The Glenn Beck Program - Open-Border Policy Proves the Left Values Politics Over Life | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/27/24

Episode Date: February 27, 2024

The White House finally addressed the horrific case of Laken Riley, a nursing student from the University of Georgia who was murdered while jogging, allegedly by an illegal alien from Venezuela. The corporate media, however, refuses to acknowledge that Biden's open border is to blame. Blaze podcast host of "Conservative Review" Daniel Horowitz joins to give the numbers of the crimes happening due to the border crisis. Glenn reads an article from the New York Times that appears to expose major "secrets" of America's long-term involvement with Ukraine. Glenn's chief researcher, Jason Buttrill, joins to discuss the global conflict with Russia that seems to be leaning toward a widespread war. Glenn and Jason also discuss the Left praising a man who committed suicide in front of the Israeli embassy. Stu and Jason discuss the Left prioritizing ideology over humanity. Why are people still wearing N95 masks outside? "Libs of TikTok" owner Chaya Raichik talked with reporter Taylor Lorenz, and Taylor proved she could no longer think for herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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to start with illegal immigration. I want to start where CNN and AP and everybody else says, oh, what are you talking about? There's no problem with crime because of illegal immigration. Yes, there is. Daniel Horowitz is going to be joining us. He's been compiling the stats. It is a real problem, and everyone knows it except the media. But they continue to lie to you. We'll start there in 60 seconds. Stand by. First, our sponsor, this half hour is Rough Greens. Lisa wrote in about her dog's experience with Rough Green.

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Well, let's say hello to our executive, Mr. Stu Bergier. Hello, Stu. Glenn, how are you? Well, I'm good. It was, what, 90 yesterday in Dallas? Yeah, 92, I think it got up to. Mm-hmm. Love it.

First of all, global warming. Mm-hmm. Telling you global warming. It has not been that cold since like 1908 in Texas on that date, which means, or that hot, which means it was that hot a hundred years ago. I just want to point that out, but it was really hot. And I had to fly up to the ranch yesterday. And I'm going to spend a couple of days up here. And it was snowing when I got here.

I mean, it's just whiplash for me because it's beautiful and very cold up in the mountains. And for those listening on radio, it's important to note that Glenn is now at the ranch with a cowboy hat on and has gone full Don Imus. Like it is, this is how it starts. I assume you're going to start a charity up there for sick kids or something. Sorry, charity. We've got some sick kids here. We're just milking these kids for all their worth. And all right. So anyway, let's talk about illegal aliens. And in fact, one specific case that the White House mentioned briefly yesterday, White House spokesman finally commented on a report about Lake and Riley. Her death late Monday afternoon, they spoke about it. They just said, the murderer should be held accountable. We'd like to extend our deepest condolences to the family.

family and loved ones of Lake and Hope Riley. People should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law if they're found to be guilty. Given this is an active case, I love this. They'll comment on anything unless it hurts them. Then it's like, you know, you got to talk to the Justice Department. I mean, we can't comment at this point. What about Hunter Biden and his crack cocaine and hooker thing? You're going to have to talk to the Justice Department. What about What about Donald Trump and his documents? That guy's a big fat liar and he's spying on America with Russia. Shouldn't we discuss that?

No, we've got that. You don't need to go to the Justice Department. We got that one handled. So anyway, finally they said something, but the reaction from the press has been grotesque. CNN reported yesterday, in case you don't know, Lakin Riley, she was jogging. She was a university student in Georgia. She's jogging in the morning and she's brutally killed. And what a surprise.

It was an illegal alien and this time from Venezuela. So CNN reports yesterday, quote, there's little evidence leaking illegal immigration in crime after the Venezuelan migrant was charged in connection with murder of the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student. found dead Thursday, University of Georgia campus, signs of blunt force trauma after setting out for a jog in the morning. The suspect is 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra. He had crossed into the U.S. illegally near El Paso in September 2022. The border patrol caught him. at the border and then just gave him a ticket and released him into the United States. So he had been stopped.

But then he goes up to New York and he got in trouble in New York. He was arrested last year in New York by the NYPD and charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation. They didn't do anything up in New York. They just let him go. And now this. So now a new poll shows that many Americans think that there is a influx of illegal immigrants, and that is causing an increase to crime.

And let me just say, that's not true. It's not true. Well, it's not entirely true. It is the administration's new regulations and guidelines that are letting all of these people in. We're having all of these problems because of the new guidelines. And then on top of that, we also have new guidelines issued by all of these district attorneys all over the country that were hired by none other than George Soros. Good. So we got that going for us. That's what's causing crime. We're not enforcing our laws at the border. And then we're not enforcing our laws in our cities. Our government isn't enforcing the law. Our DAs aren't enforcing the law. And that's why you have criminals going crazy because they know I don't, I'm not going to be charged with it. They're going to let go. It's not a problem. So yesterday, Biden, uh, was taken on by Donald Trump, he said, this is the problem with the Biden administration and our

border, and everybody went crazy. By the way, he was charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, and hindering a 911 call, and concealing the death of another. I don't know. That seems pretty serious. So they are not letting him go this time. The reason why they let him go last time in New York City is because New York City is a sanctuary city. By the way, his brother also charged on Friday for possessing a fraudulent green card being held in state custody.

held in state custody now. The federal arrest affidavit for Diego, the brother who killed the girl, says that in September 23, Athens Clark County police charged him with drunken driving and driving without a license. Oh, so he just did it in New York and then came down to Georgia. Oh, and he was also later arrested for shoplifting and then skipping out on anything having to do with showing up for court. A majority of Americans now say that a border wall has to be done. This is the first time since the history of polls that a majority of Americans say, border wall, please. Trump says, I'm going to have a massive deportation. He said it's going to

be the largest deportation. If I'm elected, massive deportation. It'll be the biggest in history. Okay, well, how do people feel about that? Well, I don't know, but I'll tell you how the Washington Post feels about it. After hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants were put on buses, planes, and boats during the scorching summer of 1954, and sent across the U.S. border into often unfamiliar parts of Mexico, the head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service declared the border secured. It was the so-called wetback problem.

But the military-style campaign, which used the same slur in its name, Operation Wetback, tore families apart, forcibly uprooted people in the name of securing the border experts say, and sometimes those efforts turn deadly. Now, first of all, can I just ask? ask why it was a smear in 1950 to call this Operation Wetback. That's before it became a slur. Operation Wetback was called that because the people that were being deported were the people that crossed the Rio Grande and swam across or came across and they were wet when they got out. Now it's a slur, but it wasn't in the 1950s. Now, former president,

Donald Trump is using the Eisenhower era operation as a blueprint for his vision. It will be the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. It will remove 10.5 million undocumented people in the United States, of whom two-thirds have lived in this country for more than a decade. Now, wait a minute. Hold on just a second. Why is it that we're going after the ones who have lived here for a decade? 10.5 million? I think we should probably start with the ones that are here that just came here and have no reason to be here and are causing real problems. You could go with the last 10 million that have come in and they aren't the ones who have lived here for more than a decade. Got to get them because if you don't get them now,

what's going to happen? The press will say, they've been here for more than a decade. Americans can expect, this is Donald Trump, Americans can expect that immediately upon President Trump's return to the Oval Office, he will restore all of his prior policies, implement brand new crackdowns that will send shockwaves to all the world's criminal smugglers and marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the deportation operation. That's a spokesperson from him yesterday. Undocumented illegal immigrants should not get comfortable because very soon, they'll be going home. Now, that's what the Trump people said yesterday. The Post is saying that's

horrible. You watch the number of people coming across the border. The more this is publicized, what he's saying, the number of illegals coming across our border will go down. Why? Because what the president says matters. When Joe Biden said, no, I'm not encouraging people. I'm not at all. Yes, he was. Is Donald Trump discouraging people? Yes, he is. Is that a good thing? Yes, it is. But when describing the operation on what Trump's plan is built, says the Washington Post, experts commonly land on the same word. What's that word, Stu? But anything it is. But anything it is. Experts. All the experts are saying the same word. Hmm, gosh.

