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It's a historically hideous season. It's our 100th ugly house. And if these walls could talk.
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The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. New year, new attitude, and a lot of information. Welcome to the program. We're glad you're here. I want to talk to you about Venezuela, about Iran, about Mamdani, about, you know, the Somali thing. There is so much to cover today. It is a huge news day. We're going to get to all of it here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Z Factor. It's hard not to envy the people who fall asleep the second their head hits the pillow. I actually hate those people. But anyway, you know, they're out cold. Like, you know, they're four years old. You can throw them on your back, carry them wherever you want. They're like, well, how did I get here? I don't know. You're a good sleeper. Anyway, if you need good sleep, getting better sleep is part of your New Year's resolution. You're definitely not alone. Most people don't struggle because they don't want to sleep. 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But we have found a way and I've been working on this for a long time and I don't think we really understood until we actually were putting it all together how difficult it would be and, and how much it would take to actually take the show that we have and add it's 50% more, right, 50% more information in the same time period. If you're watching, watching us on glenn beck.com by the way, I'm not going to ask you to sign up for anything. There's no, you know, there's no, I'm not going to ask you for a credit card or anything. You just go to glenn beck.com you click on the radio tower at the very top, it'll say live. Now you click on that, then you, you can listen and that will be, I think today it's the Blaze feed. You click on it and watch and it will go to ours. And in the commercial breaks, we have kind of a show behind the show. And Jason, our head researcher is filling in all of the things that we have missed. And today that's really important because every day I feel like there's so much stuff that we just can't get to. Today is one of those days, just Venezuela alone. So when we go into commercial break where there's no commercial and you will see it on the torch@glenn beck.com and you'll get all of the additional information plus and you'll get all of this for free. This month. I'm making it free for a month. I'm not asking you to sign up for the credit card or anything else. You just put in your email address, I think is all we're asking you to do. And then you can sign up and you can watch all of the new programs on Torch. You can see all kinds of stuff, but I want to waste time on any of this today. Just go to glenn beck.com, click on the radio tower, watch, and. And you'll see the difference. All right, let's get to it, because we have a lot to cover here. You know, I've been. I've been interested in seeing all of the people that are talking about this. Everybody is arguing, no, they don't get it. It's about this. No, they don't get it. It's about that. You know, it's about oil, it's about drugs, it's about terrorism. It's about Trump and his ego, whatever it is. I want to give you a completely, I think, different perspective on what happened in Venezuela. Let me just say this. It is not about the oil. It's not about drugs. It's not about terrorism. It's not about China. It's not about communism, Marxism or socialism. It's about all of those things. So if anybody tells you that this is really all about the oil, just listen to them, because they might have a very good point on the oil thing and go, okay, well, that's cute, but that's not all it's about. So let me tell you exactly. This is the first time in my lifetime that we have a president who is not reacting, not managing America's decline, not trying to stabilize a collapsing system. Trump is doing something I have never seen any president do. He is playing to win, and I mean win all of it. Never have I seen this before. Donald Trump has been saying america first, America first his entire life. It's not been a slogan. It's been the way he's. It's his worldview, and it always has been. And whether you like it or not, you like his style or not, you can't deny this truth. The world is splitting apart, and on one side, you have the Communists, you have China and parts of the Western Hemisphere that are. That are going communist. You're seeing it in New York, okay? You also have Islamism. This is stretching from Iran throughout the Middle east, and it is also beginning to sweep here in America and beginning to sweep in Europe. You also have authoritarianism, Russia and its satellites got it. You also have. And this was what we were left with on all other presidents. You have the discredited globalist middle. This mushy, bureaucratic, you know, elitist system that promises peace and prosperity and delivers nothing but debt, decay, censorship, instability, and war after war after war that has been discredited, and that is totally collapsing. So what are we going to be this is so important that you understand this, because this will change the way you view the entire world. What are we going to be? If that mushy middle isn't working, then what are we going to be? Europe has decided they're going to go more fascistic. They're going to go to