Jason Buttrill (3:10)

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Glenn Beck (3:14)

Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. My prayer is that those of us who profess discipleship will lead, will lead and lead in our own faith and our own church. Especially when your church is not leading. If your church wasn't talking about these things yesterday, maybe you should find a new church. I don't know. There's been a lot of. A lot of things going on and we need pastors that are actually talking about things that are. They're not talking about politics. They're talking about, how do I love my neighbor if my neighbor hates me? How do I do that? And not some 2000 year old example, but something that you can take that 2000 year old example and go see. It is like this today because it is hard enough to understand the thing. We need people who are applying it today because there's. I want you to understand, there is hatred on the rise, There is violence on the rise. There's all of this stuff on the rise. But what is it really? What is really on the rise? Evil. It's evil. That's what's on the rise. Evil. Chaos, disorder. That all comes from one author. And it's evil. Madman. And I mean madman. In this particular case, he targeted a crowded dockside restaurant in North Carolina. He was arrested on Saturday. He fired his rifle into a crowd of diners. Three people were killed, eight were injured. This was on Saturday. And this is happening in small communities. And you are like, what is happening to us now? Records show that this guy, he has been filing these really bizarre lawsuits in North Carolina. One, he was accusing a Southport church of trying to kill him. The suit, which was filed in May, claimed the Generations Church was behind a civil conspiracy masterminded by the LGBTQ community and white supremacist pedophiles were trying to kill him. Because he was a straight man. That's not the, the only lawsuit he has filed. This guy is unstable, very unstable. He was also a Marine. Purple Heart, Marine Corps Good Conduct Metal Combat Action Ribbon, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Iraq Campaign Medal. Two bronze stars, A humanitarian Service Medal. Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. National Defense Service Medal, two bronze stars. How did he get here? I think we have a lot of really unstable people and we have been dismissing mental health. And this is one of the things I talked about years ago with AI that frightened me. With all of the information on everybody. It wouldn't be hard. And I'm not saying this is happening, but it will eventually. You could. An evil overseer could easily say, I want everybody in this zip code. Tell me everybody who's on meds, who is seeing Dr. For schizophrenia, whatever unstable has had brushes with the police. I want everybody in that zip code, give me the names now. Now that I have the names, because it would take about that fast. Now that I have the names, find the one that I can destabilize to get them, to convince them to go shoot this person or shoot whatever up. All of that information and all of those devices now exist and can be done in an ephemeral way. So there's no evidence of it. Now that I do not believe that is happening. That's me as a, as a fiction author putting that out. But here is what is happening. Evil can do exactly the same thing. Exactly the same thing. Doesn't need the Internet, doesn't need a device to do it. We live, and I said this to you a couple of months ago. We are now living in Gotham. And you need to understand that the times and the seasons have changed. We're now living in Gotham. And this is all part of the leftist plan. Destabilize, release people from prison, cause chaos in the streets. This is by design. But now we have unstable people on the streets in an atmosphere of chaos in a society that has dismissed actions, glorified the actions of those who are shooting people and made it seem almost normal and reasonable that you can do it. And then on top of it, we have dismissed those who really need psychiatric help. When I said we're living in Gotham. I want to play a scene and I want you to think of. This comes from Batman Begins and it's the scene or Sorry, Dark Knight. Sorry, Dark Knight. And it's the scene where the Joker has been taken in to jail and he's in a holding cell. And then there's like the drunk tank where all the other guys that are just riff raff that have been picked up and they're right in the, in a jail in the center of the police building. Okay? And if you remember right, Joker needed to break out of jail. So how was he going to do it? And you didn't know until somebody who was in the holding cell, clearly unstable, called to one of the police officers and this happened. Listen, please. My insides hurt. I don't really care. Back away.

Jason Buttrill (10:08)

The boss said he'd make the voices go away. He said he'd go, go inside and.

Glenn Beck (10:13)

Replace them with bright lights like Christmas.

Jason Buttrill (10:17)

You're out of your mind, pal.

