Best of the Program | Guest: Harmeet Dhillon | 7/8/26

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Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program—Best of the Program | Guest: Harmeet Dhillon | 7/8/26

Date: July 8, 2026
Host: Glenn Beck (Mercury Radio Arts)
Guest: Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, DOJ

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Overview

The episode features a high-profile interview with Harmeet Dhillon, DOJ’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, emphasizing ongoing efforts to enforce election integrity and civil rights law ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. In classic Glenn Beck fashion, the show blends political analysis, historical parallels, and cultural critique—ranging from DOJ election monitoring, voter fraud concerns, the Iranian regime's apocalyptic worldview, and the state of American political discourse, with Beck’s trademark humor and sharp commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

DOJ Election Integrity Initiatives

[02:14–13:40] Interview with Harmeet Dhillon

• Election Monitoring in Michigan and Key Battlegrounds

  • DOJ is deploying election monitors in Michigan—specifically Detroit, East Lansing, Lansing, and Hamtramck—responding to reported irregularities like language access issues, excessively long lines, and admitted poll book glitches.
  • Both major parties have historically dispatched monitors, but Republican leadership at DOJ is now executing a more assertive and transparent oversight, which Dhillon frames as a necessary step for public trust.

• Nationwide Voter Roll Enforcement

  • Letters sent to all states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands warn election officials of criminal prosecution for "knowingly" allowing noncitizens to remain on voter rolls—a crime under federal law.
  • The DOJ is requesting states explain their compliance steps within five days. Dhillon notes some states are cooperating, resulting in the discovery of “hundreds of thousands of dead people” on voter rolls and “tens of thousands of suspected noncitizens” being reviewed.
  • Notably, two-thirds of states are resisting federal review—raising DOJ concerns about recalcitrant jurisdictions.

• Educational Aspects and Concerns for Legal Residents

  • Dhillon underscores a lack of awareness among many legal residents with green cards, who mistakenly register or vote, risking criminal penalties and even deportation.

  “Even if one or two people are canceling out our votes, that’s a problem … [This] is simply good hygiene of our voter rolls.”
  —Harmeet Dhillon, [06:44]

• Lessons from 2024 & Expanded DOJ Role

  • Drawing from her 2024 experience, Dhillon describes the need for proactive, federally sanctioned monitoring—especially after witnessing incidents in Arizona, Maricopa, and Apache counties.
  • DOJ's monitoring goes beyond party efforts, serving as a vital transparency measure to assure all citizens—Republican and Democrat—can have confidence in election outcomes.

  “I want every citizen who votes on both sides to feel confident in the outcome of those elections.”
  —Harmeet Dhillon, [09:54]

• California Voter Fraud Investigation

  • Ongoing probes in California are referenced, including a case where a woman illegally registered homeless individuals, paid for signatures, and used fraudulent addresses.
  • Dhillon makes clear: fraud is intolerable, regardless of political affiliation. Real consequences—including criminal prosecution—are in play.

  “We’d like to catch all of that fraud … wherever it’s occurring in the United States, by the way, whether it’s being done by anybody of any party, it is intolerable and it needs to stop.”
  —Harmeet Dhillon, [12:37]

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Iran, Trump, and Apocalyptic Negotiation Strategies

[13:41–23:20] Beck Monologue—Geopolitics & Historical Parallels

• Iranian Regime: A Doom-Laden Theology

  • Beck provides an extended, colorful monologue tying Iran’s leadership to apocalyptic “Twelver” Shia theology, arguing that nuclear negotiations with Iran were doomed because the regime literally embraces chaos as religious necessity.
  • He parallels this with the Wagnerian mythos beloved by Hitler—specifically the “Ring Cycle” and the "Nero Decree," Hitler's own "burn it down" order at the end of WWII—to argue that Iran’s regime courts destruction rather than national survival.

  “This is the closest mirror history gives us to the soul of the Iranian regime, not the people—the regime ... they don’t dread the fire, they prepare the kindling. Nuclear weapons are the kindling.”
  —Glenn Beck, [31:59]

• Trump’s Approach

  • Trump’s negotiating style is discussed, including a tough posture: “I'll keep killing them until we find the reasonable ones that will actually play ball.”
  • Beck interprets Trump’s approach as similar to playing chicken, with a readiness to escalate until a rational actor emerges—in contrast to previous US diplomatic models.

  "He knows who they are, and he will kill them one by one until somebody is reasonable."
  —Glenn Beck, [18:33]

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American Political Discourse: Irony and Hypocrisy

[34:11–39:50] Political Satire & Cultural Critique

• Benjamin Franklin Lookalike Controversy

  • Beck lampoons the outcome of a Ben Franklin lookalike contest won by a black woman—using it as an example of perceived cultural absurdity and media-driven virtue signaling.

