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Trump's Strait of Hormuz Blockade Is Not What You Think | Guests: Ezra Levant & Miad Maleki | 4/13/26
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You're going to hear a lot of people talk about the 21 hours in Islamabad and oh my gosh, what was Donald Trump thinking? And we're going back into war and it's gonna be a never ending war. Oh my gosh. Can you please, please hold the hounds back for a minute? Let's actually just look at the facts and the numbers because it'll tell you exactly where we are headed. And we do that in 60 seconds. First. For 250 years, Americans have believed in one simple, powerful idea. And that is that we were meant to be free, to work hard, to free to move, free to enjoy life without something holding us back. And there's a very personal side of that idea as well. Because if you're dealing with everyday aches and pains, you know exactly what it feels like to have things a little less free, things that aren't as easy as they used to be. And you don't realize how much it's changed your day until you step back and look at it. And that is why Relief Factor stood out to me. 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Did you see why Iran walked away? Because everybody who said he was a chicken hawk last week looks like you were proven wrong because we walked away because we said no, you have to end all uranium enrichment, dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities, retrieve highly enriched uranium, accept a broader peace, security and de escalation framework that includes your regional allies and funding for terrorist proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, and fully open the Strait of Hormuz, charging no tolls for passage. That was our red line. I told you that last week. Donald Trump told you that weeks and weeks and weeks ago. But everybody online, There's a really important reason I am starting with the, the rabid dogs, because it is why these talks fell apart yesterday. I'll explain. First, let me just continue on, on the talks here. Trump immediately announced the US Navy was going to enforce a full blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Now, what does that mean? Because I thought we were here to stay. We got to keep the strand of our moves open. Yeah.
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Oh, gosh.
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From the Wolver. Pete think people think he's meaning. He is going to make sure that it is open. But if you get any oil from Iran, you're not moving. If you are paying a toll to Iran, you're not going anywhere. But he will keep the straight open for everybody else. That's what he's talking about. He's going to interdict any ships paying the illegal tolls. He's clearing the mines. He did that. As soon as they sat down on the table, he went in there and he started clearing the mines. And he's going to prevent entry and exit for any ship that is headed towards Iran. Two week ceasefire now on life support, especially with Israel still hammering Hezbollah and Lebanon. But you know, Iran is saying we don't control them. Yeah, well, we can say we don't control Israel. One of us is telling the truth, the other one's not. This is exactly the leverage that Trump telegraphed. He said it was coming. Iran came ready to negotiate, but believed it held its held enough cards. And when you look at it, you got to ask yourself, what cards do they think they hold? What cards do they hold? Oh, I'll tell you here in a second, but here's what we learned so far. Iran is not suicidal in the conventional sense. Okay? I told you, these are 12 verse. They believe, you know, that chaos and martyrdom will hasten the return of the Promised One and end of the times and blah, blah, blah. They still believe all of that crap, okay? However, it's not hardline. Hardline. What's. What's happening here is they are looking at this and saying that's real. However, there's enough people at the table who are like, yeah, you can, you can frame suffering as sacred destiny, but we'd rather not all die. Okay? The delegation that showed up proves that they calculate survival. There were enough people at the table. They brought everybody they needed to bring. This was not a joke of a. Of a ceasefire or a peace hearing. Okay, but they weren't purely death cult. They're a hybrid. They're also not purely regime preservation and proxy leverage. They. They're a hybrid. So I'll show you here in a minute. We have a guest who's done the math and he'll show you the suffering that they. That they will actually have. The US Naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz going to cost Iran approximately $276 million a day in lost exports, $159 million a day in imports. That's a combined economic damage of $435 million a day, or $13 billion a month. 90% of their annual trade comes through there. So they are, they're in trouble. They're in real, real trouble. So why. Because collapse is coming. Pain is ensured. What do they see that we don't? You're not going to like the answer. It's not missiles. It's not that they have secret weapons. What do they see that we don't? They see us. They see our domestic divisions more clearly than we do. Social media has turned the fog of war into a superpower. It really is. Every oil price tweet, every anti war clip, every maga versus neocon argument is amplified and it's heard all over the world. They believe that Trump is transactional and he hates forever wars. They believe that other podcasters don't, but they do. And they know that they he might settle for a face saving deal if the pain, gas prices, stock market hits you. They also know America is really tired of these wars. We're polarized and sustained pressure could fracture US support the way it did in Iraq and in Afghanistan. They also see that global dependence on oil gives them asymmetric power. Close to the straight, even partially. You close that and the world screams at Washington, not Tehran. And they know that. They also know China and Russia will backstop them. Weapons, diplomatic cover, oil purchases, or so they think. Now here's what they really see. They believe their people will endure hardship under martyrdom narrative longer than the Western public will tolerate high gas prices. So this isn't. They don't have any real power in a military sense because they're way overmatched. They're done Their power comes in time. They believe time and pain on our side will win the war for them. That's what's really happening here. Okay? When you look at all of this, you have to realize it's us that they see. It is us. That's why it is so incredibly critical to make sure that we are. We can argue amongst ourselves, but when you go online, that is global now. That's all global. Okay, so what do we do? Well, we. We listen to the warning that the fog of war is now amplified. TikTok x Instagram, everywhere MAGA voters, especially. Don't let podcasters or party loyalty, you know, march you into a team war. Don't wait. Just wait. Process the facts. The Iranian regime is a civilizational threat. It is. It's rooted in this twelver Esk eschatology that says the. The. The. The Antichrist. They think it's coming from us. We think it's coming from them. The Antichrist is coming, and they will hasten the return of all of that. Okay? So process the facts, know what they actually believe, and then stand up for us, defending what is important to us, without becoming the world's policeman. We don't need to be the world's policeman. I don't want to be the world's policeman. I don't want to be in another war. Okay? I don't. But when you're playing big stakes, buck up. Buck up. And I want to show you the numbers here in just a few minutes because those numbers are staggering on what they're facing. And then at the top of next hour, I want to show you a bigger picture. I want you just to step back and go, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let's stop thinking like podcasters. Let's stop thinking like cnn. Let's stop thinking today. Today, today. I hate to say this, but can we stop thinking like McDonald's Americans for a while, let's actually step back and look at the bigger picture, because it's already beginning to happen. There is. There's some facts here I want to give you. And this came from Jesus Rojas. He says hundreds of supertankers, the kind that carry 2 million barrels each, are currently racing toward. Where do you think? The U.S. gulf coast from every direction. The Atlantic, Indian Ocean, around Africa. Iran closed. The Strait of Hormuz. Everyone panicked. Oil hit one, $26 a barrel. Gas hits $4 a gallon. Cable news does a thing where they put the red banner on the screen and they say, crisis, and everybody should start hoarding toilet paper. And then Something happened that nobody in the media seemed interested in reporting. For obvious reasons. The world did it just switch suppliers, like changing your Internet provider. Except the Internet provider is the entire global energy economy. American oil exports are now approaching record levels. Gulf coast refineries are running at 95% capacity. Supertankers that were mid ocean on their way to the Persian Gulf literally turned around and headed towards Texas. This is not a metaphor. Ship tracking data shows them doing U turns in the Indian Ocean. Meanwhile, which in China, which is getting 45% of its oil imports through Hormuz and paying basement prices for sanctioned Iranian crude, is now competing with Japan and Europe for the same expensive American barrels. Chinese manufacturers are already raising prices 20% on goods. So to summarize, Iran has played its biggest card and the main result is that the United States has become the world's emergency gas station and China's cheap energy subsidy has evaporated. Either that's the most elaborate coincidence in the history of the world, or something good is working for America and those who put America first. I'll go into a little bit more of this with Jason here in just a second. First, let me pause for 60 seconds and tell you about Z Factor. 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It is costing us money. At the gas station, I went yesterday to fill up the gas tank of the car and oh my gosh, I don't know how the average person is affording any of this. I don't know. It can't last. We can't continue down this way. But if we can hold on, we win. It is a great reset, but a good one. A good, great reset, if you will. And the President in his tweet just verified this last week. So I'll explain all of that coming up in just about 45 minutes from now. I wanted to check with Jason. What am I missing here, Jason?
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Part of the, I mean, most of it's right on. I think part of this reset has just been analyzing the straight of Hormuz. And I mean, you've said this earlier, earlier in the week when you said watch the Strait of Hormuz. It will tell you so much about where this war is going, the eventual outcome, and what this potential next reset of how things are operated, especially in this region. But the President is doing this all over the world, whether it's in Western Europe, all over, and we're looking at the Middle east now. But it has always been a major trump card for Iran to play this right now. And shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, it's really what has kept them in power for as long as they have been. This threat. Well, the Iranians completely miscalculated this. They played their one and only card and now they're watching it shatter right before their eyes. For one. We look at just the state of oil production and where it's traveling right now after the closure of the Strait. Well, what's happening within the Gulf kingdoms is they're just looking at ways to diversify.