Glenn Beck (10:18)

Back off. Run away in the holding tank. Come on. Is that a phone? So what is that scene? That scene is a very disturbed man who is hearing voices. Clearly, medically in trouble, hearing voices. He does not get any help. And so he says the boss said he would make the voices go away. I want you to think of Joker because in that scenario, that is the boss, the Joker. I want you to think of the Joker as Satan. Some people just like to watch the world burn. That is probably one of the better depictions of Satan in contemporary media. Joker, he took unstable people and whipped them up. When the kid said, the guy says the boss said he would make the voices stop and replace them with bright lights like Christmas. Satan is whispering to people, this is good. I'll make all of that pain stop. It's good that you do this. It is going to lead to your happiness, etc. Etc. And then they die in the end because Satan does not care. Another soul destroyed. We are entering a phase now where we have actual hatred on the streets, as Stu said. And I just found out, as Stu told me, and I pray this is just an unstable person that had a problem with Mormons, but we don't know yet. But apparently the killer had a problem with Mormons. I'm praying that they're unstable because I can at least get my arms around that. But we have people who know exactly what they're doing, know exactly what they're doing, those who are being used and still know what they're doing. And then we have those who are mentally ill who are going to be used by the literal Joker and promise that he will replace those voices with bright lights. Both shooters, at least as it stands now, both shooters from this weekend were both U.S. marines. Ask yourself this, if that becomes a trend, and by the way, you can thank God that Trump is in office today. But that doesn't last forever. And these things happen. How long before the left, who only wants guns to be removed, doesn't really care who just wants guns removed. How long before they're saying our military is unstable and we have to remove guns from our military? And then what does that do? Friday I told you what was happening in South Korea is happening here. It is a blueprint. And it is going to be our responsibility as people who love the Republic, who love America, who loves freedom, to make sure that we remain in control of ourselves, that we do not add to the chaos. Instead, we find ways to be peacemakers. We stand firmly in what we believe. We stand up against evil and we stand up against lies. But we stand up firmly rooted in those principles of Judeo, Christian principles that made this country what it is today. Because there are going to be voices on both sides, on both sides that want to seize power. Because if things continue to get out of control, people will start to scream with it. They will scream, do whatever you have to do to make it stop. And that is when you lose a republic. We must rely on one another and we must rely on the decency of others and the foresight of those we elect, especially locally, to help people who are in deep, deep need psychologically because they are out on the streets in droves, Just another layer to the chaos that the joker is planting. Picture this. You're tucked away in a remote mountain cabin, enjoying the stillness, the view, the peaceful quiet. Out of nowhere, you start feeling a throbbing pain in your jaw, swelling, low figure, low fever. You're not pregnant, so, you know, you could take Tylenol if you have it, but you know something is wrong. Even you just. It's a abscess or whatever. It's. You've just waited. Waited too long. You need antibiotics, but the nearest town is, you know, three hours away. There's no cell signal. You don't even know where to find a pharmacy. You don't have a prescription. 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It is the plan in action. And then Starmer, the prime Minister of the uk, he came out with digital id, and I'm like, oh, my gosh, that's another step in it. And you're starting to see this plan come to fruition. Would you agree with that, Jason?

Jason Buttrill (17:38)

Oh, and then some. You talk about South Korea. South Korea did something in March that I didn't even. I don't remember hearing of at all. Do you know what they completed in March, Glenn? They completed their rollout of digital ID in March. They. They join the Swiss over the weekend. They. They did it. Australia did that, did theirs in December of 2024. The list goes on and on and on. It makes you wonder, why. Why now, Glenn? Why now? Are all of a sudden all these countries doing this right now? Why do we all feel that?

Glenn Beck (18:14)

Yeah, we could go see. I would like to hear your opinion on that here in a second. First, let me just lay this out. I told you back in early 2000s that a framework or a net was being built. Okay? There were people that wanted to collapse the United States and the West. But you don't just collapse it. There are those, like the anarchists, et cetera, et cetera, who do want the chaos on the streets and just to collapse. But, you know, too many people have too much money to lose and too much power to lose and too much power to gain. So carefully put together the framework of a new system and create it as a net that the old stuff can fall into. So the first thing you do is create that framework. The next thing you do is you look at all of the problems and the problems that need to happen for it to actually collapse. And then you create those problems and encourage and feed those problems. The next thing you do after that is you need chaos. And so you have to have a street organization to be able to create chaos in the street. And when the framework is all in place, you have all of the problems growing and growing and growing till there's no real solution anymore, and you have chaos in the streets. Where your streets and safety are at issue every day. Where life is unlivable because of the economy, because of travel, no longer breaks down, safety breaks down, you can't get the health services that you need, all of these things breaking down, and it's lunacy on the streets. That's when all you need is a final push. And those on the street will scream out, we need a savior. We need something. And it will then collapse into this new framework. So that was the theory back around 2005 or 6 that I was sharing with people that was going to happen. And now we're in the place to where it's about to collapse. The United States is not about to collapse, but the rest of the world is now putting into place the final pieces of the framework. Is that your understanding, Jason, or do you have any other thoughts on that?

