Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the gift that keeps on giving! No, today is not April Fool's but you'd think the latest from AOC was just another 4/1 special. Watch this clip to hear her "alternative facts" on the constitutional amendment imposing term limits to the presidency.
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February 17, 2025
Is a Global Gold "Ponzi Scheme" About to Come Crashing Down?
Something weird is going on with gold, related to tariffs and a possible audit, that could drastically change the value of the dollar. Glenn reviews an X thread from user Matt Smith and warns that we must start looking for the word "rehypothecation" to appear in news stories. If that happens, it would mean, "no one owns anything." But this isn't the only possible future. There's a chance, Glenn explains, that Trump could return the US dollar to the gold standard.
Read the X thread: https://x.com/mattpheus/status/188961...
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GLENN: They're great. There is a great thread from Matt Smith, that I retweeted last night. And it's about the -- the dollar and our economy and everyone needs to read this.
What the average person is going to be talking about is my groceries are going up. And, yes, they are. That's not anything from this administration. That is from all of the lies, that the media was telling you that things were strong and it's getting better. Yada, yada.
No. It's not. Those numbers and all of that stuff were garbage!
And it's not getting better yet.
And Donald Trump is cutting, cutting, cutting.
But we also need to cut regulations.
We need to get business back on its feet.
These two things have to have happen in a coordinated passion.
Otherwise, you will get the spending.
Remember, most of our GDP. A lot of our GDP is coming from the government.
They're spending all of this money.
You're not spending money. They're spending money. That's keeping the government's GDP. So if you cut, our GDP goes down. Which means all kinds of numbers start to fluctuate from interest rates and everything else. So we want a growing GDP, which means we have to grow real wealth. We have to grow real business. Not NGOs. And the one guy that I think can do it is Donald Trump. But there's a tweet, that caught my eye yesterday. Because it starts with gold, and I've been following the comments.
There's something going on with gold, and nobody really knows what it is. Somebody here in the United States is buying a crap load of gold. We think, I hope. It's the Treasury. Or the central bank. The Fed. But somebody is taking huge physical deliveries. And it's causing shortages, in London. Where they're -- they buy and sell gold.
There are shortages now of gold. Because somebody is buying it. And shipping it here. Somebody with very deep pockets. Okay. So why? Now, this is all theory. That's fact. Here's the theory of what's going on.
They're preparing for a full-on gold audit. We talked about this yesterday. The government right now claims on its balance sheet, as an asset, all of this gold.
And it's valued at $45 an ounce. In case, you haven't heard, it's $2,900 an ounce. So they're talking now, about boosting the price of gold, at least market to market, but maybe even making it 5,000 dollars an ounce. Okay? If that happens, the balance sheet starts to fall into line, and our debt to GDP is not as bad as it really is. Right now. Okay?
Just start claiming the truth about gold, and our balance sheet starts to come into line. Start taking our minerals, start taking our oil. And claiming those as assets, and putting those on the balance sheet. Which we can do. And it's not a bad idea. Unless, you know, we lose in the end.
Because then we lose all of our assets, our natural it assets. You put those on the balance sheet. This helps strengthen the United States. Because we're coming a place where we're not going to be able to finance the debt. Who wants to write the United States a new long-term loan, at less than really market value, and market value, I mean, you know -- if you walked into a bank, and you had the credit report that the United States of America has. What do you think the bank is going to charge you in interest?
You're a risk. You're just addicted to spending. You're doing ridiculous things. I'm sorry.
Now, they might write you a check, if you have all of this stuff on your balance sheet. Okay?
And that's why they're doing it. They're trying to reshore up our balance sheet, make ourselves healthier than we are. Because we're at the end of the dollar. We're at the end of this financial system. So this is an endgame. It's why tariffs are being, you know, brought in.
It's a -- it's a -- to -- to force others to start to see the sorry situation they're in, I mean. Europe. If this deal with Ukraine goes through, which, by the way, yesterday, had a great -- a perfect phone call with Putin. And it did go really, really well.
And Donald Trump is saying, yeah. You know, we might have to have the resources, from you. We might. We want your rare earth minerals.
Because of what we've already given you.
We want that in exchange.
He's doing that as a negotiating tactic with everybody.
And he's putting on notice, the European Union.
We're not in this anymore. This is your problem. We leave. We're not rebuilding Ukraine. You have to do it.
