RADIOJanuary 12, 2023

The East is DUMPING the U.S. dollar & YOUR money will SUFFER

2023 will be a pivotal year, Glenn says, and so far the coming changes don’t look good for your money or personal finances. In this clip, Glenn highlights some of the changes we should expect this year — from a ban on gas, to new banking regulations, even more price increases on food, and bugs on your dinner plate. But, even more importantly, the status of the U.S. dollar may fundamentally change as well. Glenn explains how certain countries in the East — like China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia — are dumping the petrodollar. He explains what this means for the U.S. dollar, for inflation, and ultimately, for YOUR bank account.

Transcript

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GLENN: Well, let me give you a couple of things here that I think you really need to know and understand. Because 2023 is going to be a pivotal year. I have talked to people that I trust in Washington. And that's about four.

Four people. And they are very concerned, that the US dollar is going to have some problems this year. Which might lead to the central bank, digital currency.

The Federal Reserve, is doing everything they can. To make sure that everything is safe. You know, after the big banking crash. They had -- you know, one of these stress tests. And they're like, we're going to do a stress test. Because we have to make sure that everybody -- you know, you got all those loans. And you can cover anything that's risky. So we want to find out what's risky.

Okay. Sounds good so far, right?

It's good to know. Can the bank survive a downturn? How risky are their investments?

And so they were doing that, and it was great. Wonderful!

Then there was this added little benefit, that the fed is -- is doing now.

They've decided that if you are a bank, and you have let's say, green energy, like solar panel companies. You not only are more stable as a bank, you can use that investment in solar panel companies. To actually use it as an asset, a very stable asset, to be able to loan more money out to someone else.

So the more green energy things you have, which we have seen. Oh, my gosh.

How many solar panel companies did you invest in, America? That has just turned into a gold mine.

It is now weakening the stress test. It is doing the exact opposite problem.

It is -- it's -- it's insanity. It's like, you know what, you're safe to drive down the freeway without your seat belt. You know, as long as you're texting at the same time. That that ought to be totally safe.

That's what the fed is doing. Meanwhile, our prices of everything still are skyrocketing. Energy is down. Which the fed is going, that's great.

See, that's going to reduce everything. Meanwhile, if you are trying to buy eggs. In California, this is going to blow your mind.

California, a dozen eggs is now $7.37 compared to $2.35 a year ago.

The problem is: People are switching to eggs, because they're cheaper than meat. Which, by the way, we're trying to get rid of the meat.

I mean, you know, that, right?

We -- we are sitting here, with bugs now being discussed. I got a great story on that, in the show prep today. You want to sign up for it, at GlennBeck.com. It's free. You get all of the stories that I see, every morning. And -- and you can read them all. These are the stories that I have selected, and said, this is important.

Not all of them make it on the show. But one of them. Another one is about bugs. This restaurant in New York, that is like, we have Ethiopian ants in our creme fraiche. Huh?

And that's a certain je ne sais quoi. By the way, the ants are alive, while they put them on your whatever.

No, thank you.

And in this particular article from New York, it actually states, we're doing it, because of the carbon expense of traditional food.

So we're now looking to eat bugs.

Yesterday, I also told you, that the Richard Trumka from the consumer protection agency, has declared, because he got a study from a global warming group, that natural gas is very bad for your children. If it's in your house.

So we shouldn't really have natural gas stoves. And we shouldn't have natural gas, you know, heaters. Or anything natural gas.

Oh. Wow!

California sure is in trouble, huh?

Because they wanted to be really super green. And so all of their state cars and all of their buses and everything else, natural gas.

No. It's dangerous now. And in something that is so striking, this study just came out. Richard Trumka just said, we've got to consider getting rid of all natural gas in homes. And governor Hochul, yesterday, just decided, she's got some legislation to make sure that there are no natural gas outlets in any new construction in New York.

Gang, we are in trouble!

You better get to a state that is not doing -- and, quite honestly, I'm not sure it's not Texas.

But you better get to a state where like-minded people are all around.

Because they are going to cut us off from everything.

But that's if we -- that's if the fed doesn't help us some more.

I want to talk to you about what's -- what is happening in Asia, Russia. Prices of oil.

It's collapsing. So it's going down now, which is making things better for Europe. Yay! They can buy more Russian oil. Yay!

