Glenn Beck confronts Donald Trump's Davos strategy regarding Greenland and NATO, while attacking Governor Gavin Newsom's economic record and comparing progressive tax policies to Nazi-era oppression. He critiques the Supreme Court's reliance on 1865 Black Codes in Hawaii gun cases and highlights "decoy operations" by Blue Lives Matter against anti-ICE protesters. Beck warns of a "Barabbas trap" driving moral inversion, predicts political shifts as corruption investigations intensify, and notes Bill O'Reilly's illness, framing these events as evidence of a crumbling liberal order threatening American liberty. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hello, America.
Welcome to it.
It's Thursday.
You know, I'm going to open up the phones, see how you're feeling.
Wow, what a bumpy day yesterday.
Was yesterday not one of the most incredible days to be an American ever?
I mean, we started out yesterday with the whole world freaking out about Donald Trump.
And everybody's like, he's going to blow up the whole world.
He's insane.
And then by four o'clock in the afternoon, four o'clock in the afternoon, it's like, ah, and we've got Greenman.
Wait, what just happened?
What just happened?
A little crazy.
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I mean, the deal is in process, but it is a deal that is coming our way.
And I think that's what everyone, we've been saying this all the time.
How can you be this stupid?
Have you not read the art of the deal?
Do you not, have you not seen the patterns yet on how Donald Trump works?
We're going to go through that here in just a second.
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Okay, so I want to just go over quickly three little montages of the speech yesterday and show you exactly how Donald Trump works.
And this is, I mean, the first part of this is really pretty biblical.
The first thing you have to do when you're speaking to a crowd of people that you're trying to convince is you praise them.
You let them know, hey, I'm your friend.
I respect you.
I learned this from Paul on Mars Hill.
If you go back and you read Mars Hill, if you go into Romans and you see him on Mars Hill and he's talking to the people he's trying to convince, and he's like, hey, man, I've read your poetry.
I listened to your songs.
You guys are really religious.
I just love that.
He tells them how much he loves them and how much he admires them.
Well, that's how Donald Trump started.
Believe it or not, that was a very important part of his message that nobody was talking about yesterday, but very important.
And I want to show you how many times he said those kinds of things just in his speech yesterday.
Cut one.
The United States cares greatly about the people of Europe.
I am derived from Europe, Scotland and Germany.
And we believe deeply in the bonds we share with Europe as a civilization.
I want to see it do great.
But I actually saw that with Emmanuel, who probably is in the room too.
And I like him.
I actually like him.
Hard to believe, isn't it?
I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark.
Tremendous respect.
And they have an excellent, by the way, Secretary General, who's possibly in the room.
Mark, are you here?
We want Europe to be strong.
Okay.
So all the way through the speech, those are, you know, eight or 10 different clips.
All the way through the speech, he was saying, we respect you.
We like you.
Yada, yada.
But then he also at the same time was reminding them, let's go to cut three, that America is stronger than ever before.
Listen to this.
After 12 months back in the White House, our economy is booming, growth is exploding, productivity is surging, investment is soaring, inflation has been defeated, and the United States is in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in our country's history.
Virtually no inflation and extraordinarily high economic growth.
Since the election, the stock market has set 52 all-time high records, adding $9 trillion in value to retirement accounts.
People are doing very well.
They're very happy with me.
Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world.
The USA is the economic engine on the planet.
Instead of closing down energy plants, we're opening them up.
Instead of building ineffective, money-losing windmills, we're taking them down and not approving any.
In July, we passed the largest tax cuts in American history, including no tax on tips.
Domestic steel production is up by 300,000 tons a month, and it's doubling over the next four months.
Under my leadership, U.S. natural gas production is at an all-time high by far.
The price of gasoline is now below $2.50 a gallon in many states.
And we're leading the world in AI by a lot.
Because of my landslide election victory, the United States avoided the catastrophic energy collapse, but the border was out of control.
We fixed it with the strongest border anywhere in the world.
We're bringing back battleships.
The battleship is 100 times more powerful than the great battleships you saw in World War II.
We did a lot.
I did a lot, a lot of big things.
Okay.
So, why is this important?
First, hey, we're not your enemy.
Second, we're very strong economically because he's inviting Europe.
And he said this a couple of times in the speech.
He's inviting Europe to be a part of it.
Okay?
Be a part of this.
You can be a part of this.
We want you to be a part of it.
Now, I don't think any of the elites in the room wanted to be a part of that.
But as he said a minute ago, Mark Root, the Secretary General of NATO, he was instrumental.
And I want to come back to him in a second in a different way.
But I want to show you what he said after the speech, because it goes to America is stronger than ever.
He talked about the GDP of Europe and how Trump is right on things, which didn't make him popular in the room.
But this is the NATO Secretary General after the speech commenting on basically what Trump was saying there, inviting Europe.
When we do well, you do well.
Listen to cut five, please.
And when it comes to the Arctic, I think President Trump is right.
Other leaders in NATO are right.
We need to defend the Arctic.
We know that the sea lanes are opening up.
We know that China and Russia are increasingly active in the Arctic.
There are eight countries bordering on the Arctic.
Seven are a member of NATO.
That's Finland and Sweden and Norway and Denmark, Iceland, Canada, and the U.S.
And there's only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and that's Russia.
And I would argue there is a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the Arctic region.
So President Trump and other leaders are right.
We have to do more there.
We have to protect the Arctic against Russian and Chinese influence.
And that's exactly what NATO ambassadors decided to do in September.
We are working on that, making sure that collectively will we defend the Arctic region.
Okay, so he's talking about the defense of the Arctic region.
But just before that, he said, look, Trump is right.
Trump is right.
Does anyone seriously think that if the United States hadn't turned around and done what they had done under Donald Trump and gone from possible negative GDP a year ago, that's what was being projected, to a GDP of 5.4%, do you think Europe would have a 1.9 or 1.8% GDP?
We wouldn't have.
Our growth came from the amazing growth in America.
And that is the point that Donald Trump was making.
We can work together.
What's good for us is also good for you.
So, first thing, compliment.
Second thing, show them that we invite you to be a part of this because it's really, really good.
Then he says the tough love.
This is how he won yesterday or is winning.
Cut two, Trump montage two.
But I also inherited a mess with Ukraine and Russia, something that would have never happened.
I said, Vladimir, you're not doing it.
He would never have done it.
And I've now been working on this war for one year, during which time I settled eight other wars.
Until I came along, NATO was only supposed to pay 2% of GDP.
But they weren't paying.
Most of the countries weren't paying anything.
And I got that stopped.
I said, that's not fair.
We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now.
After I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today, we have a budget of $1.5 trillion.
Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way.
They should be grateful also, but they're not.
Canada lives because of the United States.
Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements?
And we wiped out the Iran nuclear threat like nobody can believe.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
That, Venezuela, taking down Salome.
And I said, Emmanuel, you're going to have to lift the price of that bill.
No, no, no, Donald, I will not do that.
He said, here's the story, Emmanuel.
The answer is, you're going to do it.
You're going to do it fast.
And then if you don't, I'm putting a 25% tariff on everything that you sell into the United States and a 100% tariff on your wines and champagnes.
And every one of those countries have agreed to do it.
I realize that we have many places like that where they're making a fortune because of the United States.
Without the United States, they wouldn't be making anything.
I realized with that, I don't know, I was so because he was so aggressive.
And I realized in that conversation that the United States is keeping the whole world afloat.
Okay.
He then also went on a couple of times to say, you know, Maduro wouldn't negotiate, but boy, they negotiated as soon as our troops left, as soon as the shooting stopped.
Maybe some of you in this room should consider that.
He started to strong arm.
However, again, out of respect, he also said, here's cut four, what he won't do.
Listen.
We never got anything.
We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable.
But I won't do that.
Okay?
Now everyone's saying, oh, good.
That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force.
I don't have to use force.
I don't want to use force.
I won't use force.
All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland where we already had.
So how is it that he wants?
