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'Are You THIS Stupid?!' Glenn Beck Debunks the Media's Defense of the SPLC | 4/23/26
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And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work. Swipe the flame, pass it on. Crank the game. Glam Back is on. Glam Back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. People, people, people. We got a show to do. Let's do it. It is Thursday. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. My name is Glenn Beck, and we got a great show. Not today, but one of these days we're gonna roll that great show out for you today. It's kind of meh, but we're gonna start with Splc Southern Poverty Law center and the shenanigans that's going on there. Boy, what a surprise. It looks like the left is just, they're just rallying. They're rallying the troops, they're circling the wagons. Don't you get your heads off our SLPC or whatever it is. We just, we are in it for the little people. Yeah, you are. And you're helping those little people an awful lot, especially if they have shaved heads and swastikas on the side of their head. I want to go through some of the things the press was saying and a few things that libertarians are also saying. I don't, I don't understand why everybody's rushing to protect this group and excuse this group. I mean, I understand it from the left, but not from thinking human beings. We'll get to that here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about American Financing. You know, a lot of Americans dealing with right now, you're making decent money, maybe you're working hard, you're paying the bills on time and you're not getting ahead. And it feels like the world is stacked up against you. Sometimes it's not your income, you know, that's causing all the pressure. It's the way debt is stacked against you. High interest, credit cards, payment going in 10 different directions, money leaking out every month with nothing to show for it. It is enough to drive a responsible person out of their mind. So I want to talk to you about American Financing. 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They stand accused of secretly funding over 300, sorry, $3 million in donor money to actual Klan members, neo Nazis and extremist groups that they are apparently opposed to terrifying American citizens into giving, giving, giving while they were allegedly paying the very monsters they said they were fighting. Now it seems as though the press is, is running to protect these hacks. You know, they're, they're doing everything they can to downplay the indictment and why. Well, I don't need to explain why, you know why, but what is it that they are, what is it that they are saying? Well, one of my favorites, let me give you this one kind of a smarty pants reaction to something I said yesterday. And this is the general attempt to downplay what is what was exposed. This is from Mike Young. The indictment alleges donor disclosure fraud that the SPLC didn't tell the contributors their money funded informants inside extremist groups. That's what the 11 counts describe. Beck reads it as proof that the right wing extremist movements were manufactured. The indictment doesn't say that paying informants inside the KKK does not make the KKK fictional. I never said that. I never said the KKK was fictional. I never said neo Nazis don't exist. I said the money that they were paying was amplifying it, making it bigger. The organization exists. Absolutely. The violence was real. Yep. Um, let's see. Beck appears on the SPLC list 157 times. That's legitimate grievance about overbroad listing. You think it's not evidence that white supremacist violence is a color revolution operation? I didn't say that either. Look, this exists. Hatred exists. Racism exists. Nazis exists. Radicals exist, Anarchists exist. People who want to kill you, people who just want to watch the world burn for some unknown reason, all of that exists. The question here on the SPLC is were there, were they aiding and abetting that so they could grow and do the bidding of their Marxist or their, their leftist progressive leaders? Were they part of a system to, to tear America apart? Yeah, they were. They were. But that's not even what the legal question is. Remember I. Let me just go back to what I just read at the beginning. They are indicted on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering. Now the other thing that the left is saying is that they are, they are claiming that. Well, the FBI does that. And let me figure that one out. Yes, the FBI does that is the splc. The FBI. I know they all have letters in their names. But the SPLC is not the FBI. Different letters. Which means they can't do what the FBI does. They're doing the same thing. They were just paying for informants. Were they? Were they? Let's just. Let's just go into this here for a second. Did you read the indictment? Because what they said, what the indictment says they did, and this is all alleged, but what the indictment says they did was they opened up bank accounts under false pretenses and false names. Well, yeah, but they were doing undercover work. Wait, wait, wait. Can we please just stop and think for a second? Please, for the love of Pete, can we stop? Let me just. If I opened up a bank account or. You opened up a bank account today under a false name and then you made wire transfers under other false names, would you expect anyone to go, yeah, but I was doing it to, you know, help children with cancer. No. Well, I was doing it, you know, to. To get the bad guys from stopping hurting good guys. Nope. Well, the FBI does it and it doesn't work that way. Doesn't work that way. Opening an account. I just want to give this so the media, because they apparently just don't have Google or ChatGPT or anything, they can't look this stuff up. So I'm going to help them. When you open up a bank account in the United States under the customer identification program that's in the Patriot Act. Oh, I don't like the Patriot Act. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. It doesn't matter if you like it or not. It's the law. This was implemented via FinCEN and banking regs. If you provide false identification to a bank, it can be treated as bank fraud under USC section 18 USC section 1344. Also as identity related offenses are under 18 USC 1028 or aggravated identity theft in section 1028A. Okay, so you can't. You've got three codes, three US codes that you violated here. Just by opening up a bank account with a fake name, you violated three federal laws wiring money to fake names. Wire transfers must include accurate originator and beneficiary information. Under anti money laundering rules, supplying a fictitious name or structuring transition transactions to avoid detection can trigger money laundering statutes. Statutes like 18 USC 1956 and 18 USC 1957. Banks are required to monitor and report suspicious activity. Mismatched or fabricated identities are a classic red flag. So you can't do the things even though the FBI does it. Why? Why? Why the FBI does it? Because they have Special exemption. They have lawful structures. They have to report, they have to log. They have to follow certain laws themselves. But they get special dispensation because they're a law enforcement agency. You know what? I. I arrested somebody. I tried them, and I. I'm keeping them in jail in my basement. What? The police do it. You can't do it. You're not the police. I cannot take these people who say they are so highly educated, who cannot think these things through logically. I just don't believe they're that stupid. There's no way. There is no legal carve out for private citizens to impersonate people, to send fake wires to fake people, or to open up fraudulent bank accounts. That breaks all kinds of laws. So how exactly are you justifying this? Well, the FBI does it. Oh, God. America, I just would like to come to you today and just say there is no hope. There is no hope. None. Zero. We're all doomed. If this is the level of argument that we have in this nation where our press and, and we buy this, that we can go online and just go, the FBI does it. There's no hope. You cannot be entrusted with your republic. You cannot be entrusted with your government. The American experiment is over. If we're this stupid, if we actually entertain that argument. Somebody says that to you, just go, you're not the FBI. By you, watch their heads explode. They'll have no place to go. They won't even understand it. They're not the FBI. They don't have legal authority to do that. That's in violation of all kinds of federal code. That's jail time if you do it. What part of this don't you understand? Oh, so anyway, the rot's pretty deep. It's deeper than just the splc. This is what happens when power and money and self righteousness replaces truth. They lied to their donors. Oh, well, they profited from the fear that they helped create. Oh, well, they're proven liar. These are the ones who said that our border guards were whipping Haitian migrants. Do you remember that? Oh, well, they violated banking laws. Do you not care about that? Are you okay with anybody just making up? Because if you're okay with that, are you okay with the drug cartels doing it? Are you okay with Hezbollah doing it? Are you okay with the Chinese government opening up bank accounts in the United States with false names? Well, no, but they don't have the heart. The court system doesn't judge your heart. It judges your actions. Oh, my gosh. The people who gave. I hope you wake up because you're not evil. You were most likely. I mean, not everybody, but a lot of people were just scared. They. They believed that somebody was out there on their side fighting real hate. And the desire for justice is good, but when you, when you outsource your moral discernment to institutions, instead of anchoring it in eternal truth, you're easy to manipulate. You're really easy to manipulate. If you're like, yeah, why can't I? Oh, my gosh, are you a second grader? If you want accountability, then we have to have radical honesty. We have to have personal responsibility. We have to be able to refuse the lies, even on our own side, even when it hurts us. Refuse to live the lie. Stop funding the machine. Demand transparency. Demand justice. Equal justice. All sides. If I were opening up bank accounts under false names and I was wire transferring to fictitious people and I wasn't telling anyone about it, and I'm not the FBI, and that was happening in my charity, do you think I would go to jail? Yes. And I should go to jail if that's what I was doing, because it's against the law. These organizations, they've got to be rooted in truth. Rooted in truth, not in outrage. 