the Jeffrey Epstein plane,

01:46:51.420 which, you know, kind of unfortunate.

01:46:53.420 It's a mistake.

01:46:54.240 i don't know if that was a mistake uh really i mean that's like saying the titanic was

01:47:00.520 navigational inconvenience no you got on the plane to go to pedophile island and we're going

01:47:06.460 to trust you with vaccines now and our children uh no i don't uh i don't think so i don't think

01:47:13.900 so no matter how much you spend on your public perception and they're doing this they're they're

01:47:18.160 this is coming out now because he's going to go testify in front of congress you know about what

01:47:23.940 happened on Pedophile Island, which, you know, good luck with that. Good luck with that. But

01:47:29.440 meanwhile, you know, Mr. Rogers, he wants to be our neighbor by buying up all of the property

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01:49:56.760 There is a lot to go over.

01:49:58.740 I want to give you some breaking news that is coming out of Iran.

01:50:02.680 And with everything that I have said from the very beginning with this Iran conflict,

01:50:06.700 do not take anything as gospel because we don't know.

01:50:10.000 We are at war, and propaganda is a tool that is being employed on both sides.

01:50:17.640 And so you just wait and see what actually develops.

01:50:22.380 Don't take anything at its word, but here's the latest word that you should be aware of.

01:50:27.620 It's coming from Fox News.

01:50:29.380 Jason, do you want to fill us in?

01:50:35.460 Jason?

01:50:37.640 Okay, apparently not.

01:50:40.000 Okay, I'll fill in until you figure out what's going on with this microphone.

01:50:44.940 But Fox News has just said that they have cut off all communication with the United States.

01:50:53.560 So there is no more diplomatic any communication at all with the United States.

01:50:58.240 That obviously does not bode well.

01:51:00.420 This also comes after something that is coming from a credible source in Iran.

01:51:06.600 But again, what does that mean?

01:51:08.320 a credible source in iran that says that the irg is irgc is in full control and the president of

01:51:16.620 iran has just tried to resign whether he was allowed to resign or not we don't know jason

01:51:21.940 yeah and cnbc has just furthered this uh the whoever these sources are whoever is talking

01:51:28.560 probably heavily irgc uh aligned they are blaming israel's latest military operations in lebanon

01:51:36.080 for why they are now completely backing out.

01:51:39.200 They said, quote,

01:51:39.860 no dialogue will take place

01:51:41.800 until Israel stops and withdraws 0.91

01:51:44.480 from what they're doing.

01:51:45.880 They also said, and this is interesting,

01:51:48.320 they said, quote,

01:51:49.120 also the resistance front and Iran

01:51:51.160 have resolved to completely block

01:51:53.320 the Strait of Hormuz

01:51:54.500 and activate other fronts,

01:51:57.280 including the Bab el-Mendeb Strait, 0.99

01:51:59.760 in order to punish the Zionists 0.96

01:52:01.240 and their supporters,

01:52:02.520 is what they said.

01:52:03.340 And so pretend I can remember where the Bob El Mendeb Strait is.

01:52:09.100 So that is right off the coast of Yemen, Red Sea, heading down towards that other major choke point down there. 0.72

01:52:16.160 That was the entire reason why Iran was interested in Yemen to begin with, was so that eventually, in a situation like this, they could block Hormuz and Bob El Mendeb, just shut it all down.

01:52:27.760 So this is a significant escalation.

01:52:29.600 I hate Bob for that.

01:52:30.780 Bob was the worst.

01:52:31.980 I said, if there's somebody I don't like, it's Bob.

01:52:35.100 Bob Elmendead.

01:52:36.560 I just, I don't like him.

01:52:38.340 He's not trustworthy. 1.00

01:52:39.900 He's hanging out with those Houthis too much or whatever they are. 1.00

01:52:43.760 I don't think they're Houthis, are they? 0.96

01:52:49.000 Here's what I think this means. 0.99

01:52:52.200 Now, take everything I say with a grain of salt because I am guessing.

01:52:56.340 I am only looking at this with the information that's being provided.

01:52:59.260 I have no inside information.

01:53:00.960 Nobody does.

01:53:01.460 So anybody who tells you anything, like I'm going to tell you, if they don't say take it with a grain of salt, if they say, this is what's going to happen, they're lying to you.

