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Welcome to the Glenbeck program.

We're glad you're here.

Stu,

I hate to even mention Juneteenth because it is such a ridiculous thing outside of Texas.

In Texas, it's a known holiday and it's a big deal.

But Juneteenth for the rest of the country is meaningless.

But Joe Biden was at a Juneteenth concert yesterday, and he was rocking it.

He was rocking it.

I'm going to show you some video if you're watching on the Blaze.

Stu, maybe you can do the play-by-play and describe what's happening here.

Go ahead, cut one.

Biden standing in the crowd like a statue, everyone around him dancing.

He's literally not moving a muscle.

Oh my god.

His music playing, and

the dancing is going on, but he.

It almost looks edited.

It almost looks edited that he's like

so motionless and stiff.

Yeah.

Like a corpse.

Now,

you know, it's interesting you brought up that editing thing because that's just such a short clip.

You know, you don't know.

You know, he probably was rocking it.

Right.

You know, just a couple of frames later.

So here's the full clip five times the rate.

Five times the speed.

Here we go.

Cut to.

Oh my gosh.

What is going on?

Everyone around him is moving, and he's not moving at all.

And especially the guy in the sequin dress, three people down from him.

Look at this.

Now they're sitting.

Yeah, he's barely moving.

That's very strange.

Very strange.

Now, it would be better than him actually dancing, and that may have been his thought process there.

Of like, if I try to dance, it's not a damage.

I'm not sure there was a thought process there at all.

I'm not sure of it.

No,

yeah, yeah.

Not sure of that at all.

Now, maybe we could get him the new Apple intelligence.

Did you see this come out yesterday?

I did, yeah.

New Apple AI.

Elon Musk is not real happy about this.

Thinks this is, he said, I won't let any Apple product into any of my buildings.

If you go through with this, here's just from the

Apple announcement yesterday, here's the new Apple Intelligence Calculator.

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It's pretty impressive.

Yeah, I'm not even sure what she was even talking about.

I need AI to explain what she was trying to.

I don't...

The velocity of a ping-pong table and the height and how you hit it.

Okay.

I don't know.

I don't know if the velocity of the ping-pong table is particularly notable.

Ping-pong ball.

Yes, yes.

You're right.

Ping-pong table, zero.

Good job.

Velocity of zero.

The Joe Biden velocity when he's dancing.

That Joe Biden velocity.

It is really impressive on what AI can do.

You know, it's just also really

spooky.

on what AI can do.

And, you know, Ray Kurzweil's idea is that it'll make us all better.

It will make us all,

it'll it'll free up our mind.

If we don't have to think about the calculations, we can think about deeper things.

No,

no, we're not going to think deeper things.

We're not going to store even more knowledge.

We're probably going to watch more porn and play more games.

Yeah.

That's probably what will happen.

You mentioned, I think, just yesterday, Glenn, the Doug Bergum origin story, like the Doug Bergham prequel to the superhero he's become today.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it was essentially this in a nutshell.

He had a bunch of calculations he did by hand, and someone showed him that a computer could do it for him more quickly, and he decided to go into the software industry, right?

And it's like that is kind of what

this stuff is going to do.

But we have good evidence as to whether people start thinking more deeply about things when that revolution happens.

No, we just start looking at dumb seven-second videos on TikTok.

Like that's what we do.

We turn our brains off completely and never think again.

Yes, exactly right.

Exactly right.

And how's that going to work out for us?

I don't think really will.

Let me go to cut six here.

This is Nancy Pelosi taking responsibility for the lack of January 6th security.

We have responsibility, Terry.

We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have.

This is ridiculous.

You're going to ask me, in the middle of the thing, when they've already breached the

inaugurals and stuff, that

should we call the Capitol Police?

I mean, the National Guard?

Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?

They thought that they had sufficiently.

No, there's not a question of how they had.

They don't know.

They clearly didn't know, and I take responsibility for not not having them just prepare for war.

Yeah, you should.

Yeah.

Now here's Nancy Pelosi about that clip.

The fact is that the President of the United States, the former President, and his toadies do not want to face the facts.

They're trying to do revisionist history on January 6th.