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They're.
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They are. They already wanted to do this on, diversify how they get their oil out of the country. But what Iran has forced them into doing is accelerating these plants. You look at the Saudis. The Saudis have an. What they call the East West Pipeline. They are now running that at almost top capacity, redirecting vast amounts of their oil production across the country, and it exits out the Red Sea. UAE is doing the same thing. They're looking at alternate ways. They are doing that right now. We're about 30%. Roughly 30% of the oil is completely bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, not even going out of tankers. And there's other countries like Kuwait, Bahrain that are looking into doing the same thing. This has just accelerated that entire process. And you. And you spoke about the. The tankers. I wish I could pull up the. The. Maybe I can. I don't know. This map right now.
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The map.
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This is. There it is, right? Look at that. These are all the tankers that are saying, okay, screw it. We are now headed from all directions. They are now headed towards the Gulf coast of the United States. It is wild.
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I can't see it from where I am. Jason, are there the actual. Can you see the actual U turns on some of these?
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You can't see the U turn. You probably could if you were watching it live, but, yeah, it's. They're going around the Horn of Africa all the way to. I mean, it is just insane what.
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What.
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This has accelerated, and that's what it has done. It is accelerated. Where this goes from here, I think Iran is looking at this as saying pretty much the jig is up. Pretty much the jig is up. Not only are they losing, you know, in the future as far as what they have as far as options are to keep their regime alive, but they're also. They're also losing daily about roughly a little over $200 million as soon as this embargo happens, which is in about 30. 30 minutes, to over $200 million a day to keep them afloat.
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It's pretty remarkable what is happening. I want to give you the numbers. I mean, look, I. I can give you an opinion. Everybody has an opinion today. We don't have enough facts. I can give you an opinion, but I want to really leave you with the facts of the day. We've given you some facts. Let me go to another expert who's got even more facts to back this up, that this is not a loss here, gang. This is actually working quite well. Would it have been nice to have, you know, a peace deal? Yes, if they would have given all into all those demands. But they're not going to. So is this working? Next? First, let me tell you about preborn. There is no milk. There's no photo on a milk carton. There's no headlines with a name in it. There's no search party combing the woods. And yet a life is missing because of abortion. Abortion was had in fear, without hope, without fully realizing there was another way. So often that decision is about the lack of truth, lack of somebody stepping in and saying, wait, wait, wait, you're not alone. You're not. There is a way. This is why preborn exists. They provide free ultrasound so a mom can hear her baby and hear that heartbeat and then they stay with her. They stay with her through the pregnancy and up to two years after her child's birth, offering real support, sharing the hope of the gospel, sharing, I mean anything from clothes to food to books and actual one on one help to help raise the child. It's amazing. Now preborn has a goal of 11,000 gospel conversations in a preborn network clinic this month. Trusting God to bring increase as they remain faithful to speak. So you make that possible. Sponsor an ultrasound right now. Just $28 will provide one ultrasound for a mom in need. 145moms preborn.com Beck preborn.com £250 say the keyword baby £250 keyword baby a lot more coming up in just a second. Stand by and grab it all@glenn beck.com Tor. So there's a couple of things that, you know, if you just watch Donald Trump over the years, there's a couple of things that you can learn from him. He, he doesn't bluff when he negotiates. He negotiates from a position of strength. And when he knows that's the best deal he can get, he leaves. Those are important because he has a lifetime record of that. So he's not bluffing. And we rejected a deal. And the world is freaking out. A lot of people online are freaking out saying, oh, we're going to be on an endless war, lala blah blah. And it's easy to say, well, wait a minute, we have just taken apart their military. We have destroyed them. What do they have? What do they have that they think can beat us now? And my, my thought is they see us, they see us panicking. They see us, they know that we don't like never ending wars. They know that we can't handle high gas prices, would sell our mother for low gas prices. Especially when we don't understand what's going on. And so they think they can wait us out. But what Donald Trump knows that we have that they don't is time as well. The, the amount of money that they are losing and what is happening right now in the Strait and what is now coming our way, we are changing the way oil and the oil business is being done. We have Miyad Maleki on with us. He is from the foundation for Defense of Democracy, senior fellow there. He has been involved in this. He played a central role with the Treasury Department sanctions, the campaigns against Iran and the proxy networks. He is also the assistant director for counterterrorism, non proliferation Middle east sanctions. He, he has been deeply in this for a very long time and I wanted to get him on because he is seeing things that we fail to look at. You have to look at the numbers and what is actually happening with oil and the Strait of Hormuz. Miyad, how are you?
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Good, how are you? Great to be with you.
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Yeah, great to, great to have you. Tell us the story as you see it. What is actually happening here?
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Well, I mean just very quickly, just setting the stage here. You know, before the war, before we started the strikes with our Israeli partners jointly against Iranian regime, their state of economy was already in a state of crisis. You know, they had an inflation of 60 and the food inflation was just accelerating. Unemployment rate, I mean you're looking at somewhere between 20 to 30% and that's a number that comes out of Iran. So I would take that with a grain of salt. I mean they're doing more propaganda than anything else. The real that the currency value was 1.4 million per dollar. I mean this is the lowest since 1979. So they're already in a significant state of crisis. And then we go through this round of war and you know, there's a damage that they're taking from the strikes. But also internally they shut down their Internet. Now that's been overlooked because that's a major economic revenue generating kind of sector in Iran. And they have shut down the Internet for 47 years. That had, that comes with major economic costs for Iran. And then now we're discussing this whole blockade. Now let me tell you this. The Iranian oil that goes to the market, it's about 1.3 to 1.5 barrels a day and that only goes to China. It actually goes at a very discounted rate to the teapot refineries. These are small to medium sized refineries in China. They buy the oil at a discounted cheap rate and then they produce petrochemical products that are actually competing with the petrochemical products that we produce and our partners and we just can't keep up with the pricing that the Chinese producers are putting out in the market because they're buying cheap Iranian oil. So the cheap Iranian oil in the market is not feeding the formal market. It's not really helping us or any of our allies, but it's helping the Chinese to compete with our own petrochemical production.
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So would you say in some ways, I mean, the real target here is to stop the, the proxies and stop the terror coming out of Iran and the, and the nuclear weapons, et cetera, et cetera. But I, I think an equal or slightly lower priority is to stop China. I mean, China had this plan to collapse the American currency by going in and getting the, the oil from Venezuela and then Iran and then, and making their own petrodollar, if you will, which would harm us. We've taken away Venezuela, we take this away, we've really hurt China, have we not?
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That's absolutely right. I mean, they're going to have to accept that they need to buy oil at the same rate that we are buying or our allies and partners are buying or reselling. They need to compete in a fair manner with us. And I'm hoping that when they can't get Iranian oil at such a discounted rate, then they're going to have to face the reality in the market that other the west is facing now. On the terrorism side, it's a very good question that you ask, a point that you raised. Listen, Iranians are causing a lot of issues in the Middle east for us. They've killed our uniformed personnel, they've targeted our allies and our interests in the region. But the way that Iranians, Iranian Revolution, Revolutionary Guard or the Islamic Republic operates, they bring conflict and pain to their adversaries, to the borders. See what they've done in Israel. They've set up Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamasini, Islamic Jihad around Israel. They've done the same thing with the Saudis and Emirates. They're funding the Houthi militia to target them. And here's what's been overlooked. Iranians been building drone manufacturing sites in Venezuela, in our backyard. Some of these drones that they were producing or they were putting together in Venezuela. Their range includes southern U.S. texas and Florida. So it is in the Iranian regime's blood to look into how they can export the revolution to the borders of their adversaries. And that's exactly what they were doing in Venezuela. That was keeping me up at night, just thinking and knowing that they were setting up those capabilities in Venezuela, in our border. And that's a threat that the campaign, the war and the blocking campaign is going to. To stop.
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So, Miyad, you know, I think everybody was looking at this and saying, what do they have? And people are immediately going to, well, they're going to plot a big terrorist attack or whatever, and that might be part of it. I don't know. I hope to God not. But what do they have? And my answer today for my audience has been they see us as their greatest tool. They see the divisions, they see gas prices, and they think they can hold out longer than we can hold out. And I'm not talking about a long period of time. I'm talking about, you know, a month, that they just think that we will not. We don't have the stomach for war, and we certainly don't have the stomach for gas. And Donald Trump will fold because you'll see this starting to hurt the polls, et cetera, et cetera. Do you find that to be a valid idea for them, as that's their greatest weapon is us?
