The Glenn Beck Program - 'Short-Circuiting the Second Amendment' - 3/27/18

Episode Date: March 27, 2018

Hour 1 Calls forever unanswered...update in the Pulse nightclub shooting...judge rules against killer’s wife ...Mark Zuckerberg under fire, losing money…time to regulate?...Should Facebook be considered a 'public utility'?...some conservatives think so? ...Bringing in the robots; there go the jobs...25% of America's jobs are going away permanently…we need to be talking about this NOW...skyrocketing unemployment coming...McDonald's has already begun using AI ...Choose The News, Stu?...Millennials, tin foil and microwaves = not a good combination…Team America vs. Team Pizza?    Hour 2 Citizenship question has been added to 2020 census...political outrage ensues?...at least we don’t have to ride to the city of our birth on a donkey anymore, right?...banking on loyalty and votes ...The beginning of the end on the 2nd Amendment?...first it was Citibank taking action…what if every credit card, financial institution bans using their services to buy a gun?...now one of the oldest gun makers files for bankruptcy...the 'run on guns' seems to have ended under President Trump...The Trump slump?...Guess the person Glenn is trying to imitate? (Hint: It's not Henry Kissinger) ...Fact and reason do not apply anymore ...Melt-resistant ice cream is all the rage…Glenn still wants his flying car    Hour 3 Uncle Sam vs. Facebook...radical changes coming...will this affect Mark Zuckerberg's 2020 presidential bid?...how much did his personal value drop?...from caveman to caveman?...the average person doesn't have 'screw you' money?...most Americans can’t deal with a $500 emergency…Stu fact-checks Glenn ...What do Kim Kardashian and Kim Jong Un have in common?...Trump critics now want him to tweet more...Cat returns home two days after owners bury its 'remains' ...is this like the documentary ‘Pet Cemetery’ or?... choosing who you do business with... there's this 'dusty old document' that helps with that The Glenn Beck Program with Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere, Weekdays 9am–12pm ET on TheBlaze Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. Courage. Truth. Do you remember the Pulse nightclub shooter? He was an angry ideologue. He killed 49 people, injured 53 more, and he was driven by hate. He was the Pulse killer.

When he walked into the nightclub and opened fire, just before he called 911 and swore allegiance to ISIS. Now, after the gunfight, police shot him to death. In the days after the shooting, we learned that the shooter's wife most likely had helped him plot the massacre. Now, don't forget these truths, because the trial of the shooter's wife has sought to erase them. Yesterday, her lawyers filed for a mistrial after news broke that the shooter's. father was an FBI informant for more than a decade right up to the shooting. The media has also focused on the nonchalance that the shooter's father had in reaction to all the warning signs.

Do you remember how weird and creepy that was? Now perhaps he's going to face his day in court, but for now it is important that we do not lose sight of the shooter's wife. This case is expected to wrap up this Wednesday and let's hope that this legal search, doesn't overshadow justice that is due. When the police entered the Pulse Nightclub the night of June 12, 2016, they saw bodies and they heard the constant buzz of cell phones ringing. Frantic calls from family, from friends, worried about the person that they loved. Calls that would remain forever unanswered. It's Tuesday, March 27th.

This is the Glen Beck program. Well, hello, Stu. Hello, Mr. Beck. How are you? Pretty well. How about yourself? You know, I'm hanging in there. It's been a bad winter for colds. I got a cold again.

Do you? Yeah, it's nasty. Yeah, the allergy thing has been pretty brutal. I think it's potentially, I mean, look, we see what Vladimir Putin's doing around the world. I assume it's connected. I mean, you see what he did in the UK? Holy cow, I never even thought of that. Yeah.

Never even thought of that. It certainly makes perfect sense, and I'm willing to jump to any conclusion if it's mildly plausible. I saw it on Facebook. I'm reading a great book. We're trying to get the author on the day. I'm reading The Kill Process. And it's about basically a Facebook. And they're having exactly the same problems.

I mean, this thing is, it's amazing how well this is timed. But it's Facebook. called something else. And they're just taking all this bulk data and they're telling their customers one thing. They're doing another with it. Customers are like, I want to do something, but I can't get out of this because then I don't have any way to really communicate and keep friends. It's my only choice.

And it shows how easily this data can be used to manipulate it. The main character is actually somebody who was a product of spousal abuse. And she finally killed her husband. and she did it in self-defense. Now she's really kind of screwed up, and she's just using, she knows how to get into the Facebook, you know, backdoor, and she's using all of the data to track people,

find out who is depressed, who might be having, you know, problems with an abusive spouse, and then she uses all of the algorithms and everything else to go out and kill them. it's really fascinating. This is only

slightly darker than the actual Facebook story. It's only slightly. Slightly darker. The Facebook thing's interesting in that, think of where we've come on that.

You remember when Facebook first started like taking over and becoming a big thing? Everyone just kind of talked about it is like these things come and go so quickly. We forget that it's such a huge thing now and such a huge part of so many people's lives. You forget that what happened to like,

for example, MySpace. that was a big thing for a while and then just died. And everyone was predicting that eventually the same thing is going to happen to Facebook. And now it's become such a big thing that you have some conservatives arguing that it should be treated as a utility, right? Which is another huge step, I believe, in the wrong direction. But now, I mean, we're, it actually seems like this could potentially do real damage to them. And what they're doing to react to it seems to also do real damage.

starting to try to correct problems that are really bad for them in the media and really bad for them politically, but aren't necessarily problems for their users. You know, like people who go, the fake news problem, for example. Like as a good steward

to the community, right? They should be aggressive to try to stop that from happening. However, that's not what their people. Their users are asking them to do. They love sharing the crap out of fake stories. They love it. And I don't like. quite honestly, I don't like the fact that they're going to tell me who I can trust, who I don't trust.

Yeah. You know, I don't like it at all. It's a weird, it's a weird line. And now you have all these companies who have built these giant Facebook audiences to, you know, write their stories and link to them and everything. And they're changing the algorithm to a point that now you're pretty much only seeing pictures of your friend's kids. You don't like your friends' kids. Your friends' kids annoy the hell out of you and you don't want to see their faces that often. Maybe when the new one's born

You get a couple shots and that's about it That might just be you I think it's more common than people Want to admit because yeah you want to keep in touch With your friends you want a touch of that Right Right You know you really I mean like you have to read this book

Because you will love this book It's everything that you're saying is in this book It's like look The point of this book is I mean I want to talk to the author Why haven't you created this competitor to Facebook because he's a Silicon Valley, the writer is a Silicon Valley guy.

And I don't know why they haven't created it because he's like, look, you should be able to control the algorithm yourself. You should say, I want fewer friends, fewer pictures of my friends. I want 80% this, 20% this. You know, you could change the algorithm yourself.

So you are in control. So the, so Facebook doesn't have control of it. You do. It's interesting because what Facebook and so many of these sites have done is a progressive approach as you might expect. I mean, I know it's not the government, so it's

different. They can do whatever they want with their product, but they're assigning to you the algorithm you deserve. And it gives them ultimate control. It gives them control. You went there because you thought you had control because of what you like and etc., etc., but that's not turning out to be the way it is. Yeah, well, I remember there was a big change in the Instagram algorithm which instead of giving you the pictures,

you're the people you follow post in order, it would give you some sort of algorithm response that gives you the things you might have missed from four days ago and, you know, and didn't put them in chronological order anymore and you didn't get every post. So even if you chose to follow someone, you didn't necessarily get those in your feed.

It's the same. That's the same in Facebook. You follow me. It owns it. Yeah. Yeah. Facebook, you follow me. Facebook. You don't get everything I post. And it's like, well,

I clicked, yes. I'm here because I wanted to listen to Glenn Beck and his whatever thing he's spouting today. I mean, that's why I clicked yes. And I think I do think that like they are now

coming to a point where in reaction to media criticism, in reaction to political criticism, that they are now trying to solve problems that they're using aren't identifying as problems. And that's not a good future for a company. The government.

The government is identifying the problems. And Zuckerberg is now laying down and saying, you know, she, maybe we should be regulated. Uh, no. No, no, no, no, you shouldn't. No, you should not be regulated. And, you know, he's lost $5 billion in the last 10 days. $5 billion in his own personal.

$75 billion. Facebook has lost. in the last 10 days. So that's a lot of money to pour down the drain. And you kind of wonder, gee, you were thinking that you could be president of the United States. But now you're beginning to look like a pretty big weasel that has information on everyone and can manipulate. I mean, I wouldn't want you in the CIA, let alone the Oval Office. American Financing.

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The name of the book that I'm reading we were just talking about is by William Hurdling, and it's called Kill Process. And honestly, I don't know why they don't build this. Maybe I'll find out. I'm not at the end yet, so maybe I'm going to find out exactly why they don't build this competitor to Facebook. But it's interesting to see how our data is being used and how you can find out anything about anyone and manipulate them. It's really quite amazing.

