Trump's New Army is trending on social media, Hillary Clinton's 9/11 commission, and more! Glenn Beck is back on the show to talk about it all and much more. He also talks about how you can get your life back without drugs and alcohol.
00:02:06.560We have a Democrat, Steve Cohen, suggesting that the military is too white and therefore we should suspect the National Guardsmen that are protecting the inauguration tomorrow.
00:02:22.100Hillary Clinton has called for a 9-11 commission for the Republican terrorists.
00:07:08.920The National Guard is 90 some odd percent male.
00:07:14.060Only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden.
00:07:18.340So you have to figure that in the guard, which is predominantly more conservative that I see on my social media and we know it.
00:07:26.760There's probably not more than 25 percent of the people that are there protecting us who voted for Biden.
00:07:33.060The other 75 percent are in a class that would be the large class of folks that might want to do something.
00:07:41.120And there are there were military people and police who took oaths to defend the Constitution and protect and defend who didn't do it, who were in the insurrection.
00:08:59.820The first circle is the people who are for Trump and not for Biden as far as far as people who would be within the zone of folks you could be suspect of.
00:09:56.380Now, New York Times reporter has tweeted former intelligence official on PBS NewsHour tonight saying that the U.S.
00:10:04.120should think about a 9-11 commission for domestic extremism and consider applying some of the lessons from the far from the fight against Al Qaeda here at home.
00:12:18.480He is the congressman that is confined in a wheelchair.
00:12:22.080He's an amazing guy, participated in the rally for Donald Trump.
00:12:28.220He said, I was the chief prosecutor at Guantanamo for over two years, and there is far more evidence of Congressman Madison Cawthorn's guilt than there was of the guilt for 95-plus percent of the detainees.
00:12:44.740It's time we start a domestic war on sedition by American terrorists.
00:12:50.620Now, this is the same guy who tweeted, screw, screw they go low, we go high, BS.
00:13:00.480When North Carolina GOP extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny, pasty necks with our heels, and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap, you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly, side to side, for good measure.
00:14:06.340Not only are they not conceding, Bill, but there's thoughts that there might have been some collusion among members of Congress.
00:14:13.600Some are refusing to go through magnometers or whatever you call them to check for weapons.
00:14:19.420They're not wearing masks during the siege.
00:14:21.720I mean, it's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how AWOL so many of these members of Congress have gotten.
00:14:28.860But I also think some of them are believing the garbage that they are being fed 24-7 on the Internet, by their constituents, and they bought into this big lie.
00:14:39.600And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?
00:15:51.300It's true that there is danger and seditious plots that will now move to encrypted message apps such as Telegram, where they're harder to track.
00:16:00.560But research firm Signal Labs found that online misinformation about election fraud fell 73% after Trump and his key allies were suspended from social media.
00:16:12.120Anyone who cherishes our democracy should be grateful to the management of Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for their newfound sense of social responsibility.
00:16:21.480We should expect at least the same level of responsibility from the broadcast media.
00:16:27.400To its credit, Fox News acknowledged that Joe Biden won, but reports from Media Matters, quote,
00:16:35.620in the two weeks after the Fox News called the election for Biden, Fox News cast doubt on the results of the election at least 774 times.
00:16:58.440Oh, can you imagine these people in their lives?
00:16:59.980But while we should expect better behavior from media executives, we shouldn't count on it.
00:17:06.260CNN, listen to this, where I'm a global affairs analyst, notes that the United Kingdom doesn't have its own version of Fox News
00:17:13.640because it has a government regulator that hands out hefty fines to broadcasters that violate minimal standards of impartiality and accuracy.
00:17:22.760What country do we get our independence from again?
00:17:24.360Yeah, the United States hasn't had that since the FCC stopped enforcing the Fairness Doctrine in the 80s.
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00:30:51.680She will be able to help meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond.
00:30:58.340Uh, now, in case you don't, in case you don't know who Rachel Levine is, um, she is going to be our first openly transgender, uh, health secretary, assistant health secretary.
00:31:13.060And, and I celebrated finally, finally, that wall is down finally.
00:31:17.260And so if we need to know during COVID, when we have to close our businesses, how do we have a safe orgy?
00:31:26.840Especially if it's spontaneous, because how many times are you sitting around with a group of people and you think, what do you say we all take our clothes off?
00:54:20.880You reach a point in life where you make that transition.
00:54:23.980And if you don't stand, who's going to?
00:54:26.680Now, I understand there are consequences.
00:54:29.400Glenn, I got fired from a college I was teaching at when I got out of the army because of my attitude towards letting men go in women's bathrooms.
00:54:37.300And I took a very strong stand against it and they fired me.
00:54:42.780I understand that there are consequences, particularly when you're dealing with academe.
