RADIOJanuary 30, 2024

Did Biden RETALIATE against Texas with liquid natural gas ban?

After Texas refused to back down and hand over control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, to federal authorities, President Biden banned all new liquid natural gas (LNG) export approvals. While Biden claimed this was a climate-related decision, many criticized the timing, since it will likely hurt Texas' economy. So, was this Biden's revenge on Texas for trying to secure the border? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tells Glenn that he has "no doubt." Paxton joins Glenn to explain the state's latest border moves and address critics who say his razor wire lawsuit doesn't mention Texas' right to defend against invasion. Plus, he gives his take on the “Take Our Border Back” trucker convoy.

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GLENN: Attorney General Ken Paxton joins us now. Hello, Ken, how are you?

KEN: I'm well, good morning.

GLENN: Good morning.

So I just have to say, I read your -- I read your letter, to the general council of the US Department of Homeland Security. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This particular paragraph, I would like to quote.

You are talking to a man, who the Department of Homeland Security and the federal government has said, we have government land. And you're not letting us use and access our government land. So we can get down to the river.

You said, second, you say, the United States acquired a perpetual easement from the city of Eagle Pass in 2018.

What I said last week about the 2015 MOA, I'll say again now, about your latest claim. Quote, Texas never approved that transaction, as required by article four, section ten of the Texas Constitution.

Your federal agency cannot have something, that it was not the city's right to give.

You are invited to read that document, here.

And you'll hyper link to the Constitution.

But even if the 2015 MOA were somehow valid, you're not seeking access consistent with its terms. The nonexclusive easement from 2018, is attached for your convenience.

Its press purpose is to allow maintenance of a road, along the river, including the right to trim trees or other obstacles within the roadway.

Elsewhere, the 2018 easement prohibits the United States from making any permanent improvements, other than roadway without written city approval. If your federal agency wishes to help the municipal officials with tree trimming and road maintenance chores, I suspect they would appreciate the help.

The 2018 easement, however, nowhere contemplates allowing the federal government to deploy infrastructure that President Biden will use to waive thousands of illegal aliens into a park that will continue to be and used and enjoyed for recreational events.

I -- I -- I found your clarity enjoyable.
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KEN: Me too.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

KEN: I mean, it's not complicated. And they keep misstating what actually is true.

And you know that. About the border. And then about this particular case.

Because the law and the facts do not back them up. And so they make claims about how it's their property.

And how they have claims with the city. Obviously, not based in any fact.

So, anyway, it's -- it's the way they operate. It's how they've operated for three and a half years.

And he we will hope that the electorate gets it, and realizes how bad this is.

GLENN: So there's been people saying that, none of this constitutional stuff, was argued with the last case that was in front of the Supreme Court.

And if I'm not mistaken, that's true. You're arguing an invasion backed up by eight different letters. Given to the president.

He ignored all eight of them.

This is -- this is an attempt, I think, to get them, into the Supreme Court, is it not?

KEN: Yes. So it was what? Ten, 12 years ago, that Obama sued Arizona over their law, which tried to protect Arizona.

And Robert v. Kennedy, and the three little judges came in and said, it's preempted by federal law.

But it is true also, that we've seen a very different border than we've ever seen, and the consequences of that decision is that it dramatically negatively impacted the country.

I don't even know if you can measure it.

Both socially and economically. But it's also true, that it was argued that there was an invasion. So this is a different argument, in front of a very different court.

And we're hopeful that we can get at least the five justices that are not Roberts. And maybe that Roberts, if he starts realizing how bad that decision was.

GLENN: So, I mean, you have a -- the only case that I think that they could make, that the American people would understand is, well, this is not an invasion.

That's not what the Constitution meant by invasion. And we could argue that point all day long. And win a thousand times.

However, you're not the only one saying it. Now you have 25 governors saying it. And the state of Mexico is now saying, that they fear there's an invasion of their company, or country.

Coming in from the Southern border. Their Southern border.

KEN: Well, you're right. There's more people saying -- more recognizing it. It's become common knowledge. Common understanding.

It's also true. I don't think any of these states would have joined the confederation, or they were signed on to the Constitution. And I don't think Texas, be surely, at that time, would have signed on. If they believed. That the federal government would have passed laws.

