The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Andy Ngo | 2/5/21

Episode Date: February 5, 2021

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was removed from her committee assignments. Glenn explains why people start believing in conspiracy theories and argues we’re living through “the Bubba Effect." Journalist Andy Ngo reviews his new book “Unmasked," his flight to England, and how Antifa became the radical group it is today. A mom sacrificed her own life to save her daughter from hitmen by pretending to be her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Pat, as we look forward to Super Bowl, what was your favorite Super Bowl talk moment in today's show? Oh, man, there were so many of them. How do you choose? How do you choose? That's all we talked about. Yeah, and then we squeezed in some things like conspiracy theories, why we're going through this. In fact, the first hour of this podcast is a keep. I believe you should burn it to disc and hold it and at least share it with friends.

but it explains a lot of what's really happening. Also, Bill O'Reilly kind of pissed both of us off a little bit. Yeah, he was frustrating. He was frustrating because he dismisses a lot of things, but hopefully he's right. Andy No is on the program. Oh, and also the guy who says, the banks are going to fail really soon.

Oof. And then the Super Bowl talk, so you don't want to miss it today's podcast. You're listening to the. Best of the Glenn Beck program. Marjorie Taylor Green. Yesterday, she was gutted. And you know what was really special is not a lot of people showed up for the gutting. All these weasels in Congress.

Nobody, I mean, when she spoke, she was pretty much speaking to an empty house. Have the courage and the guts to at least show up. So she spoke, and I think, I don't know. I don't agree with what she has said in the past, and I didn't agree with what she said yesterday, because now she was like, no, I don't believe any of that stuff. Well, can you tell me your transition?

Is it because you're in trouble? You know, she believes some, I think, some horrific stuff. But let me tell you, she's Bubba. I told you about the Bubba effect where everybody goes, you know what? I know what Bubba did was wrong, but you people have been doing things, in Congress and in the national level for so long, you caused this problem.

So, yeah, well, we don't like what Bubba just did. We'll take care of Bubba. You get out of our community. That's what's happening to all of us now. And when it becomes violent, it's going to end the nation. but what happened yesterday truly is the Bubba effect because I feel like I need to defend her. And I don't like what she said. I don't agree what she said.

But she has a right to say it. And the reason why she was, reason why people listen to people on these conspiracy theories, there's this new conspiracy theory from the, you know, in the 1870s or whatever, we signed an Corporation Act with Great Britain. And so Great Britain actually owns the United States. So we're not, we're officially a corporation. It's crazy. Stop it.

But see, what they do is they deny things that are real. And so when they say, no, there's nothing to see here. And you know there is, the mind just goes to work. It's natural. That's something's not right. Something's not right. We have this weird thing. When we have this normalcy bias, when we're in real trouble, when there is a serial killer next door, until you smell the rotting bodies, you will say something's not right about that guy, but that's just me.

I'm just thinking that. Danger. Get out of the burning building. Your senses are right. We dismiss that called the normalcy bias. But then when we are lied to repeatedly and we know something isn't right and our life isn't in immediate danger, we don't have the normalcy bias, we don't try to dismiss it, we burrow down. Now let me show you a couple of things, the reason why we're believing conspiracy theories. What is a conspiracy?

A conspiracy is a group of people that get together in secret. to meet and they have an agenda that is different than everyone else's. So it's not a conspiracy when the coach brings the football team in and says, okay, this is what we're going to do. Because everybody knows they're trying to win the game. And everybody on the field is playing the same game. Now, if he brought the football team in and he said, okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to break out in soccer because this football game sucks.

so you smuggle the soccer ball onto the field. We're going to start playing soccer. And before you know it, all the fans are going to love soccer. That would be a stupid but a conspiracy theory, especially if we didn't have videotape of them saying sneak the soccer ball in. But if everybody on the team was like suddenly really into soccer and always talking about soccer, you could see people if the coach was always lying to the public. you can see people going, I think they're doing something with soccer.

