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TSA saga: What's wrong with this story?

November 22, 2010
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GLENN: I'm glad to see that Obama did not divert Air Force One to see Chavez on his way home.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: I wonder if he got the pat-down. I don't think he --

PAT: I don't think so.

GLENN: I don't think he did. I don't think he did. He knows that it's an inconvenience -- 276. He knows that it's an inconvenience for --

PAT: All of us.

GLENN: Us. Not him.

PAT: For all of us.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You with respect to the TSA.

GLENN: Mmm-hmmm, mmm-hmmm.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Let me first of all make a confession. I don't go through security checks to get on planes these days. So I haven't personally experienced some of the procedures that have been put in place by TSA.

GLENN: I don't think that's a confession.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: One of the most frustrating aspects of this fight against terrorism is that it has created --

GLENN: Yes.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: -- a whole security apparatus around us.

GLENN: Yes.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: -- that causes huge inconvenience --

GLENN: That he has to do.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: -- for all of us.

GLENN: For all of us.

PAT: For all Of us.

GLENN: Well, not for him.

PAT: Well, not for him.

GLENN: Not for him, and let's be fair. Not for John Boehner, either. Did you know that?

PAT: No.

GLENN: Yeah, John Boehner doesn't have to go through this, either.

PAT: Why?

GLENN: Because, and I'm quoting, the speaker of the House is not considered a threat. Did you meet our last speaker of the House?

STU: I would say that there are security, actual terrorists that have higher approval ratings than congress. So I would say it's possible.

GLENN: I would say yes. I mean, I think a locality of people would consider congress a terrorist. I think John Boehner should go through. I think everyone should have to go through this. You're an American citizen, aren't you?

PAT: They should not get special treatment.

GLENN: They should not get special treatment.

PAT: But they do.

GLENN: Well, I mean, I don't mind the president not getting it because it's his plane.

STU: Right. And Boehner, you know, can fly privately as well. He has the right to do that when he takes over, but he's not, right?

GLENN: Correct.

PAT: He says he's not.

GLENN: Everyone should, everyone in congress -- you don't get a special pass. If you are -- you know, that's the problem with healthcare. You know why they don't care about healthcare? Because they don't have to live by it. Everything they do they should have to live by, period.

PAT: I thought it was interesting what Hillary said, too.

GLENN: Oh, yeah, I love the Hillary quote. Listen to this.

VOICE: Final question, my time is up. But would you submit to one of these pat-downs?

HILLARY CLINTON: Not if I -- not if I could avoid it, no. I mean, who would?

GLENN: (Laughing).

PAT: (Laughing).

GLENN: Oh, man.

PAT: Oh, man.

GLENN: She is so great.

PAT: Oh, that's great.

GLENN: No, I mean, not if I have to, and I don't have to.

PAT: Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. I avoided patting her down at all costs as well.

GLENN: (Laughing).

PAT: (Laughing).

GLENN: Oh, man.

PAT: You don't know how hard that was. (Laughing).

GLENN: (Laughing). Lucy! Oh, man. The worst.

PAT: Ah.

GLENN: The worst.

PAT: The elitism. Of course, none of them have to do it.

STU: Well, no one has to do it. I mean --

PAT: You really do. You really do.

STU: You don't have to do it.

PAT: You really do.

GLENN: You have to go through the scanner, yeah.

STU: Right. She said the pat-down. So she is saying if she could avoid it, she would go through the scanner I think was the --

GLENN: Well, would she go through the scanner?

STU: Well, no one asked her that but that's an interesting followup.

GLENN: Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Let's look at a couple of examples. Did you hear about the guy who, I guess is no longer a guy and now is a woman? Or was a woman and is a guy? I don't know how it worked, but somebody went through one of the scanners and apparently all the people, you know, looking at the scan, all the TSA people were laughing at him or her, whichever.

PAT: I didn't hear about that.

GLENN: Yeah, happened this weekend. I mean, how do you, how do you think he feels?

STU: I mean, I don't -- is that in the TSA policy or is that just some of the --

GLENN: No, no.