And you're going to have to protect it. And we're not going to guarantee its protection. So if you want it protected. You do it. They're talking $3 trillion to be able to rebuild and protect.
Europe can't handle that!
But, you know what, Europe, neither can we!
So he's putting everybody in the same situation.
And this is going to cause inflation to rise. It's going to!
It will punish the average person. Because tariffs and everything else. If they're not done exactly right, it will punish with higher prices.
However, he's betting that wages will also rise. Because he's forcing people to keep their profits here.
And make jobs here.
If everything goes right, what the -- the trade on gold is showing us, is that we may be going towards a gold-backed financial system. Or gold-backed currency of some sort.
The Fed could even be shut down. There is something big in the wind, and nobody knows what it is, for sure.
So if -- what do you do as a regular person?
You need to understand that the dollar could be by design. Being collapsed.
That's exactly what the Biden administration was doing.
Collapsing the dollar. But they didn't have a plan, to replace it, other than a digital dollar. And, you know, global slavery.
I'm not sure what the plan is here. But it seems much more American-centric. Good for America. And good for the rest of the world.
And it doesn't look like it's taking freedom away from people. But we have to watch it.
The situation with the economy is really dire.
That hasn't gone away!
What we have is a -- one of the best mechanics who have hired the rest of the best mechanics. To come in, put up the hood, and say, we want to save this engine!
How do we do it?
And they're applying that. We don't know what direction. But a -- a huge sign that something big is coming, is the amount of gold that is being purchased. And the key here that you have to understand, shortages in London, gold flowing into the US at record levels. Somebody with deep pockets. This is what Matt Smith is scooping up gold.
They're reshoring gold, that might have been leased out. What does that mean?
That the United States is buying all this gold. Why?
Because they're reshoring the gold that might have been leased out. That's rehypothecation. That's just the word away from the word that I said, if you see rehypothecation.
Begin to be bantered around. Look out.
What rehypothecation is, is we've taken one asset. And we've -- we've counted it, on several different accounting books.
So we counted at the United States. But also, we've -- we've leased this gold out to Germany.
So Germany could get more money, based on their gold. But their gold is our gold.
And our gold is England's gold. So that's how dire this is. Is we're beginning to enter the world of rehypothecation. Which means, no one knows anything. Because your house, you say, well, I've got my loan through Citibank. Because Citibank has rehypothesized -- has used rehypothecation to put that on their balance sheet, as that's their house. But they sold it in a package to eight different banks. And they're all counting that house, yours. As an asset. So when they all start to go down, they all say, well, we've got all of these assets. Well, no, you don't.
Which one of you has the 100 percent.
You're all claiming 100 percent of Bob Smith's house. Which one actually has it? Well, they all do. This is such a Ponzi scheme. Where -- you know what this is?
This is the story of The Producers. You ever see the movie, or the stage show Mel Brooks, the Producers. Why did they get into trouble? Because they were selling over 100 percent of the play. They kept selling the play. You get 100 percent. You get 100 percent. You get 100 percent. All thinking, that it's not -- that that particular show, wouldn't make any money.
It won't be a success. It's the worst play ever. So it will close. And nobody will audit and say, wait a minute. You sold 100 percent. Nobody will ask. They just want to get away from it.
They lost their money. It closed.
But if it's a success, they now have to pay 100 percent of the proceeds to 14 different people!
It's a scam. That's what's happened here. They have sold 100 percent of your house, or in this case, the gold!
To several different people. When everybody says, I'm in trouble. I want my money back. I need my gold. Trouble.
Trouble.
STU: I mean, it just seems like the type of thing that's almost impossible to unwind. Right?
If it's that deep, how do you unwind it, or do you just protect yourself and your family?
GLENN: For you. You -- you make sure that if your house is paid for. If you have anything paid for, you have the title.
You know where the title is, you have the title.
Okay? So you're not in as bad of shape.
If you own things. You own your car. Good.
The title.
You own your house, good. Have the title.
It's really good, if you're buying a house, to make sure that that loan is staying local.
That they're not reselling that loan. That it's staying with one bank. And it's not -- it's not being sold, what were those cold? Credit default swaps.
STU: I remember those things. Yeah.
GLENN: That it's not being sold like that. Because that's what causes the problem.
And -- and so you just need assets.
You need real assets. If you can buy gold, you should buy gold.
It especially, if they're going to start counting that on the balance sheet. If they change the price of gold, to -- from $45, to $4,500, that means they're going to have to do that worldwide. So gold all of a sudden becomes $4,500 an ounce. Okay. As your that are goes down, your gold will go through the roof.
