Today on The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by his good friend and long time supporter, John Rocha. The two discuss the latest in the Trump administration and how it's time to wake up America to the truth.
00:08:37.900Second, we're very strong economically because he's inviting Europe, and he said this a couple of times in the speech, he's inviting Europe to be a part of it.
00:08:52.460Now, I don't think any of the elites in the room wanted to be a part of that, but as he said a minute ago, Mark Root, the secretary general of NATO, he was instrumental, and I want to come back to him in a second in a different way, but I want to show you what he said after the speech, because it goes to America is stronger than ever.
00:09:12.560He talked about the GDP of Europe and how Trump is right on things, which didn't make him popular in the room, but this is the NATO secretary general after the speech commenting on basically what Trump was saying there, inviting Europe, when we do well, you do well.
00:10:28.120Does anyone seriously think that if the United States hadn't turned around and done what they had done under Donald Trump and gone from possible negative GDP a year ago, that's what was being projected, to a GDP of 5.4 percent?
00:10:47.040Do you think Europe would have a 1.9 or 1.8 percent GDP?
00:12:39.800And if you don't, I'm putting a 25 percent tariff on everything that you sell into the United States and a 100 percent tariff on your wines and champagnes.
00:12:48.200And every one of those countries have agreed to do it.
00:12:51.080I realized that we have many places like that where they're making a fortune because of the United States.
00:12:59.420Without the United States, they wouldn't be making anything.
00:13:03.900I realized with that, I don't know, I was so, because she was so aggressive.
00:13:08.120And I realized in that conversation that the United States is keeping the whole world afloat.
00:13:15.620OK. He then also went on a couple of times to say, you know, Maduro wouldn't negotiate.
00:13:24.040But, boy, they negotiated as soon as our troops left, as soon as the shooting stopped.
00:13:28.820Maybe some of you in this room should consider that.
00:20:23.920But I think what happened yesterday, what turned this whole thing around, is he knows he had Mark Root.
00:20:31.660Mark Root is the Secretary General of NATO.
00:20:34.860And Mark Root is a fan of Donald Trump, but he's more of a fan of actually security, winning wars, having protection for the European continent, all of that.
00:20:46.480And so Mark comes out, and he's talking in different forums yesterday about how Trump is right.
00:22:16.260If we don't get Greenland, if this doesn't happen, if we don't find a way so we have control over the things we have to have control over in Greenland,
00:22:25.260I'm out of NATO, and you won't survive.
00:22:30.960And I won't say that and embarrass NATO.
00:22:33.260I won't say it out loud, but I'm telling you that.
00:25:25.060You ever notice, is Governor Newsom that full of himself that he thinks he can just mosey on Donald Davos and literally actively rail against President Trump and talk to world leaders and tell them don't negotiate with him?
00:25:42.880He literally said, President Trump is like a T-Rex.
00:25:47.400You either mate with him or you get devours.
00:25:50.360And then he said, what's wrong with you people?
00:26:59.120He is clearly from the very beginning.
00:27:02.000He has been trying to set himself up as the presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2028.
00:27:08.500Um, and I mean, oh, one could hope and pray and one is hoping and praying that that's the guy they choose.
00:27:17.020Uh, because I mean, even Besant, Besant took him down.
00:27:21.900I mean, it was, he was at a speaking engagement yesterday in, in Davos and, uh, Scott Besant steps to the podium and he starts talking about, uh, Gavin Newsom and listen to what he said.
00:27:34.360I think it's very, very, uh, uh, ironic that, you know, Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, uh, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.
00:27:50.720Uh, he, uh, he's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros.
00:27:56.600And the, uh, Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else was on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having $1,000 a night meals at the French laundry.
00:28:10.580And I'm sure the California people won't forget that.
00:28:13.940And I can tell my message to governor Newsom is the Trump administration is coming to California.
00:28:20.300We are going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:28:24.200And I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies, but he's not speaking because what if his economic policies brought outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit.
00:28:38.940The largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down, he is here hobnobbing with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless.
00:29:05.400Let me know if you need any further clarification.
00:29:08.940I have to tell you, I think, and this is a deep contest.