I think they're going to become a soccer team. That would be a conspiracy theory. But if you have it on tape, it's a conspiracy fact. Now, we have had this theory that has been borne out in facts way too long, but when will Americans pay attention? We've had this theory that climate change, the idea of what? they're going to do to to to protect the environment is going to be so damaging that it is going to change your life when they say well we're just gonna we're just uh we're just putting a few restrictions on cars now and blah blah blah we keep telling you they are trying to get rid of

cars they are going to they're going to be so draconian in your life the pain is going to be unbearable. No, that's not true. Okay, conspiracy. We believe that people are conspiring for money, for power, or for, you know, they really believe that their system will work. And they're going to do things and shape us and cause us pain because they think they're over us. conspiracy theory let me make it a conspiracy fact here is an online meeting it was supposed to be a secret not recorded an online meeting with the massachusetts executive office of energy and environmental affairs the undersecretary for climate change david ismay says this listen carefully.

You know, one thing that we found through our analysis is that 60% of our emissions come from, as I have been starting to say, you and me, except you guys are in Vermont, 60% of our emissions come from residential heating and passenger vehicles. So let me say that again, 60% of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you, the person of street, the senior on fixed income, right? There is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts, point the finger at, turn the screws on, and, you know, break their will so they stop admitting.

That's you. We have to break your will, right? I can't even say that publicly. I can't even say that publicly. Seniors on pensions, they're really the problem, and we have to break their will. That's a conspiracy fact. At least in those two states,

they believe they know better and so they will use every device without your knowledge to break your will. Now let me give you another story. This is from Jen Pasaki, who Pissucks. She denies the ludicrous reports

that Joe Biden is being controlled. Listen to this. She said, she had to answer the question because the Senate Republicans express concerns about actually being able to reach an agreement with the Biden White House. The meeting with the president on Monday, you know, for the COVID relief, they said was promising, but it wasn't going to happen because his staff wouldn't allow him to compromise. The president talks a lot about unity. This is Mitch McConnell. The president

talks a lot about unity, but his White House staff and congressional leadership are working on a different playbook. Now, Saki said, any questions about whether there's any daylight between the president and his staff on the price of the package was ludicrous. Okay. All right. Normally, I would say, okay, okay. but didn't we see that secret cabals can survive in an administration?

Didn't we actually see and had the media tout how great it was to have a secret cabal that thought they knew better than the president? And they did everything they could to stop his will, to stop his directives from being carried out because they believed they knew better than the elected official. The answer to that is yes. Did they not plot and plan to remove him from office? The answer to that is yes. Whether you agreed with them or not doesn't matter. It shows this can happen. It's why it should have been stopped and squashed even in the Trump administration.

If anybody goes, oh, well, but he was out of control. You don't do that. You don't do it. Because the next guy that comes along, how are we to know that he's not got a secret cabal? Let's say he disagrees with causing senior citizens pain on their heating bill. What if they really believe that and they think they're saving the planet and the president says, you know what, we're going to compromise. Let's slow down on this. If they really believe that, don't you think they will now feel justified? This guy's going to kill the planet. What about the

release of all the documents Trump ordered to be released? I'm not talking about the UFO stuff. I'm talking about the stuff about Russia. Those were all, all those documents were supposed to be released. They're still not out. Why? Can we get an answer? I bet not. why can't we have those i'll tell you why because those documents implicate almost the entire biden team that's why let me give you this story this is why conspiracies are getting more and more and more people are buying them and if we allow this to happen in our own camp America will come to an end. The equivalent of two military divisions

have been occupying the capital since inauguration day. Thousands still remain. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a threat advisory for domestic extremists, and the Department of Defense has ordered a general stand-down order to find out and root out right-wing extremists in our own military.

