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This is is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello America. I have some concerning news, but I have also some very good news. I'm going to start with the State Department. Something that is happening in the State Department, but I want you to listen to what they're now saying publicly to the rest of the world. It's very different than it has been in the past. We begin there in 60 seconds. We're also going to talk about the $4 trillion debt ceiling going up. The fact that now we have more trillion judges up in New York that are like, you know, president, he can't do that with tariffs because we don't see the emergency. Oh, oh, you don't see the emergency. Okay, well, thank you, but we didn't elect you. And I'll get into that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. You don't know when your phone bill started doubling as a political donation to people who think the American flag is triggering. 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Go to patriotmobile.com beck or call 972 Patriot. 972 Patriot use the promo code Beck for a free month of service. Patreonmobile.com Beck Now 972 Patriot. All right, I want to remind you of something before we get into to all of this, about something that we. We probably learned and then forgot about in school. And I'll give that to you here in a second. But, you know, liberals are freaking out. I mean, they freaked out over, you know, J.D. vance when he went to Europe and he said, look, you gotta stand for freedom of speech. Wait until they read the sub stack. Now, from the State Department, this is something really, really amazing. Something remarkable is happening, and it's really happening at the last place I would expect it to happen. And that is the State Department. Because that thing. Oh, my gosh, that, that. That has taken our country and steered it into the wrong direction for so long. And for the very first time in a very long time, the United States Department of State is speaking not like a globalist think tank, but actually as a sovereign nation that finally remembers what it's all about, and it's done it in just over 100 days. Marco Rubio is doing an incredible job along with the president on the State Department. We are no longer bowing to international consensus. We're not apologizing for American strength. Um, you know, we're. We're not managing our own decline. Instead, we have clarity. Clarity about who we are, what we'll defend, and what we will no longer tolerate. Now think about this. Just a few months ago, we had a State Department that was all tangled up in WOKE ideology. You know, we were outsourcing our American foreign policy to NGOs that were constantly undermining our values. We had a government that was handing out billions of dollars in aid while our borders were wide open and enemies like China were buying up influence in Panama, buying up farmland in Peoria. I mean, it was crazy. And that's all over now. Rubio has hit the brakes on the belt and road madness we have now. Did you know that we fixed Panama? The Panama Canal? He secured Panama's exit from Beijing's grip. He told Latin American leaders, you want a relationship with the US Then stop sending your people across the border and start taking responsibility. That's not a press release. This, this is leadership, and it's happening at the State Department. And most shockingly of all, I think he shut down the Global Engagement center, that Orwellian outfit that was, you know, masquerading as a disinformation watchdog, but was actually censorship mill from the US Government gone. That alone, we should be standing. Give him a standing ovation. For now, it's still the State Department, so, you know, but you can feel the gears turning differently now. The Agency is being gutted of its dead weight, of its activist layers. They're all being peeled back and rebuilt on this simple idea. The United States of America must speak clearly, act decisively, and defend its own citizens and values first. I mean, look what's happened. Uh, terrorists. Yep, they're called terrorists. They're on the run. Cartels now designated as terrorist organizations. Watch what happens there. Visas for criminal aliens revoked. Students who abuse our generosity to promote jihadist propaganda. You're out. I mean, this is not just a shift in policy. It is a shift in philosophy. This is really good news. And what it is saying to the world is we are no longer confused on who we are. We're not here to play international babysitter. We're not here to sign treaties that handcuff our economy or finance global instability under the banner of aid anymore. We're here to defend American interest and nothing else. Now, you contrast that with the last few years, you know, embassies flying the rainbow flags, you know, Iranian proxies blowing up oil tankers bent over backwards trying to, you know, kiss the butt of Tehran. I mean, that chapter is over, and it couldn't have ended soon enough, but I can't believe that that chapter is over. You have to read the substack from the State Department. We are now saying loud and clear, America is no longer a doormat. America is no longer a cash machine. America is no longer ashamed. Yes, we've made mistakes, but you made them, too. Now, is this making some foreign policy people very uncomfortable? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The Davos crowd, they hate it. W E F. They hate it. The UN oh, my gosh, the think tanks, they're screaming right now. And the New York Times is going to talk about tribalism and isolationism and authoritarianism, but you know what? That's how you know it's working. That's how you know we're on the right track. Because for once, we're not admiring the problems. We're solving them. And if this continues, we might just remember what it feels like to lead and be free again. I. I want to give you some. I want to give you some of the words that Rubio is releasing now under the sub stack. You. You have to. You have to read some of it. It's amazing. Let me give you the latest. It was posted, I think, yesterday. It's the class clash of civilizations, the need for civilizational allies in Europe. And it builds on what Marco Rubio. I'm sorry, what JD Vance said when he was over in Germany. Look, guys, There are certain values that we can't abandon anymore. And there. There are two rules of thought here. And this is what we probably learned in school and then forgot. The clash of civilizations. This is a thesis that the people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post Cold War world. This came from Sam Hutchinson. He was a political theorist and political scientist, and he argued the future would. Would be fought not between countries, but between cultures. And we couldn't. We. I don't think we could really get our arms around that because the Western culture was winning. And it was proposed in 1992 at the American Enterprise Institute. And, and then in 1993, it was an article. And this is what gave birth to Francis Fukuyama's book the End of History and the Last man, where it was a completely different philosophy. And that's the one that the State Department of the rest of the world went with. We're going. What we're seeing actually is the clash of civilizations is right, that the Western way of life is under attack. And it's under attack internally and externally. Let me, Let me give you this because this is worth really listening to, because this is a message that our State Department just said, sent to the rest of the world, and every American should know it as well. The need for civilization, civilizational allies in Europe. Let me read it verbatim here. The close relationship between the United States and Europe transcends geographic proximity and transactional politics. It represents a unique bond forged in a common culture. Faith, familial ties, mutual assistance in times of strife, and above all, shared Western civilizational heritage. Our transatlantic partnership is underpinned by a rich Western tradition of natural law, virtue ethics, and national sovereignty. This tradition flows from Athens and Rome, through medieval Christianity, to English common law, and ultimately to America's founding documents. Our Declaration's revolutionary assertion that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights echoes the thoughts of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas and other European heavyweights who recognized that all men possess natural rights and that no government can deny or arbitrate any of those rights. America remains indebted to Europe for this intellectual and cultural legacy. This connection between Europe and the United States is also the reason that we now speak honestly when we disagree or have concerns. And it is why the Trump administration is sounding the alarm in Europe. You know, if. If their press hadn't made Donald Trump look like Hitler, this would be such a powerful message. Imagine being over in a country, you know, in the Netherlands or Germany or Whatever. You're seeing your country overrun and you're seeing your friends being called terrorists. Exactly like what was happening here in America. And nobody on your side is standing up in Europe. There's no leadership. Listen to this. When Vice President Vance addressed this year's Munich security Conference, he made the reason clear, stating, what I worry about is the threat from within the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values. Values shared with the United States of America. In the aftermath of two devastating world wars, European nations sought to prevent future catastrophes by creating supernatural structures that would bind nations closer together and allow for more substantial diplomatic and economic engagements. This is from the State Department. Proponents of this new order, including well meaning Christian and pro democracy parties, sought a grand transformation to a world that would transcend the divisiveness of nationality and creed. To usher in an era of unprecedented peace by overcoming the anchors of nationhood, culture and tradition. Global liberalism promised what Francis Fuka whatever famously called the end of history, the ultimate innovation of political life. Today this promise lies in tatters. This is so important. Today this promise lies in tatters. What endures instead is an aggressive campaign against Western civilization itself. Listen to that again. What endures is an aggressive campaign against Western civilization itself. Across Europe, governments have weaponized political institutions against their own citizens and against our shared heritage. Far from strengthening democratic principles, Europe has devolved into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom and numerous other assaults on democratic self governance. These concerning trends have only increased in recent years. In the United Kingdom, police are arresting Christians for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic. In 2023, over 12,000 British citizens were arrested for online posts, including comments crit of Europe's migration crisis that authorities deem to be grossly offensive. In Germany, the government has established elaborate systems to monitor and censor online speech under the guise of combating disinformation and presenting offense. When the German citizens express legitimate concerns about the economic and social impacts of globalization or criticize politicians, they now risk being fined, label as radicals, or even having homes raided by law enforcement. The European Union's Digital Service act, billed to protect children from harmful online content, is instead being used to silence dissident voices through Orwellian content moderation. Independent regulators now police social media companies including prominent American platforms like X and threaten immense fines for non compliance with their strict speech regulations. Let me continue what comes from our State Department here in just a second. It is a massive shift. Give me 60 seconds. You're going to understand if you listen to the whole podcast today. You're going to understand why Lear Capital is so important. And I'm going to give you some things that you need to know and that you need to do, and some things that you need to probably call your Senate senator and congressman on with this big, beautiful bill. The. The idea that we're going to raise the debt ceiling $4 trillion, and we're not taking any cuts seriously is sending the exact wrong message. And you're about to feel it. You're about to feel it in a big way, unlike I think we've ever felt our debt ever before. So please do the things that you need to do to stay healthy financially. If you have saved and saved and saved for your retirement, I got news for you. You know, your dollar has lost half its value. It just won't buy the same things. I mean, I showed you this the other day. 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Indeed, a similar strategy of censorship, demonization, and bureaucratic weaponization was utilized against President Trump and all of his supporters. What this reveals is that the global liberal project is not enabling a flourishing of democracy. Rather, it is trampling our democracy and Western heritage along with it, in the name of a decadent governing class afraid of its own people. Our concerns are not partisan, but principled. The suppression of speech, facilitation of mass migration, targeting of religious expression, and undermining of the electoral choice threatens the very foundation of the transatlantic partnership. Do you hear this? We are now putting Europe on notice. And good. This is critical that we do this. And you know what? If you're A Democrat you would have been for this. You've changed. Okay, I've changed. I used to be. For much more of this globalist crap. It's wrong. It doesn't work. Most likely, if you were a liberal, you were against it. You were against all these endless wars. Why are you. What new information have you gotten that changes your point of view? I can tell you what information changed me from that globalist to somebody who is now looking at this and going, look, they're violating all of our constitutional rights. And both parties are engaged in it. One's worse than the other, but both parties are engaged in it. I can tell you why I changed. Why did you change? What new information took you away from those eternal truths anyway? A Europe that replaces its spiritual and cultural roots, that treats traditional values as dangerous relics, and that centralizes power in unaccountable institutions, is a Europe less capable of standing firm against external threats and internal decay. To this end, achieving peace in Europe and around the world requires not a rejection of our shared cultural heritage, but a renewal of it. Secretary Rubio has made it clear the State Department will always act in America's national interest. Europe's democratic backsliding not only impacts European citizens, but increasingly affects American security and economic ties, along with free speech rights of American citizens and companies. Our hope is that both Europe and the United States can recommit to our Western heritage and that European nations will end the weaponization of government against those seeking to defend it. We will not always agree on scope and tactics, but tangible actions by European governments to guarantee protection for political and religious speech, secure borders, and fair elections would serve as welcome steps forward. The United States remains committed to a strong partnership with Europe and working together on shared foreign policy goals. However, this partnership must be founded upon our shared heritage rather than globalist conformity. Our relationship is too important, our history is too valuable, and the international stakes are too high to allow this partnership to be undermined. Therefore, on both sides of the Atlantic, we must preserve the goods of our common culture, ensuring that Western civilization remains a source of virtue of freedom and human flourishing for generations to come. That came from our State Department. You have got to check out what Rubio and the State Department are doing on their new sub stack. You could just follow them on X or just go to the State Department. We are sending strong messages and actually send Standing up for our values Glenn Beck. That is new and exciting. All right, everybody into a steak and think. Wow, this. This tastes like it was raised by communists. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can tell it's a communist steak. You can tell it. Okay, you want real American meat. Real American meat. I'm talking about Good ranchers here. 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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Thursday. There's a lot going on. You know, I was haunted by something we talked about yesterday, this Whoopi Goldberg clip where she was like, you know, they were talking about, you know, the original sin book and why we need to know, you know, who was actually running the White House. And she said, what difference does it make now? Oh, my gosh, you're so stupid. I just. I have a really hard time being nice. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Jesus wouldn't have said that. But Jesus wasn't around with Whoopi Goldberg anyway.
