The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Goldie Ghamari | 1/12/26

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell posted a response last night to the DOJ after the DOJ opened a criminal probe into Powell and the Federal Reserve. Glenn breaks down how the Federal Reserve has transformed from a government department into a private business, completely shielded from responsibility. Glenn responds to Jerome Powell's remarks on the investigation into him, using the chalkboard to explain the government's role in protecting its citizens' rights. Goldie Ghamari, a human rights advocate and former Ontario member of the Provincial Parliament, joins to discuss whether America should get involved in what is happening in Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we're going to talk about lots of things. We talk about Venezuela, what's really happening there. Really important interview with Goldie Gamari. She is an advocate for Iran, what's actually happening on the streets there. And the creature from Jekyll Island, the whole fight between Donald Trump, the DOJ, and Jerome Powell, and the Federal Reserve. Why that's important and why power must come back to you and out of the hands. of the Federal Reserve, that creature that is actually making it so you aren't free. All that and more on today's podcast.

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The military is looking at it. And we're looking at some very strong options. We'll make a determination. Some of the protesters were killed through the stampeding. I mean, you know, there's so many of them. and so we're shot. Are we getting a full report? I'm getting an hourly report and we're going to make a determination.

We are in a, we're in a dangerous situation. Donald Trump is not somebody whose words you should dismiss if you were talking about him going in and taking care of a situation. For a guy who does not like war, he goes and he uses our military strategically, quickly. but, you know, again, everything in the world is on the edge. And he's kind of in a tough place because he has said, you start killing the protesters and we're locked and loaded. The president blows all of the credibility he's had around that he's built up because he is a man of action, a man of his word.

How is he going to react? Goldie Gamari is with us now. She was on with us last week. Persian. Were you ever a citizen of Iran? Did you, were you living in Iran when you, when, when this thing fell or did you come with your parents? I was born after the 1979 Islamics coup d'etat. I was, I was born in Iran, but my parents came to Canada when I was a year old. Okay. And you are a human rights activist and watching this and you care deeply, obviously. Tell us what happened over the weekend, before we get into Trump. What happened over the weekend?

And it seemed to have been growing, but at the same time, the oppressions seem to be growing. Yes. So the movement, the revolution has definitely escalated. We saw videos coming out, footage of millions and millions of Iranians all across the country, going out into the streets and peacefully marching, peacefully demonstrating. And they were saying this is the final battle. Pahlavi will return. Pahlavi is, of course, the crown prince.

There's a Pahlavi who's the leader of the Iranian National Revolution. But you're actually right. At the same time, we started to see escalating violence. And this is what the regime does. So right now we're in the endgame. And the reason that the violence is being escrowed, that it's on its way down. And it's basically going scored. Talk about this last time, Glenn, where I said one of the interesting things

about what we have seen so far, like this was last week, is that the internet still hasn't been shut down. And I predicted that I think someone has been smuggling Starlink into the country. And just a few days ago, Elon Musk confirmed that he is actually assisted in, you know, bringing hundreds of thousands of Starlink devices into occupied Iran. So first of all, I want to give a big, big shout out to Elon Musk. He is a hero of the Iranian revolution. Yeah, and Iranians love him.

So that's how we've been able to get footage come out because what the Islamic dictatorship has done now is they have shut down the internet. They've, you know, cut it completely. And we always know that when that happens, that's when they slaughter Iranians. And so the crown prince, there's a Qadlavi. He has the most reliable sources. And yesterday he did an interview with Maria Bargterromo on Sunday morning dinkeers. and he confirmed that as of yesterday,

the number of casualties in occupied Iran is more than 9-11. So we know that for a fact, but we also know that this is the final push. And President Trump's message has given Iranians a lot of hope. We know that he's going to act because he is a man of his word. It's just a matter of when. So we're all hoping that President Trump act sooner rather than later because the situation

it's gotten really bad. It's gone really bad. How should he react? What should the president do? I'm not a military strategist, so I can't say, obviously, I mean, we don't want like World War Free or anything like that, but, you know, Marco Rubio said it best there's never been a population where, you know, There's never been like a situation where the people of a country are so fundamentally opposed to those who are running the country. So all I can say is that we all trust in President Trump. We trust in his expertise.

