Glenn Beck is back with a new episode of the Glenn Beck Program! Today's episode is all about the end of the Ceasefire, and what that means for the future of the United States of America. Also, we cover the DeSantis and Newsom Debates, and why we are on the wrong side of history.
00:03:57.360Because sometimes, well, all the time, when you listen to this program, it can kick you to the curb.
00:04:04.780It can just kick you in the head repeatedly and repeatedly, and you feel like everything is out of control.
00:04:11.360Let me start with something that will give you perspective.
00:04:15.640In 1978, at a time that was much like this one, see if this sounds familiar, the country was in shambles, stagflation, despair, energy crisis, rampant crime.
00:05:09.560So, at that time, 1978, one of the greatest American composers, Aaron Copland, joined with Henry Fonda, just to remind Americans of who they were, where they came from.
00:05:27.200Aaron Copland wrote, I mean, he's written some of the greatest American music of all time.
00:05:33.240He had the Philharmonic, playing all of his beautiful music, and Henry Fonda took to the stage and spoke.
00:05:44.340He spoke of the dark times and the hope of Abraham Lincoln.
00:05:51.800I listened to that over the last few days.
00:05:55.380And the feeling of 1978, because I remember hearing that when I was a kid, and the feeling of that time and the words that he was speaking rang true to me.
00:06:09.140I don't have the license to be able to play the Aaron Copland thing with Henry Fonda, but you should look it up and listen to it.
00:06:16.440Now, I don't have Aaron Copland backing me up, and I don't have Henry Fonda's voice or credibility, but I do have mine, and I do have my thoughts, and I do know history.
00:06:33.660So, I took his speech as a model, and I wrote it anew.
00:06:37.820In the early dawn of our nation, we stood at freedom's threshold.
00:09:06.820The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destination of the the destiny of the Republican model of government are entrusted to the hands of the American people.
00:09:18.820If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will only be because we destroyed ourselves.
00:09:28.820A leader, a reluctant general, a president, a man of deep honor and integrity, a father of a country.
00:09:38.460George Washington was a man of few but powerful words.
00:09:45.100But when he spoke of duty and honor, this is what he said.
00:09:50.380He said, labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
00:09:59.280George Washington, the first president of these United States, forever etched in the annals of history.
00:10:08.200In the winter at Valley Forge, this is what he said.
00:10:12.560He said, perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
00:10:18.020Later, amidst the turmoil to end an ancient evil and try to right the nation's wrongs, a voice rose again.
00:10:47.240A beacon of hope amidst the sea of despair.
00:10:57.340Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge may speedily pass away.
00:11:05.440Yet, if God wills that it continue until all of the wealth piled by the bondsman's 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk until every drop of blood drawn with a lash shall be paid by another drawn with a sword.
00:11:25.000As it was said 3,000 years ago, still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
00:11:35.920He said, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us the right to see it.
00:11:48.540Let us strive to finish the work we're in and bind the nation's wounds.
00:11:55.300The storm passed, but our nation's wounds were deep.
00:12:02.520This time it took a king to pull us back together.
00:12:09.840Not like the kings of old who claimed God gave them the right to rule and be master over men.
00:12:17.120This king, quietly, meekly, peacefully, became the servant of God and man.
00:12:23.060Martin Luther King, who taught us to love and forgive and live up to our own ideals.
00:12:31.820To live as one, not seeing the color of skin.
00:12:35.800Almost a century after that great and bloody war, evil in the heart of man dared showed its face again.
00:12:44.140And this king joined Abraham Lincoln, as he too was crowned in glory as a martyr.
00:12:54.540He said, when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
00:13:03.180they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
00:13:10.600This note was a promise that all men, yes, black as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:13:22.560And it is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
00:13:31.140But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
00:13:36.980We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
00:17:44.300It is only crafted by our own hands, our hearts, and our unwavering spirit.
00:17:50.780But in the symphony of our nation's history, these voices blend into a single, enduring melody.
00:18:02.940From the foundations laid by the vision of Washington to the unyielding resolve championed by Reagan and the enduring hope of justice that was articulated by Lincoln.
00:18:18.460Our journey is one of continuous striving.
