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In 2001, are you proud to be an American? Extremely proud to be an American in 2001. Democrats 87%, Republicans 90%. Extremely proud to be an American 2025 with a 51% drop.

38% of Democrats, sorry, 36% of Democrats say they're extremely proud to be an American. Republicans hover around the same, up two points. It's 92%. We are a split nation. And the question is why? Well, because there's two Americas and they're both...

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Welcome back to you. Thank you. Yes. So 87% of Democrats in 2001, extremely proud to be an American. Now 36%.

Slight drop off. Slight, slight. No way to keep a country. No way to keep a country. No. Now, the number for Republicans, relatively consistent, right? Actually up, I think, slightly. Up two points. Yeah. Now, was this in the aftermath, the immediate aftermath of September 11th? Is that why it's so high with Democrats? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. I think that, I mean, let's look at this, though. You know, before September 11th,

You know, we all thought that we were all pretty much the same. We all thought we were pretty much the same. And there were those that, you know, were on the fringes. But in the last 25 years...

I mean, what have you heard about? If you're a Democrat, what have you heard about? You've heard about the genocide of indigenous peoples. You've heard about the massacres and the forced removals and the trail of tears and the boarding schools and the broken treaties and slavery and the legacy of racism and colonialism and imperialism and the annexation and the taking of Hawaii and the conquest of the Philippines and Puerto Rico's now a colony and all the CIA-backed

coups and the inclusion or exclusion in the internment camps and the Chinese Exclusion Act of the Japanese Americans and the Muslims for surveillance and how anti-Muslim we are. We're all really afraid of all Muslims. The anti-labor repression, the Ludlow massacre, COINTELPRO, the

The labor organizers and civil rights activists that have just been oppressed the whole time. And women were denied their vote until 1920. And there were restricted roles in the workforce and politics and reproductive rights. And what did we do on HIV? We did nothing on HIV. And homosexual rights, my gosh, we're still throwing people off of buildings if you're a homosexual. And trans, don't even get me started with trans. And then the environmental exploitation.

The rivers that have been set on fire, the poison communities. Look at Flint, Michigan, and the land is stripped for profit. Now we want to sell our own national parks. The medical racism, the abuse of the Tuskegee experiment and forced sterilizations and the racial bias in health care that's still evident today, you know. Suppression of dissent with the Palmer raids and McCarthyism and the surveillance of civil rights leaders and the protest movement.

criminalization. You can't even go out now and set any fires on the streets without being deemed a radical or revolutionary. And they want to throw you in jail just for breaking into a Macy's. Capitalism, it's nothing but an exploitation. Capitalism inherently generates inequality and alienation and commodifies every human relationship.

You know, the state is nothing more than a tool of class denomination and the police and the courts and the military. All they do is protect the elite interest, not the public welfare. They're against, you know, be afraid of the police. Private property and wealth is just hoarded by the wealthy. Their inherited wealth, the land monopolies, the billionaire class accumulation is just fundamentally unjust.

And then we have a two-party system. It's nothing but a managed illusion. Real power resides with donors, lobbyists, unelected bureaucrats, the military, permanent war economy, the prison industrial complex, the gender and patriarchal control, the surveillance capitalism, and let me, don't even get me started on the genocide, the climate genocide.

That's all you've heard for 25 years. That's all you've heard. And some of that stuff is true. Some of it is true. But tell me, where is the perfect nation? Where is the nation that is better than that? Where is the nation that has corrected itself over and over and over again? You know, we've been told over and over about how bad America is, how America is just broken. Let me ask you.

What would your life be? How different would your life be if America hadn't existed? Because you live in a world now that America built. Not alone, not uniquely, but decisively. Decisively, we change the world forever. And in many good ways. You know, you've grown up only hearing the sins. Can you pause for just a minute today? Just a minute.

Because the nation's story is not propaganda, it's proof. Yes, it's brutal. Yes, it's flawed. Yes, it's ugly. Yes, it's undeniable. But there's also some undeniable truths. That one country rooted in liberty reshaped the planet, yes, for good. I mean, most people likely think World War II was just a foregone conclusion. If they even studied it. If they even know who Hitler was.

If they know what fascism, what the difference between fascism in 1930 and fascism today. It wasn't a foregone conclusion. Without America, Hitler wins. Japan keeps the Pacific. Fascism becomes the dominant force of the 20th century.

Oh my gosh, we just went over and all we tried to do was just kill the Japanese. We just wanted to vaporize the Japanese. Do you know what the Japanese military did? They were worse than the Germans, but we never focused on that, did we? America mobilized faster, produced more, fought longer than anyone else. We built more tanks and planes than the Axis combined.

We led the invasion that broke the Nazi grip. We dropped food as well as bombs. Did you know that? We did something even rarer. We didn't conquer. We rebuilt. And while communism tried to replace fascism, we were the ones on the front line and stood our ground again. For 45 years, we held the line. Not with brute force alone, but with ideas, with culture, with freedom, with genes, with music, with hope.

If you think communism is great, talk to somebody who lived under communism. You've been lied to your whole life. Your school, while you say America is just indoctrinated people, try your school. Try your university. Question things. Why do you question power but you don't question the power of the university? The Soviet Union collapsed because people wanted what America had and not genes.

They wanted freedom. They wanted the freedom to express themselves. They wanted freedom to be able to create their own music, live their own life, to buy the things they wanted, to own something. Do you know that before America's rise, extreme poverty was the norm? Extreme poverty. Kings had jewels. Nobody else had jewels. You had dirt.

And you didn't even own that dirt. And then came the engine of capitalism. It pioneered, it scaled, it was exported by the U.S. Yes, we did export capitalism. Oh my gosh, that was just nothing but exploitation. No, it wasn't. It was innovation. It was supply chains, trade routes, machines, markets, standards. It was also charity.

Over a billion human beings lifted from starvation-level poverty. Let me say that again. Over a billion humans lifted from starvation-level poverty in just 50 years. You know, here behind me is a potbelly stove, an old stove. You know where that potbelly stove came from? That potbelly stove behind me, I don't know if you can see it, or sitting over there in the corner right there, that old potbelly stove, you know who invented that? Ben Franklin. Ben Franklin.

You know what else Ben Franklin did? Ben Franklin, oh, he's a monster. Ben Franklin also developed what's called the patent. Do you know what a patent is? Do you know that America invented the patent? It was Ben Franklin that said we have to have a patent. Why? Because you want to talk about exploitation. Before America, you could invent something and you had no power to keep it. There was no such thing as your invention. You could invent it.

But some rich guy would come and steal it right from underneath you. And they would get rich and you would get nothing. You led your life in poverty because you couldn't invent and then scale anything.

You would invent, somebody else would steal it, they would get rich. It was Ben Franklin, one of our founders, that said this exploitation has got to stop. And he, when he took and invented thing after thing after thing, like the potbelly stove, which brought heat into people's houses. Do you know what the number one cause of death for women was? At the time, the number one cause of death for women was burning to death.

Because they would cook over the fire in the house and their dress or their clothing would catch fire and they would burn to death. The number one cause was burn to death. Potbelly stove kept that fire tamed. It heated the house. It gave you something to cook on without the open flame.

And do you know how much money Ben Franklin made on this? Oh my gosh, the exploitation. None. Why? Because he refused. The guy who invented the patent decided not to patent it.

Because he felt it was right to give this to the world. It was his choice. It wasn't the government telling him. It was his choice. Because not only did he believe in the wealth of nations with Adam Smith, he also believed in moral sentiments. You had to be good and decent. How about the Green Revolution? No, not the one you think about. The Green Revolution, an American scientist...