Wait a minute, hold a job. just a second. We didn't do this when people were saying there are Muslim extremists that are advising, counseling, and changing our laws inside the Pentagon and the Secretary of State's office. We didn't have a coordinated effort to root those people out, but now you won't even give me the definition of a right-wing extremist. You won't tell me what the, what was it, 10 national guardsmen did that had them removed from their service on inauguration day? They were just right-wing extremists.

What was the charge? What does that even mean? Can anyone explain? Could we get a sliver of transparency here? because the DHS said in their advisory, now listen to this, Homeland Security issued a threat advisory for domestic extremists, and in the same advisory, they said there wasn't a, quote, current or credible threat. So, wait, what? And now we have a purge in our military. First of all, that is so, so, wait, wait, what? And now we have a purge in our military. first of all, that is so unbelievably offensive to our military. You make the charge.

You say what you're looking for. But you're going to take a group of people who have been heroic for 20 years. I mean actively right now fighting and losing their lives. For what? And now you're going to call them extremists? I want to know the definition. What does it mean? This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

There are two things. I need you to make sure you read or go back and listen to the first hour of this broadcast on the podcast. Wherever you get your podcast, it'll be available this afternoon. Make sure that you listen. And I highly recommend that you share it with other people. That first hour is really, really important because I explain how we are now living the Bubba effect and why conspiracy theories, why so many people believe in some crazy conspiracy theories and how this is all with Marjorie, what's your name, Marjorie Taylor Green, why that's just a circus. It's a circus. Stop looking at the circus. And I find myself strangely in support of her, even though I disagree with everything she says,

she has a right to say it and believe it. And I can explain why she believes it. And it's really important. And one of the thing, let me give you two pieces. Let me give you first the audio. This is coming from the Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. It's the Undersecretary for Climate Change. His name is David Ismay.

Listen to what he says in this supposed secret meeting that somebody in the meeting decided to record and went, people should hear this. Listen. You know, one thing that we found through our analysis is that 60% of our emissions come from, as I have been starting to say, you and me, except you guys are in Vermont. 60% of our emissions come from residential heating and passenger vehicles. So let me say that again. 60% of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you, the person of street, the senior on fixed income, right? There is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts, point the finger at, turn the screws on, and, you know, break their will so they stop emitting. That's you. We have to break your will.

I can't even say that publicly. This is so important. We'll post that at glenbeck.com. That is so important. They're in Massachusetts. There's nobody left to talk to about climate change except the senior that's on a pension. And we have to break their will. I want you to remember that because I'm going to give you one more story you have to read.

And you can find it at time.com. And it is a celebration, a celebration of the insane. It is a celebration of the conspiracy to control. the last election. I'll post it at glenbeck.com and I will tweet it out. I'm looking for it now and I can't seem to

find it. But I will post it online so you have it. It's from Time Magazine and it talks about the conspiracy and but it's a celebratory thing. Yeah, there was a conspiracy in this last election and here's who was involved and it all fits in the Great Reset.

It all fits into what they were saying. And they must break your will. If you can do one thing, you, to quote Lady Macbeth, stick your courage or screw your courage to the sticking place. You must, your will must be unbreakable, unshakable, no matter what anybody does, it doesn't matter to you. you know what you believe and you're not going to sit down.

They want to break your will and they've been trying to tell you you're a worthless nobody for a very long time. They broke the back and the will through corruption and everything else of the Tea Party. It cannot happen again. All right. Let me go to Andy. No. Andy, first of all, are you safe?

Are you back in America or still out of the... the country and are you safe? I am safe for the time being. I have not returned home and the reason why I left is just because of escalating death threats against me, which were reported to police in Portland and of which nothing was done. So you are, can I say where you are? Yes, sure.

You're in London, England. How are the people of England received you? England, the UK has us on various issues, but one thing that I appreciate about here is that there's not wide tolerance for political violence and vandalism and destruction, whereas in Portland, in Seattle, other places that I've been to, the left of the mainstream left, I would say, has quite embraced that. Do you find it ironic that your parents were what we were what we were. would remember in America as boat people.