About people coming across the border. And somehow not enforce those laws. And then the state would be prohibited from defending their orders, and they would have to allow all kinds of crime and who knows who coming across the border, including terrorists. I cannot believe that was the understanding at the time.

So it's difficult for me to believe, that that's what the Founders meant. And that's what really matters here.

What did the Founders envision?

GLENN: So I want to go back to this. Because Ken Cuccinelli and others have said, Paxton and Abbott are not asserting the invasion clause in the border fence case.

They did in the Buie case, but not this one. This is separate, correct?

KEN: Yes. There are separate cases. One, we were sued by the federal government. The other, we sued the federal government.

So we had different arguments for different cases. We made the invasion argument. The governor has declared an invasion. You can quibble over how we use it, when we use it. I guess if Ken wanted to write the brief, he can come in and try to help us.

But the reality is, you know, we've got a pretty good team, that is pretty successful in the Biden administration.

I guess you can say, they're not perfect. They don't get 100 percent of the wins. Guess what, we don't decide the cases either.

I don't necessarily think, that if Ken had the pen on every case, if he would get it all right either.

Or that we necessarily agree with him, on every particular point.

GLENN: But it's my -- and excuse me. I'm way, way out of my league on this one.

But it seems to me, that this is something entirely new.

What happened last week, after the decision, that this is entirely new. And you're trying to either get the government to try to sue you. Or you in a place, to where you have to sue the government.

So this is entirely separate, is it not?

KEN: That's correct. And we also have another law going into effect. We have the Buie case. We have the Concertina wire case, which is still going, despite the fact that the Supreme Court stopped the injunction.

We still have that case going in the fifth circuit. We also have -- we aren't even sued bit federal government and the ACLU, over a law that was passed and goes into effect. Passed by the legislature. State legislature. Goes into effect, I think March 5th.

And it says Texas can start deporting on its own. So all of these cases will be opportunities for us, to make the argument, hey, we're being invaded.

Hey, this decision that you made in the past cannot be right, given the consequences to our state. The federal government shouldn't be able to pass laws. And not not enforce them. They're actually aiding and abetting the cartels. They can't be allowed to help the cartels. Then we have to sit on the sideline. Suffer the terrible consequences of that decision.

GLENN: All right.

Back with Ken Paxton with more in just one minute, 60 seconds time. First.

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GLENN: Ken, what happens if the president says, I'm going to federalize the National Guard?

KEN: So he -- he has the right to do it. There's -- obviously, I think that's a bad decision. I think it's also a bad decision for his election changes. Because his numbers on the immigration issue are not good. And he -- if he takes over our National Guard, and makes it even harder for us to protect the border. Then I think that hurts him in the coming election.

So he has to make a choice here.

Does he want to continue to damage his reputation, and his standing on the immigration issue?

Or is he going to go forward with his policy for the last three and a half years. Which is dismantle every law that we have in place, to help the cartels, accomplish their goals of getting as many people here as possible. And building their network and our country.

GLENN: And he would probably have to nationalize the National Guard for 25 different states. Because they're sending their National Guard, right.

Yeah. Every state that sends the National Guard. I would assume, he would have to take him too.

So it will be very confrontational. It will be very directed at the states. And it will be very directed at helping the cartels continue their operation on the border.

GLENN: Do you think the L and G decision that came out. This weekend.

About natural gas, sales being curbed, for overseas.

For the next year.

Do you think that was directed to Texas.

KEN: Oh, I have no doubt.

That was at least a side part of it.

Obviously, they don't like any fossil fuels.

Even if they're clean burning fossil fuels.

They have -- they have enriched many people, dealing with this all this alternative stuff, that doesn't work yet.

It's not affordable for most Americans. There's no doubt in my mind. They were probably enjoying the fact, that it would hurt the Texas economy.

I think that's what the border is about.

The other part of what they're doing is they're bringing people into our state. So that we have higher costs.

We have law enforcement costs.

Health care costs.

We have education costs.

And they know that. And they know the Republican state has been successful, versus the Democrat states.

That's people voting with their feet.

And I think they're doing their best to damage and harm, in any way possible, even if it means higher crime, the Republican states.

GLENN: So, Ken, this is crazy conversation we're having.

