Alex Pretti's ICE shooting sparks a debate on Minnesota's unrest, where the host argues Governor Walz's administration failed to prosecute daycare fraud while excusing Antifa violence. The discussion links this chaos to China and Russia destabilizing America via bot farms, noting gold hit $5,100 as global debt soars past $251 trillion. While contrasting Pretti's escalation with Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence, the host warns that unchecked political insurgency threatens constitutional order, urging uniform consequences for violence to prevent societal fracture. [Automatically generated summary]
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Why Minnesotans Believe in Law00:16:02
Hello, America.
It's Monday.
I've got a lot to talk to you about today.
I'm going to talk to you first about accelerization.
It is something that is happening that is the part of the chalkboard I laid out in 2009, where I said, you know, the socialists and the communists and the, you know, Islamists and the anarchists will all work together to destabilize, to overthrow the Middle East, Europe, and the Western world here in America.
We are now in the last phase of that.
We're all seeing that they are working together.
And thank God, there are many people like Data Republican and our own administration that are looking for all of the connections and are tying things together so you understand what is really happening.
But we're in the final phase of this.
And if we don't, if we don't behave, if we don't get our side right, it could spell real, real trouble in America.
I don't know how you go back from here if we make critical errors at this point.
So far, so good, but we have to be very, very careful.
Also, gold hit not $5,000 an ounce, $5,100 an ounce on Friday.
$5,100.
That's not good.
I've been saying forever, you don't want to see the world and how much chaos it is going to be in at $5,000 an ounce.
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They're now saying that it is going to go up to $7,000 an ounce.
I want to explain why this is happening because it is about what people believe.
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But we're going to start in Minnesota in 60 seconds.
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So Tim Wall said over the weekend, what's your plan, Donald Trump?
What's your plan?
Well, the plan is to go get the bad guys and then leave your state.
But that doesn't seem to be working because you have a different plan.
He said, what do we need to get these federal agents out of our state?
Let them do their job.
Just let them do their job.
He said, if fear, violence, and chaos is what you wanted from us.
No, that's not what he wanted from you.
No, that's what you're giving, but that's not what he wanted.
Then you clearly underestimated the people and this state and nation.
We're tired, but we're resolved.
We're peaceful, but we'll never forget.
We're angry, but we won't give up on hope.
And above all, we're clearly unified.
I wonder about that one.
I wonder about that one.
I mean, I think people who are not thinking are unified, but this is a time for all Americans.
These are the times that try men's souls.
He said, we believe in law and order in this state.
Hmm.
You know, that one, that kind of stuck to me.
You know, Minnesota believes in law and order.
I want to believe that.
I really do.
Because Americans want to believe that about themselves.
I want to believe I believe in law and order, but it's hard sometimes.
But belief is not proven by slogans or words from some leader.
It's proven by what you tolerate and what you punish.
Law and order is not a yard sign that you put up.
It's not a press release.
After something's burned down, you don't say, we don't believe in burning cities down unless you've arrested those people.
Law and order is discipline.
It's quiet.
Honestly, it should be very boring.
It's relentless.
And yeah, sometimes it's really unpopular.
So Governor Walsh, can I just talk about the record here for a second?
Because that one really stuck out.
Minnesotans believe in law and order.
You just live through what prosecutors and investigators themselves have called the largest fraud scheme in American history.
Hundreds of millions siphoned through daycare programs meant for the poor.
Children used as cover.
Taxpayers robbed blind.
$700 million just going through the airport to Somalia.
Can I ask you, if you believe in law and order, how many people at the state level, how many people has your attorney general prosecuted and arrested?
How many?
How many?
Because that doesn't seem like law and order.
It seems like you are trying to not let people investigate that.
The way you're behaving is not law and order.
It's permission.
Now, let's rewind a few years ago.
Police precincts overrun.
Entire neighborhoods burned.
Small businesses erased in a single night.
And what did you and the leadership say in effect?
Stand down, de-escalate, understand the anger, and release those, anybody who was, you know, caught.
We have to become really, really clear on a few things.
Anger is not a defense in a republic.
Arson is not speech.
A society that believes in law and order doesn't hesitate to defend the innocent because it's afraid of the headlines.
Now fast forward today.
Activists coordinating.
Wait till you see the news.
We'll show you in just a few minutes.
Actually coordinating to mark and track down federal agents.
Shadow networks warning of enforcement actions.
Open calls to stop the federal government by force if necessary.
In fact, let me just play that here real quick.
Let me see if I can find it.
Let's just play here.
Here's an Antifa recruiter.
Cut two, please.
My name is Kyle.
I'm Antifa, and there's so much rage in me that I've had to record this like 15 times trying to get the message out.
They f ⁇ ed up.
Okay.
Go watch my other videos.
Doesn't matter if you're not here and you're not caught up.
You've missed the f ⁇ ing fight.
But if you are, it's time to shoot up.
Boots on the ground.
Show up.
Ready to go.
Okay.
I'm not talking about peaceful protests anymore.
We're not talking about having polite conversations anymore.
I am talking specifically to my followers.
This is everything I have talked about.
And this is exactly what I said was going to happen.
This is not a joke.
There's nothing fun to chant about it.
Get your guns and stop these people.
Is that law and order?
Notice what he started with.
I am so enraged.
When you're enraged, you're not making good decisions.
You're not.
You're just not.
I know, because those are the things I usually have to go back and apologize for.
Those are the things when I get really, really pissed off.
Those are the things that my wife usually says to me.
I wouldn't say that right now.
I wouldn't do that right now.
I would relax.
I would, you should pop.
And I don't do it and I get in trouble every single time.
You don't make good decisions when you're enraged.
Okay.
Now, again, the message from the top is, is not the law will be enforced.
It's this.
It's the problem is the enforcement.
Well, that's an inversion of everything we know because law and order is not about whether you like the law.
It's about whether or not the law applies even when you don't like it.
So here's the hard truth.
Minnesota does not have a law and order problem because the people hate order.
Minnesota has a law and order problem because its leadership has taught a generation that law is optional if your cause feels righteous enough.
And that's why it's becoming deadly.
And history is very clear on this point.
We're not the first ones to go through this.
Can somebody, for the love of Pete, I shouldn't say these things when I get angry.
Can somebody please read a history book?
Just pick one up anyplace.
Any place.
When violence is excused as contextual, when enforcement is treated as provocation, when prosecutors calculate politics before justice, the center doesn't hold.
Okay.
It just doesn't.
You don't get peace.
You get what we have in Minnesota.
You get escalation.
Because once a group learns that pressure works, that intimidation stalls the state, another group is going to learn it too.
And then another and then another.
You know, what do you want, Minnesota?
What do you want the federal government to do?
What do you want them to do?
We want them to leave.
You think they're going to leave?
Do you think they're going to leave?
Let's just talk about this rationally.
Do you think they're going to leave if you are having uprisings in the street?
No, they can't leave.
Why?
Well, does anybody remember 1982, Beirut?
There were two terrorist bombings.
Reagan's like, no, we got to pull out.
Everybody else was like, no, don't, don't pull out.
He lasted a couple of years, but eventually pulled the Marines out because they were killing.
They were just kept hitting us with terror.
So he's like, you know what?
We just don't need to be there anymore.
Pulls them out.
Who does that teach?
A very important lesson.
Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden saw that and went, oh, we can push around the federal government.
So he's not going to leave.
And you know he's not going to leave.
So what's your plan?
What is your plan?
Your plan is more chaos.
Well, this is how republics rot.
And they really rot when people shrug.
Okay.
It's not a coup.
It's a shrug.
Most people are like, I don't know.
