If people don't wake up now...when will they?

Have our hearts already grown too cold? Atheism is surging. The Amtrak crash was a madhouse. Homelessness on the rise in LA. Feds using immigration laws to harass citizens. The list goes on and on. And as Glenn found out yesterday, he can't even post an update on Facebook about his granddaughter going to the hospital without people attacking him. What is happening to the world? On Wednesday's TV show, Glenn delivered a message everyone needs to hear - before it's too late.

Below is rush transcript of this segment:

Because of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold. It’s an ancient prophecy, but it seems more and more relevant with every passing day.

Every abuse of power is met with excuses, justification, and worst of all, apathy. If we don’t wake up soon, what will the world look like when we finally do? President Obama has the latest executive power play. It comes as he tries to force through a classified secret trade deal. This deal is on the scale of ObamaCare, and it basically would be a major coup for Japan and others to trade cheaply—we think; we don’t know.

Some say it’s good. Some say it’s bad. We don’t know. We do know Obama’s track record, so who do you trust? Progressives on the right and the left are the problem. There’s no transparency.

I talked to somebody last night about this trade deal and tried to get some information, somebody who had actually read it in classified form. Said Glenn, I don’t think there’s a problem with it, I don’t, but I don’t know. It’s the partisan politics that we play. Partisans on the right hammer me every time I pointed out, but it is true. Partisan politics run by the progressives in both the Democrat and the Republican Party is the problem. It’s why voting for the guy who can win has gotten us where it has taken us.

We’re being taken to the same place, bigger and bigger government with more and more control out of our hands. I used to think that one was driving us in a Ferrari and the other in a VW, but I think they’re both driving jets. There is no difference. What bothers me most is another abuse of power, and by and large, nobody seems to care. It just seems to come and go one after another, and we’re immune to the abuse.

It has happened so many times that we’re now desensitized to it, and we become apathetic or detached, cynical, because we have started to believe that we can’t change anything, and I’m here to tell you that’s a lie. We walk around now in almost a catatonic state. This is what it looks like in China. A two-year-old toddler wanders away from his mother and into an alley and gets hit by a car. The car proceeds to run over the child and then leave the scene. As if that wasn’t horrific enough, it was only the beginning of the tragedy. Person after person walks by, sees the child wounded, and keeps on walking by doing nothing.

A few years ago, I watched this. I looked at that tape and I marveled, how could that possibly happen? The answer is because their society has suffered for decades and decades of the individual doesn’t matter. It’s the collective, the heavy hand of communism. Don’t do anything yourself. You can’t do anything about it. And hearts grow cold.

Well, if we don’t wake up soon, we will suffer the same fate, and I think we might already be beginning to see the symptoms of it. The Amtrak derailment that happened last night, at least seven are dead, over 100 injured as the train and all of the cars completely derailed near Philadelphia. It was a horrific scene—mangled cars, people tossed into the luggage racks, awful.

But something caught my attention, former Congressman Patrick Murphy was on the train, and here’s how he described the aftermath of the wreck. He said, “[People] didn’t care about anyone else, so stepping over people and stuff.” We may be closer to the Chinese level of apathy and coldness than we thought.

Our culture today bombards us with over 300 messages per day that say you need to have this, you deserve that, it’s all about me, me, me, me. Combine that with incessant programming that appeals to and affirms our selfish desires with a growing perception of helplessness, and you have the perfect conditions for man’s love to grow cold. It’s all about me. I can’t do anything about what’s going on. You foster that mentality long enough, and of course people are going to be stepping over bodies to get out of trains. That’s what we’ve been conditioned to do.

Let me give you another example. I want to read something I just posted on Facebook about, I don’t know, an hour ago. My daughter had called me. My granddaughter just was taken to the hospital, and I just got back. I want to read this to you. This is what I posted on the way back.