  "Do you notice they didn’t talk to a man because the winner is a black woman? Again, it’s a Ben Franklin lookalike contest.”
  —Glenn Beck, [34:25]

• Platner, Party Hypocrisy, and Candidate Scandals

  • Discusses Graham Platner’s resilience amid Nazi tattoo and rape allegations, predicting such controversies may paradoxically strengthen his candidacy.
  • Critiques the willingness of parties—especially Democrats, via a Sunny Hostin quote—to “plug their noses and vote for the Nazi guy with rape allegations,” lamenting the collapse of moral standards across political lines.

  "We have dirt bags on our side … But you’re gonna hold your nose. If I lived in Maine, I’d hold my nose and vote for the Nazi guy that now has multiple rape charges."
  —Glenn Beck, [39:15]

  “I think Republicans fall in line. They don't fall in love. Democrats want to fall in love and not fall in line … The bar is so very low.”
  —Sunny Hostin (as quoted by Beck), [38:45]

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Pop Culture & Hollywood Outrage

[44:46–47:29] Media Satire

• Beck rails against perceived cultural idiocy in Hollywood and the media, decrying “pie hole” celebrity commentary about centuries-old literature and historical figures.

• Calls for Hollywood contracts to include a “shut the pie hole” clause to limit actors’ off-script political statements that could alienate audiences.

  “You need a shut the fricking pie hole clause in every contract before you make a movie.”
  —Glenn Beck, [46:27]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Election Monitoring Pushback:

  "People are just upset that Republicans are taking the integrity of our elections seriously at the DOJ level for a change. That is new and they better get used to it." —Harmeet Dhillon, [03:51]

• On Noncitizen Voting:

  "Your vote and my vote is precious to us. And even if one or two people are canceling out our votes, that’s a problem for me, that’s a problem for you as a citizen, and it’s a problem for the United States." —Harmeet Dhillon, [06:36]

• On Iran's Regime:

  "You never had anybody like that. Never have we negotiated in the United States of America with a doomsday cult. And that’s exactly what Iran is. The leadership, the people are not—the leadership." —Glenn Beck, [28:29]

• Pop Culture Satire:

  “Let me give Jane Austen, who’s dead, in one of the most accomplished writers of all time, some advice: you should have put some more men in those novels.” —Glenn Beck, [45:28]

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Important Timestamps

• [02:14] – Harmeet Dhillon joins the show, details on DOJ election monitoring
• [04:16] – Glenn Beck reads from DOJ letter to states on voter roll enforcement
• [07:46] – Differences in 2026 monitoring; problems in past Arizona and California elections
• [13:41] – Beck transitions from interview to Iran analysis, MOU confusion, Twelver theology
• [17:38] – Trump on Iran negotiations: “They're scum... It's a waste of time dealing with them”
• [23:20] – Beck’s historical comparison: Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Hitler, and the Iranian regime
• [34:11] – Ben Franklin lookalike contest satire
• [37:27] – Platner scandal analysis; party hypocrisy regarding candidate scandals
• [44:57] – Rant on Hollywood actors’ cultural commentary

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Summary Flow & Tone

The episode flows from hard-hitting news analysis (DOJ election integrity action, with Dhillon’s detailed breakdown of practical law enforcement steps), to Glenn Beck’s signature historical and theological ruminations (paralleling Iran and Nazi Germany), to biting cultural critique and satire. The language remains candid, irreverent, and pointed, blending informed concern with sarcastic asides and mockery.

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This summary captures all major points, quotes, and underlying themes, offering listeners a comprehensive outline of the episode’s substance and character—even if they missed the broadcast.

Transcript

[A]

Hey, welcome to the Best Hub podcast. We started the show right away with Harmeet Dhillon because she is, you know, she's with the doj. She's the assistant Attorney General for civil rights. She's in charge of the civil rights division. And she's ruthless. I mean, she. And she spent a lot of time as an attorney for years watching over elections. And she was appointed by Trump in 2024 in the go to make sure that we had monitors. And I think that's one of the reasons why we can trust this election so much. Well, she announced yesterday a couple of things. A letter went out from the DOJ saying, you screw with these elections, we will find you and we will put you in prison. She kind of explains that, but also they're sending people out to start going over things in Michigan. Also, updates with Iran, what the president said about, you know, these people are crazy. What is he actually looking for? I got into, As only people on this that listen to the show could understand, I told history to solve today's problem. And I started with Hitler and the Ring cycle from Wagner, which is, of course, where everybody started. It's a fascinating look at what he's really looking for. I think we're looking for an Albert Speer. And if you don't know who Albert Speer is, he was a famous Nazi. Well, just ask Graham. Graham Platner. He knows who is. We also get into Graham Platner, and I think this is going to actually make him stronger. He is not going to withdraw. And why is that? Because the Democrats have become everything they despise. I explained all on today's podcast.

[B]

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

[A]

Welcome to the program. Harmeet. Dylan. How are you, Harmeet?

[C]

I'm great. Always happy to be with you.

[A]

So this is. This is not gonna. This is not popular in Michigan. Can you tell us what you're. What you're planning on doing, what the DOJ is doing now and why?