I didn't pay attention.
Let me be absolutely clear here.
You have a right to protest.
And I will stand up even if I despise the things you say.
Even if you are picketing ICE and you are shouting slogans at ICE and you're demanding that the government respond to X, Y, and Z. All of those things are your right.
And I'm 100% behind you.
100%.
May not agree with you.
In fact, may really disagree with you.
This is not about crushing dissent.
It's not about silencing protest.
This is not about blind loyalty to authority.
Wait until you hear me talk about the shooting today.
But this is something far more fragile.
This is talking about legitimacy because law only works when people believe that it, when people believe that it's real.
When it's real for the powerful, real for the connected, real for the activist, real for the bureaucrat, real for the federal agent, real for the protester, and real for the governor.
One standard.
The moment Americans believe that justice depends on ideology, the argument's already lost.
The street takes over.
So what does that tell you, America?
What does that tell you, Pambandi?
I'm not against Pambandi.
I'm not against, I'm not against any of it.
I'm for law and order because I understand how valuable it is.
If you don't prosecute both Republicans and Democrats and hell, I'll just throw them in independents.
If you don't process and prosecute everybody with the same laws, nobody's going to believe in anything.
And then you have nothing left.
The center doesn't hold.
So, no, Minnesota, you don't get away with saying that you believe in law and order while fraud is largely unpunished and you're not doing anything about.
Riots are rebranded as a peaceful moment.
And enforcement is treated like the real crime.
Belief without action is theater.
Law and order is not proven by words or, you know, the words that are spoken after chaos.
It's proven by what you do before chaos and what you refuse to excuse after the chaos.
The good news is we haven't crossed the Rubicon yet, but we're close.
You know, only if leaders remember somehow what we used to know instinctively, will we survive?
A republic survives not because everybody agrees, but because the law applies even when we don't agree.
That's not authoritarianism.
That's called civilization.
And if we forget that, Minnesota will not be the exception.
It will be the warning.
And hear me, we're not talking about the Republic.
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10 seconds station id okay so minnesota believes in law and order But do they?
Do they?
I just played the Antifa guy.
He's wearing a bulletproof vest.
He's saying those things.
Then you have, let's play this.
This is cut three.
This is an independent journalist.
She posted a video on X showing anti-ICE protesters following her truck for over an hour.
Listen to this.
We are not ICE.
We're not ICE.
We're not ICE.
So these are people following her.
We've punched you.
We're not ICE.
They've been following us for over an hour.
We're not ICE.
they've been over at the protest we're just letting them know in there and they not in a nice vehicle right No.
Right.
Get in your truck.
Get the out.
Why?
Because you need to go.
Confirmed ICE.
Get the f out.
Confirmed ICE through who?
We're American citizens.
We're not ICE.
Look at these people.
So they're all surrounding these people.
They've been following us for over an hour.
I don't even know they were following us until they came up and changed.
What are you going to do?
Where are you from?
I'm going to protest your public property.
So I don't need to play any more of this.
Listen, this is a woman who has gotten her name on a database.
Somebody's gotten her truck.
They said that it was ICE.
They're not ICE.
They're not ICE.
And they were followed for an hour.
And when they stopped, did you see the number of people that were there just to pull out and surround their truck?
Do you think that's law and order?
Is that law and order?
Or is that vigilante justice?
This is the stuff we used to watch.
When I was a kid, we'd watch gun smoke and we'd see these vigilantes come to town.
And they were going to write some wrong.
And law and order had to correct that.
You don't want people who are vigilantes.
I would be saying this, and I've warned about the Bubba effect for a long time.
You don't want this as a Bubba effect.
You certainly don't want this from any side where everybody is just coming together and they've got their own rules and their own information.
You can't trust any of this information and they're surrounding you.
This is not the only one that has had this happen to them.
People are having these people show up at their homes.
Do we have the video yet of the hotel that was closed down?
Somebody reported that ICE was staying at this hotel in downtown Minnesota.
They trashed the place.
They went and trashed a place.
The Bubba Effect and Chaos00:03:01
There were no ICE there.
None.
None.
Where were the police?
Where were the police?
You can trash a hotel and nobody's being held accountable for it.
Why not?
Because the state has decided, not the people, the state has decided we are not for law and order.
We are actually forget them.
Because chaos and violence is now a rule.
It's now something that you can use and you can claim that it is right and righteous to use it.
This is something that is a new step and we've been waiting for it, warning you about it.
And I've got a chalkboard on accelerationalism.
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Violence Becomes Understandable00:15:42
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But listen to this.
This is five and the first.
Let's just, Minnesota, hear this.
Let it flow.
Let's semble, meet in peace.
Let them know he's protecting you and me So you notice those five.
Doesn't mean be rude.
It means your voice can matter.
And the way you speak and dream from YouTube to a notebook.
So this is the thing that Minnesota doesn't get.
I'm for you protesting as long as it's actually peaceful.
Not mostly peaceful, actually peaceful.
I am for you questioning the government.
These are all your rights, and I'll fight to the death for your right to do it.
But when you are targeting people, when you are actually, well, let me know.
I've been warning about several things for a very long time.
One of them is the Bubba effect.
That I think will affect the right more than the left, and you're starting to see pieces of it.
But you're also seeing something different happening on the right that is just as dangerous and could spell the end of not just the Republic, civilization.
Okay.
Things have begun to accelerate.
So let me give you three facts here that are absolutely true.
One, fact number one, there is a group of people, and it is growing larger and larger, and it is very well connected, that believe society is corrupt and beyond repair.
Two, that institutions are illegitimate.
Three, that chaos is a legitimate tool.
And four, violence is an accelerant.
Okay.
There's been a group of people ever since I put up on the chalkboard that socialists and communists and anarchists and Islamists will work together back in 2009.
They've always believed those things, but now you're starting to see a couple of things.
One, they're starting to come out, but they're coming out in droves.
And this is where the change is.
They are now more connected than ever.
And you can follow the connections.
I mean, I don't know if did I show earlier the signal group?
I mean, this, Cam Higby released this over the weekend.
And he said, I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding, assaulting, and obstructing them.
Each area of the city has a signal or several signals.
Let's start with a screen recording of all members in the Southside group.
So he's revealing how these groups are all together and they're all connected and they're coordinating to make sure they're obstructing or harassing or impeding the federal government.
That is their sole intention.
So they've now connected in a very organized fashion.
So that leads me to fact number two.
Fact number one is there's a group that believes these things and they are now connected more than ever before.
Fact number two, the line between protest and insurgent behavior is now blurred.
And this is where it becomes extraordinarily dangerous, okay?
Because society has a line and we are crossing that line.
So all of this stuff now is happening in real time.
And for a long time, America treated, you know, political violence like a weather event.
You know, it was rare.
It was localized.
It was tragic.
And then it was over.
But law enforcement and researchers have been warning for years about the mindset that is different from normal extremism.
It's not just I want my side to win.
It's I want the system to break.
And it has that set of recognizable logic points.
Society is corrupt and beyond repair.
Institutions are illegitimate.
Chaos is a tool.
Violence is an accelerant.
That's not theory.
That's an observable ideological pattern across multiple movements and decades.
And the key change is it's now more connected than it used to be.
Not necessarily more disciplined, not necessarily bigger in raw numbers, more connected, more quickly mobilized, more capable of spreading tactics, targets, and narratives.
And that changes the entire risk profile for the republic.
Second fact, protest and insurgent behavior being tested.
Protest now is, it's a protected right and should always be.
Even really loud protest, even the most offensive protests, even protests that makes you absolutely furious, it is protected in America.
