RADIOAugust 22, 2022

Former CIA head says GOP is most DANGEROUS force in WORLD

The New York Times recently published an op-ed that framed Republicans as a threat to the nation. But then a former director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, took it another step forward: In a tweet, Hayden said he hasn’t witnessed a political force more ‘dangerous’ than the GOP. Um, WHAT!? In this clip, Glenn explains why his words are BEYOND outrageous and are terrifying, too: ‘We're on a staircase, and every step you take is going down deeper and deeper and deeper.’

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GLENN: By the way, the panopticon is a jail. Look it up. You can look this up.

It doesn't have any pictures of the guy's nose. The panopticon is a prison where the guards -- it was a circle, and the guards were in the center. And so they could see every single cell at all times and know what was going on.

It was deemed inhumane. Because you cannot live like that. This -- this is the world that we're headed towards. That your entire world will be a panopticon.

STU: I just want to point out, as you mention the surveillance that leads to imprisoning millions of -- of people that are innocent and ruining their lives in prison camps. That our former CIA director said the Republican Party was the most dangerous and contemptible organization. Is that where you were going?

GLENN: That's exactly where I was going. No, no, no, no. That's exactly where I was going.

STU: General Michael Hayden said, I agree. And I was the CIA director when someone said the Republican Party was the most extreme and violent ideology around the world, that they have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous, and contemptible than today's Republicans. Nothing close. The CIA director said, I agree. And I was the CIA director.

And think of the -- China is just one example.

GLENN: Let me just give you this. The New York Times, Charles blow is the guy who started this. And this is an opinion piece, saying that Republicans, forget the label. That's people. Your neighbors. I would not say this. In fact, I correct people. I was just on stage this week.

In Salt Lake. And they were talking about things. And I said, look, we have to look at the people on the other side. And we look at them as the enemy. We cannot do that. There are some that will not change. They will never get it. And they will always work to destroy and overthrow and burn things down. Those people will have to be tried in a court of law. Everyone else, we cannot make them in an enemy, that we see them, our neighbors. The same way. Because they're not. They're different it. And -- and this is not what the left -- the leadership and the main thinkers, and those former CIA director. New York Times. Republicans are America's problem. We must stop thinking it's hyperbolic, to say the Republican Party itself is now our threat to democracy.

I understand the queasiness about labeling many of our fellow Americans in that way. Yeah. Only half the country.

I understand that it sounds extreme. And overreaching. But how else are we going to describe what we're seeing?

Now, so you know, I'm not a Republican. I've never been a registered Republican. I voted for everyone from Donald Trump to Joe Lieberman. Okay?

I'm an independent.

But I will be an M -- a Republican to everyone who would write something like this. So independents don't think that you're immune from this. Republicans are the threat to democracy, because of their preferred form of democracy. One that excludes and suppresses, giving Republicans a fighting chance of maintaining control. That is the danger. For modern Republicans, democracy only works and it is only worth it when and if they win. Republicans have searched for multiple election cycles for the right vehicle. And packaging for their white nationalism. Religious nationalism. Nativism. Craven capitalism. And sexism.

He said, it is -- they're running headlong, in their bigotries. And intolerances and oppressions. Okay.

So that's what they think of us. That's who we are. Now, I want you to know, that the guy who wrote that was born in 1968. So I'm four years old than him. So we've lived pretty much the same kind of life. And seen the same things.

This means, that he has lived through, I'm speaking globally. Not in America. Globally. He lived through the tail end of the Soviet Union.

And the gulags. And the torture. And the deaths.

He lived through Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. And what they're doing today, with the tortures. The disappearances. The death. Throwing homosexuals off the roof of buildings as their punishment in current day Iran.

He lived through China's Tienanmen Square. He lived through Iraq's Saddam Hussein. He lived through the Rwandan genocide. He lived through Milosevic in Yugoslavia. Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaeda. The Islamic State. What's happening today once again, in Afghanistan. Bashar Assad. Hezbollah. Hamas. Vladimir Putin. The concentration camps and slavery in China. And for him, today's Republican Party is worse than any of those, quote, by far. Our good Democrat neighbors who have been swept up into craziness. Craziness. We have to be able to say to them, look, you may not be a Trump person. I get that. But you're not one of these people that say, me, your former friend. Your neighbor. Your daughter, your son, who you've now said, I want nothing to do because you voted for Donald Trump. Or you're a Republican. Do you really? Because this is where we're going. It's not just that I can't be friends with you anymore. You are now putting me into a category, that is more violent and extreme than any of that.

