The REAL Message Trump Sent in His National Security Strategy | 12/8/25

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Episode Title: The REAL Message Trump Sent in His National Security Strategy | 12/8/25
Date: December 8, 2025
Host: Glenn Beck (with co-host Stu)
Network: Blaze Podcast Network

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on Glenn Beck’s analysis of President Trump’s newly released National Security Strategy and its broader implications for American identity, sovereignty, and the current state of Western civilization. Glenn engages in storytelling, philosophical reflection, and sharp political commentary, tying Christmas traditions and the importance of preserving foundational freedoms—especially free speech—into the conversation. The episode moves fluidly between policy breakdowns, cultural observations, and impassioned warnings about liberty’s fragility.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump's National Security Strategy: Breaking Down the Real Message

[03:29 – 40:17]

• The Media Backlash ([03:29]):

  • Glenn highlights mainstream media’s hyperbolic reaction, referencing headlines (NYT: "Hostility to Europe is an Official White House Policy"; WSJ Europe: Admin sees Europe "on the colonial menu").
  • Noted scholars and journalists warn the document could panic American allies.

• Glenn’s Read:

  • He welcomes Trump’s candor, claiming the document finally articulates what “the rest of America understands” ([04:12]).
  • Characterizes the document as a "rediscovery of American civilization" ([27:21]).
  • Critiques “100 years” of bipartisan foreign policy drift, which hollowed out American strength.

• Key Pillars of the Strategy:

  • Return to Sovereignty: Calls for strong borders, families, industry, energy, and cultural renaissance ([29:00]).

    “It says we need a safe, sovereign republic that protects its people. Strong families, strong industry, strong borders, strong energy, and a renewed culture that knows its own story and isn’t ashamed to tell it.” – Glenn Beck [29:00]

  • Mass Migration: “The era of mass migration is over… Not slowing it, not managing it, but ending it.” ([30:07])
  • Constitution First: Asserts the Constitution’s primacy over global institutions.
  • Allies Must Do Their Part: Allies must “pay their fair share.”
  • Reindustrialization and Energy Dominance: Lessons from COVID and foreign supply dependence.
  • Monroe Doctrine Returns: The Western hemisphere is “ours to secure”—no more hostile powers setting up easily ([31:40]).

    "Call it the Trump corollary, but the principle is timeless. This hemisphere is ours to secure." – Glenn Beck [31:40]

• Foreign Policy Realism:

  • Asia: Clear-eyed competition with China—economically, technologically, militarily. US must rebuild industry and tech dominance ([31:43]-[32:48]).
  • Europe's Decline: Candid acknowledgment of demographic and cultural crises facing Europe.

    “Europe is dying… Not just economically, but as a civilization… Declining birth rates, uncontrolled migration, censorship, loss of identity, regulatory suffocation.” – Glenn Beck [33:03]

  • NATO & Civilizational Identity: If a NATO ally “ceases being a Western country,” US will reconsider its defense posture.
  • Middle East: “Forever wars are over.” US is strong enough for stabilization, not endless management.
  • Africa: Ends the approach of exporting ideology; focuses on trade, minerals, energy, and peace instead of lectures.

• The Central Message:

  • The document, in Glenn’s view, reasserts that “America is allowed to love itself again, and to be who she should be, and let everyone else be who they should be” ([35:41]).
  • Responsibility of Sovereignty: “Borders are not immoral. American workers are not expendable. Free speech is not negotiable. The nation-state… is the fundamental building block of a free world.” ([36:11])

• Is the Nation Ready to Live Again?

  • Glenn challenges listeners: “Do we want to be relegated to the dustbin of history, or does America have other great work to do?” ([36:28])

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2. The Modern Christmas and Its Meaning

[09:42 – 18:46] & [46:28 – 49:24]

• Discussion on Commercialization:

  • Details the historical evolution of Christmas from humble acts of generosity to Victorian commercial excess ([09:48–13:36]).
  • Calls out the emptiness many feel in the modern Christmas “quarter.”

    “We have expanded the spectacle, but not the soul.” – Glenn Beck [14:32]

• Reclaiming Christmas:

  • Beck advocates focusing on real, meaningful gifts: gratitude, apologies, peace, acts of love ([16:31]).

    “Not the biggest box, but the truest offering. What should I give?” – Glenn Beck [16:31]

  • Story of his personal journey from scarcity to material abundance—and realizing “the emptiest Christmas we ever had” was when he bought everything possible ([18:01]).

• Musical Satire: “Putting the Christ Back in Christmas”

  • Satirical and heartfelt AI-generated song mocking political correctness, rooting Christmas back in its true meaning ([06:28–09:08], [64:42–67:22], [104:45–113:42]):

    “So I’m putting the Christ back in Christmas. No microaggression here, my friend. If words can break you, well bless your heart.” – Glenn AI [06:52] “If ‘Merry Christmas’ makes you tremble, the problem ain’t the phrase, it’s you.” – Glenn AI [08:01]

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3. The Fragility of Western Freedom: Magna Carta, Free Speech, and Spiraling Censorship

[47:58 – 63:12]

• England’s Slide into Censorship:

  • Updates on the UK arresting more people for speech crimes than Russia or China ([52:52]).

    “In Russia… 4000 people for speech crimes… 12,000 in England.” – Glenn Beck [52:52]

  • Prime Minister’s proposal to eliminate (non-murder) jury trials, eroding Magna Carta principles.

    “A nation that polices speech is not free.” – Glenn Beck [54:15]

• Magna Carta’s Modern Significance:

  • Places Magna Carta as the foundation stone of western liberty; draws parallel to current erosions.

• First Amendment & Western Freedom:

  “Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for a reason. It is the guardrail for every other right… If you lose the First Amendment, you’ve lost freedom.” – Glenn Beck [58:28]

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4. "The Truth Shall Set You Free": Spiritual Foundations of Liberty

[69:15 – 80:44]

• Glenn’s Reflection:

  • Explores the real meaning of the phrase “the truth shall set you free,” and how modern society confuses comfort and illusion with freedom.
  • Freedom begins the moment we reject convenient lies—political, personal, or cultural—and embrace truth as a person (Christ) rather than an abstract ideal.

    “Truth is not an idea. Truth is not a philosophy. Truth is a person.” – Glenn Beck [76:22]

• Application to Civic Life:

  • Argues that without a sense of true, objective truth, freedom becomes an illusion; and those with nothing left to hide “scare the living batcrap” out of tyrants ([79:37]).

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5. Political Satire and Current Events

[85:16 – 98:00]

• Jasmine Crockett Moment:

  • Stu celebrates Jasmine Crockett’s run for Texas Senate, with playful banter about her controversial public statements.

  “She is delightfully stupid. I love her so much. There’s nothing better than Jasmine Crockett Audio.” – Stu [129:50]

• Obamacare Subsidies and the "Bridge" Analogy:

  • A comedic and biting take on Congress perpetually “bridging” failed health care subsidies with no real plan ([91:54–98:01]).

    “What are you building… a bridge to? What is your plan after they get to the middle of the bridge?” – Glenn Beck [94:15]

  • Satirical poem skewering GOP leadership and Washington dysfunction:

    “Twas the night before Christmas and all through the right, not a plan could be found that was honest or tight…” [99:37]

• Media & Cultural Musings:

  • Discussion of the cultural importance of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and the persistence of its religious content ([120:08–125:21]).

    “That was not… Nobody thought that special was going to work… Charles Schulz said, I’ll only do it if we include the Gospel of Luke.” – Glenn Beck [120:47]

• Somali Fraud Scandal:

  • Glenn and Stu discuss the controversy of remittances from Somali communities and alleged ties to terrorism funding, as well as Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s public responses ([108:09–110:05]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Trump's National Security Strategy:

  • “For the first time in decades, the strategy admits the obvious… We lost our way after the Cold War.” – Glenn Beck [27:56]

• On Cultural Decline:

  • “Europe is dying. The entire continent is dying. Not just economically, but as a civilization.” – Glenn Beck [33:03]

• On Personal Growth and Christmas:

  • “I told Tanya… We got to find something of real meaning that comes from us, something that doesn't cost us anything except time.” – Glenn Beck [18:25]

• On Free Speech:

  • “Once speech becomes conditional, everything becomes conditional. Your rights, your property, your conscience, your place in society.” – Glenn Beck [56:29]

• On Truth and Freedom:

  • “Freedom begins the minute your illusions die… Truth is a person.” – Glenn Beck [74:52, 76:22]

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Important Timestamps

• Trump National Security Discussion Begins: [03:29]
• Christmas History/Meaning Segment: [09:42–18:46]
• Primary analysis of Trump strategy and media response: [22:30–40:17]
• Full breakdown of magna carta and threats to western liberty: [47:58–63:12]
• Deep dive into "truth shall set you free": [69:15–80:44]
• GOP satire poem: [99:37]
• Ilhan Omar & Somali controversy: [108:09–110:05]
• Charlie Brown Christmas reflection: [120:08–125:21]

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Tone and Language

The episode features Glenn Beck’s trademark blend of sardonic humor, evocative storytelling, biting satire, and urgent moral rhetoric. Political references are often laced with populist undertones and religious convictions. Stu, serving as the lighthearted foil, supplies occasional comedic relief, particularly when discussing contemporary political personalities.

