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Utah, what are you thinking? The Republicans in Utah, you want to talk about being hypocrites? Here it is. When we talk about packing the court, what do we all say? Don't do that. That's the end of the republic. It's always the end of the republic. When somebody starts packing courts. The next people that get in, they're like, oh, well, you change that number so I can change that number, too. We're going to have 12, we're going to have 20, we're going to have 30, we're going to have 55. You see Venezuela, you see Cuba, you see any country that has ever done this, they fall into totalitarianism because they realize they can just change the referees. They'll just add more referees, and they'll add the referees they like. Utah has had a real problem because you have all these judges that are legislating from the court. That's not the job of a judge. That's not what a judge does. They accepted. Utah accepted. I think it's the Missouri system or the Missouri reform. I don't know what it is. Something to do with Missouri. And what it means is they're going to get together with all of the legal experts, and the legal experts are going to say to the governor, these are the ones you should pick from. Oh, okay, no, no. Can we stop being a country run by experts? We see exactly what the experts have done in every category. Stop it. So they decided because the court system is overwhelmed. No, not the Supreme Court. The federal courts are the state. The state courts are, but not the state Supreme Court. There's a massive backlog in the lower courts, you know, and people have been begging, hey, help us, help us. And they were ignored. So they decided to expand the Supreme Court. Why? That wasn't overrun. It wasn't overwhelmed. This is not about efficiency. This is all about control. And I understand you have bad judges and they've been legislating, but you don't do this, Utah, you should hear history echoing here, okay? Because this is what happens all the time when a uni party takes hold. The Republicans, you know, the Republicans have had control of Utah forever. And so they're doing exactly what's happening in Texas. They get soft. They get mushy. They get embarrassed that they actually believe in the Constitution. And when power moves as a single organism, protecting itself, correcting its losses, punishing resistance, this is what they do. They made all these mistakes, all these compromises, and then what happens after the compromises are there? They see what the result is, and they're like, oh, I shouldn't have done that. Okay, well, let's do something even more dumb. Let's pack the Supreme Court of the state. Republicans, you don't get a pass here because Democrats would do it, too. That argument damns the Republic. It doesn't save it, it damns it. A legislature that expands a court after losing cases is not defending a republic. It's announcing. Constitutional limits only apply, you know, unless they're inconvenient. What kind of hypocrites are running the gop? And here's the deeper problem. Problem that nobody wants to say out loud. For decades, our universities have been captured by ideologues who openly despise the Constitution. I have a. I have a podcast coming with. Oh, gosh, what's his name? Constitutional scholar. Yeah. Jonathan Turley. It's coming out this week. And he was talking, kept ringing the bell. You don't understand what's happening in the universities, Glenn. It's Marxism. And they're all against the Constitution. They're teaching Marxism not as theory, but as morality. And they're training our lawyers and our judges and our journalists and the bureaucrats to see the problem as something to be managed, not framework to be defended, because the framework is just not good anymore. The media, overwhelmingly drawn from the same institutions. Doesn't. You know, it doesn't check this drift. It sanctifies it. And in a state that was raised on the Constitution, you know better than this. Have you just grown timid, Apologizing before you even stand up, square your shoulders and say, this is what the Constitution says. These are our founding principles. Why are you shrinking from conflict? As if defending principles is somehow impolite. It is not impolite. It is required of you to stand. A Republican can. Cannot survive this kind of shyness. I know you're polite. I know you don't want to. I know you want to get along with everybody. You must stand, or you will lose everything. You're going to become California. And then you think that. You think that state's going to last. Are you kidding me? One side is ruthless, and the other side is reserved, and the ruthless always win. I know. That's why we packed the coat. The court. No, you don't violate your own principles or you become everything that you despise. Utah once prided itself on being different, unusual, peculiar, grounded, constitutionally serious. You're not. This. This your road you're on. It's not leading you to any of that. When courts become political tools, when legislatures punish judges for rulings instead of fixing the law, when every law is answered with structural manipulation, you don't get Utah. You get California. Not all. Not all at once. Not overnight, but inevitably, you get it, and you're almost there. And once you cross this line, which you just crossed, there's no neutral ground left. Every future majority is going to feel justified doing exactly the same thing, only faster and only harsher. You think they're going to stop at seven. You had five. You increased it to seven. Because it's overwhelmed. That's a lie. That's a lie. Numbers are numbers. Math is math. Sorry, gop. Math is universal. And some of us know the difference between an overwhelmed system and one that's not. Math is just a number. This is how separation of power has become a memory instead of a guardrail. I'm going to show you what just happened in Texas. Okay? Utah and Texas. This isn't just a bad bill. This is a warning flare to the rest of the country. Republics that ignore warning flares, you don't get a second chance on this one. When you start screwing around with the balance of a state or national Supreme Court, your republic is destined for disaster. Okay? That's just the truth. I don't like saying it. I don't want to be the one saying it. But if you're doing it, somebody's got to point it out and saying, what are you doing? Do you want that to happen at the federal level? You just set a precedence. It's not going to stop there. Oh, yeah, but we're always going to control. Oh, are you? Are you? Have you seen the numbers moving into your state? Have you seen what's happened to Fort Worth just this weekend? That's not conservative anymore. Fort Worth, it's known as Cowtown. That's not Dallas. That was the conservative part. Nope, not anymore. Not anymore. Because Republicans were just like, we're Texas. We'll always be Texas. Have you seen the numbers of the people moving in from California, Florida? I warn you. Have you seen the numbers moving in from New York? These people are not the ones that moved because they had a point. They now moved because it's just too expensive. It's just too crazy up there with taxes. They don't know they were the ones who built all of that system. Be careful. Be careful. Bad move, Utah. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's Mercury One. When disaster hits, there is always that moment where people are still trying to figure out who's in charge, what agencies are involved, where's the federal government, how long is it going to take before help actually shows up? 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Glenn Beck (24:59)

