On today's show, Glenn Beck talks about Venezuela, Iran, Mamdani, and the Somali situation. He also talks about Z Factor and how you can get a head start on your New Year's resolutions.
00:43:39.740And it is fascinating to hear the founders talk about it, or at least the computerized George Washington for what information we have given it on the founding documents, etc., etc.
00:43:54.960It's an interesting thing, and it runs about 15 minutes, and that'll air at glennbeck.com right after this broadcast today.
00:44:02.360Okay, next, let me talk to you about the other fight that Donald Trump is taking on with Venezuela, and that is the fight here on the streets of New York.
00:44:13.680Plus, what could possibly happen if this doesn't go well?
00:44:20.280We'll talk about that and so much more coming up in just a second.
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00:47:03.620So I don't think that's the right statement.
00:47:07.480However, it now is going back to their constitutional rule.
00:47:11.400They'll have to have a special election and the people will elect a new president.
00:47:15.740Until then, the duly elected or the I don't think duly elected, but the one who is serving as the vice president is the president of Venezuela now.
00:47:25.280So we didn't go in and topple this thing.
00:47:27.980We went in and said, that guy is a really bad guy.
00:47:31.700He's out wanted for crimes against the United States.
00:47:34.980But this vice president, I mean, if you wanted to topple the regime, you would not put a person in who was part of his team and didn't like America and didn't like capitalism.
00:49:27.600The warmth of collectivism ended up in, you know, people, you know, burning, you know, their own house just to stay warm, eating their animals, eating their dogs, eating the zoo animals just to stay fed.
00:49:59.960And so, the military and the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, they came in and they killed a lot of the protesters, imprisoned a lot of the protesters because Barack Obama said nothing.
00:50:16.020We said at the time, Ronald Reagan would have stepped up and said, hey, we're watching you, the world is watching you, and you're not to kill the protesters.
00:50:26.820That's not what you do, and if you do, you're crossing the United States.
00:50:30.460That was enough to have us not necessarily get involved in the breakdown of the Soviet Union.
00:50:39.580I mean, we didn't have troops or anything else.
00:50:41.240We just said, we're not putting up with any of this stuff, and the world's watching you, and the whole thing fell apart.
00:50:48.860I think that's what we're hoping is going to happen here.
00:50:52.480The president, if people are afraid that President Trump is on this global war kick, he is riding the ship.
00:51:04.780In my opinion, you may disagree with me, but hear me out.
00:51:11.780I'm not sure it's going to work, but I think it is pretty genius.
00:51:19.160I don't know who's responsible for it, but if you are looking to reset the world so America is still a global leader, America is the leader in AI, America is the leader of the future, you have to have the energy.
00:52:05.300Foreign adversaries don't set up shop in our hemisphere.
00:52:11.500This is the American sphere of influence, period.
00:52:15.400We haven't done anything about that in a very long time.
00:52:19.980Donald Trump is just saying, you know what, China, you're not going to take the Panama Canal because we have, if we go to war, you're going to be able to trap our ships on the Atlantic side.
00:52:30.240We won't be able to get to the Pacific.
00:53:21.880I happen to believe they're slightly ahead of us only because of the infrastructure that they have built and the energy plants that they have built.
00:53:50.040But at the same time, they had co-opted the left that was pushing this Marxist, communist kind of world.
00:53:59.320And my belief has always been that the globalists, the fascists of the left, thought, well, in the end, we'll just eat the Islamists and the communists because capitalists will always win.
00:54:15.540And that's their war that they were going to fight down in the future.
00:54:19.200What Donald Trump is doing is saying, we're not going to have any of that.
00:54:22.140We're not going to go the European way and have a fascistic global government.
00:54:26.140We're not going to go the communist way.
00:54:27.920And we're not going to go the fascist Islamist way.
01:02:00.820And you're going to see, I mean, this weekend was amazing to see how these communists and Marxists, how well organized and financed they are.
01:02:10.880And they were out against the capture of Maduro.
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01:05:27.160And Jason is filling in a lot of stuff, especially today is a good day for Jason just to look at what's happening with the military in Venezuela.
01:05:36.860This was an amazing operation in Venezuela.
01:05:40.660And, you know, it's incredible how, you know, I don't know if you saw this, Margaret Brennan.
01:06:31.580The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the country that he was not.
01:06:37.200And he was arrested along with his wife who was also indicted.
