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Every year corporate insurers get richer while Americans pay more and get less. Now their greed's broken the system, even shutting down our government to protect their taxpayer funded profits. And in this chaos, their schemes are finally being exposed. Big Insurance and their Democrat allies have rigged health care insurance against hard working families. Government bailouts, record profits, premiums climbing higher and higher. It's a pattern America can't afford to ignore any longer. Conservatives must do more than hold the line. We must fix it. Paid for by American Resolve Action. Well, the shutdown is over. Our long national nightmare is over. Until about January. There's going to happen again. Also the UC Berkeley students protesting Turning Point event. What is what does all that mean? And a thank you to the vets on Veterans Day. All this and so much more on today's podcast. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. When you pay your phone bill, where does that money go? 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So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program. Let me start with a couple of things here. I want to go to cut five first. I want to play this from Ilhan Omar. During an interview she was asked about, does she have any fear that she could be deported? Now listen to this. This is a Congresswoman of the United States. Listen to this. I mean, I have no worry. I don't know how they take away my citizenship and deport me, but I don't even know why that's like a such a scary threat. Like I'm not the 8 year old who escaped war anymore. I'm grown, my kids are grown. Like I can go live whatever I want. Oh, she can go and live wherever she wants. Boy, I wish she would. So wait a minute. I'm trying to understand. Then why are you so against ice? Because it's not scary. You can go and live wherever you want. Why are you so afraid? Because you're not afraid of it. You would think, first of all, constitutionally, they can't do that. Well, I mean, you can if you came under false pretenses. And I'm just saying marry your brother. But, you know, you could, you could have that citizenship taken away if, if that were ever true or proven. And there's absolutely no way that ever gonna happen. But it doesn't sound like she's proud to be an American. I could just live wherever I want. You know, I've thought about this a lot. Stu and I were joking about it last week. He was like, you know, Glenn, you might want to consider a second citizenship someplace else. And I'm like, wait, what? What are you talking about? I mean, if you want an escape hatch, now would be the time to get it. And I've thought about it because honestly, if. If the power goes back to the left. To the left, not Democrats, to the left in 2028, it is not going to be pretty. They are going to do things that I am not looking forward to. I mean, we'll be out of business. You'll be lucky to not be. I mean, we have one person running And I've got a story about it later. It's in the free email newsletter@glenn beck.com we have a person running for the Democrats that actually believes in rounding people up that are Trump supporters and putting them in concentration camps. Oh, okay. Wow. All right. I'm not for that, but I guess, you know, hey, whatever floats your boat. And you. We've seen that they are willing to get nasty. They are. They, it's, it's not a live and let live kind of thing. You know what I mean? And that's kind of where I want to spend my time, you know, here in the next few minutes on that. Let me start with UK Berkeley. These are anti TP USA protesters. They show up on the front lines and they are, they're, they're shouting things at the people who are waiting to get into the event. Last night at UC Berkeley. Listen to this. Do I need to say what they're saying about your dead, homie? Wow. I mean, I'm having a hard time with this. It's not that it is, I guess, unexpected. It's just the atmosphere. Something has changed in the atmosphere. You know, for the last few weeks, I have been carrying this feeling around, you know, like the weather has changed and nobody has bothered to check the forecast. You know, it's not a gentle slide from fall into winter. It's. It's. It's like all of a sudden, you know, you have a front ripping across the plains. That's what's happening. And I've been thinking about this a lot, and I haven't expressed it this way. There's an old principle from, from physics, and we all learned it in, in school. It's Newton's third law. And you can say it almost like a lullaby. Now, for every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction, right? And that, that line is, you know, classroom trivia. But it's more than that. It. Because it is a description of how reality itself pushes back. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Every force will set off another force. Every impact ripples a counter impact. And I can't shake that law lately, you know, because it is becoming less scientific and more almost like scripture right? Now. Think about what's happened in the last six months. Think about the action that has happened in the last six months. We had evil strike. Charlie Kirk was taken. Okay? It wasn't just a tragedy. It was a. It was a rupture in the floorboards of our world. And millions of people felt it all over the world. The entire globe stopped for a minute, stunned. That was the action. But then there was an equal and opposite reaction. And I don't think it was all that equal. It was all of a sudden like, oh, you want to play that game? It was bigger. And it did not come from man. It was a revival. It was this weird, glorious, unexpected rising of the human soul. People who hadn't prayed in 20 years found themselves whispering to God in the dark. Baptism surged, churches filled. Questions that had been buried under politics and entertainment started