RADIOFebruary 21, 2023

Why sending MORE money to Ukraine could end in DISASTER

The far-left and the Biden Administration are DESTROYING America’s money supply. Not only are they blindly transforming our energy supplies, handing out government subsidies like candy, and encouraging other world governments to do the same, but we also continue to send millions of U.S. dollars to Ukraine. ‘We’re hemorrhaging money,’ Glenn says, and it’s only getting worse. Now, President Biden says we are helping to pay pensions in Ukraine too. But what about the social security mess in our own country? So, what ARE they doing?! In this clip, Glenn explains why America’s financial situation is DIRE and why, if we continue to funnel even more money into Ukraine, it could end in disaster…

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GLENN: I want to just talk to you a little bit about something that is extremely concerning to me today.

And that is this -- I'm just going to say it this way. This coming war with Russia, and now possibly China.

We are setting the world up, and we are on the wrong side.

The right side is settle this.

Let's have peace.

The -- the -- what happened in World War I is happening again.

You have the elites who want to redesign the world. And they're going to do it, one way or another. They think war is the way to solve this problem, to get away with all of the big changes they need to make.

And it is rapidly coming upon us. And at the same time, we are bleeding out on a table. And it's intentionally -- it's intentional, that all of this stuff is happening. It's not paper cuts anymore.

We are severing arteries. And we are bleeding out on the table.

Let me take just one thing.

Somebody called out last hour. And they were in Kansas. And they said, Kansas farmers are selling their farmland for solar panels, and these companies are coming in.

Okay. Solar panels are great. But you would have to take almost all of the land from Maine to Florida, all the way over to probably the Missouri.

To ever to be able to have enough solar panels to be able to power the United States of America.

So solar panels are not the way. Maybe they play a role. But they're not the way. And so they're selling our farmland, to have solar panels.

Meanwhile, that means, we're paying our farmers not to farm.

I'm sure there are government subsidies that go with this, if you have solar panels, on your farm.

Meanwhile, because there's a lack of food, we're now announced on Friday, by the president, paying for food subsidies, all over the globe.

We're also paying coal fire plants, to not create energy. If you have a coal fire plant, I want you to see if it has plans on shutting down.

And why is it shutting down. And what are they planning on doing with the coal-fired plant?

Hmm. So they're shutting down coal-fired plants. We're paying them, not to create energy.

Okay. But we're also doing this, all across the globe, with USAID. We're paying people, to shut down their power plants. Although, we have -- we know, because of AI.

We know, we're going to have a much bigger demand for electricity, than even today, in the short horizon.

But we're shutting things down, because we're creating a new world. Well, what are we creating it with?

Well, we've got the solar panels. And we've got some experimental things, which we are paying for.

Government is subsidizing all of this stuff.

And then if you'll put any of that experimental stuff in your house, they're paying for that. So they're paying for the creation, and we're paying for the buying of that creation.

And we'll pay you, with your house, to change to electricity, from things that already cost you less money, like natural gas. When we know, we're not going to have the electricity. We're paying you.

And then, we're paying you to buy a car, that's an EV. We'll give you an 8,000-dollar bonus.

We'll give you $8,000 to do an out of tax money. The government is subsidizing buying these electric cars.

At the same time, they are paying for all of the charging stations, all across America.

Does this sound at all, like an idea, that will work?

When we are hemorrhaging money?

It doesn't sound like it to me. Let's go to Brian in Ohio. Hello, Brian.

Brian, are you there?

CALLER: Yeah. I am. Thanks for taking my call. Thanks for taking my call. And I've listened to you for a long time. And I have the same beliefs that you do.

One of my concerns are that both me and my wife, we have worked for a long time. We have been married for 35 years.

We've paid into Social Security, and over the past several years, we probably put 15 to 20 grand into Social Security. Plus, what we've put into 401(k). And my biggest concern is, the fact that, you know, it's a slush fund for them to send to Ukraine.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

CALLER: Am I going to get that back?

GLENN: No.

CALLER: And I -- and that's our concern. Because that's a lot of money. That we --

GLENN: Put away.