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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
And I just. I want to just set this next story up with this. Does the truth matter? Okay. I asked Grok this morning, why does truth matter in a civilization? I want you to listen to its answer. Because without. Because truth is the foundation of trust, justice, and progress. Now see if you can check any of these boxes. Without truth, societies fall into confusion. Yep. Corruption. Yep. And conflict. Yep. Shared values enable informed decisions. Not happening. Accountability. Not happening. And cooperation. Not happening. When truth is devalued, manipulation thrives. Yep. And institutions collapse. Yep. So, Whoopi, that's why the truth matters. Okay? That's why we have to solve things. Which brings me to another story that is breaking today and. And was out yesterday. The newly declassified FBI document that Nellie. Or do you remember her name? She was up on our chalkboard for a very long time, her and her husband. Um, she was a contractor for Fusion gps, the firm that was hired by the Clinton campaign to dig up opposition research on Donald Trump. Now it shows in a newly declassified documents that she likely lied to Congress. Well, I am just shocked. Well, I think I have a case of the vapors. After hearing that she denied knowledge of the Justice Department's Russia investigation, she distanced herself from the creation of the Steele dossier. She downplayed her interactions with federal officials. But the FBI's own internal analysis contradicts all of her sworn testimony. Okay, so we've had this for a while, but the Justice Department did. Didn't do anything. I mean, this is not speculation. This is documented. Um, an analytical error in the Steele dossier matched the one found in her own research. So how did that happen? Is that just a wild coincidence? Emails also showed awareness of ongoing investigations. She handed her DOJ connected husband, Bruce Orr, a thumb drive of all of the research that fed directly into the FBI's Tron Russia probe. The Bureau identified multiple times when she gave false testimony. So we've known this for a while. This. The classified documents were declassified. We've known this for a while. All of this was up at the doj. No charges, no accountability, absolutely no consequences on any of it. Does the truth matter? Yes. Why? Because civilization is built on the truth, and without it, everything begins to collapse. So the Department of Justice handed a criminal refue referral. They did nothing. The FBI itself acknowledged the likelihood of perjury there, and yet didn't do anything. So is that justice? Is that justice, or is that a cover up? It's the same DOJ that launched an aggressive, sweeping investigation into Donald Trump based on the Steele dossier, which we know now was completely bogus. And the investigation proved ultimately nothing. And then they turned a blind eye to those who created and promoted that dossier under false pretenses. The same agency that surveilled American citizens now refuses to prosecute its own Bruce or her husband was a senior Justice Department official, maintained an official back channel with Christopher Steele, even as the FBI said he's not credible and cut ties with him for unauthorized leaks. That was in 2016. He was in his position still at the justice department in 2020. Nelly Orr, meanwhile, told Congress she took a ham radio class before her employment with Fusion gps. Why? Why is that important? What? Oh, now they want to know if she took a ham radio class. So it's her hobby, is it? Consider that ham radio provides a way to communicate internationally without leaving any digital traces. Records show she took those classes during her time at Fusion gps. Something she said the opposite of this is not incompetence, this is obstruction. Here's the point that has to be made for anybody who says, ah, it doesn't matter. There was a time when American justice was the envy of the rest of the world. And not because it was perfect. It wasn't, it was horrible. But for the most part it was incorruptible. Courts could not be purchased. The truth did matter. The law applied equally. Again, not saying this was forever, and I'm not saying it was. It was applied equally, especially in the South. We know all of those problems, but we were trying to get better at that. We weren't rejecting the whole thing. We were saying this is what, this is what JFK came in and did. Narfk. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We see what's going on down there and that's against the Constitution. And so the federal government will step in and correct that because the foundation, the principles of blind justice is the foundation that separated us from the regimes that dict, you know, where the power dictated the outcomes, you know, and the powerful always walked free. It didn't happen here in America. But that foundation is cracking badly. And justice in America cannot survive if lying under oath, manipulating intelligence, politicizing federal power are tolerated when it's done by the right people. The justice system does not exist to protect a narrative. It exists to uphold the law. And without any accountability, there is no justice. And without justice, there is no republic. This is why the truth matters. This is why we must still pay attention to these things and punish the people who did the wrong things. And I don't care who they voted for or what they believed in. If they did wrong, they should be punished after a few free and fair trial where the judges are not corrupt, where the judges aren't bought off to some political theory, but they are beholden to the Constitution. And the reason why I bring this up is because, I mean we spent a lot of time with the oars and, and, and they spent a lot of time on our chalkboard, you know, because they were very involved in the corruption there. But it matters also, I bring it up now and use them as an example because they are. It's not isolated, okay? This is, this, this is, these two are just symptoms of a much deeper problem, a dual system of justice where your political affiliation or the courtroom, you're in because of the judges. Political affiliation determines the outcome. This is not lawful, it's not sustainable, and it is definitely not American. And to use the language of the left, this is a danger to our democracy. Justice must return. And it has to return through fair trials based on facts. Those in government, especially those embedded deep within its institutions, who broke the law, who lied, who covered up their actions, must be prosecuted with a force of the law. No exceptions, no delays, no deals. And you'll say, well, Hillary Clinton got away with it. Yeah, she did. And I don't think we're ever gonna go after her. And that's wrong. We should. No matter who they are, no matter what walk of life or social status they're in, everyone should be under the same law. But you can start here. Because if you send a very strong message to the people who are in the government, when people like Hillary Clinton come to them and say, hey, just do this and don't worry, you're gonna be protected. No, no, Madam Secretary, I won't be protected. You apparently will be. But I'm not doing your dirty work. You wanna do it, you do it. I'm not involved. That is what has to happen. No exceptions, no delays, no deals. And if it doesn't happen, we are gonna slide into the same kind of corrupt system and decay that defines every third rate government all around the world. Where courts are all for sale, the laws are just for their enemies, and the power protects itself. Do you want to live in that kind of an America? I do not. So you may not like the other side. You may not like the person you didn't vote for, but can we, can we more ourself in values and principles again? This is what Marco Rubio was doing with the State Department. And it is right. Can we root ourselves in principles and forget about politics for at least a little while? This is not about an enemy's list. This is about the last line of defense. Because that's what justice is. It's not a principle. It's the last line of defense. And if it fails, everything else will fail. So we got to find a way to each other and stand up for justice. Real, blind justice again. It's what we fought for. It's what Martin Luther King died for. It's what we've always said. Yeah, okay, all right, all right. You're right. You're right. It's bad. It's an injustice. There is an injustice everywhere. Right? We have to fix that. Now, what you're being told is scrap the entire system no, fix it. And it is fixable. It's not that complex. You want to fix the justice system? Easy. Stop playing politics with the truth. The truth is the truth. It doesn't matter who said it. It doesn't matter how it all unfolded because they were voted this way and they voted that way. No, it's the truth, no matter who did it. If we can get back there, we will do our country and our children and our children's children a giant favor because we'll be able to hand over to them a stable country. And isn't that what we all want? I mean, you know, the left always says, you know, Hamas mothers, they just. They want the same thing that every mother wants. No, they don't. No, they don't. Hamas mothers. Not Palestinian mothers. Blanketly. Hamas mothers. Islamist mothers want their sons to die in jihad. Okay, I'm not expecting everybody to jump on the bandwagon with all mothers. Just want their kids to live in peace and grow and prosper. Nope, they. Some don't. But do you still feel that way? Do you still feel that? You know, forget politics. I wish all these politicians would be sucked up into a giant tornado in the sky because it's politics that's killing us. But if we can just find our way to each other, back to our principles, we'll make it. All right. Back in just a second. Let me tell you about Cozy Earth. I mean, Stu, is any of this stuff helpful? You know, I. I thought about this before I went on the air and I was putting the show together today, and now I just thought about it again. At the end of that, I'm like, I don't know if that's. I don't know if that's anything you need as a listener, and I. I try really hard not to waste your time, but I. Glenn, people. No. No idea.
