RADIOFebruary 23, 2022

Will Trudeau’s emergency powers stay FOREVER in Canada?

Ever since the ‘Freedom Convoy’ began in Canada earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has relied on his ‘emergency powers’ to not only squash the truckers’ ability to protest, but to withhold their financial freedom too. So, now that police mostly have cleared Ottawa, will Trudeau’s emergency powers be a thing of the past? Not necessarily. Glenn details the latest in this clip...

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GLENN: Hello, America. It's the Glenn Beck Program. What really happened in Canada yesterday?

Did parliament actually vote to extend these emergency powers as Draconian as they are?

Yes. And a big no.

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I feel like every day, I should start with this. Every hour should start with this. The government's new directive in Canada, called the emergency economic measures order, goes beyond asking banks to simply stop transferring funds to protest organizers.

The government says, banks need to stop doing business with some people altogether. The order says, that banks and other financial entities, like credit unions, co-ops, loan companies, trusts, cryptocurrency platforms, and insurance companies, must stop providing any financial or related service, to people associated with the protests.

A move, that will result in frozen accounts, stranded money. And canceled credit cards.

They're also ordering the insurance company, to suspend policies on any vehicles, that are part of an unlawful public assembly. The financial institutions, can't handle cash. Issue a loan. Extend a mortgage. Or facilitate any transaction of a designated person. While the emergencies act is in place.

Yesterday, they voted in parliament, to keep it in place.

Now, that's what you will hear.

And you will go, wait a minute. So are Canadians, really for this? Is that who Canadians really are?

No.

Trudeau did not have the votes, to get this extended.

So he played a little political game.

He said, well, if you're not going to support this. And -- and help me, keep this emergency measures order, which will put these people, in their place.

I'll view that as a vote of no confidence.

And I'll quit.

Oh. No. Who is going to take their toys and go home?

Now, what does that mean, I mean, here in America.

STU: I mean, this sounds kind of good. It sounds kind of wonderful, actually.

Yes, you should quit.

GLENN: Unless. Unless you're in front of a parliamentary system. And you're a liberal.

STU: Right.

GLENN: Now, imagine we were under a parliamentary system. And Joe Biden was like -- and we interpreted that as, I'm going to quit.

If we had a parliamentary system, that would trigger elections, immediately.

STU: Elections. So if you're in power in Canada. You're not in a position right in Canada, to want new elections.

GLENN: You're going to lose everything.

Imagine elections today. I don't think -- Joe Biden could say. And we would interpret that as, I'm going to nuke Kansas.

And the left would say, we're okay with that. We're okay. We're okay.

STU: They would be.

GLENN: They probably would be.

GLENN: Texas. For sure.

STU: But like, right now. If Joe Biden were like, I'm going to launch snap elections, the left would obviously get slaughtered in those elections.

GLENN: Slaughtered. So that's what happened.

So then a conservative said, after they voted for -- against the no-confidence vote. And you can have your toys, and you just stay with us.

Because if you don't stay with us, we're all going to go buh-bye too. Because we're going to be forced to.

What happened?

A conservative stood up and said, because Trudeau does not have the numbers to continue this emergency order.

And so someone -- a conservative stood up and said, I would like to move, that we vote on those two separately. We have the no-confidence vote. And now let's vote on -- and gosh darn it, they were all out of time this week.

STU: They wanted to do it.

GLENN: They wanted to do it. The Speaker was like, oh, shoot! All of you on time.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: And so they couldn't -- they couldn't do that. So that means, it is still in a state of emergency.

I'm telling you, this is going to go on, until they have made it impossible to dig it out.

They are making all of these financial rules, permanent.

In Canada. Here's Trudeau yesterday.

VOICE: The emergencies act is not something to undertake lightly.

And it's something that needs to be momentary, temporary, and proportional. That's why every single day I'm receiving briefings. And we are reflecting on how much longer the emergencies act needs to be in place. We don't want to keep it in place, a single day longer than necessary.

GLENN: No. Of course not.

VOICE: But even though the blockades are lifted, across borders right now. Even though, things to be resolving very well in Ottawa. This state of emergency, is not over.

There continues to be real concerns about the coming days.

But we will continue to evaluate every single day.

Whether or not it is time and we are able to lift this state of mammalian.

GLENN: That is great.

That is exactly the way Hitler took power.

STU: The enabling it?

Yeah. Sure.

GLENN: He went and he killed a bunch of SS. I'm sorry. SA people. These were the brown shirts. They were on his side.

He said, they were just getting out of control.

And there were plots against the regime.

And I know I violated the Constitution. But I have to do it. I had to do it. And I would do it again.

So arrest me, and kick me out as chancellor. But I did the right thing for the republic. And gosh darn it, guess who embraced him?

