On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by fill-in host Justin Barkley to discuss a variety of topics including the latest in the Trump administration, the latest on the border, and much more!
00:03:47.580I've been thinking about what might be in that rotation.
00:03:51.960I've been thinking about what could possibly be, you know, in that lineup.
00:03:58.580And there's a few of them, especially the stories lately, what we've learned from Twitter and the Twitter files, Elon Musk, what's been happening with the government behind the scenes.
00:04:08.360These are all things that we've, you know, a long time, pretty much, yeah, we pretty much, it's like we've, well, we suspected some of this stuff, right?
00:05:23.700We didn't see the red wave that we felt like it was more like a red trickle.
00:05:26.700Although the Republicans are taking back the House.
00:05:31.160Now, what they do there, that's a whole nother, that's a whole nother thing altogether, isn't it?
00:05:40.520What they do there, that's, well, that remains to be seen.
00:05:46.240But you have, you have all of these different stories.
00:05:50.540And in your situation, and in your life, maybe there's a story, maybe there's something that's bigger for you than it is anywhere else for anybody else.
00:06:02.120And your personal story, you know, the things that are happening in your life, maybe they're different.
00:06:18.400I wonder what you think, if you had to put your finger on it, the biggest story of 2022 is, and is it a story that just isn't getting the coverage that it deserves?
00:06:53.800Well, our guest coming up a little later this hour will be able to put his finger on it, tell you what exactly what it meant for him, what he put on the line, and how it's paid off.
00:07:03.960Sometimes it doesn't always work out that way.
00:14:33.740So last night, Andrew Tate, speaking of, uh, getting him, I don't know why this has become
00:14:40.080such an interesting story, but, um, there's, there was so much last night on Twitter and
00:14:46.240the internet about this, the possible arrest.
00:14:48.480And of course they showed video of him and his brother being taken.
00:14:53.340There was media there out of their house, but they didn't have handcuffs on.
00:14:57.700So if they were allegedly arrested for, you know, trafficking and there was a allegation of a rape or somebody being held inside a house, you know, without their, well, this, this could happen to anybody.
00:15:15.100Yeah, I know it's a, especially somebody so high profile.
00:15:22.380And he just had some crazy exchange with Grada Thunberg on, uh, on Twitter.
00:15:28.200Apparently, I guess it was that day or the day before.
00:15:31.020And, uh, that was a big, so that was a big part of the speculation about wonder why this happened.
00:15:37.660But then again, last night, it appears this was last night, Tucker Carlson today, Tucker Carlson talking to Andrew Tate, who is not in jail.
00:16:08.640So news accounts in the United States say that the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, was tipped off to your misdeeds and alerted the local authorities you might be committing human trafficking, um, given that this is the same charge they leveled against Julian Assange or a species of it.
00:16:27.980You know, skeptical, but I want to know the details.
00:16:30.400Were you arrested for human trafficking?
00:17:00.580I state this, uh, openly to the world.
00:17:03.440I have absolute respect for the police.
00:17:05.200I would hate to live in a country where if you call the police saying women are being held against their will, that the police don't respond.
00:17:41.320Now that, that, that, that was back in August.
00:17:44.140So again, if he's guilty of that, him and his brother or whatever, anybody who's guilty of human trafficking, any sort of that, uh, of course I want to see them locked up and, and probably worse, but there's a lot of question about this.
00:17:58.420And in fact, Tucker mentioned his skepticism back in, uh, August, I guess, in the interview that he had done there, the questions continue to come out.
00:18:09.100People are asking, well, you know, what, what exactly happened?
00:18:15.280What a peculiar story and what a way to end again, the year, which has been so strange, you know, just, just, just, just aim a few of the crazy things that have, that have happened this year.
00:18:29.440Oh, by the way, you know, we were going through these and I've, I've got more.
00:18:32.420We'll go through them today throughout the show.