a global government and the government is going to control everything, including business. Okay? That's fascism. Like it or not, that's what that is. China, communism. What are we going to be? So into that vacuum comes the decision point for all of humanity and especially Americans, because this moment isn't just about geopolitical politics. This is truly about who sets the table and the agenda for the next 100 years. Who's it going to be? A global government? The Chinese government? AI, Some technocratic government? Or the American government? This like it or not, we are in a war. I've been saying we're in World War Three for a while. You just don't realize it yet because it's going to be fought differently and hopefully it won't get any worse than this. We're in the fourth industrial revolution. What that means is AI, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, all of it is going to determine who leads the world. And it is critical whoever gets to AI first wins. This is not about speeches, not about summits, there's not about climate change panels. This is all about resources, energy, capital, supply chains, data. And I know I already said energy, but let me just say it in a different way. Power. Okay? That's the battlefield. That's what we're playing for. Brics, the nations, Brazil, India and the other ones, what they. What they know is they understand that. This is a play for the entire world. China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, India, all of them know not one of them can challenge the United States. But together they can. If America continues to decline. And that's what we were, that's what we've lived under under George W. Bush, under Barack Obama, under George Joe Biden, is a declining America. And they were managing the decline of America. That's why you have been taught for the last 40 years that America is not that special, it's not that great. Because they need you to lose faith in America to be able to have it decline and you not to pitch a hissy fit so they could collapse it into something else. Their stated goal is not a multipolar world. It's not freedom, it's not liberty. But it's a world where no one nation can stop the elites, where the dollar is dethroned, the authoritarian System, whatever it is, flourishes under the COVID of balance of power. So we've been putting all those pieces into place. Our government, our, our, our congressmen, our senators, our presidents have been saying one thing to our face, but they've been putting all of these things into place for the last 50 years, especially in the last 20 years. This has just been accelerated and it's, They've been putting into place and building this system piece by piece, year after year. And then Trump came back the first time, they had to destroy him because they knew he doesn't view the world that way, he doesn't view America that way. He views it differently. He believes America is a special place and needs its own place at the table. They had to destroy him. They thought they were going to keep him out of office. That didn't. They didn't. And in that four years, between 20 and 24, he figured a lot out. I mean, I am amazed at what I am seeing. You can disagree with it, but just like I said, with the progressive movement that took 100 years to put in place, I have said, someday people will study this and go, look at the brilliance of this plan. Look at how they just dismantled the entire West. It is brilliant. It's evil. But, but it's brilliant. Let me say the same thing. I don't know who the advisors are that he's listening to. I don't know if he just woke up in the middle of the night and he's like, no, this the way it is. I don't know. But we're going to look back at this time, assuming that it works, and we're going to say, that was brilliant. Do you know that because of Venezuela, we don't need the oil. I'm going to get into this here in a second. We don't need the oil. Do you know that this is the first time since FDR that the world's resources are now back under American, not control, but in friendly territory, that we're the ones that dominate? Not just our oil, but the resources. I think it's 50 or 60% of the resources now around the world are now dominate. It wasn't like that two years ago. A year ago, it wasn't like that. All right, let me take a quick break, and then I'm going to come back and I'm going to tell you why Venezuela matters, what's really going on in Venezuela. We'll do that in sec, in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about real estate agents. I trust we've all heard about you know, how tough the housing market has been. Higher rates, uncertainty. A lot of people feeling, you know, stuck on the sidelines, wondering, you know, is now, I mean, is it the worst possible time to sell or is it getting better? Here's the truth. A difficult market doesn't mean you shouldn't move. It means that you need the right people guiding you. That's exactly why I've created Real Estate Agents I Trust Dot com. It's a hand selected network of agents who are not trying, you know, are not just good at what they do. Not just trying to make a buck. They're really decent people. They share your values. They're all fans of the show and they know how to navigate challenging conditions without cutting corners or pressuring you into bad decisions. And with, with everything that is going on in the market right now, this network, you