And the book I'm reading is Peppa Pig's super noisy sound book. It's available at bookstores everywhere. What happens to Peppa in this one? you need to read it. And actually, I will say, I'm going to give a little bit of a spoiler here. You can also listen to it because there's super noisy sounds throughout. Wow. Okay.

Is that that you didn't spoil that, did you? Well, there are buttons on the outside. You can press them before you get to the part in the book where you're supposed to press them. Okay. Which is just cheating. It's just cheating. I mean, you know, why bother opening the book in the first place if you're going to do that? So I don't know if you saw what Bain Capital said.

Bain and Company released a report over the weekend called Labor, 2030. Did you read this? I read the story about it. Wow. I did not read the entire Bain capital. Didn't have sounds. You can push a little. Well, yeah, that's the problem. He just had a little like a dollar side button go chiching every time you got to a number. Here's what it says. It's predicting now that

25% of American jobs will be permanently replaced by automation and artificial intelligence by 2030. Now here's what this means. We're 12 years away from this. And that's just, you know, it's not going to happen overnight.

It's going to start happening now. Lower wage earners are going to be hit first and they're going to be hit the hardest. And that's because things that used to take humans to do them, it no longer with AI and really sophisticated automation, it's no longer going to take a human to do that. For instance, the burger flipper. That's already out now. Have you gone into a McDonald's lately? I mean, you have the touch screen once here.

And you know what's great about the touchscreens at McDonald's is you can order things you'd be embarrassed to tell the person about. Like, let's say, for example, I was in a McDonald's with a touchscreen a week ago, and I cannot relate to that. You can't? At all. You didn't put four slices of cheese on whatever you ordered because I did. You can order a egg McMuffin or you could just be extra cheese, extra cheese, extra cheese, extra cheese. And you don't have to say, I'd like four slices of cheese. Well, I'm getting old and sometimes my hands shake and I don't like to correct it.

Oh, no. So did you hit multiple? Well, yeah, I had multiple things. And you didn't mean to. I didn't mean to. My hand was shaking and just kept bumping the button. Honey, I only wanted one. I only thought I ordered one.

And it was a mix up in the machine. I didn't catch it until I'd eaten at all on the way home. It's weird how that happens. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird. Anyway, so the lower wage earners are going to be hit first and the hardest. This is another reason why you don't want $15 an hour, $15 an hour minimum wage because the more pressure point that the business feels, the more likely they are to replace you with a robot.

Technology is getting better and cheaper and machines are soon going to be able to do more cognitive type jobs that used to require humans, this according to Bain Capital. So now 25% in additional unemployment. 25% of America's jobs are going away permanently by 2030. So what does that mean? We have an unemployment rate of, what, 5% now, 4%. How does the nation cope with a unemployment rate of 29%? That's the great to provide. impression. How do you do it? What do we do? These are the kinds of conversations that we should

be having over the Stormy Daniels thing. Stormy Daniels is such a distraction. Is it really going to change anything? I talked to somebody on the left who was just as upset about this as I was yesterday. and he was saying, you know, this is just this is this news cycle is ridiculous. It's a clown show. On both sides, it's a clown show. We're not talking about what's really going on, the dangers that we're actually facing. I agree. This is one of them.

How does a country or a world hold itself together with 29% unimmsonement? employment because that is something we're going to have to figure out. Now, what they're talking about is a basic minimum wage, which I'm against constitutionally. I'm against in all principle. I'm against that. But what else is there? How else can we do this? Because the people who are making the robotics and the AI are going to become extraordinarily

wealthy and they are going to be the ones that hold all of the power. And we're all going to be going to them. Now, the argument is that once you take humans out of the line, for instance, once you say, well, I don't have to have a human ride a tractor, they don't have to cut the alfalfa, they don't have to stack it, they don't have to take care of the cows, they don't have to feed the cows, they don't have to slaughter the cows. Those are all done by machine. They don't have to package it.

They don't have to drive it because we don't have any drivers anymore because it's automated. they can take it right to McDonald's. It's already made into a patty by automation. The patty machine takes it and puts it out on the grill. You are just touchscreen ordering in and it comes right to you. There's not a human involved, maybe 20 in that entire line. And so the thinking is that if we have an unemployment rate, we should start thinking about having an unemployment rate

and be pushing for one closest to 100 than zero. And that's a weird way. It's a weird thing to say, but wouldn't that be great? I mean, would it? I think it would. At least it's something that we should morally want. I love the idea that you would not have to work and you would be able to choose to do the things

that you believe are most helpful to others, to whatever you would want to do. You know, we all want more vacation, right? We all want more time off. We've gone through a period in which... What do we do, Stu, with that time off? Most of us. And usually not nothing incredibly productive, I grant you, but still, that is on us, right?

Like, if we, we can... I've heard this argument before, and a lot of people make it, and I think it's a really interesting one, which is, hey, if we have no jobs, how do we find meaning in our lives? What a sad argument that is. Is that where you're pulling your meaning from your life? I got a news. Most people do. of you every day, blah, blah, blah, is that where I get mine.

But it certainly shouldn't be where I get mine, right? I mean, it is a really important thing. But it is. Everybody I know, especially now, they're all starting to say, I just want to, I want to do something that has meaning. Right. But if you didn't have to, a lot of people are forced to do or wind up in situations where they do jobs that don't have meaning, jobs they don't want to do and they dream about doing something else. In this scenario, you do it. you wouldn't have to be locked up at 40 hours a week doing something you didn't want to do.

So the question is, does man have the self-control to be self-ruled, in control of all of his appetites, and not having to work? Oh, God, no. Mercury. This is the Glenn Beck program. We're talking now about Bain and company, Bain Capital. a report that they just came out with and analysis of 2030 and where America will be

in 11 or 12 years and they say we will be at an unemployment rate if you include today's unemployment rate of about 29%. They said unemployment will run about 25% more or higher than it is today because

25% of all jobs are going to be lost and never coming back. So the question is how does one live, Mike in Florida. Welcome to the Glenbeck program. Thank you, Glenn. You know, I was actually on my way to work

in listening to your program. And I find it somewhat fascinating. Stu talked about how wonderful it would be to not be employed, you know, sit home on your butt and do nothing and maybe go brain dead. I'm 75 years old, and I had a tough run in the stock market,

and I'm back to work part-time, and I do enjoy it. I think it keeps me young. I'm 75, and everyone thinks I'm 55. So my point was... That's weird because I'm 53, and everybody thinks I'm 90. But anyway, go ahead. You got to live right. I know, I know.

Pipe down, Mike. You've got to quit pushing that button for putting 10 pieces of cheese on your breakfast. I don't know what you're talking about. Those were shakes for my hand. But go ahead. See, I was listening to your program. However, you know, my question is, as the unemployment rate rises due to automation, how are people going to survive?

I mean, they have to have an income. And the only thing that I could see is unemployment benefits from our government, which, you know, I guess that's the only answer, or seek another field, perhaps out of the robotic generation. But I don't, I don't. Well, Mike, the problem is that they're saying now that everything, even creative writing and artwork and filmmaking, everything, everything that can be done. done can will be done better by robotics and and AI so there is no safe zone there are those things that will come later and later and later um and the first thing that go or the the menial tasks the the average working joe kind of task those are the ones that are going to go first and and that's why we're bringing this up now because we have to start thinking differently um you know the the

answers are twofold so far and that is basic minimum income, which I'm not a supporter of, but what else is there? The other is a wealth tax, which I love this. The wealth tax is, they say it'll be one or two percent. Stu, isn't that what they said in 1913 about the income tax? You know, shockingly yes, you're right. You remember that correctly. And it will never go higher than seven. I think it's a little higher than seven percent. Is it? Yes, it is. So they're saying the wealth tax will not be more than one or two percent. And what that is is like property tax, except it's for everything in your life. How much is your car worth? How much is your house worth? How much is all the crap in your house worth?

And then you have to pay one percent every year in tax. So I don't know how that works because that would stop you from consuming durable goods, things that last. You wouldn't want to buy those things, but that tax then would be given to those who don't have a job. And, they say that the price of everything is going to come down so much that you won't need as much money to live. I think more likely, at least in my opinion, than the 100% unemployment rate is that work just becomes a much smaller percentage of our life. I mean, this has already happened over the past 50 years where we've gone to a point from, we've cut, depending on what country you're looking at, we've cut our working hours per year from between about 10 to 25%. And that has happened.

like we used to work 50 hours a week and now we're working 40 hours a week, whatever that is. And I think that, I think we chip away at that for a very long time to where, you know, it's something that you do, but it's not, it's not something that is the only thing you do. Right. Again, that won't happen with the unskilled worker. That won't happen with the, the truck driver. It won't happen. I mean, you could slow it down like the unions did in, in past cases. But it, you'll, you. I do other things?

You know, this is happening throughout history. Here's the other problem with it. If you look at it and you look at it what's happening in France, remember, France went to a 30 hour work week. Now people are starting to say, they're starting to rebel and going, I want to work more than 30 hours. And you can't stop me from working. You can't close me down on a Sunday because, you know, it's good for the economy.