There's so many that popped to mind, but I don't know. Inhumane. Inhumane. It's inhumane. It's inhumane. Yeah, just inhumane. I'm wondering if they're talking to any experts that

agree with, you know, border policies that secure the border, I wonder. When Trump harkens back to that, I think we've got to be really clear about what kind of a law enforcement campaign he is threatening to unleash, says little Hernandez, who holds the Thomas E. Lifka, endowed chair, history of UCLA. It's not just mass deportation. It's mass racial banishment. No, no. If you're

coming in from Russia, I want you out. If you're, I mean, if you're doing it illegally, if you're coming in from China, I want you out. You're coming in from Sweden. I want you out. You're coming in from Sweden. I want you out. England I want you out if you're coming from Iran I really want you out you're coming from hostile countries bu bye if you're coming here just because you're a family trying to better themselves go through the front door and you know what bring your family instead of just sending your 20-year-old son I just think you know we got enough of angry 20-year-olds on our own we don't need anymore

If you'd like one, if you'd like to take an angry teenager, I will gladly invite you to house one of my children. You'd house them. See what happens with that one. If that's what you're really looking for, I can help you in that department. All right, more in just a second. First, let me tell you about the international fellowship of Christians and Jews. Christians and Jews have got to stand together. I've worked with these people off and on throughout the years. I really like them. I like what they do. I like what they stand for. And it is two people of faith, different faiths, coming together and working together.

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And I'm talking about Christian nationalism. Words matter. Language matters, especially when it comes to the law. When the law, if there is something that is a law and it says, the president shall, that shall legally binds the president to do something. the president shall give a state of the union address yearly means it has to be done now that's the old timey think now there was a there was a border bill that was passed in the house and i think in the senate and it was in 2007 i'm just pulling this out of back of my pocket here but i think it was 2007 and it was a border

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it. Well, you know what? Not letting the legal immigrant in would have saved one life. In fact, would have saved a lot of lives here recently. To talk about it is Daniel Horowitz. He did a podcast yesterday on this. He's compiling the stats of crime from illegal aliens. Daniel, what did you find? Hey, well, it's great to be back with you, Glenn. And look, if last decade's criminality from foreign nationals was defined by MS. 13, I think we should start to familiarize ourselves with Trend de Aragua, because that is the Venezuelan prison gang that was essentially sent up here by President Maduro in Venezuela. And why not? You can't blame him. He knew that our door was open, so he figured he'd get rid of his

problems. We focused a lot on the quantitative aspect of this border invasion, that quantitatively, it's much greater than we've ever seen, probably about 10 million between the apprehensions and godaways since Biden took office. But qualitatively, when I speak to border agents, ice agents, and then reporters down at the Darien Gap in Panama, they say they have never seen so many young male belligerents with tattoos that kind of look like they want a piece of you. And now if you go to the New York Post, every day you will find stories. of those arrested and then turned out loose within 24 hours in New York City. We find it in Chicago.

So this alleged murderer of Lake and Riley is not in a vacuum. This is something that we are going to deal with for years, you know, in the next number of years, if we don't get rid of them very soon. So, Daniel, when you talk about the border issue, you mentioned the difference between the qualitative and quantitative problem here. and it is significant. Obviously, the quantitative problem has been well documented. When you talk about the people coming across the border, though, we hear about potential terrorists, we hear about drug dealers. What is the biggest issue that border agents are facing?

Sure. I mean, again, we've seen all these pictures where we have young military age males just marching through the border that we've never seen before. And it turns out that, I mean, at least from what I'm hearing, is that the Venezuelans have the highest concentration of criminal elements simply because it's not by accident. It's not natural selection that, you know, you're going to have a lot of ruffians coming over a border because that's what a lot of them do. Some of them are just desperate, but a lot of them are criminal elements. This is a concerted effort on the part of Maduro to send his prison gangs up here. And you're finding this a lot in places like Miami, places.

like Chicago and New York, even local media is reporting on it, where they're having a number of gangbangers arrested. Chicago arrested just a handful, you know, 5, 10 Venezuelan nationals in 2022. But then last year in 2023, they arrested 700 of them. And again, this is not just for looking like you're an illegal alien. These are people usually, it's shoplifting, it's assault, it's driving without a license, it's driving without a license. since drunk driving. And, you know, I've chronicled this for about 15 years. Now, you can't use the numbers now because Biden doesn't enforce the law.

But when Trump was president and they were trying to apprehend people, in just one given year, we would typically get, and this is reoccurring every year, enough people arrested in that kind of sweep, that net of enforcement to account for 2,000 homicide-related offensive. meaning both convictions and arrest, 1,600 kidnappings, 3,800 robberies, 3,7,000 assaults, 10,000 sex crimes, and usually about 80,000 or so DUIs. The numbers were pretty consistent every single additional year. Now, typically, especially back then before the, you know, George Floyd crime rave, we typically had maybe 14,000 homicide arrests in a given year. So to have 2,000 accounted for among the jurisdiction of ICE, illegal aliens, some of them legal but criminal elements that are deportable, that is an astounding share.

That's one in seven. And again, this is before the Biden wave. So you can imagine now that you're having all these belligerents from Venezuela. Just think about this. We've had 335,000 Venezuelans come in just in the first few months. I'm sorry, just in in 2023, plus Biden granted temporary protected status to

470,000 others just 834 have been removed. Okay? So that is how you think what is that problem is. What is amazing to me is at the same time this is going on.

By the way, that is exactly what was his name in Iraq. Saddam Hussein did right before we went in to cause chaos on the streets. He emptied the prisons. That's what Maduro did, except into the United States. And his reward for that was the United States allowing him to sell more oil, even to us. So this is a chaos operation. But we're also all seeing stories almost every day, if you're paying attention to it, of the, your key word there was belligerent.

they feel like they are above the law. They know they're not going to be charged. And so they'll beat police officers. They'll flip people off. They are super citizens almost. That's the way they act. And what you're finding, especially in these blue areas, is an amalgamation of the invasion and then jailbreak, what they call criminal justice reform in New York City.

So they turn out all criminals loose the next day. But in this case, you have the people let out of Rikers Island, domestic criminals being let loose. And then now you have all these Venezuelans coming in, committing crimes, often three or four crimes, and they get released every time. I want to throw out another number that's very important. I've tracked for a number of years. There's something called ICE's Undetained Docket.

So what that means by its very nature is these are the people that are on ICE's radar to at least investigate off and target for removal, but they remain undetained. Right now, there's only about 37,000 people in ICE's custody that's about the maximum of what they could handle. The undetained docket is 6.2 million. Okay, so I want people. Oh, my gosh. 6.2 million. Now, now, I don't have the recent numbers, but. in the old days, and I don't think this has changed, about 80% were criminal aliens.

So they had criminal charges and or convictions in addition to being here illegally. Think about that. There's only 5,000 ICE ERO officers, deportation officers around. Limited resources. We already know that under this administration, if you're caught drunk driving, you're not really a priority. That's not considered a high-level crime. So there are 6.2 million in their undetained docket. Just think about the needless murder victims, rape victims, and we're seeing this now every day.

The media tries to cover it up. We saw a rape of a minor allegedly committed by an illegal alien south of Lynchburg, Virginia yesterday. It was a case of Montana I was just looking at. If the American people would actually know the extent of how many of these. heinous crimes are committed by people that should never be here and there would have been multiple opportunities to get them out, they'd be up in arms and this would be our George Floyd moment. Imagine if you are a citizen and your governor is telling you, hey, we need homes for these people. Take them in your home. How stupid do you have to be? I mean, it's unbelievable. Picture the

worst of the bloods in the crypts in your own downtown. That's what we're important. from all over the world, each country's problems. You'll have some desperate, impoverished people that are kind of peaceful, too. Certainly not in our best interest to let them in. But this time we are just seeing a total invasion. And what's important is legally, this definitely meets the definition of an invasion under the compact that should trigger state authority for removals. And I think this is where it's important.

