The Glenn Beck Program - Government Has No 'Better Angels'? - 5/16/18

Episode Date: May 16, 2018

Hour 1 Socialist chickens have come home to roost?... ‘Venezuela isn't socialism’… oh yes, it is...fallacy of impossible wants ...NPR interviews Palestinians who hate Israelis...remember the Nazi kites? How is this different?...Senior Hamas official: 'This is not peaceful resistance'...always check: who do you agree with? ...Socialism Marxism = Antisemitism ...Comedian + Vodka = Bad News?    Hour 2  Suspected CIA leaker...WikiLeaks named the code ‘Vault 7’... one of the biggest and potentially most harmful leaks in CIA history? ...Democrats, less pro-Israel than ever...liberals vs. progressives ...Jordan Peterson continues to be slammed and misrepresented in the media ...Are electric cars worse for the environment? ...new research suggests, yes, definitely...very fuzzy math...gas pollution has been cut by 99% since the 1960s ...Amazon takes it in the teeth in Socialist City = Seattle ...Making Berkeley Look Like BYU? ...Meet Glenn Beck in November at the 2018 Mercury One M1 Ball...get your tickets now at: MercuryOne.org/m1ball   Hour 3 College campus crisis...Declining enrollment ...Author Michael Malice joins Glenn to discuss North Korea...Just like with Gorbachev: It's all about 'trust but verify'... We need to see concrete action from North Korea...3 hostages freed, 25 million to go...Is Kim Jong Un bluffing when it comes to making peace with the rest of the world? ...Glenn goes out on a 'man limb' over the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand. Glenn back. Here it is. It's finally arrived. The Venezuela isn't real communism fallacy. You know how it works. You've heard it before. You get into discussion with somebody who believes in socialism, hates capitalism,

wants to burn the system down, so on, so on, so on. And they're always furiously passionate. They want you to believe that so. Socialism works, but you say it doesn't. It fails over and over and over again. And as it fails, it becomes more and more strong-armed. And you mentioned the running death toll of roughly nearly 100 million, China, the Soviet Union, Somalia, Mozambique, Romania, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba, East Germany, and now Venezuela.

And then their mask, their face reddens into a mask of fear. fury. That's not real socialism. Communism can work. Karl Marx was right. And they shove their plate of gourmet vegan, Nepal food aside. They stomp their Birken stocks and they flee the room. How many times have we heard this before? Well, thanks to late-night activism journalist and activism comedian John Oliver for reminding us that people, still believe that socialism can work. This week, on his show, he, quote, discussed Venezuela. He wanted to make it clear from the start that Venezuela's status as a communist country has nothing to do with the communist-like symptoms of the current state of devastation.

And it has been hard to keep up with events in Venezuela due to the hurricane of that we've all been dealing with here. Although, if you follow conservative media at all, you may have seen it frequently painted as the inevitable dire consequences of a socialist government. Yeah, yeah. It's always jarring when it happens. He actually said the words. What is happening in Venezuela is not just extremely important. It is absolutely worth paying attention to because this is not just a story about socialism.

There are plenty of socialist countries that look nothing like Venezuela. It's a story about epic mismanagement, so epic that a nation of 31 million people with the largest oil reserves in the world have been forced to resort to some pretty creative forms of protest. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. He then proceeded to detail the corruption that has affected Venezuela, its leaders, the corrupt leaders.

Oliver's smug ignorance is a little tiring. You know, I think he's funny, you know. But he's definitely a leftist. That's fine. But when you are opening, you are openly denying. the 100 million dead from the experiments of Marx? I don't know. I just don't find it funny.

Once again, left-leaning activism, journalist hides behind the guise of comedy. In her book, A Conservative walks into a bar, Alison Dagnese writes, When satire sheds light on perceived injustice, It also references the justice that should be found instead. So we all see the injustice, but as usual, John Oliver has chosen to fistwave and ask for a revolution. However, silly or insecure. What is John Oliver telling his audience to pursue?

What are we supposed to take from that? Does he actually believe that? that communism can work? It's Wednesday, May 16th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. You know, do they ever stop to think why is there such colossal mismanagement in country after country after country after country

because the government has all the power and the people cannot push back? And human beings are incapable of managing that system. When they talk about there's a lot of successful socialist countries that look nothing like that, they always point to things like Sweden. Well, Sweden is just a capitalist welfare state, right? It's a bad version of capitalism. And there are socialist elements to the system, but it is not a socialist system.

And may I also point out that every time they point to countries like Norway or Sweden, those are very small countries that up until recently, almost everybody had blonde hair and blue eyes. They were almost all from the same background, the same belief. Well, it's pretty easy to do that. It's really hard to do it in the most diverse country ever on planet Earth.

It's not possible. It's just not possible. Look at what's happening. You want socialized medicine? Go to the VA. it's working out well or is that mismanaged and corrupt it's mismanaged and corrupt

because every time you have a problem with socialism you say it's mismanagement or corruption that's what you do. How about the social security system? Is that doing well or is that mismanaged and corrupt? And of course there's real elements of truth, right?

Was Adolf Hitler a good manager? No. He wasn't. Was Joseph Stalin a good manager? No. Oh, was Mao a good manager? No, he was corrupt and he was incompetent, and he dealt with a lot of mismanagement. However, it's ingrained in the system. That is, you have all of these cases where these people all seem to not be able to figure out the magical formula that makes socialism successful.

And the reason is because there isn't one. You know, it's amazing is they're now saying that, you know what we need is the combination of socialism and capitalism. Oh. okay well that's called national socialism that's what the Nazis did you know what we'll let people keep their land we'll let them keep their factories i mean unless the government has to take over those factories we're just going to let the capitalist system work but it'll work for the people yeah there there it is there's your hybrid there's your hybrid the minute you take the people out of it.

The minute the government doesn't have to answer, or better yet, doesn't fear the people, it goes corrupt. Every time. Every time. Why is that? Because if we

really were better angels, we wouldn't need all of these laws. We wouldn't need checks. imbalances. We wouldn't need them because we would just plan on our better angels to take care of us and guide us. Where are those better angels? Are those better angels found in government? And I ask the world in any government? Are we all struggling to model one government or one group of people over another? Is there a

model anywhere on earth. Is there a leader on earth that you trust? Is there? Is there a group of people that are running a government that you're like, geez, man, I wish, you know, can we just hire them? Can we just get them to come over here and show us? No. And even if they found them, as soon as they got in control, the thing would fall apart. And then they'd say, actually, that was mismanagement. We picked the wrong people. That's what they do every single time. And again, if you've seen any success, from countries like China. You've seen it from when they've embraced capitalism.

Not the other way around. They don't start as capitalism, embrace socialism, and then find their peak success. What you're seeing is the exact opposite. China was a China, they're like, oh, well, China has had some success. And they have a communist party. First of all, it's falling away, right? I mean, they're changing that society. And as they have changed, you know, again.

Technology is going to change them back. It may. Yeah. But the reason they've had success is, because they have embraced elements of capitalism and free trade. Right. And the other side of that, you know, they, yes, do they have elements of their economy that have grown, you know, manufacturing, for example, they're the number one manufacturing country now we're number two. But is that something to brag about when you have four times the amount of people?

Is that something? Are we supposed to be impressed by the fact that you can turn out just slightly more products than us with one quarter of the people? Is that where we're supposed to be impressed by that? Is that success of your system? There is not, there are no examples. None. And the reason why you have to keep saying it's mismanagement is because you have no examples to point to. You have a system in places like Sweden and Finland and Denmark where you can say, okay,

that's a relatively stable society. However, it's a stable society where the average person lives in a 700 square foot apartment. And if that's what you want, there's something wrong with that. If that's what you want, that's fine. Yeah. But again, it's when you put it up against what we have accomplished, when the new, a new home that gets built now is over 2,500 square feet. I mean, you can choose to live like that.

There's nothing wrong with that, but you're prioritizing something completely different. You're prioritizing the government, taking away the worry of certain basic needs at the expense of... Your possible wants. Yeah, your possible wants. Your success, innovation, they get to take our innovations. We win the Nobel Prizes, and then those things spread across.

across the globe and other countries in socialist countries benefit from them. That's a wonderful gift from us to the world. But that is not a success of socialism. Well, here's the thing. About 50% of the nation believes now socialism is great. However, when you drill down and you ask them specific questions about it, it shows that only about 1% actually believe in socialism and know what it is can make a cogent argument for, social 1%. You lose about 49 percentage points when you ask a simple question. Well, what is it? How does it work?

Because the media and the culture is telling everybody, this is good. This is bad. Well, they know because they live in what is, quote, bad. So they know that system. But nobody is explaining. exactly how socialism works. And once you start to ask logical questions about socialism, all of the support dissipates. Because what they're being promised is, oh my gosh, hope and change. They're being promised change. And when something other and better than this is presented without any facts whatsoever, yeah, I'm for that. We're all for that.

