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Glam Back is on. Glam Back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello America. Oh, I want to take on the big fat balless rhino today. Oh, it's. His job is so hard. And why don't you guys ever talk about the Democrats with the Democrats? Are you kidding me? Oh, hello. By the way, I'm Glenn. It's Friday, but that's not gonna stop anything because I'm already. I'm already on a roller coaster from hell. And then Mamdani, I'm. You know what? I know this is radio But I put a chalkboard together, because if you happen to be watching, I just want to show you how simple the math is. Mom, Donnie just tweeted out yesterday, if you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5 million, check your mailbox when you're back in the five boroughs, because you've got mail. He's taxing them because the best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. And that's only possible when we all pay our fair share. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna show him how mathematics works. Socialist math, it's not real. I'll show you how real math works and the exact consequences of how this happens. How he's going to gut his city. And we'll all be watching it from a great distance. And so will many of the people who own homes currently in Manhattan. They will find another place to live, and they will be watching it happen to the bus driver and the construction worker and everybody else. And there's nothing we can do because a lot of those people voted for Mondami. All right, let me tell you about Z Factor. An alarm clock shouldn't be the worst enemy you face all day. But when you've spent all night, you know, tossing and turning, it just very well may be the. The worst thing you face. Checking the time, turning the pillow over, trying to bargain with your brain. Hearing that thing go off in the morning is like, you know, getting bullied. It is. 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Who's reading books anyway? So they sends out all the letters to anybody who owns a property. Let's just take. Let's just take a really rich fat cat, you know, somebody that we can all hate, right? Guy who owns an apartment on Central Park South. That apartment is worth $28 million. He lives now in Palm Beach. Now, under the new schedule, he owes 1.3% per year. That's $364,000. He'll never miss it. Well, that's on top of the property tax he already pays every year, forever. And he sleeps there about 20 nights a year, you know, for fall board meetings, maybe he goes up for Christmas time, whatever that works out. Now, believe me, people like this do the math in their head and they don't need a calculator. They can do it quickly. That works out just an increase to $18,000 a night. Now, there's some really sweet apartments in New York, but there are, you know, there's the Four Seasons. You can stay at the top of the top in the Four Seasons and you ain't paying $18,000 a night. Or maybe you are, but you'll pay it. It's the Four Seasons. So what does this guy do? He's like $18,000 a night. Extra, extra, extra. I don't have to pay any fees or anything else if I'm just going to a hotel, if I even want to come back here. So he calls his broker in the morning and he isn't alone. Across 11,000 addresses, some fraction of that runs the same mathematics through their head and reaches the same exact conclusion. This isn't worth it for me. So the listings rise in the segment above $5 million. Okay, so now what's the next step? Well, now you have to find a buyer. And the buyer is running the arithmetic too. He runs it forward. A permanent annual charge attached to an asset gets subtracted from what that asset is worth. That's not my ideology. That's how income producing or cost carrying assets get priced. Okay, so you take the recurring 1.3% and you capitalize it and you knock something off the top in the order of about one fifth of the value of the thing being taxed. Okay, you following? Because what we're doing on the chalkboard, it just says, think it through, tax the rich. $28 million on an apartment in Central Park. Add 364,000 on top of the tax he already pays. He thinks it through. $18,000 per night, he sells, so do others. The buyer then thinks it through. He adds the $364,000, the $18,000 per night. He offers one fifth less. And you know what the buyer looks at or the, the buyer looks at, the seller looks at that and says, hmm, normally, let me think about it. No. Now he says, if I think about it another night, it's going to cost me $18,000 plus everything else I'm already paying on this stupid place. I don't need the night to think it oversold. That closing now becomes a comp. A comp becomes an appraisal. The appraisal becomes the number the bank uses on the next building, including for owners the tax never touched. This is where it gets interesting. Mom, Donnie. Because now let's think it through. We already just, we, we had the buyer, the rich guy, he's like, I'm out. So he sells it, the buyer comes in, he's smart, he takes a fifth off of the price. That now becomes a comp. Because that's the way the bank works. Now let's take it to the developer, you know, the guy who has already gone to the bank to be able to get money, to be able to build another giant apartment building. Now there's a site in Long Island City, a hole already dug. The Proforma works because the top four floors will sell at a premium that carry the below market units and the affordable set asides underneath them. Just the top four floors get repriced. Well when you reprice the top four floors now the pro forma doesn't clear. Now the bank is like, yeah, I can't loan you that money. So the construction lender looks at the appraisal, looks at the declines and is like, yeah, I'm not gonna fund this anymore. So the project stops. So now in the city there's a giant unfinished hole. Now let's count who's standing in that hole. The excavation crew, the concrete super, the ironworkers, the crane operator, the electricians, the sheet metal, the plumber, the elevator mechanics, the fireproofers, the glazers. Several hundred trade jobs across three years. And in trades, the pension is credited by the hour. So a man who doesn't work doesn't accrue a pension. He doesn't just lose the paycheck, he loses the year. Now let's look at who was going to buy those. All of the affordable units in that building, you know the ones set aside, these were set aside for people making $60,000. Those apartments do not become more expensive. Those apartments become non existent. So the supply doesn't get built. So the shortage widens and the rent goes up. The policy sold to lower rents removed housing from the from the pipeline because of the little letter that he's so proud he sent out today. Back to the broker. A $28 million sale generates roughly a million dollars million million and a half in commission split between two firms and their agents. Now behind that agent, there's an assistant, there's a photographer, there's the stager, there's the closing attorney, the title company, the moving crew, the guys who refinish the floors between the owners. Volume in that segment falls because nobody's buying. Each of those people get a thinner year. Now here's the part City hall doesn't put into their press release or their tweet. That sale would have also generated something on the order of $2 million in A1 time mansion and transfer tax at the closing table. Money the city and state collect only when the transaction happens. You slow the transactions and you lose that money. The new recurring tax eats a piece of the existing transactional tasks on its way in. So let's say the apartment finally sale sells at a discount to a family that will live in it full time. Good outcome. By the city's own logic, they're here full time. Yeah, but watch the ledger. Because the pied a terror revenue from that unit now is zero. Wait a minute. You were using that tax to build libraries so kids could do what all kids love to do today, go and read a book. So the you lose that tax because they're now living in it full time. You have the assessed value which is lower, so the ordinary property tax on it falls as well. The city taxed a unit straight out of its own tax base and calls it a win. This is socialism. And by the way, none of this is a projection. We ran this experiment 35 years ago. 1990, Congress put a 10% luxury tax on boats over $100,000. Along with planes and furs and jewelry. The rich will finally pay their fair share. The Joint Committee on taxation projected $31 million just in the first year. Yeah, well, when the GAO went back and counted, the boat portion had produced 7.3 million. Viking Yachts in New Jersey employed 1400 people. Within eight months, 81% of them employees lost their job. By the time the tax was repealed, Viking was down 68 employees. Egg Harbor Yacht, one of the oldest yards in New in South Jersey went bankrupt and 250 people were out. The congressional Joint Economic Committee counted 7,600 jobs gone in boating, 14, 1470 in aircraft and 330 in jewelry manufacturing. Why? Because the wealthy didn't go without boats. They bought them in Italy and they bought them in the Bahamas. You see the men who build boats in New Jersey, they went without jobs. The rich didn't go without boats. Congress finally repealed this in 1993. Two and a half years. That's how long it took Washington to learn what a laminator in New Gretna, you know, could have told them at the hearing that they never ever held. Now come back to New York. Collections come in under projection. They always do. 11,000 owners, a 30 day, 30 day appeal window and a tax appeals office that just had 11 positions to handle it. Expect a backlog, expect settlements below assessment. Expect conversions to Primary Residence LLC restructurings and a constitutional challenge that ties up a slice of the money for two years. Meanwhile, the gap is unchanged. It was $5.4 billion. The best case covered 9% of it. But the best case is not what arrives. So the next envelope gets addressed 9.5% across the board. That letter goes to the two family house in Bay Ridge where the owner rents the top floor to make his own mortgage. Or to the brownstone a family bought in 1971 is never borrowed against it. Or to the retired school teacher in Riverdale, the co op living on a fixed pension, you know, whose maintenance goes up because the building's tax bill just went up. And in the rent stabilized buildings, the owner can't raise the rent to cover it. So the rent Guidelines board sets the, sets that number, not him. So the money comes out of, you know, the only item he controls, and that's the boiler is not going to get replaced this year. Then the roof waits. Then the building itself starts to wait. New York has watched the end of this movie already, and it wasn't long ago. In 1975, buildings were being abandoned in the city at the rate of over 3,000 units a month, 40,000 units a year. City Hall's working theory was that landlords are going to pay, they're going to pay their fair share, they're withholding, they're milking the buildings on their way out. That's what's happening. So in 1976, the city shortened the tax delinquency clock from three years to one to catch them at it. Well, their theory, surprise, surprise, was wrong. Most of the owners weren't hoarding, they were broke. So the city said, fine, we'll just take the buildings. By 1981, it held nearly 112,000 units, making the Department of Housing Preservation and development the second largest landlord in the five bureaus. 