RADIOJune 15, 2023

Why Daniel Penny’s arrest led THIS mom to WANT cowardly sons

Earlier this year, Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny was arrested for second-degree manslaughter after putting Jordan Neely — who allegedly was threatening Subway passengers — in a chokehold. Now, Penny has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. The entire situation led Peachy Keenan, Contributing Editor for The American Editor, to speak about what she ‘begs’ her husband and teenage sons to do if they find themselves in a similar situation: ‘Get out of there…get away before it escalates.’ In fact, Keenan wrote in a recent op-ed that she regrets not teaching her sons earlier in life to be cowardly. She joins Glenn in this clip to explain why, for the men in her life, she’d much rather they watch the danger from afar than to get involved: ‘It’s really sad.’

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GLENN: In the Federalist, there is a great op-ed. The lessons of Jordan Neely. Your courage and sacrifice will be punished. I just want to give a few pieces of this. We have peachy keen on with us in just a second. She says, weakness is strength. Courage is hatred. In the aftermath, I tweeted strong men brave enough to intervene publicly when a deranged lunatic is terrifying people are going to be rounded up first. It's brilliant. It's a brilliant strategy for the regime.

Pick off the bravest and most selfless heroes first. Leave the cowards behind, who will all fall in line fast.

The worst is the Subway Vikings. The worst -- the Viking's fate -- the worst the Vikings fate is, the less likely any of us, the sane ones will be tempted to lift a finger, when they come for us, our friends, or our neighbors.

If the Viking gets 20 years on Riker's Island, plus a prison rate and beatings for good measure, as the guards look the other way. That will teach you boys a lesson.

She goes on to talk about in -- in this terrible, ugly, upside down zero trust society, I have been forced to raise a family. And I have developed a new survival rule.

I have instructed my husband and son, to be cowards. That's right. To do nothing if there are in a situation, where a dangerous psycho is threatening violence on a stranger.

I've begged with them to sit on their hands, to be one of the people who just watches, runs away, calls 911.

It goes against everything in their bodies. But I want them with me, not dead or in jail.

She said, I feel like I have failed as a mother, because I forgot to teach my sons to be cowards. I am hoping this is sarcasm. But Peachy Keenan is here with us. Hi, Peachy.

PEACHY: Hi, Glenn. How you are?

GLENN: I'm really good. Really good. You have a lot of fans here at the program. And also, at the Blaze. So keep it up.

PEACHY: Oh, thank you so much. Awesome. I love it.

GLENN: So tell me, I mean, you talk about in this op-ed, about your husband. He took on a guy much bigger. And this guy was bothering you, and he won the fight. And you guys got married.

PEACHY: Oh, right. Yeah. I did mention that, in that article. I think he -- he probably would rather I not bring that up.

Yeah. He did. I was in a situation like that in New York City. There was a very large, very drunk man, who was in my face, harassing me. Wouldn't leave me alone. We were outside a bar at night, you could imagine.

And my husband decided, he just acted.

And he took the guy down.

You know, he wasn't harmed that much. But, you know, he maybe got a little bloody nose.

And he left us alone. And we got out of there.

Yeah. At first, I was sort of horrified. My normal instincts.

You know, I used to be this sort of feminist. Liberal. So I was sort of horrified.

Oh, my gosh. You hurt him.

You're not supposed to do that. But then later. I kind of nursed his hand. I said, you know, that was kind of -- wow. That was very macho.

Like, okay. Yes. I will marry you.

It did sort of impress me a little bit.

This is a guy who can defend a woman. And that's in short supply these days.

GLENN: And that's what we're supposed to do.

But we have destroyed men so much, that most are not going to get up. They're not. They're going to look the other way. Hope someone else will deal with it.

And I remember after 9/11. I flew up to New York. I was on one of the first flights to New York. And there are only four of us on the plane. And one was this drunk bad guy.

And he stood up.

And he was arguing with the stewardess.

And the other two men, that were on board with me.

We got up. And walked to this guy. And the stewardess is like, no, no, no.

I've got it under control.

And we just looked at this guy, you don't sit down, we'll force you to sit down.

There was this feeling, like that's what you do.