KEN: It is. It's hard to believe I'm saying this. It sounds so conspiratorial. I can see what they're doing.

It's not like a secret, it's all out in the open. So for me to say that, I'm just commenting on nothing secret. I'm commenting on what I see.

And it's pretty obvious, this hurts our state.

It's pretty obvious. They're bringing these people in.

They want them to vote.

They want to use them in their congressional drawing.

It's pretty obvious, they will bring people to the Republican states. They will hurt the Republican states.

GLENN: So Friday, there was this moment, when the president said, yeah. You have twenty-four hours.

That it sounded like, wait. Twenty-four hours, for what?

And giving people the -- I mean, we're entering times.

If things go awry.

God help us.

I don't want this.

If things go awry. You will have the ambiguity of, wait.

Do I answer that law or this law?

And this is what a constitutional crisis looks like.

Do you -- do you see -- have you guys talked about that being a real possibility, that he does something really foolish? That causes real trouble?

KEN: Yeah. We've certainly talked about it. We've certainly thought about it. It's hard to imagine that he would somehow try to create some armed violent conflict. That certainly doesn't make a lot of sense. And if you think about it, people on the border -- Border Patrol agents, they're on our side. They don't like what Biden is doing. None of those people. They're all working together. They're all friends. They all know each other. Whether it's the National Guard. State police. Border Patrol.

They all have the same goal. They're just being forced by Mayorkas and Biden. To not only ignore the law. As I said, it's more than ignoring the raw. It's actually dismantling, and telling the cartels, we will help you. Don't worry about hiding people anymore.

They used to try sneak across. We'll -- we'll make it very efficient for you.

Seeing, they're making ten to $12,000 a person. So it's very helpful for the cartels to have the Biden administration doing this. And they know that. And that's why they're incentivized to get as many people here as possible.

GLENN: What do you think of the trucker convoy?

Is that helpful?

KEN: Oh, I would love to see the border shutdown. The reality is, anything that makes Biden blink and stop doing this, and economic consequences, when things aren't being shipped back and forth. Having economic consequences.

That's why we do economic sanctions. If this is the way we stop the terribleness. I don't have a problem with anything like that, that affects commerce and sends a message to the Biden administration. It's like a strike.

GLENN: Right.

KEN: And send a message.

GLENN: I worry, only because, you know, up in Canada.

Look what they tried to do with the truckers.

And did. But this is in Canada.

And as long as there are no infiltrators in there. They will be fine.

But again, this isn't Canada.

The law enforcement will not be looking to pick a fight with the truckers.

They will actually, I think, be more in line with. If there's somebody out of line. They will arrest them quickly.

But not necessarily blame it on the truckers. Unless the truckers were doing it. But I doubt that.

KEN: No. I agree with you. I don't think we have the same mentality as the Canadians. I say we.

I'm sure the Biden administration does.

They're in line with the Canadian government. There's no doubt about that. But I'm saying general law enforcement, is not sympathetic to federal law being violated.

And the cartels being enriched and helped.

GLENN: Right.

What do you -- what are you saying to the other 25 states, and is there a chance that any of the others -- like Denver just said, we're out. We have nothing. You have to get out of our homeless shelters. Because we can't afford to keep this. Or any of the other states possible on joining?

KEN: Yeah. Look, I think this is going past Republican/Democrat. You can see. These sanctuary cities were created during the Trump immigration. To complain about Trump enforcing the immigration law. Then when Biden came in, they started getting a trickle -- I say trickle, compared to what we have to deal with. And suddenly they're realizing, wow, this is really expensive, and it has high cost, both economically and socially. And they realize, this is not a good thing for our city. And I think you will see more and more cities. They literally -- just not enough money to pay for the entire cost, of millions and millions of people, moving into our country.

And we all be suffering for this, for a long time. And I think this hurts Biden in the upcoming election.

It hurts the country for obviously much longer than that.

GLENN: I know you don't have any of the details. Nobody does, and that's always a special surprise in these things.

But the bipartisan bill that Biden is trying to get through. Any thoughts on that?

KEN: I'm very suspicious. I don't want to give in and start allowing people in, in violation of our current laws. That doesn't solve the problem.

It just supposedly -- it's a deal for something that actually hurts the country.