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Summary for New Listeners

This wide-ranging episode exemplifies Beck’s approach: connecting current policy with cultural drift and spiritual stagnation, urging Americans to rediscover the sources of both their liberty and their traditions. If you want to understand the “real message” behind Trump’s national security vision—and the urgency Beck sees in defending American culture, sovereignty, and the free exchange of ideas—this episode is essential Glenn Beck.

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Well, hello America. Trump has released his national security strategy and there is a good reason for him to do it. Of course everybody's freaking out. The New York Times says today hostility to Europe is an official White House policy. Now the Wall Street Journal Europe is seen by the administration as being on the colonial menu. Yeah, that's right. That's right is exactly what. Yeah. Yale historian Timothy Snyder said the document read like a Russian national security document.

Economists said the 33 page report should cause America's allies to panic. Yeah. Glenn Beck says.

Finally a president will say what the rest of America understands. We'll give that to you. Coming up in just a minute. Also, the first offering from Glenn AI.

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[Stu]

Oh my gosh. A very long time ago.

[Glenn Beck]

Very long time.

[Stu]

Yeah. I don't know. 15.

[Glenn Beck]

Huge hit. Yeah, it was huge hit back in the day. And, and you know, if you were listening back then, you remember it, but that was at the beginning of this political correctness stuff. And now that I Feel like we're at the end or nearing an end of this political correctness stuff. I thought I would offer you the first Christmas song. The first offering, if you will, from Glenn AI. Here it is.

[Glenn AI / Jasmine Crockett (for specific segments)]

Well, the season's here and the lights are bright? But they tell me I can't say Merry Christmas tonight? They won't ride my hand Aquan's muss all in one breath.

Buddy, that phrase is gonna bore me to death. So grab some coco, let's reclaim this bl. It's the birthday of the baby. Yeah, remember who that is.

So I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. No microaggression here, my friend. If words can break, you will bless your heart. Cause that's a battle we can't defend. Yeah, I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. Let common sense unfold. Out with the new, in with the old. Merry Christmas. Let the truth be told.

[Stu]

And.

[Glenn AI / Jasmine Crockett (for specific segments)]

Hey, baby, it's cold outside, Relax, it's flirting, not a federal crime. We used to laugh and dance in snow? Now they fact check mistletoe? They say intent don't matter? Well, sure it does, Ask Santa? He's judging hearts, not Twitter buzz. So I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. You can keep your outrage warm if every jingle is problematic? Buddy, that's the real snowstorm. Yeah, I'm putting the back in Christmas. Not buying what they sold. Out with the new, in with the old. Merry Christmas. Let the truth be told. They say that greeting is oppressive? Well, bless my soul, who knew? If Merry Christmas makes you tremble? The problem ain't the phrase, it's you I'll question with boldness, I'll reason with grace. But don't rewrite my holiday to make it a savior Safe space.

So here's to the manger, the star in the sky? The angels who sang of that holy night. Here's to the story that still brings hope Even when culture's lost the remote. Raise your voice, let the bells all ring. This season was always about one king. Yeah, I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. Let the real good news unfold. The world may chase the wrapping paper? But the manger holds the gold. So I put the Christ back in Christmas. From the young to the gray and old. Out with the new, in with the old. Merry Christmas.

Let the truth be told.

[Glenn Beck]

From Glenn AI. Putting the Christ back in Christmas. Christmas. I'm sorry, did I say. Hmm? We're glad you're here. Thank you so much. It is, what, two weeks away from Christmas? How many more shopping days do we Shopping days do we have left?

[Stu]

December 8th. So we have 17 days until Christmas.

[Glenn Beck]

17 days.

[Stu]

Probably 16 shopping days, though. You probably don't want to get out there on, you know, during the morning and try to find stuff. It's not going to be easy.

[Glenn Beck]

It's probably a little late, probably a little later. Hey, I got you a gas card.

You know, in the. In the very beginning, the. The whole thing, Christmas packages, you know, they didn't happen. You know, I'm not talking about just back in Jesus time, you know, so it's not like they showed up and went, hey, we got you this Christmas present because you're the Christ. It didn't happen that way, obviously, but in the early days of, you know, of. Of Christmas, we. We didn't do things like that. We didn't give packages or anything else. What, what we would originally would give, like, would be like, give bread, you know, bread for the hungry, alms for the poor, you know, offerings in, you know, you know, in the memory of the Magi or whatever. That's. That's what we would do. And gifts were acts of worship, not transactions. And we were to imitate heaven, not to impress, you know, some neighbor. Then history, as it always does, you know, kind of takes things and complicates the purity of the thing, you know what I'm saying? So the Middle Ages come around, and the European communities begin. Start to give small tokens. They start giving apples and coins and wax candles and especially. Especially on St. Nicholas Day. And, you know, I'm sure back then I was like, I can't believe you're buying an apple. You're commercializing this. And what they. What they were trying to do was not to outdo one another. He gave. Did you see that? He gave his wife two apples. But it was the idea to teach children that generosity was a virtue. And the gesture was still really small. And the idea was to enlarge the heart. And then came the Victorian age, kind of the global pivot point, you know, and everybody, because everybody idolized Dickens and Christmas Carol. Christmas Carol by Dickens really revived the holiday spirit, but it also introduced something new, the romance of the Christian, of the Christmas marketplace. Because we suddenly had industrialization, and now we could make toys cheaper, and factories made novelty easy. And we had a middle class that had some disposable income for the very first time. And then suddenly, quietly, slowly, gift giving expanded, and the boxes grew larger and larger. Not the heart, but the boxes did. And by the late 1800s, early 20th century, you know, the. The stores Especially the new department store discovered what the church once knew is that Christmas makes people more generous. And so, you know, it also makes more people more vulnerable, I guess. And so the advertisements wrap themselves in holiness, and Santa was drafted into service. You know, not a lot of people know. I have this little teeny statue of. Of Santa that I got when I was in Sweden. Where was I? And at the Church of St Nicholas, and it's this little statue of Santa, and he's standing by a pair of boots, and he's the size of the boots. Because originally he wasn't like what we think of now. He was like this little elf kind of thing. It was Thomas Nast who, you know, did the whole, you know, twas the night before Christmas that changed the whole look of Santa. And then, of course, Coca Cola got involved. And once Coca Cola got involved, well, then everything, you know, quickly, quickly changed. And now three gifts of the Magi has become 30, yada, yada, yada.

And then we started advertising everything, and here we are. Here we are. Now to Christmas, which. I don't know, it starts. I don't even know. When did you start to see Christmas stuff? I. I first saw it before October, before Halloween was done. That's when I first saw Christmas stuff up right before. Before Halloween.

And we have turned this thing into.

I don't know, a fiscal quarter. That's all it is now is a fiscal quarter.

And as we're getting ready for Christmas and we have, you know, so many shopping days left. What the 20th century has done to Christmas has left us feeling, I don't know, emptier, lonelier, more frantic.

I mean, we have.

We have expanded the spectacle, but not the soul. And today we live in a world where everything can be shipped to you and your doorstep in 24 hours.

And we have a chance to reclaim it, but it's a short chance to reclaim it, I think. How do we reclaim what we've nearly lost?

May I suggest we go back to the beginning, Back to the stable.

Back to the stunned young mother. I'm writing some stuff for Christmas right now, and I was thinking about Mary this weekend, how stunned, you know, she had to be. I'm trying to. Look, I don't want to make light of it, but, I mean, she had to be like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Hold it. What? She had to be that way. I mean, she was a teenager. She had to be just like. Wait, hold it just a second. And then what? She must have been thinking about, how am I going to Tell Joseph. I mean, you are coming back to tell him, right? Because he not going to believe me. You are telling him, right?

And how she must have felt when she gave birth in a stable.

And the frightened shepherds. And later the magi come.

You know, that first Christmas was not wrapped. It was not advertised.

It was given to a world that really, honestly did absolutely nothing to deserve it.

And I guess we give our gifts with that.

We receive them. I did nothing to really deserve this. But maybe this year, instead of what should I buy? We begin asking, what should I give?

Not the biggest box, but the truest offering. What should I give? A handwritten note of gratitude? Something that really comes from you. An apology long overdue.

A moment of peace with a family that has been worn thin. A meal for somebody who has no table.

A reminder, spoken out loud, that hope is still alive.

Because.

When the gifts become reflections of him, the one given to us, Christmas can stop being a transaction and will become a miracle again.

And I think that's how we put the Christ back in Christmas. Not by shouting it, not by living it. Just one gift, one act of love, one reborn heart at a time.

I was talking to Tanya about this.

We've gone from.

We've gone from having nothing to having more than enough.

I've gone from a guy who couldn't afford.

An ornament at CVS that my oldest daughter wanted when she was young.

To a guy who one Christmas said by everything I can possibly think of for my kids, it was the emptiest Christmas we ever had.

Now our kids are all over 20. And.

I told Tanya, maybe we just.

We got to find something of real meaning that comes from us, something that we do ourselves, something.

Like the letter, something that doesn't cost us anything except time.

And give those to the children, exchange that with one another.

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Out with the new, in with the old. Merry Christmas.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu]

I, I don't want to get involved.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't really, does I? Yeah, I don't want to be a.

[Stu]

Peeping Tom into their world. Let them do what they do.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, no, let the, let them, you know, hey, what's happening with Ukraine and Russia? Don't know. It's their business and you know what I mean? Let's just.