What was his name? Todd Beamer.

Who ran and -- we don't do that now. Now we're being taught the exact opposite.

PEACHY: Yeah. I mean, for many years. You would get a plane. And, guys I know would tell me, every time I get on a plane, I'm looking around.

They're kind of ready. Just in case there was another situation. They were ready to do what they had to do to save their own lives. And to save stranger's lives.

But now you can't. Because you will be filmed.

And AOC will get the video, and she will post it, and she's going to call you a bad guy. So we live in an upside down world, where safety is -- you know, the only safety they care about now, is their constituent's safety from police.

From good guys. From good Samaritans. You know, they want to be safe from hate speech. From racism.

But your actual, physical safety. Just going about your daily life. Is no one cares.

Get pushed in front of a train. Violent psychopath a subway. Those people in a car, they made him.

People of color. You know, they said it was a situation like no other. They were so grateful he intervened.

Put, yeah. Like men can't intervene anymore.

People have been -- masculinity has been totally neutered. Literally, literally, and figuratively. Boys have been castrated.

Let's just. That's what it is.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

So tell me, what is. How do you think this is going to end?

TIM: You mean with Daniel Penny? Yeah.

PEACHY: Oh, my goodness. What is it, going to a grand jury in a few months. Based on a witness statement, it seems crazy that they would --

GLENN: Even go after him.

PEACHY: Yeah. There's no evidence, he did anything racist. Obviously.

Or intended to hurt him permanently.

Or obviously, you're just this kind of freak accident.

And he felt like he had no choice. His alternative was to sit there, while this guy punched someone in the face. Who knows what he would do. No one knew. You can't predict. And he had a split second to decide. And he acted. You know, New York City is so crazy. The fact that they arrested him, after the cops let him go, shows you how crazy he was. It's all ideological.

You know, they had Jordan Neely the other guy, with Al Sharpton in the golden casket, just like I predicted. This thing is so predictable. How this will play out. Floyd II. It makes me very worried. But, you know, luckily he has, what two and a half million dollars of legal aid. So we'll have to see. But it's terrifying.

GLENN: So do you think a jury even in Manhattan, the people of his peers will be people that have run the subways.

Been on the subways recently. And the subways are terrifying right now. Terrifying.

GLENN: Do you think they would convict him?

PEACHY: Yeah, it really depends who he gets. The whole notion, the jury of your peers.

Like, that's such a myth. That's just gone.

Think of who is living in Manhattan these days.

And his only hope is people who maybe -- typical liberal -- Biden voters or whatever.

But there are people also in the real world, who are dealing with these people in the subways. And they may reject the prosecution's argument totally. But these people are real dirty. They play real dirty.

And if they -- they sort of make it about, they want to put all white people on trial.

They want to put all race -- anything racist that's ever happened, on trial. And this one guy is the fall guy.

Sort of like reverse O.J.

GLENN: But do you think this is racist? Do you think the city was afraid of the protesters?

Or do you think is this racist, or that they are sending a message to everybody, you have no choice, but to sit down and to take it?

PEACHY: Probably a little of both. But I think primarily, it's about distracting people from the real villain here. Which is the city's total neglect of their giant homeless schizophrenic population, and their complete inability to do anything about it. So this is their way of pointing the finger at the guy whose fault it is.

Whereas -- meanwhile, Penny is just another victim in all of this, and so is the -- so is Jordan Neely. And the real -- the real villain, the person who should be literally in prison, for multiple murders. Are the authorities who let this happen. Who let Michelle go get pushed in front of a train last year in New York City. Who let -- who lets women get raped and stabbed in New York City, on subways in their apartments, by men who they know about. They have long records. They just let them go. You know, these are the people -- these are the crimes that they should be held accountable. But they never will. So instead they just -- they found a convenient fall guy.

GLENN: We're talking to Peachy Keenan. She is the American editor, contributing editor, author of a book that comes out next month called Domestic Extremist.

One last question: Are you -- were you being serious about telling your husband and your son to sit down and don't do anything?

