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And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work. Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We have a lot to cover today and yes, we're going to cover the politics unfolding in Tennessee today. It's kind of a strange, strange thing. I've never, I've never seen a politician say, I hate everybody that lives here. Vote for me. But that's, that's the new world we're living in now. Also the tremors out of Venezuela. The New York Times is now critiquing the Washington Post. And I can't believe I'm saying this. I think the New York Times actually has this right. They did the better work. They have now five stories saying, yeah, many. Five sources. Sorry, five sources that are now saying, yeah, I don't think that the Pentagon said, hey, they're hanging on by a shred of their life holding on to that rubble of the boats. Kill them. What a surprise. We'll, we'll go through all of the news of the day that is important because it'll affect the world that you live in tomorrow. But none of it means anything unless we understand the deeper currents that are happening. And, you know, everybody can, everybody can give you the news of the day. I want to give you the news that you need for tomorrow. What is over the horizon. I want to talk to you about the debt cycle. That's the mathematical fate that no civilization has ever escaped once it crosses a certain threshold. And we are there. We're not approaching it. We are there. And I'll show you what the rest of the world and what Donald Trump are doing to prepare and what you need to do to prepare your family. Also the collapse of meaning. We have built a world of things and distractions and noise so loud that, I mean, how do you even hear yourself think? And also the truth on history, actual history, because there is a coordinated effort to rewrite history and it is coming from surprising sources. But I want to correct that history and make sure that we understand it. Because we're not only writing the history for the history books today on everything that we're doing every day, but we're also now engaged somehow or another in rewriting what we knew to be true in the past. And it is very, very dangerous. It's not just another program. This is the Glenn Beck program. And we begin in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about American financing. Every family has that number they're afraid to look at. You know, that's the total that you're spending on interest every month. You know it's there. You know it's too high and it's eating away at the money that should be going to your life, not some big banks. 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You know, as I'm looking at today's show and I'm trying to put everything together in a way that is consumable for you, something that will help you, help you understand, give you information that you can't really find anyplace else and put you ahead of the game. So, you know, I've always felt my job is to put you in a situation to where you can be the guide. You're not going to be surprised what happens next because you've already heard it, you've thought about it, you digested it, and when it happens, you can be the person that goes, no, no, no, don't go that way. Come this way. And as I'm looking at, because I'm going to talk a little bit about socialism probably in our number three today and what our kids are thinking about socialism. And in some ways, it's inevitable. Of course they're thinking that, but there's also byproducts of that. There's also what, what led them to socialism is the seeing that nothing has meaning that we built. You know, there is this new attitude that is emerging across our culture. It's quiet, it's unsettled, and it's unmistakable. And it's the realization that the world that we have built, it doesn't build us. You know, it's meaningless. And in this last century, we have mistaken abundance for purpose and we've stacked up skyscrapers and stitched supply chains Together across continents. And we filled warehouses. You know, the size, honestly, have you seen some of the warehouses that Amazon has built? Their size of small nations, it feels like. And they're filled with everything, every object the human heart could possibly desire. And then we stand by and we ask, why is the human heart starving? Because our heart doesn't need any of that crap that's in that Amazon warehouse. We, in the past 100 years, and we're all coming to the same conclusion, I think, at the same time. But it will lead us into different paths. We have taught our children to chase two gods, wealth and fame. Okay? The two most fragile currencies ever created. And we ask our kids, what do you want to be? I've railed on this forever. When you have a young kid, the typical question is, what do you want to be when you grow up? You want to be a doctor, an athlete, an influencer, a billionaire? You could be president. That's the wrong question to ask. Who do you want to be when you grow up? Who do you want to be? What virtues do you want to embody? What kind of strength will you carry? What kind of courage do you hope to live out? We don't teach character, we teach branding, which is empty. Empty. Notice brands don't mean anything anymore. Logos don't mean anything anymore. They're empty. Everybody knows that. We've neglected the soul and instructed them in self promotion. And then we wonder why an entire generation feels unmoored and suicidal, living in a world wired for dopamine, not dignity. Dopamine. But as I said, something remarkable is happening. People are beginning to say, you know, enough. Not with anger, not with pitchforks, hopefully, but with a quiet rediscovery. That meaning doesn't come from what you own, but from what you honor. This Thanksgiving, I sat with my son and we were up till about 2 o' clock in the morning. We had watched planes, trains and automobiles. And then we just sat there and we talked. And he started talking about school and he just can't seem to find his way. And I there's a million kids like this. He's so smart, he's got everything going for him, but he just can't find his thing. And it's hard because his dad knew his thing when he was 8. And I remember when Rafe was 13 years old, he was with a friend. We were in Los Angeles and he was walking behind me with a friend and I was with somebody else. And my friend said to him, as I was told later, so what are you planning on what Are you thinking about doing. What are your goals? And. And my son said, are you kidding me? Thirteen, Are you kidding me? And then he pointed to me and he said, how do you compete with that? My friend told me this, and I was heartbroken. I went to him and I'm like, raf, Rafe, you're not competing with me. I won the lottery. I won the lottery. The odds of my success are impossible. They're impossible. It's not about success, but it's hard to get that lesson to a kid when that's what the world is preaching. Success, success, success. And so we were talking. I said, how are you doing in school? And we were talking, and he said, you know, dad, I'm not like you. I didn't know what I wanted to be when I was 8. I don't know what I want to do. I don't know. I just want to do something that is meaningful to me. And he's putting up all kinds of roadblocks in his life, etc. Etc. And, you know, we all do. And I said, wait a minute, Rafe. Don't make the same mistake I made, because I did know what I want. Because I knew what I want. By the time I was 30, I had pursued it relentlessly, and every time I hit a milestone, it wasn't enough. And by the time I was 30, I was an alcoholic, I was out of control, and I had just destroyed my whole life because I thought I knew. Knew exactly what I wanted. And it was empty when I got there. And I said, now you're destroying yourself because you can't find what you want to do. Maybe, perhaps, and this is just a perhaps. I don't know. Maybe. Perhaps we both got it wrong. That meaning is not found in what we do. Meaning is not found in our success or our failure. Meaning is found elsewhere. Maybe we. I was pursuing it in a way that was destructive, and now you're pursuing in a different direction that is destructive because it's not based on meaning. There is a hunger for the one meaning that we have really tried to find. Whether it's whispered or unspoken, that hunger for the one meaning that we have tried to find, we've also. We. We've erased it. The truth is, we didn't build a world without purpose. We built a world without God. I wanted to. So I wanted to start with. Because we're in the Christmas season, how do we find meaning again? Because we're not going to find it with a revolution. We're not going to find it by burning the world down. By remembering what was buried on the, you know, or left on the floor of Macy' Walmart somewhere between Black Friday and Doorbusters and, you know, aisle five markdowns. We've lost the gift of craftsmanship, the gift of time, the gift of stories, the gift of presence, the gift of gratitude, the gift of wonder, and the gift of God stepping into humanity and saying, you can start all over again. And I hope that as we're waking up to this place where there's no meaning in so many people's lives, that that is what we find. Because that's what this time of year is supposed to remind us. Instead of saying, what should I buy? Maybe we should ask, what lasts? What has real meaning? What will help this person find meaning? What will help me find meaning by giving it to them? Instead of running our fingers over glass glossy packaging, we pick up something with memory attached to it. An heirloom, a handwritten letter, a book that shaped our life. A framed photo of a moment we nearly forgot, that once we remembered, we're like, oh, my gosh, that was so important. Look for gifts that tell your child, I see who you're becoming and I believe in you. A gift that whispers, this is a piece of our story. Carry it forward. A gift that says, I made this and I thought of you while I did it. Maybe the most meaningful thing we can give this year is that conversation like I had with my son by the fire after Thanksgiving. Or an apology that you've been waiting decades to express. Or forgiveness that you never imagine offering. Maybe it's time to teach the meaning behind all of it. The meaning behind the season itself. You know, when my kids were really small, too, and you can make fun of me, mock me, or call me cheap, but my kids, on Christmas, I used to just give them boxes all wrapped up with bows, filled with paper. Because at 2 years old, they didn't know what the gift was. They had no idea. They just like the bows and the wrapping and the unwrapping and the boxes of paper. That was fun for them. That's all they needed. But I think in some ways, that's what we're giving each other. Even though we've put something in that box, that's what we've turned this holiday into. We keep the bows, we keep the paper, we keep the boxes. But we've taken the real meaning, the baby Jesus, out of the picture. So we've removed the reason for the box and the wrapping. And so when we're done, we're left with empty boxes. Empty gifts, empty hearts. And we're like, I was kind of empty. Meaning is still here. It's always been here. We move. It doesn't. It's not found in tearing down the world. It's found in rebuilding the smallest, most sacred corner of it. The home, the table, the family circle. The individual, the