RADIOSeptember 19, 2022

THIS energy move shows we live under ‘soft’ AUTHORITARIANISM

17 states now are blindly following whatever standards California dictates regarding certain energy and climate decisions. But did YOU vote for that? No, but that apparently doesn’t matter to the lawmakers in those 17 states. It is moves like this one, Glenn explains, that show America has become a ‘soft’ authoritarian state. When will important decisions like this one be returned to the PEOPLE?

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GLENN: Now, listen here's a fight that I think you need to get involved in. Buttigieg is very interested in California's ban on new gas cars. He's like, you know, that is really interesting. And I've noticed a couple of states have already joined in on that. And if there's more states that join in. I mean, maybe we should just make this a national policy. Huh.

Ladies and gentlemen, Kabuki theater. Here's what's happening.

Somehow or another. And I find this phenomenal. Somehow or another, without you really participating in it, and no vote from you, 17 states decided, you know what, whatever California does, hey. Hang ten. We're surfing with you.

17 states -- now, you're going to be surprised at some of these states. Because, I mean, I wouldn't have seen this coming.

Colorado, how did that happen?

Connecticut. Right? Delaware. Completely conservative. Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts. Minnesota. Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Oregon. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. What a surprise. They all signed in their own legislatures, they all signed on to whatever California EPA standards are.

They must adopt those same standards. So Buttigieg is paying his little kabuki theater. Going, you know, and if other states start to do this, maybe -- it was already in the cards. Whatever California does, those states have to do. Did you vote for that?

If you're in New York? Did you vote for that?

Did you vote for California's standards? So now, New York will have -- they may have not announced it yet. But they have signed on to California's emissions standards. So you are now going to -- mark my words. No. This is a conspiracy theory. Is it?

Is it? Ask -- ask Virginia. Why is Virginia signed up on this?

Washington came out, yeah. We're with them. Yeah. So are the other 17. But let's roll them out slowly, so it seems like a movement, instead of a highjacking of our republic.

Now --

PAT: Why would you do that? I can't even think of a reason why --

GLENN: Because you're corrupt.

PAT: -- Virginia would say, yeah. Whatever California does, that's good for us.

GLENN: Yeah. They're corrupt. Their politicians were all left-wing politicians that were corrupt. And they're all in it. They're like, yeah. Cars. Bad. Gasoline, bad. Oil, bad. Electricity, bad.

And so they're all signed up. This is another step in ESG. Because here's what's going to happen.

When you have -- let's just say, these 17 states. And they say, nope. No more gasoline cars, until 2035. And it's a phase-in, by the way.

It's like 35 percent of all -- of all cars have --

PAT: By 2026.

GLENN: Yeah. 25 percent, I think --

PAT: By 2026. I think it is 25.

GLENN: 25 percent. In Virginia, it's about 4 percent of car sales. And in the California emissions bill, they penalized any of the car dealerships and the car companies, if they sell more than the allotted amount of gasoline cars. And they don't hit the number of electric cars.

PAT: Jeez. And they're not going to. They're not going to.

GLENN: Oh, I think they'll be damn -- they'll be giving those things away. They'll have to hit that, Pat. They'll have to hit that.

I mean, this is a hijacking. Well, we told you. This is not capitalism anymore.

By the way, if you think you live in a free country, you don't. You live in a soft authoritarian state.

PAT: Not anymore.

GLENN: Right now, it's still soft. But it's an authoritarian state. How could you say that?

Well, did you vote for that? If you're listening to me, and you're one of those 17 states. At you vote for that?

No. That was a cabal of environmentalists, that all got together. Got their money.

And went from state to state. That were likable-minded. Pitched it, and said, here's how we cripple it.

PAT: Did you see the video that we played today, about what it takes to make an electric vehicle?

GLENN: No. Can we play it?

PAT: Oh, my gosh. Yeah. It's cut 13. The truth about electric vehicles.

Cut 13. Okay. He's looking for it.

GLENN: Check your pocket.

VOICE: You want to go all electric by 2035. Is it practical to do it now?

VOICE: Well, we can make this whole discussion easy, with a two-letter word, no. There's no such thing, of course, as a zero emissions vehicle. The real question, where are the emissions associated with an electric car. Because what you do with an electric car, you don't eliminate emissions. You export them somewhere else.

You have to dig up over 500,000 pounds of material, to make a single thousand pound bag.

It takes 100 to 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery, that can hold one barrel of oil equivalent of energy.

Just manufacturing the battery can have a carbon debt ranging from 10 tons, to 40 tons of CO2.

And the plans that are in place to increase the batteries will require an increase in production of minerals, like lithium, cobalt, zinc.

Demand for those minerals will increase between 400 percent and 4,000 percent.

There isn't enough mining in the world, to make enough batteries for that many people for their car.

PAT: Nobody thinks about that. Nobody talks about that.

Have you heard those stats? 500,000 tons of material, goes in to make one of those vehicles?

GLENN: We should look up the stats. I saw this stat the other day, and I don't want to quote it. Because I know we'll get it wrong. But the stats of batteries that have to be replaced by 2030, and what you're going to do with all of those batteries.

PAT: Yeah. Where do you put them? When you're done with them, where do you go? Because they're not environmentally friendly.

GLENN: Yeah. You know what this is? What is the name of that ugly, ugly car? Not the ZiL from the Soviet Union. They sold them everywhere. In the -- behind the Iron Curtain.

And now, they made this super, super economical, great for everything shell of a body.

And now, the cars are gone. But they cannot reuse the bodies of those cars. They can't -- they can't destroy them. They can't -- they can't reuse them. So all over the former Soviet Union, are these gigantic stacks of just the bodies of these cars.

PAT: Oh, jeez. That's the kind of thing we're going to be seeing.

GLENN: Because that's state, top-down thinking.

PAT: Yep. And nobody thought it through.

GLENN: No. By the way, if you're in one of these states, you are suing the states that are following California.

You have Alabama. Arkansas. Georgia. Indiana. Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana. Mississippi. Missouri. Montana. Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. There's a couple of missing states there, but a glaring one is Florida. These are the people that filed a lawsuit in May, before any of us were aware of it, challenging California's ability to depart from federal emission standards, and implement its own vehicle emission standard and zero emissions goals. Seventeen states are suing, 17 states are already on board on the other side.

No, we -- no, we're not headed for any kind of trouble or disorder at all.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

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.