00:29:15.980I mean, there are so many candidates that I just don't know who my biggest hero is right now, but Besson is one of them.
00:29:23.440I mean, I think Besson is, I just think he's one of the best, well put together, deep thinking, calm secretaries that we've ever had in that position.
00:29:38.940I mean, I just have complete confidence that if he says it, I'm like, okay, I may not understand or I may not agree with it, but I'm going to roll the dice with you.
00:29:47.720I'm going to be looking into some things.
00:29:57.040I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm going to get into this later.
00:30:01.640They are going to have to start a revolution.
00:30:04.620These blue states are going to have to start a revolution because they're going to jail.
00:30:09.680Just what we know on fraud, there is so much fraud and the way it is being used by the Democrats to funnel money from your pocket to NGOs that are fighting against America, that are propping up these revolutionaries, and the fraud that is just taking money out of your children's mouth or the needs of children is astounding in some of these states.
00:30:35.800And if the Treasury Department gets serious about it, you're going to see, I mean, you're going to see the biggest Democrats in the Democratic Party, the biggest states, you're going to see them all start to fall.
00:30:47.340And I don't know how, I don't know what happens from there because I've never seen anything like that, but they should, I mean, if I were Newsom, I would have gone home with my tail between my legs.
00:30:59.960I would have been like, hey, I got to get, I got to get home because I got to start packing.
00:31:23.460How do you, I mean, look at, look at the, the last guy that they were saying initially that was going to be the one that was going to be the next, would be the next presidential candidate was Tim Walz.
00:31:40.260I mean, on so many fronts, absolutely unlikable, um, and so corrupt.
00:31:46.240And the other guy is, is Gavin Newsom so corrupt, so absolutely fraudulent and unlikable.
00:31:55.660Uh, I mean, if that's what you got, I'll, I'll run, I'll run Rubio, uh, you know, JD Vance, I would run Donald Trump's red tie against those guys.
00:32:10.640As long as it is, I would run it by itself, vote for not the guy in the tie, just vote for the red tie over that guy.
00:32:19.700And I think you, I think you had a chance of winning, uh, I mean, especially with what I think they are going to find.
00:32:26.100Um, and these guys are just so delusional.
00:42:49.300And California gets cold, too, once we get the gas shut off.
00:42:52.000Hey, Glenn, and the other quick thing I want to bring to your attention is it was reported on a local radio station that you're out of Sacramento
00:42:59.400that the Chinese are sending their pilots here to be trained to fly their military jets.
00:43:08.020And one of which is at Castle Air Force Base out of Atwater, where 90% of their students are Chinese nationals.
00:43:21.560Stu or Ricky, have somebody reach out to our affiliate in Sacramento and find out that story.
00:43:26.200It doesn't surprise me, although it shocks me for some reason every single time that we can be surrounded by people that are at the bare minimum,
00:43:40.160this line to what is true and what is happening.
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00:46:10.860So just a few minutes ago, a tweet was released from our Attorney General, Pam Bondi.
00:46:19.420She said, minutes ago at my direction, HSI and FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota.
00:46:27.700So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy-Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on City's Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
00:46:37.560We will share more updates as they become available.
00:50:10.740They have introduced bills now that will expand the sales tax space to include services like landscaping, gym memberships, vehicle repairs, food delivery, home repairs,
00:50:21.980raising the revenue beyond the traditional goods.
00:50:26.680The progressive income tax brackets, they are now proposing creating new tax brackets, higher tax brackets, meaning people with taxable income over a certain threshold, they're saying $600,000, will pay higher rates than those with lower incomes.
00:50:46.080This one, this one I really love, federal employee tax.
00:50:50.800The federal employee will get a tax break versus everybody else.
00:50:54.940There are proposals now that will give special tax subtractions for retired federal employees and incentives for federal retirees, while you, who didn't ever work for the government, you'll see a broader tax increase.
00:51:10.840What, what is the purpose of that tax?
00:51:15.240Remember, you cut taxes on things you're trying to encourage.
00:51:33.280I mean, I used to, I grew up in Washington state.
00:51:35.380We used to have a gun rack in the back of our truck and it would be in the back window and you'd have, you know, three rifles there and you'd pull up into school.