All right, blend back program from the east coast of North America on the Space coast where it's cold, we still have iguanas falling from the trees. It's like some weird, I don't know, some weird sci fi movie here I don't understand. But we're glad you're here. Thank you for listening. You know, let me give you a little bit of history here on something. Something happened as I'm marking the, you know, America's 250th, and I'm looking at their, you know, looking at all the things that happened that are of importance. And today in 1801, the U.S. supreme Court heard its very first case in Washington, D.C. court had existed on paper since 1789, but it really hadn't really begun to function as an independent branch at all. It wasn't an arm of the Congress or the presidency. It was on itself. And in fact, at the beginning, up until fdr, the court was not in a fancy building. It was actually in the basement of the Capitol because the designers forgot, oh yeah, we got another branch. That's how unimportant it was supposed to be. Okay? And judicial legitimacy in America was built slowly and quietly and deliberately. And it wasn't based on force or anything else. It was built. The credibility of the court came through restraint. Okay? The Constitution is to restrain both, you know, all, all three branches. Okay? That's what the Constitution is. It's handcuffs. Something yesterday happened that was very important in a federal courtroom. Okay. First of all, yesterday you have Utah losing its mind and adding justices to their state supreme court. Thank you for that. Thank you. We're not going to pay for that as a nation. No, no, no. But thank you for the precedent on that. Then yesterday in Texas, something happened that has very little to do with immigration policy, but everything to do with power. And it shows today, on the anniversary of the first court cases, how far the courts have fallen. Yesterday, a federal district judge, Fred Biry, was presented with habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of an is of as of a asylum seeker and his five year old son. That's routine. That happens all the time. Habeas corpus exists to ensure the government is not holding somebody unlawfully. So if ICE had picked up somebody unlawfully, all you have to do, you file the habeas corpus. And the judge is meant to answer one very narrow question. Is this detention lawful under the existing laws and statutes and constitutional standards? Okay, that's, that's all they're supposed to answer, yes or no. But that's not what happened. That's not where this opinion stopped. No, no, no. Instead of limiting the ruling to the legal facts of detention, the judge launched into some sweeping tirade, some indictment of the executive branch, accusing the administration of incompetence, authoritarianism, cruelty, ignorance of American history, which one of my favorite. And then he's quoting the Bible, talking about moral indecency. He invoked the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the fourth Amendment, the Bible, and Thomas Jefferson. But here's the thing. It wasn't to interpret or even answer the habeas corpus thing. It had nothing to do with that. It was meant only to condemn policy choices. Okay, okay. Might been a line that was crossed there one, you know, on that one, because judges are not philosophers. That's not why you're there. You're not moral narrators. You're. You're not the ombudsman that just, you know, is there to take care of all of the national policy disputes. Your authority derives from restraint, not speeches. Yet in this opinion, the judge didn't just not merely rule that an administrative warrant failed constitutional muster. He asserted that all administrative immigration warrants were illegitimate because they were issued by an executive branch that itself was inherently unconstitutional. Unconstitutional, I mean, because they are fascists. Oh, really? No, wait a minute. I thought. Because I'm just looking at how this is supposed to work. I have it up on a chalkboard today. How this is supposed to work. That's not how this system is supposed to work. That, that's. That's not an interpretation. That's legislation from the bench. And we're still the. The opinion openly attacks the motives, claiming the government is pursuing daily deportation quotas which traumatized children, lust for power and abandon all decency. Where are those facts? I'm sorry, could you read those facts into the record, your honor? I mean, that sounds like a nice opinion, and it might be your opinion, but where are the facts of that? And what does it have to do with deciding the habeas petition? Because that's all that this is you're supposed to do. Is this arrest legal or not? That's what you're supposed to do. You know, it's funny because I started with the first cases of the judicial branch happening on this day, 1801, to show you how unimportant the Supreme Court was supposed to be. But more importantly, the Supreme Court was designed to be the least dangerous branch, okay? The one that was to decide cases if they were constitutional, not a crusade. When, when judges start to go on a crusade and they begin issuing moral verdicts on policy. You're not a referee anymore. You know, that's, that's like, that's like, you know, a referee down on the field saying, you know what? I'm not going to let that be a touchdown because have you seen. I mean, the coaches are morally reprehensible. Well, that doesn't have anything to do with what's on the field. You want to talk about that? Talk about that after the game and shout about that all you want after the game, but we're asking you, was that a touchdown or not? Not. Whether the coach, you know, or the owner or anybody else is immoral. Constitution does not empower judges to correct policy outcomes they dislike. All it empowers them to do is to say whether a law was followed or not. And this really super matters because when judges abandon neutrality, they weaken the rule of law they claim to defend. If one judge can nullify executive enforcement priorities by editorial decree, which I've never heard, you don't think everybody else is going to do it in the same or opposite direction? This is how law becomes politics. By another name, A republic survives not because every branch agrees, but because every Branch knows what it is supposed to do and its limits. What is the problem? If you are against fascism, totalitarianism, what are you actually saying? Don't give the presidential branch so much power. That's what you're supposed to be saying, but nobody's saying that. They're just saying, bad Orange man, bad. What about the president's power? That was under Biden and Obama and George Bush? It's out of whack. That's what you're saying. That's what you're feeling when you say that it's authoritarian. They can come in and sweep us up at night and put us in jail. That's because the administrative branch has too much power. It's not balanced. You've got to balance the power. This didn't have anything to do with immigration enforcement. And that's not where the danger of this guy, the danger is the precedent that he sent. Precedent, once set, rarely cares what side you're on. So let me just take you quickly to the chalkboard. I'll explain it. If you happen to be listening to us. If you're watching us@glenn beck.com you're a member of the Torch, by the way. Thank you for becoming a member of the Torch. If you're not yet, go to glenn beck.com sign up. It's 10 bucks a month for this month. You get all kinds of perks because you are a founding member this month if you sign up this month. But also, I'm going to guarantee that I'm going to make it inflation proof. Your price will never increase for the life of your membership. Okay, so here's, here's what I put up on the chalkboard today. This how it's supposed to work. The. Under the, under the authority given by Congress, Congress makes the law and then the president and the administration enforces the law. And the justice is supposed to be the referee. The, the executive goes out and arrests somebody because there's a law that says that he's going to enforce, okay? And he arrests. Well, if you think you've been wrongly arrested, you file a habeas corpus petition. Okay? That's somebody saying I shouldn't have been detained. That I. Is my detention even lawful? That's what the judge is supposed to answer. The case is very, very narrow. It's really simple facts and narrow. You got to bind the facts. That's what you're judging on. You're not judging on anything else. The facts. And it's a very narrow question. Should I be detained? Is this legal? Okay. Not moral, Legal. Then the judge does the legal review. Did Congress authorize this law? Yep. Did the executive follow the statute? Yep. Was this a. Was the constitutional minimums followed? In other words, did I, did I read them the, you know, did I read them their rights of the Miranda Act? Yep. Okay. You can't take into motive, policy, moral judgment. That's not part of the case. That's your opinion, Judge. We're not asking for your opinion. We are asking you to review. Did Congress authorize this? Did the executive follow the statute? Was the Constitution minimal minimums met? The answers to all of that, yes. Then the judge decides on those narrow facts. If he feels the guy was unlawfully arrested, he releases him. If he was lawfully arrested, then he remains in custody. That's what it's supposed, that's what's supposed to happen. But what actually happened yesterday in Texas, executive orders were to go out and arrest these guys. It is. They're enforcing the law aggressively. Yes. But let, remember, that's up to the administration, because you'll remember some administrations say, I'm not going to arrest anybody for any of these laws. Okay? That's just as unconstitutional as, you know, any kind of thing that he's doing. He's not. I mean, he's just saying, I'm going to, I'm going to aggressively enforce the law. I am going to enforce it. Every jot and tittle, we're doing it. That's not, you may not like it, but that's not unconstitutional. Then the habeas corpus is filed and the judge dislikes Trump's policy choices. Strike one against the judge. They file the petition. The judge then expands the role and, and, and, and looks at things that are not in question. He begins to say things not, is it lawful, but is it moral? Is the administration authoritarian? Is the administrative motives corrupt? Is enforcement historically dangerous? Is enforcement of this historically dangerous? Who the hell are you to decide that? Who asked you to decide that? Who asked you to even talk about that? Then he, he issued his opinion. His opinion and made broad declarations. The administration warrants are wrong because they're immoral. The executive branch doesn't have any legitimacy because it's authoritarian. He goes into historic tyranny, moral condemnation of Donald Trump. He attributes intent for that. Where did you get that fact? Your Honor. And then he reads scripture to appeals to scripture, which I love. And then he issues this manifesto. You should read this manifesto. It is absolutely incredible. And he's not doing it to decide the habeas petition. He's governing he's not judging anymore. He's governing. So. So he orders the release. Now maybe that's proper, I don't know because I don't know what the hell he was taking in as facts. The precedent has been blurred. The executive branch is now chilled. The judiciary is politicized and prioritized. And what is that going to do? The same thing that it's going to do in Utah. It invites copycat litigation, it invites copycats. In every other state going, well, they did. Encourages forum shopping, undermines neutrality. You know, and probably the most important difference is supposed to be this is what the law allows in this case. But instead it became, here's what I believe the government should be allowed to do. That's a crossing. That's a crossing. When a judge answers questions that no one asked, they're no longer interpreting, they're writing the law. That's not conservative, that's not progressive, that's simply destabilizing and not the American way. More in a minute. Let me tell you about my Patriot supply. Most people, they don't even think about emergency food until they're standing in a grocery store aisle looking at all the empty shelves and like, what is happening. We've seen how quickly normal can turn into good luck finding basic supplies. And by the time that happens, it's too late and you wish you had planned ahead. 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Ali Beth Stuckey (48:37)

I'm doing well, how are you?