[Stu]

There's no, like, history of things between China and Japan being damaging in any way. So I don't. I don't know.

[Glenn Beck]

We need to monitor.

[Stu]

No, Definitely not at all.

[Glenn Beck]

No. Why would you do that around December 7th? We have other things to do.

You know. Yeah, we have other things to do on December 7th to think about China and Japan.

[Stu]

There's only 17 Christmas shopping days remaining when you're on December 7th. So, I mean, you need to get to the stores. Don't worry about anything else.

[Glenn Beck]

Get your priorities right. Get your priorities right. My gosh. Did you see what everybody is saying about the. The. Did you read the national security thing? Of course not. I mean, what am I. Yes, I got up early so I could read it. Did you read it?

[Stu]

I did. In full. I wanted you to know that I didn't skip any words in it. There was effective. My memory of.

[Glenn Beck]

There were.

[Stu]

There were nouns, verbs.

A couple pronouns in there. I can't remember exactly how many, but it was pretty interesting.

[Glenn Beck]

Summarized it well? Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I think you summarized it well. I don't think we need to go any further than that. I got up early this morning so I could read it. So, you know, you in the audience, you wouldn't have to, but.

I actually don't have a problem with one word of it. Not one word. Everyone is freaking out. You saw the New York Times editorial today. Yeah.

[Stu]

Well, that's a big one, too. Yeah. The main editorial, the New York Times today, is about how the military has lost its ability to lead the world militarily to win a war with someone like China. Questions of whether we would actually defend Taiwan.

[Glenn Beck]

Wait, What? Wait, what? Wait, what?

[Stu]

It's amazing. They've just discovered this concern. We've been talking about it for a very long time, but they've just discovered it today.

[Glenn Beck]

You mean when we were. Wait. Because I remember saying it when Joe Biden was giving all of our weapons away to Ukraine, which, by the way, you now have permission to hate this. I don't know if you caught that this weekend as well. Yeah, pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. Pretty amazing how things have changed. We haven't, but they have. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. Every month you pay your phone bill and some part of that money goes off into the world to do, you know, I don't know, something. Is it doing your work? Big mobile companies have decided exactly what your money should be supporting, whether you like it or not. And I can guarantee you, you will not like it. They're funding organizations and political movements that I believe most People in this audience, they don't want anything to do with, I mean, unless you're just, unless you're like, I really hate abortion, but I love Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, you're just trying to pay for reliable cell service without financing a social event agenda that completely goes against your values. Patriot Mobile is the alternative to these companies and I never thought it would find, I didn't even know this was a problem years ago. You'll get nationwide coverage, excellent customer service support and plans that are competitively priced, all while supporting organizations that actually reflect what you believe. They're America's only Christian conservative mobile provider and they put their money where their mouth is, funding causes that protect family and freedom and faith. And switching is easy. Get a free month of service right now. Patriot mobile.com beck972 Patriot make the switch today.

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[Glenn Beck]

So at the Reagan National Defense Forum over the weekend, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan Kane Raisin Kane.

Hints at a possible conflict in our own neighborhood. And everyone is freaking out. Here's cut one. Listen. Yeah, I mean we, we have not, if you look back over the arc of our deployment history over the last few years, we haven't lot of American combat power in our own neighborhood. I think that's, I suspect that's probably going to change. We'll see what, what we're ordered to do and of course we follow that guidance and, and, but we're definitely spending some time there now.

Oh my gosh. He means war. And maybe in San Francisco.

Let me, can I just go through and give you the meaning of the National Security Strategy that just came out from the president and everyone is freaking out about it. And I think the president deserves a round of applause. The reason why everybody hates it is it is the exact opposite of what they've told us for 100 years we should be doing. And for 100 years you've seen what we've done and you've seen where it's gotten us nowhere. Quickly. America is standing in this doorway right now and behind us is the chaos that we've just lived through. Weakness, drift, bipartisan, you know, foreign policy class that somehow has managed to squander the greatest advantage any nation has ever had. And just ahead, at least according to the National Security Strategy, is a course.

Is a course correction so sweeping that honestly, it reads like a rediscovery of the American civilization itself. Because this is what this document is. It's not just a list of foreign policy goals. It is a declaration of what America actually is and what it must never allow itself to become ever again. For the first time in decades, the strategy admits the obvious. Okay, we lost our way after the Cold War.

Yeah, yeah, we did. Yeah, yeah. We tried to run the world while hollowing out that the nation that. That, you know, was supposed to do the running. We were hollowing ourselves out. We outsourced our factories, we outsourced our borders, our sovereignty, and even, God help us, our sense of purpose. We have no purpose. We treated global institutions as if they outranked the Constitution, and they don't. We protected everybody else's borders, except we let ours collapse. We defended, you know, abstract world orders while neglecting the American worker who actually paid for everything. And this new strategy is outlined. I mean, it just says what you've been saying for a long, long time. Enough, enough. I've had enough. And it lays out what Americans and America should want. And it starts with something, you know, really revolutionary in its simplicity.

It says we need a safe sovereign republic that protects its people. Strong families, strong industry, strong borders, strong energy, and a renewed cultural culture that knows its own story and isn't ashamed to tell it. What is possibly wrong with all of that? Strong borders, strong families, strong industry, strong energy. Renewed culture that knows its own story and isn't ashamed to tell it. That's why everybody's freaking out, because they don't want any of these things. None of the elites want those things. A sovereign republic. No, no, no.

He's laying out, we want the world's strongest military, but also the world's strongest economy and the world's strongest spirit. And without that, this policy says nothing else holds. And that's true. And you know it's true. It says the era of mass migration is over. Not slowing it, not managing it, but ending it. We know that's true.

It says the government's job is to protect God given rights. Okay, where do you get that idea? I don't know. The Declaration of Independence. Why is that controversial? It's not to manipulate elections. It's not to police speech. It's not to hide behind bureaucratic language while crushing dissent. All of that is found in the Bill of Rights. It's not controversial. It demands allies, actually act like allies and pay their fair share. Controversial doesn't seem like.

Promises. Reindustrialization. Did we learn anything from COVID Is it a bad idea to have everybody else make our stuff? And then we wait for boats? Energy dominance, a national defense Industrial base that's built for the world we actually live in, not the world our think tanks wish existed. And then it turns out outward. Then it begins to look outward to Europe and the rest of the world, because the rest of the world is shifting under our feet right now, and nobody's willing to say it. In the Western hemisphere, we should return to something that we should have never abandoned in the first place. And that's what Raisin Cain was just talking about. The Monroe Doctrine. Call it the Trump corollary, but the principle is timeless. This hemisphere is ours to secure. And hostile powers will no longer get a free pass to set up shop in our backyard.

How is that controversial?

Cartels, it outlines, will become a national security target. Manufacturing comes home, partnership replaces dependency. Then it talks about Asia. And the message is really clear. We'll compete with China economically, technologically and militarily. And we'll do it from a position of strength, not by pretending that Beijing is suddenly going to go, you know what? We're just giant friendly teddy bear, you know? No, no. We're going to do it by accepting the reality and prepare accordingly. But we'll still work with you. Just don't become an enemy of ours and we won't become an enemy of yours. That means that we have to rebuild industry. It means we have to secure the minerals. We have to dominate the technologies of the future. It means that we ensure that no single power controls the Indo Pacific waterways that keep the global economy alive. Hello, China, Taiwan.

Japan. Then it gets to Europe, which, you know, of course, we have colonial eyes on. Oh, my gosh. All this document says is what European leaders won't even dare whisper.

Europe is dying. The entire continent is dying. Not just economically, but as a civilization. The Western civilization is dying. Dying. Declining birth rates, uncontrolled migration, censorship, loss of identity, regulatory suffocation. We would like Europe to be strong again, Europe to be Europe again. Stable, sovereign, confident. Peace in Ukraine, stability with Russia, revival at home. That's what America would like because it would be good for us, but it would also be good for Europe. Because if Europe collapses into chaos, the entire Western world will pay the price. And it will be a very heavy price. But they don't like that. Oh, no, you can't say that. Oh, Europe is pissed at us for saying that. Gang. We all know, look at Europe. They're dying. They're dying. It won't be long. And if they don't change their ways and they do fall. This document also says something else. We're not going to Honor NATO for any country that falls, you become a Muslim country. You're not a NATO country. You fall and you're some other country. You're not a NATO country. We're not defending you. Now in the Middle east, this document says the forever wars is over. We declare them over. How is that not a good thing that we should all be celebrating? And not because the region suddenly became peaceful, but because America is finally strong enough strategically, diplomatically, militarily to shift from a constant crisis management to long term stabilization. Iran has been weakened. Israel has been backed. The Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accords are expanding. Energy dominance has returned to the us. What does that do? Well, that reduces the old change, that change that kept us entangled in every sand dune from Syria to Yemen. We're out. Finally, Africa.

My gosh, what we have done to Africa with our State Department and usaid. All we do is export ideology instead of opportunity, he says. Trump says in this national security document that's over. We're flipping the strategy. Trade, minerals, energy, peace deals. No more lectures, no more nation building, no more endless aid with no accountability.

Does any of this sound scary to you? Does any of this sound crazy to you?

