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There is a freight train that is barreling down the tracks and we are standing right in its path and we're debating whether the tracks should be made of steel or Recycled materials. I don't think that's what we should be talking about. The train doesn't care. It's coming either way. You, however, because you are paying attention, you can get off the tracks and warn others as well. To the game that's being played now at a global level. We have to move, but we must not blink. Let's start with tariffs here. I'm going to cover a lot of things this hour, but tariffs, they're really big deal. But Canada, this isn't about you, okay? It's not about Mexico, it's not about Panama. It's about security, it's about drug runners, it's about our borders. It's about making America strong again. It's honestly about the US and the end of the structure that was set up post World War II. That's what it is now. The left and economic experts will now tell you, you can't do that. But that's what they've been doing. They've been dismantling the economic structure of post World War II. Right? I mean, they say, can't continue like this. It's gonna collapse. That's why we need a great reset. Except they want the great reset to go to a bigger global system. Donald Trump says, no, it needs to be America first. Just as Canada, the eu, Mexico and the rest should do the same for their countries. The United States, and quite honestly, the entire Western world, and I think the Eastern world as well, is at the precipice of an economic, political and societal reckoning unlike anything the world has faced since maybe the Great Depression. And in some ways, it's worse, because this time, it's not just about economics. It's about trust. It's about trust in our institutions, trust in our leaders, and even trust in one another. And that's what makes this moment so dangerous. President Trump is walking into a storm, perhaps running head first right into it, with a task that borders on the impossible. Think of this. He's got to be right. Not most of the time, not right. On balance, he has to be right almost every time. Every policy, every decision, every negotiation. He's got to be right. It has to be in the right order, the right timing and the right execution. And we must not blink as he negotiates. Because here's the. Here's the truth. We are out of margin for error, as pilots would say. We're out of Runway. We have no more Runway. It's either get this plane up or crash. Now, imagine trying to defuse a bomb with shaky hands after somebody else Set the timer and booby trapped all of the wiring. That's exactly what we're dealing with. However, for anyone who's beginning to shrink because of the shrieks of Justin Trudeau and make you question what Trump is doing with tariffs. Look who came to the negotiating table this weekend. Panama. What? I thought they were going to fight to the bitter end. No, they're returning the control of the Panama Canal to us. We don't own it, but they're kicking China out. That's what he wanted. So for the first time, America, you need to understand, first time since Ronald Reagan, at least, that we've had a president who knows what the truth is and knows how to get it justice. Reagan said that's an evil empire of communism. Our number one enemy. Trump is declaring globalism our number one enemy and returning jobs in manufacturing back to America. That's what's happening. That's what he's doing. You see, we have to grow our way out of this debt. It's not enough just to cut, we also have to grow. Our debt is over $34 trillion and climbing. Our annual deficit is, is over 1.7 trillion. The interest on our debt alone is $1 trillion a year. Just the interest. That's more than we spend on national defense. It's going to surpass what we spend on Social Security. And once that happens, the math doesn't work and it collapses under its own weight. And that will happen because almost all of the debt accrued under Biden were written as short term loans. A lot of it comes back up to be reloaned and remortgaged this next 18 months. Now, because Biden was such a good negotiator, we're going to have to negotiate under higher interest rates. Oh, this is why we don't have a choice. Just this one fact, if not dealt with quickly, will kill us. The Federal Reserve, our so called economic firefighter, is out of water. In fact, I think they've been an arsonist for a long time. Interest rates are already high, inflation is sticky. Quantitative easing, the message magic trick that they told us would work for over a decade is no longer even an option. The Fed printed $8 trillion in the last 15 years. And what did we get? What did we get? Did we get new companies, new manufacturing, new jobs everywhere? No, we got asset bubbles, distorted markets, and the illusion of prosperity for us as the uber rich and large corporations along with the banks, just got much, much, much. The illusion is finally fading. Reality is setting in. There's going to be A great reset. Most likely it'll be on Wall Street. And just when we thought it couldn't get more complicated, here comes artificial intelligence and artificial superintelligence, reshaping the entire world. What will feel like overnight? Millions of jobs are going to be obsolete now. Will there be new ones? Probably. They usually come. Are they going to come fast enough? No, there's going to be pain. We've talked about that for 15 years. See, everything that we've ever talked about that ended with somebody, usually a president, saying, and at that point, there will be no good options. We're here. That's where we are. And the economy isn't. It's not a machine you can just reboot. It's more like an ecosystem. And we've been poisoning it now for decades. So how do you fix this? How do you pull a nation back from the brink when it's addicted to easy money and cheap credit and government handouts? Well, you start by telling the truth. And that's what Donald Trump has been saying. We screwed ourselves. And we've been screwed by every other nation and including ourselves, mainly ourselves. Look, we're broke. Yes, if the world were a neighborhood, we'd be the one that had the biggest