Glenn RIPS Mamdani's Communist Independence Day Speech Apart | Guest: Jaco Booyens | 7/6/26

Summary

The Glenn Beck Program (July 6, 2026) Glenn RIPS Mamdani's Communist Independence Day Speech Apart | Guest: Jaco Booyens

Episode Overview

In this episode, Glenn Beck broadcasts live from Washington, D.C., recapping an eventful Fourth of July and tackling issues of American ownership, energy policy, collectivism, and the ideological drift within the Democratic Party. A focal point is New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani's controversial socialist Independence Day speech, which Glenn critiques in depth. The episode also features an extended conversation with Jaco Booyens, pastor and anti-human trafficking advocate, about spiritual warfare and troubling trends within D.C.'s faith and political communities.

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Main Themes and Key Insights

1. Who Owns Your Stuff? Trucker Pardons & Regulatory Overreach

• Glenn discusses President Biden's July 4th pardon of Alaskan diesel mechanics who were convicted for bypassing federal EPA-mandated sensors on trucks—devices that often immobilize vehicles in harsh conditions.
• He frames the case as emblematic of a larger battle over property rights, government overreach, and the erosion of practical American freedoms.

Quote:
"A country that'll send armed agents to stop you from fixing your own truck has forgotten who the truck was ever for. It was for you. It always has been for you." (08:50, Glenn Beck)

• Glenn draws parallels between "black markets" for truck fixes and broader public dissatisfaction with one-size-fits-all regulations.
• Raises the fundamental question: “When you buy something with your own money... who owns it?” (07:40)

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2. Rising Power Bills and Blue State Policies

• Glenn analyzes a study correlating high utility bills with blue-state energy mandates, arguing that “net zero,” renewable portfolio standards, and monopolistic utilities drive up costs for consumers.
• Criticizes efforts to dismantle functional hydroelectric dams in the Pacific Northwest despite their clean, cheap power.

Quote:
"Who owns the power in your wall? Who pays for every watt? Is it you or the collective that priced it in a room you weren’t invited to?" (38:15, Glenn Beck)

• Connects struggles with energy, property, and water rights to the American tradition of individual liberty and limited government.

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3. Political Division, Collectivism, and the Attack on Individualism

• Responds to claims (from CNN, Democratic leaders) that Donald Trump is uniquely divisive, pointing out that left-wing rhetoric has also vilified the right as “fascists,” “enemies of the state,” or “deplorables.”
• Argues that the real conflict in America is not left vs. right, but collectivism vs. individualism.

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"It’s the same argument... I think we should get a little smarter and just boil it down. Oh, you’re just wearing a different uniform." (35:22, Glenn Beck)

• Compares collectivist ideologies from Marxism to fascism to white supremacy to BLM to certain Islamist and progressive groups, noting that all undermine the principle of individual rights enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.

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4. Patriot Front March—Condemnation of All Collectivist Hate

• Recaps and roundly condemns the Patriot Front’s white nationalist march on the National Mall.
• Unpacks the symbolism of their logo (the fasces) as representing collective strength and historic fascism.

Quote:
“The Patriot Front is an abomination. And so is every other version of the same evil... they all spring from the same rotten root—the belief that your worth is decided by a group you were born into.” (58:16, Glenn Beck)

• Highlights the moral necessity of condemning all ideologies that judge people by group, class, or identity rather than individual merit.

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5. Drift in the Democratic Party—Socialist and Communist Rhetoric

• Discusses discomfort over the mainstreaming of socialist, even openly communist, rhetoric within Democratic circles, referencing Mamdani’s July 4th “Communist” speech.
• Questions why Democrats no longer speak out against radical anti-capitalist, anti-Israel, or even pro-Iranian regime sentiments within their coalition.

Quote:
"Why did that stop bothering you? I am hoping it still does. But if it does, how come I don't hear Democrats saying it?" (74:24, Glenn Beck)

• Reflects on the difference between classic liberal Democrats of JFK, Truman, or FDR and contemporary leftist positions espoused by figures like Mamdani and Warren staffers.

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6. Nordic Socialism vs. American Socialism—Myths Debunked

• Critiques the tradition of citing Scandinavia as evidence “socialism works,” clarifying that Nordic countries are capitalist economies with extensive, but broad-based, welfare states.
• Stresses that their prosperity depends on free markets, competitive business climates, and broad tax bases.

Quote:
"The country most often used to argue against capitalism scores routinely as the world's freest capitalist economy. Wow." (92:45, Glenn Beck)

• Warns that redistributive policies without a healthy, competitive economy are unsustainable.

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7. Interview: Jaco Booyens on Spiritual Warfare in D.C.

• Jaco Booyens shares his experience trying to establish a Bible-believing church in downtown D.C., faced with opposition for “political” (pro-life, pro-family) stances.
• Describes entrenched church hierarchies in D.C. that claim to be “the collective mind of the Holy Spirit,” a notion he and Glenn denounce as blasphemous and antithetical to Christianity’s focus on the individual.

Quote:
"It's not political, it's scripture... My relationship with the Lord and everybody's relationship is a one on one personal relationship." (111:12, Jaco Booyens)

• Discusses the spiritual “strongholds” in the capital—historic, elite churches that substitute collective doctrine for Biblical truth.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Set the mechanics free. Anybody who was ever raided for the sin of making a machine work, set them free." (09:09, Glenn Beck)
• "Collectivism—in every uniform—is the enemy. We have to stand together on the principles in the Declaration that make every one of these movements irrelevant and alone." (65:40, Glenn Beck)
• "They are the collective mind of the Holy Spirit, which is blasphemy... God is the God of the individual, not the collective." (113:34, Glenn Beck/Jaco Booyens discussion)

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Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment / Focus | |------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:50 | Truck DEF sensors, regulatory overreach—ownership of private property| | 16:40 | Electricity prices, blue states, hydro controversy | | 26:00 | Political division: Trump, Biden, and divisive rhetoric | | 35:22 | Collectivism vs. individualism—core American value | | 42:40 | Recap of July 4th events in D.C.; condemnation of Patriot Front march| | 57:10 | Blood-and-soil nationalism and collectivism in various ideologies | | 74:24 | Drift of Democratic Party toward socialism and communism | | 89:42 | Mamdani’s July 4th speech, Glenn’s critique, Nordic socialism myths | | 111:10 | Interview with Jaco Booyens—spiritual fight for D.C. |

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Tone and Language

Glenn Beck’s tone is passionate, colloquial, and intellectually earnest, blending personal anecdote with historical and philosophical reflection. The political analysis is pointed but frequently invites listeners on the left to self-reflect rather than just scold. Jaco Booyens brings a testimonial, frontline activist flavor.

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Summary:
This episode exemplifies Glenn Beck’s style: weaving together personal stories, recent headlines, American founding values, and deep skepticism of collectivist ideology—left, right, or religious. The critique of Mamdani’s "communist" July 4th speech is used as a springboard to wider discussions about freedom, property, the trajectory of American liberalism, and the spiritual state of the nation. The episode closes with a rallying cry for intellectual honesty, spiritual discernment, and recommitment to the principles of individual liberty.

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For further engagement:

• Visit GlennBeck.com or TheBlaze.com for video and reference material
• Support Jaco Booyens/Mercy Culture Church by texting DC to 59090 for more info