STU: -- employees acting like they do in every profession when they see something they don't like? Unprofessional, but --

GLENN: It's very, very good.

STU: I didn't say it was good. I just said it happens in every line of work with every person and every employee.

PAT: The guy with bladder cancer.

GLENN: How about the guy with bladder cancer that wet himself and left in tears because of this, okay? How about the --

STU: That was very sad. I mean --

GLENN: At least I can give stories, you know, they are not like, "You know, let me tell you something in this nation about our doctors that are cutting feet off of patients." I mean, these are actually happening.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: These are --

STU: Examples?

GLENN: These are happening.

STU: Yeah. The question, though, is more, is it systemic, is it happening all the time

GLENN: No.

STU: There are anecdotal stories.

GLENN: No, it's not happening all the time. But I mean, when's the last time we made somebody wet themselves? Let me ask you this: When's the assist time we made a terrorist wet themselves?

STU: Yeah. Well --

PAT: Probably never.

STU: That's true.

GLENN: Well, no. No, no. I think we have.

PAT: Maybe a few times. Maybe a few times.

GLENN: I think we have. I think we have. Oh, let's relish that for a minute. Okay, now back to the real world. I mean, we're making American citizens wet themselves.

PAT: Then there's that weird story with the little boy who's got a shirt off and they are patting him down.

GLENN: Something's wrong with this story.

PAT: There's something weird about that, but -- because you don't know the story behind it.

GLENN: Well, here's the thing about this TSA thing. There's something wrong here. I don't know what it is. Is anybody with me on this? There's something wrong.

STU: I'm definitely with you on this.

PAT: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: NBC is reporting this story as if Obama were a Republican.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: It's everywhere on NBC. The latest poll shows 81% don't really care. That's a problem. That's a problem.

PAT: I find that hard to believe. If you've ever flown and you have to go through one or the other, uh, it's going to be a problem for most Americans, I would think. I mean, even you have a problem with it, Stu, and you usually don't have a problem with this kind of stuff, right?

GLENN: No, he's going to go through -- no, he's going to go through the scanner.

PAT: But you still have a problem with the scanner, right? I mean, you're not excited about being --

STU: I'm not excited about it.

GLENN: Are you fine with your -- you're fine with your wife --

PAT: Being exposed like that.

GLENN: -- being exposed. Now, remember the things that you are seeing -- according to Jason Chaffetz, he says that this is not -- what you are seeing is not real. He's seen the -- he's seen the actual classified photos. Because it's all classified because they are -- you know, they're citizens.

PAT: Yes.

GLENN: So he's seen the classified photos. He says it's absolute pornography. He said you can see absolutely everything. And they can save it and they can send it from the machine.

PAT: Didn't he say you could see the sweat on their back?

GLENN: Oh, yeah. He said it is so crystal clear, if somebody's sweating, you can see the sweat come down their back.

STU: And I know, and he's very against it. I haven't seen the photos. It's hard to judge from that perspective.

GLENN: Just take him at his word. I mean, he is an honest guy.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: If that is the way it is, you're fine with your wife getting something like that?

STU: It doesn't seem like something I'd like. I mean, you know, I -- no, I'm not fine with it. Also --

GLENN: If you think Facebook is a problem. Try my wife. Try my wife. Try me. Glenn Beck going through one of those scanners. Do you think my photo is going to be deleted?

STU: Right, exactly.

GLENN: Do you think my wife's photo is going to be deleted?

PAT: Nope.

GLENN: Nope. Do you think my children's photos are going to be deleted?

PAT: Nope.

GLENN: Nope.

STU: Look, no one wants to deal with it but I mean, the question, of course, was on the pictures that we have seen for these people and the question was, do you want this added level security and it was 81-15. I think there's a problem with the poll because, you know, you're talking about --

GLENN: It's a false choice.

STU: It's out of context and it's sort of --

GLENN: It's a false choice. Do you want added security? Yes.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Yes,

PAT: I think that's how most people --

GLENN: I want to be the safest they can be on a plane.