The Overton Window Bluff00:15:23
How is it that he continues to win?
This is what the world needs to understand.
He's written about it in his damn book.
How are you not?
Do they read in the rest of the world?
Do any political leaders actually read?
He's using the Overton window.
And quite honestly, he is following.
I don't think he knows this, but he's following Paul's example.
You compliment them.
You let them know that you love them.
You invite them to participate.
You tell them the consequences of what is going to happen if you don't participate.
You invite them in again to participate and you tell them you love them and you win.
Okay.
That's exactly what happened yesterday.
And he uses the Overton window.
When everybody goes in and to negotiate, usually people go in and they ask for what they want.
And so they end up getting less than what they want because both sides have to win.
To feel good and to have a good relationship, both sides have to win.
So you go in and you ask a little more than what you want.
He asks for a lot more than what he really wants.
He moves the Overton window so far over that you're looking at it going, that's insane.
And then when he starts to negotiate, that Overton window comes back about halfway from where you were to where he was.
And all of a sudden it looks completely reasonable.
That's how Donald Trump does this.
I mean, this is the greatest political and also business negotiating class I've ever seen because it happens over and over and over and over again.
And because Donald Trump never bluffs, he doesn't bluff.
He'll tell you, you need to get out of there.
You need to leave that alone.
You need to come to the United States.
You need to surrender or leave Venezuela or we're going to come and get you.
He doesn't bluff.
We're going to go and strike your nuclear plants if you don't do X, Y, and Z.
He doesn't bluff.
He does it.
Because he doesn't bluff.
He makes promises.
He never threatens.
He makes promises.
He made a promise there.
I will not use force.
I don't need to use force.
We keep the whole world afloat.
Now, what is the key to what happened yesterday?
Because we don't know what the deal is.
And I think this is another part of Donald Trump's negotiation tactics.
He gets enough consensus in the room, but not necessarily a deal, but he gets enough consensus in the room.
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We got a deal.
We're still working out all the details, but we have a deal.
That again sets expectations up that nobody then really wants to be the one that says, no, wait a minute, we don't have a deal.
So I'm not sure how far along this deal is, but we are on the road to a deal.
I can tell you that.
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They keep saying that's it, but he's still winning.
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Every line sounds tough till they're sliding in.
Our guy walks in, cracks a joke too loud.
The room goes stiff, the smiles free summon.
When Convince shows up, the cosplay melts away.
He keeps saying that's it, but he's still winning.
Every swing they take, just stats through.
Welcome back to the Glen Beck program.
The guy just keeps winning.
And nobody seems to understand it.
Here's what I think happened behind the scenes.
I have nothing to back this up.
This is just my gut.
It's pure speculation.
But I think what happened yesterday, what turned this whole thing around, is he knows he had Mark Root.
Mark Root is the Secretary General of NATO.
And Mark Root is a fan of Donald Trump, but he's more of a fan of, you know, actually security, winning wars, you know, having protection for the European continent, all of that.
And so Mark comes out and he is talking in different forums yesterday about how Trump is right.
We can't protect ourselves.
I can guarantee you at some point he met with Mark Root, or some of his people met with Mark Root, but I would guess that Donald Trump did and said, Mark, here's the thing.
You know and I know.
We're both realists.
You know and I know Europe cannot defend itself.
NATO is a paper tiger.
You don't have the assets.
You don't have the money.
You can't do it.
We're your only hope for security.
And I don't want to get nasty about this, but I've asked you guys to step up to the plate.
And some of you guys are.
And it's been great, but you're still years away from being able to defend yourself.
And you know and I know we're the only ones that can defend the Arctic Circle and we must have this.
And he had a polite and normal conversation with a rational guy who gets it, who understands the military strategy behind Greenland.
And I can guarantee you, he, Donald Trump, or someone said to Mark a message from the president, Mark, you got to make this happen.
You've got to tell them the truth.
And I'm not making a threat.
I'm making a promise to you.
If we don't get Greenland, if this doesn't happen, if we don't find a way so we have control over the things we have to have control over in Greenland, I'm out of NATO.
And you won't survive.
And I won't say that and embarrass NATO.
I won't say it out loud, but I'm telling you that.
That is the end game here.
We're out of NATO because it's worthless.
I can guarantee you that's what happened.
Everything in me says that's what happened.
And it was Mark, the Secretary General of NATO, that went back to all the leaders and said, you guys are crazy.
Stop it.
This guy is going to leave NATO.
I'm telling you, he will pull out of NATO right now.
This is not a big deal.
We can make this negotiation happen.
Make the deal.
That's what happened yesterday.
Because it just, it's too obvious.
What Mark Root, his common sense, and he's the NATO Secretary General, it's too clear.
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Anything that you want to talk about?
I mean, there's a ton to talk about.
I'd love to hear your opinion on what happened yesterday, what's going on in Minnesota.
And honestly, I'm anxious to talk to you a little bit about Gavin Newsom as well, because there's just a lot to talk about there.
Greg in New York, welcome.
Hey, Glenn.
You ever notice, is Governor Newscomb that full of himself that he thinks he can just mosey on Donald Davos and literally actively rail against President Trump and talk to world leaders and tell them don't negotiate with him?
He literally said, President Trump is like a T-Rex.
You either mate with him or you get devours.
And then he said, what's wrong with you people?
You should have brought knee pads.
Really?
I mean, he was full of all kinds of just hate and anti-United States.
It's just ridiculous, man.
He should not have been able to go over there and actively rally, try to rally people against our negotiations.
That's a violation of what is called the 1799 Logan Act.
I'd have to look into that before I agree with you on that one.
But thanks, Greg.
I will tell you this.
We used to have a general rule.
You do not go out of the country and badmouth your country or your politicians.
You just don't do it.
And we never used to do that.
That changed.
Under the Obama administration, that really changed.
You know, you can go anywhere and say whatever you wanted about anybody.
And Newsom is just, I mean, he is so easy to spot.
He is just so, it's sad.
It really is.
It's so pathetic.
It's sad.
He is clearly from the very beginning.
He has been trying to set himself up as the presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2028.
And I mean, one could hope and pray, and one is hoping and praying that that's the guy they choose.
Because, I mean, even Besant, Besant took him down.
I mean, it was, he was at a speaking engagement yesterday in Davos.
And Scott Besant steps to the podium and he starts talking about Gavin Newsom.
And listen to what he said, cut nine.
I think it's very, very Ironic that Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman, the Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.
He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros.
And the Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else is on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having $1,000 a night meals at the French laundry.
And I'm sure the California people won't forget that.
And I can tell my message to Governor Newsom is the Trump administration is coming to California.
We are going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse.
And I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies, but he's not speaking because what have his economic policies brought?
Outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down.
He is here hobnobbing with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless.
Shame on him.
He is too smug, too self-absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything.
Thank you very much.
Let me know if you need any further clarification.
I have to tell you, I think, and this is a deep contest.
I mean, there are so many candidates that I just don't know who my biggest hero is right now, but Besson is one of them.
I mean, I think Besson is, I just think he's one of the best, well-put together, deep thinking, calm secretaries that we've ever had in that position.
Treasury's California Warning00:11:21
I mean, I just have complete confidence that if he says it, I'm like, okay, I may not understand or I may not agree with it, but I'm going to roll the dice with you.
And when he said yesterday, oh, and by the way, we're coming to California.
Treasury Department's coming to California.
We're going to be looking into some things.
I'm telling you, I'm going to get into this later.
They are going to have to start a revolution.
These blue states are going to have to start a revolution because they're going to jail.
Just what we know on fraud.
There is so much fraud and the way it is being used by the Democrats to funnel money from your pocket to NGOs that are fighting against America, that are propping up these revolutionaries and the fraud that is just taking money out of your children's mouth or the needs of children is astounding in some of these states.
And if the Treasury Department gets serious about it, you're going to see the biggest Democrats in the Democratic Party, the biggest states.
You're going to see them all start to fall.
And I don't know how, I don't know what happens from there because I've never seen anything like that.