Jason Buttrill (20:43)

That's absolutely what's happening right now. And it goes way beyond immigration. You take a look at the uk I mean, they've been having massive issues with immigration that led to people actually saying in podcasts all over the place now from the UK that now civil war is a possibility within the uk. They're actually saying that this is coming from the Brits. They're usually, they don't even mention that word. You know, we'll call it something nice, you know, like a civil disruption maybe or something, but not civil war. That's what they're saying.

Glenn Beck (21:11)

A not so nice get together where we'll have tea in the afternoon. Right.

Jason Buttrill (21:15)

But that's the breaking point that they've gotten to. You know, I wish I could go back. This plan, I mean, the Great Reset Agenda 2030 never stops. I mean, we've had other things that we've been thinking about in this country and we've been moving in a different direction. But that global plan for that now never stopped. You're just seeing it enacted through government in places like Europe, places like South Korea, places like Australia, places where they can get this done. That can't really happen here as of now, but it can't go through government.

Glenn Beck (21:44)

Because of Trump. Because of Trump, because of Trump. You have to understand, anybody who just hates Trump, look, you can hate him for a myriad of reasons, that's fine, but you must recognize that. But this system is being collapsed all over the Western world. They're passing exactly the same laws. And Donald Trump is the only one that is standing against it. And that's why the whole world is against him. All of the power structures, because they have a plan. And he has said, I'm not doing that plan. America will stand on its own under its constitution. We're not doing that plan. That's why Everybody is doing everything they can to stop him. And if they can't stop him, they'll just create the chaos in the streets where he'll be forced to do something and then that causes more chaos. That is North Korea or South Korea. Yeah.

Jason Buttrill (22:43)

And that's why you have to even look past mass immigration, because everything is connected right now. I mean, look at the way they have decriminalized things that should not be decriminalized. Look at how they've done a complete assault on the justice system. Again, this is happening globally. This is all over, but it's especially been happening here in this country. We've been seeing that nonstop going on for the past, what, like, decade now. Have they been constantly like, rolling back, you know, protection of the United States citizens. The whole point is, again, to get to that point where they say, help us just do something. Now, again, it's different here in the United States, but it's not different with private companies, private enterprise. Look at, look at some of the biggest names in big tech right now and look at what they're saying. Look at people like Bill Gates. Look at people like Oracle's Larry Ellison. Look at all these guys. Look what they're talking about. They're talking about digital id. They're talking about the wonders of how AI and tech and all that stuff can make things more surveillable. I think Larry Ellison said that people will be on their best behavior once all these big tech changes start to go through, because everyone will constantly be under surveillance. They will move in that direction through private business because that's the way they'll do it here. And they won't need a national digital ID rollout. You've done stuff on the past over the last few years talking about how, you know, the financial mechanisms are their teeth. That's how they'll go after it. That they're starting that in the, in the European Union. They're starting that in places like uk. If you're a big US company or even a small US Company, as you go down the line, you're not going to be able to do business globally if you don't play within their system. It is coercion. It is forcing us into playing in that system. Because at the end of the day, the more global we are, we'll have to comply. There will be no escaping from it. So what do they do? They double down on an assault on the justice system. They'll double down on this feeling of people thinking that they cannot do anything. They have no say. And then what happens? Eventually you see some of the most, the worst atrocities that you, that we have seen in our country begin to happen. Now. There's left wing violence that is spiking over three decades. That's all connected. You're seeing these other attacks. These people are just driven mad, driven crazy and they're doing evil, evil things. Everything is connected. People are feeling hopeless. Well, what's the choice? Well, you heard from Keir Starmer. Well, we need to protect you to make sure that you're safe. Not just the immigrants, but everyone. This is for you. It's to keep you safe. Digital ID rolls out either through the government or through mandated through big tech things we use every single day. There will be no choice. After a while you will have to do this. That is the direction they're going into. It's crazy. I wish there was a way for the audience to search for the audience to search through everything that you have talked about over the past, what, two decades going back to the Fabian Society. Do you know what Keir Starmer, what he did before he was elected to Parliament, Glenn?

Glenn Beck (25:35)

I do.

Jason Buttrill (25:37)

He was on the executive committee of the Fabian Society. It's all connected. It's all.

