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Goodranchers.com Glenn you'll also get free meat for life and $40 off your first box. It's goodranchers.com Glenn. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program and we really want to thank you for listening. I want to take you to a place where the mountains touch the heaven and the air still holds a trace of frontier decency. A place where, over the weekend, evil struck. Not with a drone, not with a bomb, not with a cyber attack or a coordinated cell, but with fire. Ancient, primal, vicious. A man, not a citizen. Want to make that clear? Not a citizen. Not even a guest of our country anymore. An illegal immigrant whose visa had expired not once but two times hurled a Molotov cocktail into the window of a Jewish family's home. This weekend, flames don't ask questions. They quickly licked up the curtains, the memories, the photographs and the people. One woman, elderly, now frail, a woman who had escaped the Holocaust in the last century. A woman who escaped Hitler's ovens only to be set ablaze here in the nation that was supposed to be the world's safe harbor. Let that settle in. She survived last century's greatest evil only to be hunted in this century, in this country, on our streets. When will you say you've had enough? Why was he here? How many more like him are here, hiding in plain sight, walking amongst us? Why two decades after 9 11, have we learned nothing? Do you remember what 9 11? You remember what they said caused that? People overstaying their visas. And so we were gonna change. We're gonna get the Patriot Act. So that never happened again. Well, she. The Patriot act has done an awful lot of things, but apparently not stopped. What caused 9 11? That was the hole we swore we were gonna close. Do you remember the commissions? Do you remember the hearings? Do you remember all of the promises? They meant nothing. And it'll only get worse if we keep trading. Security for ideology, borders for feelings, sovereignty for slogans. Antisemitism is burning in our streets. This time, literal fire. This is not really an abstract kind of concept. This isn't a mean tweet or a campus protest. This is torches and flames. And it should sound familiar because I think we've all seen this movie before. Wasn't it in the 1930s that this happened when they lit synagogues, they lit people on fire? America, are you sleepwalking into that same nightmare? I have to tell you, I am so sick and tired of the lies from the left and the media every single day. They claimed Donald Trump and his supporters, they're nothing but Hitler and they're Nazis. Well, let me ask you a question. What were the Nazis best known for? Because I don't think it was the Volkswagen. It was the Holocaust. It was their hatred of Jews. It was Kristalnock. It was the ovens in Auschwitz. Let me ask you, which group of people is marching in the streets chanting from the rivers to the sea? Are they Donald Trump supporters or are the. The anarchists, the LGBTQ community, the Democrats, the socialists, the communists? Aren't they the ones doing it? I'm having a hard time with this because, I mean, you know, Donald Trump is trying to build more cars in America. And if that's the way you define Hitler, as somebody who was responsible for the Volkswagen, then, yeah, I guess he's Hitler. But if you concentrate on what's happening with the Jews, it's very, very clear whose side is on who. Which one is sh. Which one is shouting river to the sea, which means no Jews in Israel. Two weeks ago, the son of a man who was a guest of the Democratic party at the last state of the union, his son, a flag waving member of the communist socialist movement here in America, shot two innocents, two innocent Jews in the streets two weeks ago. In fact, he took the time to reload so he could finish the young lady off. She tried to crawl to safety. I try not to be angry, but I am passionate. I was mocked by the ADL in 2009 or 10, maybe. It was probably 2009 and 10. I was called a hate monger for spreading fear, because I dare tell you that what the world witnessed on the streets of Germany in the 1930s priest. Would come again to our streets. Well, let me ask the adl, do you still wish me to remain silent? Because this is exactly what I warned about and exactly what you called me a hate monger for pointing out. Gee, I'm sorry you don't have the vision needed to protect your own people. But it doesn't require an awful lot of vision, really. This story has been told over and over and over again. What are you saying now? What do you see coming now? Is this still Donald Trump you're really worried about? As bad as it is today, I warn you, you haven't seen anything yet. And this time it is global. And mainly because you on the left, in all of your haughtiness, all of your over educated boobs that try to preach to everybody about love and peace, have no idea how people actually work. You have cozied up to the very groups of people that wish to destroy the Jewish and you have only made it worse. The hour grows late. And let me ask you. The Jew has been chased out of every country on earth, always told to go back to where they come from. Well, they finally did. And now you want them out of there as well. Where do they go this time? Where does the Jew run? Where does the Jew hide? Please don't let this ancient evil grab your heart. Please. This is an ancient evil. And if we do not start treating it as such instead of something we can negotiate with, I promise you the Jews will only be the canary in the coal mine. And with AI on the event horizon, there will be no place for the Jew or you to hide. No place. You know, the west isn't a direction on a compass. It's an idea. Fragile, luminous idea that all men are created equal, that laws matter, that borders matter, that truth matters. But when we allow lawlessness in the name of compassion, when we let hatred march unchallenged under the mask of tolerance, when we fail to enforce even the most basic boundaries of