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Jason, help me out because I can't. I can't. I can't. I just can't. I can't do it. I just can't either. I mean, I was just watching. I was just going to play for the insiders a video of Cash Patel talking about every single one of the charges and describing all of the behavior that the SPLC Elemental P was doing. And I don't think the description of everything that they're being accused of is in the actual paperwork. When you're trying to apply to be a 501C3, I'm looking for it. I don't see like shell companies, not anywhere in the description of the qualifications. You know, not telling your donors that you're actually, you know, providing millions to the people that they're supposed to be fighting. That's not in the 501C1 3. Wait a minute. I mean, that the President got away with it. He made all kinds of shell companies. His whole family made shell companies. Nobody went to jail there. Yeah. Is it where in his son right now? Is he in, Is he in South Africa? Is in California? Because it's kind of been like a Where's Waldo situation right now. Really is. And again, nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Oh, my gosh. I, you know, I look at this and I see the arguments that are being made. You know, I'm not saying that nobody is saying that they made all of the hate up. That's such a lazy argument. Such a lazy argument. I said yesterday this one other tweet came out and they were like, Glenn Beck says, this is nothing but a color revolution. I didn't say that. I said if these things are true, it could be that they were part of a color revolution. Maybe that's what's happening here. I don't know. I mean, it makes an awful lot of sense, but maybe not. But the one thing I do know is if these charges are true. Bank fraud. Bank fraud that's not a. When did that. Because, you know, we keep saying, you know, with these banks got to pay a price, they got to pay a price. We got to stop bailing the banks out. And then when it's fraud with the bank on your side, whatever your side is, you're like, well, that wasn't so bad. That banking fraud wasn't so bad. I mean, you know, but it was really, really bad. When, when Epstein did it. But, but, but not, you know, not when the SPLC did it or when Joe Biden did it. Those are completely different. No, they're not. We are a nation of laws. That's what makes a republic free, is you're a nation of laws. We've become a nation of men. Well, tell me who you are, and I'll either find the crime that you committed or depending on who you are, I'll dismiss all crimes that you have committed. That doesn't stand. Correct it in yourself first. All right. More in a minute. Hey, getting poor sleep isn't just an inconvenience. It's. It ruins your day. For one thing. It's not even the worst part. It's also terrible for your health and it can be dangerous. Ever fall asleep while you're, you're driving because you got such a terrible night's sleep? 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Founding members support his carpal tunnel treatment by joining us@glenn beck.com torch. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. It is. It's Thursday. I wish it was Friday. I really do. Because if this is the way I feel today, look out for tomorrow because I Am. I am up to the brim with things to say that I cannot tolerate anymore. You know, you look around now and you see everything, and you either get pissed off or you just have this, like, really profound ache inside. You're like, oh, my gosh, we are doomed. It's just not going to happen. You know, families are just breaking apart. Truth is under constant assault. A culture that just mocks everything that is good and true and beautiful while. While celebrating all the things that just destroy. Moral confusion is everywhere. We can't even. We have a Supreme Court justice that cannot define what a woman is. And you wonder, is this the. Is this the end of the West? Is this the death of the West? Or is that what we're watching? And then you'll see flickers and you'll be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, look, it's a spiritual revival. And then you look back at culture and you're like. Or is that just wishful thinking? I. Here's the truth. Both things are happening at once. The cultural and moral decline of the west is absolutely real, and it's accelerating. I will tell you, I cannot tell you in. In clear enough terms. We cannot engage in the division of one another on our side. All hands on deck. I don't care if you just. Can you give me. Can you give me 5 of the bill of Rights? Can we just agree on five things? Give me five of the Ten Commandments and five of the Bill of Rights. And you know what? I'm going to call you an ally, because this is it, gang. This is it. These next two elections will decide whether we survive or not. And I will tell you why. Maybe one of the reasons may be why I feel so optimistic. And this is really scary, because if you have listened to me for the last 30 years, anybody who has listened to me since, you know, 2005, you know, I am. I'm really. I'm not. I'm not an optimistic person of a catastrophist. And when I start feeling optimistic. I mean, I said this yesterday, I think I did in this speech. We. We broke ground on a new museum. I'll tell you about it later here in Dallas yesterday. And. And I was. I was thinking about it, and I thought, you know, it's been 15 years since I started Mercury One. It's been about 20 years since I. 25 years since I started collecting American history. And. And when I started Mercury one, the idea came to me just before the breakdown of, you know, just about a month before we hit tarp, okay? And everybody was saying, it's all good, it's all good, it's all good. And I believed at the time there for a couple of months that, wow, maybe, maybe I was wrong. Maybe it's not going to break down. Maybe, maybe I was wrong about all of this stuff. And then finally it broke down and we went into tarp and it was, you know, the end of the economy, of the global economy. We've got to violate the free market system to save the free market system. And I knew we were in trouble because about a month or so before, I'm in prayer, and I. I'm overwhelmed with the feeling, build the framework of hope. I didn't even know what that meant. I did know this. Oh, it's going to get really bad. It's going to get really bad. If I'm. If I am being. Being. Getting the feeling that, you know what? You should build the framework of hope. Something that people can hang on to when times get tough. I thought, wow, it's gonna get bad. Because I'm never optimistic when things, you know, are. Are good. I'm optimistic. After the Titanic hit the iceberg, I'm like, we all get into the lifeboats. We're gonna make it. And you know what, guys? We're gonna stand here on the deck, and we're gonna make it, too. Where it's gonna be. It's gonna be good. We're gonna. We're gonna see Jesus soon. I'm that guy. But on the first part of the Titanic, before we hit the iceberg, I'm like, there's not enough light boasts. We're all going to die. And I'm really optimistic right now, which tells me we all better hang together or we will certainly hang separately and what's coming. But here we are where. Where we have replaced eternal truth with my truth. Whose truth? It's my truth. There is no such thing as your truth. There's only truth. And then your opinion, your lived experience. But that doesn't mean it's true. We've traded humility for. For pride, self sacrifice, for self worship, strong families for endless distraction. And what's happening to us? We are lonely. We are anxiety ridden. We're. We're suicidal. We're addicted. We're addicted to desperate living in despair. My gosh. But at the same time, something else is happening. Something else is stirring. It is a spiritual awakening. In refugee camps, in persecuted churches overseas, in living rooms here at home, people are rediscovering that the most persecuted Christians often carry the deepest joy why? Because they've been stripped of every false God. They know it's real. Their hope isn't in circumstances, it's in the one who never fails them. And then we say, how can we, how can we raise our kids with real faith when the culture is just trying to destroy it? Think about trying to raise a kid as a Christian in China. Somehow or another, they do it. And maybe it's because they don't outsource their formation to screens in schools. They know the lie of the screens in the schools in China. And so the parent has to become the example. The parent has to teach them to ask the hard questions, to model radical honesty, daily surrender, unshakable hope. If we start showing them that joy is not the absence of suffering, because that's what our kids think, it's the absence of suffering. My kids, they think everything is sunshine and lollipops because my, my older, my younger kids were born when I was successful. My, my older kids were born into, you know, not poverty, but real struggle. And so they know life is not just handed to you. My, my, my younger kids, all they've