Glenn Beck (48:40)

I am great. Ali Bestucky, who is the host of Relatable on Blaze TV and author of a great book, Toxic Empathy. So I found out this weekend that I was in the Epstein files and I first went, what? And then I realized it was him and some other dirtbag writing about basically how much they hate me and, and my listeners. And I was like, oh, I gotta, I gotta make a T shirt. I was in the Epstein files because they hated me. I love that when you found out compliment. Yeah, it is, isn't it? You've got an even bigger one. You've got Hillary Clinton writing an op ed about how toxic your toxic empathy book is. I mean, that's gotta feel good. Yeah.

Ali Beth Stuckey (49:30)

You know, I was talking to my dad and husband, just having a nice afternoon chat and I looked out on my phone and it started buzzing and I got a message that said, hillary Ronald Clinton just wrote a hit piece on you in all caps. And I couldn't believe it until I read it myself. And what's in. What's interesting about this is that, you know, my book is not new. It came out in October of 2024. So about 15 months later, we've got former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton taking out 6,000 words in the Atlantic to talk about how terrible my book is. You know, it is a badge of honor. It also helps book sales a little bit. But honestly, I'm just trying to wonder what. Try to figure out what her strategy is.

Glenn Beck (50:16)

So explain toxic empathy what it is.

Ali Beth Stuckey (50:20)

Yes, yes. This is something that she didn't distinguish in her op ed, to no surprise. You know, I think the left actually understands the concept. They talk about things like toxic masculinity. And what they'll say is that not all masculinity is toxic, but this form of masculinity is toxic. And yet when I talk about toxic empathy, they pretend that I'm saying that all compassion is toxic and bad. And that's not what I'm saying at all. I say that empathy becomes toxic when it leads you to do three things. To affirm sin, to validate lies, or to support destructive policies. So your empathy becomes toxic when you feel so deeply for one particular person, a purported victim, that you are blinded to both reality and morality. You are so focused on this person that you forget that there are other people on the other side of the moral equation. So you feel so deeply for the man who says that he is born in the wrong body and is meant to be a woman that you forget about biological reality and ignore the rights and the privacy and the fairness of the girls on the other side of the equation. So I think that toxic empathy is really the explanation for the support of all kinds of destructive policies when it comes to immigration, crime, gender, abortion. And so it doesn't surprise me at all that progressives don't like that we're giving that a name and calling it out.

Glenn Beck (51:38)

So, Ali, explain it. Go specific on the. The. The use of toxic empathy or the demonstration of toxic empathy, for instance, in Minnesota.

Ali Beth Stuckey (51:50)

Yeah. Yes. Such a good question. So we see this decontextualized image of this young boy and he's standing with law enforcement officers. And immediately, and rightly, it evokes a sense of sadness and outrage and pity for this boy who was put in this situation. And then a narrative is attached to it. And instead of asking hey, is this true or what's the alternative explanation? Our hearts are want to believe that it's true because it seems right that this boy was kidnapped by these ICE agents, he was separated from his family, and this is the cruelty of the Trump administration. There's some confirmation bias there, but really, we just feel so deeply for this boy that we believe the victim narrative that has been attached to him. And then because of that, you say riots are justified, the protests are justified, and abolishing ICE or defunding the police are all justified in the name of helping little boys like Liam. The problem is your empathy for that boy has actually blinded you to what is true. It has paralyzed your critical thinking. So you're not asking the question that all of us need to ask. How do I know that's true? What's the greater context? Can I believe this person? What are the sources being cited? And what is the other side of this story that we are not being told? That is the. That is the danger of allowing your empathy to. To overtake or eclipse your critical thinking skills. We have to have both compassion and this truth and love approach that is necessary in our critical thinking process as we decide on policy.

Glenn Beck (53:32)

When you look at the Democrats, I've got something I'm going to talk about here in a little while. About how the things that they're shouting at people, the things they're saying about, you know, I hope you die, I hope your wife dies, I hope your children are killed, all of these things. And they say, they claim they're doing it out of love. They claim they're on the side of love. And those two things don't connect at all. I mean, that was the genius of Martin Luther King and Gandhi and Jesus. He connected them. Your words and your actions must demonstrate love and never cross into hatred or retaliation, revenge, any of that stuff. And they held the line. These guys don't have a line. And I think it's because of the loss of eternal truth. They've lost, or maybe never had, some of them, the understanding of what Jesus was actually teaching or what Martin Luther King was actually teaching. And so they've become the exact opposite of those, and yet they don't see it.

Ali Beth Stuckey (54:47)

Yeah, gosh, so many good points there. There was a book that came out before mine in 2016 that wrote about the dangers of empathy from a secular psychological perspective by a Yale psychologist named Paul Bloom. And he talks about this concept of being full of empathy, but mean as hell. And what he measured was that in students that measured higher on empathy that they are actually crueler to the outgr. So what happens is you feel so deeply for one purported victim that anyone who you see as in opposition to that victim, so in opposition to the illegal immigrant, in opposition to the woman seeking abortion, you can justify cruelty and hatred against them because in your mind you are fighting against the oppressor. And so really what happens there is when you exchange empathy for virtue, Christian virtue, what you're talking about, it actually doesn't make you more loving on the whole. It actually can make you cruel towards the people that you now perceive as your enemy. And that is why exchanging the truth in love, exchanging true virtue for empathy, is actually a very harmful exchange.

Glenn Beck (55:55)

So my concern, the thing I think of every day is how do we point this out? How do we save people? Because I think this, this is why they emphasized on your feelings. They emphasized your feelings, your feelings, your feelings. You know, and Ben Shapiro for years said, facts don't care about your feelings, but that's why they emphasize feelings. Because if you concentrate on feelings, then reason shuts down and then you get enraged and it shuts down even further. So you have all of these people that I think they're actually thinking they're doing the right thing, but they've shut down the thinking process so deeply that they're not. I mean, they're just trapped. So how do you reverse this?

Ali Beth Stuckey (56:45)

Yes, because feelings also don't care about your facts. And that's exactly why they emphasize the emotion. And so, yes, facts and logic, all of those things are so important and do have the power. They can have the power to be persuasive and pull people out of their delusion. However, I also think that we need to tell the story on the other side of every issue, something I do in my book. I tell the story that the media is telling, for example, about a woman who wants an abortion but has been forced by these evil pro life laws in Texas to keep her child. And of course the left sees that as something that is draconian. But I tell the story from the baby's perspective. This is what would have happened to this baby had there not been this pro life law in Texas. She would have been poisoned, she would have been dismembered, she would have been tossed aside like toxic waste. It was actually because of this pro life law that she was carried, that she was delivered, loved and named and buried like the dignified image bearer of God that she was. Sometimes people need to see that there is another side of the story that demands your heart too. There are Kate Steinle's. There are Lake and Riley's. There are Molly Tibbetses who are also your neighbors that need your compassion and your eyes and your love. And when you allow people to zoom out and show them there are other people on the other side of this political issue that you're talking about sometimes that expands their understanding to the point that they can be persuaded by facts.

Glenn Beck (58:13)

I'm just making a list here of as I'm listening to, I'm making a list of the things that, that led to all this that you have to reverse. I mean, this is why feelings were so important. This is why ends justify the means was so important to them. Because you can do anything if just what happens in the end is all that matters. You could justify anything. Why they kept shouting, shut up, shut up, shut up. Don't ask questions, just go along with it. I mean, all of these things built this army of almost automatons that are just not thinking for themselves.