friend, the family member that is lost. As we talk today about what we have to do to rebuild our world, let's start with rebuilding the meaning. The same way that every civilization has one virtue at a time, one tradition at a time, one generation at a time. If you're going shopping, don't look for the gifts that flash. Give the gift that will endure. Give the gift that will outlive you. Give the gift that remind your children not what they should be, but who they're meant to become. Give them the gift that began this season in the first place. The reminder that God himself stepped into the world and handed humanity the one gift that we can never outgrow, we can never out use. It should never lay dusty because I need it every single day. And that is forgiveness. Because forgiveness inside of that gift is hope. Back in a minute. First, let me tell you about Relief Factor. There is a moment most people with chronic pain know all too well. And it's that second, right? You know when you wake up before your body reminds you what hurts. For that split second, everything feels normal. And then you move and the stiff stiffness and the aches and the pains and everything else, you're like gaga. Your day starts with the agony that you didn't ask for. If that's your reality, Relief factor may be exactly what you need. Relief factor has been built for that kind of pain. It doesn't grab the headlines, you know, but it. But it doesn't. It controls your life. That daily persistent inflammation that makes simple things feel so difficult. It's a daily support formula created to help your body work, reduce that inflammation naturally so you can get back to moving and working and living without feeling like you're fighting your own joints. When your pain eases, your mood changes. You take the stairs without thinking about it. You say yes to the things used to turn down. It's not about turning you into somebody new. It's about giving your life back to you. Give the three week quick start a try. It's 1995. Visit relieffactor.com or call 800-4 relief. That's 1-800-the-4 relief relieffactor.com Take a quick sec. 10 second break. All righty. Welcome to it by the way as I'm talking about buying gifts with meaning. Let me just, let me just schlep some crap your way here from the Glenn Beck website, glennbeck.com if you're looking for gifts that actually, you know, kind of mean something, head on over to glenn beck.com check out the full line of Glenn Beck show tees, the hats, the brand new no King But Christ collection. You know, we have it. From clothing to mugs to, you know, actual wrapping paper with the no King but Christ logo on it. Every piece quietly but firmly declares, I know who I serve. Go to glenn beck.com glenn beck.com right now. Also today is Tuesday, December 2nd. It is giving Tuesday. This is the day of the largest single global generosity for the entire year. And Mercury One has a goal of $300,000 to raise today for a maximum impact fund. Because of this. When there is a crisis, if there's a tornado, and literally there has been a tornado that has hit, I think we're in Oklahoma and I'm in Dallas and a tornado hit like at 6 o'. Clock. We were on the road by maybe 10 and we were in Oklahoma by 4 o' clock the next morning with the trucks doling supplies out for people who had been hit. That happens because of our maximum impact fund. It gives us the funds to have before I have to go on the air and raise them. So if you, if you would like to help us, please, your tax deductible donation, Giving Tuesday. Just go to mercury1.org today. Mercury1.org let's say hello to Stu. Hi, Stu.
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Hey Glenn. If so if we have Giving Tuesday, do we move Taco Tuesday to Wednesday? How does that work exactly?
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Taco Tuesday becomes Wednesday.
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Okay, that's good.
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Wednesday, Hump Day Wednesday becomes hump Day Thursday and Thursday has never had any meaning anyway. So it does not definitely.
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I will say we've started to pile up.
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Thursday is just always the day. Yeah, Thursday is just the day that you go, oh crap, I thought it was Friday. You know, and there's no name for that.
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I also think a sane, a society that had the right thing, like the right things in mind in the right preference order would probably put giving Black Friday might be giving for Friday because you spent all your money on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you have nothing left on Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is like the change in the bottom of your bag that you throw it. The person with the bell outside of a store.
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But isn't that amazing, by the way? The, the guy with the bell outside of the store, that's over. I both know that is over. Yeah. Oh, that's just a matter of time before that Santa, you know, they stopped dressing up as Santa now. Now they're just some like, disgruntled guy who's like, can you, I mean, can somebody just at least look at me, right? At least look at me when you walk by.
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We won't even give you a glance, let alone money. A lot of times.
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No, no, look the other way. Look the other way. The guy with the bell is there. Anyway, Giving Tuesday. It is amazing that this is the largest day of giving in the year. And you know, it's all because of the Internet. Go to mercury1.org mercury1.org okay, we're gonna go to Tennessee in one of the weirdest political races I think I've seen. We go there next. This is Glenn Beck. If the meat in the meal isn't good, nothing else on the table matters. That's why I love Good Ranchers. They take all of the guesswork out of the holiday cooking because everything they ship is 100% American meat from farms and ranches that you can trust. Whether it's their steaks, chicken or seafood. It arrives frozen at peak freshness and cooks like something you'd expect at a high end restaurant. The meat is not imported disguised with deceptive little packaging like the little American flag on it. It's just really good meat from America. And during the holidays when you've got family coming over and the pressure is on Good Ranchers makes you look like you know exactly what you're doing. People think you spent hours tracking down premium cuts. You didn't. You just ordered from the one company that refuses to cut corners. So this year, don't just give another holiday gift. Give a reason to gather. It's goodranchers.com to start gifting. And while you're there, you can gift and treat yourself as well. Subscribe and use my code beck. You'll save $40 off. I'm sorry. Yeah, $40 off your first order and free meat for life. Once again, goodranchers.com $40 off plus free meat for life. With the promo code beck good ranchers.com let's get back to the American table.
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All right. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Well, it's an interesting day in Tennessee. There is an election going on today in Tennessee and it's kind of an important one because this is a, this is a district that, you know, went to Trump by 22 points and the Democrats are not spending as much money as the Republicans are, which kind of tells you something. We better not lose this one, Stu.
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Yeah, welcome. It's an interesting one, Glenn. It's the seventh Congressional district in Tennessee and it is a race, as you point out, that should be very, very friendly to Republicans. This should not be one that they have to worry about. As you noted, 22 point margin for Donald Trump in 2024. And this, this race is because of a representative who stepped down and took a job in the private sector. So right off the bat, the important part of right now is the fact that the Republicans already have a very small majority in the House. They came in with a historically small majority. So losing any representatives is a big deal. They've had to deal with a few months of this going on and now they have to defend this seat. The two in the race, Matt Van Epps is the Republican. He is. You never know. In one of these cases when you have a bright red district, sometimes you get a candidate that's not very good. Sometimes you get a candidate where you get kind of like a crazy person who wins the primary. Does not seem to be the case here at all. Matt Van Epps is a West Point graduate. He is a decorated helicopter pilot. He is seemingly a fiscal conservative. Does not seem to be some crazy person with lots of wild tweets or anything like that. He seems to be a crazy.
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Hasn't been on an island Epstein or other.
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I don't think so. He's avoided all pedophile islands, which is great. You really want. Even peninsulas. He doesn't even go anywhere that has the word pedophile on it. He's been, he has stayed away from it, which is.
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Yeah, that's great.
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You know, and that would be the type of risk that you might have in a situation like this where you have a fringy type candidate. He does not seem to be that. And also when you look at the Republican side of the aisle, sometimes you get a candidate who's like super Trumpy and maybe the old school conservatives aren't on board with it. Or you get an anti Trump Republican that runs and Trump won't endorse.
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MAGA's not.
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Yeah, it doesn't seem to either of those have happened. Like this is a guy who the Club for Growth seems to like and Trump has endorsed and rallied for. So. So you have. They didn't blow this. They didn't go in this with like, okay, we're remarkable, super confident. Seems to have handled this relatively competently. The other thing, and you kind of noted it a little bit of this, which is interesting, is they saw this coming, they were worried about this from the beginning and decided to actually spend money on this race. Which sometimes again can be a problem with.
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It doesn't happen.
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They sometimes are like, oh, we got this 22 points. We don't need to do anything. Democrats comes in, spends tons of money and the Republican loses. Somehow that didn't happen here. The Republicans have spent, I think over $3 million. The Democrats spent about 2. So again, they've both been spending. This is an important race. But Republicans actually came in and spent.
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Some cash in this race because if the Democrat wins, it's a one point.
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Majority, one or two, there's a bunch of seats in flux. It's very, very close, let's put it that way. You can't lose seats right now to the extent of like, like the House majority. It's not completely out of the question. They could lose this before 2026. Right.