bubbling to the surface again. Is there more to life than this? What am I supposed to be? Is there any purpose to this? What is the cost of truth? For a few weeks, that really was bubbling. Charlie's Funeral reached over 1 billion people. When in history has a moment of grief turned into a global searchlight? So this was a massive reaction that's caused all kinds of ripples. Now comes another reaction, the one that follows the revival. And it is the counterforce. And just like the first action of the shooter, it was evil, but it was man. The reaction, the revival was not man, although it included men. But it felt like it was a God thing, didn't it? Now the reaction to that is the counter force, and it's the. The hatred on the left. It's the weird, weird ass lies about Charlie's death, okay? The weird attempt to repackage, you know, a new version of the oldest tyrant in human history and parade him out as something fresh. You know, I think he was just misunderstood. You're like, what is happening? And all of it, all of it is tied to this ancient hate the Jews stuff. This isn't politics. This isn't campus theatrics. This isn't what we were facing even a year ago. The pushback. That next reaction is something older, something that has always hated awakenings wherever it appears. And for me at least, I think this is the first time in my life. And maybe it's just me, but I feel like the eternal battle that usually plays, you know, plays out way above our heads, you know, in. In. In realms that we can barely imagine. It's as if we're seeing the two main actors stepping onto the stage with us. You know, it's almost like the curtain has been pulled aside and the big players have walked in and you're like, wait, is that. And wow. And he's, holy cow. Whether we wanted a role in this play or not, our part has been cast. We are part of this cast, okay? Fortunately for us, God uses human hands. Unfortunately for us, darkness does as well. So last week, when I told you I think the seasons have changed. Charlie's death was the ringing of a bell. Not a funeral bell, but the opening bell in the title fight. Every. Everything before that moment, all of the political squabbles, all the cultural noise, that was the undercard. These were all the warmups. These were the fight before the main event. I really am convinced when you're seeing this evil on the street, when you're seeing this lack of. Total lack of humanity and the celebration of death and the reframing of everything, especially when it comes to ancient evil, to me, the main event has now begun. Does anybody recognize that? Because now it is our time to act. Now it's our time to do what we're supposed to do. So I want to talk to you about heroism and what it means to be a hero. I want you to imagine somebody who acts not for applause, but acts for. Because it's just the right thing to do, okay? Someone who steps forward when it's really easier to stay silent. When you are standing there and you're like, I should say something. And you don't, and then somebody else does, and you're like, wow. Somebody who puts somebody else before themselves, not because they want the recognition, but because they understand something deeper. Heroism is built from really small choices made every single day. And it starts super, super small. Courage is a muscle that you have to exercise because if you wait and you're like, I'm going to have courage. You're not going to have courage because you haven't exercised that muscle. And heroes are. They exercise this. It's the neighbor who shares their time. It's you, the parent who stays up worrying, the co worker who lends a hand. These are the acts that are grounded in care and in love, and they're rooted in fairness, just doing what's just, what's right when nobody else is watching. And they grow through loyalty to your family, your friends, your community, something larger than yourself. I'm going to tell you a story next about a family that is broken up and it's just tragic. It's a family of somebody that, you know, you may not like, you may like, I don't know, but it's a family of somebody you know, and it's just broken up over just stupid stuff. We're sacrificing our families. Now, wait. We're sacrificing our family for what exactly? Heroism. Being a hero that will ask you to sacrifice. But sacrifice isn't just giving something up. It's investing. This is the difference. Investing trust, investing energy, investing Hope it's giving a part of yourself so you can stand taller, so a burden is eased, a spark of goodness that spreads. And most likely not going to be remembered. It'll be remembered by those people that you did something for, but you might even forget about it, but they won't. But the world's not going to be remembered because it's not seen. The soldiers, I mean, they did amazing things. Are they really remembered? The rescuers, the leaders? Most are not going to be remembered. The unseen heroes, those who comfort, who protect, who serve. They don't need a stage. Their stage is exactly where they stand, where you're standing right now. Their reward is invisible, but the effect is real and lasting. Today I want to challenge you. If you look out and see fear, fear of loss, fear of exposure, fear that no one is noticing. You know, this fear is a big part of life, but it doesn't have to be. It doesn't come from any place good. And heroism does not mean an absence of fear. It means while you feel fear, you do it anyway. It doesn't require any power. It just requires heart. When you feel fear, do it anyway. That's what makes a hero. That's it. That's it. Because you just remember what's right. We all have fields of action. Hear me behind this microphone, but it's also me at home, it's you at school or in business, you and your family. There needs to be a hero. Every single place where you are. And when you choose to tell the truth or to help somebody else or to stay loyal when loyalty