An American scientist saved up to 2 billion lives with seeds. That's the real green revolution. Today, your phone is made in Asia. Yeah, I know you hate this global thing. You hate the American system. It was made in Asia. It was shipped to you globally, sold online, all through systems created by American globalization.

We wrote the operating system for modern freedom. Every modern democracy borrows from our Constitution. Our founders invented a government designed to limit power. And what have you done on the left? You have only grown the power. You know, there used to be a thing that the right did. And the left used to be for small government, for human rights, for constitutional rights. You're not for that now.

You're not for the separation of powers. You're for consolidating all of the powers. Are you for the free press while you silence people on X? Regular elections, due process, this didn't come from perdition. It didn't come from a king. It came from America. All of those things. Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison. They didn't just write rules. They lit a fuse.

From Tiananmen Square to Tehran, dissidents quote our words. They hold our flags. That's not nationalism. That's impact. You are told today we never walked on the moon, and you think you're educated? Talk to somebody about the mirrors and the laser systems that we have on the moon now. How'd they get there? What movie were they put in?

Americans made this happen. You're online today because the Pentagon that you hate so much built the Internet. You carry a supercomputer in your pocket because of the moonshot and Silicon Valley. You know the phrase app store, cloud, AI, all American inventions, all of them. When new therapies or treatments are pioneered, mRNA.

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You know, you hate America, I understand. On this Fourth of July weekend, I ask you just to think, to ask questions. Where did your music come from? Because every beat of rebellion you ever heard in a song, that's America. Jazz, blues, rock, hip-hop, all born here. Not sanitized, raw. Stories of injustice, identity, longing, faith, grit, all of it.

No empire in the history of the world has ever given a loudspeaker to its critics. And when the world broke, America opened its doors. You think we hate? We hate foreigners. We just hate. We don't want any immigrants here. We've always opened our doors. Jews fleeing programs. Vietnamese, the boat people. Cubans escaping communism. Ukrainians escaping bombs. This is not a myth. The Irish coming here because of the potato famine. Famine.

The Chinese coming. These are all real lives saved by a real idea that here you can chart your own course. You can begin again here and have a chance. Yeah, and I know. I know. We are a horrible, horrible place. You know how I know? Because here's the truth no activist wants to admit. America ended its own original sin through war with itself.

No nation fought a bloodier war, a bloodier battle to abolish slavery than America did. And we didn't get it perfect. But we got better. By choice, not by conquest. By choice. And unlike many other nations, we didn't bury our sins. We faced them.

We face them. It might take us a while, but we face them. Tell me the other countries that tear themselves apart like we do just to be better. The Civil Rights Act, the voting rights, fair housing. These were all laws not won by a coup, but by principle. Even the loudest critics, Zinn, Chomsky, Malcolm X, they're all protected by American law. In other countries, they'd be jailed or they'd be dead. Here, no.

They're assigned in classrooms. Tell me about how hateful we really are. What if America never existed? What if it never existed? Germany and Japan are fascist empires. South Korea is nothing but a gulag. There's no internet, no moon landing, no iPhone. The world doesn't know the word "freedom." They only know the word "order." You didn't grow up with rights. You would grow up asking for permission.

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Something new is coming that's not only going to change history, but also the way we learn about it. You can follow along at glennbeck.com. Let me pick it up where I was. I'm talking about a new poll that has come out that shows that Democrats now, it's quite remarkable, have gone from 87%, very patriotic, extremely proud to be an American, 87%.

to now 36%. That's a drop of 51 points. Republicans, 90% yes in 2001. Republicans, 92% yes today. A 51% drop. Why? Because all you have heard is all of the bad things about America. That's all anyone has allowed you to focus on, the bad things.

And I'm here to tell you that America has been very, very bad at times. But also America is good. Now, I just pointed out some things like the real green revolution. Not the one you think of, but the real green revolution where American scientists were the ones who fed the world. Now, wait a minute, Glenn. Hang on just a second. Fed the world. That means GMOs. Yeah, it does. It does mean GMOs.

And you know what? We did our best at the time. And now we are questioning that. We're now questioning going, I don't know if that was such a good idea. See, this is the key to America. America is not good because she's perfect. No country is perfect. We are certainly far from perfect. But it's good because it's capable of self-correction. It paid in blood for people it would never meet again.

Because it fights its own darkness all the time. It keeps the light on for others. The left has only taught you America's sins. That's it. And you should hear them. And I can outdo any of those on the left. I'll tell you stories about America that will make your hair turn white. Look at mine. Why do you think it's white? I'm actually 23 years old.

I just know the stories of America, but I also know the good stories. You should hear the bad stories, but don't stop there. You should hear the good, the bad, and the ugly. You deserve the full truth. This broken, striving, maddening republic changed the world, and it still can for good. It gave you the life you live right now.

America didn't just happen to history. It made history. And it's worth knowing why. There are things that you don't even understand today. I don't even understand today. You ever heard the phrase, hey, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater? You know why that is? I can't even understand that. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Why would I throw the baby out with the bathwater? Because when people used to take baths,

The water would get so nasty and dirty. It would start with dad because he was out working all the time. Then mom would take a bath in dad's water. And then the children would take the bath. And there was usually eight of them. And then the baby would take the bath. The last one to get the bath would be the baby. By the time the baby was in the bath, the water was so nasty and dirty that

that you just dump it out. You couldn't see anything in the water because it was so nasty. In other words, there might be something good in there, you just can't see it. You live in a world where you don't even understand that phrase. You know why? Because we have indoor plumbing and running water. Do you ever wonder why they don't have it in China? Do you ever wonder why they don't have it in Africa?

You ever wonder why it is all throughout the Western world? Because the Western world had standards, and I don't mean hygiene standards. We had standards for safety. We had standards for plumbing and electricity standards.

We built these things, and then we created the standards. And because we had law and order and people just weren't just breaking into stores because I got an ax to grind, and because there was relatively equal justice compared to the rest of the world, that's the important part, compared to the rest of the world. We had standards, and we could build where everyone else was just trying to survive.

So this July 4th, this Independence Week, I would suggest you spend more time thinking about what your life, as you're eating that hot dog, yeah, you can think, I wonder if there's a tooth in this hot dog, or you can think, my God, look at the system that is bringing all of this food to my table.

Have you ever thought, do you remember? I'm 60. I'm just 60. I remember a time when you didn't get strawberries in the winter. You didn't have year-round seedless watermelon. You had seasonal fruit. What was in season? I'm 60. A hundred years ago, most people didn't have fruit. They didn't have electricity. They didn't have running water.

And look at the world today. Do you think that just happened? Before you burn this system down to the ground, before you start to say, I want to give the means of production to the people because communism is swell, maybe you should ask, how swell is it over in former communist countries? Russia. How swell is it in Venezuela? How swell is it in Cuba?

A lot of things have happened, and a lot of good things have happened because this country existed. So let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Did you see the... How do you say his name? Mamdani. Mamdani. Did you see him yesterday talking about means of production and everything else? I mean, this guy's a communist. All he wants to do is seize the means of production, Glenn. Are you upset? That's it. That's all he wants to do. That's all he wants to do. That's a fascinating one because...

He's so comfortable in his communism that he doesn't even change the wording of it. Like lots of people on the left offer to seize the means of production, but they always word it in a way that isn't quoting Marx. Yes. Mamdani's like, everyone around him thinks it's a good idea. So he's totally fine saying it that way. It's...

I also loved him because you were talking about how, you know, you can improve things and how America has improved things. I would argue that the fork is one thing that has been a solid improvement that America has adopted. And Mamdani was, I don't know, was doing an interview or something where he was just eating, I think it was rice and beans or something like that.

with his fingers. Did you see this? Do we have the clip? Well, that's what you can't do. So the third holy grail of taboos in American politics, you have socialism, you have Islam, and then you have Palestine. And you are really going for the trifecta. Let's go, baby. Let's go. Tell me, why is Palestine a part of your politics? When you grow up as someone especially in the third world, you have a very different understanding of the Palestinian struggle.