But there is that line that every stable society has to defend or it is no longer stable.
And that line is being crossed.
When any group begins to coordinate to obstruct lawful operations, a strategy, not an accident, when they begin to track or identify government personnel for intimidation, when they build parallel communication networks specifically designed to evade accountability, and when they justify targeting state actors as morally necessary.
These are not theoretical markers.
These are not just part of some group.
These are historically recognizable markers of an end of a civilization.
When the behaviors appear to question no longer, is this a demonstration?
The question becomes, is someone trying to build veto power over law enforcement through fear?
That's how we describe terrorism.
Once a movement believes it can control outcomes by making enforcement too costly, too dangerous, too politically radioactive, then law becomes optional.
And when the law is optional, what is the next step?
It's not persuasion.
It's escalation.
Third fact, cities are now laboratories when enforcement is inconsistent.
This is the part that's really hard to say out loud because it sounds like an insult to the city, but it isn't.
It's sociology.
When you have an environment with deep political polarization, a high distrust of institutions, uneven persecution or prosecution, sorry, activist ecosystems with strong NGO infrastructure and money coming from the state and a constant media feedback loop, those conditions don't automatically produce violence, but they do produce something else.
They produce a repeated stress test, not one riot, not one clash, but a series of them.
And they start to probe how fast can we mobilize?
What are police allowed to do?
Will any of the prosecutors follow through?
Will federal authorities pull back if we make it ugly enough?
Can we create martyrs?
Remember their name, remember their name.
Can we flood the zone with a narrative before the facts catch up to us?
This is what laboratory means.
Not that everybody is guilty, but that the environment is ideal for testing the boundaries of the state.
And the state has no choice.
It can respond, you know, a couple of ways.
Overreach, which manufactures recruits for the other side, or paralysis, which manufactures militias.
Then you have a recipe for replication.
You're watching a legitimacy war.
This is not a street conflict.
This is a legitimacy war.
Most people misread this as left and right.
The deeper problem is this.
When a large number of Americans across different tribes believe enforcement is political, courts are selective, bureaucratic power is unaccountable, rules change depending on who you are, then extremists don't have to convert the nation.
They only need to convince a small percentage that the system doesn't deserve obedience.
All those things I just said, I know people and many of them I believe.
Once this idea spreads, violence starts to sound like a tool and not a taboo.
Now here's where we cross the Rubicon.
If any of this becomes normalized, when people start, let me ask you this.
This weekend, how many people, how many conversations when you were with people, how many conversations discussed anything seriously about what we're facing?
Did anyone's church talk about this as the end of civilization or warning signs or how we're to behave at this point?
Did any church did anything?
Because my weekend didn't include any of that.
And I saw people all weekend long.
I had quick conversations, but most people were like, yeah, I'm not following it.
I'm just so tired of it.
That you're done.
You're done.
As a nation, you're done.
Not an instant civil war, but something quite honestly quieter and more corrosive.
Because intimidation now can become routine.
Doxing becomes standard.
Threats become organizing tools.
Violence becomes understandable.
And every incident gets absorbed into the propaganda engine before the facts are ever known.
This is how countries fracture and die.
Not in one dramatic way, but in a slow permission slip.
So, what do we do?
We're in the most dangerous phase, the early phase.
And history is really blunt here.
This is the phase that destroys republics.
It's not when violence is everywhere.
It's this phase, when violence is still sporadic, but it is being justified.
It's being romanticized.
It's being excused and it's being operationalized.
That's when recruitment grows.
That's when copycats appear.
That's when people stop trusting investigations.
That's when each side begins preparing for the worst and preparation itself becomes self-fulfilling.
So if we want to stop this, if we want to avoid the slow fracture, there have to be things that are not negotiable.
One, uniform consequences for political violence.
Never our side exceptions.
No moral licensing.
No, mostly peaceful.
No.
If you're trying to terrorize a community into compliance, if you're burning buildings down, if you are shouting and intimidating, no, that's not a peaceful protest.
That's not what that is.
Lawful, restrained, visible enforcement.
Listen to this again.
Lawful, restrained enforcement.
Precision matters because overreach creates martyrs.
Weakness creates paramilitaries.
The state has to be both firm and disciplined.
This is a really razor's edge knife that our federal government is on.
Almost, I mean, this is.
I'm going to get into the shooting this weekend.
You're putting them in impossible situations.
We need radical transparency after any serious incident.
We need body cams, timelines, independent review, and we need them lightning fast because legitimacy doesn't survive in an information vacuum because there is no vacuum anymore.
Nature hates a vacuum and so does China and they are filling it up.
We also need sunlight on funding and coordination of networks, not to criminalize you as a civic group.
America needs civic groups, but to expose when money and organization and street pressure merge into something coercive.
If you are funding this, your name should be known and you should be questioned by the federal government.
Also, a new national retabooing of political violence.
You know, the fastest way a country loses itself when citizens start saying, well, I don't like it, but I understand it.
No, you don't understand.
You never should understand political violence.
You don't understand it into a safer country.
You don't.
You condemn it.
You prosecute it.
You deny it any cultural permission.
Period.
We're not doomed, but we are right there on the Rubicon.
We are at the threshold moment where a minority of people are trying to normalize the idea that power can be taken or blocked through fear.
And if that threshold is crossed, you don't get freedom.
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That's not America's future unless we continue to allow it.
And the way to prevent it is not with rage.
It's not with denial.
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Because the only thing stronger than an angry street is a public that actually understands and believes the law is real.
More in a minute.
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That's different.
But yeah, you have a right to carry a gun to protest.
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The Yen Carry Trade Explained00:14:50
Glenn Beck is on.
Hello, America.
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
You know, I've been saying, look out for gold when it hits $5,000 an ounce.
You don't want to know what the chaos is like.
Well, we're here.
It's a pretty chaotic world.
I think we can all agree.
Gold, yes, last week, Friday, hit $5,110 an ounce.
Excuse me?
Wow, that's kind of a big gain.
$5,110 an ounce.
They're now saying it's going to be up at $7,000 an ounce.
Why?
Why is this happening?
Well, it's very important that you understand this because everything that you're seeing in the news.
Look, my job is to not tell you what happened yesterday.
My job is to explain why what happened yesterday matters and what it means to tomorrow so you're prepared.
Okay.
You want to know what happened yesterday?
Go, you know, go find some other show.
This is why is this so important and how does this affect tomorrow?
And I'm going to show that to you in just 60 seconds first.
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Well, let me first quickly say hi to Stu, our executive producer, who's been an executive producer of mine for how many years, Stu?
How many?
28 big ones, Glenn.
I can't hear you.
Well, that's a dream come true.
It's not coming through.
I can't hear him.
I can't hear him.
Does America hear him?
Because I can't hear him.
America always hears me, Glenn.
Gosh darn it.
I can't hear you.
Oh, well, gonna have to move on.
Anyway, we'll be back with Stu.
I really, honestly, I can't hear him.
So make sure you check the feed, but we'll have.
It's unfortunate, Stu.
It's almost like that was planned, but it wasn't, strangely enough.
God is intervening.
We're going to talk to Stu a little later on in the program.
And it's his last week on the program.
So we're going to be celebrating some of that as well.
Not that it's his last week.
Celebrate some of the stuff that, well, a little of both, I guess.
Anyway, let me get to gold.
Gold, $5,100 an ounce.
Okay.
Why is this happening?
Well, the first thing that you need to understand is gold is a barometer.
Gold is a barometer of belief.
And what happened last week?
What was the consensus that came out of the World Economic Forum for the entire world to see?