But we cannot let us be dragged into their, again,

false impression of what happened that day.

They know what happened that day.

Yeah.

How is it that releasing the clip of her taking responsibility and saying, I should have known, how come they weren't there?

Somebody knew.

Why didn't I know?

How is playing that clip revisionist history?

Wouldn't revisionist history be,

I don't know, what she's saying now?

Yeah, she's revising what actually occurred to her own benefit.

That is her version of revisionist history.

I mean, I just don't.

Hmm.

Let's see.

Let me play.

Let me play this illegal immigrant talking to Fox News.

He's going to,

well, he's not saying he's going to vote, but if he was going to vote, how would he vote?

Cut nine.

What do you think of President Biden?

Biden, I love Biden.

Why do you love him?

Biden, help us.

It's good.

That's a really good

thing.

Yeah, I know.

And it's weird because

there's not a lot of Americans that are saying that right now.

You know, Biden helped us.

No,

I

can't see that.

62% of Americans now back mass deportations of illegal immigrants.

62%.

Do you know who almost unanimously don't agree with that?

Illegal immigrants.

In a new poll shows that they're almost 100% in lockstep against mass deportations.

So,

wow.

You know what that is?

You know what that is?

This is

Biden couldn't convince people anymore of, they're going to put you all back in chains.

He couldn't convince black people of that lie anymore.

This is the new black people back in chains.

He's going to send you back to your country.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That one's true.

The back in chains thing was never true, but, you know,

that's what they'll do, I guess.

Now there, the New York Times again is showing the rights racism.

Two black Republican House members and Trump surrogates.

reserved a cigar bar near downtown Philadelphia last week and invited conservative organizers and Trump curious black voters to smoke and sip cognac.

Some Democrats denounced it as a crass play

rooted in stereotypes.

Did the people who attended the event think that?

Where they were like, gosh, he is really stereotyping us.

That's why I'm going?

Well,

I've had a problem with this story for the last couple of days,

and I bring it to the table today because I still can't figure it out.

Let me just read this again.

Trump's arrogants reserved a cigar bar near downtown Philadelphia last week, invited conservative organizers and Trump curious black voters to smoke and sip

cognac.

Now,

when I think of cognac, I think, lovey, I need my cognac.

I don't...

Are blacks known for their cigar and cognac evenings?

Because I really thought that was an elitist white, you know, I always, I would think of George Soros being like, yes, and then we kill all of them as he's, you know, warming the cognac under his, you know, in his hand.

Yes.

And maybe mutilate them a little bit too.

It's kind of fun.

I don't see the what's the stereotype there?

I mean,

Hennessy is

occasionally associated with

an African-American demographic, perhaps.

I I don't know if that's accurate, but I've heard people say that

that's something, like in pop culture and stuff that I've seen, but I don't know if it's actually a real thing.

I don't know if that people utilize it in that way.

I mean,

you could,

if they were like, come on down and have menthol cigarettes and cult 45,

then maybe,

maybe.

But the menthol cigarette thing comes from Joe Biden trying to buy people

into

voting for him by not taxing menthol cigarettes even higher.

He's going to hold off on that.

He wants to get rid of menthol cigarettes because they blow a hole in your lung.

But he's going to

hold off because them blacks like their menthol cigarettes, apparently.

It's incredible.

Watching this stuff pour out of the news every day is a funhouse mirror.

It's like a magic show.

It's like watching a magic show.

Everything just goes in and it comes out a rabbit.

And you're like, wait, that was an egg that he put in.

How did a chicken come out of the hat?

I don't understand that.

Somehow or another.

But I've never gone to like David Copperfield and said, you know, I'd like to get some advice on you from you and what's really going on because you made a coin disappear.

These people are making things disappear and reappear and making it look like one thing when it's another.

I mean, it's a magic show.

Do you think?

And I don't think there's at any time in history we've ever asked for the advice from a magician.

Usually not a good idea.

Do you think this works?

I mean,

what was it?

Typically, about 90% of African-American voters go for the Democrats.

I do think it works.

And now it's reportedly around between 75 and 80 in a lot of these polls.

So there's already been movement.

Are these efforts something that work or is the does?

I think it does.