But the intelligent among us say, but, but wait, could you give me any details on how that works? What is happening in Israel is absolutely shameful, shameful. Actually, let me remember it. Not what's happening in Israel. How our media is reporting what is happening in Israel. real is truly shameful, but even more so, it is deadly dangerous to us. I'll explain coming up in just a second. First, let me tell you about ZipRecruiter.

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Because you know that the left is going to use it to discredit you. Why? So why would you do that? Why are you carrying this flag? do you remember all of those times when they when they gave them opportunities to uh i don't you don't i don't remember er no any oh well they they had to be there because npr is now doing this with the nazi kites now if you don't know about the nazi kites that's because you're watching the mainstream media there are there are um uh gaza protesters i like to call them terrorists

who have made kites. Well, you're just saying they're terrorists because they happen to belong to an internationally recognized terrorist organization. Well, that's one reason. The other reason is they have made kites, put the swastika on it, then put an incinerary bomb or device underneath the kite. They launched the kites on their side of the border over the Israeli side, into the farmland and the wheat,

and then tried to get the kite to crash down and set the fields on fire. That seems like a terrorist to me. But the thing that the press failed to mention, you know, beside the trying to light the fields on fire, are the Nazi kites themselves. And when they did mention it, they wanted to make sure that they gave those people

every single opportunity to claim oh they didn't know what that meant listen to NPR and we've also encountered Ahmed al-Bordani who is 19 years old and when we saw him

was holding a homemade white kite would you describe what that is this is a tachita this is a kite that's going to go to the Jews he said it's designed to float over the Israelis and catch fire It was decorated with writing claiming Jerusalem for Palestinians and also with swastikas.

What does this thing mean to you? Why do you put that on there? The Jews go crazy for Hitler when they see it. The Israelis know that people are flying kites with swastikas. They know this. And they use it to discredit you to say this shows your bad people. What do you think about that? This is actually what we want them to know, he says, that we want to burn them.

Ah. Oh, they clarified. Okay. All right. Now, in any other circumstance, if anyone, anyone in America was saying, yeah, well, I'm flying the Nazi kite because Jews freak out about Hitler. And I want them to know that I'm going to burn them. Oh.

At any time, would there be a discussion at all about, well, do they have a reason to hate the Jews? Well, what did the Jewish guy do to him? No. We would all rightfully say, this guy's crazy. This guy is a killer. This guy is as bad as the Nazis. Would we not? Would we not say that there is no place in our society and anyone who doesn't outright and clearly condemn people that think like this are part of the problem?

There would be a witch hunt in America. And what is the press doing? The press is trying to tell us that, well, I mean, it's only because of Israel. It's only because of Israel. Geez, I've heard that before. Oh, I remember it was from Gerbils and his propaganda. You know, it was because of what the Jews were doing. You know, the Jews run all the banking, and they're just oppressing all of us.

That's what they're doing. You know, they run the media and the banking and everything else. That was gerbils. You don't need gerbils anymore. You don't need him. You don't need a head guy coming up with all this stuff. Hamas is saying it. And our media is defending it and making it legitimate.

It shows that. I mean, they're just completely accepting all the casualty numbers from the Palestinian Authority, from Hamas. Hey, 2,800 are injured. It's like, well, wait a minute. How? How? We're now finding out that many of the people who were killed are actual Hamas members. Right. So, again, really, like these peaceful protesters just happen to belong to an internationally recognized terrorist group.

And then beyond that, you know, you have people, they're, we're told these are snipers taking out individual people. They're just like looking at them and they're taking them out as they go. How bad of a shot are the Israelis? What do we have? 1%? Half of a percent. Oh. I mean, it's bizarre how many people get injured by this gunfire and at the same time do not get killed.

It's amazing. It's incredible. Well, only if you don't understand the real peaceful meaning behind the Nazi kites. Yes. This is the Glenn Beck program. So how do you find the truth? How do you find the truth? We're living in a postmodernist world that says there is no truth.

That is, that all truth is subjective. And your reality isn't even reality. There is no reality. Okay, well, that's the biggest pile of dog crap I've ever heard. there is reality now I understand the subtle nuance of perception is reality but sometimes perception is wrong just ask Yanni or Laurel

sometimes perception is wrong what is the truth well the best way to do it is to go to the original source to go and and listen to their own words All right. I want to read a statement. This is from one of the senior military officials for Israel.

And I want you to listen to this. Listen carefully. When you're in possession of weapons that were able to withstand the occupation in the wars of 2006, 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2014, when you have weapons that are being wielded by men who were able to prevent the strongest army in the region, from entering the Gaza Strip for 51 days and were able to capture and kill soldiers of that army, is this really a peaceful resistance? Again, this is an Israeli senior official saying this. This is not peaceful resistance.

Has the option of arms struggle diminished? No. On the contrary, it is growing and developing. When you hear talk about peaceful resistance, it is disdemean, it is disdemeanor. deceit on the public. This is peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and by security agencies and enjoying tremendous popular support. This deception does not fool the Palestinian people.

Okay. See what he's saying? He's saying he got all these weapons and everybody is saying that this is peaceful, but that is deception. And the Palestinians, they all know that. They're not fooled by that. They're part of this. This is an armed insurrection.

Well, that's the opinion of the Israelis and the IDF. Do you agree or disagree? I agree. Okay. I mean, you know, I know there are certain people in the media that would push back pretty hard against that sentiment, but I think that's true. I think that's true. I think that's true.

Accurate description. Let me play the original audio because I want you to hear what is truth. want you to hear it for yourself. Here it is. Well, that doesn't sound like Hamas, after all these years, I'd have asked Hamas to move on the power of civil media. Oh, wait a minute.

It's a day. Well, that doesn't sound like Hebrew. So, why don't let's it? It's a fthe and Hamas in a muchroar one. That's a lefdi. Stop.

This is not the statement of the Israelis. This is the statement openly of a senior Hamas official. Now, where did he say that? Well, he said that on Al Jazeera in Arabic, which nobody in the media cares to, you know, listen to what they're saying in Arabic. It only matters what they're saying in English. well don't you think it really would mean something important if they're saying something different to the people of the region in Arabic? By the way, this translation comes from memory. This is the Middle Eastern group that just monitors what's happening in Arabic and then translates it all to Egypt.

because it is important what they say not to us in English through our press, but what they're telling their own people and the entire region. Now, let me just reframe this because you agreed, yes, this is an armed insurrection. There is no question this is not peaceful. And the people of Palestine, they know it. Okay. Let me just read it again. But now with the understanding that this is a statement from a senior Hamas official,

when you're in possession of weapons that were able to withstand the occupation in the wars of 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2014, when you have weapons that are being wielded by men who were able to prevent the strongest army in the region from entering the Gaza Strip for 51 days and were able to capture or kill soldiers of that army, Is it really a peaceful resistance? This is not a peaceful resistance. Has the option of armed struggle diminished? No, on the contrary, it's growing and it's developing. So when we talk about a peaceful resistance, we're deceiving the public.

This is peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and security agencies and enjoying tremendous popular support. But just no. this deception doesn't fool the Palestinian people. That's incredible. Incredible that you would feel emboldened enough to actually say that on television. Yeah, you are saying, just like the guy who held the kite, we just want the Jews to know, we want to burn them. Everything that Israel is saying is right,

and we're admitting it on television, but still the media comes out and tells us the opposite. Yes, they don't have to hide it. They do not have to hide it. Hitler kind of had to hide. hide it for a while. The leader of Hamas, is it Yawah Sinwar, he said that 100,000 people are going to storm the border fence.

He said, and I quote, our people and our boys will surprise the entire world with what they have in store. Let them wait for a big push. We'll take down the border and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies. okay well that sounds like peaceful that sounds very peaceful it sounds that sounds like these are good reasonable people that i don't know why israel won't sit down and talk to them i remember the temple of doom guy did that remove the heart from the the roddy cavity he seemed pretty friendly yeah he had that's cool chant the molderam pseudoram champ i'm sure you remember that that's

i mean there's bonus points into that thank you uh the the the the the the the the the the the the i idea that this guy doesn't mean, let's tear their hearts out of their bodies, that he's just, ah, that's just hyperbole. Ask the guy with a kite who wants to send a message, we're going to come to burn you. That was hyperbole burning. Yeah. Ask the, ask the senior official on Al Jazeera. Then why the deception?

What is the deception? You're saying that a peaceful protest. is the deception. But if I have to believe the opposite of all the other people, then wait, then there is no deception. It is a peaceful protest. It has to be. Well, how many mental hoops do you have to jump through to be able to believe any of the nonsense that is coming out of the UN and coming out of the media?