00:54:47.460But I also know that if you care about the future of your children and your grandchildren, you've got to make up your mind now.
00:54:55.720Are you going to stand or are you going to stand by and cheer for somebody else to take that stand and speak truth?
00:55:02.080And yeah, you're going to get bumped off of social media.
00:55:04.360But there are new platforms that are being developed right now.
00:55:07.580But we have got to keep speaking truth because the truth has to ultimately prevail.
00:55:13.800And when all else is lost, people can reflect back on what they have heard because the truth is more powerful than the lies that are being told right now.
00:55:22.360When I look at the color revolutions that our State Department has been involved in, they run pretty much like this is.
00:55:35.220And I'm afraid with all the behavioral scientists and all the things on the left, that that's what we're seeing at the beginning of.
00:55:45.360And if people understand what a color revolution is, it's even more important that you stand up.
00:55:52.520Am I way off base in thinking that there are some that are employing the tactics of a color revolution here?
00:56:04.280I think you're seeing the number of things and certainly the color revolution is part of this.
00:56:08.840And I will just say this, Glenn, and people don't want to hear this, but we need to recognize that we are actually in a civil war already.
00:56:16.840Now, it's not the 1860 kind of civil war, but we're in a civil war already.
00:56:21.260And we're not divided north and south, but we're certainly divided every other way that you can possibly be.
00:56:27.760You have division based on race, you have division based on ethnicity, you have division based on socioeconomic class, you have division based on political parties or political points of view, and you've got big tech against every conservative.
00:56:50.340So if this is not a civil war, what would classify as a civil war?
00:56:54.080Now, the problem is, I think Bubba, Leroy, and Junior are getting fed up.
00:57:01.220And I think that's part of what you saw the day that they breached the Capitol.
00:57:04.580And I will tell you, just so everybody understands where I stand, I sat down and wept.
00:58:26.320And until, until the American people wake up and return to a humble position of God, we are in no place to, to, uh, stand up, uh, and, and expect any favors from heaven.
01:00:53.120I think that it is going to come as part of this, because when things get so dark and people have no idea what to do or which way to turn, they always wind up turning back to God.
01:01:05.460And I think that we're going to see an awakening here.
01:01:09.240I'm not saying that it will ultimately be the first or the Second Great Awakening, but we are going to see an awakening.
01:01:18.180And you're going to see the church resurface and establish its rightful role in our society.
01:01:25.800Well, I certainly hope so, because, you know, I blame the media for this an awful lot.
01:01:30.120I blame Congress and the and the Senate and both parties for this an awful lot and education.
01:01:37.300But really, I have to blame the pulpits.
01:01:40.600They're first in line because they weren't speaking out about any any truths that were uncomfortable because they were all afraid of, you know, losing their church or losing some parishioners that might be tithe payers.
01:02:16.360And this guy is saying, just like this guy, Cohen in Tennessee, he's he's condemning and criticizing soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines for serving in the military.
01:02:26.900And he's saying you can't serve in the military and serve God at the same time.
01:02:31.520You know, you talk about being offensive.
01:02:33.660I find that incredibly offensive, but also very shallow in terms of his understanding of God's word.
01:02:39.440And because God said to his disciples right before he ascended to be with the father, if you don't have a sword, you sell your cloak and buy one.
01:02:49.180He was saying in building my church, you're going to need a sword.
01:02:54.920And keep in mind that they essentially all the all of those disciples were martyred.
01:03:00.820But he said by a sword, that ought to be an indicator to you that he God was giving them an understanding.
01:03:06.360You won't build my church with the sword, but in building my church, you're going to have to use that sword to be able to do the work I've called you to do.
01:03:14.360Lieutenant General Retired William G. Boykin.
01:03:18.680Thank you so much for your service over all the years.
01:03:49.580It injects malicious computer code into the compromised e-commerce website checkout process and pulls your order information to display it on a fake checkout page that steals your information.
01:24:19.920I've been trying to think if I were if I were in government, I would look to behavioral scientists.
01:24:30.460And I know that the left does it with economic behavioral scientists with Cass Sunstein.
01:24:36.320But I would look to behavioral scientists right now, or if I were a behavioral scientist, I would be ringing the bell right now because it seems everything the media and the left are doing is causing more and more people to feel disenfranchised, attacked, name called, isolated.
01:25:31.820They have advisors for all sorts of purposes of an important areas.
01:25:35.560But what ultimately drives all of those domains is human behavior, right?
01:25:41.000So the health, the lifestyle choices that we make that might result in downstream negative health consequences, which a public health person would care about, they stem from understanding human behavior.
01:25:53.220So it has always, you know, amazed me that there isn't as part of, you know, the cabinet of a president or the board of advisors, someone who truly specializes in human psychology and behavioral sciences.