00:18:35.020Plus I want to, uh, I want to take your predictions.
00:18:38.760So I got, I'm kind of, I got two things that I want from you today that I'd love to hear you join the program.
00:18:46.280If you're a triple eight, seven, two, seven B E C K back.
00:18:51.140Not only would I like to know the biggest story, but also what about a prediction as hard as it might be?
00:19:16.000So, um, you know, I feel like, uh, biggest story of the year is that people are finally waking up to the fact that we've been presented with a meticulously managed psychological operation.
00:19:30.340To convince us all that everything has failed in an effort to bring new systems to our world.
00:19:39.980I think people are red, blue, Democrat, Republic, Republican doesn't make a difference.
00:19:46.060Folks are waking up to the fact that due to staged events promoted by corrupt media, we are now, uh, being divided and demoralized in an effort to have us willfully adopt technocratic Marxism.
00:20:08.400So if I'm going to make a prediction, I think more people are going to wake up to what's happening this next year.
00:20:14.900Michael, from your mouth to God's ears, I hope that does happen.
00:20:18.580That's the only way we can take this country back is if people are aware, if they are awake, so to speak, not woke, but actually awake to what's happening and how we can fight back.
00:21:33.100And if I have the honor of filling in again, I did, I think I did this show last year, uh, for Glenn and the team.
00:21:39.320So, if I have the honor of filling in again next year around this time, we'll pull out some of these predictions and see if you nailed them.
00:22:19.260I think the biggest story of the year is an administration that facilitates actively and knowingly the commitment of high crimes and misdemeanors at the southern border.
00:22:29.360And my prediction is that all of the negative information regarding COVID, the sudden deaths and heart attacks and 35-year-olds just dropping dead all over the place, the media is going to hold their powder with that information until Donald Trump gets into the next election cycle.
00:22:48.680And will they use it against him at that point?
00:24:51.080That's a news radio with 1300 and 1069 FM.
00:24:54.680And of course, my honor and pleasure to be here with you.
00:24:57.960But one of the stories coming out of Michigan was the restaurants that were shut down and the businesses that were crippled and people lost them.
00:25:05.880Of course, you've got what happened to the kids.
00:25:07.720But one of the business owners decided to stand his ground.
00:25:28.960And I think it's important for us to hear this, not just here in Michigan, but across the country when it comes to standing out for what's important.
00:26:29.320It's been a crazy, crazy journey for the last just over two years now.
00:26:34.900You know, when they shut down restaurants again the end of November just before Thanksgiving in 2020, we stayed closed for the first week waiting, you know, for some kind of news, some kind of aid package, something.
00:26:51.680And, you know, all the lawmakers and governor and everybody decided to go on Thanksgiving vacation and, you know, basically left us out to flap in the wind.
00:27:01.740And so I just kind of, you know, we had originally, a buddy of mine and I, we were going to, we were actually in the middle of putting up wrapping paper on the front windows and we were going to kind of go under the radar.
00:27:13.300And I just decided, you know, this just doesn't feel right.
00:27:17.420So I called the health department, our local health officer and said, you know, tomorrow, the day before Thanksgiving, which is, you know, one of the biggest bar nights of the year.
00:27:26.040I said, listen, you know, we're, we're going to go out of business if this keeps up like this.
00:27:29.820So you're kind of forcing us to, to open back up.
00:27:52.840I mean, they were bringing the full force of government down on you and every vice and grip they could find to tighten on you.
00:28:01.020They were trying to get you from all angles, weren't they?
00:28:02.980Yeah, and they, they knew from, from the beginning that those of us that have liquor licenses, you know, those are coveted.
00:28:11.700So they knew that they could use that as the hammer over those of us with those licenses.
00:28:17.000And they were very, very effective at doing that.
00:28:20.000And ultimately, they kind of used us as an example and suspended my liquor license for 90 days and gave me a $600 fine.