You know, when you look at that 6.2 million number. You look at what we're seeing now from that individual charge with murdering Lakin Riley, along with his brother. They were caught in a red state here illegally and having committed other crimes prior to this alleged murder. And yet, they remained. Some of them are because of sanctuary policies. But sometimes, even if you're not a sanctuary state, but now you have sanctuary nation. So here's the thing. Let's say a state might want to deal with that individual, maybe lock them up, maybe try to remove them.

But ICE now grabs them with a detainer, and now a detainer is a double-edged source because they'll place a detainer enough that the state cannot enforce the law against them. But it's not like the feds are going to actually remove them or even detain them. They're going to be on their undetained docket out free to commit more crimes. this is where the red state governors need to get together and say look if we catch someone here illegally committing an assault a drunk driving they need to be out of here Daniel can you address one more thing before you go which is the media's response to this talk every time is to say well actually immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than US citizens they're not the problem here sure

so they're right in a sense. Immigrants, okay? So legal immigrants, on average, commit fewer crimes, and the reason is because on average they come to the United States at an older age that's past the sort of criminal career age, you know, 16 to 30. They're usually older when they come. They're more established. With that, I would say there are certain pockets of the world that we accept immigrants

even legally that still commit too many crimes because the amount of crimes that should be committed are zero because they're vetted. You know, it's kind of like a draft picked. You get your choice. You could pick your immigrants. You can't pick your natives. Native born, that is.

But as it relates to the people coming from the border, again, you look, you know, if we just have a minute, I want to give you a statistic that, again, is astounding. You have about 45 seconds before I have to break. In 2020, Trump's ICE director, Matt Albans, he said that in one year in New York City, they issued 7,500 ICE detainers,

and out of those individuals, they included 200 homicides. Okay. Oh, my gosh. I looked up that area of operation. There were fewer than 300 people arrested for all homicides in that area of ICE's operation in one year. I'm not saying they necessarily commit two-thirds. You have to study that, but it is surely great. than their share of the population.

Daniel Horowitz, you can hear his podcast on the Blaze, Blaze TV. He did a whole podcast about this yesterday, and he's always, always really buttoned up and has a different view on a lot of things that I think you should hear. Daniel, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Take care. Here's some irony for you. You know what kind of scams are on the rise these days?

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My wife used to watch her show years and years ago, and she, She was a radio personality. She came from the world of radio, and she got this big show and kind of seemed like it was hard to understand. I didn't understand how she was getting super famous and got a big show, but she did. There's a lot of that going around. Yeah, I mean, you, you're a great example of it. So. I don't wait.

So she became really famous and got this big show on daytime TV, became a big thing. And then, like, suddenly started having kind of weird health problems and would, like, miss months and months of the show at a time. And it was kind of like, it was just a strange story, like what was going on with her. And apparently like this went right down the road and it didn't look great. She eventually was planning a comeback, planned a documentary to come film her comeback for this, for her show. And it went the opposite direction. Like her whole life fell apart and it got terrible to the extent that I guess she was drinking so much that maybe it. forced some sort of dementia to hit her.

And now she, like, has, she got put under a conservatorship or a guardianship type of situation. That guardian seems to be blocking her from her family in some way. And the cameras were there for all of it. So it's a crazy documentary. It just aired this weekend. I have not seen it yet, but the story is fascinating. What did it air on? I think it was a lifetime, maybe.

I don't know. But, I mean, that's still a network that's on? Still a network. Yeah. Wow. So we're learning all sorts of new things. It's been a long time since I've touched the television to turn the TV on and let cable just spill into the house. I know.

It's a funny observation, but I could not find it. I tried to watch it. I have absolutely, I could not locate where to watch the show. Are we hurtling towards World War III? And who wants it? Why does the administration seem to want World War III? and now the New York Times. I'll explain in 60 seconds.

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Go to real estate agentsitrust.com. That's real estate agents I trust.com. I want you to listen to this story from the New York Times and just help me out a bit, will you? Sure, of course. Nestled in a dense forest, the Ukrainian military base appears abandoned and destroyed. Its command center, a burned out husk, a casualty of a Russian missile barrage early in the war. But that is only what's above ground. Not far away, a secret passageway descends to a substance.

subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrops on communications and conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone through as they thread it through the Russian air defenses from the point in central Ukraine to target in the Russian city of Rostov. Now, Stu. I don't think this is a secret when it's in the New York Times. But my first question here is, why would the New York Times be talking about something that's just a few yards away from a military base? It's probably not hard to narrow this down from a military base where there's hardened bunkers tracking everything and sending the drones that they're trying to stop. Why would the New York Times put that in here?

It seems a good story. It seems like a bad move. If you want Ukraine to be victorious in a war, you wouldn't necessarily want to tip your hand to the Russians. You're right. Obviously, they don't give specifics exactly. But again, this is probably something they could pretty easily narrow down. So, yeah, so why would you do this? So now the next paragraph comes in.

The Russian underground bunker. Sorry, the underground bunker built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia's invasion is a secret. It's not secret if I'm reading about it in the new. It is a secret nerve center of the Ukrainian military. But there's also one more secret that now that we're printing it is no longer a secret. The base is almost fully financed and partially equipped by the CIA. General Serney-Dorzky said 110%. Really? 110%. That's true?

It took root a decade ago, coming together in fits and starts under three very different U.S. presidents, pushing forward by key individuals who often took daring risks. It had transformed Ukraine, whose intelligence agencies were long seen as thoroughly compromised by Russia. into one of Washington's most trusted and important intelligence partners against the Kremlin today. The CIA helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operate inside of Russia across Europe and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence. Well, that's helpful. Can we reveal the knock list too? The relationship is so ingrained that the CIA officers remained at a remote location in western Ukraine

when the Biden administration evacuated U.S. personnel in the weeks before Russia evaded. During the invasion, the officers relayed critical intelligence, including where Russia was planning strikes and which weapons systems they would use. the Russian head of the Russian or sorry the head of the Ukrainian domestic intelligence agency said without the CIA they would have been there would be no way for us to resist the Russians or to beat them oh now Stu why would the New York Times print this maybe their desirous of World War III I could be one one potential explanation.

Like you're trying to spark a flame that will result in all of us being lit on fire and a fire explosion across the entire globe. What would make you to jump to something like that? Well, it seems like if the basic argument is actually we've been spying on Russia through Ukraine this entire time. and the suspicions of Vladimir Putin that the West is using Ukraine for these types of purposes are well, have a pretty viable foundation of truth. That seems to be a terrible, terrible thing to be throwing into the New York Times. Now, look, I would assume the Russian military is aware of a lot of these things already. I mean, this is obviously their job and their business.

But I don't think drawing more attention to it is a good idea. So let me ask you. It's implied, and pretty much everybody knows, that Russia and China are hacking into our systems, that Russia has hacked into our power grid, etc., etc. But what does Putin say about it in the Russian media? Nothing. Not true.

That's not true. We don't do that. Okay. What if it came out in Pravda and it quoted the head of the operation in Russia? And it said, absolutely, we have been targeting their critical infrastructure for years now. We have them on the ropes. And you know who told us all of this? Canada. Canada has been working with us to make sure the Niagara Falls power plant is the first of all.

What would we do? We are headed for World War III. Let me give you a couple of stories that show that this is wanted by too many people. This is from the Financial Times this weekend. Jan Stoltenberg said that there was no doubt that Ukraine would join NATO as Western leaders gathered in Kiev to pledge support and mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. The NATO chief said on Saturday that Russia President Vladimir Putin started this war because he wanted to close NATO's door, but he has achieved the exact opposite. Ukraine is now closer to NATO than ever before. Huh.