Ali Beth Stuckey (58:52)

Mm. When you think about those agitators that infiltrated that church in St. Paul, one of the refrains that they were repeating was hands up, don't shoot. So still, however many years later is it 12 years later, maybe they are still repeating that refrain from Michael Brown's shooting that has been debunked by the Obama doj, by the Washington Post. To your point about the ins justify the means like a lie is justified. Agitation, violence, cruelty is all justified if you are defeating Nazis, which of course is why the local politicians rhetoric there is so dangerous, because these people feel absolutely justified in traumatizing elderly women and children because they're doing so in the name of defeating fascism.

Glenn Beck (59:45)

Real quick, how do you solve it real quick?

Ali Beth Stuckey (59:50)

How do we.

Glenn Beck (59:51)

That's what a stupid thing to say.

Ali Beth Stuckey (59:53)

We all are doing our part to show people there's another side of this story. I'm on the battleground of Instagram trying to pull people out of this propaganda that women are so easily sucked into and remind them God has given you a brain. There's a lot of people that make a lot of money based on you being stupid and you don't have to fall into that trap. You are a smart person who's able to think and see the other side of this story. So join me in the journey of seeking truth.

Glenn Beck (60:22)

Ali Best Stuckey. The name of the book is Toxic Empathy. The author of the op ed against that theory and against Ali is Hillary Clinton. So there's a good endorsement. And she's also the host of Relatable on Blaze tv. Ali, always good to talk to you. Thank you.

Ali Beth Stuckey (60:39)

Thank you so much.

Glenn Beck (60:41)

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Jason (62:12)

Hey, Glenn, a lot of people commenting in from from Utah saying that there's a lot of craziness going on with Utah politics and not just Utah politics, but people are in other states are saying that, you know, don't forget a lot of these other states. A lot of shady stuff is happening. It's almost like the left on a national level has doubled down on not only policies like progressive policies from the Republicans and states like Utah, but, you know, campaign financing stuff like what's happening in Texas that's worrying a lot of people right now.

Glenn Beck (62:48)

I will tell you, the Republicans, the Senate now has the votes for the SAVE act, but it's going to require thune to stand up and enforce the, the vocal filibuster rule. In other words, you can't just say filibuster and then go home. You have to talk it out. You've got, you know, 30 days where you can stand up there and filibuster all you want, but then it goes to a vote. And I'm not sure Thune is going to do that. I mean, it's. We're going to need to call him and ask politely. Ask politely, be nice. Don't turn people or don't turn people around who we need ask politely. Please support the. The spoken filibuster rule when it comes to the SAVE act, because that's going to come up to a vote. And I'm telling you, if we don't get the save. Here's what the SAVE act is how Democrats can be against this. Not a single one of them is going to vote for it. And this is like 8020 in favor with the American people, maybe even 9010. It's the most popular policy. You have to have ID when you go and vote. And the Democrats are determined to defeat it because they know once you have to have id, the vote changes. And if that. I mean, we should have that. Even if it would be on our side against us. We should have voter id. How hard is that? You have to have voter ID to go to a hospital. You have to have ID if you go pick up medicine at cvs. You need to have ID everywhere if you ever travel on a plane. What kind of people don't have id? Some sort of id? Well, you might have your Panamanian id, but you don't have an American. Well, then you don't vote. Then you don't vote. It's just that easy. And there's all these crazy things that are happening. And reason why he was talking about Utah was because Utah just packed the courts. They just took their Supreme Court and added justice. The Republicans did that. How stupid is that? Jason, I was listening to you during the break before I went on with Ali, and you said there you were reading something from a student that said they were glad I was talking about it today and used the chalkboard because they understood it and they were writing a paper for college class or something.

Jason (65:14)

Yeah, writing a paper. And a lot of people chimed in and said they want all of your chalkboards on, like a database so they can take a lot of this stuff to schools to do this on a larger scale so it helps them explain their points. But they wanted a big database of all your chalkboards visually so they can show you.

Glenn Beck (65:31)

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Glenn Beck (68:00)

Let me just give you a few quick stories here. The treasurer of a Democratic organization in Arizona has resigned from the Post and was fired from his real estate job after he's caught on video shouting obscenities. The video was captured at a protest at the Zip Sports Grill after the chain was targeted by immigration officials. All of Zips locations were shut down after search warrants were executed at 14 locations on the same day. This official said. I really regret the manner I express myself. Blah, blah, blah. I bet you do. Or do you really? He is on video yelling at women who were taking selfies in support of ICE operations. And he said, you little effing seas, nasty girls who love ICE and take photos with them. And he was berating them, yada, yada, yada. And I saw that and I thought, how is this a side of love? How is this a side of love? I mean, Fetterman came out and he said, this is nuts. Stop targeting ICE and stop targeting their families. This is. This is. This is beyond what reasonable people do. This is beyond what people who want to reconcile and come together and build a better nation together do. There's no coming together after this. This is why they're talking about rounding people up. You better watch yourself, because we're going to round you up. Really? How is that going to solve anything? How is that going to help us come together in the end? You can't. You can't just have a country, and I say this to both sides. We cannot have a country where one side wins and the other side loses. There has to be a reckoning, a coming to the truth again, a reconciliation with the truth. And the Democrats are on the losing side of this. You know, in. In the lapd, the chief just came out because they just passed a law. Governor Newsom said, there's a new law, and it restricts ICE from wearing any masks. And he said to the lapd, you've got to do it. And the chief said, that's not safe. That's not safe for them. That's not safe for us. Quote, the reality of one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict over something that would be a misdemeanor at best or an infraction. Doesn't make any sense. We're not going to do it. That's a pretty big win. Katie Wilson, she said she wants the police to gather evidence and start investigating and verifying and documented the activity of ICE for potential prosecution. The head of the police union in Seattle said toothless virtue signaling rhetoric like this has already cost two people their lives. The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and it will not happen. I will not allow the Seattle police members to be used as political pawns. In Portland, they've gone the other way. In Portland, they now are awarding grants, public taxpayer dollar grants of $10,000 to anybody who will aid the. The illegals in their county. Well, good for them. And we're talking to. Talking To Ali about, how do you solve this? I just. I am just struck by how diametrically opposed to everything they say they are. They actually are. You know, Martin Luther King was pretty genius. He felt that you just have to hold a mirror up. You just, you know, somebody who is invoking his name today, they're no longer practicing this. But moral clarity works if you can still see yourself in the mirror while you're holding it. He didn't believe that love was a slogan or identity. He was not into identity politics. He believed love was a discipline. A costly, deliberate, and humiliating discipline sometimes, but a discipline. And he said, now listen. I mean, the guy is so far ahead of his time. He said, when anger is untethered from moral restraint, it doesn't stay aimed at the system. It turns on people. And once that happens, the cause begins to rot from the inside. People are not refusing the lie that rage equals righteousness. Martin Luther King knew that. How are these people who are claiming to be on the side of love missing this? You know, one of the great deceptions, I guess, of our time is the belief that intensity proves virtue. If you're so intense about it, then that's your virtue. No, it's not. The louder you scream, the more certain the screamer often feels. The less they're listening, the more you're shouting, the less you're listening. You know, and without, you know that. That moral certainty, without a humility, with. With just this moral certainty, without humility, you're engaging in self worship. You know, when somebody convinces themselves that they are on the right side of history, you stop asking any questions about your own actions right now. Okay? We have to become a country that doesn't. We have to understand we can't out outrage them. Okay? We won't win that way. We have to look at the behavior that degrades human dignity, even when it comes from our side, and withhold any moral endorsement of that. Because that unsettles people more than shouting back. You know, when you name the behavior and not the identity. Because people feel when you're labeled, how do you feel when people call you a racist? Okay, King didn't say you evil people. He didn't say that. He said your action is incompatible with justice. Wow. There is a huge difference between hearing you're hateful, you're a racist, and, you know, chasing and dehumanizing people contradicts everything you claim you stand for. And that's what keeps going through my head. Last couple of weeks, I just keep feeling like that's the kind of conversations. We have to have this, you know, this action is just incompatible with justice. It's not. It's everything you say you're for. I don't understand. It doesn't work. And hold that mirror up. Reconciliation doesn't mean silence. It means precision. So we have to put the mirror. Because he really, truly believed. I've talked about this for years. He believed when you put good against evil on the same screen left and right, Americans will still choose good over evil. But that starts to fade if you don't start. If everybody is engaging in the same behavior, then that. That morality that lives inside of us goes to sleep. So you have to put the mirror next to the slogan. Because his genius was not shaming. His genius was contrast. He'd place professed values right next to the observable behavior and then let the contradiction speak for itself. And we have that in spades. You're saying this is about compassion and love, and you are calling these women, you know, effing Cs. How is that love? Love versus intimidation. Peace. How are you for peace if you're harassing? How are you for dignity if. If you're obscene all the time? And if we can be seen always calmly and factually defending ourselves and showing factually and calmly actions that betray stated ideals, People are left with only two options. You have to choose, you have to repent. Or if you're part of that system, I guess you. Another choice you have is you abandon the moral language you've been using as a cover. But any of those outcomes is clarifying. And that's what we need. We need to see things clearly on all sides. And the hardest truth is that not everybody wants reconciliation. They don't. I was on recorded something with Piers Morgan. It's on today with Piers Morgan. I'm on with him today. And we were talking about this and I said, you know, the problem is we can't hold two thoughts at once. That there are good people that disagree with the way the President is, you know, conducting this. And then also there are a lot of people that are organized Marxists that believe that this is stolen land, Turtle island and America should be wiped off the face of the earth. Those two things are true and parts those people, the last group of people, they do not want peace. They want moral permission to hate. King understood all of this. He did not measure success by immediate conversion. But whether or not the silent majority could still tell right from wrong, can the silent majority still tell the difference between right and wrong? It's not our job to wake everybody up. It's to keep the line between good and evil visible when others are trying to blur it. That's the most important thing you can do today. Keep the line by the way you behave, the way you talk, the way you move, everything that you do, make that line so visibly clear that you are good and kind and gracious and loving. You are firm. You know what you believe is true. You don't tolerate lies, but you don't involve yourself in hysteria or shouting slogans or anything else. If you can help keep that line really clear, Americans will still choose decency. They will. Nothing exposes irrational hatred faster than somebody who refuses to dehumanize refuses to retaliate. You know, our moms used to say, well, just, just ignore them. 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Glenn Beck (84:41)