We know that whatever decision he's going to make is the right one. Iranians, like, they're not giving up. They're still out in the streets. They're still fighting. You know what? So when the Islamic regimes found out that Elon Musk has helped smuggle. in Starlink, they have now brought in military-grade jammers that they purchased from the CCP, and those military-grade jammers have now jails. So we're getting even less

videos coming out, which means the situation is pretty bad. We know that the Islamic regime, they've also brought in their terrorist proxy forces. But the few messages that we are able to get from inside occupied Iran, what Iranians are telling us is that, yes, the situation is bad. And what we're seeing right now or what we're hearing about in terms of the casualties, it's maybe only like 20 or 30% of the truth,

of the actual numbers. But what they're saying is that now is not the time for tears. This is the final battle. And what Iranians are asking, for those of us who are outside of Iran, is to be their voice and to just let people know that even though the Internet is shut down, that doesn't mean that the revolution isn't happening.

In fact, the revolution is growing. It's basically everyone now. Everyone is out of the streets, and it's now or never. And Iranians, they entaste freedom after 47 years of Islamic oppression. I will tell you that, you know, I pray for the Iranian and the Persian people. I pray for this evil, evil regime to come down. I do not want our troops to get involved in another foreign war. But I don't think that it's going to take much from President Trump.

If we withdraw our support or we remain silent, it's going to end up the way it did under Biden and Barack Obama. And that only strengthens our enemy at times. It'll make them stronger, at least for a short period of time. and it will become very, very, very dangerous for everybody involved and make the people that want to go march in the street the next time a little more hesitant because this time we said something. And I'm glad I'm not the president today. Let me just say that. I'm glad I'm not the president today. And I pray that he makes the right decision for everybody involved.

Thank you. I'm sure. I'm sure he will. And, you know, I agree with you. I don't want boots on the ground. No Iranians want, like, like, we don't, the Iranian people themselves are the boots on the ground. Yes.

So in that sense, you know, we don't want, you know, we don't want to, you know, drag people into another war, anything like that. But, again, I'm not a military strategist, but, you know, like maybe president, like I'm hoping he does something like, you know, what he did with the nuclear facilities. I don't know.

I mean, maybe something like that. But, but what I can't say is that, you know, Iranians, they're hopeful. And the Crown Prince, he actually put out a very interesting message yesterday to Iranian people that the mainstream media are not picking up on. So he actually said, he confirmed yesterday. He said, we are not alone. And international help is on the way.

So he actually said that in his message. So that, to me, gives me hope. And it's given 90 million Iranians hope that President Trump will be doing. doing something. And, you know, we, we have faith in him that whatever decision it is, it's going to be the best possible decision for everyone. We have one shot at this. And, you know, President Trump, he knows best. He knows best. He has the intel. So we're all very hopeful. You know, like, President Trump has never been more popular right now in occupied Iran. Iranians are literally going out and they're renaming signs after him, calling it President Trump Street. But,

Not only that, Iranians also know how much support they have from, you know, everyone outside. And there's actually just one thing I wanted to say to you personally, Glenn, to check your profile last night. And when I checked your profile pictures, I got a little emotional. I'm not going to say, I got a little bit emotional. You did. For your listeners, if they don't know, you changed your bio pictures. to the real flag of Iran. I can say that on behalf of all Iranians' solidarity that we're seeing from Americans

because we feel like this is the first time in 47 years that people are realizing that we're not the enemy of America. We love America. We love Americans. We used to be allies before 1979. And we're both fighting the same enemy, which is this evil Islamic dictatorship. So, you know, a free Iran is going to mean a safer America. And I just, I cannot wait until we can, you know, be like officially, right, be allies against.