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Oh my gosh.
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With a couple of weird moments happening with again, most of these Congressmen are over 96 years old, so you never know what's going to happen. Retirements. A lot of these people in purple districts are looking at 2026 and saying, I'm not gonna win. So maybe I just bail now and take a private sector job. I don't think they will lose the majority because of that. But it is an outlier possibility in this case. So you look at this race and the other part about this is, do the Democrats pull a candidate who's great? Every once in a while you get this person who's maybe a military member on the Democratic side who's really smooth talker and can talk to the average person even though they're a Democrat and they don't sound like a lunatic, like.
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A Tulsi Gabbard that the Democrats would actually like.
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Right, right. Someone who they didn't eject out of the party immediately when they started making sense.
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Right. So there's fewer and fewer of them, but they, they might still exist somewhere. Right. You know, I'm not entirely sure that unicorns don't exist. So it might happen.
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It could have got it. Did they pull a unicorn? And the answer to that does seem to be a flat no. What they pulled was an aftage Bain, which is this is a candidate running who is seemingly more on like the kind of AOC side of The Democratic Party. Not someone who's going to relate to the average person. Now, she's had a couple of moments, made some news as this race has gone on, and she. This is. Let me give you cut three. First, this is a 2020 podcast clip of one of her podcast clips of her that's been resurfaced during this campaign, talking about the area she actually would be representing.
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Because I hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music. I hate all of the things that make Nashville, apparently. So, again, suboptimal, you'd prefer kind of a hard thing. You know, it's kind of like saying I want to represent the part of the district you know of, of Orlando where Walt Disney World is. But I hate Disney.
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I hate talking mice. I don't like ducks without pants on.
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Generally speaking. I mean, I can understand, you know, you're. I don't like Vegas, but Vegas likes Vegas. You know, the state likes Vegas. It's really an important thing. I mean, if you have, if you happen to have a store or country music and the stores and the honky tonks and all of that stuff, that's what makes Nashville a destination.
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Right. And that's the thing you want to.
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Get rid of that you're going to not do good things for the economy.
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I mean, Glenn, you and I both know people who live and work in Nashville. It's not an uncommon sentiment for people to be frustrated about the bachelorette parties and the pedal taverns and the, the things that go on downtown. It's a what? It's Nash Vegas. Right. Like, it is wild.
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Yes.
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And it can be that way. And if you're a resident, there is some of that that is somewhat common to the area.
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Yes.
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Though saying that you hate the city when you're trying to represent the city, not necessarily optimal. I'd say it's suboptimal.
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Right.
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And also, as you point out, it is a. It's. It's the economy. Right. Like this is a. You know it is. If you hate that and you're fighting against it, it. You're fighting against thousands and thousands of jobs, you're fighting against millions of dollars that are coming in. That's not a great look. Even if you believe it. It's the type of thing that a consultant would correctly advise you not to publicly say if you're running for office in today's world.
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That might be the exact right thing to say. It might be the things that consultants say. Don't ever say that.
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Yeah, I think in this case, I would shy away from saying, you hate the city. The other part of this is we saw much, much, much worse out of Zoran Mamdani. And he won, but he won a, you know, a Democrat plus 20 type of city.
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Right.
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This is a Republican plus 20 type of district. So it's, you know, probably not the approach you want to take. There is another one that is going on. You know, again, she's trying. She's very much a progressive, but of course, trying to message herself as someone who can work across party lines, because that's what you need to do as a Democrat to win in a Republican plus 22 district. And that just means that Republicans will win by 20 points, typically in a typical cycle. Here is a 2023 political forum with Afton Bain talking about her ability to work across the aisle.
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You cannot work with these people. Working across the aisle has had rarely been effective in the last 10 years. Okay, so what we need to do is one, we need to continue organizing external pressure to the Republican supermajority, which is exactly what happened in April when students and teachers came together and voiced their frustration and forced Governor Lee to call a special session.
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So, again, okay, suboptimal, probably, if you're trying to present yourself that way, which is what she's tried to do to. She's tried to present herself. You know, her messaging and ads is like affordability. And can you believe these Republicans won't release the Epstein files? And it's like your party had control of everything for four years and didn't do this. You are aware of that, right? But of course, none of that.
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And you notice as soon as they were released how the Democrats just went completely silent like Epstein files. No, there was nothing in there. What are you talking about?
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It's a bizarre thing.
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So stupid.
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It polls well, though, right? People do want the Epstein files out, and that kind of goes across party lines. So all this set up to basically say the Republicans didn't seemingly blow this with any of their big decisions. The Democrats didn't pick, you know, some generational talent to come in to this race. And this is a race where you'd say in normal times, maybe the Republicans win by 20 points. The polling has not showed that. And nobody expects the Republicans to win this race by 20 points. That's kind of the bad news. A lot of the polling leading. And it's a special election to give you a quick outlier on that or a quick explainer on that. These races are weird, right? It is December it's not an election day. No one knows what the turnout's gonna look like. It is a very strange off year, special election. Anything can happen in these and there's not a lot of polling to tell us what is going to happen.
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Yeah, and the really bad thing about this is, you know, you live in a place like this, it'll happen. And you just, you're so busy with everything else, you just don't even realize, oh, that was, that was yesterday. I was gonna vote.
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We were talking about this, we talked about this yesterday in the meeting before the show. And we were like, oh yeah, hey, that Tennessee election's going on. I was like, oh yeah, geez. Like that's the one with the crazy lady. Like it was like, it's so out, it's out of our minds. We just came off of Thanksgiving weekend. I have no idea what the turnout's gonna be on this. And that is a real concern.
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And the one Republicans, right, the ones that are the ones that win are the ones that can turn their base out. And if you have a Democratic socialist, if you have somebody who can take these guys down and hold them back, you're gonna get your people out. They'll be motivated because they'll know it won't take a lot of us to throw this election.
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If you identify as.
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I'm just hoping that the Democrat or the Republicans in Nashville understand what they're up against today.
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It's a great point. I mean, if you're a Democratic socialist and you live in this, there's no way you're not showing up. You're motivated, you're gonna be there. The question is, are the Republicans, the typical people who think they're gonna win this race, going to be there? The polling is showing.
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My guess is no. Well, I think that's a huge, certainly 22 points. You're like, ah, it'll be fine.
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Every indicator that we have, and I will say there's not a lot of those indicators because it's lightly polled and it's a weird time. But every indicator we have shows that some of those people that would typically come out and vote for Don Donald Trump in a presidential election or a senator in Tennessee are not going to show up for this election. Like every indicator we have, the polling leading up in a couple months leading up to this showed typically Van Epps, the Republican with a high single digits lead. So not a 22 point lead which you might expect, but more like eight or nine. Now that's still a victory and it's not Going to change the balance of the House and everything else else.
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If they show up, if they show.
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Up, here's the bigger worry and this is where you get really scared. The last poll, the only one that we have that's very recent in the last few days, came out from Emerson and Emerson's a pretty good pollster, did well on Trump. They have this race as a two point race. Two, the Republicans still winning, but a two point race. So if you happen to be in this district, if you know somebody who's in this district, you have someone who you know is like, I think I would vote for the Republican, but we're gonna win anyway. I'm not gonna worry about it. Might be worth a phone call today. Because if that poll is right and you know, I don't know that it is, but if it's that, if it's that close, this is a massively dangerous and I, and to be clear, to say this in advance so I can't.
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Take it back later would be completely.
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Catastrophic for Republicans if they lost this race. It is. It's a special election, so there's asterisks around it. But the idea of what this points to in 2026 is not positive if this is a two point race or somehow the Republicans lose.
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All right, thank you for stopping by, Mr. Sunshine, with that bit of news. Unfortunately, he's exactly right. If you know somebody in Tennessee and Nashville who's in this district, they've got to go out and vote today. They have to because the other side is motivated and we are most likely complacent on it. Let me tell you about Z Factor. Holidays are a beautiful time of the year, but they are not a quiet time of the year. You've got travel, we've got family staying over, late night events, early morning plans, a to do list that somehow just keeps growing no matter how much you cross off it. Just how is this growing? The first thing that always seems to disappear this time of year is sleep. Z Factor is a sleep supplement from the makers of Relief Factor, designed to help your body wind down naturally so you can actually rest, not just collapse into bed and hope for the best. You know, if your brain is running a marathon at night, you're going to wake up feeling like you never slept. You're, you know, you're just staring at the ceiling all night thinking about all the things you have to do tomorrow. This is not good. Z Factor is for you. It'll help you relax, fall asleep faster and wake up feeling like you actually are rested. With the holidays in full swing, getting good rest can make all the difference in the world. World first time Z Factor buyers are going to enjoy 46% savings. Just $19.95 for a 30 day supply. Visit relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief. That's 800, the number four relief. Teach your kids right. Shoot. You know schools won't do it for you. This is Glenn, Becky.