CALLER: That we have taken out of our taxes. And that we deserve to have -- you know, to pay for our retirement. Which we would have rather been put into our 401(k). Not that we're -- you know, we've done a very good job of, you know, saving and doing whatever.

But that's a lot of money.

GLENN: It's a ton of money, Brian.

But when -- how old are you, may I ask?

CALLER: Fifty-five, one, 56.

GLENN: So we're in the same area. I'm 59.

CALLER: Yeah.

GLENN: I knew the chances -- the odds of getting Social Security were very, very slim. So I haven't bet on it. But I am in a different position than most people.

CALLER: Yeah.

GLENN: And those that have to rely on it, we're entering a time, to Stu, we were just talking off the air about Social Security.

It's worse off than you think it is. But yet, Biden is sending all this money. They are going to be paying for their retirement packages. Their funds in Ukraine.

Out of our money. While our Social Security is -- is collapsing.

This has got to be put on the plate, with the House and the Senate.

People have got to respond to this. And stand up. And say, stop spending all this money in Ukraine.

We are going bankrupt quickly. And it doesn't matter, they will just print more. And that will -- we know the results of this. We're in a death spiral, if we don't have Congress stand up and stop it, right now.

STU: Yeah. I mean, this latest report that came out from the CBO, is stunning. It's stunning how fast this is going out of control.

If you go back to the Obama administration. Coming out of the financial crisis.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Right?

So 2009, worst year. $1.4 trillion deficit. Really big. Now, of course, after that -- the financial crisis starts to fade.

Those deficits come down quite a bit, as he goes on in his administration. But $1.4 trillion was in that first year, a real catastrophe.

GLENN: And almost a trillion of it, three-quarters of a trillion, that was just in the bank bailout.

STU: There's all sorts of -- all those bills made it much, much worse.

It did eventually come down. That $1.4 trillion number. That was catastrophic. That was catastrophic.

In that time, right after -- right during the financial crisis. What is our budget deficit this year, when we don't have any of that going on? Right?

We passed COVID. We're beyond that now. Not talking about COVID. Because obviously COVID is a totally different thing. We're past that right now.

What is our budget deficit supposed to be this year?

The exact same amount. $1.4 trillion. The same number as the financial crisis number. And that is the best year in the next ten years of projections that they released. Our best outcome, 1.4 trillion-dollar deficit. It goes 1.4 to 1.5.

All the way down to $2.9 trillion. That's our projections right now. Just --

GLENN: And projections are always wrong.

STU: Always wrong.

This is the CBO. By the way, I should point out, in that projection, they say that the Inflation Reduction Act will help us. Will lower the deficit, that's their projection.

GLENN: They're always wrong.

STU: So obviously that's completely ridiculous.

Just since Biden has been in office, he has added 6 trillion dollars. $6 trillion.

To the -- to the debt. Just since he's come in with the stuff that he's passed.

That's not like, okay. Well, COVID spending from Trump. Or -- you know, preexisting programs or any of that.

This is just what the differences are from their own CBO. From when Biden comes into office, and now.

$6 trillion. And one more on this, Glenn. The $1.4 trillion number I was talking about. The worst-case scenario for Biden.

Or excuse me, for Obama, when he came in. Now is our current deficit. That goes up to $3 trillion. By the time that hits $3 trillion. 1.2 trillion of that, will just be interest.

Impossible to change, and at the whim of interest rates.

The entire budget deficit from the economic collapse of 2008, 2009, is just going to be interest at the end of the day.

GLENN: This is why I'm telling you, they are marching toward war.

They are marching toward war.

Because it will -- they will have to reset the entire global economic system, and they'll have to just wipe out debt. That's -- that's what will happen.

Except, we're going to be in the position of Germany in the end. The world is going to say, it was your fault. Not on war. But on everything.

Because we've already said that to them, for the last 20 years. Every ill comes from the United States.

So we will be the ones, paying reparations. It -- we -- we have got to stop this quick march to war. You need to be on the phone, with your senators. And with the House, and saying, stop the spending in Ukraine.