You know, there's a list. If you are on the side of Hamas, you know, it's the old phrase, show me your friends and I'll show you your future. We should always check who we're friends with, who we agree with. Now, that doesn't always mean that you're wrong. I find myself in, you know, rooms with strange bedfellows all the time. but when you are narrowing it down to a specific issue, are you the only normal person in the room? Are you, is there anyone else like you in the room?

The media takes the side of the innocent Palestinians and rejects everything that is being said by and about Hamas. So who is their company? Whose company are they in? I mean, you've got Bernie Sanders. Okay, well, okay. Well, Bernie Sanders, he's not so bad. United Nations.

United Nations. I mean, they ride. Most of Europe. You know, that's great. Okay. Palestinian Arab terrorist groups like Hamas. Hamas. Neo-Nazis.

Neo-Nazis? They're pretty good. Yeah. Alt-right. Okay. And they're wonderful. Progressives. Okay.

The Obama National Security. Ooh, that didn't work out well. No, those, those, you know, all the podcasters, all of our favorite podcasters. Info wars. They're pretty. Oh, Info Wars. I wonder if, they're pretty great. Yeah.

You know, because they're warring on information. Huh. Like, for example, statements from Hamas admitting to the entire thing. Right. They're at war with that information. Right. And then. That's fake news.

Right. And then the mainstream media. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, that's good company, I guess, to keep. It's an interesting left-right grouping, by the way. Again, I would absolutely fight and have many times whether Info Wars is a right-wing group. It's blatantly isn't. But still, it's not. Like, the way it's pushed out there in the media is that they're this hard right, the alt-right, the...

But what do they really have in common? what do they really have in common? All the American groups, read them, read them again. Mainstream media. Mainstream media. What do they actually believe in? What are they defending in Venezuela? Socialism, Carl Marx.

Info wars. Info wars. What do they believe in, really truly believe in? Giant state government control. Socialism. Nationalism. Yeah, certainly they don't seem to like Jews all that much. I'll say that.

They also don't like Jews. seem to be fans of Jews. But they are also into, they claim not to be, but then they celebrate every big government decision if their guy makes it. That's very, very true. Obama podcasters, national security bros, as they, as they're called. I would say that those are anti-Israel socialists. Then progressives, obvious.

Socialists. Neo-Nazis the alt-right. Again, Nazis are. National Socialists. The alt-right. I mean, if you look at the platform by people like Richard Spencer, we've gone over it before. Socialism. Doesn't sound anything like any conservative thing you've ever heard.

You never heard Rush Limbaugh talk about the ideas that Richard Spencer talks about. No. They don't have anything to do with race or creed. They have everything to do with socialism. Yeah. And they have a lot to do with. They also really don't like Jews. I'm saying, no, no.

But you can take that away. Don't just stare at that and miss that what they're, also advocating is socialism. Right. Palestinian Arab terrorist groups. Again, you're going to be surprised to hear that Hamas has not implemented a free market solution in the region. They don't, they don't see, they seem to be about government control as well.

European nations and the United Nations. Again, socialism. Large groups. And people who also just don't seem to like Jews all that much. You know what's weird is these groups seem to have two things in common. Socialism and the hatred of Jews. It is almost like Marxism and anti-Semitism go hand in hand. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, no, it's not like it.

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That's filterbby.com. Welcome to the program. We're really, really glad that you're here today. Chelsea Handler is just I'm glad you brought this up. Nuts. I mean, it's more than nuts. It's just dumb, right?

It's like we can put a nice spin on it, make her feel good, act as if she's ideologically non, maybe she's not so reasoned with her ideology. She's just dumb. She doesn't know anything about what she's talking about. And she keeps thinking that she has these issues mastered. And it's really just,

I mean, you know, vodka does damage. It does. Over long periods of time, it can hurt. It can help. It doesn't, it no, it does not make you particularly well qualified to make in-depth arguments about the region. No, I mean, this is a, this is a good argument, though. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Maybe I missed one. Yeah. She says, you know, this, Bibi, the way he's handling, you know, Israel, the way they're handling this, this, this. this protest. It's like Hitler saying Auschwitz was all about helping the Jews stay warm. And I think we all, you know, wonder how she can sleep at night.

Oh, CIA has had a bad couple of weeks with developments in its two biggest treason cases since 1990. Last week, I told you about the former CIA agent that is now in custody who spied for China. Now another is in custody. the man suspected of passing top secret CIA computer hacking secrets to WikiLeaks last year. Remember that? Was that just last year? Do you remember this when they passed this information and tried to WikiLeaks tried to sell it?

To our enemies. 29-year-old Joshua Adam Schulte or Schulte used to work for the CIA's engineering development group, which created computer code for overseas spy-op. operations. Authorities believe he may have given the code to WikiLeaks, who then released the blueprints to the world March 2017. WikiLeaks named the code Vault 7. Perhaps they say inspired by Julian Assange's cozy embassy home. It's just a guess. It is one of the biggest and potentially harmful leaks in CIA history. Suddenly the world had access to some of America's most sensitive cyber espionage techniques.

It really is. The next war is going to be fought with ones and zeros. This is like releasing the the schematics to the Manhattan Project. Immediately after WikiLeaks released the CIA code last year, suspicion primarily focused on CIA contractors, but according to a former federal prosecutor, the fact that the government disclosed during a hearing that Schulte is a suspect likely indicated. that they think that he worked alone in giving this code to WikiLeaks. He is apparently very good at computer spy stuff because he worked for the NSA before moving over to the CIA.

He said he joined the intelligence field because he felt it's my patriotic duty after 9-11. And apparently those patriotic feelings faded. He left the CIA in 2016 claiming that he reported incompetent management and bureaucracy. He said that that caused him to be painted as a. disgruntled employee and put him under suspicion regarding Vault 7. Well, the government is still building its case against Schulte, but, ironically, he is currently already in jail. Why is he in jail? Well, he's in jail for possession and transmission of child pornography. Prosecutors say the government found a large stash of child porn on his server

that he built. He is pleading not guilty on that, claiming that lots of people had access to his server. Man who to believe here. No word on whether that server also held any Hillary Clinton emails, but we'll keep you posted. It's Wednesday, May 16th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

All right, so I read a headline from CNN last night, and just tell me what you think. see if anybody else believes what I believed when I just read the headline. Democrats may be approaching a turning point on Israel. If you hear that and didn't read the story, Stu, what would you think that was saying? It's about time. Finally, you'll have Democrats seeing the light. Right, right?

It's great to hear. Right. Because no Democrats showed up to Israel for the opening of the, opening of the embassy. Well, a lot of the flights were booked. No, they were wide open. No, they were wide open. Well, religious restrictions made it so they couldn't get on planes. No, that's not true at all.

And they closed a lot of the airports. Okay, so I read this last night and I went, well, it's about time. And I'm thinking, what is it that they finally saw the Palestinian authority and Hamas saying that made them go, okay. Maybe the thing that we covered earlier today, which was when they admitted that it was not a piece of protests and that they were intentionally lying to the media to fool Americans, but they weren't fooling Palestinians. They were using weapons in an armed conflict. Yeah.

Maybe when they admitted that on television was the turning point. Could that be it? Well, they admitted that in television, but they admitted it on Al Jazeera, and they said it in Arabic. So I don't speak Arabic and nobody in the media speaks Arabic. And what is that? It's like, you know. It's the language of a subculture, Stu, so we don't have to pay attention to that.

Oh. Anything that they really mean, they'll say that in English. It's a pretty large subculture. Yeah, it is, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so let me read the story. For the better part of the past two decades, the establishment wings of both Republican and Democratic Party have largely been pro-Israel. Both parties have at least, in their party platforms, maintain pro-Israel positions,

including calls to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish nation's capital. While the Republican Party has become more pro-Israel recently, it's unclear whether the Democratic Party will be able to maintain a pro-Israel tilt. Today, the Pew Research Center finds Democrats are less pro-Israel than they have been in decades. That drop has occurred in the period of just two years since 2016. This year, 27% of Democrats say their sympathies lied with the Israelis over the Palestinians. Only 27% of Democrats. 25% said the Palestinians.

The rest said both or neither. Just two years ago when Democrats adopted more pro-Palestinian positions in their plank, 43% of Democrats said their sympathies align with Israel compared with 29%. who said the Palestinians. Now, gee, what has happened in the last couple of years? It's not just the Democrats that are split. It's how they're split. Establishment Democrats have been fighting off an insurgent progressive wing.

