RADIOSeptember 19, 2022

DIGITAL DOLLARS and 3 more TERRIFYING economic changes happening RIGHT NOW

Glenn warned just days ago that governments would suggest a disturbing solution to the worldwide energy crisis: nationalizing energy companies. Now, Germany is weighing doing just that. Meanwhile, the Biden administration has recommended creating a digital dollar, England is talking about printing more money, and Russia and China are discussing creating a new currency. Glenn breaks down all these terrifying economic changes, plus President Biden's latest excruciating lie about inflation.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: So last night, our president was -- was on television, on 60 minutes. And it was an amazing softball game.

But the -- the president announced a couple of things. The pandemic is over. You know, he's -- I know. Did you know that?

STU: I didn't.

GLENN: Yeah. It's oar.

STU: I'm surprised to hear that. I've been saying it for a long time. I know you have as well, but I'm surprised to hear the president saying say that.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. He also says he invoices to get in control of inflation. But inflation is basically even. Here's cut four, please.

VOICE: Mr. President, as you know, last Tuesday the annual inflation rate came in at 8.3 percent. The stock market nosedived. People are shocked by their grocery bills. What can you do better, and faster?

BIDEN: Well, first of all, let's put this in perspective. Inflation rate month to month, was just an inch. Hardly at all.

GLENN: Stop. Stop right there. Month to month, is not how you measure inflation. He knows this. It's -- it's not 8.2 to 8.2 month to month. Meaning, it's flat. It's 8.2 percent higher than last -- what? September or August. Last August. A year ago.

So remember the high inflation that we all had, and we're all like, whoa. Prices are out of control!

It's up another 8.2 percent. It's not flat.

STU: An annualized rate.

GLENN: Gosh. These people. The lies. I don't know how they sleep at night. All right. Here you go. Next.

VOICE: Oh, you're not arguing that 8.3 is good news?

BIDEN: No, I'm not saying it's good news. But it was 8.2 or 8.24. I can make it sound like, all of a sudden, my God, it went to 8.2 percent.

VOICE: That's the highest inflation rate, Mr. President, in 40 years.

BIDEN: I got that, but guess where we are? We're in a position, where in the last several months, it hasn't spiked. And it's been barely, it's been basically even.

GLENN: This is incredible.

He's basically arguing the fact that the inflation has hit the American people for a longer period of time, is good news.

GLENN: Yeah.

GLENN: Like, hey. You've dealt with this terrible problem for six months, or 12 months. Not just the one. So therefore, you shouldn't worry about it.

No. The problem is existing. And has peaked. And we've stayed right near the peak here for month after month after month. That just keeps hitting families over and over and over again. If it was just a one month spike, and it went away. It wouldn't be that big a problem. The problem is, it's going on for now a year or more, and he has seeming no way of controlling it.

GLENN: Okay. He went on to talk about gas prices. Look, core inflation. And you know this. I don't have to say this. If somebody has to do their own homework. Just go grocery shopping. Grocery shopping. What were you paying last year? What were you paying two years ago?

The prices are through the roof. Now, gasoline has come down off of its five-year high. Why?

Because gasoline, he has been draining our strategic oil reserves. Do we still have that chart, I showed last week?

Stu hasn't seen it yet. This is amazing. Our oil reserves are on a reverse hockey stick.

It is just plummeting down. And what are we going to do? We are getting rid of our strategic oil reserves. For, what?

In an election. That's why. Now, energy crisis in Europe, is going to spread here. Because it's not just what Russia is doing. That's not the only problem. The problem is. They are ahead of us, on all this ESG stuff. I told you -- I told you last week, and I've always told you, that I'm bad at timing. And I am.

I mean, this time, I was three days ahead. I couldn't believe it, when I opened up the paper on Saturday. And I am reading about how Germany is now nationalizing three of their power plants. Practice have I told you nationalization would come. Nationalization will come here, as well. And then we become Venezuela.

What's going to happen, is these energy prices are not going to be affordable by any stretch of the imagination. They're already going through this in England.

But England right now, is so focused and the media is so focused on, can we put the poor woman into the ground, please?

But they're so focused on all of this, and I don't know if the media will really ever tell you what's really going on. But they're now talking about printing in the central bank. The Bank of England. They're now talking about more money printing, because they didn't have the money in their coffers. To be able to pay for everybody's electric bills. Because they've promised. They would pay anything over 2500 pounds a month.

Well, so that's just going to drive inflation in the UK, through the roof. It will devalue their British pound.

And it will them to nationalize these companies. Because these companies will not be able to deal with the price caps.

And so the government will say, see, they can't do it. The free market just doesn't work. And they will nationalize. This is coming. It's coming here.

By the way, something else, you probably didn't know is last week, Putin met with President Xi. President Xi, they are meeting about a new currency.

I have told you for 20 years, the currency will be debased. It is -- that's why we have inflation. Our currency is being debased. So, what do you do about it?

Everybody told me, Glenn, it's never going to crash. We're -- we're the best out there. Everybody else's currency. And I've said for 20 years, do you really believe that no one at any time, will draw a line in the sand and say, enough is enough?

We can do better than this. That's exactly what China, Russia, and the brick countries are doing right now.

Developing a new currency. That will put us into a tailspin. And our government knows it. But they're not telling you. Why else would they be talking about a digital currency?

The White House in surprise of all surprises, has come out this weekend, and said, we recommend the fed goes to a new digital currency? A new digital dollar.

Why?

Because the dollar is going to collapse. I -- I urge you not to take anything that I have just said, as gospel. Look it all up, yourself. It is critical, that you know the truth. And you know how to find the truth.

The best way to find the truth, the best starting place, is, who is telling you, you have to listen to me because I have the truth. Or I have, quote, the science.

And you will not be allowed to question anything. Any question, of what I believe is true. Makes you my enemy.

Anyone who tells you that, does not have the truth on their side. That's the first test.

Then you have to go and explore all sides. And I urge you and your neighbors and your friends, to do that.

Time is becoming critical. So White House has said now, that they're going to create. They recommend creating a new digital dollar. We told you that they were employing to do that a year ago. A year and a half ago. Because it's already been done. I think it's called the Madison project. Probably the Hamilton project, up at MIT. Do you remember, Stu? It's been a while since we talked about this. But now they are releasing their first ever comprehensive framework, for responsible development of digital assets.

And Biden also said this, and I'm going to play this. And then I want to take a break. And comment on it.

Because when you are redesigning a world, and there are several people doing that now.

Everybody who is a globalist is doing that. They're dividing up the world.

And taking their own positions. And hunkering down.

We have -- unfortunately, we're on the receiving end of China. Now, China, do they have the will? Yes. Do they have the people? Yes. Do they have the money? No. But neither do we. But we are on a collision course now with China, and I'll give you the update on that. But first, let me play what Joe Biden said yesterday, cut one.

BIDEN: There's one China policy, and Taiwan makes their own judgments about their independence. We are not -- we're not encouraging or being independent, but that's their decision.

VOICE: But would U.S. forces defend the island?

BIDEN: Yes. If, in fact, there was an unprecedented attack.

VOICE: After our interview, a White House official has told us U.S. policy has not changed. Officially, the U.S. will not say whether American forces would defend Taiwan. But the commander-in-chief, had a view of his own.

VOICE: So unlike Ukraine, to be clear, sir. U.S. forces, U.S. men and women, would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.

BIDEN: Yes.

GLENN: That the stable leadership you voted for? Back in 60 seconds.

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.