He said NATO is helping Keev to make its forces more and more interoperable. Ukraine will join NATO. It is not a question of if, but of when. He insisted. Okay, so let me see. On the same weekend, we have NATO. What Putin said was the real problem. They were going to expand NATO to places like Ukraine.

Yes, we're going to do that. We're going to do that now. And also that's the same weekend that the New York Times reports, their secret underground bunkers run by the CIA. Okay. Great. Now, if again, this was about Canada, and Russia said they're expanding their presence and they're going to put military in Canada on our border.

And they admitted to, you know, doing secret operations with Canada to be able to destroy us. What would we do? Mr. Orban came out, Victor Orban of Hungary. He declared an end to the months-long spat with sea. Sweden over the expansion of NATO, saying that a visit by his Swedish counterparts had rebuilt trust and paved the way for Hungarian Parliament to vote on Monday, that's yesterday, to ratify the Nordic nation's membership in NATO. We're ready to fight for each other, to give our lives for one another, he said.

Really? The sudden warming of relations between the two countries followed a decision by Sweden to provide Hungary with four Swedish-made gripen fighter jets, an addition to the 14 its Air Force already uses, and a promise that Saab, the maker of the warplanes, will open an artificial intelligence research center in Hungary. Okay. So that's, that's good. That's good. Why are we headed toward war? Why?

By the way, Hungary did approve that in Sweden that you mentioned 188 to 6. Yeah, I believe Hungary was the one saying let's not piss off the bear

why would we be talking about expanding NATO? I believe I've heard Orban say those very things. Why would we do that? Four jets? really that's all it took was four jets i don't think so i don't think so there is a game being played here that uh i really don't like and our country is becoming a little crazy let me give you this story the iranian-backed hamas terrorist group

praised a far-left extremist who lit himself on fire outside of the israeli Reilly Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Sunday and used his death to promote Islamic terrorist propaganda. Aaron Bushnell, a low-level software engineer with the U.S. Air Force, screamed, Free Palestine as flames engulfed his body after he doused himself with a flammable liquid and then lit himself on fire. He later died from injuries. Bushnell repeated terrorist propaganda in the moments leading up to the incident falsely claiming that what was happening inside Gaza was genocide and calling Israel colonizers. Now that sounds like a far-left radical, doesn't it?

Oh, I forgot. We're not looking for hard left radicals in the military. Only those Christian nationalists and those who want to have insurrection in the United States. Now here's why this is so bad. Let me take you first to what Cornell West tweeted. Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell, who died for truth and justice. I pray for his precious loved ones.

Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with the Palestinians, undergoing genocidal attacks in real time. I want you to mark this place in time right now. This truly is a mile marker. This makes Aaron into some kind of suicide bomber when they'll be rewarded in heaven. We are not a culture that rewards suicide or suicide acts, suicidal acts, especially for politics.

Instead of one of the 50,000 plus Americans who committed suicide in the last year, instead of mourning another lost life, lost to mental illness, we're confusing suicide with martyrdom. Those who kill themselves for ideology should not be praised. But that's exactly what Hamas said. That's exactly what Cornell West said. Praising ideology over human life, that's not a Rubicon we care to cross. But we're crossing it right now.

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Washington DC and he was a US Air Forceman what was the first thing that went through your minds do first thing he's insane yep that was the first thing that went through my mind what insanity what insanity it's not going to change anything and you have to be insane to light yourself on fire. Okay, what was the second thing that came to mind? The Arab Spring. Really? The Arab Spring. Yeah. The guy who was in the cart. Yeah. He set himself on fire and how this setting yourself on fire has some history to start movements. Revolution and revolutions, yes. So a history to start revolutions. And are those revolutions from the right or those revolutions from the left uh typically the left and the and the guy who said he had a

he had a food cart um in tunisia and he set himself on fire which kicked off the arab spring did the media and all of the people that were somebody's praise him or say that he was a bad guy they praised him they praised him so now let's see see see Seems like we have, if we have a box of things to do, just a whole checklist, seems like we've checked off the Arab Spring. Okay. We are now praising this. Think of Maid up in Canada. Maid is medical assistance in dying.

This is ideology prized over life. They are now allowing people who are handicapped. have mental disorders to be killed. I mean, have we forgotten what happened the last time that this was done? Think about the DAs releasing criminals back onto the streets. We know this is not working. We knew this was, some of us knew this was bad when they said, we're going to reimagine policing.

but it again is ideology more important than life. The border, keeping it open. That ideology is more important than human life. Keeping the border open because of fentanyl more important than human life. We are becoming a culture of death and this suicide and the praise from notable people in America that this is heroic. is a very big signpost we just passed. Ideology over life. Suicide is not heroic.

And even in an ideological culture of death, it cannot smooth over the real human pain of losing someone. This is exactly what they do in the Middle East. They praise the suicide bombers. They praise the people who will kill. commit suicide on behalf of their ideology. You'll notice that the media is covering for this, and no one is talking about investigating to see how this Air Force guy was in the Air Force, and no one caught this. My guess is no one's looking for that kind of extremist.

I just, last thing to say on this, Deuteronomy, I call heaven and earth to witness again, you today that I have placed before you life and death the blessing and the curse so choose life in order that you may live you and your descendants we are in a culture of death that has been a wannabe suicide cult and there are people endorsing this suicide today if you and your descendant if you and your descendant care to live, then you must choose life over ideology. I want to talk to you about Jace Medical. Drug shortages hit a new record high last year right now.

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You have to excuse me as my voice. I have the worst vocal cords in the world. They're very sensitive. So as I lose my voice again, please put up with it for as long as you can. I appreciate it. Although, you know, Jason Buttrill is with us, and he pointed out that sounds very sexy,

which I was uncomfortable with, right? Honestly. Yeah, sounds, oh, yeah, ding-dong, pizza delivery. That's right. Oh, yeah. Hi. I'm from the Georgia District Attorney's Office.

Does he see me? Want to leave my phone at your house for a while. Anyway, okay, so Jason is here to talk a little bit about what's happening with this march to war. Does this bother you,

Jason? Doesn't this seem like A, antagonizing Putin and Russia between what they're doing with NATO and this week and what they're also reporting in the New York Times. I mean, I can't think of any helpful reason to the U.S. for these things to be going on.

Can you? I mean, we've seen a lot of concerning things or escalations happening over the, I guess over the past four years. But I mean, the last few days has been wild when you look at every. everything altogether. When you have the, you know, the head of NATO basically saying, yeah, they're going to be and Ukraine's going to be in NATO. It's not a question of if, you know, but when.

Excuse me. It's crazy. You just right there to everyone. You just said, yeah, everything that, you know, we've been denying to Putin, you know, for the past, you know, and saying that, you know, this is why your premise for invasion of Ukraine was wrong. Well, okay, so maybe you were right. You just justified it to him.

and to all the people that support Putin. You said, yeah, okay, he was right. You have, again, this is all happening within a matter of like 72 hours. Then you have the president of France saying, yeah, there's a- Send in military. High possibility that, yeah, NATO troops will be going into Ukraine. I'm sorry? And the people of Ukraine shouted out and said, oh, dear God, no, that will guarantee

our loss. Don't send French. I, you look at that and then you look- Well, that's a good point. It took you a while. Yeah, but that's a good point. But you also have, you know, the spy chief over in Ukraine saying, yeah, well, you know, Putin probably didn't kill Navalny, you know, in the prison. It was, it was a blood clot.

That one I can't understand. Why, why, how does that help? This is, this, that was actually a thing that started crystallizing everything for me. You have a new United States, you know, leadership potentially coming in, you know, within the next. few months. You have a Republican Party in the United States that's not too keen on continually funding this forever war. There's a little bit of doubt as far as how far this is going to go. And for me, this is the rest of the world saying, whether it's NATO, whether it's McCrone, whether it's now the Ukrainian spy chief, look, this is just the way it is. This is war.

