Glenn Beck talks Joe Biden's speech on the economy and the stock market. He also talks about an alternative to the flu vaccine. And Glenn tells the story of how he and his wife have been able to get rid of knee pain.
00:42:45.740It's because we have an all-powerful wannabe dictator that with a stroke of his pen, shut down drilling, gas liquefaction, building new refineries.
00:42:59.800All of it, the Keystone Pipeline, just shut down because he doesn't have to answer to the people.
00:45:40.040They know they're going to lose the House.
00:45:41.800They know there's a very good chance they're going to lose the Senate.
00:45:44.080But ordinarily, a White House would say, hey, the State of the Union is our best chance to course correct, to change paths.
00:45:51.540And you and I both saw someone who did this beautifully, which was Bill Clinton.
00:45:56.480He was headed to a train wreck, and he used the State of the Unions to course correct, and he got reelected as a result of it.
00:46:03.020What I found astonishing is Biden didn't even try.
00:46:07.000There wasn't even the tiniest hint to an alteration, of course.
00:46:11.260Most of what he talked about policy-wise was his so-called Build Back Better bill, which I call Build Back Broke, which didn't pass, isn't going to pass.
00:46:23.360And the whole speech was being delivered to the hard-left Democrat base.
00:46:28.280I guess that shows just how much trouble he thinks he's in if he thinks the hard-left base is so unhappy with him that he's got to deliver the whole speech to them.
00:46:36.060But it was—I've seen now 10 State of the Union addresses from the floor of the House.
00:46:44.680I've seen them from three different presidents.
00:46:47.180This was the most out-of-touch State of the Union I have ever seen.
00:47:14.580If you're watching any level of news, even social media, you're seeing everything that's going on right now in the Ukraine.
00:47:20.540Break it down in layman's terms for people who don't understand what's going on and how can this directly affect the people of the United States.
00:47:45.920Ted, she's either a third grader or the Democrats think that their voters are this stupid because that's the only thing I can think of when they say, hey, it's fund the police.
00:48:01.680Do they not remember, I don't know, the last two or three years where they were the ones pushing for reimagining the police and the Republicans were the ones saying, not a good idea?
00:48:16.020Do they think their voters are morons?
00:48:19.440So the only thing I might push back on is I'm not sure it's an either or.
00:48:25.140Does it have to be either she's a third grader or they think their voters are?
00:49:31.060But, you know, let's go back to the defund the police, the cynicism of the defunding.
00:49:38.420So so look, it was obviously Democrats for the last three years who pushed defunding and abolishing the police all over the country.
00:49:44.660And by the way, they haven't just said it in the abstract.
00:49:47.740They've done it in Democratic City after Democratic City.
00:49:51.240They've slashed the funding for the police.
00:49:53.840And we now know the results of defunding the police, which is that crime is skyrocketing, murder is skyrocketing, carjackings are skyrocketing.
00:50:03.600And so suddenly the Democratic pollsters realized, oh, shoot, this is really unpopular.
00:50:09.920Oddly enough, people don't like it when the police disappear and murderers start prowling the streets.
00:50:15.420That that that is an unpopular thing with the voters.
00:50:17.980I don't know how they didn't know that before, but they figured it out.
00:50:20.840So the really cynical gaslighting is is a they claim they were never for defunding the police.
00:50:26.520But be the next sentence Biden said in the speech after we should fund the police is he said, you know, one of their massive multi trillion dollar spending bills included some small chunk of money for police.
00:50:39.700And Republicans voted against it because they were bankrupt in the country and driving inflation through the roof.
00:50:44.860And so their talking point, which Biden said last night, which they'd said at the White House press briefing, is it's Republicans who are defunding the police because they didn't vote for our socialist budget.
00:50:56.120And we had a little bit of money for police in there. And it's the level of cynicism.
00:51:01.080It's not even third graders. They think the voters are kindergartners with ADD on Ritalin.
00:51:07.980Yeah, like playing video games and utterly not paying attention.
00:51:12.920And it's look, I think one of the things about our democracy is you should respect the voters and respect the people.
00:51:21.500It's one of the things you do every day with your show is that is that you're working to inform and entertain, but actually to discuss what the hell's going on.
00:51:30.220It's why people listen to it's why people watch you and listen to the people and listen to the people.