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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
All right, welcome to the program. You know, yesterday I talked about why the President and Congress cannot cut quickly out of our budget. But that does not mean a $4 trillion, you know, new debt ceiling. That, that's insanity. And they have to cut. And there's some really good news. Unfortunately, the politicians are only doing it because of politics. They want Elon Musk's money. It's so grotesque. Is there anyone, anyone with an ounce of dignity left in Washington? Yeah. And the answer is yes, there's a few of them. But a few of them we have to understand the place that we are in history right now with the debt ceiling. And I'm going to explain what all of this means. I read something from Goldman Sachs, an advisor in Goldman Sachs yesterday afternoon. And I saw that and I was like, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute. That's not good. If I understand it correctly, I did some homework on it. I do understand it correctly. And I'm going to explain it to you because my grandfather used to always say, what do the rich people know back in the 1930s, before the Depression? What did they know that we didn't know? Well, I'm going to give you that information next. Standby. This is Glenn Beck. First, let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. At some point, you might have the realization, wait a minute, wait a second. I'm paying them to fund what? Maybe you thought you were just covering your cell phone bill, but surprise, surprise, a good chunk of that is helping advance causes you would not support even if they were giving out free ringtones. You know, it's the 90s all over again. The big mobile phone companies have turned to social activists with their cell towers, and they are busy donating to Planned Parenthood. Gender lobbyists, whatever. The latest WOKE campaign is this week and they're using your money. Stop doing business with them. This is why I'm proud to do business with Patriot Mobile. They're the only Christian conservative wireless provider in America. I want you to consider making the switch today from the phone company you're with to them, Patriot Mobile. Do it. You'll get the same nationwide coverage. Same tower, same phone, same data speed. All of it. Except you're not destroying the country. You're helping build the country. I want you to go to patriotmobile.com Beck. That's patriotmobile.com Beck. Use my name. Beck. At 972 Patriot, you get a free month of service. 972 Patriot promo code Beck. Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile with a message for everyone paying big wireless way too much. Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop with Mint. You can get premium wireless for just $15 a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpaying. No judgments. But that's weird. Okay, one judgment. Anyway, give it a try@mintmobile.com Switch upfront payment of $45 for 3 month plan equivalent to $15 per month required intro rate first 3 months only, then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See full terms@mintmobile.com.
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Glenn Beck
Sam.
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Stu Burguiere
Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dark Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Yesterday I talked to you about the big beautiful bill. And the one thing that is tucked in there is debt. Massive, massive debt. And I told you why. We can't move quickly on cutting the debt, but we must cut the debt. And I told you to call your senator in Congress and I urge you to do this. You know, they're right now they're more open to it because Elon Musk said, you know, I'm turning off the spigot of, of, of funding politicians. I don't think it makes a difference. And now they're all like, wait, we could cut some of that Doge stuff that we were for that the whole time. They're so sickening. But I, I want to talk to you about what we can do to get them to cut the debt. Because they have to send a signal to the rest of the world and anybody who is buying our debt. Otherwise we may hit the death spiral this time around when they raise the debt ceiling. And if it's not this time, it probably will be the next time. But we'll talk about that. Try to put it in a way you can really understand because it really affects your life directly. We'll get into that here in just a second. Right now Let me tell you about real estate agents I trust. You know, not every real estate agent is good at their job. You know, some are great. Some are, well, you know, great at taking photos in front of. Of cars that they don't own. And when you're selling that house, that's not the time to learn which kind you've hired, the good one or the one taking the photos. It's not a bake sale. This is the single biggest financial asset you're about to sell or will ever buy or sell. You need somebody who knows how to price strategically, stage effectively, market intelligently, negotiate like they've actually done this several times before, because they have. This is why I started my company, Real Estate Agents I trust. My team has vetted thousands of agents nationwide, not based on who has the flashiest website or the best headshot, but who has a track record of actually getting results. They have a track record of treating people right. They make the whole process less stressful, not more stressful. They know the best business practices. So whether you're buying or selling, whether you're moving across the street or across the country, in this market, you need someone you can count on, somebody you can trust. So I recommend you go to my company, realestateagentsitrust.com we get the right agent for you. Just tell us where you're moving and moving to and moving from, and we'll get the job done. Realestateagentsitrust.com all right, so I don't know if you saw, don't know if you saw that all of a sudden there's this big interest in cutting the debt and going with the doge cuts. And I saw these headlines come across yesterday afternoon, and I was like, whoa, wow, that's good news. Who, What. What's happening here? No, it's not. It's not. It's just more of the same from these weasels in. In the Republican Party, Elon Musk announced that he is not going to be spending money in the elections. He said, I think I've done my fair share. And, you know, I don't know if it really even makes a difference. So all of a sudden, the Republicans who have been getting money from him are like, whoa, whoa, wait, Elon, we love you. Those Doge things you were doing, my gosh, we want more of that. We are you were you thinking we weren't going to include that in the bill and the big beautiful bill because we're going a lot of that. Right? Right, guys? Yeah, absolutely. Elon, we Love you. It's so slimy, it's sickening. But if that's the way they get to cuts, I'm all for it. The Doge cuts are the easiest cuts to make, and we must send a signal to the rest of the world that we are serious. Because there's something coming that, that most Americans just don't understand, you know, and not because it's hidden, it's, it's right there in plain sight, but it's, you know, like all financial crimes, it's all dressed up in fancy acronyms and, and things that people half understand. And it all sounds like it's going to be good. And eventually you stop hearing the word. That is the most important word.
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Glenn Beck
Debt.
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Stu Burguiere
I've been hearing about a debt crisis since I was a kid. There's going to come a time. Well, this is the time. We are here, so we have to talk about this. Yesterday I read something that came across my desk about. It was from an advisor at Goldman Sachs, and just listen to this. This, this, this made my head hurt. Funding conditions remain easy, but can tighten meaningfully once the debt limit is raised. 4 trillion increase is likely included in this latest bill. As Bill supply will drain bank reserves by several hundred billion. I mean, I was like, I don't. Now you've given me homework. I don't want. I need to understand that, but I don't want to do all the homework on it. So if you're hearing that, I know you're thinking the same thing. So I did some homework on it, and it. And if I may quote Admiral Akbar, the debt, it's a trap, okay? Congress is about to raise the debt ceiling $4 trillion. And they're arguing about it. They're bickering back and forth, and you're going to see a press conference or two. But in the end, they always raise it. This time, 4 trillion dol. Dollars. And the media will do what the media always does. They'll say, oh, crisis averted. But they're wrong. They're wrong because every time we raise the debt ceiling, it adds to the crisis. Okay? And this is the moment where maybe the final. We're maybe in final approach here, and if it's not this landing, it might be the next landing, but it's going to be one of the landings very, very close to now. Now, here's why raising the debt ceiling actually affects you. I don't know. Whoopi Goldberg. What, what difference does it make? Well, here's what difference it makes. And this is something that no politician is going to tell you or very few of them will tell you. Nobody will really explain it in a way that I think you can then use. So let me try. What happens when they raise the debt ceiling? They raise the debt ceiling and say, okay, the debt ceiling was, we can't borrow any more than this because we're out of control. So we can't borrow any more than this. And then they borrow all of that. And then they're like, okay, okay, okay. But we can't borrow any more than this. So this the limit. And then they raise the debt ceiling and they borrow all of that money. And then they're like, okay, okay, okay. But this time we really mean it. We can't borrow more than this. And the reason why they're saying we can't borrow more than this is because it's sending a message to the rest of the world. And who specifically? I don't think people that are, you know, you know, average workers in England are thinking about this. But the central banks are the, the, the sovereign funds are the major investment funds are thinking about this. That's why they say, okay, this time we mean it. Because all of those people with a big money to buy our debt are saying, you guys aren't serious. So the debt ceiling is raised. What does that mean? The government has to print a bunch of T bills, treasury bills, which is basically an IOU. Okay, we say we really need $4 trillion, but we're going to give you this IOU and we're good for it. Okay? We're really super gonna pay you back. And the less people believe that, the less that they think, oh no, they're serious, the higher the interest rate. It's like going to a loan shark. Eventually you've got such bad credit you can't go anywhere else. And so you have to just keep raising the interest rates. And before you know it, you're talking to veto. Who's gonna break your legs. Well, we're almost there. So they have to refill the cash drawer, right? We have to spend this money. So they raise the debt ceiling. Now who buys those? Just told you. Banks, pension funds, money market accounts, countries. And how do they pay for them? Well, they don't just have that money lying around. It's cash they have already sitting someplace else. So when they buy government debt, that cash leaves the banking system and moves over to the treasury so the government can have it and spend it. And what's left in those in the banking system is a big iou. Hang on. If you have me so far. Good. But hang on, because you're going to understand how this is going to affect your life personally in just a minute.