So just, I want to thank you for your supportive solidarity. That's a meaningful gesture. You are more than welcome. I urge everybody to put on your, put on your social media, just put the real flag of Iran, which is, it looks just like the Iranian flag, except it doesn't have the Islamic thing in the middle. it has the golden tiger in the center or lion sorry yeah the golden lion um and uh it it i think people all around the world need to stand up for the persian people they have been living under this oppressive regime for a long time with so much courage and like goldie just said

nobody has really stood up for them um and you know we you can never give freedom to people they have to earn it, but they are earning it and they want it desperately. And this is the turning point. If Iran falls, this is the turning point against Islamic extremism. They no longer have this huge pile of money and this giant proxy that is there. And you will see things begin to turn because of this. I think it's why the left this weekend started coming out against Tamas and saying it's a terrorist organization.

They haven't been on that bandwagon for a while. And it's because the Persian and Iranian people are standing up and saying, we're not saying we're against this regime. We're against Sharia law. We are against this oppressive idea that Islam is a government. It can be a religion, not a government. And it's oppressive. And they are proving everything that the left has been cozing up to is,

poison and it is so important. I don't want to do it through force. I don't really want us to get involved. I want the people to be able to do it and anything that we can do to strengthen them with our voices and our support online. All of us should be doing anything that we can do with speaking out for the Iranian and the Persian people and standing up for them to be able to be free. We should do. And Goldie, I, would love to, when it falls, I would love to be one of the first people that can walk on the streets of a free Iran and broadcast my show from there. You would be more than welcome.

We would love to have you. Oh my gosh. You know, as soon as Iran is free, we're looking forward to welcoming Americans back to Iran. Like, we cannot wait. We cannot wait. And I just wanted to point out something really, really poetic. 47 years ago,

Jimmy Carter and the Democrats helped to turn Iran into an Islamic dictatorship and now 47 years later, the 47th president of the United States is going to free Iran and fix the mistake that Jimmy Carter and the Democrats made 47 years ago.

That's so incredibly poetic and I just want to say God bless President Trump. God bless America. Thank you so much, Gouldee. I appreciate it. God bless you. if you would like to get more information and follow, please just follow her. You can find her at X at G-G-G-H-A-M-R-M-A-R-I. it's G. Gamari and follow her on Twitter.

You can also find her on YouTube as well, but she gives a good analysis of what is happening. And every day, every day that goes by, it's either going to get stronger or weaker, and it's going to happen quickly when it does. And now is the time to pray for the Iranian and Persian people. Every day Americans make choices that shape our future, our country's future.

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Now, I'm kidding. Let me talk to you a little bit about Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell had a hissy fit last night because on Friday, the DOJ said, look who we're coming after. Now, in case you don't know, you don't go after the Federal Reserve. Unless you're President Trump, Reagan tried to do it. it and it didn't go well. It didn't go well for President Reagan.

But President Trump may be a different animal entirely. He is going after the Federal Reserve with the DOJ and they filed against the Federal Reserve and said, we're going to start looking into this palace that you're building. Now, let me give you an update on just the palace that they're building. They're like a billion dollars in overruns right now. Now let me ask you, if you got a loan and you were a billion dollars overrun, do you think the bank would have a problem with that? Do you think the bank might say, you know what, I don't think I'm going to give you another loan because you're a billion dollars in cost overruns? I think the bank would have a problem.

This bank doesn't have a problem with it. There's no bank calling them going, hey, what are you doing? the president is the one having to call them and say, what are you doing? Because for some strange reason, this is a private corporation, and you, the taxpayer, are paying for their new palace. That's the best I can describe it.

