Glenn Beck is back with a brand new episode of the Glenn Beck Program. This week, he talks about the dangers of using tear gas on a crowd in a car, a woman who was separated from her daughter on April Fools Day, and the point of no return on the federal debt. He also talks about a bridge accident involving a barge and a boat on the Arkansas River. And a listener writes in about her dog's love of Rough Greens.
00:04:59.840So, my weekend ended with some news from Oklahoma.
00:05:08.740That an Oklahoma highway has reopened now following its closure for a few hours when a bridge over the Arkansas River was struck by a barge.
00:05:20.620And I immediately thought, where in the world is Pete Buttigieg?
00:05:27.680And I, you know, I thought about our conversation last week with Stu who said, you know, he's not saying that Pete Buttigieg did it.
00:05:45.240Or people might start thinking that it's true.
00:05:48.740And if it's not true, it should be easy to rule out.
00:05:52.260But I will say, ever since we talked about this, people are sending me a lot of messages on social media every time that there's some sort of transportation-related catastrophe.
00:27:56.780There's not a smart, clever quip I have to say to that.
00:27:59.780I'm really, really concerned about the direction that this country is headed.
00:28:03.220You know, I live in a in one of the blue cities I imagine you guys talk about in this program where, you know, the most basic expectations that you have as a taxpaying, law abiding citizen are not fulfilled.
00:28:18.560And I'm someone that has, forgive the word, guys, but the privilege of being able to, you know, move my family, if God forbid we needed to, where I could, you know, pay in my neighborhood.
00:28:29.940It's sort of South African like people pay like a private security service because the cops simply don't show up if you call them.
00:28:35.580And, you know, that is an unsustainable situation.
00:28:39.780And, you know, it's it's quite shocking to me, you know, that the Democrats, you know, who, you know, say what you want about Trump, et cetera.
00:28:49.120But, you know, for those people who tend to vote Democrat, they're just looking for a party that allows them to say what you see with your own eyes is true.
00:29:00.900Things are not safe in the way that they ought to be.
00:29:33.440Maybe blind or arrogant is the answer.
00:29:37.260Yeah, I mean, I think that there is justice, as you both know, such a an increasingly tiny bubble.
00:29:45.940That a lot of the people in the political class and also in many of our sense making institutions inhabit.
00:29:53.080And that's a world in which, you know, you can go to a dinner party.
00:29:56.100This is a real life example that my wife experienced.
00:29:58.700And, you know, the majority of people think it's quite normal to suggest that they shouldn't have kids because of global warming.
00:30:04.600Now, that is just like in a different universe than what most Americans are thinking about, which is the price of their milk, the price of a roast chicken at the grocery store, the price of their gas, how much it costs to buy a home.
00:30:20.940And very, very basic things like are we becoming more like Haiti or less?
00:30:25.840And a lot of Americans, you know, are running toward the right because of those basic issues.
00:30:32.480So let me let me bring you back to the border here for a second.
00:30:35.460I cannot figure out the end game here because you have every you have the Pentagon, you have the Department of Homeland Security, you have everybody saying all the lights are flashing red.
00:30:53.420Well, if, God forbid, something happens, everyone will know that it most likely happened because we have an open border.
00:31:03.600How does the how do Democrats survive that?
00:31:10.020I mean, they're not, at least if you're looking at the polling and you believe that the polling is accurate, an overwhelming number of Americans are listing immigration.
00:31:20.680And it's specifically illegal immigration as the single most important issue in this election.
00:31:26.740That's pretty mind blowing, considering that there's a lot of other issues that really matter.
00:31:31.640And this is one that's a choice where it doesn't need to matter.
00:31:35.180So, you know, it's from just a purely strategic perspective, politically, it's very, very baffling to me.
00:31:42.480And I have to say, especially I'll put myself on the hook here.
00:31:46.180You know, I am someone who is just very pro-immigration as a general rule.
00:31:50.960You know, like every American, I'm a descendant of immigrants.
00:31:53.860But in my case, more recently, maybe than a lot of other people, given the Jewish expulsion out of Europe under Hitler.
00:32:00.720But, you know, after October 7th and watching, you know, what is possible, what can come, you know, what violence and barbarism can come over what Israelis believed was an incredibly secure border.
00:32:15.700I am just looking at the issue in a very different way now.
00:32:19.520And I'm taking it personally a lot more seriously.
00:32:22.980And, you know, I can speak not on behalf of the Jewish community, but definitely on part of a lot of people I know that they're feeling similarly.
00:32:30.560I think that most people thought, you know, most people coming over the border and perhaps this is still true or seeking a better life.
