RADIOJuly 21, 2022

The TERRIFYING powers Biden may have under a climate EMERGENCY

President Biden stopped short of declaring an official climate change national emergency today, but that doesn’t mean he won’t in the near future. In this clip, Glenn explores the TERRIFYING presidential powers Biden could have under such an order. For example, could climate change deniers be ARRESTED? Glenn explores that — and other possible scenarios — in this clip. ‘Warning to all Democrats and all Republicans,’ Glenn says. ‘Any president who is talking the way this president is...that's very, very dangerous.’

Transcript

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GLENN: This national emergency thing really bothers me. And it -- and it's shocking to me, how many things that we have talked about in the past are -- are here now. And the national emergency thing is something like, in the last four weeks, I had a whole show on it, saying, this is what's coming next.

And while for yesterday, they thought for a while, he was going to declare a national emergency for today. But the White House has said. Don't look for it today.

But it could be coming next week.

That's terrifying. That should chill you to the bone. It's one of those things that I said, four weeks ago. If they declare a national health or climate emergency, run for the hills. Run for the hills.

PAT: It was interesting to see the squad too, just blatantly wearing the green bandanas that you were talking about. Which shows their affiliation with the communist -- the revolutionary Communist Party in America. But the thing is, they don't care anymore. They think they're too far you down the road, that we can do anything about it.

And as you started saying it, in 2009. They're just going to show themselves, because they're proud of who they are, and what they are. They love it. And they can't wait to tell you what they're doing, and who they are. And what they are.

So if we don't do anything about it now. This is all going to be on us. Because they're just outright saying it, showing it.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me -- let me go through -- and this is so incredible. Because we are dealing with people, who want to destroy our Constitution. Want to reset absolutely everything. And they are so close to doing it.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: A national emergency. The president doesn't have to explain in great detail. He can just declare the national emergency, because of, you know, climate. And then he has to outline to Congress, some of the things that he wants to do. And -- but nobody can stop him. Unless it's the Supreme Court. So we have these -- and we talked about this, maybe six months ago. They're called PEADs. Or PEADs

Presidential Executive -- no. Presidential Emergency Directives. And these are secret even from Congress. Congress doesn't even know what they are. They are presidential directives, when a president comes in, he says, what are the possible emergencies that could happen, that I won't have time to respond on? And they'll say, you know, nuclear war with Russia. Okay.

So there's a PEAD. And these PEADs are executive emergency orders that are -- remained unsigned -- so, Congress doesn't know what they are, because they're not in effect.

So this was the big worry of the left, that President Trump had all of these PEADs already done, and all he would have to do is sign them, and you could move quickly.

So the president right now, they are working on one of those PEADs. An emergency directive, that would give the president 140 special powers. And let me just give you a scenario here, and this is -- this is from -- let me see, who printed this?

This is from the Atlantic, back in 2019. They were worried about the -- the president doing a -- a national emergency. Claims of an emergency or necessity cannot legitimatize marshal law, until they can.

Presented with this ambiguity, presidents have explored the outer limits of their constitutional emergency authority. In a series of directives known as the presidential emergency action documents or PEADs, which originated as part of the Eisenhower administration, to ensure continuity of government, in the wake of a Soviet nuclear attack.

Their draft executive orders, proclamations and messages to Congress, that are prepared in advance of anticipated emergency. PEADs are closely guarded within the government. No one has ever -- not one has ever been publicly released or leaked. Their contents have occasionally been described in public sources, including FBI memorandums, where they were obtained through Freedom of Information Act, as well as agency manuals and court documents.

According to these sources, PEADs drafted from the 1950s, through the 1970s, would authorize not only marshal law, but the suspension of habeas corpus, by the executive branch.

The revocation of America's passports, the roundup and detention of subversives identified in an FBI security index, that contained more than 10,000 names.

Now, this was what was in there in the 1970s, that we know. Can you imagine a list of enemies? Can you imagine the list of enemies to the climate? How many people do you know on radio, that have been called enemies of the climate? That they're client deniers? And these people should be put in jail. If the president issues an executive order on emergency action, it gives him the power to be able to arrest those people and hold them, without habeas corpus. So you don't have a judge involved. You don't have a trial. No hearing involved in that.

So they talk about this, and they say, let me give you this scenario, from the Atlantic. Trump's inflammatory tweets, provoke predictable saber rattling from Iranian leaders. He responds by threatening preemptive military strikes. Some Defense Department officials have misgivings, but others have been waiting for such an opportunity. As Iran's statement grows more war-like, Iran phobia takes hold among the American public.