house, the nicest cars. We might even have a fleet of jets. But what the neighbors now know is that everything in our house, including our house, was purchased on loan. And our income can no longer service just the interest on the loan. Everybody knows. It seems exceptional. Perhaps the family inside of the house with the fancy gates, that would be us. This is why the $1 trillion cuts, $4 billion a day that Elon Musk announced over the weekend is a really big deal. But it cannot be the end. It has to be the beginning. Because we can't afford to be the world's babysitter or policeman anymore. We can't keep writing blank checks to foreign countries while our own people are in real danger. It's really easy. We as a nation, as a nation need to downsize. That's it. We need to look at our government and say, it's far too big. We need cuts. And the most important thing is a new mindset. The post World War II order is over. That system where America props up the global economy, defends half the planet, underwrites everybody else's welfare state. It's over, Silver. It's dead. Why? Why are we still living under trade laws that were written right after World War II to help rebuild the European and German car companies? I think Mercedes is okay. I think they'll make it without us. It's been dead for years. This. This thing has been. This thing has been on life support for decades, and it's been dead for at least two decades, maybe three. We just haven't had the funeral yet, and we need to. Countries like Panama are already beginning at the negotiating table. Why? Why? Donald Trump is playing a serious game. He is a serious negotiator. We still hold sway in that neighborhood, even though everybody knows we're broke. It's our security team that protects the entire neighborhood. If we stop, they'll need to spend money, money they don't have, or at least haven't been willing to spend. So, yeah, you like our jets? You like our protection? You like the world order? Yeah, you're going to have to pay for some of it, because we're done. And the world is feeling the shift. And the ones who are really against it were the ones that were designing a new global community, not a local community. The tariffs, the economic pressure, it's not just about money. It's about leverage. For the first time in generations, we're forcing other nations to stand on their own two feet. We're telling them, look, we have standards. We have a border. And you cannot allow China to come in, make all that fentanyl right under your nose, and then ship it across our border with drug cartels. And if you can't control them, we're gonna push you first. 25% tariff. And if you can't control them, then we're gonna take care of those drug cartels ourself because they're killing people here in America and Canada. I'm sorry. It's not about you. We're good friends. We are. But you have problems as well. You need to look at Canada first. We've all built our economies on the illusion that we could have it all without paying the price. BRICS is building an alternative to the US Dollar as a global reserve currency, which is not a conspiracy theory. It's happening. China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa, they're betting against us. And Canada is beginning to say they'll join Panama and others to stand against us, too. Fine. Bet on America's best days are behind us. But no, they're not. They're hedging their future against the collapse of the dollar. That's fine if they're right. If the dollar loses its status as the world reserve currency, then our standard of living will collapse almost overnight. But it's going to anyway if we don't act boldly. Now, here's the thing. It's not just about economics. It's also about character. We've been living in a fantasy too long, believing economic magic tricks can print wealth out of thin air, or we could borrow it forever without any consequence. That's not how reality works. Reality has rules. And if you break them, you pay the price. And we're not the only ones that broke all those rules. Rules every country in the west did. We're just the first now, under Donald Trump, to say, okay, we're out of that game. Cuts are coming. Deep cuts. Cuts that will make people scream. Cuts to programs that you think are sacred. Cuts to programs that I think are sacred. Because if everything is sacred, then nothing is sacred. We've treated government spending like an all you can eat buffet. But the bill is now doing, guess what? There's no such thing as a free lunch. And in fact, every item we eat had a very high price. It's easy to say cut the waste, but the truth is, the waste isn't enough. Even if you eliminated every dollar of fraud, waste and abuse, it wouldn't fix the problem, because the problem is us. It's our expectations, our unwillingness to make sacrifices, our unwillingness to do it ourselves and force others to do it themselves. Every generation before us has faced hard times. Wars, depression, pandemics. They rose to the occasion. The history books are just wondering, which direction am I going to write this in? Will we stand up? Because a lot of tough things are coming. A lot of tough things. But here's the hope. We still choose how this story ends. We face the truth now while we still have some options. We can tighten our belts, make the cuts, rebuild our economy on solid ground. It's going to be painful, painful here and painful for other countries, but pain's not the enemy. Complacency is. You know, I worry about these tariffs as well. But Donald Trump is not a lawyer. I mean, all of our presidents usually come from law. He's not a lawyer, he's not a politician. Uh, he's a businessman. So he knows how the economy works. He's the best negotiator I've ever seen. And over the last eight years, he has earned at least my trust and respect. I don't follow him blindly, nor should you. I worry about the effects of tariffs, but I think I see what he's doing and why he's doing it. And it may be the last chance we have if we do not let others see us blink. This isn't about politics. This is about survival. The world as we known it since World War II is over. And that's not a bad thing. It's an opportunity. It's an opportunity to rebuild something better, stronger, something real. 