I want you to think of this like a guy who has billions of dollars that you could invest because to stay safe, to stay ahead of the game, you have to think like that and then act in your own world.
And if I have time today, otherwise I'll do it tomorrow.
I'm going to show you how you interpret this and how you can act at all levels.
Okay.
But you have to think like a billionaire.
And the billionaires are moving money.
Okay.
Why are they moving money?
What happened last week?
What happened last week was at the WEF.
The WEF openly came out and said the old system doesn't work and it's failing.
So it was a consensus around the world that what the West has built no longer is any good and it won't work.
Got to find a way out.
That's what all smart money, all central banks, the entire world that's paying attention.
That is the message that they heard last week at the WEF.
Okay.
Now let me layer on a couple of other things that you probably don't know.
We are headed towards a tripwire and it's a race to the finish line.
So let me give you the first tripwire and that is Japan.
Japan is imagine an old man on a treadmill.
Okay.
This old Japanese man on a treadmill.
It was supposed to be temporary, him on this treadmill, but it turned into a life support machine.
And now he's got to keep running.
If he's not running, everything dies.
Okay.
For 40 years, Japan has been like that little guy on the treadmill, told, you got to keep moving.
You can't stop.
Stay, stay.
Because if you stop, it means recession.
So what's wrong with recession?
Here's the part that nobody's ever really told you.
Americans don't realize.
If he stops, it's bad.
If he speeds up, it's bad.
And not bad for Japan, but us.
Here's why.
Japan's government has piled up so much debt that even normal interest costs become dangerous.
That's why Japan has spent decades now making money too easy at home.
Okay.
0%.
At some point, they were in negative interest rates.
Okay.
Please take the money.
We'll pay you to take the money.
Interest rates, if borrowing ever gets expensive, the bill will swallow the budget in Japan and here.
And the world has gotten used to a place where Japan was the place to go borrow cheap money.
Now, here's where the story becomes our problem.
Japan is not just a country.
Japan is a country we've kept alive for a couple of reasons.
One of them is they are a gigantic buyer of American IOUs.
You'll hear them talked about as bonds, okay?
But they're IOUs.
We're like, hey, we want to build this train to nowhere.
We're only going to build a mile's worth of track and we're going to be $4 billion over budget.
But we're telling you up front, it's not going anywhere.
We need the $4 billion.
Okay.
And Japan, because they needed us, Japan would go, we'll buy that.
We'll buy that.
They now hold about $1.2 trillion in treasuries.
They're the largest foreign holder.
It's not China, thank God, it's Japan.
And that matters because their purchasing helps keep our borrowing costs from rising even faster.
But the treadmill is starting to wobble.
In late 2025 into this month, 2026, Japan's long bond yields have surged.
Japan's 40-year government bond yield moved above 4% since the first time that the bonds existed.
What does that mean?
That means if you borrowed money from Japan, you are now, or if you want to borrow money from Japan, it now is going to cost you 4%.
It used to be zero.
This means the market doesn't want to play pretend anymore with Japan.
Okay, they're not satisfied with that.
And when Japan's yields rise, the temptation begins.
I can get 4% in Japan if I buy a bond.
Why would I lend to America when I can lend to Japan for more?
So the money that used to flow outward can come home.
Now, let me explain Tripwire without all the Wall Street language.
For years, people borrowed in yen because it was cheap.
So what did they do?
Because it was 0% interest or negative percent interest, you would go over and you'd say, I want to borrow a billion dollars.
And people would borrow a billion dollars, a billion yen.
And they would buy it and they'd get it.
Sometimes they were making money on borrowing it, but at least it was zero.
And they would trade those yen into US dollars.
And then they would buy things that paid more.
So the stock market or a U.S. bond or whatever.
Okay.
This is called the yen carry trade.
Here's what you need to know about it.
It doesn't work.
Okay.
It's so unbelievably immoral.
It's just frightening.
So what they were doing was they're buying a bunch of cheap yen printed over in Japan.
They would then take that yen, which they sometimes, again, were making money on borrowing.
Think of Goldman Sachs going over, a big bank going over and saying, I want a billion yen, and we're going to take that billion yen.
We're going to get out of that, you know, half a billion dollars.
And we're going to take that half a billion dollars and we're going to invest it in Wall Street.
We're making money from Japan because they're giving us 1% on borrowing that.
They're giving us an additional 1% every year for holding those yen and taking that loan out from them.
And then we go to Wall Street, we make six or eight or 10%.
So we're making 11%.
This is great.
We win.
Unless things change, if the yen suddenly swings the other way, if it strengthens, the borrowers panic, okay?
And they rush to undo the trade.
Why?
Why?
Because that money's not free.
And when you rush to undo it, you sell the things you bought with dollars and you get back into the yen.
That pushes U.S. markets around.
That pushes U.S. interest rates up.
That turns a problem over there into a problem over here.
So Japan is trapped.
And the trap has a wire running across the Pacific tied to the exact same global system America sits inside.
So that's the first reason why gold is screaming.
It's saying, wait, wait, wait, what's happening with Japan?
Japan can't move.
And Japan's going to have to move.
But they can't move.
Now, there's another side of this from Japan, go across the sea and you go to China.
China is much, much worse.
Okay.
Much, much worse.
And nobody's willing to talk about this.
And this leads to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
I'll explain that here in just a second.
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Okay, I want you to, for a minute, when we talk about China, I just want you to imagine a city made of mirrors.
And from a distance, it looks like a giant skyline.
But the closer and closer you get to it, you see this is just reflections stacked on reflections.
None of this is real.
That's China's debt story.
And if you think our debt is bad, you ain't heard nothing yet.
China, you know, built a modern miracle.
We saw all of these things they were building.
We're like, look at what China is doing.
But it was built at speed and the speed of desperation.
And the foundation of all of it is just borrowing and crazy borrowing.
The simplest hard fact that can explain China is China's total borrowing government plus households plus companies has gotten enormous relative to the size of its economy.
One estimate, we only can work on estimates because you can't trust what China says.
One estimate, reputable, says China's overall debt to GDP is around 290% by the end of 2024.
And what is secret and nobody talks about is the local government hidden debt.
Okay.
Also, the data shows China's credit to the private non-financial sector, about 200% of GDP.
Okay, but that's not the real story.
The numbers are not the story.
China's Hidden Debt Meltdown00:05:41
It's the structure.
Listen how crazy China has done this.
Okay.
China has two big pressure chambers.
One, property as the national savings account.
For years, apartments weren't just homes.
They were the main store of wealth.
So the system kept building and building and building and telling people, buy these apartments and we'll take the money, but you can't have the apartment until you totally pay for it.
And, you know, you'll pay for it in 25 years.
Then you'll get the apartment.
Garments already built.
Okay.
But nobody's living in them because everybody's buying them and you don't get it until you pay it off.
The local governments were the ones doing all of this.
They were borrowing money through side doors.
So China has got its own debt.
Then China pressured the local governments because they needed money for these projects and growth targets.
So they just went and created these, quote, special vehicles off to the side that's not as visible as the normal government debt.
The IMF just said their off-the-side debt is about 46% of their GDP.
And that's the end of 2023.
So when property sales fall, local governments are losing a key revenue source.
What do they do when they lose that?
So they lose this key revenue source and their ability to pay for things weakens.
And safe investment products start to look, I don't know, less safe.
So China is so close to the edge because not only is their federal government way overloaded, but their consumers have bought all this stuff that may have been sold two or three times and they don't actually own it.
And the money to pay for all of the building of these ghost cities is on the locals.
And just the local debt is 46% of GDP.
Okay.
Margin of error here is so thin.
And the moment, just like anything else, remember gold is a barometer.