Glenn Beck (25:42)

The Fabian Society, in case you don't know, is a Marxist Leninist communist group. They claim to be progressives, but you know, their, their founding is very, very clear and their symbol is a turtle and it's move very, very slow. But when we strike, we strike hard. And its whole system was developed to overturn Western civilization and Western democracy. That's the Fabian Society. And you know, over in England, it's, it's no big deal. I mean, it's no big deal because they actually, you know, they do have, you know, socialists and communists. Unlike what we have always had here. No, you have them now, but we never had them. They've had them for years and years and years. And they've seen this slow drift into socialism and communism and they're, I mean they have no idea. The communists have no idea. They lose in the end. And they don't lose to people like me. They lose to the authoritarians, they lose. The communists lose to the fascists, to the ones who have all of the money, all of the power and have the power of the Internet and guns. Those are the people that will win in the end. You know, in that battle between, you know, the communist and the fascists and the socialists and everybody else, that's who will win. What they don't realize is there is another group that is going to fight and all they've been doing is trying to come down on the religious of Christianity and call those people dangers, etc. Etc. You know, oh, like Christian nationalism. The reason why they're doing that is because they know Christians will stand up eventually for rights that come from God. So they have to have your spirit broken. There is no God, there is no hope, except the government. And you will do what the government says because the government is the one put in charge by God. And so they have to break that. But the other one they're playing footsie with is Islamists, the people who actually believe in Sharia law. And they will be the eventual winner in Europe and in England, they, if it's not dealt with now, they will be the eventual winner. And they're playing right along with everybody that they're going to kill in the end, but they're playing along nice now because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Jason Buttrill (28:15)

Yeah, Christians are absolutely one of the targets in this entire global agenda. You're seeing that places like South Korea being played out right now. You're seeing it actually still with, with private organizations within the United States right now as we speak as well. You see, the ADL put up a bunch of profiles where they kind of. They played nice with their description of antifa. Played nice with them. You said the most, you know, the usual crap about being decentralized, but basically said they're not that big of a deal. There's a few, few of them that are, you know, crazy, but they're basically not big, that big of a deal. But on the flip side, they made Turning Point USA look like the radicals, the ones that are Christ focused and then pursuing education and looking to God. Why would they do that unless they want to take people's hope away? Nevermind this group that actually is violent, crazy and psycho. It's the people that are instilling faith and hope. They're the radicals. Tell me that's not part of the plan.