Now, of course, he didn't grow up in the third world. No, he just said he did. No, he grew up as a rich kid. It's got nothing to do with the third world. He's eating as if he was in the third world, eating squishy, gross foods with his fingers. And it really, honestly, socialism, Hamas, racism.

less offensive to me than his eating style. Uh, that's actually, I would. No, he's eating with his hands because that's the way he grew up as a poor kid in Kenya or wherever he grew up. No,

No, he grew up as a rich kid. Again, like there are certain foods you can eat with your fingers. Sandwiches, pretty much designed. A hamburger designed to eat with your fingers. I mean, chicken nuggets, you're going to eat those with your fingers. Rice, it's just too slimy and squishy. And no, you shouldn't eat it with your fingers. Do you know one reason why you don't want to eat stuff that's squishy and wet and everything else?

is because the stuff you have on your hands might have been around squishy and wet stuff earlier in the day. Yeah, right. And you just don't want that on your food. I mean, it's hard to talk about, but you really, you know, there's another thing. There's another thing Western culture brought to the fore. And you know what? You know who's really good at it? Jews. Jews.

Wash your hands. You know why the plague didn't hit them as much as everybody else? Well, it's because they invented the plague. Or they knew wash your hands all day long and wash your hands before you eat. We didn't know that. We didn't know that. Nobody knew that. And now we want to hold up a culture that says, oh, yeah, just...

You know, yeah, you're out here on the street. You're just buying street food. And just take some of that and then eat it with your hands. Because what could have possibly gotten on your hands before you were in the streets eating the street food with your hands? I mean...

I mean, Glenn, we used to work in New York City. Just walking through there, the air that hits your hands is more toxic than anything that happened in Chernobyl. Do you remember, I was very proud of myself. I could get from Radio City Music Hall to Time Warner on the subway.

Without touching anything. You remember that? Yes. Do you remember? I had a system. I could get from my office. I could wash my hands, get from my office all the way downstairs into the subway, onto the subway, and then I could get out of the subway.

Take a couple of stops, get off, get out into Columbus Circle, get onto the elevator, get all the way up to my office, and I wouldn't have to. I hadn't touched anything. However. That is an art form. Just the whatever toxic fumes were going through the subway, you'd still probably wash your hands because. Oh, no. You mean the guy who was really, really sick that was standing right next to you going. Yeah.

That guy? You mean there might be something? No, I wanted to eat. I wanted to go right up to the cafeteria and just eat with my hands. Yeah. Well, you watch the video, and the video is actually legitimately gross to watch, but as he's eating this stuff...

Like, if you put your hand in a... Like, if you figure... Like, there's a bowl of, like, egg yolks, right? And you put your fingers in the egg yolks, right? And you took your hands out. Like, they'd be on you, and you'd, like, have to... You'd almost, like, shake... You'd want to shake off what was on your hands, right? That's what he's doing as he's eating. Mm-hmm.

Because all the stuff is on the sauce and the rice. I don't want to hear anymore. He's just like. Even he knows it's awful. Stop. Look, there was probably a time where this was the best way of doing things. Now we have forks. Okay. Now we have spoons. Now we have all sorts of different things that make that process. Who are you to say that one culture is better than the other? One culture is better than the other. That's how I said it right there. I just said it.

Our culture is awesome. And I don't apologize for it. Don't feel bad about it. Don't feel like I need to apologize for it. And if you don't like it, you want to eat with your hands, go live where they eat with their hands. You want to eat with your hands, eat with your hands in your home. I don't really care. But don't try to tell me that that is better than everything. Don't. Don't. Don't try to tell me that America is a horrible place that has not brought any kind of

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Now I'm leaving tomorrow. We're like ships passing in the night. I just don't know what happened to us. What happened to our relationship? I know. The kids have moved out and now we're just the two of us rambling around in this big old house. We should take line dancing lessons together. I think that would bring us. That's how you solve a problem like that.

You know, it's funny. Stu and I have been together longer than we've been with our wives. It is sad. And as revolting as Mom Donnie's eating style. But yes, it is true.

It's nice to have you back. You're coming up here next weekend, aren't you? I can't wait. I've never seen the ranch in person all these years. Never been invited. And so finally you've invited me up there, and I appreciate that. I'm excited to see it. Never invited. Never once. When you come up, you're like,

This looks like a Motel 6. Yeah, it looks different on TV. Yeah, it looks spectacular on TV. No, it's really not. The mountains and stuff, that's just actually a parking lot. It looks very much like a Motel 6. So when you get here, don't be too disappointed. Don't be like, wait, I thought it was a ranch. It is. I've mailed things to you there. It's a ranch-style motel. It's a totally different address when I sent things to you. Why is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't, don't.

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Yeah, you're living the dream, brother. Who doesn't want your job? My gosh, what a glorious, glorious, fun-filled life you must live. So tell me. There's no sarcasm at all in what you're just saying. None at all. Tell me, has this thing gotten better or worse?

Unfortunately, Glenn, I believe it's gotten worse. Now, we've not seen the final product out of the Senate. We don't have the text. We've got to review it. I try to be level-headed through these things. I have enormously strong and good friends in the administration who encourage

who in good faith want to see this pass, just as you do, just as I do, just as the American people do. They want to see us move forward legislation to make tax cuts permanent, to deliver on the border funding that we need. You know, Stephen Miller is a longtime friend I've known for 25 years. Russ Vogt is a longtime friend I've known for 25 years. We've been working together in the trenches for as long as I can remember. We all want to deliver. The problem is the swamp is going to swamp.

And right now we have a bill that in my estimation violates the House framework, but more importantly, would add significantly to the deficits. Now we have differing views. More than it did. More than it did, right? Right.

by quite a bit in my view. And look, there's going to be a debate about this, about tax cuts and revenues and all this stuff. And I get it. It's baselines, you know, CBO, all these different things. I'm just telling you, Glenn, as objectively as I can,

I look at the math and I look at how you factor in economic growth, which I'm doing, factor in revenues and expenditures and what we're doing on mandatory spending, which is not enough.

The fact that we're only repealing half of the Green New scam, if we're lucky. The fact that we're continuing to allow continuing to allow Medicaid to go to illegals because of some arcane Senate rules. The fact that we're continuing to allow Obamacare subsidies to fund transgender surgeries.

The fact that we are going to, in my estimation, have probably a couple of trillion of deficit spending in the first four years, which means you're going to have more interest, which means it's going to stack up all to get savings in the out five years. That's not what you and I signed up for. Now, I'm looking at this trying to say, OK, the president wants the tax cuts. So do I.

The president wants borders. So do I. I think the president wants us to repeal the entirety of the Green News scam. I think the president wants us to get good reforms. Be careful. Like, handle Medicaid appropriately and all of that for our American citizens that are vulnerable or depend on it.

But we haven't delivered because the Senate has a bunch of people in it who don't want to deliver. And they're hiding behind the parliamentarian and they're delivering a subpar product that I didn't come to Washington to sign up for, Glenn. All right. So let me ask you this. They're hiding behind the parliamentarian. Is that I mean, yeah.

And they say there was a change in the bill because Medicare paid to illegals and the parliamentarian said you've got to keep it in there, some arcane rule or what. Couldn't the Senate Republicans just ignore that? Is it fair to... What?

they could overrule the parliamentarian. They could make a choice if they wanted to do so. Now, then they'll say, well, some of these things take 60 votes and so forth. If they want to address this, they can address it. But the real issue here is that behind closed doors, what you know is that there are senators who don't want to make the reforms, don't want to make the changes.

