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Why a DIESEL SHORTAGE would lead to DISASTER

President Biden and the Democrats are doing everything they can to insist that you shouldn't worry about "petty" things like gas and food prices. But Glenn has another idea: It's not petty to look at the price of fuel right now, at your bank account, and at the looming diesel fuel shortage. Glenn breaks down how a diesel shortage would be devastating for America and why the Biden administration would be at fault. If that's not what you voted for, he warns, make the madness stop at the ballot box on Election Day ...

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GLENN: God only knows what to expect next week.

Listen to JPK on -- KJP, on what she is -- was asked yesterday, at the White House. Listen to this. Cut ten.

VOICE: Given the number of Republicans who have said they want to cut the results, and just the unpredictability of this election, compared to others, is the White House doing any contingency planning for election night or the day after. Just people not accepting results, as violence breaks out. How are you guys thinking about that?

VOICE: So a couple of things. I've been asked about this before.

I want to be clear, and say this again. Americans should feel free, safe. They should feel safe.

GLENN: Can we stop?

I can't even listen to her answer.

She's reading it, and she's the absolute worse.

STU: It's incredible. I don't think I've seen anything like this. Where a person is so clearly unqualified for their jobs.

She is absolutely no ability to do this job.

She stands up there, every single day. And reads every single answer to the most basic questions. And sometimes, can't even read them.

The entire time that question is being asked. She's flipping to a page, I guess about election violence.

And then the entire time, her eyes are straight down, to the podium. And she's reading every word of it. Why not just put Syria in charge of this job?

You can just put -- hey, Syria, read answer about election. And they should just have an automated voice. Go through the transcript and mispronounce words and butcher things just like Karine Jean-Pierre.

GLENN: And me.

STU: And you. But at least you're butching things off the top of your head, she's reading them and still butchering them.

GLENN: Okay. So here's the thing. I want to go back to Biden. So now they're talking about violence from the GOP. They won't accept it. Here's Biden, cut six, last night.

BIDEN: We know that more and more ballots are cast by early voting are by mail, in America. We know that many states don't start counting those ballots until after the polls close on November 8th. That means, in some cases, we won't know the winner of the election, for a few days. Until a few days after the election. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner. It's always been important for citizens and democracy to be informed and engaged. Now it's important for citizens to be patient, as well.

GLENN: Right. So why is it -- why is it we're going backwards? In a -- in a world that just keeps going faster and faster. More complicated.

In a world that has block chain.

Why is it that we are going backward within and now we're being told. For the first time in my life. No. First time was 2020.

Second time in my life, that we have to wait days, before we know the election results.

STU: No. That's happened before.

We did the 2000 elections. That took quite some time.

GLENN: I know. But it wasn't expected. It wasn't expected.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: Yes. When it's close. But generally speaking, we've only waited for Alaska and Hawaii. Okay?

STU: I mean, they've been counting votes late -- usually, the results are known, right? Usually there's enough of a separation. They're not close enough, that you have to worry about every little last vote coming in.

But part of this is state law. Like Pennsylvania state law still was not changed from 2020. Still says, you cannot tabulate any early votes until Election Day. So there's no way they're going to have them all counted. They're not.

GLENN: Yeah. I wonder why.

STU: They're quite clear --

GLENN: I don't want to get into it.

STU: Republicans did not change it either.

GLENN: I know. I know.

STU: Should be done, you're right, though.

GLENN: Here's the thing: This is inexcusable in this country. But that's what I would expect, from this country today.

We are not -- we are not America. We're not.

That's gone. Now, we can always revive it. Just by our attitude. And what we take into our own hands.

What we do, ourselves. That's America.

Americans always were the ones that were like, you won't climb that mountain. I'll climb that mountain. Oh, this country says, you can't do it that way? Here. Let me show you how to do it.

That's where we are. But the people have been convinced, they have no longer any power to do anything. To reinvent. The only guy really showing us that is Elon Musk.

That's the only guy in our society, that really shows us, as a nation, and he's under attack.

They do everything they can, to shut him down.

And Joe Biden actually had the cojones, to say last night, that you know you shouldn't be selfish. That our democracy, our republic, Joe. Our republic. Maybe the president should get that right.

He says, our democracy, our form of government, is a way of being.

We need to vote, knowing who we've been and what we're at risk becoming.

I agree 100 percent.

But he also said, that you, in this defining moment, have got to stop worrying about those petty things, like the price of gas and food.

Petty things?

