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The FACTS behind Biden’s BLATANT LIES on economy, oil & gas

No one could dismantle America faster than the Biden administration. And it becomes even worse when President Biden tries to outright LIE about how he’s doing it. On Friday, Joe Biden said the U.S. economy is ‘on the move,’ touting the jobs he’s created and the deficits he’s lowered. WHAT?! Is he living in an alternate universe? Glenn and Stu break down these BLATANT LIES, giving you the FACTS to how this far-left federal government is destroying our economy and our oil & gas industries…

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GLENN: Okay. So Biden said a couple of things. One, we all know the right way to build something is build an economy from the bottom up. You know, I don't think we all know that. I certainly don't know that. I've never worked for a poor man. They are generally not the ones hiring. As we have pointed out earlier this week. But he says, things are great. What is the new unemployment number?

STU: 3.6 percent.

GLENN: Wow. That is incredible. 3.6 percent.

STU: It's quite low.

GLENN: Yeah. It's almost like unemployment. When you're getting into the threes. You're headed towards unemployment. Where there's just no one else available for the jobs. Now, if I listen to Joe Biden, things are going so well. New jobs are being created. He's created, what was it? 7.5 million new jobs?

STU: Oh, all creating them.

GLENN: In the last year alone. Can I ask I a question? I haven't seen any of these new jobs, I haven't seen the new job creation. I live in Texas. And I do see the empty stores and restaurants and things that used to be there. And maybe there's a few new stores, but I'm not seeing them.

Now, I'm in Texas, that just has been on the ropes. There's no new job creation here at all.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Wait a minute. So let me ask you this: Did we lose that many people? I mean, it must have been millions. The media, I know, is lying to us. But did we lose tens of millions of Americans, in covid?

STU: No. We did not -- not that many. A lot. But not that many.

GLENN: Okay. So why is there a help wanted sign in almost every store, restaurant, everywhere?

STU: It's because of Joe Biden's raging economy.

GLENN: But these were the same jobs that were filled by people, just two years ago, and now they can't fill them. Did they all go someplace? Did they die? Or are they all working in this mystic mountain, you know, machinery, this -- this great corporation in the sky, that I haven't seen or heard from?

STU: Hmm. It may be that. Maybe that's why. And maybe because that's such a jarring scenario, that's the reason. They can't seem to recognize all of this bounty that they have. People are not recognizing the economic brilliance, of Joe Biden. And all the things he's brought to them.

GLENN: Well, I mean, he did stand in front of the American people, just about 15 minutes ago, and say, look, here's the thing. People have more money in their pocket, than they did a year ago.

STU: I mean, it's technically probably true. Because the money has inflated so much. That they need extra dollars to do anything. It's a fascinating thing. You know, because we were talking about this with Michael Malice a few minutes ago. It's good to go on offense. Republicans don't go on offense a lot. But it's not the only answer. You shouldn't be on offense, when you have absolutely no argument. And Joe Biden has absolutely no argument.

GLENN: Oh, I won't hear that. He just pointed out that he cut the deficit.

STU: Oh, this one was really frustrating.

GLENN: No. Listen. Not the debt. The deficit. He cut the deficit last year, in 2021, last year, by 350 billion. This year, he's cutting it by $1.3 trillion. That's the biggest reduction in deficit in our whole history.

STU: Think of what -- this disingenuous doesn't cover it. Think of what a pathetic lie that is. First of all, he's comparing this to a year, where all of the businesses were closed. And millions of people were fired, because there's nowhere to work. So, yeah. Tax revenues work pretty far down. We also spent multiple trillions of dollars, on a pandemic.

GLENN: Only 5.6. Only 5.6.

STU: It's much more than that. But still, okay. 5.6 trillion on the front. We recover the fed stuff I guess another time?

But still, $5.6 trillion+ on covid, just added on top.

He reduces it by $350 billion, from that number, which is terrible. But it's a terrible job. And he just -- just by showing up to work, you should have been able to do a trillion dollars off that budget. It was supposed to be a once in a lifetime pandemic, and you basically repeated it in year two, when everyone wanted to go back, and you kept telling them not to.

Then this year, he's taking credit for $1.3 trillion in -- in budget -- in deficit reduction. When that number is, first of all, not impressive. Considering what he's comparing it to. But secondly, it only exists because his plan, Build Back Better, didn't pass. If it did pass, he wouldn't have saved $1.3 trillion off of the budget. It's only because of his failure, that he can claim the success. That is his argument to the American people today.

GLENN: So this is a little like, your house is on fire. And it's burning down. And the fire department comes. And starts putting it out. And you're like, dude, it is still out of control. And the five or six department saying. I just reduced the temperature of your house by 400 degrees. And you're like, but it was 1400. It's still 1,000 degrees! In the house.
(laughter)

I mean --

STU: No. And not to mention, the fact that even before the pandemic, the -- the deficits were too high. So he's taking it -- a worst case, monumental, once in a century, terrible number. Reducing it slightly. Then bragging about it, while the American people, identify correctly, as one of the biggest challenges we have, is inflation. And what is his answer? He's talking about spending more money. And then telling you, it's going to fix inflation. He's talking about releasing millions of barrels from the strategic oil reserve, which will do nothing. It's not going to help the problem. If anything, it puts it, at higher risk, in a time of potential world war, which is -- so it's a terrible idea.

But if you really wanted to knock a few cents off of the gas prices for a short time, your job would not be to release oil from the strategic oil reserve. You could no change out the tax. The federal tax of 18 cents. And get it to go down 18 cents in a day. Now, should I you do that? There's economic arguments against it. But at least there would be a straight line through some sort of sane, coherent thought process, to change the gas prices in the short-term.

Whether that should be his goal or not -- I mean, I want that tax to go away for other reasons. And it should stay gone away forever. And so should the state taxes. But this was -- this makes absolutely no sense.

GLENN: Oh, boy. You haven't listened to the president. Look, he said.

STU: He said, come on, man?