They're making their own policy choices, uh, based on what they want. Right? You've got Lisa Murkowski right now, instead of wanting to reform Medicaid, she wants to get a special carve out for additional spending for people in Alaska.

You've got, you know, tell us you've got others. They want us to go the wrong direction when it comes to Medicaid reform. And Glenn, I gotta be honest. How many times have you and I been on the phone over the last decade talking about shutdown fights on discretionary spending like every two years? Oh, I know we count countless times. Every time we have one of those fights, the people in this town say chip,

You need to shut up because the real problem is mandatory spending. It's Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid. It's not fighting over all this stuff. You're wasting our time. I didn't think it was a waste of our time. I didn't think we should be funding weaponized government. I didn't think we should continue to jack up spending for the alphabet soup of regulations killing America. But I said, okay, guys, here we are. We're going to do this reconciliation package. We're going to reform Medicaid, right?

We had to fight like cats and dogs to get the reforms and the work requirements we got out of the House. It was good, not great. The Senate, now they're working through it, and they're fighting every inch. And it got actually a little better in certain respects, thanks to Rick Scott. He's been fighting hard, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson. We got a little bit more of what's called provider taxes.

But overall, we're not meeting the moment. We're not getting enough Medicaid reform. We're getting the watered down stuff on on on illegals. How about remittance taxes? Glenn, we passed a measure in the House to to tax money going from America, from people here illegally back to their own countries. The Senate watered it down and got rid of it. It's crazy. Why? Why? Why? Why?

- Because they don't like the policies, Glenn. Because here's the thing, there were bankers, banks, who came in and said, "Guys, this would be really hard on us if we had to enforce this policy of money flowing from our banks and institutions

to Mexico and to, you know, Columbia and places. We really need to carve out so that banks aren't going to be attacked by this. And then they go, but it would be way too burdensome on the people who come here and they're honest and they're working hard and they want to send money to their families. Look, you and I both have a heart as people of faith. We want to say, hey,

I get it. You got an honest person here who's following the law. They came here legally. They want to send money back home to their country. They can still do that. They can still find a way to do that. But we're taxing. And the Senate said, no, we're not going to do it. But the biggest thing at the end of the day, deficits go up. And I didn't sign up for deficits to go up. We're not doing. You're not going to vote for that. You're not voting for this. I can't.

I cannot vote for this as it's currently structured. If we can come to some agreement, look, and Glenn, this is important. The president rightly wants us to find a way to get a bill done. I get that, man. I want to deliver. For six months, I've been busting my butt. I voted for a bill that came out of the House that I didn't like, that wasn't good enough, but I thought it was an important step. I worked to come up with a budget framework with Jody Arrington and others to figure out how to get this done and get it out of the House.

I think we made progress. We did get Medicaid reforms that were good. We did get some tightening down on the Green New Scam when others didn't want to do it. But we're now fighting a Senate that's watering down important stuff. And importantly, the way they concoct the tax and spend policies...

Overall, I can't look at this in any way objectively without telling my voters, the people that sent me to Washington to represent them, the deficits will go up. Now, last point, the president and the administration will say, look, guys, don't worry about all that. We'll make it up with tariffs and we think higher economic growth.

Well, two things. Number one, on the economic growth front, we assumed growth in our bill, Glenn. We assumed 2.6% growth. Now, you might say, well, gosh, we could do three or four. Yeah, but we have to do a 10-year budget.

2.6% growth is a lot higher than what we've been experiencing the last two decades on average. We picked a sweet spot of 2.6% growth. It is true that if we have 4% growth for a decade, we will have much more revenue. I hope that's true. You hope that's true. And if it is true, then great. It's gravy that will give us money to buy down the debt and save money and get the deficits down further.

but I can't budget to 3.5% growth when we've been sitting at 2% growth. It'd be irresponsible.

So I'm with you, Chip. I'm with you. And I've said this for a long time. The Republicans are going to lose. They are going to lose. And they're going to lose because you're just not delivering for the American people what you promised you would. Donald Trump seems to be. At least he's trying. He's doing a lot of the things he promised he would do. I don't see that happening with the Republicans. And so...

you know, I don't know what the midterm is going to look like, but I will tell you this. He has to have that tax cut. He's got to have it. If we don't get that tax cut, everything the Republicans have been trying to do or the Republican voters have wanted, it's over. It's over because the economy will spiral out of control without that tax cut. Agree or disagree?

I do agree that we must deliver on the tax cut and I believe we will. When push comes to shove, there's no way that we're going to get to December and not provide an extension of the tax cuts that were so important in 2017. Now, I want to remind everybody

The corporate rates were made permanent already, right? What we're talking about dealing with is the expiration of certain personal tax issues, marginal rates, but also child tax credits, also the standard deduction, et cetera. Now, I'm not sure how, you know, I've got different views on different ones of those policies, but overall, we want to ensure that that money is staying in the pockets of the American people. We have to deliver on that.

But I will tell you this. If we don't address the inflation tax, if we don't address the extent to which people are fleeing American bond markets because we're so irresponsible, then we're going to be doing a disservice to our kids and grandkids who can't afford a house. They can't buy a house because the mortgage rates are too high. They can't afford it now, Chip. They can't afford it now.

So I think what we need to do, like I'm prepared to go back to the drawing board today. I don't need to go home tomorrow or the next day. Let's just let's get busy. Let's we've been working on it. Let's tighten down some of the spending. Let's tweak what we've been doing and get the tax policy done and get it set. Let's go back.

House bill, for example, that we passed, it was a good solid bill and get the Senate to adopt it and pass it or make some modest changes. But we got to get rid of some of these ridiculous things like Medicaid for illegal aliens, like pork that's going through Alaska, like specific giveaways and get rid of those things, go back to the House bill, make sure the Inflation Reduction Act is getting terminated and make sure this map adds up.

We'll deliver on the tax cuts, deliver on border, deliver for the president. I'm prepared to do that, but I'm not going to swallow a crappy bill because the Senate tries to jam me with it before July 4th. I have to tell you, I don't know how it is unpopular to say, no, we're not giving illegals

Any Medicaid? We're not. I mean, do you remember when, who was it that was in Congress when Barack Obama talked about Obamacare and he said, you lie, Joe Wilson, wasn't it? And everybody had a cow. Well, look at what we're doing now. Look at what we're doing. Well, look at what we're giving illegals. No, the answer is no, no, no, no, no. And I don't understand how that is not so simple. I don't understand any Republican that doesn't understand the green new deal. No, no,

No. USAID. No. Doge. Cut it. Why can't they see what I just I there is. I mean, to tell you, Chip, I'm sorry. I don't mean to take this out on you because you're one of the good guys. You've been trying to do this.

We are in between a rock and a hard place. The president has to have what the president needs to get the economy going. We wait until January. You're right on top of the midterms. The president is not turning this economy around fast enough because he can't get anyone in Congress to do jack crap on anything.

You need to cut the frickin' spending and the waste and the garbage. And I tell you, I am with Elon Musk 100%. 100%. You are one of these weasel Republicans who don't, who just go along and just be like, you know what, we're going to add another $5 or $6 trillion to our debt.

I'm done. I'm done. And Elon has said, I will, if it's the last thing I do, I will make sure none of these people get reelected. That's not going to be good. It's not going to be good for the Republic, let alone the Republican parties. But you know what? I've had enough. I've had enough. And I think the American people have too. Glenn, I can just tell you this. July 4th is obviously...