I want to work. And so there's this struggle. And what they're thinking is, is that there's going to be a, struggle with those who have jobs and those who don't have jobs because even though you'll, if in this utopian view that they think is coming, which I highly suspect is probably wrong, they're saying that those people that don't have a job, you're supposed to be happy. You don't have a job. You could go do whatever you want at any time. I know, but what I really want to do is work on something and you have it.

And so now there's this class warfare of those who are working and not working, even though now we view this as something of, geez, I'll give up my job. When you can't have a job, you will want a job.

And so you will turn against those who have a job. And there will always be someone to lead that. This is what happens when they redesign the Matrix. When they said, you get out of all these people want to be happy. They said they wanted to get everything and now they're still mad at each other. We had to redesign it.

And this is where the income comes in. The difference, if you think about work as something that you do, we all think about it this way now. We go to work to get the money we need to survive, right? We go to work. We also might go to work and we also might really like our job. But that's

certainly not everybody, right? A lot of people go to work because they need the financial income to survive and get through the day. to feed their families, to buy insurance, all those things. If instead work was the thing you really thought you wanted to do and we're passionate about,

and maybe it wasn't about money, would that be an improvement? I mean, I think it would. The idea you're right here is if we got to that final point where it was zero percent employment and how would money flow, people are tossing around things like the Mincom. Finland is currently doing an experiment on it.

There's a couple places that are doing it. Yeah, you know, Nixon did an experiment. on it in this country. That hardcore right winger Richard Nixon talked about them income and wanted them income minimum income for doing nothing. We already have obviously a lot of programs that do this in

specific cases. But that was an idea that he tried to implement here in the United States. And the little bit that we have done destroys people's will. It just destroys it. I think that's true. I mean,

most people, when they if they had a chance to not work. I mean, maybe it's just me. But I think on Monday, oh, I can't wait till Saturday. I'm going to get so much done. I'm going to, I'm going to clean out the garage.

I'm going to finally clean out my closet and get that in order. Then I'm going to, I'll go and do something nice with my wife. We'll go do something. And then, you know, maybe I'll paint. You know what I end up doing?

Sitting on the couch and watching TV. That's what I do. No, it's true. It does tend to happen occasionally. It does tend to happen. Well, I had a kind of a version of this actually happened to me recently, which was my wife and kids went up to visit my in-laws in Connecticut, which left Stu all alone at his home for an entire, close to a week. Wow. Now, I will say, were there more movies seen in that period than the average six-month period?

No, let me ask you it this way. Yes. Were there whole seasons of shows? No, I don't know. maybe this is because it had been a long time since I've been in this situation, but I knocked off more off that to-do list in that week that I had in the last year and a half. Right. And that to-do list was all revolving around Amazon and Netflix.

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American exchange students in Italy start kitchen fire by cooking pasta without water. I think I think I got to go to pasta here. Pasta is a great story. Consider this a public service announcement as well as a lesson in cooking 101 to cook pasta boil water first. Three American students living abroad in France, Italy. Sorry, Florence, Italy. Learn this the hard way when they started a fire in their. apartment by cooking pasta without any water.

According to an Italian newspaper, oh, geez, made it in the newspaper. The 20-year-old students brought home pasta from the supermarket, and they put the dry noodles straight into a pot without any water and lit the stone. I mean, really? Really? The pot quickly burst into flames, caused a fire. The group called upon local firefighters who,

who came, kicked down the door. And said, this is the most American story of all time. Amen, brother. And we were like, screw you guys. We're going to the home of pasta and cooking it without any water. What's amazing is they fought the fire with water. Sometimes it's important. Was the pasta delicious at the end of the fire?

It was not delicious. Kitchen furniture, no one was harmed, but kitchen furniture were burned. I mean, this was quite a fire. I mean, could you not put? the pasta out yourself? Yeah, do they not? Because you think if you put the pasta itself out with water, then you would have had cooked pasta and things would have went okay. Like there was actually a solution there. So if they just had timed it right. Could I, could I ask you this? Have they never seen pasta cooked on TV, a movie, a friend, mom, dad, the dead cat that returned home? I mean, no, nothing,

never? Apparently not. I feel like this is something that's, if I may be a grandpa, which I am not yet. But it does seem to be one of these things with these millennials these days. Oh my gosh. There's like this weird thing. We've had interns and stuff that just like cook stuff like cook stuff in the microwave with tinfoil on it. You're just like what? What? This is, I feel like a basic thing of society. If you're going to microwave things, you know you don't put tinfoil in the microwave. You know, it's like that type of knowledge seems to be lacking that sort of basic life skill, you know, to get through the point where you can get your burrito hot. Like, you got to have that life skill. We're doing a lot for you here. Capitalism has come up with a system in which they will develop. They will make the tortilla for you. They will make all the beans and the cheese and the sour cream for you. Then they will combine it all together. Then they will flash freeze it. Then they will ship it to a place right near you. All you got to do is take it out. And then they created an amazing device that instead of it taking 40 minutes to cook, we'll cook in like two and a half.

All you got to do is not cover it in tinfoil. This should not be a high hurdle to clear. I don't know. It sounds very complex to me. I don't. So anyway, the problem is this story went nationwide and, uh, who the comments about America, not so good. No.

Uh, one, uh, one, uh, poster said, this derives from the fact that in the U.S., everything is bought already cooked. American women in the kitchen are a disaster. They don't even know how to make a hard egg. We're not even allowed to say women are allowed to go in the kitchen. That's exactly. Kitchen. You're going to hashtag me too if you say that.

One warned others not to be too ironic in their comments as one of these three could become the next U.S. Secretary of State or the next president. I don't think ironic is the word they were looking for. Upon hearing about the plight of Americans and their difficulty with navigating a boiling pot of water, the famed chef from some famous restaurant there in Florence offered them four four-hour Italian cooking classes. Nice.

He said, I understand. There's a strong communication deficit on the part of this city, and they need to be talking. the very basics of Italian cooking and understanding is always necessary and the word is that the students are going to be able to take this and want to take this as soon as they figure out

how a wired telephone works then they're in. Probably true. I will say this to Italy. We at least haven't elected Mussolini. Maybe we're not good at cooking things. Well, go back to that. But we haven't elected Mussolini, which is nice.

That's at least one thing we can say that we have not done, but you did. We didn't, you know, another thing we didn't do? Ally with Adolf Hitler. We didn't do that either, Italy. Yeah, your food is really good. But we didn't like assist in a genocide. Right. That was, I thought, a nice thing that we haven't done.

Right. So, yes, we suck at cooking pasta. But, you know, I'm going to go with our side of this historical argument here. I got to tell you, I'm going with a pizza. go to the pizza and the pasta. I mean, when it all comes down to it, really, they've eaten well. No matter what was going on. That's true.

They've eaten well. And really, I mean, I, you know, I hate to use this phrase, but to boil it all down, that really is kind of where I live. Glenn, back. Mercury. Truth. California is suing the Trump administration. Why?

Because they had the audacity. No. they had the sick twisted gall to actually ask people living in the United States if they were citizens of the United States. You can't ask that. That hurts. You can hear the babies cry right now. The Commerce Department revealed last night that the citizenship question would be added to the 2020 census. And California lawmakers lit up the horror.

California Attorney General tweeted the quote, the question is not just a bad idea, it's illegal. Can you, wait, it's illegal? What law? And by the way, being here without papers is also illegal. Just want to throw that in. California? Sit-hound, please.

This is a citizenship question. Not the Jewish question. This is a check in the box. Are you supposed to be living here? Check yes or no. I remember where citizens used to have to travel to a city of their birth, you know, ride on the back of a donkey. Even if you were pregnant for the census, okay? Trump is inherited.

He's not going to kill all the little children. All you have to do is put your little checkmark. Yes or no, that's it. I mean, the country knows why you really. care about this census. And it's not because you care so deeply for illegal immigrants. This is all about political power. Think this one through America. If progressive lawmakers can weaponize illegal immigrants, they can make them citizens. What is the census for? To see how many representatives you get in Congress. It's why they want open borders.

It's why they've changed the word illegal and replaced it with undocumented. When states, such as California, refuse to follow federal immigration policies and allow anyone and everyone to pour into their state without consequence, they know that they're guaranteeing one certainty. It's not security and it's not safety. They're banking on loyalty, votes, and expansive power in Washington. Trump is counting on that fact that non-citizens will refuse to answer this question. that will affect the number of congressional seats. Wait a minute. Hold it. If that reduces their power in Congress, you could then deny sanctuary states of political power, and that could block federal grant money.