But they should, I mean, if I were Newsome, I would have gone home with my tail between my legs.
I would have been like, hey, I got to get home because I got to start hacking.
Venezuela is no longer safe.
Is Cuba safe for me?
I mean, where are these guys going to go?
Where are they going to go?
Glenn, just quick clarification on that.
If you were Gavin Newsom, you would go home and sleep with your best friend's wife.
That's actually how you'd handle the situation.
I just want to make sure you understand.
Thank you.
Okay, you're right.
You're right.
How do you, I mean, look at, look at the last guy that they were saying initially that was going to be the one that was going to be the next, would be the next presidential candidate was Tim Walz.
That guy is absolutely unlikable.
I mean, on so many fronts, absolutely unlikable and so corrupt.
And the other guy is Gavin Newsom.
So corrupt, so absolutely fraudulent and unlikable.
I mean, if that's what you got, I'll run Rubio, you know, JD Vance.
I would run Donald Trump's red tie against those guys.
As long as it is, I would run it by itself.
Vote for, not the guy in the tie, just vote for the red tie over that guy.
And I think you had a chance of winning.
I mean, especially with what I think they are going to find.
And these guys are just so delusional.
Let me play a clip.
This is from the president of Finland.
So he's in this council with the World Economic Forum.
And the topic is, can Europe defend itself without the United States?
Now, I wake you up in the middle of the night.
You haven't had sleep for days.
You fall asleep.
I wake you up.
You're delirious and a little pissed off at me because you finally fell asleep.
And I say, hey, I have to ask you a quick question.
Could Europe defend itself without the United States?
If you had a gun, you might shoot me because you're like, you're waking me up for that stupid question.
But I want to play what the president of Finland said.
And then it's juxtaposed to what he said 11 minutes later in the same forum.
Cut seven.
First is a direct answer to the question of this panel.
Can Europe defend itself?
My answer is unequivocally yes.
Without the Americans.
Without the Americans.
I mean, how?
Well, look.
But you're relying on them for these key elements.
You've said earlier that Europe can defend itself without the Americans.
If it comes down...
Not exact.
That's not a quote.
More or less.
More or less.
We'll go back to the title.
More or less.
More or less.
I love journalists.
It's so smug.
This is why I went from Gavin Newsome to this guy.
He just said it.
Everyone in the room heard it.
And everybody in the room had to be thinking the same thing.
Wow.
Really?
How does that happen?
I mean, I'm France.
I know we can't protect it.
How are you expecting?
How are you going to work that, do that math?
So convince us, please.
I'd love to believe.
And then 11 minutes later, he denies saying that.
And then what does he do?
He looks at the audience full of elites.
He rolls his eyes and he says, I love these journalists.
Wait, what?
Are you kidding me?
Now, here is in that same panel.
This is, again, the head of NATO, who I think is the key that Donald Trump was working to get Greenland done or to at least get it moving.
Here's the head of NATO in the same panel about, you know, let's just be honest with each other.
Listen.
The U.S. is by far the most powerful nation on earth.
And the president of the United States is therefore the leader of the free world.
So again, I'm not popular with you now because I'm defending Donald Trump, but I really believe we can be happy that he is there because he has forced us in Europe to step up, to face the consequences, that we have to take care more of our own defense.
I'm absolutely convinced.
Without Donald Trump, we would not have taken those decisions.
and they are crucial, particularly for the European and the Canadian side of NATO to really grow up in the post-Cold War world.
Hear that?
We can be grateful.
I don't know how many people actually believed that in that room, but it is true.
He's forcing us to grow up.
He's forcing us to protect ourselves.
And that was the real leverage.
It wasn't, you know, when Donald Trump said yesterday, we don't have to worry about, I'm not going to use force.
I don't have to use force.
What he's saying is I can use the opposite of force.
I can withdraw my force.
I can withdraw and say, you guys are on your own.
Why would I send troops in to take something when I can just tell you I'm not defending you anymore?
And you all know you are sitting ducks for anyone who wants to take Europe.
So why would I use force at all?
That's what he's saying from the European perspective here.
That's what Ruda is saying.
Look, we can be happy because now we have to take care of ourselves.
Well, nobody really wants to do that.
But if you want to be a responsible adult, if you want to have a seat at the adult table instead of sitting at the kiddie's table all the time, you have to be responsible and take care of yourself.
And that, to me, was the most sober thing that was said by a non-American.
Well, I can't include all Americans saying sensible things because then I just, again, thought of Gavin Newsom.
But that was one of the most sensible things said at the meeting yesterday.
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The Burna Defense Tool00:04:42
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Hello, Nick.
Hi, Glenn.
How you doing?
I'm good.
Hey, real quick, a couple of things.
I hope Trump has a conversation with Macrone with his Chinese comment.
They're doing the same.
He's doing the same thing they did in World War II with the Nazis.
But also, I love the Besson going after Newsom.
He is as smug as he appears.
We have two refineries closing down in California.
One has already closed in LA, and the other one in the Vallejo area is closing.
And Newsom, yeah, I know.
Well, Newsome, and they produce more than just fuel.
They refine natural gas and everything else through that facility.
But the issue is Newsom was going around saying, well, we have an agreement with Valero, who's the refinery closing, that they're still going to bring in fuel for us.
That's not true.
They're closing the plant and dismantling it completely.
So honestly, how do you, Nick, in California, how do your friends who are not necessarily conservative, how do they not see suicide?
I mean, it is like, it's like the government of California is just putting a bottle of pills out in front of you every day and saying, no, take some more, take some more, take some more.
It's almost like the Nuremberg syndrome.
You know what I mean?
Where you get abused so much.
Now you're feel sympathy for the Stockholm Center.
Yeah, Stockholm Center.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
There you go.
I'm sorry.
That's right.
They're both cold cities.
All right.
They're very cold.
And California's going to get cold too once we get the gas shut off.
Hey, Glenn, and the other quick thing I want to bring to your attention is it was reported on a local radio station that you're out of Sacramento that the Chinese are sending their pilots here to be trained to fly their military jets, and one of which is at Castle Air Force Base out of Atwater, where 90% of their students are Chinese nationals.
Oh, my God.
I will look into that.
Stu or Ricky, have somebody read it, reach out to our affiliate in Sacramento and find out that story.
It doesn't surprise me, although it shocks me for some reason every single time that we can be surrounded by people that are at the bare minimum this blind to what is true and what is happening.
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The Quiet Lie About Dollars00:15:27
So just a few minutes ago, a tweet was released from our Attorney General, Pam Bondi.
She said, minutes ago at my direction, HSI and FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota.
So far, we have arrested Nakima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on City's Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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We do not tolerate attacks on places of worship.
Then an update 16 minutes ago, a second arrest has just been made at my direction.
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More to come.
Pam Bondi, you know, this week I had a lot to say about Pam Bondi, and I stand by those things that I said about Pam Bondi, but it is not good enough just to be the person who is always pointing out the problems.
If you're going to do that, you also have to be the person that leads the way and saying, great job.
When they do something right, great job.
And Pam Bondi, great job.
She has been in Minnesota this week, and it looks like we're taking this seriously and moving quickly.
And that's what I had hoped that we would get from the DOJ.
And it looks like we may start moving in that direction.
However, states are going to be a real problem.
Virginia is going to be a real problem.
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Okay, so the Democratic legislators are now proposing major policy changes in Virginia.
And if you thought that Virginia or any of the Democrats are moderate, they are only getting worse.
And this should be remembered when it comes to the midterms.
Let me just give you a few things that they are proposing.
Taxes and economic policy is becoming full-fledged Marxist.
They are proposing new and expanded taxes.
What a surprise.
They have introduced bills now that will expand the sales tax space to include services like landscaping, gym memberships, vehicle repairs, food delivery, home repairs, raising the revenue beyond the traditional goods.
The progressive income tax brackets, they are now proposing creating new tax brackets, higher tax brackets, meaning with people with taxable income over a certain threshold, they're saying $600,000, will pay higher rates than those with lower incomes.