[C]

Well, I'm gonna push back a little bit. It's actually really popular with a lot of people in Michigan, including many legislators who actually reached out and specifically asked us to do. Michigan, like some other battleground states, has been rife with irregularities in recent election cycles. Both Republicans and Democrats have sent election monitors in the past to all these battleground states. And so some of the issues that we're going to look for in four jurisdictions where we're sending these election monitors, Detroit, East Lansing, Lansing, and Hamtrack, include. I may have mispronounced that last one include language issues. There's been no assessment by the DOJ in two of these jurisdictions that have high Hispanic populations as to whether they're complying with federal law relating to ballot access. There have been extremely long lines in the recent election in one of these jurisdictions that has a university on the campus in Detroit, I believe. And there is an admitted glitch in the poll book. Loading. In the other one. So these are all based on actual irregularities that we've seen in prior elections. Now, when you look at how the Biden administration handled some of these hotspots, and I'm just talking about the primary, not the general, we're going to have a way expanded program in the general election. In prior election cycles in 2022, the person sitting in this chair in the Biden DOJ sent 27, sent nine election monitors in 2022 and sent 27 in 2024. So this is not unusual. This is something DOJ does regularly. People are just upset that Republicans are taking the integrity of our elections seriously at the DOJ level for a change. That is new and they better get used to it.

[A]

Good. The news broke overnight that DOJ is sending letters warning election officials. I'm quoting. In all 50 states in the District of Columbia, they will face criminal prosecution over non citizen voting. The letter, signed by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon, gives states five days to explain how they will comply with federal voter eligibility laws and how they will maintain clean voter lists. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is extremely rare, but Trump and his administration have falsely portrayed it as a widespread issue.

[C]

Well, so first of all, the word left out when that hysterical commentary from the left is knowingly so. If a state election official knowingly refuses to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, that's illegal. That is a crime under our laws. And someone who does that and conspires to do that can be prosecute. So I'm simply informing top election officials around the country, and it includes Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, that this is their duty. Now, a third of the states have voluntarily complied with us, and we thank them for their cooperation. And in that effort, we have found hundreds of thousands of dead people on voter rolls. And we have found tens of thousands of names of suspected noncitizens that we are now digging into through our immigration files to see whether they're appropriately on the rolls or not. In recent weeks, months, and even the and a half, we prosecuted numerous people at the Department of Justice for voting while not citizens of the United States. And it's indisputable based on evidence that I've seen that there are tens of thousands of non citizens at a minimum on the voter rolls in just the ones that we've examined. And keep in mind, two thirds of the states are fighting us in getting access to their up to date voter rolls, but we're using other means to look at some of these. And so I think that's very concerning. Glenn, your vote and my vote is and precious to us. And even if one or two people are canceling out our votes, that's a problem for me, that's a problem for you as a citizen, and it's a problem for the United States. So I think it's very important that people know this. And the other thing is what we've learned is that many of legal residents in the United States, green card holders, for example, are not aware that they're not entitled to vote in our election. So you know, this is educational as well. It's the duty of the states to not register those people and to inform them. And they're not doing that. I can tell you as a 25 year California resident, you just check a box to say you're a citizen. What if you don't speak English that well or you don't understand the distinction between citizenship and that green card you have, that is a legal status, you'd be checking that box. And indeed thousands of people do that and then they vote and then they're making themselves criminals and also subject to deportation. We don't want that for law abiding people. So I think this is simply good hygiene of our voter rolls and I think it is unfortunately necessary that we remind people of their duties. I know they're clutching their pearls, they're really upse. If they're following the law, they have nothing to worry about.

[A]

You, you did this during the 2024 election. I mean you had monitors everywhere. You personally were overseeing a lot of it. And I think that's one of the reasons why we had such, you know, a clean role in, in, in, in some places. What did you learn from that and how is this different at all?

[C]