is tested, you're exercising heroism. The world's going to need heroes. It's going to need people to lift people up, lift the unseen. People who are just willing to sacrifice, not for suffering, but to plant a seed to make sure that somebody else goes on. I don't exactly know how this all works out, but I know that it is an honor to live at this time because we get to see who we really are. I don't know who I would have been. I probably would have been a lot more selfish than I am. And I'm still pretty selfish. I probably would have been a lot more selfish. I don't know. I don't know if I would have survived the Fox years because I probably would have wanted it. And then I wasn't dedicated myself to anything bigger than me, so I probably would have stayed. And that would have been a nightmare. Somebody needs a voice. Somebody needs kindness. Today. Will you be that person that will rise? Because everything is getting so Huge. So huge. All the issues are getting so huge. And we all feel like I can't do anything about it. You can, but not on a huge scale. But that's not what you're asked to do. You're not the president. I'm not the president. I mean, I have this job. I can't tell you how many times I come home, I said to my wife last night, I don't want to go to work tomorrow. She's like, stop whining. And I'm like, I don't want to go to work tomorrow. It doesn't make a difference. And she's like, shut up. You know better than that. It's true. You get. I mean, because everybody does. Everybody feels that way in their own job. It doesn't make a difference what am I doing? But you do it anyway because it does make a difference. Your job makes a difference. Not, you know, mine. Not on a colossal scale. I mean, if you're Donald Trump, then maybe you get to have that huge, huge impact. But we can't all be. And I don't want to be that. Just want to make the difference. Honestly, in my children's life, first of all, in my wife's life, in my neighborhood, in my church with the people around me, that's where we can be a hero and that's where we make all the difference in the world. My Patriot supply is running a Black Friday survival special right now. And I'm telling you, it's one you don't want to miss. Right now you'll get a four week emergency food supply. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, everything. The drinks that stay fresh for 25 years and they're throwing in $150 worth of free gear that's a poor portable cook stove, fuel, fire starters, water purifier and a bug out bag and so much more. 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I mean, it has to go to the House, and now the House is saying that they're not going to pass it. Well, the House should be. I don't think there's any real belief that they're not going to pass it. The big hurdle was the Senate, and they got through the Senate. Now we just get to watch the ongoing Democratic civil war over whether Chuck Schumer is going to be removed or not. It is crazy. So, you know, let me, Let me go through something that came in from the New York Times. What were the Democrats thinking? Uh, it starts out in this op ed back. Back in September when I was reporting an article, Democrats should shut down the government. I kept hearing the same warning from veterans of past shutdown fights. President controls the bully pulpit, and parts of the government will stay open, and he decides what parts close. It's very, very hard for the opposition party to win a sh. Shutdown, Blah, blah, blah. Now they have brokered a deal over the weekend as the Senate Democrats broke ranks and negotiated a deal to end the shutdown in return for, if we're being honest, very little. According to the New York Times, the guts of the deal are this. Food assistance. Both SNAP and WIC will get a bit more funding. There will be a few other modest concessions on spending levels elsewhere in the government. Laid off. Federal workers will be rehired and furloughed. Federal workers will given back pay. Most of the government is funded only until the end of January. So get ready, we'll be doing this again. The deal does nothing to extend the expiring Affordable Care act tax credits, which Democrats substantially shut down the government for in the first place. First of all, it's not the Affordable Care tax credit. That. That's, that's not why you shut it down. There are tax credits, yes, but this is different. These were the government subsidies. This. Leave it to the New York Times. Let me lay. Lay this really clear. Democrats demanded a continuation of the enhanced subsidies for the American Care Act. Okay? They were temporarily expanded during the pandemic. Um, these were not the tax credits. These were extra subsidies stuffed into the 2021American Rescue Plan as an emergency measure. Remember the one we had to. We had to pass this in the middle of the night. Nobody could read it. Well, that was what was in it. Um, and these subsidies lowered the premiums more than usual, expanded the eligibility far above the original ACA income, income caps, and was always designed to be temporary, just for Covid. So if you were in Covid and you lost your job, you didn't have health care or whatever, you could get on the aca, even though your, your, your salary was higher than, you know it, it would be accepted. Uh, normally you could get on it, but once, once they created this, Washington does what Washington always does, and they won't let it go. Okay? It's not the tax credit. To understand why this shutdown will end with such a whimper, you need to understand the strange role the ACA subsidies played in it. Democrats said the shutdown was about subsidies, but for most of them, it wasn't. Now this is the New York Times saying this. It was about Trump's authoritarianism. It was about showing their base and themselves that they could fight back. It was about treating an abnormal political moment abnormally. The ACA subsidies