Friday, Independence Day, 249 years ago. And we always celebrate it. We celebrate their courage and we celebrate Lexington and Concord and we celebrate all that they stood for. We celebrate the men that stormed the beaches in Normandy and we celebrate all of the great courage that our men and women in uniform have done to fight to give us this country. How can I say, no, sorry, I'm going to vote for this bill because there's going to be some political pressure

When I regale the boys at the Alamo sitting there taking bullets, knowing they were going to die, or those that ran into a wall of bullets in Normandy, look, we have to deliver. We have no choice. We all agree on that. I'm sure I'm going to get labeled any number of things that I'm not delivering on the president's agenda, that I'm jamming up a bill. Look, and I get it. And I'm

And I'm not going to get defensive about it. The president wants his bill and he's right to want his bill. But Congress has to deliver a bill worth sending him. And I'm prepared to stay here until we do. But I'm not going to vote for a bill because I'm being told I have to because a bunch of freaking losers who are swamp creatures who want pork and giveaways and don't have the

cojones to stand up and deliver for the American people and to actually reduce spending and not hide behind parliamentarian, not hide behind tax cuts. They want to hide behind the tax cuts to tell me and the border to tell me you got to vote for this bill and don't worry about the spending. No, kiss my ass. I'm going to stand up and fight for the border and the tax cuts and the spending cuts. We've got to do it.

It was very reminiscent of Daniel Boone there for just a second. Or Davy, sorry, not Davy, Davy Crockett, not Daniel Boone. So thank you for that. Chip, God bless. Have a great holiday.

Stand firm in what you believe in and just keep fighting. I appreciate the attitude that you have towards the president. Give the president what he needs. Fight for the president, what he's asking for. But you've got to fight the swamp at the same time. Have to. Have to. Thank you, Chip. Appreciate it.

You know, I'm sitting here thinking about Chip and what's happening in Washington. You know, you've gone on a financial diet. I've gone on a financial diet. You know, no spending until we get the paycheck. No, you know, whatever it is. How come they can't? How come they can't? You know, you've had to cancel some streaming services or whatever. You've had to do it. You know, they can't cut out a latte.

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Like, it's just a day they made up. It doesn't need to be done by July 4th. Get it right. Hang on just a second. Get it right. Yeah, I agree with that. But we keep putting it... We've got to have one by Valentine's Day. We've got to have one by Memorial Day. We've got to have one by July 4th. We have to have one by, you know, Labor Day. We have to have one by Christmas.

We have to have one. That's the whole thing that you're, the point you're making. But I would like to say we should put a timeline on it. Get your ass in gear. I want to see the president go up to Capitol Hill and kick ass. And kick ass on the right people. Kick ass on the people who, like him, are trying to save the country just as much as he is. Kick ass on the right people. I'd like to see that.

I'd like to see that. I'd like to see that this week. I'd like to see some fireworks, you know, in the halls of Congress coming from the president's mouth to their ass. This is Glenn Beck.

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Now, they're blaming the tariffs from the president, although I think they sold a total of, what, four cars in all of Europe? Nobody wants your crappy electric cars. Nobody wants it. You want an electric car? I'm going to buy a Tesla. On that, no. Pretty much not anything else. Maybe that, what is it, the...

Ramona? What is that other, the truck that, I can't remember. I see them now from time to time, and they're kind of good looking. You know what I'm talking about, Stu? Electric truck? The Rivian you're talking about? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Rivian. I don't know if they're any good, but people are buying those. That's all I see. We're not going to buy your Jaguar electric. No. It wasn't just the Jaguar going electric. It was that man.

really ultra woke ad campaign and the whole package right it was the whole thing no that had nothing to do with it they were they were spot on the money with their clientele on that one okay good luck jaguar good luck with that uh we have justin haskins on now he is our republic president he is also the editor-in-chief of stopping socialism.com uh justin

I don't want you to be a downer here. You can't be a downer. I mean, it's the last day before the holiday for me, you know, and I just want to go out thinking about, hey, we're close to having a communist as a mayor in New York, you know? So let's keep it happy. Let's keep it happy. I don't know if that's possible. I don't think that's possible. I never agreed to this. You're just changing the rules on me when I come on this show in front of millions of people? I don't know. That's not fair.

You know, I could say the exact same thing. I never agreed to this. I don't think that's possible. And what I'd be talking about is having a communist as a mayor in New York City. What the hell is wrong with us, man? What is wrong with us?

Oh, there's so much wrong with us. Yeah, I know. Can we talk a little bit about the steps the president has taken here to go full steam ahead with AI? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Yeah, I went to see the movie F1 yesterday and I didn't pay attention to this and I don't want to. Go ahead.

This is actually great news. I actually have great news for you, Glenn. I think this is really good. Yes, I really do think so. The Trump administration is completely reversing course on everything that the Biden administration did when it comes to their support for AI. And in some ways, artificial intelligence, there are a lot of threats, a lot of problems that might

come about with the AI revolution. We've talked about that many, many times. Okay. But let's put all of those scary things aside for just a minute and just talk about it. Let's pretend there is not a monster in the closet. Oh, I got it. Okay. I'm there. I'm there.

Let's just agree that China's version of that monster, if they develop it first, would be far worse for us than if America is the one creating that monster. I think we can at least agree with that. We don't want the Communist Party version of the monster.

Sure. Sure.

Basically, what they're designed to do is make it possible for AI infrastructure, data centers, all these essential things that are needed for America to win the AI race to be built in the United States. The Biden administration made those things a regulatory nightmare. The Trump administration, what they're going to do is they're going to make it easier to build power plants, especially for artificial intelligence and emerging technologies,

They're going to create a nationwide Clean Water Act permit because you need lots of water to run data centers to help cool them so that.

We can streamline the approval process for using water, which is actually a huge barrier to building these data centers. They're going to give priority to shovel-ready transmission projects. So we're talking about building transmission lines related to AI infrastructure. That's a huge, huge part of it that nobody ever talks about. But you can build power. He told me when I was – go ahead. Go ahead. Don't finish.

No, I was just saying you can build all the power centers you want, but if you don't get the power from one place to where you're actually using it, it doesn't matter. So you need these transmission lines. He also said to me when we were in the White House that he was going to clear the road for everybody. If you are one of these server farms, companies are building it, you can build your own nuclear power plant. Is he doing that as well?

Yeah, all we suspect we don't have the final official text, but we suspect that all of that is going to be included in it. And that was a huge news story that no one paid attention to, by the way. I thought that was like the biggest revelation in any presidential interview ever.

For like 20 years. I mean, when he said that out loud, I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't believe he just said this. And nobody picked it up. Nobody did. It was crazy. I know.

Yeah, I know. It's almost as though the mainstream media doesn't like you or something. I don't know. I don't think they want to be in trouble with all their green energy friends suddenly having to report that nuclear power is maybe the greenest energy out there.

But anyway, go ahead. 100%. I mean, nuclear energy is going to be the future of the AI revolution. I really, I think the AI revolution is going to force nuclear energy to be the future of America, rather. Another big part of this is federal land. The Department of Defense, Department of Interior, they're going to open up federal land for use for AI infrastructure and other things so that you don't have to worry about local regulatory burdens and stuff.

state regulatory agencies and all of that. So in other words, we're going to build, we're going to build all this stuff right in the middle, right on top. You want to know why they're controlling the water? They want to build it on top of old faithful. That's what you're saying.

That's what she was saying. They're just going to build them right in the middle of the national park and the national forest, and we're not going to be able to hunt or fish ever again. I see what's happening here, Justin. I do. Well, I mean, it would reduce those crazy lines at all the national parks, I think. I mean, maybe that's something. I don't know.

I don't know. It would. It would slow down all of the people that are being trampled to death by buffalo because they're trying to feed them sandwiches because they think they're zoo animals. See, I've always said you're a glass half full kind of guy, Glenn. You really are. I've always said that. That's me. That's me. You are deaths of stupid people.