This one I really love.
Federal employee tax.
The federal employee will get a tax break versus everybody else.
There are proposals now that will give special tax subtractions for retired federal employees and incentives for federal retirees, while you, who didn't ever work for the government, you'll see a broader tax increase.
What is the purpose of that tax?
Remember, you cut taxes on things you're trying to encourage.
What are they trying to encourage?
More people working for the federal government.
They're also trying to have a mandatory waiting period on gun purchases, a ban on leaving your gun unattended in your vehicle.
I don't ever, who leaves it?
I mean, I used to.
I grew up in Washington State.
We used to have a gun rack in the back of our truck and it would be in the back window and you'd have three rifles there and you'd pull up into school.
You'd leave your doors, your car doors or your truck doors unlocked and nobody would say anything.
It was not a problem.
But who's leaving it unattended in their vehicle?
I mean, unless it's locked in your trunk or locked in your glove box.
Also, a state firearm purchaser licensing system.
That sounds really good.
An 11% tax on ammunition and guns and civil liability for the gun industry participants for crimes committed using guns that they sold or built.
Oh, okay.
That's really good.
By the way, I can't wait to get into what they're doing in Hawaii on guns.
Wait until you hear this nonsense.
I've got a few things to say about that.
Also, they're trying to enact more DEI and ESG stuff.
And this one, have to be really, really careful because they want to expand the racial bias and diversity training for professionals, nurses, nurses, real estate agents, and law enforcement.
Now, why does the real estate agent need diversity training?
Law enforcement and nurses.
Let me lay down the biggest warning I could possibly lay down, and I'm not going to dwell on it or spend time today on this.
The scariest people in Nazi Germany did not wear the black uniforms.
They wore the white coats.
They were the nurses and the doctors.
Do not train them in any of this DEI, any of this bullcrap.
It's very dangerous.
They want to change the curricula in school.
They're doing all kinds of stuff.
Okay.
But I want to concentrate here for just a second on taxes because there is a quiet lie, a quiet lie that we have accepted in America, that the same dollar that is earned by two different Americans is not the same dollar at all.
That if one man earns it after years of sacrifice and years of risk and failure and another one earns it with less risk, less responsibility, the first man's dollar is someone somehow or another less his own.
This is really dangerous because this is the moral foundation of the progressive income tax.
Not that government should be funded.
That's not in question.
But who is punished, punished for making that possible?
We're not talking about, you know, anything even.
You are punishing certain people.
Okay.
The progressive tax does something very, very dangerous.
It doesn't tax behavior.
It taxes outcomes, which you never ever want to get into.
It doesn't ask, has this dollar been earned honestly?
It only asks, who earned this dollar?
Now, does that sound fair?
See, fairness always breaks down because of the stories we tell ourselves around it or the stories we've allowed others to construct around.
That's why the Constitution is common sense.
That's why progressivism breaks down once you really start thinking about it, because you can't follow the common sense.
It's not fair.
It doesn't, a progressive tax does not tax behavior.
It taxes the outcome.
Once you accept the principle that you don't care how honestly the dollar was earned, what you really care about is who earned it.
Once you accept that principle, equality under the law dies.
And this is why you start with the taxes, everything else follows from here.
You know, our founders understood this better than we understand it today because they lived under a system where the crown decided who could be squeezed and who could not be squeezed and how much to squeeze.
And they knew that once the states gained the power and they could gain the power to decide which citizens would owe more than the other citizen, that liberty would become conditional.
James Madison was all over this.
He warned against laws that would divide people and citizens into different classes.
By the way, James Madison was from Virginia.
Hello, Virginia.
Can you read your own founding principles?
Alexander Hamilton also cautioned against this.
He said, taxation can never become arbitrary.
So what they were saying at this point was they were not afraid of taxes.
They didn't fear taxes.
What they feared were unequal taxes because that's what they had come out of.
And this is why our founders, this is why they avoided income tax altogether.
We didn't have an income tax.
The federal government was broke.
The federal government had to raise money through tariffs.
We didn't have an income tax up until 1913 because Americans knew this would become unfair because you're choosing who to tax, who to squeeze and not, and who not to squeeze.
Okay.
And when you have taxes indirect, uniform, and visible, then you have real equality.
But the moment the government claims a larger share of one man's labor than another man's labor, because that's time is money.
Look at your money as the time it took for you to earn that.
How many hours did it take you to earn that money?
That's what it means.
Time is money.
So how much time did it take?
So they're not taxing you the dollar.
They're taxing your time.
And once you can take somebody's time, somebody's labor, and take more of it from one guy than another, and not for what they did, but just for what they achieved, you're no longer dealing with justice.
Would it be just to say, I'm going to tax people who do poorly more than the people who do well?
Because the people who do well, let me make this argument just quickly.
If you do well, you're creating jobs.
You're better for the community.
You're leading us into prosperity.
But if you do poorly and you're not doing that, maybe it's because you're lazy.
Maybe because you're not working.
I don't know, whatever it is, because that's the argument.
On the other side with the progressives, they say it's because every rich person is greedy.
So let me just flip this over.
Would it be fair for me to say every poor person should be taxed because they're not creating enough?
They're not creating jobs and it's only because they're lazy.
Of course not.
You would never accept that.
So why do you accept the reverse?
Okay.
You've accepted the reverse in this country because we have been taught over and over and over again that you're not going to be able to make it.
You'll never be that person.
And all of those people over there, they're all so greedy.
Okay.
You then get to a point to where you're dealing with resentment dressed up as policy.
Does that sound like anything that we're dealing with today?
Resentment.
Is there anything in our society that Marxists, Leninists, and progressives are shoving into your face?
Resentment?
That's why the progressive income tax goes hand in hand because that's what you're dealing with.
You're resenting the people who have made it and then teaching people you can't make it yourself.
So it's so corrosive because a progressive tax tells the most productive people, your success is tolerated, but we don't respect you.
Your effort is useful, but it's not fully yours.
It belongs to us.
It teaches everybody else something even worse.
That the guy who makes more than you that lives down the street, he's not a full citizen.
He's not really one of you.
He is a funding source, but that's really all he is.
And that's how societies fracture.
That's how things fall apart.
And our founders knew this.
And it doesn't start with riots at first.
It starts with ledgers.
Yes, the 16th Amendment does say that we can have a federal income tax.
That was the progressives back in the Woodrow Wilson years.
But it doesn't require Congress to abandon equal treatment.
Why do we allow this to happen?
A flat tax completely complies with the Constitution.
A consumption tax would honor it even more because it's not what you make.
It's what you buy.
It's what you consume.
But what the progressive tax violates is something deeper than a clause or an amendment.
It violates the understanding that law judges actions, not outcomes.
The law is supposed to look at actions, not outcomes.
It's supposed to be actions and not people.
The government is there to protect effort, not to take effort.
But every single progressive tax begins by targeting the rich.
Notice the new ones, they're going to go after the rich, the super rich, the 600,000 and above.
$600,000 a year.
That's a businessman.
That's not rich.
You know what rich is?
George frickin' Soros.
But you'll notice those guys are never at the end.
They'll all talk a good game.
They were at Davos yesterday going, you know what?
George AI: Vision vs. Reality00:05:11
You should tax us more.
It's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen because it never does because they'll find a way out of it.
And every single time you start to expand the income tax, it always expands downward.
And history is relentless on this point because once you accept that rights are proportional to income, there's no logical place to stop.
You know, we didn't fight a revolution so we could be free on a sliding scale.
They thought that citizen meant something, the same thing meant something, and it was the same thing for everybody.
So the question is not what the government costs.
The question is, who owns you, your time, and your labor?
And whether success in America is still something that we look up to and say that should be earned.
Or is success in America something that should be really shamed?
And then if you give us enough money, we'll forgive you.
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Let me bring in Jason here for just a second.
Jason, what is the George AI on today?
I heard you talking about it with the insiders a second ago.