Now, just take Iran out, and replace it with Russia. Take Trump out, and replace it with Biden. That's exactly what's going on right now.

Proclaiming the threat of war, Trump invokes Section 706 of the Communications Act, to assume government control over internet traffic, inside the United States in order to prevent the spread of Iranian disinformation and propaganda. Now, we already know -- the Department of Homeland Security is saying, that there are many sources of propaganda, mis, dis, and malinformation.

We know they're tracking it right now. And we also know that their point of view is not necessarily your point of view. You don't think they would do this? It's a climate emergency. He also declares a national emergency under EPA, authoring the Treasury Department to freeze the assets of any person or organization suspected of supporting Iran's activities, against the United States. We've seen this happen in Canada. Wielding the authority conferred by these laws. The government she is the down several left-leaning websites. And domestic civil society organizations, based on government determinations, classified, of course. That they are subject to Iranian influence. No. They already have this scenario.

The difference between, I think, conservatives and Marxists is Marxists will warn you about fascism. But will not warn you about communism. Where, I will tell you, yeah. There are fascists out there. There are people on the far, far, far right, that I think they're so far right, that they're actually left like a circle. But, you know, if you want to claim that fascists are on the right. Fine. Fascists are on the right, great. Yes. They exist. And I do believe there are people on the right, that wouldn't mind seizing power. But it's few and far between. And would not have regular American support. The left, however, that is the Democratic Party. It is no longer the Democratic Party. They are beholden to the Marxist communist left. As evidenced by the green bandanas around their necks. Okay. So, so they don't see it from their own side. But they see the same problem we see. If you think Donald Trump can do it, why do you suppose that Joe Biden wouldn't do it?

When the climate emergency is, I can't get Congress to do what I want they believe to do. When the health emergency is, I can't get Congress and the Supreme Court to do what I want to do. That's not the definition of emergency. That's the definition of, you suck at politics. Or you're out of step with the American people. Or the Constitution. Protests erupt -- go ahead. Go ahead.

PAT: It's pretty amazing too, what we're okay with. When it's our -- when it's our party in power. Like, under George W. Bush. If you remember, at the beginning, we were all for the Patriot Act. Now, it turned out, years later, we realized, that that was stupid. And we shouldn't have been for it.

But we were. Because it was our guy. You know, I'm sure it was -- it was the same thing, with the Alien and Sedition Act, under John Adams, back in 1800.

You're okay. Because he's your guy.

GLENN: Yeah. That's the problem. We can't have a guy. It's why I've never asked you to trust me. I've never asked you to trust me on anything. I've always said, do your own homework. And root them in principles.

It's why the 9/12 Project was different than the Tea Party. The 9/12 Project was rooted in principles and values. That's where your loyalty needs to be. Not to me. Not to anybody else.

You can't just follow someone blindly, and say, he's my guy. Loyalty is important. You know, you don't just sell people out. But if they are breaking the values and the principles that you hold dear, you need to call them on it. You need to call them on it.

One more thing on this. He -- the Atlantic goes on and says, this is the scenario under Trump. Protests erupt. On Twitter, Trump calls the protestors traitors and suggests, in capital letters, that they could use a good beating. When the counter protesters oblige -- which would -- would not happen. Would not happen. Because that's not what the right does -- Trump blames the original protesters, for sparking the violent confrontation, and deploys the Insurrection Act to federalize the National Guard in several states.

Do you not see with what they're setting up with January 6th? Do you not see that this is -- this is their scenario. They say it's coming with Donald Trump. But this is their playbook. Using the presidential alert system, first tested on October 2018. The president sends a text message to every American cell phone, warning that there's a risk of violence at polling stations. And that troops will be deployed as necessary, to keep order. Some members of opposition groups are frightened. And they stay at home, on Election Day. Other people simply can't find accurate information online about voting. With turnout at historic lows, a president who is facing impeachment just months earlier, handily wins reelection and marks his victory by renewing the state of emergency.

Now, gosh, why shouldn't we fear that this could be happening with this president, when he's saying he's going to declare a climate emergency, and a health emergency? Warning. Warning to all Democrats, and all Republicans. Any president, who is talking the way this president is, and that includes Donald Trump. Warning! That's very, very dangerous.

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

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

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

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

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

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

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

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

GLENN: Uh-huh.

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

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

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

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

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

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

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

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

Hmm. No.

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

Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

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

Do you know off the top of your head?

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

STU: Yeah.

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

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

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

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

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

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

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

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

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

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

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

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

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

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

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

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

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

In that situation.

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

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

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

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