I have so much to learn. By the way, you’re not going to like this about me, but it’s true. I have so much to learn. Today, I learned how out of whack I was as a man while I was working in New York. Today, my granddaughter had a spill and had to go to Children’s Hospital. Mom and dad were both there. I was in a meeting when I found out and jumped into the car so I could be there for them. On the way, I was reflecting when my son, Raphe, was young and fell off the bed and broke his collarbone. I remember how upset Tania was. She felt like a bad mother. She’s the best. It wasn’t true.

As I was driving to the hospital today, I searched my memories for me at the hospital with Tania and Raphe. There weren’t any. He was in Connecticut, and I was in New York City working. “How,” I asked myself today, “as a husband and a father, did I put my broadcast ahead of me being there for my wife?” I thank God again today for an entirely new reason that I left FOX. Even when we think we’re doing all we can do, there’s more we can do if our priorities are right. I’ve changed so much in the last five years and more over the last twenty.

I spoke to a great businessman today who asked the same question that I’ve asked myself and others for years, “Would you be as good of a man as you are today if your life all ran smoothly?” I don’t think so. It’s our challenges, our faults, and our failures and the noticing of them that makes us better. 'I have this recurring nightmare that everyone loved me for who I was, and I missed the chance to be a better man.' That’s a line from Muse. I will ask forgiveness from my wife tonight and beg the Lord to help me be a better man, father, and husband. I take solace in the fact that I’m not the same man that I was, and I know my family can take care of themselves, but it’s my job to be there to protect, heal, and bless. Lorelai, by the way, is okay.

When I wrote this, within two minutes somebody responded well, I guess it’s your millions that allow you to do those things, and when you have millions of dollars, then you can do whatever you want. I didn’t know how to respond. I responded as Gandhi-like as I could, and I just said it’s not about the money. It’s about priorities, and when did we turn into this country where everything is about money, where we hate each other because of different classes?

Then, the very next thing was I posted Lorelai is all right, thank God. She was eating a Popsicle by the time I left. Somebody had written in the very next comment on that was but what about all the Iraqi children? Your idol, Bush, has more blood on his hands than Saddam. There is no God. Otherwise our leaders would be crapping themselves about murdering all those people. I just wrote to him, what about the children that are being beheaded and crucified today?

When we can’t even have a conversation about somebody’s child or grandchild when they’re humbling themselves and saying wow, I’m a broken person, I’ve got a lot to learn, when we as a society can’t say (A) praying for you, hope everything’s all right, don’t normally agree with you, but I know you’re struggling today—when we make everything about race, money, or politics, there’s no way out.

We have to turn away from ourselves, from our anger, from our bitterness, from our pettiness, and turn toward something bigger. We’re not the point of this life. We have to put others in front of us. This is not easy to do, and none of us will do it perfectly. I am the least of all of us that are gathered here every day, but if we don’t try, we’re going to end up in a place where we’re stepping over dying people on trains and ignoring wounded toddlers in the streets. We have some waking up to do.

Something else about the Amtrak crash that I’m not seeing really covered anywhere, and I want to be really careful because this could be just a nasty accident, and I hope it is. They’re still investigating the cause of the wreck. It happened around a curve, so it is possible that it was negligence on the conductor’s part, but so far, they’re saying he was going the speed limit. But a few details are now beginning to emerge that could suggest otherwise.

Septa, the local train in Philadelphia, reported that one of their trains was hit by a projectile just a short time before the crash on the same line within a few miles of where the Amtrak train derailed. Also, back in February, a freight train derailed in South Carolina. The FBI believes that that derailment was no accident. After the 9/11 attacks, several what are called “derailers” were reported stolen, nine of them. The only use for these are for train operators to intentionally derail trains. So, it is definitely possible that this was an intentional act, but the investigation continues.

But did you notice what Donald Trump said last night? Within moments of hearing it, he tweets about what a horrible accident. It’s because of our infrastructure. We don’t know if it’s our infrastructure. Yes, our infrastructure is dying, but we the people saw $1 trillion of our money be wasted on shovel-ready projects to fix our infrastructure. His next tweet is there’s only one guy in the world that can fix our infrastructure, and it’s me. Oh my gosh, the night of the accident you’re campaigning? How cold and callous do you have to be?