So I'm not for -- I'm not against immigration. But let's make sure that it makes sense, and we're not hating, because Biden administration violated the laws for the last three and a half years.

And we will say, well, because he's letting in, you know, millions a year. We will say, he can only let in a million.

Well, that's not the way to answer this. They should follow federal law, and if they want to change the law, make it something that is good for America. Make it something that makes the system more efficient.

GLENN: Ken Paxton. The Texas attorney general, on Texas constitutional right to protect its border. Ken, Godspeed. Stay safe. Thank you.
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KEN: Thank you, have a great day.

GLENN: All right.

The TERRIFYING Reason Why the Northern Lights Were Visible So Far South

Many people across America were excited to see the northern lights in states where they’re almost never visible. But Glenn points out the terrifying reason WHY the light show happened. “We really dodged a bullet,” Glenn says. The massive solar flare that caused the aurora borealis to be visible in even southern states could have caused “a blackout situation.” Glenn breaks down what it would mean if all our tech was to go down, or even just our GPS systems, and also asks why the government hasn’t taken the steps to protect our infrastructure from something like this.

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GLENN: Well, I know this is probably not on anybody's charts. But seeing the aurora borealis. Is a very big story that nobody has been talking about. Everybody is like, look at the sky. It's so pretty. Sure. But why is it pretty? Why is that happening? This is the first time in 20 years that we have seen the aurora borealis as low and as South as possible -- or, as it was. But we had an event and I talked about it in our meetings, Stu, last, I think Monday. A week ago Monday. And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. I said, there's a huge CME that just happened. There's a huge solar flare that just happened.

Luckily, it was on the side of the sun.

But it was coming our direction.

But not directly.

It was the biggest solar flare since the Carrington Event in what, 1860, or whatever.

STU: Yeah. 1860, sure.

The Carrington Event you're talking about? That's, yeah, 1860.

PAT: How many times have we talked about the Carrington Event? We're all over the Carrington Event.

STU: Well, Pat just started a new podcast called Pat and the Carrington Event.

GLENN: Pat, wait a minute. I'm trying to look, to see through my eyes. But are you wearing a I'm a fan of the Carrington Event?

PAT: Yeah. I am. I do. I have it available in different colors.

GLENN: Available at Patisajerk.com.

So the Carrington Event happened in the 1860s. And we were hit by a massive solar flare. And at the time, the only -- we didn't really have electricity or anything. But we had telegraphs.

Telegraph wire all over the country, burned up. I mean, literally started on fire. From the telegraph, all the way through all of the poles, it just burned out.

And that is, you know, a significant problem with today's electricity and all of our wires.

That -- that could have been a -- a blackout situation.

An EMP. We dodged a bullet. It could have shut down power companies. And power lines all over the country.

All over Europe as well. For at least a year.

The problem we have is: All of our power transformers, it takes them, I think it's a year to build and replace giant transformers. And we don't have extras.

Nobody is thinking about this stuff.

PAT: And we haven't protected our infrastructure.

GLENN: No.

And it would be very expensive

Bret Weinstein wrote a great article on this, last week. About, you know, he was kind of making fun of how everybody was saying, oh, look at the beautiful sky that will happen next week.

And he was like, it would take so little to protect our infrastructure. And nothing is protected.

We really dodged a bullet.

PAT: Well, this is a few years ago. But they were talking about not just a solar EMP. But an EMP from, you know, a foreigner. A foreign adversary.

And how we could protect our infrastructure from it, for it seems like it was only a billion.

GLENN: I think it's under 5 billion now.

PAT: Yeah. It's dirt cheap in comparison to what we would lose if it actually happened. And they won't do it.

GLENN: You know, that's one of those low probability, high -- what do they call those things?

STU: High impact.

GLENN: Yeah. High impact.

This impact, if we were hit by an EMP. And it takes three nuclear weapons. Launched into space.

Iran could probably do it. You know, when they get their missiles.

PAT: North Korea, yeah.

GLENN: North Korea. All you have to do is put two barges. One on the east coast and the west coast.

You fire two on one. One goes over the middle of America. One goes over the west coast. Then you have another on the east coast.

It takes three missiles, detonated at the right altitude, above America. You would shut us down. And in the first year, 95 percent of our population would die.

PAT: Yeah. Because we're back to the cave time.