77 census tracts in the Bronx lost more than 97% of their buildings to fire and abandonment. On one block of West 140th street, landlords walked away from 22 of 36 buildings. So the city sets out to punish the landlord and it becomes the landlord. And you know what kind of landlord the city is? One that sucks more than the one they were saying sucks so much. This story has happened over and over again. When will people understand socialist math doesn't work? The only one it actually hurts is the worker, the one they say they're for. They are not. They are not for the worker. All you have to do is simple mathematics. More in a minute. Let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. Our sponsor is the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The word compassion can sound kind of passive. 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I don't think that's a good idea. Like, it's, it feels like order and security is also a progressive value. Why shouldn't people in neighborhoods with less resources have the same safety and security that neighborhoods with lots of resources? So are there tenets of those that are kind of following in the wake of Zoran Mamdani's success that you're not comfortable with or that give you pause? If you have more than one socialist in a room and there isn't disagreement, then you don't have more than one socialist in a room, so. But you're comfortable with those kinds of discussions? Well, I, I'm comfortable with disagreement and I'm comfortable with disagreement. That doesn't end the conversation. Notice, stop. Notice. Jon Stewart didn't get his answered question. His. His answer to his question. There's no answer there. There's no answer there. That. That's not the question I asked you. Mr. Donnie, now play the. The latest cut that we brought in for today because I've got a lot to say about Mamdani more than. If you go back. Let's do the math Democrats that we most admire. FDR, LaGuardia, you will see a lot of democratic socialist principles in their vision. And if you think about a lot of what we've come to accept as just the facts of life across our country, a lot of it is also still driven by democratic socialist principles. Now, if today you and I were to introduce the idea of a building that lends out books for free, we would be slandered in the same way that so many new ideas are slandered today. And yet that's the library. And the same thing with the fire department, the same thing with public schools. And it's to say that a lot of politics has been a debate about who deserves what. And I would prefer politics that debates how we can deliver that to everyone except for the rich or perhaps the Jew. I'm sorry, he wants to stop having the conversation of who gets what, and yet he gleefully sends out a note. By the way, if you're rich, look in your mailbox, cuz I just said you've got mail. Really? Really. And libraries are socialists. Now, I heard this earlier from another democratic socialist saying it, I think, on cnn, that firemen are socialist. No, no, they're really not. And I'm gonna dumb this one down too. I'm gonna teach you. I taught you arithmetic. Next, a little history for mom. Johnny, I'll tell you about Patriot Mobile. Maybe you're being a little too sarcastic today. Autopay can make a company invisible to you. The bill shows up, the money's gone, and you may have never stopped to ask what kind of company you're funding every single month. Then one day you'll find out you've been funding something awful for years. Look, you're gonna pay for your cell phone service anyway. Patriot Mobile gives you a chance to send that payment to America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. They've donated millions of dollars to support the causes of faith and family and freedom. And this isn't a choice between your values and dependable service. Patriot Mobile offers. Offers the dependable nationwide coverage on all three major networks. You're just. You're going to get the same service, but you're going to be sending your money to people who are actually spending their money and spending their time fighting with you instead of against you. And you know what? The three big mobile companies, they all know, they look at you like a sucker. They think, well, it's so hard to switch. Nobody's ever going to switch. And most times, most people don't stop being a sucker. Get out of that business. Call 972 Patriot and switch today. Patriotmobile.com Beck if you want Glenn show
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This is amazing. Just got this notification. They just. The Swedes have just sent out a notification and issued a statement that John Thune has just been nominated for a Nobel Prize. And I think he's. Why is Ricky shaking her head on that? I don't. You've heard of the Nobel Prize, right? I love a pun as much as anyone, Glenn.
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I am making a Nobel Prize for him. I'm going to make one for him. All right, let's see. Okay, so there's three things. There's three topics that I've got. I just have to get it off my chest because they're so simple to set straight. And they're all about Mom Donnie today. First one is, hey, the Glee. He sent this letter out. This is not about building libraries. This is about punishing people in a class. Hey, I just. If you own a building or you own an apartment or a house worth more than $5 million, you've got mail. He's. I can only think of swear words. And I'm sorry. Uh, he's not a good guy. This is about punishing People. It's not about helping people. It's about punishing people. And then he's a liar on top of it. So I just played the audio of him on socialism that, you know. You know, fire departments, they're. You know, that's just. That's a socialist idea. Oh, no, it's not. No, it's not. And Jon Stewart, you're pathetic. You're pathetic. You allow him to explain socialism to America, and then he actually comes out and says, yeah, well, you know, building a building and lending out books for free. If we just suggested that today, we'd be slandered. And yet, that's the library, okay? Same thing with public schools and roads and everything else. And Stuart's not, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobody at the table asks the only question that matters. Who owns the steel mill? You know, socialism is not a mood. It's not kindness with a budget line. It's a specific claim about who owns the means of production. The factories, the land, the housing, the capital. The definitions isn't mine. It belongs to the Democratic socialists of America who have just defined it. And the mayor knows it, because when Stewart made a joke about nationalizing industry, the mayor joked right back that he'd come and seize the means of production of Stewart's podcast. You can't even make a joke out of a definition you don't know. So let me take you to the fire department. Is the fire department a sign of socialism? Well, let me take you back in the century before Christ. I'm pretty sure socialism. Karl Marx was still a little boy in the century before Christ. The richest man in Rome was Marcus Crassus. Rome was wood packed tight, burning constantly. And there was no fire department. So Crassus built one because he was the richest guy there. 500 men. He trained them fast, first on the scene. And when they arrived, they did nothing. Because Crassius was also. Like his name. Crassi ass. He's a bad guy. Okay? So he would go. The fire department would show up, and he would show up, and they'd say to the owner of the burning building, hey, we'll buy this. It's not for sale. I'm trying to put it out. Okay, well, come back. We'll come back in another five minutes as it's burning down, but the price will be lower. And so people. The longer they hesitated, the lower the price became. And so people were just like, okay, all right, fine, I'll sell it to you. He'd make the same offer to the neighbors. Whose houses weren't on fire yet. Then his men would put it all out, and he'd rent you back your own house. That's a criminal. That's a bad guy. Okay, this why he. This is why he owned the largest part of Rome for a long time. Because he would do this. That is. That's the free market being applied to a burning building in the most corrupt way. It's also why nobody has tried it again. So let me take you to the. In the year 6. Jesus was 6 years old now, and the fire tore through the city again. In Rome, Caesar Augustus was there, and he went to the watchmen of the city. Seven thousand men in seven what were called cohorts. Each cohort responsible for two districts. The first permanent public fire brigade in the history of the world was formed. He was the emperor. He ruled by slaves. He ruled by force. Calling himself the first citizen, quietly burying the Republic, you know, whatever he was. And he was not a good guy. He wasn't a socialist. He beat Karl Marx to the fire department by 18 centuries. Check your stopwatch. All right, now let me take you. 12-7-7, 1736, Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin. He's 30 years old. He gets a couple dozen men to sign articles of agreement. Every man brings six leather buckets and two linen bags. They meet monthly, and when a member misses a meeting, he pays a fine. And the fines bought fire engines. That was the Union Fire Company. It's the first volunteer fire company in America. We still have volunteer fire departments. Why? Because of Benjamin Franklin, not Karl Marx. The government had nothing to do with it. Not a program. It was neighbors, and nobody was compelled to do it. Five years before that, Franklin did the same thing with books. 50 men put up 40 shillings a piece and 10 shillings a year. And that was the Library Company of Philadelphia. By the way, you know who. Whose books are in the Library of Congress? Until they burned it down? Thomas Jefferson.