Enough is enough.

The president is over in Ukraine, today.

We just had Kamala Harris say this. Now, this is -- think of -- think of all the times, that we could say, that China has committed crimes against humanity.

We know they killed millions of people, and we never said anything.

We know what they're doing with the Uighurs. We have footage of it. We have evidence of what they're doing in these camps. Crimes against humanity, with China.

We say nothing.

Here's our vice president, making an official declaration, in Germany, this weekend.

VOICE: The United States has formerly determined, that Russia has committed crimes against humanity. And I say, to all of those who have perpetrated these crimes, and to their superiors who are complicit in these crimes, you will be held to account.

In the face of these indisputable facts, to all of us here in Munich. Let us renew our commitment to accountability.

GLENN: Stop. Oh, my gosh.

Do you notice every time she opens her mouth, her lips -- her mouth is really dry, and you can hear it? Never noticed that with her before.

She knows the gravity of this statement.

What did she just say?

Russians committed crimes against humanity.

We tie all of those crimes.

I can guarantee you, to Vladimir Putin.

We would never say this about China.

We're just saying it now about Russia.

And, by the way, the Russians have said, you send over a single western airplane, that's the last straw. That's the last straw.

China is now siding and sending all kinds of stuff up to Russia, for Ukraine. And we had the balls to look at them this weekend, and say, don't you do it.

That's a line you don't want to cross.

We're now threatening China as well?

Today, you need to get on the phones, and you need to burn those phone lines down.

You need to get on the phones, to anyone in Washington, and let your voice be heard.

I will not send my son or daughter, to fight in any war.

Under this administration. Or for -- against Russia and China. Stop it.

Those funds need to stop. They got to come here, to the United States. He should not be in Kyiv today. The president should be in Palestina, Ohio.

Has THIS Islamist organization BROKEN state laws for YEARS?!

A new report accuses CAIR Action, the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of breaking state laws with its political activism. Glenn Beck reviews this story...

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GLENN: So let me go over what is -- what's happening with -- with CAIR.

You know, the Founding Fathers were obsessed over accountability.

Because they knew one thing. You know, they did. They must get suggestions from people on, you know, through tweets. They studied every single system of government.

Every single republic that survived. That didn't survive.

Why didn't it survive?

They studied all forms of government. They were trying to come up with something that could -- could set people free.

And they -- they worked really hard on putting our checks and balances in place, because they knew, once power slips into the shadows. They knew, once power slips into the shadows, once influence becomes unmoored from law, what rises is not a republic.

It's a machine. And that's what you're seeing right now. We're not living in a republic. We're living in a machine.

We -- I think we're staring at one of the largest unregulated political machines operating in the United States ever! Okay.

There have been a couple of groups that are doing sweeping investigations, two watchdog groups. One of them is NCRI and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.

And they have concluded now that the political arm of CAIR, he known as CAIR action, has been operating nationwide with no legal authority, to do the things it has been doing for years now.

They're not allowed to raise money. They've been raising money. Coordinating political campaigns.

Not allowed to do it. Endorsing candidates. Not allowed to do it, they're doing it. Mobilizing voters, shaping policy, functioning as a national advocacy network.

They don't have the legal authority to do any of it. And no one has said anything.

Now, according to the report, CAIR action doesn't just have a paperwork problem.

Investigators found, state by state, that it lacks the license, the registrations. The charitable authorizations, required to legally solicit money.

Excuse me. Or conduct political activity, in any of the 22 states in which it operates. Think of that!

I know how serious this is, because I remember what it took to get the license in each and every state, for Mercury One.

So we could operate. We could raise money. We could do things in those states. It's a lot of work. And if you don't do it, you go to jail. And they find out pretty quickly.

Okay?

22 states, they operate not one, zero legal authorization.

In Washington, DC, the city where CAIR action is incorporated, the department of licensing and consumer protection told investigators, they have no record of CAIR action ever obtaining the basic business license required to solicit funds or to operate.