So we were looking at all the stuff that the new governor of Virginia was doing and basically winning an election and just radically going towards the left.
And I was just curious if that was something the founders, you know, something that hardcore, basically saying all the other rest of my constituents, you know, I'm not going to worry about them.
I'm going to do as much as I can politically towards one side of the aisle.
And for the everyone else, basically to say, screw everyone else.
If that's something that they thought was, you know, healthy for the American project as they envisioned.
And I had to put in a hypothetical situation of this going on, what was happening in Virginia now.
And then George AI gave a very philosophical answer and what they envisioned for the country and what they would have thought of this kind of behavior.
It's really good.
So, you know, George AI is a collection of, it is my private and proprietary library, a collection of the founders' words and everything that influenced them at that time.
It's, I think the latest we have in it and will ever have is about 1820 or 1830.
And it does not know anything about the future.
It does not know anything about American politics today.
It only has to memorize word for word the founders' words and the documents and everything else that they lived through in their times.
And you can get a pretty good approximation of what they might have said to you.
And give me the gist of what they responded with or what it responded with.
Jason?
Well, you don't really get a gist from George AI.
In fact, that's one of the hard things to do with George AI.
It's like, okay, could you leave out the four score and seven, blah, blah, blah.
Could you straight it up a little bit?
Okay, what's straight it up mean?
The general gist was that you don't really have the representation in the government the way we envisioned it if it completely ignores a vast amount of the constituents and part of the country.
So it must be more balanced.
It got the fact that you have visions for where it should go eventually, but you can't forget the other part of the country.
That's why they had the Electoral College, you know, so certain people would not be left out.
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Have you been seeing what's happening in the Supreme Court?
I mean, something that is just nuts is happening in the Supreme Court right now.
And I guess the best way to explain it is: I want you to imagine something for a second.
Imagine that you have just inherited an old family house, okay?
And the deed is really clear.
It's been in your family forever.
The property is clearly yours.
But then the city knocks on the door.
And all of a sudden, the city says, Yeah, we saw that you just inherited this house.
Yeah, and here's the deed.
Yeah.
Well, but look, we just found this.
It's an old rule from 1787.
And boy, it was written in the city, you know, a really dark time, really dark time back then.
And it was written for that dark time and really ugly reasons.
But it says you can't use some of the rooms in your house unless somebody gives you permission.
So you can't use part of your house.
You'd be like, wait, what?
Well, you know, it's part of our tradition.
You know, that restriction proves, you know, it's part of our tradition here in the city.
You'd be like, wait, wait, that doesn't, wait, that rule was evil the day it was written.
And then the city would say, yeah, I know, shameful.
Wasn't it shameful?
But part of our history and tradition.
So you can't use, you know, that part of the house.
Now, as crazy as that sounds, that's what's happening right now at the Supreme Court.
Hawaii has passed a law saying gun owners can't carry on private property open to stores and restaurants and churches unless the owner explicitly allows it.
That means your constitutional right only exists if somebody else says yes.
And the judges are like, I'm sorry, how are you doing the math on this one?
And Hawaii steps up to the microphone and says, yeah, Your Honor.
Don't worry.
History supports us on this.
History supports us on this?
Yeah, we got history.
It's not the founders, not even early American practice.
But we found in 1865, Louisiana had a black code.
And it was a law written after the Civil War.
And what it was meant to do was to disarm newly freed black Americans so they couldn't defend themselves from mobs or the Klan or corrupt authorities.
Now, this one, Gorshuz stopped and said, black codes?
Really?
I mean, that's an outlier.
You know, you need to look at the mainstream of American history, not statutes that were unconstitutional the moment they were passed.
I mean, why are you relying on this?
And then he says the quiet part out loud.
People who normally recoil from black codes, you know, like garlic with a vampire, suddenly embrace them because it helps restrict guns.
He's like, why?
Then Justice Alito says, weren't these laws designed specifically to stop black Americans from defending themselves to leave them at the mercy of the Klan and the racist law enforcement?
And then the hammer comes down.
Isn't it the height of irony to cite a law written to destroy the Second Amendment as proof of what the Second Amendment allows?
Kavanaugh then comes in, seals it up.
He reminds the court they've already rejected racist jury laws, even though they had history because history rooted in oppression cannot justify limiting constitutional rights.
We've always had oppression.
Yeah, but we're trying to be a more perfect nation and not have oppression.
Okay.
Exceptions must be deeply rooted, broadly accepted, widely recognized, not isolated, not shameful, and certainly not born in black codes.
But the case isn't really about guns.
And that's what I think everybody who is analyzing this case is missing.
It is not about guns.
It's about whether your rights exist before government or only after permission is granted.
Hawaii says your right exists if someone else allows it.
The Constitution says, no, no, your rights exist because you exist and you're free.
And the court's being asked to answer the question, do we define American liberty by its highest principles or by its darkest moments?
And once you use poison history to limit rights, rights stop being rights, okay?
They become permission.
And permissions can always be remote, revoked.
And this is what Hawaii is arguing right now.
Their argument boils down to this.
A thing existed in history, therefore it can define our tradition.
But, I mean, are we really, are we really down to these are the lawyers that are the smartest to argue in front of the court?
I mean, this seems to me to be like a four-year-old argument, you know?
I don't mean like something that people have been thinking about for the last four years.
I mean an argument made by a four-year-old.
That's not how constitutional law works.
That's not how morality works.
It's not how history, it's not how anything works.
If that logic were accepted, then couldn't I say slavery is really a deeply rooted American tradition?
I mean, we had slavery in here for a long time.
Slavery existed, you know, at the founding.
It existed for generations.
It was written into state law.
It's in the Bible.
It was accepted in large parts of the country and all over the world for centuries.
So why don't we make that case?
Hawaii.
The entire constitutional project after the Civil War was built on a single radical idea.
Some things existed, but they were always wrong.
The 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments were not adjustments to tradition.
They were repudiations of centuries of tradition.
The court here is not asking, you know, can we find any historic example?
It's asking, was this restriction part of the legitimate mainstream understanding of the right?
And that's what Gorsuch keeps, you know, repeating.
You know, that's why Alito is talking about the purpose.
That's why Kavanaugh says deep and broad and commonly recognized tradition.
A law passed, it was to disarm free slaves, to empower radical terror groups, and to nullify a constitutional right.
And it can't suddenly now be used as proof of what rights allow.
Okay.
That's not legal reasoning at all.
That's, let me be kind.
That's historical cherry picking.
And the slave thing is precise.
If Hawaii's theory were valid, then I could stand up in court and say slavery was part of tradition for nearly a century.
It deserves weight in constitutional interpretation.
And do you think anyone in their right mind would not laugh you out of the room?
And rightly so?
Of course they would, because history is filtered through moral and constitutional judgment.
The Constitution is to correct those things that man has done for a very long time that were immoral and say, no, that violates human rights, the things you were born with.
We don't treat lynching and literacy tests and poll taxes or slave patrols as tradition.
That's shameful.
We treat those things as evidence of betrayal of our own principles.
And the black codes fall into the same category.
And it's so dishonest because they know that.
Nobody on the left is arguing for black codes and saying, you know what?
It's part of our tradition and I think we should bring this back.
No, they're arguing for slave codes because it accomplishes what they want.
And it's not just about guns.
It's about all rights need permission.
I mean, this is the most intellectually unserious argument I have ever heard in the Supreme Court.
Okay.
It mistakes what happens, what happened for what was right, principle or power for principle, oppression as tradition.
And that's why I think the judges sounded yesterday, I don't know, a little offended.
You know, not because the argument is clever, but because it's so dangerously shallow.
Is this really the best we can do?
Honestly, Hawaii, you should be ashamed of yourself that you send people over with this argument.
If you allow evil to define tradition simply because it existed, then no right is safe.
No injustice will ever truly be condemned.
It'll be used.
And that's the line they're drawing.
And that's the only line that makes sense.
Draw that line.
Nope.
Nope.
Just because it happened in the past, if it was evil, it doesn't mean it's part of our tradition.