known is when I've been successful. And so they, they, they, in some ways, they think that, well, happiness is the absence of suffering. It's not. It's not. It's the presence of God amidst the suffering, in the middle of all of it, in all of the chaos and everything else. It's the presence of God. That's what it is. The persecuted believers that I have met, they didn't have nice houses, they didn't have safety. They had something that wealthy, miserable people in mansions have lost. They knew who they were. They. They knew why they were here, who they belong to and what they. What was important for them to do. And it's, it's not wishful thinking. This is the pattern of history. Revival always comes in the darkest of hours because nobody needs. You know what if you're wildly successful and, and everything's going great and you've never really had God in your life, you're not going to look for God. Why are you looking for God? When is the time? You go and look what drives you to your knees. Your kids are in trouble. There's been a death. Somebody's really, really sick. You're about to lose everything. That's when we suddenly like God. I know we haven't spoken in a long, long time, but I'd like to introduce myself. I'm a guy who's about to make every promise under the sun to you right now, if you can just XYZ now, I will promptly forget all of those promises soon as my life gets sweet again. That's what. That's when we find God. When we. When we finally stop trusting the system or the. The king or the president or programs and platforms and parties. Get rid of all that, and all of a sudden we're like, oh, yeah, okay, it wasn't about money or fame or fortune or any of that. Huh? It was about God the whole time. Want you to know the decline is real. I'm going to talk to you about the economy here in a second, but I'm going to give you something to really, that we can all actually do, because there's a reason why people cannot afford houses right now. Part of it is mental, but another part of it is really real. And I'll explain that here in a minute, and I'll show you what we should be pushing for. But the decline is real. But I want you to know, so many people don't feel hope right now. The hope is just as real. The question isn't whether God is moving right now. The question is, are you going to join him? Are you going to recognize it? Are you going to? Or do you have to be, please, please don't do this. I know this for a fact. Oh, you can surrender. Completely surrender right now when it's pretty easy, or you will surrender when it's not easy. But you'll surrender because he'll drive you to your knees. You will be the person, and then you'll get. It'll be so bad. And maybe this is a good thing. It'll get so bad that you'll be like, and I'm going to make you every promise. But this time, I'm going to keep it. And you'll keep 80% of those promises because nobody can do all of it. You'll fail. So don't plan on. Just remember, he forgives you. I want you to. Today, when you look at everything that's going on, I want you to look at it and go, wow, that sucks. Wow. If people are this stupid, we're probably doomed. However. However. Feed your hope. Grow your gratitude. Expand your empathy. Even. Even for those who are still lost in the decline. Your family, your community. This culture desperately needs the kind of people who have been changed from the inside out. Be that person. The west is shaking. But the kingdom, it doesn't shake. 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And we are so thrilled to be able to announce that yesterday we broke ground on a new museum. We're going from 30,000 square feet. I think in the end It'll be almost 300,000 square feet. It's this beautiful, beautiful facility. And I've been working with some designers of museums, and we're going to turn the museum experience upside down, Just absolutely upside down. My goal is to make a museum to where your kids leave there and go, when can we come back? Because my kids never have said that. I've taken them to all kinds of museums and they've never went, when can we go back? They're like, we don't have to ever go back there again, do we, dad? No, and you don't appreciate history. And so I have spent years trying to figure out ways that if Walt Disney were alive, how would he do it today? How would he create a museum? And so that's what we're creating. And yesterday we, we had the groundbreaking ceremony and it was Jason, I mean it was so spirit filled. It was so amazing. Yeah, I mean I was not expecting that. I was expecting some people to shovel some dirt and someone from the city council or chamber of commerce to say, yep, congratulations, welcome to the city. And they did. And there was some of that. But it was the blend of, I mean it actually felt like a covenant. A covenant. What was happening at the time? There was a spiritual leader. All of this is. I just got a text from one of the executive directors, JP from Mercury one. All of that is going to be made available for the insiders. So if you're not an insider, they did record it yesterday. So they recorded it and they're editing it now and they're going to make it available. Good. It was so, so amazing. I can't wait to see that. I left there yesterday. I was like, we should have recorded that for the insiders. Apparently Mercury one is smarter than we are. And, and they did. And so you'll be able to see that if you're not an insider. Join the club. Get all the behind the scenes. Join the family. You just join us@glenn beck.com torch glenn beck.com tor torch and help us build these things. I mean we, this phase of my life and this is what the torch is really about. And we're still working on it. And it's going to be a while before it really gets there. But the museum is really part of the mission in a way of education, trying to make it so your kids can understand history and be taught history in a completely different way. And we are hiring all kinds of people to start on our education programs right now. And so please help us, help us build this. Just join us. Glenn beck.com/glenn beck.com torch all right, back next with a look at the economy. New movie out called Animal Farm. It's a bold animated adaption of George Orwell's classic tale. It brings George Orwell to a new generation that desperately needs to learn about the dangers of totalitarianism, communism and honestly, really nasty capitalism gone wrong. Cronyism. 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I'm really sick of, quite honestly, people like me, you know, podcasters and loudmouths who are always giving you their opinion and just demanding that they are right. You gotta listen to me because I know I'm right and I don't know if I'm right. And I just, I want to live in a world of more facts and less opinion, quite honestly. But with that said, let me try to, let me try to take you through the facts of what I think is stealing a lot of our hope. You know, right now there's a lot of people that really believe that it'll never get better, especially, especially younger people. They'll never have the life that their mother and dad had. And, and I understand that. I completely understand that. Especially with AI coming and jobs, you know, we're not sure where jobs are going to come from, the, the debt and the way how, how expensive everything is. But it really revolves around homes. And that that is partially true, but also partially a lie. And so I want to take and separate what's true and what's a lie and then show you what we can do about the parts that are true, the things that we should be demanding in our own neighborhoods and our own communities because we can fix this problem. I want to get to that here in just a second. First, super Sure. A lot of business owners spend years learning about how to build their business business and almost no time learning how to protect it. You know, we know how to hire, we know how to sell, manage cash flow, keep customers happy, handle the payroll, fix the problems, put out the fires all day long. But when it comes to insurance, I think I'm covered. I have, I really, I have no idea. Well, I didn't until super sure because that's not a strategy. Super sure will help your business find the right coverage for the real world risk that your company faces. 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Now the latest numbers from the gao, the Government Accounting Office, is that they estimate that our government loses between 233 billion and $521 billion every year based on fraud between 2018 through 2022. Can you imagine how bad it is now? Half a billion dollars. Sorry, half a trillion dollars. How many trillions are we in debt in two years just based on fraud? In two years we will add another trillion dollars to our debt and that entire number of trillion will be because of fraud. I don't know. Is that sound important? That's not like, that's not cutting pennies here. That's cutting a trillion dollars every two years. That seems really important because we're just not going to make it with this kind of spending. And if this fraud continues like this, we're not going to have a country left to protect. And I don't mean just because of the fraud. I mean because we're not going to believe anybody. People are going to start saying, I'm not paying for it anymore. You're wasting my money. You're wasting everything that I have worked hard for. I work four months out of the year just to pay my income tax. That's not reasonable. When you're, when you're losing half a trillion dollars in fraud, people are just going to have enough of it. That has to be addressed. But then we also have to address something that is both partially a lie and partially true. And because there is a, there is a deception that is going on that people are believing. And here's what it whispers to people every day. You can't afford the life you want. You can't afford to buy a decent house. You