Imagine how long would you last in business, especially if you were controversial.

How long would you remain in business, if you never had a business license?

You think somebody would figure that out?

In a sooner time than I don't know. A couple of decades!

This report means, that the organization if true, is engaging in unlicensed inner state solicitation.

It has exposed itself to allegations as serious as deceptive solicitation. Wire fraud and false statements to the IRS. These are big things.

And this is not political rhetoric.

Are these phrases written in black and white. In the law.

And by investigators. In California, one of CAIR's most active hubs. The state attorney general has said, the state attorney general of California has said, same pattern here!

The state of California, to say, yep. That's what's happening here.

CAIR action has never registered with California's charitable registry.

Never filed the required CT1 form. And has no authorization whatsoever to request donations. But they've been doing it in California anyway.

Fundraising, selling memberships. Issuing endorsements. Mobilizing voters. All of that has been done by CAIR action. There's no record of any license. Any permission, ever. Going to CAIR. From California. That's according to their attorney general.

Wow!

That's pretty remarkable, huh? How does that happen?

It's not just the coast. It is also happening to the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West. Every state hosting its own CAIR action fundraising page, complete with the donate now and become a member portal, despite no trace of the legal filings required to operate. That's bad!

Now, here's where the stakes rise.

Because CAIR action presents itself openly, as the political arm of CAIR National.

Investigators are now warning that any unauthorized fundraising or political activity.

Could become CAIR's national responsibility as well.

So, in other words, the parent, CAIR itself, might be held responsible.

Meaning, this is want just a rogue subdivision.

This could implicate the entire National Organization of CAIR.

Now, this is happening at the same time it's coming under national scrutiny. It's also Texas.

And I think Florida have designated the group a foreign terrorist organization. Members of Congress are now asking the IRS, the Treasury, the Department of Education to investigate all of its partnerships, all of its financing, all of its influence operations. I mean, I think they're going to be in trouble.

How long have we been saying this?

But every time, I have pointed out anything about CAIR, I have been called an Islamophobe, which shuts everything down. That is a word, developed by people like CAIR, to shut people down, so you'll never look into them.

So what happens next?

First of all, the reports have to hold up.

Regulators now have an obligation. Not a choice. An obligation to act!

State attorneys general in these 22 states, they might pursue fines, injunctions, criminal referrals.

All of them need to take action!

The IRS, needs to take action. Investigate tax exempt fraud. Treasury Department may review foreign influence or money flow violations.

Anything coming from overseas.

Oh, I can't imagine it. They're so buttoned up, right now.

DC regulators may determine whether CAIR actions entire fundraising operation has been unlawful from the beginning.

But here's the deeper question. And it's not bureaucratic. This one is constitutional.

Can the United States tolerate an influence machine, that operates outside of the legal framework, designed to prevent corruption, foreign leverage, and untraceable money?

If I hear one more time, talking about how AIPAC has just got to be investigated. Fine. Investigate.

I'm not against it.

Investigate.

Why aren't you saying anything about CAIR?

It feels like it might be a tool in the hands of a foreign operation.

Why aren't you saying anything about this?

Because here it is! It's not like, hey. I wonder why.

This is it! This is it! This isn't about silencing CAIR. Muslim Americans are -- that are full citizens, they have every right to speak. Every right to vote. Every right to organize. Participate in public life. No question! They can disagree with me, all they want.

But no organization. None! Not mine. Not yours. Not theirs. None. Should operate a nationwide political network, in the shadows and be immune from all of the guardrails that every other group must follow!

That's called a fourth branch of government!

That's how a fourth branch goes.

By the way, CAIR has placed all kinds of people in our Department of Homeland Security. Et cetera, et cetera. This organization has done it!

This is -- you cannot have a fourth branch of government.

They must abide by the laws.

No -- you can't have a branch that nobody elected. Nobody oversees.

Nobody holds accountable.

We talked about this yesterday, on yesterday's podcast. So what needs to happen is total transparency. CAIR action has to release its filings. Its donor structure. Its compliance records, if they exist. Equal enforcement under the law. I don't want them prosecuted in special ways.