Meanwhile, we're not doing anything about it. But Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, they're starting to move their entire economy. Russia is now backing their ruble with oil. So it's like a -- oh, it's like a petrodollar. Oh, that will never work.

Oh, wait a minute. That's what we did. Until Saudi Arabia said, yeah. We're going to accept anything. Really? Chinese can pay us in the yuan, we're fine with that. We'll take a ruble. Whatever.

What does it mean? Why have we not discussed? What does it mean with the death of the petrodollar?

It means, that half the world, the part of the world that's not with us. Is no longer required to hold a dollar. A US dollar.

What happens when half the world's countries say, oh.

We don't need the dollar. They begin to sell them. They already are. And if they're sold, what happens?

They go out in the system, instead of in the bank. Which does what? Too many dollars in the system chasing too few goods, inflation goes up.

So what do you do? You raise interest rates. Well, the problem now is, as we are seeing the death of the petrodollar.

You're also seeing the fed, in a very unusual place.

Raising even another -- another half point is spooking everybody who pays attention to this stuff.

The fed, has to raise interest rates to get interest -- or, I mean, to get inflation, under control.

But when they do that, this is how they control inflation. They take more money from you. They slow your spending down. And so that causes you not to go chase those goods with the dollar. Okay?

And then they're supposed to take those dollars in interest, that they get, take them back into the fed, and destroy them, so there's not too many dollars.

So the first step on this road, is to hurt you and your bank account and your ability to buy things.

The problem is: We are now looking at recession and inflation. Forget about stag -- stagflation. Forget about that. Forget about it.

We're looking at something different. We're looking at the dumping of the US dollar, by the east. Flooding the market.

Then you have higher interest rates, hurting your bank account. To suck those dollars and your dollars back into the fed.

This will cause a -- if they raise the interest rates. This will cause a stock market crash.

But it causes the stock market crash, because your dollars and the banks need dollars to grow the companies. So if there's a collapse of the stock market, people start selling things. People start losing their houses. And when that collapses, what happens?

The banks collapse.

Because they've got them all -- but the good news is, this time, they have all those solar panel companies. So they have all the windmill, and solar panel companies, that good as gold.

If they have to start selling those things. Who are they selling them to?

Also this is a really nice handy thing. When the banks start to go under, they immediately have to start -- have to start liquidating things. And calling in loans. They have to also stop giving loans. So if you're in a tight spot, and you need a loan, the bank will no longer give you a loan. And if you go under, you probably have a loan with some other bank. And so it just is a -- it's a pile of dominoes.

One thing triggers another. And this time, we're not looking at a ten-year reset. Because we didn't do it right the last time.

We are looking now, and they are officially, saying this, that we are now looking at a possibility of something like the Great Depression or beyond.

And I say beyond, because we are looking at the collapse of the dollar. If the stock market falls. If the banking community begins to have the same problems it had in '08, the problem is way too big. Because we no longer have a reserve currency for half the world.

They can sell those dollars. Our enemy, China, they can just dump all those dollars. It would being worth it to them. Because it would destroy us.

Just dump them. And then how much is it worth? See, here's -- here's the reason you should consider gold and silver.

And this is not a commercial. Gold and silver are constitutionally dollars. They are -- that's money. That's currency.

The dollar that we have, is a note. It says, A, it's worth this amount.

But that changes all the time. Because of inflation.

It's not backed by anything.

The problem is: There's too much money. There's not enough gold to reset the global markets to a gold standard. There's not enough gold, even in the minds. There's not enough gold, to pay for what we have all done, all around the world.

And the entire world is in on it.

So when the Federal Reserve says, you know what, we're going to print money, because we can't let the stock market fail, all of the central banks in the west will do the same thing.

And then it's just a matter of time of, when do we get to the bottom?

Please, please, consider what is coming our way.

I believe this is the beginnings of it. We will see this year.

And when it happens. It will probably happen rapidly. And people in the media will tell you, the exact opposite.

No, no, no. They've got it planned. Whatever you do, don't do whatever the right thing is to do.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

J6 Prisoner's Insane Story of Being Arrested & Imprisoned by Feds

Former January 6th prisoner John Strand recounts how his door was broken down by a battering ram and arrested in a chilling raid without warning by the Feds for being at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Strand goes on to tell Glenn Beck about how he was then thrown into prison and not allowed to make a phone call for four days in this shocking story.