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Oh, absolutely. Right. I gotta tell you, Iranian regime has focused more. They've invested more in propaganda and messaging here in the US and messaging the US Audiences. As a matter of fact, yesterday, the head of Iran's Parliament, Mohammad Bagar Kalibov, who was in Islamabad, in Pakistan, negotiating with Mr. Vance, J.D. vance and Mr. Witkoff and Kushner, he was back in Iran. And the one tweet that he sent out yesterday was a screenshot of gas stations and gas prices around the White House. And that tweet was in response to President Trump's message about the blockade. And he was directly talking to the Iranians about the. I'm sorry, to the U.S. u.S. Audiences, that the consumer price is going to go up. So.
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Right.
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So that's exactly the type of messaging they have invested in. That's the only hope right now, that President Trump would give in to the pressure domestically and pull out. And that's exactly what they're hoping for.
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So, and I know nobody knows, but with just a guess at looking at the numbers, if Donald Trump can get in there and. And close, open it up for anybody taking oil from anyone else but Iran, but close the strait for anybody trying to get in or out to take oil from Iran, if they can. If he can do that, how long before the people just can't take it in Iran, they just. It just is not viable for them anymore.
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Well, Gwen, I mean, that's. Again, that's a really good point. I think Iran has been fed up. I mean, we had the January protest in Iran. The regime had to kill over 40,000 Iranians in a matter of two days. I mean, that number, just think about it. Historically, you can't find a government that would kill 40. I mean, ISIS, the SONI terrorist organizations in Iraq and in Syria, none of them came close to this number of killing 40,000 innocent protesters or civilians. That's how regime managed to get out of the month of January. And then we have this sort of strikes against Iranian regime. Now, it makes sense that you don't see protests right now because there is a campaign of airstrikes that has been going on. Actually, CENTCOM commander went out and asked Iranians to stay home and don't take it to the streets yet. I think the regime has reached a point that it knows that economically it just can't sustain running the country. And that's why they keep buying time. They wanted these negotiations. They were trying to get some type of relief. Now, if the blockade is successful, there are six Persian Gulf ports that handle about 90% of the entire Iranian trade. Now, if all those get blocked, you have the daily export loss of about $276 million a day. And you have a daily import disruption of about 150 million in import that goes into Iran. Now, what is going to really be affected here is Iran's ability to produce oil because they have about 13 days of the storage left to keep storing oil. After that, they're going to have to stop extracting oil. They're going to have to shut down some of these oil wells. And that would be a huge affect, a huge impact to their oil production. And it's going to take a month, if not years to go back to the level that they're extracting oil right now. So that's kind of a situation they're going to be facing with a blockade.
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Any idea at all? And I know this is kind of out of your wheelhouse, but what is it going to take for the people to actually rise up and come back out? I mean, after killing 40,000 people, even in a country our size, with the population of 350 million, you kill 40,000 people and you've got Americans not wanting to go out on the streets.
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Yeah, I mean, here's the reality, and President Trump has been very right about this. The Iranians, they don't have guns they don't have weapons. If they go on the street, they're going to have to face machine guns by the irgc, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and their military militias on the streets. I've seen reports of the regime bringing in some of its militias from Iraq to help the regime crack down on any protest. The Internet has been shut down for 47 days in Iran. Just imagine not having Internet for 47 days. We don't hear from Iran. I get messages from some Iranians when they get their hands on a Starlink or some type of Internet that is not really reliable because regime keeps blocking them, but.
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Right.
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But I think Iran has been fed up. I think very soon you're going to see Iranians taking it back to the streets. I'm usually very skeptical or I try not to predict these types of things because they're very difficult to predict. But looking at the economic numbers, I think we're very close to the end of this regime. It's coming. If the pressure continues, there's no way these guys can continue to govern a country and Iranians are ready to take their government back.
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Miyad, thank you very much. I really appreciate your perspective. Thank you for giving this information. Miyad Maleki, he is from the foundation for Defense of Democracy. He's a senior fellow there. He has been one of the main architects over the years on all of the sanctions that we have done and mainly in Iraq. All right, back in just a second. Let me tell you, sometimes you spend so long straining under a really heavy burden that you actually forget what good old fashioned, you know, sigh of relief feels like. Take that credit card that you've been dealing with, for example. Every month you pay that thing, you know, doing what you're supposed to, and yet it just feels like you're just treading water. Most of that money is going to interest and the actual balance barely moves. And now with gas prices the way they are, how much more you're going to have to put on your credit card. This is so frustrating and so hard because you know, it's two steps forward, three steps back. It seems like you're not making any progress. This is where American financing can change the equation. If you are a homeowner, you may have equity that can be used to pay off the high interest debt and consolidate those payments and actually start making real progress. So your money is working for you, not just disappearing into interest. And that's when it starts to happen. That sigh of relief that you forgot about, it comes back. There are no upfront fees. You can Find out if you qualify right now just by calling American financing. Literally 10 minutes can change everything for you. 800-906-2440 Go to americanfinancing.net or call them right now. 800-906-4440 NMLS 182334 nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR for rates in the five starts at 6.799% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-906-2440 for details about credit costs and terms. Glenn Beck.
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So let me just give you a quick something from CNN this weekend. Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld cut three. Here's what he was saying this weekend about Trump.
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I argue with people on another network when they like to talk to say that he's dumb. He is dumb like a fox. He's very strategic and sometimes gets it wrong and it backfires. Can we give the mailing address in New Haven so that they can just send all the angry letters to you and to not listen to that? He's not saying he's right all the time. He's just saying he's not an idiot. And of course the angry letters are going to come in. But meanwhile, the left is on this big kick because of Viktor Orban. Here's Hillary Clinton. The end of Viktor Orban's autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for the people who value democracy around the world. Barack Obama, the victory for opposition in Hungary yesterday, the Polish election in 23 is a victory for democracy. Akeem Jeffrey, far right, authoritarian. Viktor Orban lost the election. Trump sycophants and MAGA extremists in Congress are up next. In November. Winter is coming. These guys have no idea what they're talking about. That is not the story in Hungary. And I was paying attention to this because I thought, oh, this could be really bad. It's actually not bad. It's what you take from it. There is a lesson there that we as MAGA people and conservatives need to take from that. But it is not panic. The left didn't win in Hungary. One of the most frustrating parts of hearing loss is that can. It can make you really feel disconnected without ever announcing itself. You're still in the room, you're still nodding along, still showing up, but you're working a lot harder just to keep up. And sometimes you're guessing more than you'd like to admit and you're just hoping, don't ask me anything because I don't know what we're talking about anymore. What stops a lot of people from doing anything about it is not denial. It's the process. It's the doctor appointments, the multiple visits, the adjustments, the price tag that makes you go, how? What? So people wait and you shouldn't have to. Audien was built to remove those barriers. They have the Atom X. It is an over the counter hearing aid designed to be straightforward and approachable without prescriptions. Or complicated setups. The charging case has a simple touchscreen, lets you adjust the volume and modes with just tiny little without the tiny little buttons or learning curve. And it delivers clear, natural sound. Please try it audienhearing.com Take control of your hearing today with VRBO's last minute deals. You can save over $50 on your spring getaway. So whether it's a mountain escape city break or a week at the beach, there's still time to get great discounts. Book your next day now.