So election. So what's different here is so in the prior times I've done it, I've certainly done it for decades. I've been a Republican election monitor and lawyer over the years. And in 2024, November, I was in charge of the Arizona operation and we had dozens of volunteers there. The Democrats had their own operation, their own war room and dozens and maybe hundreds of volunteers on their side and so we send our credentialed. In the case of a political party, you send a credentialed person. There's a process. You get to look at what's going on there. And in Arizona's case, for example, there were indeed irregularities and there were misprints and there was a wrong size paper in 2022. And, you know, thousands of people were turned away from the ballots in Maricopa County. There were problems in Apache County. So that's one of the reasons why we're sending federal election monitors to Apache county this time around. Native Americans were not allowed to vote because of just complet incompetence on the part of county officials at that time. And so what's different about the DOJ is we have a right to do this under federal law. So we don't have to ask for permission. We're going to go in and we're going to observe. Just like by the way, decades of lawyers at the Civil Rights Division have done in both Republican and Democrat administrations and no one squawked about it the way that they are today. And it's a good thing when the federal government is there to ensure that the law, I think it makes everyone feel more confident. And while we're just doing it for six states and nine jurisdictions in the upcoming primaries, most of the primaries have already occurred. You can look for a much more expanded presence on the ground of federal election monitors in the 2026 election because I want every citizen who votes on both sides to feel confident in the outcome of those elections. Now, monitors alone are not going to help us do that. There's no federal monitor that's going to f California's wacky ways and delays that they count votes, which is worse than almost every third world country. But at a minimum, we can ensure that their eyes and ears there from the feds and we can then take action swiftly and step in. Now, this is not a substitute for private election monitoring. The parties are going to do that. I know that there are going to be congressional monitors going from, I assume, both parties. And this is our sacred right and duty. It's part of the First Amendment to be able to observe what's happening as we cast our votes and ballots. And that was frustrating in 2020, as you know. Again, I was a lawyer who was with the campaigns at that time, and our colleagues were prevented from witnessing exactly what was going on in Detroit. One of the places I'm sending election monitors in the upcoming weeks in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia spec and so people don't know whether they can trust the outcomes of those elections. When there's cardboard taped over the counting areas, when there's mysterious incidents and occurrences that nobody bothers to explain, when people are taking thumb drives and moving them around and there's no valid explanation and witness to that. So I want to put a stop to all that chatter on both sides by having a very transparent process.

[A]

So I talked to the first assistant US Attorney in, I think, central California, and he was talking to us about, you know, doing an investigation and saying, hey, we're just looking for any evidence and if anybody has anything, they want to come forward and tell us about it. And he wasn't saying that there was corruption at the time. Have we found, do we have any updates on California? Have you found anything? Is it look clean? What, what, what's the story there?

[C]

I think you're referring to my dear friend and colleague Bill Asale, who's running the Los Angeles office and investigations. And I'm not able to comment on what has been found at this time. We don't comment on the fruits of ongoing investigations. But I can promise you that whatever has been found so far isn't the end of it. And so absolutely, people should come forward if they've witnessed. For example, just in Los Angeles, I was with Bill just a few weeks ago where we announced the indictment and later guilty plea of a woman who signed up untold dozens or hundreds of, I'm sure hundreds actually, of homeless people on skid row. Illegally, illegally. Because not that they're not entitled to vote, but she paid them to register to vote. That's illegal. She paid them for signatures on signature petitions. That's illegal. And she gave them her former home address to use as their voter registration address. All illegal, illegal, illegal. We count this one woman doing it. Thanks to independent journalists. And I'm sure that this is a much bigger problem. So we'd like to catch all of that fraud and we'd like to put a stop to it wherever it's occurring in the United States, by the way, whether it's being done by anybody of any party, it is intolerable and it needs to stop.

[A]

Right. And how bad is the punishment?

[C]

We'll see. Sentencing hasn't occurred in that case. She is pleading guilty. So I think we'll see. But, you know, I think it all depends on how many predicate acts you can prove and how long it's been going on. Who else is in, involved. You know, people don't do this in a vacuum. There's money to be made. There's big money in states like California that have signature petitions. Michigan is another one. There's big money to be had in circulating these petitions, and there's fraud in petition circulation. And it occurs at the highest level and at the lowest level. And so catching the people who are shelling out the money would be the big prize here. And so we're definitely looking to follow those threats.

[A]

Herme, always good to have you on. Thank you so much. God bless you.

[C]

Thank you, Glenn.

[A]

Keep up the good work. You bet. Bye. Bye. Harmony. Dylan, Goj's assistant attorney general. She is on top of civil rights. All right, we're gonna take a quick break. I wanna, I want to tie something in that I saw at the Smithsonian. I mean, we've been here before. This is not new. We've been here before. And I want to share something when we come back here in, in just a minute. You're streaming the Best of Glenn Beck. To hear more of this interview and others, download the full show podcasts, wherever you get podcasts. Okay, so we have an mou, or apparently had, if the president is accurate here, we had an mou. That's a Memorandum of Understanding. That is not a treaty. That is just like, okay, we're at the table. We're negotiating. Here's our initial understanding. Let's put this down on paper and get into the details. So it's, it's not a deal. But the president thought they were close enough. But as you listen to the president, what he said yesterday, they keep changing it and they keep denying that they have any, any kind of understanding that we say we have an understanding on. And this is not unusual. All they're doing is buying time. All they're doing. These, these are, these are people who believe, literally believe in the end of the world. And they believe, their theology teaches that they can hasten the return of the promised One. By the way, I believe this is me, but I believe their Promised One is our bad guy in our end times. Okay? They believe that Jesus is going to come back. When the 12th Imam returns, the Mahadi, when he returns, he's going to say, and look who I've got under, you know, behind curtain number two. It's Jesus. And Jesus is going to come and say, yeah, by the way, Christians, you're wrong about all of this. Not the Savior, and Muhammad is, is the real Savior, and, and Allah is God. And then he goes and enforces this and he tries to convince Christians to, you know, believe. And when he, when they don't believe he then oversees their execution, which is beheading, which is very Christ, like, very, very Christ, like. So I have a feeling that. That the way they view the end times is the exact opposite of how we view the end times story. Okay? So I believe it's the other side of the story, if you catch my meaning here. It's not very. It's not very cloaked. And they're crazy because they actually believe it. The Twelvers actually believe it. And the Twelvers are so crazy that the Ayatollah Khomeini, the. The original guy back in 1979, said, no twelvers can be part of this revolution because they're too crazy, too crazy for the guy of the 1979 revolution. And now these are the guys that are in charge, and we're negotiating with. There's no way to negotiate with them. So yesterday, Trump was asked by a reporter, do we even have an mou? And listen to his response. Because I want you to listen the way he says this. He's still negotiating. He is not saying. He's not saying we don't have one. He's saying me. So it's a little bit good cop, bad cop here, but the President is serious. I had a conversation, and I don't want to quote him on anything, but I had a conversation with him on Friday about this, and he said, believe me, Glenn, and again, I'm not quoting, but believe me, Glenn, I'm just going to keep killing them.