They came as political refugees from Vietnam and went through hell. And now you're having to flee here because of your safety. I mean, that's an amazing coincidence or an amazing circle. Is it not? It's a sad irony. I think my parents both went to, were sent to prison camps for different reasons in the 70s, under a communist regime there. And one of the freedoms that I really cherish, or norms I should say, norms and freedoms

I really cherish as an American citizen is that we have freedom of expression and that there's an expert. that you don't solve political grievances or disagreements through violence. But nowadays, I'm not sure if that's really a norm anymore, considering if you listen to what the chattering classes are saying, they have defended the looting when it's done in the name of BLM or anti-fascism. They defend even assaults and at times homicides. So you are you've written a new book Unmask inside Antifist Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

And it is very clear on the leftist terrorism That is is happening here And you go through the you know the history The beginnings of it in 1920s Italy You know with Benito Mussolini's fascistic party Do you believe And I want to get into some of that history quickly, but I want to ask you this. Do you believe that the Democrats or the leftists

are really in control and leading this? Or are they being used by more powerful people? Probably a combination of both. I think the short-sided agenda was that they could use Antifa's messaging and the protests that they helped spark in the past four years to use that against the former administration and former president. So they nurtured and coddled this monster. And now that Trump is no longer in the picture and no longer an excuse, they're having to contend with this issue that Antifa is not something they can actually control. Right.

Antifa have destroyed the DNC headquarters in Portland on inauguration day. They've called for violence against Biden and other Democrats. And so the Portland mayor who's called old Ancify has been literally chased out of his home. And of course, and that's just what has happened to the Democrats. The rest of us, the normal people, the taxpayers are having to live in cities with skyrocketing crime rates. Right. Police made speculous. with our downtown and city funders looking like first world slums.

So what is it? I mean, they say they hate fascism, but they're fascists. I mean, you know, they are. They're fascists. It's my way or the highway. And they'll destroy anything in their path. What is it that drives them? Why, where's all of this dark hate come from?

So Antifa is an atheistic, anarchist, communist movement, but they do adopt certain, I would say, fundamentalist religious-like worldviews. And so they view the United States as a wicked imperialistic state that needs to be destroyed, and not just the nation state destroyed, but also all expounding ideals because these have had influence for good. many parts of the world. They want to get rid of that because they view it, they view the United States and its ideas of American philosophy as linked in a system

of white supremacy and fascism. So when they say they're against fascism, for example, they're not referring to like how political scientists and academics who study political philosophy describe and understand fascism. They're referring to anything that is against

their anti-ideology. So that can be It can be the entire GOP. It can be any American political figure, American government, things like freedom of inspection, property rights, all of that they consider fascist state. Okay, so hang on just a second. I mean, have they checked their own whiteness? You know, when you see the people in Antifa, I don't know if there is a typical Antifa member, but, you know, they seem white and young. and, you know, from what I've read, many of them privileged.

Who are they? Great question. So in the course of writing my book, I had to do some research in Portland. My home city provided a pretty good data that's set because there were so many arrests that happened over the 120 days of nightly riots. And so we have a sample size in around a thousand arrests speeds, the majority, overwhelming majority of whom are white and are enchanting things allowed. Black Lives Matter and calling for what they say is racial justice. They do skew young, some of juveniles, all the way to the early 30s. In terms of the economic stratos that they represent, it spans all.

You have people who, as you said, come from privileged backgrounds, those who are working in white collar professions like academics, like nurses, journalists, even. And then you have people who are, I view, extremely vulnerable, those who are mentally unwell, who are vagrants, who are coming to these operation bases that I have two footside up and are given food and give an accommodation in terms of tents and all that. And then when it comes to rioting at night, they're also given weapons and are given homemade IEDs to use and to throw. So this is a very, it's an evil ideology that victimizes a lot of people. It turns people who are passionate about what they view is social justice until sociopaths who want to kill and be killed in the process so that they can become martyrs. Politico has reported that with almost a million social media followers,

Andy No is a mega influencer and quote a key source for right wing audiences in search of news about Black Lives Matter movement. I hope you wear that as a badge of honor. I don't think they meant it that way. He's written a new book, Unmask Inside Anifah's Radical Plan to Destroy America. It's available everywhere now. Antifa has shut down bookstores in the Portland, Oregon area that were selling it, got them to remove the books. I mean, you know, that's what non-fascists do, book burnings. And it's available now.