01:06:39.760And that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly complicated operation.
01:06:42.760It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country.
01:06:48.680The guy lived on a military base, land within three minutes, kick down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights, put him in a helicopter and leave the country without losing any American or any American assets.
01:07:32.840I mean, how many, you know, if we would have done it with five other people, they would have said two things because it probably would not have gone as well.
01:07:43.080I mean, that would have been an impossibly complex mission.
01:07:46.580And so we probably would have lost people.
01:07:48.540And then they would have celebrated the loss and said, you know, how horrible Donald Trump is on that.
01:07:53.580And the other thing is they would have been saying regime change, regime change, regime change.
01:07:58.480I thought Donald Trump was against regime change.
01:08:42.620You know, it's it's it's incredible to me.
01:08:45.760And if you would have killed everybody around Hitler, then, you know, the press today would be like, and they killed everybody without a try.
01:08:54.200They just went in and just took them on and killed them all.
01:09:13.840We all know that going into this, it was an amazingly complicated thing.
01:09:18.040Now, that's a great explanation and an amazing, an amazing score, an amazing pull up.
01:09:25.340I mean, the world, I can tell you, every other military and every other president of every other country is now looking at that going, holy smoking crap.
01:09:36.840Yes, no one in the world has been able to do anything like that.
01:09:43.780Because I really thought there was a, we talked about this at the time, that when you put these sorts of assets in the region, there is a likelihood that something's going to happen.
01:09:55.600You don't just do this because it's fun and everyone wants to go on a boat trip together.
01:09:59.780And so they're in the middle of this and you could have easily seen a situation where they, there were strikes that were strategic, that weakened the regime enough that there was an uprising in the streets.
01:10:10.380Kind of maybe what we're maybe seeing in Iran without the strikes, right?
01:10:13.980They uprising, the person's pressured, they come up with a plan to leave.
01:10:17.200They feel like they're, they're toast and they're in Russia and, you know, hanging out in Moscow in a couple of weeks.
01:11:38.820I have nothing on this, but, uh, I mean, that could be part of it.
01:11:45.620Can we get, uh, Maduro to testify in the, because aren't they suing currently every media, major media organization over that?
01:11:52.020Can I tell you that I wouldn't put that past future, you know, you want to turn state's evidence on, because we know that they have been affecting us on the streets.
01:12:06.020We don't know if they've been affecting us with our voting machines.
01:12:09.500There's, you know, there's a lot of good, you know, evidence that, yeah, maybe they were, there's a lot of people that are, have been sued with their pants off, you know, until they have nothing left because they said, well, there's a really good case.
01:12:53.300I mean, because this is going to be judged by how it turns out, not, not by this first, this first incredible military operation, which is legitimately impressive and is great for Venezuela if they don't screw it up.
01:25:42.020For a minute, I just ask that you put politics down for a second.
01:25:46.960Because this Somali story has really amazed me.
01:25:52.240And it amazes me in exactly the same way that the gatherings in New York amazed me with all the communists.
01:26:03.840Just within literal 12 hours, printed signs had been made up, you know, saying enough with this, you know, this war in Venezuela, et cetera, et cetera.
01:26:23.560And, and, you know, I mean, it's very easy and we'll show you, we'll show you more on tomorrow's program about those organizations.
01:26:31.680And Glenn AI, right after this broadcast, we have a, about a 20 minute special from Glenn AI that is on the hundred years of communism and how it has metastasized here in America and how it is, is operated.
01:26:49.960That'll happen at glennbeck.com right after the national radio broadcast at noon Eastern time.
01:26:55.860But the Somali thing interests me and perplexes me because this is your money.
01:27:02.280Uh, this is so easily ripping you off.
01:27:09.840So I want, I want you to put politics down for just a second, put the team Jersey down, put the talking points, the memes, the tribal outrage, put everything on mute here for just a second.
01:27:20.320Because this is not about Republicans winning or Democrats losing or vice versa.
01:27:25.720This is about you and me as a mom or a dad.
01:27:30.600This is about you and me as a person that actually cares about children.
01:27:40.300When a nation, when a nation forgets that money is not government money, it's not federal funds, it's not aid dollars, but it is your labor, your hours, your effort, your life that has produced those dollars.
01:27:58.660When it forgets that everything changes and it never is good.
01:28:06.120Think about every dollar that you spend in income tax that you pay in income tax.