00:52:43.060And two things caused the invasion in Ukraine.
00:52:46.440Number one, last summer, Joe Biden's disgraceful surrender in Afghanistan, abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban, leaving Americans behind, incompetently giving up Bagram Airfield, releasing terrorists to turn around and murder 13 servicemen and women.
00:53:04.800That disaster was so bad that every enemy of America looked to Washington and took the measure of the man in the Oval Office.
00:53:13.280And they determined that Biden was weak and feckless and infected.
00:53:16.440And Russia did that and China did that and Iran did that and North Korea did that.
00:53:21.080And at the time, Glenn, I said the chances of Russia invading Ukraine have increased tenfold.
00:53:26.560The chances of China invading Taiwan have increased tenfold.
00:53:31.920But secondly, is the specific mistakes that Biden made with regard to Ukraine and Russia, which is Putin has wanted to invade Ukraine a long, long time.
00:53:44.680Ukraine used to be part of the Soviet Union.
00:53:46.600Putin longs to reassemble the Soviet Union, even to go broader, as he described in his bizarre and terrifying speech last week.
00:53:55.620He wants to reassemble the Russian Empire of 1922.
00:56:44.940In fact, the region of the country that buys much of the Russian oil is the northeast.
00:56:49.740It's places like Boston, Massachusetts.
00:56:51.740Why? Because the idiot politicians in New York won't allow them to build natural gas pipelines to get from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.
00:57:00.580There's vast amounts of natural gas in Pennsylvania.
00:57:03.960But New York won't allow a pipeline to go through.
00:57:06.540So instead, the liberals in Massachusetts import Russian gas and Russian oil rather than using American.
00:57:13.700And listen, if you look at the sanctions Biden put in place, he explicitly exempts energy.
00:57:20.200Energy is where Putin gets the bulk of his resources.
00:57:23.820We need to not only stop buying Russian oil and gas.
00:57:48.100If suddenly the European refineries begin purchasing from other sellers, including the United States, including Texas, they're not just going to get it on the spot market.
00:57:57.700The producers are going to want long term contracts.
00:57:59.900And if Putin starts seeing these refineries sign 10 year contracts with Texas producers, that goes right to the heart of his military strength.
00:58:09.960It's how he funds his entire invasion.
01:00:49.140I was calling because from your documentaries and your interviews on the expose that you did on Ukraine and the Bidens and the interviews you've had with Title Bomb, the discussions that you've had about Dugan.
01:01:08.620What I am seeing is making the connections from what you have taught and then the encouragement that you have given your audience to go out and do their own homework.
01:01:25.940And your work, your latest book, I'm about halfway through with that.
01:01:29.940But listening to you, you've told us these things.
01:01:34.580Putin, in my opinion, putting all the pieces together, his main goal, because it's a spiritual goal for him that'll keep him motivated, is he is fighting the globalist Great Reset.
01:04:57.180But I also need to explain that last phone call, because I think that's confusing if you don't know all of it.
01:05:07.660So I need to explain that at the top of this coming hour.
01:05:10.380And I think it will really clear up your understanding of what's going on.
01:05:15.640I think this, I think the guy we have on right now, Christopher Bedford, he's a founding partner of RightForge, senior editor at The Federalist.
01:05:24.220I think this will help clarify a few things, too.
01:05:47.540My case is that there's been a lot of hot takes that have been coming out.
01:05:54.400Everyone who's had access to a keyboard has suddenly become a switch from being an expert on health care to suddenly being an expert on Ukraine and Russia.
01:06:05.380And one of the things that's really surprised me is that there's these accusations of treason that have been floating around toward anyone who they suspect of being insufficiently enthusiastic for the White House and having an insufficient hatred of Vladimir Putin and all the evil that he represents.
01:06:24.040And they're trying to get the United States into a somewhat of a war footing and a rally around the flags thing.
01:06:29.340And they're pushing themselves as real defenders of the West.
01:06:32.540You see the Germans coming up, the French, led by President Biden, saying we must defend the West.
01:06:38.700And there's just something that rings very hollow in their bugle calls.
01:06:41.660I was trying to figure out exactly what it was in an argument with some friends who think differently from me.