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Pass it on. Crank the game. Glam Back is on. Glam, The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We are glad that you are here. So very happy. Thank you so much for listening. I've got three things I want to cover this hour. I want to talk to you a little bit about Viktor Orban and what happened in Hungary. It's not what the left is saying it is. And quite honestly, it's not what people on the right are saying it is. Oh, Victor Orban lost and it's a no, no, no, no. There is a very clear reason, but you have to understand Hungarian politics, which I really don't. But I have enough of a handle on it to be able to give some insight on this. And a very important lesson to learn for the Republicans. What happened to Orban can happen here, but not because people were tired of the border fence or anything else. It's really an important lesson. I'll get to that here. Also, everybody's looking at the lemons. You know, they're looking at the Middle east and they're like, this is horrible. This is going to be horrible. Lemon, lemon, lemon, lemon, lemon, lemon. I'd like to turn that into lemonade and show you what actually is happening. The president tweeted something last last week, something like the mother of all great resets or something like that. And it was disconnected from everything. I'd like to connect that to what happened this weekend and what is happening at the gas station as well. That is a giant lemon. And what is happening over in Europe, In Ireland, last week, they started having protests. The government went out of control, started arresting the protesters. Now they're going after the media. It's not going to be good in Ireland. We'll explain all of that and talk to Ezra Levant, who is with us in about 30 minutes. He was just in Ireland over the weekend covering it, so we'll get it from him first. 60 seconds. 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I just want to give you the facts and I want to give you another way to look at this situation because everyone's looking at it and like, oh, ran just another Middle east long extent of war. We're going to be in there. You know, we've been in that chapter, stuck in that chapter for decades, decades now. Bomb this, sanction that, cease fire, violation, rinse and repeat. I'm so sick of it and so are you. So let's, let's just assume that Donald Trump is not an idiot. And. And assume that he's looking at it differently. What if the real story isn't about winning in the Middle east, but the real story is about no longer needing the Middle East? Because that changes everything. Think about your own life here. Think about what happens when you are dependent on somebody that you don't trust. Maybe that's a business partner, partner that's unstable. Maybe it's a supplier that can cut you off. Maybe it's just a job where your paycheck depends on somebody that doesn't share your values. You don't feel secure. You feel trapped. It's always a problem, and it's always in the back of your head. Well, that's the Middle east for us. Now, if you're smart, you don't just manage the relationship. What do you do? You don't create a vacuum. You just don't like, I quit. You don't do that. You're smart. You build a bridge. You build a way out. And I believe that's what Donald Trump is doing here. Most people don't grasp the reality here. The United States is no longer the country it was in the 1970s. When it comes to energy, we're not begging for oil from the Middle east anymore. We are producing more oil than any country in the world. That's not theory, that's reality. We are exporting energy, not just crude, but refined products, natural gas, the kind of fuel that keeps lights on and factories running all over the world. Now layer something else on top of that. Look at the map of resources. If you look at the map, the United States, Canada, specifically Alberta, which is thinking about breaking away from Canada and Venezuela. You strip away all of the politics and you just look at raw numbers under the ground. That cluster, this hemisphere holds an absurd amount of the world's oil. Enough to matter and enough to shift leverage if you're smart. So now imagine a world where the Western Hemisphere becomes something different. We're not consumers of energy alone anymore. We become the suppliers. We become the reliable supplier. No straight of Hormuz, no choke points controlled by regimes that openly talk about chaos as a strategy. No constant threat that a tanker gets hit and suddenly your gas price jumps a dollar or two dollars overnight. Just flow predictable, stable and close. Now bring that to your life. Why does energy matter so much? Why? Why? Why does this matter to you? This war in Iran? Why? Why are you so concerned about it? You're concerned because, you know, it's your grocery bill. It's the cost to heat your house. It's what takes you know, it's what it takes to build anything, move anything, grow anything. If energy is cheaper and more stable, then everything starts to stabilize with it. What would happen to your life if the United States becomes not just energy independent, but hear me, a primary supplier to its allies and the rest of the world? Well, first of all, you start changing relationships. Europe doesn't have to rely on Europe. Now listen to this. Just this one alone, they could, I mean, they could pay the tax and get the oil out of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Expensive, unstable, and you're in bed with dirt bag people that just want to light the world on fire. But they don't have to pretend that this is stable. You now have a choice. And if they choose, they could buy it from us. They would stop leeching off of us with NATO, because now we're just paying all that money over to NATO. No, no, no. Well, you want, you want our oil, you're gonna have to pay for it. Now they become a paying customer. Now take that a step further into a country that is not an ally of ours. China. China's entire system, its manufacturing base, its growth model, runs on imported energy moving through the Strait of Hormuz. They get cheap oil from Iran. If they don't, everything costs them a fortune. Their plan of collapsing the petrodollar is over. And their advantage of cheap oil that nobody else in the world can get is a thing of the past. So China's vulnerability quietly increases without us having to fire a single shot. And then you come to us, the United States, we're not as vulnerable anymore. You know, choose us or let them pay for oil and the security that it would take to get it. Go ahead. But we become the driver. So if energy becomes more regional, more hemisphere based, our wars for oil in the Middle east come to an end. You don't like forever wars. This is a way to end them. You don't have to announce the strategy because Donald Trump doesn't do that. He's just building it. Now let me talk about the dollar, because this is where people either over complicate things or just oversimplify them. The dollar is powerful because the world trusts it, uses it, and needs it. It's called the petrodollar. A lot of global trade, especially petrol oil, moves through dollars. It has to. If more of the world's stable energy starts flowing from places aligned with the United States in this hemisphere, it doesn't just magically save the dollar, it reinforces, keeps the system centered where it already is. One of My biggest concerns has been what are you going to do about the dollar? This is like being the bank in a small town. You don't cover and control every transaction, but you control and cover enough of them. And they all run through that system and it keeps circling back to you. Now, it's not clean, it's not perfect. You know, there's always friction in reality. Venezuela is not a plug and play partner. That country needs rebuilding politically, economically, physically. Alberta right now is in an insane country. I don't know if you've been following what's happening in Canada or just over the last week. It's insane what's going on there. And infrastructure takes time. Pipelines don't appear overnight. Refineries aren't interchangeable. But here's the big one. People miss oil money, even a lot of it, doesn't erase a 30 plus trillion dollar debt. But what does Donald Trump always say about our debt? Grow the pie, grow the economy. You're not going to get out with just cuts. You got to grow the economy. That's AI and that's energy. The Middle east, you can't just walk away from it. You can't just leave it in a vacuum. Even if we don't need their oil the way we used to, the world reacts to what happens there. Prices move, market shakes, allies pan. So you don't disappear. You just stop being the only adult in the room that will do anything. You notice how the Middle east, how Saudi Arabia, Oman, the uae, all of them are now saying, okay, we're prepared to take a little larger role here. We're gonna get involved here. Let the countries that depend on that region for oil take responsibility for securing it. That's not our job anymore. That's a very different world than the world we've been living in for the last half century or so. Now, pull it all together. This is not a master plan with perfect execution. It's a direction. Less dependency on unstable regions, more production at home and nearby, more leverage with allies. Make us the source of energy and AI and everything else, and handle adversaries without direct confrontation. It's a quieter kind of power. In fact, it may explain. Nobody explained this tweet. Nobody really noticed. This tweet came from Donald Trump last week. He just tweeted this world's most powerful reset President, Donald J. Trump. The hell is he talking about? This.
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And if you're wondering why any of this, all matters to you is because the world you're living in right now, the instability, the inflation shocks, the constant Sense that everything is so fragile that all ties back to systems like this. Energy, currency, trade. That's what this is all about. Those three things, and they sound distant until they show up at your grocery store. So maybe the question isn't, is this a grand secret strategy? Maybe the better question here is, are we finally, slowly, after decades of being stuck in the same loop, starting to build a bridge out of it? Not clean, not guaranteed, but real enough to see. And if that's true, then what looks like chaos on the surface might be something else entirely. A shift. The kind of shift we've been begging for forever. And the kind of shift that you only recognize when you stop staring at the headlines and you start looking at the map and all of the other dots that have been placed on the map recently. All right, I want to reframe Viktor Orban's loss. Because what you're hearing in the news, what you're hearing from, really, I think from everybody, is so much garbage. And don't get me wrong, I got caught up in it on Saturday, Friday or Saturday. I'm seeing the election coming, I'm seeing he's going to lose. And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, what does that mean? I started doing research. It's not what everybody is saying it means, especially Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and everybody else. And it's really important. It could be a giant warning to the right, but you have to understand it. And then also, we'll go to Ireland with Ezra Vant here in just a minute. First, let me tell you about real estate Agents. I Trust Dot com. You really have to hand it to mediocre real estate agents. I mean, it takes a certain kind of confidence to decide you're great at something, mostly because mom said you were. 