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Justin Haskins (88:13)

The game back is on.

Glenn Beck (88:30)

The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello America. Knowledge is power and you are going to get an awful lot of knowledge today that you've probably not heard anywhere else. One of my favorite people in the world is in Justin Haskins. He is a co author of mine. He's written a book on his own now called the Next Big Crash. And we want to talk about the economy, what Trump is really doing and the things that you don't know. Nobody's ever told you. I didn't even know these things until I read his book and I'm reading him like, wait a minute, wait a minute. This kind of changes absolutely everything I ever thought. He's going to go into some of that in just a second. The book is out now. The Next Big Crash. Justin Haskins joins us in 60 seconds. First, let me talk to you about American Financing. A lot of people are doing everything right. You're doing it right on paper and you still feel like you're treading water, right? You're trying to just chip away at debt. You know, between the interest rates and the credit cards of the month, monthly bill that never seemed to shrink, it seems like it's an impossible thing. It starts to feel like your money's working against you instead of for you. When your financial life feels stuck, it adds stress to everything else. And that's where American Financing comes in. They're a family owned company that helps homeowners refi and consolidate high interest debt into one manageable mortgage payment. The goal is really simple. Lower your monthly expenses, reduce the amount you're paying in interest and give you a little bit of breathing room back into the budget. Well, they have salaried mortgage consultants and they take the time to walk you through every situation, explain your options, help find a plan that actually makes sense for your life. I want you to call them now at americanfinancing.net 800-906-2440 800, 9062440 it's american.

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Glenn Beck (90:33)

Justin Haskins is with us. He is the Heartland Institute Vice President. Our Republic Senior Fellow. I'm not even a junior fellow anywhere. I don't even know how you become.

Justin Haskins (90:44)

I could set that up for you if you want. Junior fellow sounds right. No.

Glenn Beck (90:52)

You have to do stuff.

Justin Haskins (90:54)

No.

Glenn Beck (90:54)

Maybe that's why I'm not a senior or a junior because I don't want to do anything. But anyway. Author of the Next Big Crash Justin, I admire you so much as you know, your research. You have a great research team and your research is impeccable. And the things that you found that we're going to go through in your book may take us a couple of days this week if you're around. But I think it's so important because I'm not sure a crash, when a crash is coming. But somebody asked me just the other day and see if you agree with my answer. They said, glenn, what's next? And I said, well, I can't tell you exactly what's next because an event is going to happen. I don't know what that event is. But the next big event could be a crash that changes absolutely everything. Would you agree with that?

Justin Haskins (91:45)

Yeah, 100%. In the first chapter of the book. Most of the book is not about what will cause the next big crash or trying to predict when the next crash is going to happen. Most of the book is about the effects of it. That's the really scary thing. But in the first chapter, I talk about these trigger events, all these potential things that are lining up, and there are so many of them that could cause a crash. And I think everyone who's watching this show, we want the economy to be successful, we want the Trump administration to be successful. He's doing a lot of the right things. But still, you could have another pandemic. You could have an AI war. You could have war, you could have some sort of AI event that, where you could have. The Wall street could shut down. I mean, the Chinese are hacking into infrastructure, they're testing things out, trying to figure out a way that there's all kinds of crazy things that could happen. The derivatives complex, which we talk about a lot in the book, is super dangerous. Super dangerous. The gambling that's going on on Wall street, really bad things are over.

Glenn Beck (92:47)

Those CDOs are what caused those CDOs is what caused the problems in 2008. We all knew it. It was all verified. We're going to clean that up. They doubled down, tripled down on those things. They made it much worse than it was in 2008. Correct?

Justin Haskins (93:04)

Yeah, 100%. I looked this up the other day. Derivatives. For those who don't know, a derivative is a, is an investment. That's the derived. Its value is derived. That's why it's called the derivative from some other kind of asset. But it's basically just, you can think of it as guessing or gambling at its worst. It's sort of like gambling. The derivatives complex is so massive right now, the total value of all the derivatives is $1,000,000,000.00. quadrillion,000, that's the size of the derivatives market. Far more value is in the derivatives market than there is actual value underlying it. So you have a gigantic crash, everything comes crashing down. They don't have the assets to support $1,000,000,000 worth of stuff. It's incredibly dangerous.

Glenn Beck (93:56)

A quadrillion dollar, is that a trillion? Trillions?

Justin Haskins (94:00)

I don't even know. I do truly don't even. I don't think we can conceptualize it.

Glenn Beck (94:05)

Quadrillion is like when I was a kid, trillion, we thought was like a Made up number. It wasn't a number. It was like quadrillion. I don't even know what that is exactly.

Justin Haskins (94:16)

Unbelievable.

Glenn Beck (94:17)

That's insanity.