PAT: Everybody wants smart security, though. They keep talking about this Smart Grid. Let's have some smart security, can't we? One day in this, in America? Wouldn't it be nice?

GLENN: No, I don't think we're going to get that, no.

PAT: We're not going to get it.

GLENN: No.

PAT: We're not going to get it.

STU: But you're right, Glenn, I think there is something weird going on with the story. NBC's reporting it like crazy. You know, it's odd the way it's being reported. Then there's example after example after example of these stories that we documented on the blaze of stories that came up that were not true or were old.

PAT: Which was weird.

STU: Or were completely out of context, which is really weird in the reporting of it.

GLENN: There are news sources that I trust. There are news sources that I trust that I don't trust on this story.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: I have read stories on credible websites that you look at them and you say, wait, why are they linking here? What is that? Why -- this story is, this is three years old.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And no reference to this is a three--year-old part of this story that doesn't -- it doesn't make any sense.

PAT: Yeah --

GLENN: It doesn't make any sense. If you want to show these videos and say here's a child that was in line and they're crying and, you know, so you know, this is a 4-year-old videotape. It's still relevant because it shows that this was happening and this is happening.

STU: And it's only getting tougher as far as screening.

GLENN: Yeah, it's only getting tougher and it's only getting worse, but you identify that. And these websites are not doing that and I don't understand. There's something wrong.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Something wrong here.

STU: Yeah. I can't tell if it's just, you know, this desire to come up with a new story because everyone's bored of talking about the old ones.

GLENN: No.

STU: Because there are really important things going on and we keep talking about, you know, a small percentage of travelers who are a small percentage of Americans in airport. I mean, it just seems bizarre.



TheBlaze: New ‘Fig Leaf’ Underwear Hides Your Nether Regions From TSA Machines

GLENN: Right now you have the scanner-proof underwear that you can see at TheBlaze.com that has the fig leaf over all of the strategic points. I don't want pictures of me in the fig leaf underwear, either.

STU: That's capitalism winning again right there, though.

GLENN: It is. It is. May I give you my theory real quick on what this could possibly be? The left is wanting a fight but so does the -- the uber left wants a fight. Not the average citizen. Not the, you know, the Democrat, the average Democrat that hasn't woken up yet and doesn't understand that the Democrats are over. It is the Democratic Socialists of America now. So the average Democrat doesn't want to fight, but the socialist and the Marxists and the revolutionaries, they do. And so they want to ramp this up. So I would understand how you can ramp that up because you want the government -- remember, who's -- gosh, whose plan was it? I can't -- was it Saul Alinsky, was it Soros? Whose was it? It was Soros' plan, I think it was, that, you know, wants the disconnect and the distrust of government. Well, this makes you do it. But also the uber right wants it as well. The anarchists, the ones who want to reset everything. So you have to be very careful because those of us who are in the middle -- and what I mean is those of us who do not want to see the destruction of the United States would like to find a way to ease it back into the right place, we're not -- I don't think we're being represented in this story. And that's just a theory. I could be wrong on that, but there are too many websites on the right that are getting this story radically, radically wrong. And I just don't believe they're all, what, they're all taking drugs? They're all drunk? They're all, "This is okay, just run this story." It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. So watch yourself on this story.


 

Trump is INDICTED: Here are the TOP 5 questions about Trump's indictment ANSWERED

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BREAKING NEWS: Trump has been INDICTED.

Today marks the first time in U.S. history that a President has been criminally indicted—but what does that actually mean? Unless you have a legal or political background, it is difficult to follow what will actually happen surrounding Trump's indictment.

Glenn will provide more clarity in coming days as this story continues to unfold. In the meantime, Americans are wondering what Trump's indictment means and what comes next.

Here are five things you NEED to know about Trump's indictment.

1. What does "indictment" actually mean?

To "indict" someone is the formal term used when a person is notified that they have been officially charged with a crime. In this case, the Manhattan grand jury found that the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, brought forward enough evidence to criminally charge Trump with a crime.