I don't think so. It's saying everything that seems common sense to me. It's saying America is allowed finally to love itself again and to be who she should be and let everyone else be who they should be. You know, it has a. It has a right and responsibility to defend itself first, to put its people first. It's saying sovereignty is not a dirty word. Borders are not immoral. American workers are not expendable. Free speech is not negotiable. The nation state, not the ngo, not the global boardroom, not the transnational committee. That's the fundamental building block of a free world. How is this bad again? How is it that this is so dangerous?

In short, it is a blueprint for a country that wants to live again, really live again. Now the question is, do we. Is the President reflecting the national spirit? Do we want to live again? Do we want to be relegated to the dustbin of history? Or does America have other great work to do? Because that's really the question. Which is it that you believe? Which is it that you want? I want a strong nation. I want our youth. I want, you know, people coming out of college to have jobs, to be able to buy a house. I want all those things. I think they're necessary. I think they're important.

I think it's just as important to understand our history, to know who we are to not be ashamed, learn from it, but not be ashamed of it. We didn't do it. Our four, our forebears did. We learned from it. We're better than that.

My gosh.

I read these freak outs and I'm, I honestly, I think, my gosh, am I living in a. I'm living in some weird parallel world where I read all of these newspapers and magazines and everything else with their commentary today about the national security and they're all freaking out, saying this is the worst thing he could do. He's going to tear the whole country and the whole nation and the whole world apart. No, he's just stating what people feel and not just Americans. Go talk to the people in Europe, ask them, take this document and make it about England and see if all the people in England don't feel exactly the same way. And if you put a name attached to wouldn't get that person elected. It would, it would. Because everybody's feeling the same way about their own country. I don't have a problem with the rest of the world, but it's time for us to concentrate on us. It's time to concentrate on saying, you know what? There's something special about us. England can say that they brought us the Magna Carta. They are now torching the Magna Carta. Wait to hear that story. The things that make France, France, I don't know, the whining and everything else, I mean, that is unique to France, Italy, Germany. It is unique to them. I want them to be those guys. I do not want them to be another version of us. I want them to be them. I want them to do well and be part of the family of man and the family of nations. But I don't want anything to do with whatever they do. They do same thing with Israel and Saudi Arabia. You do, you boo. We're going to do us when we can get together, we will. Don't screw with us and we won't screw with you.

This is our national strategy. That's exactly what our national strategy. I say Amen. President Trump, finally, finally, somebody is saying what everyone is thinking. Unless you've gone to school, you know, for 18,000 years, you're some, you have your, some doctorate in God, only international development and studies women's studies. Unless you got that, you're looking at this and going, yeah, that all that makes sense. All of that makes sense. Now the question is, do we want it and will the people actually back it? Because strategy on paper, that's only words until a nation finds the courage to believe in itself again and saying, that's what we must do. Back in a minute.

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There is a lot going on. Last hour I talked to you about the new national defense strategy that everybody's freaking out about. You should read it. It is, it's fantastic. It reads like a founding document, honestly. And it talks about, yeah, Europe, Europe could fall very easily and we're not going down with it. And Europe, you have some decisions to make. But they're already making the decisions. I mean, they're doing some crazy stuff on, what was it, Friday or Saturday? They hit Elon Musk, you know, under the Digital Services act, which regulates online platforms, and they find $120 million to X. And then they actually included Elon Musk personally in that. And so his response was great. Well, you know, since it's not just the company, since it's me personally as well, I guess I shouldn't just go after the eu. I guess I should just go after those who personally pushed this, who personally punished me as well. Now it's a big fight and hopefully Elon will win on this because there's some other things going on there.

Starmer is not only arresting people for freedom of speech violations, but also now talking about getting rid of trial by jury.

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So let me just start here because there is, there is another story that is out in our newsletter today that talks about how people of college age are freaking out after Charlie Kirk's death. They don't want anything controversial on campus. I mean, that's the reason why colleges, universities had protection of free speech in the first place, was to be controversial, to be able to say the things that nobody wants you to say.

And it's really important. But let me, let me first remind people of what the Magna Carta is. 1215. The Magna Carta is Latin for the great charter. And this wasn't some magnanimous gift from the king. The king, King John of England, he was, he was losing a battle. France was just cleaning England's clock. The barons and all the lords and the ladies and everybody was like, you know, this king sucks a lot. King sucks a lot. And we got to stop him because he's destroying everything.

And he, he had lost most of the land to France. And then he started just imposing huge taxes on everybody. And, and because nobody in the lower class had any vote, this all happened with the lords and the ladies. And they were like, enough, enough, enough, enough, enough. You're abusing your royal power. Well, nobody had ever said that before. That wasn't, that just didn't happen. What do you mean? He has a divine right. He's the king. But in England, they said, no, you still have to be moral. You have certain laws and you can't just do these things. And so what they did is they got him to agree to the great charter, the Magna Carta, and it placed the king under the law. Before that, the king was the law so now King is under the law. It created the principle of due process. Never before did we have that you can't be imprisoned, punishment, or stripped of property except by the lawful judgment of your peers or the law of the land. So this creates jury trials, it creates habeas corpus, protection from arbitrary arrest, all of these things. The government now has to justify itself in a court of law. That's revolutionary, okay? It also limited taxation without consent, which we interpreted later as no taxation without representation, rule of law, jury trials, rights of the excuse accused, limits on government protection of property, accountability of leaders. All of that comes from the Magna Carta, okay? That gave birth 500 years later to us and our ideas, okay? Now, England, the birthplace of the Magna Carta, is now thinking about getting rid of jury trials and arresting more than 12,000 people every year for what they call speech crimes. 12,000. Now I want you to think about that. In Russia in the same year this stat came out, the latest year that we have, 2023. In 2023, Russia arrested 4,000 people for speech crimes against the Russian military, for Ukraine, 4,000 in Russia, 12,000 in England.

The number I saw, and we don't have all the numbers, but the number I saw that were arrests for speech crimes in China was 120, okay? Not for violence, not for theft, not for treason. 12,000 in England for words, okay? Now while that's going on, now the Prime Minister is floating the idea of eliminating, if not most many jury trials. It'll only be for murder, manslaughter and something else like that, okay? So in other words, if you're like I believe you should be able to read the Bible in your own language in your own home. Tinsdale. You don't get any help. You don't get a jury trial. You get the court, you get the King trying you, not a jury of your peers.

This goes against the Magna Carta, the lawful judgment of your peers, okay? That is the safeguard that stands between you and an out of control state. This is the first and ancient firewall against tyranny. It is what makes England England. And if England, of all places, tosses that aside, what does the word free mean anymore? Okay? What does it mean? You can't speak and you have no jury trial of your peers. Wait, what?

First of all, understand this. A nation that polices speech is not free. A nation that dissolves juries is not just unfree. It's prepping for something worse. Because the entire architecture of the Western world, the liberty that we have, rests on a single radical belief. The truth does not need a king.

The truth shall set you free. Who is it? Not what? Who is the truth? Okay, no king, but Christ. Because Christ is the truth. Truth, that's the Western world.

A person's conscience does not need a permit. Speech does not need a bureaucrat's approval before it leaves your lips. That's the West. That's what built the world, what took it from darkness to today.

Freedom is not granted by the state. Freedom pre exists government. Government's only legitimate job is to protect it.

Now, here's a dark little secret that every single tyrant and every politician knows today. If you control speech, you control thought. If you control thought, you control people. If you control people, you don't ever have to worry about controlling the government because no one will ever challenge you again. This is why it is so essential for any side to go. You can't talk to them, don't talk to them, don't listen to them, don't question. You can't hear that? No, they can say whatever they want, but I have a right to refute it. That's why free speech has to be absolute. Not mostly free.

Not free. Unless it makes, you know, Billy over there cry and uncomfortable. No, sorry, Billy. You don't like it, refute it. Freedom that depends on somebody else's free feelings is not freedom. Freedom that requires government approval, approval is not freedom. Freedom that can be revoked because a bureaucrat doesn't like your tone is not freedom.

Once speech becomes conditional, everything becomes conditional. Your rights, your property, your conscience, your place in society. Because you only live by permission, never by principle. We live by principles, not people.

Who is actually free?

Who is actually free?

The England that once declared the King himself to be subject to law? Or the England that now arrests a man because he's posted the wrong meme? 12,000 people can't find one in 2023 that was arrested for that in America. Not one.

The England that gave us John Locke.

The philosopher of natural rights, is that person free? Or the England that now warns citizens that context doesn't matter if their words cause someone, anyone, emotional harm.

Britain is about loss. But this is not just a Britain British problem. This is the canary in the coal mine for the entire west. Because these are the people that came up with it. When the mother country forgets its own legacy, jury trials and freedom of speech, when the land that once stared down monarchs now cowers before hashtags and activists and speech tribunals, then somewhere deep inside the Western soul, a light is flickering.

We must remember here before that Same darkness reaches our shores because it is already coming on to our beaches. It is already there. There is no such thing as partial liberty. Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for a reason.