STU: This is much better when Margot Robbie is telling me about it, in a bathtub. That is -- the delivery --
GLENN: I can run the water.
STU: No. Please don't. Oh, my gosh. Sara just threw up on the board. Stations, we may have some technical difficulties.
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February 14, 2025
Cabinet Wins, DOGE Audits, Tariffs: Trump's Third Week Has Been WILD!
It's only been 3 weeks of Donald Trump's second presidency and A LOT has changed! Glenn reviews some of the biggest wins that we've seen in the past few days: RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard were confirmed as members of Trump's cabinet, Kash Patel is one step closer to being FBI Director, Trump has called for “fair and reciprocal” tariffs on US trade partners, DOGE is preparing to audit the IRS, and the list goes on!
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GLENN: Let's see what the president has been up to in the last 24 hours.
Does this guy sleep? What's Melania doing for Valentine's Day today?
STU: One thing. When he's the president of the United States, is he thinking about that type of thing?
GLENN: No. He has people think about it. People who have people.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: Yeah, people who have people. Usually, maybe like, maybe his son. Like, Dad. Maybe you should carve out a couple of hours tonight.
Oh, crap. I didn't even. You're president. I think I can make a few calls.
STU: I feel like, it's interesting that we just have a president that is awake, like every day. He seems to wake up. We see him places. Have you noticed this? I don't know if you've noticed this at all. But current president of the United States, we see him out doing things. Isn't that weird?
I feel like it's weird.
I don't know about this system we have, where the president is awake every day. It's changing our traditions, Glenn. I'm concerned about it.
GLENN: It is. It is. Well, Barack knows. We have to change our --
STU: That's true. Trump has kind of dropped the hammer on the rest of the world with tariffs. And I kind of like this tariff. Whatever they charge us, we're going to charge them.
STU: Reciprocal tariffs.
GLENN: Reciprocal tariffs. That's fair. We're not going to charge you -- I mean, maybe China would.
But we will not charge you more than you charge us. You charge us something. We'll charge you.
I think that's good!
STU: Yeah, it's interesting. It certainly seems fair. Right? Like, don't fire up.
Because the rest of the world loves tariffs. They love tariffs more than we love tariffs, even though we --
GLENN: I don't love tariffs.
STU: I don't love them at all.
Trump does love them. We've talked to him even in private conversations. By the way, in case you're wondering, is he just saying this just for the cameras? No. He really loves them. He loves tariffs. I don't agree with him on that policy. Though, he's used it to great effect recently.
That being said, I mean, if someone started charging you 100 percent tariff on a particular item, picking that same item and putting a tariff, 175 percent, certainly is fair. Now, of course, the reason we import things typically is because we don't have them here.
GLENN: Right! But not necessarily, like cars. Cars. Europe charges us a 10 percent tariff to send a Ford over.
And they charge -- we charge them 2 percent to send a Mercedes. I mean, what's fair about that?
STU: Now, again, one of the things that's fair about that. Is it's not paying an extra 8 percent on a car. We get a benefit of that, as a consumer.
That if we want to buy a European car, we will pay a little bit less and now we'll pay a little bit more. So there is a penalty to that.
However, it is certainly fair. The word "fair," I think applies when it comes to nation-to-nation relation.
And one of the things we've liked about having these lower tariffs on our side is getting lower prices for our consumers.
GLENN: Correct.
STU: And so they're -- and as Trump has discussed, he's been very up front with us. There will be pain with these policies. But long-term, we think it's worth it.
And that's really where the rubber meets the road.
GLENN: Okay. So now, everybody is very, very upset about Donald Trump signing off on DOGE and the audit of the IRS.
Now, I do have to question your sanity when you're against the audit of the IRS.
STU: You seem to be for audits. You can't audit them?
GLENN: Yeah. Who do you have to be, to be against an audit of the IRS, and bring every single receipt you have! I want to see every receipt. Oh, I want to help them.
STU: By the way, Glenn, I work with you.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
STU: My job is -- and for multiple decades now, has to be -- become closely associated with Glenn Beck.
GLENN: Yeah, it's good.
STU: Oh, the perks. The benefits. Oh, gosh, I can't even count them!
GLENN: Yeah. Hmm.
STU: Yet, somehow, I made it through the entire Barack Obama administration. And the entire Joe Biden administration.