2. What crime is Trump being charged with?

Though the story is still developing, at the time of this article's publication, Trump was apparently being charged with mislabeling campaign finance funds. A week before the 2016 Presidential election, adult film star Stormy Daniels claimed she allegedly slept with Trump years prior and threatened to go public with the story. Trump's then-advisor Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 and labeled the fee as "legal fees" in their campaign finances. Trump repaid Cohen once he was elected to office.

Mislabeling legal fees is a misdemeanor—not a felony—yet Trump is being federally charged. Hillary Clinton was guilty of the same misdemeanor, mislabeling funding for the Steele Dossier as "legal fees" in her campaign finances. Why did she get away with paying $130,000 to the Federal Election Commission, while Trump is facing federal criminal charges?

Mislabeling campaign finances can't be considered a felony unless there is evidence it was used to shield a federal crime. So what was Trump covering up? Even NBC admitted that Bragg's case to prove this point was flimsy to begin with. It has not been revealed what evidence was presented to the grand jury to determine that Trump is guilty of a federal crime.

3. What is a "grand jury" and how are they able to indict Trump?

A "grand jury" is a type of federal jury that evaluates criminal cases. A U.S. prosecutor has to submit evidence before a grand jury, who will determine whether there is “probable cause” to believe an individual has committed a crime and should be put on trial. In this case, the Manhattan grand jury ruled that the evidence submitted by Manhattan DA Bragg was sufficient enough to believe that Trump had committed a federal crime.

Grand jury proceedings are closed to the public, thus, we don't have access to the evidence Bragg submitted before the jury.

4. Will Trump be arrested?

The simple answer is: yes.

Trump's arrest won't look like your typical crime shows with police officers busting through Trump's door and handcuffing him. The district attorney’s office will ask Trump’s attorney when he plans to come to New York to be arraigned, which means to appear before a court to face criminal charges. Once Trump arrives in Manhattan, he will likely surrender himself at the courthouse where he will be formally "arrested," taken to get fingerprinted, get a mugshot taken, and even a DNA test. He will then await his trial to defend himself against the charges.

5. Will Trump appear in court?

Yes. Once Trump is arraigned, he will await his court date to defend himself against his charges. Trump will likely pay bail to avoid being confined to the courthouse or a jail cell.

Buckle up, America! Be sure to tune into the Glenn Beck Program to stay up-to-date on all the developments surrounding Trump's indictment. And if you haven't already, be sure to check out last week's episode of Glenn TV where Glenn dove deep into the "big distraction"—the REAL reason they're going after Trump.

Message to America after the Nashville massacre: We are worshiping a FALSE GOD

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We had yet another tragic school shooting. There is only one way to begin to address this tragedy, a tragedy that has repeated itself all too often. We must begin by mourning with the families of the victims. Our hearts break for the victims, their families, and the entire community affected by this senseless act of violence.

I'm a parent, and I mourn with you as one.

I'm also a concerned citizen deeply concerned with the profound brokenness that pervades our current culture. All of us fear for the safety of our children and our loved ones. We share the same goal of creating a safe and secure environment for everyone, especially for our children, in our schools, in places of learning and growth.

It is natural for all of us to feel anger and fear during these times, and it may seem unnatural to rise above it. But we must. It's essential to remember that we have to come together as a society, together, and address the root causes of violence. Let me state it plainly: the root cause is not the gun, but rather, the misuse of them by individuals who are mentally ill or have criminal intent. I, for one, want to address the problem of gun violence. I am worried about this with my own children. Every American, regardless of who you voted for, feels the same.

But enough is enough.

When will we address mental health? Do you know the damage we have done to our children, just because of COVID? We have destroyed the mental health of our children. Our country's suicide rate is proof enough that something has gone deeply awry within the soul of our nation—the souls of our children. What is causing all of this? It is the loss of the old guards of our civilization.

Something has gone deeply awry within the soul of our nation.

There are several groups that we need to address. First, to the parents and families of the Nashville victims, I'm sorry. We love you. Our society is sick—it is sick and unrecognizable to most of us. Your loved ones have paid the ultimate price for that illness. I'm sorry because I'm part of the society that has an unwillingness to see the truth, apparently.