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That's who started the. The Library of Congress. Okay. Okay. The American answer to all of these things has always been, share the problem in association, not theft. De Tocqueville came here in 1831. He couldn't stop writing about it. Where a Frenchman would petition the ministry and the Englishman would find a lord. The. The American would find out nine other Americans and start doing something to change the world. Then, April 9, 1918. 33, Petersboro, New Hampshire, town meeting. Unitarian minister. I think his name was Abbott. Abel Abbott. And he rises up and proposes that a portion of the state literary fund be spent on books. A library Free to everyone living in the town. The town votes yes. They buy 100 books and sent and set them in Smith and Thompson's general store. It was right next to the post office. That's the first free tax supported public library in the nation. 15 years before Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto. Where did the money come from? The state literary fund. How was that paid for? By capital stock tax on banks. The first free public library in the world was paid for out of the profits of capitalism. Voted by the very people who'd be taxed in a room where they could look each other in the eye and you know, say I'm not gonna do this anymore. You know. If they didn't like how it turned out, it was revocable. Then. Andrew Carnegie Steel, you know, the robber baron, most successful capitalist of his age. He spent his foundation on $56 million putting up 2,509 library buildings. 1,689 of them in the United States. Nearly half of all of the libraries in America. By the time the last grant was made. And he attached one condition. The town had to own the site and the community had to pledge by resolution of its council, an annual tax levy equal to 10% of his gift to, to keep the doors open. Free books, free building. On condition that a free people would vote every year to maintain them. I mean, where do you get this socialist idea? Where do you get it? You think there's no, there's nobody that's willing to stand up and be Andrew Carnegie anymore? Of course there's an Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie's are everywhere. You think that the people won't work together. Of course they will. You're forcing them in socialism. You're forcing them. And by the way, the library is not socialist unless you own the means of all of the production. You own the bricklaying company, you own the bricklaying, you know the, or the brick making company. You own the steel mill, you own all of that. That's socialism. That's communism. Oh gosh, I can't. By the way, let me give you one more. Let me give you one more. You want to know where the fire department sits in the theory of capitalism? Look in the founding document of capitalism, the wealth of nations, written in 1776, book two, chapter two. Adam Smith is arguing for banking regulation. He knows the objection is coming, that it restrains liberty. So he answers it in a single line. The obligation to build party walls to keep fire from spreading is a violation of natural liberty of exactly the same kind so he's saying us building walls and stopping fires from spreading in our own towns is proof that we need to do this with capitalism. Fire safety was Smith's proof. The father of free markets. Reach for the firewall between your house and your neighbors as the plain obvious. Nobody argues with this example in order to justify something harder. That's how uncontroversial it already was in 1776. So the Department of Fire Department is not socialism. It's literally in the book of capitalism. So either the mayor doesn't know the definition of the word he uses to describe himself, which would be disqualifying all by itself, or he knows exactly what it means and he reaches for the library on purpose. The podcast's joke settles it. He knows. He knows his organization's platform. Abolishing prisons, abolishing borders, getting rid of the Senate, non citizen votes, all of that. A program that explicitly calls for the end of capitalism and explicitly, in their own platform, voted two weeks ago, an end to the U.S. constitution. Stewart raises the prisons and borders piece. Oh, don't you think. I mean, I disagree with a lot of. That's kind of batty, don't you think? And then they get into it. Well, I like disagreement. That. That's it. That the mayor is comfortable with disagreement. That's not the answer. That's not even an answer. That is a man declining to name which parts he would veto. You don't lead with the library because the library is the argument. You lead with a library because the library is the door. Americans have called things socialism that weren't social. Social Security drew that label in 1935. So did Rural electrification. So did some Medicare. All of it is furniture in the American life now. And nobody is proposing to haul all of it out. Let's get rid of the libraries. Haul it out to the curb. The point here is when you call everything socialism, you spend the word out. It's like calling everything a racist. You burn it down to nothing. And then the man who belongs to an organization that has written down that it wants to end capitalism walks onto a comedy podcast and no alarm bell rings. In fact, AOC came out. Do we have this audio? AOC came out and she said, you know, it's really kind of funny. I mean, this alarm bell. You shouldn't freak out about the word socialism. There shouldn't be any alarm bell. There should be every alarm bell, every alarm bell. And they all know it. But they're doing exactly what they did when they said they weren't socialists. Remember? Oh, we're not socialists. We're Democrats, we're progressives. We're not socialists. Look at the, look at what you're saying. We're socialists. Now they're saying socialists, 51% are self identified communists, but they're saying socialism. That's not a big deal. We're just definitely not communist. Even though 51% of the board are of DSA is communist. You can just keep playing this game if you want, but it's really time to spit yourself out of the system because we know exactly who they are. And if you don't, by now, quite honestly, you might have a mental disorder. And I mean that sincerely, you might have a mental disorder. All right, back in just a second. All right. A responsible self defense plan should not leave you with only two choices. Do nothing or immediately use lethal force In a dangerous moment. You need room for judgment. You need options. That's why Burna Launcher is here. It gives you an option designed to help stop a threat from a distance. It fires powerful chemical irritant projectiles that can disorient and incapacitate an attacker from up to 60ft away. 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If you don't know who John Brown is, you think you might think you even know. You don't. You've never heard who John Brown really is until you hear episode 15 available everywhere. Here's a clip from it. November 7th, 1837. Around 3 o' clock in the morning, a steamboat delivers yet another replacement printing press. Lovejoy is at the warehouse to receive it. But like clockwork, a pro slavery mob quickly arrives and surrounds the warehouse. One man climbs the ladder and tries to set the roof on fire. Lovejoy rushes out of the warehouse with a gun and fires up at the man. As soon as he does, multiple gunshots crack through the cold night air. When the smoke clears, 34 year old Elijah Lovejoy lies dead on the ground, shot five times by the mob. Now you go into Harper's Ferry and John Brown and his radical crusade. A guy who tried to convince everybody he was a good guy, who was a really good, I think America's really first terrorist. You have to hear this. 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If you own one of those homes, you check, you better check your mailbox because you got mail. And I said let's just think this through. Let me show you how the trickle down of socialism actually works, how this is going to impoverish everybody. And laid that out. Simple, pretty simple. Let's just think this through. Let's do another one. Let's think through Mamdani and what his speech actually meant on Tuesday night when he said he was going to arrest. He couldn't arrest, but he wanted to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel. But you know, you should rise up. There should be protests on the streets when he comes. Oh my gosh, what is he doing? What is he doing? Well, let's think it through because he's issuing a warning and everybody needs to hear it. We'll do that next. First, identity theft doesn't knock. There's no broken window, there's no open door. 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Save up to 30% off your first year with promo code BECK1 800, LifeLock 1, 800, LifeLock or head to lifelock.com use a promo code back save 30% terms to apply. So let's think this through. On Tuesday night, the mayor of New York City posted a two minute video to say that he just can't arrest the Prime Minister of Israel. And he'd have been promising to arrest him since December of 2024. You know, when he was, when he was running, uh, you know, campaign stops and interviews. I've got one from September 2023 where he was talking about police violence and he said, and I quote, the boot of the New York City Police Department. The boots are laced by the idf. Now how the hell is the IDF responsible for the New York Police Department scapegoat? I Mean, this is socialism. This is what's coming. So he's on the road, he's making all kinds of claims. I'm gonna arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. And then the city's lawyers told him what any first year law student could have told him. Uh, so he had to make a video. Okay. And that was the news in it, maybe 20 seconds worth. And then the other hundred seconds were the reason he bothered. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide not welcome in New York City. We should protest. Washington should arrest him instead. October 7th didn't come up. So how many views so far? Over 90 million views. In a completely. Completely unrelated story, two men were stabbed in an unprovoked rampage on the Upper west side near Central park on Thursday, yelling Allah Akbar. Now they're trying to figure out if this was Roman. Was. Was actually motivated by hate. Well, what do you think? What do you think the police are going to do there? Of course they're going to say, because they were. The boots are laced by the idf, so of course I can guarantee you they're going to say that Allah Akbar. Had no, he was just a crazy man. Had nothing to do with. I mean, he wasn't. Nah. What are you talking about? Okay, all right, well, let's. Again, let's just think this through. Wednesday morning, City hall mayor suggests New Yorkers go to protest Netanyahu at the United nations protest. He says one of the bedrocks of the city. And it is. He also says he's committed to representing all New Yorkers, whether they agree with him or not. And then the phone started to ring. The uja, the Federation of New York, an outfit that writes grants and funds food pantries and doesn't talk this way. Open with a statement. Shame on you. The Orthodox Union said the video endangers Jewish New Yorkers. You think Gotti Eisenkot, a former IDF chief of staff who has spent his entire political career trying to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from office. He's not a fan. Sits in opposition of him. Is trying to get him out of office. Called Mom Donnie. Pure antisemitism with no basis in fact. So when a man's fiercest domestic opponent defends him. Well, you. You've said something. Now Jews are about 10% of New York City. 10%. In the first quarter of this year, there were 55% of the confirmed hate crimes in it. Second quarter, 57. 99 incidents out of 172. Same city posting the fewest murders in recorded history. The fewest shootings in recorded history. Burglary, burglary down 20%. Subways never been safer. Unless you happen to be wearing a kippah. Eight months ago, 33% of Jewish voters in the city. Put Mom Donnie in this chair. Gee, have we seen this movie before? Let's think this through. Have we seen this movie before? Anywhere, at any time? It was hard. I had to do a lot of digging. It took me all of about two minutes. Berlin attorney named Max Naumann. He wasn't a crank. He was a captain in the Bavarian Army. Iron Cross first class and second. 