00:18:21.220We as a people have weathered the storms of change and stood as a pillar against the tides of oppression.
00:25:24.120If you don't think you can absolutely dominate, absolutely dominate Ron DeSantis, you do not take this opportunity, quote unquote opportunity.
00:25:33.500And so a couple of takeaways from this, from the big picture, and we should play some of the clips.
00:25:38.580Number one, Newsom basically blew up his career last night.
00:25:43.320I mean, this was, you don't take this on unless you're somebody that can actually, you know, do it, knock him out.
00:25:51.940You had to be so confident that you could walk into an opposing field, you know, where things are going to be stacked against you just because, and take him on and have a couple of knockout punches.
00:26:08.780No, it was really a catastrophe for him.
00:26:11.580And like, so you had that, the interesting part of this, and if you're going to take this in a way that is going to make you understand the Newsom choice.
00:26:42.800You have a situation where Gavin Newsom comes into this very unfriendly room against a tough candidate and destroys Ron DeSantis in the debate.
00:29:39.400So this should not be in schools when people like on the left say that somehow you're banning books by removing this from a young kid's classroom.
00:35:03.660In case you didn't know, the things you do with your money matter.
00:35:16.200You can often affect change in the country as much with your wallet or some big debate moment.
00:35:21.520You know, elections matter, of course, but you can change things with where you put your money as much or more than where you put your vote.
00:35:29.180One way of doing this is, of course, by buying things that are made in America.
00:35:32.700And, I mean, actually made in America because a lot of people will say they make their products in America, but surprise, surprise, they're not actually doing that.
00:35:40.420It's hard to know who to trust sometimes, but one place you can trust is American Giant.
00:35:44.600Really good people, really good clothing, and stuff that's going to last for a really long time.
00:35:49.600This is true American quality, a product with merit made by people in this country for a fair wage.
00:35:55.280Every stitch of thread, every metal rivet, every drop of ink is made and assembled right here in America.
00:36:00.880And you're not just buying the clothing, you're investing in the process that will help save our country.
00:36:05.480We need to get back to the American spirit of American manufacturing.
00:36:08.860And American Giant is doing their part.
00:36:11.360The cotton, the milling, the cutting, the sewing, it's all 100% American.
00:36:14.760And, look, you're going to look around and you're going to find a cheaper hoodie somewhere.
00:36:19.180You can probably do that, but why would you want to?
00:36:22.220You can get high quality and you can get the, you know, you can support the things that you actually believe in when you support American Giant.
00:36:29.540The American Giant patch means something and there's an American Giant in all of us.
00:36:33.720So go to American-Giant.com slash Glenn.
00:36:45.040We were so focused on Gavin Newsom's teeth and slime that we somehow or another missed Buddy the Elf, who apparently was in studio with us.
00:37:32.000Remarkable on the, the plan of attack from the Democrats.
00:37:41.140It was to say that all of this was a conspiracy theory and they kept bringing up how much Donald Trump was a Nazi.
00:37:49.340And it was, it was, it was like two, it was honestly watching two worlds and one was in, you know, they were in parallel worlds.
00:37:58.960They were both in session at a hearing, but one world was talking about Nazis and, uh, Donald Trump.
00:38:07.420And the other one was talking about the federal government now not only spying on people, but, um, using cognitive surveillance, um, and cognitive technology to change people's minds without them knowing it.
00:38:28.060And we're now at that point, we've, we've been doing this show together long enough that I can totally picture these roles being reversed.
00:38:35.940Like if you go back to the George W. Bush era, there were these, these types of hearings and about how evil the government was and how they were spying on you and how they were looking, there was surveillance all the time.
00:38:50.040And it was the Democrats who were saying, this is terrible.
00:40:50.780And, and they should, they deserve credit.
00:40:52.100Like I, you know, I, even though I would disagree with a lot of the things, you know, the far, far left does.
00:40:57.880Because unlike people like Biden and a lot of the people that are the more mainstream representatives of the Democratic Party, they are typically consistent.
00:41:08.360I mean, you know, is Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were anti-Semitic before October 7th and they remain October consistent.