And it's not any different on this issue. Liberal Democrats who push for the more pro-Palestinian language are far more likely to side with the Palestinians than the Israelis. Now listen to that. liberal Democrats liberal Democrats when did liberal Democrats become cool to say again

it's progressive Democrats is it not liberal Democrats what an interesting thing to say CNN they're more likely to side with Palestinians because you know why they they don't do this because more and more people are going I'm not really progressive

I'm just I'm more of your mainstream liberal Democrat the people in the heartland So what a strange thing to say in this article, liberal Democrats are more Palestinian than the Israelis. Meanwhile, moderate and conservative Democrats will go with Israel. There's also an age gap. In 2016, those under the age of 30 who called themselves Democrats are independent, who lean towards the Democratic Party,

said by a 39 to 31 percent margin that their sympathies allied with the Palestinians. Among those Democrats age 65 and older, the split was 50% for Israel compared to 24% for the Palestinians. Now, why would that happen? I mean, the only thing that, you know, maybe they don't have in common anymore is going to a university. Okay. Now, with that being said, I don't know how you can honestly have a pro-Palestinian stance, but, hey, to each his own.

If you've done your homework and you know who Hamas is, and you know what Hamas is saying to their own people and to the world in Arabic, if you know all of those things, I really don't know how you have a pro-Palestinian view on what's happening in Israel today. I have no idea. Right. I can understand it from the perspective of

Hey, these people just... Donald Trump was the guy who moved the embassy to Jerusalem. Like, you're going to be opposed... If you're a Democrat, you're going to be opposed because Trump's doing it. You know, conservatives generally seem... And religious people seem to be defensive

of Israel. If you're not one of them, you might just take the other side generally. And you might see some of the propaganda and the media where you see people, like, poor people dying at the hands of a military. Maybe you don't look into it. The details that closely, you can understand how you might

waddle it. into that area. And you might even just say, look, I'm not going to pick a side, but I think the Palestinians just, I mean, look, people are people. Just can't we all just get along and live side by side? And I would say yes, if you didn't have politicians winding people up to get them to strap a suicide bomb on or put their baby in harm's way at the front line of the, of the, quote, peaceful protest. I remember the elected politicians of the particular area are Hamas. Yes. Okay. Okay.

The known terrorist group. Okay. I'm looking for a Democrat. Any Democrat that says to themselves, look, I don't agree with you, Glenn Beck, on a lot of things. But what's happening right now is crazy. And let me give you another story. The Forward has published a big expose on Jordan Peterson. Now, Jordan Peterson is a Canadian professor, not playing politics, not playing politics, just talking about mainly boys and men and find meaning in your life. He's been on this program several times and he is the most carefully, he's the most careful person with words I've ever seen.

He's, he is intentionally a very slow talker at times because he wants to make sure. sure he doesn't say anything on a big platform that is inflammatory. He's carefully thought out and reasoned. You may not agree with him. But here's what Forward did. They put Peterson's picture up in a story alongside Adolf Hitler's. And the headline was, is Jordan Peterson enabling Jew hatred? Now, you have to understand, he is currently on tour with a Jew.

now I don't know how that how that works I don't know how you have a Nazi rally with the Jew there must be a real odd couple situation it is so you can guess what followed that Jordan Peterson is a public intellectual adored by neo-Nazis I'm quoting now this this is coming from the weekly standard who took the four words article apart

and I'm quoting the forward Jordan Peterson is public intellectual adored by neo-Nazis the neo-Nazis the neo-Nazes website Daily Stormer called Peterson the savior of Western civilization. Part of why people on the far right like Peterson is because he's not afraid to talk about the Jews. Peterson's followers range from an avowed neo-Nazi community like the Daily Stormer to frustrated

young men looking for a scapegoat, end quote. Now, this is what the Weekly Standard wrote. By the end of the article, you had the impression that a horde of jackboots marked, behind air Peterson's goose steps wondering the the actual extent of Peterson's support at the Daily Stormer I looked up the word savior and discovered it has three sentence blog posts written by a guy calling himself Joe Jones as it turns out he was likely being ironic about praising Peterson as the Messiah because Because just the month before his ambiguous savior comment, he wrote Jordan Peterson, and I'm going to use the real.

I don't think you should use the real. Why? Because media would be dishonest and take it out of context? Partially and also license issues that can be complicated. Because people would complain because they were taking it out of context. I will abide because of the license issue. Jordan Peterson is a A

How F-A-G Right Yeah, that's fine O-T The gaysler Yes And his fans are also that word

One of his other post is titled Jordan Peterson's fans Are massive F-words With Daddy issues So the guy who claimed In a vague three sentence post that he's the Messiah, he's the Savior, had written two other articles saying that he's a gay slur and all of his supporters are gay slurs.

And rarely on Daily Stormer is my impression that they use any reference to gay people as a compliment. That's not typically something they do there. A little more investigation on the site revealed that Joe Jones wasn't the only Daily Stormer, contributor, cracking jokes about Peterson being some sort of savior. Another guy, Roy Batty, wrote, listening to members of the Jordan B. Peterson cult, you might think he was some sort of Christ figure. You see it's all an acting prop, a cheap stick to make Normies think he's deeper and more fatherlike than he really is.

I know. Someone else named Andrew Anglin added that Peterson wasn't simply. an F slur word, but a pretentious, smarmy F word. And posted the article titled, Seven Hour Video on Why Jordan Peterson is a piece of crap, not the actual word. Yes, it was seven hours. In a different post, he wrote, Peterson is full of S, no matter how you slice it.

I could go on with other curses hurled at Peterson, but you get the picture. Feldman cited, one example from the hate site, Joe Jones seemingly ironic post, to support his sweeping claim that Peterson is adored by far right racists. Unless the F-word slur and piece of crap means something different in neo-Nazi land, it appears Feldman stretched the truth. That is a really generous summary. Yes, it is. Right there. Feldman also had, hid from the readers all the notable Jewish individuals from across the political spectrum

who have written or spoken positively about Jordan Peterson in his work. To name a few, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, well, he's no dummy. Harvard Stephen Pinker. He's no dummy and he's on the left. Psychiatrist Norman Doidge, Professor Jonathan Haidt, another non-dummy and some from the left. Howard Bloom, novelist Melanie Phillips, journalist Barbara Kay, Professor Gad SAD or SAD, editor Jonathan K, comedian Dave Rubin, who's currently on tour with him, writer Kathy Young, biologist Brett Weinstein, author Ben Shapiro, comedian Bill Marr, New York columnist

David Brooks and Barry Weiss. It's frankly astonishing that not one editor had the professionalism to insist on gathering some testimony on behalf of the accused from any of these reputable people. Evidently, the foreword is perfectly acceptable to have journalists ask loaded questions about a man and then stack the deck against him, quoting only his accusers. Can we find any Democrats that are listening in this audience? Can we find one who will stand against the clear, anti-Semitic, lies that are happening and the smears on people, anyone in this audience, who's a Democrat, that will take a stand and say, I'm tired of this.

Not the policies, just these lies. Like to hear from you 8887-27-B-E-C-K. Will anyone stand on the other side and say, that's not who we are? That's not who we are. I don't agree with that. All right. It's important to protect your home with home security, but how many home security companies are actually thinking? How can we protect your home and your privacy? Simply Safe does. They obsess over the little details that no other home security company does. Example, the Simply Safe Home Security has a camera that you can control from your phone, but they want to protect your home and your privacy. So they came up with a brilliant idea, a privacy shutter for the camera. Now, Simply Save Home Security has a camera. Now, Simply Save. They've wanted you to be able to hear the shutter click so you knew it was closed. They wanted to have a light on it so you could easily tell after the and it opened, a light would go on so you'd know it was on.

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jailed for war crimes. Yes. Do you not think? Yes. Crimes against humanity. Yeah. Call the Hague. Thank you.

Because there's a new article that is pretty much denying what we all know to be true about global warming and electric cars. There is a freaking consensus, people. Okay? How many times you have to tell you. You have to have electric cars. I mean, we have to have them because, It's clean energy. It's free energy.

It comes out of like the wall somehow. Right. And it doesn't even have a... There's hamsters in the wall. It doesn't even have a tailpipe. So now Politico is coming out and saying, oh, it's possibly worse for the environment. Unbelievable.

Please. I'm calling the Hague. And then we read the story to you next. This is the Glenn Beck program. Last night, Mercury One hosted its kickoff party for the M1 Ball happening this November. You can get your tickets now. Mercury1.org, M1 Ball. DeAndra Simmons Locke, who you might know if you ever watch the show The Real Housewives of Dallas, she has become a really huge supporter of the Nazarene Fund.

She's gone over to Iraq. I think she's going over to Australia. They're covering it on the real housewives of Dallas, I think next season. Her husband, Jeremy Locke, are chairing this year's M1 ball. They're big movers and shakers here in Dallas. I don't run in these circles, so I don't know. But apparently, you know, she did, her and her husband did her tour of duty of fundraising.