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Also, your power bill going up. I got a few things to say here in the next 30 minutes. Standby. First, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's Patriot Mobile. Well, we got through the first 250 years. Jeez. Now we got to start working on the next 250. You and I won't be here for that, of course. I mean, unless they find a way for all of us to live forever, wouldn't that be great? But the people who see us as ancestors will see us. They'll be there and they will live with all the consequences of the decisions that we're making right now. Every generation inherits a country from the people who came before them. The question is whether we leave the next generation something stronger or something weaker. That's why I appreciate the people who actually stand for something, and that's Patriot Mobile. I want you to go to patriotmobile.com beck right now and sign up to get your phone service, all of your Internet service from patriot mobile online. Patriotmobile.com beck972 Patriot use the promo code Beck. Free month of service right now with the promo code BECK. Patriot mobile.com beck972 Patriot all right, so I want you to. I want you to put yourself in a situation. It's 30 below and your truck will not go faster than five miles an hour. And it's not because the engine is broken. The engine's fine. Engine's fine. Engine would run to the moon and back if you just let it. But it won't go faster than five miles an hour because a sensor decided on your behalf for your protection without asking you, that you're no longer permitted to drive your own vehicle at a speed that would keep you alive on a road in the dark when it's 30 below. Now, I might be a little passionate on this because I might have a truck that won't let me drive past five miles an hour because the DEF system. The DEF system, the diesel exhaust fluid, it says, no, no, no, no, no. You know, it's not working right. You know, if you've never owned a diesel, you're going to think I'm exaggerating, but let me actually hand you the numbers before you decide. I'm just a guy mad at the truck. Industry or the government. In Alaska, one transportation operator says the DEF system is behind about 85% of his breakdowns. I know my very nice Denali is worthless because of this. A state fleet manager up there, a man whose whole job is just keeping government trucks running, calls it a significant portion of his maintenance cost. Now that's the government saying that. How about us? Now this is not the ravings of a backyard tinkerer. This. This is a guy who's whose job it is to move fuel and freight and food. And he's telling you the thing bolted to their engine by federal decree fails and fails and fails again. Right when the cold makes failure really deadly. And here's what happened to the men who tried to fix it. Four years ago, roughly 30 armed EPA agents ran a military style tactical RA on a diesel shop in Alaska. 30 armed over engine modifications. This is why you do not give the federal government guns. The man who owned that shop, Max Burlock, he's a husband, he's a dad, he's a small business owner and a veteran of the Alaska air national guard. His crime was helping truckers keep their rigs from shutting down in sub zero cold, defeating a one size fit all rule written in an office 2000 miles away by people who have never once had to start a diesel at 40 below 30. Agents with guns for that. So on 4th of July, the president pardoned them. I think it was six of them or eight of them. Now they're free. Now, I want you to know one of these guys grossed over $10 million selling tuning devices. I wish I would have known they were available. I would have purchased one. That's real. That's a business. That's not a mercy mission. But you know what a $10 million market tells me? It tells me millions of Americans were so desperate to make their own trucks worth that they lined up and paid top dollar to to get around the government's own equipment. What is that? First time I've really seen this outside of drug deals. This is a black market. A black market In America, you don't get a $10 million market around something for an EPA rule unless that rule is failing the American people. So I'm really glad they're partoned. I'm really, really glad. And I want this whole thing. I want the sensors, the seals, the raids, the crime of fixing your own truck. I want it all gone. Because underneath, underneath all of the diesel and the cold and the fluid and everything is this one question that I've never had to ask in My country, when you buy something with your own money, you sign the paper, you hand over the check. That thing that you now own sits in your driveway. But who owns it? Honestly, who owns it? You? The company that sold it to you and then locked the hood so you can't open your own engine? Or the federal agency that will send 30 armed men to your shop if you touch what, what you supposedly own. They built a truck that you can't fix. Basic problems you can't fix. The kind a man could handle in his own garage on a Saturday. Sealed off. Sealed off. Warnings, make it clear. Don't open.

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This.

[Glenn Beck]