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The people who really have integrity and know what they're doing, that they're the best in your area. The name says it all. Real estate agents I trust. Dot com. Ten seconds. Station id. All right, so I want to talk to you about Viktor Orban and what happened there. The Hungarian voters went and after 16 years said, no more Orban. But who did they replace him with? This is what you're not going to really hear and understand. They were not rejecting the border fence. They're not suddenly in love with open borders and woke globalism. The winner actually came from the party of Victor Orban. Okay? He's still saying no to EU migrant quotas. The voters were rejecting something far more dangerous, and that's fatigue with their own side. Sixteen years of the same team in charge, and then cronyism, friends and family getting rich while everybody else feels the squeeze on groceries and health care and hope. And so they were like, you know, they were fans of Victor for a long time, and now they're like, could you drain the swamp? Well, I am draining the swamp. Really? Are you? Because it doesn't look like it to the people. So one of the guys that were on his side, he said, I recognize the this and we can, we can solve this. The pressure that you feel every single day, the economy that doesn't feel like it's working for you. When you see people who you voted for, letting criminals get away with things, not actually protecting your country, doing things that are unexplainable unless they got some. Some other side game going on. That's what flipped Hungary. And if we don't learn for it from it, it's exactly what will come for us in 2028 and maybe this, this next election. So if you forget, if you forget the people that elected you didn't elect you to be their new king, they elected you to be their servant, you lose. Orban's team delivered on the big cultural fights, and they liked that and still like it. But after a decade and a half, too many Hungarians felt like, okay, but what else are you doing? You're not taking care of some of the other things. This is the same disease that is eating around trust here in America. We have corruption. Corruption that is so blatant and so weaponized. But what are we doing about it? Has anybody gone to jail? This, I believe, is why Donald Trump put J.D. vance in charge of corruption? Because I think that's going to be the 2028 thing. Corruption, putting people who have stolen from you in jail. Our founding. Our founding fathers did not say, hey, put these ideas in and then coast. They said, eternal vigilance. Eternal vigilance. That's responsibility. Okay, so what do you take from this? Three hard lessons. Power without constant renewal becomes corruption. Even conservatives in power. Yes, we know that the Republic wasn't designed for permanent ruling parties, left or right. Two voters will forgive almost anything except the feeling that you stopped fighting for them and started fighting for your own club or team. Does that sound familiar? Republicans, economy, corruption, everyday pain. Those are the battlefields where civilizations are actually lost or saved. And the Republicans must learn that lesson. Lesson three, the fight for Western civilization isn't just against the left. It is against something I have been railing against here for the last few, maybe two months. Complacency. Complacency on our own side. If we become what we once opposed or we fail to serve the public for not standing against those things we once opposed, the Republic dies from within. That's the lesson. So when you're seeing, you know, Hillary Clinton, the end of Viktor Orvan's autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for the people who value democracy around the world. No, that's not the truth. That's not what happened here. Barack Obama, the victory for opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 23, is a victory for democracy. Again, not what happened. Not what happened. They were against corruption and they wanted somebody to do something about it. That is what the Republicans need to concentrate on. Put people in jail that belong in jail and you will win. That's the lesson from Hungary. Learn it or live it. All right, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews would like to remind you that in Israel right now, there is a man named Phineas who as a child served or lived in Germany and survived the Holocaust. And he didn't survive by accident. He survived because there were Christians willing to risk everything to hide him and keep him alive. He's now in his 80s. He can't get around much on his own. He can't leave his home for medical care. And sirens go off, missiles start falling. He doesn't have the luxury or the time or the strength to find shelter. Here we are again. But here's the part that gets me. Christians are showing up for him again through the international fellowship of Christians and Jews. There are mobile clinics bringing doctors and medicine right to his door. Making sure he's not forgotten in a moment where it'd be very easy to forget about him. When he says, christians saved my life then and they're saving my life again now. That's not a line. That's a life. And it's a life that we all have a chance to stand up for. Get $45 right now to rush life saving essentials to the vulnerable under fire. 888-488 IFCJ 888488 IFCJ or online at ifcj.org ifcj.org One reviewer of the American
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I'm going to give you a poll from the insiders and this does not reflect, I think, the average American, but it shows if you are are told the the bigger picture. If you understand what I told you a few minutes ago about oil prices and what Donald Trump is actually doing in the Middle east, which would explain his tweet from last week that nobody talked about the biggest reset in history. Once you understand what he's doing, you have more tolerance. So we ask, are temporary high gas prices acceptable in the fight against Iran? Most people knee jerk, no. But if you understand what's going on and see the bigger picture, 95% of the insiders say, yes, I'll tolerate high gas prices if it resets the world toward America. No. Americans are already struggling. We shouldn't be forced to struggle more.5%. I think that's wildly out of step with the average American. But that shows once you have an understanding, you begin to say, I'll take the short term hit. Now in Ireland and it's beginning in France, they are having so many problems with the price of oil. To fill up a truck now in Ireland is about $1,000 if you're a semi. Thousand dollars to fill up a truck, it's $200 to fill up an average car. How are you going to do that? Especially in Ireland, where the economy has been decimated for so long, the problem is not the price of oil per se. The problem is just like California, half of what they're paying is going to taxes. And so the people started standing up against this to say, you got to give us tax relief here. And the government started to say, we're going to arrest these protesters. And it's only gotten worse. This weekend in Ireland was our good friend Ezra Levant. He is from Rebel News up in Canada. And Ezra, thank you for going and helping us understand exactly what's happening. Tell me, tell me the press is going to make these people into dangerous radicals and revolutionaries. Who are the people that are protesting?
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Well, I tell you, first of all, thanks for having me on the show. Second of all, I've become such an Ireland fanboy. I've been there nine times over the last two years, and I've. It's a small country, only 5 million people. You can drive across the whole island in less than a day. So they have a real communal connectedness. It's almost like everyone knows a cousin somewhere. And the reason I mention that is it's almost as if the whole country has collectively, over their dining room table, decided enough is enough. And it's sort of incredible because all across the country, ordinary farmers and truckers, it's almost like a spontaneous movement because, you know, the. They're not represented in Parliament, either by the government or the official opposition, but just grassroots. Ordinary Irish farmers and truckers have started blocking roads and blocking other key infrastructure, slowing the whole country down to a crawl. But here's the incredible thing. The people who are inconvenienced by it, they're supportive of it. Most Irish support. I'd almost call it a national strike. And we were on the highways, and it was extremely inconvenient, and we would stop and chat with the people blocking the roads. None of them have ever been to a protest before in their lives. They're all wearing their working clothes like farmers, dressed in their high vis vests and like, it's the realest people you've ever met. I asked every one of them two questions. The first is, why are you here? And they all said, the fuel taxes are just too much. So this is a tax revolt. Sort of like, you know, the Tea Party or the. You know, it's a little bit. But I don't want to call it American style, because the Irish are rebellious in their own way. And the second question I asked each one, like, these people are blocking major highways. I understand. So I said to every one of them, what are the cops saying to you? Every single one said, the cops are giving them the thumbs up, not telling them to move. Now, there have been some incidents where the cops have gotten a little rough, but in the main, the country is being shut down. It's almost like a general strike.
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So the. The. The government is not reacting well to this. I mean, first they started to go after them. Now they're starting to go after the media and saying, that the media is distorting this. I mean, what is happening to freedom in Ireland?
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Well, Ireland is such a disconnect between the people and the government. Let me give you three quick examples. Mass immigration I mentioned there's 5 million people in Ireland. One million of them are foreign born. And there's such mass immigration. It's the fastest mass immigration in the western world. Like it's astonishing. And that's driven up the price of housing and everything out of reach for the ordinary Irish. Like most places, mass immigration is deeply unpopular, but both the government and the opposition support it. So what's an Irishman to do? You can't really vote for any of the main parties. So that's one factor. Here's another. They had a constitutional referendum. I don't know if you've ever read the Irish Constitution. That's not something most people do, but it's actually an amazing document. There's a section on motherhood. Can you believe it? They talk about the value of mothers and protecting mothers and their right to be to raise kids at home. Like it's an incredible. I've never seen that in any world constitution ever. Well, for some weird reason the entire establishment thought let's get rid of that. So they had a reference. What do you think? What do you think? The people said it was an overwhelming rebuke of the entire establishment. Of course they didn't want to get motherhood out of the constitution because you know what that means? That gets. Gets rid of the definition of a woman. The definition of a. Like it was crazy. So that's strike two and then strike three. Let me throw this one last thing at you, Glenn, because it's the craziest part of it all. So they elect their president there. It's more of a symbolic role, but still it's like the mascot of Ireland, let's say, but with more gravity. It's a closed loop though. You have to get the support of incumbent members of parliament before you're allowed to run. So there was this conservative woman who wanted to run named Maria.
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So I am really concerned. You know, I'm, I'm going over with Tommy Robinson. I'm going to be speaking at his rally in London. They expect this to be the largest rally ever in England. And I'm a little nervous about it, honestly, because I don't know exactly who is also going to be speaking, etc. Etc. And I know that they are going to blame anything on this group of people. And so I just want to be really, really careful. And I know Tommy is being very, very careful to make sure the right message is sent. Because the freedom of speech over in England and Great Britain is to say it's on the ropes is almost a comedic understatement. Go ahead.
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No, no, you're so right. And I think that the US Administration has scolded the UK for its censorship, but Ireland is even worse than the UK by some measures. So Tommy's half Irish, but he really is. I think his home base is the uk which is where you'll be speaking. I didn't know you'll be speaking. That's amazing. Ireland is still in the European Union and that means a whole bunch of crazy things ranging from their obligation to take in mass immigration and asylum seekers to they're part of the European wide censorship program. Ireland is at war with Elon Musk because Ireland is part of the European Union. They get involved with Europe wide censorship and Elon Musk is public enemy number one. And by the way, as you know, Elon Musk is now helping Tommy by covering his legal fees. My point, Glenn, is that Europe, I mean, Ireland and the UK are sort of a race to be who can be the worst censor. But the thing to remember is neither of them have the First Amendment. Neither does Canada, neither does Australia, New Zealand with their censorship. Glenn, if there's only one message I would have your listeners remember, it's do not give up that First Amendment. It is the strategic freedom upon which all other freedoms are based. What use is an election if you don't have free speech? What use is freedom of. Of association or freedom of assembly if you don't have the right to speak freely at those assemblies? Never give up your first Amendment. Never.