And, you know, they have these big parties with important people and all of that crap. You know, again, nothing I'm ever invited to, nor do I want to be. But she's come out of, quote, retirement to help fundraise for Mercury 1 and the Nazarene Fund. And she's just, she's really remarkable. I've never watched the show Real Housewives of Dallas. No. Really? No, I haven't.

I haven't. You seem like Target Demo number one for that show. I know, I know, I know. But tickets are on sale. sponsorships are on sale now. They're also having a raffle again. This year we're raffling off a 2018 Mercedes-Benz, CLA 250.

It's sitting here in our studio. And you can grab the raffle tickets and win. It's usually won by somebody who's not at the ball. Yeah, a lot of times it's won by, you know, friends and family members of employees. No, it's really not ever. It's ever.

It's usually Jeffrey seems to win it somehow. Mercury1.org slash M1Ball. grab your tickets and join us this fall, or just grab your shot of getting a brand new Mercedes at mercury1.org slash M1 ball. Okay, a couple of things I want to go over. First of all, let's just take the global warming thing.

Thank you. Okay. First of all, we have said for years on this program, yes, they don't have a tailpipe, but there's a couple of things to consider. electric cars, where does that energy come from? The wall isn't thinking through enough. It's not just the wall, it's the power station.

How does the power station make the electricity to power your car? Usually they burn coal. Or magic elves. Yes. And that coal is dirtier than a new car. So you're actually doing more harm to the environment. You climb a denier. We should put you in jail.

Okay. Or you can just wait until it starts to be proven. Now here comes the Politico. Amazing. This is an amazing story in Politico. Now, of course, this is based on laws signed by both George Bush and Barack Obama. So it's bipartisan in which we're going to give up to seven. Up to $7,500 to every person who buys an electric car.

Many states also dangle their own mix of goodies for electric car buyers, including rebates as large as $5,000, additional rebates for vehicle chargers, and free use of public charging stations. California Governor Jerry Brown decreed five million electric vehicles must be on his state's roads by 2025, along with 250,000 charging stations. Eight other states are following California's lead. one California lawmaker has even introduced legislation to ban all internal combustion vehicles by 2040. Wait, wait. What state? California. Insane.

They're insane. All of this might make sense if electric vehicles, as their supporters claim, were truly likely to reduce air pollution and tackle climate change. But are they? This is not a question I knew you were allowed to ask, but Politico has asked it. Bum, bum, bum. To answer the question, now this is a lot of right-wing. information here. So you might want to dismiss it. Yeah, please dismiss your kids.

They'll be confused when they get to school if they hear any of it. I use the U.S. This is not me saying this. This is the author from Politico. I use the U.S. Energy Information Administration's most recent long-term forecast for the number of new electrical vehicles through 2050 looking at three clique pollutants regulated under the U.S. Clean Air Act as well

as CO2 emissions. So that seems pretty right wing right there. That's an information source from the government. What I found is that widespread adoption of electric vehicles nationwide will likely increase air pollution compared with new internal combustion

vehicles. Increase. That might sound counterintuitive, or if you listen to this program, like the truth. After all, I won't replacing

a 30-year-old smoke belching Oldsmobile with a new electric vehicle reduce air pollution. Yes, but how many of us are driving an Oldsmobile from the 1970s? That's a good question.

Yes. This is where electric vehicle proponents arguments run off the road. They fail to consider just how clean and efficient new internal and combustion vehicles are. The appropriate comparison for evaluating the benefits of electric cars

is not an old gas guzzler. It's the difference between an electric car and a new gas car. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. But how much how much cleaner will the air be? Right. If we replace everybody's 1955 Buick.

Hey, with a Tesla. With a Tesla. Right. I don't understand. Right. This is an amazing stat which I was not aware of. Today's vehicles, new gas powered vehicles, emit only 1% of the pollution that they did in the 1960s. So gas engines have cut their pollution by 99%.

Now, I didn't know that stat, but I'm not surprised because as we have said from the beginning, if the market wants clean vehicles, if they want to stop driving gas guzzlers, they want something more efficient and clean. The free market will provide it. So look at the gas guzzling, almost gone, and, gee, cutting emissions by 99%. That's incredible.

New innovations continue to improve those engines' efficiency and cleanliness. As for the electric car, the energy doesn't come from nowhere. Not magic elves, not hamster wheels in your wall. It's just from the, you have to have an outlet. We still generate power mainly by using fossil fuels. Natural gas is now our biggest source of electricity, which is cleaner than coal, but is projected to increase.

Coal, while declining, will remain the second largest source of electricity for some time. Third is nuclear power, which of course environmentalists don't want either, even though it's emission-free. And they also want to stop. fracking which stops natural gas. The EIA projects that the nation's electric generating mix will be just 30% renewable by 2030. Based on that forecast, if the EIA's projected number of electric vehicles were replaced with new internal combustion vehicles, air pollution would actually decrease. From electric vehicles to combustion engines, air pollution would actually decrease.

And this holds true even if you include the emissions from the oil refineries that manufacture gasoline. Now, a lot of these stories in the past, Glenn, we've talked about them, have done an analysis based on the manufacturing of the car because it's a lot more strenuous on the environment to manufacture an electric car than it is a combustion car. That's not even in this analysis. I've read the whole thing. It's not even in there. As for greenhouse gas emissions, electric vehicles, now this is after production, will reduce, we'll reduce compared to new internal combustion vehicles. But the net reduction in CO2 emissions between 2018 and 2050, would only be about one half of 1%

of total forecast US energy related carbon emissions with such a small change will have no impact whatsoever on climate and thus no economic benefit. So what if we have these subsidies, who are they benefiting? We've talked about this before. You go back to your first New York Times bestseller and this information is in here, a version of it.

But this is the new update. This is 2017. A nationwide survey in 2017 found that 56% of people who claimed the subsidy, the free money from the government, had household incomes of at least $100,000, 17% had household incomes of at least $200,000, which is almost four times the medium income of the United States. It's fair to say, this is a polit, this is Politico I'm reading.

The only people I know that have electric cars like a Tesla are rich people. Of course. It's fair to say subsidies disproportionately, benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor who cannot afford to buy even subsidize electric vehicles. Not only that, the wires and charging stations need to charge all those electric vehicles will be paid for by ratepayers further increasing electric rates. And as more wealthy customers install solar panels to charge their electric vehicles, the cost to provide them backup power will fall on those who cannot afford to do so. In effect, the wealthy owners of electric

vehicles will enjoy the benefits of their clean, silent cars while passing on many of the costs of keeping their vehicles on the road to everyone else, especially the poor. Again, I'm quoting Politico. To be sure, electric cars are impressive. Some are quicker and off the line than the Formula One race car. We've talked about this. But there is no economic or environmental justification for the many billions of dollars in subsidies that America is already paying to speed their adoption. Congress should immediately terminate electric vehicle tax credits, which just benefits the wealthy. Congress should eliminate zero emission credits, which electric vehicle manufacturers have used to boost their bottom line. And we've said millions of positive things about Elon Musk,

but he's got to be called out on this, which have increased the bottom line, $860 million for Tesla alone in the last three years. That is an abomination. Yep. Just another one to add to the pile. So let's talk a little bit about Seattle, something that we, said would happen yesterday, but I mean, who can even remember how old you were yesterday. Oh, remember the, remember what was on TV and the candy they used to have back in those days? I don't. Those old school retro candies from 2018 from yesterday. Okay, so supporters of the Seattle tax hike.

Supporters of the Seattle tax hike, what did we tell you just yesterday that they would do to Amazon? Amazon folded, we think. They at least started construction on their new building or resumed construction, but they still are out on whether they're going to stay in Seattle. This tax hike was $500 per employee that was hired in Seattle. It's now been reduced to $275 per employee. It's going to cost Amazon about $12 million every year, every year. We told you yesterday.

Amazon, what are you this? You can't be this stupid. You can't be this stupid. That's where they start. They're going to come for more. Now, that was yesterday, how things change. Let's play the audio of the supporters and what the supporters were chanting at the vote.

What is it? What is it? A little now, more later. It's we will get more. We'll be back for more. At least what I heard in that clip. Play it again.

Yes, we'll be back for more. We'll be back for more. We'll be back for more. Honestly, how stupid do you have to be to put your business there right now? In that environment, unless they start electing people who actually are sane,

we'll be back for more and they will. You'll build the rest of that tower. and then they'll come back to take their piece of it. And if you allow that to happen, that is on you at this point. I mean, if you're a shareholder of Amazon, you should be, you should be making your voice heard on, no, don't go into Seattle. What are you doing, paying an extra $12 million a year?