If I actually don't stand up now, and you actually believe that, let me ask you what's the next step?

What do you do with 50 percent of the population that you now believe is worse than the people that ran the gulags, throwing homosexuals off the buildings, torturing women, using them as slaves? What do you do with people that you say, are worse than those who are maintaining slave centers and internment camps. What do you do with those people? Because you certainly can't live next door to them.

See, people don't understand, we're on a staircase. And every step you take, is going down deeper and deeper and deeper. And darker and darker.

You have to ask yourself: Okay. If I believe this, what's next?

And if they say, oh, there's no slippery slope. You remind them, that you probably were the person that said, look, I don't have a problem with gay marriage. I'm not a homophobe. Okay? If they want to get married, they can get married. Fine. But let's not change the whole system because the next thing that will be happening, is we'll say that men are women and children and pedophiles, that's their own decision. And your neighbor most likely said, you're crazy. That would never happen.

That's the slippery slope. You cannot accept people who are saying this. Put them on record right now. I'm your friend or former friend.

You have to stand against this. Because they didn't just say Republicans. They said, Republicans and our neighbors. Back in a minute.
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STU: Hmm.

GLENN: We were just talking about the former -- the former director of the CIA, saying Republicans are the most violent extreme political ever -- ever covered.

STU: Dangerous. Nihilistic. This is --

GLENN: Most dangerous and nihilistic he's ever seen.

STU: You -- people say this a lot. And I think it's overstated. This is one of the most unbelievable moments that I can ever remember in politics.

GLENN: Okay. So I would say -- I started saying that this morning, when I started reading this. That this is the most unbelievable thing. We say this all the time. I think we need to say this on this one. This is the most dangerous thing I have ever seen.

STU: Yeah. Think of -- a CIA director.

This is a guy who saw footage of Assad's regime. Firing chemical weapons. At innocent people, and gassing children. This is a person who knows with all sort of detail, Boko Haram, kidnapping children.

GLENN: Al-Qaeda.

STU: Al-Qaeda. The Chinese government. The Venezuelan government. The cartels.

GLENN: ISIS.

STU: In Central America.

Think of the horrible things. North Korea.

GLENN: This guy has seen it all. That's why it's more dangerous. If Joy Reid would have said it, we would have rolled our eyes and said, of course she said that. It still would have been bad and dangerous. But this guy is --

STU: Yeah. Intimate knowledge of all this. And power.

GLENN: And power.

STU: It's one of the most -- the most dangerous moment I've ever seen. This man had this power. This is incredible.

GLENN: But we would never do that. Oh, wait a minute. We have the Japanese internment camps. The entire country said, don't enter the Japanese, until an event happened. Pearl Harbor. And then it didn't matter what the facts were. A demagogue president whipped them up into power, and we interned the Japanese.

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The world has a plentiful, seemingly endless supply of angry boys. What it's lacking is real MEN. Glenn Beck shares the secret that our young men must learn if they truly want to protect and perfect our country.

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GLENN: There's a difference between a revival and an awakening. We are in a revival right now, but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything. Except, oh, I have to re-learn those principles. But that doesn't mean you apply them in your life. Okay?

That's an awakening. There's been two great awakenings in American history. One brought us the American Revolution. The second one brought us the Civil War and the freedom of slaves.

We have the possibility of going into a third great awakening. That's the only thing that will save us. If you don't know the difference between a revival and an awakening. Let me give you the negative print of a godly awakening. Our kids right now, they don't have any purpose. They don't have any meaning.

They look at everything, and it doesn't -- it's not real. None of it is real. It's money. It's fame.

It's -- you know, it's ever changing truths and definitions. And they have no purpose in their life. Okay?

So they're looking for that. Because man has to have purpose in his life. Man has to search for meaning.

So they're searching for meaning. And they found a group of people that actually mean something. And they're willing to die for it. And it's ISIS.