Watch Glenn Beck's FULL Interview with John Strand HERE

Kristi Noem reveals INSANE spike in anti-ICE attacks

“Attacks on ICE officers are up by OVER 1000%,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem tells Glenn Beck. Sec. Noem tells Glenn who she thinks is to blame. Plus, she comments on removing the age cap for joining ICE, whether she would respect the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, and what’s to come at the TSA. Glenn also gets her reaction to her recent portrayal on South Park.

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GLENN: Kristi Noem, welcome to the program, how are you?

KRISTI: Oh, Glenn. Thank you, I'm doing great. Thank you for inviting me.

GLENN: No, it's great. First of all, thank you for the shoe thing.

Thank you. I feel like a human being again.

KRISTI: Oh, that was like the first thing when I got here to the TSA.

I was like, I think the shoe thing is made up. I'm not sure our technology hasn't devolved enough, where we don't have to take our shoes off anymore.

So they ran the security protocols, and made sense. And we're continuing to evaluate everything TSA does. And hospitality needs to be a part of this equation too.

I see so many people that encounter our security checkpoints wonder, just wonder, is this necessary? And why is everybody yelling at us?

GLENN: Yeah. I don't think a lot of it is necessary. At least the way we are doing it.

I know you've seen the numbers. What is it?

Seattle or San Francisco, one of them that has the private security, is better. Than the government-run security.

KRISTI: Yeah. So we've got I think 16 or 18 airports that have private security, that we have contracted with for those measures. So we're continuing to evaluate that, at every location and implement it where we can. If we think it's more -- better protocols for security, but also works better for the traveler.

My vision is that at some point, we get to, you walk in the door at the airport with your carry-on suitcase, you walk through a scanner, pulling your suitcase, and go right to your gate. And that technology is available and out there. But we just need to get it updated and get it implemented.

GLENN: Good.

I want to talk to you about ICE.

First of all, you're removing the age limits for new applications to join ICE.

I mean, I'm only 61. Does that mean somebody like me, I could have the velcro shoes?

I'm sure I have a bad back. I could barely walk. But can I be a part of ICE?

KRISTI: They will still have to pass a physical test, sorry, Glenn. There will be a physical exam and training. Yes, we do want.

We want some of these folks that retired from law enforcement, under the Biden administration.

Get frustrated. Maybe former Border Patrol.

Former federal officers, that weren't allowed to do their jobs before, to come back. And to be a part of literally saving America, and saving these communities and cities that have been so victimized by the crime. And drugs of these illegal criminals that have been out there, attacking their families. So it has been amazing. We have 10,000 new officers, that we received funding from, in the big, beautiful bill.

That to hire for ICE, and we have already had over 80,000 applicants for those 10,000 positions.

So we're -- we're rolling through that, and getting them through the process, to see if they can qualify. To give them final offers. But what I like about that, the most, Glenn, is that the media and the socialists and Marxists have done nothing more than try to demonize our ICE officers. And to see that kind of response in less than a week, just shows that the American people stand with the rule of law. That they want to help. And they want to be a part of this.

So that in itself has been so encouraging to ICE, just to see if people want to join the team and be they're excited about it.

GLENN: Yeah. Now people on the left are saying, you're turning ICE into a teenage Army for deportations.

KRISTI: We're not. Nothing is changing. You know, I'm shocked every day by the amount of stories that we have to refute, that just are completely false.

There will be so many stories shared. So many things said. So many narratives. That we spend half of our time, over here at the department of security, saying, that's not true.

No, we didn't.

That's not a fact. You know, just even -- anecdotal stories about families.

That just never even happened.

GLENN: Right. I am amazed. When you're talking about somebody like Mamdani.

And they're accusing ICE now of kidnapping people.

KRISTI: Yes. Yes.

GLENN: Kidnapping.

When you start planting things like they're pulling up in unmarked trucks. And they're wearing masks.

Because they're Nazis.

And they're just kidnapping people off the treat.

You are telling people, you have a reason and a license to stop these people with any means necessary.

It is so dangerous. So dangerous.