Second, to the mother of the 27-year-old shooter, we mourn with you as well. I've read your old posts. You've been fighting against guns in school. While we disagree, we both want this violence to end. I've also read your posts about your children, and how proud you are. There were so many moments of beauty. You feel the same way every mom and dad feels about their child, and you were right to feel that way.

Today, I can only imagine how confused you must be. You should know, we love you too. You lost a child as well. You lost a child to the same society that has an unwillingness to see the truth. You should also know, you are part of our community, and we mourn with you as well.

You lost a child to the same society that has an unwillingness to see the truth.

Now, lastly, to the political class and the media elites. You have been dividing us for years. At first, I think I was a part of that. I've tried really hard not to be. However, you're not sincere in anything you do. At first, maybe you thought you were right in your motivations, but then every time society proved you wrong and you just dug your heels in.

Why do you continue to divide us? Is it just to win over your opponent? Is it just to crush the other side? Is it because you believe that everyone who doesn't vote your way is evil? Or is it that you just no longer care? I'm one American among many who no longer believe in you.

I can understand how easy it is to think people who vote differently than me are the problem. I really can, and those people aren't the problem. The problem begins with people, like you, who only care about money or power, or are so arrogant that they think they know better than the rest of us. You make yourselves and your system into a false god. The arrogance.

You make yourselves and your system into a false god.

You go after the disaffected, the weak, and the hopeless, and you prey on these people, promising to be their savior, hoping they will help you gain power over those who you call your enemies. You have lied. You have lied through half-truths. You have lied through omission. You have lied through fabrications. You have distorted the truth to the degree that it's no longer recognizable.

You call men women, and women men. In your world, our children are legally children until 25 for insurance purposes. Yet you also consider our children "adult" enough to alter their own bodies at eight years old. You have called evil good, and good evil. We do not have a gun problem in America. Per capita, there were more gun owners 50 years ago than there are right now, yet they didn't have these problems. Is it the gun, or is it the people?

What we have in America is a TRUTH problem. We have turned ourselves inside out. We have turned ourselves against the basic principles that gave us life and freedom, and the promise of a fuller life. Our women have no more children, and our men have lost all meaning, reason, and faith.

What we have in America is a TRUTH problem.

Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal released a poll that showed what principles the American people value most. Children, God, family—the values that used to define us as Americans—were LAST on the list. What was on the top? Money was in the top three. Money? Since when has money become a principle?

Perhaps it is because money is the god that so many worship—money over principles every time a corrupt bank is bailed out, money over principles for those who never want to pay their school tuition, every time we make someone who didn't go to school pay for someone else's tuition.

What kind of god do we worship, that makes children so allegedly flawed that we lay them on our metal alters to the gods in the surgical gowns, who can mutilate and sterilize them to make them "just the way they were intended?" That's an ancient god I don't recognize.

We all know the words that were written in the summer of 1776: "We hold these truths." But other words were written later that year when things weren't so sunny. It was December 21st: "These are the times that try men's souls." These words turned our nation around. These truly are the times that try men's souls, and the modern-day patriots—the lovers of truth and justice—must stand firm in the face of an ever-growing storm of disinformation and division. The weak-hearted are not going to be able to weather the storm, but those with the courage to fight for what is true will emerge victorious.

Lovers of truth and justice must stand firm in the face of an ever-growing storm of disinformation and division.

We live in a time when our faith in institutions, our faith in everything we know, is at an all-time low. Our republic is under siege, and the only way out is to remember our founding principles. We are drowning in a sea of lies. Cling to the life raft! Cling to the enduring belief in life and liberty, truth and justice. We'll only be able to find our way out if we can rekindle the flame of unity and embrace the American spirit that carried us through so many crises before. We have been here before.

But this time, in our current American crisis, we have to constantly remind ourselves that our fight isn't against an external enemy that we conquer. Our enemy is causing the internal divisions that are threatening to tear us apart, divisions that are created by monsters of men. These monsters are not just tearing us apart individual to individual, but tearing us and our children out from the inside out.

Cling to the enduring belief in life and liberty, truth and justice.