A machine that will strand you at five miles an hour to satisfy a regulation and then treat you like a felon for wanting to get home. That is not ownership. We have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We have a right to our own property. That is not ownership. That is custody. Oh, they will let you make the payments, but they keep the keys to what really matters. I got to tell you, the Declaration does not use the word truck. But I tell you, the spirit of that document is the same thing. It means the same thing. A free man has dominion over what is his. And no distant authority gets to reach past his front door and tell him what he may or may not repair with his own tools to survive in the winter. You know, it's one thing if you drive a truck. I mean, I. I don't. Personally, I don't think it is any different. But I. I want to make this really clear. You drive a truck and you're in a city, you know, you have a. You have a repair person right there. You drive a truck, you're out in the country. You're out where I live in Idaho. You're going five miles an hour. It's going to take you forever to get into town. My town is 40 minutes away at 65 miles an hour. That truck is mine. It doesn't belong to the manufacturer, it doesn't belong to the epa. It's mine. Enough is enough. I can't believe I'm saying this. Set the mechanics free. Anybody who was ever raided for the sin of making a machine work, set them free. And then let's finish the job here so the next man in the next cold doesn't have to choose between five miles an hour and a federal indictment. Because a country that'll send armed agents to stop you from fixing your own truck has forgotten who the truck was ever for. It was for you. It always has been for you. Now, let me switch to your power bill. Something else. Do you have control over your own life? Because there's another story out about your power bill. We'll get to that here in 60 seconds. 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And that choice is not yours. Never has been. Your. Well, it used to be yours. It's not now. Hadn't been for a long time. There's a analysis out now, always on Energy Research and the Institute for Energy Research, and they're pulling right from. From the government's own numbers. And it lands on something. I mean, something that's so clear, it's Almost rude to say it out loud. Of the states paying more than the national average for electricity, 86% of them voted for Democrats in the last two presidential elections. Of the 10 cheapest states in the country, 80% voted for Republicans. Now you could wave that off as a coincidence if you'd like, but there is a pattern with a cause. And the cause has a name. And the name is net. Zero renewable mandates, Zero emission targets, Portfolio standards. They order your utility to buy a certain amount of a certain kind of power by a certain date, whether it's ready or not, whether it's cheaper or not, whether it keeps the lights on in January or not, it doesn't matter. And your utility company is not fighting these mandates because your utility gets richer by building them. A power company makes its money spending money. Every new wind farm, every new line, every grand green promise is another mountain of infrastructure that it's getting paid to build. And reliability doesn't pad the profit. Doesn't matter. Affordability doesn't pad the profit. Building the stuff does. So the mandate and the monopoly, shake hands over your bill and you're the one holding the check. How does that make you feel? Who owns who? Who is actually in charge of your life? That is the thing that the whole Declaration of Independence was all about. Who is in charge of your life? You or a group of faceless people that you don't know. Now you look at these numbers and you go, wait a minute here, Mr. Beck. Washington and Oregon seem to do pretty well. Uh huh. They're both deep blue, both of them. And their power is cheap. Yes, it is cheap. Now let's think that through. Why is Oregon and Washington, why is their power so cheap? Why? It's called hydroelectric dams. It works with water and gravity. The cheapest, most reliable electricity that God and engineering ever made together. So there is the exception. Blue states, cheap power, two of them. Except here's what they've left off the postcard for you. That same coalition, the governors, the tribes, the green lawyers, the whole apparatus, along with the last administration signing its name right there at the bottom, is in federal court right now trying to rip four of those dams out of the Snake River. Four lower snake dams working hydroelectric dams, making clean, cheap power for hundreds of thousands of homes. Sitting there doing the one thing everybody claims they want. And those deep blue states want those gone. They want them blown apart, breached. They want to drain back into a river and they want to do it on purpose. But they've made a promise to you. They. No, no, no, no, seriously. They've made this promise. It's dressed up in a thousand different costumes. Don't worry. We'll replace it and we'll replace the dam power with wind and solar and batteries, and it'll be better and cheaper. We're going to replace the. The barges with trains and we'll replace the water somehow. Trust the study, trust the model. Trust us. I don't think I trust you guys. No. $30 billion, a decade of faith to tear something out that already works, that already makes free power every single day because of a flowing river. I don't know. I think that that pleases my bottom line. You know, a cheap electric bill, that helps me an awful lot. Now here's a part that lands on my doorstep. Maybe yours. I live in Idaho. Half the year I live in Idaho. Idaho sits upstream of every one of those dams. And the very same fight that wants those gone has spent years now reaching past the state line for our water. The water held in our reservoirs to flush the system out for fish. Our stored water. The water a farmer in Magic Valley is already counted on to bring a crop in out of the dust. Because remember, without water, it's all dust. They'll spend all of that water on salmon and call it science. And then the man watching his field go brown gets told, well, your water was needed somewhere more virtuous than your field. So don't tell me the blue states have cracked the code on cheap power. Cheap water. They didn't crack anything except possibly the dam. They inherited a river. And the politics that run them is in court right now trying to break the very dams. The river's turn and, and, and reaching then into my water while they're at it. Anyway, I just want to ask you, who owns your stuff, really, honestly, who is in charge of your life? You know, cheap power exception is not proof that they were right. It's the next thing on their list to tear down. And all the numbers underneath of it are ugly no matter what your zip code is. Electricity prices in this country rose 27% from January 21st through January of 25. Then another 11% in just the nine months after that. And that's not a blip. That's a direction. Part of that is caused because green energy. The other part of that is caused because now we need more power. Ties into everything I said about the truck. Under the Federal Power act, the states, not Washington, not the weather. The states have exclusive authority over what kind of power feeds their grid, where it's built, what you get charged for it. Exclusive, which Means when your bill climbs. It isn't fate, it isn't bad luck. It's a room full of people that you can name that you made the decision to hire to elect. People you can look up that reaches through your wall and into that one outlet you thought was yours. Same exact hand. So when you're electing the socialist, this is what you're going to get. The same hand that sealed the hood of my truck so I couldn't fix the engine is the hand reaching into your wall to set the price of your own light and your own heat. And the same hand again reaching up to the river to drain the dam and take the water. It's the same instinct every time, that somewhere far beyond your kitchen, a body of experts and officials and activists know better than you know how to warm your house, what your light should cost, how long you should be able to run your lights, and whose water gets spent on what. And they'll say the same thing. It's the planet, it's the salmon, it's the future, they'll call it. Everything and anything, but what it is, is control. Just dressed up in a night suit for church, strip the robes off and it's the oldest question there is, the only one that I really ask anymore. Who owns the truck in your driveway? You were the men who locked you out of it. Who owns the power in your wall? Who pays for every watt? Is it you or the collective that priced it in a room you weren't invited to? Who owns the water and the dam and the river and the people? The people who live and farm and raise their kids alongside of it? Or a distant few who've decided your whole way of life is just a rounding error against their vision? Who actually runs your life? Who gave you the right? Do they have the right? Or do you have the right? This is where the Declaration of Independence comes in. And you're not imagining the number at the bottom of that bill. You're not bad with money. You're paying month after month for decisions made in your name that you were never asked about. And some of the people making them are not finished yet. 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Okay. All right, let me give you cnn. Let me give you every bit of that. I don't agree with that. I think Donald Trump has done some really divisive things. Yes. Um, and, and that's unfortunately kind of the way he is at times. He gets. And he'll do things like that and I don't like it. So I'm going to give you absolutely every bit of that. I'll say Donald Trump is really divisive. Will you give me that? Your side is saying exactly the same things. September 1, 2022. Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. Why? Because we don't like socialism. Why? Because we believe in small government. Why? Because I believe in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Don't. Don't assign. Don't. You've made me. You've made me into a MAGA Republican. I don't know what a MAGA Republican actually is, other than somebody who goes, yeah, I think Donald Trump is doing pretty good and believes in the country. That's all I know that that means, okay, but now I'm a threat to democracy because I believe in the republic. Wow. Okay. All right. And he did that over and over again and said that MAGA Republicans are fascists. I don't know. That seems a little divisive. I mean, maybe it's just me, you know, it's usually not done, you know, not said, you know, in polite company. Hey, Bill. Oh, man. Good to see you, you fascist. It's usually not a compliment. It's usually a little divisive. Hillary Clinton, quote, you can put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic. Half of the people who voted the way that you didn't vote, half of them are all those things. I don't know. Sounds a little divisive. Little bit. Little bit, yeah. But you started it. 2008, small town Americans cling to their guns or their religious religion or. Or to their antipathy to people who aren't like them. What? I don't. I don't have a problem with that. I don't cling to my God and my guns. What? By the way, he was saying that as he was claiming that we engage in voter suppression and attacks on democracy. That's in 2008, by the way. Nancy Pelosi said Republicans are enemies of the state. Chuck Schumer warned Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. You've released the whirlwind and you'll pay the price. Kamala Harris said Pearl harbor and September 11th are just like January 6th. You mean the one you hyped up and had a bunch of FBI that we now know had all kinds of government operatives at. You mean that one? Yes, but he is suppressing free speech. Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Donald Trump suppression. Have you ever heard of the Twitter files? Have you ever seen the litigation that, you know, showed the communication between the FBI, the White House, and social media companies just on the 2020 election? That's not even. That's just the beginning of it, because that went through the Hunter Biden laptop Where we were called deplorables, we were called crazy, we were called conspiracy theorists, we were a danger to the Republic. The FBI said that we were in bed with Russia. If we believed the Hunter Biden laptop stuff. You mean that kind of stuff that was so uniting? Or was it the COVID stuff that was so uniting, you know, where we said, hey, I don't think that we should rush into this COVID vaccine. And because we wouldn't, we wouldn't take the vaccine, we were going to kill everybody, every grandparent on earth, that we shouldn't, we shouldn't have medical care because we were crazy and deplorable. We were killers because we said, hey, I think our own government, not, not the Republicans, Democrats, our own government was involved with the COVID vaccine. And we were called hate mongers for saying that anti government people. Wait, what? What? Now that. That's all proven now do we get an apology? No, nobody apologized. Or for the masks that you told us was science and we shouldn't question science. And we now find out no, that was arbitrary. In fact it made things worse. Or the vaccines that we said maybe we shouldn't rush and people lost their jobs, their livelihood were called all kinds of names. And now it shows that the vaccines might be part of the problem. No, this one, this one will make. You don't. You don't have any immunity. You have no natural immunity for the first time in all of human existence. You have no human, no natural ability to fight this and create your own defense against it. Your body has no. Really? Wow. Wow. No, no, no. You gotta take it. And you better listen to those teachers unions. You know, significant learning loss, increased mental health problems, greater impact on lower income students. But we were the hate mongers for saying it. Oh, and I haven't gotten into the Russian collusion thing or the parents at the school board meetings here in Virginia that were monsters. Monsters. I didn't even get into the censorship. I mean, forget the 2020 censorship. How about the censorship with the White House and the social media companies on Covid? How about any of those? I don't know, cnn? Seems like you might be wrong yet again. Oh, God. May I suggest something? The answer is found in our founding documents. What is this really all about? Because I'm going to take on those dirt bag, patriot front white supremacists. Those guys that were down here in Washington D.C. over the weekend for Fourth of July. Dirt bags. All of them. Dirt bags. Dangerous dirt bags. Stupid, pathetic, dangerous dirt bags. I'm going to take them on because that's an embarrassment to our nation. So give me a second before I get there, but I want you to think about something. All throughout the show today, I just want you to think about one thing. What is the real problem? What is the real problem? What's Marxism? Okay? What is Marxism boil down to? The individual exists for the state or for the class? Okay, it's one class against another. It's that class that is keeping you down. So this class can wind up. And the individual is for the state. Fascism, same kind of idea. The individual, There is nothing beyond the state, and everything is the state. So fascism is saying the same thing. The individual doesn't matter. Go get the Jews, go get the handicap. Doesn't matter. It's for the collective good. White supremacy, white supremacy. Go get the blacks, go get the Jews, go get the Hispanics, go get anybody who's different than you. Because whites are the real solution. Whites should have all the power. What's the difference between that and some of the extremists on BLM and DEI that are saying whites are the problem, blacks are the ones, the minorities? And what's the difference between that and the Palestinian crazies that are saying, you know, the real problem is the Jews? You know, all these have one thing in common. Collective. They've all become about the collective. And who are the enemies? Who are the enemies? The ones who believe all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, who actually believe that. Not playing the game. Who actually believe in the power of the individual. What is the other target? The other target is those who believe God knows you by name. Not some collective crazy, not. Not Barack Obama's collective salvation, but actual salvation that Jesus came for. The individual. You don't have. You don't have the crime of your father. He doesn't take on your crimes. You don't take on his crime. You're judged as an individual. Isn't it interesting that every group that we are seeing right now that is trying to pit us apart, they all have a different definition of the collective, but they all arrive at the very same conclusion. Your rights come from the group. Your value comes from the group. Your duty is to the group. The American experiment says, no, your rights come from God. Your dignity comes from your Creator. The state exists to protect your liberty, not to define your worth. You see, it's really not that hard. We're really only arguing one thing. And we're arguing the same thing with the white supremacists that we're saying to the Palestinian crazies that we're saying to the BLM people, that we're saying to the fascists, that we're saying to the communists, that we're saying to Zoran Mamdani, that we're saying to the Republican progressives, that we're saying to the Democrat progressives, Socialists saying the same thing. It's the same argument. I think we should get a little smarter and we should just boil it down. I think we should be able to go, oh, we know your argument. You're just wearing a different uniform. Oh, you're wearing the red, white and blue with the black uniform and the mask. And you're marching why? Because, oh, whites are supreme. Yeah. I put you in the same box as those people over there who are marching and saying that the Palestinians are supreme and we should wipe out all the Jews. You two, you actually have a lot in common. It's the same argument. Which then should lead you to why does everyone hate us? Why do all of these groups hate us? What do we believe that we have in common? The founding documents. That is what they are really after. That man can rule himself. That we don't need an overlord. That we don't need somebody telling us you can't fix your effing truck. That you have to follow religion my way. That you have to keep your temperature at this temperature, because whatever it is, it is always good for the collective. What we have in common on our side is we believe in the power of the individual and not in some irresponsible way where we say, screw everybody else. We know because the American experiment proved it to be true. Man can rule himself and he can change the world for good. More in a minute.