That's not going to the shareholders or investing in future things. What are you doing? No, go someplace where you don't have to pay all. of that tax. fiduciary responsibility has to come into play at some point with Amazon. And they can't be that stupid. They know that this will be raised because they don't have a income problem in Seattle. They have a spending problem in Seattle as all socialist cities and nations always do.

and eventually they're going to run out of other people's money. So what else is happening in the great town of Seattle? Oh, yeah. Wait till you hear the latest from the university. Evergreen, Evergreen College? Oh, my gosh. This place makes Berkeley look like BYU. What are they doing?

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It lives on at Evergreen State College. Now, wait a minute, hold on just a second. No whites allowed on campus? I thought the university said they weren't going to do that anymore. Well, they did, but the students had the final say, of course, there is such a happy ending

to this story. You're going to blow your stack, but then a happy ending. And we talked about Norris. North Korea next. Glenn back. Students at the embattled ever-screened state college, which made national headlines last year after it hosted an event that asked white people not to come to campus for a day of absence. Man, I wish that would have happened when I was going to school. I would have stayed home every day.

Anyway, they've had to organize a new iteration of the event, despite the administrator's efforts to shift gear. The administration of the school does not want this to happen. Students at the Olympia-Washington-based public school have organized a three-day day-of-absence observance that includes a mix of events on and off-campus. Some gatherings are advertised as open to all-skin colors. Others ask that only people of color attend. A poster hung at the school obtained by the college fix, which is where I found this article, declares that, that the no whites allowed self-segregation events will be held off campus. It asks people to RSVP to a website that spells out no Nazis allowed in the URL.

The events launched today and run through Friday, according to organizers who are not interested in any media coverage for their event. The screenshot of their Facebook page makes that very, very clear. Do not engage with these people because this is happening. matter what. The spokesperson for Evergreen State College did not respond to a phone call and an email on Tuesday seeking comment. The theme of this year's observance is deinstitutionalize and decolonize. The mission of this event is to bring people of color together in order to create a

reclamation of space and move forward into the future. In reaction to institutions Consistent Disregard for our safety We are operating independently of the college This is a day for us by us In addition to POC-centered events There will be an anti-racist workshop for white people And people who do not identify as people of color

Please bring a dish or your own packed lunch and dishes Potluck style No one whose intentions are to cause harm are allowed The college's annual Day of Absence Day of Presence program has been observed for years. However, last year, following the objections by a white biology professor, Brett Weinstein, he's an amazingly brave man. They confronted him. And campus police told Weinstein that they could no longer protect him on campus.

After that, his class had to meet in a nearby park. The situation prompted National Health. headlines and criticism. Now, this is the good part. Earlier this year, officials announced that they would revamp the controversial day of absence observance instead, offering an equity symposium. As for his part, Weinstein has weighed in in this year's day of absence. This is fascinating on many levels.

The college canceled the day of absence, so the students are going to do this. Hmm, note the structure of their pyramid. last week, the Olympian reported that Evergreen State, quote, will look to cut more than 10% of its operating budget for 2018-19 and raise student fees because of declining enrollment. Did you hear that? I just said, Yanni, or was it Laurel? It's Wednesday, May 16th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

We've had Michael Malice on a few times. He's the author of Dear Reader, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong-il. He's a podcast host of Your Welcome and really a fascinating guy on all things North Korea. We wanted to have him on today just to give us an idea of what he thinks is going on with North Korea and the latest of, well, I'm going to pull out of these talks. Welcome to the program, Michael Malice. Thanks so much, Glenn.

So, Michael, what is your take on the news of the day? Well, my take is, it's just shocking to me how the media often gets played by North Korea. You remember a few weeks ago, everyone's ready to hand out the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump or the South Korean President Moon. And I said, wait a minute, this is like Hillary right before the election when she tweeted out, happy birthday to this future president. These people are manipulative, they're deceptive. and what people need to understand about North Korea, if they've outlasted the entire Soviet block,

that's not an accident. They're very, very bright and they're very, very conniving. So if before a meeting, if me and you, me and you, Glenn, were having some negotiation, you want to sell me your car, and before we even sat down, you're like, I'll give you this,

I'll give you free air conditioning for this, this, and that. Right away, you know, I'd be suspicious, what is going on here. So before the meeting, they were giving up nukes. They were saying we can withdraw from the South Korean some South Korea, our troops, they're going to get in this, they're going to give in that.

It's like even if they were willing to give up all these things, why wouldn't they do that at the close of the meeting rather than up front? And we see here exactly what they're doing, which was a very successful effort to humiliate us on the world stage, even if it's just a short-term thing to flex their muscle, so to speak. Do they lure us essentially into being too eager to solve this problem? I don't think we are too eager. I don't think we can be eager enough.

I think this is the biggest problem on the world stage. North Korea is the worst country on Earth. I was on Fox and Friends, and I made the point, look. We got out three hostages. There's 25 million more, which is the North Korean people. And the thing is they canceled their meeting with South Korea today over these war exercises. These have been an annual event since the 70s, at least. They've complained about them before.

but it would be as if, you know, I called you up on October 30th and said to you, Glenn, I'm upset you're having a Halloween party tomorrow, the meeting is off. It's like, you knew this was coming. So this is disingenuous. And we also know it's disingenuous for the following reason. It was all announced publicly. So if they were really upset about these things, they could have very easily behind closed doors said, look, you know, we're having second thoughts.

We need these changes before the meeting. You know, you guys can make any excuses you want publicly, but this is something we need before we get to the table. that's not what they did. They just sent out there, you know, they just made their announcements declaratively, and then you saw yesterday the State Department was scrambling saying, we haven't heard anything from them at all. So this is very much, you know, a public show of strategy and them asserting their place in the negotiations. So do you think the negotiations are going to be on? Or is this going to happen or not? A gun to my head, I would say yes.

because there's been a lot of momentum. I think this, they didn't say they're pulling out. They're playing coy. They canceled the meeting with South Korea as a way of showing we mean business, but they wouldn't have got the fact that all this was announced publicly that he's going to be with President Trump, surely behind the scenes there were so much discussion to get us to that point. So I don't think it's all a bluff.

Now, what could be a bluff is what they agree to do as a consequence of this meeting. But certainly North Korea and Kim Jong-un love the adulation they're having in the world stage. You know, the visuals that they have him crossing the DMZ, and he's this sweet kid, you know, even though he murdered members of his own family, but we're not going to talk about that now. So that is something that works in their favor. So I think it would be a big coup if they had the meeting. And as a result of the meeting, they really aren't tied to having to do anything, even if they technically agree to it. Michael, I'm interested to, because we've talked about the sort of

tough approach of of Trump and the administration and how that's been effective maybe in communicating to them. And I've seen that because from our perspective, that's what's happened, right? Like we've talked tough, we've held them to account and they've actually come to the table.

From their perspective, could you argue, hey, we, we, because they were doing these tests when we were talking tough. Now we're reaching out And they've accepted us and are allowing the president from this world, you know, supposed world leader come to our territory and beg us to make peace. Yeah. So, I mean, we have to keep in mind, last November or December, remember those days we were so much younger then, they sentenced President Trump to death. So, you know, they are, and they were going to nuke Guam.

These people have no problem just saying outrageous things, and the fact that President Trump responded in kind has clearly forced a change in their behavior. I see a lot of Twitter people are so desperate to attack the president. It's like, look, you know, under Obama, nothing really changed in North Korea. And I just want to make one more point. I was very, very saddened that after these three hostages were released, which is a great day for all Americans. I mean, it was just a wonderful thing. Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris. None of them mentioned it in their Twitter.

I checked that afternoon, and I couldn't even wrap my head around it. They could very easily take a dig at the Trump or just say, hey, you know what, co-opt it. Meet with the hostages and make it your thing. So the fact that this is being made into a partisan issue is really disturbing to me. Even if nothing comes to these talks, the three hostages are, that's a big deal. So one of the best explanations on what's really happening that I have heard, it was from Bill O'Reilly. And I said, because I was a believer in, and I still kind of him, that it is Donald Trump speaking the language that a dictator understands. Dictator understands strength and being shoved back against the wall.

And that's the guy with a twitchy eye. And they've never seen an American president do that. and they didn't know how to handle it. And they thought, okay, all right, maybe this guy is different. We've got to handle him differently. But Bill said that he felt that the tweets and the positioning had very little to do with it. Instead, he said it was Trump's trade war with China and then going to China and saying, I'm going to do these things unless you get the short little guy under control and you take care of it.

and it was after the meeting with China, he believes, where they called him on the carpet and said, look, knock it off. Do you believe that's true? Said from the beginning of the Trump administration, when he met with the Chinese president at Mar-a-Lago,

they're doing a good, cop, bad cop, which is Trump is the foaming at the mouth, crazy person, no one knows what to make of him, look at him, he's saying, I have a nuclear button on my desk, and then China gets,

to be the good guys and it's always going to be more of China's problem than ours simply because of geography and then China gets to say hey do you want to deal with him because no one knows what to make him or you don't want to deal with us where you're a big brother so I think this was a pincer movement going in both directions and I don't think it's a contradiction between those two positions it's not one thing there's clearly several factors that are forcing him to alter the behavior in such extreme ways I mean again this is the first North Korean leader to ever go to South Korea to have his sister go to the Olympics and engage with the outside world contradicts decades of North Korean ideology.