15 months at the front. 1921, he founded the association of German National Jews. And respectable people signed up, including the chief editor of one of Germany's largest daily newspapers. There was serious money behind him from established quarters of German Jews. And his theory was simple and it was comforting. Which is why it sold. Anti Semitism is not real. It's just a reaction. Germans were not born hating Jews. They were reacting to things Jews did. Eastern European Jews arriving with foreign manners. To the Zionists announcing that their loyalty lived somewhere else. To the Jewish writers making sport of German patriotism. You remove the provocation and the hatred will go with it. It's like, you know, I had a listener say to me one of my first pod, one of my first broadcasting in talk radio. I was shocked by it. He was trying to prove that he wasn't anti Semitic. And he said to me, quote, you know, I wouldn't have a problem with all these Jews if it wasn't for all these Jews. Okay? So that's pretty much what Max was doing in Germany. If the Jews cause it, then Jews can stop it. That's the appeal. Leaves you something to do, something for Jews to do. They can fix it. So he went to work. He attacked the organization that existed for the express purpose of fighting antisemitism and predicted its collapse. He tried to build a rival to the German Jews own representative body on the grounds that it had Zionist in it. He campaigned against the international boycott of German goods. He told a world Jewish conference that he that it had no standing to speak nationally for reliable German Jews. Jews elsewhere don't speak for us. Not a new sentence, okay? His association published a manifesto saying Jews in Germany Germany were being treated fairly. He told foreign reporters that violence was temporary. It was temporary excess and it wasn't policy. He recruited students. The youth wing had around about 400 members by 1932. And it made approaches to the Hitler Youth. 24 year old Hans Joachim started his own group. Of nationalist Jewish students in 1933 and wrote the National Socialism, Saving Germany from destruction, and demanded the necessary separation of Germans from un German Jews. See, there are some good Jews. Hmm. So he had about 15,000 people, you know, in his circulation by 1935. In between, Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws. This was evidence that was getting worse. The theory was getting more popular. On the 18th of November, 1935, Reinhard Heydrich signed the order dissolving Nauman's association for attitudes hostile to the state. Now, I gotta believe old Max was like, wait, what the hell? What? Gestapo picked him up on the same day. Took him to Columbia, Haas. That was a camp in Berlin. Uh, it. In the cell, he broke his own eyeglasses and then turned the pieces on himself. They let him out after about five weeks. Disbarred. 60 years old, completely unemployable. He spent his last stretch looking. Looking to escape to Britain, a country he had spent his entire career attacking for sponsoring Zionism. Cancer got him first. But a lot of his followers, they ended up in camps. And they're not the kind of camps that you go to in the summertime. 14 years of proving that he was the right kind of German Jew, and the order that shut him down didn't contain a paragraph for him. Because all Jews are alike to national socialists in Germany. This was a fringe community that was rejected. In New York, it's a third of the community. Now, Naaman has one defense, and it's a real one. No one ever told him. There wasn't any notification. There was no single morning when the proof arrived in the shape he couldn't talk his way around. You know, he had to work it out himself from the inside. And he got it wrong. And by the time he knew the Gestapo was at his door. 33%. You don't get that defense. You don't. Nothing was hidden before the vote when. When Mamdani, on the campaign trail, says the boot on the neck of the NYPD is being laced by the idf. You knew before the vote, the record was the campaign. And the campaign was on every front page in New York City for six straight months. They cast the ballots 33 days after two Jews were murdered outside a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur six weeks before, 15 people were shot dead at a Hanukkah party in Sydney. And since then, the notification keeps arriving. You've got mail, and it's arriving in the mayor's own voice. An executive order on day one rescinding the city's adoption of the internal working definition of anti Semitism. A pact described as monsters moving dark money. And this week the new mayor of New York used the city seal to indict the elected leader of the Jewish state. Oh, and left out October 7th. You know, you don't have to think this one through. There's nothing to work out anymore. One ask and it's small. It's really small. You don't have to switch parties. You don't have to apologize on television. Just one person privately saying, you know what? I was wrong. I was wrong. Most won't because they'll do what what Naaman did. He'll find a way that it. Well, it's different this time. The real lesson has nothing to do with Nazis. The real lesson here is when a man has an explanation for why he's safe, he doesn't hand it over. Someone has to take it from him. There's a couple of things that I would like to suggest that maybe people do while we wait. And I'll give you that in just a couple actually 60 seconds. So stand by. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's relief Factor. I'm sorry. It is a rough greens. You love your dog. Let's be honest, you probably love him more than several of your relatives. You want him to live as long as possible and you want him to be as healthy as he can be while he's at it. That's where rough greens comes in. 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So I don't know if any of this can be done here or anybody is interested, but you know, the British have the community Security trust. Apparently that's thousands of trained volunteers, professional threat assessment funded by the community, coordinating with the police. Nobody had that on the beach in Sydney in December. And I think maybe, you know, maybe there should be. Also, there should be an exit that is infrastructure rather than a slogan, because anybody has to leave. But a door you've never checked is not a door. The bill for all of this does not go to the Upper west side. It goes to the man deciding who's riding on the number four train, deciding whether to keep his kippah on or swap it for a baseball cap before his stop. It goes to the kids standing outside of a school in Crown Heights who were never asked about any of this and who will not be asked next time either. You can dismiss this as, oh, well, it'll never happen here, but that is the pattern that should concern you, because that is what is said at every place. Every place, when people say, oh, it can't happen here. Everybody says that. And then it happens. Don't believe me? Let's take another example, Covid. I was on the air saying there's no way we'd do what China is doing. We'd never lock people in. Americans would never put up with it. We did. We did. And we were bullied into it. And very few people, very few people actually stood against it. And even today, those who were right, almost all of California, they still will argue, almost all of New York still argue that they were right. All of the evidence is in. The damage has already been done. And they'll still tell you, you were the crazy one. So it can happen here in America. New York is changing, and it's changing quickly. And every warning sign is there. I am not anxious to see what happens when Benjamin Netanyahu comes to town, because I would not put it past this, this mayor's office to be coordinating with the Uber left, be coordinating with the Palestinian movement. And, you know, oh, that's crazy talk. Is it? Is it? His office set up a meeting with the ambassador from Iran. What does the mayor's office have to meet with the ambassador from Iran for? What business do you have with a nation we're at war with? And by the way, nobody got fired. Nobody got fired. He just said, I didn't know about it. It was a mistake. I didn't know about bull crap. The buck stops here. And if they. You didn't know it. That's one of the biggest mistakes anyone could make. I can't think of a more fireable offense than that one, but people will just Accept the excuse. I'm, I'm warning all of my Jewish friends. I am warning you. Get out of New York. Get out of New York. There's no reason to be there. Go someplace where this isn't happening. Get out of New York. I mean, Dave Rubin and I were talking, oh, four years ago, maybe, we were doing a podcast. And I said, you know, Dave, it is crazy, but I don't know when the trigger comes where you're like, I got to get out of here. But people waited and waited and waited, and then they couldn't get out. You know, when Germany went bad, it was too late. And then you're just, you're not getting out. And I said, at what point are we being naive? When a Jewish person or a Jewish friend is like, nah, you know, it's all, it's not going to happen. It's going to be fine. At what point do you say, I'm not taking the risk anymore? I got to tell you, I think I'm there in New York. If I was Jewish, I'd be there in New York. Get the hell out. Get out. Well, somebody's got a. No, no, no. This isn't reasonable. You can't. You look at what's happening with Donald Trump in Iran, and we all know it. How do you negotiate with people who have a death wish? You don't. How do you negotiate with people who are liars about being part of a death wish? You don't. I, I, I can't believe that we're here. But we are. But we are here. Pay attention, because the landscape is changing with these democratic socialists again. According to their own count, 51% of their ruling board are communists. I would say don't dismiss them. Dismiss them at your own peril. All right, back in a minute. All right, we're going to talk. We're going to try to get the, the straight scoop on what is actually happening with a save act next. First, let me tell you about Relief Factor. You're living with pain. I challenge you, do something about it. Don't wait. Do it today, not next month. Not everything slow down, not when you have time, because you've been living with aches and pains in your knees or your backs or your shoulders or your hands. And, you know, time doesn't fix it. It just teaches you how to work around it. 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and review, help it climb the charts. Yeah, Thune, the balless rhino. I gotta tell you, he's not the only ballist one. Larry Kudlow last night had Senator Lankford on who's a good guy, nice guy, but he's like, you know, you guys never take on the Democrats. Are you kidding me? We take on the Democrats every day. We take on the Democrats more than you take on the Democrats. So don't start with me on that one. Um, and then, you know, it's their fault. It's their fault. No, it's your fault. You have the numbers. You have the numbers, and if you don't, then th is a ballist rhino. How come you guys can get everything that the. The GOP voter is against? How come you could get that done, but when you have 80% of the GOP behind you, somehow or another, we just don't have the votes. We just don't have the votes. You know, Mitch McConnell got things done. You know how he got things done. Gee, there's a senator up in Maine that needs help with her reelection. You know who's not getting a dime? The senator from Maine. You're not getting a dime on your reelection unless you fold and you help us on this, then we'll help you. That should have been done months ago, but we got a ballist rhino who I am going to award the Nobel Prize to. I'm making one just for Thune. Now. Am I being too pessimistic? I doubt it. But the one person who, who actually would know who's been in that septic system that might know is Rachel Brevard, and she is with us. She is vice president of programs for the Conservative Partnership Institute. She's been on before saying, you know, don't get your hopes up. Where are we on the SAVE Act? Where are we on this whole thing? Is it going to pass or not? Rachel?