This is an attempt to nullify the advantage that progressive lawmakers have been building for years, an advantage they've gained by allowing and encouraging people to break the law. This addition to the census is a consequence for their lawlessness. And the battle between California and the Trump administration is just beginning

to heat up. I mean, we might end up being better off in the long run if Trump does extend his wall to include California. It's Tuesday, March 27th. This is the Glenn Beck program. I'm going to lead with this tonight at 5

o'clock and um California I'm on your side no no no I am and you know Donald Trump doesn't want to count these people as citizens at all and uh hmm that's wrong but you're going to have to compromise because if you don't you know then it's just then you're never going to be able to get anything through you're never going to be able to get anything done you know we'll just fracture even more and you'll lose all of that power and so you know he'll get his way so i was thinking this morning he's not going to let you count him as a citizen right so how about how about you compromise and count them as a quarter of a person or half a person or three or three fifths a person something like that because that way you'll get your way they'll be counted

you see what I'm saying and it can slowly ease into everybody saying yeah they're citizens even though we know they're not citizens now but if you could say they're three-fifths citizens it's not that big of a deal in a few years to say yeah they're total citizens what do you think progressives good idea you're right it's better if you hold your ground right now and say i'm going to count them as zero i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna count them as zero

because then you'll win hmm i'll present that uh i mean it's just noodling it now i'm present that whole idea here. I think it's been tried before, but we'll present that idea in today's age coming up at 5 o'clock only on the Blaze TV. The Blaze.com slash TV. All right. Last night on television, we talked a little bit about Spooky Dude. Spooky Dude is back. Back to the chalkboard and looking at all of the connections. because the, did anybody see that the press,

CNN was actually writing a story yesterday saying these kids, these crazy kids, they get into their mystery van and then they just go around and they drive and they saw, the dog even helps them solve murder mysteries. It's crazy. They,

they just, the media just thinks, wants us to believe that this is just, these marches were just spontaneous. And is there anyone within the sound, my voice that believes that the teenagers could have pulled something like this off. I mean, I don't even think they could have pulled off the, the plexiglass, you know, uh, podiums.

Because I, I, you don't think that if teenagers were doing this, they got the busing down. They got the permits. They got the police. You know, they have the insurance all done. They, they got the staging and the speakers and the, and the, and the invitations. They got all of it right. These poor Parkland students who have been through. through so much. You don't think one thing they wouldn't have looked at each other and went,

oh, crap, we forgot the podium. No, they even had the podiums. The really nice, plexiglass ones and the really expertly printed signs. A lot more organized than I was at 17. I'll tell you that. Yeah. Yeah, they're good. They're amazing. They're amazing. Okay, so what really happened? Well, you were seeing a coordinated salt on the second amendment. And you know that. But there's one story that nobody's talking about that we mentioned last week that I think is important to mention again. I want to give you a quote. Guess who said this.

I'm very much against guns. And if it can be organized on a large scale, I wouldn't be opposed to taking them all away. You're right, Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger. It's an interesting impression. Yeah. Spooky dude. Spooky dude.

George Soros. I'm very much against guns. And if it can be organized on a large enough scale, I wouldn't be opposed to it, meaning taking away all the guns. Now, we found out yesterday that Remington, the gunmaker, has officially filed

for bankruptcy protection. But there's a lot of things going on with that. And one of those things is people have stopped buying guns. There was this huge run on guns. at the very end of the Bush administration, and it went through all the way for the last eight years. Well, these gun companies,

they all geared up to make all kinds of guns. Everybody's buying guns. It's going to last forever. And then Trump comes in, and there was like, well, we don't have to worry about our guns being taken away. Crickets.

The gun stores are hearing crickets. Even at this time, can you imagine if Hillary Clinton were in office and this debate was going on, how many guns you wouldn't be I'd still be standing in line the day after the Parkland shooting I'd still today be standing at line in Cabela's

but because people think that Donald Trump is in this is not going to happen people are not buying guns and so gun sales are way down well Remington is the first one to go into for bankruptcy protection but there's something else that happened how realistic is it to do that we

will sign away our Second Amendment rights. How realistic is it that we will sign? Without a civil war, how realistic, what would it take to get America state by state to repeal the Second Amendment? I mean, incredible amounts of emotion driven by incredible amount of tragedy that we can't even imagine at this point. I mean, nothing even close to what we're dealing with now. And I don't, I still think it would be incredibly difficult.

and certainly I don't think you could avoid in this country a civil war if you were to try to go house to house and take people's guns away. That would not be pretty. It's not doable. I agree with you. The repealing Second Amendment does not mean all the guns are off the street. People, I think, a lot of times are like, oh, well, that's all you'd have to do. No.

It's still 320, 330 million of them out there. And many would not be turned in, no, day one. I don't. I think it's the way is that I would phrase that. Now, luckily, you've already turned yours into the military, so you don't have to worry about that. Well, that was Pat. Mine were just lost. I don't know.

I don't think you want to talk about your guns being. I think it doesn't seem better than the alternative. Well, they weren't lost, lost. Oh, they were lost. You melted them. Didn't you melt them down? Military. You lost them.

And then I, no, I melted them. Anyway, let's not focus on that. I just don't have them anymore. Anyway. None of them. None of them. The entire collection. Entire collection.

Because you spent a long. time acquiring, you know, antique weapons, darn it. Many useful weapons. Nope. And then all of them, you either melted or gave to the military. That we got in Disneyland years ago. Yeah.

Gone. And again, they were, damn those kids. Did you melt them on the way to giving them to the military? How did that happen? I don't know, but I've been calling for the mystery van to come and see if they could figure it out. I have no idea. It may have been ghost.

I don't know. Let's not get into it any deeper than this. So, we know that it's not reasonable to go for the Second Amendment, right? That's where progressives come in. What's the idea of progressives? Well, what you do, Glenn, is you just take little steps, reasonable. Let me just call them common sense steps to just, let's say infringe slightly on your, let's say, right to bear arms.

Right. In a common sense fashion. So we just take it little by little. then Cass Sunstein, he would suggest, what do you do with the people then? You nudged them, right? We'll nudge. I'm going to show you a pretty large nudge that no one is talking about. And you get two more of these nudges, and I don't think you have to worry about the Second Amendment.

I don't think you have to worry about it. I mean, if you're a progressive, if you're you, yeah, you're going to have to worry about it. two nudges is all it's going to take. They've already done one. Three, and we're out. Because there was a time I would say absolutely no chance of the Second Amendment going away. But the way we have seen people change over the past decade. You don't even need to get anybody to change.

I'll show you the first nudge that happened last week. Nobody's talking about. And you should be aware next. Have you done your taxes yet, Stu? No. I mean, taxes days on October. do them now. Tax

tax days in October. Yeah. October 15th. I mean, well, that's the extension. Tax day, which I file every year. It's usually what I do too. But anyway,

IRS has released their annual dirty dozen list of the tax scams and phone scans, scams. This is a good reason why you should file the extension, by the way. I know, I know, because by the time you get to it, somebody else is filed for you.

Yeah. Wait, oops. Hold it. The deal is, is that people will call taxpayers and tell them that they owe money and they have to pay promptly or they're going to be punished and they're going to come and take your property, they'll call you up. It's a bill from the IRS. They're a little more credible than this.

But people are falling for it. And there's a lot of threats in today's world. And it just takes one week wink. I don't know what the hell's wrong with me. One week link. But you are very drunk. That's one thing. Is that what it is?

It's hard to do a show when you're hammered. I don't remember drinking. Oh, my gosh. Blackouts. Yeah, that's probably what it is. I'm lacking out even the drinking. Yeah. That's tough.

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Well, you could do it a couple ways. You can go through the Second Amendment and through Congress, which is going to be a headache. Hmm. You could go after the manufacturers, which George Soros said, when I believe it could be a coordinated attack, we can talk to institutional investors and drop their stock. That is going to happen. money doesn't talk it screams money money money stew name the top four or five banks in

america uh all right uh number one jp morgan chase number two bank of america number three wells fargo number four city group number five golden sacks hmm hmm you really wanted to circumvent and crush the industry all you'd have to do is to go to, let's say, city group and say, hey, city group, don't take any more transactions from gun stores. Let's start here. Gun stores that sell guns to people under 21. And if they sell high capacity magazines, if they sell ARs, don't do business with them. If you could get Citigr to do it, And then you could get Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase or Wells Fargo. Nobody has anywhere to put their money.

Nobody can use their credit cards to buy guns. Nobody can make a financial transaction. You've put the gun industry out of business. Last week, there was a story that I haven't seen reported anywhere. It was reported here last week, but you need to know about it. city group did that last week. We are no longer going to offer any financial assistance. There will be no transactions with our credit cards, investments, loans, banking services,

no services to stores or people that are selling guns to people under 21, which is legal. under 21, if you sell high-capacity magazines, you will no longer be able to have any financial services from Citigroup. So what happens? Citigroup loses those gun stores. They go over to Bank of America. They go over to Wells Fargo. They go to Chase Manhattan.