GLENN: Yeah!
STU: Without getting audited.
GLENN: Yeah. Not me.
STU: No. I know. I remember. And yet what about happens two weeks ago? I get a letter with the IRS, with Trump in office. That I'm getting audited.
And I don't know if this is just a parting gift from the Biden administration. How is that happening?
GLENN: That's what I'm saying. Thank God somebody noticed your shadiness. Somebody finally noticed. He's very shady. He's very shady.
You know, the good thing is, both of us stay -- to our accountants, we always say the same thing. Anybody who is preparing our taxes. Stay way away from the line.
STU: Yes. 100 percent.
GLENN: When in doubt, leave it out.
STU: Still, it's incredibly frustrating. We were talking to Alan Dershowitz, I have every single book -- everything -- yeah. Sure. Somewhere, I have every receipt from 2022. I'm sure.
But, I mean, the -- this is this relationship that we have with the government, that is this adversarial torture fest, that we pay for every year. Oh, gosh. I can't wait to pay by taxes.
Maybe I'll get a refund. Maybe they'll give me some of the money that is mine, back to me, multiple months later.
GLENN: I believe that's actually what happened to me.
I believe they owed me money.
STU: After the audit. Yeah.
GLENN: I stayed away from the line.
STU: That's what you have to be.
GLENN: You know, jail time does not sound good to me. In any way, shape or form.
STU: The wrong IRS agent, that doesn't like your show, happens to be doing it, well, guess what happens? They push it beyond the limits of normalcy. So the good senator and common sense-filled senator from Oregon, Ron Wyden said, this means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America.
Wait. What? You mean like the IRS does?
(laughter)
STU: What core of government function are you guys talking about?
GLENN: No, what's up with that? And it could be the very reason behind possible delays, in people receiving their tax refunds for 2024.
What a scare tactic.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: These guys are so freaked out about Donald Trump. I mean, you know, the one thing that happened yesterday, that everybody should recognize. Mitch McConnell was alone. He was alone.
STU: That's huge.
GLENN: That's gigantic.
STU: On two votes. Tulsi and RFK!
GLENN: I know. I know.
STU: And before this, if McConnell said, hey, this is where I'm going, he would always have a bunch of buddies that would come with him. His closest friends. It would always do that.
GLENN: It's weird, you cut off the money, and things change.
STU: Yeah, he no longer has the leadership. He no longer has control of that cash. All of a sudden, he's a lonesome dove.
GLENN: Yeah!
So let me just ask -- I want to ask, are you tired of winning? Let me just give you the winning streak so far number Congress. Marco Rubio, voted to be confirmed, 99 to zero. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, confirmed, 68 to 29.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, seventy-nine to 18. Brook Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, 72 to 28.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, seventy-seven to 22. Pam Bondi, 54 to 46. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner, 55 to 44.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, 59 to 38. Doug Collins Veterans Affairs, seventy-seven to 23. Kristi Noem.
Secretary of Homeland Security, 59 to 34. Lee Zeldin became the EPA administrator 56 by 42.
I have to tell you, Lee Zeldin, there's some stuff he did yesterday, that you're like, holy cow.
STU: Yeah, I have high hopes for the him. He's off to a very good start.
GLENN: Yeah, Russ Vought, who I just absolutely love. Director Office Management and Budget. He's done a lot of incredible things this week. 53 to 47.
John Ratcliff, confirmed as CIA director, 74 to 25. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK were confirmed yesterday. You have Kash Patel who got out of the committee and is going to be voted on early next week. And, of course, you have Pete Hegseth. I mean, and Mitch McConnell, standing there alone, all day yesterday.
This is good. Now, the president did a couple of other things yesterday, that are ground-breaking. But we need to make sure Congress passes all of these things as laws.
And they're not just executive order.
And that's going to require us to keep the heat on Congress. And they're working on the budget.
Congress just put together their budget for next year.
The Senate is squealing like stuck little pigs.
But we need to get them to pass in one bill. And you're going to get some crap in that one bill, I'm sure. But you have -- you really have a hard time, going to get two bills through on reconciliation.
So we need it in one bill.