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Well, just give me pause to choke on the no Ball Rhino award that you're creating. That was made my Friday. Thank you. So what's fascinating about this Save America debate is that we have John Thune out there saying, well, we don't have 60 votes. We've always needed 60 votes. We don't have 60. Well, yes, we can get into the procedural leverage that is available to these, but what the president has said is, okay, fine, if you're not going to physically impose exhaustion on the minority, on the, you know, the filibustering minority, if you're not going to do all of that, then fine, I'm going to try to find a way to give this to you at 51 votes, and I'm going to try to do it through reconciliation. No one's ever tried this before. Donald Trump has said, I do not want this to be some sort of voluntary grant program that you can just get out of. I want this to be. I want this to have teeth. And so he said to the House, pass this. They did. And now he's saying to the Senate, do the same. And you have John Thune who said, well, we don't have 60. We can't pass this now saying, Donald Trump has given it to him at 51 votes because reconciliation passes that way. And John Thune saying, oh, can't do that either. So what he's doing, which is shocking in my mind, is telegraphing his own incompetence. He has 53 Republicans, and they cannot pass at simple majority reconciliation vehicle that may. We don't know if it will. We haven't, you know, run through the process yet, but he's not even willing to try to make the program as reconcilable as possible to get it through this vehicle.
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So, Rachel, tell me, because this is, this is where Thune, you're absolutely right. He is telegraphing his own incompetence. Do you remember when they passed the Obamacare bill? I don't remember who it was. He was, like, pro abortion. I mean, pro life, all of these things. He was, like, dead set against it. He was a Democrat dead set against it. And he came out finally and he was crying and he's like, okay, okay, they made a deal with me and I'm gonna pass it. I mean, where's the strong arm here? What, what do you have if you can't? If you're Just like, well, I've talked to everybody and everybody doesn't, then what use are you? What use are you? You can't make any deal with anyone.
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This gets to the point of what the Senate actually is for, which is to solve problems. And the Obamacare instructor example is very instructive because, again, what the Senate provides you as an institution is the ability to leverage the physically grueling process of deliberation. And what Harry Reid did when he passed Obamacare, people may remember it actually passed in two parts. It passed one as part of a reconciliation vehicle at simple majority, but the second part passed. The major policy of Obamacare passed the Senate in its traditional form subject to a filibuster. Now, Harry Reid had 60 Democrats, but he didn't have 60 votes, okay? He had Lieberman and he had Ben Nelson. He had to chase those votes. And he had Republicans on the other side throwing every possible delay tactic at him. And so what Harry Reid did is he didn't walk around and say, well, I just don't have 60 votes. Sorry. He used the institution. I was in D.C. when this happened. He said, we are not going home. You wanna obstruct? You wanna vote? No? Fine, you can do that, but you're gonna do it 247 in the chamber nights and weekends, and we're not leaving until it's done. And do you remember when that statutory part of Obamacare passed? It passed on Christmas Eve. Christmas, because he leveraged every single opportunity he had to say, fine, you can oppose me, but you are going to physically pay for your opposition. This has been how the Senate has operated for 200 years, except now under John, when it cannot do.
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Yes. So what the hell is his problem? Have you figured that piece out yet? What is his deal?
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It's bigger than John Thune, unfortunately. And it is that the conference now has won loyalty. And it's to their own comfort, right? What John Thune doesn't want to do is to announce to his conference. By the way, guys, we are going to start doing midnight quorum calls. We're gonna start working Fridays even, or Mondays during the day. Things that they never do. If John Thune announces that his conference is going to whine, they are going to grumble. A lot of them will just go home anyway, and it will be John Thune becomes the enemy of his conference. They have one loyalty, and it's to their own comfort. And that really hamstringing the Senate. Because the Senate for, again, for 200 years has operated in this deliberate environment which takes work and this current Senate works two and a half days a week, Glenn. Okay? They work Monday night to Thursday at noon, and they go on recess for weeks. They don't stay in Washington and do this work. And what we are talking about doing, a true deliberative environment where you are dealing with an obstructive minority like you are with the Democrats. It takes work, and these senators simply do not want to do it. So, Ken, John Thune as leader, right. Show some small L leadership and say, guys, get in the locker room. I'm gonna give you a pep talk. We are doing this. Yes, he could do that, but he's chosen not to. But the problem is bigger than Jonathan. Honestly. It's the entire Republican conference outside of a field. He doesn't wanna put in the work.
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That's totally fine. But it takes a leader to say, I don't give a flying crap, you're staying, you're staying. It takes a leader who's willing to take the arrows and the slings and the bruises and say, go ahead, punch me again. I'm not going anywhere. It's going to end up between you and me. And I know I'm not going anywhere. So we're doing it. That's what a leader does. John Thune has absolute. I would. He doesn't need hormone therapy. He's already a woman. He has absolutely no balls. Um, tell me why he's not doing the reconciliation thing. What is his excuse on the reconciliation thing?
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Well, it's that his conference does not want to do another vote a rama before the midterms. And if people are familiar with this process, it's an unlimited amendment process in the Senate. Now, debate is limited under reconciliation, but amending is not. So, ironically, the objection to the talking filibuster is, oh, my gosh, they can offer unlimited amendments. Well, every budget resolution and every reconciliation vehicle also comes with an unlimited amendment process. Now, what happens is that, you know, Democrats think they can offer a bunch of poison pills. They have already done this, right? The Senate has already been through multiple voteramas. I don't personally think Democrats have any new ideas that they haven't already forced Republicans to vote on. But these are grueling exercises. They go, you know, into 4:00am, 5:00am they go all night, but then they're over. The Senate does simply just does not want to do that. And, you know, if you believe Thune, there's also substantive objections to the bill. You have the farmers who are getting billions of dollars. They want more. You have the defense hawks who are Getting billions of dollars. They also want more. So there's a number of those issues as well. Thune has said, I would prefer to take that budget resolution coming over from the House, carve out the substance and replace it with a CR with a government funding bill.
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I can't take these CRs anymore. We have no government. If you're just continuing resolute. You have no government. You have. It's just a giant blob of money out there. And we haven't made a single Damn decision since 2008. These people are worthless. They're worth. At least. The leadership is worthless. You know, I have senators who call me and say, I don't even know why I'm here anymore. We don't actually do anything. This is a deliberative body. We don't do anything. Why am I wasting my time here? And I'm running out of reasons for them to stay. I really am.
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No, it really. What you've hit on the current state of the Senate. It's an existential threat to the Senate itself, because I think you have a number of senators who are rightly asking that question. What do I even do? It's funny. I talk a lot about the Senate to various groups in Washington, and I talk about when senators were titans, when they moved history, when senators were statesmen. And they really, honestly, there were times where senators were more famous than presidents because they were more powerful than presidents in many ways. And. And they wielded power with dignity and authority. And you have a Senate now that is literally run like an adult daycare. You know exactly when you're gonna vote, you know exactly when you're gonna have lunch, and you know exactly when you're gonna go home. And for all of the remaining time you sit on your carpet square and sip on your juice box and wait to be told by the leadership what to do.
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Exactly. That is not what the Senate is for. Right. And the more it be, the more that it behaves that way as an institution, the quality of senators are gonna go down because why would any respectable member of SOC to put themselves through that? But two, you're also at a critical point in the conference where members have never seen a Senate that operates any differently. They don't know how to aspire to what the Senate used to be. And so I do think we are at a very dangerous point, a tipping point for the Senate, where it's either gonna save itself or it's going to continue into this complete irrelevance and decline.
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So what is, what's Trump's move here? What's next?
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Well, Trump has said in clear terms, you're starting to see him throw hands at John Thune, which he hasn't done before, you know, and to say to him, look, this is unacceptable. I think it's time. It seems as though Trump is starting to realize that the Senate Republican Conference is actually the problem. He's talked about the filibuster being the problem and the parliamentarian being the problem, and those are foils, those are proxies for what the actual problem is, which is the conference itself. So Donald Trump cannot force the Senate to pass legislation, but he is the leader of the Republican Party and he has a lot of power at his disposal. So I think he can try to make life painful for these senators in a way that he really hasn't. I hope he doesn't have to do that. I hope the Republicans continue to midterms. But you have a situation now where the Senate has given its members nothing to run on. Right. Donald Trump is trying to help them, save them from themselves and say, just give the voters something to show up for. Nobody remembers what you've done. They remember what you're doing. So, you know, I think you're going to start to see more pressure from this White House against the Senate than I think you've seen before, and it's over.