It is the guardrail for every other right. If you lose the First Amendment, you've lost freedom. And if you lose the Second Amendment, you've lost the ability to defend that first freedom. It's number one for a reason. You must be allowed to speak, to gather, to have a free press, to question your government. You must have those abilities. You must be able to say, especially about government, the worst things about your government and question them and demand answers, to petition them. That's all in the First Amendment. It is the pressure valve that prevents societies from blowing itself up. The more we contain speech, the more we say, don't talk about. Don't talk about. Don't talk about. Can't say that. Can't say that. Can't say that. The more the pressure builds up, the more likely it is we blow ourselves up. It's the mechanism where the powerless can speak to the powerful. It's the shield that protects dissenters, unpopular thinkers, prophets, reformers, and yes, even the offensive. Look, there's, you know, there are quote, unquote, historians now who are giving you all kinds of bull crap about Hitler and everything else. None of that's true. I don't want to silence them. They have a right to say it. I have a right to say you're wrong and show you the evidence on what makes them wrong. That's the way it works.

England is about to forget all of this.

They are truly the birthplace of these kinds of ideas, and those ideas led to our idea of real freedom. No, King, if they forget this, we cannot. We cannot because there won't be anywhere else in the world to go.

The lesson of history, the lesson that history whispers quietly at first, then louder, and then finally, and we're about at this point with a scream.

Is that when a state decides which words are allowed, it will eventually decide which thoughts are allowed, which beliefs are allowed, which citizens are allowed. In the end, in the end, the prisons don't need bars.

The cell will be in your own mind.

Do you understand that, America? Do your kids understand that we don't even know what it means to be free? I thought this weekend a lot about.

And the truth shall set you free. Thought about a lot, in fact, maybe I'll talk to you about it here in a minute or so.

Because I don't think people understand what it means to be free.

We think everybody in the world is free. They're not. And you're about to really find that out.

You want to be free or do you want to be safe? Because you cannot have both. When safety is defined by those who fear your liberty, it's over.

We used to be people who would explore. We were people that crossed the oceans when everyone said we couldn't. We went to space when everyone said it's impossible. We crossed mountains that no one had ever crossed.

We forged a nation of really different people and lived side by side for so long. Yes, with bloodshed from time to time, but generally in ways nobody had ever done before. Freedom. Freedom is grand, but it's really dangerous. It's messy. Freedom offends you a lot. Get over it.

Real freedom. Real freedom is the only thing that has ever allowed the human spirit to rise above a king, above a tyrant, above the mob, above the bureaucrats. Real freedom that belongs to you, given to you by God.

And that's what they're about to lose. In England, the Magna Carta. The simple idea, no man, not even a king, no man is above the law. Do we have that here? Do you think no man is above the law? Or do you think there is a class up in the political range somewhere that if you're on the right side, don't worry about jail? That's what the Magna Carta tried to stop. That's what we've forgotten even. And they're about to get rid of it entirely.

The modern west is drifting into a far more sinister no man is above offense. And that is how civilizations fall back in a minute with more.

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Buddy, that's. That phrase is gonna bore me to death. So grab some cocoa, let's reclaim this bliss. It's the birthday of the baby. Yeah, remember who that is.

So I'm putting the cry back in Christmas. No microaggression here, my friend. If words can break you, well, bless your heart? Cause that's a battle we can't defend. Yeah, I'm putting the cry back in Christmas. Let common sense unfold. Out with the new, in with the old. Merry Christmas. Let the truth be told.

And hey, baby, it's cold outside. Relax, it's flirting, not a federal crime. We used to laugh and dance in snow. Now they fact check mistletoe? They say intent don't matter. Well, sure it does, Ask Nana, he's judgin Hearts, not Twitter buzz. So I'm putting the cries back in Christmas. You can keep your outrage warm if every jingle is problematic. Buddy, that's the real snowstorm. Yeah, I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. Not buying what they sold out with the new, in with the old. Merry Christmas. Let the truth be told. They say that greeting is oppressive. Well, bless my soul, who knew? If Merry Christmas makes you tremble? The problem ain't the phrase, it's you I'll question with boldness, I'll reason with grace. But don't rewrite my holiday to make it a safe space.

So here's to the manger, the star in the sky. The angels who sang of that holy night. Here's to the story that still brings hope Even when culture's lost the remote. Raise your voice, let the bells all ring. This season was always about one king. Yeah, I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. Let the real good news unfold. The world may chase the wrapping paper, but the manger holds the gold. So I put the Christ back in Christmas. From the young to the gray and old. Out with the new, in with the old. Merry Christmas.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Glenn Beck]

Let's talk about it.

So.

Yesterday I was at church and somebody said something along the truth will set you free.

And I thought, I don't even know if people know what the truth is anymore.

You know, the truth for set you free. I mean, it's been reduced to a bumper sticker, you know, a slogan that, you know, we stitch on the pillows or hang on our walls with little kitty cat, hang in there. Truth will set you free. Truth will set you free.

Jesus spoke those words the first time and he was issuing a warning. He wasn't comforting. He was confronting people.

He spoke those words to people who believed, absolutely believed, that they were already free. Let me ask you this. Are you free?

Most Americans, most people in the west will say, yes.

Yes, yes.

Children of Abraham, keepers of tradition, moral guardians of our age, you're not free.

You're not free. Because when, when Jesus was talking to those moral guardians of his age, he was saying it to them, you're not free. You're slaves and you don't even know it.

This is the tragedy of the human condition. We are. Once you lose.

Once you lose the narrative of where these things came from, you no longer understand what the words even mean. Okay, Our chains.

Are not chains that rattle, okay? It's not the same kind of chain but it is a chain. In every way there is a chain. Ours are quiet, they're internal. They're self forged, most of them. But because they're invisible, we treat the bondage that we're in like normal life.

Christ, when he said those words, he names that bondage plainly. So I just want you to listen to this because I just want you to hear. We're all struggling, Glenn. How do you know it's true? I don't know. I don't know. I ask that question all the time. How do I know what's true and what's not?

I don't know. But it is my job to find it. And sometimes I find it, sometimes I don't. But every day I struggle with it. But that's not the truth.

The truth shall set you free. It's not politics, it's not Rome, it's not Washington. It's not your circumstance.

It's thin.

The unyielding gravitational pull inside of all of our hearts that just bend us away from what's true, what's good, what's holy, what's sacred.

When.

When Jesus was saying this, he named the jailer. Lies.

Okay, lies about what?

Lies about who we are. Who are you? Once you answer that, and maybe this comes before answering that. Why are you here? Who sent you? What difference does your life make? Do you have a soul?

Who are you?

Lies to you every day about what matters most. Lies about what or who will save us. Whole civilizations are built, ours included, are built on lies. Because lies are comforting.

Rome, remember, promised peace. They were crucifying people by the thousands, and yet they were the ones saying peace.

The enlightenment, promised perfect human reason.

You can't have perfect human reason and ignore the broken human heart. You can't. Our hearts are all broken. We don't even recognize it anymore. We are so empty. We're so lost. And we're all struggling for what is true. How do I know? I got to follow that guy. I got to listen to that guy. You don't listen to that guy. You're an enemy. What are you talking about? You don't even begin to know what truth is.

Because we live in a time right now where we're promising ourselves the truth is whatever we feel right now, whatever I deem the truth is, you don't agree with the truth, then you're an enemy.

But if truth is subjective, then freedom is an illusion.

And freedom is only illusion when lies root our world.

Because every lie is a leash. And the moment you believe it, we hand that leash to somebody else, some other power to pull it.

So what does Jesus even mean when he says, the truth will set you free? And this is so important because if you understand this truth, everything else falls into place. It'll take you a while, but it will.

He's saying, this.

Freedom begins the minute your illusions die. The moment the masks are ripped off, the moment you stop defending that lie that keeps you comfortable. Look, I'm a recovering alcoholic. You know what the hardest part was? First part was to admit I was an alcoholic, that I had a problem. Because alcoholics are wino. They're living in the street. That's not true. That's not true. That's a lie I told myself to stop me from stopping drinking.

I'm not an alcoholic, because that's what an alcoholic is. That's a lie. An alcoholic is whatever you are if you're drinking and you can't stop.

And then when I had to put my life back together, because first, just admit the problem, then look at the problem, and then admit you're powerless over it, and then just vomit it all out, get all those lies out of you. And the minute you start vomiting those lies out, you're like, but there's nothing left, because my whole life is built on that lie. The moment you stop pretending that the prison cell is actually a sanctuary.

You'Re free. I know I've lived it.

But it doesn't help you necessarily know what's true in politics and everything else. It just gives you perspective, and that's what we've lost. This is the part we forget. Truth is not an idea. Truth is not a philosophy.

Truth is a person.

I am the truth. Not I carry the truth. Not I teach the truth. I am the truth. That's what he says. Which means the truth is not something you discover like a treasure in the dirt. It is someone you meet. And when you finally meet him.

You begin to see reality as it actually is. And everything else that you thought was important is you realize that's a lie. None of that is important.

And believe me, when that happens, you become very dangerous.

Not to society, not to your neighbors, but to tyrants, to liars, to manipulators, anyone who depends on keeping you confused, ashamed and afraid. You have total freedom, and you scare the living batcrap out of them.

Because the man who has met truth cannot be blackmailed by lies. Why do you think tyrants need to stop religion first? They couch this every single time. And, well, it's religion that is keeping you down. No, it's not.

Not if you are following the truth, him.

Because he frees you from those lies. And when you're freed from those lies, you know what to stand up to.4. You know the big right and wrongs. You may not know the policies, but you know the big ones.