With Donald Trump, it does.

It does.

I mean, he got 12% from black men in 2020.

If he can get

20, 25%,

I think that changes the game.

And it's why they're having to import new voters on the Democratic side.

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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

So

let me just give you this story

first.

A Ukrainian publication with the editor in chief, who has ties to the U.S.

State Department, has placed dozens of American politicians, activists, and media outlets, including Blaze Media and Glenn Beck, on a list of those allegedly known to have shared Russian disinformation or otherwise made anti-Ukrainian statements.

On Thursday, texty.org, an independent media outlet that fuses data journalism projects with traditional journalistic genres.

This is according to their website.

They published an article entitled Roller Coaster, From Trumpists to Communists.

The forces in the U.S.

impeding aid to Ukraine and how they do it.

Now, there's 75 of us on this list, but nearly 400 entities that have opposed sending aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.

We were mentioned, Blaze Media and myself mentioned on pages 34 of a 47-page list.

The anti-Ukrainian Blaze Media links are all from 2023.

They include one, which Blaze News article, there's one Blaze News article, two tweets, one of which is just showing a clip and a quote from Tucker Carlson, who's also on the list,

and then three segments with Blaze Media's Glenn Beck.

Okay.

Okay.

Now,

what were the clips?

Well,

the first clip that they had a problem with was that I had said that the plan to go into Russia

or to have Ukraine fight Russia and us to back them up was in the works in 2016.

And Texty came out and said, that is an absolute lie.

Hey, he's just making this stuff up.

Well, the reason why I said that is because because we found a clip that I had never seen before.

This is Lindsey Graham with John McCain in the background during election 2016

in Ukraine talking to the generals and the troops.

Listen to what he said.

Your fight is our fight.

2017 will be the year of offense.

All of us will go back to Washington Washington and we will push the case against Russia.

Enough of a Russian aggression.

It is time for them to pay a heavier price.

Our fight is not with the Russian people, but with Putin.

Our promise to you is to take your cause to Washington.

Inform the American people of your bravery

and make the case against Putin to the world.

Okay.

Isn't that what happened in 2020?

2021.

And that exactly what happened?

Now, Russia did invade.

You know, I'm not going to make a case for Vladimir Putin being a good guy because he's an absolute monster.

However,

you know, when you have the State Department doing a color revolution in 2014 in Ukraine to get rid of the Russian that they say was running Ukraine,

And then you have Lindsey Graham and John McCain during the election saying 2017 is the year we go on offense.

It's time they pay

a heavier price.

Well, I would say that that kind of sounds like, you know, we're for going right after Russia.

Our fight's not with the Russian people, just Vladimir Putin.

That sounds like regime change.

Does it not?

Now, why didn't it happen in 2017?

Because the unthinkable happened.

Donald Trump was elected.

That's what happened.

Donald Trump was elected.

In 2017, he became the president of the United States.

And what happened?

He all of a sudden was painted as a guy who was for Russia.

And the Russian interference, forget the Chinese, just the Russian interference alone.

So, the enemy of Hillary Clinton and the State Department and everybody else,

the enemy became Russia and Donald Trump tied closely together.

So, the offense had to wait for four years, but they continued to smear Donald Trump with Russia.

That was the whole case.

Okay, so now let me go on.

Let me tell you about a show we did a few weeks ago.

Regime change.

It's been United States policy for a very long time.

Covert CIA operations.

We go in, we manipulate the foreign media, we meddle in elections, we topple governments,

and then, you know, we go back to saying, we didn't do that.

What are you talking about?

This started with the Cold War, but nothing the CIA pulled off comes even close to what their successor began doing.

Who was the successor to the

CIA covert ops?

Well, it was the United States government, that includes the CIA, along with NGOs, trade unions, and people like George Soros.

Color revolutions.

The first one that was really successful was the Middle East, the Arab Spring, right?

I told you the Arab Spring was, it had its roots in communist, the European Spring, back after the Communist Manifesto was written.

They tried to overthrow all of Europe and it was called the European Spring.

How could this just peaceful movement just suddenly

have the roots in revolutionary Marxism?

Well, Color revolutions, Middle East, then Latin America and Eastern Europe, Ukraine is one of them.