And if you want to understand what's really going on, this is a really important book. Andy, I want to ask you, I mean, where you got the courage to put a black block uniform on, you know they know you. And then you go in and you're sitting in their meetings. What was that like? I mean, not only what the day say, but how frightened were you? So the uniform allowed them to feel a little bit comfortable to say things around me where I could hear it. They didn't speak to me directly, otherwise they probably would have figured out that it wasn't one of the redoubted numbers. When I was in child, in the uniform, I think what was really disturbing was seeing the level of organization that took place in the,

operations and that so-called autonomous zone in Seattle. Like they have this security app, so-called security apparatus where different members were assigned to different parts because the territory was so big. It was six blocks long, and their security were armed with weapons. So even though they say that they're against police,

they actually were creating a secret police force. Of course I was. That's what they were doing. and monitoring different areas of who was going in and who was going out. They had complete control of the streets and held essentially the people hostage who lived there. Other times, though, because they eventually started to catch on that I must have been in their area, they started to look out for people who they thought might have my body shape or might look like they have similar eyes to me. And it became really dangerous, and I did get exposed a few times.

And one of those times I was assaulted in Portland. But your question about courage, for me, it's about, it's not just me who's been personally victimized by them. I was beaten, but I was just one of many over the years who have been brutalized by them. So I feel like I am fighting for truth and justice for a lot of other people who don't have, home don't have an opportunity to share the stories, people who have also been ignored by law. enforcement. So I'm doing this for a lot of other people. Andy, I'd like to do a podcast with you and really go deep into all of this. I thank you for what you're doing. Thank you for your book. Please go out and buy a copy of Unmasked by Andy No NGO. And Andy, stay safe. We'll talk to you

again soon. Thank you. He's in the book. He follows the funding. And the, and the And he puts together the organization. Remember, it's not organized. It's not well-funded. Oh, yes, it is. He puts it all together in the book Unmasked. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. A Louisiana man, a Louisiana mom was shot dead by Hitman.

Her accused rapist brother had hired to kill her daughter. She was pretending to be the target. She was pretending to be her daughter to save her daughter's life. Brittany Cormier, 34, was found shot to death in her home, along with a 37-year-old neighbor who had been visiting her at the time. Brittany Cormier, the mom who sacrificed herself to save her daughter from the hitman. Investigators quickly focused on Cormier's brother, Bo Cormier, 35, a convicted sex offender accused of raping his niece. They had accused him of hiring two friends to kill the girl, even helping carry out the surveillance as he joined them on the first planned mission which was aborted.

When the killers struck on January 13th, Brittany pretended to be the target as her daughter and stepdaughter hid in a closet. Brittany was murdered as a result of telling the shooter that she was in fact the rape victim, likely saving the life of her daughter. The neighbor was shot dead while trying to fight off the gunman. Samantha Lemire, a friend who said Cormier was like a sister to her, told the advocate that the mom would do anything for her kids. Hope Nettleton, a friend of Bo Cormeier, was also killed.

They knew that he was unstable, but they said they never thought it would come down to something like this. I'd like to think she locked them in the closet to protect them. Well, I think that's probably what mom did. Death penalty is definitely on the table, according to the district attorney. That is, I mean, in a day when heroics are few and far between and courage is hard to find, man, there is nothing more fierce than a mother. Do not get between a mom and her child. That's when everything changes and our prayers go out to this family. Have a very safe weekend.

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