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So are you seeing. Because I saw France. There are truckers now that are doing exactly the same thing that is Ireland. Two questions. You've alluded to it. I just want a clear yes or no answer on this one. This is tied now. It's gasoline was the straw. But this is now about all of this stuff that Trump has been fighting against, all of this WEF nonsense. And is. Are you seeing this starting to spread? Because it looked like it was happening now in France as well this weekend.
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It hasn't spread on the scale of Ireland. Ireland really is in general strike mode. I asked every single person what's on your mind and almost everyone said fuel. That's the straw that broke the camel's back. But you cannot ignore those other things I mentioned of the political class just being out of touch. The Ireland for some reason is NGO Central. There are 50,000 NGOs in a country of 5 million. They're all government funded and they work to squelch these grassroots people. There's a class issue here. I mean I'm not a Marxist, but you can can see the elite Dublin based globalists look down their nose at these farmers and truckers and it's sort of the deplorables. They don't use the word the deplorables, but you can sense they feel it. They would rather. And Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister said this. He said he would. And he's the same cut from the same cloth. He said he would rather be at Davos in the World Economic Forum than in his British Parliament. And I think the Irish leaders are the same way. They want to swan about with other EU leaders. That's another reason to break up the EU is you need your politicians to listen to their own people. That's part of sovereignty. Don't run errands for foreign organizations. I'm excited about Ireland because they have that rebellious spirit just like Americans do, more than others. Anyhow, sorry, I'm going on because it's very exciting.
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Well, I mean, you know, the EU just last week or the week before just passed in their own parliament a rejection of the open borders and started saying some of these people have to start now being deported and get out. I mean it was very Trumpian in a European standard. And it looks like there is a beginning of something. So is this, how does this end, Ezra? Is this just a quick fire that's put out or does this spread, do you think?
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Well, I sure hope it spreads. Ireland is pretty small place, just 5 million people and so I don't know if it's going to spread in France because there's a different language. The different. There's so many differences. But if Ireland is able to stand up and shake off its globalist government, I think that'll at least be an inspiration to other countries. Super quick comment about the other eastern, Eastern side of Europe. As you know, Viktor Orban of Hungary finally lost an election after 15 years. And I was sort of depressed about that because he held the line on immigration. Well, the good news a White pill moment for the kids would be that the man who won, he supports Orban's view on immigration. So that wasn't.
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He was part of the party.
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So I think that it was about corruption. Exactly. And, you know, 15 years, any. Any government's going to get a little bit stale and a little bit too accustomed to power. So I'm hopeful for Ireland. They have a problem that a lot of the farmers told it is almost completely Ireland. There's only one small independent outlet called Gript, and they're wonderful, by the way, if you're not following them. G R I P T dot ie. That's their Internet suffix. There are great little band of citizen journalists, but other than. But there's only like half a dozen of them. Other than gripped.
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I don't.
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I mean, it's just their state broadcaster is so dominant and it's such a propaganda tool for the government. They need independent journalists bad.
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Okay, so what. What is that address again?
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GRI ppt GRIPT Greet.
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G R P T dot IE I know it's a little unusual. That's the Irish version of dot com. So G R I P T dot I E. I love those guys. And by the way, they. They come from a Christian point of view sometimes on issues like pro life and motherhood. So they're. I think they're right up your alley, Glenn.
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I will look him. Look him up. And I urge everybody to support Ezra. What he does. He's rebel news.com rebelnews.com I want to have you back later this week because Canada has, like, literally gone insane. Ezra, you know this, but, boy, it is getting scary what's happening, how fast it's happening. We'll have you on later this week if you have time. I know you're going back to Ireland. Rebel news.com rebelnews.com Actual news from Canada, Ezra Levant. Thank you, Ezra. We'll talk again. Let me tell you about rapid Radios. You ever try to coordinate something with two or more people? Start simple. Hey, where are you? I'm almost there. Then it's okay. Wait, wait. No, the other way. No. Pretty soon you got three different conversations happening. Half of them are missed. And everybody's got, you know, they're living everything out of sync. It's bad enough when the stakes are low, but when communication is important, it's really bad. 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Trump posted something that somebody sent to him and he saw it and thought it was funny and it depicts him as Jesus healing some guy. Really not a good look. Please don't do that, Mr. President. I, you, you have a very good sense of humor. You're very funny. I mean I think I, the guy trolls and I know he just loves anything that just, you know, upsets the apple cart. He loves to do bad look on this one, bad look on this one. And, and I will say that's just shooting yourself in the foot where Iran might have done that, that for you and I'll explain that, you'll understand that. I, I really want to explain how the media is working today, especially in regards to Iran. It's really important you understand this. Next please. Trump is Jesus. No, thank you, Mr. Trump. Making the decision to shoot somebody is not somebody that you take like lightly. I know you don't. 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It would break their spirit and end the war. There is a weapon that is much more powerful than the bombs we dropped and it is new and we are dropping it. I want to warn you about it in just a second. First, let me tell you about rough greens. Have any idea what vet bills cost these days? I mean, you walk in for one little thing and somehow you walk in like you've just been. Did you just put my dog through a semester of college? What, what is happening here? Less healthy your dog is, the more often you're going. And it's not a one time thing. It turns into a pattern. More visits, more issues, more money. And you're always reacting to something that's already happened. That's why I really like rough greens. Because it's not about waiting for a problem and then dealing with it. It's about supporting your dog's health. So maybe you're not making many of those trips to the doctor and the, the veterinarian as as much as you do right now. Your dog doesn't have the vitamins, minerals, probiotics and everything else. The enzymes that support their overall health. It's not in there. So how are they getting it? Don't just hope your dog is going to be healthy. Change your not your dog's food, but what he eats. Add rough greens. Use whatever you're feeding them. Add rough greens on top. Get the jumpstart trial bag. See the difference in Your dog and his health. Just cover shipping. Use a discount code. Beck. Get a free Jump Start trial bag at rough greens. Ruff greens.com ruff greens.com rough greens.com promo code is all right, so here's the Washington Post. President Donald Trump's posting of a rendering that appeared to depict him as Jesus drew a rare criticism from the religious right, prompting calls for him to take down the Post and allegations of blasphemy. Shortly after posting a screed against Pope Leo on Sunday night, as he returned to Washington from Florida, Trump shared an image that appeared to be AI generated in the style of a painting depicting him in a long white robe. One hand was an orb glowing with light. Trump's other hand rested on the forehead of a man what resembled a hospital bed, light beaming from the man's head as Trump appeared to pray for his healing. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, bad luck, Mr. President. Don't do that. Don't do that. But I want to use this to explain the most powerful weapon ever, ever put in the hands of people, and it's not a nuclear weapon to get there. Let me start with what happened over the weekend. Over the weekend, 21 hours, Pakistan, the talks collapsed. Iran's not giving up their nuclear program. They, you know, won't give up their proxies or control of the Straits of Hormuz. I explained this all in hour one. If you missed that, it's a really good explanation on what happened and why it's happening. President Trump didn't blink. He just ordered the US Navy to blockade it, starting right now. Mines were being cleared over the weekend. Tankers will be escorted. But the lanes that Iran says everybody has to use, he is blocking those. Okay, so what's, what's coming here tomorrow, the next day? Navy warships are going to be stopping ships that try to pay the illegal toll for Iran. If that, if that happens. Oil tankers are rerouting. They're slowing down. As I showed you in our one, they are actually rerouting to the United States. Prices at the gas pump are going to go up. They're already jumping. I mean, expect another 50 cents or maybe even a dollar in the next week or so. If it drags on groceries, diesel truck, all of that is going to go up. It's not, not, it's not good. It's not good heating oil. God bless you. If you're in the Northeast, how are you affording this? Your 401k, it's going to take a little bump in the road probably, you know, this isn't somewhere else. This is your grocery run, your commute, your kids soccer fees. And Iran knows that. Iran knows that. That's the bet they're making. I said earlier in the show, what do they have that they think they can beat the United States? Because we're wiping them out. We're cleaning their clock on the field of battle. What do they have? It's not missiles. It's what they see when they look at us through social media. Iran sees a divided America, an exhausted America, 20 years of forever wars. They see an America that's ready to turn on itself the second price of gas goes up. They see social media turning