We’re entering perilous times. I’ve told you in the past, I have done my homework on Bonhoeffer and Gandhi, on Martin Luther King and Lincoln. I’ve looked at them. Why did they win, and why did Bonhoeffer fail? Bonhoeffer failed because the people stopped connecting with their heart. And this is going to be harder and harder as we go every day. People have lost almost all trust in our institutions, from Congress to businesses to churches.

There was even a new poll that showed 45% of people believe now that the military might try to take over the United States. That sounds crazy, but then again, that’s how frustrated and scared and unsure of the landscape that people are. We don’t trust anyone or anything anymore, and there’s not much less left to trust.

The TSA, the one that was set up to protect us, the citizens, is herding us like cattle and is groping citizens instead of protecting them. A Freedom of Information request has revealed some disturbing new details about a series of sexual assaults at airports all across the country, including one where a TSA supervisor laughed at a passenger who said I’ve just been groped. That was at Chicago O’Hare Airport, by the way, which Chicago has just been downgraded to junk bond status and the same city where most of the complaints have occurred.

The IRS targeted conservatives, conservative groups. We know that, but now they’re targeting small business owners, using a law intended to stop drug trafficking and money laundering. I want to show you just a quick video here, unbelievable. The IRS pounced on a rural North Carolina store that sells catfish, worms, and sandwiches. Watch.

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Did anybody read that, what is it, the IMF today is talking now about digitizing all money, making cash, this is the proposal over in England, making cash illegal? So, when the collapse comes, they can just digitize everything, and that way they control exactly what you spend.

By the way, there are 3,554 new federal regulations that were born last year. That came with a $1.8 trillion price tag, but does anybody care? The EPA is now targeting public health concerns at nail salons. The list goes on and on and on.

The more abuses we have, the more that they come in and try to control our life, the more they screw up our life, the more things happen and we don’t notice, the more helpless we feel to change a darn thing. And the colder our hearts grow. Don’t let your heart grow cold. If it does, we will not recognize our country when we get out of the other side. Wake up. Wake up.

EXPOSED: Why Eisenhower warned us about endless wars

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Donald Trump emphasizes peace through strength, reminding the world that the United States is willing to fight to win. That’s beyond ‘defense.’

President Donald Trump made headlines this week by signaling a rebrand of the Defense Department — restoring its original name, the Department of War.

At first, I was skeptical. “Defense” suggests restraint, a principle I consider vital to U.S. foreign policy. “War” suggests aggression. But for the first 158 years of the republic, that was the honest name: the Department of War.

A Department of War recognizes the truth: The military exists to fight and, if necessary, to win decisively.

The founders never intended a permanent standing army. When conflict came — the Revolution, the War of 1812, the trenches of France, the beaches of Normandy — the nation called men to arms, fought, and then sent them home. Each campaign was temporary, targeted, and necessary.

From ‘war’ to ‘military-industrial complex’

Everything changed in 1947. President Harry Truman — facing the new reality of nuclear weapons, global tension, and two world wars within 20 years — established a full-time military and rebranded the Department of War as the Department of Defense. Americans resisted; we had never wanted a permanent army. But Truman convinced the country it was necessary.

Was the name change an early form of political correctness? A way to soften America’s image as a global aggressor? Or was it simply practical? Regardless, the move created a permanent, professional military. But it also set the stage for something Truman’s successor, President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower, famously warned about: the military-industrial complex.

Ike, the five-star general who commanded Allied forces in World War II and stormed Normandy, delivered a harrowing warning during his farewell address: The military-industrial complex would grow powerful. Left unchecked, it could influence policy and push the nation toward unnecessary wars.

And that’s exactly what happened. The Department of Defense, with its full-time and permanent army, began spending like there was no tomorrow. Weapons were developed, deployed, and sometimes used simply to justify their existence.