It's a palace, you know, with fountains in the lobby of the chairman. And, oh, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. And you'll, the great thing is, is you'll be able to see it when you go into the federal, oh, wait, you don't go into the Federal Reserve. I don't go in it. Who goes into the Federal Reserve?

the Federal Reserve. Well, the elites are really going to enjoy it. They're going to love it. Billion dollars in cost overruns. The president has a problem with that. He's bringing it up to them and saying, you know, maybe we should look into this legally. Maybe there's some things going on. Oh, no, no, no, no, you can't check the books from Colin Powell. You can't check the books of the Federal Reserve. Hmm. Really? Well, President Trump is going to check the books on the Federal Reserve. Now, I want you to know that's not really what this is about. Yes, they're a trillion or a billion dollars in cost overruns. Yes, they're out of control. Yes, you can't check their books. But that's not what this is about. What this is about is Donald Trump doesn't think the Federal

Reserve, a private corporation with all this secrecy should be the ones making the decisions on what your interest rate is. Now, I'm going to go a step further and say, I think the free market should decide. Yeah. Yeah. You see, when you take all of the big banks and you put them together and you call them the Federal Reserve, that's what I like to call a monopoly. Not the game, but just as frustrating.

The banks have a monopoly. The banks are the ones colluding to decide what are they going to charge you for interest. And by the way, inflation, that's not a bug. That's a feature. Inflation is planned. Now, let me ask you, if I said to you, hey, how much money should your dollar lose every year? How many pennies on every dollar should you lose? Should you lose two, three, five, or eight pennies on every dollar every dollar? every year. You have it in savings. You're spending it. How much would you like it to go down? Now, I'm a weirdo. So I say, no pennies. It should not lose value. In fact, I'd like it to gain value. But that doesn't happen. Why? Because the Federal Reserve has decided that 2% inflation is the right number. So you should lose two cents. Wait, every year on every dollar. And we're losing much, much, much more than that. I was doing

calculation the other day. I'm charging when we announce, you know, that the, that the torch is up for, you know, subscription. I'm charging you $9.99. And for the first month that we offer it, it will be inflation proof for the rest of your life. Okay. As long as you hold your subscription, if you were one of the founding people that came in, I will never raise the price on you. Now, I was doing some calculations. $9.99, we're going to call it, no, this is crazy. We're just going to say it's $10, because that's what $9.99 is. But anyway, you put $10 in.

That's what I charged when we first put the blaze together. I said it's $9.99. Do you know how much $999 is worth today in 2000? $11. This will show you how much money you, how much money, your money has lost. How much is $999 today if you had $2,0,0, 2011? That's actually like $6.70. Your dollar has lost over $3.

Your $10 bill is now worth about $7. That's how much money. you've lost since Obama was in. That's not a bug. That's a feature of the Federal Reserve. And most people don't even know what the Federal Reserve is because you're not taught about it. Not because it's secret. You know, books have been written.

Hearings have been held. Transcripts have been preserved. But you don't teach it to anybody because, well, I mean, it's inconvenient. It doesn't exactly flatter power. Actually, if you start looking at it and you realize what, it really is, you're like, I don't think I like that at all. No, no, no, it's the Federal Reserve. They named it the Federal Reserve for dopes like us. So we would always say, well, it's a federal institution. It's part of the government. No, it's not. It's a private corporation. If you had to

read one book this year, I would suggest you read a book called The Creature from Jekyll Island. It's by G. Edward Griffin. When I first read this, I didn't know who G. Edward Griffin was. And so I started doing my homework on him because I'm like, I don't want to read this if he's some crackpot. Well, he's not some crackpot. And I actually did an interview with him the last year at Fox. Some people say, C. Glenn Beck had G. Edward Griffin on, and that's why they fired him. They didn't fire me, and it had nothing to do with it or did it. But it is uncomfortable. Nobody wants to talk about this, but what he does in this book, he doesn't start with conspiracy. He begins with history. The banks had been wanting a federal bank forever. They wanted to control the money supply.

They wanted to be the ones to print the money and control the money. And I'll get into why here in a minute. But it was a small group of men. It was senators and bankers and financial architects and they slipped out under assumed names and got on to a private train and went to a private retreat on a place called Jekyll Island. There was no press, no public record, there were no voters, this was all entirely secret. And they were not drafting a bill to be debated. They were designing a system to be accepted. And what emerged from that island was, not a government agency, at least in the normal sense. It was a mechanism.

