Glenn Beck (46:01)
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If you are re victimized, it's easy to protect yourself. It's LifeLock. Join now. Save up to 40% off your first year with a promo code. BECK. Call 1-800-LIFELOCK-1-800-LIFELOCK or head to lifelock.com use the promo code BECK and save 40%. So I couldn't sleep last night. I was in. My head, was just spinning all night, just thinking about stuff, and I couldn't get. I couldn't get a couple of stories out of my mind. First, the Social Security thing. We're going to talk about that Elon Musk was in Wisconsin, along with a buddy of his, a guy who volunteered as a big CEO of a venture capitalist thing and volunteered because he wants to clean up the government and all of the waste and the graft and everything else. And they, they made an announcement. We'll play for you about Social Security. The other thing, Wisconsin has a big vote today, and this could mean the, the balance of the House, Republican, Democrat, and, and we'll see. And we'll see what happens today. How many people are going to be out voting? We're going to talk to Ron Johnson about it here in just a second and the importance of it. If you happen to be in Wisconsin. Probably a day to go out and vote. Not, not probably, definitely a day to go out and vote. Then I was also thinking about the protests again on Elon Musk. I just can't get past these things because these are global protests. And this what kept me up. These are global protests. These are demonstrate demonstrators outside of Tesla showrooms. We've seen fires, we've seen people burning the cars and the lithium batteries, but we're seeing them all over the world. So can we just stop. Today's theme of the show is just can we think critically? Thinking questions. Can we do that? Before we accept this story, let's ask some things. Is this, this is what really kept me up last night. Can anybody tell me what these protesters are responding to? And I'm not talking here in America. I'm talking about in England, in Germany, wherever a Tesla showroom is, people are protesting. I would just like to know what are the people in England protesting? What policy? What decision? Because Musk isn't pushing a global war. Uh, he's not erecting the tariffs. I mean, I would understand it if people in Europe were protesting on the tariffs, because that would actually affect the average person. Okay, this, these, here's, here's what, here's what he's doing. He's helping lead a department focused on the United States federal budgeting and efficiency. Why would anyone in Germany or Sweden or Ireland care why? I mean, I looked last night, I tried to find. Has there any been anything like this in history? No. You can go to, you know, people protesting the nukes and war and Everything. But not this. There's nothing where a domestic policy dispute has all of a sudden swept the globe. So why would they care about this so deeply? Hmm? Getting out of NATO. Okay, even, even, even if they were saying, you know, Greenland, America just wants to buy Greenland, and they're out, you know, protesting. Okay, I could see that for some degree, but I can't see people in, I don't know, whatever city Greenland has, or the people in Denmark, you know, rising up and saying, this policy that Elon Musk is doing in the United States, trying to make the government more efficient. That's just outrageous. Come on, Sven, let's go out and burn a Tesla. Makes no sense. Have you ever seen a protest in foreign countries over a U.S. cabinet appointment ever in your life? Not over war, not over climate treaties, not over global trade, but over something that deals with cutting our budget that will not affect really anybody overseas? Yeah, it's unprecedented. It does. It's never happened. So who benefits? That's the first, the first question is, have you ever seen, seen this before? Second, why would anybody in Europe care about this? Three. Who benefits? Well, let's look at Tesla. This is the company that made electric cars mainstream. It jump started the global EV race when everybody was saying we got to have electric cars. We're like, no hydrogen would be even better. Got to have electric cars. Well, they don't work. Here comes Elon Musk and he starts test Tesla. He not only develops solar panels, battery storage, charging infrastructure, things environmentalists have been begging the world to adopt for decades. Okay, and then wait, all of a sudden the very people who claim climate change is the greatest, I'm quoting them, the greatest threat to humanity are now trying to cripple or even burn down the company doing the most to solve it. That doesn't make sense. Does that make sense to you? That, that's, that's not activism. That's contradiction at. It's a mental illness. Really. That's what it is. It's a mental illness. If that makes sense to you, then you should see a doctor. If you believe in saving the planet. How does driving the number one force for clean energy or torching lithium batteries help you at all? How does boycotting EVs help you terrorizing people that bought Tesla EVs? How does that help you? How does trying to destroy the most innovative clean energy company in the world move us toward your goal? Answer. It doesn't. It doesn't. So let's ask a deeper question. Are all of the claims