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Well, but what they're going to say, what they're going to say when they get home is, I'm on your side. I'm on your side. We just need this election. If we can just get a few more, then we'll have the power to do. I'm so sick of that excuse. And I don't think it's going, I don't think it's going to, you know, be bought by anybody in America. I really think GOP voters have shown their, they've tipped their hand. They've, they've shown. We're done with you guys. We're done. John Thune, good luck on your next, your next election. It can't come fast enough. And feel free to stop by at any time. We're in the same area. I'm out in the Mountain west, too. John, you can stop by and get your Nobel Prize anytime. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. You can hang it where your ball should be. Anyway, Rachel, thank you so much. I appreciate you being on with us. I'm sorry that it's, it just ran into this, but I'M in no mood for those always happy to be here.
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want you to know we're doing our best to teach you history, but also a little biology as well. Thune, the Balless Rhino is up@glenn beck.com torch under torch tunes and you listen to that, you can put it on repeat and listen to it all day. Play for your kids. Teach them a little biology. This man. This is where the ball should be. This man has done. And he's currently the president of the Senate. You know, I know this is wholly inappropriate, and I know I talk a lot about, you know, trying to be a better man today. I'm just not that better man. Okay, I can admit that. I'm just. It takes a lot of work. And by the end of the week, this is why Fridays are always a little squirrely, because by the end of the week, I have spent all of my good man points. I've spent them all. I mean, I'm. I'm running on vapors of be a better man. By Thursday and by Friday I'm completely out. I'm like, I got no more energy to be a better man today. But give me a couple of days rest and I'll be back to that guy on Monday. And I'm trying, I'd like to make it the whole week but then this kind of crap starts to happen. By the way, have you heard what Lankford said? Oh my God. Play, play the Langford thing. Do we have time? Play a little bit of this Lankford discussion. Senator Lankford, you don't have it. Okay, well we're gonna have it here in just a couple of minutes because what senator, what Senator Lankford said was, you guys are being so mean to us Republicans. You know, why don't you, why don't you talk about the Democrats? Oh, Senator Lankford, I might have a no ball prize for you as well today, but I think I just gotta keep that. Only one winner per year, quite honestly in this category and it goes to John Thune. But you might be nominated for it. I've got an answer on we don't take on the Democrats. Oh my gosh. Next. You know what really bothers me about modern healthcare? We tend to treat normal as though it's the same thing as healthy. You tell your doctor you're tired all the time, your energy is down, you're not thinking as clearly as you used to. And what they tell you is, well, I'm going to run a few basic tests but everything comes back within range. The conversation is over. But you don't feel normal, you don't feel healthy. That's one of the reasons I love Jevoty. They take a completely different approach. Instead of looking at a dozen basic labs, they run more than a hundred hormone, inflammation, metabolic health, nutrient levels. The things that can help explain how you're actually feeling and may even reveal the problems years before they become a diagnosis. A phlebotomist will come right to your home. Real care team reviews your results and they build a personalized plan based on your data, not some one size fits all guideline. So I want you to go to Jevity.com promo code GLENN20OFF. That's G-O-G-E-V-I-T-I.com
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Swipe the flame, pass it on. Crank the game. Glam back is on. Glam back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Yeah, it's Friday. A senator who I think is a very nice guy, kids on yesterday, and he's talking to Larry Kudlow, who I really like, but Larry is a recovering alcoholic like I am. And we tend to say what we're thinking and Larry says it in a really nice way. You're bungling everything. You Republicans are bungling everything. What are you doing? And, and wait until you hear Senator Lankford's response. It's you're going to weep. You're going to be so. You're going to be like, oh my gosh, these guys are working so hard in their three days a week. I just don't know what to do. You're right. We need to do more for them. Or maybe you'll have the exact opposite feeling. I'm not sure. But we get into that here in just a second on the SAVE Act. We'll do that in 60 seconds. First, Patriot Mobile. If a company wants your business, it shouldn't ask you to check your values at the door. Service matters for sure. Price matters too. But principles that your money supports every month, that matters too. You have a phone plan through one of the big mobile phone companies. You might be supporting something really dark and terrible that you don't want. Are you for abortions? I think it's Verizon that sends a lot of their money to Planned Parenthood to, you know, help provide abortions. I don't want a dime of my money going there. I don't care about my cell phone coverage being the best when I can give them a lot less money every month by using just buying a piece of their tower and not their plan. I get to be then support what I want to support with my money, and that is people who are working for life. And that's what you get with Patriot Mobile. Yet the world's only Christian conservative wireless phone company, they do use the same cell towers, so they got to use the same cell systems. That's why you get the same coverage, except you get it at a better price. And you're not giving them all your money. It's going to Patriot Mobile, who then fights against all of this stuff. Patriotmobile.com Beck Put your money where your heart is. 972 Patriot Use the promo code Beck get a free month of service. Patriotmobile.com Beck972 Patriot promo code Beck make the switch today.
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All right. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, dawg. He walks in big, talks like a king but the room stays cold? When it's time to bring? He points at the boy then ducks the fight all soup, no spark and no words all bite he says I got this. Then shift the blame the same old grin with a different name Say it loud, say it plain? You have the the chair but lost the game Too much pose, not enough drive? You keep the crowd but you never arrive. Wait, tune's the ball is rhino what. Ain't got balls at all? You sell that talk like it pays the rent but every big promise leaves the same dent the clock moves on and your plan stays thin you bring a weak hand when the stakes come in you lean on the wall and call it power? But when it's go time, you shrink by the hour? Say it loud, say it plain? You have the chance you'll miss the lane? All that smoke, all that drive but when it counts you bad. You don't get it done? From the ball ass rhino always on the run? You make a big scene then fold up small. From the ball ass rhino ain't got balls at all. No backbone, no bite operate, no fight. You can pose, you can bluff but the job needs stealing you got. Oh, my gosh, this is so wholly inappropriate, isn't it? But it feels really good. Oh, he's on the run. You make a big scene then fold up small. All right. I mean, I could put that on repeat and just play it for the rest of the show and be happy. I would. I would actually, in my mind, there would be a big space in my mind where I like, yeah, I earned my money today. All I did is I took that song, I put it on replete, and I played it for three hours. And I feel good about my job. Um, now I will tell you what would be really wrong. Really wrong, because, you know, Trump asked to call Thune's office and ask politely. And I said, you know, ask politely. Now, here's what I do not want you to do. I do not want anybody to go to the Torch website where under Torch Tunes, you can get Thune the ball less Rhino and play that over the phone on his message machine. I do not want you to do that. It would be wrong. Imagine the people in his office going through all of the phone calls and it's like beep thune the ball this rhino beep thoom the ball less rhino.
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Yes, this is Helen from Nebraska and I'd like you to do the save act, please. Beep thune the ball less rhino. That would be horrible and I don't want that to happen. So do not go to glenn beck.com torch look for torch tunes. Get thune the ball less rhino. Call his office and put that on their machine. Don't do it. It would be wrong. And I'll be very upset if I hear about this. Very upset. Now let me play. Let me start with James Carville. You know James Carville, the guy who proves that there is alien life. James Carville telling the Dems what they should do with voter ID. Cut 3. We are not going to win the war against some kind of id. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't fix anything. But maybe you just go along with it and move to the next words. Of all the things people, if every poll shows 75 or better, say we should have some kind of an ID to vote. Some say, I don't know what it is, but just, just quit fighting it and go along with it and move to the next thing. That's James Carville, space alien. Even from. I guess he's in bed. I don't know who he's in bed with. Probably some socialist, but he's in bed doing the interview from bed. The space alien saying, just do this. People are for it saying that to the Democrats, but thune the Baldos rhino just can't get it done. Now the President has given him several different ways to do it, but he just can't get it done because he just doesn't have the votes. What is your job? Your job is to whip the votes. Your job is to get it done. Your job is not. You're not the accountant. You're not the one that's like, I counted. We don't have votes. Your job is to get the votes. Your job is to make deals. This is the one time that you're not doing a backroom deal. This is the one time where you're not negotiating with somebody, okay? The guy, he wants a bridge in his town named after him. And, and it's gonna cost us a billion dollars to build. This is the one time that you're like, no, we're not gonna do anything like that. That would just be wrong. Oh, my gosh. Now listen to Larry Kudlow talking to a good guy. Senator Lankford, listen to this. I'M sorry you had to bear the brunt of that opening, but I'm telling you right now, you, the leadership in both houses are bungling everything. Sir, I say that with all due respect and we are personal friends. It's not per. But you're bungling everything. Nothing is getting done. Your messaging is non existent. You've lost your swag, your swagger, your riz or whatever the young people say. No knows what the heck you're doing, sir. They have no idea. Yeah, you're welcome. And this is part of the challenge we've got with all of our media friends out there that continue to be able to beat up on Republicans and say Republicans are all the problem. Stop. What does he do? He immediately says, you're welcome. Taking a shiv into our chest. Yeah, you're welcome. Okay. And then his first. Sorry, his set, his first reaction is to shiv. His second reaction is to say, that's the problem with all our media friends. That's the problem with all our media friends. They just won't talk about the good things we do. Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me. I will open up three hours. I'll give you three solid hours. You tell me the good things you have done in the last year. Tell it to me. I want to hear about all of the things that you've done to pass. All of the great things that are just life changing for the average American. Well, we did that one bill, you know, the great something big. Big bill. Something that we. We did that one. Huh? Okay, we've got two hours and 58 minutes left. Tell me what you have done. Well, I'd like to, but nobody in our side will ever. I, I would love to talk about all the good things that you've done. I love to talk about how you have codified things so when the next jerk gets in, he doesn't just say, yeah, all of those executive orders, they're all gone. I'd love to talk about that. You haven't done any of it. Because you haven't done any of it. The president has had to do all of the heavy lifting, all of it. You are like the friend you, you are. Honestly. You're like me. Good, good friend. Good, good friend. But you call me and you're like, glenn, we're moving this weekend. Can you come over and lift boxes now? No, not gonna be. That's who you are. That's who you are. Okay? And everybody understands it. When it's a Saturday, you're moving your friend. You're like, no, not gonna do that. Nobody is with you on this. Nobody is with you. Oh, yeah, you're trying to save the country. Nah, I'm busy. I'm. I'm working two days this week. I really just don't have the time. You know, I get in here on a Monday night and then I have to work all day Tuesday. Then I have to work all day Wednesday. When I say work, I mean, you know, I talk to people, you know, walk around. We have lunch, then we go to dinner. I meet with donors so I can get reelected. But then by Wednesday, I am wiped out. And then I got to get onto a plane on Thursday and go home. And I'm only home Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. And then I got to do it all over again, starting next Tuesday. Oh, my life is such a hell. Nobody relates to you. Nobody. Nobody feels sorry for you. Everybody is waiting. We want to cheer you on. You've given us zero reason. And it's not because we can't see it. It's because you're not doing it. Now, I'm sorry I got into the first two sentences, which I didn't even plan on talking to. My real problem is still yet to come. Go ahead, play the rest of this. Friends out there that are continuing to be able to beat up on Republicans and say Republicans are all the problem. But apparently the socialist Democrats, Democrats in New York City, they seem to be perfect because most conservative media right now is beating up on Republicans and just ignoring the socialists. I, I've never believed in lizard people. I think the guy might be a lizard. I think he might be a lizard.