01:53:08.940 They don't know, okay? 0.99

01:53:10.500 But my guess is Israel is an excuse. 0.97

01:53:16.900 They have no intention. 0.95

01:53:18.840 If the IRGC really is in control, these are the nutjobs. 0.99

01:53:22.960 These are the ones that are crazy and believe in washing the world in blood and bringing back to 12th the mom and everything else. 0.99

01:53:29.060 These are really bad guys. 0.98

01:53:30.780 Most of them are not even Iranian, and they are the ones that really – that's like the Germans when the Nazis were in charge. 0.86

01:53:43.720 You can't trust anybody because the Nazis are in charge. 0.72

01:53:46.540 If you could talk to some non-Nazi German people and they had actual power, they'd be able to change things. 0.78

01:53:53.340 But the Nazis are the IRGC, if you will, in this scenario. 1.00

01:53:57.360 So if indeed this is true, Donald Trump is left with a couple of options, and he is left with go in and pound the crazy bastards until there are no crazy bastards left. 1.00

01:54:11.080 Unfortunately, I think there's a lot of crazy bastards, and I don't see that happening. 1.00

01:54:15.320 And the IRGC knows this. They know the will of the American people is tepid at best. And we just cannot handle anything over $5 a gallon gasoline. And quite honestly, I don't know how people are making it right now at $5 a gallon gasoline. 1.00

01:54:37.500 Europe is also on the verge because they're paying $10 because they have a climate tax,

01:54:41.720 a $5 a gallon climate tax on top of their $5 a gallon gasoline.

01:54:46.760 So they're paying $10.

01:54:48.860 And that just doesn't last well.

01:54:51.000 It's just not going to be able to, the economy cannot function at prices where our fuel is that high.

01:54:58.720 I think your fuel price is going to go higher, unfortunately.

01:55:02.440 and that and the IRGC knows all I have to do is make it to the election. And then if I can make

01:55:09.800 their fuel price so high, the American people will not like Donald Trump or anybody else who

01:55:16.020 was for this in any way, shape or form. We win because they'll flip the Congress and they'll

01:55:22.360 flip the Senate and we'll get our way and they'll leave us alone. They might even send us buckets

01:55:27.940 full of cash. I think that's the long-term strategy, but I think that is also coinciding

01:55:35.780 with something else. And I'll put this up on a chalkboard maybe later this week. I have to work

01:55:39.640 this out with Jason. I want to make sure Jason sees the logic in it and also can find the holes

01:55:46.380 in it before I present it to you. But we have several things going on. Russia, Iran, the unrest

01:55:53.300 in Europe and the coming unrest here in America. And, you know, this is not a year ago.

01:56:03.840 When Trump came in, he surprised the world. He shouldn't have. I mean, most people, you know,

01:56:08.320 if you listen to him, he told you what he was going to do, but he surprised the rest of the

01:56:12.800 world. They're like, wow, he really means it. He's going to do this. And it has caused an awful

01:56:17.720 lot of chaos because he is redefining and reimagining the entire global system to be

01:56:28.480 America first. And nobody in the world likes that. And so they have had time now to catch their breath

01:56:36.780 and see our pain points that would get him to possibly relieve their pain points.

01:56:47.720 And I think that's what you're seeing with Russia and Ukraine and NATO.

01:56:51.500 That's going to be a problem. 0.80

01:56:53.080 Iran, the unrest that is being fomented in our own streets and all over the world, plus the fuel prices. 0.95

01:57:02.240 I think what we're about to see is the global elites, the caliphate lovers, all of these things, they are all ready now to punch back. 0.85

01:57:15.220 and we're going to see that punch back in the next few months. 0.76

01:57:19.880 And I'm hoping that Donald Trump, his advisors,

01:57:23.120 and he have seen the punch back and are ready for it

01:57:25.740 because I think that's what's happening,

01:57:27.380 especially because they need a lame duck president.

01:57:32.100 Jason, your initial thoughts on that?

01:57:35.120 Yeah, I mostly agree.

01:57:36.500 I think that normally in a situation like what you're describing,

01:57:40.220 we would be able to rely on, say, like NATO partners

01:57:44.500 or European partners, you know, other Western countries that would help to build a coalition

01:57:50.560 to fight back against what you're describing. But that's not the case today. And what's crazy

01:57:55.900 is we have, you know, Russia, China, Iran, that axis, if you will, that are just going absolutely 0.98

01:58:05.760 nuts, pursuing their own, you know, vision of the world. But right now we have a Europe,

01:58:11.140 a Western Europe, I should say, I should clarify, that does not feel like an ally either.

01:58:16.860 Really, the only, I guess, like-minded countries that seem like actual partners would be in Central

01:58:23.560 Europe. You know, you have countries like Poland, countries like Hungary. What's interesting to me is

01:58:31.240 what's interesting to me is there was a Polish military man way back in the day, I think after

01:58:39.000 World War I that actually foresaw this and said, there's going to be a point in time when you need

01:58:44.060 to, we'll have to not only be fearful of the East and Russia, but we'll also be fearful of the West,

01:58:50.120 Western Europe. And that feels like that's where it's going now. He actually put a name to it. He

01:58:54.960 called it the intermarium. And he said, this would be a check to the radicals in Western Europe and

01:59:01.400 the radicals in the Far East. And it's kind of wild to see that come through and to be realized

01:59:08.460 right now it's it seems like he called the shot really except he left out i mean this first time

01:59:16.840 i'm hearing about this um explain you now have radicals that are more likely to throw in with

01:59:29.460 russia because the pressure is the the the pressure on fuel prices and everything else

01:59:35.940 is collapsing eastern europe um and uh and if they just go with russia and iran because nobody likes

01:59:45.300 you know what america was doing you know in france and in germany etc etc those guys are

