RADIOSeptember 24, 2024

How to DEPROGRAM your friends from the anti-Trump CULT

The Democratic Party is going down a dangerous path. It has convinced millions of Americans that Donald Trump is the single greatest threat to the country. It has punished people for daring to question the narrative. It has turned neighbor against neighbor and brother against brother. Sound familiar? We saw the same symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. So, what’s really going on here? Glenn runs through Steven Hassan’s 50 attributes of cults and compares them to the modern Democratic Party. The results are shocking! Plus, Glenn gives his advice on how you can help your loved ones escape this cult.

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GLENN: There's a lot I want to talk to you today, I just said a couple of minutes ago. Before we went on the national broadcast. That there are some things, that I have had on my mind, for 20 years. Some things that I hoped that I would never have to say to you.

But today, just very well may be that day. There's some really important things that are happening around the world.

For instance, the UN is voting in, all of these really Draconian laws. This week.

And we're going to get into that next hour.

It is the formation of one global government.

And we're all for it. Did you know that? That's happening right now.

Today. We'll talk about it coming up in just a second. We're not talking to each other. You know, I think every day of my friends and my -- some of my family members, who are -- who are living in a dream.

They just -- they hate Donald Trump so much, they just can't get past it. And they think that, you know, I'm delusional.

I know you have this in your family. You you've got to remember, my family -- you know, I'm the stinky brother. I'm the -- I was the youngest. So, you know, what does Glenn know? Nobody in my family is impressed by me, so -- it's a good thing too. It keeps humble.

But it's hard. It's hard. Because I know what I know.

How do you talk to people?

Why can't they seat things that you see? How come they can't see, this isn't about Donald Trump.

It's not about Donald Trump. It is truly about freedom.

But they are being told, that Donald Trump is the biggest -- the biggest obstacle.

The biggest dangerous to freedom and the republic.

And I think in some ways, COVID-19 broke us. I mean, this has been happening for a while. But COVID-19 broke. As people who were once reasonable, began to call for the banishment, of the unvaccinated from civil society.

It was truly remarkable, what happened to us. People were saying, we should be sent to jail, if you didn't get vaccinated. Some people said, we shouldn't get medical care. Doctors, nurses, said they wouldn't treat people. You let people with cancer die. Death was divided by vaccine status. And treated accordingly.

Information was censored, quote, for our own good. Anyone who questioned the leader, or fell out of line was deemed as dangerous or literally accused of killing people.

Steven Hassan developed the BITE -- B-I-T-E model, by among other things, studying the brainwashing that happened in Maoist China. BITE, B-I-T-E, stands for behavior, information, thought, and emotional control.

BITE. And it identifies the patterns used by cults or Communists to manipulate their members. This is the same things that the Germans did. The Nazis did.

Now, there are 50 attributes to watch for.

But I want you to listen to this. I don't know if I'm going to have time to go through all 50. But I will hit many of them quickly. But I want to you listen to this. And compare them to your experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and right now.

Here's what a cult does to its people, to indoctrinate them: Dictate where, how, and with whom the member lives and associates or isolates from. Financial exploitation. Manipulation. Or dependence.

Restrict leisure, entertainment, and vacation time. Permission is required for major decisions. Does any of this sound like COVID-19?

Rewards and punishments are used to modify behaviors, both positive and negative.

You could go to work, if you're vaccinated. You cannot go to work if you haven't had the vaccine.

Discourage individualism, encourage groupthink, impose rigid rules and regulations, instill dependency and obedience. Deliberately withhold information. Distort information to make it more acceptable.

Systematically lie. Number 12, minimize or discourage access to non-cult sources of information.

Don't do your own homework. God forbid, you're not doing your own homework, are you?

Internet, TV, radio, books, articles, newspapers, magazines, media, all critical information.

Don't talk to anybody who disagrees with what the leadership says. And keep people so busy, they don't have time to think or investigate, and control through cell phone with texting, calls, internet, tracking. In a cult, information is tightly controlled.

Members are discouraged or forbidden from doing homework, outside of the cult.

Critical thinking and questioning are not just discouraged. They're seen as signs of betrayal.

Sound familiar? Encourage spying, on other members.

Extensive use of cult-generated information and propaganda, including newsletters, magazines, journals, audiotapes, videotapes, and other media. Require members to internalize the group's doctrine as truth.

Think, if you're not an antiracist, you are a racist.

And come to this program, that we're now having in your office. And internalize it. Say it.

Live it. Say it! Preach it!

Instill black and white thinking. Decide between good and evil. And organize people into us versus them.

The use of loaded language and clichés, that constrict knowledge. Stop critical thoughts, and reduce complexities into buzzwords.

Follow the science. He's an existential threat to our democracy.

Rejection of rational analysis, critical thinking, and constructive criticism. Forbid critical questions about the leadership, doctrine, or policy.

Labeling alternative belief systems as illegitimate, evil, destructive, or not useful.

Make the person feel that the problems are always their own fault. Never the fault of the leaders or the group.

You just don't understand inflation. You're part of this racist system. Promote feelings of guilt, or unworthiness, such as identity guilt. You're a white man.

You're not doing enough to save the planet.
Your family is really the problem. Your past is suspect. Your affiliations are unwise.

Your thoughts. Your feelings. Your actions are irrelevant or selfish. They -- they pile on social guilt and historic guilt.