And so they're like, at least these people believe in something. They believe it. And they're willing to die for it. I'm going to stand with them. And they put that twisted understanding into action. That's the -- that is -- that's an awakening. It's just an awakening to the dark side. And that one is already happening. It has to happen on the good side. And let me speak directly to young men: Look, you are inheriting a very loud, angry, cynical and worst of all spiritually starving and malnourished society. And you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength, one distracted second after another.

And in the middle of all that noise, may I just give you one piece of instruction. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise-worthy, seek those things.

Don't admire them. Don't nod at them. Seek them!

Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things. A man who will do that. A boy. A young man who will do that, will become different. Noticeably different.

He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel.

He will become a curator of -- of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.

When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope!

When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he'll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep!

You want to know what the secret of becoming strong is, or becoming trusted, or becoming the kind of man that your future wife, your future children, your future nation can depend on?

Here it is!

You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. If you seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily. Like the steel glow of a blade being forged.

That's who you'll be.

The world has a plentiful, seemingly never-ending supply of angry boys. We don't need any more addicted boys.

We don't need any more distracted boys. The world needs men. Whole men. Clear-eyed men.

Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms, trying to own them!

Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser. Fill your days with work, hard work, that makes you stronger. Fill your home with beauty that lifts every soul who walks into it.

Have your home a place where people walk in and go, man, I say so great here. I just love it here. I don't know what it is about your house. I just love it. It's the spirit that's there! Because you built it! You protect it.

Protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. And when you fail, and you will, stand back up again.

Because a man who seeks the virtuous, is not a man who never fails. He just -- he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground.

If you seek things that are lovely and pure, trustworthy, praiseworthy, you'll become a kind of man this age almost never produces. A man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness.

That's your calling. That's why you were born.

Not to be lost. Not to play video games. Not to give up. Not to say, there's no hope. Not to end up in the trash bin of human history because you've -- you've taken so many drugs, you can't stand up straight anymore.

You're not destined to be alone.

You were destined for great things. You are destined to find an amazing woman!

Believe me. I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman. Because I didn't think I was worth it. I didn't think I was worth it.

And until I started understanding how God works. That, yeah. I'm not worth any of the stuff that I have.

When you realize, it's all a gift. It's all a gift. And even if you work your brains out, you may not ever get all the things that you want. But you're going to have everything you need. Once you realize, carefully selecting friends makes a difference. My mother used to always say, show me your friends. I will show you your future.

It's true. Be careful who you select as friends. Watch your language. Watch what you're putting into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth. Because the brain is so amazing. It's being turned to mush. Did you know that there is a new study that just came out. I have to tell you about it next week, maybe.

New study going out. It is -- it's AI. And it has access to social media, and they have found that the AI -- the AI that is scrolling through social media all day, just to keep updated on everything that's going on in social media. It's getting brain mush. It's actually becoming dumber. It's become less effective!

It's a machine. What do you think this, flesh and blood, this thing is going to do?

We say life is meaningless. And life is the only thing that has any value. And yet, we spend all of our time, on things like social media. And that has absolutely no value.

But we think that's life.

I'm not that smart. I've just lived a long time. And I've made so many mistakes.

And I decided at one point, I'm going to stop saying, it's somebody else's fault. I'm going to start saying. Maybe -- what did I do to create that?

What did I do to attract that?

Why does this thing keep happening to me?

Why is it that I always find myself involved with these same kind of people?

Because, Glenn, dummy, it's you!

What you think, it's like -- it's like think of yourself as a -- as a beacon. It's just -- you're a beacon. Your GPS pin, that is constantly saying, here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

Except, it's transmitting more than just your location. It's -- it's transmitting what you're looking for, who you are. And it's attracting other dropped pins to you. It's saying, "I like this. I think this way. I believe these things. I am afraid of these things."

Whatever it is, you're thinking. It's constantly putting that out.

And saying, here I am. Is there anything else like that?

Anything else that can reinforce that? Anything else that can live like this?

Because that's me. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

That's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations. Nothing will change, if nothing changes!

And the only thing that you can change, is you!

Seek the things, that have virtue.

Seek the things, that have beauty in music, in -- in art, in life, in architecture, in clothing! Whatever it is. Look for real, lasting beauty and value.

Find the things that are true! Truly true.

Universally true. Find the things that uplift. Seek those things!

And you will change your life and your world!