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February 14, 2025
Did Fauci Orchestrate the Pandemic? New Documentary EXPOSES ALL
A few years ago, Glenn reviewed all the evidence that Dr. Fauci’s gain-of-function research may have contributed to the creation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, fellow BlazeTV host Matt Kibbe says we have found the “smoking gun.” Kibbe joins Glenn to discuss Episode 4 of his docuseries, “The Coverup,” which exposes how Fauci’s sketchy research has weaponized viruses, supposedly in the name of “biosecurity.” Plus, Kibbe explains why Biden gave Fauci a blanket pardon going all the way back to 2014, why Fauci was so obsessed with gain-of-function research and “The Science,” and how former NIH director Francis Collins is also involved in this scandal.
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GLENN: We welcome, Mr. Matt Kibbe. Hello, Matt.
MATT: Hey, Glenn.
GLENN: So you -- I can't even imagine what this documentary costs. It's really, really good. And we're up to episode number four, the Cover-up.
MATT: Yes.
GLENN: And this is the one where it all is laid out, crystal clear. With all of the evidence. And it was so satisfying for me to watch. Because we had some of this evidence when I did a special four years ago. And you could connect the dots. You could see it. But a lot of it wasn't there. You had to take a leap of faith that, yes. That dot and that dot, they're only missing the connecting dot that I can't prove right now. You have all of the connecting dots.
My wife, who doesn't really get into these things usually, we were watching it last night.
And she watched it. And I can't tell you how many times she went, oh, my gosh.
Oh, you've got -- what?
I mean, Fauci, I believe thinks he's God.
It is astounding, how long he's been involved in this.
And how much power he has.
Take us from the beginning of this episode.
MATT: It's almost unbelievable, right? When you watch this.
If we didn't have the receipts, you would think, you're just going all Alex Jones here.
GLENN: Yeah. Which, by the way, Alex Jones is starting to make more and more sense.
MATT: Right. Right. I say that as a compliment at this point. Because he warned us about so much of this. And this starts with my very first conversation with Jay Bhattacharya. And he casually mentioned to me on my show, the first time I interviewed him, that this explosion of funding for gain-of-function research happened after 9/11.
And my -- and that -- that stuck with me ever since.
And what Richard Ebright documents in this series is the origins of Fauci's power. Origins of the money. The origins of this mad science experiment that we were going to sort of weaponize viruses. Supposedly in the name of bio security.
And it starts with Dick Cheney who has an obsession about the -- the limits to -- to the government's ability to develop bioweapons agents. Again, ostensibly to keep us safe.
GLENN: Okay. Go ahead.
So it's frustrating to watch this twisted logic. There is no reason to do this gain-of-function research over and over and over again.
Fauci had been asked, and he never answered the question. And all scientists agree, it -- it cannot be you. You do not have to do this to find an antidote to do this.
And that's the one thing I was left thinking. I mean, is this almost an Operation Paper Clip Nazi kind of, we have the power to create this evil stuff, that could wipe out all of humanity? Let's do it.
MATT: Yeah. It reminds me of a more evil version of nation building. This arrogance that says, we could airdrop into another country and teach them Western values and teach them about our Constitution, and suddenly there's property rights and there's rule of law. And it works! And it doesn't work.
It's a form of central planning, right? It's a form of hubris. And this takes it one step forward because you're trying to reimagine nature itself. You're trying to reengineer nature.
It starts with Cheney. You can go back with Nixon, who signed a bioweapons treaty that said we weren't going to do it.
And this is what Dick Cheney was chasing against. And DOD. And these other defense agencies had an office, in their agencies, that said -- that made sure that they didn't violate that treaty. But USAID, NIAID, NIH do not have compliance offices.
So it's a money-laundering scheme, to do these mad science experiments, that they couldn't do legally otherwise. And now, you know, Elon is revealing all of this. You've been talking about this for years.
It's a really, really evil, arrogant thing that happened.
GLENN: Oh, evil. Evil.
You know, when you see Fauci doubling down, and doubling down
Because he's been called on it for years. And most people don't remember it.
It was from the New York Times. And the Washington Post. For years. The things that he was responsible for.
I mean, the bird flu. How many chickens did we have to kill, Pat? What was that?
PAT: 145 million. It was 2022.
GLENN: 145 million chickens. You want to know why the price of eggs is up? That's why!
MATT: Panicide.
GLENN: Yeah. So we're killing them all. Why are we? What happened?
If I'm not mistaken, I learned last night, in watching the cover-up, that that's Fauci too!
MATT: Right. There's more experiments that we know about.
But the ones that Ben, start with -- so Cheney and Fauci. And Fauci gets this huge pay raise to be the czar of gain-of-function research.