Justin Haskins (94:18)

Insanity. So in the book, and this is the big part, the only reason why any of these things, the derivatives complex, any of this other stuff that we're going to talk about exists is because over a long period of time, your property rights were taken away from you, and you had no idea that it occurred. And Wall street has used this new system that we're going to talk about today to build the derivatives complex to build all sorts of risky systems within Wall street that's allowing them to get rich because you no longer have your property rights when it comes to your investments.

Glenn Beck (94:55)

Okay, so let's take this one step at a time. First, when you put money in a bank, unless you're in a private bank, that money is being loaned out to others. And after 08, the banks got together with Barney Frank and then the Republicans as well and made it so you are the lender of last resort. And what that means is if. If I'm the lender of last resort at, you know, Bob's Hamburger Shop, and I've, I've, you know, ponied up a million dollars to help him build this, but others have ponied up as well, and I'm the lender of last resort. It means he's got. If he goes bankrupt, he has to pay everybody else off. He can use the money from, you know, liquidation and everything else, and I'm the last one at the trough, so I get whatever is left if there is anything left over. When you put your money in a bank in 2008, part of the thing that they did 2008 to correct the system was they made the American depositor the lender of last resort. So when you're putting your money into a bank to keep it safe, they're loaning it out. That means you're a lender to the bank. You're not a customer of the bank. You're lending them your money. They put it into whatever they want to put it into. Risky. If it goes away, you don't get your money back. You're the last in line to be paid. So the little guy gets screwed every single time. And I thought that was bad, but that's the tip of the ice. That's what's above the water level that you can see.

Justin Haskins (96:42)

Yes. It's so much worse than that. So much worse than I ever imagined. So this story that's contained in the next Big Crash is about this unbelievable conspiracy that occurred over several decades to take away your property rights when it comes to your investments. So primarily, what we're talking about here are Wall street investments, securities investments. So stocks, bonds, ETFs. When you think of investing on Wall street, that's what we're talking about in the nineteen 401k.

Glenn Beck (97:11)

All of it, yes.

Justin Haskins (97:12)

In the nineteen sixties and seventies, a powerful special interests working with potentially the CIA, maybe. We talk about that in the book at length. Got together and decided we're going to transform the way people own these investments. At the time, they were having a paperwork crisis, because everything was done on paper in the 1960s and 70s and prior to that, too. So if you bought stock, you would actually get a paper certificate with your name on it. It was your stock. And the problem with this is when you're buying and selling, and it's happening increasingly more now, you got to do lots of paperwork. And it was causing problems for Wall Street. So what they decided was, you know, what if we just made investments, we took all the stock, all the bonds, took everything, and we put it all in one institution, and we made that one institution the owner, the direct, registered owner of all of these investments. And then what we do is we give people contracts so that they have an interest in this, but they don't actually own the asset itself. Well, that's exactly what they ended up doing. And in 1970.

Glenn Beck (98:20)

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I just want to make sure I understand. So if I have a. Not to single anybody out but a Schwab account, and I have my money, my 401k and everything else, and I have it at Charles Schwab. And they tell me, you own this many shares of this and this many shares of that. I've never received the certificate of ownership of that stock. They have it. You're saying they hold it, but they're holding it in a big pile of stuff. And you get a share of that. You're not the actual owner of any of that stuff.

Justin Haskins (98:57)

You're the owner of a contract that gives you certain benefits related to those shares. You don't own the shares. And Charles Schwab doesn't own the shares either. Only one institution owns the shares. It's called the Depository Trust Company, and it's part of the Federal Reserve. Depository Trust Company. Dtc. Part of the Federal Reserve.

Glenn Beck (99:16)

So evil. Yes, so evil.

Justin Haskins (99:18)

They own basically about $80 trillion worth of stock. And other securities investments are owned by dtc. That's the Direct, registered owner of all of these investments. So when you go and you buy a stock, you think you're buying stock, you invest in your retirement account, you think that you own those things. You don't actually own them. You have a contractual interest to the underlying asset, but you don't really own it. Now, the big. One of the big reasons, one of the big benefits to this system is if you don't really own it, then they don't need your permission to do all kinds of different things with it, because they can now, because not yours. So they can lend it out to other people. They can build the whole derivatives complex, the gambling that goes on, margin accounts, all of these things where you're basically borrowing stock, you're borrowing, you're putting money to borrow more stock. You're, you're, you're gambling. All of that is because of this system. It wouldn't be possible without it. The whole thing is built on this model that you don't really own it. So they built this model and they've made a fortune off of it. Not only because trading volumes have dramatically increased on Wall street, but also because now they get to do options tradings and futures and all these other things that they weren't really able to do at scale prior to this. So they've made a fortune. But then they got even greedier and they said, you know, there's all sorts of risk involved in this system. So in the 1990s, they changed the laws again at the state level. Most of these laws were changed, by the way, at the state level. 1990s, they changed the laws again. That gave these big. Too big to fail institutions the ability to essentially keep your investments if a financial institution uses those investments as collateral in a loan. I know this is getting like a little bit complicated, but let's say, for example, you give your money to an investment management firm, the investment manager goes out, and they're not supposed to do this, but let's just say they do. And we have examples of them doing it. They use your investments as collateral to go get a loan at another institution, at a bank or something, maybe because they're failing and they're desperate and they need to do it, and they're not supposed to be doing it. There's regulations against it, but they do it anyway. Okay? So they do that, and then they can't pay the loan back because they're crashing. According to the laws that are on the books right now, the big bank gets to keep your investments. The big bank can take your investments as collateral and keep it for themselves, even if the institution wasn't supposed to lend it, put it up as collateral in the first place. So all of, then there's emergency powers, laws that are on the books. Now all of this is in the book the Next Big Crash. You can see all of the evidence for yourself. But this is a extremely dangerous situation that they have built on Wall Street. And we've had people on the record who built this system saying this was done in preparation for, quote, an Armageddon, an Armageddon like scenario to make sure that the too big to fail institutions would be protected and individuals could lose everything as a result of it. It's terrifying. And most people have never heard of any of this.

Glenn Beck (102:35)

It's so evil. It is just, I mean, I am convinced that the Fed and how it was built. I'm not saying the people of the Fed, although I'm sure there's some very nefarious people in there. I'm just saying the system that was built is an evil system because it is meant to protect the money and the system and not the people whose lives are the ones supporting all of it. The ones who, who are the. I mean, when you put a system over people, which they have done without, without including the people in any of this knowledge, I honestly just, I've, I've heard a lot of crazy things that I thought that can't be true. I've heard a lot of things that I thought were just out and out crazy and I've heard a lot of things that I just think are evil. This is right there at the top of these, of those things. And you know, you came to me with this, I don't know, months ago and we looked into her like, oh my gosh, he's right. All of this is accurate. This is not the. I mean, Justin is very, very good. You can read about it in the Next Big Crash. But wait, there's more. The book is called the Next Big Crash. It's out right now. And we'll talk about that a little bit more in just a second with Justin Haskins. First, let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. Most of us, you know, don't spend a lot of time thinking about our cell phone companies, which is exactly why it's so easy to miss what they're doing when, you know, we send the money every single month, you just pay your bill, you expect good service, and then you move on with your life. But behind the scenes, some of those big wireless companies are actually turning around and using your dollars to support causes and activism that you might not agree with at all. Patriot Mobile was built as an alternative to that. They offer the same nationwide coverage that you'd expect with reliable service and competitive pricing, but with a very different mission. Patriot Mobile supports organizations and efforts that line up with faith and family and freedom. So your monthly bill isn't quietly funding the opposite of what you believe. You keep the phone you love, the number you've had for years and the coverage you need. You just switch to a company that shares your values. That's important. Go to patriotmobile.com beckhole 972 Patriot 972 Patriot Use the promo code Beck. You get a free month of service right now. Patriot mobile.com Beck972 Patriot promo code Beck make the switch today. 10 seconds. Station ID. On the on the Torch right now@glenn beck.com if you are an insider and a subscriber and a, well, this month a founding member of Torch, you're going to get all kinds of documentaries and things that we have made. This is a little, a short, probably half hour, 40 minute documentary on what's called capital controls. And Justin played a role in that. I want to play just a little bit of this documentary available now at the Torch. Listen, capital controls are when the government in a panic steps in and says, we don't like where your money is going. You can't send that much overseas. You can't buy that product. You can't buy crypto, you can't invest in that stock. You can't sell that gold without government permission. And they do it and they always call it temporary and they will always say it's for national security. But this is what it really means. You waited too long to leave.