00:33:03.120I told you you weren't on a smart show.
00:33:05.040But, you know, you probably, you know, I know you grew up hearing the stories, but probably never thought it would happen here.
00:33:14.760And now to have to see what you're seeing on the streets, what does that feel like?
00:33:22.520Really, really disorienting and alienating.
00:33:25.180You know, I grew up in such a proudly Jewish and proudly American family.
00:33:31.920I grew up in a family in which, you know, when things were said to me, I remember waiting for the school bus with my second sister and a Catholic school bus drove by and they called us kikes and dirty Jews.
00:34:20.640But based in a set of ideas, you know, Benjamin Franklin wanted the image on this country's great seal to be Moses crossing the Red Sea.
00:34:27.960Abraham Lincoln called Americans the almost chosen people because he read his Bible.
00:34:34.200And not for nothing, his name was Abraham.
00:34:37.080You know, he was named for the very first Jew of all.
00:34:39.920And so that was I didn't even think of it as a worldview because that's how certain it was for me and it was for, you know, at least the American sort of the golden moment that I grew up in.
00:34:54.040And, you know, beginning about five years ago with the neo-Nazi massacre in the synagogue where I became a bat mitzvah, tree of life, that all started to shift.
00:35:04.940And, you know, on the one hand, it's the big picture, I think, is a story of ideas.
00:35:11.980And the truth is, is that, you know, America is based on them.
00:35:16.700And when we are loyal to those ideas, when we fight to renew those ideas, when we pass those ideas on to our children, this is a unbelievable place to live, not just for the Jewish community, but for every single minority and striver that has ever called America home.
00:35:34.020And when we abandon those ideas and when we give in to a set of ideas that pit us to get pit us against each other, that suggests that America is not the last best hope on Earth.
00:35:46.240But, you know, based on an ideology of white supremacy, not not really worth fighting for, no better Glenn than a country like Haiti.
00:35:56.180That's when things start getting dark.
00:35:58.400And that's what we're starting to see here.
00:36:00.520You know, I don't know if you saw there was a viral image of one of these groups.
00:36:05.480It feels silly to me to even say they're pro-Palestinian.
00:36:08.440No, they're anti-Israel, they're anti-Jewish, and they're anti-American.
00:36:11.940They got up on stage at an Easter Mass, screaming their heads off.
00:36:17.240What does that have to do with the war in Gaza?
00:36:20.540Like, what does any of this actually have to do with a tragic war that's happening 10,000 miles away in a place that most of these people can't locate on a map?
00:36:30.520They claim to be fighting for the lives of innocent Gazans who are tragically dying in this war, but it's really about something much, much darker.
00:36:40.180I mean, you have the entire Middle East playing that game.
00:37:06.880Yeah, and I just, you know, I think one of the things that's alarming for, it's not just Jews.
00:37:13.780It's just anyone who reads history understands that societies where anti-Semitism is allowed to thrive are societies and regimes and cultures that are dead 100% of the time.
00:37:26.420Like, when anti-Semitism is allowed to flourish, it means your society, that's the five-alarm fire.
00:37:32.060And it's coming, you know, it's coming from the left, and it's coming from the right, too.
00:37:36.760And they are presenting themselves in really different ways, but at the same time.
00:37:40.920And it's obviously something that I'm thinking about and trying to fight with every fiber of my being.
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00:47:20.220I think your American friend was on target.
00:47:23.580I think your analysis is pretty good, too, as far as I think it's just, you know, sloppiness.
00:47:28.500I've got some friends that are retired Boeing, actually.
00:47:33.240And they said, you know, sometimes when they would see things wrong, they would, you know, raise a flag, say, hey, I saw this or that or whatever.
00:48:05.800And I think it just falls through the cracks.
00:48:08.160But I don't think it's Boeing, you know, whether it's a lack of leadership at the top of the federal end to put the focus in the correct place or exactly what's going on there.
00:49:04.620Instead, we'll blame everything on Boeing and make it look like Boeing has gone bad.
00:49:10.720I mean, everything I've seen from the news has made Boeing look bad.
00:49:15.680And it wasn't until I started noticing, no, it's, it's a lot of United planes that are having a problem.
00:49:23.460That made me think, well, maybe it's the culture at United or it's the mechanics on the ground.
00:49:28.960Well, you know, I, whether, whether it's actually, you know, it probably is somewhat of the culture, whether it's the DDI type culture, I couldn't, I couldn't honestly say, but, but there is a, there, there's certainly a, a culture that leads you away from, you know, perfection.