And you can't be intimidated by a threat. You can't be enslaved by shame. You have nothing left to hide, nothing left to prove, nothing left to fear.

That's freedom.

Not I can go out and say things and not be offended. No.

Freedom to become who you were really, truly made to be a person no longer owned by sin. Somebody who's no longer defined by the past. Imagine how we would change the world right now if I said to you there is a way to get rid of everything that you and your, and your, you know, great great, great great grandfathers ever did. It's all gone. It's all washed away. Everything you've ever done, it's gone. And you're no longer trapped behind the walls of your own illusions of time.

You're starting fresh.

Think about how many NGOs would no longer be of use. Think about how many political people would no longer be of use. Think about all of the lies that are said every day that you would laugh at.

And you would scare them out of their minds because they would know you don't fear them at all because you know they're a lie and so does everyone else.

The world will offer you self expression. Jesus offers liberation. The world tells you craft your own truth. Jesus tells you encounter the truth and walk out of the cell transformed.

That's the freedom worth living for. That's the freedom worth defending with your life. That's the freedom that scares the pants off of tyrants. You want to know how to know what is true and what is a lie. You want to know, to be able to decipher truth. If you haven't met the truth.

I don't think you're going to be able to.

Because you don't know what true freedom is.

And there'll still be parts of you that are terribly, terribly afraid.

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[Stu]

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[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu]

Glenn, can I hit you up quickly here before the end of the hour on this Henry Cuellar pardon situation with the president? Yeah, I find it to be fascinating if you didn't follow this. Henry Cuellar is a Democratic congressman, has occasionally been like a little sane on a couple of issues like the border.

[Glenn Beck]

Occasionally.

[Stu]

Occasionally. But like he's still a Democrat. And President Trump comes out and says he's gonna pardon Cuellar, he's dealing with some corruption charges and stuff, pardons him.

And then a couple days later, Cuellar says, all right, I'm running for my seat in Congress. And then the president gets very upset and says, wait a minute, I pardoned you? Kind of insinuating we kind of had a deal or an understanding that if I.

Didn'T pardon you, if I pardoned.

[Glenn Beck]

You, you wouldn't run.

[Stu]

Now, I don't know what the background of that all was, but what is your reaction to that? And are you on board? Would, would you support, like a constitutional amendment at this point to either completely change the pardon power or get rid of it completely? Because I will say no.

[Glenn Beck]

I would say limited towards the, I would say limit it to, you know, the end of the term. I don't like this constant pardoning of stuff. I don't, I don't like it. I mean, I believe that the president should have it because injustice can be done. But I just don't like the fact that, you know, the last president did 5,000, you know, in one sitting.

And we just seem to be pardoning. And I certainly don't like it for tit. For tat.

[Stu]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

No, no, I, if it's an injustice, pardon. If not, no president Trump, but I.

[Stu]

Honestly like President Trump. And to some, there's a lot of questions about the way that Biden one went down, so I'll leave a little bit of room there. But generally speaking, you can kind of do what you want with the power. So they're. None of them are necessarily breaking the law. It's just one of those things where, I mean, they're talking about, you know, was it Obama that like, just basically pardoned an entire class of criminals? It's like, that's just you making the law. You're just overturning what the Congress has done.

[Glenn Beck]

I know. I just don't like anything needs to be reformed. Yeah, I don't need it. I think it needs to be reformed. But I do believe it was one of the first things that was put in with the President. The president has always had the power, but we've always had restraint on some of these things. You don't just pardon a class of people. And you also Glenn Beck.

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[Glenn AI / Jasmine Crockett (for specific segments)]

Sam.

[Glenn Beck]

Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire.

[Stu]

The.

[Glenn Beck]

Fusion of entertainment and Enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Well, hello America. Well, welcome to the Glenn Beck program. So we've got some good news on Obamacare subsidies. Looks like the Republicans are thinking about bailing on that whole fight.

So what? Wait, wait, what, what, what does anything mean anymore? Help me out by meeting in this one. I'm. I'm struggling. I'll do it. I'll do it. You're not gonna like what I come to. Well, you'll like what I've come to. The GOP is not gonna like what I come to. But we'll do that here in 60 seconds. For first, let me tell you about the Burner launcher. You know, most people don't think about personal safety until something happens and make them realize just how little control they have. Actually in a tense situation, the stranger approaching too quickly. Maybe it's a moment where your instincts suddenly spike. Maybe it's a feeling that I like some options if a situation ever turned the wrong direction. That's exactly why I like the Burner. It's a non lethal kinetic projectile launcher that is powered by a CO2 cartridge. It gives you real effective protection without having to navigate all the permits or paperwork or state by state restrictions. The Burner is legal in all 50 states. You don't need a permit anywhere. It's designed to give you distance and control and a chance to de escalate long before it becomes a situation. Something that you can't take back. And if you want to get something even more discreet, the compact launcher is fabulous. It's really good. I can't believe I just used the word fabulous, but it actually came from deep inside of me. That's a problem, isn't it? Anyway, you can put it in your nightstand, you can put it in a backpack. You can put it in your purse or your back. Just go to Burna by r n a.com glenlearnmore Try before you buy at a Sportsman's Warehouse location near you. They're being snatched up for Christmas, so get yours now. Burna.com glengealienn.

So I'm reading some really exciting stuff. Three dozen Democrats and Republicans introduced a proposal to end the taxpayer funded Obamacare Obamacare subsidies, which is really great. And it was. It was spearheaded by Josh Gotten Heimer, a Democrat from New Jersey and Ken Kiggins, a Republican from Virginia. And it's a measure that's going to extend and reduce the tax credits in a two step process requiring two separate votes from Congress. Okay, so the first vote would extend the tax credits for A year with some modifications, including the addition of a new income limit. Okay. And then the second vote, which will be definitely happen, would implement what the group described as more significant reforms. Okay. Don't worry. I mean, they're just putting it into a two step process. Not because they think the second step will fail, but because they just want to make it simple for people. And it's always easier to take two steps than one. You see what I'm saying?

Now.

Here'S a New Jersey congressman.

And self declared conservative, quote, I do not like the Affordable Care Act. I do not like it. Sam, I am. No, I'm sorry. I do not like the Affordable Care Act. It's fraught with all kinds of problems. There's a lot of corruption. But that's not the point today. That's not the discussion today. These subsidies haven't been good. But ladies and gentlemen, we have a responsibility.

Right, to stop things that aren't good and are full of corruption. One might say, but he doesn't. So I believe we have two responsibilities. One, to have a bridge for the American people that will allow them to keep their health insurance. The second is a responsibility that we have to do much, much better with health care. Okay, well, those aren't vague stuff. I'm standing on, I'm standing, let's say, in front of a body of water and I'm going to build a bridge.

What would I be? Assuming.

I'm standing on a cliff and in front of me is a body of water and I want to build a bridge.

What'S the question that comes to mind?

Bridge to what? What? A bridge to where? What's on the other side? What are you building the bridge to? If I said, if I'm standing on a cliff and it's the Pacific Ocean and I say I want to build a bridge here, you would logically say, can't be done. Too far. Where are you going? Hawaii, Australia, China, Russia. Where are you building the bridge? Might not be able to do that. It's quote, a bridge too far. Or you might just say, there's no way you can build a bridge here. What are you going to do? You're building one to Russia. Cause all kinds of new problems. Okay, all right, nobody's asking that question. What are you building? The bridge. You're building a bridge for the American people. What's on the other side of that bridge? What, what is your plan after they get to the middle of the bridge? Because assuming they've got you got them to the middle of the bridge, it's going to be something on the other side, or is it just they get to that cliff where the bridge has been built, there's still no land to get onto. What do you say then? We need a bridge to get people from here and do we build another bridge to nowhere? We just keep tacking these bridges together until finally we arrive somewhere.

[Stu]

These are excellent bridge related questions, Glenn. Can I ask additional bridge related questions?

[Glenn Beck]

Bridge relay, we're keeping it in the bridge related family.

[Stu]

Yes. This is a show, I would say, most mostly known for its architecture talk.

[Glenn Beck]

So, yeah, our architecture, engineering.

[Stu]

Engineering.

[Glenn Beck]

We're big with engineering, right? Yeah, big. Yeah. So.

[Stu]

When this was created in 2021, these subsidies. Yes, they were a bridge to 20.

[Glenn Beck]

They were a bridge to 2022.

[Stu]

And then what was interesting that happened is in 2022, they built yet another bridge to 2025 with the expectation that we should all understand that in 2022 we wouldn't need that bridge anymore. And also in 2025, we wouldn't need that bridge anymore. And now they're saying we desperately need a bridge to 2027 or 2028, depending on who you're listening to.

[Glenn Beck]

I think it's 2027.

[Stu]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

I think it's 2027 dot 2027. But we're not gonna need.

[Stu]

We're not gonna need another bridge after that. And what's fascinating about building a bridge, Glenn, is the expectation of that bridge is it's going to last a very long time. You don't temporarily build bridges all that often. Maybe the military, they're in the middle of a war, they'll build a temporary.

[Glenn Beck]

Bridge over a bottle of water.

[Stu]

That's possible. There are some uses for. For temporary bridges, but most bridges are actually designed to last forever or as long as they could possibly exist until a new bridge is built after them. And that seems to be what we're doing here with this, which is just slowly building temporary bridges that we're calling temporary but actually are permanent and continue to grow. We seem to have several bridges across the same river already. And now we want more bridges over the same river.