Justin Haskins (106:00)

The amazing thing about capital controls is how open many of the largest institutions and government policymakers are about their desire to want to control how people use their own wealth.

Glenn Beck (106:16)

Now you're not going to hear it on the news that way. No anchor is going to look in the camera and say, ladies and gentlemen, the United States has lost control of its currency and we are locking capital down like a failing regime. It's not going to happen. Instead, they will tell you in different ways. And this is why I wanted to do this tutorial. You need to hear it now so you recognize it the minute it happens. If it does. I don't remember what it was, Justin, but I heard some of the talk that sounded awful lot like the beginning of capital controls just recently, right during when Trump was in Davos, when Everybody was starting to panic. You could hear the beginnings of them starting to say, we might lose control. And that's when gold shot up, silver shot up and everything. Because we are really one big event away from something really possibly just catastrophic. Doesn't have to be catastrophic, but it may be just catastrophic.

Justin Haskins (107:17)

Yes. And we've been talking about this for a long time. If you've been paying attention to what big institutions and powerful interests have been doing behind the scenes long enough, you realize they've been building infrastructure for whatever comes next. This current system that we have now is not going to last. At its core, it's falling apart. And the debt crisis is a huge sign of it. I think it's the most obvious part of all of this. I looked these numbers up. I actually have it in the book as well. But we now spend. We add more in debt every four days. Today in America, the federal government adds more in debt every four days than the country added in debt in the first 150 years. So what took 150 years to add in debt, we now add every four days. And it's getting worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. The reason gold and silver are skyrocketing is stuff we've been talking about forever, is because everyone knows it. Central banks all around the world know that this is what's happening. Russia and China are trying openly to create a new world reserve currency as part of brics. China actually just came out. Xi just came out the other day and said he wants the Chinese currency to be the world reserve currency. They are actively doing things to try to make that happen. The whole BRICS alliance is designed to move to a whole new world order. Trump knows this, and he's doing everything he can to stop it. He's trying to build his own new alliance of nations. We are headed for a catastrophe, I believe if Trump can't fix it.

Glenn Beck (108:53)

If he can't fix it. If he can't fix it. I mean, I've never. I mean, I would have said to you just a few years ago, there's no way anybody can fix it this fast. He's done more in one year than, you know, the WEF and the United nations, it took them 30 years to do this. There's a chance he can fix it, but we shall see more about the economy, Trump and what he's doing, what you have to do to prepare for the coming crash. More in just a second. First, let me tell you about rough greens. You can learn a lot about a dog just by watching how they move, you know, when they're young, everything you know is energy. They bounce around. They launch themselves at life like, you know, they're determined to win. But as the years go by, you start to notice little changes. You know, they get a little slower, they don't run for the ball as fast as they used to. And you can't help wonder if there's, you know, something you can do to help them a little bit more to feel like they're old selves. And that's where Rough Greens comes in. It's a nutritional supplement that adds. That adds all the nutrition back to your dog's food. It's designed to fill in the gaps that you know can happen with processed pet food. It's packed with vitamins, minerals, probiotics, omega oils, all the nutrients that support your dog's overall health from digestion to energy levels to coat skin, all of it. Don't change your dog food. You don't have to do that. Just add Rough greens. Rough Greens is offering a free jump start trial bag just to see if you can see the difference. I'm telling you, you will see a difference difference. In a week, you'll start to see the difference. You just cover shipping for this. Use the discount code Beck. Claim your free Jumpstart trial bag@Rough Greens.com Ruff Greens.com promo code Beck. Add Rough Greens. Watch the health benefits come back alive.

Jason (110:37)

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Glenn Beck (111:01)

Justin Haskins, who is the vice president of the Heartland Institute or our Republic senior fellow and the author of the Next Big Crash, which is a book that comes out today and it's available everywhere. And it's really worth reading, it's worth having. This is. You're going to learn more in this book. It's kind of like when we wrote the. What was the first one we did together, Justin?

Justin Haskins (111:25)

Well, we did Arguing with socialists first, but you're thinking of.

Glenn Beck (111:29)

Right, right, right. Yeah. Great. Reset. When. When that came out, nobody knew any of that stuff. Right. And people read it, were like, wait, what? And you were way ahead of the curve. I think this book is exactly the same as that one where you're way ahead of the curve. This is not about how it's going to crash, you know, or what's going to cause the crash. This book is what's going to happen if it does because of things that you just are not aware of. And you were talking about how. What is it? The DTC Yes. Right. Dtc, which is this organization under the Fed that owns, actually owns all of the stocks. You think you own stocks in 401k. You don't. They own it and it's built. So if there is a crash, the, you know, the central banks and all the, you know, the big banks, they're gonna, they'll be able to use all those assets and they'll have, they'll, they'll survive. But you don't have actual ownership of any of that stuff the way this is set up. And as I understand it, it was, it started in the 1960s and they, they said it's because it's moving too fast. We can't continue to make these stocks because stocks are trading so fast and there's so many, and people will day trade, you know, later, and, and you, there's no time to get them a stock certificate and then have that stock certificate pulled back, et cetera, et cetera. Let's just do it digitally, do it quickly, and we'll just all hold them in one, you know, one holding agency and then give people a share of whatever that is. You don't believe that that was done because of ease?

Justin Haskins (113:01)

No. Well, I, I do think that was part of it. I mean, there was a real paperwork crisis and this really did solve that paperwork crisis. But they, they could have done that, a similar kind of model, but allowed people to keep ownership of their property.

Glenn Beck (113:15)

Sure.

Justin Haskins (113:16)

And they chose not to do that.

Glenn Beck (113:17)

Right.

Justin Haskins (113:17)

Why. Why would they choose not to do that? Because they knew that if they didn't, if you don't have ownership, then they can utilize those resources to make themselves wealthier and ensure that in. And I think this is really the secret, and we're going to get into tomorrow how this all came about. The crazy conspiracy behind this whole thing came about and some of the major players who were involved in it, but people like the Rockefellers, former CIA officials were involved in it and others. And I think the reason that they did it was because they wanted to make sure that if things got really ugly, they had control of the system. You talked earlier about capital controls. This is what this was all about. If they needed to, could they tap into those resources and take control of the system? They put all these emergency powers laws in place that allowed them to do all kinds of crazy things with the economy if they really needed to. They've been doing that for decades. And I think it's also not a coincidence that the year that DTC officially went into operation, 1973, something very important happened in 1973 at the exact same time we moved away from the gold standard. It all happened at the same time. So think about how dramatic of a change we're talking about. You lost ownership of your investments at the same time that they decoupled gold from the dollar. And it was the same people behind the scenes pushing for both things. That's not a coincidence. They transformed the whole system pretty much overnight. And most people never realized it because all of this was happening behind the scenes with crazy Wall street financial jargon and uniform commercial code to state law in all 50 states nobody pays attention to, nobody knew what was going on. But they did. They did it on purpose. It was ingenious. And now we're in a situation where if the next. When the next big crash happens, depending on what happens, they don't necessarily have to do this, but if they wanted to, yes. You could end up losing everything as a result of this model.