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There is a great story in the Federalists, also the Wall Street Journal about how the average person cannot keep up with the persistent inflation. What does this mean? And what does this mean to the Republicans? And more importantly, what does it mean to the Republic and you? We've just crossed a Rubicon, if you will, a place we're very close to getting off of the bridge onto the other side where you cannot undo what has been done. We're very close to that. And I want to take you through the cycles of debt. There is a cycle of debt and it has happened over and over again in history several different times. So we know exactly how it happened, what comes next, and we can chart where we are. There are five different parts, phases in this cycle of debt and I'll show you what they are historically and then where we are. And then I, I want to show you what's being done because, well, you'll understand. And then what do you do? We'll do that this hour. Stand by. 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Dutch Republic did the same thing. They invented modern finance while keeping spending in check, turning a swamp into the world's largest trading hub. Then the British Empire did it after the glorious revolution. It brought fiscal stability and a gold backed pound that the world trusted for over 200 years. When that fell, America did it after World War II. Our debts were manageable, our currency was solid, we were backed by gold. Our productivity was unmatched, attached, and we prospered. That stage one, discipline into prosperity. And prosperity, if not guarded, always leads to the second stage, complacency into excess. Okay, so success creates this fatal illusion. The moment you know that where we all look at each other and go like this is great. It's going to be like this forever. It's always been like this and it'll always be like that. That Rome began borrowing heavily to pay for endless bread and circuses. France funded the palaces and the pensions and the perpetual wars through loans it could never repay. Britain in the late 19th century took its global empire for granted and levered, levered itself into World War I. Then came World War II. And then America, beginning in the 1970s, untethered from. Untethered the dollar from gold and discovered that debt could replace discipline. So the second stage of the debt cycle is the age of entitlement expansion. Imperial overreach, cheap credit, and political bribery disguised as compassion. Any of that sound like we've been there, done that? The Dutch called it Wynnhandel, the trade in the wind. Paper promises that replace real production. We call it stimulus. Easy money, deficit spending. Different words, same exact sin. That leads you into stage three, financialization that goes into fragility. This is the most seductive stage. Rome debased its money until it was worth Less than 2% of the original silver. The Byzantines watered down their unshakable dollar, if you will, and confidence collapsed. France printed their money backed by land until they were worth less and used as wallpaper. Weimar Germany did the same thing. They destroyed a thousand years of savings in 18 months. Japan, 1990, papered over its real estate collapse with 30 years of zero interest rates. And America after 2008 discovered this intoxicating illusion started by George W. Bush. I can violate the free market system to save the free market system. That's quantitative easing. Money conjured up without Cost without any restraint, without any consequence. In stage three, nations convince themselves they're immune to any kind of gravity. Okay, this time it's different. We can manage this debt while modern tools. You just don't understand that, that they'll, you know, the rules no longer apply. You don't understand, really don't understand. The old rules always apply because math is math. And stage three always ends exactly the same way. Wherever it's tried, the markets no longer trust the promises they're being fed. Which leads us into stage four, the breaking point. Every empire eventually reaches a moment where its debts cannot be serviced. They can't be inflated away quietly. They can't be rolled over without consequence. Rome reached it when they froze prices and shattered the last productive parts of its economy. France reached it in 1788 when it can no longer borrow. And that whole thing, you know, came to a head. Britain reached it in 1931 when it abandoned the gold standard. Weimar reached it when inflation ate the soul of the nation and extremism took over. Japan reached it when its bond market effectively became nationalized, propped up by its own central bank. And right now, America, Europe, China, Japan and every other major power listen to this carefully. Have all hit stage four at the same time. Never before in human history has this happened. The bond markets are shaking, the currencies are all volatile. Politicians are praying that no one notices the numbers, you know, that they no longer add up. Stage four is not coming. We are now living inside the opening act. This is so important. Yesterday there was a story that said. Said that this is going to be the biggest Christmas season ever. And I'm wondering to myself, I see the prices. I go to McDonald's, I go to the grocery store. I was in Walmart this weekend. I see the prices and I'm looking at the prices, and every time I see the prices, I'm like, how do the. How does the average person afford any of this? And yet we're spending, spending, spending, and I don't understand it. And I fear that we are doing what the government is doing. We're just spending because we can. We think we can get out of it. Then comes stage five. It's called the reset. Every debt system ends in one of three ways. They inflate the money so they can pay off the debt. And that's just an absolute wipeout. Weimar Republic did it, France did it, Rome did it. Just a wipeout out. Then there's a hard default and political upheaval. Russia did that in 1917. Argentina did it over and over again. War leading to a new monetary order. That's another one. The Neopolitan, the, the Napoleonic wars, the British gold Standard, World War II, Bretton woods, all of that. But there is always a reset, always a new order that is born from the ashes of the old. And here's what makes this moment unprecedented. Rome collapsed by itself. France collapsed alone. Weimar collapsed by itself. Britain declined, while America rose. It was always one country coming down and another country coming up. This time, all countries, all countries on both sides. The free world and the not so free world, there's no one rising. China is drowning in its local government debt. It's never going to say this, but it is a paper. It's a paper tiger. Europe is fractured and coming apart at the seams. Japan, democratic time bomb. America is politically frozen and insolvent fiscally. So for the very first time in world history, every major civilization has reached its peak of the debt cycle. This time, all at the same moment, no one's coming up. So what does that mean? Well, for the very first time in human history, it means when it arrives, it's not going to be regional, it will be global. It's not going to be slow, it'll be systemic. It'll be everywhere. Now, the hope the history books don't tell and nobody in the media will tell you. This is with every one of those resets, every collapse, every crisis, it created the conditions for renewal. Rome, its fall opened the door for a new Christian civilization. France, the revolution there birthed the modern nation state. Britain's decline cleared space for America's rise. The devastation of World War II led to the great expansion of prosperity, the greatest that the world has ever seen. So the next chapter is not written. What happens to us is not written. And whether we rise or fall from what's coming depends not on Washington, not on Wall street, but on us in our homes and our families and our churches and our communities. The debt cycle is not prophecy. It is a warning. You cannot borrow your way out of moral, fiscal or spiritual bankruptcy. Now, I don't feel like I chose this path. I mean, this, this with Bretton woods and then 1972 coming off the gold standard and what they did in 2008 to bail out all the banks. I didn't have anything to say. Did you have anything to say about that? Because I didn't. I didn't. I wouldn't have chosen those things. But the world is putting something together and I want to show you what our choices are. Because right now people say, ah, you know, I Don't like what Donald Trump is doing or I don't like the World Economic Forum or I don't like what China. Okay, great. But I want you to know it's going to be one of these systems because it's being built. It always happens when one is coming down, some new system, usually a country, but not a country this time. A new system begins to rise and it happens before the fall. So I've been telling you for a long time about the World Economic Forum, but there are others that are rising and I want to show those to you because you need to understand what tomorrow may look like and then choose carefully which one you want. Personally, I don't like any of them, but one of them is definitely better than the others. I'll go there here in just a second. Standby. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's the burner launcher. This Christmas you want to give somebody a gift that will truly protect them. Take a look at the Burner compact launcher. 