can't start a family. Not in this economy, not anymore. I think most Americans buy that now, and they have every reason to buy it. The soaring prices, the endless debt, the perfect images online of what everybody else's dream is. And you look at and go, that dream is dead. So we have put off marriage and children. We put off a home that we can own. And we get less and less hopeful because we convince ourselves that real happiness and success requires more than we could really ever achieve. I want to do an experiment with you right now. Think about the house that you believe would make you truly happy. Okay? I want you to just actually pick a number in your head. How many square feet, how many bedrooms for you to be like, I'm happy. I'm living a dream. I'm living the way my parents would have lived. Okay? You know, when the dream was available for everybody, how many kids are running through those rooms? What's the square footage of the home? How many bedrooms? How many kids? You have that number. Keep that number in mind. Now, let me go back to probably the peak, the golden era of America, back to the 1950s. And I'm not saying it's golden era for everybody, blah, blah, blah. Stop. But this was a time when we had a booming economy. Jobs everywhere, manufacturing. I mean, we were the envy of the world. Cheap gas, cheap energy. The world seemed to be at peace. America stood at its zenith. The average home back then was $7,000. Now, these are $1950. $7,000. How big? Remember the number that you have on square footage? How big is that home that you're thinking right now? Because the average home today is 2500 square feet. The average new home in 1950 was 983 square feet. 983 square feet. The average family was almost four. It was 3.9. So there were two children, two adults living in 983 square feet. And that's where the American dreams were built. That's where families gathered around the table and children played in the yard. And people. People felt their life was full and good. If I told you you could afford a modest home of that size, under a thousand square feet, and raise your family in it, would you take it? Would you live, Would you. Would you mentally trust that you could be genuinely happy with two children and 900 and what was it? 83 square feet? Because our parents did and our grandparents did. Now, that home in 1950 cost about $7,300. Adjust that for inflation, and you're looking at about $95,000 in today's dollars. Okay, the same average home today, the average home is over $400,000. Not double, not even triple. That's four time higher, four times higher in real terms. But that's today's average home because back in 1950 it was 950 square feet. Small, modest, practical, almost, you know, almost the exact size of what you could get today. But not for 400,000. Level the playing field. Same size, because 400,000 is about a 202,000 square foot home. Okay, let's adjust this to 1950s inflation. Back then, home, adjusted for inflation, ran about a hundred dollars per square foot. Today, the same home, you're looking at $200, 250 maybe at the priciest places, around $300 per square foot. So when you strip away the size inflation from 2000 to 950 and you compare apples to apples, the home is still about two times more expensive. So you're talking about, from 95, you're talking about 200,000. So you've doubled the price. Bare minimum, if you're living close to a city, it, it might be three times same square footage in $1950, top end, 950 square feet selling for 5 to 7,000. If you look in 1950s numbers, that's 10 to 14,000. So it's double. Now we're told a story to try to explain this. It's inflation, but it's not, it's not inflation. Because if it was all inflation in $1950, it would be, it would be $7,000, but it's not. If we, we, we look at that and we say it's 14, it's 10 to $14,000. That's the inflation. Okay, so what else is costing us this money? What else is costing this? Today's dollar should have been 7,000, but it's not. It's 14. What is causing the double price? Here's another lie. Well, the homes are better when. It's not exactly a lie, it's kind of true. We have central air, we have advanced electrical systems, we have insulation appliances, smart tech things that didn't even exist in 1950. You walk into a 1950s house and you're like, this is a total teardown. Okay? Even if it was taken care of perfectly, you don't want to live in that house. Okay? But that doesn't explain the 2 or 3 or 400% increase. Dishwasher didn't triple the price of a home. So what did? Well, the answer is not in the house. The answer is what's under your feet. Land. And if you're a farmer, you know this because you can't afford to buy land. Land has become the most expensive part of the American home. Now why is that? Did we run out of land? You drive 30 minutes outside of almost any major city in any county and you're going to see it. It's all still sitting there, wide open space, waiting. So why is land so expensive? Because our government made it that way. You didn't. I didn't. But the government, local, state and federal government, they all made it that way. Zoning laws, permits restrictions, endless layers of EPA approval. We didn't run out of land. We restricted the access to the land. And then something else happened. We stopped building. Not completely, but compared to what we used to do, it's not even close. We also have immigration now that brings in a sudden, overwhelming demand for homes. Millions of people need a home. So the question is, on that one, have we ever been there before? Huge sudden demand for homes, shortage of homes. Yeah. Been in exactly the same position after World War II. Millions of soldiers came home and they wanted to start a family and they wanted their own home. So there was this massive housing shortage, far, far worse in many ways than what we're facing today. Demand exploded overnight. So what happened there? Because I don't remember almost going into revolution in the 1940s, late 1940s, and late and early 1950s, because there were home shortages. In fact, I don't really remember reading much about the home shortages except for right after the war. What happened? Because we had to study it for decades, right? I mean, we held hearings and we passed rules to slow things down. Nope, nope. We did something different back in the 1950s. I'm going to pick it up there here in just a second. First, let me tell you about pre born. A lot of problems in this country that people love to discuss from a distance. You know, panels talk about them, politicians fundraise off them, strangers argue about them online. But very few people come close enough to actually help the person standing in the middle of the problem. And that is what I really respect about pre born. They don't just talk about women facing unplanned pregnancies. They show up with real support through their network of pregnancy clinics. They provide health care, they provide resources. Free ultrasounds to women who may feel alone, scared or unsure of what to do next. And that that kind of help changes lives. And every single day, every single day, they provide that. 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I'm hoping that I can have just the permitting done by this summer. And that's Florida one. That is not a problem. The GI Bill made the financing available. Millions of veterans, they served their country. They came back. The interstate highway system opened up the land that had never been reachable before. And perhaps most importantly, the government got out of the way. The government made it easy to build. So what happened? Prices rose at first because everybody needed a home. And then they stabilized because supply caught up with demand. That's how markets are supposed to work. Now, fast forward to today. We have a shortage again. But this time, are we unleashing builders? No, we're restraining them. Are we expanding supply? No, we're constraining it. Instead of saying yes, like. Like Donald Trump just did with the oil. Drill, baby, drill. Build, baby, build. Instead of that, we say, not here, not here, not here. And then we act surprised when skyrocket, you know, prices skyrocket. This is why the most important number is not the price of a home. It is the ratio between a home price and income. In 1960, the average cost was two times the average annual income. Today, it's over five times. That's the difference between opportunity and exclusion. That's the difference between a young family starting a life and one stuck renting indefinitely. So when your kids ask, you know, how did your parents do it? How do you do it? The honest answer is this. We lived in a country that believed in building. A country that saw the problem and solved it with action, not obstruction. We were actually trying to make people's lives better because we cared about the individual person, not the planet over people. We cared for the planet, but we also cared for people. You know, the country believed that growth was good, expansion was good. Opportunity was something that you created, not something that you rationed. And somewhere along the way, that whole, that whole mindset of America changed. We didn't lose the land, we didn't lose the resources, we've lost the will. And until that changes, this doesn't get fixed. The American dream is not dead. We've just been lied about what it actually is. Some of us are being lied to because they say there's no way out. We're never going to be able to do it. You're lying because we're Americans. We solve problems, we build. That's who we are. We're builders. That's the difference between America and the rest of the world. We build, we invent our way out of these problems, but that's not what's happening. And then the other half of the problem is the lie that just keeps continuing that you're not going to be able to live the American dream. Well, what is the American dream? Because if you want to live the way your parents did, it's not in a 2,500 square foot house. That's new. And that's not even what people are even really hoping for. They want to live in a 5,000 square foot house or a 10,000 square foot house. The American dream was never about a mansion. And so anybody who is watching life on, on, on, you know, Facebook or on TikTok or an Instagram. That's not real life. That's not. The American dream is about freedom and opportunity and hard work and faith and building a life with the people that you love. Not in a homeless shelter, but not necessarily in a home that is built just to impress. Let's remember what it means to actually be happy. Don't confuse social media with reality. More in a minute. All right, let me tell you about rapid radios. When everybody can reach everybody, it feels normal. And when you can't get through, everything slows down fast. Imagine a family trying to find each other at a crowded event. You know, a crew spread out over a large area property. Parents checking on kids outside, people coordinating during bad weather. 