[B]

They.

[A]

They will come to the table because I'm go, I know who they are, and I'll keep killing them until we find the reasonable ones that will actually play ball. And he knows exactly who they are. But listen to what he said yesterday.

[C]

Is the ceasefire done? Is the MOU dead?

[B]

It's a very interesting question to me. I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum. You know what scum is? They're scum. They're sick people. They're led by sick people, and they're vicious, violent people. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it. As far as I'm concerned, it's over. I'll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate. They're good people. Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner. But they have to come back to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them. They're liars. We make a deal and they. If I make a deal with him, we have a deal. And he goes out, he talks, we make a deal. Everyone's agreed, no nuclear weapon. We make a deal. They go outside, talk to the press. They say, we never even talked about it. There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo.

[A]

Yeah, they are. I will tell you, you know, the president, if you really want to understand how he negotiates, all you have to do is read his book. Book part of the deal. And I have told you the story about him negotiating for the air rights for Trump Tower a million times. I'm not going to go through it again. But basically, he was playing chicken with Tiffany's. Tiffany's own the air rights. And he said, well, you're going to sell them to me because I'm going to build this tower. And they said, no, we're not going to sell them because we don't want that tower there. And he said, okay, well, that's fine. And he had his architect draw plans over the ugliest building the architect could possibly imagine. He said, I already own the space, so if you don't sell me the air rights, I'm going to build this. And they said, no, you won't. And he said, try me. And he left. They had to decide, is he bluffing or not? Now, I have asked the president, would you have built that building? He just smiled at me, okay? Not giving me any indication. So I don't know whether he would have built it or not. I will tell you this. He's not bluffing here. He is not bluffing. You know when you're negotiating with somebody and they say they're going to kill you, they're t. They're chanting, death to America. They're not bluffing. I want you to know neither is the President. He knows who they are, and he will kill them one by one until somebody is reasonable. And I want to show you exactly what he's looking for. And it's really counterintuitive. He's looking for Albert Speer. Anybody know who Albert Speer was? Albert Speer was a Nazi who I think we hung in the end at Nuremberg. Why would the President be looking for Albert Speer? I asked, what was it? It was. It's Grok. I asked Grok. So have we ever dealt with this before? And it came back with historic perspective, negotiating with similar regimes, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Libya under Gaddafi. No, none of those are like that. None of those are like that. And. And if you go to Grok or Chatgpt and you ask and you don't know, this is. This is the trouble with AI if you don't know enough to say no, it's not that at all. Because of this, you're gonna. You're gonna be taken down this wild path, okay? But if you know something, then it will go into. And I. I didn't go into it. But did I? Did I Did it? Did I put anything into this? Let me see. Because it'll always go. Come back with. It'll always come back if you put in something else where you. You're like, no, you're wrong. Because of this. It'll always. That is a very good point. You're very knowing those things. Dude, why didn't you just say that in the first place? Okay? So you have to know when using AI it's so dangerous because you'll just think it knows and it's giving you the answer, and it's not. You must have knowledge yourself. Okay, enough of that. So my theory is that the only thing that is close to this, that we have ever dealt with with is Germany. Because I've told you what their end times theology is, okay? Their end times theology. They believe this is the words of their own leaders. Oh, Allah, help me, hasten the return of the Promised One. That means, let me wash the world in blood. Because that's the only way, according to their theology, that the Promised One can come quicker, is if his people start washing the world with blood. So they will use the nuke. If they have it, they will use it. Because the faster we kill people, the more chaos we do, the faster the Mahadi will return. And then we have the end times. And you know, all of that stuff, okay? Never had anybody like that. Never have we negotiated in the United States of America with a doomsday cult. And that's exactly what Iran is. The leadership, the people are not the leadership. So you got to focus on the people. So have you ever heard of the Nero Decree? The Nero Decree was. Was something that Hitler did at the end of the war last few weeks, the Nero Decree. And I want to get into that and I want to explain and pull all of this together for you so you can see what we're dealing with and how we've had to deal with it before to give you some understanding that we'll make it through. It's just going to be a very hard needle to thread. And we'll do that here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about the international fellowship. There are times when news moves so fast that yesterday's tragedy is already being replaced by today's Tragedy. Before long, we stop hearing about the people who are still living through it, and they haven't stopped living it. In Israel today, there are families who still need food, children who still need a safe place to sleep, elderly men and women who still need medical care. In the midst of this war and uncertainty, they're depending on the kindness of people they've never met. This is not, this is what I believe, you know, supporting Israel means. It