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Because there's architecture that is being built by in several different ways. Let me start with what Trump is doing. Trump is trying to rebuild the national engine, okay? Whatever you think about Donald Trump, he represents a counter movement to the system that, you know, has dominated the west since the 1990s. Reindustrialization. He's the first president to do it, and now he's accelerating it. And the idea is really simple. A nation cannot lead if a nation cannot build. We exported everything. So he's trying to bring everything back. Every major power shift in history from Rome and their roads to Britain's steel to America's assembly line, it was won by nations that could make things. So he's trying to get us to a point to where we can make things again. This is long term strategy. Strategy, then a strategic decoupling from China. Not isolation, but selective retreat in gradual stages. Okay? Every reset in history involves the great powers pulling supply chains back behind their borders to prepare for instability. That's what he's trying to do, then return us to a commodities based leverage. Right now, our dollar is not backed by anything. Anything. Our country is not backed by anything because we don't produce anything. And we were getting off of oil and gas and everything else. So he's trying to get us back onto commodities. Oil, gas, you know, rare earth minerals, industrial capacity. This is the quiet beginning of a new, if you will, Bretton woods, but with energy, not gold, as the centerpiece. That's why we weren't at cop 30. He's also moving towards a multi tiered dollar system. $1 for domestic use, another hard dollar for international trade and commodities. This is how Britain survived its resets. This is how America, he hopes, and I hope, will survive our own collapse. If we succeed, the next system will be nationalist leaning, commodity anchored, productivity based revival. This is what he's hoping on, is that AI, robotics, all of this stuff, energy, it will all be done here in America. And that will grow our GDP by, instead of like by 2 or 3% by 20% a year. Okay. But this is only one faction in a global struggle because Europe and China and the World Economic Forum have very different visions. And I want to share this these with you because they're really important. What Europe is doing is absolutely terrifying to me. They are making a technocratic fortress. They have the same debt cycle we have and China has and everybody else. But their answer is not decentralization. It's consolidation. Look at what they're building. They're building a digital identity system. A centralized continent wide digital passport controlling access to all your finances, health care, digital services. They are putting together programmable CBDCs. The European Central bank is openly discussing money that can expire or be restricted or directed towards approved spending. Okay. Roman emperors tried price controls. It doesn't work. That's, that's what Europe is doing. Except digital ones. They also are putting in net zero enforcement mechanisms, not incentives mandates control carbon quotas, digital tracking, cross border card carbon tariffs. Tariffs. This is not environmental policy. This is the blueprint for a new managed society. From the top down. It is a terrifying thing. The consolidation of military and industrial policy. Europe sees war on the horizon and their solution is a super state that can act without the veto of individual nations. They desire a future that is tightly integrated and centrally administered. Block they'll act as one and the people be damned. Okay, that one's a little terrifying. No, thank you. Now China is doing something entirely different. Their vision is ancient and modern. They're reviving the imperial tribute system. Except they're doing it with ports and railways and fiber optics and mineral rights. Instead of vassal states. They're closer to what we're kind of trying to do. The belt. And road is not infrastructure. It's a 21st century version of Roman roads or the British telegraph lines that were installed. They're putting together a skeleton. A future geopolitical. Geopolitical sphere. They're, they're spreading out. They're putting a dual currency system in there. It's going to have really internal control. A hard commodity backed by digital one for international trade. Trade. This is what they, they did long long time ago. And then state directed industrial dominance. What, what they're doing is building a fascistic society. And it too will be a, a controlled state. One other is left. I'll tell you about that and what to do about it next. First let me tell you about our sponsor. It's rough greens. 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And I took you through what everybody is building, I let me just take you through quickly the other, the other possibility that because structure is always built in these cycles, they've happened several times over in history. When an empire falls, the debt cycle starts in and it always ends the same way and then it always falls into some rising power and there is no nation state. That's why all of these things are global in nature. Because the World Economic Forum and the global NGOs, they're the other ones and they, they also have a post national vision. This one doesn't have any borders, this doesn't have any elections, but enormous influence over the elites. And the, the vision that is coming from the World Economic Forum is administrative world, not nations, but stakeholder regions, not citizens, but global participants. It's a. I mean, it's a continuation, a soft continuation of the medieval church model, you know, where this transnational authority comes above all local sovereignty and certainly above yours. And money is tied to behavior. ESG scores and carbon budgets and social impact credits and all of that. And so freedom is curtailed and it's all controlled by a group of elites. So those are the systems. When you say, I don't like this, well, which one do you like? Because those are the only systems being built right now. And that's why I am a supporter on what Donald Trump is trying to do. And, you know, Elon Musk just came out and he said AI and robotics are the only way to solve the $38 trillion in the US debt crisis prices. He is right. What that is looking for is something new that we can own that will make our economy grow tenfold because we need all of that extra tax revenue to pay down the debt. And if we don't do that, then we get into all kinds of problems with the debt that you don't even want to think about. Really bad. So that's why Trump is pushing for all of this. But if you lose the House and the Senate or he doesn't. Doesn't get enough of this electricity, these new electricity plants built, by the time he gets out of office, it's going to be too late. We have to, we have to step up. He has to step up the pace of, of building this, these electricity plants that we have. Because unfortunately, the problem will be if AI is real, AI will take the energy first and it will take it over the people, it'll take it over you, and you will be cold and you will be in the dark, and those power plants will be making all that energy for AI and that's just the way it will be. So that can't happen. All right, so what do you do to prepare? Because I know Stu's very excited. He's like, well, this is happy news.
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Yeah. I mean, it's exactly what I was looking into for the holiday season.
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Season.
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This is what I wanted. Right. Self pumped up for Christmas.
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Right. So do we have.
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Can I, Can I ask Drill down to a couple things here?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Time for this. So, yeah. Okay, so we go through this period where. And I agree with you, I don't know what the. How we're turning around a debt issue that no one seems to be even interested in turning around, honestly. At least, at least as far as the way we would normally talk about it as far as restraining spending, that doesn't even seem to be an option anymore. So throwing that out the window for a moment. If you have the typical ways this ends, the inflation, the default or war, and we want to avoid those. You talked about Trump having another idea, which is this sort of nationalist, production related boom that might be able to shield us from the downturn.
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Correct.
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Understand that correctly.
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Europe is going. Europe is going no nation state. WEF is going no nation state. China is going nationalist and the United States is going nationalist saying, no, there's going to be somebody that is going to, you know, be free and a nation state. China wants to take over the whole world. The United States would just like to serve the whole world, if you will, but not control the whole world. You'll see him, you know, retracting from all of these wars and everything else and saying, look, you got to run yourself. But we're going to be a strong nation. We're the only ones doing that.
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And some of that has a real historical basis in this country. Right. Like that was what we did for a long time.
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Yes.
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The one piece of fuel you mentioned that would actually lead to a potentially successful execution of that plan, which is not easy to do. Right. Is AI. And you're talking about how Trump has really embraced AI and how he has been able to dive in there and really try to encourage that, that industry and blow it up. We need to win that war is essentially his argument. So how do you square that with. I think at least my reading of the base, which is they don't really seem to want that.
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They don't seem to.
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It's unlike the old school Republican base that would say new technology, let's get on board. The MAGA base, to me strikes me as something different and I see a lot of resistance. Do you see that same resistance? And how do they, how does he walk that line?