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Glenn Beck
It.
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Stu Burguiere
So this is like a giant vacuum. It's a very powerful vacuum. I think it's a Dyson because it sucks up all of the money, all of the oxygen, all of the, quote, liquidity that nobody understands. Well, liquidity. Well, liquidity. We're having a liquidity problem. Nobody understands that. My gosh, they can't tell you who the President of the United States is. They're gonna explain liquidity. Okay, here's what it means. Cash. Cash at the bank. Why is that important? Why does that matter? Whoopi Goldberg might say, because you need cash from the bank in the form of a credit card or in the form of an auto loan or a loan for your small business. That's why this matters to you. Less money in the bank meets tighter credit. Tighter credit means loans are going to get harder to get. Interest rates go up, which means what if you have a loan, God forbid you have a variable loan, your interest rate on your house is going to go up, which means you're going to pay more for your house, which means you're not going to, you're not going to get a raise at work because businesses are drying up because nobody has money, because this is affecting everybody, okay? You can't get a mortgage, you can't get a credit card, you can't refinance. Your small business doesn't get anything. Why? Well, because the government has all of that money, okay? They just shrunk your financial oxygen tank. They told you, breathe deep, breathe deep. But they're taking the tank and not giving you the oxygen. You might need it. Okay? So this also, when they raise the debt ceiling, affects you because it infects, it affects inflation, okay? This is slight. This is total sleight of hand because the money doesn't disappear. It's out of the bank, but it goes to the. All they've done is transferred. You were going to spend that money to. They are going to spend that money. So they just shifted it from banks and households to politicians and federal agencies, from the real economy to the administrative state. So that doesn't reduce inflation, it just changes who spends your money. It's not anti inflationary, it's anti you. We are running a system right now that is mathematically unsustainable. And every time we raise the debt ceiling, we are not solving a problem. Crisis averted. We're compounding it. The more we borrow, the more cash we Suck out of the real economy. So here's what this is going to mean, possibly in the coming months. If they pass this, you're going to see in business investment slowing down. Your wage is not going to go up, unemployment is going to creep up. Families have to tighten their budget. The Fed is trapped. Cut hate, cut rates. Inflation's gonna go up, raise rates, and the system falls apart. Okay? They're out of bullets. They're out of bullets. And as this is all happening, you're gonna be told, this is all normal, don't worry about it, everything's fine, okay? But it's not fine. How long can a man live if. If every breath he takes is harder than the last breath to get oxygen? Okay? Eventually the oxygen runs out and you're done. No family, no business, no nation can survive if it spends more than it produces. Forever. The clock is ticking, and you're going to be left holding the bill. Higher cost, fewer opportunities, and no one in Washington willing to tell you the truth. You know, we used to measure our wealth now or then, in what we made, what we built, what we grew. Now we measure our wealth, I guess, and how much debt we can sell before the system buckles. That's not prosperity, that is a countdown. So let me give you some solutions for you. I want you first, before we get into that, I want you to call your senator, call your congressman, and demand the Doge cuts. At least send a signal to those who are buying our. Our debt that we have. We have some responsibility. Put the Doge cuts in the White House. Said they're sending them next week. They just need to happen. Do that now. There are other things you need to do for your own personal survival and your own personal economy, and I'll break that down here in just 60 seconds. First, what an appropriate place to talk about Lear Capital. You know, people look at debt and they think, oh, well, we've always said that we've had a debt problem and nothing changes. Well, you'll notice. You'll notice no one has suggested that we do a stimulus package this time around. Have you noticed that? Not either side is not saying we need a stimulus package. They're saying, usually it's tax cuts and a stimulus package. We can't. We can't afford that. It won't work. We can't afford it, and it will only drive inflation up. We're out of that bullet. So history is full of people, full of people who say, it can't happen here. People think the same thing until it's over. 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I do it because I believe in it. And so what happens will happen. You know, God will work it out. But I am changing many things in my own life because I believe in this. So we all have different situations, but let me just talk to the people who Say, you know, I got a job, I have maybe some savings, but not a lot. What do I do? Okay, let me give you a goal. Whether you can reach this or not, I don't know, but it's a goal. Have six months of living expenses in cash or a cash equivalent so you know you can make it six months and pay your basic bills. Avoid any new long term commitments that will drain your flexibility. What? What? But you have to remain is super nimble right now. You have to have options in front of you right now. Cut your recurring expenses now. Eliminate or lock in subscriptions. Look at your insurance, your utilities. Cash flow is going to be king. Because something might happen and you're like, I gotta have the cash. Okay, if you can do that, great. If you can't, here's some other things. Side hustles. Set up yourself for a side hustle. Any skill. If you have the ability to go back to like a trade school, do it. Any skill. Mechanic, baking, child care, tech, whatever it is, practice it right now, even part time because you may need it later. If your hours are cut or your job disappears, have be working on a backup right now. Most important thing you can do is build local resilience. This is one of the reasons why I come up to the ranch and I've built my, my forever home up in Idaho in this small little farming community. Because I know these people and they are salt of the earth. I mean they tear up just thinking about them. I go to church with these people and I listen to them and they are, they're just salt of the earth people. You have to have your local community, your local church. Because in hard times, networks equals net worth. Okay, forget about net worth. Think of networks. Also own something tangible, even a small garden, chickens, tools, something that can help you with independence and avoid any new debt. If you don't need a new car, don't get one. Non essentials vacation. If you can get it without it, or especially vacation homes, get out of it. This is Glenn Beck, NMLS 182334 nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR for rates in the five starts at 6.799% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-906-2440 for details about credit costs and terms. Had one more thing that is so important on that list and it fits with American financing. The most important thing you need to know is stop assuming things will bounce back right away. That's normalcy bias and it kills you. So you're in debt, you're behind the eight ball, you've got high interest credit cards. What do you do? First thing you do, stop avoiding looking at it. Okay. There are mornings when you log into your bank account. I mean, I, who was it, the comedian that said, you know, I'm just thinking about, you know, letting that thing chill for a while. I've seen this movie before. I'm just not going to check my bank account. Okay. I want you to look at things and get somebody that is an expert that can help you, that is not trying to sell you something. This is American financing. You know, your, your mortgage most likely sold to you by a bank and by people who got a kickback for selling you that mortgage. That's not the same with American finance. They work for you. Call them now. See how they can help you. It's americanfinancing.net American financing.net Get the free.
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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
So three judges from New York, two of them Republican, one of them was appointed, I believe by Donald Trump, and one a Democrat, overturned his tariffs. And he said, they said, it's too broad. You can't do these things. And then they also went into, you know, we're looking at that emergency. We don't see how these tariffs are, you know, hurting the drug cartels, etc. Yeah, well, you know, I, I didn't elect you. Okay, don't tell me what you can and can't see. Just tell me what the law says. And what the law says, and Stu, you're better at this than I am, is that these are too broad and there are specific, you know, the President was given the power by Congress years and years and years ago to levy tariffs. However, there are specific things that, that he has to do and he's just been too broad on it.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I mean, like the, you know, it's the way that, as you point out, the Constitution specifically says this is Congress's responsibility to do tariffs.
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Stu Burguiere
Correct.
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Glenn Beck
So in the moment where, you know, and I don't, I don't like this at all. I know you're not a fan of it either. You know, the Constitution shouldn't just be overridden by Congress saying, well, we don't want that authority. You should be able to do it, I have that problem. That's not what they're addressing specifically here, although they do hit that the way Congress gave that authority up to the President was to do it under very specific circumstances. It's a limited power. And what they're saying is Trump overstepped his authority. If you Will. And the reason for that is the way the law is written. The law gives this court the power to delineate these matters, to figure out whether he did this appropriately.
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Stu Burguiere
This is not. This is not something that's hearing divorce court tomorrow.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
This is. All they do is tariffs.
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Glenn Beck
This is what they do. And so one of the standards you have to hit is an extraordinary and unusual emergency. Now, there are two different parts of the tariffs that they overturned. One was the tariffs that were like the Liberation Day tariffs. Right. The widespread tariffs over every country on Earth. And those. It's sort of difficult to come up with a justification for an extraordinary or unusual emergency on every single country on earth. And that was why one of the reasons they're saying it's too broad. Now, he was kind of trying to justify that under the trade imbalance, of course, some of the countries he put these tariffs on we have trade surpluses with. Right. So that.
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Stu Burguiere
I disagree. I think I've made the case for him on this program better than he's made the case for him. Whether I agree with her or not. I think I understand what he was trying to do. He's re. The emergency is Western civilization and the Western world is collapsing and we've got to change it dramatically quickly. And so he's using tariffs to call these countries back to common sense. That's what, that's what he's doing. Now, beyond that, you know, he thinks it's going to bring in all this taxes, and it did bring in some taxes, but, you know, he thinks we can just tax our way out with, with tariffs. I don't, I don't believe that. But the emergency. I think he can make a case, but I don't think he's made it well yet.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. And again, like, this is sort of like a nerdy court too, right? Like, it's not. It's not really designed for, like, these sort of large moral or, you know, civilizational sort of points. It's like, hey, you know, does this particular industry affect this particular industry or this product? And this tariff protect hit this industry. So it was just far too broad on that one. And that. That one, I'm not at all surprised it was overturned.
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Stu Burguiere
And that bothers me again, because if you're just looking at little teeny specific things and I can't make a broad case to you, then what am I doing? You know, you're fixing the defibrillator on the car when it's actually not just the defibrillator. The whole car is about to go Out. So should we. Should. Should I have fixed the defibrillator or tried to, you know, replace the engine? Well, I don't know. I mean, you know, let me look at the defibrillator. It. You have to be able to make.