every clip into a weapon. And they're not wrong. They're not wrong. I told you this two weeks ago. Recent research from a private intelligence firm tracking this exact conflict shows that 60% of the most viral post on X about Iran in the first weeks of the fighting came from accounts based outside of the US foreign accounts generated 155 million views compared to 93 million from real American views viewers. That's not organic outrage, okay? That's Iran, that's Russia, that's China flooding the zone with deep fakes, doctored images of sunken ships, scripted narratives designed to make us fight one another. The State Department just sent a cable to every embassy. Push back against this coordinated propaganda from Tehran, Moscow and Beijing. Okay, this isn't a theory. This is actually happening right now. And they don't care if you love Trump or hate Trump, you love the blockade or you question the blockade. They just need everybody at each other's throats. That's it. They need everybody screaming that the other side is a traitor, that one side is weak and the other is anti American. Whatever it is. They don't care. They don't care. Anti war voices calling pro Israel voices, neocon warmongers, MAGA influencers turning on each other. That's why I don't talk about that war. I'll talk about it in principles, but I'm not going to get involved calling out names and telling you who you should hate because you shouldn't hate any of them. Because this is all manufactured, podcast viral clips on both extremes pushing the exact same emotional buttons. So we accuse each other. Instead of the regime in Tehran, that is funding the terror, funding the dreams of chaos. We used to call this the fog of war, but in the social media age, this is much more powerful than fog, and I believe more powerful than any nuclear weapon. I've been warning about this, this dynamic for years. The Twelver Ideology lets them endure pain as a holy destiny. But their real strategy is a lot simpler. Just wait. Just lob a few accusations out there, make it look like it's coming from each other here in America, and just wait. It's a time bomb. They watched our weariness in Iraq, our divisions after Afghanistan. They think time and higher grant gas prices are going to do what their Navy could never do. Sound familiar? Should it? Should. This is what happened with the Barbary Pirates. Barbary pirates? North African Muslim states backed by the Ottoman Empire, seizing American ships, enslaving our sailors, demanding tribute. Jefferson said, I'm not paying anymore because 20% of our budget was going to the Muslim pirates. So we built a navy and the Marines, we sent them over there. And there was propaganda, too. Some people wanted to keep paying. Others screamed it would drag us into an endless war. I mean, all of this has happened before. We've been here before. Gang and foreign agents and domestic voices tried to divide us then, but we held the line. We chose strength with principle. We won without becoming an empire and the Republic survived. That's the history peg we need right now. But we have to be aware. We have to look at what. We have to look at social media differently. Differently. We have to be able to spot things and understand who's winning in this. Like I said, they don't care if you're pro or against. They need both sides screaming at each other. Okay, so I pulled a bunch of stuff from X over the weekend. And in the last 24, 48 hours since the blockade was announced and the talks in Islamabad fell apart, what was there? What? What, what were the tweets? What were the most popular tweets? Okay, I found tweets that matched exactly the pattern flagged in the recent reports. Okay. That the IRGC operatives, the state affiliated accounts posing as Americans or neutral observers while pushing content that is doing nothing but exploiting our divisions. Let me give you a few examples of these. Okay, this is just in. These are 12 hours, tens of thousands of likes. Okay, the first one is from the. I can't remember, one of the state officials, I think the Prime Minister or the Foreign Minister of Iran. As soon as those things fell apart and he gets home to Iran, what does he tweet? He tweets a picture of the price of gasoline around Washington D.C. now, why would he care about the price of Gasoline in Washington D.C. why would he tweet that? Do you think his people care? That was directed to you. That was to you. Okay, this is a gun and we don't, we don't let our kids have guns. Right? We keep it in a safe, keep it locked up, keep guns out of the hands of children. Why? Because they think it's a toy. They don't understand it is a lethal weapon. So they can kill others or themselves because they think it's a toy. Well, what do you think social media is? It is a weapon. It's a weapon, and yet we let our kids play with it. They think it's a toy. It's not there to teach you. It's not there to make your life easier or you. To understand the world or make you stronger. Social media exists to enrich the companies that provide social media. Now, they can say they've, they're going to help you and all kinds of stuff, whatever, but I guarantee you their main goal is to enrich themselves. And they do everything they can. This is all proven. This is not how we don't think of this. This is not a conspiracy theory. It's proven. Some of it in court, some of it in front of Congress. They spent millions of dollars trying to figure out ways to enslave you, to get you to never get off of their social media platform. Meanwhile, what are they doing? They're collecting information about you so they can get better at shaping you, because that's what it's about. Social media doesn't make things easier. Huge global power shapes you, your opinion and the world we all live in. That's what's happening. It is the greatest propaganda tool of all time. And now we're at war. And now you're noticing it. If you're smart, you're noticing it. This is a.50 caliber machine gun aimed at your head and this civilization every single day. It's a nuclear weapon. So let me give you, here's another pro Iran account. In just a couple of hours, had 7,325 likes. 333,000 views. It's from a Iranian account breaking a standoff occurred between vessels of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the US Navy near the Strait of Hormuz. Then the video of the alleged clash. So this one went mega viral by implying imminent US humiliation. Foreign accounts amplified this with the narrative of we're losing, we're losing, we're losing. To make Americans turn on Trump and Vance. Next one Iranian embassy, their account mocking the U.S. navy. We don't hesitate even for a moment in defending our country. The scene of the US Destroyer fleeing the Straits of Hormuz with a video. This is straight propaganda from an Official embassy handle designed to humiliate and divide. Trump is weak. Warmongers got us into this and it doesn't, I mean it doesn't stop with the official handle. And it even goes into some people that, you know, we have watched for years and years. Here's one. Trump says US will blockade Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks fail. Israel prepares troop for total war. BlackRock is running the show and the world economy is the real target. This is Covid 2.0. This is classic. Our side is being played. It's rage bait that pits MAGA against itself. And it's not just the right that's doing that. Left leaning voices doing the same thing. Here's another one from an influencer, a media type. Trump is retaliating against Iran by double cross, by double closing the Straits of Hormuz. That will hurt our economy very badly. So ironic that the only, it only increases Iran's leverage. That is absolutely not true because I laid all of the numbers out for you. Okay, but what does this do? This fuels the Trumps. It's Trump's fault. Higher gas prices. It's treason. Anything to divide. MAGA infighting example that exploded multiple accounts. Trump absolutely sinking Vance by trying, by tying the Iran war around his neck. Vance has been leaking that he doesn't like the war or maga. Obama nuke deal gave Iran millions, treason. Trump giving Iran 6 billion and control of our moves. None of those things happen. But what do you have? Traitor on our own team. These are not random. This is exactly like the report from Clemson, Clemson University that showed dozens of account, hundreds of accounts of, of people tied to Russia, China, Iran and people who are European that are sowing this kind of discord. So let me go back to the Trump Jesus thing. Washington Post has never cared about somebody. It's not like it's, it's not like Jesus is Muhammad. You do whatever you want to Jesus in this country and nobody cares, it seems. Since when did the Washington Post care about something that could be looked upon as blasphemy for Christians? They only care because it's political. Now I don't know where that that image came from, but he just retweeted it. But this is why you don't retweet things. Just even if you think it's funny, you're like, oh, that's kind of funny. And I'm sure that's what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump doesn't think he's Jesus, okay? He thinks it's funny and he likes things that are controversial. He loves that. Okay. He's got a kind of a weird, dark sense of humor at times. Okay. He likes that stuff. So who did that benefit? If I were in Iran, that's exactly. If I were Dugan, that's exactly what I would want to put out. Put that out. Hope he grabs onto that. Or just put that out as a MAGA support supporter. Because then other supporters of Donald Trump will look at that, who are Christian and go, that's not right. I can't support that. And it divides, divides, divides, divides. That's why the president should remove this, because it's an easy tool of social media, which is today's nuclear weapon.
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Currently. I'm currently on his true social. He didn't really post any copy. It was just the image of him looking like Jesus.
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Oh, so, okay, so it's not. He didn't repost it. It. He took the image and posted it. I'd like to know where that image came from.
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Would you be so bold as to text your president and ask him. Because I don't want to do it.
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I'll do it.
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Let me do it. Do I have what it takes? Am I stupid enough? That's what you're asking, mister.
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We know the girl who posts for him, and she is the sweetest Christian girl from Oklahoma, but she's also the kind of girl that just does whatever. Whatever the president tells her to do. Just like we do when you ask us to post insane things. Right? Oh, my gosh. He's doing it right now. For those that are. He's literally texting the president right now. Oh, pray for us, guys. Pray for us. It's gonna be fine. Nukes being aimed at the Idaho ranch tonight.