The German people. You know, he did kill his own people. And we've been crying out for somebody to kill those people, or take them off the streets. So he can't be that bad a guy. Sure, he violated the constitution. Let's not worry about it this time.

And there was an emergency powers act, that had to be enacted because you never know when the bad guys are coming.

STU: I thought, we had all decided the enabling act was bad.

GLENN: You think?

STU: I thought we were like, let's not enable the leader of a country to kind of do whatever they want and call it an emergency that extends forever. Kind of thought we were in agreement on that. Apparently not.

GLENN: Well, not for good reasons.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: Okay. If the leader has good reasons, you know, like fear. Then it's okay.

STU: What are they going to do?

Let's remember what we're talking about here.

A bunch of people in trucks, parked for a couple of weeks. What happens if there's an actual crisis?

GLENN: Well, there was one. There was one in Vancouver. Or in the -- in British Columbia, where 20 eco terrorists took over, threatened lives. Put four people in jeopardy. Because they were shooting some sort of tear gas.

STU: Flares.

GLENN: Yeah. Flares into cars, where people were. They didn't do anything about that. That's fine.

STU: But I'm not saying that -- I'll throw -- I'll just throw one out. You're looking for a specific, that I can't give you. So I'll just give you a generalized possibility.

Like, what happens if a giant World War were to break out in the next couple of weeks?

In that outlying possibility, how do these governments react? Let me put it another way.

Start here. We know that Russia has gone into two regions of Ukraine. Okay?

This is something that we said was a red line. And obviously is no longer a red line. They've done this. Let's just say, they continue to go through Ukraine. What are the odds of that?

Seeming, at this point, pretty high, right? They go to continue and go for all of Ukraine. It's not zero percent. It's not 100.

GLENN: No, it's probably 30 percent.

STU: Yeah. That strikes me as about correct.

GLENN: It could be 70.

STU: It could be 70. But they definitely seem like they are doing something.

GLENN: They will at some point. They will at some point.

STU: Basically, telling everybody.

That speech they went through -- it's always been ours. So we're not taking it. Because it's not a country. Right?

We're not invading a country, because it's just our country.

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

STU: You know, so they decided to go for all of Ukraine. Somewhere between 30 and 70 percent.

So what happened -- what are the odds of this spiraling out of control?

Right across, you've got Poland, Lithuania. You have all these places that are NATO countries.

GLENN: They just went in.

STU: Yeah, they go for the whole thing, and then, let's say, spills over. Maybe they continue to go. Maybe a couple of soldiers decide to fire rockets, and start a wider conflict.

And if that happens, then we're pulled into a war with Russia. That's only a couple of believable steps away from where we are right now.

GLENN: Okay. So I don't think we're going to be pulled in. No troops will be pulled in. We don't need those anymore.

Vladimir Putin was right, when he said about three years ago, we're already in World War III. You people -- meaning us, just haven't woken up to it.

Your leaders keep denying it. But World War III is going to be fought with ones and zeros.

So when we -- for instance, the pipeline could trigger this. And journal any just pulled the pipeline off.

That's going to mean prices for heating. And natural gas. Going to go through the roof.

In Europe. Putin responded this morning, with, well, there's $2,000 a month, for your energy per household. That will just cripple Europe.

So that may just soften everybody up, and go. Just let them have it. Just let them have it.

I don't know.

The other thing is -- and this may have targeted this.

If we do this to them, I know, if Joe Biden is serious about these financial restrictions, that will mean that Putin will take on, in my opinion, the ones and zeros campaign. And he will target our financial institutions.

He could go after our -- our -- you know, electrical grid, whatever.

But if he goes after our financial institutions, The Great Reset, will immediately be triggered. Guarantee it.

Because that's what they're looking for. That's what they're expecting. In December, they did a war game.

Where a country, like Russia, targeted our financial -- the Western financial markets. And it started to take it down.

What did we do?

They had to trigger The Great Reset immediately, take everybody who was saying, hey. This is a real problem.

And here's what they're really doing. And we have to really -- that's what they're planning on doing. Take them off the air. Silence the voices. It will happen that fast.

STU: And that's. So what are we -- how do you prepare for this? Because you just listed off five or six major ways, this could go down.

And is it even plausible to try to prepare for all of them, or even half of them?

How do you prepare --

GLENN: So I think you have to -- I think you have to change the way you look at things.

So let me take a break. And then we'll come back. And I'll give you -- I'll give you something that I felt in prayer, just a week ago. Or early -- maybe it was a few days ago.

Yeah. It was like last Thursday. And it changed my thinking, entirely. On how to prepare.

I'll give you that. And then, how do protest?

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.