01:26:05.780So maybe our current conversation will one day result in such a position actually taking place.
01:26:11.920So I'm not sure I like that, though, because that used to be called propaganda.
01:26:16.400I mean, the early guys, you know, Bernays, that he was in his own way, a behavioral scientist and watch behavior and knew how to evoke the right emotions to do all kinds of things.
01:26:32.840I know you're Canadian, but in America, the conservative doesn't like the idea of growing the government even bigger in an office of what would have been called propaganda is a little frightening.
01:26:42.120But I do want them to blow the whistle on warnings.
01:26:48.980I mean, are you paying attention to what's really happening here in America, Gad?
01:26:52.840I am, although the past two weeks I've taken a social media hiatus.
01:26:58.040And let me tell you, my cortisol levels have gone way down and my blood pressure has improved.
01:27:03.980I will tell you, I went to the doctor because I was having problems.
01:27:10.040And the doctor said, right now, stop, stop right now.
01:27:14.920He's like, your blood pressure is through the roof and you've got to stop looking at all this stuff.
01:27:21.860And I'm like, yeah, kind of a problem.
01:27:23.560But I did stop over the weekend and I felt great.
01:38:02.440And hopefully you can change people's minds.
01:38:04.180But also, isn't it, isn't it also the problem that we are so, we're beginning to be so set in our ways that we aren't willing to even listen to each other anymore?
01:38:18.360I mean, you know, people are, people on the left or right, and everybody says this about the other side.
01:38:24.040I personally think that conservatives are willing to listen, but that is growing shorter and shorter, their attention span for this,
01:38:31.460because they just keep getting kicked in the head.
01:38:34.240But, you know, when you sit down with somebody, you're not trying to win.
01:38:40.560You're just trying to understand and then have a conversation.
01:38:44.300And I don't think that's happening anymore.
01:38:47.240Look, yesterday I was invited on Jordan Peterson's podcast, and the show will air in a few weeks.
01:38:54.180And Jordan and I are friends, and we agree on many things.
01:38:58.300We disagree, for example, on some of the interpretations of Carl Jung.
01:39:04.000And at the end of the podcast, he said, hey, you know, we need to have another chat,
01:39:07.520because as I understand it, some of my views on Jung you disagree with.
01:39:12.540Well, here we are disagreeing on this important matter,
01:39:16.740and yet we're going to walk away from one another being just as close as friends as when we started the conversation.
01:39:22.500In other words, people can naturally disagree with each other without demonizing one another.
01:44:31.320The evolutionary behavioral scientist, author of The Parasitic Mind and host of The Sad Truth with two A's, Dr. Gad Saad joins us again.
01:44:41.960So I asked you before the break, doesn't never forget, if you understand that phrase, require you to look at the past and the present and call out the roads.
01:44:58.200When you start to split and go down the wrong path, doesn't mean it ends there at, you know, a death camp.
01:45:06.280But isn't it imperative to call out those warnings early?
01:45:35.800The other one is called consequentialist ethics.
01:45:38.100Deontological ethics operates in absolute truths.
01:45:41.800If I were to say to you, it is never okay to lie, then that's a deontological statement.
01:45:46.960If I were to say to you, it is okay to lie in order to spare your spouse's feelings, then that's a consequentialist statement.
01:45:53.800Well, when it comes to certain principles of freedom, never forget that you should be operating within the deontological realm.
01:46:02.680What I mean by that is, when it comes to freedom of speech, the qualifier, I believe in freedom of speech, but, and then dot, dot, dot, should never exist.
01:46:16.640I escaped religious persecution in Lebanon, and I am a free speech absolutist who supports the right of Holocaust deniers to deny that the Holocaust ever took place.
01:46:28.720Nothing could be more offensive than that.
01:46:30.980You cannot come up with a more offensive position.
01:46:33.360But you can't, there's no freedom of speech.
01:46:35.640You don't need protection on speech if everybody likes the speech.
01:46:40.500It's only the speech that you find offensive and really almost stomach-churning that has to have the support.
01:46:50.060But the enemies of freedom come up with ever more powerful propaganda ways, to go back to what you mentioned earlier in our conversation, to try to justify their nefarious design.
01:47:04.020So, for example, it used to be that freedom of speech is absolute in the United States unless you were directly inciting violence.
01:47:13.700Well, now you alter what it means to directly incite violence.
01:47:17.980So, if Donald Trump says, walk to the Capitol Hill and protest peacefully but loudly, that becomes incitement to violence, right?
01:47:27.840A similar trick is done with hate speech, right?
01:47:31.240Yes, of course you have freedom of speech, but don't criticize Islam because then that becomes hateful and it marginalizes Muslims and it might cause people to be violent against them.
01:47:46.140In a free society, as long as you don't directly incite violence, right?