It was a reason why it's a creature from Jacqueline. It's a hybrid. It's a hybrid creature. It's public in its appearance. It's private. Unbelievably private. Like illegally private in any other business. And completely shielded from all accountability.

Tell me another structure like that. Besides what? The CIA. Armed with power. power that no free society should ever hand to any unelected body ever. And the creature is the Federal Reserve. And it's not a department like the U.S. Department of Finance. It's not that.

It's regional banks privately owned by member banks. Remember when they said, oh, you know what? The banks are too big to fail. What does that tell you we should do with the banks? This is what people said in 2008. They're just too big to fail. That would mean, okay, then maybe we don't let them fail. I mean, not in my opinion, but this is what the argument was.

We don't let them fail this time. But then what do you do after you save them? Reason and logic would say, I make them smaller. So I'm never in this position again, right? They didn't. They made them bigger. and yes, governors are appointed, but once they are seated, they have extraordinary independence. And the president can't do anything about it.

You know, the president, when he selects a, I'm going to select a new chairman of the Federal Reserve. Do you know where he gets the names? From the Federal Reserve. He can't say, you know what I'm going to put in charge? Rand Paul. He can't do that. Because they wouldn't allow Rand Paul. to ever get near the Federal Reserve.

I don't even know if he's even been allowed to walk into the Federal Reserve. So the President can only pick from the people that he wants. You know what that is? That's the Soviet Union and the way they used to run elections. That's the way Putin runs elections today. That's the way they run elections in Iran. The people can choose just from these pre-approved people. And the consequences are not.

not abstract to you. They have the power, the only ones that have the power to create money out of nothing. They can just type it in with a keystroke and we're printing more money. It sets the interest rates which decide what you can do. Can you open a business? Can you afford a home? Are your savings, remember, because of interest rates and because of inflation, are your savings rewarded or are you punished? If I've been saving money since 2010, look how much money. I had $100,000 in. It's now worth $67,000 because it's lost money. It's lost with the value of it. It still says I have all that money, but it's actually only worth about $67,000. What are you doing? Why would we do this? Why would we allow this? Why would we allow this?

institution to do this to us. They are privately stealing from us and telling us it's for your own good and your own safety. It also decides liquidity, a word that nobody really pays attention to. What a liquidity means is, do the banks have enough money? Do we need to print some more money so the banks have more money? Because the banks, if liquidity dries up, then, you know, you can't get a loan. So we got to print more money, which will cost us, more and then because that's a really, really bad idea, usually printing money the way we've been doing it, it's going to cost me on top of it because then you're going to have to raise my interest rates to unbelievable levels to be able to suck all that money back in. Who is? Who thinks this is a good idea?

By the way, this is not regulation. This is command. They have command and control. So what is really all about? What is the president really doing? And what is the Fed really doing? I want to try to explain just with this argument on the Fed. I'll explain what they're arguing about here in a second. And then I want to show you what the Fed really is and how this is a really brilliant master move, master stroke of genius, if you are trying to control the world. Remember, progressives, the word progressive, what does that mean? It means we make progress little by little, right? We're making progress.

Progressivism is progress a little bit at a time. Why a little bit of a time? Why don't we just go for it? Why don't we just make these changes? Why wouldn't progressives state what their goal is and then make those changes? Because they know you don't want what they're selling. In the early 1900s, progressivism is just translated, if I may,

slow communists. They didn't want the riots in the street. They didn't want the bloodshed. They don't want the banks overthrown and the economy. They'll just do it slowly by taking a little bit more power and a little bit more of your stuff every day. You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more?

Check out the full show podcasts, anywhere you download podcasts. Monday, January 12th. By the way, Stu has the week off. God, this guy never worked. You know what it is? The Eagles had a very bad weekend. And I'm going to be honest with you. Stu got involved in some rioting in Philadelphia.

He's in jail. We'll bail him out. Don't worry about it. But he will be back next week. And he is, for those of you who have been paying attention, he is starting his own business. and he's going to be leaving us shortly, Trader, and just couldn't get the job done, you know what I mean?