know, just had the best year we've ever had. That doesn't happen. That doesn't happen. Not in real estate. Why? Because this team gets it done. I want you to go to Realestate Agents I Trust Dot com. We'll show you how or you know, how to sell or buy your next home. Even in a really tough market, the name says it all. Real estate agents I trust dot com. That's real estate agents I trust dot com. 10 seconds station. Okay, so I want to go over, I put a chalkboard up and if you're watching us@glennbeck.com you'll, you'll see Venezuela, China, Iran, they're all connected. All of these things are connected. And if one, if somebody tells you this is all about the oil, listen to them, because it is. But I don't know if they understand what they're even saying about that. And I'll explain in a second. If they're saying, well, this is about drugs, okay, this about terror, this about the hemisphere, this about the US military and the war machine. Yes to all of those things. So let me pull them apart. First of all, right now Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on Earth. 303 billion barrels. That's 17 plus trillion dollars at the current market value. They also claim about 8,000 to 10,000 tons of gold that is still in ground. Okay, now here's the part you're not being told. With all of that oil, we don't need the oil. Have you noticed the gas prices, they keep coming down. We don't need the oil. We need to pull the oil out of the ground ourselves, which we are. We need to refine it ourselves, which we are. China needs the oil. China buys 60 to 90% of all of Venezuela's crude exports. China also buys 85 to 90% of all of the oil from Iran. China also buys nearly half of all Russian oil. What's happening right now? Well, 60 to 90% of all of the exports from Venezuela now not going to China. How is China going to be able to power all of their electricity needs? How are they going to do that if they don't get oil from Venezuela? Oh, and what else has been destabilized this weekend? Iran. They buy 85 to 90% of all of the oil in Iran and those are huge oil reserves as well. So when people say this isn't about oil or this is about oil, the argument goes back and forth. No, it's not about oil. We don't need it. No, it absolutely is about oil, but not for us. This is about Donald Trump again playing to win the long game. You're not going to have any of the oil from Western allies. Not going to happen. We don't need you to win because you have all of the energy. You're not going to do it. We need the energy. The west needs the energy and you're not pulling it out of our hemisphere. Okay, if Iran and Venezuela fall at the same time, China loses 70% of its non US regulated oil supply. 70%. What else does that mean besides AI? You lose 70% of your oil from that. That's non US. You lose 70%. What else can't you do? Well, you can't go into Taiwan. You certainly can't have a war with Taiwan. You can't have AI dominance. There's no BRICS reserve currency. So just on the oil front. Absolutely, it's about oil, but not the way everybody. Oh, that's because Exxon's gonna get rich. No, because if you shut down the oil, no war in Taiwan because they don't have the energy to do it. No AI dominance because they won't have the energy to do it. And no BRICS currency. Game over for now. That's why this matters. And that's only one piece of this. Here's what Marco Rubio said over the weekend. We don't need Venezuela's oil. We're not going to allow. What we're not going to allow, however, is for the oil industry in this hemisphere to be controlled by adversaries of the United States. Is that imperialism or is that the defense of the hemisphere? I want you to know, and we'll talk about this later, because I think we have a George AI today after this show, I think, and we'll talk to Jason about this. I think George AI is going to talk about act of War and, you know, what the founders thought about foreign entanglements and everything else. But we can argue about the constitutionality of what Donald Trump did. Does he have the right to do it? Well, I don't know. I don't know. I, I think he does. I don't necessarily like it, but I also don't like the fact that Congress would have to be involved, be on short term things. The way it's generally been played is, I think it's 30 or 45 days he can go in and do something in defense of the country and then they have to approve any ongoing things with 30 or 45 days. And I'm kind of comfortable with that. Uh, but we can argue about that. There's, there's, you know, strict constitutionalists to say, absolutely not. And you know what? You might be right. There are other people who say, no, he has the right. And you know what? I have a harder time believing that, no, he can do whatever he wants. That's not true. But we can argue about it. What you cannot argue about is if you say you're America first. This is an America first. This is absolutely America first. This is the most America first thing I have ever seen. Notice another thing. Trump is not just confronting our enemies, he's stealing alliances. The UAE don't like a lot of the stuff in the Middle east, but notice they're not being bombed, they're being courted. Why? Why? Because power flows through relationships, not just war weapons. This is all about blocking Iran, China and Russia. More on this, going deeper in just a second. Relief factor. 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