PEACHY: You know, we've had this exact discussion. It's something I live in fear of, whenever my teenage sons leave the house. They're driving around. We live in a big city. You know, God forbid, they run into the wrong person. You know, they -- they're Boy Scouts. You know, they've gone. They're almost to eagle level. Their instinct is to defend and protect. Be good.

They're Catholics. They're Christians. They're moral. And I've actually had this discussion with them. And just like, if there's a situation, that is going sideways, get out of there. Get out of there.

And my sons push back. Well, they're hurting someone. I will do something. Well, look, if it's your little sister, if it's a little kid, like yes. That's a situation where maybe you should put yourself in grave danger. But in situations between adults, like you just -- go away, before it escalates. You know, why risk the rest of your life? I mean, it's really sad. It's one of the reasons that it's scary to live in a Soros DA-run city. I mean, it's very terrifying.
GLENN: Thank you so much, Peachy. I appreciate it. We'll talk to you when your book comes out. You bet. Peachy Keenan.

That's a little terrifying, that -- and I understand that. I understand what she just said.

STU: Yeah. I know I have that same instinct at times. And my thought is always let me fight that stuff in a larger level. If you're in the middle of one of these situations, again, if you have to protect someone's life it's another story. Sometimes these situations are going sideways, and you're in a situation of risk, got to remove yourself from that risk. We'll try to remove society, at another moment. But live to fight that battle tomorrow. It's an understanding instinct from a parent, I'll tell you that.

GLENN: You remember Bernie gats?

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: What mayor -- was that Ed Koch maybe?

STU: Ed Koch. I don't remember.

GLENN: I mean, it's interesting that we deal with these. Every time the city goes crazy, every time there's a Democrat that is in office, and they -- and they destroy the city, crime goes through the roof. And eventually somebody says, enough is enough.

I'm -- I'm not taking it. And Bernard Goetz Was the last time. When you had Rudy Giuliani in office, that wasn't happening.

STU: Yeah. It was Ed Koch, by the way. 1984.

GLENN: Yeah. And what did he -- did he go to jail or not?

STU: It's been so long.

GLENN: I know. I don't remember.

STU: I thought he didn't.

GLENN: That's what I thought. That's why I asked the question this time. Is the jury of his peers, will they put him in jail?

And I don't think they did. And his was pulling a gun on a guy. This one is I think even harder to send someone to jail.

STU: I'm looking back. He did serve time in prison, but for something else.

He had some other -- not -- it wasn't for the actual shootings of that day. It's a little -- I would have to read back on it. It's been a long time.

But it's one of the situations where, look, again, don't try to mug somebody on a subway.

You know, this is the best way to avoid such things.

Energy Secretary reveals Trump's plan to LOWER your electricity bill

President Trump's Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, joins Glenn Beck to discuss Trump's plan to lower your electricity bill. While he says it can't happen every night, he assures Glenn's listeners that Trump is asking for updates on this "every single day." Plus, he reveals how the administration plans to cut red tape, use nuclear energy, and stop the immature closure of coal plants to boost American energy.

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GLENN: Okay. We have Chris -- Chris Wright on. US Energy Secretary. We are concerned about our energy, and thank God, Donald Trump. Can you imagine how bad this would be, if Joe Biden's policies would have continued? Thank God we're doing a lot of really good things. But I wanted to get a sense from Chris, on where we are, and what he thinks of what's happening in Maryland, and the warning, that Goldman is giving this week?

Chris, welcome to the program.

CHRIS: Thanks for having me on, Glenn. Yeah. You hit the hot topic, right away.

GLENN: Okay. So I would assume that you agree with what Goldman said?

CHRIS: Oh. Absolutely. In fact, we've released a report from the department, just a few weeks ago. And if you had continued the Biden policies, which are to permit and subsidize energy sources that might be there. Might not. They generally aren't there at peak demand.

If we had continued those policies, they would have shut down another hundred gigawatts of firm production capacity, that's there when you need it. And they have permits to improve and planned to add -- add 22 gigawatts of that. Check out 100, add 22.

So a net loss of 78 gigawatts, to an electricity grid that's already tight, that already delivers blackouts and peak demand. They were on a trajectory to increase blackouts by 100 fold, by the end of the first Paris term, if she had won that election.