America, it is high time to reaffirm our commitment to the values that define us as a people. It is our collective responsibility, as free people, to stand up for those principles of truth. The seeds of division have been sewn by those who seek to manipulate and exploit us for their own gain. They shatter our trust in one another to instill fear and hatred where there should be understanding and compassion.

Truth is now clouded by conspiracy. The lines between fact and fiction have been blurred. Truth is a light. Everything we face is not insurmountable, but now is the time to return to truth and decency and justice for all.

Our kids are the ones who are going to pay the highest of prices for what we do now.

What's on Glenn's desk? THIS graphic novel's dystopia has TERRIFYING similarities to our world.

Matt Battaglia

Imagine a global health crisis. Everyone is ordered to "stay-at-home" and only to venture out for "essential" purposes. Travel is regulated by government surveillance, with only permitted workers allowed to go into the city. Inflation is at historic levels, and basic necessities, such as food and gasoline, become invaluable commodities.

Sound familiar?

As the COVID pandemic begins to recede into our cultural memory, it is harrowing to remember the sheer breadth of power we surrendered to our government in order to "keep us safe." We would be foolish to think that the pandemic wasn't a repetition of an age-old tale in the west, and we would be even more naive to believe that we aren't at risk of repeating it in the future: the government's manipulation of a crisis to secure its complete control over its people.

We would be foolish to think that the pandemic wasn't a repetition of an age-old tale

Filmmaker Matt Battaglia published a first in what is likely to become an emerging genre of post-pandemic apocalyptic literature, bringing to life the harrowing consequences of what could happen if we continue to surrender our liberty to the government for the sake of "safety and security."

Battaglia's graphic novel, House on Fire, brings this world to life in an even more vivid dimension through pictures, telling the story of a single day of a man living in this apocalyptic world that doesn't seem too distant from our own.

The setting

Imagine there is another global pandemic of a respiratory virus that is similar to COVID. The government implements COVID-like lockdowns and restrictions from their 2020 blueprint, but this time, the regulations are here to stay. After all, this pandemic isn't the only threat allegedly facing the American people. The future of our planet is at stake. On top of the pandemic regulations, our government restricts the types of food available for consumption, implements individual carbon quotas, mandates electric vehicles, eliminates gas-powered heating, cars, stoves, etc.

Of course, the pandemic and climate change policies require major government funding, so the President uses his emergency powers and executive orders to push through a multi-trillion-dollar proposal that secures the funding necessary to finance the "clean and safe transition." Yes, inflation will be an issue, but that is a small price to pay to secure our health and the future of our planet. Don't forget to include foreign aid for our warring allies in the multi-trillion-dollar packages as well.

Inflation is a small price to pay to secure the future of our planet.

Now fast forward 20 years of living under these all-too-familiar draconian policies. This is Battaglia's apocalyptic world where we meet our nameless main character, causing the reader to question whether our world could devolve into Battaglia's in such a short amount of time.

The plot

Battaglia's story begins with our character kissing his wife goodbye and leaving their country home on a one-day mission to the city in search of a cure for his wife's most recent bout of the illness that is, presumably, a result of the pandemic.

All of the themes that contribute to the apocalyptic nature of Battaglia's world are familiar to us, disturbingly so. Our character drives through country roads, passing by gas signs that list $20 per gallon prices. His radio reports on another invasion of Poland, while country fields transform into steeple-like towers of run-down factories, like old monuments to former industries of a time long past.

Our character reaches the city limit, a border-like security checkpoint where he is required to scan his identity card to enter the city, the likes of which we see in China today. Masks required. He then drives through empty streets of a once bustling city, save for several suspect people who seem to blend into the crevices of alleyways and corners, shrouded by their masks.

Finally, our character meets with his "contact," who gives him some type of canister, supposedly a remedy for his wife's ailment. He barters with several cuts of meat, a rarity more valuable than inflated cash in this "Green New World." From this point onward, things take a turn for our character—for the worst.