KRISTI: It's so dangerous.

Well, and we just got this morning, the notifications that a tax on ICE officers is up by over a thousand percent.

Than what it was, six months ago.

GLENN: Jeez.

KRISTI: So, you know, because those politicians and those, you know, extremists talk that way.

I mean, I've told people, I've said this my whole life.

Words have consequences. What you say matters.

And the consequences of using dangerous language like that is people take action on them.

Anybody who has a tendency to be unstable or be violent. That almost gives them permission to go out there and take action against these individuals. Who all -- these guys, they're not picking and choosing winners or deciding who the law applies to.

They're just doing their job. Upholding the job. And they want to go home at night to their families too.

GLENN: So this is what amazes me that you're getting 80 or 90,000 applicants.

When you have these radicals putting wanted posters up of people in their own neighborhoods.

I mean, just as -- I mean, as a dad, I don't know if I could put my family in danger.

KRISTI: No.

GLENN: And, I mean, how are we?

What are we going to do to stop this kind of stuff?

KRISTI: Well, we are going to keep doing our job, no matter what.

And we are building special operations teams to handle go to positions we face out on the streets. One of the things when we're in these communities. And that's why I've spent so much time with our agents and officers. Because I want to know what they go through when they run these ops.

And it's amazing to me, when we're out on the street, in New York City. Or in the Bronx. Or in LA. You're running -- you're doing an operation in an apartment. Where you have a warrant.

And you're -- but people are walking by. Taking their kids to school.

Or they're walking to work. And they are saying thank you.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you. We have lived with this for years. And our mayor. Our won't do anything.

Thank you for being here.

So people are overwhelming. And that's what I tell our ICE officers all the time. You're not all over the country, like I am. Or out of these communities so much. With different components all over the street.

But overwhelmingly, people say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I think what happens so much in this country, is the extremists are allowed. And the normal people just go to work and keep their head down.

GLENN: Go ahead.

KRISTI: We just have to be vocal about our support. Like, guys, I'm encouraging people that our hard-working, everyday Americans to be bold about saying, I support our law enforcement officers. I support what they're doing to arrest these rapists. And these murderers.

I mean, just these last couple of days, we've arrested dozens and dozens of sexual predators, pedophiles.

You should see these the chases we built, to get these individuals from Honduras and from Mexico.

They're here illegally. Some from Ukraine. They're -- and they're raping people. And murdering them.

We had ones that have been arrested two or three times and released by their city. They don't honor -- and then we end up. Killing someone, in a drunk driving accident, or assaulting someone, and then we finally get the chance to incarcerate them when we pick them up before the locals do.

Because if the locals do in their sanctuary city, they don't honor our detainers. They just turn them loose again.

GLENN: So let me ask you this.

This might be unfair. I don't know if this falls under Homeland Security at all. You know, we had Delia Ramirez.

And Ilhan Omar has done it too.

Declare that they are more -- you know, they feel more akin to Somalia, or to Guatemala, than America.

And they're serving in Congress.

KRISTI: Right. Right.

GLENN: Do we enforce the oath of office?

KRISTI: The Department of Justice would make that determination.

But that is alarming to me.

GLENN: If you -- if you had an officer that said that, I mean, I'm assuming with, your ICE officers take an oath to the Constitution.

If -- if -- if they had -- would you consider that a fireable offense?

KRISTI: Yes. Absolutely.

And we do take action on that.

And when we -- I've used every authority.

There's expansive authority. This is a national security position.

And I tell people, consistently, Department of Homeland Security. I have the authority over every person in this country, that leaves this country or comes into this country.

We have the authority over every product or good that is in this country, or leaves this country or comes in.

And we also have jurisdiction over the internet.

So what is said and done, was a security concern.

And what is communicated in protecting our critical infrastructure.

But also, how bad actors would wish to do us harm.

So the authority is there.

I have -- and I have been using -- when these specific situations, where we have people who don't love America.

I will use polygraphs.

I will use the authority I have. To find out. If you are going to be in this federal government. Where our mission and our oath is to protect this country. You're not going to be allowed to be here, if that is not trillion where your efforts go every single day.

So those members of Congress, I was -- you know, I don't sleep much.

And when I'm laying there, thinking about it at night.

