The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 5/26/22

Episode Date: May 26, 2022

Glenn and Stu discuss Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke's embarrassing staged event at Governor Greg Abbott's press conference discussing Uvalde. Glenn's Chief Writer & Researcher Jason Buttrill discusses the possibility of China invading Taiwan. First Lady Jill Biden made some statements about baby formula, and Glenn and Stu shared their thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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No. Nothing ever changes. Of course he's... You want to talk about me? be the podcast today? My gosh, I have to do everything. Sure, my name's on the show. Sure, I make all the big cash.

You know, sure. Yeah, all that. But let me do your job for you here and tell you about the podcast today. Yes. So today was an interesting podcast to give you a little behind the scenes part of this. Normally, we have many guests scheduled throughout the day. Yeah. Today, we decided we were going to do nothing but phone calls from listeners.

Yes. And that was our big, you know, we wanted to hear from me. And what happened to that idea? Right as we started the show, all the phones went out. So we literally couldn't take a call. Did you notice the guy? Seriously, did you notice the truck out front off to the side of the building that was a fiber optic truck? CIA.

And they had the manhole open. Somebody was down there where I know the phone trunk is. CIA. Did you see that? I didn't see it. I didn't notice it. Oh my gosh. If it wasn't there when you came in, it was definitely the CIA, because I got here like at 5.30, and that truck was there.

Who does work in the middle of the nights, do? CIA. There you go. So the CIA ruined the show, but it was actually a good show anyway, mainly because we got to yell about Beto O'Rourke and his idiocy. Yeah. Quite a bit. I feel passionately about that. You know, and maybe some things were said.

maybe some songs were sung, but you'll have to find out yourself. That is so much more on today's glorious podcast. You're listening to The best of the Glenn Beck We have the audio

of the political stunt that Beto O'Rourke did as where he danced on the dead bodies of children. Listen. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Excuse me. You're out of line and an embarrassment. Sit out of him. No, you need to get his ass out of him. This isn't the place to talk this over. Sir, you're out of line. Now this is the mayor who has a walker. Sir, you are out of line.

Please leave this auditorium. I can't believe you're a sick son of a borg. I would come to a deal like this to make a plea. I love that guy. I fucking love him. I love the fact that he had a walker. Yeah. And he comes up and he's like, get out of here, you sick son of a, I think.

Mm-hmm. That's exactly the, you know what? Because Beto is human trash. He is scum. No. No, now wait a minute. The lowest form of humanity our society can produce. He said after he was there, he was just listening, and he just couldn't take

it anymore. Oh, really? He was, that's, that's what happened, huh? That's interesting because everybody seems to notice that this was obviously staged from the beginning. And I go back to what happened before this. We don't know exactly. Maybe we'll learn in the coming days. But let me translate the series of events that led up to this moment. Beto O'Rourke was there in listening to the whole thing? No. He was not. Let's go back before that. Let's go back to the meeting that Beto O'Rourke had with this staff. And at some point, and I'll translate it because I don't have the exact language, but I'll tell you exactly

what was said in the meeting. It was Beto O'Rourke saying, hey, how exactly can we take advantage of all of these dead children and turn it around so it's good for us? How do we raise money off the bodies of

these dead children tomorrow? Hold on. Just a second. Hold on just a second. You don't have a transcript. You don't know that Beto O'Rourer said that, and I have to tell you, Stu, I don't think he's smart enough to come up. That had to be someone else in the room, and he went, yeah. Maybe you're right. Maybe you're right, because, but I don't know who said it.

All I know is that this was obviously planned, clearly planned, and we can go through. CBS knows. Yeah, even CBS News pointed it out blatantly a staged event. And this guy, because he wants more power and more money, decided that, This event was about him. He wanted to make the death of 19 children and two teachers about Beto O'Rourke because he is human scum. He is the worst form of life imaginable on this earth. These things might work in New York or Delaware or Washington, D.C.

It's not going to work here. You know, the only one that had the other opinion of, hey, maybe gun control is Matthew McConaughey. And he seemed like a decent, I disagree with him, but he was a decent human being about it. I mean, he obviously doesn't know all that much about the details of these issues. But like he, I think comes from a good place. Here's a guy, Matthew McConaughey's statement, you know, it was like, hey, like, gosh, how can we stop this? We need to do something. All right.