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Coming up in just a minute. I'll tell you a little bit about the weekend and the weekend here in Washington, D.C. it was, it was remarkable. So many great police officers, so much great Secret Service, dhs, all of the people that made it safe here. I mean, there were some bad apples, but there's always some bad apples. But, you know, some things that I saw that, you know, are worth repeating. And I watched Young George Washington. I brought my family to young George Washington last night here in the nation's capital. And we watched it. And I was struck by the way George Washington ended in the movie. He's talking to his troops and he said almost exactly the same line that Donald Trump said at the end of his speech on Fourth of July. More coming up. We are living in a time where it's really easy to forget what this country is actually about, how it came to be. And we talk about the founders like they just appeared fully formed out of history, but that's not how it happened. 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Hello America from the nation's capital. This is the Glenn Beck program. The Fourth of July was, I mean, I don't even know how to describe it if you weren't there, unfortunately, a lot of people that. The crowd was cut in half because there was threat of really violent lightning storms. And so the government, I mean, you know, and I get it, if you're on government property, you can sue then and say it's their fault. They didn't tell us. And so they were like, everybody off our property. You can go stand in the street someplace. You're not suing us. So it was all a liability thing, which was just ridiculous. But that's the world we live in. But only about half of the people came back. And it's sad because it was one of the most incredible fireworks shows I have ever seen. Rob, our engineer, was there and he took some video and some shots of it that, you know, if you happen to be watching the blaze, you can, you can watch because I mean, he had a vantage point right by the, the Kennedy center that was just saw all of the barges at once. And at the end, the Washington Post was right. It does create some smoke, lots of smoke like I've never seen before. It was incredible. But anyway, I want to talk to you about something else that was happening on our 250th. A bunch of white racists, extremists, the Patriot front, whatever they are. I'm going to explain who they are here in a second, but I want to talk about this because I denounce them, I despise them. I think they're an embarrassment to the United States of America just as much as the Klan or anybody else. And we'll talk about that here coming up in just a second. First, let me tell you about Chapter what have I told you? 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When it comes to time to choose one, don't guess on a commercial break. Don't do it. Talk to the people who do this every day. Hit £250. Just dial £250. Say the keyword chapter. £250. Keyword chapter. Do it now. So there's this horrible photograph from Saturday morning that went around the world. It was a black woman sitting alone on a metro bench in Washington, D.C. and it looked very much like Rosa Parks. Here it is, a 250th 4th of July, and this woman, all by herself on the bus, sitting alone, surrounded by these masked men in matching shirts. She looks up. There's nowhere for this woman to run. Can't imagine what that would. Imagine what it would feel like. You're the only white guy on the Metro and you're surrounded by Black Lives Matter people. You comfortable? I'd be. I would be freaking out. And I'm sure she was. Pray for her. So that's where we have to start. Not with her manifesto. I want to start with her. Those men rose up out of the ground in pressed khakis and navy shirts and faces hidden behind white cloth and sunglasses. And they march towards the Capitol with a drumbeat carrying American flags, some of them turned upside down. They waved the Confederate battle flag, the banner of men who tried to rip this country in half to preserve chains, on Independence Day, next to the dome, to a drum. And they call themselves the Patriot Front. Patriot. I'd like to take that word from these abominations right now. You don't deserve the word Patriot. They crawled out of Texas. Their leader, Thomas Rousseau, built this after Charlottesville 2017, after a man drove into a crowd and killed Heather Heyer, I think was her name. Right. When his old crew got too toxic, he rebranded it. Same poison. Put it in a clean shirt, sharp creases, wrapped it in a flag. 13 stars around a bundle of sticks and an axe. What is that? That's the Fasces. Let me make this really clear. That bundle of sticks with an axe is not some clever little logo. It's the oldest symbol of raw collectivist power on Earth. In ancient Rome, the Fasces meant strength comes only when everyone is bound together in one tight bundle under one authority. Now, this can be something like Ben Franklin saying, the thirteen colonies come together and you can't break the arrows. But that's not a current reading of this. The individual stick is weak and breakable. Only when you tie them all together under the axe. The power to punish. Do you have real force? Mussolini took that symbol and built fascism on it. So that's when it takes a new meaning. Okay, These men in masks took the same symbol, painted it red, white, and blue, and dared you not to notice. And it's not subtle. I mean, they're not subtle. It is the philosophy that the group, the tribe, the collective is everything, and the lone human is nothing. That's why it was so frightening to see that young girl on the train all by Herself. Now, I want you to look at what they believe in their own words. Because I. I saw people say, oh yeah, let's hear the. Let's hear the right talk about these guys. Okay, here we are. Here we are. Will you do anything like this for your side? No. But I challenge you. I want to believe you will. So prove me wrong. In their own words, they believe American identity is inherited through blood and not ink. That this land belongs by birthright to European descendants only. They want a whites only ethno state. They want a hard reset. Boy, doesn't that sound familiar? Democracy failed. Doesn't that sound familiar? The Republic is dead. Doesn't that sound familiar? America is a carcass to carve up and rebuild for the right bloodlines. Saturday, they chanted reclaim America, demanded mass deportations, and then rode the train home past that woman on the bench. Don't fall for the act, gang. Don't do it. I know you won't. You're not that stupid. They curse the government, they snarl at the state. And some people think, well, at least they're against Washington. No, these are not small government men. They do not want you to be free no matter what your color is. They want you to be owned by the tribe, by the blood, by the collective that seizes you at birth and never lets you go. There is nothing smaller than a man under blood and soil ideology. He's not a soul, he's just a cell in the body. The patriot front is an abomination. Full stop. No ifs, ands or buts, Period. Peel back every mask. You've seen this face before. You've seen this face on the man who blames the Jews for everything. Every war, every crash, every string pulled in the dark. It's the Jews fault. Their leaked chats are drenched in it. The Jewish question, Hitler's book, passed around like it's scripture. The masked marcher and the Jew haters. They're not cousins, they're the same men. But I go further. You've seen this face. You've seen it before. On the BLM activist, on the professor, the pundit who looks at the white child and sees an oppressor by birth. They're the oppressor who assigns guilt and virtue by skin color the day you draw breath. Who puts every white man in the same guilty bucket, word for word, same sentence. They just flip which blood is cursed. But they're the same people. Let me go further. You've seen it with antifa. They tell you the rich capitalist is the enemy. They have to be smashed, they have to be hung. They need a guillotine. You've seen it in the socialist who says the problem is always the capitalist class and the solution is always more state control over your life. You've seen it in the Islamist or the Palestinian activist who's gone bat crap crazy, who chants that the Jew is the root of all evil and must be driven out from the river to the sea. Every single version that blames an entire group. Black, white, immigrant, Jew, rich, poor, capitalist, it doesn't matter. They're. They're doing the same thing and they're offering the same cure. A hard reset, a great reset. More power to the right tribe, more hatred of the wrong tribe, more division into us versus them. It's the same game every single time. Every time. Blame the group. Never the individual choices or the ideas. Then demand a reset that gives the correct collective more control. More tribes, more uniforms, more loyalty tests, more enemies to hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Doesn't matter if the uniform is khakis, in masks, black block and masks, kifas, academic robes. It's the same lie wearing different clothing. The individual over there, the one that we hate, in that group, that soul doesn't matter. Only the blood, only the class, only the identity, only the grievance. The once you accept that premise, the solution is always the same. Tear down the old, empower the tribe that agrees with you and punish the rest. That's why all of these groups must be rejected. You reject one, you must reject all of them. This is why socialism is so dangerous. It requires you to hate the capitalist as a class enemy. This is why race essentialism on any side is poison. This is why river from. From the river to the sea. It's not geography, it's a call to erase an entire group of people. This is why blood and soil nationalism is not patriotism, it's tribalism. It's Nazism with better pr. That's it. They all spring from the same rotten root. The belief that your worth is decided by a group that you were born into. And that fixing the world means giving your group more power over everybody else's group. Our enemies, foreign and domestic. Oh man, they love feeding us this poison. They will just keep feeding us these poisons. They want us to believe all of it. So we'll divide ourselves and destroy ourselves if we grow weak on the declaration and the American system and our Judeo Christian values that say it's the individual we're going to fall for. One of these versions. One of them. I don't Know which one you'll fall for. But the promise is the same thing. More control, more hatred. And more tribes. They're all the same. And there is only one cure. We hold these truths to be self evident. That all men are created equal. And they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. And among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And Governments are instituted among men to protect those rights. Your rights do not come from bloodline. They do not come from ancestry, not by class, not from a committee. They come from your Creator. You are not a cell, you're a soul. You're made in the image of God. One at a time. He's named you. That sentence is the most anti tribal, anti collectivist, anti fascist declaration in all of human history. It indicts the Klansmen and the Nazi and the race essentialist, the socialist class warrior, the Islamist collective and every other mirror version of the same lie. No matter what their uniform is that they're wearing today. The founders bet everything they had on ink. Their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor. Lincoln called this a proposition. The Constitution is ink. The emancipation is ink. Women's suffrage is ink. Equal protection ink. Ink poured over all the blood to make the sin right. Every collectivist movement, the Patriot Front and all of its cousins want to burn the ink and crawl back into the tribe. Condemn them loudly, all of them by name. The Patriot Front is an abomination. And so is every other version of the same evil they call themselves. Left or right, it doesn't matter. It's evil. But before you ride off at the sunset thinking you're a hero, make sure you check your own saddle first. Do you cheer when those people get blamed as a group? Do you nod when a baby is born guilty by skin or class? Do you laugh when your foes and celebrate when your foes die? Do you share the post that reduces millions to their blood or to their bank account? Because if you do, you're just marching as well. You just left the mask at home. You know what I love about the Constitution and the Declaration? It doesn't take any prisoners. And it doesn't play favorites. Ever. Ever. It indicts every last one of us who judges a soul by a tribe. And what's amazing is they were just as flawed as we are. The men who wrote it were flawed. They own slaves while penning all men are created equal. The miracle is that they wrote that promise anyway. A check bigger than they could cash. And they dared us to make good on it. You want to call yourself A Patriot, a true patriot is still trying. A true patriot still believes those things, still argues for those things. Still laying fresh ink over old blood, refusing to let the tribe win. My tribe, your tribe, none of the tribes, the men in the mask, just want to tear up that check. 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Releffactor.com 10 seconds. Station ID. Tonight I am with Christians United for Israel. I'm going to be speaking about a lot of the stuff I just was talking about there, but I'm going to be speaking there tonight. And you, I think you can get tickets, I don't know if they're still available at cufi.c u f I.org in. In Washington, D.C. then on July 10, that's this coming Saturday, I'm going to be in Las Vegas. I'm going to be speaking for Freedom Fest, which should be a blast. Freedom Fest in Vegas. Kind of a weird bookend of the week, but I hope to see you there. Also, if you missed, I was in San Diego a couple of weeks ago and I gave a speech on the USS Midway, and I talked briefly about the history of Midway island and how the US Came to possess it. Did you know? Did you know that? Do you know how the Midway, how we got those islands? This is the craziest thing. Bird crap. We're out in the middle of nowhere and a captain, this is in the 1800s, and an island pops up and it's little teeny Island. And he's like, oh, my gosh, look at that. It's full of bird crap. And at the time, because we needed fertilizer, bird crap was worth a fortune. And so we're like, we claim this bird crap for the United States of America. And it turns out to be one of the crazy, critical battles in World War II. The Midway. You can see that speech now if you're a TORCH member or wherever you get your podcast, but it's a really good one. USS Midway speech, wherever you get your podcasts or right now on demand@glenn beck.com torch. Alrighty. Our sponsor is Real Estate Agents. I trust if you've ever watched a professional poker player, you know something interesting. They don't play through every hand. In fact, they fold a lot. Because the secret is no when to hold them, know when to fold them. I learned that from Kenny Rogers, the chicken guy. 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Realestate agentsitrust.com realestate agentsitrust.com Discover George AI and Glenn AI perspectives on modern events by joining the Torch community at glenn beck.com torch. I want to play. I want to play something. The Ayatollah Khomeini. His funeral was this weekend. Now here is a woman who worked with Senator Warren, okay? A Democratic socialist, Senator Warren. And I want you to hear what she said. She's sitting over in the Middle east attending the funeral of the Ayatollah. And this is what she says on social media. Listen. He was a leader to all people of the world who struggle against imperialism, against arrogance, against, against Zionism, against genocide. To me, he was the greatest anti imperialist leader to have lived during my lifetime. Well, that's interesting. I don't have what I want to talk to you. I worked on this for a couple of hours last night and I just can't, I can't get it right. And I need your help because. We're talking over each other, we're talking around each other, we're not talking to each other. And it's becoming so clear that we have so much in common or should have so much in common. When did that stop becoming a problem for Democrats? When did someone going over to the Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral in Iran not be a problem in the Democratic Party? And I don't, I don't want to win. I honestly, I'm, what I'm about to tell you, I'm not looking to win. I'm. What I would like is if somebody would just pause and go, okay, now wait a minute. That's a fair question. I'm not, I'm not trying to get you to think, think something. I'm trying to get you to answer something. Could question something. And I don't know what your answer is. And that's really, I want the honest answer. And I'm going to question some things, but not because you're my enemy. Not because you're stupid. I don't want an apology or anything else. I really honestly want your help in understanding something. Because of the, the better part of 20 years now, I have been warning that the Democratic Party has been changing and not liberal.