you've made since the nineteen, really eighties, nineties. We're all five years away from something worse than World War II. You know, we're all going to die in a fiery flood. Is that true, Any of that? Or is this about control? Because if we only have five years to do something, why are you stopping Tesla? Why would you do that? We only have five years. These guys are helping us. Doesn't make sense. Elon Musk did not become controversial when he built Tesla or when he launched rockets, or when he championed electric energy. When did he suddenly become controversial? And it's not Donald Trump. It's when he stood up and defended free speech. That's when they turned on him. When he bought Twitter and exposed the censorship that we now can prove happened. When he said he wouldn't be a pawn for either side, that's when it happened. That's when the outrage machine flipped on. They had to put him out of business. Have to put him out of business. And when people try to justify it, they usually pivot to one word. Well, he's a fascist. So let's ask some questions on that one. Well, this isn't about Tesla. It's about stopping Musk. He's a billionaire fascist. Okay, all right, let's think about that for a second. What do you think? I feel like, you know, I feel like Montoya and six figure fingered men. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. What does fascism mean? What is a fascist? Is it simply somebody with a lot of money and a large platform? Is that what it is? Is it somebody who questions centralized authority? Is it someone who wants less government interference, not more? Because none of those things are the definition of fasc. Traditional fascism is defined by state control, forced conformity, censorship and the silencing of dissent. That's what a fascist does. So will you recognize, you don't understand the word fascist or fascism. And maybe you can pick another word but that one, you know, I could, I could, I could call my car a horse or a goat all day long. It's not going to make it a horse or a goat. It's still a car. So you can call him a fascist all you want, but it doesn't make him a fascist. Let's find another word that might work for you. Maybe political opponent is better. By the way, Musk, that fascist is the one being protested, censored and attacked for trying to create platforms where dissent is allowed. How? Don't you have a headache if you're on that side? Don't you have A headache. We should bring our friends aspirin. You've got to have a headache. This is heavy lifting you're doing. So here's the question. Is he really a fascist or is he a powerful figure who doesn't obey the approved narrative? Because that's what it is. That's the same thing with Trump. He doesn't care what the approved narrative is. He's just going to do it whether you like it or not. That's doesn't make you a fascist. It makes you a fascist if you're telling everyone they must conform. If somebody is a fascist for promoting open dialogue, transparency and government accountability, what do you call the people who are trying to shut him down by any means necessary, including violence? See that? Because if you take the word fascist away and you apply it to him, there's no word for the people who are actually trying to silence people through violence or terroristic activities. There's. There's no word. You've taken the word. And you know, the worst thing is, and I said this about racism how many years ago, 30 years ago. Can we stop calling everybody a racist? Stop calling us everybody racist. This like in the 90s. You're overusing that word. It's going to let real racists go by the wayside because it will have no meaning anymore. The same thing with the fascists. What do you do when actual fascists arrive? So let's get back to the root. These protests, they don't make any sense. Let's ask some more questions. Who's organizing these protests? Who's funding these protests? Who gains power or influence if Tesla's brand is damaged, if Musk is silenced, or if the public believes the world is against him because regular people do not throw together rallies on a Saturday, across the border, across the ocean, to protest over American federal staffing decisions? It doesn't happen. You know what I'm really upset about? Have you seen what they've done? They're. They're cutting some teacher salary over in Ireland. Oh, okay. I don't care. I don't live in Ireland. I don't care. It doesn't affect my life at all. So how is this affecting their life? It takes planning, it takes money, it takes messaging, it takes media amplification, it takes global coordination. Gee, that doesn't sound like a grassroots operation at all, does it? And if the protests are being driven by a narrative and not facts, then isn't it fair to ask this question? What narrative are we being sold? And who's paying for all that advertisement? See we're living in an age now where perception is power. That's it. One viral video can topple a reputation. One headline can shape an election. And if you can convince the public that even climate heroes are suddenly now villains just because they challenge a certain system, not even the one you say is the most important, important of all time, then you can control almost any story. And they know that. So here's the challenge for you today. I