I just think, they must -- it's our poor education system, that we didn't spend enough time, in -- in our schools, teaching the Constitution.

Teaching the Declaration of Independence. The fact that how hard this country was fought for, and why it was established.

And that we facilitate, where someone can actually get elected to a high office like that. And say something like that.

And we would have people nod their heads.

That -- that is the ripple affect, I think of many years of neglect.

GLENN: Yeah. I think -- I used to believe, it was just neglect.

And that might have been at first. But it was what they were actively being you taught.

It's not what is just being left out.

They're actively being taught to hate this country, at this point.

Let me ask you a couple of quick questions.

SCOTUS.

If they rule against birthright citizenship. President Trump's order.

Will you aspect the ruling of the Supreme Court?

KRISTI: We have always respected the federal rulings, and will do so. I think that would -- I don't know when that ruling is expected, for sure.

GLENN: Yeah.

KRISTI: But that would be a very consequential ruling, that we would have to figure out how to handle and deal with.

GLENN: Yeah. Do you agree with SCOTUS, that illegal aliens have some due process rights? And why or why not?

KRISTI: I do.

But I do believe due process looks different, according to the law. And according to what's afforded to them.

Most people, when they think of Tuesdays, they don't do their homework. And research. To truly understand, it's not a guaranteeing of a hearing. On in persons. Presentation in front of a judge.

Or the due process looks very different for an illegal alien that's in our country. Than it does for US citizen.

And that's appropriate. I think that's entirely appropriate.

And we have always afforded every single illegal that's within this country, due process. Before they are removed.

There has not been an instance, where ICE or immigration officials haven't done so.

GLENN: Tom Homan told me months ago, he said, there are several phases of this. What phase are we in?

And how many phases do we have?

Or where are we in the process of really getting this done?

KRISTI: Well, I asked President Trump for this job, because I knew he was going to have to have someone that was actually tough enough to do it.

But tough enough to do it for a long period of time.

That wasn't going to say, you know, this is a six-month operation. And then we're going to soften, and get ready for midterms.

You know, I knew he needed somebody that could sustain this.

But what -- what Joe Biden broke by allowing this invasion.

Can't be undone overnight.

So it will be an ongoing efforts.

We have funding, through the reconciliation bill.

To sustain it, for the next four years. And we will.

And it will only get stronger and stronger.
And bigger. We intend to grow it, not shrink it.

And we are going after the worst of the worst. And those criminals that are killing Americans, and victimizing Americans.

As well. But, I mean, overwhelmingly, I've been to, I think 11 or 12 different countries in Central and South America. In negotiating security agreements, and sharing of information on criminals and people that they think are in our country.

And talking about those presidents of those countries. And sitting down with their leadership.

It's amazing.

They're telling me that hundreds and hundreds of thousands of their people have already come home voluntarily. That just because we've been so strong on the messaging, the commercials, the CECOT videos have convinced people that were in this country illegally, you know what, I will leave now. And then I will have a chance to go back to America, the right way.

And I think the President of Mexico and her team were telling me, they believed that 500,000 Mexicans have just voluntarily came home, that may not even be on our radar. That we haven't counted, because they didn't come home through our app and our systems.

And I was just in Ecuador, and Chile, and Argentina. The same conversations. So I do believe we're making a big difference. Even in just our message being people that were here illegally, understand that they should go on their own first.

And then we need to figure out, if they're given the advantage to go back to this country, how do we do that?

GLENN: Well, I don't know about you, I imagine you were -- you're far more busy than I ever have been.

But I remember when I -- when South Park did an episode, and Cartman played me the whole time.

KRISTI: Oh, really?

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

It took me about a year before I -- I didn't even know it happened, until maybe a year later. I was so busy.

And I ended up years later, watching it with my son. And we both laughed over it.

KRISTI: Uh-huh.

GLENN: But welcome to the club.

KRISTI: Well, I guess so. I didn't get to see it.

I was -- I was going over budget numbers and stuff.

But, you know, I think it's -- yeah. It -- it never ends.

But it's so lazy, to constantly make fun of women for how they look. Only the liberals and the extremists do that. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that. But clearly, they can't. They just pick something petty like that.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Kristi, thank you so much. God bless.