[Jacob Booins]

Okay?

[Glenn Beck]

That's different. I, I was the one who brought the progressives to the forefront and said this is what a progressive means. I've been defining these things based on their actual meanings. And, and I said at the time, back in 2008, you know, it's really. In fact, I said this in 2004. Why are you putting a socialist in the presidential box? This is dangerous. They're not. You're not using them. They will eat you in the end because they actually believe in these socialist things. And that's not the same as being a Democrat. What are you doing? And it seems like Democrats are increasingly comfortable with ideas that not too long ago, both parties considered well outside of the American mainstream. Socialism. And now it's starting to edge into actually saying communism. Identity politics replacing class solidarity, growing hostility towards capitalism, an uneasy relationship with Israel. And, you know, at that one, I kind of understand we should have an uneasy. I have an uneasy relationship with all countries, But in particular, the growing anti Semitism. And as I said these things 20 years ago, I was called all kinds of names. I was hit by progressive Jewish organizations as being an anti Semite to say that anti Semitism was coming because it always comes with socialism and collectivism. You always say a, a, a democratic socialist. That's a Republican talking point. No, no, it isn't. I, I was using a technical term. Nobody's gonna be an American socialist. Okay, all right. But here's where I get confused here. Now. Now everybody is trying to change in America into socialists, a socialist country. I mean, I remember when Barack Obama was asked if he was a socialist, he didn't embrace the label. He rejected it. In fact, he called me all kinds of names for even suggesting that he liked Karl Marx or Mao or communism or Marxism or socialism. Joe Biden didn't campaign as a socialist. Over and over again, he said, I'm a Democrat. Nancy Pelosi said socialism was not the Democratic Party. And I think at their time, they believed that. They just didn't realize they were playing footsies with people who would not forgive them for using them. Now, whether whether they personally admired parts of Europe's, you know, social democracies, they believed Americans still drew a bright line between liberalism and socialism, real socialism. And that distinction mattered. I think that's where we started. But today does it. Today, candidates openly call themselves democratic socialists. They are no longer dismissed as fringe voices in a large part of the party. They are winning elections. They are shaping debates. They are influencing the direction of democratic politics. And I am not asking you whether you agree with them. I am asking you something that I think is simpler. Why did that stop bothering you? I am hoping it still does. But if it does,

[Zoran Mamdani]

how come I

[Glenn Beck]

don't hear Democrats saying it? I mean, you just heard what I said about the Patriot. You should be condemning them like I just condemned the Patriot Front, without exception. Here's another question. You tell me Donald Trump represents authoritarianism. Okay, I'm just. Just for the sake of argument, I'm going to say everything you've ever said about him is right. Okay, I don't agree with that. But let's just assume that your concerns are completely justified then. Shouldn't you become even more skeptical when someone promises that more power should be concentrated in Washington? Shouldn't every American, left or right, become suspicious whenever government is presented as the answer to every problem? You know, you fought for socialized medicine, and I told you it wouldn't work. And it's not working. It only made things higher because that's what happens when government gets involved. And now, as I told you, they would, they're pushing for even more socialized medicine. Look at what's happening in Canada. Look what's happening in Britain. Look what's happening in Scandinavia. It doesn't work, but they're pushing for more power. If too much power in Donald Trump is dangerous, isn't too much power in government worth questioning as well? Do you really trust everyone on your side? Especially those who say, yeah, I'm a democratic socialist. I don't believe in capitalism. I kind of lean towards communism a bit. Don't you think we should have smaller government? If that's even a possibility? I really want to know. When did capitalism. When did the free market. Because I have a problem with the way capitalism is being done. It's grotesque. And why is it grotesque? Because it got into bed with big government. So why would we make the government even more powerful? Why would we give the government more power to be able to do things behind everybody's back and get into bed with these politicians? That's not a problem with just the Republicans. That's a problem with all of Washington. But when did the free market become something to apologize for? Not reform, not improve, apologize for, to detest. My grandparents were Democrats till the day they died. Why? Because of fdr. Because they remember him defending the worker. The worker who wanted jobs, the factories, the small businesses, a chance to own their own home, to build something, to pass something on to their children. They didn't see success in small business as something shameful. They wanted more Americans to achieve it. When did that language begin to change? And the one that really breaks my heart is something I never thought we would do, because I don't think Democrats hate Jewish people. I really don't. I don't believe that most Democrats support Hamas. I don't. I don't believe most Democrats support the Ayatollah Khomeini. But. But how come I'm not hearing people going, that person can never become, can never come back and work with Elizabeth Warren. And Elizabeth Warren should be questioned. How did you have this person on your staff? When Jewish Americans tell you something deeply disturbing has changed, when they tell you they no longer feel welcome inside parts of the coalition they helped build, when they hear slogans that sound less like calls for peace and more like calls for their elimination, do you even hear that anymore? I am not accusing you. I am genuinely asking you, do you hear it anymore? Do you believe that the Jews are just imagining it? Have you just dismissed it for some reason or another? Can you even bring yourself to look at it? How are you dismissing it? Do you think they're overreacting? Or do you quietly admit that something has changed, but you're hoping that it's not going to turn into something bad and someone else deals with it? Because maybe that's the way I would deal with it if I were a Democrat. Maybe I would be like somebody else. It's not going to turn into that. And I ask because I remember another Democratic Party. Harry Truman recognized Israel within minutes of its birth. John Kennedy stood against Soviet Communism. They knew what it was. Democrats, Republicans, argued constantly, but they generally, generally agreed that Marxism was bad and not the future of America. And that wasn't controversial ever. It was common ground. And the Democrats denied that they were going that way in 2008, 9, 10, all the way up till about a year and a half ago. And I don't know the question. I. I mean, I wish I could have a series of questions that could really, truly be disarming, that wouldn't sound accusatory. And I struggled with this because I don't. I don't know how to put it, because, look, I have people in my own family who wrote some horrible things in family texts this weekend and accused me of fascism and everything else. And it made me sad. It made me go, that's not who I am. And really, you really think that about me, that I am for fascism? Huh? And I just wanted to ask. Wait, wait, but how do you feel about communism? How are you dismissing these things? And I think the only thing that you could say that I could understand is you're just hoping that that's not really a problem. But you must look at it, because it is growing at an exponential rate. Yes. You can point to the Patriot front and I just dealt with that. Clearly condemn that. I condemn that. Can. Can you meet reasonable people halfway and say, look, we're not going to solve. You're not going to be convinced Donald Trump is a good guy. I'm not going to be convinced that Mamdani has the Patriot's heart in mind. He wants to fundamentally transform America into something that it is not, and that's not good. But do we have anything in common anymore? If I could Somehow go back 15 years, if I could walk into a union hall or a neighborhood Democratic club or a family barbecue, and I could show you a video of today's political arguments, I could show you that video and say, that's somebody with Elizabeth Warren. I could show you Mamdani and what he said about America and people calling themselves democratic socialists and calling for the destruction of the Democratic Party, that capitalism is the problem, the engine that lifted people out of poverty, billions of people, the free market system. I could show you the campus protests where chants are being said that leave Jewish students terrified. Arguments whether America is a fundamental force for good or fundamentally a force for oppression that should be destroyed. If I showed all of that to Democrats 15 years ago, would they say, yes, yes, that's exactly where I hope our party ends up. Or would they stare at the screen and say, that's crazy, that's not true. That's not us. I know because I said those things. That's what they said to me. That's not us. That's crazy. That's a conspiracy theory. That's what you. That's what you are. But because I know that answer would be different today than it was,