does not mean getting involved in their wars. It does not mean fighting a war. God doesn't need us to be involved in this. Israel doesn't need America to fight its war. Okay? God is inviting us not for the war. God is inviting us to care for his people, to show them the love and affection that we have for our brothers and sisters not getting involved in the wars. This is, you must separate those two things. So America is celebrating its 250 years of independence and the international fellowship of Christians and Jews is turning to God now, asking that in this 250 years that his wisdom will guide the elected officials in America and Israel to moral clarity and unity. And they are trying to show that we are one. And you know, if this is too much of a price to pay, you should ask yourself what you're, who you're going to be when it really gets tough. They are asking just to show your support for the Jewish people to get an Israeli USA flag pin. You wear it on your lapel and talk to people about it and explain it's not a support for the war per se or Benjamin and Yahoo. It's a support for the people who are suffering. Is that too high of a price to pay? This is the entry level gang. It only gets harder from here. Get your flag pin right now. Flagpin ifcj.org get it now flagpinifcj.org and take that first step. Okay? To understand the Nero Decree, you have to understand Adolf Hitler and you have to understand and what Adolf Hitler was living, he was living some, you know, Wagner Ring cycle, kind of Nordic God ending, you know, go in flames. And you've, you've heard the Ride of the Valkyries before. Bugs Bunny, you know, cartoons, always had this. Go ahead and play a little bit of this. So this is the Ride of the Valkyries. This comes from the Ring cycle and it's a never ending 15 or 18 hour opera. You want to talk about killing yourself? An 18 hour opera, okay. And he was fascinated by this thing. And it's, it's actually four operas put together. It's, it's 15 hours. And it is the retelling of the dramatic and Norse myth. Myth, okay? It tells the story of gods and heroes and dwarves entangled in a cursed ring of power forged from stolen gold. Any of this sound familiar? Okay, it's not the same story, but it's like it. The greed has corrupted the gods and the heroes rise and fall, and there's love and betrayal and, you know, and fate is driving the world towards the inevitable collapse. And Wagner was this guy, this. This writer from the 1800s. He poured his vision of a new German, you know, cultural rebirth. Heroic, mythic, free from what he saw as the decadent influences. So when you see the art that comes later from the Germans. Gosh, this is a nerdfest, isn't it? You'll see those strong German portraits, you know, where the strong German people. And it's. This whole thing is drenched in the theme of the corruption of power, racial destiny, heroic sacrifice, and a fiery end of the old order so a new one can emerge. Okay? Hitler was obsessed with this thing all the way from his youth. He called the composer his spiritual father. He would go to festivals with this on his birthdays. He would celebrate his 50th birthday in 1939. Lavish, lavish Wagner production. And they would broadcast it on radio. So this was really this. This. To understand Hitler, you have to understand this, okay? And he piped all of this stuff in, you know, to his rallies and everything. So. So it was psychological warfare on the people. He was training them to be these people. And the. Much of the stuff from Wagner became the soundtrack of the Reich, of the Reich. And, you know, it's. Honestly, it is. It's why this is the only opera that can never be played or performed in Israel. This is it. Everything else can be done. Not this one, because this was the heart of the Nazis, okay? And things don't go well. Okay? In the final act of Wagner's Ring, it is this epic tale and everything has gone dark. All the heroes, everything and the gods themselves march toward their doom. And Valhalla is burning. And they are. They're marching into this, knowing that everything has to burn. Okay? The old order collapses in fire and flood. And this is part of the story that's called the Twilight of the Gods. Gods, not a defeat that they fear, but in the end, a cataclysm that they embrace because they think in the ashes something new, something purified is prophesied to rise. Tie this together, because this is the closest mirror history gives us to the soul of the Iranian regime, not the people the regime, not the rational actors who are chasing survival like the Soviets, not the fanatics bargaining for power, but the true believers in the Hidden Imam, the Mahadi. That is just like the Ring cycle. World has to be burned down. This is exactly the same philosophy that is being touted by what's his name in Russia. The guy I have been warning you about forever. It's burn it all down. Because something glorious is going to rise from the fire. So they don't dread the fire. They prepare the kindling. Nuclear weapons are the kindling. Martyrdom is not a tragedy, it's a victory. The destruction of the old order is not a failure. It's a prelude to redemption. So where do we go from here? What does that tell you? How should this government and how should Donald Trump look at things with these guys based on this? I'll tell you next because history gives you the answer. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on itunes. Feels like our country has momentum again with our leaders fighting to restore common sense and America first. But we've seen this before. Conservatives get comfortable and then the left starts taking ground back inch by inch. 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There's so many things I want to talk about and touch on. Let me, let me just do a couple things. Here we play Cut four. This is the winner. Over the weekend, CNN interviewed the winner of the Benjamin Franklin lookalike contest. Just to show you that. No, it's not you. It's not you. The world has gone insane. Here they are interviewing. Go ahead, Cut four.