Glenn's warning

Many of these scenes bring to life themes that Glenn has been warning about for years, from the government's use of a pandemic to seize control over its people, the depleted dollar and record-high inflation resulting from government spending and foreign conflicts, the Great Reset's goals to eliminate meat, gas-powered products, and other "high emissions products." All of these will be done in the name of seemingly righteous goals: "health," "safety," "security," and the "future of our planet" come to mind. However, we won't realize our freedoms will be a faint memory of the past until it is too late.

All of these measures will be done in the name of seemingly "righteous" goals.

House on Fire's poignant ending leaves the reader with a terrifying yet vitally important question: are the issues plaguing our society latent within society itself, or do they stem from the troubles within our own souls? Does society mold the human soul, or is society, as Plato puts it, the human soul "writ large?"

Battaglia's short yet powerful graphic novel brings to life many of the themes that Glenn has been warning his listeners. It is sitting on his desk, and we hope it will sit on yours too. It gives the reader a glimpse into our society after years of decay and oppression, calling on the reader to halt its progression before it's too late.

Click HERE to get your own copy!

Elon Musk comments on Glenn's podcast with David Sacks, takes jab at U.S. foreign policy

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Elon Musk chimed into Glenn's conversation about foreign policy with PayPal's founding COO David Sacks on the most recent installment of the Glenn Beck Podcast.

Musk tweeted, "US foreign policy is bronze tier on a good day!" He hit the nail on the head, as Glenn and Sacks discussed the deterioration of U.S. foreign policy and the rising probability of war with Russia and China.

Glenn asked Sacks, "How likely do you think it is that we'd be headed towards war?" Sacks responded that he has been warning about the imminent threat of war since the Ukraine situation started and lamented that we have entered into a "proxy war of choice" with Russia.

"We engaged in a series of actions going back to 2008 that the Russians have viewed as highly provocative," Sacks said, decrying the continued expansion of NATO into Ukraine. Russia has continually warned the U.S. against expanding NATO into Ukraine, yet the State Department "crusaders" have persisted in their NATO-driven objective, which is "unacceptable to the Russians," Sacks said, "in the same way the Soviet Union trying to put nukes in Cuba was unacceptable to us in 1962."

If NATO expansion isn't enough to provoke a response from the Russian bear, our ongoing and escalating aid to Ukraine certainly is. As Sacks explained, "We're not just providing [Ukraine] with money and weapons. We are providing them with intelligence, we have commandos on the ground" and we are even directing Ukrainian soldiers on how to use our weapons on how to hit specific Russian targets. As Sacks said, "We are providing the kill chain" for Ukraine.

To put this in perspective, that would be equivalent to Russian soldiers instructing Taliban members on how to use Russian weapons to hit specific U.S. camps in Afghanistan. In that situation, wouldn't we accuse Russia of engaging in an act of war? The term "proxy" is increasingly diminishing in its relevance towards the U.S.'s involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. We aren't engaging in a "proxy war" anymore. As Sacks said, "We are effectively a co-belligerent in this conflict."

It is no wonder that we are driving Russia into China's arms while both Putin and Xi continue to forge ties with sworn enemies of the U.S., including Iran and North Korea. If we continue to "poke the bear," it is only a matter of time before Russia finds its confidence with its newly-forged allies to retaliate against its aggressor.

Musk rightly said, "US foreign policy is bronze tier on a good day." But U.S. foreign policy has not even had a "good day" in some time. We are not only jeopardizing our own international reputation with ongoing aid to Ukraine; we are jeopardizing the whole world order by marching NATO increasingly toward war. Elites in the Biden administration and the military industrial complex may benefit from aggravating Russia towards war, but it certainly doesn't benefit anyone else, in the U.S. and abroad.

There are few tools in the conservative's kit to fight back against the elites' dangerous agenda. However, Musk mentioned one of these vital tools in a comment he tweeted on Glenn's interview with San Fransicko author and Twitter Files contributor Michael Schellenberger back in January: "Citizen journalism is vital to the future of civilization."

As Glenn continues to give people a platform to speak out against the elites, it is encouraging to see Musk continue to help make Twitter a platform where people can voice their challenges to the machine's agenda.