00:51:41.680You'd leave your doors or your, your car doors or your truck doors unlocked.
00:52:03.620And 11% tax on ammunition and guns and civil liability for the gun industry participants for crimes committed using guns that they sold or built.
00:52:20.760I've got a few things to say about that.
00:52:23.180Um, also there is, they're trying to enact, you know, more DEI and ESG stuff.
00:52:30.500Um, and, and, and this one have to be really, really careful because they want to expand the racial bias and diversity training for professionals.
00:52:39.100Nurses, nurses, nurses, real estate agents, and law enforcement.
00:52:45.660Now, why does the real estate agent need diversity training, uh, law enforcement and nurses?
00:52:57.660Let me lay down the biggest warning I could possibly lay down, and I'm not going to dwell on it or spend time today on this.
00:53:03.680Because the scariest people in Nazi Germany did not wear the black uniforms.
00:53:24.780Okay, but I, I want to concentrate here for just a second on taxes, because there is a quiet lie, a quiet lie that we have accepted in America, um, that the same dollar that is earned by two different Americans is not the same dollar at all.
00:53:41.900That if one man earns it after years of sacrifice and years of risk and failure, and another one earns it with less risk, less responsibility, the first man's dollar is someone, somehow or another, less his own.
00:53:56.860This is really dangerous, because this is the, the moral foundation of the progressive income tax.
00:54:46.580See, fairness always breaks down because of the stories we tell ourselves around it, or the stories we've allowed others to construct around.
00:54:54.840That's why the Constitution is common sense.
00:54:57.700That's why progressivism breaks down once you really start thinking about it, because you, you, you can't follow the common sense.
00:55:16.360Once you accept the principle that you don't care how honestly the dollar was earned, what you really care about is who earned it.
00:55:26.960Once you accept that principle, equality under the law dies.
00:55:31.320And this is why you start with the taxes, everything else follows from here.
00:55:36.880You know, our founders understood this better than we understand it today because they lived under a system where the crown decided who could be squeezed and who, who could not be squeezed and how much to squeeze.
00:55:48.700And they knew that once the states gained the power and they could gain the power to decide which citizens would owe more than the other citizen, that liberty would become conditional.
00:56:46.100The federal government had to raise money through tariffs.
00:56:48.560We didn't have an income tax up until 1913 because Americans knew this would become unfair because you're choosing who to tax, who to squeeze and not and who not to squeeze.
00:57:03.060And when you have taxes, indirect, uniform, and visible, then you have real equality.
00:57:16.060But the moment the government claims a larger share of one man's labor than another man's labor, because that's time is money.
00:57:42.580And once you can take somebody's time, somebody's labor, and take more of it from one guy than another, and not for what they did, but just for what they achieved, you're no longer dealing with justice.
00:57:56.920Would it be just to say, I'm going to tax people who do poorly more than the people who do well?
00:58:03.240Because the people who do well, let me make this argument just quickly.
00:58:29.020Would it be fair for me to say every poor person should be taxed because they're not creating enough, they're not creating jobs, and it's only because they're lazy?
00:58:44.420You've accepted the reverse in this country because we have been taught over and over and over again that you're not going to be able to make it.
01:01:42.800It's not going to happen because it never does because they'll find a way out of it.
01:01:47.180And every single time you start to expand the income tax, it always expands downward.
01:01:55.540And history is relentless on this point.
01:01:58.160Because once you accept that rights are proportional to income, there's no logical place to stop.
01:02:04.240You know, we didn't fight a revolution so we could be free on a sliding scale.
01:02:08.640They thought that citizen meant something, the same thing, meant something, and it was the same thing for everybody.
01:02:15.600So the question is not what the government costs.
01:02:19.080The question is who owns you, your time, and your labor?
01:02:24.400And whether success in America is still something that we look up to and say that should be earned, or is success in America something that should be really shamed?
01:02:34.420And then if you give us enough money, we'll forgive you.
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01:04:04.800Let me bring in Jason here for just a second.
01:04:08.300Jason, what is the George AI on today?
01:04:12.520I heard you talking about it with the insiders a second ago.