Like, that's not an educated viewpoint on this, okay? Everybody posted on social media. If you know anything about these topics, the argument of, well, why don't we do something? is just vapid, right? It's just a giant, shallow, empty vessel of a view. It's a stand-in for intellect.

But Beto O'Rourke is a totally different issue. He is the worst. All he did was try to get attention. And you know what? His next job, which by the way will not be governor of the state of Texas, his next job at MSNBC or whatever,

this crap will help him. And that's all this is about for him. Again. pathetic. Again, MSNBC. I mean, he's going to be behind a microphone, but I think it's going to be... Hi, welcome to God. Take your order, please. I mean, if he's lucky. Yeah, yeah.

Hey, I'm Bella O'Rourke. A, would you like fries with that? And second, you know, I could have been governor of president. And the thing here, too, is, look, this is a very desperate man and a very desperate position doing very desperate things. And too, if you want to, you know, get past how revolting a human being you must be to think that this is appropriate, if you want to get past that for a second and you get to the point of just political strategy, you can make the argument, right?

He is so, his, his hill he's climbing is so far up, so steep that maybe ridiculous stunts and pathetic things like this is the right thing to do. maybe you goad Greg Abbott into making a mistake and saying something really bad when he walks out

you know unfortunately for him you left Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick with the microphones so you're getting taken out of the room where no one can hear

you blab about your nonsense and they have the microphones and they handled it really, really well and honestly I actually if Greg Abbott did what that mayor did it would have been bad

but the fact that the mayor did it you know that guy was not standing up for this nonsense. He didn't want this to be about politics. This is his freaking city. And he sat there with just righteous Indian nation. And I, man, I felt, I felt for him. And I thought, I thought Abbott and Patrick handled it really well. And the mayor did too. Someone needed to just call, at one point, I don't know, we bleeped it out, but he just calls him an ahole from the state.

And that's exactly what needed to happen. That's exactly who he is. By the way, you know, why didn't the police see it? I mean, BLM came out yesterday against the racist police. And how they, how did they know? Why didn't they stop this kid? You know, and you're right, you had all kinds of warnings that this would be a bad kid, right? All kinds of warnings. Reuters is reporting some really disturbing writing.

One day, I'm going to quote, one day I was driving home from work I noticed two children crossing the street they were happy happy to be free from their troubles this is happy uh this happiness was mine by right I had earned it in my dream as I neared the young ones I put all my weight on my right foot keeping the accelerating pedal down to the floor until I hear the crashing of two children on the hood then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two I was was so fascinated for a moment that when after I had stopped my vehicle, I just sat in a day, sweet visions filling my head. Right? Dangerous. Right? Nothing good's going to come of this. According to Reuters, those are the teenage writings of Beto O'Rourke. Oh my God. Really? Yeah. In writings at Reuters state says still exist online. Oroke purportedly fantasized about toppling the government

but doubted that the masses would support such a radical move at this time. Then he also wrote about murdering children by running over them with his car. This is the ultimate red flag for the red flag law. Exactly right. Exactly right.

I'm glad that he's against guns. The state of Texas should be very aware and not allow him to buy any guns. because of this. This guy, this guy and his righteous indignation. Give it a rest, bud, give it a rest.

This is the best of the Glenbeck program. Jason Butrell is with us. He is the main writer, researcher for the Glenn Beck television program. And he is also our national security expert. He was with naval intelligence for a long time and can tell us about a new audio tape that has come out of China, smuggled out of China, that apparently shows that they are preparing for an invasion of Taiwan. I've got several questions on this. First, Jason, why don't you bring everybody up to speed on what it is, what they're saying? Well, so first a quick little correction.

You said naval intelligence. I'm about to invade your office because it was Marine Corps intelligence. Same thing. You're on boats. Bigger. Oh, my gosh. My apologies. My apologies to every Marine.