It means it's something we conquered.
The left just, I mean, it is amazing to me how the left just doesn't seem to have any universal principles.
Like, I would never use this.
Never use this because it would violate my principles.
It would be like, no, we're against that.
We're against those things.
But the left's understanding of winning, it is the most important thing.
I mean, they hate Donald Trump because the most important thing to him is winning.
And yet the ends justify the means with the left.
They will use black codes to not just take out guns, but also to say your rights must receive permission to exercise them.
That is just some of the most evil, stupid at the kindest level, but some of the most evil reasoning I have I've ever heard.
And I can't believe that that argument ever advanced to the Supreme Court.
I mean, we are in real trouble.
If that's what our best law firms are churning out and saying, you know what?
You should go to the Supreme Court and make that argument because I think you might win.
If that's the best you can do, holy cow.
Hawaii, you should talk to that congressman that thinks that islands can capsize because he's got a boatload of stuff to sell you.
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Ricky, you spent a lot of time working up in Canada as a spy.
And that's weird.
I have two producers.
I have Stu, that's Canadian Spy, and now you, Canadian Spy.
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Says something about you, doesn't it?
It does.
Doesn't it?
Canada is against me.
Anyway, Canada knows the force that I am.
Yeah.
How stupid is that?
The military is readying now for you.
Canada looks to you like a force.
That's kind of sad, isn't it?
Anyway, let me read this story.
Give me some perspective on this.
Crowds of Canadian citizens stood in long lines across Alberta for hours this week to sign a petition for a referendum leaving Canada, officially titled a referendum relating to Alberta's independence.
Petition requires at least 177,000 signatures in order to trigger the referendum, which would ultimately decide if the Providence would separate.
Petitions have 120 days to collect the signatures needed.
Pro-separation groups said they can get as many as a million signatures, which would be a clear indication that they probably will separate, seeing that they have 5 million residents.
Some petition locations reported as many as 10,000 signatures in the first day as a public response described as concerning by critics who want them to remain part of Canada's constitutional monarchy.
What is actually happening there?
Is this real at all?
There is a very real and impassioned minority in Alberta that wants to separate.
Canada's tried this before with Quebec.
They tried a few times, and that didn't pan out.
I will be able to give up.
Oh, my Jew.
I will be surprised if this happens, but I have a very good friend who worked at a very high level at the federal and Alberta level and government.
And he said, please, Ricky, tell Donald Trump we don't want to be bombed.
And actually, it would be cool if you could trade Minnesota and Alberta for each other.
Could you take Alberta and give us Minnesota?
I bet you both of them would be okay with that.
I bet you people in Alberta would be like, okay.
And people in Minnesota would be like, thank God we're out of America.
Yeah.
I'm willing to, A, I'm willing to, I'm willing to make that deal.
I'm willing to make that deal.
In fact, I'm going to speak on behalf of the president.
Yes, it's going to happen.
And we'll send troops in there if you try to stop it.
That's the way it works, right?
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I want to talk to you a little bit about Minnesota.
Pam Bondi has announced a couple of arrests today.
She has been up in Minnesota this week.
Thank God.
Thank you.
I mean, I've been harsh on Pam Bondi, especially in this last week, but I think it's important to point out when somebody is doing the right thing, and she is appearing to kick butt in Minnesota.
And when Donald Trump comes home, I think he's made it very, very clear yesterday in his speech about Elon Omar, the investigation into how she went from like 100, I think she went from 10,000 to 50,000 to $125,000 in net worth to the very next year being worth $30 million.
How did that happen?
Boy, pays to be an immigrant in America.
I can see why everybody wants to beat the doors down to get here because all you have to do is just be here and you're worth $30 million.
Wow.
It's fantastic.
But things are getting worse in Minnesota, not better.
And I was thinking last night, I've seen this scene before.
Where have I seen this scene?
And it clicked.
And I want to tell you that story after I update you on what's happening in Minnesota in 60 seconds.
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So let me just give you a couple of things.
Nakima Armstrong, she is one of the people I believe that Pam Bondi arrested today.
She is one of the activists that was storming the church the other day.
She apparently took home over a million dollars from the anti-poverty nonprofit that she led.
Wow.
Man, I got to get into these anti-poverty, you know, I'm helping the poor people things because wow, you can make a lot of money, apparently, in that, a lot of money in that.
Meanwhile, the NGOs, left-wing NGOs, are planning an economic blackout across Minnesota.
And what they're doing is the Democratic Party has aligned with dark money NGOs.
We've known that, left-wing militia groups and anti-Trump labor unions.
And one of the big labor unions in Minnesota is not just the teachers' union, but the nurses union.
And the nurses' union is saying that you need to go out on a general strike and you need to get involved in this because, quote, it's time to suspend the normal order of business and demand immediate cessation of ICE actions in Minnesota, accountability for federal agents who have caused the loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene.
And, you know, I was thinking about all this yesterday, last night, and talking to a friend of mine, and I'm like, I've seen this before.
What is this?
What is this?
It's delusional, right?
Nobody is talking about the crimes that have been committed.
Now, let's just be fair and say, okay, ICE committed a crime.
I don't believe they did, but let's just say.
But that doesn't mean you excuse everything else.
There's no logic in any of this, okay?
So where have I seen this before?
Where have I seen this scene?
And then I remembered.
Then it became very, very clear.
Ah, there were two guys that were offered to a crowd.
Okay.
And the governor said, hey, one of these guys, I'm going to let go.
And one of them was Jesus, right?
Innocent, unarmed, a teacher.
Not an enemy to Rome, but anybody who opposed the will of God, he was an enemy.
The other one that he said, or you can take Barabbas, the enemy of the crowd's enemy, Rome.
He was in prison, if I'm not mistaken, for murder, at least violence and rebellion.
He was tied to violent rebellion, insurrection, murder, robbery.
He was not a good guy.
Well, when they're given this choice, who does the crowd call for?
Not Jesus.
It chanted for Barabbas.
Now, this is the part where I think anti-Semites always say, well, see, they just hated Jesus so much.
No, that is not the lesson you should pull from that.
That's not what they were saying.
Crowds are like a weather system.
They move on pressure, not principles, pressure.
And they're not choosing who to condemn and who to go free based on good or evil.
They were actually choosing what kind of hope felt the most satisfying in that moment.
Okay.
And the two choices are the slower hope of Jesus that demanded repentance and true change in everybody's life, or the faster hope of the revolutionary Barabbas.
The people always want to go the fast way.
They chose revolution, not repentance, because they hated Rome more than they hated sin.
They let what they were against lead them instead of what they were for.
And so they lost the ability to see the truth of the situation because of their anger.
They were truly blind.
Now, take that human pattern from that time, because that's what it is.
It's a human pattern.
We all can go through this easily and put it up against what we're seeing in Minnesota.
This is possibly the biggest fraud case in American history.
And there's no way the Democrats in power didn't know about it.
But no one's talking about that.
No one's talking about how you, the taxpayer, the people who are now saying Barabbas, how you were ripped off, how maybe your children were hurt because your government, the state government and the local government, was giving money knowingly to people who were abusing the system.
And when the government comes in to arrest, they start shouting for revolution.
And they're shouting for it because of the leaders, the same leaders who likely allowed the fraud, know the people in the streets will look past their egregious sins if it means stopping Trump.
Okay.
Now let me make this really clear.
We're not talking about Trump or whether the federal government is right or wrong.
You can protest government power.
You can distrust the federal government.
I do.
You can demand accountability and transparency.
I do.
Those things are sane, even if we disagree on what should be transparent or exposed.
They're sane.
Those things make you an American.
Distrust is not an American sin.
It's a survival instinct in a fallen world.
But there's a line and it's quiet and it's invisible where distrust becomes devotion, where you stop evaluating the facts because you're devoted.
Where your movement stops being about justice and becomes about being against something so completely that it doesn't matter what you're now defending.
When people are told these arrests are targeting truly dangerous criminals, the sober response isn't blind faith in the government.