- Yeah, so look, this is all great for America because we need energy, huge, massive amounts of energy in order to win the AI race. And we have to win the AI race or else we're talking about a true existential threat to the country. If China wins the AI race, we are in massive trouble. And the only way we're gonna win it is if we build out AI infrastructure

And we clear all of the regulatory nonsense. And we allow for domestic energy production, again, in the United States with an all of the above approach. And that is exactly what the Trump administration wants to do. There is this incredible report that the MIT Technology Review published.

based on some estimates from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. And what they found was that by 2028, this was their projection, by 2028, the power going to AI specific purposes will rise to between 165 and 326 terawatt hours per year. That's more than all electricity

used by U.S. data centers for all purposes, and it's enough to power 22% of U.S. homes. 22% of U.S. homes. This is by 2028. So when you go forward another five, six, seven years and you start getting into the 2030s, massive amounts of power are going to be needed. We're talking about, you know, for example, Google's former CEO, Eric Schmidt, says 99% of all data

energy generation in this country will go to AI at some point in the future. So we have to do this if we're going to win the AI race. And that is exactly what the Trump administration is doing. So massive step forward. Where do we stand with the Blackburn bill where, you know, along with Ted Cruz, they're trying to make sure that the states have the rights to do state regulation on AI. Are we going to get that in or not?

My understanding is I was looking at this before coming on to the show, so I have to look into it further. But my understanding is that the effort to kill state regulations in the big, beautiful bill has died in the Senate, that they're not going to allow that to happen, which I think is a very good thing. But we got to look into that a little bit more because I think that just is breaking, actually. Justin.

What do you have planned for the holiday? What do I have planned for the holidays? Wow. Are you going to be campaigning for the New York mayor? I would love to campaign for the New York mayor. I'm all for it. I'll join you on that one.

I mean, look, what's going on in New York is so... It is the product of decades and decades and decades of extremism, a culture of extremism in the country's higher educational institutions, but especially in New York, the public school system.

All of these left wing propaganda outlets, many of which have been funded by the Chinese Communist Party and others for another foreign agents in the United States, breeding this this insanity. And what we're seeing is the end result of it. It's a full blown communist. This is the thing that's so crazy to me is.

We talk about a democratic socialist or some people just call him a socialist or whatever because he describes himself that way. I have done lots and lots of work on socialism. The Democratic Socialists of America is a communist organization. They're Marxist, the vast majority of them. Are you, I mean, I'm amazed again. We talked about all of this stuff in Propaganda War, our last book that we did together.

We talked about Neville Singham. We talked about this. I mean, the Chinese propaganda war, everything that is happening right now. I mean, I kind of feel like, hey, you know, I guess America, you should have read the book because here it is.

I feel the same way, Glenn. Look, the book outlined very specifically how Neville Singham, who is this tech billionaire who's a communist, whose wife is one of the founders of Code Pink, has been funneling massive amounts of money from the Chinese Communist Party. And this doesn't just come from us. The

Funding massive efforts in New York City and all over the country in these pro-Palestinian groups, the more radical ones, including many of the groups that are tied to Mamdani. So, for example, one of one of the examples of this is.

there's an organization that's called Students for Justice in Palestine. And this is a radical left-wing group. Mamdani actually created the chapter, the college chapter, when he was going to college for this organization, going all the way back into his early 20s.

Well, the national organization has been funded by Neville Singham, who is in bed with the Chinese Communist Party. And people have known this. Insiders have known this about Neville Singham. You've been talking about him for a while. We put all of this stuff in the book, Propaganda Wars, warning about how China is going to have a significant impact on China.

on politics in the United States, on our rights, on all kinds of different issues through these radical campaigns that they're putting forward. And Mamdani is the perfect example of that. Not just because...

You have people campaigning for him and there's rioting in the streets and all this other stuff, which is tied to Neville Slingham, but also because they've been creating these environments that breed someone like that. That's the whole point. And people who would vote for someone like that. And that's why the propaganda wars matter so much.

Thank you so much, Justin. I appreciate it. You know, I want to just take a giant chalkboard from the, you know, 2009, 2010 years where I talked about how they were all going to work together. I just want to put a big magnet of his face on it because that's it. That's exactly what I was talking about. Here it is in one man. There it is. And, you know, if you haven't read Propaganda Wars –

It is the last book that Justin and I did together. You need to read it. I mean, everyone can tell you about what's just happened and what it all means, maybe. But I pride myself in being able to—I shouldn't say that because it's not me I don't take pride in. The Lord has given me an ability, and he has also prompted me at times to be able to tell you what's coming next.

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Relief. 249 years ago, I think it is tomorrow, right? Is tomorrow the second or is it the first? What day is it today? Today's the first. Tomorrow's the second. So it was 249 years ago, tomorrow, that somebody sat alone in a one-room hotel room and scratched out the words, when in the course of human events.

Those are the first six words of a document that is so dangerous, still today, so revolutionary. It was whispered in those candlelit rooms by men who knew, knew that if I sign this document, that's a death warrant. I'm dead. I'm dead. And in the course of human events, Jefferson wrote them 33 years old. Adams would later say,

You do well to revere Jefferson, but he didn't write alone, basically. I was there, too, and so has been Franklin. The ideas were forged in the minds of men like Franklin, who was old enough to know better, and Adams, who was stubborn enough not to care. And they weren't perfect men. I love this about the left. They try to make you think that, yo, you think they're perfect. I don't think they were perfect.

I mean, Ben Franklin used to walk around naked in his house a lot. That shows, I mean, for as smart as that guy was, it shows maybe he had a lack of mirrors, but they weren't perfect. They owned slaves. They argued. They compromised. How does that make them different than us? I mean, we should be able to relate to them. What is it that we tolerate right now? What is it that we compromise on? What are our failures that future generations are going to go, pfft?

These people just didn't get it. Perhaps what we should notice is that they, unlike most of us, they were willing to gamble their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for something that had never, ever been done before. Something entirely new. The idea that rights don't come from a government or from a king or from a parliament.

They don't come from the majority voting. Everyone has certain rights. You know, for all these people who are, you know, going in Macy's and burning down towns and then stealing clothing and they're like, go because I've been oppressed. You can't. I've got rights, you know. Yeah, yeah. You know who the first people were to articulate those rights? You know the only country that actually has stood for those rights?

And we're imperfect. That idea came from the founders that you say you hate. But the actual rights come from God, which you dismiss. Think of this. Just ponder this for a second. That all men are created equal. That their rights are given to them by a creator. That's not a political assertion. That's a genius. That's eternal truth.

That's theological dynamite lobbed straight into the thrones of Europe. All over the world, it's still dynamite. They knew what they were doing. And I don't mean like, they knew what they were doing. No, they knew that the British crown had the largest military force in the world. And these guys, they were farmers, they were printers, they were lawyers, etc.

They were a ragtag collection of intellectual and idealists facing down an empire where they said the sun never set on the British Empire. Meaning the colonialism was everywhere. You could not escape England. And yet they declared it. We're leaving without apology.

And they said that when a government becomes destructive of the ends of liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness, it's not only the right of the people, it's their duty to throw it off. And you know what's amazing? That's not rebellion. That's not revolution. That's responsibility. That kind of language today, that didn't have you flagged, shadow banned, labeled an extremist. In most countries, disappeared extremists.

But that is the foundation of what we call America, the American experiment. And it's just that, an experiment. We didn't know if we could get it right, and we haven't gotten it right. But isn't it worth experimenting? Isn't it worth trying to get that concept right? When you fail on that concept, you're like, that's a stupid idea. That's not a stupid idea. That's the greatest idea of all time. Why are so many people willing to just quit? The experiment is self-rule.