00:28:31.020And what we would find out later on is that January 6th of 2020, while we were still open against the health department orders, but not serving liquor, we had surrendered our liquor license.
00:29:08.620And by the way, I should also mention here, folks, that the Michigan State Supreme Court at one point, they ruled on this and that what the governor had ordered at one point, these shutdowns and whatnot, that they were illegal.
00:29:40.440We went back and looked and found that she had actually been using the emergency orders of the health department law that we ended up challenging in court and got ruled unconstitutional, just like the Supreme Court ruling you're referencing.
00:29:55.480And the majority of our case stems from that certified questions October 2020 Supreme Court case.
00:30:04.060And got a brilliant ruling from Judge Hunter right here, literally across the street from the Iron Pig in circuit court.
00:30:50.360But just recently, I received a letter from the Liquor Commission via Dana Nassel's office, which has some sort of gambling and liquor division, apparently.
00:31:02.920And this nice little letter said we are no longer going to be seeking charges against you for the January 6th, 2021 alleged violation.
00:31:31.180It would sound like under your belt in this battle to stand your ground, stand up for for running your business and and to be open to feed the folks there in Michigan.
00:31:40.820But not only that, but to feed your family.
00:32:11.360So, you know, the end goal really for us is to have make sure that the unconstitutional ruling is is ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court.
00:32:20.840The other thing that we want to do is hold some people accountable.
00:32:24.360And, you know, as well as I do that, that money talks.
00:32:27.500And right now, what we're attempting to do is form a class action lawsuit to take to the court of claims and sue Gretchen Whitmer, Dana Nessel, Bob Gordon and Elizabeth Hertel in their official capacities as it relates to the use of this now unconstitutional law in Michigan.
00:32:51.100And by the way, Justin, they're still using this health order, this emergency order right now for vaccine mandates and nursing homes.
00:32:58.560So it's it we're going on to almost three years now that they'll, you know, coming in March, it'll be three years that they're using this health order that is now unconstitutional.
00:33:42.960None of this is going away anytime soon.
00:33:45.180What do you say to folks who are deciding probably at some point here in the future, if they haven't yet,
00:33:51.040they're going to have to make a decision about how they're going to stand for their principles, for their family, for their business, for whatever it might be.
00:34:57.220But what I do want to say real quick while I've got you is anybody in Michigan that is looking to join our lawsuit, our class action lawsuit, to go to fight4michigan.com.
00:35:08.980There is a form you can fill out to join.
00:35:10.900Again, anybody that is looking to join this class action should go to fight4michigan.com.
00:35:18.320And let's get as many restaurants at least as we can.
00:35:20.880Some gyms have already signed up as well.
00:35:23.000But we're going to start to sift through this information and figure out and form the best class that we can so we can go sue the pants off the people responsible for destroying the restaurant industry in this state.
00:45:32.240So we've had the same chair Ronna Romney McDaniel for six years at the RNC.
00:45:38.200And she actually you know did not have a contested election at that point.
00:45:43.320She was the chair of the Michigan GOP when President Trump was running in 2016.
00:45:49.340And you know she helped deliver Michigan for him and famously invited him there many times.
00:45:54.620And as a result he did win that state.
00:45:58.160And so she was rewarded for that by President Trump installing her as the chair of the RNC.
00:46:04.960This is this is typical in our in our party structure.
00:46:08.540But you know he's endorsed her several times after that and now she served six years.
00:46:14.560And in those six years we've lost the House the Senate and the White House.
00:46:18.180And that's no one person's fault or you know specific policies that we can point to you know that are necessarily responsible for that.
00:46:28.980But when you're the leader of a party and the party continues to sort of not win elections and the same policies are in place.
00:46:36.500You know we're not engaging in early voting coaching of our of our state parties or training people on ballot harvesting and and and chasing ballots and ballot curing.
00:46:47.360Which is what you have to do to compete with the Democrats whether we like these laws or not and we don't like them at the Republican Party.