Okay.
I don't have that.
I'd like to see, can we see the evidence here?
The sober response is separation, case by case.
Show it to me.
Show me the evidence.
That person, does that match up with what you say?
And if the claim is true, if people are being swept up who are really violent, predatory, destructive, then the society is indeed standing at a knife's edge, cliff's edge.
Not because enforcement can't be abused.
It can.
Not because the state can't lie.
It can.
But because a crowd can begin to treat evil as an acceptable ally as long as it wears the right costume, resistance.
I would like to coin a term here.
This is the Barabbas trap.
Barabbas doesn't win because people suddenly love murder.
They didn't want Barabbas out because they loved the guy.
Barabbas won because he was a symbol.
He was a symbol of a weapon that the crowd thinks it can aim at the government it hates.
And in the heat of that hatred, something breaks.
It's human.
It breaks.
And it's the ability to distinguish between a righteous cause and a righteous person.
This is where the blindness becomes really lethal.
Because once you lose the habit of judging separately, once you refuse to say, wait a minute, this government action may be wrong and this individual over here may be dangerous, you don't lose just accuracy.
You lose the moral language that keeps a civilization a civilization and keeps you safe.
And it's not going to be just the country that pays for that collapse.
It's you and me and the protesters.
When you make yourself unable to name evil, evil will happily borrow your body for a while.
It will happily stand behind your slogans.
It will march and even carry your banners.
It will hide inside of your crowds because crowds are the perfect cover for evil.
And if you insist that every badge is tyranny, you will eventually protect the tyrant who doesn't wear a badge at all.
Just the one who wears your language, your anger, your righteous pose.
Blindness is not neutral.
Blindness is recruitment.
It turns ordinary people into shields for causes that they don't fully understand.
For actors who don't love them back, for criminals who are not going to hesitate to burn your neighborhood down or the neighborhood that fed them.
I mean, think of they already burned down Minneapolis once.
And people were putting signs on the door.
I agree with you.
Don't burn down my business.
Burn it down anyway.
Because they don't care.
And then comes the bitterest part.
When the inevitable violence arrives, when the bad guy you excused becomes now the bad guy you can't control, the state has to respond harder.
And the crackdowns get uglier.
And the liberties you thought you were defending begin to shrink.
But then what do you do?
If you're blind, you protest even harder.
You grab your gun.
You grab a Molotov cocktail.
You start lighting fuses.
And the ones who light the fuse, the first fuse, like the governor and the mayor and some of these that are being arrested today, they're never the ones who stand closest to the blast.
It will not be their house that is burned down.
It will be yours.
That's how a protest becomes a trap.
That's how a movement becomes a machine.
I mean, these are paid for by oligarchs.
These are being paid for by George Sources of the world.
And you're comfortable with that.
And I don't understand that.
Other than to say it's because you haven't thought it through, because you are so wrapped up in the emotion, you cannot separate things piece by piece.
Once everything just is one thing, you have no reason left.
And that's how you get the oldest story in the world.
A crowd demands victory right now.
It's going to make us feel good right now.
And in the process, it trades away the very thing it claims to cherish.
Human dignity, truth, moral clarity.
We're living in an amazing time because such dramatic things are happening.
And yet, the answer is really boring.
The discipline that feels boring until it saves your life is this.
Judge things separately.
Hold two thoughts at once without losing your mind.
A government can overreach, and that overreach should be resisted lawfully and loudly, and those conditions should be corrected.
And criminals can be criminals.
And protecting criminals is not resistance.
It's surrender.
You can say, investigate the shooting, demand transparency, require accountability.
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I'll be with you.
But you must also say, if this person is a danger, we have to get them off the streets.
That's not betrayal.
That's called adulthood.
And the opposite, refusing to separate, leads to a very specific kind of national ruin and not just disorder, but moral inversion, where people can no longer tell the difference between justice and vengeance, between liberty and license, between courage and chaos.
And when that inversion becomes a habit, society becomes really easy to govern by fear because it's forgotten how to rule itself or govern itself by truth.
The crowd at Pilate's platform thought they were choosing freedom.
They instead chose a shortcut.
Shortcuts never take you to freedom.
They take you to the place where freedom is always promised and never, ever delivered.
Because people who live by blind rage are always just one chant away from being used.
Distrust the government if you have to.
In fact, I encourage you.
Protest if you choose.
Demand accountability with every breath.
But do not go blind because the moment you cannot name evil, especially when it's standing right beside you, cheering at the same volume, you've entered a new level of trouble, not political, but spiritual trouble.
The kind that follows you home and sits with you in quiet until you're asking that one question when the moment came.
Did I choose justice or did I choose the chant?
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So I don't know if you saw the post from Blue Lives Matter, but I want to read this verbatim because it is remarkable.
We're not saying that Blue Lives Matter was behind feeding false information to the far left anti-ICE protesters.
We're not saying that we had teams comprised of hundreds of off-duty cops and veterans volunteer to run decoy operations so far less activists thought they were conducting ICE raids.
We're not saying that they were in fact just driving around in what appeared to be unmarked vehicles with tinted windows, drinking coffee and listening to guns and roses, being chased down and surrounded by protesters.
But what we are saying is that if this did happen, it sure worked remarkably well in nine different states, allowing actual raids to succeed and take place unpeded, helping support and capture hundreds of real criminals.
Combat veterans, off-duty officers, and patriotic Americans have had enough of the radical left and are being activated across the country to back our law enforcement.
They're smarter, more skilled, and more driven.
Oh, and they're also better trained than the left and actually enjoy sitting in a deer stand for days just waiting.
And that is tagged DHSGov, ICE,Gov.
We've got your back.
That's from Blue Lives Matter.
Things are crazy.
Things are really, really going insane.
And you have to know, again, it's the Barabbas thing.
You have to know who you're standing with.
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I told you, socialism is the step between capitalism and communism.
It's a stop.
It's just a train stop.
The Democratic Socialist America have ties to China and the CCP.
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The Moon Economy and Crime00:12:51
Elon Musk is speaking at the World Economic Forum, and he just said something.
You know, Ricky or Stu asked me a question earlier this week.
I was talking to Jared Isaacman, who is now the head of NASA.
The guy is, he's an Elon Musk in his own right.
Just a genius, genius entrepreneur.
He's the new head of NASA.
And we were talking to him about Artemis II, which is going up past the moon and around the moon and then back, furthest we've ever sent anybody into space.
And they're launching that supposedly in the next few weeks.
And it's a really big deal, but nobody's really talking about it.
I don't know why.
But he was on, and he mentioned in the interview the moon economy.
This is the beginning of the moon economy.
And we get off the air and the producers say, what the heck is the moon economy?
And my first response was exactly what Elon Musk just said at the WEF in Davos just a few minutes ago.
He said, we are creating, we're now living in a place where Starfleet and Star Trek, those things are going to happen except for real.
That's what the moon economy is, is think Star Trek and Starfleet and all of that stuff, where we are building ships in space.
There's a huge economy on that.
And we're going to distant places in our solar system.
That's what Artemis is the beginning of.
And it's just an exciting dynamic time to be alive.
Let me go back here to the Blue Lives Matter thing that I just read to you a minute ago.
That tweet that came from Blue Lives Matter.
And I want you to know, if you're a part of Blue Lives Matter, I love you.
I love you.
I think this is brilliant, what they've done.
They're not saying they did this, but they're saying if it did happen, it worked really, really well.
People are driving around in cars that look like ICE cars, and then they're being, you know, they're letting it out that, hey, there's going to be a raid over here.
And it's breaking up the protesters.
And they're following these cars that are not doing any raids at all.
And these are, you know, these are ex-military guys, ex-police, et cetera, et cetera.
And they're decoys.
And it's brilliant, really brilliant.
However, I want to warn that this is a symptom of the Bubba effect.
This is a beginning of a Bubba effect.
The reason why the Blue Lives Matter people feel like they have to do this is because they feel like the government is not able to take care of it themselves.