00:41:17.920They keep, they're just as anti-Semitic, maybe more than they were before.
00:41:22.160That's not, that's not to their credit, but it does show that they actually believe something and will say it.
00:41:27.500They will say that, you know, from the river to the sea before and after a big news event like this.
00:41:33.580You see with people in, in the Democratic circles, kind of in the mainstream circles, they'll move.
00:41:39.900I mean, Joe Biden has been basically at the center of the Democratic Party in every single era of the Democratic Party for 50 years.
00:42:01.760You know, yes, you can change your mind.
00:42:03.600But the fact that he kind of always finds himself square in the middle, right in between the far left and the more conservative members, if there are any anymore.
00:48:09.900The hearing started with a speech from the Democrat ranking member about how there is absolutely, positively, none, zero evidence that the government colluded with social media to censor people.
00:48:26.780Okay, this was the first five minutes.
00:48:28.560My eyes were ready to pop out of my head.
00:48:40.580And then the Democratic committee members decided to talk about, instead of the government colluding with social media to strangle the First Amendment to death, they didn't want to talk about that.
00:48:51.300They wanted to talk about Donald Trump.
00:48:54.860They brought in a witness, a former Homeland Security and counterterrorism advisor to Mike Pence, to talk about how Trump is literally Hitler.
00:49:05.440In your testimony, you cited violent language, increasingly incendiary language being evoked by President Trump about his so-called enemies.
00:49:35.260But here she is echoing what every Democratic member said, other than that Trump is Hitler.
00:49:42.440He wants to ban all Muslims, overthrow the government, and he's going to start exterminating people.
00:49:48.380Now, here's the second part of her testimony.
00:49:53.560Weaponization of the federal government is a serious topic that requires sober analysis.
00:49:57.960Unfortunately, what we see here today, and what we have seen from this committee over the past year, is instead a politically motivated fantasy detached from reality.
00:50:08.960Members of this committee and their witnesses make grand and vague accusations about government censorship, but those foggy allegations are refuted by the facts.
00:50:17.300That private social media companies moderating content on their own, private platforms, is not government censorship.
00:50:24.680It is those private companies exercising their own First Amendment rights to rid their platforms of misinformation.
00:50:30.780There is a treasure trove of documents.
00:50:34.860You will not believe, when you go down this rabbit hole, and you must, you must go down this rabbit hole.
00:50:41.320When you go down the rabbit hole of what was released this week, and I'm going to go into it here in a second, you will see the actual documents and emails.
00:50:50.660It was like watching two unrelated hearings playing over each other at the same time.
00:50:57.080At one moment, there were witnesses talking about how our government is using psychological warfare against its own citizens, and then boom, Trump is Hitler.
00:51:12.300It's like half the country recently came from an alternate universe, which got melded into ours in some cosmic storm, or I don't know, maybe this is global warming or something.
00:51:22.620And sometimes the portal rips open, and the two universes sit side by side, yet totally separate.
00:51:29.680We're talking about how social media is colluding with the government.
00:51:38.840Colluding with the government, and the documents prove the U.S. intel and military industrial complex to literally change the way people in America think.
00:51:52.680They are operating government psyops on Americans.
00:53:45.700Mr. Taibbi, yes or no, should social media companies allow rape and murder to be live-streamed by terrorists on their platforms in order to create fear and incite violence?
00:53:54.000I believe that would violate their terms of service, would it not?
00:54:33.740That's not this grand, crazy conspiracy of how the administration has utilized the social media companies
00:54:43.340against whom the First Amendment does not apply in order to suppress speech.
00:54:47.980Thank goodness many of the committee members recognize that.
00:54:54.360So an agency funded and created by the government, a partnership funded and created by the government's number one stated goal is to censor true information.
00:55:07.080And whole narratives, whole ways of thinking.
00:55:27.980But now we have added covert operations run and funded by the Pentagon, run by our military industrial complex in public-private partnerships
00:55:40.320to destroy the lives, not only the narrative, but to then destroy the lives of those who the government needs to be silenced,
00:57:39.600Okay, what we're talking about here is different, and it is so—I'm telling you, this is the end of not our country, not just of freedom, but of your free will.