GLENN: This is a moment of consequence and peril for the world. And pain at the pump for American families.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: It's also the moment of patriotism. I want to acknowledge those companies that have already announced that they're increasing immediate production. They're investing money to produce more oil, and also clean technologies, we need to reduce our dependence on oil in the future. They're investing money, really? Because no bank is giving them money to invest. No bank is giving them money to pump more oil right now. Because that is a reputational risk, to the banks. Don't believe me? Ask the oil companies, that are not under the thumb of their new, wildly progressive environmentalist cabinet members. Or their board members. Like Exxon. No bank is giving these people any money. So they say, they have everything they need. These oil companies. Everything.

STU: Of course.

GLENN: Literally nothing. Nothing. Nothing, I'm quoting, is standing in their way. And they've indicated, they will be producing an extra 1 million barrels of oil per day, probably starting as early as this fall. Now, that's progress. Is it? Is that the best we can do?

STU: No. That is not the best we can do. But some companies have been pretty blunt. They don't want to increase supply. Because Putin's price hike, means higher profits for them.

STU: Right. Because they wouldn't want more to sell, in a market that's higher. That makes a lot of sense. These greedy guys are stupid.

GLENN: One CEO even acknowledged that they don't care if the price of a barrel of oil goes to $200 a barrel.

You know who says that? People who are environmentalists. They want it to go to $200 a barrel, so you can't afford gasoline, and then you will cry out, for the magical electric car, that will not be ready, because we don't have the energy capability, for everybody to plug their car into the wall!

STU: Or the nickel, we never to make the batteries.

GLENN: Oh, no. We're getting the nickel.

STU: Oh, we're --

GLENN: We're getting it, because he just took over the industry. Another War Powers Act. Can America wake up to the fascism? Another War Powers Act, he just enacted yesterday to take over the nickel industry. So he can force these companies, to go get more nickel.

Oh, my gosh.

STU: And, of course, when government runs industries like that, it always works out really well.

GLENN: It always works out. Yeah. Look at Cuba. I mean, do we need to say? Look at how well all of these policies worked in Venezuela for their oil industry.

STU: Really, really well. By the way, too. It was Steven Colbert the other day, making a joke, about how he doesn't care if it goes to 15. Fifteen dollars a gallon. He has a Tesla.

GLENN: Uh-huh. You know what, there's somebody else that talks specifically about this. Now, it's a conspiracy theory. She doesn't have any power whatsoever, to actually get people to do something.

Here's cut three. Nancy Pelosi.

NANCY: But we cannot allow the fossil fuel industry to use this as an excuse to reverse everything that we're doing to save the planet. One of the things that I think that the president may say. I don't have this as a fact, is that we will use the defense production act, to speed up diversification, so that we're not so dependent.

GLENN: More power. More power.

NANCY: On oil.

STU: Wait. She doesn't have it as a fact. The president might say. Then she looks down at a piece of paper and reads the words, Defense Production Act. What do you mean she doesn't have it as an act?

GLENN: Jeez. So she is saying, but the good news is, we cannot let these oil companies use this as an excuse, to go back and producing more oil. Did you hear what she's saying there?

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: They can't use this as an excuse. Meanwhile, he's saying, they don't want to do it, because they're making so much money. Which one is it, guys?

STU: Nothing makes sense.

GLENN: But both of them, stay calm. Are invoking the War Powers Act. Oh, and one other thing. The president announced yesterday. And he repeated it again, in his speech. We are now going to be releasing one million barrels of oil, from our strategic reserve every day, until some time in the fall. 1 million -- do you know what the strategic oil reserve is for?

The name kind of gives it away. It's strategic. It's in case the United States has to go to war, because we learned you're lesson in World War II. He should know it. I mean, you know, I think Biden was 47, when we fought that war. It -- we learned our lesson. We have to have oil. We must have oil. Or we're not going to be able to -- we're not going to be able to fly our planes. Or sail our ships. Aircraft carriers won't work. Tanks won't work. Jeeps won't work. Nothing works, without oil!

So if we had to fight a war, we wanted to make sure, that we had enough oil, for that war! He's taking that down almost 40 percent! If we had it filled to the rim, we're left just with this tan. Not the last one. Just this tap, is going to take us to 60 percent of oil reserves. Okay? 60 percent. We probably have lost another 10 percent of our oil reserves, from the last one he just did. We're sitting at 50 to 60 percent of our oil. Assuming we started full. We're sitting on half of the strategic reserves. And they're seriously still talking about a nuclear war. What the almost used the word wrong for broadcast. Is wrong with these people! No, I know what's wrong with them. What's wrong with the American people? What is wrong? Are we this stupid? Are they going to get away with releasing our oil reserve? Everybody who is barely making it. Barely making it. If you want to save the country, you should still be saying, no. No. No. No, on that much oil, being -- it's the largest release in the history of our country. Good God, I could not dismantle this country faster. If I had all the experts in the world, and they all hated America, I could not dismantle this country faster. Than this administration is doing it. And, by the way, mark my words, soon they're going to have the final solution for America. They will tell us, let's -- we have to do these really crazy emergency things. We have to do it. But it's the only way to survive.

Yeah. America, their solution, will not actually be an economic shower. Don't go into that room.

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The Diddy Trial: A Distraction or a Cover-Up?

Former FBI Director James Comey has caused a controversy by posting a picture of seashells on a beach, arranged into the number “8647.” Many have interpreted the message as a threat against President Trump. But did Comey know that it could be interpreted as a call to “86,” or assassinate, the 47th president? Or is his claim believable that he had no idea “86” could mean something violent? Glenn started off his radio program by giving Comey the benefit of the doubt, but a comment from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made him change his mind: “I don’t give him a break.

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GLENN: Jason Whitlock, welcome to the program. How are you, sir?

JEH: How are you, Glenn?

GLENN: I'm great. I'm great.

I'm not following the Diddy thing. I mean, just -- what I have read this week is absolutely disgusting. I mean, beyond -- I mean, I've read disgusting.

You read it kind of like you watch a car wreck.

I can't even read this stuff. It's so grotesque.

What is actually being exposed here?

What do you think actually happened?