It is just -- we were driving over a cliff, and they were hitting the accelerator to go faster. It's ridiculous.

GLENN: What really bothered me was the policy that when they shut these plants down, we would actually pay the power companies, to shut these down, if they dismantled the coal power plants. They actually could get subsidy. If they made sure, there was no going back into that.

Which I found terrifying, and horribly irresponsible.

CHRIS: Glenn, it's just crazy. An environmentalist melted down a few weeks ago, when I used my authority at the Department of Energy, to stop the closure of a one and a half gigawatt coal plant in southwestern Michigan.

Oh, you're going to post tax -- costs on the -- we don't know that coal plant. It's slated to close.

Two days later, there was a blackout in my zone, the Midwestern independent system operator. Two days later, that plant was running at full capacity. It would have been massively worse. Crisis would have been massively higher.

You just talked about Baltimore. We also stopped the closure of a very old power plant in Baltimore, but a critical power plant that keeps the lights on at peak demand, that's also running at full capacity as we speak today and has for much of the last few weeks.

Oh, no. We don't need it. We're going to close it. It -- it's just when politics gets in the middle of energy, it truly impacts people's lives.

At least the blackouts. Rising costs. You know, we had 30 percent rise in power prices during just four years of President Joe Biden.

And now we're going to launch the AI race against China? And we are going to have our lights going off, without data centers, without new industry in our country?

Just thank God, the American people, overwhelmingly elected President Trump. We brought common sense back. We're swimming seven days a week, to try to fix the train wreck they left us. So it's exciting. It's more stressful than I would like. But I can assure you, we're headed in the right direction now.

GLENN: So what really bothers me, is how dangerous nuclear power is, and how we can't use that.

Even though, that solves the global warming thing. We've never been able to have that. We have to reduce our power usage. You know, go back to the good old days in, I don't know, medieval times. And -- but now that AI is here. Now that the big tech companies step up and say, no, no, no. We -- we have to have power for AI. Now all of those rules are out the window.

Which -- which bothers me so much, because it is -- it's as if the left and the power structures, don't really care about the average person. And them having power.

They care about these big corporations, and -- and AI being able to have compute power.

But not the average person. And it's -- it's -- it's disgusting.

It's really disgusting.

CHRIS: I -- I think that's right, Glenn.

It also shows that they never really cared about incremental changes in greenhouse gas emissions. The climate change thing is mostly a classroom for power. We're going to decide the way the world works. And make rules for you.

Because you stupid rubes out there in America, you can't make your own decisions.

We must make them for you. But yet, they were never about a rational approach to reduce greenhouse gases.

They don't even know that much about greenhouse gas emissions.

You said, they hated nuclear then. Now they see we're on a train wreck. They don't want to admit their climate alarmism was wrong. And wildly exaggerated.

Now, nuclear power is okay.

Because we need. We need these data centers, these big companies need power. It's not just -- it's not just those crazy routes in Middle America, like you and I.

GLENN: So, you know, in your report, you said, you know, we will increase blackouts by 100 times in the next five years, if we don't keep more base load power online.

How rapidly are we going to see these nuclear power plants, et cetera, et cetera, being built?

And is it only to serve those server farms, or are we going to redo the American power grid, itself?

CHRIS: It will be across the grid. So it is an exciting development, Glenn.

But it's the government. It's this overweening, fear-mongering government that actually smothered and killed nuclear industry, for most of the last four decades. So since it's been my mothered for so long, it will take time to get that ball really moving. We will have an already closed nuclear power plant, back open in Michigan. Later this year, January. Hopefully, at the latest.

You know, there's some developments that will happen in the next few months.

But most of it, will take a few years.

Really, what's going to feed the data centers that are going to be built, and the reindustrialization of our country.

And keep the lights on, and our air-conditioning on in the summertime.

Most of that is going to come from stopping the closure of the coal plant.

GLENN: Right.

CHRIS: That the Biden administration and Obama administration wanted to shrink our ability to generate electricity.

And it's going to come from the expansion and rapid construction of new natural gas burning power plants. Natural gas is, by far, the biggest source of electricity.