civilization, we're not being moral, we're being suicidal. How much longer will we ignore this? What will it take for all decent Americans to wake up? Must every town lose a synagogue? Must we have shootings and now firebombings on all of our streets, in all of our cities? Must every grandmother who survived the ovens of Auschwitz die in the flames of our indifference? When the people who came here because they were being persecuted for what they believed in, he said, we need to be a city on the hill to be the last great hope of man on earth. But cities burn when no one defends them. When the watchman abandons their post, when people forget their own history, when people forget who they are. This is not about politics. This is not about race. This is about civilization. And we either draw the line here or we will allow the fire to spread until there is no west left to defend. And it will only be then that the world will mourn and weep for the just decency that Western civilization has created. They will weep, but it will be too late this time. Let's not be the generation that remembers freedom only by the smell of its ashes. Rise up not in anger, but in spirit, in resolve. Please just remember. Remember who we are. Remember what we've tried to create. Remember what our principles are. Remember the truth. I saw a story today, said Biden. His administration had ignored 7,000 warnings of child trafficking. 7,000 warnings. May a millstone be around the neck of all of those that turned a blind eye. When will we come together on our principles again to protect the innocent, to actually enforce our own laws, to defend the vulnerable and call evil out by its name before the fires consume all of us? This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. On an April episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the host used a slur within the first 45 seconds of the show. Quote, the word is back and it's one of the great cultural victories, rogan said with a laugh in the April 10 episode of his uber popular podcast. Probably spurred on by podcast, he said. A few months earlier, on January6, Elon Musk used the word retarded in response to a Finnish researcher who called Musk the largest spreader of disinformation in human history. Use of the slur more than doubled on X, the platform Musk owns, and in two days after that, the January post more than 312,000 subsequent posts made on X in that span contained the word. This, according to the co author Bon Benton, a professor of communication at the University of New Jersey. Since Musk's January post, the online prevalence of the R word is absolutely getting worse. The resurgence of the R word is symptomatic of a graver problem, the apparent death of empathy, says another professor at American University who has studied how the far right uses tech to grow its influence. The R word has really never gone away, she said. Many people still use it in private. And the controversial far right influencer and some members of the Foreman former dirtbag left podcast scene use it for many years to rile up followers and appeal to edgy comedic styles. Now listen to this CNN writes. The R word initially was meant to replace words that had become pejoratives. Introduced in 1885, mental retardation became the preferred term among psychologists, supplanting the diagnosis labeled imbecile or moron or feeble minded. This is, according to a clinical associate professor in disability and human development at the University of Illinois of Chicago. The R word intended to be a neutral term, but people with disabilities were then Largely discarded and treated with less as lesser members of society, regularly institutionalized in dangerous environments and even forcibly sterilized without their consent. Who would do such a thing like that? Cnn. Okay. When disability is framed as a lack. According to one of these researchers, when disability is framed as a lack, a limitation, or a loss, it reinforces the idea that people with disabilities are inherently incapable. And this framing is used to justify their existence for their exclusion from everyday life, as if they're missing what it takes to participate. Okay, now let me. Let me tell you the truth. The word handicapped, what does that mean? It means that you're unable to do things that. That most people can do. Okay. That you have a disability, an inability to do something that most people can do. Like, for instance, most people can walk upstairs. Some people can't. Who can't do that? The handicapped can't. Hurtful. Hurtful. Because it says there's limitations. Okay, so we don't want to use the word handicapped, and we build ramps for the handicap now, but now we don't. We don't build those ramps. Well, how do they get into buildings? Well, they still get into ramps, but these are handicapable ramps. Oh, well, that changes everything. Except when the word handicapable means handicapped to everyone, then the progressives will come out and say, you can't use the word handicapable. That means that they have a lack in ability to walk upstairs. Yes. You'll see. In no time at all, you'll see the word handicapable means the same thing is handicapped. Because you're describing somebody who cannot walk up the stairs. Therefore, we have to build a ramp for them. It now progresses because you have shamed and forced everyone to adopt your stupid language, which is trying to stop the language that you introduced the time before last. You shamed everybody. Now, handicapable is worse because anyone who uses that word and insists on anyone else using it appears to be not only handy nor capable, but really kind of more. Dare I say it? Because you're asking everybody to deny that they can't walk up stairs. Words are the danger, you know, that's the real threat to our decency and to our values is somebody using the wrong term. If you say the word or call yourself a moron for doing something dumb, you're perpetuating harm. Am I? This is the progressive playbook stuck on repeat. Okay, so let's take it