And why aren't they going after anybody, but Diddy?

JASON: I've got my tinfoil hat as I'm talking to you, Glenn.

GLENN: Oh, crap.

Now I can't read his mind.

JASON: So I want the audience to be aware.

So listen, I think that they're holding a trial about Diddy is a really bad person.

He's a sexual degenerate. He turns violent against women that he's dating.

In terms of racketeering and sex trafficking within and all that.

None of that is being addressed.

And I think there's probably a good chance that Diddy either walks, or the jury just convicts him as you're a bad person.

But in terms of this actual sex trafficking. And he's this ringleader of this sexual exploitation deal. They're not proving that case. And I'm not sure that they even have an interest at arguing that case, at this point, Glenn, four or five days into the process. I think they raided Diddy's home to strip him of his power and leverage and blackmail material. And all this is really about is taking away Diddy's leverage and handing it over to the Department of Justice or whoever is responsible for this.

Or stripping him of the most damaging information he had on key people, that they don't want harmed. But in terms of a serious criminal prosecution, of -- of Sean combs.

That's not what transpired here.

GLENN: Well, that was a mouthful. I need my tinfoil hat for that one. What the hell.

So wait a minute. You're saying that maybe he was an operative. Or if he wasn't an operative. He was collecting stuff on people.

And now the government wants that? To either protect those people?

Or to have the power over those people?

JASON: And to strip Diddy of his power. To me, at this point, four or five days in, based on what they're arguing. Yesterday. They basically argued that his girlfriend had -- I don't know about the prosecution, argued that she was the one that paid the sex workers. I mean, this trial is a farce! It is proving that Diddy is a sexual degenerate. Diddy is violent towards women he's dating.

But in terms of, you know, the major, major sex trafficker and all that, no.

They're not even attempting to argue that.

And so I think that Diddy, being a bit of an idiot, probably got too full of himself, and started threatening the wrong people with the information he had. And someone needed to put him in his place. Like, no. You're an operative. You're a tool. You're an asset. You're not some ringleader. You haven't ascended to a place of power, where you can actually use this information, to start blackmailing people. So they stripped him of his information.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

JASON: They totally destroyed his reputation. And, again, maybe this jury will be so repulsed by Diddy. Which they could be.

That they'll just convict him of something that hasn't been proven in court.

GLENN: So who are the mysterious they?

JASON: The people that attended Diddy parties.

Who Diddy may have threatened.

And the -- look, look, I hate to use this. Because I'm just spit-balling here.

GLENN: Yeah. You're just speculating.

JASON: Let's take LeBron James, who said he is an important asset in the Democratic Party. And clearly LeBron James is an important asset in the Democratic Party.

And trying to push black people to stay on the democratic plantation.

And so if LeBron James is on tape somewhere.

And he admitted, he went to Diddy's party. Ain't no party like a Diddy party.

If I'm the -- the left, you know, and LeBron is an important asset for me.

I want that information stripped from Diddy. I want control of that information.

LeBron James is our asset. Not Diddy's asset.

I'm using LeBron James. But there may be other people like that. I'll just tell you, if you watch the case. What transpired in the courts.

You can't watch -- they're just basically arguing, hey, man. This guy is basically a pervert.

And him and his girlfriend did some really perverted things. They're not proving there's a criminal case, so now I have to go, well, what was the motive?

What was the big -- they raided this guy like he was Pablo Escobar, and now they're in court, arguing that he's Hugh Hefner?

No! That's not what we were promised. That's not what -- you don't do a raid like that, just, oh, this guy is Hugh Hefner. He hosted sex parties at his house. They raided him like he was Escobar.

And right now, four or five days in, you know, maybe he's -- maybe Diddy is Bill Cosby, but that's it.

GLENN: I have to tell you, I think I'm more disgusted by your answer, if it's true. If it's right, than I am by Diddy and what he was doing.

What I've heard in testimony, which is disgusting and despicable. But I think I'm more disturbed by the answer of, of this, you know, I own these people.

You don't own these people.

My gosh, you want to talk about a plantation!

I -- it's the only thing that makes sense to me, at this point.

Diddy is -- again, he's some talentless rapper of -- from a very questionable background.

And should -- should never -- again, when you build a system, as corrupt as the globalists have.

The -- very corrupt people rise to power.

GLENN: Yes.

JASON: And people that shouldn't have power, end up with power.

And Diddy is potentially one of those people. They created Frankenstein. Well, how do you kill Frankenstein? This is how you do it.

GLENN: Wow. And when is this trial supposed to end?

JASON: I think it's supposed to be six weeks. And, again, this is a distraction. This is sensational.

It's, hey. Look over here.

Diddy and baby oil.

And look at all these sensational stories. But there's no real meat here, and no substance.

You know, is rap music and that industry, nihilistic, and perverted, and sexually degenerate? Yes. We knew all that. We don't need a trial to prove that.

GLENN: And you can't go to jail for that.

JASON: No. No.

GLENN: Well, you can if it gets so perverted, and you're slavery.

JASON: No, no, no. What I mean by that, we have seen juries so repulsed by the defendant, that it just doesn't matter what the government is arguing or whatever. And he may go to jail, just for being a horrible, awful person. And no one is going to feel sorry for him, if that's the case.

But in terms of some sex trafficker. Again, I don't see it, at this point.

GLENN: So this goes to what -- because my question has been. Why are you not going after anyone else, but Diddy?

Because he couldn't have done all of this by himself.

So why is the guy? And it's the same story as -- as Epstein. They're only talking about him. And, you know, Maxwell. That's it!

Nobody else. Haven't even heard a name of anybody else.

JASON: Let me differentiate from my perspective, the difference between Epstein and Diddy.

And based on what's been argued in court. We're not even seeing them suggest that Diddy was doing this with underage people, so far.

He and, you know, the Epstein part, is about underage. And all that.

We haven't even gotten there, with Diddy. We've -- we spent the first four or five days, talking about the sexcapades of him and his girlfriend.

They tried to paint her as a victim. But she looked like a willing participate, so far in court.