This is not about -- I didn't write this. Historical guilt. Fear, shame, and guilt are very powerful tools.

Members are often told that leaving the group will result in catastrophic consequences.

Either in this life, or the next. Now, let me ask you: Catastrophic consequences. You mean like, everyone will die because of global warming, if you don't step up. And shout down everyone who is questioning?

Those people should be put in jail. We don't have time to debate it.

Shunning all those who leave.

Giving a fear of being rejected by friends and family, if you leave.

Tulsi. RFK Jr. Roseanne.

Who else? Who else has left, and they've been completely shunned?

I'll tell you who else. Everyone else who has woken up. Everyone else, they all say, my gosh, I've lost all of my friends!

Phobia, indoctrination. Inculcating irrational fears about leaving the group. Or questioning the leader's authority.

That's not even -- that's not the whole list, by the way. Does it seem like maybe, we're witnessing this kind of stuff?

The antiracist stuff.

I can never be forgiven for that. No. The moment you're saying, you're not a racist, is taken as a proclamation of guilt.

And the cycle just begins over again.

Being an antiracist, it never stops. It never, ever stops.

It is really quite brilliant.

You know, you want to know, which one is building a cult.

Let me ask you: Which one has hired all of the best behavioral scientists, to help them form all of their policies.

It's not Donald Trump. Why would you hire a behavioral scientist?

Well, behavioral scientists are really a -- a modern version of propagandists.

How can I get you to do something, without you knowing I'm trying to get you to do something?

How can I play things off each other? It is manipulation.

All of the best behavioral scientists, are all working for the administration, and the democratic party.

It's all manipulation.

So what do we do?

I mean, because, they have -- they have sought out the people with vulnerabilities.

They have sought out the people who have a sense of guilt. Why are so many white people the ones who are telling black people exactly how to live? Why are they?

Because they have this sense of guilt, for some reason.

People with a vulnerability, also, you know, you've been kept down. You've been kept down.

If they can identify people that are vulnerable, the cult will offer an antidote.

And they have to -- they have to have a bad guy. They have to have a Satan, to point at.

So, what do we do about it?

How do we talk to our friends?

Well, there is no easy quick, I think we can do this in 40 days. That's not going to happen.

But I will tell you, as I was looking at the ways, you solve it, I realized, this is what has happened in so many relationships that I know of.

The wrong thing has happened. And it's because we don't know -- because we are looking at this like, wait. Think about this rationally. They can't. They can't. And that's no fault of their own.

They have been manipulated and brainwashed.

GLENN: So getting somebody out of a cult, is really hard, and very frustrating.

And it takes a long time. And you make a mistake, and you reset.

Because it's all about trust. No. I can't say that.

It's all about truly loving the other person. And listening.

And then, no matter how angry you might get, never expressing that anger.

Because if you want to save them, you must listen to them. And it's so hard. So let me give you some advice. Talking to your -- your family and your friends. This is -- this is going to become very critical.

Because even our own side, could splinter. And the only ones that will save the Constitution, even if it is just being lived in your own home, will be those who are exercising love in this way.

First, do not assume bad intentions.

There are people that have bad intentions.

But not everybody. Some of them actually believe -- most of them. If they're people you know. And they're your family.

You know them!

They -- they don't have ill intent.

They've been convinced that they're on the right side.

So don't understand assume ill intent.

And then it starts with asking questions.

I don't know, how my -- my friends got there.

I really don't.

How did you get there?

Wait. I really want to understand.

And if you try to defend yourself on this, you will lose, examine you will have to start all over again, some other time.

So you can't get angry. And you can't defend.

You just want to know the answer to questions.

And it has to be sincere. And it has to show respect.

Tell me about this. Tell me. I want to understand, Donald Trump and how you got there. And what you think. You've got to stay calm, which is another hard one. And then, you have to make the complete case. Your case. Complete case. Every single time.

It -- if you can do the first three, don't assume ill intent. And make sure that they know, that you're not blaming them for anything. Ask them honest questions. Stay calm.

Then you might be able to make your case.

But you have to make the full case. And it's got to be solid. The biggest problem we have now, we are -- we are becoming almost spiritually dead.

We're losing our spiritual well-being.

We've got a cultural revolution. A sexual revolution. We need a spiritual restoration, we need a national revival. Find all of this now, at GlennBeck.com.

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

Thanks to release after release of government documents by the Trump administration, we now have the most complete look at the Deep State - how it works, who's involved, and who's funding it - that we've ever had. Most recently, Just The News has released proof that former United States Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told the FBI to shut down investigations into the Clinton Foundation. Glenn's head researcher, Jason Buttrill, joins to recap these latest revelations.

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

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

The recent declassifications from Tulsi Gabbard’s ODNI and the Durham annex give us a rare glimpse into something much bigger and deeper than the Russiagate hoax against President Trump. Glenn Beck heads to the chalkboard to connect the dots and map out how the entire deep state operation works. We reveal who the players are, where the funding comes from, and how they exert their influence. From international color revolutions to the Ukraine impeachment and the Russiagate hoax, everything is finally starting to make sense. John Solomon, CEO and editor in chief of Just the News, gives Glenn a sneak peek into a bombshell investigation that exposes how the deep state provided cover for Clinton Foundation corruption.