GLENN: Stone Age!

PAT: You don't have refrigeration. You don't have transportation.

GLENN: And you cannot repair it fast enough. Because we didn't protect anything.

This is one of the craziest things.

Congress. You're spending money on so much. A turtle tunnel. Spend $5 billion to protect the infrastructure.

PAT: It doesn't make sense not to.

GLENN: No. It doesn't.

STU: It seems like one of the basic things that government is designed to do. There's a lot of things they're doing that they're not supposed to do. Wouldn't this be something that falls into the category of must do?

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

PAT: Yes. And how often do they talk about infrastructure and bridges? We have electronics that could be protected, and they're not being protected.

GLENN: To an that this -- this solar event could have knocked out all of Elon Musk's satellites. They were afraid of those. And all of our GPS.

PAT: Jeez.

GLENN: Do you know what would happen if we lost all of our GPS?

PAT: EMS.

GLENN: So the GPS. Our magnetic field is so far awry right now, that it's about a 30 -- a 30-degree switch, and so it's drifted about 30 degrees.

Okay. So it's not up at the poll. At the top and the bottom.

It's 30 degrees off.

And because of that, it's causing all kinds of holes and thinning of our ionosphere.

So, you know, all of this stuff, can come through.

And we have such a problem with it. It's moving so rapidly, we used to have to adjust our GPS I think it was every five years. Now it's every two years. Because our polls are shifting, it's then a year. It's now every six months, we have to reset our GPS satellites. The poles are moving that rapidly.

Why Michael Cohen’s “BOMBSHELL” Melania Trump Testimony Should NOT be Trusted

The mainstream media is gawking over testimony from Stormy Daniels and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial. But despite the media’s insistence that Cohen dropped “bombshell” revelations about Melania Trump, there’s a good reason we SHOULDN’T believe a word he says. Glenn, Pat, and Stu explain why Cohen should have lost all credibility years ago and why salacious testimony should have no place in this case. Plus, they review the telltale signs that Trump’s trials are more akin to the Soviet Union’s propaganda machine than American “democracy.”

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GLENN: It looks like -- I mean, no pun intended, but absolutely intended. Looks like the Stormy Daniels case is a bust, in some ways. I mean, you know, it's a New York -- it's a New York jury.

But I don't know if you saw what Bill Maher said over the weekend. About, you know, how the prosecutors have blown it -- I hate.

They have screwed it. They haven't done their job very well.

And Michael Cohen took the stand yesterday, right?

PAT: Yes, yeah.

STU: And today.

PAT: And CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, seemed to take it, everything he says, as if it was gospel truth.

GLENN: I mean, he was lying before. But now he's telling the truth.

PAT: Right. Now he's honest Abe.

GLENN: I saw that. He was splitting rails on the way to the courthouse.

PAT: Yes.

GLENN: It was weird. And returning a penny.

PAT: Yes. Walked 5 miles to return a penny.
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PAT: I mean, it's really amazing. I mean, Stormy Daniels had no credibility. This guy has no credibility. And I think Trump's lawyers have done a decent job showing that. But they're still getting bludgeoned. It's still New York.

And they have all the media on their side.

So I don't know how this will go. But if he gets past this one unscathed. Then I think it's smooth sailing for maybe the next four years. It will be a while.

GLENN: It is absolutely amazing.

You know, they started with, he's got 9,874 billion charges against him. And he's skating past them all.

PAT: Yeah. Yeah.

GLENN: They're just all falling apart.

STU: They're all at least getting delayed until after the election, which is really the only important thing at this point. He can worry about the other stuff later on. And he probably will have to worry about it later on.

GLENN: If he lost the election, every single one of these things would just go away. Just go away.

STU: Probably true. If he decided, you know what, I'm not going to run. I'm done with this nonsense.

I don't think any of these charges occur.

PAT: Yeah.

STU: It's so obviously about this particular election. And, you know, they waited for so long, for most of this stuff, to be filed. And for them to even go after it because they were waiting for him to announce he was running.

And once they announced he was running, they scampered as quickly as they could to put this together. And it's all shoddy. It's pathetic.

I mean, most of these charges against him, were charges that they had previously themselves, in this case, decided not to pursue. You know, they're tying it to -- to other crimes, that have not even. He's not even been charged with.