GLENN: But this is why this is disturbing me. Because if what was said about these parties, it does -- it does lead to --

JASON: It involves children.

GLENN: It involves children. It involves drugs that people pass out. And it involves rape and everything else.

And on top of that. Probably poor language, is the idea that they're both Diddy and Epstein, are both operatives for some political or governmental entity.

Or group of people, that are trying to control people, and keep them in play.

JASON: Yeah, and James Comey's (inaudible), who is on the prosecution case, he's not going to argue that.

They're not going to go in. Or maybe later, the trial. Because Diddy certainly was someone that was out there. Promoting the democratic party.

Or a guy. He was certainly a political operative for the democratic party. So far. And even in opening statements or whatever, based off my understanding. None of that is being argued.

That his -- his political involvement. His political engagement. None of that is being put on the table. They're keeping this in a very safe space of, hey. Look at how sexually perverted Diddy and his girlfriend were.

GLENN: Hate this.

I absolutely hate this.

Because if we don't clean this stuff up. We have no chance of survival.

You know, it's like the stuff that was happening with the Muslim pedophile rings.

Over in England. Where everybody knew what was going on. And I'm not saying, we know over here, what's going on. But over there, it just became so obvious.

And the government was just covering it up for it. Because it served their purposes. Whatever those purposes might have been. And you can't have a civilization.

You can't have a society that is cohesive at all if these kinds of things are just not taken care of. If they're just -- special favors are paid to both sides, and just make it go away. You don't have a real system of government.

JASON: I'm going to go a step further, Glenn. Or from my perspective.

You can't have a society that allows the form of music that Diddy was involved in. That promotes special degeneracy. And violence.

And drug use.

If that is going to be at the center of American music culture.

If that's going to be promoted at Super Bowl halftime shows. And Diddy is going to be a powerful figure in politics, and in culture.

You can't have a society that properly functions.

GLENN: Okay. So let me take a one-minute break. And I want to ask you, so what is the solution on that? One minute, and we will back with Jason Whitlock.

GLENN: Jason Whitlock is with us.
So what is your solution to that?

JEH: We have to reapply affinity laws. And quit allowing porn and this type of degeneracy. To be protected under allegedly free speech.

And, you know, there was a long time, in America, where, you know, we had laws. And there were things you couldn't do. And say on public airwaves.

And in movies. And things like that. And now, all of a sudden, everything is under free speech.

And I just tonight -- you know --

GLENN: Well, the key there was -- not in movies.

But you just said it, public airwaves. I mean, I remember 1982.

I'm working on the morning show. WPGC in Washington, DC.

I'm 18 years old. The guy across the street is Howard Stern.

He is just making his big impact in Washington, DC.

And I said, on the air, one time. I'm 18 years old. And I said, the word, what I know really pisses me off.

I wish I would have saved this letter. Because I would have it framed today.

It was a full page memo from the program director saying, I don't know who you think you are.

And I don't think you know where you work.

But this is the nation's capital. And we do not use language like quotation mark, pissed on the air. That's how far we've come.

Because now that -- that's nothing. That's nothing. I don't know how you reverse that. I mean, it -- if you believe in freedom, it -- it really should be reversed internally by the people. And I don't know how to make that happen. Other than, you have to find God, people.

JASON: There was a time when we had this. And in the name of freedom, we have now allowed all types of degeneracy. And obscenity, to go mainstream.

GLENN: Right!

And it was in the name of freedom.

Because you have no civilization, if you're just shooting to the bottom of the barrel.

So it was done in the name of freedom, as well.

And it did keep us free!

JASON: There you go. And look, where I go. Well, let's protect the freedoms and the innocence of children!

Rather than just Hugh Hefner's freedom, or Diddy's freedom.

Or whoever runs Porn Hub's freedom. I want to protect the freedom and innocence of children. And it's so obvious the consequence of this pornographic, degenerate freedom that we have allowed.

It compromises the innocence and the freedom of young people, we mainstreamed. A nihilistic mindset. And a perverted degenerate mindset that is harming the freedom.

And so --

GLENN: That is something that I can get behind. In saying, you know, there's rules for children. And what you expose children to.

I'm completely with that. However, how are you going to do that, when you have got drag shows in kindergartens?


JEH: And, again, it's an old slipper slope. It's we've got there because we moved away from obscenity laws.

And we said, we can't infringe on anyone's freedom to be as degenerate and perverted as they want to be. You know, that's un-American.

You know, we're going to have to penalize. Again, I don't understand.

If you're in the rap music industry. And putting out this type of -- you should be taxed in a different rate. There should be different laws and rules. For me, in the sports world. You go into any basketball arena. Anywhere. And I'm talked about high school level. They pump in this hip-hop music, with all this profanity.

And your children are playing basketball.

We have to put a stop to it.

It is -- it's music, in this form of part.

Has so much influence over your heart and mind.

And your culture.

GLENN: It does. Jason, I've got to --

JEH: We have to say, enough is enough.

GLENN: I have to cut you off. I don't know if we agree on the solutions. But we both agree on the problem.

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WARNING: Financial Armageddon Coming Unless Trump Does THIS | Glenn TV | Ep 432

We’re at a crossroads, and the Trump administration might just be the last hope for a REAL Great Reset, one that doesn’t enslave you — like the one pushed by the U.N., Davos, and progressives — but one that puts you back in charge. From Bretton Woods to the World Economic Forum 2030 Agenda, every step has been a deliberate move to control your money, your freedom, and your future. Glenn heads to the chalkboard to outline multiple “Great Resets” throughout history, and the stories of those empires all end in disaster. Everything Glenn has been warning about is getting closer, and three separate economic models he ran through AI all say the same thing: Financial Armageddon is coming by 2030. America’s massive debt and trade deficits are pushing the dollar toward ruin. If the U.S. dollar loses reserve status, expect skyrocketing inflation, plunging incomes, and a cost-of-living crisis. But he also ran economic models that reveal what America can do to stop the death of the dollar. Trump’s tariffs, tax cuts, and deregulation are forcing some positive change, but is it too late? Justin Haskins, co-author of “The Great Reset” and “Dark Future,” says Trump is giving us a way out — and it doesn’t involve the authoritarian BRICS alliance or the fascism of Europe’s WEF. He’s looking for allies and economic partners to build a new world that puts YOU and America first once again.