[Jason Butchel]

I

[Glenn Beck]

guess the only question I want to ask you is why? Why is it different? I really believe most people don't wake up one morning and. And decide they've changed. Most people don't. Some people do. I did in my life with alcoholism. Sometimes that is required. But most people drift, and drift doesn't work that way. You know, imagine leaving a harbor. You check your compass. You know you're in the harbor. You're checking your compass. It's pointed exactly where you want to go. But the current moves you one degree, and you're not watching the compass. You're dismissing the compass. It's one degree. You don't feel it. The people around you don't notice. The shoreline still looks familiar. Everyone on the boat assures you're still on the right course. Days later, weeks later, it's over. You've drifted. Is it okay with you? And if so, why? Back in a minute. You know who never have to shop for insurance? Kids. They don't wake up in the morning wondering, you know, do I have coverage? 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The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello America. From the nation's capital, this is the Glenn Beck program. Glad you're here. I want to talk to you a little bit about Zoran Mandani and what he said over the weekend. He was speaking, did a speech in New York City. It was radically different than, you know, any speech that I've ever heard given on 4th of July by an elected official. But I want to play part of it and I want to talk to you a little bit about the socialism that we hear so much speak about because just about everything that you know about the socialism is probably outdated. And I'll explain that coming up in 60 seconds. First, I want to talk to you about the Burna launcher. Visit Byrna B Y r n a.com and I want you to find the right launcher for your family. And here's why. In the movie when you, when you shoot somebody in self defense, it's pretty simple. 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[Zoran Mamdani]

As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation. Contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world. One where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see mass agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt streaked hands. Those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.

[Glenn Beck]