emerged as the shutdown demand because they could keep the caucus sufficiently united. They put Democrats on the right side of public opinion, even though self identified MAGA voters wanted the subsidies extended. Uh, and the, they held the quivering Senate coalition together. You shut the government down with the Democratic caucus that you have, not with the Democratic caucus that you want. But the shutdown was built on a crack foundation. There were Senate Democrats who didn't want to shut down at all. There were seven Democrats who did want to shut down, but thought it was strange to make their demand so narrow. Was winning on health care premiums really winning the right fight? Shouldn't Democrats really vote to fund a government turning towards authoritarianism as long as health insurance subsidies are preserved? And what if winning the healthcare fight was actually a political gift to Trump? Now listen this, The New York Times. Absent a fix, the average health insurance premium for 20 million Americans will more than double. The premium shock will hit red states really hard. Trump's longtime Pulitzer had released a survey of competitive housing House districts showing that letting the tax credits expire might be lethal to Republican efforts to hold the House. Why were the Democrats fighting so hard to neutralize their best issue in 2026? The political logic of this shutdown fight was inverted. If Democrats got the tax credits extended, if they won, they'd be solving a huge electoral problem for the Republicans. If Republicans successfully allowed the tax credits to expire, if they won, they'd be handing the Democrats a cudgel, which would beat them in the next elections. This is unbelievable. I mean, they're saying that. They're saying it out loud. You know what I mean? They go on in this to say, you know, quote, why can't Republicans just accept reality? These healthcare subsidies are working. No, they're not. No, they are not. They are propping, okay? They're scaffolding, holding up a structure that was never sound. They were a Covid era brace jammed under a tottering wal. And now the same architects who swore the house was, you know, the house was safe, they're telling you now the splintered wood is actually part of the design. What? This is the power the mainstream media has, the press still has over millions of Americans. It's kind of like a hypnotic choke hold. You say the word subsidy enough times with the right sad piano music under it, and suddenly we forget what subsidies are. Here's what subsidies are. Gang money borrowed from the Chinese. But we're on the hook now. We're not on the hook for it. Money borrowed from the Chinese from the future to hide the failures of the present on decisions that were made in the past. Okay? And now we're told if we don't just keep borrowing forever, America will collapse. No, what collapses is this crazy illusion. Let's be clear about something the op ed never will emit. The Affordable Care act didn't fail because of Republicans. It failed because math is a stubborn thing. Because insurance is not health care. Because a program bent around bureaucrats and middlemen will always cost more and deliver less. We have been subsidizing the symptoms. We never treated the disease here and now, when a shutdown touches those subsidies, suddenly we're told the sky is cracking. TikTok is flooded with panic videos scripted by algorithms that can't really be trusted. The influencers don't even know what they're defending. They just know fear pays better than the truth. And here's the truth. The system was failing long before Trump, long before Biden, long before COVID And maybe, just maybe, this moment is not a crisis, but an opening. You know, I've said this for months now. The greatest political opportunity of our lifetime now is healthcare reform. Real, actual reform. Not another Washington quick fix. Not more subsidies or anything else. Not a band aid over a bullet wound. But the Republicans won't do anything about it. I believe, and I say this without hesitation, I think that Trump and RFK Jr together may be the only combination force in American politics with the will to take a flamethrower to the bureaucracy that is choking Doctors and nurses, the pharmaceutical lobby, the insurance labyrinth, the 50 states wrapped in 50 different versions of red tape. All of it has to be confronted. And here's why Trump can't afford to miss this. If he solves even a quarter of this problem, if he can find the way to lower costs, if he increases access, if he frees the market to actually work across state lines, he'll not only win in 2026, he'll be launching a momentum that will carry Vance into the premise, into the presidency in 2028. This is the key here. But he has to remember something Washington has long forgotten. The people he's negotiating with, they don't want to deal with. They don't fear collapse, they welcome it. They have been playing a slow motion color revolution, one where the country has to be impoverished, has to be frightened, and has to be divided to accept the new power structures. Color revolutions only work if your people are hungry, if they're afraid, and they believe the people in the head of the government are authoritarian, when that happens, you can have a color revolution. And every day America does not break, every day the economy still stands, every day people wake up and realize their lives are not as hopeless as the media insist, the revolutionaries lose their leverage. So the shutdown is not the crisis. The crisis is the addiction to government medicine. So here's the battle line that matters I think most right now. While the press spins, you know, panic, Trump has to gather the brightest minds, the innovators, the disruptors, the people who build things rather than manage decline. That's what he does best. You know, if Elon Musk could do for NASA what Washington could not, then why can't we