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JD Vance: America is DONE Telling Other Countries How to Live

“The era of American preachiness and America telling other countries how to live their lives is OVER,” Vice President JD Vance tells Glenn Beck. Vance joins “The Glenn Beck Program” to comment on the Trump administration’s latest massive moves and what’s still to come, including President Trump’s history-making trip to Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. VP Vance also puts Western Europe on notice over its social media censorship plans, promises major spending cuts in the FINAL version of the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” lays out Trump’s plan t slash regulations on AI and energy companies, explains why staying ahead of China on AI is a matter of life and death, and tells a little-known fact about the Vatican’s role in global politics ahead of his trip to Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration.

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GLENN: We welcome to the program, the vice president of the United States, and somebody who I think has the presidency in his future. J.D. Vance. Welcome to the program, Mr. Vice president.

J.D.: Glenn, how are we doing?

GLENN: I'm great. I'm great. What an amazing few days the president has had, first with all of the foreign wins before he left, with the wars, you know, and everything in the State Department and Marco Rubio is doing. And now, this speech. I think this Riyadh speech is historic. On so many levels. How would you describe what's going on in the Middle East this week?

J.D.: Yeah. So I agree with you, Glenn. About that particular speech. I mean, when I listen to it. And I obviously knew a little bit about what the president was going to say. It changed a little bit. I was there the last couple of days. But the core message is very simple. That America wants not to remake the world in America's image. We don't want to force our allies to adopt our form of government. We actually want to be in the business of shared interests and shared economic cooperation. So long as you're not trying to kill anybody, and so long as you're interested in building wealth for your citizens and working with America, then America is open for business. And I think that's a very important signal to send to the world.

You know, the Obama administration economist Larry Summers had a very smart point, a few years ago. He said, you know, when the Chinese show up in the developing world, they show up with a bag of money. When Americans show up in the developing world, they show up a with a lecture.

And, you know, if you're given a choice between a lecture and a bag of money, you're going to choose the bag of money every step of the way. I think what the president is saying, is that era of American preachiness and America telling other countries, how to live their lives, that era is over.

And I think it's a very important point for the Middle East. It's a very important point for the whole globe. And in some ways, only President Trump could have made that argument at this point in time.

GLENN: Are we stopping with the bags of money too?

J.D.: I think we're stopping with both. But we are really looking at economic cooperation. And, you know, in Africa, for example, Glenn, you have America diplomats sent by the Biden administration, who are telling very conservative Christian African countries, that they need to fly the LGBTQ flag.

But they're not engaging in any economic arrangement where, you know, the Africans have critical minerals that we need. They have other industries that we can be participating in, we can be partnering on, and I think that's the bags of money point.

It's not that we'll give them money, but that we can have some shared economic relations with a conservative African country, where we won't tell them how to live their lives. We actually just want to enter into a partnership with them.

And that's, again, a big, big change.

It's a big shift, but it's an important shift from a very dumb American policy, to a very smart one that I think will benefit the next generation.

GLENN: There was this old TV show. It was a game show when I was a kid, called the 20,000-dollar Pyramid. And they would allow you to say, pass, and you could just skip the subject of the question. I give you that. We're playing the 20,000-dollar pyramid here. You know, I look at the reaction of your speech in Europe. Then I see the moves that they're making. I see the new Prime Minister of Canada. Who is the architect of the Glasgow financial accords.

And I'm not sure we're on the same page anymore.

Is -- is -- we can be friends with everybody.

But I'm not sure we're walking down the same path anymore. With those countries.

J.D.: Well, it worries me, Glenn. Because look, there are certainly some economic benefits and friendships that we can have with a lot of our, you know, sort of western European and obviously our Canadian friends. But in western Europe, in particular, you know, my view on this point is, our relationship with western Europe is what's going to be unique. You know, America, of course, started as an English economy. We're always going to have a special relationship with the United Kingdom. But what that means you fundamentally is that if we see certain European countries in Germany, for example, where we have 38,000 troops.

If we see Germans do something incredibly offensive to American values, I think Americans are going to recoil a little bit at that. You know, I went to Germany very recently, very briefly, Glenn.
Just to visit the troops and say, hello.

And I was hearing from Germans during that very brief visit on the ground, saying that they were worried about free speech policies in their own country.

Well, if we have 38,000 troops there and we're living amongst the Germans, we're literally defending their country.

I think you can expect Americans to at least express some negative opinions about some of the free speech policies they're seeing in Europe.

And, Glenn, you know this as well as anybody. Things that start in Europe. Sometimes come over to America. The same way that things that start in America, make their ways to Europe.

The kind of social media censorship that we've seen in western Europe.

It will -- it's already made its way to the United States. That's the story of the Biden administration, silencing people on social media.

So we will be very protective of American interests when it comes to things like social media regulation.

We want to promote free speech. We don't want our European friends telling social media companies that they have to silence Christians, or silence conservatives.

GLENN: Right.

J.D.: And I think there will be that friction over the next ten years. It's not that we're not friends. But there is a disagreement you didn't see ten years ago.

GLENN: Right. So they've decided they will not pursue being a leader in AI. But they will make all the rules. How confident are you, that we are in a -- a winning position here on AI?

It is advancing so rapidly. And the things that I hear that come out of China, it's either another way hipped. It's all a paper tiger. Or they're way ahead. Where are we, do you think, on AI and, you know, AGI.

J.D.: Well, I think that we're ahead, Glenn. But nobody -- nobody says that we're way ahead, should be believed. You know, in artificial intelligence, six months is a lifetime. Twelve months is a generation. We're probably 12 months, maybe two years ahead of where the Chinese are, when it comes to critical hardware, when it comes to necessary infrastructure. When it comes to the engineering talent. But that is not very far ahead at all. And we're really going to have to invest a lot in developing America's next generation of scientists. Glenn, we're going to have to make sure that our hardware companies, that we stop regulating them to death. That our energy infrastructure. That we stop regulating them to death. Because if we allow the Chinese to catch up. We may never ever have an edge on China in this space again.