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We cannot let Elon Musk see our books. We are not giving him. Really? You? You run an aid program. What's so, what's so top secret that you can't let him see it? This is about control. Control over the flow of information, over government secrecy, and yes, control over your tax dollars. So here's the story in a nutshell. In case you didn't know, USAID, the U.S. agency for the International Development, had its Director of Security, Jonathan Voorhees and his deputy Brian McGill placed on administrative leave. Why? Because they refused to grant access to security systems and systems containing sensitive personnel files, clearance information, even classified materials to employees of Doge. When Voorhees and McGill said, no, you're not, you're not allowed to see any of this, that's when the Doge Doge team threatened to call in the U.S. marshals. The U.S. marshals. Over a bureaucratic disagreement. Now remember, this is about something much, much bigger. It's about who controls the machinery of the government when it comes to foreign influence, covert operations and the shadow games our government is playing overseas. So let's start with usaid. On paper it sounds great, right? The US Agency for International Development. They're the folks who help develop countries, build schools and fight diseases and support democracy. Uh huh. First of all, I don't wanna, I don't wanna be in that business as a government. But if you've been paying attention, history will tell you something else. Uh, it's well known that USAID has been much more than an aid operation since its inception in 1961. By the way, can you tell me anything that happened, you know, with the government and oversees things that was good that happened in the 50s and 60s? Maybe the peace Corps. Maybe the Peace Corps, but I doubt it. Um, USAID is a covert CIA operation. They do covert black ops all around the world and their money just comes in and it just. Oh, it's no, this is aid black hole. Now this is not a conspiracy theory, this is historic fact. In the Cold War, USAID funded cultural organizations and student groups and agricultural projects. They were covers for intelligence gather gathering. And they have been accused of everything from influencing elections in foreign countries to helping overthrow governments that didn't align, align with our interests. Do you want any country doing that? Don't, don't, don't. We have a big problem with other countries influencing our elections. How dare they. Uh huh. Black ops. Do you remember the color revolutions in Europe? Yeah, yeah. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that every employee at USAID is a covert operative. Most I'm sure, are good, decent people trying to do their jobs. But the agency has always had a dual identity. Part humanitarian, part shadowy extension of U.S. foreign policy through the CIA. And that's really the part that I think is interesting here. Because every nation knows that this is a CIA front except the American people. We don't. We don't know that. Apparently. We just. No, no, we're good. We're. You know, it has billions of dollars in black covert money flowing through it. We. We just don't know it. Because those with oversight can't see the records. President team has just been denied access. Wait a minute. Who works for who? This is an aid thing. What do you have that is so very top secret? So here comes Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency. Sounds pretty harmless. Yeah, like a bunch of accountants trying to balance the budget. That's all we're trying to do. But those who are running black ops know that Doge has two agendas. And the President has made it very clear, yes, cut the waste, downsize the government, but it also has another very specific mission. Except this isn't a black op. Again, this mission is right out in the open, where all missions should be. They. Their mission is not only to cut the budget, but to break up the entrenched bureaucracies that have been running Washington like their own personal fiefdoms. Trump's goal was to drain the swamp, and Doge is supposed to be one of the tools that is headed by Elon Musk to drain that swamp. Now, I personally like it for a couple of reasons. Elon Musk is one of the world's greatest minds. I mean, when he goes into his own companies, he sits with every employee for about five minutes and just says, what are you working on this week? And if they don't have something that, you know, he feels is, like, really moving the company forward, you're not necessary. You're fired. He has a knack for cutting waste and making companies more efficient and also coming up with some really good products. He's a disruptor. He doesn't do things like everybody else. He doesn't think like everybody else. That's his strength. He disrupts industries. He challenges the norms. And he's been on a very public mission to expose and challenge what he sees as government overreach, whether it's with Twitter or X, or even the critiques of regulatory agencies. Now, he can come in and he can look at these things and go, wait a minute. This doesn't seem to be exactly, you know, what you're supposed to be doing. This is different. This isn't about posting memes and calling out the woke mind virus. This is about accessing the very heart of the government's covert machinery. That's what's happening with usaid, because it's not about aid programs. It's all about data. It's all about networks. It's all about the hidden fluence influence that the U.S. experts, you know, flex all around the world, including perhaps inside the United States, against our own people. But we don't know. And now, for the first time in decades, somebody from the outside of traditional power structures are, are saying, huh, what is it you guys do here? And guess what? The machine doesn't like it. The people who have been running that machine also don't like it. I want you to remember who was in charge of usaid. Does anybody remember? Anybody? Bueller? Anybody? Samantha Power. Now, Samantha Power, she's the wife of the Harvard professor, Obama advisor, and author of the really super important book