And they won't even identify, in the middle of the trial. And Michael Cohen is probably the most ridiculous example of this.

And we've said this at the very beginning with Michael Cohen. This is back when he was still an ally of Donald Trump. There was no reason, to believe anything that comes out of Michael Cohen's mouth. He says whatever he has to at any given moment, to benefit himself.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: You know what is amazing?

At least we're consistent. We didn't believe him, when he was saying good things about Donald Trump.

We don't believe him when he's saying bad things about Donald Trump. He has no credibility.

STU: Yeah. I mean, he's gone on every single side of this. Of course, at the beginning was saying, how wonderful Donald Trump was. And how perfect he was.

And he was the greatest president of all time. And blah, blah, blah, blah. Just stuff that is typical, over the top praise. And I think a lot of people missed this.

But once they had their falling out. He turned into like a resistance guy.

And to -- with the still -- the same absurd persona. Where he was like, you know, this guy, who is an Oompa Loompa. And you're going to run against him as a Democrat?

Like, I'm serious. This guy went completely insane, like beyond Keith Olbermann levels of opposition to Trump. And then when this whole buildup came up to this.

People in the media, rightly noted that that persona of, you know, he's an Oompa Loompa, is not going to work on the stand.

So now he's reworked his persona again. Is now on the stand, with this very calm, measured tone of a man just trying to get to the truth.

GLENN: He was very hurt.

STU: He was very hurt.

And his ego has been bruised. And his family. Blah, blah, blah.

How can anyone believe this? He was just on TikTok like three months ago, as a completely different human being.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: You know what, can we get a cut of those for tomorrow?

Let's make a compilation of how insane he went.

STU: Yeah, for sure.

PAT: We could.

STU: Pause there's plenty of stuff to choose from.

PAT: And CNN is accepting everything as if it came out of the Bible. They're talking about this bomb he dropped in court. That Donald Trump didn't care if Melania was upset about his affair with Stormy Daniels.

Because he wouldn't be on the market for very long.

GLENN: I don't believe that.

PAT: Now you buy that? They certainly do. CNN is all over it. MSNBC is all over it.

GLENN: I've always thought Donald Trump was a guy who was like, hey, baby. And maybe he is, I don't know.

But with Melania, I think he really respects her. I really do.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: I think it bothers him, when people don't show her the respect that she deserves. And I think she's -- she's no dummy. She's absolutely no dummy.

PAT: No. She's not.

STU: No. But, I mean, look, I hope their relationship thrives. It's got nothing to do with this case.

PAT: Me too. No.

STU: It has absolutely nothing to do with what we're supposed to be talking about. Their relationship is between them. Right?

This is -- this is a case about business records. This is a case about business -- it has nothing to do with whether Donald Trump cares about his wife or not. It has nothing to do with that. It might be important to us or them. It has nothing to do with this case.

And they keep pushing it down this road.

GLENN: Because he has such problems with, you know, suburban women, that's why they're doing this.

It has nothing to do with the actual case of money.

The -- the -- I'm if we saying the New York jury is going to find him guilty. No matter what it was. But they're making this so salacious, because they're hurting him with women.

They're trying to make him look into just an absolute pig. So they hurt him even more with women. This is all political.

We are living in the former Soviet Union, in many ways. When it comes to the media and our court system on Donald Trump. That's exactly what's happening.

STU: Do you think, Glenn, there's a snapback effect to this, if he is able to somehow get through these charges, and not be convicted by a New York jury?

GLENN: How do you mean a snap back?

STU: Like we've been talking for a lopping time. At least the media has. If he's convicted of a felony. There's a certain percentage of people, who will not vote for him.

And that shows up in polls.

I don't know that you could take it seriously, honestly.

I don't think people correctly predict their emotions in a moment like that.

But take it for what it's worth.

That's what everyone has been saying.

And, you know, the idea here, obviously, is to hurt Donald Trump with all these charges.

Make him look like a felon. Make him look like this terrible criminal.

STU: If now -- you know, after being told, there's 11 billion charges coming his way. If they can't get one conviction before the election, does this snap back against them and turn into a massive positive, for Donald Trump, electorally?

GLENN: I don't think so.