think you're gonna love it. This is for you and the people you love. Think, think. Ask question with boldness. Is this protest helping the environment or hurting it? Is this outrage spontaneous or coordinated? Is the word fascism being used to reveal the truth or to shut down a conversation? And most importantly, are we now burning down the lifeboats just because we don't like the captain of the ship? Because if we are, we might win the argument today. But did you see the end of Titanic? Maybe we should. Maybe we should watch that. I'm the king of the world. Was that Elon Musk? And did he actually sink that ship? Might be. He's a fascist, you know, and the number one thing that fascists do sink big ships. Okay, they never done that. But since we're redefining the word fascist, they sink big ships. Back in a minute. If you're living day in and day out with aches and pains, you're probably, you know, you know, you know what it's like. You know what it's like pulling a plug on you. Your energy is slowly just draining out of you. Doesn't do a lot for your mood either or your outlook on life at all. 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So Elon Musk and a friend of his, where, they were out in Wisconsin doing a, doing a rally or a town hall and they were talking about how, how they, what they found in Social Security is just horrible. The, the government was giving away Social Security and it wasn't haphazard, it was planned. People were coming across the border and they were handing them a Social Security number. And it was clear that I don't remember the numbers, but it's a very high number there. We are paying people who came here illegally, we're giving them Social Security when our, when our old people can't afford to eat, we're just giving this away to people who are here illegally. That's crazy. Crazy. So, you know, we don't survive as a nation without some accountability and without some common ground. And I don't know, again, when did it, when did it become okay to cheer or jeer for somebody who's stopping corruption in our government when it'd be okay? I mean, how did we get here? How did we get to the point to where people actually cheer the idea of our government secretly and denying it? If you ask them, giving taxpayer funded benefits like Social Security to millions of people who are here illegally and most people don't even blink. Now, how did we get. Forget politics, forget red team, blue team. Just, just let me say this. Let's just ask your friend. Ask yourself this question. If the people you trusted the least were doing this, would you be okay with it? That's the My side. Would you be okay with it? I would be fine if you had an Elon Musk in there doing this. Be totally fine and exposing all of this. Yep. It's not a gotcha. It's a principle. It's critical thinking. Would you be okay? You know, critical thinking really needs to make a comeback because when we stop thinking critically, we start defending nonsense because our side is doing it. And we lose something bigger than an argument. We lose trust, we lose connection. We lose the ability to have any kind of honest conversations with the people that we love. So how do you talk to your friends and your family who just don't seem to see what we see? Well, it doesn't start with conference confrontation. It starts with curiosity, which brings us to questions you can ask. You ask them. Can we just look at this as if we didn't know who was in office because then we can find our principals. Would you still feel like this was okay? What's the limiting principle here? If this is allowed for the government to deny that they're doing this, but give all of this money, all of these benefits to people who are here illegally while denying they're doing it. And it's not within the bounds of the law. If we can just do this now, is there any limiting principle? What can't we do? What happens to a country when the law no longer means what it says? Don't accuse. We just need to start inviting people to answer these questions, show respect for their mind. Because deep down, most people do not want to be hypocrites. They don't. And that's the conflict that they're having in their head right now. Okay? They want to be consistent, they want to be fair. But sometimes they just need a little help connecting the dots. So what they'll say is, well, Trump, did you just stop them right there? It's not about Trump. It's about policy and principles right now. Can we judge this on its own merit? The dishonest ones will end the conversation there. And they want to just go back into the outrage machine. But you stay in reality. Because we can't see our neighbors as enemies just because they see the world differently. But the first step to helping each other is ask honest questions, have the courage to listen to their answer, not be thinking, oh, good, they said that. So I can say, just listen even when it makes you really uncomfortable, because we have to find our way back to truth. We have to find our way back to the actual law. We have to find our way back to logic, because it's not political. It's just about right and wrong. And if we can't do this, then the fight isn't about left versus right anymore. It honestly isn't even about good and evil. It's about sane versus the insane.