What happens if one of those said, you know what? We're going to do the same thing. This is happening. This is happening. So far, it's only Citigroup that's doing it. May I recommend if you have money with Citigroup and you believe in the Second Amendment. You call them and let them know, I don't appreciate your new gun restrictions. I'm moving my money. And when you open an account with Bank of America or J.P. Morgan Chase or Wells Fargo,

you tell them, by the way, I'm opening up an account with you because I left Citigroup because of their stance on gun stores. you have to show the power that you have before the other three banks. Because look at this. It's Citigroup, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and then Goldman Sachs. I don't know about you, but I've never seen the little kiosk for Goldman Sachs. I don't, it's not even, I don't even think of that as a bank. That's number five. All you have to do is take three of these out.

You take four. What, you think Goldman Sachs is going to? Yeah. I'm sorry, we only take, I'm sorry, we only take Goldman Sachs credit cards. You think the American Express card is hard to buy stuff with. Try a Goldman Sachs credit card. That's $13.2 trillion in total wealth, but you take out those top five banks. You've taken out $10 trillion of that.

Who's going to do business? If the top two, three, four, five banks won't do any. kind of commercial services for gun stores, gun providers, how do you buy them? Glenn Beck. Mercury. This is the Glenn Beck program. So now we were talking about what is happening with Citigroup where last week they said that they were going to stop all financial services to any gun organization or gun store

or anything that sold guns to anyone under 21. They sold high capacity magazines. they will offer no financial services, so they won't, you know, they won't take credit cards, won't accept, you know, credit, they won't allow them to take out loans with a city group,

do banking with Citigroup at all. So one of the big five is already out. I contend there's really only four big banks. You know, Goldman Sachs is not a bank. I know it is, but it's not, it's not what everybody thinks of as a bank.

Now you can go to the smaller banks, but what are the repercussions for those smaller banks because all banks work together. And it's kind of like what the pot growers are going through right now. You know, there's some pot growers that, you know, they can't do any financial services with any bank because it's technically illegal federally. And so they can't go to a bank. And a lot of these, these, you know, pot distributors living in states where it is legal to sell pot don't have any place to put all the money. Here's where the answer comes. What are they doing?

They've created their own cryptocurrency. And they're asking people, if you want to buy pot, we'll give you a discount. If you send the money into this cryptocurrency and then you use these tokens because the pot growers don't have banking services. And it's starting to work. This is another reason why I can't imagine how. the government is going to allow cryptocurrencies to work because the more the government decides to screw around with you, if they start to, let me ask you this. Everything stays the same except all of the banks say, we're not going to do business with

Cabellas anymore. We're not going to do business with any firearm store anymore. And Cabellas is on the verge of bankruptcy because they can't take credit cards or anything else. What percentage of this country would transfer money into a Cabela's token or to a Bitcoin and go to Cabela's and just buy it on Bitcoin?

I would. Would you? I would do it out of principle to protect them. Yeah. I mean, it would, it's the type of thing that if they start taking away rights, especially a right as important as that one, I mean, there's going to be a lot of people who would do that. And it's funny, you know, obviously the pot thing's kind of going the other way, right? It's something we haven't had access to and all of a sudden is available in many states.

So you can kind of see that happening. They'll probably embrace that before they embrace guns. But you could see, you know, with Citibank doing this, it's a big deal. I mean, it is, I don't think it's legal, first of all, you know, because there are laws in at least some states that require you to sell to people who are legally

able to buy. You can't discriminate on basis of age. And it's funny because a lot of these things were included by left wing

they were started by left wing groups who said, you know, who wanted to, they just, you know, they gave that list of like age,

gender, you know, sexual orientation. They go through the big list of things you're not allowed to discriminate on. And the bottom line

is like you have to sell to everybody. if they are illegally available to buy it. It doesn't mean you have to sell liquor to a 13-year-old, but you can't avoid selling liquor to... You couldn't just say, you know what? I think 25 is the right age for liquor purchases. So everyone between 21 and 24, I'm going to say no to.

That's illegal in several states. So I don't know. I mean, it hasn't been challenged in court yet. Dix is the same thing. Dix is saying, we're not going to sell guns to a 19-year-old. Well, 19-year-olds are legally available to buy a gun. It's like you can't say I'm not going to sell them to a 70 year old because I think old people shouldn't have them. You can't do that.

That's age discrimination. And they're going to get sued over it. That's going to happen. I don't think they should. And it's funny because it's sort of the libertarians in me says, you know, it's their right and they should be able to sell to whoever they want. However, the law is the law. Whether you like it or not, I don't like paying income tax, but I still have to pay it. So these people will have to deal with the legal consequences of their newfound, you know,

opposition to selling firearms from a store that sells them all the time. Right. So they're going to have to deal with it. I kind of like the fact that, you know, I know exactly who Dix is. I know what they really actually believe, what they really want to do, what they will do, what they have done. And now I know. Yeah, just go somewhere else.

Keep driving past Dix. I mean, oh, and, yeah but I only need you know basketball whatever not going to buy it at dicks I mean I like that I like that I like that too however the law is

I don't I know I know and they're gonna have to deal with it it's funny because all the progressives who will now come on the side and say of course you're able to discriminate on the basis of age it's what we want today and that will be the basis of their

entire argument it's what we want today therefore we should be able to do it. Well, this is why your laws, you know, have consequences you don't necessarily consider. As a, you know, look, if you've got a constitutionally guaranteed right, I don't know how you, you know, these restrictions aren't constitutional anyway. And they'll be opposed from a constitutional basis as well, and it will likely go to the Supreme Court anyway. But I don't think even from a state basis you're able to do it, at least in several states.

Let me go to Chase in Washington. Chase, you're on the Glenbeck program. Hi, good morning, Glenn. How are you? Good, how are you? I'm well, thank you. Yeah, you kind of raised the point that I was going to bring up about the marijuana, the pot industry, that the banks don't do business with them. And it's legal here in Washington, but it creates a lot of cash, which comes with its own issues because you have armed security guards.

the product is being traveled, it's armed. But I would pull out, if banks stopped doing that, I don't think it's going to stop Americans from buying guns, to be honest with you. I feel enough Americans have the attitude of me, well, kind of like Pat did a few years ago with the AR band that was supposed to be coming. He went out and he was like, well, I'm getting one. and so did millions of others. And I think this would just, I think the banks start doing this more and more.

It's just going to push more and more Americans to buy guns. I feel gun owners get entrenched, and they hunker down when they start messing around with the Second Amendment. How do you feel about Citigroup doing this now? Oh, I think they're absolute snakes in the grass. Any time atrocities have been happened, By government, the first thing they do is they take away the citizens' right to defend themselves. Oh, you're a kook. I know.

For in history. I know. History's mystery. We're past all of that stuff. Thanks, thanks so much, Chase. I appreciate the phone call. We'll take your phone call next. 888727 BECK, AAA 727 back.

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Hey, listen, man, real quick to the point. I'm trying to figure this out. Now, the left says that you have to bake a cake for a gay couple because that's the right thing to do. And I guess constitutionally now, they said that that's what we got to do. But constitutionally, I can buy a gun at the age of 20, but they say that I can't buy a gun at the age of 20. because it doesn't yield it to them. Are they going to represent me or are they going to represent the Baker?

I'm just kind of, I can't keep up with these people. No, I know. That is, you know, here's the thing. Have you ever really looked into postmodernism? No. Okay. Postmodernism, just Google search it. Postmodernism is what we're going through right now.

It is, you know, and I was going to write a book on it, and Simon & Schuster said, nobody wants to hear that. And I said, yeah, nobody wanted to hear about progressives either. I'm telling you this is what's going on. So postmodernism is this idea that is beyond the modern thought. Modernism is the enlightenment and facts and reason and enlightenment. What postmodernism is life has no meaning. There is no objective truth.

there is no objective reality. It is just what you want it to be. So it is a dismantling of facts and reason. That's what's being taught now, that you are what you think, that your reality is now my reality too, because you say it's a reality, that the X and the Y chromosome don't matter anymore, even if science says,

because somebody else says, I don't think that's right. That's postmodernism, and it makes no sense. It causes chaos. That's what was being taught. That's how we're living now. We've passed the modern world. It's why I've been saying the last few weeks, we've got to get back to the principles of the Enlightenment,

because that's being replaced by postmodernism. Thanks for your call. I'm sorry to bore the snout out of you on that. Let's talk to Marilyn. Hello, Marilyn. Hi, Mr. Beck. how are you? Good.

Okay. Last week, when I heard that story for the first time on your show, I called Susbank to close my account. They answered the phone. Thank you for calling Citibank. Are you calling about our new policies? Wow. I would have said anything to know how many people have closed their account. How do we find that out?

Well, I don't think Citibank's going to talk about that. That would be very bad for their shareholders. but I will tell you this, if they're answering their calls like that, you can bet it's quite a few. And Marilyn, have you seen this story anywhere else? No, no. I heard on the show last week and acted immediately. Yeah. Thank you.