called Nudge. How to get people to do what you want them to do without them knowing Nudge. So the wife of that guy, who I'm sure has nothing to do with nudging or doing anything like that, even though she was with the Biden or the. The Obama administration forever, she doesn't know anything about that. This is why John voorhees and Brian McGill push back. That's why they're risking their careers to say, no, you can't come in here because they weren't just protecting the files. They were protecting the status quo. They're protecting a system that is operated in the shadows for decades with little to no accountability to the American people. And here's where it gets even more fascinating. The employees at USAID and across the federal bureaucracy aren't just fighting to protect sensitive information. They are fighting to protect their power. He's getting in to the roots now. He's opening up. You know how Donald Trump is kind of like a human hand grenade? I've said this to his face. You know, I think you're kind of like a human hand grenade. What do you mean? Well, I mean, you're the greatest human hand grenade I've ever seen. Don't get me wrong. You just kind of throw yourself into things and then a wall comes down. And as the dust is sell settling, everybody goes, wait a minute. What's on the other side of that wall? That's what's happening. Except this time, they're not just lobbing grenades in. They know where it is. Over the years, we've created this massive administrative state, which is a fourth branch of government that nobody votes for. Wholly unconstitutional. No one really controls it. You notice that the people on Capitol Hill, they're afraid of the intelligence agencies. Hmm. So who's really boss, then? They operate With a level of secrecy that would make our founding fathers roll in their graves. This administrative state has been the gatekeeper of information, deciding who gets to know what, both here at home and abroad. Does the President even know? So when Trump and Musk come knocking, knocking, knocking at the door, trying to peek behind the curtain, the reaction is swift and fierce. Because if they succeed, they'll manage to pull USAID's operations and put it right under direct CRO control of the State Department. Or even worse, in the public eye. They'll be held accountable for things we can't have. That it will expose decades of COVID actions, questionable alliances, the dark side of US Foreign policy that has been hidden under the guise of aid. It's why the rest of the world hates us. Think about some of the crazy things we've done in the name of foreign aid. We funneled money to warlords in Afghanistan. We gave money to the Taliban, money to Gaza to prop up Hamas. We've run guns to the Syrian group. ISIS propped up dictators in Latin America, even funded opposition groups in countries where we wanted regime change. All under the banner of freedom and democracy. Again, this is why everybody hates the American government. Her people see our influence as good and benevolent, and sometimes I think we are. Other times, America is anything but. So in exchange for our tax dollars, we've asked countries to change their laws to accept abortion in places where the people are morally outraged. We promote transgenderism in their schools. We. We tell them that this is the enlightened way to go. Otherwise, they lose their aid. We force them to open their markets to multinational corporations that sometimes are don't have their best interest at heart, and we conduct military operations on their soil. You will do it our way, and yet you don't know anything about it. Most Americans have no idea because it's all wrapped up in the nice, shiny package of humanitarian assistance. So here's what happens if Doge succeeds. What happens if Musk and Trump manage to pry open the lid to this operation? Well, for once, the bureaucrats lose control of one of their many hiding places, the intelligence community loses one of its more useful tools, and the American people might finally get to see just how much of their hard earned money has been used not to build schools or feed the hungry, but to manipulate foreign governments and maintain our empire of influence. And here's the kicker. This isn't about just the past. It is about the future. Because if Musk and Trump can break through this wall, it sets a precedent. It says no part of the government is beyond scrutiny. Of our elected officials, and that terrifies people who've been running the show. So what do we take away? One, pay attention. Stories like these are not bureaucratic squabbles. This is the battle front. This is the battle line right there that will decide who actually runs the country. We're going to see more on this, and the intelligence agencies are not going to like it. So one thing I would take away from this is don't take any news story at face value for a while. There are many hiding places, and those who receive and use dark money for black ops are going to fight back. Second, ask questions. Continue to ask questions. Why does USAID have classified systems that other government officials can't access? Why is there so much resistance in an aid organization to transparency? And third, remember, the people that are screaming the loudest about protecting democracy are often the ones most afraid of the people actually seeing how the sausage gets made. So this isn't about usaid, Doge, or even Trump and Musk. It's about whether you have the right to know what our government is doing with your money. Stay curious, America. We will get to the bottom of this. But we have to be willing to go through the tough times, remain determined and vigilant. You're streaming the Best of the Glenn Beck program and you can find full episodes wherever you download podcast. So Frank McCourt, best known as the former owner of the Los Angeles Dollar Dodgers, has placed a bid in to buy TikTok through a group that he started called Project Liberty. Project Liberty is, I think, a really good mission. They are trying to make sure that the data that everybody collects on us is owned by each of us rather than by the tech giants. And he wants to start this with TikTok. Welcome to the program. How are you, Frank?