Is North Korea looking for us to come over there and accept them and welcome them as a nuclear power as we have with Pakistan? Or are they expecting us to demand that they remove all those weapons and give us all of their technology or dismantle all of that technology. Which are they really, what are they going to do? Do you think? It was, they made a very shrewd point last night into this morning, which is if you are going to insist on unilateral denuclearization, that's not fair or whatever term they

used. And in a certain sense, there is a validity to it. That said, you know, North Korea was on the state sponsor of terrorism list for blowing up a South Korean jet, they have concentration camps, they oppress their people, they sell their military technology worldwide. So it's not even like Pakistan because there's a possibility of nuclear proliferation through their technology, and that's why it's a concern. So they are, they're going to demand, and why wouldn't they demand the world, because they're in their corner, they're sitting pretty at the same time. I don't think President Trump or most people

in the administration would have any problem getting up and walking away from the summit. I don't think he needs, I mean, the classic example, which everyone in the right uses, fairly, is Reagan at Reykjavik, where, you know, there had these negotiations of Gorbachev, you know, they're agreeing to everything. And at the very end, Gorbachev very shrewdly says, well, you know, this all depends on you giving up SDI, Star Wars. And Reagan blew his top and walked. And as a consequence of that, he ended up taking the steps that led to the end of the Cold War. So I know there's a lot of people in the administration. who are very familiar with that scenario.

And here's the other point that I think this is Trump's greatest strength. If you're working with New York and international real estate for decades, you know all the negotiating shenanigans and dealing with the bad actors. I mean, this is his exact forte. I mean, I'm from New York, so I know what these people are like. It's not a fair and nice handshake stuff. It's really, you know, check but verify, as Reagan and Gorbachev said. It's cutthroat stuff.

30 seconds, Michael, one more quick question. Is that what you expect to happen? Which is, because that's kind of what I expect, Michael. They're going to start these negotiations. North Korea is going to make some sort of demand that is completely untenable to us and we walk. Is that what you expect? No, because I don't know because it depends on what China has been telling them and forcing them. This is the secret that we are not privy to, nor should we be privy to.

Okay. There we are. Michael Malice, thank you so much. He's the author of a great book called Dear Reader, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong-il, and his podcast is your welcome. You can find him on Twitter at Michael Malice. Thanks, Michael.

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that we're dealing with, for instance, Hamas or North Korea? What are they actually saying themselves? Listen to this. I'm interested because this is the reason for my skepticism, at least partially. North Korea is famous for, as Michael Malice put it, just, you know, they're they're conniving, right?

They manipulate and they're connivors and they will lie to you all the time. So we've been told, at least through our media, that this is going to be a situation where we're going to get these nukes. They're going to end the nuclear program. They're not going to have weapons. And I'm very skeptical of that. Listen to what was said to Pompeo, in the

buried in the middle of this CNN story. This is what the spokesperson said to Pompeo when he was there. You have visited Pyong at such a good time. It's such a warm and lovely spring. And a good atmosphere has been established between the north and the south. So everything is going well in Pyongyang now.

Again, communicating, look, we don't need you to fix this. This is already fine. We're fine. They then told the Americans, we have perfected our nuclear capability, adding that this is not the result of sanctions and it been imposed from the outside. So again, you had nothing to do with this. He's not saying that we're having a meeting to turn these things over. He's thinking you didn't have nothing to do with this. And most importantly, we have perfected our nuclear capability.

In other words, we don't need more tests. we've already, we're done. We've already perfected it. We don't need to test anything anymore. So now we're coming to the table after we're done perfecting our program and no longer need tests to tell you we're not going to test anymore. Not to tell you that we're giving all of our weapons up. And then he says it's our policy to concentrate all efforts into economic progress in our country. Again, we've now, we had a priority of nuclear capability. We've perfected that. Now we're moving on to our economy. So sure, we'll talk now. So I think Trump is going to go in there and hear that they're not willing to give up these weapons as again

the quote the other one that Michael talked about if the Trump administration only pushes us into a corner and forces us to give up our nuclear weapons unilaterally then we will no longer take interest in such a talk and would have to reconsider so I think what they're communicating is

our media is telling us look I mean they're setting Trump up for failure because they're going to of course bash him if this doesn't go right, but he should be willing to walk on this. If they're not going to get, we don't want them to become a nuclear power. Think about it this way.

One way we've been hearing about is they're going to get rid their nukes and peace is going to come to the peninsula. We love that. That's a win. If we are just recognizing them as a nuclear power, that is a loss. That is a win for North Korea. If they are just now a nuclear power like Pakistan or

like India, right? If we're just coming to the table and saying, hey, we don't want you to test anymore, but we'll recognize your right to have nuclear weapons. That's not a win from our perspective. Now, look, we don't want war under any circumstance that we can take. We don't want people dying. We know how bad war looks. So talking is absolutely right. And the idea that he can go there and have these discussions could work out to be great.

Except I'm concerned. You're leaving out one part. And that is, what role is China going to play in security? You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Could I go out on a man limb here for? a second. A man limb? A limb made of men? No, it's a, it's a, you know, from the man tree, you go way out on a limb and might fall out of the man tree. Okay, well, he's been there many times. Yeah, we have. And you know, you know me, but, uh, uh, I'm going to take a, I'm going to take a chance here.

I am strangely, and not deeply, but strangely kind of interested in what's happening with what's her face that's marrying the prince guy. I don't even know, is it Harry or what's the other guy's name? What's the prince's name? Pete. I know it's Harry. Okay. It's what?

It's Harry. Harry. So which one's getting married? Harry is getting married. And he's... You show your level of interest is super high. Right, right. It's not very high at all.

Okay. But she's an American. She's an actress. Megan Markle. Yes. Yes. As you know, I've had a... And I, you know, what's interesting to me to me right now is that the fact that she kind of comes from a trashy family.

It does. And I kind of... A little bit of that. I do kind of like the American trailer trash moving into the palace. Now, she does not at all seem to be trailer trash. No, I'm not saying she is, but she's got... Her family does seem to have a branch in it.

Branch. You know, falling out of the... You know, falling out of the decent tree, you know, going out on a limb with her family and, whoa, I'm in trash land. Yes. It does seem to be that way. Right. Now, I have, because usually I would have a zero on the interest of the royal wedding.

I'm at a one or two on this one, largely because of my long-term personal relationship with Megan Markle. Well, a lot of people don't know this, but you were in a personal relationship with her along. Seven seasons? Yeah. Seasons? Yeah. Seasons of our lives, you know? That's how I think about it.

You know, you have the twists and turns of your life. Did you just watch her on? Was your relationship just watching her on TV? Is that what it was? I would say it was more than that. You didn't actually date her? Well, I didn't, no, I did not date her. No, no.

We never said we went that far. Right. Did you ever meet? Spent a lot of time in the same room. Right. With her actually physically present? Well, that depends. Obviously, we're talking now in a post-modernist world, how can we really say?

But no, it all serious, I love suits. the show she was on. It's a USA show and it's been on for seven seasons and I've watched every single episode and I love it. To the point that I actually care about these people like I've developed

in my mind deep relationships issues with them when they have their problems on the show I feel for them. Wow. I think about them. You know, I have moments in the day later on

where I'm like gosh I hope that works out. Okay. So I will tell you works out. I will tell you I have that relationship with the Americans. Really? Yeah, right. And I'm very concerned to what's going to happen to them as a couple and, you know,

what's going to happen with the neighbor? Is he going to find out and how is that going to affect him? I'm really, I'm really worried about him. It is weird. When you get it to a show like that, you really do. And so she's been on the show's suits for seven years on USA. And it says she is one of the main characters. She is dating, for most of the series, it was dating. one of the two main lawyers in the show. So she'll sleep with anybody.

No, she wasn't bouncing back and forth between him. She was with the one. I know, but at the same time, she's dating the prince. This is what's amazing. Wow, it's crazy. Trash. First of all, I would highly advocate going back and watching suits on whatever streaming service is on.

I think it's on Amazon. Please tell me she has a tramp stamp. I just want somebody. Oh, she's actually, I will say. in the palace with a tramp. I will say the idea that she comes from a white trash family. If, I mean, because it kind of seems sort of true by some of the reports. Well, her brother is.