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That is the most reasonable explanation on how this guy is arriving. He blinks sideways. It's the only way he could be seeing the world this way is he's a lizard person. What are you talking about? No, but the socialists in New York, they're great. Cause. No, no, nobody on. On media. In media for the conservatives are even talking about. Mom, Donnie. I know when I heard him say the stuff in New York, the socialists. I'm like, what socialist in New York? I don't even know what you're talk. Did an hour and a half out of a three hour show. I probably done half of my monologues this week have been on socialism. Yeah, we're not covering that at all. We're just beating up on. You know what? You know who I haven't beaten up on this week? Republicans. Because I really thought the hammer of Donald Trump would be a big enough hammer that maybe you'd go I don't wanna screw with him. Oh, Donald Trump. Please unleash. Please unleash, please, please. An eye for an eye for a head. Let's, let's use that, metaphorically speaking, Please start taking these guys on. This is absolutely. It's shameful. It's shameful. All right, go ahead. So what else excuse, what other excuse does he have? Ignoring the socialists who are running rampant all over the country. So I look back on what, what happened with the one big beautiful bill. Look at the housing bill we just passed. There's a lot of things that are going on that are good. And I understand nobody attacked Madami more than I have. For heaven's sake. That wasn't the point. I wasn't saying that just about you. I was saying isn't the point. This is the challenge that we're up against. What is it that your policy is, Senator? La, my friend? What is your. Where are the tax cuts? Where the spending cuts? Where's the wages fraud and corruption reduction? Where is all of that? Where is the reconciliation bill? Where's the straight talk and messaging for the midterms? Where's the growth messaging? Where's the we're going to make it better for taxpayers and working folks messaging? Come on, Senator. Well, he did it. I mean, he told you. He told you. The big beautiful bill that we just passed. Has time collapsed? Is Senator, is Senator Lankford okay? Is he going, Is he experiencing time collapse where. He just thinks he did that yesterday, not a year and a half ago. We just passed the big beautiful. That's the only thing anybody could ever quote, because that's the only thing you can only quote that come up with anything other than the big beautiful bill. You can't. And how hard was it to get the big beautiful bill? Donald Trump had to hammer all of you on the head. It wouldn't have happened if Donald Trump hadn't done your job as well. Big beautiful. I'm not done yet. Stand by. Just give me cat sit. I'm going to take a little sip. Hang on. Little sip of water. 60 seconds plus 10 seconds and then I'm going to finish. Let me tell you about relief factor. You got to live your life strategically in order to succeed. You know that you've been living with pain, so you're slowing down. It's the best thing you can do strategically, get out of pain. Of course, pain isn't just physical. It affects your focus, your energy, your patience. It changes how you move through the day, how you show up at work. Maybe they're all in pain. Maybe that's what's happening. They're all in pain. Maybe we should send them all relief factor. I can't do my job. I'm just so confused, riddled with pain. At least I'd have some empathy for you. But then I'd send you some relief factor and I'd say, get your ass off the bench now and go do your job. I don't think they're in pain. But you might be. And you're dealing with their problems, your problems and pain. So I don't really have a lot of room for a lot of empathy for them. Over 100 million people have tried relief factor. Two thirds of them gone on to take more. If pain has become the background noise of your life, maybe time to treat it like what it is, an obstacle. And if you're living strategically, don't leave obstacles in your way. Remove them. You get three weeks for 1776. Just go to relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief. That's relieffactor.com 800 the number four relief. 10 seconds. Station ID. Okay, hang on. Are you out of your mind? Senator Langford, do you really think we're this stupid? You guys, if you were in there every week and you're like, we're staying here till we're getting this done, and you failed. But you stayed there for a month and you didn't go home and you were taking midnight roll calls and you were voting and you were working hard and you didn't get it done, we'd be on your side. You're not working at all. Larry is asking you, what is your strategy? Well, you know, nobody's taking on the socialist. You know who's not taking on the socialist? You. By not doing. By not doing anything. By not. By not passing simple, simple bills, not. Not clearing the way for people to actually get into business. You know, not taking on the fraud, not doing just nothing but a committee and then never, ever getting anybody to the point to where you can have them arrested or go to jail. You know what? We're tired of it. We're tired of the show. Because that's all you are is a show. Some of us don't want a show. We want a country. When you decide to save the country, let us know. We'll be there for you. Until then. Until then. I got no time for you. No time. You're not my friend. You are my representative. Do your damn job. All right, now let me tell you about real estate agents. I trust.com. house can be listed in an afternoon if you're ambitious. But getting the right result is a different matter. The agent you choose shapes the price, the timeline, the negotiation, how much stress follows you through the whole process. That's why I started real estate agents like trust.com because unlike senators in our US Senate, not all of them, but unlike most of our senators in the US Senate, these guys know how to do their job and they get it done. And they don't say, you know, that's the problem with you. I listed the house. Why aren't you talking about the other people who aren't selling their houses? Oh, gosh. These people actually do their job. You want a name of somebody who can help you price your house, right? Get your house sold, sell it for the right amount of money, help you into your next house. Whether you're selling across the street and moving across the country, it doesn't matter. They can help you. And we will find the right real estate agent for you. They are waiting just for you to call them and then meet them. And if you don't like them, you don't think they can, they're the right ones. Don't hire them. No skin off our nose. It's realestate agentsitrust.com I think you're gonna like them. I,
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My aura ring just asked, are you swimming? No, I'm talking about politics and the SAVE Act. That's what I'm doing right now. But now I got to talk to you about this. This, this, this, this, this story will boggle your mind. Will boggle your mind. Study has come out in the Geophysical Research Letters this week with an explanation on why Europe is so hot. Now, why do you think? Why do you think, Ricky, do you know the answer to this? If you do, I don't want you to answer. If you don't know the answer to this, take a guess. What does your guess on why it's so hot. I can't hear her now. I don't know why she there. Okay. I don't know if anybody else heard her. I couldn't hear. I'm guessing you said what? Say it again. Let me see.
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the Morning Brief newsletter every morning at 8:30am Eastern. All right? But I'm not going to give it away. Oh, okay. All right.