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I thought it was just a little like nerd meetup and we all got to just show our, like, you know, flex our brains and it became the biggest thing ever.

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Congratulations on your win.

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Thank you so much for sharing it. Brianna, Laura, you can't beat this.

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Do you notice they didn't talk to a man because the winner is a black woman. Again, it's a Ben Franklin lookalike contest. Now, maybe there was nobody else that entered that didn't, you know, there was no man that looked like Benjamin Franklin or other like, I don't know, she's got the long gray hair. You know, maybe that's what it was. It was just, just such a horribly attended deal. But if there were actual candidates who are men who looked like, I mean, I've seen people that play Ben Franklin and look like Ben Franklin and none of them are black women. Oh, my gosh, we are so insane. By the way, I know that's to be true because I had a 20 minute conversation with Mitch McConnell last week night. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. Okay. No, I didn't. And anybody. I, I could do a really bad, I could do a really bad playback of the conversations that were happening, but I'm not going to because Ricky said, don't, please don't do that. But I, I can do it. I could. And the younger Glenn would have been doing it the whole day. But let me just say this. You know what? The conversation. Because I could have a conversation. I had a great 20 minute conversation with Joe Biden yesterday. And you know what it was? And you, you're wearing shoes today. That's nice. Your shoes. Oh, I'm wearing shoes today. You'd have a 20 minute conversation with Joe Biden. You can have a 20 minute conversation with Mitch McConnell. But when did the GOP become the same people that we've been complaining about? Out. Joe Biden wasn't there. I'm sure Mitch. Did you, did you talk to him about, you know, finer details on rocket science? Did you talk to him about the budget? Did you talk to him about anything that a functioning senator would need to know? Or were you like, and how's the soup here? So please stop with your. I had a 20 minute conversation. Yeah, and a lot of people in the Biden administration had 20 minute conversations and they didn't see a problem at all. What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? I mean, do you, I mean, really, we're goldfish. Do you not remember, oh, I don't know, two years ago? Do you not remember what we've been saying for the last five years about people like, I just talked to Joe Biden, he's great, and now you're doing it. What's wrong with you? Oh, anyway, I, I'll give you the details of my 20 minute conversation with Mitch McConnell. I mean, assuming I go to hell and we're in hell together, that's when I'll tell you what my conversation was like. Platner. Platner says he's going to stay in the race. He's going to stay in the race. And I think he means it. And he's going to.

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To.

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And he's going to. And I, I make a prediction. I think this rape allegation is going to actually make him stronger. Okay? It will. You watch. It'll make him stronger. With some people, it'll make him stronger. The Nazi thing made him stronger. I mean, he's got a Nazi tattoo. No, I made it into a Celtic knot. Oh, did you? I didn't know that was nuts. Really? Really? Did you just have a 20 minute conversation with Mitch McConnell too? You didn't know that that was a SS death head that you had inked onto your chest? You had no idea? You've never watched, like a documentary about the Nazis? And then, you know, you get up in the morning and you, like, looking at yourself in the mirror and you're like, wait a minute, that death head looks just like the death head on all of their hats. You never noticed that one, huh? Wow, okay, that made him stronger. Okay? This is gonna make him stronger. And listen, this Is Sunny Holst. Is it Holstein? I can never tell the difference between her and the cows. Is a Hostein Holstein. What is it? Hosting. Hosting.

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Depends on your politics, but I think it's hosting.

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Hosting. Okay, so here's what Sunny Hoston had to say about Platner.

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Listen, and I said it. If I lived in Maine, I would have, you know, plugged my nose and I would have voted for him. Anyway, think that we are in a time of existential crisis in this country. I think Republicans fall in line. They don't fall in love. Democrats want to fall in love and not fall in line. You know, the Republican Party, the bar is so very low. I can't believe, I cannot believe that they want to try to assume the moral high ground on the Republican Party.

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I don't want to assume the moral high ground. We have dirt bags on our side.