It's by far the lowest cost -- source of new electricity. So we are doing everything we can, to permit, allow the construction of natural gas plants as fast as possible, and removing these ridiculous requirements.

That, well, if you spend a billion dollars to build a new power plant, within six or seven or eight years, you're going to have to capture all the carbon dioxide emissions, and eject them underground. No matter how much it costs. No matter how much it burdens our power sector.

The direction they were in, just didn't care about American people, or American business.

GLENN: How long before we see these things? I mean, you know, China is building at the speed of at least one coal power plant, a week. They are building nuclear power plants. They are on an energy surge right now.

They know what's coming.

How -- how -- when should we see this actually starting to happen? And how long before power prices come down?

CHRIS: Oh, man. That is -- that is the big question. President Trump asked me that, every single day. Every single day. Let's get oil prices down. Let's get gas prices down. Let's get electricity prices down. And it takes a while to build infrastructure.

Fortunately, quickly, we can stop the closure of coal plants and still have lots of lifetime left. We've already done that.

That's why we don't have much worse blackouts, already today. We do have new gas plants coming on this year, a lot more coming on next year. We will have nuclear plants on, later this term. We will have a whole bunch of them under construction. But yet, to turn the giant, you know, aircraft carrier that is the electricity grid, that's going to take a few years. But hopefully, we can watch the huge rise in prices.

We can build the capacity so that the United States can keep our lead on artificial intelligence over China.

We get behind China, and they control AI, our national security is at risk.

GLENN: Yeah. I know.

CHRIS: The whole administration is seven days a week, working on this effort.

I see dramatically fewer blackouts this summer, than you would have, had the election gone the other way.

And I think we will be in a little better situation next summer. And somewhere in between there, this winter. We're rapidly swimming the right way.

I wish, I could say power prices are going down 20 percent next year. But it's simply not possible to do that, in 12 months. But I will tell you, President Trump is seven days a week doing everything he can, towards that goal.

GLENN: What regions are the worst in the country?

As far as stability and prices?

CHRIS: The Midwest.

You know, the -- the -- where that Michigan coal plant was kept open.

Where that nuclear power plant will reopen later that year. The Midwest Independent System Operator, that's our tightest region.

The southeast and PJM, where Washington, DC, is in the mid-Atlantic states.

They're rapidly getting tighter as well. Everything in the inner connection cue that was new to come on, is a wind or solar project.

But when it's dark out, and when it's really hot, and you're in a high-pressure system.

And the wind doesn't blow. Those things don't help to meet demand. They just provide electricity -- well, you don't know when. But at some points in time, that's not very helpful for an electricity grid. But we're going to stop the closure of the firm capacity.

And we are doing everything we can. We are permitting and approving plants, every week. New construction, new plants, that will be built. And that be here to provide relief to Americans in the next 12 to 24 months.

GLENN: And the most stable region?

CHRIS: The -- the most stable region is actually Texas. Which is by far the biggest electricity grid. They produce more than twice as much electricity as California. And just -- just a little bit less nonsense in Texas.

They still went crazy on the wind stuff. They still have more expensive, and less stable grid than they had ten years ago.

GLENN: Yeah. They do.

CHRIS: But they also have the mindset and the regulatory regime to fix their problem. Texas is rapidly growing its firm capacity, and they will stay out of this crisis, probably a little faster than the more Biden-influenced rest of the country.

GLENN: Hmm. I can't thank you enough for everything you guys are doing. I'm -- I'm amazed at -- at how rapidly you guys have turned things around.

I'm just -- I'm thrilled at the work, you all are doing.

And, Chris, you really are leading us in energy.

And I really appreciate that. Thank you.

CHRIS: Appreciate you, Glenn. Appreciate all your viewers. We're doing everything we can.

We think about the American people. That's the only agenda we have.

GLENN: Thank you so much, Chris.

That's our US Energy Secretary, Chris Wright.

The most COMPLETE look at the Deep State we've ever seen

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Watch Glenn Beck's full breakdown of the Deep State network HERE

Secret Docs Reveal the ENTIRE Deep State Network | Glenn TV | Ep 451

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