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I would guess it's global warming, right? Global warming. Why is global warming because of pollution. We just aren't doing enough for pollution. Here's what the study came out and said. It's not the pollution, it's the lack of pollution. Europe has cut its sulfate emissions by roughly 80% over the last 30 years. Acid rain rules, low sulfur fuel standards, scrubbers on smokestacks, and all kinds of things. We were told to do it. We were strong armed to do it. We were penalized if we didn't do it. We were called horrible human beings if we thought, this isn't really what the deal is. And one of the study authors told the Telegraph that since 1980, Europe now has warmed about 1 degree more than the rest of the northern hemisphere and 1.5 degrees more than the global average. And that's most. Most of that is traced back to cleaning the. How do I get a job where I can be that wrong, that public about it and get a bigger budget? I want to know. I really do. Okay. By the way, the physics in this study, 242 years old, and you know who figured it out? A guy with a freaking magnifying glass. You know what his name was? Benjamin Franklin. It's June 1783. There's a fissure that opens up in the Icelandic highlands, and all kinds of, you know, toxic gas spews out of this, okay? Spends eight months venting the largest lava flow of the last thousand years. And there's a haze that drifts across Europe, and they called it a dry fog. And the crops withered and livestock died and. And Iceland, a quarter of the population died. Okay? Ben Franklin was in Paris that summer. He just signed the treaty of Paris. And he noticed, wow, the sun looks wrong. So he takes out a magnifying glass and he focuses the sunbeam like you used to do probably when you were a kid. You take a leaf and you focus the magnifying glass and you set the leaf on fire. Okay? But he found that the light was so weak, it wouldn't. Let me quote him, Wouldn't scarce Kindle brown paper. Okay? So In December of 1784, he writes for the Manchester Literally and Literary and Philosophical Society, and he writes a paper, and he calls it Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures. Okay, what's his conclusion? His conclusion is the haze is blocking the sunlight, the ground froze early, the snow never really melted, and that's why winter has been so brutal. Sulfur in the air cools the ground. Benjamin Franklin, 1784. No satellite, no supercomputer, just a piece of glass and a scrap of brown paper. Okay? Now, July 1971 Science magazine publishes some, you know, two boneheads from Goddard. NASA Goddard, okay, they're finding that is that quadruple the aerosols in the atmosphere and you'll drop global surface temperature by three and a half degrees. They say it's going to be sufficient enough to trigger an ice age. So wait, they're just saying the science that we already know from Ben Franklin, who only had a leaf at a magnifying glass. April 28, 1975. Newsweek runs the cooling world. Earth's climate is cooling. Food production is about to collapse. The drop could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now, we can be in an ice age. I grew up in this era. I remember all this crap. The wheat belts of Canada and the Soviet Union, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, they're all gonna be gone. We're all gonna be dead. We're all at it's. We're all gonna be frozen to death. Woolly mammoths will be roving the earth again and they'll be impaling you with their big tusks. The melting ice cap, it's not melting, it's growing. In fact, it's so big, what we should do is this was an actual scientific trick. Take black soot and put it all, sprinkle it. I don't know how many bags we'd need, but sprinkle the black soot all over the polar ice cap because the black would attract and hold in the heat and so we'd melt the polar ice cap. Good thing we didn't do that, huh? That's 10 years from 1975 to 1985. In that 10 years, world grain production more than doubled. The UN's food agency has this year global cereal harvest at a record of 2.96 billion tons. And the wheel continues to turn. And nobody, nobody notices. Nobody notices. March 20, 2000. Independent of London. Snow, Paul. Snow falls are just a thing of the past. We're not gonna have any more snow. Oh, my gosh. David Viner, he's from the climate Research whatever. He says winter snow is going to become rare and an exciting event. Children just aren't going to know what snow is. February 22, 2004. The observer obtains a Pentagon commission report. Major European cities under rising seas. Britain is going to be plunged into a Siberian Climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict by 2020. Over water. The threat, the paper said, vastly, vastly bigger than terrorism. 2007, the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report states the Himalayan glaciers are going to be gone by 2035. The source turned out to be a World Wildlife Fund pamphlet which got it from a magazine interview which was one glaciologist speculating out loud. The panel expressed regret when none of this stuff happened. December 2009 Copenhagen. Al Gore tells a conference there's a 75% chance the entire north polar ice cap will be ice free within five to seven years. Check your calendar. Not happening. The scientist that he cited said publicly he had no idea where the number came from. He would never estimate likelihood that like that. Okay. Last September, Arctic minimum came in around 4.6 million square kilometers. That was the 13th consecutive year with a without a new record low. The record is still belonging to 2012. And here we are. Let me, well, Let me take one more step. 2020. When the International Maritime Organization cut the sulfur allowed in ship fuel from 3.5 to half a percent. Sulfur dioxide from global shipping fell about 80% overnight. Researchers writing in Communication, Earth and Environment in 2024 called it what it an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock and estimated it could double the warming rate of this decade compared to the rate since 1980. So we ran a planetary experiment on the entire ocean without hearing, without, without a hearing, without a vote, without anyone in position of authority saying out loud what Benjamin Franklin do in 1784. I mean, where do we, honestly, where do we, where do we go from here? Where do we go from here? It's not the science that is a scandal, it's the arrogance that is we took the pollution out and now because we might get a point five to one point change in the temperature. So we take the, we take the sulfur out, we clean up the air. And now they're saying well that could give us a 1 point or 1.5 increase in temperature in a decade. Every one of these headlines came attached to a demand, to a treaty, to a tax, a mandate, a deadline, a thing you have to give up by Tuesday. Don't eat meat. For the love of God, just don't eat another hamburger. Not one of them came attached to a sentence a scientist is really supposedly saying. And this is what they should say. This is our best estimate. And we could be wrong. Good chance we're wrong. Okay. Franklin titled his paper Think of this. Imaginations and conjectures. That's a man telling you exactly how much weight to put in on his work. He was right and still labeled it. I don't know, I could be wrong. A guess. The modern version doesn't label anything a guess. It labels dissent. I mean we've been here before 1784, a man in Paris holds up a piece of glass, watches the light fail to catch brown paper on fire and told the world, I have an idea, but I'm probably wrong. Two and a half centuries later, we have satellites, supercomputers, 100,000 credentialed experts, and the one word we've lost is the one that Franklin put in his title. I gotta tell you, there are days I would love to have a job like that. I mean, I would love to be. I'd have to be willing to be wrong in public twice in opposite directions and call it settled both times and then never apologize for it and possibly set Europe on fire. You know, there's times I'd really like to have a job like that. And then I think, nope, I don't have the stomach for. I'm not that evil. I wouldn't have the stomach to be able to do that. It would bother me too much. None of these scientists are bothered by any of this stuff. They'll just go on and say their next thing is absolutely right and the science is settled. Just know none of it's settled. None of it. Because now they're telling us the air is too clean over Europe. Now it's getting super hot because. Not because of global warming, but because we cleaned the air too much. The arrogance of these people. But here's the good news. We're going to give the same people like that artificial superintelligence because they know what they're doing. All right, let me tell you about the international fellowship of Christians and Jews. What does it actually mean to stand with Israel? In today's world, it is easy to say the words. It's harder to live them out. When the headlines are constant, the threats are real, the region around Israel is volatile. Standing with Israel today means recognizing that the Jews continue to live under pressure from terror proxies from hostile regimes, from rising anti Semitism all around the world, and choosing not to look away. It doesn't mean fighting their wars or supporting their leaders. It means loving and caring for them. It means food for the elderly. It means shelters for the vulnerable. It means aid for Holocaust survivors who have seen enough hatred for one lifetime. Now they're getting a redo. The international fellowship of Christians and Jews. It provides tangible support, delivering emergency supplies and caring for those who are most at risk in a shaking world. Standing with Israel. Forget it, because that's misunderstood. That means you stand with Benjamin Netanyahu. It stands with the war. No, I stand with the Jews. I stand with their right not to be hunted over and over and over again as a group. There's lots of people who are Jewish or Catholic or Muslim or Mormon that I don't like. We don't hunt them as a group. Or do we? The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews Praying for peace in Jerusalem and for the soldiers and the families and the civilians on all sides who are really carrying the burden of this right now, would you join them? Visit prayifcj.org pray ifcj.org you show up, you work hard, you speak the truth. 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But, but all 20 episodes are already out commercial free on the Torch. There's also something that we have. The, the video of Jason and I when I went to get my passport at the State Department to get this. This is how, if you apply for a passport, this is how it's going to come now. Okay, so I'm talking in this State Department. I just gotten it, and I'm showing you this box. This is how passports are going to start coming, coming out. But this was the, this was, I think, the first of a thousand passports that were printed. And they've just announced they're going to make them available to everybody here in the next couple of weeks. But they're very different. And this is the controversial part. It's an anniversary 250th passport, 250 years. It has Donald Trump on the front, but it has some really cool things. It tells stories. It has little, little stories all the way through the passport. And I love this. When you get the passport, when you get the box, you open it up and it says, greetings to all citizens of the United States, blah, blah, blah. This is an invitation to explore the world as an ambassador of our enduring democracy and a witness to the global community. U.S. department of State. If you want one of these commemorative passports, you just, just have to apply and ask for it. They're beautiful and they will be collectible at some point. They do cost you more, but I got, I got one because I have a museum and someday it's going to go in the museum. Part of our 250th year anniversary.