Is it done yet? Is the job done? No, we saved America? No, I quit. Anyway, we have a really nice, we have a nice send-off for him. At some point when he gets, we're going to do some nice things because, I mean, he's one of my best friends, and we've worked together for 27 years. It's really, it's weird.

It's weird. Like, the marriage gone bad. Except we like each other still. I think we might even like each other more when we're away than we do at this time. We really like each other. I mean, Tanya may have some competition. I'm just saying, Tanya and Lisa. Okay.

Let me tell you about the Federal Reserve and what's going on. Now, Trump and Powell are going back and forth. Powell came out with this extraordinary statement last night where he said, you know, the president is going after us. And I'll tell you what really is happening here. He just wants control of the interest rates. And I was listening to it and I thought, you know, who are you, you unelected, you unelected bank guy? Who gave you the power?

Well, I know who gave you the power. The Senate did and the Congress did and the president did under Woodrow Wilson in 1913. But the people didn't. I would much rather have an elected official or people that would answer to me. But think about the Federal Reserve. They don't answer to anyone but themselves. Okay? The president can't fire them.

The president has to pick the replacement out of the replacements they suggest. We can't audit their books. We don't know what they're doing. It's completely secret. The CIA has more oversight, I believe, than the Federal Reserve. And they're not a federal organization. They are not part of the government in the traditional sense. who who in their right mind thinks this is a good idea?

Let me show you what the founder's idea was. The founder's idea, like it or not, was that God gives man rights. Before, it was God gave certain people, kings, et cetera, et cetera. God gave rights to those people, and those people had rights over you to tell you exactly what to do, how to live your life, what land you could own, you know, what you had to do with your money, what you had to do with your whole life. They could tell you everything about your life. The founders came along and said, I don't think that's the way it should be. I think God gives the individual rights. So the individual is more powerful or as powerful as powerful as any king. And the people can decide what to do with their business, what they can do with

their life, who they can marry, how they live, where they live, what house they could buy, what land they could own. Before all those decisions were made by the king. You couldn't own property. The king or the lord and the lady had to give you that land or you had to negotiate it. How is a popper going to do that? How is somebody who's at the bottom of the barrel going to be able to buy land? Couldn't. They couldn't. And everything, including the banks, were controlled by the king. Okay. Founders came along and said, that's got to stop because people are their own sovereign. You're the sovereign over your own life. And governments, says in the Declaration of Independence, are instituted among men to protect those rights.

So the first thing is, all men are created equal, endowed by their creator of certain enabled rights. And governments are instituted among men to protect those rights. So the first thing that government comes into is the people saying, I need somebody to be a guardian over my rights, over my property, over, you know, business. if I'm in business and somebody's being unfair, I need somebody to come in and go, hey, hey, hey, these are the rules. You're wrong, you're right, but these are the rules. And if you guys don't like the rules,

you guys can change the rules. I'm just here as a referee. Okay, that's the government's role. Is that their role now? Now, we did that for a while. Then around the turn of the century, progressives came into the play. Progressives, like I said earlier,

are just slow, communists. And I'm not, that's not a cute turn of phrase. That is really what they are. They believed in a collective power. They believed in the elites. So it became fascism or communism. But progressives didn't want to have the bloodshed in the streets. And so they thought they could just build it piece by piece because they knew it would take a revolution to do it. And they had to separate you from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. Woodrow Wilson hated the Declaration of Independence. Ask any real progressive, and they'll tell you that the Declaration of Independence plays no role in anything anymore.

It's an old dusty document for a different time. I'm here to tell you it's a document that is for this time, the future, and the past. It's who we are. It's our mission statement. So we developed when we said, all men are created equal, governments need to be instituted to protect those rights. We came up with a government that checked on itself. We had Congress, the president, and the court system. And they all ran checks and balances.