Whether they can't or won't, but the government is not able to take care of it.
So they have to take these things into their own hands.
And while I really love the fact you love our police, your ICE and everything else, and you're doing everything you can in your own power, I just please, please be careful on what you're doing.
Please be careful.
We just don't need any more problems.
And I don't know.
I mean, this might be a problem, but let me suggest something.
And it might be a problem.
I don't know.
I haven't thought this all the way through.
I just had this idea.
But I've been thinking about the police all this week up in Minnesota because the chief of police, the guy, who was it?
Was it Fry that was giving a press conference?
Mayor Fry.
Yeah.
Mayor Fry.
And Fry said, you know, a lot of people here in Minneapolis, they just, they want the police to start fighting with the federals, federal officials and ICE.
And the chief of police was standing right behind him and his eyebrows went up and his eyes opened wide like, what the, what are you saying?
And Fry followed it immediately with, you know, oh, but we are not going to do that.
We don't want to do that.
That's really wrong.
Okay, well, that's good.
But it shocked the police chief.
And I've been thinking about all of the cops and all of the people in law enforcement in Minnesota and how alone they must feel.
And honestly, how afraid they must feel.
You know, when you're going in and you're just sitting down for a cup of coffee and people surround your table, when you go into a gas station, you just want to get, you know, a Coke and you want to get some gas and you're chased out of the store.
That's not a good feeling.
You know, that's not something Americans should be feeling ever.
But that's what's happening in Minnesota and it's coming to other states.
And I thought, geez, what can we do for the police that actually want to do their job and are not allowed to do their job or whatever?
Because I don't know how many police officers are there in Minnesota and they feel trapped.
Now, some of them might feel like they have to stay there because this is where I grew up.
This is where my family is.
I can't abandon my own hometown, whatever.
And I understand that.
And God bless you.
But there's got to also be others that are like, I got to get out of here.
I can't do this anymore.
But I mean, where do I get a job?
I would like to challenge states right now.
Florida, I think Florida's already done this once in New York, but Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Utah, Kansas, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana.
These states should openly recruit Minnesota police officers.
If you are a police officer and you want out of Minnesota and you want your family to be safe and the people around you to respect what you do, we have a job for you.
And they should have a place where they're a cast casting call for people who have are members of the police force in good standing that just can't do it anymore and need to get their family out of there.
I mean, I would help raise money just for the moving expenses if that's what stopped people to do it.
I mean, I just, we can't, this is so wrong.
This is so wrong.
And I'm torn on this.
is why I said, I don't know sure this is a really good idea because it leaves Minnesota without any police or the kind of police that nobody really wants.
So what does that mean for Minnesota?
Well, I'll tell you what that means for Minnesota.
It means, you know, you are what you eat.
You, you, you get what you deserve.
You haven't liked the police.
You chase them out.
You treat them like garbage.
Fine.
Let's show these police officers, you don't have to live like that.
Come to our state and get them out of that situation.
So they're at least protected and their families are protected.
And you know what?
Let the people of Minnesota deal with it.
Because they'll immediately freak out when their city completely cannot hire police anymore, when half of their force has already walked out.
And I think a good portion of them have walked out earlier.
But, you know, you really start impacting them, you know, because they want to hire a psychiatrist.
So let them get all the liberal psychiatrists up and put a uniform on those guys and they can go talk these protesters down.
But when you don't have police information, when somebody is robbing your house, when somebody is trying to set fire to you, your car, your house, your business, and no one is answering the call, I don't know, you might readjust your thinking a little bit.
I mean, I'm so torn on this because like I really, I know what happens if New York fails.
If New York City fails, that is one of the biggest disasters in American history.
First of all, we lose one of the greatest cities in the world.
It's a great city.
We lose stability of the financial world being put right in New York City.
So we lose all kinds of stuff.
But I have to tell you, part of me is like, oh, Mamdani, go tax all those people.
I hope all those people leave.
I hope you can't raise taxes so you have no police at all.
And so people finally feel the consequences of their action because everybody always shields them from the consequences.
Somebody comes in and bails them out.
Something happens just as it's getting bad.
You know, a conservative will come in.
They'll vote a conservative in.
And, you know, it'll be Bloomberg or somebody that won't really be a conservative, but will make it livable again.
So they never learn their lesson.
And part of me is like, these people have got to learn their lesson.
So I don't know if you're in one of those states, I will promote it.
You're a city that wants to hire, you know, people and you're willing to take people from Minnesota in good standing.
I'll help you get the word out because I think this has got to stop.
It's just got to stop.
These poor cops who are listening to the mayor and the governor that they know are corrupt and know are causing so much fear, damage, and danger to everybody who wears blue or wears a badge.
God, I feel for you.
I really do.
Remember, Glenn, these are the people that were trying to defund the police this entire time.
I know.
I mean, that was their first proposal.
I wanted to ask you, can I ask you something about the political consequences of this moment for a second?
If you think back to 2020, right?
You're on the left.
George Floyd's going on.
The woke stuff is at its peak, right?
All this stuff is the thing you're supposed to do when you're on the left.
And in that period, there were a series of high-level politicians who made statements they deeply regretted when it came to 2024.
Things about defunding the police and ending ICE and all of this stuff.
And I'm curious if you think we are in that same period where a lot of these people, because right now it feels really trendy on the left to say, you know, to fight back against ICE and to dismantle them and throw them out of your communities and all the stuff that they're saying now.
Does this come back and burn them when sanity returns?
I'm not sure how soon sanity returns.
I mean, I think we are in, it was 2020 with the BLM riots, right?
I think that started, you know, percolating.
You could start to see the edges of that, 2018.
And I think we're on the edges of this.
And, you know, I don't know when this one comes to its census because this one, this one's more than ideology.
You know, last time it was about ideology and it was about collapsing and overwhelming the system and winning an election.
This time it is about covering crime.
This time it's about preserving people from going to jail that deserve to go in jail.
And I don't mean Somalis.
I mean politicians.
They have so abused this system, not thinking they would ever get caught.
And they're about to get caught big time.
If what Besson said at the WEF is true and what Donald Trump said, I'm coming home and we're going to be dealing with Minnesota.
If that stuff is true and the government gets serious and puts all of its resources in finding out exactly who the bad guys are, they're going to find this long thread that goes all across all of the blue states and some red states too.
Don't get me wrong.
Republicans are easy to have corruption as well.
But this is very well coordinated with NGOs and everything else.
Once that happens, you now have a caged animal.
You now have all of these politicians and everybody else that are caged animals.
They have no place to go because it's no longer about winning the next election.
It's no longer about ideology.
It's about staying out of prison.
And that is going to change the matrix.
All right.
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Hey, if I could just spend the last minute or so just talking about something personal.
I found out this morning that a good friend of the program and a good friend of mine, Mr. Bill O'Reilly, is ill.
And I don't know what's wrong with him, but he is going to be stepping away from his show for a while.
And I think it's pretty serious, but he says he's going to get through it.
I wrote to him this morning and he said, hey, Beck, thanks for the prayers.
I'm dealing with it.
We'll get through it.
So I don't know what it is, but please keep Bill O'Reilly in your prayers.
I don't know what's going on.
Well, I do.
Okay.
I'm just going to tell you.
And Bill doesn't probably want you to know this, but I'm just going to tell you.
He is riddled with deep, deep, I mean bone deep mental illness.
And it's the kind of stuff that's like, you know, it doesn't make you forget things or anything.
It just makes you really cranky.
And he's had it for years.
But the good news is, for anybody who loves Bill O'Reilly like I do, the good news is hell can't contain him and heaven doesn't want him.
So I think he's going to be here for a long time.
Everybody on the other side of the curtain's like, ah, nope, he's yours.
We don't want him.
So.
That was really compassionate, Glenn.
Thank you for bringing that.
And Bill, if you happen to be listening, I'm here for your eulogy if you would like.
I mean, I got more.
I got more.
I could do more.
So thank you so much for listening.
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