We're not calling it World War III at the moment, but the battle lines have been drawn. We don't need propaganda at this point. I mean, this is just happening. This is the new reality that we face right now. We are at war with Russia. More people are probably going to be at war with Russia. And these are, this is this side against this side. Live with it.

There is no defunding this at this point. This is the reality. So deal with it. That is a frightening future to contemplate how this plays out if that is just the new normal now. Where does it stop? So let me ask you. when you when you look at this

to me it all seems antagonistic you know it seems like we can't necessarily get the funding from the United States people of the United States are not willing to do it so let's just keep

poking Putin until he responds and says screw you people is that too infantile of a of reasoning no I don't think so They see, when I say they, I mean like the foreign policy elite. And let me preface this by saying, I blame a lot of the old guard that were so successful during the Cold War for where we are now.

Because we are still following that same playbook. You know, think about like talking heads, like are intellectuals like Zbighnu Brazinski, which I'll never be able to pronounce that name. But I think that's close. He wrote a book right after the end of the Cold War. And I cannot remember the name of it at the moment. But he basically said, it's great. you know, the Soviet Union fell. Now, NATO, and you expect him to say what needs to redirect or, you know, like, focus on, you know, the world needs to focus on other things.

No, he says NATO now needs to push ahead, needs to push forward. And he labels all these different countries that NATO now needs to add under its wing. And I remember reading this in college, and I'm like, wait, well, why? You won the war. And the stated purpose of NATO now does not exist. And the Russians said from the get-go, like, these are the things. that will destroy this relationship. You continue to expand eastward.

You do this. You do that. We did all of those things. We are still doing all of those things. And we promised not to do many of them, right? I mean, we directly promised to the Russians that we would not do some of these things. Again, I am not justifying what Russia has done here. But like, there is a connection, right, a chain of events that has caused this and has been,

has at least inflamed this to the point where this sort of action was in their minds. You know, it's so ridiculous to me. But you have to justify what you just said with, I'm not condone, because that is obvious. It is obvious you're not. But to say that a few months ago was like, oh my gosh, Stu loves Putin. Right, right. Must have moved to Russia. Acknowledging that other nations have, you know, interests.

And you should not cross these lines because that's against their interests. That's a common thing. So diplomacy. But there's also a. promise that we made. We took the nuclear missiles. We got rid of them in Ukraine. Yeah. And we did that by because Ukraine said we are on the border with these crazy people. We need our protection. And we said without any real written agreement, don't worry. You give those things up and we'll have your back if it ever happens. So you're caught between these two things.

if you want to be people of honor, I think we should be people of honor, but that includes common sense. You know, we shouldn't have been fooling around with NATO in the first place with Ukraine. That's what caused this. I believe that. Yeah. And we're still fooling around. I mean, it goes beyond Ukraine. I mean, again, within that 72-hour period, which was just nuts, Sweden jumps on board, finally

clears the hurdle with Hungary, which that also did not make sense. That was another thing that kind of made a lot of this stuff kind of like was really eye-opening this week. Hungary finally said, okay, fine, you know, Sweden, you know, Turkey is finally saying fine. Let's go ahead and have Sweden join this alliance. There is clearly a mindset now in Eastern Europe that we have gone beyond this point of no return. The things that we were fighting for before that we said, okay, these are going to, these are going to like, you know, make Russia back. down this is going to be something that's kind of a diplomat they've just thrown that out like they don't care at this point there is now like there there are enemies uh there are you know this russia

china iran iranianian block whoever else they can you know pull under their wing and then there's the west under this nato you know alliance uh they're moving forward with that they you know are not even making the attempt to look like we're going to scale back deescalate not even making taking the attempt. I really don't think at this point, if we get a new administration in, you know, next year, will anything change? I don't see it. I need about a one-minute answer from on you from both of these because we're running out of time. I read a story today that Israel has taken off the gloves against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and they're pummeling and pummeling them in Syria.

And Israel is saying, we're taking this. We are not concerned about a widening war. We are concerned with eliminating our enemy before they eliminate us. At the same time, Biden says he hopes for a Gaza ceasefire by next week. He says it's close, but we're not done yet. Which one is true? Well, I think that the Biden administration knows what Israel has to do here. They're going to do everything in their power to make it appear to that radical wing here in the United States that they're for de-escalation.

No one sees de-escalation in the Gaza Strip, Israel and Iran. No one sees that. All right. So let me take you one last place that I love your thoughts on. We have this guy who is insane. He is with the Air Force. He goes out in front of the Israeli embassy over the weekend. He sets himself on fire and becomes a, what, a Islamic martyr maybe?

Cornell West comes out and says, let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell, who died for truth and justice. I pray for his precious loved ones. Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians undergoing genocidal attacks in real time. So we have people of note, Cornell West is not a nobody, people of note actually praising a suicide,

a guy for ideology over life, and he was in the Air Force. How did this guy go undetected? I mean, it doesn't surprise me at all in this day and age in this military. This is the military that stood the entire force down to find all those crazy, white, extreme, you know, extremists. I mean, the focus clearly is not on defense of the country. It's not on, it is ideological. That is, I mean, where have you seen ideological ideology being, you know, pushed into militaries?

You see it in crazy regimes, usually. You see it in dictatorships. They use the military as this ideological force. And that is the scary thing about the state of the current, you know, armed forces of the United States. They are being used as an ideological tool. People like Cornell West, that doesn't surprise me at all that he would say something like that, because to them ideology always trumps humanity.

Always. And using people as tools, no issue whatsoever with that. None. Would this guy have been spotted most likely before? Because you don't go from, hey, Bill, see you Monday, to setting yourself on fire. Oh, absolutely. You just don't. Yeah.

People had to know that he was at least ideologically really bent this direction. Would that have happened when you were in the service? Oh, that person would have been found immediately. Do you remember that one story of that what, that was an officer, uh, officer, uh, graduate where he had like a picture of Che like underneath his hat and he showed that he was outed by his people immediately immediately now if you're willing to set yourself on fire for a terrorist ideology you know people saw that but if I'm a commander now how do you even stand up to that what do you even say you know it's going straight to Lloyd Austin's office what's he going to say

he's the one that stood your military down I'm not saying anything geez Jason, as always, you didn't improve my mood much, but I appreciate sharing all of the information. Thank you. It's going to be interesting to see how all this works out, won't it, Stu? Back in a second, let me tell you about Mantis X. If you're a gun owner, you know as well as I do that there is nothing quite as satisfying as hitting what you're aiming at. You also know that in order to do that on a regular basis, you have to practice a lot, and that is very expensive. How do you do that without spending a fortune on a regular basis?

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And the way the media is handling it to me is fascinating. I want to give you this tweet from Cornel West. We discussed it briefly last hour. But this was his reaction to Aaron Bushnell, this military member who decided to light himself on fire to protest. This is never a good idea. People need to learn that lighting yourself on fire is just a terrible way of going about, whatever your problem is. But he said this, let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell, who died for truth and justice, exclamation point. I pray for his precious loved ones, exclamation point. Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians, undergoing genocidal attacks in real time exclamation point,

hashtag Arab Bush now, hashtag free Palestine. And you look at this, and there's a hundred ways you can react to this. Cornell West is nuts. He's been nuts for a long time. By the way, he's going to be on your presidential ballot, most likely, as an independent in your state. But you start with, like, I don't know, the jumping to this, you know, commitment and courage

of doing something like this. Now, I will say he was committed to the bit. There's no doubt about it. If you're lighting yourself on fire, you're committed. I'll give you that. But this is not something to praise. Only in a society that has just de-emphasized the sanctity of life to the extent that we have here in this country. Would lighting yourself on fire be something that you just sit back and say,

oh, wow, what a wonderful thing to do. We can get into the substance of the argument behind that. But Jason, like, when you look at this, you see, I think a bunch of crazy people, telling us to do a bunch of crazy things. And that's not a good foundation for a society. No, not if you wanted to continue. No serious country in the world acts this way. I mean, I'm sure there was crazy people like Cornell West

and other countries across the world. I don't think they're treated as seriously as they are in this country. And I'm sure, has anybody in the media condemned Cornell West for talking about this? I don't think so. If anything, you've seen a, appreciation. I mean, I think the only thing that Corno West is doing wrong right now in the eyes of the media is getting on these ballots and potentially siphoning a few votes from Joe Biden. Other than that, I think they approve of his actions, you know, 100%. It's just amazing. You were talking about the media before. And I was just reading, there was a new Gallup poll. And I think like distrust in the media was now, it was well over 50%. So, I mean, you're talking about over, you know, what, over over 100,000 people, 150,000 people. or whatever, do not think the media represents their interests. In fact, they think they're actually hostile to them.