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Get the bonus content@glennbeck.com torch. We go to Bill in Michigan. Hello Bill. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, Glenn. How you doing buddy? One of the things that is fantastic, a beautiful day here. Yeah. One of the things I think you're missing in the whole affordability crisis is the fact that property taxes are out of control. Yes, sir. I live in a relatively small community. My property taxes $8,000 per year and my home is paid for retiree on a fixed income. And it's not unusual to see people, especially if you've got a large track of property, $10,000 a year, that that's kind of the norm and that's just an awful lot of money. And there's no accountability when you go to a township meeting. Yep. Yeah, no, we're doing this, doing that. So that, that's another factor. I will tell you. Thanks for your call, Bill. Great point. But it goes back to a larger point I'm trying to make and that is the problems are with the government. What's stopping us build the government. What's, what's stopping us from putting up new homes every place. The government, the restrictions, the permitting, the taxes, everything, everything, it all stems from the government. Jason, give me the stats that you just gave the insiders on, on the budget, the federal budget, the budget. Let me pull these up really quick. So by and large, the federal budget for mandatory spending is really the only one that's going up. So mandatory is all of the entitlement, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, all those things, discretionary spending, defense spending, all of the spending like that is actually going down. So it's the entitlement spending that we cannot get control of. The entitlement, the entitlement spending. And as that's going up. It's going to require more and more taxes. Yeah. And you know, I personally think, you know, when you retire, you shouldn't have to pay taxes anymore. You've paid property taxes your whole life. I think property tax is theft myself. I think all property tax should be abolished. But you've, you've paid your whole life. You've paid your whole life, you put your kids through. Can you give the people who have retired now a break? So the things that we can do is we need to start voting for people who understand small government in our local, state and federal. Stop the spending, stop restricting the land, stop telling us what we can and can. It is, it's, it's wrong, it's just wrong to. These governments think they know better and they are dictating where and what we can do. No, no, that's the way to bring things down. Oh, and by the way, also, if you're here illegally, you should leave because you are overwhelming our hospitals. You are taking jobs if you are working. If you're not working, you're driving entitlement up at billions and billions and billions of dollars. And that's not the waste, that's not the fraud that's on top of all of that. And then the other thing that we can do is, is, is realize that and not accept it. Not accept it, but. Not go bitter about it or lose hope. Because once we lose hope, we're done. You know, I have to tell you one of the most amazing things that I have ever experienced because I think we have forgotten what it means to be happy. You know, we have, we've just, we've just forgotten what it means to be happy. And some of the happiest people I have ever met were people, they were persecuted Christians. I flew into Iraq because the Nazarene Fund, we were moving them out of country, we were getting them to safety. And I met these people in a refugee camp. And these were doctors, lawyers, dentists, teachers, garbage men that had lost everything. Some had lost family members, you know, to ISIS because of their faith. They had nothing by the world's standards, nothing. They had no reason to be optimistic. The first night I met with them, I met them in a very small church. And it was the church that ISIS had had targeted and said, we're blowing this up at 7 o' clock tonight. I got off the plane and arrived at this church at 6:30 at night. I didn't think we were going to go to the church because everybody that was targeted by ISIS, we didn't leave that church until 10 o' clock that night. And in that church, they were singing, they were laughing, they were hugging, they were praying with a depth that most people have never known. I've never seen Christianity like that. Because they knew what was real, they knew it was true and they knew what actually mattered. How many of us? You know, Covid was horrible. Covid changed everything in the world. Changed everything. But I have to tell you, that experience wasn't all bad for my family. It wasn't all bad. Now I happen to live in Texas and so, you know, the family, it was very scarring for my family who lived up in the northeast because it was just craziness. But in Texas we became closer. These people in, you know, that were fleeing from isis, they wanted jobs, they wanted to be safe, they wanted homes for their families. But that wasn't what, what decided their happiness. Their level of happiness, their joy came from something much deeper. From the faith, their family, the community. And knowing what true happiness was, what truly lasts. And at the same time, you know, I live in Florida now and I've seen wealth I didn't, I can't even understand. I mean, it is wealth beyond my wildest imagination. I've never seen anything like it. And I see people who are living in 20 and 30,000, 40, 50,000 square foot homes. They have the four finest cars, they jet off to sun, you know, sun drenched beaches for the holidays, their houses or palaces. And they are empty and miserable inside. So we need to assess the problem. And the problem is our government is refusing to let us be builders. We can build, we can rule ourselves, we should. But the other part is we are allowing happiness to be taken from us. Because of social media, I'm convinced because of social media, we have unreasonable standards. Unreasonable. Our kids have unreasonable standards, you know, and happiness and success can never be taken from you, Never. Because their states of mind, and that belongs to you and you alone. Hope belongs to you. Hope has to be fed. And if you keep feeding it, if you keep feeding it, nothing but, you know, images of things and stuff and lifestyles that you may never have, your hope is going to wither and die if you keep feeding it. People who keep telling you you'll never make it, you'll never make it, you'll never make it it, you are going to lose yourself in despair and comparison and, and envy and discontent. But if you, if you feed things that are eternal for hope, truth, gratitude, relationships, faith, serving something greater than yourself, building something that is real, your hope will grow. We have to stop with the comparison trap. We have to start choosing gratitude over envy. We have to choose presence over perfection. We have to start choosing solutions over divisive name calling. We have to choose to build a life that is rich in the things that actually matter. Love, character, service, trust in the one that gives real lasting hope. And I know most people don't won't want a mansion. I mean, I think maybe everybody. I mean, I'm promised a mansion. And you know, the scriptures say he's building a mansion and I'm expecting a pretty nice. No, I'm not. Most people don't need a mansion. They just want to have a house that they can call their own. A little scrap of land. Okay, but if you are expecting that mansion, expect disappointing. A disappointment. I mean, you might win the lottery in life. You know, I think I've won the lottery in life. There's really no reason why I'm successful. And maybe you're not. But you don't need the world's approval to know deep, abiding joy. And I think that's what our grandparents had that maybe some of us don't have. Our grandparents knew that. The believers that I met in Iraq in that church, they understood this. And one way or another, if it's not now, it will come soon when we will remember it as well. The dream isn't dead. It's not dead. It was never about the size of a house or how much money you make or anything else. It was about being able to chart your own course. And that is where we can tell the government who do you think you are? And real happiness comes from the size of the heart and feeding your hope with truth and standing firm in what is real. When we do that, no algorithm and no amount of square footage or lack of square footage can ever steal it. We were all here for. We're here for a reason. We were born at this time for a reason. You're born for the times in which we live. So let's start being that person in whatever square footage we have, whatever our circumstances are, know that tomorrow is going to be better, that there is no such thing as bad. It bad doesn't happen. It's what we do. My father said to me once, life, son, is a series of choices and adjustments. Life is going to bring what life brings and you can either about it or you can adjust to it and make the best out of it. I didn't like that. And I really kind of don't like that now. But it's true. Life is a Choice and a series of adjustments. I want to find a way to always be happy with what I have and where I'm at, no matter where I'm at in my life. That should be our goal. Back in just a minute. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. Ever notice how hard some companies will work to convince you that they share your values? Right at times, right up until the time it, you know, it's time to look at where the money actually goes. Commercials sound nice, the slogans sound nice, social media posts sound nice. And then your monthly bill, you know, comes in and you start looking into that company and they realize they're funding things that you don't believe at all. Now the phone companies are bad. I mean, you know, they're not funding the Nazis. Well, maybe no, they're not funny. They're fun to some. One of them, Verizon is funding Planned Parenthood, which is kind of close to it but you know, it's not the splc. But one of the reasons why Patriot Mobile stands out is because they provide the same exact dependable nationwide coverage, competitive pricing, US based customer service. But they also believe your money should support principles you actually agree with. So instead of sending your hard earned money to, you know, some corporation that you know is voting against you every day, choose a company that supports causes like free speech, faith, family freedom. 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But the problem is the land is going for 80, $100,000 for a lot. And that's not even talking about if you wanted over an acre farmland. I just went to two property auctions and they're selling for $16,000 an acre. Yeah, farmers can't afford that. I mean, maybe five grand an acre. Maybe you can. You can afford maybe. But I know I have farmland up in a small little town in Idaho. And you know, you're looking at. There was a farm down. Now this is farmland. There was a farm down the street. I bought that, that land for maybe a thousand dollars an acre years and years and years ago. There's a farm down the street that just sold farmland for $50,000 an acre. Farmland. There's no farmer. You're going to. You're not going to have food. You're not going to have food. They can't afford this. And what is this? What is this? This is all, you know. Remember Joe Biden wanted 30 by 30, 30% of all of the land. This is happening in Canada. 30% of all the land needs to be owned by the government and then cordoned off so no humans can be on that land. Then it was 50 by 50. That was the next goal. 50% of the land by 20, 50. What are they doing? They are pushing us into cities. They are pushing us into. You don't own anything. You don't own land. This we have to stop. And it's not going to. It's not going to help by us arguing about politicians and parties. It's going to stop when we identify what the problem is. And the problem is politicians and parties and most of them state and local, that are, are passing things that are restricting lands, making it harder for you to build. All of this stuff that we have be flown over the country, country, just look out the window, you know how much land there is in this country. Why are we starving for land? It makes no sense at all. Especially at a time when you can work from home no matter where you are in the world. There's no reason for this to be happening. This is all artificial bullcrap caused by our government and frankly, our financial system. That. That's what we should be shouting for. That's what we should be shouting for. Who's going to make the madness stop and allow us to build again? So right now, everybody's watching the war in Iran, hoping that it ends quickly. But there's something that people are not talking about. Even if it does end tomorrow, the aftershocks are just getting started because the Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted. And that doesn't just fix itself overnight. Ships that are arriving today left ports months ago. And right now shipments are Backed up and supplies are tightening. And other parts of the world are already feeling the shortages that we haven't fully felt yet. Which means what you're seeing now is the beginning. This affects shipping, manufacturing and eventually medical supply chains. And when the system slows down, medication shortages do follow. 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It's hard sometimes to see the problems in yourself. But everybody can. You ever notice people can look at somebody else and they can spot all their problems and they don't realize it. That's exactly the problem you have. But we can talk about those. So I want to talk about the problems in Canada and I was going to say that they're not a republic or they're not a, they're not a, a democracy anymore. That's not true. Because democracy, that only explains how power is chosen. I want to talk to you about a free nation because that, that, that covers how power is restrained. And I contend that Canada is not a free nation anymore. Much of the west is not a free nation anymore. And if you want to see our future, let's look at Canada for a few minutes. We're going to do that next. First, let me tell you about real estate agents I trust. Buying or selling our, you know, your home is not just a financial transaction. It is, it's happening in the middle of real life. 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It's real estate agents I trust.com that's real estate agents I trust.com okay, so let's look at what a free nation is. Before I get into this and I look at Canada, let's describe what a free mate free nation really is. Democracies and free nations can exist, but it's rare and historically very fragile. So here are the core hallmarks and pillars that actually determine whether a nation will remain free. Rule of law is number one. Rule of law, not rule of man. A free nation, the law applies equally to everyone, citizens, leaders and institution alike. Okay? No one is above it, nobody's beneath it. Rule of law is number one. Let's keep that. 2. Free, fair and regular elections. Democracy requires that citizens can choose their leaders through elections that are transparent, competitive, peacefully conducted and regularly scheduled. Power must also transfer peacefully when people decide. Without that, voting becomes theater. Number three, protection of individual rights. This is the dividing line between pure democracy and a free society. In a truly free nation, certain rights can not ever be voted away even by a majority. That's freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom, assembly and due process. Documents like the Constitution and Bill of Rights exist for this reason. Number four, separation of powers. Powers are divided, so no single person or group can dominate legislative. They make the laws executive, the enforcer laws. Judicial interprets the laws. This is, this is a, that's a free society. Anytime there's friction in that, it's usually, it's usually, you know, people bring that friction in on purpose. 5. Independent Judiciary. Courts have to be able to rule against the government without any fear. If judges serve political power instead of the law, then the rights exist only on paper. Justice has to be blind, not obedient. 6. Free Press and open information. Free nation requires a press that can question authority, investigate wrongdoing, inform the public without censorship. 7. Civilian cult, control of the military. 8. Protection of minority rights. 9. Economic freedom and property rights and 10 a culture that values freedom. Okay, that's what I'm looking for. Now let's look, see if we can. Let's look at Canada and see are they a free nation anymore? Because show me your friends and I will show you your future. Okay, let's start with the the basics of any real democracy. And that's accountability. In 2021, Parliament discovered that a scientist in Canada's highest security lab had shipped live Ebola to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and collaborated with the Chinese military on bioweapons research. Kind of a big deal, right? Do we have anything like that? Huh? So what happened in Canada? The House ordered the documents four times. The Liberal Party blocked it every single time. They sued, they stonewalled. They even called for a snap election to kill the investigation. So what is that? That's rule of law being violated and separation of powers being violated. Remember, those are two out of the 10 things that you have to have if you're going to be a free nation. Three years later the Auditor General exposed the almost $400 million in outright corruption. But again Parliament, the Liberals shut it down. Accountability, independent oversight violated. Then Trudeau resigned and 1/3 of 1% of Canadians, the elite inner circle handed the Prime Minister's office to Mark Carney. They tried to do that here when they tried to hand the nomination and did hand the nomination to Kamala Harris. While this was happening, the House of Commons stopped sitting for eight months. So Canada was governed by executive decree. No oversight, no debate, no votes. Where's your representation? Separation of powers. Okay, that's not a democracy, that's rule by fiat. They weren't even in session. The election elections, are they free and fair? CSIS confirmed China interfered in both 2019 and 2021 funding 11 candidates. Trudeau was briefed for this on this and he did nothing. That's free and fair elections out the window. Liberal MP openly told people to collect a Chinese Communist Party bounty on a Conservative candidate. No charges, equal application of the law violated. The next election. 