01:06:46.080And what's strange is that just last week they were saying that our flag was racist, that Western civilization was patriarchal, that the star-spangled banner was not inclusive, that Western civilization was built on blood and tears, that the land was stolen from the Indian tribes,
01:07:02.120that we must apologize, that we must apologize, that we are a bad force.
01:07:05.560So suddenly to see them turn around so swiftly and say, we must defend the West, to watch that speech last night, which might as well have been the state of the European Union for the first half of it.
01:07:28.260And I know down in my core that all the people who they're trying to get up there to get patriotic calls, the conservatives, the working class people, the Christians, those are people that they loathe.
01:08:41.940It's like the White House wants to take the COVID chip out of everyone's brains and immediately insert the Ukraine-Russia chip in everyone's brains to get everyone suddenly going again.
01:08:51.460And I'm looking at this exactly like you're saying.
01:08:54.260And by the way, as far as advice goes, the CDC just wants you to know that in case of nuclear holocaust, stay six feet apart and wear a face mask.
01:09:19.520I'm seeing pastors and priests to go into the battlefield and give their lives and men and women who are willing, young and old, are willing to pick up arms.
01:09:28.160I'm seeing a lot of heroism and a lot of belief in their civilization that I'm not seeing here in the United States.
01:09:33.620In the United States, Vladimir Putin is not threatening me.
01:09:37.000He's not freezing truckers' bank accounts or making three-year-old children wear masks or putting Australians into internment camps or drag queens into school libraries or forcing vaccinations or closing churches or arresting priests or bankrupting businesses or prosecuting Christian bakers, emptying prisons, defunding police.
01:09:55.080That's what our ruling class is doing.
01:09:57.820And I'm saying there's a little bit of envy that I think a lot of folks look at.
01:10:02.960When they look at someone like Vladimir Putin, they look at the defenders of Ukraine and they say, you know, these are people who, right or wrong, believe in their civilization, believe in their cause, think that they're right, are willing to fight for their civilization.
01:10:15.060And meanwhile, what we have here in the West is a bunch of people actively trying to suicide our civilization, to destroy it, attacking us all the time, trying to make an enemy that's outside of us and other.
01:10:26.120The entire state of the union being, or the first third of the state of the union being devoted to this, this, this, these ideas.
01:10:34.680When they say that the borders of Ukraine are inviolable, but to defend our border is racist.
01:10:39.320When they say that Putin's claims, right or wrong, for territorial ancestral lands in Ukraine, that those are ridiculous, but they teach our children that they don't have, they have to apologize because these lands were stolen.
01:10:51.840It should not be surprising to them when they turn around and say, why haven't you all stepped up to the line?
01:10:57.300Why haven't you gotten ready to fight for us?
01:10:59.680Why haven't you gotten ready to fight Russia?
01:11:01.000And we just sit back and say, why would I fight for you?
01:11:03.140You don't have the moral authority to rule.
01:11:05.820You're an illegitimate ruler, and I'm not interested in following you to war.
01:11:09.320Have you read Alexander Dugan, Fourth Political Theory?
01:11:17.180It'll answer a lot of questions, and it will also, it will also tell you how bright and, and with the people, these, these guys in Russia, and I think he is an evil, evil guy.
01:11:34.380He wanted, number one thing is to destroy America and destroy the West.
01:11:39.320And he really wants to bring on Armageddon.
01:11:41.740The guy is out of his mind, nuts, but he has Putin's ear.
01:11:45.340He's the guy who really formulated the, the Crimea invasion.
01:11:50.620And a lot of what Putin was saying in his crazy speech a week or a week and a half ago was all language from Dugan.
01:11:59.880And he is trying to get in and pick up all of the scraps all over the world, mainly in Europe, but some here in America, and be the defender of that national pride that doesn't matter what country you're in.
01:12:19.700But stop feeling like you should be ashamed of who you are.
01:12:25.660He has very, he's using this as a way to divide us.
01:12:30.620And that's why it's really important to understand who you're standing next to, because you can look at what Putin is saying and go, yeah, he's defending his culture and his country.
01:12:44.160But he's Putin, at least, is playing a game with that.
01:12:49.920And the Russians are planting the seeds or giving money to a lot of groups that would just as soon see the United States go to hell in a handbasket as well.