And what is it a barometer of?
Trust.
The moment that public belief, the moment ordinary people in China believe the guarantees are not guarantees, the danger isn't math.
The danger is a rush for the exits on everybody.
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I'm telling you these things now because no one else will.
Everybody was asking me last week, what does it mean?
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
I'll tell you what it means.
It's much more complicated than, you know, just like, well, things are getting crazy.
This is things are getting crazy and people who have money know it.
China's leaders, they have tools, they have controls, they have state banks, they have directed rescues.
Those can slow down the crash, but they've already done most of those.
But they also confirm the problem.
You don't need emergency tools unless something is breaking.
And when the world senses that China's growth engine is no longer a growth engine, when it becomes a debt engine, what are we going to do without China?
United States, we're the only ones growing.
Do you understand that?
When Donald Trump said we're the only ones, that's what he meant by that.
Everybody in that room understood China is China is on the verge, but the United States is on the verge because of Japan.
So where do you go?
Well, you go to the thing that is older than promises, and that is gold or silver.
And that's what's happening to gold.
That's what's happening to gold.
But I'm not done yet.
Let me give you some good news.
Gold rises not because people are greedy, but because people get sober, they sober up.
So what's happening with gold is people are sobering up.
All right.
This is the sound of people buying fire insurance in a neighborhood where everybody smells smoke and everybody's house is on fire.
And so they're buying fire insurance.
Okay.
The world's drowning in debt, not just America.
The global debt, by the way, is $251 trillion.
That means the entire system is just going to melt down.
And so you can't cut rates without consequences.
You can't stimulate because of currency weaknesses.
So who's buying it?
First of all, the central banks are buying it by the ton.
And people who know are buying it because they know something really bad is around the corner.
But we're the safest house in the burning neighborhood.
Remember, every house is on fire, but we're not the worst house.
We're still the safest house.
Not because we're perfect, not because we got it down, but because everybody else, including China, Europe is worse.
China, Europe, Japan, everybody has these deep vulnerabilities.
And we're sitting here worried about the guy on the treadmill in Japan.
Everybody else, they're worried about the fire that is burning their whole house down.
So what does this have to do with Minnesota?
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So I've been going down this chalkboard here in the studio today, which is honestly one of the reasons why I started The Torch and started this new work ethic for me and my staff, is we would sometimes have to wait until Wednesday and prepare a whole show.
et cetera, et cetera, until we got there.
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And so I wasn't giving you the information.
Sometimes I felt like I wasn't giving you the information in a timely manner.
I was waiting sometimes three weeks before I could get it to you in a television form.
And I don't like that wait.
And so now, like every day, I mean, practically every day, just this is my second chalkboard of the day.
I can explain things to you when they're happening.
And I've made this change because things are happening more rapidly than they have before.
And everything matters and they are connected.
I'm going to show you how gold is connected also to what you're seeing in Minnesota here in a second.
But I have five things, six things on this chalkboard.
Japan, explain it.
It's a treadmill.
It's a crazy treadmill and they can't get off it.
They can't speed up and they can't slow down.
China is a house of mirrors.
Gold is insurance.
We're the safest house on the block, but that changes with number five, civil unrest.
Okay.
What we're seeing in Minnesota is so incredibly dangerous if this spreads.
Let me first remind you that our DOJ, FBI, CISA, all of these things have been issuing public warnings for a few years now saying, look, disinformation, disinformation.
We know we have the videos of these giant server farms where they all have iPhones plugged into them.
And I mean, there are thousands, tens of thousands of phones.
And these bots are just sending out, you know, posts and reposting and reposting from the other bot and everything else.
And you're not getting the truth anymore.
You think you're getting something real, but you're not.
The algorithms are all being affected because China and Russia, our two biggest enemies, and Iran, are all, they have these giant farms where they are pushing fake social media out.
And what are they doing?
Why would China benefit from chaos here in America?
How does that possibly benefit them?
Well, what is our greatest strength?
A lot of people will say our weapon systems, but it's not.
It's not.
Our greatest strength as a country comes from certain rules of law, the law of contracts, the law of property, that we are stable, that we're generally a well-educated, I can't know if I can say this one anymore, but well-educated group of people, and that we're hard workers.
If America fractures into constant street conflict or a national divorce, what happens?
What happens?
What has Donald Trump been doing for the last 12 months?
And he's been bragging about it.
And people don't seem to care because I don't think they understand what this means.
But he's been saying, I've got $18 trillion of investment coming in.
$18 trillion.
Never been done before.
You're right, never been done before, not even close, never been done before.
But what does that actually mean?
That means that foreign companies are investing in America.
They're building factories here in America.
Now, why would they do that?
They do that for a couple of reasons.
One, the tariffs.
I'm going to make it so expensive, you're not going to be able to sell a truck in the United States.
Build them in the United States and I'll help you out.
There's one reason.
The other reason is every other market is collapsing.
And so they're looking for something stable, something where nobody's going to come and grab their company.
Nobody's going to put new rules on them and make them go out of business.
They're looking for something that has constitutional order and is stable.
So it's worth their while to do two things.
One, make sure that the biggest market or now second biggest market in the world is still buying our products without tariffs.
And let's hedge our bet that some of the places we do business in, for instance, even Germany, Japan, it may not work.
And we may have to be offshore someplace that is stable so we don't lose everything.
Okay.
If America fractures, that investment is no longer good.
That investment from all over the globe is bad.
They take that money and they're like, I'm not investing there because you can't trust that.
That thing's about to collapse.
What happens?
Credit tightens.
Insurance costs explode.
Retirement accounts get hammered.
And the people who suffer first are not the powerful.
They're the ordinary ones.
Civil disorder does not punish the system.
It punishes the family.
And I want you to hear this clearly.
I don't care if it was the left or the right that is doing what the left is now doing in Minnesota.
There are no winners in this path.
I'd be giving this exact same monologue if it was a bunch of quote-unquote patriots that were doing it.
No, you're not.
America loses.
Every American loses and some will lose everything.
And China and Russia and everybody else will watch and they will smile.
Why?
Because all of that money, all of that business will have to find some other place to invest.
It will have to go some other place.
Where do you think it's going to go?
It's going to go to China.
That's why China is pushing civil unrest.
Okay.
Half of what you see is manufactured.
And it's either manufactured online or it's manufactured as these riots.
This is not spontaneous.
This is all a show.
It's planned.
And it's paid for largely in part by China.
So we are on this really dangerous ice cliff.
And that's why gold is at $5,100 because this thing could crumble at any time.
Now, what are you going to do about it?
What are you going to do about it?
I mean, how do you possibly weather a storm like that?
Well, there's a few things, and I want to get into this.
I'll get into it briefly.
And if I don't have time to finish it, I'll hit on it tomorrow.
But universal rules for everybody.
That's why I've been saying we got to have equal justice under law, equal justice, universal rules for everybody, the rich and the poor.
You also need to build a runway.
And, you know, they always say have 30 days of cash.
That's a lot for most people.
You're going to be able to cover all your bills for 30 days.
I'm saying You got to have a runway of cash, you know, some kind of money that will cover not, you know, the fantasy life, the fantasy budget, but the stuff that is crucial that you have, just crucial.
And it should be for months, not weeks.
Kill right now any kind of fragile debt, variable rate, consumer debt.
If you can get out of it, if you can consolidate it into a lower, get out of it right now.
Okay.
Don't rely on constant credit.
If there is any other option, cot, cot, cot.
Assume that lenders are going to tighten exactly when you need them.
So you got a credit card you can count on.
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You know, the next era is going to reward adaptability over titles.