Peace through strength

When Donald Trump said this week, “I don’t want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense too,” some people freaked out. They called him a warmonger. He isn’t. Trump is channeling a principle older than him: peace through strength. Ronald Reagan preached it; Trump is taking it a step further.

Just this week, Trump also suggested limiting nuclear missiles — hardly the considerations of a warmonger — echoing Reagan, who wanted to remove missiles from silos while keeping them deployable on planes.

The seemingly contradictory move of Trump calling for a Department of War sends a clear message: He wants Americans to recognize that our military exists not just for defense, but to project power when necessary.

Trump has pointed to something critically important: The best way to prevent war is to have a leader who knows exactly who he is and what he will do. Trump signals strength, deterrence, and resolve. You want to negotiate? Great. You don’t? Then we’ll finish the fight decisively.

That’s why the world listens to us. That’s why nations come to the table — not because Trump is reckless, but because he means what he says and says what he means. Peace under weakness invites aggression. Peace under strength commands respect.

Trump is the most anti-war president we’ve had since Jimmy Carter. But unlike Carter, Trump isn’t weak. Carter’s indecision emboldened enemies and made the world less safe. Trump’s strength makes the country stronger. He believes in peace as much as any president. But he knows peace requires readiness for war.

Names matter

When we think of “defense,” we imagine cybersecurity, spy programs, and missile shields. But when we think of “war,” we recall its harsh reality: death, destruction, and national survival. Trump is reminding us what the Department of Defense is really for: war. Not nation-building, not diplomacy disguised as military action, not endless training missions. War — full stop.

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Names matter. Words matter. They shape identity and character. A Department of Defense implies passivity, a posture of reaction. A Department of War recognizes the truth: The military exists to fight and, if necessary, to win decisively.

So yes, I’ve changed my mind. I’m for the rebranding to the Department of War. It shows strength to the world. It reminds Americans, internally and externally, of the reality we face. The Department of Defense can no longer be a euphemism. Our military exists for war — not without deterrence, but not without strength either. And we need to stop deluding ourselves.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Unveiling the Deep State: From surveillance to censorship

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From surveillance abuse to censorship, the deep state used state power and private institutions to suppress dissent and influence two US elections.

The term “deep state” has long been dismissed as the province of cranks and conspiracists. But the recent declassification of two critical documents — the Durham annex, released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and a report publicized by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — has rendered further denial untenable.

These documents lay bare the structure and function of a bureaucratic, semi-autonomous network of agencies, contractors, nonprofits, and media entities that together constitute a parallel government operating alongside — and at times in opposition to — the duly elected one.

The ‘deep state’ is a self-reinforcing institutional machine — a decentralized, global bureaucracy whose members share ideological alignment.

The disclosures do not merely recount past abuses; they offer a schematic of how modern influence operations are conceived, coordinated, and deployed across domestic and international domains.

What they reveal is not a rogue element operating in secret, but a systematized apparatus capable of shaping elections, suppressing dissent, and laundering narratives through a transnational network of intelligence, academia, media, and philanthropic institutions.

Narrative engineering from the top

According to Gabbard’s report, a pivotal moment occurred on December 9, 2016, when the Obama White House convened its national security leadership in the Situation Room. Attendees included CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of State John Kerry, and others.

During this meeting, the consensus view up to that point — that Russia had not manipulated the election outcome — was subordinated to new instructions.

The record states plainly: The intelligence community was directed to prepare an assessment “per the President’s request” that would frame Russia as the aggressor and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as its preferred candidate. Notably absent was any claim that new intelligence had emerged. The motivation was political, not evidentiary.

This maneuver became the foundation for the now-discredited 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian election interference. From that point on, U.S. intelligence agencies became not neutral evaluators of fact but active participants in constructing a public narrative designed to delegitimize the incoming administration.