00:51:01.700So these guys get airframe and power plant licenses from the FAA and through a lot of experience, you know, to get those tickets to learn how to work on airplanes.
00:51:18.520And I also think it's the airlines, um, probably trying to get those airplanes back up into air as soon as possible, you know, because they got, you know, uh, routes that they got to fly.
00:51:29.780And these guys are probably under pressure to, uh, fix those airplanes as fast as possible.
00:51:35.720And quality is slipping through the cracks.
00:51:38.640So, Don, why is Boeing getting the blame?
00:51:40.960Um, well, Boeing, uh, because they're every, because they're their manufacturer, they're the ones who actually created the airplane.
00:51:49.580But, uh, as your previous caller said, once the, once Boeing delivers the airplane to United, Delta, American, whoever, it's on the airline at that point.
00:52:01.520Um, I don't know why Boeing is, I mean, they're, they're the one that's easy to pick on.
00:52:06.320They're the person who, uh, built the airplane.
00:52:08.920But all those big maintenance hangers at Dallas Fort Worth for America and Delta and Atlanta.
00:53:09.800I'm agreeing with all the other pilots that, uh, have spoken and it basically gets down to the floor of the maintenance hangar.
00:53:16.720As to the workers that are doing the work and these guys are certified, the mechanics are certified and it goes through a certification process.
00:53:24.280Once the work is done, sign off on the maintenance issues and everything else, uh, to say that it's an airline fault.
00:53:31.940Uh, it is true about, uh, trying to get the airplanes back and can be rushed on that.
00:53:39.120To blame Boeing, but to blame Boeing, I can't blame Boeing and the MCAT system, which is what people are talking about with the incidents with a Lion Air.
00:53:48.480737 Max, you know, that, that was a system that domestic airlines, United States, none of our airlines ever had any issues with that system and or fatalities associated with it.
00:54:09.240You know, you thought, how could Boeing design an airline, uh, an airplane and have it that far out of whack that when you started to lift, it would fail on you.
00:54:22.360And my friend said yesterday that, that that's because they're not trained.
00:55:19.700That is weird, because, especially because of how vitally important Boeing is to our economy.
00:55:25.340Like, it's, this is not just some little fly-by-night operation that you just, they get taken down and it, and they are losing ground against their competitors, which there are only a couple.
00:55:34.200Let's go to line 11 and Jeff in, uh, Michigan.
00:55:42.680Um, I think it's a, it's a multi-blame, uh, Boeing on the design, MCAS is, is, that was a Boeing design.
00:55:51.720They, uh, I'm an aerospace engineer in addition to being a retired airline pilot.
00:55:57.040You go, go and look at that, the way they designed it, they shortcut stuff to save money.
00:56:03.120Um, but once it gets to the airline and you have the things like falling off airplanes, then it becomes a, a, a maintenance issue.
00:56:12.160And, and that's where the, you know, the blame lies.
00:56:15.600But the bottom line is, it's all about money.
00:56:18.800MCAS was designed so that they could save money in getting away with introducing a new airplane, uh, as a derivative, rather than having to get it completely certified with the new engines that were set on it.
00:56:31.440Because they'd have to raise the airplane up, so they'd have to put on new gear, maybe a new wing.
00:56:40.440And then in production, you know, with the holes in the, that they, they filled up, uh, with the door plugs, that sort of thing, that's a production issue.
00:56:48.780So, uh, again, saving money, they outsource it, and so it's not done as well as it should be.
00:56:55.580But once you get to the, uh, the airlines, there's a very thin line between profit and loss with that.
00:57:01.860So they shortcut things to try and get stuff done as well.
00:57:05.520Um, is, is, is the, uh, FAA or, uh, I don't know, is the FAA under the Secretary of Transportation?
00:57:16.020I would assume it is, um, is the FAA responsible for certifying any of this stuff?
00:57:59.460Yeah, but that, doesn't that sound like we would maybe not have the right person in the, in the federal position of like, hey, you gotta get the planes up, but you also gotta make sure that they're safe.
00:58:14.340You know, for some reason, I don't have a lot of confidence in the leadership of this administration.
00:58:59.380Let me tell you about the burner launcher.
00:59:00.960Uh, best part of an April fool's joke is the fact that you got to take it back in the end.
00:59:06.360Now, imagine you're in a situation where the heat of the moment is past person is dead and you have to ask yourself, was there another way?
00:59:15.160Sometimes there isn't another way you got to protect yourself and your family.
00:59:19.140And it means you have to be willing to shoot and shoot to kill.
00:59:21.980But what about the times when you don't need to take that, that far?