KRISTI: Yeah, thanks, Glenn. You too. Absolutely. Thank you. Keep praying. We're doing good.

Jon Stewart just revealed EXACTLY how the Left works

"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart recently tried to dunk on Glenn Beck by claiming he flip-flopped on the Epstein Files. But Glenn reveals how Stewart inadvertently exposed exactly how the Left's spin machine works.

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GLENN: Now, let me take you to another thing that Jon Stewart.

Because Jon Stewart has been mocking me for years.

And that's fine.

Here he is, on Epstein.

And he's taking me on.

But it -- I just want to -- the only reason why I want to play this. Because it's really not worth it.

Other than for somebody who doesn't know how the left works. What they do, is they take everything I forgot context.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And they twist it, to make it look, as though I'm saying something that I'm not.

Or -- or making it look like, that is the conclusion.

So watch Jon Stewart here.

VOICE: I honestly think my favorite thing about this is watching conspiracy theorists have to unravel the red string, that they themselves originally strung out.

Here's the OG conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck at his excitement for Trump's beginning of the second term.

GLENN: The only thing I care about is the -- the scandal of the pedophiles and in the next ten days, you will see the Epstein file released. Day number one, Kash Patel walks in. By the end of the day, it will be released.

VOICE: Day one!
(laughter)

VOICE: Deep State exposed. Oh, I'm sorry.

Trump is in the rough?

I'll get right on that ball drop.

GLENN: Stop. Stop. Stop for a second. Stop. So what did he do here?

PAT: He switched the person, from Kash Patel to Donald Trump. He didn't say Trump was going to release it day one. He didn't say that.

GLENN: Exactly right.

No. Kash Patel was going to release that. And I have that on very, very good authority.

Trust me, very good authority on that.

I can't help that that -- that person told me that was wrong.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: It was hard to be wrong.

But they were wrong.

And so I looked like, I was just out there on a limb.

I don't really care. I don't care.

But it was -- it was not Donald Trump that said that.

And that was a prediction, that I made.

And based on, some information that somebody -- that was very reliable, at least at the time.

Or I thought was very reliable. Told me, that that was what was going to happen on day one.

It didn't!

Now he immediately jumps to me, in a chalkboard, what?

Six months later. 70 pounds different.

Okay?

You can tell, some time has gone. Because Glenn has lost 70 pounds.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: So watch -- watch what he says next.

VOICE: What the left is saying. And EMS people are now saying.

He's in the report, with 15-year-old's. Really?

Do you actually believe that?

VOICE: Yes!

VOICE: I have seen some clips that would be consistent with --

PAT: No. You haven't.

VOICE: With teenage --

GLENN: Stop. Okay. Stop for just a second.

So he brings up. He bought a teenage, you know, what do you call it?

You know, Miss Teen USA. He bought that. That doesn't make you a pedophile.

PAT: Oh, jeez. Oh, my gosh. Talking about the beauty pageant?

GLENN: Yeah. He's talking about the beauty pageant.

PAT: Oh, good golly.

GLENN: And, again, so that doesn't make you a pedophile. There's a difference, you know, between a teenage beauty pageant and a pedophile.

And I would like to know what clips you've seen?

And notice it's clips. The same thing that he's doing here.

He's taking a clip, and he's formatting it in a way, where you can't see, that what I'm talking about, I'm going to the chalkboard.

And there is one option up there, that Trump was on the tape. It doesn't show that there were five different options up on there.

And I am -- I am -- what I'm doing, is I'm laying out all of the options. And saying, which is the most likely? Now, if you hate Donald Trump, and you just expect the worst of Donald Trump, of course, you're going to say no to that.

But I wasn't talking to Jon Stewart's audience.

I wasn't talking to the people who hate Donald Trump. I was talking to the people who will at least give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt.

Does Donald Trump -- I mean, if he was with -- well, go on, because he plays this.

Now, listen to this.

VOICE: You die a teenage beauty pageant. Now, listen, Beck, you're the master at making connections, so let's see you unconnect it.

PAT: Oh, jeez.

GLENN: I mean, let's be honest, 20 years ago, if this was like, hey, he was on an island with 25-year-old models, I -- I would be going, probably.

Okay? Fifteen, 16-year-olds? That's not Donald Trump. It's not Donald Trump.