And one of his first projects was to re-create the Spanish flu. Which did not exist on the planet earth.
They actually dug up a body and re-created it from scratch. And then they published how to do it in a science journal. And Congress rightfully said, are you insane?
Fauci gets called in. And this is the first of many times, he says, it's worth the risk.
I've decided. It's worth the risk.
And the firestorm goes away.
And then there's various wild experiments with -- with the bird flu. That come very close to catastrophic leaks. Out of labs.
Because every time that Fauci gets called before Congress, he says, we're going to up security.
We're going to develop protocols. We're going to really focus on safety. But they never really do it.
GLENN: No. In fact, it seems to get worse every time.
MATT: Yeah. It gets worse because the program expands and expands. It's like -- it's like this crazy quilt of countries and universities now that are doing this kind of research.
GLENN: And doing it in Ukraine! Ukraine!
MATT: Yeah. It's -- I mean, it will be the end of us, if we don't stop it.
And that's -- that's why I'm obsessed, and that's why Ebright is obsessed. That's why Rand Paul is obsessed.
And you mentioned this, but it's fascinating to point out. Everyone is like, why did Biden give Fauci a blank check going back to 2014?
GLENN: Uh-huh. Why?
MATT: And this is well-documented in this episode. Because starting in 2015 is when Fauci and Francis Collins, the head of the NIH, started willfully ignoring the law against gain-of-function research, explicitly on coronaviruses.
GLENN: So here is my -- here is my only question, and I think I have the answer. Why would Fauci do this?
There was like literally almost every scientist saying, don't do this. There's no reason for this.
And he just keeps going into the most dangerous things we possibly can.
Why?
MATT: He's. If you know his history. He's the consummate apparatchik.
And when Dick Cheney goes to him. And says, I have this idea.
And Fauci's answer, I wasn't there.
But Fauci surely said, hold my beer. I'll do that. If you're going to give me all that and money power, I will do it.
If I have a chance to reimagine nature, I'm up for that task. And he's written about it.
I keep quoting this article that he and his now probably going to jail partner David Morin wrote a piece himself, in 2020, talking about bending modernity and reimagining how we live our lives from where we live, to how we travel, to how we gather.
So he has this God complex.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
MATT: And I don't know if he had it when he said yes. He may have been a good bureaucrat. Lots of money. I can grow my power.
You can pay me a lot more.
But in that echo chamber over the next 20 years, where every scientist -- I mean, you went from the scientific community blowing the whistle and saying, this is crazy.
It gets a little quieter every time that Fauci is caught doing something. Because at some point, they're all on the payroll. And if you want to stick your neck out, like Richard Ebright did, you might lose all of your NIH grants.
You might lose your university position because your university is addicted to all of this gain of function funding.
So they -- they have bought and paid for science itself. And corrupted the process to the point where, we shouldn't trust the science.
Because it is not science. It is this mad science, arrogant project.
GLENN: When Fauci said disagreeing with me, is disagreeing with science.
Was that a God complex?
Or was that a, I fund all the science.
Go ahead, disagree all you want, but I control the science.
MATT: And I think it's both. And I do think that when Rand Paul started questioning him, he had never, ever faced someone that was both skeptical and informed. And so he's been able to BS is his way past senators and congressmen.
Because you can sort of throw a bunch of words and science-y stuff at them.
And you can change the definition of gain of function research.
And virtually no one except for a few people that have either done their research or have been following him, have any idea that he's just lying to you.
So I think -- I think it was both. At that point. He was in his own mind, the God of science.
But he also wasn't used to people questioning his authority.
GLENN: Like I said, when I first started talking about this, today, my wife and I watched it last night.
And she gasped several times. So did I.
And you won't believe it. I mean, just talking about it here, does not do this justice.
In seeing what Fauci has done and what we're dealing with now, all over the world, and how it is still growing, it -- it -- you will -- you will be saying to president Trump and RFK and Bhattacharya and everybody else, arrest this man. Stop this, right now.
Because like you said, you know how I feel about AI.
That is -- that is -- we're just -- that's nitroglycerin in a paint shaker. Hey, let's give that a whirl.
This is probably closer to killing us right now. Because all it takes is one mistake.
And any of these crazy labs. And nobody is talking about it.
Nobody is admitting it.
It's got to be -- it has to be completely exposed. Every name needs to come out. There needs to be punishments for it. And all of it, burnt in an incinerator.