I just said it to set him off. Go ahead. So, yeah, this is a, this isn't a, like a council meeting of their war mobilization. So I want to make that clarification because this does appear to be legitimate. They are talking about a massive war mobilization effort on basically this is theory crafting. What do we need to do? So where do we need to get conscripts? How do we retrofit ships to get the amount, which they're guessing in this meeting,

would take about 953 ships, which is oddly very specific. And they also talk about 140,000 soldiers. They're talking about private companies that need to be. be utilized, I say private and air quotes, public-private companies. Yeah, no, it's a partnership. It's a public-private partnership. It's what we'll be soon, but go ahead. 140,000 soldiers. They just go on in very, very, you know, very good detail. It goes on for about 56 minutes. I've looked at some of the, well, I've looked at all the names. I've matched

up all the faces. These are real people. So this does appear to be legitimate. I do want to say, though, that they're just one part of this massive, you know, structure within China that's looking at invading Taiwan. And make no mistake, that is invading Taiwan is a national security necessity for China. They will try it eventually. When is up to, you know, you know, interpretation. I think they're still very far off, at least 10 years off. Right. Now, wait a minute. Hang on just a second. And I think anybody in the intelligence community, because I've talked to several of them, would agree with you that we're at least five years off between five and ten. Is this different than what we do at the Pentagon? I mean, we should have a plan on invading Canada in case they went crazy.

That's what they should do, is have a plan for anything. Is that what this is? Yes, I think that's what this is, but it has a little bit more teeth because so, when I was in the intelligence community, we did a lot of war gaming, you know, for multiple different countries. So we had the plan in place if it would, you know, we need it. I think the difference here is that this is their national, so if there's something, let's say that we, it was our national security imperative that we invade Cuba. And we, we, and everyone do, we were going to do it at some point. Well, then this would be a lot more, I guess, worrisome if there

was something that we, that showed that we were this far ahead in the planning. So that's a difference here. Like, they will do this soon. You know, they will be in the future. Yeah. So soon for the Chinese, which could be, right, right, 500 years away. Let me ask you the next obvious question. In a state that has total surveillance, total surveillance and records of everybody's cell phone,

what it's doing, where it's been. who smuggled this out? How did it get out? And is it intentionally let out? Yeah. So there's, so I was kind of getting to this a little bit earlier, but there's multiple different factions that are looking at this.

There's the war mobilization faction like this. They're all got, like their job is to make sure that if we do this, we'll prepare to do it. Now, there's the other factions within the Communist Party that are like, are you looking at the geopolitical perspective right now? Are you looking what's happening at Russia right now in Ukraine?

We do not want to – I mean, we're trying to get our economy going the way it's been going for the past 10, 15, 20 years. That's not going to happen. That's a full stop. Everything they want to get done with Belt and Road. Can you imagine what happens to Belt and Road if what happens to Russia happens to them? It completely goes away. So there's those factions within the CCP that are like, wait a minute, let's take a step back. Yes, we agree we have to do this in the future.

but this is not something that we can be thinking about in the near term. Do you really think that all goes away? If they take Taiwan and somebody doesn't blow up the high tech plants, they control like 99% of every chip and most importantly, the hardest chips to make. That's all in Taiwan. You really think that, you know, countries fold all the time, because they need something.

Yeah, and the issue with Taiwan, looking at the economic perspective, is it's almost mutually assured destruction. If you go after Taiwan, you're also, you know, critically damaging the Chinese economy because they do a massive amount of business with Taiwan. It's almost like an Achilles heel that kind of shoves this invasion way down the line because China's just not ready for it right now. They don't have a purely, you know, domestic. economy, it's purely based off of exports, purely based off of exports, the United States,

and massive amounts from Taiwan. So they're just not ready. I do believe the United States, I don't think that they can take Taiwan. And not as long as the United States Navy is what it is in the Pacific. I do not believe they can do it. And look at these numbers that they're talking about, 140,000 soldiers, over 20 airfields and docks, 953 ships. That is a, look at the mobilization that happened in Russia. crane. We were able to see that, you know, months ahead of schedule. This amount of mobilization, I mean, they're going to start six months later, they'll be ready. So what's going to happen once this starts going down? The United States Navy is going to push massive amounts of hardware,

you know, multiple fleets into that area. If we have the fuel. If we have the fuel. Yeah. So did you read my Davos, W-E-F, The executive summary today that I got? Yes. Okay. Can we go through this a bit? Because Al Gore spoke at the Davos meeting yesterday. He was part of a panel turning up the heat on greenwashing.