find, maybe even get Elon Musk? Why can't we unleash the same kind of thinking on healthcare? It's time for radical thinking. Imagine a system where your doctor spends more time listening than actually checking boxes. Imagine competition across state lines. Imagine prices that behave like normal prices because the market is finally allowed to work and government doesn't have its finger on the scale. Imagine freeing the nurses and physicians from the paperwork, prisons they're in and letting them practice medicine again. This isn't utopian. That's just uncaptured America. The America before the bureaucratic glacier settled over up absolutely everything in our lives. Trump is the one that can do this. He's hitting, he's hitting home runs, grand slams, all, all the time. All the time. Health care is the crack in the wall where sunlight is still getting through. If you solve this, if you solve the Pressure. And you lower the pressure on the engine behind the color revolution. You win. You win. I don't even talk about elections. You save the Republic, you solve this, and you solve the fear that drives half of our political dysfunction. Washington thinks the shutdown is a battlefield. It's not. The battlefield is health care. The future is decided there. And the man who breaks that system open and lets Americans breathe again will shape this country for a generation. And the only guy to do it is Donald Trump. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. It's Veterans Day, and I want to speak to one person right now. You, the one who raised a hand and swore an oath that didn't end when your enlistment did. It was an oath that was older than your commanding officer, older than the branch you served in, older even than the nation itself, because what you swore to defend was not a government. Unlike every other oath that every military man takes all over the world, you swore an oath to an idea. And today, in a country that sometimes feels dizzy from spinning arguments, I think we should pause and anchor ourselves again to you, to the men and women who tethered this republic to reality. When the storms came, we have an amazing story. You really know the story of Lexington, where the farmers just left their plows in their damp fields because liberty whispered their names. They met at their church. Their preacher led them out. They didn't have a chance of winning. I think of the Marines who fought through the gas and the mud until the Germans called them Devil Dogs. The beaches of Normandy where boys who had never even seen France saw eternity in a single morning on a single beach. The men who fought in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Fallujah, the skies over Baghdad. Every generation has a chapter that is written in blood and grit. And it was written by people who never asked for a statue. All they wanted was a chance to come home. And some didn't. Their stories end on foreign soil or carved into white markers and rows so straight it almost breaks you. But their gift to us never ends, at least as long as we remember them. And you, because every. Every free breath we take is borrowed from them. And you, if you're a veteran listening right now, maybe you came home to a grateful nation. Maybe you quietly slipped into civilian life, wondered if anybody saw the weight that you were carrying. No matter your circumstance, know this as you need to know this. Millions see you. Millions are grateful. You change the destiny of my children, and they will never know your name. You changed my life in ways you will never understand. I wouldn't be able to be here and say these things if it weren't for you. We take all of this so lightly. It was you that stood between tyranny and those who couldn't defend themselves. You kept the promise. Most citizens like me, we never make, Never have to make because you already did. And you continue to do so. It's amazing to me when you are off into war, most times, not every time. We think about you all the time. We want to give you the very best when you're at war. And then you come home and it's kind of like, meh. And you have the worst of our healthcare. Might as well go to Canada to get the health care. I mean, it's. I don't know if it's any better up there. We're not really good at saying thank you. Let me just take just a second to say it plainly and clearly to you. Thank you. Thank you for walking into the unknown when the rest of us stayed home. I don't know what your motivation was when you joined, but thank you for believing that liberty was worth more than comfort. Thank you for the night you didn't sleep. Thank you for the holidays you missed. Thank you for the kids you didn't see born because you were someplace else. Thank you for the friends you still mourn. That's why you did it, because you're a brotherhood. Thank you. And all your brothers. Thank you for every scar, the ones we can see and the ones we will never see. Thank you. Thank all of the families. Thank you for what you've done. The quiet platoon behind every soldier and sailor and airman and marine and coast guardsmen, because you served, too. Freedom has always been a family burden. And look at what those families are like. They're usually remarkable. We live in a world right now that feels really loud and divided and suspicious, and it is. But I just wanted to take a minute on this day and let everything just be quiet. Gratitude has a way of silencing nonsense. And I want you to know how grateful I am. So before we got back into the headlines again, before the noise rises back up, let me end this with the only words that really matter to every veteran of the United States Armed Forces. Your country remembers you. Your country needs you. And your country is grateful in a way language will never quite capture. Thank you. This episode is brought to you by Netflix from the creator of Homeland. 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