I don't believe that. Do you?

VOICE: Yes!

GLENN: I say that's -- no way that's true.
(laughter)

VOICE: No! Do not -- there's no magic X.

GLENN: Okay. Stop. So stop for just a second. Notice what he did there.

I said, do you believe that? I don't believe that. Do you?

Then I said, I didn't believe that. And I put an X over that. I don't believe that.

But I asked, do you believe that?

Leaving it open for you to say, yes, I do believe that!

But remember, this whole chalkboard was, what do I feel is most likely?

Not what happened. What do I feel is most likely, to have happened?

Why?

I wasn't excusing no release.

I was saying, why wasn't there a release?

Why didn't it happen.

But, again, you'll notice, he doesn't cover that.

This is exactly the way the left works.

And especially with people like Jon Stewart, who are doing comedy.

You take it out of context.

And you -- you take it out of context, so you can make it funny.

Because you make it the most extreme.

Instead of showing the entire conversation, which he can't do.

Because he's a comedian. But then, he goes and says serious things afterward, like he's just a crazy man.

He believes all these crazy things.

Well, no, Jon.

They look crazy to you, because you're not paying attention. You're not seeing the entire context.

You're not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt, of -- of having a different opinion.

And being sincere about it.

So I give you the benefit of the doubt.

I know you're doing comedy.

I disagree with -- with your point of view on many things.

But I've also seen you do things that I believe in. That I think, okay. Well, he's got something there.

When you were questioning the pentagon?

Wait a minute. How can you keep failing all of these audits. That doesn't make any sense.

I cheered for you.

But I also watched it in context, not the thing that Jon Stewart has done, and they have perfected this smear on me, and everybody else.

I don't really care about me. I mean, honestly, we've had this conversation before we went on the air today. And we were just talking about, how it's not worth playing this.

Because, you know, it doesn't matter to me, anymore. It doesn't matter -- I don't think it matters to you, the audience.

But it should matter to you, to be able to see how it works. If you don't know yet.

See how it works. And how they take things out of context.

Why Jim Acosta’s AI Parkland victim “interview” is GROTESQUE

Former CNN host Jim Acosta recently “interviewed” an AI-generated depiction of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver. Glenn Beck calls the stunt dystopian and sick, asking: “What does it truly mean to be alive if, in death, you’re more useful?”

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GLENN: So here's a story that I think, if we don't stop and pay attention to right now, just one small story, it may seem like something small. But if we don't pay attention to it right now. I don't think we recognize what it means to be human in a generation, from now, if that long. Journalist. I shouldn't say journalist.

Publicity hound Jim Acosta just did an interview -- I can't even say that. Just did -- I don't even know what you would call it.

Did a publicity stunt, not with a witness.
Not a grieving parent. He sat down with an AI ghost.

It's an AI recreation of a 17-year-old kid, named Joaquin Oliver. He was murdered in the Parkland Massacre.

And then he called it journalism. He called it a conversation, but it wasn't.

It was neither!

It was -- it wasn't even human. Let me play this grotesque pantomime for you. Listen.

VOICE: Joaquin, I would like to know, what your solution would be for gun violence.

VOICE: Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard.

It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding; what do you think about that?

VOICE: I think that's a great idea, Joaquin.
(laughter)

STU: That is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. I had -- I had seen all the headlines. I hadn't actually seen the...
(laughter)

GLENN: Now, it is so --

STU: Sorry.

GLENN: It's so bad, it's funny, at this point. Right? It's just horrible.

I want to put this into perspective: This is a digital ventriloquist act. He's a puppet. It's the image of a dead kid, long buried, animated. Like a puppet, for the politics of those who are still living.

Now, let me ask you something, that, you know, we haven't dared to ask out loud yet.

And that is, what does it mean?

What his it truly mean to be alive?

In death, you're more useful.

What are the Republicans saying. Or sorry, the Democrats saying right now to some of the people in Congress.

They're saying, you need to take a bullet. Why?

Because you're more useful, if you're dead.

If somebody assassinates you. So what does it mean to be alive, if in death, you're more useful?

What does it mean when your image. Your voice. Your soul as captured by a memory or photograph, can be summoned back again.

Not by God. But by algorithms and agenda.