00:57:59.280What the Lord sent you down here to explore and control your own free will.
00:58:11.560We are talking about the very basics of evil.
00:58:16.780Taking away man's free will, and it'll happen without you even knowing it, because this is about reshaping the story of your life.
00:59:47.300But we're not talking about the old style of Goebbels.
00:59:51.440It's a silly example with a vampire, but you get the stories that we tell ourselves create the reality that we perceive.
01:00:02.220If you control the story in a person's mind as an individual, you control the person.
01:00:09.440If I could control everything that somebody saw, and I could tweak, and I could send them certain stories, I could get them to kill someone.
01:00:22.760If they were unstable, or if I had unlimited means to all of their information, I could get them to kill.
01:00:32.080And if you think that our government can't or won't do that, you're mistaken.
01:00:55.300Michael Schellenberger only barely got to speak about it.
01:00:59.520It's very easy to see the line in CISA.
01:01:02.420They say they're covering physical security, cyber security, but they added a third one, cognitive security, which is basically attempting to control the information environment and how people think about the world, including the stories that they tell.
01:01:16.300In the founding documents of CTIL, the group that started this as a public-private partnership and then funded by the military, and now right in bed with the government, they talk about how the government used to be able to control the media because you had three networks, and they can't do that.
01:01:38.820And it is important for them to be able to do that.
01:03:17.560Let's say you're a young, insecure girl who wants to be popular, who's uncomfortable in her changing bodies, as quite frankly all girls are, and I would say many boys are at that age, and is watching TikTok all day.
01:03:32.040And she is fed a constant feed of LGBTQ, transgender people, and everybody looks happier than she is.
01:03:44.160And without the story of high levels of depression that they're facing, even after they transition, without the story of those once young girls who had been encouraged to have their bodies mutilated at their young age, and are now suing the adults that wielded the knife and killed that girl's hopes of ever having a reasonable life as a woman and a mother, without that part of the story,
01:04:11.700of course they're going to decide to start taking hormones, because I want to be more like that person.
01:04:18.000They're happy, they're affirmed, they're popular, they're not confused anymore about their body.
01:04:24.900Because the story those young girls are being fed, that people who take hormones and have their breasts removed are happier, they believe it.
01:08:47.760This is what Michael Schellenberger said in his written testimony that after hours, they never even got to.
01:08:55.460The U.S., and this is all backed by documentation.
01:08:58.920The U.S. and U.K. military contractors were working in 2019 and 2020 to both censor and turn sophisticated psychological operations and disinformation tactics developed abroad against the American people.
01:09:17.760Do you remember when the American Spring, or I'm sorry, the Egyptian, what was that, Arab Spring, when the Arab Spring happened, and I told you we were behind that, Facebook and others, along with our State Department, they were using the media, the social media apps, and we fomented that.
01:09:45.540The lady who is running, or one of the people that is running the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, she admits in some of her emails and documents that she was the one running the Arab Spring operation for us.
01:10:02.820Then we took that, and we overthrew the former president of Ukraine.
01:10:10.520And I said, when that was happening, they're going to use the same thing on us.
01:10:25.040It is a psychological operation and disinformation tactic developed abroad, Arab Spring, and the color revolutions, and now they're using it against the American people.
01:10:43.320Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger have labeled this not censorship.
01:10:48.000It's the censorship industrial complex.
01:10:51.000The online world is being completely weaponized against you.
01:10:57.640The government is part of it, if not leading.
01:11:07.240And the Democrats, what they did yesterday, trying to change the subject and trying to say,
01:11:12.500oh, well, this is just a conspiracy theory, it shows because they were in literal lockstep on this, shows they know and they're protecting it.
01:11:31.140I don't want anyone to have this power.
01:11:33.080The people we're up against are experts, and they will change your story, what you think, how you think, bit by bit, and you won't even notice.
01:12:49.960There's been a dramatic shift in attitudes about speech in this country, and many politicians now clearly believe the bulk of Americans can't be trusted to digest information on their own.