MATT: Yeah.
And it will be a lot like the nuclear weapons arsenal. And this is something that Dr. Ebright talks about as well. The risk grows exponentially as you expand the program.
Because if you have a couple of universities. If you have a couple of labs doing this, you know where it is.
GLENN: Right.
MATT: But now, it's all over the place.
GLENN: Right. And you've got all these people. Somebody mad. Somebody disgruntled. Somebody just stupid.
Somebody, you know, makes a mistake. Every time this program grows.
MATT: Yeah. By the way. And this is something we also talk about. The anthrax attacks.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
MATT: Which conveniently happened one month after 9/11.
Well, we eventually learned, or at least are told that it was, in fact, a government-financed lab, that had access to anthrax.
GLENN: Yeah.
MATT: That allegedly caused this, which paved the way for all of this funding that we're talking about.
It wasn't just the Patriot Act. It was additional legislation that massively expanded the money that Fauci would get control of.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. But oddly enough, the guy that was accused of doing that, committed suicide before he could be prosecuted.
GLENN: Yeah. I know.
That stood out to me yesterday too.
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February 13, 2025
Elon Musk is NOT a Threat to "Democracy." He's a Threat to Bureaucracy
Elon Musk and DOGE are not threats to "democracy," like Democrats are complaining. They're threats to the bureaucracy that has taken over the government our Constitution established. Glenn explains how this all originated with Woodrow Wilson, who dreamed of "freeing" the government from the "chains" of the Constitution and replacing it with a government of "experts" and administrators. That's where the shadow government began and that's what Trump and DOGE are "destroying."
Transcript
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Elon Musk said, that we're not living in a democracy, we're living in a bureaucracy.
When he said that, my response was, yes. Now, I don't know if you know who Elon. I don't know if you know who Woodrow Wilson is.
But, yes!
Living under a bureaucracy, that's the point. Let me give you the quote, the history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history of limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. Who said that?
Sounds like a guy who understands and values freedom. Somebody who understands the delicate balance of power, between the individual and the state. Right?
But the guy who said that, was the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.
Now, does that sound like somebody that we know, maybe on the left, that is now saying things like, we've got to save democracy? We've got to save democracy?
He's killing democracy, by cutting the bureaucracy.
Wilson was exactly the same kind of politician. Except, he was the grandfather of all of this.
He was the architect of a vision, where government would no longer be confined by the rules, the outdated rules. And the chains of the Constitution.
He was the guy who said the Declaration of Independence needed to be cast aside, because it's an outdated relic. He was the guy that wanted you not to be governed by the laws of nature. And nature's God. But by an elite ruling class of scientists, experts, bureaucrats.
That's -- that's what he wanted.
Isn't that what we have right now? We're not -- we don't elect the president. You elect the president and nothing changes. Why?
Not just because both parties are alike. But because the bureaucracy is set in stone!
It's a ruling class, of scientists, experts, and bureaucrats. Wilson believed that the government was no longer the machine of our Founding Fathers, that needed to be shackled and restrained.
He thought government should be a living organism, an evolving entity, free from the so-called outdated principles of 1776. This is where we get the Constitution is a living, breathing thing.
No, it's not. No, that's Woodrow Wilson.
He looked at the Constitution. The greatest safeguard of liberty ever written. And didn't see it as a beacon of freedom. He saw it as an obstacle that needed to be overcome. He -- let me paint you this picture.
Imagine, you're sitting in a grand lecture hall. It's early 1900s. Gaslights are flickering. And a young professor steps up to the podium.
He stands at the podium, everybody starts to be quiet. It's all -- you're in the crowd, everybody there is the future rulers of America.
And he starts in to thunderous applause, with something that, I don't know.
Me. It would -- the back of my neck, the hair on the back of my neck would stand up.
He said, quote, the makers of the Constitution constructed the federal government upon a theory of checks and balances. Which was meant to limit the government's power.
And therefore, its ability to govern.
This was a great mistake. The Constitution was founded on the Newtonian theory of the universe.
But we now understand, that the government is not a machine. But a living thing.
It must evolve. It must adapt. And it must be freed from its chains!
End quote.
Freed from its chains. When I read that line, I -- I thought to myself. I thought of setting the monster free in Young Frankenstein.
You're free! You're free! It didn't work out well.
Okay? When you take something that is like fire. Hello, California. And just release it. It is a very bad thing.