01:28:11.180It takes you until January, February, March, March or April now, before you pay your full taxes for the year.
01:28:20.020You're working from today until almost April just for the federal government.
01:28:27.560Everything that you do that earns money is going to pay for that.
01:28:35.140I gladly pay my taxes to some degree gladly because there are some things that I want the government to do.
01:28:43.020I want the government to have a strong military.
01:28:45.460I want the government, you know, our local government to build roads and et cetera, et cetera.
01:28:50.640But these are your dollars, your labor, your time, your effort, your life taken from you not to build roads, not to defend the country, not to care for the weak.
01:29:02.560But so that someone else could lie, cheat and get rich.
01:29:08.560With not just your money, but almost everyone, you know.
01:29:13.780This is what is happening in the daycare meal fraud scandal, OK?
01:29:19.440And yes, there are going to be people who tell you this is all about race, you know, or immigrants or culture or whatever the wedge issue is of the week.
01:29:27.280And none of that is true because corruption, as we all know, does not have a language.
01:29:33.840It does not have a race, no skin tone.
01:29:59.180Madami said the warmth of collectivism.
01:30:01.800You might be able to understand why some people like me are against that because it doesn't happen that way.
01:30:08.740This is what you get with the warmth of collectivism.
01:30:13.040When a government grows so large, so big, so sloppy, so comfortable with your money, so comfortable with writing checks that no one verifies those checks, basic morality becomes optional.
01:30:30.500And people who are in the system, they suddenly realize nobody's watching over all this money.
01:32:07.180Smiling children in brochures, fake attendance sheets, filled out like clockwork, while the money was flowing into luxury cars and giant houses and business empires built on the lie to screw you out of your money.
01:32:23.560Again, it's not just a phrase, time is money.
01:32:30.740You take eight hours every day and you go to work to earn that money.
01:34:23.000Because while you're working longer hours, while you are trying to make ends meet, while you're watching the price of groceries go up,
01:34:32.880while you're trying to find affordable childcare for your own kids or your own grandkids, somebody else is taking the money that you worked hard to earn and send in to the United States government or to your state government.
01:34:47.680And somebody else, with their knowledge and their help, was submitting a form, typing in a false number, and getting paid with your wages, your time.
01:36:44.220You discipline them so they don't do it again.
01:36:47.600And yet this, we're just all like, wow, wow.
01:36:52.480This is, this theft, this is just the beginning of it.
01:36:57.160I told you in 2009, you are going to find, at the end of all of this, you are going to find that while we're sitting here talking about all kinds of crap,
01:37:07.320the world's largest theft, the largest heist in all of human history is happening.
01:38:46.680Your mind is still running the day in reverse.
01:38:48.980Last night, I didn't get to sleep until about 3 o'clock.
01:38:52.700And there was nothing except an elephant tranquilizer could have done for me last night because I had all of the stuff that was on my mind to talk to you today all going through.
01:39:02.080And I could not stop it from happening.
01:40:30.300Stewardship is a principle we've completely lost.
01:40:33.960When a government takes a single dollar, it should treat that dollar.
01:40:40.060Because it's taken that dollar from you.
01:40:44.340And we all just say, oh, well, the rich can afford it.
01:40:47.400You're the one paying it just as much as the rich people.
01:40:51.100You think they're only like they separate the rich people's money, and they're like, no, we're going to do something good with the poor people's money.
01:40:57.660You know, the regular hard-earned, you know, hard-working guy.
01:41:00.660We're going to do something good with it.
01:41:25.160If you steal, if you help others steal, if you collude to steal, I don't care if you wear a suit, a clerical collar, a cultural badge, a revolutionary slogan.
01:41:41.640Another principle we have to reset in our foundation is courage, because telling the truth is always going to make somebody uncomfortable, especially when lies are super, super profitable.
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01:56:18.960I don't think this has ever been done before.
01:56:20.600Um, it's completely different and we're doing it because I kind of feel in some ways I'm running out of time and there's a lot I have to do yet.
01:56:30.720And so all of the shows, everything, I'm not contractually obligated to anything anymore except this program, which I want to do every day.
01:56:42.380Everything else, I'm doing it because I want to do it.
01:56:46.600And I, my attention span sometimes is that of a goldfish.
01:56:51.000Uh, and there are many things that I want to do.
01:56:53.660There are many stories I want to tell you.
01:56:55.260There's much of history I want to show you that you will see.