121 mail in ballots went uncounted. In one in one the the vote was decided by a single vote. Elections Canada printed the wrong postal codes on the envelopes. In another data entry errors. And that delivered a 327 vote swing to the Liberals Trust in the election. Then five MPs flipped into the Liberal party in five months and convenient, convenient that it handed the elections to the now majority. A two seat majority to the Liberals. Democracy by design. Or is it democracy by manipulation? Do we see any of this happening here because see people blame this on the Republicans. But where are the Republicans in Canada? Why is this happening with progressive leadership all over the West? Once in power, they move to control what you see, what you say and how you live in Canada. They invoked the Emergencies act against the 2022 Freedom Convoy. They froze the bank accounts of protesters, their supporters, all across the country. That's a silencing of free speech and assembly and property rights. Two federal courts, including the Court of Appeal ruled unanimous unreasonable, unlawful and a violation of charter rights to expression, assembly and protection from unreasonable search and seizure. No national emergency existed. The government is still appealing to the Supreme Court, but the courts have already spoken. They acted without justification and then they got away with it. That's judicial authority and rule of law. They passed a bill called C18, the online news act that forced Google and Meta to pay Canadian outlets for links. Meta blocked all news on Facebook and Instagram for Canadians. Google paid up instead of blocking. But the precedent was set. Government decides what information flows. Free press, information flow controlled. That's not part of a free nation. Bill C11, the online streaming act, does the same thing to Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, forcing them under the thumb of Canada and their DEI quotas and Canadian content mandates. That's speech. That's cultural expression influenced by the state. That's not a free nation. They kept the carbon tax despite 2/3 of Canadians opposing the increases. 2/3? Is that a democratic republic? They ended the visible consumer tax only to keep the hidden clean fuel regulations and industrial carbon tax, quietly raising your fuel cost if you happen to be in Canada. Transparency. There's none there. They tried to mandate 100% EV sales by 2035, then replaced it with emission rules that achieve the same thing, except through the back door. That's regulatory overreach. Property rights optional. In Ontario, Bill 212 lets the province ram through highway projects, override municipal bylaws and force property owners out faster. No property rights In Waterloo, the government secretly used NDAs and expert expropriation threats to grab 770 acres of prime farmland for a mega site. Maybe a identity data center. Don't know. Farmers found out only after the fact. Where's your property rights? New Brunswick. A judge reduced a convicted man sentence specifically so he wouldn't be deported because his skills mattered more than enforcing the law. Where's equal justice? In Toronto, City Council voted to openly voted to open government run grocery stores that waive their own taxes to undercut private business. Fair market violation. In rural New Brunswick they saw forced municipal mergers and tax hikes of 50 and 60% on homeowners. British Columbia moving now from rural property rights into permission based system applying to the government for everything from selling eggs to you know, giving writing lessons, you know, or face a fight. A $50,000 a day fine. Economic freedom gone guns. They banned 2500 assault style firearms, called the buyback voluntary and then warned that keeping your legally purchased property after the deadline means jail. Is there any property rights? Then there's the darkest chapter made medical assistance in dying legalized in 2016 for those with reasonably foreseeable deaths. In 2021 they dropped that safeguard. 2024 alone, 22,535 Canadians requested it. 16,409 99 received it. 5.1% of all deaths in the country are now medical assisted suicide. From 2016 to 2024, over 76,000 killed by their own government's health care. It's now the fourth leading cause of death in adults. They have killed more people medically than they have euthanized pets. In Canada, meanwhile, socialized medicine patients are average averaging 28 weeks for treatment, three times longer than in 1993. Some doctors are offering maid for back pain curable conditions mental health. When the state controls your health care and offers death as a solution to its own failures, you're no longer a citizen. You're a cost center. And now they want more. The combating hate bill C9 moving through parliament up in Canada. New criminal offenses for hate codified definition that would criminalize religious belief, peaceful protest, dissent. There's no freedom of speech there. Former Google executive pitched a $500,000 exit tax on educated Canadians who if you dare to leave, they're going to, they're going to charge you half a million dollars. So you know, I mean, I mean, isn't that a Berlin Wall of sorts of you owe the state for the privilege of being born there. Stay and serve or pay to escape. Oh my gosh. That's not a democracy. It's not. Democracy is not when parliament sidelined for eight months. Democracy is not when foreign interference is ignored and elections are gamed. Democracy is not when you know, the courts rule, the government broke the law and then nothing changes. Democracy is not when the state controls your speech, your property, your health care, your energy, your news, your guns, and then offers you assisted suicide because the wait times for their medicine is too long. Canada has become something else. It's a managed oligarchy with democratic trappings. The forms remain, the elections, the parliament building, the maple Leaf flag. But the substance of what Canada has always been is gone. Power is consolidated now. Dissent is managed. The individual exists to serve the state and not the other way around. Look how far Canada has fallen now. Recognize America. This is your future. We are already letting unelected bureaucrats and activists and judges rewrite the rules. If we allow and tolerate foreign interference and media capture, if we accept that the government can freeze your bank account for protesting, seize your farm for progress. If we trade liberty for equity, safety and Canadian content, we're going to wake up in the morning in exactly the same place. I wanted to show you what was happening in Canada. The slide is gradual. The language is polite. The slogans might even make people feel good. Until one day you realize the cage was built around you and you're not. You're free to walk around, but not out. It's going to be a little harder to do because we have the constitution. But if you listen to. I'm going to play this when we come back. If you listen to what people are saying right now, senators are saying right now about what is coming, what they're planning on doing, packing the court, everything. We will be Canada overnight. Wake up, America. Wake up. Look at what they're doing in just Virginia. All right. More in just a second. 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I'm actually somebody that believes it's probably time to change the rules of the Senate. So I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I am defending or willing to defend all of the current rules of the Senate. But let's just be clear. Once Democrats, once Republicans have taken the lid off this jar, there's no putting it back. Republicans are now using reconciliation to fund the ongoing appropriations of the government in an area where it was hard to get agreement with Democrats. Democrats are going to do the same thing regardless of how the rules change. Now Democrats are just going to say, you know what, when we have power, we don't need to negotiate with Republicans over the hard stuff. We don't need your votes because we'll just go fund the government through reconciliation. So you've changed the practice of the Senate here. They've been doing reconciliation now for a while. We haven't had a budget since 2008. Maybe you guys should actually do your job. Maybe that's what should happen. More importantly, look at what he's saying. We're going to change the rules. I'm not even standing here to defend the rules. We're going to change them more in a minute. Legacy Box. We're on an incredibly important journey of preserving the past, you and I. That journey begins first at home, making sure the precious memories we make with our families can endure the effects of time. It's a sacred duty that has to be handled with love and care. Unfortunately, walking along down the road with us on that journey is a company called Legacy Box. This is the industry leader in preserving all of our own, all of our old camcorder tapes and photos and VHS tapes and film reels, and they digitize them and make it really, really easy to do. You can digitize them and then you can share them with your your friends and they do all of the work in here in the United States. Team of over 200 trained technician and I've used them to help preserve my own family records. 