I have a hilarious story, actually, with them. I went to cover the opening of the American embassy in Israel. I remember that. Yeah. Remember that? And it's kind of funny. We were not on Media Row. So they had like, we were right there at the border of Gaza.

And there was this media row where there was like CNN, you know, and all these other BBC, all these major players. And then it was us, you know, from the Blaze trying to get included. And finally, I was just like, I never name drop, but I was like, I went to this soldier that was kind of like the assistant to the main media guy. And I was like, hey, I'm the writer and researcher for Glenn Beck. And she looked at me and she's like, hang on just one second. So she marches right over to Media Row. And this guy is giving these interviews. And you could tell it's hostile. He's just like, you know, he's like, he's looking fluster. He's pissed.

She stops him in the middle of an interview with one of these big outlets. whispers into his ear, and he goes, and you can't tell him somebody, mouths Glenn Beck? And she, like, and Jim, she points over, and he's like, hey, come on over. And so we, like, walk over. This is the one place in the world where this tactic works, by the way? Nowhere else. If you use it to try to get a table at a restaurant, I can assure you no longer,

you either will not get the table or you will have spit in your food. Anywhere in New York, you know, that's not working for you. No, right. So, anyway, so we walk in, he puts us right in front of media, So we're right in front of them. Oh, they must have loved this. And he's, oh, you're like, what is going on here? And our first question was, I was like, Lieutenant Colonel,

can you please just tell us the context for why Israel is having to fire back and protect this border? And it was like a wave of, like, relief over his face. He was like, finally! And then he just proceeds to go on and talks about all these grenades that are lobbed over, a surprise attack at that point, all these things that happen. And it's nothing of what you hear in the mainstream media. They never talk about why Israel has to respond. They just talk about the response.

And then they weave it into whatever narrative that they want to do probably was given to them by Crono West and other similar people. Yeah. But just amazing. You never get the actual truth from the mainstream media anymore. I don't know when that shift happened, but it's insane. Yeah, I don't know exactly when it happened. I mean, it seems like there was definitely a tipping point in 2015, 2016, when Donald Trump's running for president, right?

Like, I think that there's a situation where they decided, they decided at some point, and maybe it was even after his first election, honestly, where they decided it was no longer okay to try to cover the news and be liberal, but try to give the appearance that you were doing some sort of normal journalism, right? This idea, like the Hillary Clinton emails is a great example of this. Like, they did cover that a little bit. As a conservative, I wasn't happy with the way they covered it. I wasn't like, oh, wow, they're doing a great job unearthing all of this stuff on Hillary Clinton.

To me, it felt like they were ignoring a lot of the stuff that we did now. However, the way they dealt with that was, hey, this Hillary Clinton email thing is going on, here's why you shouldn't care about it. That was the way they covered that. That is not how they covered the Hunter Biden laptop story. They made a decision in that period to switch from, hey, This is what's going on and let me try to talk you out of caring about it into that's not even going on. Yeah.

You don't even know. We're not even going to tell you about it. We're just going to ignore it and act as if it was not even a thing. They did that successfully, I think, in 2020 with the Hunter Biden situation. And they're just doubling and tripling down on this. And I think their internal excuse is that Trump is so uniquely terrible that we have to do this. I don't know if they actually believe that. I'm sure the next president is going to get the same treatment.

if it's the next Republican nominee is going to get the same treatment as Trump. But I am concerning, and I think that the, it's funny because the Cornell Wests of the world have always been around, right? They have been around for a very long time, you know, intellectual radicals that have really way out their opinions. And they've been on the fringes of our society for decades. You saw this with CRT, where like these people who formed CRT, this isn't a new thing. This has been around for a long time, but it was not permeating the mainstream culture. And I think with the media, basically what we're having now is the entire up-and-coming generation of journalists seem to be Cornell West. Like, the entire media is turning into Cornell West.

And that is not where we used to be. We used to be in a situation where, yes, they were left leaning, but they were totally different and understood that 50% of the country disagreed with them. That's not where we are anymore. Yeah, and before I get to your point there, it was interesting right when Trump was elected president, I think it was the Washington Post, hilariously like issued this statement about how they were rededicating, you know, their efforts to the truth. Remember that? Those democracy dies and darkness, right? Yeah, yeah. They're like, oh, now there's a conservative in here and Obama's out. We're rededicating. Okay, now you're going to be critical. I think that, I think the Obama administration,

and I'm sure, you know, people could go way back beyond, you know, as far as when, you know, the media really started kind of engaging left-wing, you know, politics. But there were some insane things going on during the Obama administration. Remember they, Obama was the one that established that global engagement center. Yeah. Was it Richard Stengel or whatever's name was, was the head, who in 2019, you're laughing. No, it's funny because there were so many of these guys and names in that Obama era. Yeah. Glenn covered all of them. And like, I've done my best to forget about them. But like, all, you're right, all these efforts exist. We got to go back and look.

Some just insane things were happening back then. But that Richard guy, he in 2019 wrote an article, I think it was in the post, I can't remember, where he's basically saying, yeah, we need hate speech laws. You know, there's some speech that's too dangerous. So he was advocating for restrictions on the First Amendment. That's who Obama appointed as the head of this global engagement center. But the entire point of that was to basically reach out under the guise of ISIS or terrorism and look for speech that, you know, we can map.

and find out who the dangerous people are. You'd have people like Ben Rhodes under the Obama administration whose sole job was just to lie to the American people so that they could do whatever they wanted to do to push policy. And was so confident in that effort that he told... Errogant. He actually said we were manipulating journalists with our Iran deal coverage.

We went to them and we knew they didn't know anything. They were too young. All these media institutions didn't have anybody smart on the job. We would lie to them, tell them what we wanted, them to say and they would say it. And then they were fine with it. And then told that to the media. So it was printed.

I mean, that's just amazing to me. They did not care. Because to your point, like the radicals now are there. I mean, the media now, I think is looking to the radicals. And a lot of that began under the Obama administration. Whoever the expert was at the time, just just listen to them. Trust us. That's the truth.

And you go ahead and print that. I'm glad you brought that up because that was exactly what was on display with Taylor the Rens the other. We should get into this in a second. Let's take a quick break for American financing. Let me ask you something. How worried are you about your upcoming credit card bills? Has it got you up at night?

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we're talking about the media and how it's going insane. And there's so much to talk about when it comes to this clip with Taylor Lorenz, the journalist who is at the New York Times. I know she at the Washington Post now, I think. I can't remember. She's been to several different places. And every time she leaves one, she says the last one was too conservative. So as you guys know, the New York Times is too conservative.