Look, if AIPAC is doing the same thing. AIPAC should be prosecuted exactly the same way.
I want it equal. I want constitutional rule.

If conservatives, if Catholics, pro-Israel, environmental, Second Amendment groups, if they have to comply by the state law, so does CAIR action.

And if CAIR action has to do it, so do the Second Amendment groups and environmentalists, and pro-Israel and conservative groups. The law cannot be selective. It can't be!

I don't know how that's controversial in today's world. But somehow or another, they will find a way.

The Feds have to review all of this. If the report is accurate, the IRS and the Treasury have to determine whether false statements or unlicensed interstate solicitations have occurred.

Americans deserve to know what exactly, who is influencing our elections. Who is shaping our policy? Who is raising money in their state?

Especially physical the organization claims political authority, that it doesn't legally possess.

Because history will teach us one unchanging lesson. When a republic stops enforcing its own laws, someone else will always step in to fill that vacuum because power abhors a vacuum!

Unregulated, political power abhors a free people. So while it's about CAIR, it's not about Muslim Americans. It's not about religion.

As always, at least on this program, we try to make it about the rule of law.

One standard for everyone or no standard at all!

And that more than anything, will determine whether or not our institutions remain worthy of the freedom and responsibility that we have entrusted to them.

Glenn Beck WARNS Democrats Will Return with VENGEANCE in 2026 | Glenn TV | Ep 473

America is entering a year of historic upheaval from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the spiritual shock that followed, to Trump’s tariff revolution, China’s rare-earth war, collapsing energy grids, AI displacement, and the looming fights over Taiwan and Venezuela. Glenn sits down with BlazeTV hosts ‪@deaceshow‬ and ‪@lizwheeler‬ along with his head researcher Jason Buttrill, to break down the biggest stories of 2025. Plus, they each give their most explosive prediction for 2026 that could shape our politics, economy, national security, and civil rights in ways Americans have never experienced before.

Trump Just SHATTERED the “Expert Class” - And the Deep State is in Total Panic

For nearly a century, Washington DC has been ruled by an unelected “expert class” operating as an unconstitutional fourth branch of government — accountable to no one, removable by no president, and shielded from all consequences. Glenn breaks down why Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commissioner could finally dismantle the 1935 precedent that empowered technocrats, how Ketanji Brown Jackson exposed the Supreme Court’s embrace of expert rule, and why America cannot survive a government run by people who never face the voters and never pay for their failures.

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GLENN: Okay. So President Donald Trump fired the federal trade commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. Federal Trade Commission is an administrative position. I mean, this is under -- the head of the federal trade commission is a cabinet member.

And if the justices uphold Trump's firing of Slaughter, that will overturn a precedent that was horrible, that was set in 1935. Remember, 1935, we're flirting with fascism. You know, everybody thinks. Because they haven't seen the horrors of fascism yet.

Everybody thinks fascism is neat, blah, blah. So what they do is they say that this is an independent person. And the president can't fire them. Because they're, you know, an independent agency.

Well, wait. That would make a fourth branch of government. Our Constitution is really clear.

There is no such thing as a fourth branch of government. Right?

So that's what they're deciding. Now, here is Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is talking about how we really need to listen to the experts. Cut four.

VOICE: Because presidents have accepted that there could be both an understanding of Congress and the presidency. That it is in the best interest of the American people to have certain kinds of issues, handled by experts. Who, and I think you -- in your colloquy, Justice Kagan, have identified the fact that these boards are not only experts, but they're also nonpartisan. So the -- the seats are actually distributed in such a way, that we are presumably eliminating political influence because we're trying to get to science and data and actual facts, related to how these decisions are made.

And so the real risk, I think, of allowing non- -- of allowing these kinds of decisions to be made by the president, of saying, everybody can just be removed when I come in, is that we will get away from those very important policy considerations.

VOICE: We will get away from US policy considerations, and it will create opportunities for all kinds of problems that Congress and prior presidents wanted to avoid, risks that flow inevitably, just given human nature, the realities of the world that we live in.