It's not perfect. Never has been. Slavery, Jim Crow, internment camps, assassinations. My God, forgive us for what we have done. But at the same time, what nation has done more to correct its own errors? What people have shed more blood, not for conquest, but for freedom. Twice in the last century, we crossed oceans. Not to claim territory, but to liberate that territory.

Our sons and daughters fought and bled on foreign soil to push the darkness back, to fight against Nazism and fascism and communism. And here we are. Here we are today. After 249 years tomorrow of that experiment, standing at the lip of the very abyss, those men feared. A godless chaos rising in the east.

and a cold atheistic utopia clawing at the foundations of the Western world. Islamism and communism, two ideologies that have killed tens of millions of people, now dressed all in new robes selling old lies. And we can't even teach a child where their rights come from. We've replaced Jefferson and Adams with TikTok influencers and bureaucratic groupthink.

We're raising generations to not even know the truth about their own identity, but to question their identity. And they could be, oh, you're a funny, funny colored unicorn today. What do you want to be tomorrow? We don't teach them anything about truth or their inheritance. Most importantly, their inheritance. What good are hot dogs and fireworks? If the soul of the nation is up for auction, what is the meaning in 4th of July today?

If we've forgotten the why, if we don't even call it Independence Day anymore. Most people don't even know who we fought against for independence. They think we fought for independence. Most people think we fought the South. And yet we'll light the sparklers and blow our fingers off because we're just that stupid. This Independence Day weekend, would you do me and yourself and your country a favor and

and read the words out loud, speak the words out loud. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of earth the separate but equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.

A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. What are they saying? Look, we want to be decent people. We want to be decent people, and we have to separate, but we believe it's only right that we tell you why we have to separate. And it's not because of all the bad things you've done. We'll get to those later. It's because we're different, and you don't understand that.

You have been telling us all of these things we no longer believe in. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable, unchangeable rights. And just among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. My gosh, read those words and let your children hear what thinking and courage sounds like. That to secure these rights, I'm telling you,

The king who thinks that your government was given to you by God and you are the ruler and you will tell everybody what to think, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, what to tax, what not to tax, who gets land, who doesn't get land. No, no, no. Governments are instituted among men deriving their powers, their just powers from the people themselves.

And that government is only there established by those men to protect the rights that God has given each of those men. Let them feel the chill that runs down the spine when Jefferson writes, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the government or from the governed. Let them hear the words of responsibility. What responsibility sounds like with courage and freedom.

that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these rights, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. In other words, you have the right, you have the responsibility to stop tyrants from

And if the government has gone bad, to throw that government off, but reconstitute a government that will do a better job at protecting those rights. Not to form a communist government, not to do anything else, but you want a new government? Fine. Let's find the way to make men more free. This is not a metaphor. This is a declaration of war on tyranny in all of its forms. I mean, I said yesterday, freedom isn't free today.

It was paid for by somebody's blood, but you have to remember they paid for their freedom, not for our freedom necessarily. It comes a time we have to pay for our freedom, and God forbid that it comes down to blood, but at least shake off the apathy. We must renew this promise of this experiment of America.

We need to fight for it as well. An out-of-control government that seeks to rope us into forever wars over and over again. We're all against forever wars. I'm against it. I hate them. But there is one forever war that is required in a free society, a different kind of forever war. A war against ourselves, a war against human nature in each of us. Because of human nature, we get fat, we get lazy, we get tolerant of abuses.

Let your children hear you speak these words, and when you speak them, ponder them yourself. Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer while the evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms in which they're accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object invinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it's their right, it's their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. In one paragraph, they make the point twice, and they tell us, look, we've studied people, we know you're going to get fat and lazy and apathetic forever.

and you're not going to want to do stuff for transient causes because this is really not good. But when push comes to shove and everything is moving towards absolute despotism, absolute tyranny, then you must stand up. I ask you to ponder this, this particular part when a long train of abuses and usurpations prudence will indeed dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.

And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer while the evils are sufferer than to right themselves. Aren't we exactly the same people that their experience was talking about? Aren't we the people that are more disposed to suffer?

than to write ourselves because we're too comfortable or we're too afraid just to stand up and simply say no to lies. No, there is a difference between men and women. No, communism is to be feared. It's killed over 100 million people in the last 100 years. No, Muslims aren't bad. Islamism is.

It's evil. No, you can peacefully protest any time, any place, and I will fight to the death for your right to do that. But when you start burning cities down to the ground, no. We're just a few days away. We mark our 249th birthday. Maybe, just maybe, this year, can we stop asking what America was and start deciding what America will be?

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So, Stu, you know, Katonji Brown didn't know what a woman is. She's not a biologist. I know she's not a biologist, but maybe we should help Katonji and send her just a video of the Swiss women's soccer team playing against the 15-year-old boys.

Didn't work well. Didn't work. I don't know. Did you see this? I didn't see this as a new one because this has happened before. This is a new one. Wow. No, no. This is a new one. This is a new one. They had, this is the EUFA Women's Euro competition. And they decided they were going to play 15-year-old boys and they lost. And they lost. How badly? Yeah.

Let's see. Do I have? I mean, it was very, very public. I don't know if I have the final score here. Yeah. 7-1. Not even close. 7-1. No. But the WNBA should be paid as much as the NBA for sure. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. And you know what? I think Mike Tyson fighting a woman is totally fine.

Totally fine. What could go wrong there? He's been accused of worse, but yeah, it's true. I mean in the ring. This is Glenn Beck.

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And it's amazing. I want to talk to you about it here in a few minutes just before I leave. Dr. Mark Skousen, friend of the program, friend of mine, America's economist. He's written a new book on the greatest American. And the greatest American, he says, is Ben Franklin. And I tend to agree with him. He's at least in the top five greatest Americans. Welcome to the program, Mark. How are you?

I'm doing well. We're out here in the Mediterranean Sea right now on a Forbes cruise. But isn't this great technology that even Ben Franklin would love?

You know, I don't think people really understand the genius of Ben Franklin. I mean, there's this great article in the Times of London. I don't remember when, but he was going back to London. He was going to challenge the king. And he's going back and they said, don't let his boat come in to dock because he's been working with electricity and he's got a ray gun and he's going to vaporize electricity.

you know, all of London. I mean, he was, he was the Elon Musk of his day, but he was almost more magical because people didn't understand it back then. What did you find in writing this book about Ben Franklin that you think most people just don't know?

Well, this is the thing. So when I wrote The Greatest American, I thought to myself, everybody's lots of books have been written on his biography. So what I did was I came up with 80 chapters on how he is the most modern of all the founders and how he could influence.

talk about the modern issues of today, whether it's trade or taxes or inflation or war, discrimination, inequality. I have a chapter on each one of these in The Greatest American. And he was the jack of all trades and the master of all on top of it. So one of the things I thought would be really cool is if you put my book on

on every coffee table in America and people came in to visit, they would look at this book and there might be an argument as you say as to who is the greatest American, whether it's George Washington or Elon Musk or what have you. - Whatever. - When they see the picture of Ben Franklin, they sit there and nod their head

and say, "Wow, this is the guy I want to sit down with and talk to and have a beer with." Because if you sat with some of the other founders, they would get an argument with you or they would refuse to answer the question or what have you. But Franklin was willing to talk to a janitor as well as the King of France. And that's pretty unique.

Yeah, yeah, he could. He was he was an amazing guy. So tell me in your research of him, you know, you always hear that. Oh, Ben Franklin was a notorious womanizer and everything else. And he abandoned his wife. I think Deborah, was that her name? Did did that is what's true and what's not true about that?