Institutional and media coordination

The ODNI report and the Durham annex jointly describe a feedback loop in which intelligence is laundered through think tanks and nongovernmental organizations, then cited by media outlets as “independent verification.” At the center of this loop are agencies like the CIA, FBI, and ODNI; law firms such as Perkins Coie; and NGOs such as the Open Society Foundations.

According to the Durham annex, think tanks including the Atlantic Council, the Carnegie Endowment, and the Center for a New American Security were allegedly informed of Clinton’s 2016 plan to link Trump to Russia. These institutions, operating under the veneer of academic independence, helped diffuse the narrative into public discourse.

Media coordination was not incidental. On the very day of the aforementioned White House meeting, the Washington Post published a front-page article headlined “Obama Orders Review of Russian Hacking During Presidential Campaign” — a story that mirrored the internal shift in official narrative. The article marked the beginning of a coordinated media campaign that would amplify the Trump-Russia collusion narrative throughout the transition period.

Surveillance and suppression

Surveillance, once limited to foreign intelligence operations, was turned inward through the abuse of FISA warrants. The Steele dossier — funded by the Clinton campaign via Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS — served as the basis for wiretaps on Trump affiliates, despite being unverified and partially discredited. The FBI even altered emails to facilitate the warrants.

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This capacity for internal subversion reappeared in 2020, when 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter labeling the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation.” According to polling, 79% of Americans believed truthful coverage of the laptop could have altered the election. The suppression of that story — now confirmed as authentic — was election interference, pure and simple.

A machine, not a ‘conspiracy theory’

The deep state is a self-reinforcing institutional machine — a decentralized, global bureaucracy whose members share ideological alignment and strategic goals.

Each node — law firms, think tanks, newsrooms, federal agencies — operates with plausible deniability. But taken together, they form a matrix of influence capable of undermining electoral legitimacy and redirecting national policy without democratic input.

The ODNI report and the Durham annex mark the first crack in the firewall shielding this machine. They expose more than a political scandal buried in the past. They lay bare a living system of elite coordination — one that demands exposure, confrontation, and ultimately dismantling.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Trump's proposal explained: Ukraine's path to peace without NATO expansion

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Strategic compromise, not absolute victory, often ensures lasting stability.

When has any country been asked to give up land it won in a war? Even if a nation is at fault, the punishment must be measured.

After World War I, Germany, the main aggressor, faced harsh penalties under the Treaty of Versailles. Germans resented the restrictions, and that resentment fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler, ultimately leading to World War II. History teaches that justice for transgressions must avoid creating conditions for future conflict.

Ukraine and Russia must choose to either continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

Russia and Ukraine now stand at a similar crossroads. They can cling to disputed land and prolong a devastating war, or they can make concessions that might secure a lasting peace. The stakes could not be higher: Tens of thousands die each month, and the choice between endless bloodshed and negotiated stability hinges on each side’s willingness to yield.

History offers a guide. In 1967, Israel faced annihilation. Surrounded by hostile armies, the nation fought back and seized large swaths of territory from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Yet Israel did not seek an empire. It held only the buffer zones needed for survival and returned most of the land. Security and peace, not conquest, drove its decisions.

Peace requires concessions

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine will need to “get something” from a peace deal. He’s right. Israel proved that survival outweighs pride. By giving up land in exchange for recognition and an end to hostilities, it stopped the cycle of war. Egypt and Israel have not fought in more than 50 years.

Russia and Ukraine now press opposing security demands. Moscow wants a buffer to block NATO. Kyiv, scarred by invasion, seeks NATO membership — a pledge that any attack would trigger collective defense by the United States and Europe.

President Donald Trump and his allies have floated a middle path: an Article 5-style guarantee without full NATO membership. Article 5, the core of NATO’s charter, declares that an attack on one is an attack on all. For Ukraine, such a pledge would act as a powerful deterrent. For Russia, it might be more palatable than NATO expansion to its border

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Peace requires concessions. The human cost is staggering: U.S. estimates indicate 20,000 Russian soldiers died in a single month — nearly half the total U.S. casualties in Vietnam — and the toll on Ukrainians is also severe. To stop this bloodshed, both sides need to recognize reality on the ground, make difficult choices, and anchor negotiations in security and peace rather than pride.