GLENN: Okay.

Now, remember, what she's saying here is, we have to have experts.

We have to have experts. We have to have experts that don't really answer to anybody. Okay?

They're appointed. And then they're just there. This from a, quote, judicial expert, who cannot define a woman, because she's not a doctor.
She's not a scientist.

She needs an expert to define a woman.
That's how insane her thinking is. Okay?

Now, I would just like to ask the Supreme Court, when you want things run by experts, do you mean things like the State Department, or the counsel of foreign relations, that have gotten us into these endless war wars for 100 years?

Because these are the things that Woodrow Wilson wanted. He wanted the country run by experts.

Okay. So is it like the Council of Foreign Relations, that keep getting us into these endless wars.

Or is it more like the Fed, that directs our fiscal policy, that has driven us into $38 trillion of at the time. We have all powerful banks. That strangely all belong to the fed. And endless bailouts for those banks. Are those the experts that you're talking about?

Or are you talking about the experts that are doctors, that gave the country sterilizations, lobotomies, transgender surgeries. You know, or should we listen to the experts, like the ones that are now speaking in Illinois, to get us death on demand like Canada has, with their MAID assisted suicide, which is now the third largest killer in Canada. MAID, assisted suicide, third largest killer in Canada. Experts are saying, we now need it here, and they're pushing for it in Illinois. Or should we listen to the experts? And I think many of them are the same experts strangely, that brought us COVID. Yeah. That was an expert thing. They were trying to protect us. Because they need to do this for our protection. So direct from the labs in China with the help of the American experts like Fauci. We almost put the world out.

Should we listen to those guys?

Or the experts that brought us masking, and Home Depot is absolutely safe. But Ace Hardware wants to kill grandma. Which are the experts that we want? That we want to make sure that we have in our lives? That they don't answer, or can't be fired by anybody. Because I'm pretty full up on the experts, myself. I don't know.

But you're right. These experts would keep the president in check, and they would keep Congress in check. And you in check!

And the Supreme Court, which would be really great. You know, and you know who else they would keep in check? The people.

So, wow, it seems like we would just be a nation run by experts, and our Constitution would be out the window, because that's a fourth branch!

And if you don't believe me, that, you know, these experts never pay a price. Can you name a single expert?

Give me a name of an expert, that gave us any of the things that I just told you about.

Give me the name. I mean, give me the name of one of them. Give me the name of one of them that went to jail. Give me the name of one expert that has been discredited.

You know, where your name will be mud in this town. Do you know where that came from?

Your name is going to be mud. It's not M-U-D. It's M-U-D-D, that comes from Dr. Samuel Mudd. Okay? He was a docks man. He was an expert. He was that set John Wilkes Booth' broken leg. He made crutches. He let him stay there for a while. He claimed he didn't know him, but he did know him.

In fact, one of the reasons they proved it.

Is because when he pulled the boots off -- when he pulled both of his boots off, right there, in the back, you couldn't have missed it. It said "John Wilkes Booth."

He's like, I have no idea who he was.

Yeah. Well, you knew him in advance. This was a predetermined outpost where he could stay. It's clear you could know him.

The guy was still discredited, we still use his name today. Your name will be mud in this town.

And we think that it's like dirt, mixed with water kind of mud. No, it's M-U-D-D, Dr. Mudd. The expert that was so discredited, went to jail, paid for his part of the assassination of -- of Lincoln.

Give me the name of one of the experts in the last 100 years, that has brought us any of the trials and the tribulations. The things that have almost brought us to our knees. Give me the name of one of them. Can't!

Because once an expert class, they don't answer to anyone. So they never go to jail.

Wow! Doesn't that sound familiar. People never going to jail!

There's a rant that's going around right now, that I did in 2020. And everybody is like, see. He's talking about Pam Bondi.

No, no. I got to play this for you, a little later on in the program. But I want to get to the experts and what the Constitution actually says about that. Because you don't need my opinion. What you need are the actual facts. So you can stand up and say, yeah. I think Ketanji Brown Jackson is an idiot. Okay?