00:59:26.900There are a lot of, a lot of, a lot more of those situations than the, I got to kill you situations.
00:59:32.940The burner launcher is a non-lethal alternative to safeguarding your home that will send potential threats running in the opposite direction.
00:59:41.560It's legal in all 50 states, no permits or background checks required.
00:59:46.340It can be used by all age groups over 18.
00:59:49.380The burner launcher has powerful deterrents like tear gas and kinetic rounds with a 60 foot range.
00:59:55.400It also, uh, can incapacitate an attacker up, up to 40 minutes.
01:00:00.960Uh, that's, uh, that's enough time for the police to get air.
01:00:04.800I mean, with the exception of New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle.
01:02:07.160Hey, yeah, I, I, I was saying that it's, uh, it's pretty, uh, admirable that the, uh, the mechanics were trying to take the blame.
01:02:16.980They are a final, uh, inspection point to make sure that everything's done correctly.
01:02:21.520But quite honestly, I think everything starts at the top.
01:02:25.060You know, Pete Buttigieg, as soon as he took office, he wanted to make sure that they changed what used to be called notices to airmen to notices to air missions.
01:02:34.820And then he changed what, uh, was called the, uh, airman's information manual to the aviation information manual.
01:02:58.540So these guys, if you're going to be inspecting, what are they going to be inspecting?
01:03:01.880They're going to be inspecting pronouns or they're going to be inspecting whether or not they tighten the bolt tight enough.
01:03:06.400You know, so what's going to be the metric that's going to decide that they can start making more airplanes?
01:03:11.620You know, I'm just tired of seeing where these people who are at the top just refuse to take responsibility and pass it on to the lower, lower people.
01:03:20.820You know, and like I say, it's admirable that the mechanics are trying to take that responsibility and they, and they do have that responsibility.
01:03:27.800But it started when they wanted to say, are we hiring the right color?
01:03:32.300Are we hiring the right, the right, uh, pronoun or what?
01:06:06.500I don't really care any given Sunday, you know, whatever.
01:06:10.760On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our nation's commitment to forming a more perfect union where all people created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.
01:06:25.000I'm proud to say my administration has stood for justice from the start, working to ensure that the LGBTQI, where's the A, plus community, can live openly, safely, and with dignity and respect.
01:06:39.560I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my administration, serving openly in our military.
01:06:48.160I, you know, I got a problem with that.
01:07:02.920I am proud to have signed historic executive orders to strengthen civil rights protection in housing, employment, health care, education, justice system, and more.
01:07:12.040I'm proud to have signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, ensuring that every American can marry the person they love.
01:07:53.880The Department of Justice is taking action to push back against extreme and un-American state laws targeting transgender youth and their families.
01:08:03.560And the Department of Justice is partnering with law enforcement and community groups to combat hate and violence.
01:09:53.640I mean, I feel sorry for people who are trapped in their bodies.
01:10:01.300You know, they feel trapped in their bodies.
01:10:03.920That is a horrible, horrible way to go through life.
01:10:07.480But even Caitlyn Jenner condemned the pronouncement.
01:10:13.440She said, the International Transgender Day of Visibility created March 2009, continued to be celebrated, blah, blah, blah.
01:10:24.680I am absolutely disgusted that Joe Biden has declared the most holy of holy days, a self-proclaimed devout Catholic, as Transgender Day of Visibility.
01:10:36.780The only thing you should be declaring on this day is he is risen.
01:11:59.440There's also entire months devoted to LGBT causes, including Pride Month in June, LGBT History Month in October, Transgender Awareness Month in November.
01:12:16.160You get a Transgender Awareness Month and a Visibility Day?
01:12:20.640I mean, George Washington can't even have his own birthday.
01:12:24.220They're combining them for our founders.
01:13:07.640And the funny thing is they, at one point, asked the quote-unquote founder of Trans Visibility Day why they, I'll put they, because I just don't know which way it went.
01:13:43.880I mean, you could put the rainbow on the White House, but could you have made them a little more pastel-ish so you could also have those an Easter rainbow?
01:13:54.420My favorite part was they, the people who were pushing back against this, because, you know, I will say some on the right initially, who the hell would know the history of Trans Visibility Day?
01:14:06.080So initially they were like, oh, she's.
01:14:10.060People on the right were assuming, with I think good suspicion here, rational suspicion that Joe Biden just created this day and put it on Easter, which I would not put it past them at all to do that.
01:14:20.920But so when people are going by that, some people are pushing back and saying, actually, this isn't Joe Biden doing this.
01:14:26.780And of course, Joe Biden loves Easter.