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That will be the big no. It didn't. Look, if you. You can't ask him tough questions and you don't. I mean, you know what? You don't have a relationship. Just. I'll ask. Let the chips fall where they may. He doesn't like me for answering, ever asking him this question. Then he doesn't really like me. And that's fine. That's fine. I prefer the president doesn't hate me. But I. Every president that I've ever been alive with has hated my guts. So he wouldn't be new. All right, more interesting in just a second. Oh, we're going to Swalwell next. Oh, yeah, next. First paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc, a licensed insurance agency. Let me tell you, most business owners think that they know their insurance until they actually have to explain it. And that's when it gets a little unclear because, I mean, you know, you have coverage, you know you've been paying for it. But when you try to put it all together, I can't find anything, okay? And that's not your fault. This is how the stuff gets built over time. A policy here, another one there. Different people handling different pieces. This is what super sure does. This is a new. A new company. It is so great. I sat with them for an afternoon and really learned their system. And I have to tell you, as a businessman, this is the best. There's one person that works with you year round on all of your insurance, and they can go out and look at the entire world of insurance, okay? And they give you a dashboard that takes all the fine print, all the legal language, and puts it into plain English. So when you're looking for something, you just type it in. I'm looking for. And it comes up. You know what you have whether you're overinsured underinsured supersure.com Beck get a full report on your current policies. No obligation. Find out what you need to know. It's an easier way to do business. Trust me. Super sure.com Beck supersure.com Becky One reviewer
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that's right from Torch tunes With one hand tied behind my back and half my mind lost from drugs long ago I don't even it's don't bang bang with Fang Fang which those are all it's all alleged I mean we'd have no idea. You know what? No, I'm sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. If it wasn't for the. The great work from these. Well, I would call them detectives, but they're. They're just real dyed in the wool reporters. These journalists who have taken every stone and turned it over and said, what is crawling underneath here? And they found out, thank God, just in time, that Eric Swalwell is a dirtbag. And allegedly, allegedly, he has been a dirt bag with a lot of people for a very, very, very, very, very long time. In fact, it's weird that more than 50 former staffers. More than 50 former staffers have claimed shocking sexual assault allegations against Eric Swalwell. And now the media says that they are credible and serious. 50. How did you keep that a secret? Answer. It wasn't a secret. Everybody knew. Absolutely everybody knew. The left knew. The press knew. But he was. He was useful. He was useful. He could help them accomplish other goals. And the minute he became not so useful, in fact, he was standing in the way as soon as he became number three in the California polls, where number one and number two are two Republicans, and then Eric Swalwell, they knew he can't win. We got to get him out of there. So immediately. Oh, wait a minute. We should start listening and believing these women. And now here. Here is the absolute. I mean, look, the Lord does not make mistakes. But I do believe once in a while, he might look. He might look at this guy at CNN and go, you know, maybe. I don't. Maybe. Listen to this. Yeah. Do you have it, Sarah? Or. Or. Jason, you were just playing it, right? Here it is. Yeah. Play it, please. Yes. Dramatic end of the weekend news in California and a real testament to the power of investigative reporting. Eric Swalwell ending his campaign for California Governor Just about 48 hours after CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle both reported on allegations of sexual misconduct in his past. Oh, my gosh. Wow. In his past. And did it happen recently? No, no. It's been happening forever. This is the only reason. This is the only reason. This is a coordinated hit. That's what this is. No sympathy for Eric Swalwell. He should have been taken out a long time ago. The truth was just hidden because the truth in media has an agenda. And if you are on the side of furthering that agenda, you're fine. You can be a monster. What was it? What's the guy's name that's running for the Senate who has the SS tattoo on his chest? You can be a monster. And they'll excuse you as long as you're furthering their agenda. And they need you. The minute they don't need you, you're toast. And Eric, he just thinks he could stand up, you know, what was it, Friday? He's like, I'm not going anywhere. I'll tell you that right now. Really? Really? You. They will destroy you. They'll destroy your family. They'll destroy everything. And even what's so crazy about this, Eric, is this stuff is true about you. It's most likely absolutely true about you. Now, let's see it proven in a court of law. But most likely the stuff they say about other people is not true, and they will use it to destroy. So they think that if they have stuff that is true, they have 50 staffers. 50. How did you. None of these women, none of them wanted to come out and say anything. Come on, 50 women. No, here's what happened. Somebody was like, hey, you know, he just sexually assaulted me. I know. Stand in line. Well, we should say something. No, no. I want you to talk to so and so and then so and so from the DNC or whoever steps in is like, look, look, let's just make this with this, that we understand this is really bad, but, you know, we really need him right now. You don't want to be hurting the party. You don't want to hurt that we're up against a Nazi right now. We're up against Donald Trump. And, you know, if you don't want to play along, if you play along, there's all kinds of possibilities for you if you don't play along. I mean, nobody's going to believe you. Who's going to believe you? Because they're not coming out. Well, who's going to come out and say anything? And that is exactly what has happened. It's exactly what has happened. I. I bet. I can't tell you for sure. I would bet that's exactly what happened. You can't keep 50 women quiet on this. Not one wanted to come out. Of course not. They see what happens to women who stand up against progressives who are in favor. You're toast. You're a slut, you're a whore. You're. Whatever, You're a liar. Your life is destroyed. But now, now that he has to be destroyed, oh, they'll believe you. We have to believe women. Am I wrong on any of this, Ricky? Jason disagree with any of this?
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I'll tell you, Glenn, I have not heard journalism done this hardcore since Jake Tapper broke that amazing book. That it was, you know, the rumor is Joe Biden wasn't fully cognitively there,
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that, I mean, journalism is on a rumor roll.
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This is crazy.
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Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
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Yeah, yeah, it's.
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I mean, this is journalism to.
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Then it was funny that on. I think it was on. It was on Friday all of a sudden. And all of this really started coming out once Swalwell was really digging his heels in and saying, I'm not going anywhere. You know, I'm still running. All of a sudden you get a political report, a Politico report, talking about how multiple people were starting to back out of the Eric Swalwell's campaign. Then, like clockwork, not too long after that, there was a message from the California Teachers association, which I'm sure are a very conservative group. Like the most conservative of all groups.
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Oh, yeah.
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The California Teachers association said the allegations are incredibly disturbing and unacceptable, immediately suspending their responsibility report. Then, like clockwork, cnn also, four women described sexual misconduct by Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her. But none of this was ever, you know, even on the radar of being reported. It was all just kind of getting, I guess, saved.
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Yeah. Let me ask you this one. Listen to the story. 1. One of the women, former staffer, claimed he raped her when she was drunk and left her bruised and bleeding during an alleged 2024 attack in New York. The Manhattan DA has now launched an investigation. Another woman alleged she also awoke next. Awoke next to him in a hotel room after a drunken night out, adding, he allegedly kissed her and touched her without consent, touched her leg without consent. How do you get to a rape accusation if 50 women have been saying sexual assault, sexual inappropriate behavior? 50 women have said that. That's because you said nothing. And this guy starts to think I can get away with anything. Once you. Once you say your politics are more important than our principles, you train him. I am invincible. Don't you know who I am? Don't you know I could rape you and no one's going to listen? That's the monster. That's the monster the left creates every single time. That's the monster that is created when you don't have equal justice under the law. And I'd be saying this if it was a. If it was a Republican, if it was a Republican that was doing this, I'd be saying exactly the same thing. You must tell people immediately and prosecute these people because you will create monsters. It's the only reason you can't have 50 allegations and then expect him not to rape. Of course he thinks he can get away with anything because nobody's going to say anything. This machine will keep you quiet. What's amazing is he thought he could keep going up the ladder and then when they said, hey, you're actually hurting us in California, that he thought he could betray them. Like he didn't know that. That's how arrogant and how monstrous his ego has gotten. He's so out of control that he thought it was him and not the system that was keeping him propped up. It's nuts.
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Yeah.
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And that was suspiciously choir. Quiet, Ricky.
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Well, you know, I'm just over here by myself in Florida. I was just gonna say he, he sounds like a monster. But I'm a little bit worried about the next gal who's waiting in the wings in the Democrat primary in California, Katie. She has allegedly poured boiling hot water on her husband's head. And we've seen her yell at her staffers like, what kind of people are is this party producing? Our next best hope in California is, is Tom Steyer, who's destroyed that state with all the environmental regulations. And look, we need to have Steve Hilton from. He is leading front runner in the primary for the GOP for California governor. We need to have him on.
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Is there a chance? I mean, I don't know. I mean, they'll accept anything. Yeah.
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With Swalwell dropping out, this actually gives Democrats a better chance. I don't know how much time we have before the break, but there is breaking news that President Trump has deleted the Jesus post. So this is probably because you, you texted him. I'm sure that's why that happened.
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