Let me take a quick break and then I think you can come down.
I'll just break it down into age groups because I think this is really important.
What do I do?
I'm glad I'm 35.
I don't own a house.
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De-Risk Your Life Now00:08:51
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Hello, America.
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
There are a lot of things going on.
I want to take you back this weekend to the really big story out of Minnesota, and that is the shooting.
And there's, as always, as always, whom do you trust?
I want to take you through the video and tell you my opinion on this.
And it is just that, an opinion, because it's causing a lot of controversy.
They shoot him in, you know, cold blood.
They have no credibility on this.
They say that about absolutely everything.
I mean, if you'd listen to them, you know, Al Capone was shot down in cold blood, too.
But you have that.
And then you have some people on the right saying you shouldn't be carrying a gun.
Well, now wait a minute.
I believe in the Second Amendment.
However, there are certain things that go along with the Second Amendment that we should discuss.
We'll do that here in 60 seconds.
Escalating the Gun Situation00:15:41
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So let me, first of all.
I played this earlier.
Let me just play just a little bit.
This is a woman who was somehow or another on an ICE database on the left.
And to show you how well coordinated this is, there's this database and this woman and her husband, she's a journalist.
She was being followed by these ICE protesters because she was on a database and they thought she was ICE.
And every time she would stop someplace, they would start to gather around and go, your ice, your ice, get out of the house.
Shame on you, all this stuff.
Well, she eventually pulls over and she's like, we're not ICE.
Okay, we're not ICE.
We have nothing to do with ICE.
I just want to play a little bit of this because I want to show you how dangerous this situation is becoming.
Cut three.
So she's pulled over and she is now being honked at by one of the cars.
We are not ice.
We are not ice.
We're not ice.
We're not ice.
So she's coming out.
We're not ice.
They've been following us for over an hour.
We're not ice.
Now the whistles start, and if you're watching the video, you will see all of the things that we're doing.
We're just letting them know in that descend around her car.
Right.
And nothing.
Nothing she says.
She's been reasoning.
Nothing she says is going to satisfy this mob.
It's not ice.
Please go.
Because they've been following us for over an hour.
You don't even know they were following us and they came up and tell you guys, you're following me.
What are you going to do?
They're following you because you're ice.
I mean, it's just ridiculous.
Okay, stop.
So what else happened this weekend?
Well, I showed you earlier a video of a self-proclaimed Antifa member saying, get your guns.
You got to stop these people.
Now is the time for violence.
And you have an ICE agent who had his finger bit off.
We have that full screen.
You put that up.
Here's the ICE agent.
And protesters grabbed him and bit his finger off.
I mean, that's, I don't know, that's a little insane.
Then you have this.
Let me play the ICE agent who's bloodied in front of a hotel because they thought there were ICE agents in the hotel.
Turns out there were no ICE agents in the hotel.
But you can see one of the hotel.
And then you're seeing the one ICE agent with a bloody nose, blood all over his mask, down his shirt and onto his hands.
Don't know how he got bloodied, but I'm guessing it wasn't that he fell and had a boo-boo.
So you have all of this stuff happening.
And we now know this weekend, it's been confirmed it is being coordinated on signal.
Very, very dangerous.
Now let me take it from the other side.
Alex Predi is this guy who shows up.
He's part of the protests and he's got the whistle and he's obnoxious and everything else.
And he is starting to go after ICE agents and really get into their face.
They push him back.
He pushes back.
They push him harder.
And it just gets into, honestly, it's like a little seventh grade pushing match at first.
It's just so stupid that any of this happened.
Well, he gets shot.
Play cut nine here.
This is the ice shooting video from Alex Pretty.
There's his whistle.
Oh, it's so great.
Okay, now you're going to see him.
All these people, all they're doing is just trying to, you know, stop ICE from doing their job.
What's wrong with you?
And the ICE agent pulls out a gun and shoots Alex as he's laying down on the ground.
Here he comes.
They're pushing him.
They grab him.
They put him down on the ground and there's a bunch of them.
What's wrong with you?
Honestly.
Now listen because you'll hear one of the cops say, gun, gun, gun.
Then you hear the shots, okay?
And they shoot him.
Okay, let me take this from the BBC perspective because they show the other side of this crowd from a different perspective.
And I think this is important.
Here's the BBC's perspective on what happened.
Go ahead and roll that.
Rose Atkins' report contains footage, which, again, you may find distressing.
The first video we have of Alex Pretty, he's in the road, holding a phone and talking with a federal agent.
The officer pushes him and he steps backwards.
Christy Noam is U.S. Homeland Security Secretary.
This is her account of why Alex Pretty died.
An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a nine millimeter semi-automatic handgun.
The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently.
But in this video, as in others, Alex Pretty had nothing in one hand, a phone in the other.
We see two people interacting with an agent.
We then see an agent push one of those people, then push the second person.
Alex Pretty steps between them and the agent and is pepper sprayed.
He's wrestled to the ground by a number of agents.
He's on his knees, bent over.
His hands are on the floor and he's struggling against being held down.
One agent repeatedly strikes in the direction of his head.
And take note of this agent.
He has nothing in his right hand, reaches down and removes what appears to be a gun from Alex Pretty's waistband.
Then he steps back, holding the pistol, which appears to match this image shared by the authorities.
Carrying this type of gun is legal in Minnesota with a valid permit.
The police say they believe Alex Pretty had one.
Less than a second after the gun is removed, an agent fires the first shot.
As Alex Pretty lies motionless, further shots are fired while agents are standing clear.
So this is compelling video because what this BBC reporter is saying is true.
It's absolutely true.
He is getting in between him, the police and somebody else.
The police are shoving.
He is only holding a phone.
He is down on the ground.
He is resisting arrest, but his hands are down on the ground.
His head is down on the ground.
Then another agent reaches over on top of the other agents who are closest to him on the ground, reaches into his back where he sees an exposed gun, pulls the gun out, and then walks away with the gun.
So he's no longer armed unless he has two guns and they don't claim that he had two guns, only one.
And pulls it out and walks away.
Right after that, somebody yells, gun, gun, gun, gun.
That's when the police officer fires at him.
Now, the other police officer did not know that somebody reached in and took his gun.
It might have been somebody who was saying gun might have been saying it because they saw the other guy, because he's not marked as a federal agent.
The other guy pulled the gun out and walking there with a gun.
So somebody might have seen him with a gun and said, gun, gun, gun.
All the cops think that it's pretty and they shoot him.
Okay.
This is not something that you deal with as, you know, an eight-year-old.
This is a conversation for adults to have.
And I'm not hearing the adults.
First of all, what Noam said is not true.
He didn't approach.
If you want to say technically he approached carrying a nine millimeter, he did, but it was holstered and in his back.
And you have a right to carry a gun at a protest.
I don't think that makes you smart, but it does.
It is perfectly legal and constitutionally protected.
So I'm sorry, just because you have a gun in your back, if you reach for the gun, if you pull for the gun, then you could probably be expected to be shot if you are pushing the police around.
But if you have a gun and you don't have your hands on it, you should not be shot.
You have a right to carry that gun peacefully.
Okay.
The minute you start pointing it at people, you're in trouble.
He did not.
He did not.
So this idea that he was foolish for walking into this protest with a gun, well, you have a right to carry it.
And quite honestly, if I'm walking into places like that and I'm not going to get involved, I probably do carry my gun.
If I'm going to get involved, I think of the consequences and think, boy, that's probably going to get me killed.
Unless I'm planning on killing somebody, assuming I'm going to get involved.
There's the way I would think would be, I'm not carrying my gun because that could get me killed.