And I think for a lot of people, artificial intelligence is a chat bot. It's something that maybe helps a college student write a paper.

No, no, no. The artificial intelligence that I'm worried about, Glenn, is the kind of intelligence that helps them develop next generation weapons. It helps their rockets and missiles hit their target, and 99 percent more accurate than the weapons that use artificial intelligence. They're just massive defense technology implications of this.

That it's kind of like, what would have happened, if the English Army had faulted the Americans in the Revolutionary War, and we had M-16s and they had muskets.

We don't want to be on our battlefield of the future and have -- you know, we have the muskets, and the Chinese have the M-16s. I think AI is the critical part of staying ahead of the Communist Chinese.

And it's something, look, we're very focused on. We have a great guy. It's David Sacks in the administration who is leading this effort. But it's full pedal to the metal, Glenn. We have to constantly be innovating and staying ahead of the game. We can't follow the European lead of regulating. We want America to innovate, and that's what we're doing.

GLENN: I spoke to the president a couple weeks ago. And, you know, I was going to ask him about nuclear energy. And he just volunteered. I said, what about energy with AI?

And he went to say, you know, we're talking about making them their own -- you know, their own utilities. And they can build it. We can clear, even if they want nuclear power plants. That didn't print.

I mean, I thought that was one of the bigger headlines of my lifetime. And nobody seemed to pick that up, or care about that.

And we do lose, if we don't have these power plants. Are we -- what are we doing to accelerate?

I mean, they need 99 percent of our power by 2028.

99 percent of the power that's currently being made.

We need power plants.

J.D.: Yeah. You're a smart guy, Glenn. Because I don't know what else the President said during that interview, but I doubt it's as important as that point.

GLENN: Nothing.

J.D.: This is a critical issue. And, yes, what we've done. We've had Lee Zeldin's EPA, and all of our environmental folks look at how we cut through the red tape. And make it possible. Because the market would do this. Right?

These companies would like to do this.

But it's the environmental bureaucrats that have told them, you can't really attach any power plant off-grid to a pure, you know, artificial intelligence hardware facility. We're tearing down those regulations and making it possible again.

And then, of course, Glenn, part of this is not just building these facilities, but it's powering them with the fuel that we need. And the president -- you hear this term, all of the above.

The President has really said, we're all of the above.

GLENN: Have to be.

J.D.: We're lowering the regulations on coal. We're powering the natural gas folks.

Petroleum, obviously, nuclear.

Like, this is a president who said, all power that we have, we need to put it into this prospect. And, Glenn, one important point on this. You look at a chart of electric degeneration, the People's Republic of China versus the United States.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

J.D.: Four years ago, we blew them out of the water. Right now, the PRC is producing about three times as much electricity as we are. And we flatlined in the last 20 years. That innovation. That development.

That's got to change. We've got to be producing more power for the next wave of innovation.

It's maybe the most important part of the puzzle.

GLENN: So I did a show last night on just that a reset is coming. It's inevitable that a reset is coming. We have to hurry, cut the budget. Onshore. Fix the tariff -- or, the trade deficit, or we don't really have a chance of doing anything.

And as I was looking at -- we ran three different models through AI, and they all came back with the same stuff. And we're doing those -- the president is doing those things, except for the cutting of the budget.

I mean, Congress won't even pass the DOGE cuts. When will the White House become strong on, you must cut the spending?

J.D.: Yeah. Great question, Glenn. And I will say, the big, beautiful bill text just came out last week. That's going to change a lot from now until then. We've already had conversations with, you know, House leadership that we want to see some more significant efforts to rein in spending here. You know, the President also believes, Glenn, and I think he's right about that, that if you cut the trade deficit or you raise revenue through tariffs, then you actually go a long way to making the country on the worst single fiscal pathway as well.

But you're right. You can't do it without cutting domestic spending. We're going to have to do a series about it. Think about as clear Congressional leaders as possible.

But, look, you know, knock on wood here.

But I think that once we get the final package out of the House and the Senate, we're going to have something that is serious on -- on budget cutting.

One final point on this, Glenn. No one is talking about it. When I talk to Elon. When I talk to the DOGE folks. Whereas where they think they will get the most cuts. Is in taking people. Illegal aliens. And other people who are defrauding the Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security system.

But you think about two people, right? A guy who paid his Social Security for four years. Obviously, we want that guy to get his Social Security benefits.

You compare that person to an illegal alien, who engaged in Medicaid fraud. Obviously, we don't want that person to get their benefit. I think Democrats are going to fight us on this. But this is such an important point, we cannot allow people to defraud the Medicare and Medicaid system. Or it's going to bankrupt this system. It's also just fundamentally unfair. I don't want people who shouldn't even be here be on the public dole.

GLENN: Right. I know you're headed to the Vatican. You're going to be celebrating the inaugural mass of Pope Leo this weekend, along with Senator Rubio, who is also Catholic. You had one of the last conversations with the last Pope.

Why -- why does the pope matter so much to the world?

And I want to talk beyond faith and religion.

Why is he so important?

J.D.: Well, obviously, right?

He's the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics. And so there is just a lot of soft influence. Right?

He doesn't have a military. He doesn't have an army. But he does have a lot of influence to the Catholics. And I think a lot of Catholics -- I think we won a majority of Catholics in the last election. But a lot of the Catholics continue to vote Democratic. And so, you know, there is just a natural influence in -- in having the ear of 1.4 billion faithful people, including, you know, 100 million or so, in the United States.

I also think, Glenn, something I picked up on.

And you don't see a lot of headlines about this.

But the Vatican has already played a very constructive role in some of the peace conversations that we've been having all over the world.

They've been trying to facilitate negotiations between the Russians and the Ukrainians. They've been trying to facilitate other peaceful negotiations between various countries, and so they have that soft power. Right? They have the ear of the Catholics.