01:13:00.500This mindset imagines that if we see one clip from RT, we'll stop being patriots, that once exposed to hate speech, we'll become bigots ourselves automatically,
01:13:10.120that if we read even one Donald Trump tweet, we'll become insurrectionists.
01:13:15.980Having come to this conclusion, the government agencies like the DHS and the FBI and the quasi-private agencies who do anti-disinformation work have taken upon themselves the paternalistic responsibility to sort out for us what is and is not safe.
01:13:31.660While they see great danger in allowing others to read controversial material, it's taken for granted that they themselves will be immune to the dangers of speech.
01:13:41.260This leads to the one inescapable question about these new anti-disinformation programs that is never discussed but needs to be.
01:13:52.560Stanford's Election Integrity Project helpfully made a graphic showing the quote-unquote external stakeholders involved in their content review operation.
01:14:00.760It showed four columns, government, civil society, platforms, and media.
01:14:07.020There's one group that's conspicuously absent from that list.
01:17:00.860You cannot allow the government to ask social media companies to censor speech.
01:17:06.180Or at least, if they do, they must take all of those requests and publish them publicly at the very same time they're sending them to those media companies so you know.
01:25:41.100I can't tell you how, reading the news yesterday on Elon Musk after he went on CNBC and said, you know, if you don't, if you were trying to blackmail me, you know, go F yourself.
01:26:19.760Let me tell you the truth about Elon Musk, Media Matters, and what's really going on, and the strategy that has failed every time, however, could work for Elon this time.
01:34:14.180He picked the name Tesla, you know, for his car.
01:34:18.180And I don't think it's just because of electricity.
01:34:20.820I think he identifies with the spirit of Nikolai Tesla.
01:34:26.280Nikolai Tesla believed in changing the world for good.
01:34:29.400He believed in things that other people could not see.
01:34:32.320He was either an absolute crazy genius, which he was, and that alone, or he was a crazy absolute genius that was also touched by God, which I believe.
01:34:46.840He was, he was, he, we're still behind Nikolai Tesla.
01:34:53.180He thought way beyond where tech was even capable of being.
01:34:58.180And he was thinking about these things and not thinking about business or money.
01:35:04.960Tesla worried about the future and was trying to make it better.
01:35:10.340Then Tesla went to work for Edison early on, and Edison ripped his ideas off and never paid him for it.
01:35:19.160There was a dispute on a conversation.
01:49:15.720Actually, a lot of the lies he admitted to, which was he said he worked at, I think it was like Morgan Stanley or some big bank, and he didn't actually work there.
01:49:29.700So like if you said, I was a truck driver, and I used to drive these trucks, and I remember driving these trucks, and you didn't ever drive trucks.
01:50:35.720He lied about where he went to high school and college and that he worked on Wall Street.
01:50:39.820If all of those things are true, it would be like, I took money in bribe money, called it a loan, washed it through offshore accounts, had my son, you know, take that money and deliver it and divide it up to the family and then I got some of that money.
01:50:58.140That's a terrible analogy because it would not be that bad at all.
01:51:01.080That what you're talking about would be much, much, much worse, especially if the person you were talking about had some notoriety of some sort.
01:51:10.140Like if he was an important person in our country.
02:03:21.260She's not, uh, she wasn't a practicing Jew.
02:03:24.640Um, and so when the music festival came along, she decided to stay and go to the music festival.
02:03:31.700And he said, I can't, it's, it's Shabbat.
02:03:34.780So I can't go, she went, he didn't saved his life to say that she's a God person.
02:03:43.160Now, uh, I think is, is, is fair, fairly easy to say she was screaming out to God.
02:03:50.060She, when you hear what she went through for eight hours, hiding under dead bodies in a bomb shelter where somebody was coming in with, um, a grenade or, uh, a machine gun every 30 minutes for eight hours.
02:04:17.600We've had offers from other people that have survived.
02:04:21.120Um, but when she reached out at first or somebody reached out on her behalf, um, and we started talking to her, she said, you know, I, I don't know.
02:05:00.740Cause she believes that it is important for you to hear the miracle and the heroes, but to do so, she had to tell the story of her survival in the face of pure evil.
02:05:17.220That comes out tomorrow, episode 203 of the Glenn Beck podcast.