But she was interviewing, and she's had back and forth with this person, the woman who runs the libs of TikTok account on, obviously, on Twitter mainly is where I see it. I don't know if she's on other platforms as well. But they got into this discussion and did an interview at an outdoor eatery where, to set the scene for you, she is wearing a shirt with a picture of Taylor Lorenz crying from one of her previous interviews on the T-shirt during the interview. And on the other side is Taylor-Lorens. I mean, it's like, it's so, like, literally.

of TikTok known for kind of like, you know, stirring it up on the internet. You'd expect her to wear a shirt of Taylor Lorenz crying. And on the other side is Taylor Lorenz as an absolute caricature of herself in an N95 mask outdoors trying to do this interview. It is as comical as anything you've ever seen in your life. But just to give you the visuals here, but the audio is just as pleasing. Listen. But there is eight contacts that it would be okay to give kids pictures like that of gay sex.

anal sex in elementary school? I guess sex pictures and school I don't know. I don't know because you know who I would defer to on that just because neither of us are sex educators. I would defer that question to a qualified professional, a sex educator and say hey you're an expert you've treated tons you know you've educated tons of people you're a full-time sex educator you've really studied this what are the appropriate boundaries I don't think that myself as a journalist or a media personality I don't think I'm the right one to make that decision and I guess I'm wondering why So I have seen sex educators say that they want these books in schools. So then you're okay with it?

I think I would want to talk to the sex educator and rely on whatever the sex educators say. I'm wondering why you feel like you're qualified to be a sex educator when you have no background in that. I don't want to be a sex educator. I just don't want to give kids porn in school. That is an all-time classic. What's fascinating about this, I mean, there's a hundred things that are fascinating about this. Yeah. And I love her approach there

of saying like she's just trying to fight the sex educator thing. No, you know what? Some sex educators do think this stuff should be in school. So are you okay with it? And again, her defensive reaction is exactly what you just spoke about, Jason. Which is this automatic surrender of your life

and your agency and your decision-making process to outside experts. Like she says at one point, well, I would want to talk to. these experts and see what they said. Why would you need to talk to them? You have no questions for them. You have no intellectual curiosity to find out if what they're saying is true or not. And it's almost a defeatist way of living life. You have just given up. What is the purpose of

you? What is your purpose in life if all you're doing is looking around and trying to find what the expert says and then just doing that thing? This is why no one trusts the media. Like, anyone could be a journalist in this day at age. Yeah. She doesn't need to think for herself. None of them need to think for themselves. They are so used to being handed the propaganda that they're supposed to say that she couldn't even defend herself on this.

This is so basic. By the way, that looked like an SNL skit. It did not look at the real. It must have been. Part of the reason why it's hilarious is because she's wearing this N95 mask. And so think about what the, what's the thought process there. First of all, she's gone to the experts who have told her, I guess. Now, first of all, that's not what experts say.

They don't even say that. We could beat up on experts all day. but experts do not tell you to wear an N95 mask outdoors. I mean, the New York Times itself said there has never been a case of the coronavirus that has been documented outdoors without masks outside of a close conversation. There's never been a case documented of it. So this is not even a close conversation. They're four feet away from each other at a table. But beyond that, what is she trying to do?

She was trying to lower the risk of her getting COVID, right? And that's essentially what she's doing wearing this mask. while at the same time she is sitting four feet away from passing traffic she's outdoors her back is to a road four feet away

a car passes by she's worried about getting COVID as a 27 year old or something which gives her almost no risk and she's sitting there as a car is a giant 5,000 pound vehicle

passes four feet behind her she is much more likely to die by someone there veering into the cafe than she is from COVID-19. Is she really scared of COVID-19? Or is it just the flag? Yeah. You know. There was another, there was a picture of, I think it was another Palestine protest or whatever. And they were holding up all these banners and stuff.

And there was like 10 kids sitting in the front. All of them had masks on. I'm like, are they really? And they're all probably like 18, 19, 20, whatever. Are they real? I don't think that. they surely they can't be still scared of the coronavirus surely it's just that flag when did flags become so lame right when there's something cooler like if you're like a crazy like idiot you know you know progressive nut

isn't there something cooler that you could like establish as your flag and not a mask come on right right right you'd think so yeah even the guy falks mask was cooler than this right just put that back on yeah that's that's very true i will say like that is what it becomes it becomes almost like a gang too. Right? Like you're just like I'm it's okay. I'm a good person everybody. I'm wearing my N95 mask outdoors which by the way is not even what experts say. She says she's giving all of her decision making over to experts but that's not what they tell you. There's no experts telling you to wear to N95 mask outside. Neck tattoos. That's our flag. Neck tattoos. Yeah like parts of the constitution on our neck. There you go. That's a much more badass than a mask.

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You can subscribe and get the shows every day as well as on podcast and everything else. Jason Butchrell joins me. He, of course, is Glenn's head writer for the TV program and does a lot of his research as well. Also, as a documentary coming up, what does this thing come out? Do we know? I think it's the end of this month. Okay. All right.

Wait, it is the end of the month. It's still a couple, two, three weeks out, something like that. But it's soon. Okay, pretty soon, and it's about the caravan right to the border here in the past few weeks. You actually like embedded yourself with these guys. Yeah, we rode down with the take our border back convoy. They started, I think, in Virginia, but we jumped on with them in Louisiana and just saw the convoy grow, grow, grow, got to know them, got to know them, actually asked them what they were doing, what they were all about, things that the media never does. Went to a few of their rallies.

We also went down to Eagle Pass and checked out, you know, Shelbush. Park and the whole standoff, you know, between. Let's just say we found out a lot of interesting things, especially on the border. We found a lot of infuriating things. And things that will absolutely surprise you, probably shock you. And I was not expecting to get that. But we found that information out in kind of a funny way. So, yeah, you're in for a treat on this for sure.

This is all part of the series Blaze TV or Blaze Originals. And this is going to be, I don't know, monthly. It's going to be a few of these every year. here big documentary projects that are independent investigations that you're not going to see anywhere else. They're part of your Blaze TV subscription, blazTV.com slash Glenn. The code is Glenn. You can get 20 bucks off your subscription right now. And now would you say how similar would you would you say your coverage was of the border as to if let's say Taylor Lorenz covered the same story. Would you guys have the same viewpoint on this? How similar are you to Taylor?

I mean, to answer that question, I would have to consult an expert, you know, because I'm just not if I'm qualified, you know? Okay, I understand. I understand. Along those lines. This is from this clip of Taylor Lorenz and lives of TikTok hanging out at a lunch and having a little bit of an interview. This is all filmed.

And let me give you this clip one more time to kind of reset this because it is, there are multiple things in this interview that are central to everything that is wrong with the media right now. Here's a clip. But there is eight contacts that it would be okay to. give kids pictures like that of gay sex, anal sex and I guess sex pictures and school I don't know. I don't know because you know who I would defer to on that just because neither of us are sex educators. I would defer that question to a

qualified professional, a sex educator and say hey you're an expert you've treated tons you know you've educated tons of people you're a full-time sex educator you've really studied this what are the appropriate boundaries I don't think that myself as a journalist or a media personality I don't think I'm the right one to make that decision and I guess I'm So I have seen sex educators say that they want these books in schools. So then you're okay with it? I think I would want to talk to the sex educator and rely on whatever the sex educators say. I'm wondering why you feel like you're qualified to be a sex educator when you have no background in that.

I don't want to be a sex educator. I just don't want to give kids porn in school. This is a fantastic interaction. And it just shows where we are. as I mentioned previously, Taylor Lorenz has basically signed off her responsibility for her life. Yeah. Right? Like she has taken, like she's transferred ownership.

You know, like we were talking about this with the Wendy Williams story a little bit earlier, where, you know, and this is the Britney Spears was famously this conservatorship idea. And she's basically signed, Taylor Lorenz has signed off a conservatorship of her own decision making process here. She can't think about this issue on her own, whether it would be appropriate for children to see porn in the classroom. She so can't bring herself to say that that's a bad idea. She has to assign it to experts. And look, experts, a lot of experts do say it's okay. Does that make it okay for you? Now, who is the biggest expert about your child?