01:13:30.340And I feel like a lot of Americans, politicians, American commentators aren't understanding exactly what you're talking about there.
01:13:36.520They're trying to write off Putin as a mad dog, as someone who's just crazy in the head, because they can't understand in their boardroom society that there are actually men out there who are brutish, who are going to be mean, who will invade, who will attack their societies.
01:13:50.840And we have to ask ourselves, what do we have to offer in response to the civilizational conflict that we're talking about, that he's talking about, the Orthodox Church, the Eastern civilization?
01:14:06.660Some of your listeners probably have heard by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian dissident, Soviet dissident, when he went to Harvard.
01:14:13.220And everyone expected him to pat them on the back and say, how great you are.
01:14:16.360And he said he would rather be in the Soviet Union right now than in America, because, well, in America we are free.
01:14:22.500We lack the spiritual strength and we lack the religion and we lack the moral fiber that has gotten the Soviets, now the Russians, through all these years, and that will get their civilization through the front.
01:14:33.940It was a really biting and jarring and true, I think, condemnation of some of the issues that we're facing.
01:14:41.720And Western civilization is not going to be defended by Glenn Youngkin or governor of Texas getting rid of Russian products in their liquor store.
01:14:48.720It's going to be defended by us going to church, standing up, believing, and having leaders who believe as well.
01:14:54.160Chris, will you just check back with me after you've read some Alexander Dugan?
01:19:09.320Alexander Dugan's The Great Awakening versus The Great Reset is an open, open declaration of war against the twin diseases of liberalism and Western political modernity.
01:19:21.040Dugan calls upon the inhabitants of the heartland.
01:19:23.960This is a Russian calls upon the inhabitants of the heartland to relentlessly attack on all theoretical and practical fronts.
01:19:33.660The global elites of the global elites of the coastlands who are trying to impose their perverse anti-human ideals by ruthlessly eradicating the longstanding cultures and traditions of all peoples in the world.
01:19:48.640OK, sounds a little extremist, but I agree with the premise there, right?
01:19:54.700The demented usurper Joe Biden and his slavish Democrat acolytes are opposed by the Trumpists who represent normal America and do not want to see their country submerged in one world transhumanist dystopia.
01:20:14.040Just like the other rooted societies, they want to preserve their time honored way of life admits the strangling tentacles of hysterical trans, homosexual, treacherous, anti-white agitators important there and murderous black lives, grifters, black lives matter, grifters and terrorists.
01:20:36.580OK, that's extreme language, but there are chunks of it that make that you might agree with.
01:20:43.400Yeah, any normal conservative might agree with.
01:20:55.400Thus, the stage is set for a showdown of truly apocalyptic proportions, pitting the forces of righteous anger.
01:21:04.360Those who want to preserve their traditions and the true richness of human diversity against the Antichrist and his sorrows back minions of insidious degeneracy and evil who want to erase all bonds and communities down to the human race itself.
01:21:37.180The book is The Great Awakening versus The Great Reset.
01:21:39.640The Great Reset is a production of Iowa Public Television.
01:22:09.620I thought maybe we would change the mood up a little bit and talk about the coming apocalypse.
01:22:38.460Talk about what Alexander Dugan believes is an apocalypse to give you an understanding of this situation and the situation in Ukraine and our oil situation, everything else.
01:22:55.500I think I have connected in my mind now what I feel was missing in this story.
01:23:02.040I think the Ukraine story is going to make sense to you in just a few minutes.
01:23:09.060Let me replay a phone call that came in about a half an hour ago.
01:23:14.500I was calling because from your documentaries and your interviews on the expose that you did on Ukraine and the Bidens and the interviews you've had with Tidal Bomb, the discussions that you've had about Dugan.
01:23:31.320What I am seeing is making the connections from what you have taught and then the encouragement that you have given your audience to go out and do their own homework.
01:23:42.360I have gone out and read Tidal Bomb's work, which is great, by the way, and your work, your latest book.
01:23:52.660But listening to you, you've told us these things.
01:23:57.200Putin, in my opinion, putting all the pieces together, his main goal, because it's a spiritual goal for him that will keep him motivated, is he is fighting the globalist Great Reset.
01:29:15.900How is it the United States, the president of the United States, is still buying Russian and Iranian oil today and telling us that there's nothing he can do about the price of oil and how it's going through?