Glenn Beck (115:19)

So does. Let me use a word that nobody uses, rehypothecation. That when. What that is is that nobody. There's not enough gold to go around. And so they have. They have collateralized everything. And so they've sold debt and they've made money on it, and so nobody really. Who owns your house? Is it the bank? Because the bank probably sold it and then they sold it to somebody and then they sold it to somebody else. And all of these banks are holding on to this, your house, as collateral on their sheets, even though they've sold it several times over. And so your house is being held by several banks on a balance sheet. Rehypothecation means when the crap hits the fan, who actually owns your house? And I've said for years, when you start reading about rehypothecation, run for the hills. Because that's when the knives come out and they say, wait a minute, you don't own that. I own that. And you won't own anything. Okay? But that's when the real crap hits the fan does this. When it comes to stocks and bonds. That makes rehypothecation unnecessary. Right? You're not gonna have an argument. The central banks and the big five banks own it, period.

Justin Haskins (116:35)

Legally speaking, you already don't own it. So if they. But there's all these laws in place, regulations really, regulations in place that are supposed to protect the consumer from these institutions taking advantage of the situation. But the regulations can easily be changed. And in a crisis they would be changed. And there are emergency powers, laws in place that would allow them to change it, and then they Put all these other laws in place that say, oh, well, even if the institutions are doing things they're not supposed to be doing, then you're still crap out of luck. We're not gonna protect you. We're gonna protect the big institutions. And they're all on record saying, we have people on record, the people who are supporters of this, on record in academic papers and otherwise saying the. The system is so complicated right now with all the derivatives and all the different levels of ownership and everything else, that if we got into a big crash where there was a chain of cascading crashes, they couldn't figure out who owns what. They just couldn't do it. Now they know who owns it. In a strict legal sense, it's dtc. But who is entitled to what in that set of cascading crashes? They don't even know anymore. It's too complicated and too big. So the whole thing is built on this idea that if a big crisis happens, the Fed will just print the money and bail everybody out and keep everything afloat. If the Fed, for whatever reason, can't do that, because, I don't know, it might cause an inflation crisis, might kill the dollar, might destroy the economy, then they will tap into these resources. That is clearly the plan. They're planning for Armageddon. If Armageddon happens. That's what they said. Armageddon's the word they used. If Armageddon happens, everything will be okay because of this. It's ingenious. It's diabolical. It's evil. People don't know that it's the case, and they need to know. And by the way, there are state lawmakers trying to change laws to. To fix part of these problems. All across the country, this has started happening, and guess who is fighting it? Big banks, Wall street firms. They're going to all these states, they're killing these bills. They're scaring the heck out of everybody saying, if you do this, Wall street will collapse, and we won't let people in your state be involved in buying stocks or any of these things. It is just atrocious what's going on, and people need to know. That's why I wrote the book the Next Big Crash. And by the way, I'm not making any money from this book. All the money from the book, all the profits from the book go to nonprofits that are trying to get these laws changed. I get nothing, no money from it. So I am a completely disinterested party here.

Glenn Beck (119:14)

You've. You have adopted the Glenn Beck School of Business thought. Congratulations, you're on your way to find it.

Justin Haskins (119:22)

Well, it worked so well for you. Yeah, I know. I figured, hey, it's Glenn Beck going to make terrible financial choices. I'm going down with the ship too.

Glenn Beck (119:32)

That's exactly right. Good for you. Good for you. The name of the book is called the Next Big Crash. It does not predict the crash. It tells you what happens when we hit a 2008 or worse. The Next Big Crash by Justin Haskins. Available everywhere you get books. Let me bring Jason in here for a second because we haven't had a chance to talk about what is happening because I, I think Justin, and I know you'll agree with this after watching what the President was doing with Venezuela and then at the WEF up in Davos. Let me just, let me just show you what the President has done just here recently. Panama, he's got China and Russia out. Cuba, he's putting pressure on to collapse to get Rush out. Venezuela now has the oil reserves. He used the oil reserves he announced yesterday in Venezuela to sell some of that oil from Venezuela to India, which then forces them to get on the American boat and off of the boat of Russia. Greenland was all about rare earth minerals, nukes, but also shipping lanes. He warned Europe yesterday, you guys are not going to make it unless you change course right now. Iran, he's got an armada in arriving around Iran and it's much bigger than just an Iran armada. Ukraine, telling them to end the war so we can get out of the Middle east. And he wants to get out of Europe as well. He just is collapsing the UN by pulling out of the WHO and saying we're not going to pay for the UN anymore. The UN yesterday said we can't pay our bills because the United States did this. And you freeloaders are not spending any money on us. We're about to collapse. The WF he took apart last week, he's now announced today his oil strategy, his rare earth mineral stockpiles and our strategic oil reserves. I think this guy is, he is setting us up to be self sufficient in case there is a collapse or a war. Jason, you think all of this leads to war?

Jason (121:48)

I think he's definitely getting us ready in case it does. So the battle lines have been drawn. The strategic objectives for the United States and the west has been solidified. They're doubling down on the Western Hemisphere. Greenland is not just a pissing contest, it's an actual strategic goal. Venezuela, also a very strategic goal. And the thing with India, all of this stuff is happening just like rapidly, you know, within. Sometimes within hours, two weeks. The India thing, why it's so significant is because for the longest time, India has been very, very savvy on how they balance relationships. And they would say with their friends of ours, oh, but we're also friends with Russia and China as well. We'll continue to, you know, bile oil from Russia because we're neutral. Well, Donald Trump effectively got them to stop being neutral, which is very eye opening because it just looks like people are being forced to choose sides right now, not only for resources, but strategically moving forward. It makes me wonder, either they know something we don't know, or they're positioning, they're starting to put the chess pieces on the board and say, this is the direction it's going. You're either on this side or you're on that side. And we're all collectively going to squabble over getting ready for that eventual outcome, whatever that might be.

Glenn Beck (123:12)

I think that's what he's doing. I think he is preparing us for some kind of outcome that is not good in the rest of where he's setting us up to be ready. He's doing what FDR did in 1940-1940-1939-1940. Just. You want to. You want to weigh in on this?

Justin Haskins (123:29)

Yeah, I think that. I think that's definitely part of the equation. I think the other thing he's doing is actually trying to prevent warfare from happening by doing this. Yes, because what was clearly happening under Biden and Obama is brics. Countries like Brazil, Russia, India, China, they were building increasingly more wealth and power and natural resources, and they were consuming more and more of the world and building alliances now in our hemisphere. That's what Venezuela is all about. And Cuba, obviously, has been that way for a long time. And all of this is leading towards catastrophe at some point in the future. And they all know it. I mean, China, I mean, they're very open about what they're trying to do. They're trying to be the big dog. No question. Question about it. The only thing that can prevent that is we have to systematically tear that apart. And Trump has done more to systematically tear apart bricks in the last, like, eight weeks than we've seen in years. It's unbelievable what they're doing. Even Nigeria, we didn't talk about Nigeria. Nigeria was bombed around Christmas time. Nigeria is also part of the same alliance. That's the largest country, I think, in Africa, if I remember right. It's going to be larger than the United States in Terms of population. It could be the African power superpower in Africa at some point in the future. They're allied with brics and all of this other stuff as well. This is clearly part of a strategy that Trump is saying, nope, we're shifting things. We're not gonna be weak any longer. We're gonna. The gravity is gonna be the United States. The United States is the world superpower and everyone's gonna follow us. And if you. I see you guys moving chess pieces around on the board, I'm knocking them off. I'm not allowing that to happen. That's what Greenland's about. It's. It really is ingenious in that way. And I think it could work if he has enough time.

Glenn Beck (125:15)

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