Good for you, Marilyn. Where did you put the money? I didn't. I just closed my account. Okay. All right. All right, good. You can send us some if you want.

We support the Second Amendment. Yeah. Let's say we're tracing the call so we can check under your bed later. Let me go to Brian in Ohio. Hello, Brian. Hello, Glenn. Hey, a couple of real quick points. First of all, there are banks out there in this country that are part of states that are

republics, for instance, North Dakota and also Texas. They aren't part of our central banking system, which is what we fought a revolutionary war against in the first place. And as far as going back to postmodern progressives, that's just a term that we should stop using it and start calling the cattle. black and call them socialists for what they are. And as far as Bitcoin goes, bring it on. That's exactly what our forefathers wanted. It's not the government out of our money. It's the dream for federalists and libertarians. Bring it on. The more, it's a welcoming, it's welcome to me.

I will tell you, Brian, that I'm with you on that, that we are entering a time of more freedom, not less. It's just going to be this transition. And, you know, it will require governments, to become more and more hostile to people's and individual rights. And, you know, they're not going to go quietly. Nobody's going to lose this much power and this much money and go away quietly in the night. And that's the underlying tension that I think that we're feeling is the smart people know this is coming.

And the smart people know, holy cow, that, wait a minute, what does that mean for me? And they know that they're going to lose their power and their ability to manipulate. And so that's really what you're feeling. And you're feeling it even through things like Facebook. We kind of went to Facebook because we thought, okay, hey, this is great. And then they're going to, we're just going to be able to have our own news feed and we're going to get the news we want. Well, that's not what happened, is it? We're getting the news feed. They think we want. And now they're giving us the news feed. The government says that they should give to us. They're defining what hate speech is, what fake news is.

And we all know that fake news is real. We all know that Russia is trying to influence. However, now we've got the government wanting to get involved and telling Facebook, who has all of our algorithms or has all of our information in their algorithm, exactly what they should show us and what they shouldn't. Let me show you something on TV tonight. This has been done before. when you started to go down the road of radicalism

because there was high unemployment and there was civil unrest the government what did they do the first thing they did said control the media I'll show I'll show it to you in history tonight at 5 o'clock only on the blaze dot com slash TV by the way did you hear that they've developed melting resistant ice cream You'll cover that on the blaze.com

slash TV. Bet you won't. Won't talk about the real stories. So think about that. McDonald's did that in like the 1950s. What are you talking about? Have you ever had their notice it doesn't say milk shake?

You ever had their shake? Have you ever? I lived in Arizona. It doesn't melt. It just gets hot and frothy and nasty. This isn't something new and I don't think something that we should be working. I want my flying car first.

Glenn back. Mercury. Truth. Uncle Sam, just unfriended Facebook. This should prove to be interesting. Yesterday, the FTC announced a broad investigation of Facebook saying that they have substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook. In a letter to Facebook, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of state attorneys, state attorney generals demanded specific answers about how companies like Cambridge Analytica

is getting all the information of Facebook users without those users permission. The moves by the FTC and 37 state attorneys general in addition to the three congressional committees, committees that have already called Zuckerberg to testify next month about the user data breach. Facebook has also been sued by Cook County, Illinois, State attorney says that Facebook violated Illinois fraud law.

One Facebook user is suing them for violation of user privacy. Another shareholder is suing because of the steep drop in the stock price after the Cambridge Analytica Data Harvesting scandal was revealed. Is this just a bump in the road, or is this just the tip of the iceberg and are they the Titanic? Because of all of the negative headlines, Zuckerberg's late effort to answer questions, about the Cambridge Analytica mess kind of really didn't help Facebook stock lost $75 billion

in market value last week. $75 billion with a B. Forbes reported that the personal net worth of Zuckerberg dropped by $5 billion. What does that feel like? Stu, what do you think that feels like? How much does he worth? $50 billion?

I don't know. Is he that much? I'll check it out. What would that be like to lose? Do you think you'd even feel it? Do you think you'd notice it? So 62.2.2. So he's probably done to the 50s now.

62.2 billion. I mean, you'd notice it, certainly. But you certainly doesn't change your lifestyle. I think he is. You're not like, hey, honey, we got to cut back on the dinner's out. No more Uber Eats for us. We got to go pick it up ourselves from pandicking. I think when he is legitimately now fearing a downturn in his business.

I think you were you said this earlier today. You remember MySpace. I mean, I remember it because weren't we working at Fox with Rupert Murdoch when MySpace? He bought it for like a billion dollars, maybe more. And then like the next day, it was like, really, it felt like the next day. but within a very short period of time, it was worth nothing. It was worth like, I think Justin Timberlake bought it for like $25 million. And I was like, oh my gosh, you bought it for nothing.

Now it's worth like eight cents. It's like now the other Justin Timberman, not the famous one bought it. Just some guy named Justin Timberlake bought it. Yeah, no, I mean, I don't know that you necessarily feel it. But I think he's, I don't think he's a guy necessarily driven by money. Zuckerberg's different than, you know, a lot of these billionaires out there who, have done nothing but try to, you know, like, I mean, they might care about things, but like they're driven by cash. He's not. He's not. I mean, he, remember, he was, what, 20 years old and they tried to buy Facebook for like $14 billion and he turned it down. Now, that turned out pretty well. I think I remember making fun of him for that. Oh, I thought he was a complete idiot. Yeah, me too. I mean, because again, my space could happen to you in a couple years. You have nothing. I know. It worked out fairly well for Mark. So what does this mean for his 2020 campaign? Do you believe he's going to run? It's where everyone just kind of, I guess because we know who he is and he's rich and he seems to have, you know, interest in political causes.

We all assume he's running. Not to mention he has an incredibly well-crafted understanding of the American people, given that the fact that he can look at everything they've ever done at any time he wants. People kind of assuming he's going to run. It may happen. Last week, hashtag delete Facebook was trending on Twitter. And some wondered if this was the beginning of the end. of the world's largest social networking platform. The company is definitely black and blue and headed toward the red,

but it's probably too soon to sound the death knell for Facebook. It will apologize. It will tweak its user policies. It will vow to do better at protecting your data and all of your secrets. And then your crazy uncle can get back to posting those cat memes in confidence. It's Tuesday, March 27th. This is the Glenn Beck program. I think if I were, if I were Facebook, I would be looking for radical changes myself.

Well, you know, it's funny because a lot of the things that they've had problems with here, they've already changed the policies. They changed them years ago. But we're just kind of now finding out about it. I think, I think radical change with the giving people control of the algorithm in some regard. I mean, I don't like the, I don't like the fact that, they have all of our data. I'd like to control my own data.

And then also I really don't think I'm comfortable with them deciding who's a trusted source and who's not. I don't want them to do that. I want to do that. Yeah. I mean, I think what their point is, and tell me this is not every progressive politician that has ever held any power. But their point is, yes, we know what you want. But what you want is not right for you. Correct.

You should want something else. And they are saying, I think, in self-interest here, not even like an altruistic or even a political self. I think it's self-interest. And what they're saying is what people are doing is they're getting online and they're angrily fighting out political issues and tweeting stories that are questionable. And that's pissing off their other friends. And what it's doing is it's hurting people's experience. Yes, they might stay on the platform longer, but when they leave, they're angry,

when they leave, they didn't have a good experience. Everyone keeps talking about deleting Facebook accounts because what am I getting out of it? I've had several family members. I bet you have too, who have at least made the play that I'm going to, I'm off Facebook for the next few weeks. I'm deleting my Facebook account.

I have greatly reduced my personal time of Facebook. I have zero Facebook. I've greatly reduced. I like it. It's a change. for me to interact with, with, you know, people. Yeah, I don't like people. Okay.

All right. So I don't have that problem. Right. All right. But, sure. I really, you know, I don't particularly use it like that, but I hear this all the time. My wife used it all the time. And she just found herself not enjoying it.

So I think what Facebook's saying is like, you'll enjoy it more if you're all you're seeing in pictures of your friend's dog. And I think, you know, maybe there's something to that. But they're trying to force that change. even though people aren't requesting it. People can, you know, they don't have to follow news accounts. They don't have to click like on the Glenn Beck page. They do that because they want to get the updates from Glenn Beck.

And so if you're giving them updates that are based on news because you want them, you know, in my, you know, free market sense, they should just give you what you're asking for. That's what Facebook was supposed to do. Now they're trying to manipulate that. What do you think about the idea when they, because whenever, you know, they suggest somebody that I should like, it's always like, no, I don't want to like that person. No. I'm sad you think that about me.

You should also like, no. And I look through all their likes and I'm like, no, I, no, uh-uh. They don't give me anybody new, different, you know, out of the box. There's no deep thinking. It's like, oh, you're a caveman. Here's another caveman. Right. And you're like, all right.

but could you occasionally show me, I don't know, how about a Neanderthal man? Those are the same, dummy. Okay, well, I'm a caveman. I'm a man from long ago who held a club. Right. Show me a guy who's holding maybe a club made out of bronze. Yeah, no, it's, I don't know that it's necessarily as big a problem as

as it's being portrayed as with the data. I mean, I think a lot of that really wasn't their fault. It really wasn't. I mean, and they've tightened it up anyway since then. But people get sick of these things. You know, social networks are kind of like clubs, right? You open a new one and, you know, you open a new club or a new restaurant in New York City. It's trendy for a while and they can go away.