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Glenn Beck
A broad case, and of course you can. You just have to pass a law to do it. Right. You have to actually have to go through Congress and pass a law. This particular power that has been assigned to the President is not designed to deal with that type of thing, which is what their point is. Now, again, maybe this gets overturned somewhere else. I don't know. I mean, I know this particular court has this power, so there's not necessarily the normal court process to go through here, but we might find out later on that something else changes on this or that this court is somehow ruled unconstitutional. The other part of it, though, I think is more arguable for the president, which is the tariffs when it relates to fentanyl and it touches Canada and Mexico. These also were overturned. The reasoning there was more called on that he should have put these on particular items that affect this particular problem. So their argument basically was like, hey, the cartels, you're saying that there's a big problem, and another test is that the country isn't doing enough to stop it. Now, I think you can really make that case pretty specifically with Mexico. A little bit more difficult, perhaps in Canada, is that there's not as much flow of fentanyl coming across the border there. But still, you could make those arguments, I think, in a specific way. Their argument there was you can't just put tariffs on every single product coming out of this country. That's too broad. That's too broad.
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Stu Burguiere
Sorry, I disagree with it again, because you don't understand the bigger picture or you won't look at the bigger picture. They may understand it, but they say we can't look at it because we have to look at these specific things. Well, then you're missing the point. You want the fentanyl to stop, you got to hit China with massive terrorists on everything. Otherwise they won't stop. You want to get control of the border and fentanyl and human smuggling and everything else. You could hit a few industries, but what difference does that make? Because the entire government of Mexico is corrupt. You have to make the entire thing hurt so badly that they have to look. And finally, even if they call us in the middle of the night and say, I never made this phone call, but go, go, go, take these people out for us, yeah, it won't Work any other way.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. And I think you're. A lot of that I agree with. I think, and I don't know that necessarily tariffs are the answer to that. They might be. I know President Trump believes that they are. But I think your problem here is with Congress. Right. Like the Congress needs to, if it wants the president to have powers to these things, it would have to assign them. Now, I would argue they also could just take them back and do it themselves, which is what Congress should be doing as specifically listed in the Constitution. But they're not.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, hang on just a second. You know, Congress deserves the blame for almost all of this stuff, the growth of the government, of the administrative state. It's not the President's fault. It's not the President's fault. It wasn't Joe Biden's fault. It wasn't, you know, Bill Clinton's fault.
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Glenn Beck
There's a lot of Lyndon Johnson's. But, yes, I agree, Congress was there, too.
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Stu Burguiere
What Congress did was they just decided, we're not going to. We're just going to let the administrative state go. And then we'll just say, I don't know. I mean, it's the administrative state and, you know, the Secretary is making those decisions, so we don't have to, you know, you, if, if you put your child in charge of something and they farmed out all of their responsibilities and said, you know, Dad, I, I gave that responsibility to my friend Bill and my other friend Steve is, is part of that as well. And, you know, I don't really have anything I told them they can make. You would never say, oh, well, let me go talk to Bill and Steve. You would say, I put you in charge. You are responsible for these things. But for some reason, the American people will not close that loop. They just, they'll hate Congress. But it's like they don't even know why they hate Congress.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
Because there's nobody with a spine there that will stand up and say a Constitution says, I'm responsible for it, so I have to be responsible and I have to act. And they won't. They'll just, like this. They'll just let the court do it and they'll. I don't know. I don't know.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, no, and I think you're right on that. I think, you know, we always talk about the people who just continually get reelected, no matter how terrible a job that they do. And that is a massive part of the problem. You know, this one in particular with the fentanyl issues with Canada and Mexico. One of the other things they cited was, you know, they weren't even necessarily saying it wasn't an emergency. What they were saying there wasn't enough support in the case that they made to call it an emergency. For example, they didn't get, let's say, backing from the DEA to say that Canada was doing a terrible job on fentanyl. Can they get, can Donald Trump's DEA get a report that says that? Probably, yes. So they probably could just resubmit this in a different way. I mean, a lot of this has to do with these decisions are made, not with weeks and weeks and weeks of buildup. A lot of times they're just kind of like put out there in a quick fashion and they're sort of the people around him hustle around to kind of try to make the case through the normal process.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, if they go through that normal.
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Glenn Beck
Process, they can probably get these done.
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Stu Burguiere
Yes. And that's what I want. I do not want to cut corners. I do not want to just say, well, you know what? No, that's what Joe Biden was doing. No, if you want to do it, do it the right way. And if they are saying, well, you got to get your own administration to produce this and this and this, you know, then it would be legal, then fine, do that. I mean, Trump is going to come back and he's going to reassert these. The markets went up yesterday because the rich people, you know, the corporations, the giant corporations are like, oh, well, be able to do trade all over the world now and, and maybe inflation will come down because of the fear of what is going on. So the futures and the stock market and everything went up yesterday. But, you know, don't, don't, don't look at that as any real sign other than the fact that the markets don't think tariffs are good. They think they are taxes. And I agree with that. But they also are looking at, oh, good, the pressure is off of us and we're going to be able to, you know, do business as usual, which I don't think is a good thing. And don't get too excited because Donald Trump is knock done. He's going to find a way to do it legally. I don't, I do not want to infer that. Oh, just find a way to do it. No, find the right way to do it, find the legal way to do it. If you believe in it, then it's worth doing it the right way. And if there's no legal way to do it, then you have to change the law. And if you can't change the law, then you don't do it, period. All right, back in just a second. Let me tell you about Z Factor. You know, I gotta tell you, I don't know what happened. You know, they say that when you're older you don't need as much sleep and so you stop sleeping as much as you. I don't know about you, but I, I need sleep. I mean, I'm tired all the time. You know, I would like to have some sleep. For the love of Pete. You know, you wake up, you're stiff, you wake up a little groggy and, and not really rested and confused about, you know, know, why you were holding a TV remote in your left hand and a bag of pretzels in your right hand. But you figured just get part of getting older, I guess. Well, getting terrible sleep is, is something that I, drives me out of my mind. If I can't sleep at night, it drives me out of my mind. That's why Z Factor is there. Z Factor is a group of natural ingredients that just assist your body in doing what your body is supposed to do. And you're, you are supposed to sleep. You know, you, you, you don't file things away the right way. You don't make sense of the word. You know, some of your best work, when you've been noodling on an idea and go going and going and going, you sleep and the next morning you wake up and you're like, oh my gosh, how did I not see that? It's because you slept and your body has organized everything in your brain for you. So this is a drug free way to fall asleep, stay asleep. It's called Z Factor. Try it now. Z Factor. You can get it from the makers of relief factor@ relieffactor.com relieffactor.com it's Z factor and you can get it a relief Factor or call 1-800-for- relief. 1-800-for relief. Z Factor. Common sense ain't common anymore. Is it time to wake up and wrangle the shadow sheep? Glenn Beck continues Next.
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Glenn Beck
Religious persecution in conflict zones around the world is one of those stories that often gets overlooked. And there is now a documentary that deals with all this. It's called A Faith Under Siege. Russia's Hidden War on Ukraine's Christians. This is a film that looks at a region once known as the post Soviet Bible Belt. This is, you know, rapidly growing at one point. And look, war turns a lot of this stuff around. This has been a specific threat against Christians in particular. And when you have this occupation going on that has spread, you know, and continues to expand, this situation gets worse and worse for the people who are victimized by it. What the documentary captures is seized churches and tortured pastors and abducted children. And like, you know, you can look at these governments and say, oh, I don't like this and I like this, and I don't like this. We're talking about just people who have nothing to do with these decisions, right? We're talking about people who are just trying to keep their faith alive in what now needs to be secret. The film recently gained exposure at the Museum of the Bible. And it's something that I think you'll want to know a little bit more about. So go watch this. It's faithunderseige.com whether you're interested in viewing the documentary, using the prayer resources or utilizing they have advocacy tools there as well. All options are available. Faithundersiege.com youm can watch the whole movie right there. Faithunderseige.com faithunderseige.com your gut affects everything, even your mood.
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Glenn Beck
The Food and Drug Administration.