But then they also have the ability to use that soft power, to play a mediating role in some of these disputes. So while the pope doesn't have an F-35 standing behind him, he does have the prayers of a lot of faithful Catholics.

And that matters when you try to insert yourself in these conversations. So we welcome that engagement. As you know, the president really believes that we can have less conflict in the world, if we just have cooler heads prevail.

So we welcome that engagement, and we will continue to do so in the next few years.

GLENN: Thank you so much, Mr. Vice President, for all you do.

If you don't know why he picked Leo as his name, you in particular will be fascinated by it.

You will have to ask him. Because it's -- it's -- you'll love the reason why he did it. Have a safe trip. Thank you for everything that you've done, and Godspeed.

J.D.: Thanks, Glenn. Buh-bye.

GLENN: J.D. Vance, our vice president.

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Did China’s DeepSeek Just Create a TERRIFYING New Kind of AI?

Has China’s DeepSeek developed a “completely different species” of artificial intelligence that’s smarter than anything we’ve ever seen? Or are the rumors all lies generated by an AI bot? Glenn reviews some of the latest terrifying and SOCIETY-CHANGING advancements in AI, including how scientists have developed a new AI tool that can tell your biological age and potential health issues using just a picture.

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GLENN: I want to talk to you a little bit about AI.

Apparently, there is a new AI that the scientists at Mass General in Boston have developed a new AI tool called Face Age.

And it can tell your biological age by a picture of you. And apparently, not just -- not just your biological age. But how healthy you are.

In fact, they are -- they believe now, with the eyeball test.

Research in the Lancet digital health. Indicates -- you ready for this?

That artificial intelligence will be able to not only spot that you have cancer.

But also, if you are being treated for cancer.

That's not working.

They have this much time to live.

How terrifying is that?

I mean, how great is that?

How terrifying is that know. Would you have -- if you could have it, and it would tell you, wow. You're looking pretty old and beat up! You don't have much longer to live.

Would you go into the face tool? And say, how long do I live?

How much longer -- I do not think I would do that. I don't want that.

STU: I would want to know if I could do something about it, I suppose.

I mean, I guess, being able to -- if you knew -- and, again, this is somewhat speculative here.

But if you knew, you were going to die in two months, I guess, I -- the idea of wanting to know, would be intimidating.

But I also think, I would like to probably have moments with my family and my kids, and say the things I want to say.

And like, get my affairs aligned, and such.

Start some new affairs.

GLENN: New affairs. Wait. What?

STU: Just kidding, honey.

No, but I would like to get -- if you want to get your affairs arranged, you want to make sure that you're not leaving your family with a burden. You want to make sure you say to your kids, the things you want to say. Maybe you want to write something.

GLENN: Okay. What if you put your face in? Okay. And you take the picture. What do I have left? And it just comes back. What time is it now?
(laughter)

STU: I don't know. If this stupid device can't tell time. It's like a VCR.

GLENN: I don't know. Twenty minutes. Twenty minutes, maybe. Maybe. I don't know. You're not doing well. You're looking a little peaked.

Some of the things that are coming with AI are remarkable. Go ahead.

STU: Life-changing too.

I would say, society changing, probably.

GLENN: So can I just read something to you, that is part of it is beyond my understanding.

And will be beyond something -- and I just want you to hear this.

This is I rule the world MO. This is @IruletheworldMO.

Nobody knows who this really is. They think that this may be an insider, and one of the big AI research firms.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: But they also think it might be a bot by one of these AI research terms to throw the other research terms off. Okay?

They have no idea who this is. Okay.

So, but just listen to what -- I'm hoping it's a bot that is trying to throw people off.

Listen to this. Just got off a four-hour phone call with sources inside Chinese DeepSeek labs.

And holy cow, they're using other language. We are so F-ing behind, it's not even funny anymore.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: DeepSeek R2, it's not an incremental improvement.

It is a completely different species of intelligence, operating on principles nobody in the West has even theorized yet.

They have abandoned transformer architectures entirely for something they're calling recursive cognition lattices.

The scale in dimension of our math doesn't even have a good notation for this.

The compute efficiency gangs that violate what we thought were fundamental limits like 400 times improvement in reasoning per teraflop.

Not four. Not 40. Four hundred times. Our benchmarks now are literally meaningless.

The scariest part isn't the raw capability.
But how it's developing novel mathematical frameworks on the fly to solve problems. Research gives it questions, and it invents entirely new branches of mathematics to answer them. One physicist showed it a problem they've been stuck on for 15 years. They solved it in seconds with notations nobody recognized. It took three days for them to translate its solution back into standard mathematics.

We saw demo videos that can't possibly be real, except multiple independent sources confirmed.

R2 designed and simulated room temperature, super conductor, from first principles in under an hour, complete with fabrication methods, using existing technology.

They've already produced the samples in the Beijing labs. Blah, blah, blah.

Their -- their in -- I can't say it.

STU: Interrogation?

GLENN: No. No. No. No. Merging with man and machine.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: With biological systems.

STU: Integration?

GLENN: Integration. Thank you. With biological systems is the real nightmare fuel. Two-way neural interfaces that make Neuralink look like a child's toy. Direct cognitive enhancement already in human trials.

This isn't even the most advanced system. They're the ones showing it publicly. America is still treating this like normal technology race, while China understands. It's the an extinction-level transformation of civilization.

It's like watching a nuclear power race, where one side is debating the ethics of gunpowder.

STU: Wow. Because my -- my recollection of the DeepSeek story, when that came out a few months ago.

GLENN: It was nothing --

STU: Experts landed on the idea that there is absolutely -- like they basically were using our technology.

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

STU: It wasn't as impressive as we initially thought. So this person or bot is saying, that it is.

Now, I will say, if you are a person trying to hide your identity. Just saying, you just had a four-hour conversation with a specific company, I mean, how many four-hour conversations happened that day? It would be a weird way to hide your identity unless you're -- so who knows, maybe it's just all blown out.

GLENN: Hopefully it's all blown out.