And she's really not an expert on anything. Especially the Constitution. You need the facts, on what the Founders said. Because the Founders would be absolutely against what they did in 1935.

Because that just -- what does it do?

It just sets up a fourth branch of government.

EXPLAINED: Why the Warner-Netflix/Paramount Merger is DANGEROUS for All of Us

The biggest media merger in modern history is unfolding, and Glenn Beck warns it’s the most dangerous consolidation of power America has faced in decades. With six corporations already controlling 90% of the nation’s news and entertainment, a Warner-Netflix or Warner-Paramount megacorporation would create an unstoppable information cartel. Glenn exposes how “too big to fail” thinking is repeating itself, how global elites and “experts” are tightening their grip, and why handing our entire cultural narrative to a handful of companies is a direct threat to freedom. The hour is late — and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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GLENN: By the way, it's never good when you consolidate power. It's never good.

And what is going on now, with this Netflix Warner Brothers paramount stuff, I don't care if Larry Ellison is a conservative or not.

No one should have that much power.

I did a show, gosh, four years ago. I don't even remember when I did it.

We looked it up. In the 1980s. 19 percent of American media was owned by over 50 companies.

Forty years later, 90 percent of the media is watched and controlled by six companies.

National Amusements, the Red Stone Family controls CBS, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, gaming and internet. Simon & Schuster Books. That's all one.

Disney, ABC, ESPN, History Channel, Marvel, Star Wars, video games and print.

TimeWarner controls CNN, Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, video games, internet, and print media like TIME. Comcast, MSNBC, NBC.

CNBC, Telemundo, the Internet.

New Corp. Fox. National Geographic. Ton of others. Sony, with a ton of movies, music and more. The big six. They're valued at nearly $500 billion.

Now, this is something I put together five years ago. So I don't even know. This is probably not even valid even today.

And now we're talking about Netflix, Warner Brothers. Paramount, into all of these one giant corporation. It's wrong! It's wrong!

We can't keep putting all -- everything into the hands of just a few! It's what's killing us!

We've got to spread this around. We can't -- the government cannot okay mergers like this.

They're big enough he has

What happened -- what happened when the banks went under, or almost went under in '08. What did they say the problem was?

They said the banks are too big to fail.

Too big to fail.

Because they were providing all of the services, everybody needs. All the time. And there's only a handful of them.

So if they fall, then everything falls.

Right?

That was the problem. So what did we do to fix it?

We made them bigger!

We let them merge with other banks, and gobble up other things!

And started taking on the local banks.

And so now, your banks that were too big to fail. Are now even bigger. And their failure would be even worse!

What is wrong with us?

Seriously, we're not this stupid.

We're not this stupid.

I think we're just this comfortable.

We just think the experts have a plan. No. The experts don't have a plan.

Their plan is stupid. Their plan is to make it bigger.

Every time it fails. Make it bigger. Push it up.

Make it more global.

No. Haven't you seen what the entire world is like?

The entire world is over-leveraged. The entire world is on the edge.

The entire world is being redesigned.
So what do we do? We don't allow them to make things bigger! We need to start taking more individual and local control of things. They're making it bigger. Which will make the problem bigger. And make the problem so big, you won't be able to do anything about it, because all the experts. All of the heads. They'll all -- there will be six of them. And they will all be sitting in one room.

And they will all be making the instigations. And with them, making those decisions will be all the heads of all the countries around the world, that you're not going to have a say in any of that. They're already trying to do it with the WEF.

But if -- if the Supreme Court says, no, experts matter. And the president can't fire them. You will not have any control over anything!

We're at this place, where we can back out. We can turn around.

We can do it.

It's not too late. But the hour is growing very late.

I don't know about you, I don't like being this.

Up to the edge, you know what I mean?

I would rather have lots of breathing room, between me and the edge of the cliff.

But we don't have that anymore.

Everything has to be done right.

And we have to pay attention.

And the worst thing we can do is make things bigger.

Dream big, think small.