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Stu Burguiere
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Foreign exciting things we're going to be announcing revolving around history in the coming days and weeks. One of them is I've partnered with Prageru on some projects. I've been close with Prager you for a long time, but there's some projects that we're working on together. But I just did something one of their Prager uses, and this was for the graduating class, if you will, of Prageru. It's the commencement speech and I want to play just a little bit. It's available at Prageru. Dear graduates, congrats on making it here, but I have some tough news. Your future, it's not guaranteed. I know that's not the usual go chase your dreams spiel that you usually hear at a commencement, but I'm not here to fluff reality. I'm here to give it to you straight. And the straight truth involves clay pots. Clay pots and what someone found inside of those clay pots. Picture this. It's 1947, Judean Desert near the Dead Sea. Dusty spot called Qumran. A bored goat herder takes a rock and chucks it into a cave, expecting an echo. Instead, crack. Pottery shatters. So he climbs in and he finds clay pots stuffed with linen wrapped scrolls. And not just any scrolls. The oldest surviving copies of the Hebrew Bible from 300 BC. We now call them the Dead Sea Scrolls. But think about this. For centuries, the Jewish people faced invasions and atrocities. The Babylonians, the Romans, the Nazis, you name it. It scattered worldwide. And what kept them going? Faith in their God and their texts. Then in 1947, right after the Holocaust and just before Israel's rebirth, the scrolls surface, proving their story wasn't myth. All because someone, over 2,000 years ago hid those pots in a cave. History is not someone else's job. It's ours. It's yours, it's mine, it's everybody's. We have got to preserve it. The highs and the lows, all of it in our own clay pots. This is the next phase of my life is all going to be about history and education and. And it is so important. I mean, clay pots is what I heard in 2008 that in my prayers, I didn't understand for a long time. And it's what got me to start collecting American history and our American story. And then, you know, turned into what will be soon a brick and mortar museum of the American story. And we all have to preserve it. We all have a role in this. We have to learn our history, both the good and the bad, and we have to preserve our own history. And it makes a difference. I mean, you know, I didn't know anything about my family's history and, you know, it's just full of a bunch of losers that, you know, there's no king or queen anywhere in my family tree. But, you know, my great great grandfather and great great uncle both were in the same civil war. And immediately, because they're a Beck, you know, were captured and held in Andersonville. But what happened in Andersonville for them makes a difference to me today. And it is important that we preserve our family history and our country's history and learn as much as we can. We'll have more coming up. That's by the way, on Pragerun Beck. Here's a little bit of homework for you. I want you to sit down for just a few minutes and make a list of the. If only, if only, you know, the things you wish you had on hand before the emergency, like a generator. If Only we had had a generator. All of these different things. What's right at the top, most likely what's at the top is medicine, medication. Because if only you had that, maybe things would be a lot different. I want you to go to Jace. They have a sale that ends this Friday. And cross medicine off your if only list. Go to jace.com Enter the promo code Beck at checkout. Get a discount on your order. This is essential medicines, antibiotics and everything else. And it's customizable to you that you can have on hand at your house. Jace.com promo code Becky Sam. Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dark Gotta face the dark and embrace the fire the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Well, hello America. I've got some good news. There's a lot of good news actually today. This one comes from the HHS is a huge victory announced yesterday. And I'll tell you all about it here in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. They are providing the opportunity for limited interruption this half hour. Israel is still under attack in villages and in cities and places where families are still picking up the pieces of the terror of 10-2-7th. I mean it's just, it's, it's so horrible. 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This is a post it was on X yesterday came from the Health and Human Services Department. They let me just read it to you. HHS sent a Letter to health care providers, risk managers and state medical boards urging immediate updates to treatment protocols for minors with gender dysphoria. Based on HHS comprehensive review that found puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and surgeries have very weak evidence of benefit but carry risk of significant harms, including sterilization. Providers should no longer rely on discredited guidelines that promote these dangerous interventions. Interventions for children and adolescents based on ideology and not evidence. Wow. Welcome to the return of common sense in medicine. Now RFK wrote that providers should avoid relying on the World Professional Health association for Transgender Health. That's wpath. Remember we talked about that years ago when it first started coming out and it was insanity. So now healthcare providers should not rely on that. From hhs. It was one year ago we did a special exposing them for being idle ideological fraudsters. Wpath and you know, they were doing. I mean, this is Frankenstein. This is Frankenstein. Like experiments on children and the mentally ill, all done with the support of the medical community in the name of science and gender affirming care. It's over. Our doctors took them seriously. They shouldn't have. Now here's what CNN said. Kennedy letters. Kennedy's letter warns providers to avoid relying on guidelines from the World Professional association for Transgender Health on care and transgender and gender diverse people. These and other guidelines based on so called gender affirming model of care should not be relied on for harm of our children any further, the letter says. Good, good, good. Kennedy says it's time for our doctors to now update all of the protocols. Amen. This is big news. This is the first big step pulling us out of this death cult. I mean, when you are chemically castrating our children in America and the doctors are calling that a good step forward, that's a spiritual disease. And a lot of people voted for Donald Trump because they wanted to see an end to this, this and I hope this means that there is an end to it. Dr. Oz is working on this too. Again from CNN. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also announced Wednesday. That was yesterday. It was launching an oversight initiative into hospitals that performed experimental sex trait modification procedures on children. Administrator Dr. Oz said CMS will not turn a blind eye to procedures that lack a solid foundation of evidence and may result in lifelong harm. Good. We're not turning a blind eye to the children anymore. And we're saying this is wrong to do and we're taking the right steps. Now all of this can be changed in the next election. I mean, I hope not. But so much can change between now and 20, 20, 28, when we elect another president. But I hope we start to see real improvement. I know that a majority of Americans, for the first time since. Can you tell me when, Stu, do you remember we looked this up when Americans said we're on the right track, wrong track. And we looked at it and we're like, wait, we haven't thought we were on the right track since when? Remember, it was a long time. And for the first time, it's the majority. It's over 50%.
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Glenn Beck
And that's not, to be clear, not in every poll. That is a poll that came out that showed that, like, the Gallup poles are still very much in the negative.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, let me rain on your parade, too.
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Glenn Beck
I just trying to give the.
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Stu Burguiere
Those pants do make your butt look fat. Okay. I mean, what is that?
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Glenn Beck
I will say it's up a little bit. I mean, for sure, even in the polls that show it's still negative, it's still going in the right direction.
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Stu Burguiere
In the right direction.
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Glenn Beck
In the right direction. Pole. So that's good. That's a positive. I'm glad to see that we are maybe catching up to Europe on this one. It's great to see.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, we want to be more like Europe, right? I mean, geez.
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Glenn Beck
In this one particular instance, oddly, we kind of do. They seem to have figured this out before us. Usually they're far to the left of us, and we're always tracking toward their left wing positions. It seems like they have actually kind of woken up before us, which is, I think, stunning. But I'm glad to see that certainly Trump is not on this bandwagon, and now that he's in office, he can start reversing this nonsense.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, what's amazing is we've had so many discussions on this. We've had so. But how many of them have actually been Bain in science? Most of it is based in, you know, shouting you're hate monger, or you just want to, you know, kill people, or you just hate transgender, all that crap. Have you ever heard of the Dunning Kruger effect?
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Glenn Beck
Yes. Yes, I have.
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Stu Burguiere
You know what it is?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, you probably help me with a better definition. But my remembrance of it is like people who know very little about a topics tend to be the most confident at the beginning. And then it kind of goes way down in their confidence as they learn more, more. And only when they become experts that they kind of say, hey, you know, there's a lot of nuance in, in the way they speak.
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Stu Burguiere
Correct. Correct. And it's. I Mean, it carries another part to it. And my grand. My grandmother knew this. I mean, I think all of our grandmothers knew this. Stupid people just don't know they're stupid. They have no idea that they're stupid.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, okay. That's much better explanation.
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Stu Burguiere
And we are. We are either living under the, you know, the Dunning Krueger effect, or we're living. Living under the Freddy Krueger effect. I don't know which our society is embracing, but stupid people just don't know they're stupid. And they get a. Just a little bit. And I mean, I'm not talking about, oh, I forgot to cancel my free trial. Stupid. I mean, but stupid. And, you know, when you. When you're stupid, you feel like a genius, and when you know a lot, you feel like an imposter.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, that's totally.
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Stu Burguiere
You know what I mean, right? Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Like, I'm sure you do notice this, Glenn, sometimes when, you know, you're out at a party or something and you're talking to people and they probably come to you and bring up topics they think you talk about on the air because they know who you are. Like, they'll bring up, you know, they'll bring up something about, I don't know, the Great Reset.
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Stu Burguiere
Right, Whatever. Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
You know, progressivism. And they'll say things and you're like, oh, yeah, I know, sure. Well, I mean, that's not exactly it, but I know what you're saying. And it's like, because you've studied it for a long time, they probably haven't. They've heard bits and pieces. Maybe they've seen a little bit on social media, but a lot of times, what carries with that is certainty. Right. Like, they've read a couple things on social media, they're sure they're right, and they bring it to you, and you're like, ah, you know, Sure, I know what you're saying.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, let me address this on the air when I can tear you up apart. We're here together at a party. Let's not talk. No, yeah, that is absolutely true. You remember what I said? Everybody was making fun of me. Glenn Beck's on his apology tour when I left Fox. And because you do a lot of thinking, when you go from one of the most, you know, beloved people, invisible people, to. To a fat person that, you know, is, you know, is. Is now hated by most people, you know, you tend to think a lot. And I. And so what I was saying.
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Glenn Beck
And other things.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, and everything. What I was saying at the Time was, you know, I was so certain of things. And that doesn't mean that I was wrong. It was just that my approach, I was so certain of things. And the only thing I'm certain of now is that I'm not certain of anything. You know what I mean?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
And that's kind of the mantra of my life now. And it's really hard to do this job and say that, but it is what I believe. The only thing I'm truly certain of is I'm not certain of anything.
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Glenn Beck
Right. And that doesn't mean you don't try to get to the truth. It means that you're constantly. That doesn't mean I don't re examining what you believe like you have to. I think that's where some of the social media world, in this era of media has kind of lost the plot and that you should constantly be pushing yourself. Right. When you think you know something, you should constantly be pushing yourself the other direction just to make sure, like get the best arguments from the other side. There are policies that I agree with and I want to hear the best policy arguments from the other side to see if my opinion should change. You should be thinking that way, even if you're not going to necessarily change your viewpoint all the time. You should be thinking about how to best challenge, not only to see if you're right, but also to strengthen your argument for what you currently believe.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, I did an interview with Ro Khanna last weekend. It was on the podcast. It was very good. I don't agree with him really on much of anything except fundamental principles of our country and what we were founded on. But you know, he's a, he's a big government guy and everything else, and he's a guy who's probably going to run for president. And that's why I did the interviews, because you should know, know where he stands, who he is, et cetera, et cetera, because he's probably going to be one of the guys running for president in the Democratic Party and I want you to be informed on him. So I do the interview and I read all of these leftist responses on this and saying, look, even Ro Khanna can even get on Glenn Beck's program because he's so reasonable. Well, yeah, that's, that is true. I do like to have reasonable people on, but I really don't have a problem talking to anybody. It's, it's, it's not that they're changing. It's not that Ro Khanna changed me. I'm open to Talk to people I disagree with.