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Yeah, well, he's not walking it well right now, unfortunately. He's not, he's not good at selling it. He needs to sell it. He is in his mind. He's talked to the experts. So he knows and this is just the way to get us out. And he is right. It may be the only way to get us out. However. However, he's not addressing the things that his base that I'm concerned about. I don't want to be controlled by an algorithm. I don't want super intelligence. I don't want the world to be controlled by all of this. I don't want to be monitored all the time. However, you don't that, that doesn't necessarily go with it. If you design it with that in mind. If you design saying no, you're not going to be, be bigger than humans. You're not going to. Humans are first. And you are never going to be human. You don't have a soul. They do. That's what makes them special. And you must serve human. If you do that, then I think a lot of the concerns go away, with an exception of jobs. But that's why I started today's show with Find meaning even just in the holiday, because jobs are going to change. And you know, here's, here's, here's part of the solution goes to this. And I know this isn't sexy, but is absolutely true. Forget about college. There are some that need to go to college. There are many that don't need to go to college. If you need something that has a degree and you must have a degree degree, brain surgery, got to have a degree. Teaching, got to have a degree. You want to do things like that, good, go to go get a degree. But you know what? You will be wealthier, more stable. You will have the nicest house in the neighborhood. If you go to a trade school and you become a plumber or an electrician. And I know it's not sexy because why? Because we've made those jobs ugly for 100 years. They're not ugly jobs. They're absolutely necessary. And those jobs aren't going anywhere. Being a welder, you build something, you repair something. You know how, you know how to, you know, comfort people and help them in first aid. Those, those jobs are really important small business skills. Being able to connect with neighbors. Those things have real value. You and nobody is talking about that. Nobody is growing those things. We have to strengthen our human relationships because when this thing comes down, it's not going to come down and it's not going to be beautiful and wonderful and smooth. It's going to be bumpy. Very, very bumpy. And you need to be prepared, but you can't prepare by yourself. You know, when Argentina collapsed in 2001, the neighborhood became the lifeline line. When the Great Depression happened, it was the civic groups and the churches that kept families alive. It's the local units that keep everything alive. You need to be as local as possible. Strengthen your family, strengthen your, your local community as much as possible, Strengthen your relationships with that and then learn how to have a skill that is actually worth something. Because the first thing that happens in this thing is paper burns first, paper burns first stocks. I mean, look at 1929. If you haven't read the book 1929, you should. It's really, really good. But you'll. You'll see the patterns. Stocks go first, bonds lose their value, pensions, they become means tested. Currencies are devalued. So what do you have left? Because all that's paper, all of that. Well, I'm not telling you to dump everything, but I am saying that diversity is security, savings, hard assets, some sort of reserve. But I gotta tell you, useful property if you can, productive property if you can. If you can grow some food for yourself, that's worth a fortune. Do you even know how to grow food? I don't think I could grow food to save my life. Life. Fortunately, I moved to a town surrounded by farmers where I know a bunch of people that can grow food. And I got a lot of seed or whatever else you need. Um, gold is going up through the roof. Silver is going through the roof. And I'm not saying that that's what you put everything in. I'm saying you have insurance. And insurance only looks crazy before the accident. Once the accident happens and everybody's like, you were a genius. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had insurance. I saw that this might happen, and so I prepared for it. This is going to happen. But the biggest thing to prepare for is the one that I think nobody sees coming. And we're already in it. You're already seeing it, but you're not tying it together. And that is. This is the part that most people miss. When the system fails, when it breaks, every historic precedent says exactly the same thing that elites will do exactly the same thing. They reach for the scapegoat. And that scapegoat is capitalism. They did it in Weimar, they did it in 1929, they did it in 2008, and they will absolutely do it again. And your kids have already begin tishin for this. So you know what's coming is not a failure of capitalism. It is the failure of abandoning capitalism. Because capitalism requires sound money. Money, honest accounting. People, when they do wrong, they pay for it. They go to jail if they break the law, risk, they're allowed to fail. Balanced budgets, you know, a market discipline, price discovery, real competition. We haven't had any of that for 40 years. Instead, we've had money printing, We've had bailouts for the politically connected. We've had artificially low interest rates, government engineered bubbles, forced lending. The government, like you have to loan them money so they can buy a house, crony industries, Debt built on debt, built on debt, on debt. I mean, that's not capitalism. That is managed decline dressed up as prosperity. Capitalism did not do this. Politicians did this. Central banks did this. Bureaucrats did this. All the people that will be in charge of what, a new socialist system. Every time they suspended the rules to save us, they guaranteed a larger crisis later. And so now we're, now we're hitting the money bubble. And blaming capitalism for the sins of the central planners is ridiculous. It's, I mean, it's historically illiterate. The last thing you have to prepare spiritually and morally because everything stands on that. When the system craps, cracks and it craps out, the thing that matters is not ammunition or canned goods or gold. It's moral clarity, the sense of right and wrong, the ability to remain human when everything else is shaking. Every collapse in history has produced two kinds of people and only two. Those who become predators and those who rebuilt the civilization. Preppers being prepared. Preparation is not just physical, it is spiritual. It's choosing right now what kind of person you're going to be on the other side of the storm. That's it. You can't stop this cycle from completing. It's there. It's a wheel that's been set in motion long before any of us were born. But what we can do is what every successful civilization did during the reset, and that is strengthen your family, anchor your values, build local resilience, reject the lie that freedom failed and be ready to build when the old order finally gives away. Rebuild with all of those moral tools that you have. Because the truth is this. We are not preparing America, America for the end of America. We're preparing for the end of a system that lost its discipline, its humility and its honesty, its truth. The nation, the real America, can rise stronger on the other side, but only if people begin to prepare now. Because it is coming. Our sponsor this half hour is the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Right now in Israel, the there are thousands of Jewish families who are still living in the long shadows of war. Homes that have been destroyed, communities shattered, loved ones missing, and people trying to rebuild their lives while carrying the trauma that they never asked for. It's a reality most of us never see, but it's the reality they wake up with every single day. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground now, meeting those in need the way that is real and immediate life giving emergency food and and and shelter. Please. I want you to go to ifcj.org ifcj.org and support. If you can just make a donation right now and lift people up. Step in and help people at 888-488-IFCJ 888-488 ifcj or glennforthefellowship.org a wise man once said, trust in God and always keep watch on the gate. I don't know about you, but that sounds like a solid plan to me. This is Glenn Beck. Hey, Ryan Reynolds here wishing you a.
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This week I'm going to be helping raise money. I'll be speaking at Prageru and the American Journey fundraiser today and tomorrow at Mar a Lago and then Saturday to help raise money for tpusa. This is Glenn Beck. Ever catch yourself doing that little, you know, back pain dance? You know the one you stand up from a chair, you freeze, you shift your weight, you stretch in three different directions. Hope your spine decides to cooperate a bit. Little bit. Half the country does that same routine every single day. And that's why Chirp has become such a game changer for so many people, including me. Chirp is built for the reality of modern day life. Hours at a desk, long commute, sleeping wrong, working out too hard or not enough. Their devices are made to undo all of that. The Chirp contour uses spinal decompression, massage, pressure and heat to help your back relax in a way that you can't get just by stretching out on the floor or leaning against a door for frame and the Chirp halo. That is the on the go fix a wearable targeted pain relief system you can put where you need it. Neck, shoulders, lower back. Let the tech do all of the work. They have everything that you would need. I want you to go to go chirp.com that's gogo chirp.com Beck check out you know my picks for back pain relief and get free shipping on every order. Go chirp.com beck it. Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dark Gotta face the dark and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I saw the Mangione trial yesterday begin and I saw the pictures from how people are just making this guy into a God. And, and then I reflected on that and what happened to ICE last week. And people are saying, well, they deserved it. And I, you know, we need to have a conversation because we're not only writing history, we're also rewriting it at the same time. And there is a, there's a biblical warning about these times. And I'll give that to you here in just a second and give you some perspective, perspective on what's really happening in our country. First, let me tell you about real estate. Agentsitrust.com this is my company. And when you're buying or selling a home, your friends and neighbors, I mean, I'm sure they have a ton of advice what to do. But the truth is, this is one of the most complicated financial decisions you will ever make. And you need somebody who actually knows what they're doing. That's why I tell you to start with the real estate agents that I trust. It's not some random list or a direct list factory that anybody can buy their way into. We vet every single agent. We look at their track record, their service, their negotiating skills, their character. These are professionals who live and breathe their local market, not part timers trying to make a quick commission. The right agent can save you tens of thousands of dollars. They know when a house is overpriced, when the offer is too low, how to write a contract that protects you, how to spot a red flag before it becomes expensive. Mistake mistakes. You don't need to guess your way through this. You just need a great real estate agent. Go to realestate agentsitrust.com Let us recommend one to you. It's a free service to you real estate agents I trust dot com. Realestate agents I trust dot com. So I don't know if you saw this, but you know Luigi Mangione, he arrived at, at the courthouse yesterday. Now, he's the guy who, you know, I would say was accused of murdering a CEO of UnitedHealthcare. But the video is clear. He murdered the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a guy who was actually trying to reform things on the inside. Okay. Dozens of fans went to the courthouse just so they could catch a glimpse of this, you know, their hero. And it was grotesque. It was really, really grotesque. Meanwhile, at the same time, if you've noticed, we are villain. Villainizing the. The National Guard. The facts speak for themselves. Let's just look for D.C. since they were deployed in the District of Columbia August 11th, 11th, there had been 24 homicides. Compared to last year, same time period, 61 homicides. That means the National Guard being there has. Have saved 43 lives, and I would bet many of them black lives. So I would like to ask, first of all, do black lives matter? Why are these guys all of a sudden being vilified? Ice, Same thing. Every single one of us have felt the strain of what's going on. You can't just let 10, 12 million people into our country and then still expect to have a job for you, still expect to have space in schools or resources in schools for your kids. The lack of resources in the hospitals, the lack of food in the food banks. Of course it's happening. You know, you want to know why your housing is so expensive? One reason is you can't move 10 million people in overnight and expect that your rent is not going to become more competitive because there's 10 million other people that want to rent a house. Okay? They need apartments, too. How is it that this is all disconnected from people? Ice is the bad guy. How is Ice the bad guy? Unfortunately, I think because of political reasons. But. And part of this is because of the Bubba effect. Okay? We know the healthcare system is broken, and so people joined this bandwagon. They're like, yeah, well, I don't know anything about that, CEO, but I'm glad somebody stood up and did something about it. Yeah, well, they killed him. They murdered him in cold blood. And he was not a bad guy. He was a good guy. So part of this is the Bubba effect. The system is broken, but it's more than that as well. These. These people Ice, the National Guard, and on the flip side, Mangeon, their symbols, they are symbols of justice or injustice. Okay? That's the Bubba effect. But the problem here is, is, is we're using collectivism to make those symbols. We're not actually even looking for the actual real merit from the individual. It's just the collective act. Ah, Somebody killed them. Good. These. These people are not. They're not symbols. They're people. Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Yesterday, I saw something online, and I'm not gonna make any of this about personalities because I am not going to get into a personality fight. I think it is ridiculous. We should be fighting on principles. But I saw an interview yesterday talking about Hitler again, trying to make Hitler into the good guy and Winston Churchill into the bad guy. I just. Just don't get it. I really don't get it. History, real history, is not a choose your own adventure kind of thing. It's ink on paper, orders in filing cabinets, telegrams, diaries, bodies. It's what actually happened, not what we hope happened. So let me just set the record straight on something again, that is circulating, and it.