If they find him not guilty on this, then I think there might be.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: You know, it's interesting to me, more than a snapback, it's interesting to me, you're not hearing. At least I'm not hearing. Maybe they're saying it. But I don't listen to them. So what do I know?

I haven't heard a big movement on how he has conned the courts. He's done all kinds of illegal or unethical maneuvers to get things delayed.
I haven't heard that. I think people just know, this isn't working. This is all a sham. And it's not working for them. And the -- it will just be neutral. It just won't matter.

PAT: We went through some of the numbers yesterday. And it certainly looks like, at least in the swing states, this is -- this is working in his favor. Right now. Like he's gaining sympathy.

GLENN: Can I tell you? I heard this morning, they say he fell asleep during the court.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And he said he didn't. I think he should have said, yes. What? There's nothing happening here. I took a nap.
(laughter)

STU: I mean, it pushes I think against his sleepy Joe criticism.

Which is why supposedly he -- he likes the idea. He's the high energy guy. And everything. Which we all know. And I think is true.

But I would be bored out of my mind.

GLENN: Oh, that's what I mean, though.

He is high energy.

He has been attentive on all of this stuff.

I think he could have used that as, do you know what's going on?

I don't have to worry about it. I was a little tired because I was out, you know, campaigning.

And I was doing this. And doing this. And I had nothing else to do. I could have made origami. But I decided just to take a nap.

PAT: I think that would be a smart move right now. Because Biden is trying to use the falling asleep in court. He's the worst. He's calling him sleepy Don now.

GLENN: That's so clever.

PAT: Isn't it? Isn't it? Yeah. Because Donald has called him sleepy Joe. So he's done it back. Can you believe it? All creative and clever.

Why Glenn Beck Predicts America Has Reached PEAK WOKENESS

Woke progressivism has taken over much of America, from our schools to our corporations, and of course, many aspects of our government. But Glenn is optimistic that the pendulum may be starting to swing back. As Americans wake up to how wokeness has destroyed the country, they are standing up and pushing back. So, have we already reached "peak wokeness?" And can we change course without going too far in the opposite direction? Glenn and Stu give their predictions.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: our problems are so easy to fix. You could go into any coffee shop in America. And you could grab, you just the five -- people who are paying attention. Out of everybody. There are five people here who could name the president. And the three branches of government. Can you come on over to my table. We would be able to fix this. If you were put this charge, you would be able to fix this. A lot of this stuff is so common sense.

STU: That's interesting. Because I think if applied. If applied, common sense would solve a lot of these problems.

GLENN: Yes.

STU: But think about that in the real world. In this world that we live in. How? Even if you convinced the medical establishment. Which I think is a real goal here. And I think it is, something that is potentially achievable. The medical establishment. Look, what you guys have done over the past 15 years. With all this gender stuff, and all this is bad.

We're seeing it happen in foreign countries. Right? The reversing path.

GLENN: France. Sweden.

STU: Yeah. The UK.

But we're seeing progress in that world.

To get back to some sort of rational view here. But even if you were to accomplish that, there are so many people, with so many goals, that are at odds with that approach. You think the mainstream media will abandon this. Because the medical establishment changes? I doubt it.

Think about all the sites and bloggers and influencers. And all the people, that people actually get their news from. That would continue down this road anyway. And would still -- would still create people, like the person who seems to be in this case today. What we know of them. Those many examples.

GLENN: Those people existed before. They just didn't have positions of power. So the first thing that has to be done. Is you fire a lot of people. I'm sorry. You know, here's -- here's the problem. Common sense. Common sense should always rule with rare exception. You know, there are times, that you are like, okay. I know that makes sense. However, this time, cut the white wire. You know what I mean? You know. No. It should be the green wire. No. No, no, no. Usually red and green. But this time, don't cut the green wire. But the problem is: Everything is so over Ivy Leagued, that the average person goes, well, I don't know. You know what I mean? Because they'll be like...

STU: Right.

GLENN: You're like, what?

STU: Well, we saw this with the Claudine gay situation. Everybody knows, when you steal other people's work, you will get fired as an academic. And yet every institution went to bat for this woman, to explain why what she -- how what she did was not actually bad. And it was actually racism. And you guys don't understand the systemic racism that pushed her to have to do this. And why we should ignore.

GLENN: Right.