Peace or bloodshed?

Both Russia and Ukraine claim deep historical grievances. Ukraine arguably has a stronger claim of injustice. But the question is not whose parchment is older or whose deed is more valid. The question is whether either side is willing to trade some land for the lives of thousands of innocent people. True security, not historical vindication, must guide the path forward.

History shows that punitive measures or rigid insistence on territorial claims can perpetuate cycles of war. Germany’s punishment after World War I contributed directly to World War II. By contrast, Israel’s willingness to cede land for security and recognition created enduring peace. Ukraine and Russia now face the same choice: Continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The loneliness epidemic: Are machines replacing human connection?

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Seniors, children, and the isolated increasingly rely on machines for conversation, risking real relationships and the emotional depth that only humans provide.

Jill Smola is 75 years old. She’s a retiree from Orlando, Florida, and she spent her life caring for the elderly. She played games, assembled puzzles, and offered company to those who otherwise would have sat alone.

Now, she sits alone herself. Her husband has died. She has a lung condition. She can’t drive. She can’t leave her home. Weeks can pass without human interaction.

Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

But CBS News reports that she has a new companion. And she likes this companion more than her own daughter.

The companion? Artificial intelligence.

She spends five hours a day talking to her AI friend. They play games, do trivia, and just talk. She says she even prefers it to real people.

My first thought was simple: Stop this. We are losing our humanity.

But as I sat with the story, I realized something uncomfortable. Maybe we’ve already lost some of our humanity — not to AI, but to ourselves.

Outsourcing presence

How often do we know the right thing to do yet fail to act? We know we should visit the lonely. We know we should sit with someone in pain. We know what Jesus would do: Notice the forgotten, touch the untouchable, offer time and attention without outsourcing compassion.

Yet how often do we just … talk about it? On the radio, online, in lectures, in posts. We pontificate, and then we retreat.

I asked myself: What am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?

Human connection is messy. It’s inconvenient. It takes patience, humility, and endurance. AI doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t interrupt your day. It doesn’t ask anything of you. Real people do. Real people make us confront our pride, our discomfort, our loneliness.

We’ve built an economy of convenience. We can have groceries delivered, movies streamed, answers instantly. But friendships — real relationships — are slow, inefficient, unpredictable. They happen in the blank spaces of life that we’ve been trained to ignore.

And now we’re replacing that inefficiency with machines.

AI provides comfort without challenge. It eliminates the risk of real intimacy. It’s an elegant coping mechanism for loneliness, but a poor substitute for life. If we’re not careful, the lonely won’t just be alone — they’ll be alone with an anesthetic, a shadow that never asks for anything, never interrupts, never makes them grow.

Reclaiming our humanity

We need to reclaim our humanity. Presence matters. Not theory. Not outrage. Action.

It starts small. Pull up a chair for someone who eats alone. Call a neighbor you haven’t spoken to in months. Visit a nursing home once a month — then once a week. Ask their names, hear their stories. Teach your children how to be present, to sit with someone in grief, without rushing to fix it.

Turn phones off at dinner. Make Sunday afternoons human time. Listen. Ask questions. Don’t post about it afterward. Make the act itself sacred.

Humility is central. We prefer machines because we can control them. Real people are inconvenient. They interrupt our narratives. They demand patience, forgiveness, and endurance. They make us confront ourselves.

A friend will challenge your self-image. A chatbot won’t.

Our homes are quieter. Our streets are emptier. Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

Before we worry about how AI will reshape humanity, we must first practice humanity. It can start with 15 minutes a day of undivided attention, presence, and listening.

Change usually comes when pain finally wins. Let’s not wait for that. Let’s start now. Because real connection restores faster than any machine ever will.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.