00:46:53.720But you know until you can change those laws you have to take advantage of them.
00:46:57.600We have not been leading on that issue.
00:46:59.860We are not motivating our voters to get out and vote frankly with our with our rhetoric or our reference to our policies.
00:47:08.460We're not drawing a sharp contrast between ourselves and the Democrats.
00:47:11.600I think ever since dating back to the Russia collusion hoax at the party we've actually been letting the Democrats set the stage.
00:47:35.380And that's what I hear as a as a media commentator and as a Republican activist who's also active on social media.
00:47:42.360I hear from hundreds if not thousands of Republicans on a weekly basis what they think and what they'd like to see us doing better.
00:47:48.540And you know it's not breaking through at the party level.
00:47:50.820The party is very top down and it has been that way since before Ron.
00:47:54.620I would say you know there's been no contested leadership election in 12 years at the RNC.
00:47:59.240So that's that's the background and what I would like to see change is we have 168 very qualified members of the RNC with a lot of different skills.
00:48:12.800Some of us are good in strategy fundraising you name it.
00:48:16.340And so we immediately should be harnessing more of that energy.
00:48:19.200We have to be competing with the Democrats to get our ballots into the ballot boxes as early as possible in the process and not emotionally appealing and you know putting out expensive ads that political consultants get their 15 percent cut on and just hoping that people will show up.
00:48:36.740I mean the Democrats had Katie Hobbs and John Fetterman and Joe Biden elected so I think that proves that you can get a absolute nothing burger elected if you have the mechanics to do that.
00:48:50.160And we have good candidates we have better ideas we have better policies but we don't have that infrastructure that the party should have been building all these years.
00:48:58.080And so that's one thing I would do better communications and and and you know overall freshen up the party's image.
00:49:05.460I think that that's needed for confidence of our voters and so many members of Congress and senators and even major donors have been calling me and saying thank God somebody stepping up for a change.
00:49:16.440You know we we don't wish anything negative about you know the current incumbent it's just that if you have an organization that has been stagnant for some time be it a corporation be it a sports team be it a political party you have to have change.
00:49:34.120And and if if our chair were to get the fourth term should be the longest serving head of political party dating back I think over 150 years.
00:49:44.960So you have to ask how do we have the results to merit that I don't think so.
00:49:50.080You know one of the things we hear in Michigan where I'm based is a lot about grassroots and the getting the grassroots together working with so-called establishment folks in their grassroots wants to take back the party.
00:50:03.360What does that look like and how do you get those two together and and is it is that possible I think you really need them both in order to compete you know somebody told me this the other great question what's a Democrat word for rhino.
00:50:23.560They don't have it so so so what what's your what's your answer to that I mean how do we do that.
00:50:30.400Well look I mean you can't have the shareholders running the corporation directly if it's a you know public corporation there have to be some layers of management and there have to be some professionals who are hired to do the work as well.
00:50:43.460And so the question is what do we have right now in the party.
00:50:47.700I think we have you know I mean you know Rana was going into this election before I entered it with pretty much you know two-thirds of the members of the RNC saying yeah this is great.
00:51:00.480So what does that tell you when 100 percent from what I'm seeing of polls out there of the base of our party of members who are contacting the members of the RNC.
00:51:09.320We they're saying we want change literally I mean that's every email I'm getting is saying we want change nobody's saying let's have two more years of the same.
00:51:16.940And so we've lost touch with the grassroots of our party and that is I don't want to bore your listeners with arcana of how people get elected to the RNC.
00:51:24.860But you know with with myself I'm in a four-year term so I got elected in in 2020 and you know I could do anything I want pretty much unless I'm recalled which never happened for four years.
00:51:38.260I could ignore the grassroots and I would never be held accountable for that and that's exactly the situation that we're in in the party.