And during the panel, Al Gore and other panelists lamented the fact that far too many companies pledged to lower their carbon emissions, but only a small percentage actually follow through with their commitment. That's what they call greenwashing. So his solution to dealing with the inaction. reporting of CO2 emissions, a network of satellites that contract CO2 emissions down to an incredibly detailed level. He says, according to an S&P report on more than 5,000 companies, only 37% have any emissions target at all for scope number one and scope number two

emissions. Only 24% have net zero targets. And of the companies that have set emission targets, less than half, are aligned with a science-based approach to even two to much less 1.5 degrees. 58% of the companies don't even report their scope 3 admissions, let alone have a plan to reduce them. And in a recent poll, 1,500 business executives from 16 countries, only 36% said that their companies have tools to measure the progress on sustainability. So he says greenwashing is a major obstacle to solve the climate crisis made up of falsehood's clever PR and it's got to stop. Gore then shares the exciting news. We're about to enter the age of radical transparency. Now, just hear this. And Jason, chime in at any time. Entering an age of radical transparency,

not for you to be able to see into the government, not for you to see into the elites, but for the elites to see into everything in your life. He said, I've been among those who have formed a new coalition called Climate Trace, which stands for tracking real-time atmospheric carbon emissions. He says it's a coalition of artificial intelligence, technology companies, NGOs, and universities using data from 300 existing satellites from multiple countries, ground, sea, and air-based sensors, and internet data streams to machine learning to create algorithms for every single sector, and subsector of the economy.

This October will publish the world's first inventory of exactly where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from and in what amounts. He said it's going to make a dramatic difference. So investors, supply chain managers, NGOs, prioritizing their campaigning activities, financial institutions. If they want to know where the emissions are coming from, upstream and downstream, it's all going to be laid out for the world to see. That's a little frightening.

Radical transparency. Why do you always have to add the word radical to everything? Come on, man. Yeah, this is not surprising to me in the slightest. In fact, next week we're going to be talking about on the Glenn Beck Wednesday special about a lot of the executive orders, a lot of the transformation that has already gone down within the bureaucracy, which is they call, quote, an all-of-government approach, which I think a lot of us didn't even really pay too much attention to,

the more that we've been looking into it, it is shocking the amount of the alphabet bureaucratic agencies that are already moving in that direction. So if they're talking about, you know, private companies using satellites to do this, do we not think that, you know, the Department of Homeland Security is not already doing this as well? We know that all I'm, I mean, it's in their own words, it's an all of government approach. That's their main priority right now. A couple of weeks ago, the SEC just issued out sweeping new proposals on mandating private, I'm sorry, public companies to disclose their climate footprint and their carbon emissions. And it's hilarious that they even have to mandate it because there's groups, and we have a letter directly from one of the

biggest banks in the country that says that they're already doing this. They're like, oh, yeah, we applaud you now making it, you know, official. We've all been doing this now for several years. So they're already doing it. A lot of these companies, are already, they don't even have to, you know, greenwashing, whatever. A lot of these companies are already on board. Did you see the second half of those notes, Glenn, the one about the first movers coalition? Yeah, let me take a break and come back on this. This is something that John Kerry talked about.

The first movers coalition, that is the public private partnership that the White House announced a few months ago. Oh, it's, oh, it's very successful. If you mean success is getting, all of the main companies in the world to go along with it and put together a little cabal where they get their way. Oh, it's highly successful. I'll give you the details in a second. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I'm glad you're here. Jill Biden had a photo op opportunity yesterday, you know, and it was,

It went over, I think, as well as Beto O'Rourke's photo op. I mean, I think this, they just both felt so genuine, you know, you know. And I like, I like to see any press conference where Beto O'Rourke is chased off by a mayor of a little town using a walker. I love that. I loved every second of it. I love him. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, yesterday the photo op was at the airport where she went to meet the baby food.