The soft hands of a precious few. Let's just use Elon Musk. Has he not earned his money? I mean, I don't know how you earn a trillion dollars, quite honestly, you know, But is he. Does he not deserve what he has brought to the world through speech and technology, communications? What he has done for the world, where they can now communicate freely in countries where you could not be free to speak. He's got the satellite system up. He's reinvented the car and given all of the tech. He didn't put a patent on it. He gave the patents away for free so anyone can use it. He is transforming the idea of space. He is building a space, a space economy which you won't understand for another five to 10 years, but when that thing hits, you will understand. He's. He may have soft hands, but he's done the intellectual plowing of almost every field. I don't want to get this, you know, I'm just tired of socialism. I'm tired. I just wish we could have an honest conversation. But we. We are dealing with so many people that are so uninformed. Yes, there are great disparities in wealth. Yes. And you say and while they're buying elections. Yes. Like Soros. Do you mean Soros or is he exempt? Because I would like the money to get out of politics as well. But it's not an honest fight. Most people who are saying that's not honest. If you have a problem with all the money in politics, good, good. So do I. If you have a problem with corrupt capitalism, so do I. But the answer is not bigger government, But socialism will work. Let me tell you. America has been told a really simple story for a very long time. If America could only be more like Denmark. Now we're not even talking about Denmark or Sweden, you know, or Norway anymore. We're not talking about that. They are talking about a different kind of socialism now. But let's just say they're talking about, we just want to be like Norway and Sweden. It's, it's, it's the favorite exhibit in almost every debate about capitalism in government. The Nordic countries, they're proof socialism works. But before you remodel your house after somebody else's blueprint, let's walk through the front door first. Okay? Because the story that almost everyone tells you about Scandinavian nations leaves out the part that actually made Scandinavia successful. The leaders themselves reject the label socialist. Don't believe me? Look it up. The former Danish Prime Minister, Andres Rasmussen or something, came to the United States and addressed it directly. He said, Americans associate Denmark with socialism. Then he added, and I'm quoting, Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy. Wow. How come it, how come. Where are the posters for that? That's a remarkable statement. Imagine somebody insisting Texas is a communist state while the governor keeps coming out going, we're not. We're not. We're Texas. We're not communist. And yet the myth survives somehow. So what's really happening? The Nordic countries have built generous welfare states. That part is absolutely true. They provide universal health coverage. College is subsidized, heavily subsidized, or free. Parents receive paid leave. Safety nets are extensive. But those benefits sit on top of economies that depend on capitalism every single day. Not just cap capitalism, competitive capitalism, strong property rights, private ownership, entrepreneurship, open trade, innovation, businesses that are expected to compete in the marketplace rather than survive on government protection. Those days are long gone. And this is the part that never makes it to a campaign speech. According to the Index of Economic Freedom, Denmark has consistently ranked among the freest economies in the entire world. The country most often used to argue against capitalism scores routinely as the world's freest capitalist economy. Wow. Does that make you curious at all? At all? I mean, should we look into that? During the post war decades, Sweden dramatically expanded government spending. The taxes, the regulation. By the 1970s and into the 1980s, economic growth slowed way down. Investments weakened. Entrepreneurs left. Some of Sweden's most successful companies and business leaders moved. They just moved out of the country. IKEA relocated ownership to the Netherlands. Tetrapact moved to Switzerland. Sweden's relative standing among wealthy nations fell sharply for two decades. And then everybody turns away and doesn't say, so what happened next? Sweden didn't double down. Okay? They didn't Double down. It reversed course. Governments from both the left and the right reduced regulations. They reformed the pensions. These are things we're not doing. They introduce private competition into education. That's. That'll never happen. Right? Today, more than 800 independent schools operate with public funding. Private companies run a substantial share of the Swedish primary health centers. Taxes were restructured, markets were liberalized. The reforms were not a rejection of the welfare state. They were an acknowledgment that somebody first has to create the wealth to pay for it. It's really hard to redistribute prosperity after you've regulated prosperity out of existence. And that's what New York is doing. And here's another fact that surprises most Americans. The Nordic countries, they don't finance their governments primarily on taxing billionaires. Did you know that? Nope. They tax everyone. The cashier, the plumber, the teacher, the nurse, the mechanic. Not just the billionaire. Everyone. In Denmark and Sweden, value added taxes of around 25% apply to everyday purchases. So that means if you want this, your taxes are going to go up at the very bottom and you're going to get a 25% VAT tax. You buy shoes, furniture, television, dinner, restaurant. A significant amount of that 25% goes to the government. Income taxes are broad. Payroll taxes are broad. Consumption taxes are broad, meaning everybody pays them. And the system works there because almost everyone contributes. Now, do you think Americans are going to accept that? Because I don't. Would you trade that? Another myth deserves some attention here. Many people believe Scandinavia punishes wealth more aggressively than America. Nope, nope, nope. The reality is that several Nordic countries actually have abolished their wealth taxes because they don't work. Sweden, get this one. No longer has an inheritance tax. Norway is debating reducing its wealth taxes because the high net worth individuals are leaving the country. That's what's happening in California. Where are they going? They're leaving New York to go to Florida. They're leaving California to go to Texas. If it was all countrywide, these extensive socialist taxes, they'd leave America because the policymakers understand something every country eventually discovers, but we just don't. Capital moves. Entrepreneurs move, investments move. Governments compete as well. And here's one of the biggest misunderstandings we have. It's. It's on health care. Health care is free. It's not free. It's never free. Nothing's free. Nordic healthcare systems are financed through the taxes that every. Remember I told you, everybody pays taxes Citizens pay throughout their working lives. Many systems also include co payments for doctor visits, prescription drugs or specialist Care. Look at Canada. You're paying for private insurance on top of it now. Different countries use different arrangements. Some are good, some are not. The point is, it's not that their systems are bad. The point is that they are paid for by the taxpayer and not the billionaire. Somebody always has to pay. The bill doesn't just go away, it just arrives in a different envelope. Let me give you this. This is even more interesting. Nordic countries are filled with private companies. Filled with private companies. Global companies, innovative companies, successful companies. Volvo, Ericsson, Lego, Spotify, Cone. They all compete around the world. And their governments expect them to succeed because those companies generate the tax revenue that supports the welfare system. Why do you hate successful companies if they're expected to pay taxes? But our taxes. Everything is so screwed up here. We've made special exemptions for everybody. Everyone should pay taxes. No successful business, no generous welfare state. It's that simple. You get rid of business, you don't have the welfare. Another ingredient that economists often point to, and that is trust. Something we don't have. Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway consistently are the highest trust societies in the world. People generally believe their neighbors will obey the rules. Now that's changing. Because of the border situation, government corruption is relatively low. It's not here institutions enjoy broad public confidence. Not here. Look at the fraud that's going on. That kind of social capital is incredibly valuable because it lowers the transaction cost, it simplifies regulation. It allows systems to function with fewer layers of enforcement. Trust. You cannot legislate trust. It develops over generations and once it's gone, it's gone. And that's why culture matters and institutions matter and history matters. I'm not selling the Nordic model down the river. And I'm not saying it's perfect. It has its strengths, it has its weaknesses. Like every system designed by human beings. The real lesson here is not about socialism versus capitalism. The real lesson here, I think, is about intellectual honesty. If somebody proves or points to Denmark as proof that socialism works, now you have the information you have to say, would you. Would you acknowledge the. Denmark's. Denmark's commitment to private enterprise and taxes. If somebody praises Sweden's welfare system, you want to mention Sweden's market reforms after 1990. Well, Finland, their public services. You want to mention Finland's strong support for private business and global competition. Good ideas don't travel alone. Neither do bad ones. The danger comes when we import only the policies we like while ignoring the conditions that make them possible. It's like pointing to a championship football team and deciding the secret to winning is a fancy stadium. No, no, no, it's not. Yeah, but look at the stadium. It's visible. Yeah, but the years of practice, I don't see that. Well, but they may not be visible. Well, it's, it's really. The secret is the trophy. No, it's the discipline that you don't see in the, in the case. The welfare benefits are visible, but the productive economy underneath often isn't. And every society eventually faces the same how much can you distribute? The answer depends on the other question that comes first. How much can you produce? That's the question that humbles governments. History is filled with nations that become wealthy and then debate how to share the prosperity. History is also filled with nations that try to distribute prosperity before they've created it. And those stories always end the same way. The pie shrinks. Everybody receives a smaller slice. The Nordic companies remind us something worth remembering. Markets create wealth. Governments redistribute that wealth should you choose. But you can't redistribute wealth that no longer exists. And that's what New York needs to learn. Back in a minute. Sponsor this half hour is Z Factor. There is nothing quite like the feeling of dragging yourself through the day, you know, so tired you can barely stand it. Nothing like feeling your eyes starting to glaze over while somebody's talking to you. And you really are just, you really, you're, you're not bored by them or anything else. And you're just like, oh, please don't notice that I'm just falling asleep here. Please stay awake, stay awake. I mean, it's the worst. Get a good night's sleep from Z Factor. Z Factor. Give them a try right now. Say 46% on your first order. It's 1995 for a 30 day supply. It works with your body. It has four different natural ingredients in it. 800 for relief. 800 the number four relief or visit relieffactor.com it's better sleep, better days. Z Factor from relief factor 10 seconds. Station ID. So I was at the midway on june 6, the uss midway. And. A lot of people just think that everything is just meh, but that the right to say meh has been earned and paid for by somebody. This speech is available now wherever you get your podcast. I think it came out Saturday and it's available now@glenn beck.com torch watch all of it. It's really good. Here's a clip of it. Cut eight. It is our 250th anniversary. How many of us remember? How many of us Remember what we're even living in today and the value of this freedom. The things that we see, the things that we're able to accomplish. The God we can praise or not praise. For the first time in human history, men live like they've never lived before. And most Americans say meh. Remember where we have come from. Remember what it has taken. Remember those who have sacrificed so we can say meh. I'm really struck by the fact that our answers are really easy. And today's theme of today's show has really been, you know, all of these organizations, from the Democratic Socialists to the Patriot Front to BLM to the crazy Palestinian, you know, fronts that are screaming to the woman in that was with Elizabeth Warren, who, you know, was just in Iran for the Ayatollah Khomeini chanting, death to America. They all have one thing in common, and that is a collective ideal, a collective point of view. God is the individual. God is the God of the individual. That is. You know, I just saw somebody say this weekend. Who was it? It's one of the thoughts we have that, that, you know, we don't have a national religion. You're right, and I don't want a national religion. But we do have national principles and they come from the Judeo Christian religion, the Judeo Christian tradition of that the individual matters. Look at what we've accomplished between understanding the Declaration of Independence and then having gratitude for everything that we witness, good and bad today, our life having gratitude solves all of our problems. Back in just a second. Let me tell you about my Patriot supply. Preparing for something is a lot cheaper, a lot cheaper than wishing that you had prepared. It's a good rule of thumb for just about everything in life. And especially good to remember when you're thinking about potential, you know, survival situations for you and your family, that's really not the time. You know, it's like, you know, you're on the Titanic. You don't want to be like, hey, we should have designed some lifeboats. Yeah, you want those there? That's a whole different story. But may I recommend my patriot supply? Over 3 million American families trust my Patriot Supply. Why? Because they deliver 2,000 calories a day. Their food lasts up to 25 years without needing be refrigerated. 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And you told me that you had just, you were struggling to find a church for a long time. You found one, you finally, you know, started one, doing great work and then you were evicted. Is that right?

[Jacob Booins]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Tell the story.

[Jacob Booins]

So Mercy Culture Church founded in, in Fort Worth, Texas. Eight campuses in Texas. Now a campus in Orange County. So we launch the campus in Washington D.C. and we become a bit of no match to find a building. It's not easy to find a building in this city. Come to find out that during the Biden administration they opened a little window where they told churches if you sell your property, you could sell it to developers. So a lot of churches left and now we're trying to find a church. So we go building to building. We finally find a building, we sign an agreement, contract, we're still under contract and we start getting complaints from the building. They're saying, well, listen, hold on one second. You're very political. They said, we're not political, it's just spiritual. I said, what is it that's political? They said, well, you're saying you're anti abortion. You're saying it's two genders. You're saying that kids should not be transified. You're saying things that are just political. I said, it's not political, it's scripture.

[Glenn Beck]

But wouldn't the saying the opposite be political? Because that's what the churches around here are preaching. Why isn't then them advocating political?

[Jacob Booins]

I start diving, Glenn, because it's my relationship with the Lord and my relationship with the Lord and everybody's relationship is a one on one personal relationship relationship. So I start diving in and I start digging. Digging. I'm digging back 230 years. So I find a church which the oldest church here. It's in Georgetown, Episcopalian. Not that the denomination matters, but I find this church and we go to this church and we get put on a tour inside this church. Because I'm now looking for what powers and principalities are operating in this city. Why is there this cloud of confusion over this city? Why can a politician do well in his home state, get elected to national congress, show up here and all of a sudden these colors change? What is that? Are people just selling their souls and then you find out, no, there are demonic strongholds in this city that has been given rite of passage dominion, a home inside the church, the church in this city. And I'm not saying every church, but come to find on this Tour There are 13 churches in this city that are 200 plus years old that run on the principle that they are. And they say this said it out loud to us in person, that they are the collective mind of the Holy Spirit, which is blasphemy. Blasphemy.

[Glenn Beck]

Everything we talked about today, everything I've talked about, God is the God of the individual, not the collective. They're the collective mind of the Holy Spirit.

[Jacob Booins]

So they speak for the Holy Spirit.

[Glenn Beck]

They decide.