00:51:44.360And so the members of the RNC are not even elected directly by Republican voters Republican voters elect their state party and so I'm one of those people I'm in the state party as a delegate to the state party and then the state party delegates or precinct committee men or however the structure is in the state they elect the members of the RNC.
00:52:06.060So what we are seeing in the around the country interestingly is those state parties are beginning to revolt and you know in some states they're holding meetings they're asking for a vote of no confidence in the chair and they're asking for a change in leadership at the RNC and so that's actually been a pretty impactful and I've never seen that in my all my years of Republican activism.
00:52:24.620I've never seen that kind of revolt at that political grassroots level in the states and that's encouraging you know do we have enough time to pull this off.
00:52:33.560I've certainly I'm picking up steam amongst members and calling them and spending most of my day on the phone convincing members as to our issues with respect to fundraising with respect.
00:52:43.440We've got it. Hang on. Hang on one second.
00:52:52.160She of course running for chair the RNC and the big news the big story about President Trump and of course the subpoena dropped there in the House back with more right after this the Glenn Beck program.
00:53:03.560Now we had it rough in Michigan but it just was it was all over that red wave was a bit of a red trickle in some ways although we did get the House.
00:53:15.980One of the things that I heard particularly the day after the election was the disparagement of the folks just feeling just like like hopeless.
00:53:24.760Some folks saying I'm never voting again.
00:53:26.960Army Dillon with us right now running for chair RNC.
00:53:29.580Let me ask you what do you do to encourage folks to stay engaged in a process and make sure that they do make a difference.
00:53:38.200Well the first thing you do is be responsive to their demands by changing the leadership of the party.
00:53:43.140You renew your commitment to our core principles and values which we don't hear a lot.
00:53:47.920We haven't heard a lot about over the last few years but hey we have a party platform that lays out you know pretty pretty detailed you know sort of principles and policies that we would like to see accomplished.
00:53:58.800You encourage candidates to run who are consistent with those policies you know you kind of you get back in those communities.
00:54:06.820Now you know the chair has tried to reconnect with or connect actually for the first time with some communities who haven't voted Republican by putting community centers in you know ethnic neighborhoods and you know that's sort of a step in the right direction but you kind of only reach so many people that way.
00:54:25.340I think we need to just you know really be having a commitment to some core principles that attract people of all different backgrounds and the more messengers we have of different backgrounds young people for example is a huge category that our party has virtually ignored.
00:54:43.980In fact you know the fact that some of my friends are active in turning point USA and are supporting me for chair has led to a backlash against young young Republicans believe it or not you know.
00:54:56.100And so you know which is crazy those are the future voters those are the ones who are most likely to vote Democrat and it is actually so inexpensive to reach those voters through the use of tactics like like young social media influencers.
00:55:11.980You know if you and the Democrats use them you've seen these goofy goofy videos of these you know goofy you know left wing and people in the White House of being this you know tick tock influencers and Instagram influencers when you compare the cost of having a stable of young communicators on your team compared to what we spend on advertising and direct mail and other like old school garbage that isn't really working.
00:55:36.500It would be a game changer if we actually instead of you know like looking down on these young people who want to get involved and want to see some change in the party how about if we involve them.
00:55:47.480I love that idea of engaging these people because they are awake we've got a lot of young folks that are very engaged and are waking up and they are very concerned about the future of this country and and they I think there's a big movement happening so I appreciate the idea there.
00:56:05.860Harmeet Dillon I want folks that we got to wrap because I know you got to move but so do we but where can folks find you online and and connect.
00:56:14.840Twitter I'm at at T-N-J-A-B-A-N my website for my campaign is Dillon D-H-I-L-L-O-N-F-O-R-R-N-C.com and thank you for any support.
00:56:27.580God bless appreciate you being here with us today Harmeet Dillon we're back in just moments talking to you biggest stories of the year
00:56:32.520and predictions still yet to come for the new year
00:56:36.060888-727-BECK you can join the Glenn Beck program next.