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It just. Somebody just has to calmly just say what the truth is. The thing is now that. That Hitler had no intention toward the west, that Britain didn't have to enter the war, that Winston Churchill, not Adolf Hitler, is the villain who dragged the world into conflict. Let me. Let me just say this calmly, factually. And finally. Germany's plans for Poland were not reactive. They were premeditated the argument says that Britain roped the west into war by promising to defend Poland. No. Germany had already prepared to destroy Poland long before Neville Chamberlain ever made a pledge. How do I know this? Because in my history vault I have one of the clearest pieces of, of proof. It's called Fall Vice. It's Hitler's operational blueprint for the invasion of Poland. Drafted in 1938, a year before Chamberlain said we're gonna guarantee their safety. So Poland was not a spontaneous reaction. Hitler was a liar. I know that's hard to get your hand around, but your arms around, but Hitler was a liar. It was not about German minority, it was not about self determination, it was about conquest. A step in Hitler's explicitly stated roadmap. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, then the East. Britain didn't pull Germany into war. Germany was already marching toward war. Global war. The second thing that has to be said, clearly Hitler didn't have designs on Britain in the West. Really? Well, Hitler wanted peace with Britain. Really? Cuz we have the paper trail again. No, no, no. He wanted peace. He, he had no western ambitions. Well how do you explain Operation Sea Lion, Hitler's detailed plan to invade and occupy Great Britain? You don't draw up amphibious landing schedules across the English Channel panel, just in case. And before that, Hitler deployed a different strategy, diplomacy and subterfuge. In May 1941, the Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolph Hess, that's a, that's a name. Flew solo. Solo into Scotland, hoping to secure a deal with sympathetic elements in Great Britain. He parachuted down. He claimed he was carrying an office, let Hitler dominate Europe and Germany would leave Britain alone. Well that sounds really peaceful. Unless you forget what Hitler meant by dominance. He meant dismantling sovereign nations, annihilating Jews, the Slavs, the, the, the gypsies. Any political appoint opponent. Millions of human beings, just eliminate them. In what world, in what world could a democratic nation be friends with that? Britain had internal Nazi sympathizers and Hitler counted on them. Hess wasn't flying blind. Hitler believed Britain was divided. And he was right. You know why he was right again. In my vault I have it from Hitler's own schedule. That was on his assistant's desk the whole time. Now you have the name and the time that he arrived. Former King Edward. He abdicated in 36. He had clear documented sympathies for the Nazi regime. He met Hitler in 37. I know, I have the documents. He was courted as a possible puppet monarch. He said, reinstall me and you can do what you want. I'LL help you. The Nazi files recovered after the war show explicit German plans to reinstall him after an occupation. Hitler was not avoiding conflict with Britain. He was planning its subversion. Well, yeah, but Hitler's ideology made friendship with the west possible. What? Even if you pretend not to see the invasion plans and the Hess mission and the internal sympathizers, even if you erased every map, memo and military order, Hitler's ideology made an alliance with the. With the Western democracies absolutely impossible. And I'm going to get to Stalin here in a second. But hear me, hear me on this. Hitler believed the state was supreme, that the German people existed for the Reich. In America, the Constitution is supreme and it exists to limit the states. Rights come from the and the government in Germany. In America, rights come from God. And the government is the servant, not the master, the individual. In Germany expendable. The west is built on the sanctity of the individual. Racial hierarchy is destiny. In Germany, the West at its best rejects racial supremacy. The declaration starts with. All men are created equal. Not some races are destined to rule. There are nowhere in our documents to say the state must expand endlessly. That's not compatible with anything. Anything. You cannot align with a regime whose foundational premise is that human dignity is a myth. Well, the west chose Stalin because we thought he was better now. Not. No, we chose survival. People are arguing now that the Allies should have sided with Hitler instead of Stalin. No rational reading of history supports any of that. Hitler and Stalin were both monstrous. Monstrous. And the Ribbentrop Pact proved that they were natural partners in evil. Carving up Poland like a holiday roast. Okay, okay. But here's the brutal truth. Once Hitler launched Operation Barbasoa. Is that. Was that what it's called, Stu? You know, Barbara. So right when he turned Barbarossa. Barbarossa. When they turned to. To Russia, the question for us was no longer, hey, which dictator is better? The question was, which outcome prevents Hitler from ruling all of Europe? Europe. Because if Hitler defeated the Soviet Union, the resources of the east, all the oil, all the grain, all the industry, all the manpower would have made the Third Reich unstoppable. So the choice was between two horrors. Which one? Or do you want to stay out and let them get have all of that power? Well, yeah. There nowhere was he an aggressor. He's only one. Hitler had a trajectory of global domination at that time. Also racial extermination and total state worship that could not coexist with Western civilization. We knew at the time Stalin was just as bad we knew we were going to be in war with Stalin at some point. And you know who really knew that? Winston Churchill. He was the one saying, we can't have this guy as an ally. Britain did not drag the world into war. Hitler did. And so let's go back to the central point. Churchill did not force a war. Chamberlain didn't conjure up a conflict out of thin air. The west didn't provoke Hitler. Hitler provoked history. He's the one who built the camps. If you want to say you don't believe in the camps, God help us all. He's the one who wrote Mein Kampf. He's the one who armed in secret, he invaded without cause. He sought domination, not coexistence. He's to suggest otherwise. I mean, what is your intent to rehabilitate him? Hitler? I mean, you're repeating the arguments Hitler made to excuse his aggression. This is not about defending Churchill, who I think is a hero, but it's about defending the record, the truth. So in our moment of confusion and upheaval and ideological extremism, we don't lose our footing on the bedrock of fact. This is the dangerous door we must not reopen. When we begin to question whether the west should have resisted Hitler. Where are we going when we entertain the idea that freedom and tyranny could have coexisted? You're not just rearranging interpretations. You're reopening a door millions died to close. History's not there to flatter us. Did the United States do bad things in World War II? Yeah. Did England? Yeah. Yep. Were we perfect? Nope. Did we do the best we could? Yes. You know, sometimes. Sometimes your only choice is between bad and worse. You cannot allow somebody like Hitler just to continue to grow and grow and grow and gobble resources and then take over the Soviet Union. And then what? Have all of those resources to take the rest of the world? My God. So sorry. I want to just keep this about facts. History is there to warn us, and the warning is really, really simple. Be very careful when someone tells you the villain wasn't really the villain. Woe unto him who makes evil good and good evil. We know who the villains were. The documentation is very clear. Trust me. I have a vault full of it. You want to see it? Come. Otherwise you're just full of it. When you have somebody telling you the villain is not the villain villain. That story never ends well. Fix reason firmly in her seat. Back in a minute, Preborn. Every Christmas, we talk about the power of saving, saying yes to hope and to faith and to a future you can't fully see yet. But right now, there are women all over the country that this morning that are facing a moment where that yes feels impossible. It's an unplanned pregnancy, and it doesn't wait for the right timing. It doesn't care that it's the holidays. Many of these women are walking in terrified, confused, convinced they are completely alone. And some of them are. Everybody in their family has said, get rid of it. This is where preborn steps in. 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I get so frustrated. I know when you're talking the Nazis, it's really. It's really hard. I mean, it's so clear, you know, it's just. It's really, really clear. It's. It's not like even close. It's not like. Well, I don't know. I can see how you see it that. No, I can't see how you see it that way. I can't. I mean, unless you take all of the documentation and burn it. I mean, I'm standing there and I'm hearing that, you know. Well, you know, it wasn't inevitable that he was going to go into Poland. Yes. I'm. I have the documents. I have. I have the whole invasion plan. It's in a book. When I first got it in auction, I couldn't believe it. I'm like, you're kidding me. I mean, it still exists. All the documents that only went to the very highest in the Nazi regime that showed that everything Hitler was saying to the west was a lie. What a surprise. Hitler was a liar, huh? Sorry, just. You didn't help wind me down. I just got more. I'm gonna take a break and take a breath. Back in a minute. This is Glenn Beck. Alright, let me tell you about Legacy Box. Every family has that one box full of old tapes and camcorder footage, photo slides, film reels that are just sitting there aging. We're still unpacking for the house. And I opened up a box over the weekend and it was just full of negatives, old negatives, gotta be from my childhood. No idea what's on them. I'm put them in a legacy box and have them, you know, can you just digitize all of these so I can see what these memories are? Nobody's seen them in my family for probably 50 years. All you do with Legacy boxes, you send in the tapes or the photos, whatever you have, and you send them and they send back your family's history, organized, preserved and ready to watch on any device. No more worrying about the time and the heat or accidents, destroying the only copy you have. You have a copy on a thumb drive or a DVD or up in the cloud or all of them. You know, there's nothing like seeing the old footage or hearing a voice that you haven't heard in years, watching a Christmas morning that you forgot you even recorded. Legacy Box the best sale of the year is not going to last long. LegacyBox.com Records and Unreal 65% off. It's their Cyber Week event. Legacy Box LegacyBox.com Records head over to.