[Glenn Beck]

We should have bridges to the other bridges.

[Stu]

Oh, that's the way to do it. Government efficiency in action.

[Glenn Beck]

If you have bridges to other bridges that aren't finished or going anywhere, then you have Washington in a nutshell. Then you have something really to brag about. Now. He also went on to say that he was upset that the GOP has not been working on this. On this problem for the last 43 days. And I would I would tend to agree with that, except I would say, I don't know. Where have you been since 2009? Where? Why haven't you been working on this since 2009? Every time you have an election, you're like, we're going to get rid of Obamacare. We're going to fix that. We're going to fix. It's really not that complex to fix. You get government out of the way, you take down all of the stupid, stupid rules between the states where you can't let anybody compete from one state to another. Get rid of all those things. Get rid of them. It's not that hard. And I don't need to build a bridge. I just. I can do that right now. I can just do that. What you do is you say, bridges out, go this way, and then all of a sudden the path is right there. You can go there. Cheaper health care, access to your doctors. It's really great. You know, since we're in the holiday mood today.

I thought I would write a poem for the gop. And I mean this deeply and sincerely. It is a salute to the gop.

Want to hear it?

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the right Not a plan could be found that was honest or tight the base hung their stockings with dwindling care in hopes that a real GOP would soon be there the voters were nestled with thoughts growing bleak While leadership mumbled the same lines each week and Mama in her MAGA and I in my cap had just settled our hopes for another year's crap when out on the House floor there rose such a clatter I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter Away to C Span I flew like a flash Just in time to see Congress set fire to our cache when what were my wondering eyes did appear But a miniature bill wrapped in fraudulent cheer With a leadership driver so slippery and bland I knew in a moment they had no real plan more rapid than progressives Their excuses all came they whistled and shrugged and they shifted the blame now tax cuts now budgets now spending galore on omnibus on bailouts, on debt here's some more to the edge of disaster Let the Treasury fall now Charge away, charge away, charge away all like money that flies into DC's furnace flies they burn through our future with pork stuffed supplies so up to the debt ceiling skyward it flew With a sleigh full of nonsense and excuses too and then in a twinkling I heard on the Hill the whispers of justice that gave me a chill Indictments, investigations I leaned in to browse. Are they really cleaning house? No. They were spying on you and your spouse. The CIA, FBI and doj too, had wrapped secret programs in Media View. Their webs spun like garland through the bureau and press, a tinsel of treachery, a deep state Christmas mess. But the GOP stood there all timid and meek, not drawing a line, not even a squeak. Not at Nazis, those socialist vile yes, socialist kids read a book once in a while. They claim to love markets, the founders the laws yet cave every time when confronted with flaws. Their words are like snowflakes that melt when they land. No principle strong, no backbone at hand. I spoke not a word but went straight to my list A party that means what it says. Did I miss a repeal of Obamacare that isn't pretend? A budget that cuts more than taxes, my friends. I signed it with hope, though the odds seemed quite slim. Constitutional principles teach them to them and if you've got space in your sleigh for a treat, wrap corrupt officials for prison. So neat. Santa sprang to his sleigh with a cynical grin Kid, you're asking for miracles. No one's voted in, but I heard him exclaim as he flew out of sight. Merry Christmas to all and to the gop. Get it freaking right just maybe once. Back in a minute.

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Let the truth be told.

[Glenn Beck]

Merry Christmas. Putting the Christ Back in Christmas, that song from Glenn AI the first product from Glenn AI will be available maybe tomorrow. We'll tell you how you can get it. Kind of, kind of the. It's interesting. When we first started this show, we did Ramahana Kwanzmas and we played that for a few years, and it was really popular. And, and this is kind. That was when we were just sliding into this nonsense. Putting the Christ back in Christmas is kind of like the mark of. Yeah, we're not doing that anymore from the Glenn Beck program. So more on that on tomorrow's program. Also, if you want gifts with purpose, if you want history, we've got all of my books up@glenn beck.com we have, we have some of my historic artwork that you can also get as prints. And they're all, they're, they're off, I think 25%. Everything is off. At least 25%. All the, you know, tease, the Glenn Beck merchandise and, and the no king but Christ T shirts you can get along with the mugs and everything else. Shop now@glenn beck.com Got to do it by. I think it's December 12th, which is just four days away. So make sure you get it now. Okay. Stu?

[Stu]

Yes, Glenn?

[Glenn Beck]

What have we missed so far? Is there anything we've missed that we have to talk about?

[Stu]

There's plenty. We have updates on the Somali fraud scandal.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, I can't see. I avoided that because I can't.

[Stu]

Why.

[Glenn Beck]

Can we please, can we please play. Wait, wait. I mean, if we're going to do this.

We have to start with Elon Omar. Cut six, please. House Republicans and the treasury secretary just now talked about a link to terrorism, a possible link. He said they're just now beginning to look into it. How confident are you that that's a false claim?

I'm pretty confident at the moment because there are people who have been prosecuted and who have been sentenced. If there was a linkage in that, the money that they had stolen, going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out and basically charging them with these charges. And so I do know that for many years, this sort of like, alarm that there is money being transferred through the airport in bags and going to terrorism has all that accusation has always existed that it's never been here and there in those accusations? Yeah, that's not really what the administration is saying. The administration is saying remittances, you send your money over to Somalia. Al Shabaab takes a cut of all money coming into the country. That's the way it works. So you don't have to be sending it like, hey, I'm marking this one to blow up my local library. You're not doing that. You're not marking it. Al Shabaab. Everything sent over in remittances. This is the claim that Al Shabaab takes, I don't know, 10% or what, whatever. They take a percentage of it. That's how terrorism is being funded.

[Stu]

So you're, in some ways, seeming to describe a situation where you wouldn't get the best analysis on international terrorism funding from the eye candy of a Maroon 5 video. Is that really your claim? I want to make sure I don't.

[Glenn Beck]

I understand. Yeah. She might not be the best source. Okay.

[Stu]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Stu]

I find it very, very interesting the way all of this is playing out, because it's not like her assumption there seems to be that when a crime is committed, it's law enforcement's fault for not catching it immediately. Like, that's. That's the.

[Glenn Beck]

No, I think she's saying because they didn't. They didn't charge them with funding. Funding terrorism. They charged them with fraud. So if they didn't charge them with funding terrorism, then it's their fault.

[Stu]

See, actually, the people funding the terrorism are the ones mainly at fault. It's not to say that there's no problem with not charging them. In fact, they didn't get charged for any of this stuff when Biden was in office, or at least a lot of it. But, yeah, I mean, I would say, like, if someone were to. Let me give you another just random example. If, let's say a black man walks up to a white man and stabs them right? Just in the street, and then after that, that white man calls the black man a racial slur. Now, I think we can agree that you should not use racial slurs. And using a racial slur is suboptimal. Right. On the other part of this, though, when you're analyzing the entire situation, who would you put most at fault in that particular white man?

[Glenn Beck]

That after he was stabbed by the black man calling him name, I would say that guy is the real villain.

[Stu]

You should work on Elon Omar's staff then. Because really, by the way, that situation is a real situation, happened in Portland, and the person. And they were. They were. The black man was acquitted because after the stabbing, the white man called him a name. A bad name, but called him a name. Now, that's my understanding. It was the sticks and stones part of the Constitution does not cover that exactly that way. But I.

[Glenn Beck]

Who.

[Stu]

What would I know at this point, Glenn?

[Glenn Beck]

I think that was. I think that was our mother's Constitution. Okay. Okay. I don't think that. Yeah.

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[Stu]

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[Glenn AI / Jasmine Crockett (for specific segments)]

So I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. You can keep your outrage warm if every jingle is problematic Buddy, that's the real snowstorm. Yeah, putting the Christ back in Christmas not buying what they sold out with the new in with the old Merry Christmas let the truth be told they say that greeting is oppressive well, bless my soul, who knew if merry Christmas makes you tremble the problem ain't the phrase it's you I'll question with boldness I'll reason with grace but don't rewrite my holiday to make it a safe space.

So here's to the manger the star in the sky the angels who sang of that holy night here's to the story that still brings hope Even when culture's lost the remote Raise your voice. Let the bells all ring. This season was all always about one king. Yeah. I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas Let the real good news unfold the world may chase the wrapping paper but the manger holds the gold so I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas from the young to the gray and old out with the new, in with the old Merry Christmas.

Let the truth be told.

[Glenn Beck]

So something I worked on this weekend from Glenn AI. It is our first. It's our first. Our first. I don't know if I should even announce it. I'm sure will not be proud of that soon, but our first offering from Glenn AI. And you'll be able to get it tomorrow. It was. I, you know, I thought. I was thinking about a song that we did years ago called Ramahana Kwanzmas. And I was thinking.

In the time that we did that, Stu. Do you remember the year, Sarah? Is it marked on the. On the recording? What year? The stop had to be 2003. Stu. Do you know?