Washington said, government is like fire!
It will be the master of you, if you're not the master of it. Are we the master of our government, or is it the master over us?
What do you think happens, when you -- when you have a government, I free it from its chains?
Does it become a benevolent force?
Does it look out for your best interest. Does it even know who you are, let alone answer to you?
Wilson wasn't just a professor. He was a man on a mission.
To change, and this is his words.
To change a man or a boy, to be the most unlike his father, as possible.
Isn't that what our education system is doing?
Wilson believed that we needed to move away from the messy system of self-government.
And have it all placed into the capable hands of an intellectual elite, that he called administrative experts.
So you can see this throughout our whole government. Anthony Fauci.
The law was, that we are not supposed to do gain-of-function research!
We now know, through all kinds of records, that have been released, that Anthony Fauci disagreed with that. And he made the decision, that we were going to do gain-of-function research!
Because it's not up to him, to answer to the people!
He answers -- he's the expert!
He's the administrator. He knows better than the average person. Even if other scientists disagree with him, he is science!
These experts, that are unelected, and unaccountable, Wilson saw this. This is -- these are the people that need to run the country.
Not as representatives of the people. But as scientists, technocrats, bureaucrats, who know better than you do, on how to live your life.
For Wilson, and now you're seeing his finished product, that Trump and Elon Musk are beginning to dismantle. You are now seeing, that his vision was that the American people were not individuals that were given God-give up rights.
They were just parts of a collective. A mass to be organized. To be managed.
To be directed.
He viewed the old principles of liberty and self-determination. Those are relics of an ignorant past.
Things that have to be replaced. By science. And numbers. Cold, efficiency of science and government regulation.
Now, our founders would say, that's all well and good.
We understand that, let's just take you, at face value and say you're honest in that. But what you're forgetting is that men go bad with power and money!
All men can be corrupted.
So it's not that we are putting chains on the government, because government is bad! No. Government is made up of the people that are in it.
And if you don't limit it, if you -- if you allow them to gain more and more power, and more and more money. It will go corrupt.
And it will begin to oppress you.
The government -- the founders weren't anti government. They were anti-out of control large government. Where the people were servants of that government, not the other way around.
Wilson wrote, the Declaration of Independence. That the -- the foundation of our freedoms.
He said, it was outdated.
He called the principles for all practices and purposes in the Declaration, meaningless.
Meaningless is his word.
The words that inspired the American Revolution, the ideas that all men are created equal, that our rights come from God. Not from government. Were to Wilson, irrelevant. And meaningless in the modern world.
Why? Because you're too stupid to understand what's really going on. You're too stupid to be able to manage the affairs, of not only the nation. But the world!
Every time we try to manage a nation, or the world, we go wrong!
Every single time!
He didn't believe you really have a right to property. To speech. To life itself, unless the government allowed it. If that doesn't terrify you, let me tell you something darker than that. Not morality.
Not faith, not the Constitution. But science should be the guiding force of government.
Well, we saw that with COVID. Didn't we?
Follow the science!
What kind of science?
The experiments that Fauci has been doing on animals and everything else. It's -- it's -- it's -- it's Mengele stuff.
It's really evil stuff! Because it has no medical purpose to it at all. The science that Wilson was talking about. Was eugenics.
And that's the same kind of stuff, that just named it something else. But it's the same kind of medicine that we're talking about now.
The kind that kills those who are unfit. Look at what's happening in Canada!
It's the kind of politics that led to policies of forced sterilization.
And racial segregation.
Which he put into practice. He was the guy who reseparated -- resegregated the military.
He segregated the government.
He praised the film, birth of a nation. Which we don't need to be the Klan. He believed in an America where government, led by an enlightened few, would decide who was fit to participate in society, and who wasn't.
Does that sound like America to you at all?
Or does that sound like the birth of something entirely different?
When he left office, it grew!
It took root in Washington, because they figured out, companies could go to Washington and lobby and get their way.
This was the beginning of all of the lobbyists in Washington.
And it -- it just grew. Ever expanding bureaucracy. A shadow government of unelected officials, who now control almost every aspect of your life! From what kind of car you drive. To what you eat.
To what stove you can have in your house. How you can build your house.
His dream was that a government would no longer be by the people. But by the experts.
The people would be managed. Guided. And nudged in the right direction.
So when they're saying that they're destroying democracy, no. They're destroying the bureaucracy, which is the antithesis to our founding documents.