Even in Congress, the purse strings, the only one that can start spending your money is Congress. So your congressman, you have to vote them in every two years. Why? Doesn't that seem ridiculous? Every two years you have to go vote for your congressman? No, the founders knew they controlled the spending. And so if you didn't like what they were spending, if they were raising taxes and spending too much, you could vote them out every two years. So they didn't have this long

control. They were given the keys to the purse, to the safe. They don't anymore. You know, we haven't had a budget since 2008. Progressives finally got rid of the whole budget process. So it doesn't matter who starts it because all they do is they just add on to what they've already had. We're going to expand this, going to track this, and they can move the money. Okay. So you've lost that control over your money. Also, the Senate was set up to be able to check, be the check and the balance on the federal government versus the state government. Remember, states are more important in the federal government. That's what they believed at the founding era. But we need the federal government to settle arguments just to play a referee and also, if there's a war, wage war. Okay? So we were so afraid that the federal government would get out of control and there would be a big deep state that the founder said all of the senators are voted on by the state houses. So you could send a senator, but the state house would vote on that. They did that because they felt that the senator would be loyal to the state.

if it became an election, then other states, think of this. Why do you care about Chuck Schumer? You care about Chuck Schumer because he affects you. Because his loyalty is no longer to New York. It's to the federal government. They work for all of us instead of their state. That's not the way it was set up, and that's part of the problem. Then the president, the president didn't have enough control because they remember,

progressives wanted bean counters. They wanted somebody that could control everything that wasn't necessarily elected. They were just the best in their job. And so let's get these experts in to do an administrative state. And so they grew the administrative state, the deep state. They grew all of these administrative arms, the department of this, the department of that, that you don't even know who runs those things. If you have to deal with one of those, go ahead.

Deal with the Bureau of Land Management. Go ahead. Deal with the Department of Labor. Who do you vote out? You don't agree with what they're doing. Who do you vote out? You can't. They're not responsive to you at all.

They're barely responsive to the president because they're trying to get rid of the president being able to fire any of those people. So they are completely unelected and now approaching unfairable. Then you have the courts. And around 1920, the progressives again decided they need to make case law and not constitutional law.

So stop looking at the Constitution and reading it the way the founders wanted it. Read it case law. If we could get one case to say this, then it builds on that. And then suddenly the Constitution doesn't matter anymore. So they completely rotted all of the ideas that governments are instituted among men to protect those rights that you have. They rotted all of that. So you don't really have a constitutional government the way we, and we haven't for 100 years, the way our founders envisioned it. Then between 1910 and 1920, all of those things happened.

Congress changed. The Senate changed. The administrative state under Woodrow Wilson, case law, all of it happened between 1910 and 1920. But they needed one other thing, because if you can control two things, health, and money, you control people completely. So they took over your money. And this was voted on over and over and over again. And the American people kept saying no.

And so they all got together, all these bankers and these senators got together and went to Jekyll Island for a week. And they put together this whole idea of the Federal Reserve and named it the Federal Reserve so people would think that it's part of the federal government. It passed. It became a constitutional. Amendment. And what does it do? It controls everything. It controls your inflation. It controls the boom and the bust period. It controls everything. Basically, it controls you. It takes us from a country that says, you can do anything to you can do anything if the federal government says it's okay and if the bank says it's okay. Before you could do anything. and the government just played referee. Now the banks and the federal government pick and choose winners. Well, no, you need a light.

You can't just go out and do something. You need a license for that. Why do I need a license for that? I mean, some things I think I need a license for. Hair cut, cutting people's hair. I mean, in the era of straight razors, maybe, maybe. That's not happening anymore. Why do I need that?

I need a license for, why? Why? So the state cannot just make their money, but the state also has control. They also tell you how you spend your money, how much money you have. How much money is that worth? What will the bank allow? And so we see this and we see this corrupt system and we're like, oh, those rich people, you're targeting the wrong rich people.

For instance, California is now targeting billionaires. the billionaires we got to tax the billionaires they're just going to move that's all that's going to happen they have enough money they're going to move they'll move their corporation they'll move everything out of california and move someplace else and if texas decides to do that they'll do did you learn anything from france this is what france did all the billionaires moved tax the billionaires what does taxing the billionaires actually do what a high taxes actually do take it away from you and give the power to the state