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad that you're here. Thank you so much. There's a couple of stories here that I think require a little bit of time here going over. First of all, the New York Times. The New York Times has refuted the WaPo reporting on the Hegseth story. Now if you remember, the Hegseth story from the Washington Post is was playing back up to people like Mark Kelly who, you know, were part of that, you know, video where like, you know, war crimes and you're going to be tried for war crimes. And if you see a war crime in a legal order, you should disobey it. Okay, well yeah, they're taught that and everybody should know that. And you know, again, the Pentagon teaches that to the soldiers. This has never been done by members of Congress. And they were going for something. I don't know what they were going for. But WaPo, of course, you know, sends the message to the rest of the world that, well, it was our Secretary Hegseth who ordered the killing of some people that survived this launch on a boat. And they survived. And then Pete called him up and said co and that that's what Mark Kelly was saying this last week. Weekend. Okay, Washington Post, now the New York Times, not exactly a Trumpy kind of paper, comes out and says, no, we actually have five sources on this. That's not true. That's not what happened. White House responded yesterday and they said, yeah, it was the commander that made that call. It was all within the law, yada yada. So it wasn't Hegst Seth who. Then you have Mark Kelly coming on and saying some more things. This one is about the Franklin meme. You know, Franklin the Turtle, the kids book about the turtle. Apparently Heg Seth retweeted or tweeted a picture of, you know, like Franklin magazine and he's, you know, up on an American chopper and he's firing down on drug runners in a boat. And this causes Mark Kelly to say this. And instead he runs around on a stage like he's a 12 year old playing army. And it is ridiculous, it is embarrassing. And I can't imagine what our allies think of looking at that guy in this job. One of the most important jobs in our country in my view, after the President of the United States, it is the next most important job. He is in the national command authority for nuclear weapons. And last night he's putting out on the Internet turtles with rocket propelled grenades killing. I mean, have you seen this? Oh, it's outrageous. Let me ask you, where were you on the leadership of the Pentagon when they pulled out of Afghanistan? Were you saying, what are our allies thinking about that? How about when what's his face decided to go get. What was it? Surgery? Was out on surgery, didn't alert anyone that he was. What was his name? Lloyd Austin. Right. And he's out on surgery and he didn't tell anybody. Then he goes on vacation, something happens and they call him, they're like, where are you? And he's like, I'll come back when I come back. Wait, hold it. You wanna talk about being in line with the nuclear weapons? What the hell where was that one? More importantly, Mr. Kelly, let me ask you, what do you think our allies thought about the health of our nation when several Democratic senators got together and for the first time in American history pulled a Venezuela and questioned the military and said, we will hold you responsible for any crimes against humanity. By the way, we're not telling you what those are. We'll judge when we get back into power. And don't listen to the Commander in chief. Let me ask you, if people, if people in the Duma would have made that exact same video and said, question the authority of Putin and if he's telling you to go into Ukraine, that's going to be a war crime and we're going to prosecute you, you and, and don't listen to them, and don't listen to his secretary of war either. What do you think? How would we analyze that? Would we think that Putin was strong? Would we think that their society is strong? Would we think that they're a nation that can defend itself, will defend itself, himself, is willing to go to war, does that, Would that, would we look at that and go, that's a strong nation, don't screw with them? Or if we had designs on that nation, would we say, you know what, up the pressure, up the pressure, because this thing's about to fly apart. So Mr. Kelly, let me ask you that. Did you think about what our allies might have been saying when you made the video and released it to the world? Bueller, Anybody? Anybody? That, that's the outrage here. The outrage is not that they said it. You can go to the Pentagon and say that, you can go bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff in and you call them on the carpet and say, look, I gotta tell you something, we're gonna be investigating this if we get control, but you bring them into a private room and you say that with all your like minded senators in a private room, you don't make a video and release it to the world. I, I'll never forget, George Bush called me into the Oval Office and he was a little upset. And I had said, you know, you want to impeach the guy, you impeach him on this. Look what he's doing in the Middle East. Look what he's doing. I don't remember what it was, but I said that that is the stuff that at least if it's true, is impeachable. That day I get a call and Mr. Beck, the president would like to see you in the Oval tomorrow. I go in and I knew this was gonna be the Longest hour of my life. And I sit down in the. Honest to God, it was in the. The Zelinsky chair, okay? And I got. I got from George Bush what Zelinsky got from Trump. And he starts out with. A lot of people think they know what it's like to be the president. You don't have no effing idea what it's like. And he just. And I was like, oh, my gosh, this is going to be very, very long and agonizing. And, um, we get about a half hour into all of this stuff, and he's telling me what's actually going on on the ground. And he knows it all. And he's. He's not hesitating. He's not like. And let me search for a word here. None of that. And I screw my scourge courage to the sticking place and say, excuse me, Mr. President, this is the President that America needs to see. This is the guy. Why don't you say these things to the American public? And he goes off on another tirade. And he tells me about how he has made deals with the Pentagon. He's made deals with the military. He's made deals. He also has all of the eyes. Listen to this. All of the eyes of all of the leaders of the world, including all of their intelligence officials. And they watch everything that every major official says in the United States, especially the president. And whatever the president says, they analyze. He said, I look my. I shift my eyes at the wrong time. They think, well, that means he's not saying this. What he's actually saying is this. He's like, I'm. I'm juggling so many things in my head that I can't say or can't do because of X, Y or Z. And he said, that's the job of the president. End. Now, whether you agree with that or not doesn't matter. The reason why I tell you that story is Mark Kelly, did you even consider what five Eyes might be saying about that video? What China, how they might be analyzing that video, how Russia is analyzing that video, how that affects our national stability in this country? Screw who you're trying to, in my opinion, start a color revolution. Screw that. Let's just talk about how does this make us stronger with national defense. You call people into a private room and say that, like has always been done in the United States of America. What you did has never been done in the United States. Not at the time of the Civil War even. Never has this been done. Why? Because people respected the Republic. They respected the military, they respected the fact that their voice would be heard by foreigners and foreign nations, many of them adversaries. And so they showed just a modicum of restraint point that you, sir, couldn't find. So please don't preach to me about how embarrassing it is that he's putting a cartoon out. Yeah, I'd rather have my secretary of war not put cartoons out. But unfortunately that's the way of the world now, isn't it? I mean, you know, you can only get attention by people with people with doing stupid memes. You didn't need a meme. You didn't need a video. You needed all of you to get together and say, we'd like the Joint Chiefs to meet us at the Capitol because they also answer to us and we have a few things to say to them. And then you say it to them privately and you make it very, very clear that's what you should have done. I mean, unless you're trying to collapse the United States, make our enemies stronger and foment a color revolution, which I'm sure you're. What color revolution? I don't even know what that is. Back in just a second. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. Most people don't realize their cell phone bill. One of the biggest monthly expenses is quietly funding companies that work against their values. You're paying for coverage and yet you're also paying for activism that you don't agree with. This is why Patriot Mobile exists. 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It's within two. That's a 22 point spread. And believe me, you have a Democratic socialist on the ticket. They're motivated to vote. Please get out and vote. If you're in the Nashville area, get out and vote today. Stop everything else you're doing. This is the most important thing you could do today. This is Glenn, Becky, Sam.