[Stu]

I have to look it up. I probably have some record really early.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, really early on. And it was just as this, you know, war on Christmas thing was. Was happening. And we were making fun of political correctness. And, you know, I was listening to it and I thought, oh, my gosh, this is so early on that we were using words that you just wouldn't even use now, you know, and we're. We're mocking this, this coming political correctness, not knowing how bad it was really going to get. So I wrote Putting the Christ back in Christmas kind of a like, you know, I've had enough, enough, enough. We're putting the Christ back in Christmas because we don't care. That era is over. It's over. But here's where it began 25, 27 years ago. Listen to this.

Have a rummaging. Ramahana Kwanzmas. It's the PC time of year Every holiday displayed because of morbid fear. Happy Rama Hana Kwanzmas yeah, we know the name is queer oh, good golly. Can't offend nobody on this year oh, no, the Eskimos need a holiday.

We'Ll get right back to you when we think of one poor day Happy Rama on the Kwanzmas what a time for winter cheer but if you see a Christmas tree you'll hear Christmas, Christmas cheers. Screw you, ACLU for winning the 12.

Million in your lawsuit versus Santa and his elves. Have a Rama hana quasmas and everyone must now adhere. So by golly don't hang up that Hollywood on this year.

Wow.

Yeah.

[Glenn AI / Jasmine Crockett (for specific segments)]

And no more Sleigh Bells either.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, did I hear the word queer in there? Not in a way that you would use it today. What were we thinking?

[Stu]

That's the technical definition of. Of the word, at least in one of them.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Stu]

Well, you think we used it appropriately, but it was, you know, it. I don't know. That was pre. Like, I was looking quickly. Just like YouTube. There is a version of this that, if you remember when that song came out, it played for a few years, and then some listener made an animation of the song, and then that animation was uploaded to YouTube 17 years ago, and they called it a classic. This is an animation of Glenn Beck's classic Christmas song. So it's been a long time. I don't know exactly how many years, but a lot of them. But it was before really the woke thing was even a thing. I mean, what we were talking about was the precursor to the woke thing, which has now gone through so many different variations where you had, gosh, we don't want to be politically correct. We should be able to say what we want. And then you weren't able to say anything. And then you had the George Floyd era, where you went to prison if you said anything. And then now we're on the other side of that, and it's like, now everyone's saying everything, sometimes to an extent that isn't necessarily necessarily appropriate.

Example of that from the. Over the weekend was the Cinnabun story. Did you see this at all, Glenn?

[Glenn Beck]

No, I didn't.

[Stu]

Woman working at Cinnabun apparently has.

I think maybe Somalis come into the Cinnabon. I don't know. They get in some sort of argument. The phone turns on. They're filming her as she tells them that.

She calls them the N word multiple times and says that she's proud of being a racist. And you might not be shocked to hear that Cinnabon fired her for that. But, see, I don't think that's cancel culture. Just so we can be clear.

[Glenn Beck]

No, that's not cancel culture. No.

[Stu]

Pretty sure it's difficult to employ someone calling customers of the store the N word repeatedly while working at the store.

[Glenn Beck]

And proud to be a racist. Proud.

[Stu]

No, that's different. We lose track of these terms sometimes. And of course, now she's gone on to, like, you know, one of these sites. You know, I don't know if it's GoFundMe, but it's one of them. And people have Put up like, oh, gosh, she's been canceled. Please help her. And she's raised $100,000. It's like, you know, you should not be rewarded for $100,000 for saying the N word at Cinnabon.

[Glenn Beck]

No, you should give that to rappers. Yes, again, they're the ones that should get the money for using the N word. We've learned that in the woman bindings.

[Stu]

Yes, exactly.

[Glenn Beck]

We've learned that. How many times?

[Stu]

I just, I. I feel like we, you know, sometimes when society makes a really bad call over a long period of time, people get angry and want to push back against that appropriately. And then that just keeps extending itself until it is no longer an appropriate pushback against that bad thing. It's just its own bad thing. And I don't know, maybe we should realize that.

[Glenn Beck]

When's the last time that you watched a Charlie Brown Christmas?

[Stu]

It's a great question.

I mean, it's probably last year or the year before. I haven't watched it this year yet.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I watched. I watched it last night with my eldest daughter, Mary, and we watched it. We've been talking about watching. We've been talking about watching it for a while. We watched it last night right before dinner. And.

You think that, oh, simpler times, simpler times. Look at the Gospel of Luke is in that. Right? You know, doesn't anybody know the real meaning of Christmas? I do. Charlie Brown. That was.

That was not. Nobody thought that that special was going to work. Did you know this?

[Stu]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

The Charlie Brown Christmas they thought was slow, boring, and way too sad. And no child was going to. Was going to embrace it. Coca Cola went to CBS and said, you want to talk about. It's all a giant syndicate, you know, Coca Cola went to CBS and said, we want a Christmas special to advertise in. And so they went to this guy, Lee Mendelsohn, who had just done a documentary on Charles Schultz and had become friends with Charles Schultz. And he said, you know, would you do a Christmas thing? And he said, I don't know. I'll do it. And so they went back and forth, and.

The animator said that we have to have real children voices. And I want to use a really sparse soundtrack. I just want to. I just wanted to make the music really important. So we went to the jazz band to do the Charlie Brown Christmas stuff.

And Charles Schulz said, I'll only do it if we include the Gospel of Luke. And CBS was like, you can't put the Gospel of Luke in there. I mean, that's Just that's, that's, that's a bridge too far back in 1960, what, 4, 65. So the year, I think it's a year after I'm born, it airs. So they're making this while my mom is pushing me out, they're making the Charlie Brown Christmas. Okay. And it was controversial back then to put the Christmas story in. They finish it. They expect it to last one year. Everybody at CBS is like, just don't tell Coca Cola. Nobody's going to watch this thing. And it turned out to be, you know, a huge, huge blockbuster. It ran for, I think, 35 years. Every single year. They only played it once. I remember as a kid. Tonight is Charlie Brown. Tonight's Charlie Brown. Don't forget tonight is, you know, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and, and Frosty the Snowman. So you would make your. As a kid.

That'S all you talked about on those days on Christmas, in the Christmas season, you would say, how many days until Charlie Brown? When is this going to play? Don't forget, watch it tonight. And we watched it for 35 years.

On CBS. Then in 2001, it moved to ABC and now it's on Apple TV and they have all of the peanut stuff. But I was thinking as I was watching last night, I thought, how much money has this thing made? And who's got, who's, who has all that money? Who got all that money? Who are they still paying for these words? It had to be a fortune. Fortune.

[Stu]

Every penny, though, like, think about like that is, you know, the exposure to, like you're rooting for the kid. Talking about, God, what is that?

[Glenn Beck]

I know.

[Stu]

I mean, what an incredible dynamic that played out. It is unbelievable watching it and how out of place that particular thing feels in a way because as you note the sort of sparseness of the production of it, the whole thing just stops and there's that long walk to the stage before he goes into the speech. It is really, it totally draws your.

[Glenn Beck]

Attention in the 1960s. They say it was too slow in the 1960s. So imagine, I mean, that's why we feel it today. Imagine what our kids think about this. They're like, oh, God, I watched three TikTok videos. By the time Linus said there was something and he said, turn on the lights.

It was like, it's crazy.

[Stu]

It really is amazing. And it has a way of just drawing your attention in. Like, it's so sparse and so almost like the pacing of it's so awkward, especially in that moment that you can't help but kind of lean in, you know, you're like, wait, what's he about to say? And then he just goes into like just reading the Bible.

It's an amazing moment in American television history and thank God it exists. I mean, it is something that has probably introduced a ton of kids to this stuff for the first time. You know, I mean there's probably tons of kids that just like generally Christmas, that watch an enjoyable Christmas thing and learn about the real story of Christmas like as it was intended.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu]

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[Stu]

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[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu]

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[Glenn Beck]

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All righty, Sue's got a Jasmine Crockett update for.

[Stu]

Yeah, you conveniently have avoided the big news of the day and tried to downplay my girl's rise to power, but this is the day. This is the day Jasmine Crockett announces her run for Texas Senate for US Senator from Texas. She's getting into the primary. This is big. Part of the development today is that Colin Allred, who's the guy who ran last time and lost, was going to be in the race as well. Because of the power of Jasmine, he is now dropping out of the race. So clear the way for my girl. That's what I'm saying, Glenn.

[Glenn Beck]

Clear the way.

I. I am all for it. I just think she's just going to be, you know.

She'S going to be there. You know what I mean? Yeah, she is. Cutting cut 33. Here's Jasmine Crockett. A little rant on, you know, white people.

[Glenn AI / Jasmine Crockett (for specific segments)]

On white people because you can then misuse words like oppression. There has been no oppression for the white man in this country. You tell me which white men were dragged out of their homes. You tell me which one of them got dragged all the way across an ocean and told that you are going to go and work. We are going to steal your wives. We are going to rape your wives. That didn't happen. That is oppression. We didn't ask to be here. We not the same migrants that y' all constantly come up against. We didn't run away from home. We were stolen. So, yeah, we are going to sit here and be offended when you want to sit here and act like. And don't let it escape you that it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us people of color on this side of the aisle that, that y' all are the ones being oppressed. Y' all are the ones being harmed.

[Stu]

She is delightfully stupid. I love her so much. There's nothing better than Jasmine Crockett Audio.

[Glenn Beck]

She is like a potpourri of stupidity. Oh, you know what I mean? You're like. Like there's a hint of stupidity, but there's also, I don't know, this. This little bit of whiff of more on.