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So Tanya and I were driving from Texas to Florida over the weekend and we took classes from Hillsdale Online. And it was really great. It was really great. And so we were talking about things, we were talking in depth and we were talking about history. And at one point I said, could you look up the seven deadly sins? What are the seven deadly sins? And because she's my wife, she was like, sure. I think everybody else would go, what? But she looks them up, we start talking about them. For centuries, Christians have talked about the seven deadly sins. They're not small mistakes, not passing flaws, but they're the root of the poisons of human civilization. And they are pride, envy, wrath, greed, sloth, lust, gluttony. And as I look at these, I mean, I see all of them in our society. But what is the true impact? What are the. What's the impact of each of these? Let me take these quickly here for a second. Pride. Pride's the root of all of our polarization, all of the chaos it fuels. Ideology over truth, righteousness over humanity. I'm right, you're wrong. He deserved to die. Anything that makes compromise impossible stems from pride. Nations collapse because arrogance blinds the leaders to reality. Envy. We're seeing this everywhere. But envy is resentment. Envy is the belief that someone else's success, wealth, or privilege is unjust. Envy is the engine of class warfare, identity politics, and cancel culture, right? Wrath. That's anger turned into violence. Riots, assassinations, online mobs, political revenge. Wrath is why debate no longer stays civil but escalates into destruction. Then you have the other four. Greed. I mean, companies exploiting consumers, governments piling up debt, corruption, the concentration of power. All of that comes from greed. Sloth. What is sloth? Apathy and entitlement in the entire culture? Unwillingness to work, unwillingness to learn, unwillingness to sacrifice. It leaves civic duty undone, creates a vacuum. And then that vacuum, authoritarian control, comes in. Because greed is also playing a role. Lust is playing a role. Hypersexualization. It corrodes the family, exploits the children, destabilizes the next generation. It's always been present, but technology and media, now it is everywhere. Gluttony, overconsumption, food, entertainment, digital distraction, whatever. Gluttony. It dulls the mind, feeds the addiction, fosters dependency. And unlike the others, its political weight is indirect. So I'm going through all of these, and I'm thinking, okay, would any of the. If we could solve one or two of these, if we could actually make an impact on one of the seven deadly sins? Because I think, just the way I describe them, I think you would agree those are our problems. Nobody is talking about the seven deadly sins, but if we conquered one of them or two or three of them, would it make a difference? The answer is yes. But I think the order matters because they're all interconnected and you can't tackle one alone. It will weaken the others. So which ones will do the biggest impact? I think pride has to be number One. If humility would return in our culture, in leaders, in media, in ourselves, truth would then come to the top. It would rise above our ego. A dialogue could begin again. We could talk to one another and we would listen to one another. The next one would be envy. Envy is running rampant. It is what the left, not democrats, the left. It's what it's built on. It's what socialism and communism, it's all built on this envy. Class hatred, identity based politics. If we replace envy. I want, I want, I want. It's mine, it's mine. You have too much. If we turn that over and make that gratitude, then gratitude replaces grievance. We are happy for what we have and happy for the success of others. Wrath. How many times have you personally. Because I know this happens to me. Have you personally had some small thing happen and you just snap and it is unreasonable and you're like, whoa, where did that come from? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That's wrath. And it's because we've done a couple of things. We have no patience anymore. We have no patience for anything, anything. Now, now, now, now, now, now, now. We don't want to wait. We're not seeing people as humans anymore. You know, they screw up their job. You know what? You are useless. No, they might be having a bad day, but we are not going to take the time to figure that out. But if we could temper wrath, then we could argue without destroying. We need pride, we need envy and then wrath. If we could reverse all of those, because every victory in each of those would build momentum. Pride corrected leads to humility. Envy, if that is healed, that leads to gratitude. Wrath tamed becomes righteous courage. I think it was Thomas Aquinas that was the first to kind of put these together. I mean, they had been put together. They kind of loosely come from the scriptures, but they came together. And then it was Thomas Aquinas who said, what are the opposites of these? That is what we need to foster and that is what we have to do. The world is in chaos. Yes. And you are seeing it. I am seeing it. It is in chaos. But history will show us that when nations and individuals renew themselves, start over and say, I am going to renew myself. When they confront, in this case, the seven deadly sins. Three. I mean, how about the other four? How about we just try to work on three of them? If we can renew ourselves and confront these things directly, one step at a time, thinking very small. Stop looking. You're going to end in nothing but frustration. If we Continue to expect a big answer. We have gotten a big answer in many ways with the last election. And in many ways he's doing amazing things and we have to pay attention to it. And that could go wrong at any point. But we did our job. We still have to hold their feet to the fire. We have to pay attention, for instance, on the shutdown and war and everything else. We have to do that. But why don't we now concentrate on the things before? We're always saying just the election is the only thing that matters. Why don't we concentrate on the small things that we actually can do something about? I was talking to my wife in the car. I said, this makes sense to you? And she said, yes, it does. How would we do that? How would we take on pride? Try this for a week. Do not post anything positive about you for a week. Don't post anything. I'm not saying don't. I'm saying. I'm not saying post negatives. Don't glorify yourself for a week. So, I mean, that's as small as it could possibly be. Don't take pictures and make them look better than they are. I mean, we're always. I mean, it drives me nuts. I see these young kids and they're posing. They're just. They just. They know how to stand. They know how to, you know, pout their lips and it's like, what is that? It's not real. I don't know what that is. It's not real. Do not do that for a week. Don't. For a week. For a week. Let's start with removing things first before you build. Let's start with just trying to control it first. Don't glorify yourself for a week. Envy. Don't allow yourself to look at somebody else's success and either be jealous of it or to say, yeah, well, they just be happy for their success. That's the one thing I've always loved about this particular audience and the conservative movement is nobody slights people's success just because you made it. I mean, you could lose it at a heartbeat. But just because you made it, it doesn't mean that you're better or worse off or anything else. People are happy for your success. They're happy for your happiness. Don't envy, in fact, actually try to post something nice about someone else's success that you kind of have a hard time with, because there's a little bit of that envy in you. Don't engage in any kind of class warfare. I know you don't. But try to get your kids to do that. No identity politics for a week. No. Cancel culture for a week. Wrath. Let's start with a day. Take a breath before you say anything and just remember what your mother taught you. If you cannot say something nice, don't say anything at all. Do that for a week. There are things we have to do in the positive way, but I don't know. I am so tired of just sitting around and saying, well, I do not know what to do. And I want to feel like I am part of something bigger than just myself when we do things. And this is a way for, I think, us to actually make an impact, actually be better. Better as human beings by thinking small but realizing the dream is big, to change the country. And if we all did it, think of the impact of just this audience. If we all did these things, if we could reverse pride, envy and wrath, think about what a shining city on the hill just this audience would be.