STU: And everybody is like, all right. I just don't want to get involved in that.

GLENN: And the thing is. Most people will back away from it. Because they will feel stupid. I don't know. Who am I to argue against Harvard.

STU: Fewer and fewer.

I think that's going away.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

Because we used to have. You know, there's balance in all things.

Balance in all things.

There's somebody to be pushed and pull. If you don't have that. There is no growth.

So what happened is, we had common sense.

And then common sense was looked down upon from an Ivy League. Isn't that cute? Well, I have uncommon knowledge.

And everybody was like, well, he must know something, that I don't know.

No. Really. Really, the only thing that you may know, that he doesn't know, is humility. And the one thing that he may know, that you don't know is arrogance. You know, I know.

Me and my people. We know. You need to be taken care of.

STU: Are you concerned that the balance is not something we're finding right now?

GLENN: No. Because I think it's coming.

STU: Is it coming. And is it closer to what you've talked about for a long time. More of a pendulum effect.

I'm worried, it had seem at times, that we're getting to a place where we're completely ignoring experts. I don't think that's the answer either, right?

GLENN: No. It's not. Until the experts are held by other experts.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Until the medical community can say, you know what, enough is enough.

This COVID thing, it was good here, here, and here. It was really bad here, here, and here.

And we have to stop, you know, just saying that, oh, no.

Now science knows. Because that's happened throughout all of mankind.

And then science learns. And they're like, oh. Well, now we know. As soon as it's cleaned out by its own people, you know. God will clean out his own house first. That's in Isaiah. I will clean out my own house first. And he will. And that's what needs to happen in all of the institutions. In media. It's got to be cleaned up.

Now, it's going to probably take outsiders to do it, or a new generation.

But look, it's already happening. It's already happening.

It's just that there's so much money involved, at the establishment level, and they're just holding on by their fingernails.

And they'll -- I mean, they'll pull all of us down, to stop from drowning themselves.

STU: Are you optimistic about the path here?

Are you optimistic that the pushback that has come from, I think, common sense.

I would argue, that usually equals a lot of conservative-type values.

But like, there has been a pushback in the media. There has been a pushback, when it comes to our institutions.

From more constitutional, common sense type thinking.

Will that result in something that is positive in the end? Are you comfortable with that?

GLENN: We are at the wire. We are coming around the fourth turn. And we're all dead even, as we're coming towards the wire. Who is going to win. And it will be won by a nose. And I think it will happen this year. But what is encouraging is we're seeing things that we haven't seen before. I think we're at peak wokeness.

You know, I had been talking about that pendulum theory that Stu has been saying. I've been saying for a while. 2020 -- what did I say? 2024. 2025. Is where we hit the peak. And then it starts going the opposite way.

I've said that for -- forever. Now, this means, it's going to take just as long, as it did to get here. But we will -- the dog returns to its vomit. We will go back to being a very selfish, me, me, me, you know, forget the collective culture. It will take us 40 years. But we will get right back to where we were. The key is, don't destroy yourself at any of the peaks. Because it's the middle where we really flourish. It's the balance of, no. The individual is really important. But so is the collective. We have to balance that. Right now, we're just not balancing. The individual just doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't matter. But I see this coming back, from really important people.

I think Elon Musk has been a turning point on that. You look at what Bill Ackman said this week, or Mark Cuban. What a difference. What a difference.

STU: Well, the Mark Cuban thing, it was bizarre. We should go through that.

GLENN: No.

STU: I don't even know if he knows what the word mean.

GLENN: He doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't.

STU: It's weird.

GLENN: Again. It's the arrogance of people thinking they know. That's what Bill Ackman said. He said, I went to talk to the students.

And you realized, what I thought they were saying, is not what they're saying.

I didn't understand it.

Mark Cuban just hasn't gone through that. But he will. Because it's happening. It is happening.

But keep running flat out. Because it's going to be won by a nose.

The 6 BASIC STEPS to Prepping For a Disaster OR WORSE

Getting prepared for a disaster may seem outright overwhelming. But Glenn breaks it down step-by-step: “It’s actually really easy and inexpensive. You just have to take it one bite at a time.” Glenn heads to the chalkboard to lay out the “6 basic steps to prepping,” as well as everything you’ll need to pack a bug-out bag.