I hate to go all religious on you. But I have to tell you, if this isn't the making of a graven image, I don't know what is.

Thou shall not making a graven image.

You don't make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in heaven, above, or on earth beneath.

You know, the Native Americans used to -- they would never let you take your picture.

Some of them. Some tribes.

They would never let you take your picture. Because they thought it would steal your soul.

This doesn't have a soul. This is taking your image, bringing you back to life, without a soul.

When man starts creating a likeness, to wield power or emotion, we stop serving God. And we start serving ourselves.

And I'm going to be generous here. And say, don't blame the parents.

I don't -- I don't question their grief, in any way, shape, or form.

But this -- this -- this is no longer theirs.

This is not their son. This is a political puppet.

The minute Joaquin's AI avatar spoke political opinions into a camera, it stopped being about grief, and became propaganda!

And this, my friend, is only the beginning.

What happens when governments use AI resurrected faces for propaganda?

What happens when terrorists Use Deepfake hostages?

Hostages who are already dead? Pleading for help?

You don't think that could happen with Hamas?

You don't think that Hamas couldn't have made an image, in fact, the video that we say last week, could have very well been AI.

And the kid could be dead.

Now, it's not. But that's what's coming.

What happens when we begin to trust synthetic testimony, over human -- actual human experience?

This isn't just immoral.

This is very, very dangerous. This is soul-erasing.

This is post-human.

You are entering a world now, that is -- it's post-human!

This is the dystopian world. And we're just beginning to step into it. We're entering an age, where the dead can be programmed, to speak the words of the living.

Where the brief is nothing more than a marketing tool.

Where death is not your end!

But just the data set now, to be parsed and projected. And used politically.

And here's the real sick part of this: The more meaningful your death, the more valuable your ghost.

If that doesn't shake to you your core, nothing is going to.

If this doesn't wake you up to the dangers of AI, nothing will.

If this doesn't wake you up to go, oh, dear God, I've got to get back to the basics, I have to start asking the questions, what does it mean to be human? Nothing will!

We -- we have to draw really strong, ethical hard lines in the sand, on the use of AI. The use of likeness of the dead. It should be codified into law, internationally. And I'm not saying, you know, you're not bringing characters back. You know, you're not bringing -- you're not bringing things back to, you know, show them in movies, or for entertainment or whatever.

But when you're bringing dead children back, I don't know. I think there's a problem here.

There's a problem. We -- and we also have to teach our kids discernment here. Critical thinking.

You know, and more than critical thinking. Moral reasoning has got to be taught.

We need a generation that knows the difference between the real and the artificial.

Between the sacred and the synthetic.

Because that's going to be blurred.

All of it is blurred. How long before a Jim Acosta clown isn't the one doing it, but somebody serious? Transparency, from media. From tech.

Not after the fact. But before the images even appear on the screen.

Now, to his credit, he did say, this was AI. Of course. But it's a ghost!

We have to reawaken the soul, the concept of the soul. This is why I've said for years, that Ray Kurzweil is one of the scariest guys I have ever met. Because he doesn't believe in the soul.

He believes that that -- what you just saw, is just as real, as the real kid.

Some -- the soul can't be copied. It can't be coded.

It can't be commodified.

Because we lose our soul, in our culture.

If we lose it in our -- in our culture, in our politics. In our mourning. In our journalism.

Then you've got nothing left.

And doesn't Joaquin Oliver deserve dignity in life? Everybody knows he deserves peace in death.
Right?

What he didn't deserve, is to be animated by code, to deliver a political message like a branded mascot.

I'm sorry, but if this is the parents' doing, the parents -- the parents, shame on you. Shame on you.

I -- I understand your grief as much as a person can, that hasn't lost a child. I understand your grief, but this is sick.

You know where this road leads? It lees to a future where grief can be licensed.

Where every dead child becomes a campaign.

And where being alive, no longer requires a pulse.

Just a well-trained AI model.

You never die!

That's not compassion. That is not progress. That is hell, wearing the mask of empathy.

Shame on you, Jim Acosta!

Because out of all the people that could have done this, you're only doing it for PR. You're only doing it because you need the attention.

It's sick. And Americans have to stand up and say, no more. You have to at least, in your personal life, make a decision, what is life?

And what is death worth?