01:32:49.260Banks saying, you know, I don't know if that's going to go well for you because then we have to question you and maybe you should receive sanctions.
01:32:57.320That's like IBM saying, hey, you're killing all the Jews.
01:33:01.600We're pulling all of our machines out.
01:33:57.960That means probably those two territories that he first said he was going to go in and get a minor incursion.
01:34:04.780Then maybe I don't know what we'll do.
01:34:07.220Well, if I'm Putin, I look at my advisers when I hear that and go, did he just tell us we could take half of Ukraine and it would be kind of cool?
01:40:36.200Otherwise, we're not a Swiss bank account.
01:40:39.120The next day, you're starting to see stories about how Switzerland is holding all of the pilfered gold from Venezuela and from the Philippines.
01:40:51.140We've known they have dirty gold and dirty money.
01:40:55.160Where do you think the Nazi money went?
01:44:34.360We're going to talk to Carol Roth here in just a second about how what we heard last night in State of the Union, what's going on, how swift is going to affect the Fed, inflation, the printing of money, all of that.
01:45:08.840Glenn, I'm calling because I have a difference of opinion with some of the political pundits and the military pundits that I've seen in either on talk radio or heard and on television.
01:46:44.000It's the will to continue that counts.
01:46:45.980And one other motto that I've learned in my life that was preached into us from the moment that we stepped into our first military leadership class at the Air Force Academy is,
01:46:58.300if you know what is right and not do it, it's cowardice.
01:47:01.680So that's what we're doing now as a nation.
01:47:03.600That's what we're doing now, militarily, politically.
01:47:06.180So, James, I really do appreciate your point of view.
01:47:10.420I appreciate your service, and I hate to disagree with you, but I don't think it's cowardice to think strategically.
01:47:19.000A no-fly zone, one plane goes down, and we're in World War III with a guy we can't predict at this point who has tons of nukes and says he'll use them.
01:47:31.520I don't want to get into World War III.
01:47:34.200By the way, there is nothing wrong, check your local attorney on this, but I don't believe there's anything wrong with a U.S. soldier taking off their uniform, you know, assuming they've retired,
01:47:48.000and going over to Ukraine and donning a Ukrainian uniform.
01:47:52.680I think they're paying soldiers to go over and fight.
01:47:56.560I know a lot of soldiers who are like, I'm going over, I'm going to help fight.
01:48:02.160We as individuals should help them, but, you know, getting into World War III is not necessarily something I would like to jump to in a two-week period.
01:48:15.920Carol, are we doing everything we can with these sanctions?
01:48:20.060I mean, I read conflicting reports that these sanctions are more than anything we've ever done because it's public-private Great Reset kind of partnerships.
01:48:43.560I've been reading all of the reports, and they do somehow conflict with each other.
01:48:49.820They say that they're going to cut Russians off from payment systems, but we're probably going to exempt the oil payments, which is obviously 60% of their economy.
01:49:03.620You know, I've heard about their freezing of the assets at central banks, including the Fed, the ECB.
01:49:11.500Now the Japanese central bank is jumping on.
01:49:14.240But in terms of, you know, how strong that is, I think because these items are so complex and because the White House has been fairly opaque in terms of trying to clarify them, we really don't have a good sense of, you know, have they really gone as far as they can?
01:49:37.140And I will say there's probably a middle ground here.
01:49:41.380You have to thread the needle on this one because going too light creates a set of issues, but going too heavy creates a separate set of issues, all which have reverberations for us here in the U.S.
01:49:54.420So this is very challenging stuff, and I'm not sure that we have the best minds that we possibly could have coming up with the strategy around this, unfortunately.
01:50:07.300So let me ask you about, let's just say, inflation.
01:50:12.160One of the things the Fed wanted to do by raising interest rates was to slow down, quote, I love this, it was laughable, an overheated economy.
01:50:49.480This is such a mess, and it comes on the back of the unprecedented intervention that we've had in monetary policy, fiscal policy, and just general government policy.
01:51:03.620So you had the Fed intervening in the markets to the tune of trillions of dollars.
01:51:08.480You had the government doing this, quote, unquote, relief spending, which, as we know, most of that ended up in the hands of the wealthy and well-connected and not the individuals that really needed it.