Facebook has been the one that's really made people believe that's not the case. It's a utility. Usually what happens is the club becomes popular and then it becomes. comes, you know, everything to everybody. And then it starts to go dark. And then it's just like a biker club. And you're like, okay, we've got to get out of here. Yeah, well, the cool kids stop coming, right?

Correct. And that's what, did you see the Elon Musk thing the other day? No. So Elon Musk is on Twitter. And he starts bashing Facebook in some way. I guess he has some, he has a little, a bit of an issue with Mark Zuckerberg, dueling billionaires. And he tweets something like, what's Facebook? you know, just kind of wrecking Facebook.

And someone points out to him, hey, Elon, why did you delete Tesla and Space X's Facebook page, which have millions and millions of followers then if you don't know what it is? And he responded, okay, I'll get to that right away. They've been deleted. Wow. He's just deleted his Facebook pages from his major companies. And I think they had like between the two of them,

six or seven million followers. That's foolish. It's not a good business decision. No. But I mean, he, Again, this is why being a billionaire is great. This is why we all need to get there someday. Yeah.

You know, when I was a kid, it was called screw you money. It was not called screw you money. Well, it was something else. You money, but. Had a different letter at the beginning. Yes, and other letters after. But that's what it was called. You know, you just be able to have that so you could, at any time you go, you know what, screw you.

Yeah. No, not doing it. Not doing it. You don't have to care. Right. And that's what's so great about being a billionaire. I mean, sure, it's great. You can have all the benefits of life.

That would be the advantage of having, you know, even a couple of thousand dollars in the bank. You know what I mean? Most Americans can't, most Americans can't come up with $500. Most Americans cannot come up with $500. Is that true? $500?

$500. I mean, from, 500. I feel like I want to fact check it. I'm going to say, I feel like I want a fact check it. Go ahead. I want you to fact check it right now. We'll wait.

We'll wait. Go ahead. Do you have any. I'm not saying you're wrong. No, no, no. Give me some think music. Give me some Jeopardy music. Give me something here, Sarah.

Just to, while we have Stu, who doesn't believe me. Oh, that's nice. Soothing. Not what I was looking for, but it'll do. This is a little different, as usual, from the Glenbeck. This is why I exist. Turn up the music. No, no, go.

Stop the music. Okay. This is why America I exist. It is. Actually, this is what I pay him for. No, and you did see a story about this, and it is a $500 surprise expense would put most Americans into debt. I mean, they cannot come up with $500.

That means that a surprise expense of $500. All right. But isn't that the same thing that would put you in debt? It's not, I can't, I don't have $500. Can I go borrow it? Yes. But I don't have $500. So I meant the same thing.

Okay. It's not like they can't, you know. because I mean I think of that that's that's why you have credit right so if you have a circumstance in which you don't have the money you're able to come up with it does it surprise does it surprise you that people don't have five hundred dollars it's a very high amount and even and and that's just the United States which were things are relatively good you know if you make $32,000 a year oh geez do you make $32,000 a year I think you're just cleared that now Glenn congratulations on that there's just many people who don't but $32,000. year is not thought of as a high salary in the United States, right? Right. Average salary is what, 55 or 59? Yeah, mid-50s. Yeah.

And if you make $32,000 a year, you are in the richest 1% in the world, the wealthiest 1%. The whole thing about, we've talked about this before, progressives love to bash the wealthiest 1%. But all their union members are all in it when you look at it globally. and if they treat these things the same way as they do here in the United States, it's take the money from those rich one percenters and give it to everyone else. And it's funny, the progressives here don't mention that stat all that often, but you know where they mention it everywhere else in the world.

You know what's really weird, Stu, is you know how the unions have lost their hold on America? Do you know that those unions have branched out to other countries? Yeah. Yeah. At fact, they like to go to the poor countries. And you know what they say? The wealthiest 1% in the world. You know those rich people making $32,000 in America? We need to take their money. How do we do it? And they have organized people. And they are made, these are mass movements around the world to try to make that into a reality. Now, it's not easy. But I don't know how they do. I don't know how we got here. I don't even know how I got to $500. Can trace it back? anybody, anybody? How did we get here to $500? Wow.

This is, this is not what we do. Oh, we were talking about Facebook. You're talking about Facebook, talking about Zuckerberg was a billionaire and he has all this money. And we talked about whether that would affect him. That was a S you money.

Screw you money. Screw you money. The average person doesn't have screw you money. I think the government should pass out Screw you, buddy. Wait, the Fed is already doing that, aren't they?

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Glenn Beck. Welcome to the program. Kim was there too, right? Mm-hmm. Well, Kim Kardashian. What do you? What do you? Did Chloe go on that trip, you know?

I think Chloe was there as well. I don't. First Kim Kardashian went to Cuba. Uh-huh. Now Kim Jong-un has gone to China. So I feel like a new series. I mean, Brian Sechrest, as we know, can pretty much make money on anything. Right.

He's the, people don't realize this. He's the executive producer of all the Kardashian stuff. So you think he's made money off American Idol. He laughs at you when you bring up American Idol. He laughs. He laughs at you. He laughs. Ha, ha, ABC's ratings are down.

I don't care, peasants. He's the guy is doing all that stuff and has made a fortune off of it, obviously. And so, I mean, if you could get Kim Jong-un to sign and then you can kind of follow him around the world for all of his adventures, I think it could be a really good show. Isn't it weird that Dick Clark, was replaced really kind of by like the same guy. Ryan Seacrest? Yeah. He could just do everything and has his hands in everything.

He just has his hands in absolutely everything. They both started in music. And they're both kind of like this clean cut behind the scenes kind of guy. They have one really big show. But then, you know, they're the puppet master behind. And now. And now we do Kim Kardashian. Then we rule the world.

I was amazed at the coverage of the Kim Jong-un to China thing because they don't actually know he's there. The initial coverage was we saw a giant 21-car train. No, no, no. We saw a giant old 21-car train. And we think who on earth would be in that train? It's probably Kim Jong-un. Well, who's, you know, it's kind of like,

if you're in L.A. and you see somebody driving an old, you know, steam automobile, you know that's probably Jay Leno. In this case, you see somebody in an old-timey train, not because he thinks it's cool, it's because that's the best they can do. It's Kim Jong-un. It is interesting, though.

I mean, I think there does seem to be some discussions going on ahead of the potential Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un, as he's discussed. You've also seen the interesting China trade discussions, which is like, they're like, hey, we might do tariffs, and the market dropped by 1,100 points. And then the news came out yesterday. It's like, maybe we won't do tariffs, and then the market went up by 700 points.

There may be a lesson in there somewhere. There may somewhere be a lesson. What do you think that lesson is? Maybe tariffs aren't a great idea. No, that can't be the lesson. You don't think? No, I don't think so. There's got to be another.

Oh, the lesson is, always have a cool 21-car train that's really old that you could go to China with. Right. Now you've got it. There we go. Now you've got it. Back in a minute. Glenn Beck. Mercury.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. You're right to Jason, who is our head writer and head researcher, is specializing in foreign affairs and war. He is a former military intelligence guy. Jason, welcome to the program. How are you? Thank you. Good. You've been watching Russia for us.

A lot of people have been saying, you know, Donald Trump, he's not tough on Russia. That's concerned me, but not lately. And what he did yesterday is gigantic, probably the biggest thing that we've done against Russia since the 1980s. Am I wrong? No, absolutely right. 1986, I believe, was the last time we took such strong retaliatory measures. What was it for? I don't remember.

I don't remember either, but it was during the Reagan administration and the height of the Cold War. It's very, very nasty times. And that's, this, we haven't even gotten this close. Obama expelled a bunch of Russian diplomats, which everyone thought was, you know, going to be, you know, the lynchpin that was going to kick a lot of stuff off. The Trump administration actually, you know, before they were actually in office, kind of sounds like they got Mike Flynn to convince Kisleyak and the Russians, hey, don't worry about it, don't retaliate.

That's actually the only time the Russians did not retaliate back with some kind of reciprocity. That was the only time. every other time that we kick out some of their spies diplomats, they respond, you know, equally. So have they responded yet? They have not responded yet. They have pledged to retaliate. Putin's spokesman, Peskov, said that they were looking at ways to do it, and then Putin personally would give the order.

I think the last thing I saw was that Putin said that this was like gross blackmail or something like that, quote unquote. But look at some of these numbers is pretty insane, just the scope of this. I think we're up over 130 some odd Russian diplomats or spies have been ejected from their country all over the world. That includes 60 from the United States. We shut down a actual full-on consulate in Seattle to include in this. But the UK kicked out 23. The Ukraine kicked out 13.