Right? It's you. You're the parent. It is literally your God-given and foundational objective in life to make the right decisions for your child. And while experts, of course, can give insight on those decisions, right? We all look to medical experts for medical decisions, but we still make those decisions ourselves. They give us input in those decisions. They don't make those decisions for us.

and if you signed your life away like Taylor Lorenz seemingly has in certain circumstances where it's convenient like this, you know, I don't, what's the point of you being you? What's the point of you being a human being? Why aren't, what makes you different than the main character of the Lego movie? Right? Where everything is awesome and you go to work every day and everybody tells you what to do and you live this life and you never make a decision out of the mold. What is the point of you as an individual if you don't even put thought, into a massive decision like showing porn to kids at school. And this is the media in a nutshell. There's no thought to it. And to expand this one extra layer here, right before this interaction, and it was edited out because in the interaction, they show the actual book.

Again, this should set off alarm bells. If we can't show it on national television to adults, why would it be appropriate for children? but I let that to the side for a second. In this interaction, they show, they talk about these books, and of course, Taylor Lorenz says that this stuff isn't even happening. You don't know what you're talking about. She takes the pictures out.

She shows her the pictures of these books. And Taylor Lawrence has a pretty honest reaction to it. She is as shocked as most people would be. Oh, my God. She kind of catches herself in the middle of the reaction. But she's reacting in shock. Like, wow, this is actual, like, cartoon. pornography for kids.

And she eventually catches herself and gets to the expert thing. But what's fascinating about that, maybe at its core, is that these photos, and I say photos, it's actually a drawing, but it was a picture of the drawing. I have seen pictures of this drawing probably a hundred times online, because we talk about this issue often. I wish I had seen it zero times. I don't want to see it. It is not something that is, uh, it is, uh,

is a positive image to be seen by anybody, adult or child. But I have seen it just because we talk about this issue. People are posting about it all the time. It has been in basic news coverage about this story. Here is Taylor Lorenz, who has written about this numerous times, who has written about this woman, lips of TikTok, numerous times, who has covered this issue and saw, seen, shown how evil conservatives are online about it, numerous times, is sitting at an interview with this woman.

woman, lives of TikTok, and has never before seen these images. How is it possible as a journalist to go through months and months and months of coverage of this topic and have not even bothered to check to see what is in these books? She has not made motion one to try to understand the argument of the other side, which is overwhelmingly convincing when you see the actual pictures. It's just a total destruction of what journalism was, Jason. Oh, I mean, take it beyond journalism. I mean, this is an entire generation of people that have grown up,

and they've been taught in universities, this is the way it is. The universities no longer teach them how to think. They teach them what to think. And that's this entire generation, which I kind of think we should take advantage of being from Gen Xers. I would love to draw a bunch of, like, contracts where they basically sign over everything to me. Because they're not going to read it. Right.

They're not going to do their own homework on it. They're just going to sign it. Yeah, we just have to bring an expert along. This expert says you should sign it. Yeah, yeah, he's the expert. I love in that clip, she keeps on saying, that was like her big thing to turn it back around on the lips of TikTok chick, was like, oh, I just want to know why you think you're an education expert. Like, that's your big thing? Right.

Like that's not trying to be an education expert. Yes, very obviously, she just doesn't want porn to be shown to kids. If you can't come to that conclusion on your own without someone standing over it, what else can you be convinced of? Right. And this, I hate to say it, has led to every genocidal tragedy in our world's history. Yeah. It's always a bunch of experts saying that that group of people is inferior.

It's always that. There are always intellectual elites at the top of the chain that say, Those people are bad. It's okay to kill them. And like, it is obviously what she's doing here is not equivalent to that. But the mindset is similar. When you sign away your personal agency and act as if you cannot determine what is right and what is wrong. When you can't do it, you have to give up that right to somebody else.

Somebody far away. Somebody in a bureaucracy. Somebody who can make those decisions because they're special. They can do it. And they've decided that, look, black people shouldn't be able to have the same water fountains. I guess that's what we should go with. Well, that's not an okay thing. That's not an okay way.

You don't get to go in front of the court and say, well, I was just taking orders. That's not how that works. You morally have an obligation to put your own mind into the process. You can't just assign all decision making to someone else because you think it's going to get you out of making the decision. And that's convenient. It's a nice way to try to win an argument at a cafe where you're four feet away from being hit by an SUV. But it is not a way to make a decision for yourself. And it's certainly no way to own your own freaking life.

Yeah. You don't own your life if you think like her. And you can see this is why she's constantly evictive. of everything. Right? Like that's Taylor Lorenz in a nutshell. She's a victim of the internet. She can't just sign off of it. No, no. Just like everybody else. She can't do that.

She's a victim of every bad comment. She's crying all the time. She's constantly a victim of all of her surroundings because she has no control over it. She's assigned control of her life to everyone around her. Yeah. Who say they're experts. You remember that there was a push from the media.

It was a few years ago. It might have been under Trump. I can't remember. But the media collectively, almost like they were handed this, you know, talking point where their big boogeyman was the words, do your own homework. You remember that? They were writing about it. They were talking about it on cable news. Like, well, you know, do your own homework. It's actually like, shut up. Yeah, that was very, yeah, it was very central to an attack on Glenn. I mean, because Glenn would say that all the time as a way of saying like, hey, like, don't just believe me. You shouldn't. You should go and look this stuff up and understand it for yourself. It should be

something that is praised. Right. Frankly. And you're right. It became a boogeman for a while. I mean, but if that's what your entire belief system is based off of, you know, which is complete and totally lazy. You know, I guess it's good if you're really, really lazy because you essentially don't have to do a thing. Just be like, what do I say? What do I do? But if your entire system is based around that, of course you're going to defend it. Yeah. But I mean, you're exactly right.

That is scary for a society moving forward because if you fall in line with that, you can be told anything. You can be told to do anything. You can be told to do anything. And what do you do? How do you push back when you've been believing? experts every step of the way. Again, I don't mean to vilify expertise. It's important.

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888-727-B-E-C-K. This is the Glenn Beck program. You know, as we're finishing up this hour, and we've been talking about how the media is basically all turning into Cornell West, Taylor Lorenz, a great example. There's another great example of Joy Reid on MS. NBC. We're not on time to get to it today. I'm going to hit it on Studez America tonight, though, because it's important. It's important to see the drift because you're always going to

have somebody who's crazy. The question is how much authority and credibility are they given by society? There's always been crazy people and there always will be crazy people. How do we deal with that? And how do we deal with the media that has gone awry? There's an interesting story from the FBI Twitter account. They've tweeted a website explaining how they're combating organized retail theft. Now, we've been talking about this as a massive problem for a long time. It's destroying our cities. I mean, it's destroying them. And, you know, these downtowns are completely cleaned out of businesses now. People are shutting down vital businesses for local residents, Walgreens and CVS, just shutting down all over the place. Have you seen the, like,

they come in and these like crazed waves? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, my wife was in a makeup store locally here in Texas, and these three women came in and with giant plastic, garbage bags and filled garbage bags with makeup. My daughter was there in the store with her. Filled it up and just walked right out. And no one did anything. Here? In Texas. Wow.

No one did anything. And this is, of course, sending a clear message of incentive to people who want to do this. Well, the FBI wants to make sure that you know they're on the case here. Okay. And they've tweeted an image explaining how they're detailing how they're going to fight the retail theft. program here. And apparently they think Paris Hilton is the one doing it. Because the picture is like two hot mid-20-year-old white women who are dressed in like multi-thousand-dollar outfits.

I don't think those, that's not the typical profile, I'm sure, you know, women who look like that. I'd be on the case too. Frankly, I'm going to go look for them as well. Jason is on the case. Now I'm warning me whoever's in his stock photo. make sure you close your blinds tonight because Jason is on the case. I'm coming.

But I mean, it's just like, can we at least be, you know, I don't know, realistic and address the real issues here? The Glenn Beck Program.