01:51:21.980And then you had these policies that said, oh, let's just turn off large swaths of the economy and we'll just flip them back on like we're power cycling a modem.
01:51:30.840And that has disrupted labor and supply chains to the point where it's difficult to come back and it has reverberations through inflation.
01:51:40.620Now you have people who have created this policy.
01:51:44.260And let me just be very clear and underscore this.
01:51:56.100And there were points along the way where they could have dialed it back and maybe, you know, still had some issues, but not the level that we're having today.
01:52:03.920And they have refused to do so to the point that the Fed just finished up buying assets.
01:52:09.320I mean, they were in the market in February, still providing support to the market.
01:52:14.260So you have these people who missed the call on inflation, have told us everything under the sun.
01:52:28.120Now thinking that they can also thread the needle perfectly and bring the economy in for a soft landing.
01:52:36.760But what is monetary policy going to fix, even if we didn't have the Russia-Ukraine crisis?
01:52:43.280Is it going to fix the fact that we have millions of people who've dropped out of the labor force and that we're still going to have wage inflation?
01:52:51.460Is it going to fix the fact that we still have all of this money in the financial system?
01:52:57.700I'm just not sure what they think this policy is going to do.
01:53:00.840So the concern for us, as you know, again, even ex-Russia-Ukraine, but then with that layered on, is that the Fed, who's now going into a period where we have potentially slowing growth and rising inflation, is going to try to come up with the perfect policy.
01:53:18.840And if you think these people who have made every mistake in the book over the past couple of years and going back even over the last almost 15 years, now all of a sudden have the perfect policy, well, I've got a bridge to sell you on that one.
01:53:33.900I had a friend over at the house last night, and they said, Glenn, people like me, regular person working, you know, couple with a family, said, Glenn, people like me, we are on the edge.
01:53:48.360We're not, we're not going to make it through all of this.
01:53:53.340And I don't think there's a single elite, you know, when the president says, I'm going to try to make this easier for you.
01:53:59.520And then he proposes gigantic packages, which will just mean trillions more in spending, which will mean inflation even higher.
01:54:08.640You know, and then he proposed a $15 working wage.
01:54:13.260Carol, isn't that, that's the death spiral, right?
01:54:18.180When prices are going up for inflation, and so then you hike wages, that will make prices go up even further.
01:55:20.860It's the looting of America and it's a looting of Main Street and the average American, the working American, for the benefit of the wealthy and well-connected.
01:55:31.980And this inflation, as I've been saying all along, is a permanent tax on the average person and over time supports the people who own the assets.
01:55:44.260And it's going to be very, very continually very difficult for the average person to survive.
01:55:51.800And when you hear things like, oh, well, you look at the, you know, the personal savings rate or you look at how much cash people have and the average Americans doing well, it's because the people at the top have so much money.
01:56:23.680Um, let me, let me say to you what I said to my friend last night, and I know this sounds trite, but I'm telling you, your money is not going to be worth what it is today in three months, six months, a year from now.
01:56:47.720So if you buy something for a dollar today, you, let's just say your dollar of today is worth 100 cents, six months from now, it could be worth 90 cents.
01:57:02.460So you're having to pay really a dollar 10 for whatever it is you could have used, you could have bought now for a dollar.
01:57:09.640And that's just going to continue until you have, you know, 60, 50, 40 cents on every dollar in buying power.
01:57:18.560So when you, if you are at the edge, when you go to the grocery store, when things are on sale and you don't necessarily need that many boxes, buy them now.
01:57:30.620Because you will actually be saving money, you will actually be making money, you're the value of that box of hamburger helper or whatever it is, will be worth more than what you could buy it for in the store.
01:57:48.020However, please, there is real hardship, I believe Great Depression style hardship coming soon.
01:58:05.400I hope to God I'm wrong, but please prepare now.
01:58:10.160All right. Rough greens. Imagine if you had to live entirely on food that had little or no nutritional value every day.
01:58:20.920Now, as a person who loves many foods that have little to no nutritional value, my first reaction would I jump at the chance to be able to do that.
01:58:31.980But I'd have scurry in about scurvy in about a week.
01:58:35.120So that would probably it would teach me a lesson and I'd learn it over another candy bar.