01:04:14.700So we were looking at all the stuff that the new governor of Virginia was doing and basically winning an election and just radically going towards the left.
01:04:23.400And I was just curious if that was something the founders, you know, something that hardcore, basically saying all the other rest of my constituents, you know, I'm not going to worry about them.
01:04:32.400I'm going to do as much as I can politically towards one side of the aisle and for the everyone else basically to say, screw everyone else.
01:04:38.960If that's something that they thought was, you know, healthy for the American project as they envisioned.
01:04:44.780And I had to put in a hypothetical situation of this going on, what was happening in Virginia now.
01:04:49.960And then George AI gave a very philosophical answer and what they envisioned for the country and what they would have thought of this kind of behavior.
01:05:00.520So, you know, George AI is a collection of it is my private and proprietary library collection of the founders words and everything that influenced them at that time.
01:05:14.080It's I think the latest we have in it and will ever have is about 1820 or 1830.
01:05:19.520And it does not know anything about the future.
01:05:22.000It does not know anything about American politics today.
01:05:24.220It only has to memorize word for word, the founders words and the documents and everything else that they lived through in their times.
01:05:32.740And you can get a pretty good approximation of what they might have said to you.
01:05:37.920Um, and what, give me the gist of what they responded with or what it responded with.
01:05:49.600Well, you don't really get a gist from George AI.
01:05:52.820In fact, that's one of the hard things to do with George AI is like, okay, could you leave out the four score and seven, blah, blah, blah.
01:06:00.480Okay, well, let's street it up mean, um, the general gist was, um, that you don't really have, uh, the representation in the government the way we envisioned it, if it completely ignores a vast amount of the constituents and part of the country.
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01:19:17.880If that, if that's the best you can do, Holy cow, Hawaii, you should talk to that congressman that thinks that islands can capsize, uh, because he's got a, he's got a boatload of stuff to sell you.
01:19:39.160When you own your own home, it's easy to go on autopilot.
01:19:42.240As far as paying the, you know, paying the loan goes, by the way, speaking of autopilot, do we have an update Ricky on the pilot situation?
01:19:48.960We had somebody call in a little while ago from California.
01:19:55.380Um, thanks to my good friend, Matt court, right?
01:20:00.320Uh, one of our researchers working on the insider program, but Jason buttrell, we found that it is in fact, a mostly true story.
01:20:07.520Uh, Breitbart covered this, but their original source documents for it were from Peter Schweitzer.
01:20:12.500Um, he referenced it and research in his new book where that became a bestseller this week, what's happening is we are training a bunch of Chinese pilots in Atwater, California.
01:20:42.260That makes me feel much more comfortable because I mean, we've never had anything where individuals came up in and trained in small little planes and then did anything with those planes that nobody could have.
01:20:56.940So I'm perfectly comfortable with that.
01:20:58.700We'll, we'll get back into that story maybe tomorrow if we can.
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01:25:11.900Crowds of Canadian citizens stood in long lines across Alberta for hours this week to sign a petition for a referendum leaving Canada,
01:25:18.620officially titled a referendum relating to Alberta's independence.
01:25:22.640A petition requires at least 177,000 signatures in order to trigger the referendum, which would ultimately decide if the Providence would separate.
01:25:31.560Petitions have 120 days to collect the signatures needed.
01:25:34.380Pro-separation groups said they can get as many as a million signatures, which would be a clear indication that they probably will separate, seeing that they have 5 million residents.
01:25:41.880Some petition locations reported as many as 10,000 signatures in the first day as a public response described as concerning by critics who want them to remain part of Canada's constitutional monarchy.
01:26:19.060I will be surprised if this happens, but I have a very good friend who worked at a very high level at the federal and Alberta level in government.
01:26:29.080And he said, please, Ricky, tell Donald Trump, we don't want to be bombed.
01:26:34.700And actually, it would be cool if you could trade Minnesota and Alberta for each other.
01:26:40.240Could you could you take Alberta and give us Minnesota?
01:26:44.180I bet you both of them would be OK with that.
01:26:47.480I bet you people in Alberta would be like, OK.
01:26:50.560And people in Minnesota would be like, thank God we're out of America.
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