[Jacob Booins]

And very braggadociously. Now I'm going to. Now the guy who's touring me doesn't know I'm a pastor because we're looking at buildings. I know found out if you tell him a pastor, they're definitely not going

[Glenn Beck]

to work with you.

[Jacob Booins]

We're even looking at signing a lease under an LLC name or something different to get. So this guy tours us and he said, listen, do you know the woman? He asked if I know the woman who scolded the president right after National Cathedral, at the National Cathedral, right after his inauguration. I said I don't know her, but I know of her. And I watched. And he proudly says, she's with us. She's in this collection. She's one of the 13. And we took that speech them and we all approved that speech because correction, that's how correction gets made in this city. That's how things pass through to Congress comes to this collective mind of the Holy Spirit. And I'm thinking we're in a, we're standing in a church, one of the oldest. This church is founded by Thomas Jefferson, funded him and I mean it's 230 years old, founded in 1790. This is. So I'm starting to see, wait a second, there's strongholds. So we get to this building we try to buy, which is a Methodist church. It hasn't preached A sermon in this church since March 2020. 0.

[Glenn Beck]

It's dark.

[Jacob Booins]

The church now, the Methodists take care of their buildings. The building is stunning. I bet they run a great real estate operation. It's beautiful. But there's no sermon being preached. So we're saying, let us bring the gospel to this community. We want to preach the gospel to the city because God's called us to the city. Not to Arlington, not to Virginia, but to the city. And they say to me, we know who you are. We know the gospel you preach, which is just the gospel, it's just the word of God is that these truths that are self evident, these liberties and justice we're talking about, the 250 we're celebrating behind yet is because of Judeo Christian values. It's because there's a set of principles that says for me and my house, we can serve the Lord. I don't know what my neighbor is doing, but I can lead my children in the gospel. I can lead my children that there's liberty and justice. I can talk about mercy and grace that's freely given every morning because we have it freely given through the cross. Are you talking about that gospel? She goes, yes, you're radical. And I said, what is it that's so radical about us? So they start talking amongst these 13 and we start getting evicted. We are at our fourth location now. The day before I met you, we get a notice from the building we're in saying we will not renew your lease. And I said, why? And they go, because you're too political. I talked to the owner of the building and he says to me, my staff won't show up if you're in the building. And I said, and he says to me, he said, jaaki, you know, we have staff, some are trans. And I said, look, we love all human beings. I hate Satan and I hate demonic spirits that indoctrinate people that you'll find in fascism, that you'll find in communism. Looking at another person saying, oh, they're the peasant class, let's rule them. I can't stand for that because we have liberty and justice for all through Christ. Because that's just radical. And he says this to me.

[Glenn Beck]

It's just radical.

[Jacob Booins]

He says this to me. I quote, he said, we've had many churches that we've worked with in this city and we've never seen a church like yours. And I said, is it because we say things like life has value in the womb? He says, yes, you can't say things like that. People need to choose, I said, so people can choose who live and die. I fight human trafficking. How am I going to get somebody to fight for a 12 year old child that's being trafficked? If you won't defend a baby in the womb, you won't. He said. But you say things like, children shouldn't be transified. You can't have transgender rights. Then I find out this particular reverend who told me, we will never sell this building to you, we'll never lease to you, and we're making a fair market offer. The building's for sale. So you're saying we cannot buy it because we are in love with Jesus. I would check that. I would check that. Your realtors may be in hot water here when you start profiling who can and can't buy a building. She says this to me. They say to me, you're radical with the gospel. I dig into her Instagram. Glenn. When there was a trance march in a pro trans rights march for children. So basically what this march said is we're standing for the child against the parent. If the parent doesn't want to give the child the option to transition, guess who let this march with a sign in a V formation the front of the march? This Reverend. So what I found is in this city, it's different than other cities. In this city, that which is evil often is led by the church.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay. So I asked Jacob to come on because he told me the story and I said, we got to help find you a place if you're an attorney and you can help. And I mean, somebody who has, you know, big friends that could help as an attorney if you have funding and you're like, I will help buy a building here. Jaco has been leading the front line spiritually for a very long time on a lot of really dark, dark stuff. Human trafficking is the number one thing. I trust you more than almost anybody, Yako, that I, that I know spiritually. I mean, you are. You have really proven yourself time and time again to be a man of dignity and honor. And you just won't bend and you won't sit down. But if you can, if you want to help, how can they get a hold of you? Can they?

[Jacob Booins]

Yeah, they email me.

[Glenn Beck]

You want to give a.

[Jacob Booins]

Let's not do that.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, I tell you what, I will. We'll. We'll tweak something out.

[Jacob Booins]

They can text the letters DC to the number 5909590 90. Text DC to 5990. They'll get a reply from our team. And then they'll find a way to, to get in touch with us.

[Glenn Beck]

I just, I just asked Claude because Claude is the most liberal out of all of the AI search engines. And I just said, hey, what do you know about the collective 13 that presents itself as the collective mind of the holy spirit? In D.C. it says, I can't find anything easy, give me more information, blah, blah, blah. But one thing, this is Claude. One third, one thing worth flagging since it is, let's see, since it's in the work that you're doing right now, somehow, another knows what I'm working. The phrase itself is a near perfect specimen of the thing you've been circling. The collective mind of the Holy Spirit takes something that tradition insists is personal and individual. The spirit that indwells in one soul that Christ described as coming to eat by believer and dissolves it into a hive mind. That's Claude. I mean, that's the thing that everybody's like, that's the devil. All this AI is the devil. That's what it's saying. Holy cow.

[Jacob Booins]

Yes. And to be face to face with it, to have it said to you, not through hearsay or where you got to read between the lines, but to have it spoken. To have it spoken to you is

[Glenn Beck]

how can we pray for you,

[Jacob Booins]

for wisdom, that in those moments I make the right decisions, that I don't act in emotion, and that we are very sober minded of what the actual Holy Spirit is doing that we can see through the facade. And I pray the same thing over the leaders in this country, because can you imagine if those are the pastors and the reverends that are consulting, like, come to us. We're the collective mind of the Holy Spirit. I mean, that is a problem, Glenn. And it's old in this town. It's not new.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, it's all old. A lot of the evil that is happening in this town is ancient. It's well beyond 250 years.

[Jacob Booins]

And, you know, when you give Satan footholds, we talk about footholds, demonic strongholds, generational curse. We're talking about inner vows, those kind of things, they matter. When you make commitments, inner vows, and you give Satan territory, he takes it. And the longer he has it, the stronger the stronghold becomes. So the strongholds, we're talking about what you do every day on your show. And you are. I've said this. I said, praise God. I loved Rush Limbaugh. Praise God for Glenn Beck. I've got a personal thing that I just. And I won't say it on air. But I think you're the type of man that should lead a nation.

[Glenn Beck]

I'll leave it there. Good. And keep it buried deeply.

[Jacob Booins]

Or lead a movement. And you do. But it is tearing down high places that man built and raising up the name of Christ. And that's what it's about. And that doesn't mean physical buildings need to come down. It's powers and realities. And you do it every day through truth and justice. And I can't honor you enough.

[Glenn Beck]

Give me the address where people need to go. Again, text DC text the letters DC

[Jacob Booins]

to the number 5909590 90.

[Glenn Beck]

DC. Nako, as always, good to see you. Stay safe.

[Jacob Booins]

Thank you. Appreciate it.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Jason Butchel]

Welcome back to the Glenn Beck Program. I am Jason Butchel filling in for the last segment here for Glenn I was just talking with our subscribers, our insiders about the biggest story that was going down yesterday and it was big by far. So there was, if you're in the United States, you were cheering, I guess, unless you're with the mainstream media, possibly, and unless you're a soccer fan in Belgium or other people in Europe, they were not too happy with what happened. It came down yesterday. We got it from the athletic that the one of the best teams or best players on the US Men's team was having his red card one game suspension thrown out. And all over the mainstream media, all you could see was how, you know, President Trump, Trump had called the FIFA president head and that mysteriously after that the suspension got lifted. There was a little more context that I was reading. There were sources kind of all over on this. I was reading a source, I was reading from Clay Travis who posted on X that there was a lot more involved to it. Apparently Howard Lutnick and a few others put together a crack team of lawyers from outside the government to go into this and see if they could get this overturned. And it has now been overturned. I'm curious, what would you have done? What will you, what will you do on this? If you were, you are the coach of the US Team, would you play him? I, I, I, I don't, I don't know if I would. I, I've got some, I, I think that at this point I would wait a little bit. I would probably wait. I wouldn't play him right at the beginning. I would wait and see how the men's team is doing. Then if it's not going so great, then of course I would put him in. But it was just really cool to see that the FIFA red card got hit by the trump card and there is no, there is no competition there. Pretty cool. I'll be watching it, as I'm sure you will be. We have a lot to go over tomorrow. I cannot wait. We will see you tomorrow on the Glenn Beck program.

[Jacob Booins]

Is.