Okay.
Because I don't, I'm not going to, when I'm in the, when I'm in a dangerous situation, it's not going to be with the other Antifa people.
I'll be in a dangerous situation because of the police and I make my decision right then and there.
Am I willing to pull the gun on the police?
No, I'm not.
So leave the gun at home.
But he has a right to do it.
And he has a right to carry it and even be in a confrontation with the police as long as he never reaches for it.
But this is where I go to the cop side.
You're in a chaotic situation.
This is why I would not carry a gun in a situation like this, because you're in a chaotic situation.
Nobody really knows what's going on.
You have a group of people who have been all day been told, we're going to kill you, we're going to kill you, your life means nothing, get out of our city, whatever.
And they're violent towards you.
When you are coming at them and they are pushing you down to the ground, get down on the ground.
Get down on the ground.
Stop resisting.
See, this is not Martin Luther King.
That's what the left has forgotten.
They're trying to make this as moral as Martin Luther King, but they can't do it because it's not as moral as Martin Luther King.
And it's none of the tactics of King.
King knew the only way to win is to go peaceful, nonviolent, always.
King would have let that guy rot in prison and wouldn't have marched for that guy because he had a gun.
Because he made the rest of the movement look dangerous.
Even though he had a right to have a gun, Martin Luther King said, would have said, you don't bring a gun.
You don't push back.
You don't do it.
Because that's the way peaceful protests win.
And everybody who knows anything about protesting knows this.
The left, they've been preaching Martin Luther King forever.
They know this.
This is not the tactic of Martin Luther King.
This is the tactic that escalates, not de-escalates things.
So, where do I stand on the gun thing?
I don't know what Alex, I don't know anything about him.
So I don't know what his intention was.
I can look at the video and say his intention was to protest, was to be obnoxious, was to be one of those people that were right up there, but not necessarily up in the face of the cops until he sees cops starting to push people around.
And then he decides, I'm going to get between them and whoever it was they were pushing.
He doesn't like that, so he gets involved.
The minute he gets involved, the roles change.
He is now somebody that cops in this situation could and should look at as a danger to themselves.
So he made that choice.
I don't know if that was a choice that he made when he got up in the morning.
I don't know what his intentions were.
But once he made that choice, he's going to end up on the ground.
Because it's such a chaotic situation.
I have to side with both him for carrying a gun and being there and seemingly from only footage that I've seen, seemingly not being a real violent guy, but being a dirtbag, but you have a right to be a dirtbag.
Being a dirtbag, but not a violent guy.
I side with him.
But I also side with the cop that shot him because it's a chaotic situation.
Somebody pulls his gun.
A cop pulls his gun.
Somebody else then yells gun, gun, gun.
What do you expect the cops to do?
You've created this situation.
That's why this didn't happen with Martin Luther King protests, because they didn't create this situation.
Unfortunately, I think more of this is going to happen.
But we have to be very careful with our words and speak the truth at all times, even if it hurts our side.
That guy, I don't think he should have been shot.
But I also don't think they should prosecute these guys because it's a chaotic situation.
What would you do in that situation?
It's just a really nasty, bad situation.
And more of those are going to happen if this doesn't stop.
It requires leadership.
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Yeah, we're talking about the first amendment number one.
The founders wrote it down so freedom wouldn't come undone.
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So let's count the five big freedoms we're allowed to choose.
So turn it up, say it loud.
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Freedom of religion, I can choose what I believe on my speech.
Say my thoughts honestly on the press.
I print the truth, let it flow.
Those first five rights in the First Amendment, first five in the first.
That gives you the answer of what could happen on the streets.
That gives you everything you need to know on who's right and who's wrong.
Okay?
These people have a right to protest.
They do.
They don't have a right to be violent in their protest.
They don't have a right to target people in their protest.
They have a right to question the government.
They should question the government.
What are you doing?
Or you have warrants for this?
Where are your warrants?
You have a right to ask for those things.
But again, peacefully.
That's not what's happening.
So this is the part that everybody is getting confused on.
I have a right.
Yes, you do have a right.
And I support you doing all of those things, just not the way you are doing them.
You have a responsibility to society to do it the right way.
The reason why Martin Luther King did the protest the way he did is he believed in the system.
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These people don't believe in the system.
They want to destroy the system.
The whole thing has to come down.
And so chaos and killing and riots, it works to their advantage.
And unfortunately, that is why it's going to put our federal government into a position that they're actually going to love because they're going to turn it into fascism.
But, you know, the Insurrection Act is going to have to be called out.
It has to.
This has to stop.
It has to stop.
Why Chaos Works for Them00:14:07
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We're five days away from the fundamental transformation of this program.
Stu is leaving us.
He has been, honestly, he's been looking to leave since the day he got here 30 years ago.
And is leaving now to start his own thing.
And he's going to announce that later this week.
And welcome to the program, Stu.
Thanks, Glenn.
Yeah, and I appreciate everyone who's been asking.
We have to just wait until later in the week, but we will get you all the details coming up very soon.
It's been tough to not be able to interact with you, Glenn, here today, here with only a few more shows left.
But forces of nature have kept us away.
And then, of course, the technical demons that always pop up in these situations.
I did want to run one thing by you, though, listening to all your commentary.
And it was kind of helpful to sit here and just be able to listen to what you were saying.
And one of the things that was interesting about this whole shooting situation is a dynamic that I noticed as I was thinking about all of the stories that have hit lately, one of which being the shooting of Predi, which you've seen the reaction to that.
You had the shooting of good before that.
And you have the five-year-old kid who was kidnapped by ICE being the three major headlines.
And what's interesting about all of that is I think you go and, you know, I listened to your commentary on Predi, which is like, you know, this shooting shouldn't have happened, but, you know, there's understandable, you know, reasons why people were on edge and there's confusion in that moment.
The good shooting was sort of similar to that, but different, right?
Like she really did take some action that could have very easily been translated as some aggressive action.
And while it was a tragic shooting, you know, it was something that was more understandable and maybe have fewer questions than the Predi situation.
And then you have the five-year-old kidnapped by ICE, which we now know was not at all true.
It was not the situation at all.
The illegal immigrant parent ran away and they were actually caring for the kid.
And you can see three different reactions from, I think, every conservative that I've listened to.
They've had different reactions to those different stories based on different facts in a different situation.
I have heard no difference from the left and their reaction to those three stories.
And, you know, it's fascinating.
And they just continually react the exact same way.
It's Nazis.
It's, you know, it's Gestapo.
It's all of these terrible things.
And it's murder in every one of the cases or kidnapping or the worst possible thing.
And we have to react with force, get out in the streets.
The Walls is of the world making everything worse.
The Jacob Fry's of the world making everything worse.
And I see all that reaction from our side being very nuanced and trying to understand the situation.
The opposite for them.
And then I throw in a fourth story, which was a man arrested in Georgia for raping an 11-year-old girl.
And you know what?
I see no reaction from them at all on that story.
It's impossible to take their analysis of this situation seriously because they're not analyzing it, Glenn.
They're trying to cause chaos.
So last week, you weren't here.
You were on vacation last week.
One of the things that we talked about was you have to take things and separate them case by case.
Two things can be true at the same time, you know, and you're exactly right.
This is, they are not, it's the same reaction every time.
So that should tell you something.
If somebody is reacting the same way, even though the facts are different, but they're reacting the same way, they're telling you something.
They're telling you that the facts don't matter, that what they are saying has to be done is the only point.
Whatever happens on the ground is either inconvenient or convenient, but it doesn't matter.
And that gets a civilization to shut down.
There's no future in that kind of thinking.