And that was critical. It was critical that the first lady was there to meet the baby food. So she wanted to shake their hands, welcome them to America. She wanted to make sure that every can we ordered was there on the plane. And she said something, and I want you to listen to this, Stu, because I think this is pretty deep. In fact, I think it might need some music here. She was standing there on the tarmac. And she had this kind of distant far-off look in her eyes.

And you could tell something deep was coming. And she said, I've always said that food is love. She has, she's always. We've known that. We've covered it for years. Years. It's like lunchbox.

Joe or whatever he says. Right. We all know Dr. Jill Biden always says food is love. Right. Is love. But standing here on the tournament, I realize food is life too. Wow. Wow.

Wow. I mean, she earned every bit of that doctorate. Wow. That is. So food is love. It's also love. But it's also life. Wow.

That's incredibly powerful. Are you sure that wasn't Kamala Harris? It's like saying, is it possible that was a VEP thoughts? It's like, it's like she said, you know, I've always known that food, you know, was stuff. But food, it's also molecules. No, that's too deep. That's way too deep. It's way too deep.

No, that's way too deep. I apologize for that. Why do people, this is a phenomenon I need to understand. Why do people need to say things? Period. That's it. Like, really it. Like, why in these moments, do people feel the need to say things?

Yeah, just leave it at why do people feel the need to say things? Period. Period. Why? The life, you know what? The problem is America is social media. Because now everybody thinks that they can say things, which they always have, but their things that they have to say are just as deep, profound, and as important as every other thing that other people are saying. It's just vapid nonsense.

Right. Like, you look, I can't even go on social media right now. Like, this is one of those times where I just need to not ever go. Every post is some idiot who has not spent 10 seconds of their life thinking about any of these issues before. And they feel, you know, I don't normally talk about politics. But we must do something. Something must be done. Are we going to accept this again?

When will this happen again? Yeah, you know what? you're going to have to accept the evil of the human condition. Because it's existed since like Kane and Abel. So you're going to have to go back and really do. No, Kane and Abel at least had some God in their life. You know what I mean?

One went bad because he kind of pissed off God and he didn't like God. The other one kind of had some religion in his life. And so now you can't compare. Because it's really, it really is just nonsense. And like I think in my most understanding times, Glenn, And I have them occasionally. I was on vacation last week.

I'm just a few days off of vacation. And part of me can still connect to that vacation mindset of maybe being a little more understanding and not so. I mean, Beto. That's the way you come back? Usually. I usually like my life then and I hate my life here. Right. The minute I step back into this life, I'm like, why do people talk?

Stop talking. Okay. Stop talking. My life was fine when I didn't. hear anybody else talking. Yes. You know, stop talking. In my most charitable moments, I do think a lot of this stuff that you see on social

media is people who see a real tragedy and something that we all really are feeling terrible about everybody. And they have no concept on how to deal with it. It's too bad to figure out how to deal with it. They can't mentally handle it. So they go to the first thing that they've seen on other people's social media posts, which always is, hey, if we just took guns away, with no understanding of the constitutional ramifications of that, of the people who are law-abiding citizens that would be affected, about how it wouldn't work and hasn't worked all over the world. They don't know any of this stuff. So they just come out with these vapid, nonsensical screenshots of their notes app, which describe what they think is deep thought.

and substitutes for intellect when they have none. And, you know, it's an emotional way of dealing with tragedy and sometimes grieving has weird results. And in my most charitable moments, that's how I can understand it. But it's so frustrating when these people are trying to affect actual policy. I took nothing you said seriously. The whole rant, I just stopped listening after you said, I still have charitable moments. Like, I can't relate to you, dude. You went far between you.

So let me give you two people that responded yesterday. And tell me if you think they fit into the same boat. Wednesday, yesterday, Don McLean, the guy who did bye, bye, Miss American Pie. He was going to perform at the NRA. Okay. No way you're getting somebody to perform at the NRA that's not a gun supporter. You know what I mean? Right.

It's not like, hey, I wonder if Don Henley would play. No amount of cash. No, he's not playing. And we know there are like four artists. Yes. You can book for the NRA intervention. There's four of them. Apparently, Don McLean is one of them.