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They will be doing exactly the same thing that Canadians are having done to them right now. Listen to what RFK said yesterday about the maid policies in Canada and it's coming here, gang. Listen to this. Cut five. I think those laws are important and we see in Canada today, I think it's the number one cause of death is assisted suicide. And as you say, it targets people with disabilities and people who are struggling in their lives. And I don't think we can be a moral society. We can't be a moral authority around the globe if that becomes institutionalized throughout our society. So I'm happy to work with you do in whatever way. We can be great. Love to have the help on that. We've now seen a rise of people with eating disorders that are giving access to assisted suicide. And this is just wrong in a multitude of ways. So why is that happening? Why is that happening? It's happening because they don't have the money. And when you have a shortage, you and you've given all the power to the government, the government will decide. You know, nobody thought it was fair that rich people can afford, you know, rich people can afford health care. Well, it's not fair. It isn't that poor people can't afford. But, but at least the government isn't deciding. At least that's the private market deciding. And the Government can do a lot to get out of the way just by revamping the insurance by get by stopping all of the restrictions that are all built in favor of these giant insurance companies. Stop doing that and then make the market much more free and you're going to be able to have more people afford it. But once the government is in charge and then they can't afford it, what do they do? They start saying who's going to live and die? And that's what's happening in Canada and it is coming here. And I have to tell you, I went to Auschwitz with my daughter who has cerebral Paul Halsey. And we stood in a room where one room was just nothing but hair, one room was nothing but eyeglasses. Just to give you the scope of how many people went through and died. And one room was just artificial limbs and crutches all stacked up into a giant pile floor to ceiling. And my daughter stood there for a long time. I stood by the window trying to get some air and I watched her stand in front of this pile of artificial limbs. She finally came over to me and said, dad, They would have killed me. Wouldn't they have? You live in a nation where socialized medicine is happening and then there's trouble and economic trouble and it goes into collectivism and it goes into a nation where their view of people's worth is how much they can make for the state. Or their view is are they on the side of the state or not on the side of the state. And that's what happens every single time. Canada is doing everything that none of it makes sense for the Canadian people. Let me, let me ask you how this makes sense. I want you to listen to one of the MPs in Parliament. This is from Canada. They're pushing, pushing China on ownership of a natural resource that is really important to a free society. Listen to this. Cut 8. Please like to speak about antimony. You mentioned that as one of the NATO critical minerals. And it's a use for fire retardant material and other defense applications. China produces 110,000 tons per year. How much does Canada produce of antimony? I'm happy to share the exact figure in writing to the committee. Okay, thank you. My understanding is zero. But thank you for sharing zero with the committee. We look forward to that. We do have a mine in fact it be Brook in Newfoundland. Is that correct? It is not currently in production. That was my next question. So yeah, could you know who this. So it has been producing antimony. It's no longer producing it's been shuttered. Can you tell me who owns that mine? I'm happy to submit that to the committee. Well, I'll share with you that it's China Min Metal Company which is a state owned, Chinese state owned, owned company and they've decided to shutter it and now we don't produce this. What does antimony make? You need it in bullets, you need it in music, munitions, and you need it for electronics. Now why would Canada sell that mine to China and then allow China to shut it down? So the entire world is dependent on China. How does that make sense for the Canadian people at all? At all? Listen to this. Here's a Canadian parliamentary member talking about all the things that the Liberals voted down. Listen to this. Folks. Today is a exceptionally difficult day. I am not quite angry. I actually, to be honest with everybody and I'll tell you why if you give me a minute. Just listen through this video and I'm going to now tell you exactly what the government, the Liberals and the Prime Minister voted down on, on all the, the, the bills that were trying to be passed today. So number one is Bill C246. It is a bill that ensures sexual predators face consecutive sentences so that each offense is properly recognized and punished. The Liberals voted that down. Number two, Bill C220 conservatives will lead will end leniency for non citizens convicted of of serious crimes and ensure they are deported, not given sweetheart deals by the courts due to their immigration status. The Liberals voted that down. Bill C 243 ends the cycle of annual parole hearings that force murder victims families to re relive the trauma year after year. The Liberals voted that down as well. And the biggest one is they voted down and killed. Jail, not bail. I am besides myself in how angry I am. These four bills were voted down today by the Liberals and they have the audacity to stand in the House and say that they're fighting for Canadians and trying to restore our justice system. They are doing completely the opposite. So where's Donald Trump in that scenario? Because everybody here thinks everything bad is happening because of Donald Trump. We're fighting Donald Trump. We're not. We're fighting a disease. Try this one here, cut 17. This is Canada. Recently the Minister of Immigration announced a new program to help Canada's military. Listen to this. And finally, we are creating a new category for skilled military recruits to attract highly skilled foreign military applicants. Eligible recruits with a job offer from the Canadian Armed forces, including doctors, nurses, pilots, can be invited to apply for permanent residence. They will Be subject to the same security and all military requirements. This new category will support our government's commitment to strengthen our armed forces forces to defend our sovereignty and to keep Canadians safe. Wow. So let's recruit foreigners to defend. Does this sound like Rome? How about this one? Listen to this proposal. Cut 18 offers me a job, 300 grand a year, right? All I have to do is show up at the border, apply for a TN visa, right? And I get this three year, like no questions asked, 30 bucks. And now I move to Microsoft. We as Canadians have subsidized my education to the tune of. You pick the number. Half a million, right? 500,000. And if it's a graduate student, go. Right. 30,000. TN go to the U.S. every year. You want to save yourself five to $10 billion, shut the TN program and then keep them in or make them pay their half a million so that if they leave, I'm okay with that. You want to go to the US Give me back my money. Like my dad, my mom, you all work every day to offer them their education. So we need both sides. We need to fight on one side to make sure that we bring the very best talent to the world. Because they all want to come here now. It's absolutely wonderful, but you can't have to sit on the other side. You can't let 5 billion or 10 billion a year of your hard earned cash so that Microsoft can get smarter. Well, does that work in all ways? Because that doesn't sound to me like a problem for liberals here. I mean, do you see the billions of dollars, Jason, do you have that number? The billions of dollars that have been spent in California by Gavin Newsom to bring people here? Only they come with aids. They come and have sex change operations, and we're paying for all of it. You have that? Yeah. So the. So Newsome has spent nearly $1 billion on those nonprofits, which is just wild. Nearly a billion dollars. Did anybody vote for that? Did anybody vote for that? They're now trapping you in Canada as well. You can't leave without paying taxes. Trapping. They're. They. I'm telling you, they're going to do this in, in. There's. They're already waiting for the vote to happen this fall in California. They're going to do it in all of these liberal states. They're talking about doing it now in New York. Go ahead, you can leave, but you're leaving your money here. These people think it's their money. They think your life is theirs. They think that they have a right to tell you where you can live, how you can work, where to take or invest your money. They don't have any of those rights. This, it's happening here in America at a record rate. Imagine if we lose the House and the Senate and then imagine we lose the presidency. We have got to stick together. Every single oar has to be rowing in the same direction. I've never been like this before. I've never, ever, ever been like. It bothers me. This binary thing really bothers me. But it is becoming really, really clear to me that this is it. This is it. Watch. What? Look. Look what's happening in Canada. Look what's happening in England that's coming here. It's the same policies. They just didn't get off this train like we did. We. We got to make sure we don't ever get on that train again because it is the destruction of those countries. You're handing weapons to foreigners, having them defend, and then you're saying, oh, everything that we need, you know, we need really important, you know, minerals for, for bullets and for tech. And we're going to shut up, shut down our mining, sell it to Canada, let them produce all of it in China and none of it here. And by the way, there's only two mines in the world. One in Canada, one in China. That's it. How is that in the best interest of anybody in the West? I contend Canada is no longer a free nation and we're right behind it if we're not careful. Look at what the left is saying they're going to do if they get control back. More in a minute. There's a certain moment where every business owner knows there's real trouble. 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But what they don't realize is we're forgiving them for being retarded.