back. Let's take a step back here. Not in rhetoric, but in history. Shall we do that? Because this isn't about what you say in frustration. It's about what was done by scientists, by college professors, in laboratories, in hospitals, in courtrooms, you know, by people who are much, much smarter than you, the average person. They did this to people who were stripped of their humanity by men who believed they could fix the human race. Who are those people? They were the progressives of the early 20th century. Now, let's just stop in California, the most enlightened place on earth. Let's go back to the earliest 20th century. It wasn't Mississippi, it's not Alabama. This is the land of God, golden progressivism, the land of innovation. At the tippy, tippy top of that cultural mountain stands Stanford University, the crown jewel of all modern thought. Well, at Stanford, Lewis Terman, the man who created the Stanford Burnett IQ test, believed intelligence was hereditary. He believed people with low IQs were not just slower, but they were dangerous. They were a threat to society. And he labeled them with words like mor, imbecile and retarded. They were scientific terms because they came from a very esteemed professor at Stanford University. They were clean, they were neutral. They were necessary. But behind that scientific veneer was a horrifying machine of control. Then, also at Stanford was a guy named David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford. He was a man of vision. He helped form the Human Betterment Foundation, a group that lobbied for and celebrated the forced sterilization of people deemed unfit because they were morons or imbeciles or retarded and sterilized. They did. Over 20,000 people in California alone. Mostly women, mostly poor, many of them immigrants, many of them black, indigenous or Mexican. They were labeled retarded or feeble minded, mentally defective, all clinical words used as instruments of violence. People were taken into institutions. Their reproductive organs were removed permanently by the state of California and many other progressive states, sometimes with consent, often without it. But they were too stupid to really understand anyway. And if you think it ended there, now, no, it really didn't. The Nazis were watching. German doctors and bureaucrats studied California's eugenics laws. They admired the efficiency of all of it. They admired how we turned science into policy. Then we used labels like unfit so we could sterilize people out of the gene pool. They read the publications of the Human Betterment Foundation. They invited California eugenicists to Germany. They used our model to build the foundation of their own financial solution. Wait, we Germans got that from California? Yes. Yes. Stanford University. So let me be clear here. The danger was never in what a kid said on the playground. The danger was never the word retarded. The danger is in the system built by progressives, built by doctors and scientists and reformers who believe they can fix all of mankind by controlling who was allowed to reproduce, deciding who's fit to live freely and who wasn't. You see, this is what progressivism does. It forgets human nature. It ignores the soul. It all starts with good intentions. Oh, let's help the poor. Let's improve education. Let's solve mental illness. But it always ends the same way. Cold, brutal calculation. It ends with the state deciding that some people are beyond fixes. And once you believe that, well, the next step is elimination. Uh, anybody who didn't take the COVID vaccine, Do you remember what they were saying? We need to reeducate them. They're too dangerous. We need to reeducate them. Maybe we should put them in camps. Australia did it. That's what progressivism does. So what's the solution? Well, we just have to ban words. We have to pretend that language. Language is the problem. No, the. The problem was and is and always will be the id, the ideology that weaponizes science, dehumanizes the vulnerable and says, well, the ends justify the means. You know, it's. It's moral all along. I mean, as long as we. You know, we're fixing humans. By the way, just so you know, these names are known to people who go to Stanford. Stanford still has buildings and honors bearing these names. They still celebrate the legacy of men who stood up for cleansing of the gene pool, who said, trust the experts. They're the experts. And what they gave us was sterilization, segregation, and a blueprint for genocide at Stamford University. So you want to talk about dangerous words, cnn, things that might. Might offend your delicate sensibilities? It's not the word. It's the word. Progressivism, coupled with science, coupled with control of government, that's what it is. You want a word that should offend you? It's progress. When it's untethered from morality, it doesn't heal. It destroys. The word wasn't and never is the crime. The crime was committed in silence, in surgical rooms, in files labeled unfit. And the people who committed it called themselves compassionate, just like the progressives do today. Lather, rinse, repeat. Lather, rinse, repeat. They called themselves scientific. They called themselves the greatest mind. They said they knew better than everyone else. Lather, rinse, repeat. That's the truth about the word. That's the truth about the evils of progressivism. And the more you, again, try to force people to think like you do, it's not, you know, it's not just changing people's mind. You are forcing people to do it. You are shaming them. You are canceling them. You're throwing them out of society, you're throwing them out of business. You're throwing them off. Off the air because you know better. Well, when that doesn't work, if you believe the ends justified the means, what is the next step you'll be willing to take and then cover up that you had anything to do a bit do with it? I don't know. Maybe we should read Jake Tapper's book and see if that lather, rinse, repeat works on any other subject.