Okay. So he came out yesterday and he said in light of recent events in Texas, I've decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week. We're all shocked. And I'm sure all the people who are planning to attend are shock and sickened by these events as well. as for all, we're all Americans. I share the sorrow for this terrible, cruel loss with the rest of the nation. Do you have a problem with that? Because I don't.

No, I don't have a problem with it. I mean, I think it sort of indicates that the NRA had something to do with us, and they don't. See, you could take it that way. You could take it that way. And I think he's just like, you know what, I just don't want to be plastered everywhere this week, because I was going to get plastered. It's bastard everywhere anyway for being at the NRA, but it's going to be used against, and I don't want to be part of that. Not that the NRA is causing it or he is causing it, but it's going to be used to divide.

I can see, especially a person who's an artist. And it's in Texas. It's in Texas, right? Again, that does not mean that they should cancel their convention, which some people are requesting. But, I mean, I can see if you're not, if you're, if you don't live and die on the. Second Amendment, you might want to bail from that performance. So the next one, this celebrity said, this convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, talking about the NRA Convention, is coming this weekend.

People should show up and protest at this conference. Now, that's a brilliant idea, right? And then they say, come armed. Mm-hmm. Okay, so people should show up in protest at this conference. That's like saying to all humans, people should breathe. People should eat. You know, it's not a new idea to the left to protest the NRA conference.

Right. Okay. Not an innovative idea. No, no, it's not even. in an idea at this point. It's a way of life for these people. Okay. Show up and protest this conference. And it's happening this weekend.

Come armed. Now, let's just think about that one. A, go for it. You're right. If your life is in danger, you should not only come armed, you have the right in Texas to shoot the person who is having a problem. But that's not what you're saying. Because the people who are coming to protest,

if they really are against so many guns on the street, they wouldn't have any guns. And they certainly wouldn't want to carry in Texas because that's something that the Republicans are for and the NRA is for. You can carry. You can open carry in Texas. I think people should open carry myself, but you can open carry. So I have no problem with come armed, but who are you talking to? By the way, this was Bet Meddler. Oh, God. Who is she talking to?

The people who are coming to protest, most likely don't have guns. Okay, I guess they could fly in from other states, but that would be bringing guns from across state lines, and that we know is dangerous. That's the real problem. So they can come, they can come armed, as long as they're not shooting anybody. Are you saying that come armed as a threat?

Is that what you're saying? Because that's the problem. That makes you an irresponsible gun owner. You can't use your gun as a threat. That's against the law. Bet Mittler needs to get a role on the view. She would fit in perfectly with that environment. She would.

Because that's just, again, like, these are just stupid points. Stupid. We talked, I think on the air, I can't remember it was on or all. but we talked about Matthew McConaughey's statement yesterday. And he made a statement. And like McConaughey, like I don't know much about his politics. He seems to be like a slight, a center left guy, but not not AOC. Like I don't know exactly.

But I think he could he could cruise over there quickly. Possibly, yeah. But he seems like a well-meaning guy. Yeah, I agree with that. I think he seems to have a good heart and seems to care about the state of Texas. He's a guy I would interview on the air. and most likely disagree and push back, but I think we would both be agreeable.

Yeah, it would probably be a good interview. But his statement yesterday was just that sort of like lengthy, multi-paragraph collection of zilch. Like, it's just nothing. It's just a giant empty shell. And, you know, it's like, we can stop this. We don't have to accept this. What do you mean we can stop this?

You have an 18-year-old, right? In this particular case, like, you have a person who has no history of legal problems, and everyone could say they had all these red flags, but no mental health history that no anyone, at least nothing official. So you're going to, what, go in and take the right of gun ownership away from everyone who has, what? I mean, no authorities even had this guy on their radar, at least as far as we know at this point. No. I mean, first of all, you shouldn't be 18 and be able to buy a weapon of war. You should be able to sign up to go into the military and have the weapon of war and be trusted to go to war and shoot the right people, but not here at home.

And one more thing. You said just a large collection of zilt was said. Let me leave you again. With something very important. Okay. I've always said that food is love. But food is life too. Wow.

Makes me weep when I think of that.