I mean, you read the -- Sam Altman follows -- others follow. It's not just. It's seen inside the circles. And they don't know who it is, or what it is.

STU: That's true.

GLENN: A post like that makes me think it's a Chinese bot.

STU: Because it seems like it's promoting DeepSeek. Right? That's just amazing.

GLENN: Yes, but he's not always promoting DeepSeek. Or it isn't promoting it. And this is the craziest part. You don't know! Now it doesn't have to be a person!

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: It could be an algorithm.

STU: Now, of course, there is this thing -- you know, there's no -- what is it? There's no -- there's no limit to the levels humans can achieve when you don't care about pain and suffering.

GLENN: Yes.

STU: I think paraphrasing Louis C.K. for that one. Chinese can just throw bows at this. They're doing a lot of human trials on this stuff. As we've seen, maybe with Wuhan in the past. They're kind of willing to do anything. Right? And if they're doing this. And actually seeing these advances, we wouldn't do.

GLENN: No.

STU: You wouldn't be in human trials yet for any of this stuff. Although, a very long ramp up for Elon Musk's company, as we've seen some of that I guess. But they're just -- they'll just throw people at it.

GLENN: You know what's crazy is, we are dealing with technology that we have absolutely no idea, what it's going to be like, what it can do. Nothing, nothing, and I've read several articles, and they're talking about how just everything that you -- everything, the way you work, the way you think, is just about to be completely disrupted.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And we're just -- the world is just kind of going along with it. And we're like, I don't know. I don't know.

Maybe we should pass something about it. We're just going along with it.

And, you know, science. There's a -- there's a watch, I think it was Omega. I can't remember. There was a watch that was made in the 1950s and '60s, and its sweep hand, its second hand, it had like a lollipop on it. So it was the stick of the hand. And then it had like this little circle on it.

And it was sweeping around. And the reason why they put the lollipop around it, it was the citizenship signal to the buyer and the wearer. That that watch didn't have radiation in it. And it's not like, oh, you were working in a lab. It was that they were -- you know, we had put, to make things glow at night, that was radiation okay. To get the luminosity on watches. At first, we were like, why don't we just use some of this?

Okay. And that went on for like a couple of decades, you know.

And we were like, hey.

How come his arm keeps losing all of his hair in the first week of wearing that watch.

So they put this little lollipop on it. Yep. No radiation in this one, dude. That's crazy. That we could make.

We could do that kind of stuff. For that long.

And we kind of forget about it. And now, what are we working with? This will make nuclear stuff look like nothing. Like nothing.

STU: We're so close to it, as well, it seems.

GLENN: I read another post, where they were saying that -- that it is getting so fast in -- in for defense, that -- and I said this. I know I said this five years ago.

That you won't even know that you've lost the war. Because for you, the war hasn't even started yet.

But you will start and lose the war, in a flash.

And the time it takes you to go. Wait a minute.

There's a war going on. What?

You've already lost. It happened. And you've lost.

Because AI is going to get so good.

It will predict absolutely every move. That everybody is going to make.

And it will just go, oh, here's the countermove. And put it in.

And go, okay. Well, that's over.

STU: It's like when you -- you're not a big video game guy.

But when you start praying a game. And you just decide to go on the toughest level of the opposing AI.

And like, you just can't do anything.

You just automatically. Your base is destroyed in seconds.

That's a very -- very low level version of this.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Let me -- can I give you one other thing on AI.

I think this is fascinating. This is in the Wall Street Journal two weeks ago. I haven't heard anybody talk about it.

We've talked about it for a long time.

The surveillance state. I remember with you, taking calls from people. Going, I will not get an EZ Pass because that means they can track me when I go through the tolls. Right?

GLENN: Remember when we were in Tampa. This is the year 2000. They put cameras up in the streets of Ybor City. And everybody was like, I will -- not in America. Not doing that right now.

Nobody was willing to give their fingerprints. Nobody wanted to give their face. None of that.

STU: Yep. We all carried our phone. Of course, GPS everywhere we go. We click yes, agree. Agree. Agree to everything.

GLENN: We open the phone with our face.

STU: Yeah. Listen to this. This is amazing. This is from an author Joanna Stern.

GLENN: Wall Street Journal.

STU: Wall Street Journal. I've been wearing a wire everywhere since February.

That's how the article starts. I've got all the transcripts, important meetings, arguments with my kids, chats with disgruntled employees, late-night bathroom routines. There's plenty more I can't share, if I want to. And my bosses and my family as well, to keep liking me.

No, not an FBI informant. I willingly wear a 50-dollar bracelet that records everything I say. And uses AI to summarize my life. And send me helpful reminders.

GLENN: Why would you do that?

That's called a panopticon.

STU: Uh-huh. I think we're basically there. How do you have a private conversation in this world?

She tested two other devices as well, that are on the market now for 159, $199. They recall every single thing.

They transcribe every single thing. They have recordings of every single thing that was said by her or around her.

GLENN: Let's try it --

STU: That's crazy. Crazy.

GLENN: Crazy? No, it's crazy not to try it, to show everybody how bad it is, but it would be crazy to do it and be like, I think that's going to be a great addition to my life.

STU: Hmm. She says, within hours of wearing this bracelet, I was blown away at how quickly it turned ramblings and random chatter into useful, actionable information, yet allowed me to quote myself from February 24th at 5:15 p.m. This bracelet is really F-ing creepy.

Apparently said that out loud.

But, I mean, you can see. Again, I can see a world where that probably would be beneficial. You have a conversation with someone about something. What did they say? You would have it. When you were saying, hey. We should get together next Thursday.

It puts something in your calendar. That says, hey, call this person about that Thursday meeting you discussed. Of course, that would be beneficial in some way. It's like having an assistant. If you are an executive, you have an assistant.

GLENN: Those bots are already -- by the end of the year, those will be strong everywhere. You will have that assistant doing that in your phone and everything else. It will already do that.

STU: This is the death of private conversations though. They're over.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Every single time you have a conversation, you should act like you're on television, having it.

GLENN: Yes.

Well, we've lived that way for a long time.

STU: That's what made me so interested.