01:47:52.440You say, let's go to synagogue X tomorrow on Tuesday and kill all the Jews, then everything is allowed, okay?
01:48:00.240And if we forget those principles, we will think towards the abyss of infinite lunacy.
01:48:06.120Well, I think we, I think a good portion, especially the younger, have forgotten that in America.
01:48:13.260Again, I know that there's this idea that we can push back against these falsehoods and big problems and logic.
01:48:22.620And we've been going down this road for a while and I've always felt confident that if ideas are out there in a free market, I like competing in that free market.
01:48:31.700But more and more, that free market is being throttled by people being canceled on social media and their voice being silenced.
01:49:32.300Now, the reason why all the leftists hate Donald Trump, the honey badger, is because, as we've discussed, I think, on a previous appearance of mine on your show,
01:49:41.740he presents his fierceness in a way that is aesthetically injurious to them, right?
01:49:59.640He might be saying things that are perfectly reasonable that any free-loving person should support, but he does it in such a way that only my disgust impulse is triggered, and I don't even pay any attention to the substance of what he's saying.
01:50:14.300And so, activate your inner honey badger and engage people.
01:50:25.080I mean, isn't it more effective to target the heart over the mind first?
01:50:34.340I mean, you'll have a much better—Donald Trump, you know, has half the nation that hates him, and it's because he is a honey badger in all things.
01:51:14.360So, we're both thinking and feeling animals, but the challenge is to know when to activate which system.
01:51:21.920If I'm trying to sell you a perfume, I wouldn't start giving you the chemical breakdown of the perfume.
01:51:30.060That would be engaging your cognitive process for a product that's hedonic.
01:51:35.080Instead, in the advertisement, I will show you a sexy woman on a horse with her hair flowing, and then I will call the brand Mystère, right?
01:51:45.040Because there I am engaging your emotions.
01:51:47.540So, it's not that for all contexts we should be engaging our emotional system.
01:51:53.060The problem is to know when you should activate which system.
01:51:57.120If I'm trying to convince you that you should invest with me for the following reasons, then it should be cognitive-based.
01:52:05.240But we have had an ad campaign run by the press and by the left nonstop for almost 12, 15 years, that if you're conservative, you're a monster.
01:52:20.040And so, we haven't had the nice ad campaign.
01:52:23.340So, people come into conversations thinking you're illiterate, you've never read a newspaper, you're a monster.
01:52:35.380There has to be, we have to go an extra step of also being kind and gracious and likable if we're trying to change anybody's mind or change their heart towards us.
01:52:52.240They go in with the exact opposite assumption.
01:52:54.760Yes, and it goes back to the first item that we discussed.
01:52:59.940Should you have behavioral scientists helping in developing public policy?
01:53:04.640Well, what you just said speaks to the importance of having behavioral scientists who know how to frame and construct maximally effective messages.
01:53:16.980If I tell you that this toothpaste, three out of five dentists recommend it, it's exactly the same thing as telling you that two out of five dentists don't.
01:53:27.620But it turns out that if I frame it in the positive frame, three out of five dentists recommend it, people actually think that the toothpaste is better than when I gave you the negative frame.
01:53:38.380So imagine how easy it is to manipulate people, and you've got guys like me who can help you navigate through the minefields of propaganda.
01:53:49.020Well, I appreciate your guidance and your book.
01:53:54.660It is, just give a quick sell of the book for parasitic mind.
01:54:01.020Basically, in the book, I argue that there's a bunch of idea packages, these really bad parasitic ideas that have been spawned on university campuses that then get proliferated across, you know, the world in politics and business and HR departments.
01:54:16.680And I offer ways by which we can inoculate and vaccinate ourselves against these parasitic ideas.
01:56:44.080These are the days that I said would come.
01:56:46.360And it's going to get worse before it gets better.
01:56:49.360But these warnings that I've been giving you also include the warnings of the Bubba effect.
01:56:57.640If you've heard me talk about it before, that is one thing that the military has prepared for.
01:57:04.820And that is Bubba seeing, as it was described to me in 2006, Bubba seeing a Sikh after a big terror explosion gets angry and goes into the 7-11 where the Sikh is behind the counter.
01:57:41.160That's when the crowd gathers against the federal government coming in to investigate this murder and to put Bubba in prison.
01:57:49.340They say, we'll take care of Bubba because we know what he did was wrong, but you guys haven't done anything about it.
01:58:00.700And it's your fault because he was just trying to be stupid and he was wrong, but he was just trying to stand up because none of you would.
01:58:11.080And that's what the special forces team told me in 2006 was their greatest fear and what they were really working on.
02:00:37.680Well, you know, they say they say probably four weeks more, but good luck with that.
02:00:45.520Yeah, I think maybe the next time the election, not the midterms next time the election happens, the presidential election, I think we'll be set.