So he certainly was the most liberal-minded when it came to the sexual revolution. That's why I say he's the most modern of the founders, because he was not prudish like John and Abigail Adams, who thought he was a reprobate and a sinner and not a churchgoer and stuff like that. So, yes, he was...

The ladies loved him and he loved the ladies. There's no question about that, that he was a bit of a playboy. And in fact, he even admits in his autobiography his errat of having an illegitimate child, William. But then he settled down. He married Deborah.

And yes, Deborah and him, they did separate because, and it was really more her fault than his, because when he went to London as the London agent, she had an extreme aversion to going out on the seas. It was a dangerous time period. So it's kind of like people don't like to fly on airplanes today. So they did grow apart. There's no question about that, but they maintained their,

their love for each other. And as a matter of fact, when Franklin died, he's buried right next to Deborah. So I think that's an indication of their, their love and so forth, but they were very different personalities. She was very, uh,

focused on more of the home issues. She was not a public intellectual. She would not feel comfortable in the same conversations that Franklin would have with scientists and with public figures and stuff like that. So they definitely differed in their personality. The story about his son, William, is one of the saddest chapters. I mean, you know...

Thomas Paine kind of looked at him as a father figure and he, you know, Ben Franklin did have a son, William, as you said. And they, they, they, they had a really bad falling out. Can you quickly tell that story?

Yeah, so I have a chapter on that very issue because who were his enemies? And he did have a number of enemies, including John Adams at one point. They didn't get along. But in the case of William, Franklin arranged for William to be the governor of New Jersey, and he maintained his loyalty. He was a loyalist. Billy was throughout the—

American Revolution. And at the end of the American Revolution or during the American Revolution, Franklin writes his son and he said, it's one thing to we can differ on various issues. But when you actually raise money, raise armaments to attack me,

This was beyond the pale. This is not something that you should have done. And then at the end of his letter, he says, this is a disagreeable subject. I drop it. So you can feel that emotion, that anger. And yes, he removed him from his will. So Franklin got along with almost everyone.

I have a whole chapter on how to deal in the greatest American, how to deal with enemies and how to make your enemies your friends. But this is one example where he just couldn't cross over and forgive him for what William had done. It is a tragedy, just like you say.

I think I would have a hard time doing that too. If my son was raising funds and, uh, and you know, military against me, it would be, it would be kind of hard to forgive. Uh, Mark, thank you so much for your work. It's always good to talk to you. Uh, the name of the book, uh, is, is, uh, by, uh, Mark Skousen and it is called the greatest American. It's all about Ben Franklin. If you don't know anything about Ben Franklin, you will fall in love with him. You will absolutely fall in love with him. He was fantastic. Um,

Mark Skousen is the author. The name of the book, again, The Greatest American. Back in just a minute. We tell you about Relief Factor. What are you planning to get up to this weekend? Simple question. Friend texts you. Family member calls. Hey, you want to go for a hike? Hey, you want to go water skiing? You want to hit the range? Play a little pickup?

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So this is a weird this a weird thing so this song is

comes from, I think, a commercial that I was doing last week. And I was talking about, you know, how, you know, you leave little pieces of you here and there and something else. And I said, wow, somebody should write this into a song. Well, listeners started writing this in, you know, taking AI and writing it into a song. And then Chris Brady, I think it was Chris, it may have been a listener, but I think it was Chris, took and put this in

and made this. Now, this is 100% AI. Listen to this. Would you know that's AI? I mean, without prior knowledge, no. I would... No. If I heard this on, like, you know, a country station, I would... I mean, other than the lyrics are a little strange than that. Right, because it came from, like... I think I was doing, like, a Rough Greens commercial, and it was doing it all in tongue-in-cheek, and, you know... And so...

But, I mean, listen to that. Now, here's the problem. There's two of these songs. Another one came in. And listen to this one. Are you kidding? I like this one. Because of her voice. I see you there almost every day. Pieces of you, oh.

I mean, now, Chris Brady, who has run GlennBeck.com since, like, I don't know, 2000, he's worked for me, I think, longer than anybody except for used to. And...

I keep him locked up in a cage in Tampa Bay because he's a very sarcastic guy, very funny guy. And when you let him off a leash, God only knows what happens to your whole company. You know what I mean? So...

I think he is the one who wrote this at GlennBeck.com that I have a dilemma now. Can you take me through this? Now Glenn faces a dilemma. He has two recordings of this brand new song but can't decide which he prefers. That's where you come in. Listen to both songs and vote in the poll below at GlennBeck.com. So you got to do that. Go vote. Go vote. This is for Chris Brady. So Chris Brady can say

No, I think I'm better than the listener that sent that one in. Yeah. I think that's what he's doing. I'm not sure exactly. Probably. That's usually what's going on. There's some contest he's got in his mind. I...

There's some blood sport competition is going on in his mind that he's trying to solve. And he is probably taking whoever sent that second song in. He's probably tracked them down, and he's like mounting a digital campaign against them. Oh, he's ruined it. He's already getting the person. The person's already fired from their whatever job they had. There's a SWAT situation coming later this afternoon. No, it's my song, Pieces of You, that's better.

You said this off the air just a few minutes ago, but did they do some sort of testing on a bunch of songs with AI? We used to be a music radio, so you know this. They used to test music. They would test. They're called hook testing. And the, you know, pieces of you. And it would...

better than that. But they, they, they take, take the very, the essence of the song, the hook part of the song, and they run it and they test it with, you know, thousands of people. And then they come up with, you know, the a hundred best songs, you know, for the playlist. And, uh, they just did a hundred songs. I don't remember exactly how many of them were AI, but let's say out of a hundred, maybe 25 of them or whatever. And they tested them all. And the top seven songs,

Were AI written, produced, sung? 100% AI. The top seven. Do you remember when we used to say, oh, AI will never be able to do that because it doesn't understand love. It doesn't understand the feeling of music. Well, apparently it does.

Apparently it does. That's incredible. And I think especially when you don't know, it's only when you know right now, at least that you get turned off by it. I feel like when people like if people are watching a movie and they realize it was 100 percent AI, they'd be like, oh, I don't want to watch that or whatever. Like there's some pushback when commercials come out and they're AI and you'll see every comment under them are like people going, oh, this is AI slop. And they get all angry about it.

But it's only because when they know it, they don't like the fact that it's AI. But when they don't know it, a lot of times they just choose that one because they think out of merit. Man, I've only got a couple of minutes here, and I'm in a Sophie's Choice of which story to tell. There's two great AI stories to tell. Let me tell the future AI. Right now, you're saying that you reject it. But try this on for size. Let's say you start watching a movie on Netflix.

And this is in the future. It is coming. You're watching a movie on Netflix or Apple or whatever. And it is watching you as well. And it can see your eyes. It can see your heart rate. It can see your blood pressure. It can see everything. It knows when you're engaged. It's like Santa. It knows when you're asleep. It knows when you're wide awake. And you're watching it. And your friend is watching it on their device someplace else.

You're going to get two different movies because AI eventually will write it in real time based on your reaction, your blood pressure, your heartbeat, your

Your engagement, where you're viewing the screen, it will notice what you're noticing. So let me just say this. So for guys, it'll all be bikinis. That's all it'll be. Not much of a plot either. Probably just another bikini movie, but it will tailor make it in real time to you.

With the same actors, with the same basic plot, but it will... Everything. But it will tailor it to you. So it'll all be customized to you. Isn't that incredible? And for a while, AI is...

is going to destroy a lot of people's jobs. Just like when machines started making clothing, you know, everybody wanted a machine made shirt because they were all perfect. They were all exactly the same. Then eventually we got to a place where like, you know, handmade really is much better and handmade perfection. That is the best. We're just in the machines making it first. So it's better, but it'll flip back around.