01:59:51.120 more likely to actually fall in line with with russia so it's not the two choices it's really

01:59:59.380 kind of one choice i think that some of these countries are going to start going in with russia

02:00:04.720 and China, leaving the United States and NATO and saying, well, we don't want to be with them

02:00:10.100 anyway. Russia, we'd rather be with Russia and China. And so you're going to have an allied 0.75

02:00:14.660 force in Hungary and Poland and Czech Republic, any of these former Soviet states. And they're

02:00:24.560 going to be more likely to be with a Donald Trump style America than with Europe or Russia and

02:00:31.760 China. Would you agree? I don't know, because I think that explains partly the radical green

02:00:40.880 agenda and why they were trying to get themselves onto that and completely shun

02:00:47.020 fossil fuels in general. I think that they were trying to inflict or force that onto the rest of

02:00:53.000 the world. That's where it was kind of odd that China and Russia were actually kind of standing 0.86

02:00:58.140 against that i'm not saying because that they were good but that was a little bit on how they

02:01:02.460 were able to get a weird i guess right a portion of the right wing within the west on their side

02:01:09.360 it was all completely false of course they're going after their own new world order it was

02:01:13.840 just the nwo or i'm sorry the uh the uh wef wef wef all those types of people they were focused on 0.69

02:01:23.220 their new world order which was a you know you've you've written about it before it's the agenda

02:01:28.540 2030 that type of you know vision for the world we as the united states kind of stood you know

02:01:35.520 outside of all of that and said i don't like the direction they're going whether that's russia china

02:01:40.000 all them i don't like the direction uh that western europe is going in with this you know

02:01:44.360 mass immigration headed towards caliphate eventually and this technocratic elite driven

02:01:51.040 society by Western Europe and the UN. We're kind of the outliers saying we don't want any of that. 0.55

02:01:57.860 None of that looks good on liberty and individual freedom. None of that does. I kind of see us kind

02:02:04.200 of standing alone if we continue down this path saying no on both sides. Of course, when you're

02:02:09.720 in the middle of the highway, that kind of is dangerous to stand there while you have the other

02:02:15.800 too. Yeah. At high speeds

02:02:19.820 coming at you from two different directions. That's where it is.

02:02:22.860 And really alone, Mexico and Canada will not be

02:02:26.900 on our side. The Western Hemisphere below

02:02:30.680 Mexico, I think, will be.

02:02:36.260 Explain, Jason, how you think this 0.89

02:02:38.840 affects the average person. Why does this matter? Because I see this

02:02:42.720 plainly playing it out, but most people don't. So why does this matter to the average person

02:02:47.600 besides the $5 or $8 a gallon gasoline that could be on the horizon?

02:02:55.120 Well, in the near term, it affects us all because this is a massive shift. And the left

02:03:00.780 attempted this right after COVID, and they always attributed it to Bretton Woods when the entire

02:03:07.580 global economic system just changed that's what they were comparing it to we are at the we still

02:03:13.540 are really in that right now because everything is changing at a massive scale right now trade deals

02:03:19.780 military alliances everything is changing there's going to be pain on on all fronts there's

02:03:25.200 especially going to be pain in places like western europe where they have not you were just talking

02:03:30.040 about this i think it was last week none of them produce anything anymore are they making any plans

02:03:35.100 to do anything differently.

02:03:36.960 President Trump was the only one that said,

02:03:38.820 we need to change this and change it right now

02:03:40.480 because something is coming.

02:03:42.060 Something is coming.

02:03:44.240 And in the near term,

02:03:45.700 it's going to be difficult to make that transition.

02:03:48.180 My hope is the president...

02:03:49.240 But I think that's...

02:03:51.120 Go ahead, finish.

02:03:52.000 My hope is the president is trying to insulate us

02:03:54.240 through the moves he's making now

02:03:55.520 so that we have a smoother transition.

02:03:58.260 Yeah, he is.

02:03:59.460 But if we don't have things to sell,

02:04:01.840 I mean, if we don't have people to sell stuff to,

02:04:04.360 It doesn't matter how much we make.

02:04:07.220 We have to have people that will buy our stuff.

02:04:12.100 And if Europe goes down because they are not making anything,

02:04:15.580 they literally are not making anything, 0.67

02:04:17.220 and what they'll do is they will sell their factories to China,

02:04:20.700 not to us, to China.

02:04:23.180 And that will put a deeper foothold into China.

02:04:25.680 And then China will make it okay for the energy,

02:04:28.540 and Russia will make it okay for the energy,

02:04:30.760 and they'll have all the energy that they need.

02:04:33.440 I mean, I just see these weasels like Macron because China and Russia, they think, will be able to handle, if they ever worry about a caliphate, they'll be like, well, we'll have Russia and China on our side, and they'll just shut those people down.

02:04:51.180 I just see a realignment possibly coming our way of Europe that is not necessarily good.

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02:06:42.980 uh tomorrow we're gonna have more on iran jason's gonna talk about somebody that he just met that

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