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I just told you, we have people saying they had a 20 minute conversation with Mitch McConnell and he's fine. Please, we've got dirt bags on our side. But you're going to hold your nose. If I lived in Maine, I'd hold my nose and vote for the Nazi guy that now has multiple rape charges. And I know you say the same thing. New York Times were like, well, these are people that are not really in line, not falling in line with the Democratic Party. So we don't know if that's really true. Whatever happened to believe Women. Women. But, you know, we don't know if that's true. This one was a supporter. This one is like, you know, practically coming to the party dressed as a donkey. Okay. And she's like, look, I couldn't handle the way this was being treated. I, I just, I had to say something, okay? So she has credibility. She's on your side, and she's saying, I was sexually assault. I was raped. I was raped. But you have a problem because the Republicans voted for somebody you claim is a rapist. Donald Trump. Well, let's just assume that that's true. At least our guy's not a Nazi. Oh, no, but you say he's a Nazi. That's another reason why you hate him. You say he's a Nazi, which is weird because one of the main things to be a Nazi is, you know, you have to hate the Jews. You know who does hate the Jews? Platner. You know, the guy with the Nazi death head on it. I mean, you taught. You want to talk about hypocrisy? This is it. And I don't really care about hypocrisy. I'm so used to hypocrites now. I mean, it's just, they're everywhere. Need I go back to. I just had a 20 minute conversation. Hypocrites are everywhere. This one kills me. You know, we're in an existential threat. So I just think voting for the rapist Nazi is the way to go here. There's no one else. There's no one else there. I mean, go with the democratic socialist. Maybe, maybe, maybe go with that one. I, you know what? I just can't vote for the Nazi rapist. I'm gonna go for the democratic Socialist. I'm gonna go for the guy who just, you know, wants to destroy us with socialism and communism. You know, I mean, even that's more reasonable. But then again, these are the same people that are, you know, oh, she looks just like Ben Franklin. Nope, Ben Franklin did not have boobs. I just want to point that out. Oh, what else do we, what else do we have? Oh, do I have time here? Yeah, I've got two minutes. I can do this. Let's do this one. Let's, let's play the actress. By the way, actors. No, no. Hollywood movie studios. Are you this stupid? Put it in the contract until the movie is out. And, and I mean out, not like out released. I mean out, out and out of all the theaters. Shut the pie hole. Should be the clause in their contract. I'm gonna pay you millions of dollars. You're gonna be in this. Here's. You've just violated the shut the pie hole part of the contract. What is wrong with you Hollywood people? You, I mean, you just keep hiring these people and you're expecting them to not say something. They, they should. You've got to put it in their contract. Nobody's going to go see this damn movie. And it might be a good movie. It looks like a good movie. I mean, I can tolerate. Because you won an Oscar, you've had to put, you know, a, every race in the movie. So every race, except for white people, every race has to be in there. You got to have a one legged lesbian, you know, who is also a democratic socialist playing a role. You got to have everybody in there, there, otherwise you can't be nominated. And I've tolerated that. I've tolerated that, okay? And I want to see it because it looks like a good movie. But I gotta tell you, you just have these people, John Leguizamo, what's, what's his name came out and he was talking about how the Spanish people right now that There is. There is a war on. Hispanic people and Hispanish people. There's just like a genocide going on. You're like, wait, what have you. Have you walked down the streets of any major city in America? There's no lack of Hispanic people. And you know what? It was the British and all those white colonizers. Can I ask you who paid the bill for the ships to come over to discover America? It wasn't Germany. Let me think, John. It wasn't England. No. It was Spain. And what did they. Because he's talking about how they just raped the continent, just stole everything. What was Spain looking for? Gold. They were coming to. To rape the continent of gold. Your beloved Spaniard. So please, give it a rest. These people are so stupid.

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Here.

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This is how stupid they are. Listen to the actress who says she's never really read Homer, but she has some advice for Homer. Listen to this. Cut three.

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When you read the Iliad and the Odyssey, very little time is spent in the perspective of the women. Right, right. It's very. It's whole from a very masculine side of things. But this film takes a lot of. It takes time to really consider things from the female perspective. And so we see in Helen and Clytemnestra how this war has affected them both. And they respond to it very differently because their experience of it is very different. And so for me, that was very.

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Have you ever noticed, you know, I was watching Sense and Sensibilities, and I thought, you know, nobody's really taking into consideration here in any of the Jane Austen novels the really male perspective here. Let me give Jane Austin, who's dead in, one of the most accomplished writers of all time. Let me give her some advice. You should have put some more men in those novels. Maybe they would have gone somewhere. You know, let me tell something about Homer. A guy who is so fricking old, he only has one name. And it's not like Prince. He only has one Homer. Okay, Homer. You know what his problem is? No, tell me. You mean the guy who wrote something thousands of years ago and we're still making movies about that story that he wrote thousands of years ago? I mean, what books do you have that are 2, 3000 years old? I got the Bible, I got Homer, I got Josephus. You're giving him advice on what? How to tell a story. The arrogance, the stupidity. Really, Honestly, Hollywood, let me just give you this advice for free. It's a clause in the contract. You have a moral turpitude. Well, you probably don't, because the amount of women survive that you have a moral turpitude clause. You need a shut the fricking pie hole clause in every contract before you make a movie. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. Now I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited Premium Wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills, but it turns out them that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.

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