Her brothers. Yeah. It's shocking because she's like in the, she's the most refined person in the world on the show. On the show. Right. On the show. But again, like, you know, you can, like, there are certain actresses that you would maybe say are, come from a white trash background that would not be able to.

to pull off a very refined role. And that's what she does. Roseanne could not necessarily play Queen Victoria. Roseanne is Queen Victoria. It's a great point. I like some more tea. Now, in the show, she would not be white trash at all as her father is a very successful African American attorney in the show.

I don't think that's a real dad because a real dad is having issues. No, real dad. I kind of feel bad for the dad. Yeah. So there's two parts of this. that I think are interesting. One, the dad apparently took,

it's got staged photos of him taken to, of him doing things preparing for the wedding. And they were staged as if they were caught by paparazzi. And like him in a cafe reading a book about things from England. Like really cheesy, like preparation for the wedding. I'm going to Great Britain. What do I do? Right.

Right. And the accusation is that he, was going to sell them to some source that's not confirmed. And then he was so embarrassed about it that he started giving excuses about why he wasn't going to go to the wedding and walk her down the aisle. So, like, this is like two days before, three days before the biggest wedding, I guess, if you care about weddings, the biggest one. And he may not walk her down the aisle.

So that's been a bit of controversy. The other part of it is the white trash family. No, no, no, no. The heart attack. Oh, yeah, because he said initially he had a heart attack and then he was recovering. No, he said he was having heart problems. talking, you know, and then he went in the day before or something like that, and he had had a heart attack.

So he has to have heart surgery, I think, on Wednesday. Is today, Wednesday? So today or tomorrow, he has to have a surgery, heart surgery. And that's why he can't go because of his health. That was his report and all that. We don't. They're backing off on that now and now he may very well go. But again, I don't consider him to be her real father.

I consider the lawyer to be her real father on the show. So I don't know. Like I've never dealt with. So here's the reason why they're saying I guess her half sister said that she, dad had a heart attack because of a letter. And this is, to me, this is the fun part.

Because I have such a trashy family, man. My family is. I like the fact that we're injecting this directly into the palace. That's what I. I love. That's what I love. Okay, so he writes, the brother, the half brother, writes to Prince Harry. Now, he writes,

he writes it just on yellow legal pad. Okay. You know, you'd think if you're going to write a prince might go for something more than the yellow. Maybe you get to open up Microsoft word, maybe. Yeah, maybe. You know, type it out. He writes it. Dear Prince Harry, it's not too late.

Megan Markle is obviously not the right woman for you. As more time passes to your royal wedding, it becomes very clear that this is the biggest mistake in royal wedding history. Now, that's saying something. Yeah. Because there's a lot.

There's a long list. Henry the 8th comes to mind. By the way, you stopped using the accent, but I'm still hearing it. Okay. That's amazing. I'm confused. Why you don't see the real Megan that the whole world now sees? Megan's attempt to act this part of a prince.

is like a below-ceaverage Hollywood actress, and it's getting old. What? What kind of person starts out by using her own father until he's bankrupt, then forgets about him in Mexico, living and broke over mostly all of her debts? And when it's time to pay him back, she forgets her own father like she never knew him. my father will never recover financially from paying Megan's way nor emotionally from disavowing him Meg is showing her true it looks like colon's but I think it says colors um it's showing her true colon you have you ever seen a colon it's very apparent that her tiny

bit of Hollywood fame has given her head uh has gone to her head changing her into a jaded shallow, conceded woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. I'm sure. This guy's really concerned with royal family heritage. Look, I'm a friend. I am deeply, I've lived my life worrying about the ground. Not to mention to top it all off, she doesn't invite her own family and instead invites complete strangers to a wedding.

Who does that? Well, a princess, probably. It's someone who's, I don't know, has brothers like you. You know, that's, those are the people that don't get invited to the royal wedding. I guess this would happen in all circumstances. This letter smells like beer. Schlitz. Is that schlitz?

So anyway, he goes on, she's still my sister. She still is family. Whatever happens is up to her. Whether she wants to forget knowing me or the rest of her family. Family comes first. Also, I would think that a royal wedding would bring a torn family. closer together, but I guess we're all distant family

to Meg. I mean, it's, and this, you know, this guy seems like a complete dirtbag, to be honest about it. He runs a legitimate drug business. Right. So he's been apparently in the marijuana business for several years. The medical

business. He is a pharmaceutical dispensary. Right. There he go. And he, now he is upset that Megan Markle would would just leave behind the family and and I guess exploit her fame, right? He would never exploit his notoriety for his own gain. Never.

That's why his new pot business is launching a new product called royally grown. The idea is to sell hemp-based clothing and makeup as well as Markle Sparkle. A new line of marijuana. But the description of this is, is the greatest description of any product I've ever heard of in my life. Okay? No, I don't know because I don't know how to even parse it. It's wonderful.

Markle Sparkle, a new line of marijuana that Tyler said, quote, literally smells just what you would picture a blueberry would smell like. I'll hear that again. I wouldn't picture a smell. No, wouldn't picture a smell,

number one. And like, we've smelled blueberries before. This is not an alien. I know. It's like what you would picture Mars to look like. Right. That would make sense. He said, it literally smells just what you would picture a blueberry would smell like.

Okay, I know what blueberries smell like. So why don't you just say blueberry scented? They smell like blueberries. That's all you have to say. What do you mean? It literally, like, it's not figurative here. I want you to make sure you understand. I'm saying it literally smells just like you would picture a blueberry smelling like.

But what does a picture of a blueberry smell like? I don't know. I've never smelled blueberries. You've got to buy a lot of pot to figure it out, shockingly. He may have been high when he wrote that. Look at it. I'm telling you right now, it literally smells just like you picture a blueberry. to smell.

That is fantastic. We should sell a lot of those. I don't know why they're not inviting you to the royal wedding. All right. Let me talk to you a little bit about gold. Inflation is rising. Things are good in the country. You know, the economy is picking up.

That's good. That is good. But remember, velocity of money is what causes inflation. And we have put so much money. We've printed so much money. We've then repatriated all of these dollars. And they've been sitting here in a slow economy. As those dollars pick up velocity and meaning as they are spent more and more and people buy more stuff and they hire more people, that's when inflation kicks in.

That's when interest rates go up. That's why everybody's expecting the Fed here on June 12th to raise interest rates. When inflation goes up, the hedge against inflation is gold. Always is. While your dollar is losing money, gold is going up. That's why you don't want, you know, it's not an all or nothing kind of thing. This is why you take part of your money and you put it in gold. You never know.

When somebody is inflated money the way we have, it never works out. It works out like Zimbabwe. It works out as my, uh, Weimar Germany. By the way, if you call Gold Line now, they're going to give you a, um, a $10 billion bill. 10 billion. It's actual legal currency in Zimbabwe. And it's 10 billion Zimbabweans, which is, wow.

Because I mean, I'm not going to spend 10 billion dollars. I'm going to be saving money by just calling Goldline. They're going to give me 10 billion. I'm probably going to spend less than 10 billion. billion dollars. Well, maybe maybe not. But it is, there's nothing like

it's not a $10 billion bill. Yeah, it is really cool. Because that's a piece of real history that shows what can happen when an economy gets out of control. And it's happened multiple times throughout the country's happening right now in Venezuela. So, the Fed is trying to pull the money back in

by raising interest rates, which will mean gold will go up. It's a hedge against inflation. What else happens. If it gets out of control, they inflate the money to the Zimbabwean $10 billion bill. Money, it becomes worthless. Gold becomes a fortune. I don't know what's going to happen, but I do know this. Inflation is coming. The hedge against inflation is gold. Only people I trust. Goldline. Call them now. 1866 Gold line. 1866 Gold line. Read their important risk information. Find out if gold or silver is right for you. 1866 Goldline or goldline.com.

We're just having a quick chat. I think we have to have this on the air tomorrow. I don't know how we even got there, but alternate universes, the theory of bubble universes and many alternate universes. You know, alternate universes. Sure. And Stu was trying to explain to me.

He had a hard time understanding that because we just happened to be in the universe that, quote, makes sense. Occasionally. Okay. Like, if I go on Uber Eats and I order something, the food will likely come. In this theory, all of these, there's a million other things like nuclear weapons go off when I order from Uber Eats in one universe. A giraffe.

He delivers a giraffe. Right. Hamsters put on a puppet show for me. Like every other possibility happens. We just happen to be in the one that every time I click Uber Eats, the food comes. Okay, so Uber Eats, maybe it balances out with the news of the day. Maybe another place. There's small government policies being passed.

Universities actually teach things that make sense. Glenn, back. Mercury.