Wow. NATO, 10, France, for, Germany, for, Poland, for, Canada, for. I don't have time. I'd waste the entire broadcast going through all this. But everybody seems pretty united in this. The only people that are denying that this can. chemical attack that happened on UK soil that it was the Russians are the Russians, which is pretty much how they play it.

Everybody knows who did it. What do you think is coming from this? I think that Russia will respond in kind. I think that the last time that they responded pretty heavily was after some sanctions. They kicked out around 750-ish U.S. diplomats. So now I think, and this is kind of interesting, how Trump administration actually targeted Russian spies on top of diplomats. Now that's kind of like an unspoken thing within the spy world is that, okay, we're going to allow you to play your little spy games in our country, as long as you allow us to play a few spy games in your country.

Can we get our, who's a spy that we had on? Remember, he was so great. Oh, the Russian spy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can we get him on tomorrow? Yeah, yeah, he'd be great. Plus, the American starts up tomorrow. Is it tomorrow?

That's tomorrow. Perfect timing. I love the American. You watch the Americans? No, I'm not. So, Stu, you were saying earlier, and I find this really interesting, because a lot of people say you should go after the oligarchs. But that might actually help Putin because he's trying to repatriate all of the money that these oligards had taken out. Yeah, and it actually, the theory is that it actually will strengthen him within his own country because, A, all these oligarchs will have to bring the money back into Russia.

and B, he will show he will have more control over them. He wants control over that money. I mean, these are not easy problems to solve. But it does seem that the Trump administration has taken a good hard turn on this. And the people he's surrounding, I mean, certainly Bolton coming in is a move in that direction. I actually heard this piece of analysis, however, on CNN, I think it was yesterday. And they said, well, is this a big move against the Russians? is this showing a hardening of a position by Trump.

And I don't remember who it was, but they said, yeah, well, it definitely is showing that. However, we still have not seen Trump tweet about Russia like this. I mean, he tweets about everything, and he has, he will not tweet about Russia. There's something going on. He will not tweet about Russia. Now you want him to tweet more? You actually want him to tweet about more diverse topics?

That's your new analysis here. and the idea is, I am thrilled with a world in which Donald Trump has the right policies and doesn't tweet about them. That's a fantastic solution to all of this. And now the media has come to a point in which they're criticizing him for not tweeting. So utterly unbelievable. Well, the deal is, is if somebody says it on CNN, does anybody know it? Well, now you do. Yeah, now you do.

All right, thanks, Jason. The more you know. All right. Stu, down to the dwindling few minutes left in the program. Yes. I've got three stories. Choose your news. As I gave you the opportunity, I think last hour of the hour before,

cat returns home after two days, well, two days after he was buried. Man drowns, headline number two. Man drowns while practicing holding his breath, police say. And And headline number three Holy cow I just threw up on international television I have

I kind of want the dead cat story because I'm wondering if this is a pet cemetery situation and I'm worried about it You think that the cat may have come back to life Well that's what happened in the documentary Pet Cemetery yes Okay that was a that was a Stephen King But anyway

Oh it was a book? Is that it was the book magically moving on my television Mr. Beck? It hits you so hard. the Robinson family said goodbye to their beloved cat, Willow. It was an emotional service. They buried their cat under a tree in the backyard. Johnny and Katrina Robinson watched as their sons, Josh 7, buddy, four, sobbed over their 18-month-old male cat.

It disappeared, you see. There was a bad storm, winter storm, and the rain. in the snow and Johnny was worried about the cat every night. Buddy was worried and Josh was worried and they sobbed and they cried every night. Oh no. They hadn't. Dad said, I haven't seen my son cry for a long time. Boys were very upset.

Dad was upset. They had to skip school to mourn the animal. But dad set him down and said, you know, this is what happens. with cats sometimes and animals and they're lost it's a circle of life circle of life the kid said no he's not dead i can feel it dad that's when really yeah that's that's that's like if i could feel it breathing or i can no i just metaphysically i just know he's i just know he's alive so they put missing posters out all over the all on the trees and the and the fence post all over their neighborhood. No one responded.

It's when dad was driving home one night. And he saw a very flat patch of black and gray fur. He pulled the car over. And it was Willow. The cat.

Run over. Flat. He came home. Showed the kids. Hey, look at the cat. Look out flat. No. It's a weird twist of the story. They buried the cat. they were very upset they had a little eulogy

and everything the little buddy four year old wouldn't give up he said he's coming back he put food out every night for a week dad and mom discouraged him

said you know he's not coming back son until one day they noticed the cat food had been eaten it was just a few days after the memorials service when they had when they had buried their black and white striped cat but there johnny in the backyard along with buddy seven and four holding the gray and white striped cat meadow apparently in the neighborhood there's another cat that looks just like theirs that had been hit by a car and uh oh

so they buried somebody else's cat Oh, man. It's not good. You want to try to bury the dead thing that is, it belongs to you. It's a goal. Well, I remember him being a little more fluffy. I did not see that coming. I did not see that one.

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where this couple who had a wedding venue, a place where, you know, you hold your wedding reception. They're Christian. They didn't want to hold, you know, gay wedding ceremonies there. How do they get around it? What do they do? So they decided that they're going to, you know, let anybody use it.

You can use it. But a good portion of the cost is going into a donation to the family, what is it, Family Research Council, that's General Boykin's place, I think. So they said that, you know, that we're just, we want to celebrate and we want to support

traditional marriage. And so a portion of your money will be going to the family research council. And that way, they can still do it, but you're going to be, you're going to be funding something that you don't like. That's like.

that's like me going and saying yeah I'd like to have my I'd like to have my wedding catered by you and they say that's fine we're just gonna you know give your money to a Soros organization and Bloomberg against guns yeah I don't think so

yeah I actually had this idea a while ago that it would be fun to do a weight loss competition or like hey you got to drop some some weight but if you don't drop the weight you have to donate like a bunch of money to some terrible charity on the left? Because that would really make you not,

I mean, you'd really think about maybe not having that 12th piece of pizza. No. I didn't do it because I did not want to make a large donation to Planned Parenthood. I know. I was thinking, I was just thinking. No, I am absolutely against Planned Parenthood,

but no, I'm not going to say no of the pizza. So I'm going to give it to Plan Parenthood and tell them to use it only on other services. Oh, that's right, because it's women's health. I forgot. I love women's health. For mammograms. Yeah, right, exactly.

There's another cool solution to this, too, on this, you know, marriage thing where, you know, a place is hosting marriages and they have, you know, they want to be able to choose who they do business with. It's called the Constitution. I like that one. I like that one. Basically, you have this freedom. It's kind of old time of religion. It's an old document. It's dusty.

Yeah. I say there's a lot of dust on it. Yeah, bad. But you should probably just be able to do the things you want to do. Maybe not have to create art for other. and bring people into your venue if you don't want to. That's another way of looking at it, though not really, apparently legal. I just, I can't leave today without playing this.

This is one of the speeches from the March. I've been trying to delay you. The March for Life and for our lives. And I think this is, well, you got to hear this speech. Go ahead and day in and day out. Our kids are getting shot up. And the moment we speak up, we're scolded that we are not permission to ask our politicians. We'll scream guns.

or not the issue, but can't look me in the eye. Some people thought she was maybe crying there, but she wasn't. Television. Yeah, and the fist in the air. It feels great. No, no, I'm guessing it didn't feel great. But thank you for sharing. There's a bit too much love for international television among this group.

I think so. Yeah. Why do you say that? I think, I don't know that I, I mean, again, take away. a lot of their really terrible points, which we could, you know, look, we spend two days doing that. Right. You wrote an entire New York Times bestseller called control on these arguments. And we all know they're really bad arguments. But you know what? A 17 year old shouldn't be able to debate you on guns.

They shouldn't. I mean, I certainly couldn't at 17 years old. But the idea that they should be continually pushed in front of the media, that the media should continue to demand that they're on 24 hours a day. And that, like, you know, the families are encouraging that. Like, I don't think as a parent, and I can't put myself in that position, but as a parent, I would not want my kid out in front of international media every single day. No, and you know what? It's international media.

You have a responsibility. Listen to this. Who is from CNN? I'm trying to remember they were interviewing one of the CNN anchors. Oh, it's Bryant Stelter, right? Yeah. Yeah. And he had done an interview and listen to what they say about pushing these teenagers.

Do you think in showing these kids so often as often as we all do, we're doing actually them a disservice? because the policy is actually what's going to change this. The passion I fear will just sound like noise after a while, and people will tune it out. Disservice is a strong word, but when I was interviewing David Hogg only 10 days after the massacre, there were a few times I wanted to jump in and say,

let's correct that fact. Let's so interesting. Let me stop me. And one of the times I did. Stop. Stop. But I did once. But, you know, the rest of them, not so much.

What? Glenn, back. Mercury.