So what do you do, Glenn?
Because I see the reaction to this stuff and I see a lot of people talking about it on the right and saying, basically acknowledging what I'm saying is true, right?
Like there are a bunch of people on the right, I think, trying to determine these situations individually.
And the people on the left don't care.
They're out there for a greater mission, right?
If you will.
They want a fundamental change of our society.
They want our system to be upended.
And that is their goal.
And so I can, you know, my reaction to that is we still have to do, we have to be ourselves.
We can't be them.
We can't do what they do.
I don't want to be them.
I don't want to do what they do.
But I mean, I do see the reaction.
And I, you know, there's some, I think, sense to it, which is if you don't, if you, if you hold back, if you, if you don't change your tactics, we're going to wind up with the same situation and the same result.
And we're going to keep moving down this terrible road because we sit here on principle and they sit here and they just keep doing what they what they need to do to move the ball forward without care for that stuff.
It's inconvenient for them and they don't care about it.
Should we continue to care about it or should do we need to change our tactics and realize some new world is here?
So I repeat what I kind of said in the monologue in hour number one today.
We have to be surgical.
The administration has to be surgical in its language.
You cannot discredit yourself by saying he came at them with a nine millimeter gun.
And if that was your understanding at first and then you see the evidence, you have to immediately come out and say, we correct that.
You have to guard your credibility.
At all costs, you have to be telling the truth.
I think the administration also should be saying, look, if these facts are different, call our DOJ.
Here's a special hotline number.
But if they overwhelm that with a bunch of stuff, if they're just putting that number out and they're having thousands of people call, well, then you can also then go on and say, well, we tried.
We tried.
But we've had a million calls and we know there's not a million charges.
So, you know, nobody is serious on that side, but we tried and we'll continue to do it.
We're just not looking at you as serious partners, but we'll continue to do it.
If there is a problem with ICE, we will make sure that that is corrected.
These guys are under so much pressure right now, but they cannot get angry.
They have to be the best of us.
And this is really hard.
They have to be the best of us.
They can't be shooting off their mouth or pushing.
And that is really super hard.
I don't know how they're going to do it.
You've had too many people involved.
Accidents are going to happen.
Human conditions are going to be applied at some point.
And so that's a real issue.
But we have to be super solid on the facts.
I think we are presented at this time with an opportunity to talk to those people who are not die-harders.
They're not the ones who are like, he's a Nazi and ICE has done everything wrong.
You just say.
You just come to him and say, look, I hate all of this.
I hate all of this.
I don't want to be enemies.
And I agree with you.
You know, people saying that he shouldn't have brought a gun.
I think he has a right to carry a gun.
You know, that's a constitutional right and he shouldn't have been shot.
However, can you go with me and look the other side?
Can you at least see the point of view?
I'm not saying that you say that it's right, but can you see the reasonable point of view that that's a chaotic situation?
Somebody yells gun and the police shoot because they're all so high strung.
Yes, well, they got to be better than that.
I agree that they should try to be better than that.
But would you be better than that?
You know, and have a conversation because we have to find the center ground again where we can say, and this is true.
If these guys, if ICE were taking people and they're just scooping them up off the street in the middle of the night and they are, you know, they're American citizens who have done no wrong.
Do you think I'd be on the side of the federal government?
No.
But you also can't have it the other way.
You can't say that, you know, January 6th is an insurrection and the worst insurrection since the Civil War and then say with this going on and now more people killed on the streets in Minnesota than were in January 6th, you can't now say this isn't an insurrection and you don't have a right to have the Insurrection Act used.
Wait, wait, what made that an insurrection and this not an insurrection?
Because one was fighting the federal system to let the election go through, and this one is fighting the federal system to give the ability to the federal government to actually go make arrests of really bad people.
Why is it not an insurrection?
And just try to find the logic points with people that you have a chance of saying, you know, look, we are, we're at the end of civilization here.
This is civilization enders if we don't figure this one out.
And none of us win.
You don't win.
Your side doesn't win.
My side doesn't win.
We all lose.
We cannot be in this situation like that.
So can we just have a simple conversation and try to make that happen?
I don't know.
It might be too late, but I'm not giving up.
Yeah, I think you're right.
We can't give up, right?
But I will say that's why I brought up the five-year-old kidnapped by ICE story.
You know, that's one where I can understand if you're a left-winger, right?
You see these pictures of a five-year-old in ICE custody and you're like, oh my gosh, they're picking up kids.
If you're on that side of the aisle and that's how you view this as a negative thing, we're not allowed to enforce our immigration law, but you see them taking a five-year-old into custody.
I can understand how your immediate reaction to that would be, oh my gosh, they're out of control.
This is crazy.
And when I could get that.
But when you take a few seconds and you actually understand what has occurred here, which is the parent of this child, who is an illegal immigrant, ran from authorities and abandoned their child.
This should be something that you should be able to stop and say, okay, I get it.
This particular case isn't like that.
I still don't like what ICE is doing, but, and there seems to be literally no ability for anyone on the left to get to that point.
I can talk to someone I know.
I can have a conversation with a person in my neighborhood who might be on the left who I can get to that level.
But when you have politicians who are still out today saying this is a part of the problem, everything from killing people on the streets to kidnapping five-year-old kids, politicians, news, the media itself is still saying these things, despite the fact that we know this was a completely false story and totally taken out of context.
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And I, you know, it's understandable why people are so despondent over our future as far as living with one another these days, because if you can't get basics down, there's just no way to have a shared truth.
And that's where I think the problem lies.
I agree with you.
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We'll be right back.
Democrats are threatening to stall the funding bill because of the DHS.
And meanwhile, Tim Walz has reached out to the president.
Donald Trump just responded saying they had a good conversation.
They're going to try to work things out.
And he's putting Tom Holman in touch with, that should be an interesting conversation with Tim Walz.
So we'll see what happens.
Stu, I have three stories.
Which one do you want to comment on?
Bank of England must plan for financial crisis sparked by aliens inside the bizarre conspiracy theory that Earth is losing gravity in the next two weeks.
Uh-oh.
And Michelle Obama complains people only know her for being married to Barack.
Oh, I would love to talk about Michelle Obama and her feelings about that.
I think, first of all, she's right.
100% accurate.
That's the only reason we know of her.
We would never have heard of her at all if it was not for her husband.
But I, along with her, Glenn, feel that's wrong.
We should not, that's that's there's something wrong with our society if that is to be true.
And there's only one way for us to solve this problem, which is to forget we ever knew about her.
I would argue that if she were to just go away and not speak again and not go on shows and leave us alone for just, let's say, five to 50 years in that period, I believe we would completely forget about her and this would all be solved.
I tend to agree.
And I wish she would, quite honestly.
You know what kills me is it is not one thing she's complaining about.
It's another.
And they're like the biggest, I don't know, rich person.
She was saying just the other day that, you know, and then when it became First Lady, it became all about my shoes and what I was wearing.
Well, then don't go on the cover of Vogue.
I mean, what do you that's what happens to every first lady for the love of Pete?
These people cannot stop complaining about, I, you know, I'm, you know, and now my husband's worth $250 million.
And we can't say how he got there.
But now we have to go to the bank more.
We've got to pay a little more in taxes.
It's just so ridiculous.
Yeah, the Vogue cover is a great example of that.
This wasn't a hidden camera shoot.
Like you showed up with photographers to this whole situation.
That's the way that works.
And by the way, there is, I will disagree with one thing, Glenn.
One First Lady did not get that treatment, and that was Melania Trump.
She didn't get all the photo shoots.
That's right.
Doesn't her movie, I think your movie opens up today or tomorrow.