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Glenn Beck
Sure.
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Stu Burguiere
But the left generally isn't, you know, I'm open to talking to people. If you can have a conversation, if you enter the conversation with absolute certainty, well, then I can't have a conversation with you because all it's going to end up being is a bash fest. Well, you're just too stupid to understand. Well, who's the stupid one? Honestly? I mean, you know, this is where it gets uncomfortable. Statistically speaking, someone in the room here is the dumbest person. And since it's just you and me, I got some bad news for you, you know, know, and, and nobody, nobody, you know, everybody thinks that way and they don't think, well, maybe, hang on, let me listen, because I might learn something from, from somebody. And, you know, look at the arrogance on the doctors. Going back to the original story which brought this up, the doctors just started touting things they didn't actually know because the science did not back it up. Not enough science had been done. The ones that weren't arrogant were the ones, honestly in Sweden and the, the Netherlands that actually looked at the science. They were doing it, and then they looked at the science and they looked at the studies and they were like, you know what, we got to stop this because this is not right. It's, it's not what we thought it was. But we continue just to double down and double down, and it was without any information. That's why I asked earlier today, what was it we were talking about? Oh, we were talking about the, the new approach by the State Department, which Marco Rubio is just killing it, and they, they're starting to put out these, you know, they've got a, you know, substack. And I read one of them at the beginning of the podcast today, and it, it was really, really amazing that it was coming from our State Department. Department. And it should be something that everybody agrees with. And quite honestly, every Democrat I know would agree with it, would have agreed with it, but now that it's coming from the Trump administration, they won't agree with anything. And I said, you know, I know why I've changed. I've changed my mind on a lot of things, and I am a different person than I was 20 years ago, and I think that's good. But I don't think Democrats are the same people either. And what I'd like to know is what new information did you get that has allowed you to abandon the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, all of that? What got you there, what got you from a place of these endless wars don't work to. Yeah, we got to go in and kick some ass in Ukraine and we got to topple Putin. And what changed? Because I'm not there. And I'd like to just say I would have liked to meet you in the same room here, because this is the room I always thought you were wrong on. You were right. But now you've changed. I really want to know what new information came to you that made you go, you know what? I've been wrong all these years. Know what new information came your way? That saying drag shows in. You know, first grade is good for children. I want specifics. What new information? Because you would have said anybody who did that should be arrested. That's. That doesn't belong with, you know, first graders. It doesn't belong in the fourth grade. We shouldn't be doing these things. What we're doing to our children. I'm still at that place. I didn't change on that. I'm still there. But you did change. If you're on the other side, as an average Democrat, please specifically tell me why. What new information? Those are conversations I think America would love to hear. Instead of just calling each other names, just tell me new information because maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't think I am, but maybe I am. So give me that new information that you got and don't make it about Trump, and I won't make it about Biden. How's that? All right. Let me tell you about Lear Capital. When Rome began to fall, it didn't start with the barbarians at the gate. It started with debt, with. With excess, with a complacency, with a currency so debased that silver coins were meant melted down and mixed with base metals until the money wasn't worth the metal it was stamped on. And the people knew it. They watched their savings erode. They watched their markets collapse. They watched their institutions decay, all while the leaders promised that everything was fine. You know, here, watch this. We're going to feed somebody to a lion. It all feels familiar, doesn't it? I mean, look, our political parties are feeding people to lions every single day. What's the difference? The United States is in trillions of dollars of debt. While our dollar is still strong in name, it is losing purchasing power year after year. And instead of strengthening our foundation, we keep pouring gas on the fire, printing more money, taking on more debt, pretending that the consequences are for other countries or for other people or it won't happen to us in our day. History doesn't play favorites. Math doesn't play favorites. It rewards preparation. It punishes denial. Gold is outlasted. Empire after empire after empire. When paper currencies fail, as they always do, gold doesn't need to be explained. So call lear Capital today, 800-957-Gold. Get your free $4,200 gold report before it's a history book. And I mean that sincerely. And when you call 800-957-Gold, ask about getting updated on their $15,000 in free gold or silver with qualifying purchase. Call them now, 800-957-Gold. Just get the information today, 800-957-Gold. 10 seconds. Station ID. So did you see the Politico writer that came up with a shadow cabinet for everybody to take on the Trump administration? Can we stop talking about shadow cabinets while you're denying the deep state exists? Well, a little consistency.
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Glenn Beck
We need a shadow cabinet to fight for democracy.
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Stu Burguiere
Right. Which is exactly right. We need people who are in the shadows, pulling the strings and thwarting things without actually being seen so we could save our democracy.
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Glenn Beck
Right. That's the way it always works. Right.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, you know what, that makes sense. That goes right in the same book of George W. Bush saying, I had to violate the free market to save the free market. No, no, it doesn't work that way. So anyway, so Politico comes up with like the secretary of Veteran affairs, they say should be Jon Stewart because he can just, you know, he can.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, God.
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Stu Burguiere
He can take that on and please. Yeah, I know.
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Glenn Beck
Can we stop with that? It's just infuriating.
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Stu Burguiere
I don't even know who Nikki Glaser is as the administrator of the Small Business Administration. Who's Nikki Glaser?
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Glenn Beck
She's a comedian. This does not seem like a serious.
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Stu Burguiere
Can we stop putting Canadians comedian Bill Nye the science guy to be the shadow cabinet for the Environmental Protection Agency? Mark Cuban to be the Secretary of Commerce. Oh, my gosh.
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Glenn Beck
Wait, wait, hold on. The Secretary of commerce? The guy who just sold the Dallas Mavericks for half price and then was told he was going to run the franchise for multiple years and then they immediately pushed him out and traded Luka Doncic? Do you want that guy?
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Stu Burguiere
That makes sense.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
Perfect.
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Glenn Beck
What a, what a perfect qualifications.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. I, I have a list for the Democrats of, you know, other possible names they could put in a shadow cabinet that make just as much sense. And Homer Simpson is on that list. I think I put him as the Secretary of Labor because who knows? Labor and unions and you know, tough jobs. More than Homer Simpson. This is Glenn Beck. You ever watch a dog try to hide a limb that's hurting? It'll limp for a second, then it'll snap to attention like nope, nope, totally fine. Watch me. I'm going to run around in circles. Yeah, you do things like that sometimes. Pretending my body isn't falling apart, you know. And you have zero, you have zero to say about it. Really. Zero. Zero stars. I don't recommend it. It's not a good thing when it happens. My wife try relief factor and when I say she made me, she made me. She said she won't listen to me whine anymore unless I try everything. And I'm like, relief factor is not going to work. It's all natural. I mean Dow Chemical is not even around, you know, better living through pharmaceuticals, baby. And she said no, I don't think that's actually true, Glenn. So you should try something all natural. And I did. And I can't tell you the difference it made in my, my life. It totally changed my life. It might change your life. Just try it for three weeks. Get the quick start trial for three weeks and see if your aches and pains and your problems kind of disappear over time. 1995 it's relieffactor.com relieffactor.com 1 800, the number four relief.
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Stu Burguiere
So last night on the Wednesday night show I talked about why the, you know, why this thing with Joe Biden and who is actually running the White House and the auto pin and everything, everything else, why that matters and what, what do we actually know? And I had Ed Martin on. I don't know if you know who Ed Martin is but he's a, he is the US Pardon attorney and he works through the doj. So he's the guy who knows about these pardons, if they're going to be valid, etc. Etc. And I asked him last night and this has gone really viral. What, what are the potential laws that were broken and the laws in the COVID up about his health and abuse of the autopen. Listen to his answer.
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C
There's many, many laws that I would say apply to this. You know, they get someone brought up. Forgery. Forgery is the beginning of a conversation. I think fraud, you know, there's all kinds of aspects of fraud that could be done if somebody's making money any big money off of it. You know, there's, there's many things President Trump used in a true social post about treason. And I think I'm, as a member of doj, I'm going to, you know, tread carefully towards what I would describe as the likely crime. But, but there's a lot. If this was an abuse, like people are worried. There's a lot of crimes that were.
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Stu Burguiere
Committed and there will be, if the facts show that it was happening, the DOJ will pursue aggressively justice.
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C
The only way I know to do it is being aggressive. Glenn, you probably have seen this now. So, yes, I mean, we're going to get to the bottom of the facts. We're going to apply it to the law, and we're going to go like hell against the people that did this to the country. And, you know, this is the biggest scandal I could ever imagine in our lives. There's never been anything like this at this point. And so I hope it's the less, I hope it's a lesser scandal than it looks like, but it's headed towards one of the most egregious things we've ever seen. So, yes, people will held accountable and yes, they will be held accountable by prosecutions.
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Stu Burguiere
Wow. One of the biggest scandal it's headed, I hope it's less, but it's headed towards the biggest scandal we've ever had. Holy cow. And that's from a guy who's very, very reasoned and measured. And he is, you know, he's the guy who does the pardons. And I asked him, you know, are these things even valid? You know, if it gets proven that other people, you know, use the auto pen without the president's knowledge of approval or any of these things valid. Listen, what he said. Cut five.