Really? Those are petty?

It's petty for me to worry that diesel reserves are at a 71-year low. It's petty for me to tell you a story out of Lincoln Nebraska. About a trucking company. With everything that's going on. And a potential rail strike, still looming. He didn't solve that. He just pushed it off.

That too can disrupt the shipment of fuel.

The guy who owns the Lincoln-based Stanford-matic trucking (phonetic). He said, I don't know what we're going to do. I don't believe we have any alternative. So if the pipeline shuts down. It's shutting me completely out of business.

He's been in business for 26 years. He said, everything that they're doing is costing everybody more money. The poor people are the ones who will suffer the most. Because it all comes babbling down to them. The people who can't afford it the most, are the ones who will get hit the hardest.

Of course. If they can't deliver, or they have to raise the price of diesel fuel, which is coming after the election, he says, everything in stores, and every city of the United States, is brought in by truck. Probably 99 percent of those trucks run on diesel.

So you'll see everything in the grocery stores, go up.

Until the prices of diesel go down.

Well, I would like to say, that 99 percent of the trucks run on diesel. That are delivery trucks.

Yes. But 100 percent of the trains, run on diesel.

100 percent of the ships, run on diesel.

And I don't think it's -- I don't know. I don't think that it is petty, to think about that.

Now, this isn't the first time, by the way, that you'll have a turkey shortage, for Thanksgiving.

However, this is a particularly bad year. Right -- this year, for Thanksgiving, you may not be able to afford the things that you have had, in my life, every Christmas, Thanksgiving, we have had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce. Every -- every year. My entire life.

Maybe not this year. You're going to have a hard time getting a turkey. The prices in the stores are jacking up so high, that you may not be able to afford it.

By the way, the fed approved another three-point hike, to take rates to the highest since 2008.

Let me just remind you, in 2008, Biden was running, and said, there will be no coal plants here in America.

No coal plants here in America. He's still saying that. He's also still saying. In fact, do we have the clip of John Kerry, cut seven?

VOICE: Ford Motor Company and General Motors and other companies around the world have spent hundreds of billions of dollars retooling their plants. Why?

Because they're going electric. And by 2035, that's all we're going to have in America. Our electric cars being manufactured. Not on the road. But being sold. And new cars. That's President Biden's goal. By 2035, he wants the power secretary of America, to be carbon free.

So if we accelerate these efforts, which is what technology, and entrepreneurial activity help us to do, this will change even faster. And so that's where I draw enormous hope. And some optimism.

GLENN: Great. Stop. So what he believes, is we're all going to be fine. And the tooth fairy is real as well. Sorry, kids, to break it to you.

This is not selfish for you to worry about.
This is not petty for you to worry about this. This is not a one-time thing. These prices will not go down.

If this administration continues. Let me give you this.

Earlier in October, the International Monetary Fund, issued a stark warning, about the global economy. In it, the IMF economic counselor and director of research wrote that the 2023 slowdown will be broad-based with countries accounting for one-third of the global economy, poised to contract.

The three largest economies, the United States, China, and the euro area, will continue to stall.

It will also reopen economic wounds, that were only partially healed post pandemic. In short, the worst is yet to come.

Okay. Is that petty, to worry about that?

Because these are the people, that are spending money. Think of this. They're spending money. Which needs to be printed. So they're printing money. So they can give you, how many billions did he give away last night? So they can put that into the economy.

And then, at the same time, raise the interest rates, so you can't afford to spend money.

Because they need to claw that money back. They're taking that money away from you. And at the same time, all of the money, that you have saved, is being devalued.

Is this petty, to worry about this?

By the way, the president went over to OPEC, and said, hey, can you -- he only wanted to do it until the election was over.

We now know. But, you know, what would have strengthened his hand to bargain?

The Keystone Pipeline.

But he canceled that. This guy is so incompetent. And this administration and the Congress and the Senate, are going right along with it.

He may be incompetent. He may have bad ideas. But I can guarantee you, these are not his ideas.

This is a strategy from the far left.

And they are crippling us.

So I'm sorry. President Biden, as -- as I won't be agree with you, that you said last night, darning forces are threatening democracy.

No, sir.

Your own dark forces, that you are in bed with, that are carrying out the policy, you are in their cases, hiding, and in some places, celebrating. Those dark forces are a threat to our republic.

And with God's help and God's blessing, the madness will end November 8th. Next Tuesday, at the ballot box.

May it be a fair fight.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.