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C
This is a $64,000 question, but let's just do it as a hypothetical to be a little bit more, a little bit less specific to this. If, if I can, if you and I go enter a contract and, and it turns out that you were not capable of entering into the contract. Right. Depending on how I relied on it. You know, if I went and did something and I was paid for for it, I might make the argument that you have to honor that. But in general, that's not a valid contract. So, you know, the validity of these things, whether they're pardons or other actions, is going to come into question. And I think there's some, some details and legal questions that are going to be a little bit harder. But, but you can see that it's, it's and here's what's more troubling to me is if some of these pardons were issued because they were being engineered, you know, for, for example, for Fauci or for the select committee on January 6th to buy someone who's taking advantage of Joe Biden in order to cover things up. Well, you know, that can't be the. What the system contemplated. And so I think that's all going to come into question. Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
Now, let me play one more clip. This is from David Hogg. David Hogg. I don't think I need to even point out, you know, his history on who he is. Listen to what he said. Listen. I mean, I think the fact of.
- [116:32]
Glenn Beck
The matter is the DNC is always going to be like a campaign arm of the president. Ultimately, the bigger issue was like, the.
- [116:38]
Stu Burguiere
Inner circle that was around Biden.
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Glenn Beck
That's it. And I came straight. I came straight to see a.
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Stu Burguiere
No, but Joe Biden's chief of staff.
- [116:45]
Glenn Beck
Like, had an enormous amount of power.
- [116:47]
Stu Burguiere
Joe Biden, Joe Biden's chief.
- [116:49]
Glenn Beck
That was like an open secret or left, Like, I, I would avoid him. Like, he was scary.
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Stu Burguiere
What was his name?
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Glenn Beck
Anthony. I've never seen him exactly.
- [117:01]
Stu Burguiere
What do you mean?
- [117:02]
Glenn Beck
He's just like a. He's like a shadowy, like, wizard of Oz type figure. That's what made him so, like, I knew how he looked, but I'm like, the general public wouldn't know how this man looked, but he wielded any, like.
- [117:14]
Stu Burguiere
An enormous amount of power. And I can't stress how much power yet.
- [117:18]
Glenn Beck
The White House.
- [117:21]
Stu Burguiere
That was on a Project Veritas hidden video. I mean, what these guys knew and how they just all dealt with it and just said, you know, ends justify the means. Can you imagine? Jill Biden was running the White House. Her, you know, her chief of staff. That's who is running all of this.
- [117:41]
Glenn Beck
Yeah, Anthony. Anthony Bernal is. He's, by the way, one of the central characters in the Jake Tapper Alex Thompson book Original Sin, as well as seen, kind of described almost exactly that way as a guy who everyone was afraid of and that was making a lot of the decisions around the White House. One of four or five people, but he was one of the main ones, which is, again, you think about, we didn't elect Anthony Bernal President of the United States. We didn't.
- [118:13]
Stu Burguiere
Or Jill Biden.
- [118:14]
Glenn Beck
Or Jill Biden. At least we knew who Jill Biden was. But no, we didn't elect them. We have a constitutional system that says that he's supposed to be Making these decisions, Joe Biden, and he was not making them. I think quite clearly at this point, at least his access to information and to even his own cabinet officials seems to of being controlled by the people close to him.
- [118:41]
Stu Burguiere
What's the book say about Hunter Biden? Because I've heard that Hunter Biden was making all of the family decisions at the time.
- [118:48]
Glenn Beck
It basically talks about how, it talks about how Joe Biden was a big part of his decline, happened around the time that Hunter was dealing with all these legal issues. They describe Joe in the book, I would say as, as crushed by his losses over the years of, you know, he'd lost two children obviously previously, and this was. He was worried about losing a third. And for that reason he was insanely loyal to Hunter in believing that he was actually a good guy. Now again, that's talking a lot about motivation. I don't know what the reason was.
- [119:26]
Stu Burguiere
But yeah, that is, I mean, I think that, I mean I, I've known that from the get go. The guy was, the guy was crushed by, you know, the death of his other son and he was loyal to a fault to this son and was doing more damage, you know. And when you say that he really believed that he was a good guy, you got to remember you're talking about Joe Biden's version of a good guy.
- [119:53]
Glenn Beck
Right, right.
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Stu Burguiere
And, and it's different than my version.
- [119:56]
Glenn Beck
With multiple layers on top of this, the corruption being the one I think you're referring to there, but also the senility and the elements of senility that had stepped into his life. I don't think he was able to make those decisions anyway.
- [120:11]
Stu Burguiere
In the book. When do they say that he really kind of checked out? When was his, when was he kind of done?
- [120:19]
Glenn Beck
They describe it as sort of a multi phase process that began in 2015. Now you might recognize 2015 as a time he was not president, but was still Vice President of the United States. But going back to 2015, they say it started there. It wasn't constant then though. People would notice he was having moments, bad moments, you know, bad days. But it started picking up in 2018 and then again before he was president. Some of it was noticed in 2020. They say the real collapse off. You said this earlier. How do you go bankrupt? Well, very slowly and then all at once they say kind of the same thing about his mental capacity and that it was fading from 2015, but really fell off a cliff in 2023. Now obviously we all noticed stuff in 2020, 2021, throughout that period. Period. And they say it was there. They just say it wasn't as consistent. It was really noticeable, even to the people close to him, even to the people who were cheering him on and wanting him to succeed. It became so overwhelming in the year, in 2023 and obviously into 2024.
- [121:39]
Stu Burguiere
You know, it's really amazing to me, you know, that the ends justify the means to these people. If in 2018, they were spotting it and going, he is. He's going downhill. Because if you. If you really believed in the presidency, if you believed in the Constitution and what the president was going to have to do, my God, carrying the nuclear football, just that alone. And if you. If you really truly understand that and respect that, there's no way you would say, yeah, let's go ahead and just run him anyway way, because you. You legally and constitutionally cannot stand in for him. And then what do they do? If you're going to do that, say, because he could win, great, then let's get the strongest vice president we can, because if he starts to really fade, we got to have a. Somebody who can really run it. So maybe we use him to get elected. But, you know, the first sign of real trouble, we're out. And what do they do? They get the weakest person to be the vice president. It shows from the beginning this was a puppet regime.
- [122:51]
Glenn Beck
Yeah, they talk a little.
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Stu Burguiere
That's incredible to say.
- [122:53]
Glenn Beck
They talk a little bit about that pick and go through the moments of how they picked Kamala Harris a little bit. And they basically said he wanted Whitmer. Now, again, Whitmer also would have sucked as a vice president. I'm not saying. Yeah, but that Biden wanted Whitmer. He was more comfortable with Whitman Whitmer. The family thought Whitmer would be a better pick, partially because of Jill Biden. Jill saw the actions that Kamala took during the debate and would not forgive her for that when she basically called her husband a racist. And also, interestingly, it wasn't just, hey, you called my husband a racist. That makes me mad. It was that Jill, I think, correctly diagnosed the idea that. That only a person with incredible desire to rise in the ranks would do such a thing. Right. Like, only someone with all sorts of want and need for higher levels of power would do that. So she did not want Kamala, according to the book. And Whitmer was the one that even Biden wanted.
- [124:05]
Stu Burguiere
However.
- [124:05]
Glenn Beck
However it came down to skin color, I mean, it really did come down to that. Where his allies, particularly on the side, people like Clyburn wanted an African American on the ticket that was believed to be his strength with voters in the primary and on. So they kind of just picked her because she checked those boxes. I mean, it's as bad of a DEI thing that we always talked about. I mean, quite literally, the president of the United States, according to this book, did not want Kamala Harris to be vice president and instead picked her anyway because of these intersectional boxes that needed to be checked.
- [124:54]
Stu Burguiere
And if you said that the press demonized you and said you're crazy and now it's all coming out, that yeah, that's absolutely true. I mean, it's really amazing what they put the country through.
- [125:08]
Glenn Beck
It's really the entire saga of this book too, right? Like all these things were things we were all saying. You know, there's not like there's tons of information we didn't know that is in the book, but it all supports things we did know. We all knew this was all going on. We didn't have the background information. We weren't in the private meetings because even his own cabinet officials weren't in the private meeting findings. But you know, it was obvious to people just by the public stuff and the behind the scenes stuff as opposed to what we heard on media, which was, oh, he's sharp as attack. You should see him when he's not on camera. Maybe we should film those moments if that's really what's happening. But in reality that safe stuff was going on and it seemingly was worse behind the scenes than it was in front of the camera.
- [125:54]
Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
Now.
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Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
Well, we have a stunning WNBA update. You couldn't have possibly seen this coming, but if you remember, a week or two ago, Caitlin Clark fouled Angel Reese and there was a sort of a scuffle that broke out afterward. Actually, not really a scuffle. Caitlin Clark just walked away and Angel Reese came after her and tried to start a fight, which seemingly happens every time they play. Afterward. We heard some very serious accusations that perhaps maybe there were all sorts of racial slurs being yelled at Angel Reese. Gosh, what a shocking development that this could happen and be highlighted by the media constantly that these accusations had occurred. Of course they went to a full investigation. The WNBA wanted to come get down to make sure they understood what happened. And now we have the results of this. The WNBA has issued the following statement. We have investigated the report of racist fan behavior in the vicinity of the court during the May 17 Chicago Sky Indiana Fever game. Based on information gathered to date, including from relevant fans, team and arena staff, as well as audio and video reviewing of the game, we have not substantiated it. Shocking. The WNBA is committed to fostering a safe and inclusive environment for everyone and will continue to be vigilant enforcing our fan code of conduct. Now, it's interesting because everyone made a big deal about this in the media. They found absolutely nothing to support these accusations whatsoever. Do the fans of the, of the Fever, do they get any apology from the media? Is there any mea culpa? Is there any report asking, hey, well, why did you say this happened if there's no evidence of it happening? Is there any follow up? Do we get a book later on explaining what happened? My guess is a big fat no.
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Stu Burguiere
This is Glenn Beck.