And here's what they do.

The United States, so they can keep their distance, goes through NGOs and trade unions.

They train and mobilize street movements.

Kind of like, let's see if I can think of a street movement that seems like it wasn't actually real.

BLM

or the Palestinian street movements.

By the way, as we've shown you, funded by these same kind of people.

So we showed you

all of the evidence on a color revolution and how it was done.

And they did it all out in the open and they even bragged about it.

I showed you the people and the organizations at the top of the color revolution spear.

I also showed you that some of these people, NGOs, trade unions, are now active here in the United States.

And they seem to pop up every four years.

Totally coincidentally, their money and their actions usually come at a time of massive civil unrest right before an election.

Now,

there's usually some kind of

government element at the top.

Could be the CIA.

Most likely it's the State Department and USAID, but ultimately it's the office of the President.

So we did a chalkboard on this.

We showed that that has to happen.

You have to have those in the government that are wanting to overthrow another government.

Then the operation is privatized to give it distance from the government.

This is where the NGOs like the National Endowment for Democracy come in.

Okay, the NED is composed of four different entities: the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, and the Center for International Private Enterprise.

You see what's happening?

You have both sides, so it looks fair, Republican and Democrat, plus you have labor and private enterprise, everybody coming together.

So this is a bipartisan kind of cover story.

Next, in the food chain, you have to have the multi-billion dollar financiers and their organizations that partner in the entire operation.

This is where George Soros comes in, the Open Society Foundation, the Tides Foundation.

And then there are the people that spread the message, demonstrate in the streets and the media to report what the government wants you to report, wants them to report to the masses.

This is the blueprint.

We've done it over and over and over again.

And I make the case that these same people are doing it here in America.

So why is the blaze?

Why am I on this list?

I'm on this list because I believe I'm telling you exactly what's happening.

We have a color revolution happening within our own government, within the NGOs and George Soros and all those people.

This is what they're doing.

And there's a possibility this time they succeed because you have to have an, quote, illegitimate president.

You have to have street movements that are not only saying that it's illegitimate, you also have the media saying it's illegitimate.

And it doesn't work if Donald Trump is the one saying he stole the election.

It It has to be their side saying the election was stolen.

Now, let me go back to the outlet and who these people are, the ones that put this missed dis

and dangerous information out.

You'll be surprised to hear that there's some of the same exact connections to color revolution.

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Well, it's quite a day.

In Wilmington, Delaware, a federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden of federal gun charges, a historic first for the offspring of a sitting president.

His trial had his ex-wife and his sister-in-law talking about his drug use.

He faces up now to 25 years in prison.

He has not been sentenced yet, so that's what he faces up to 25 years for three charges.

Lying on a federal screening form about his drug use.

That is, I mean, that is, I think it even says on the form, it's a federal crime of like 25 years in prison.

You don't lie when you're buying a gun.

Don't do it.

Then lying to a gun dealer and possessing the gun, although first-time nonviolent offenders typically get shorter sentences.

That's an interesting.

Give him his sentence here soon.

Yeah, about three weeks.

They expect this to be three to four weeks.

And now that sentence

is

one of those situations that depends on how long it is.

You're right, first-time nonviolent offenders, usually the term isn't too, too long.

If it's anything longer than, let's say, five or six months, you would assume, despite his denials, that Joe Biden will pardon him the second the election's over.

Oh, of course he will.

Is that your expectation?

Yes, of course he will.

Yeah,

I can't imagine he wouldn't.

He's been, you know, getting his kid in and out of trouble for the past 30 years.

Yeah.

Why would he change his, you know, his parental habits?

Yeah.

New York Times is reporting that Hunter Biden's team was feeling,

they say, bullish about a non-guilty verdict before it was delivered.

So this is a surprise.

One of the interesting reactions to this, Galen, I'd love to get your take on this, is now the left saying,

well,

I guess we won't be seeing anything about a rigged jury system anymore today, will we?

Obviously referring to the Trump case when people were saying

the system was rigged.

Although, I don't know, is that your take on that?

Do you think the system was rigged against with the Donald Trump?

No, no, no, no, no.

no, first of all, I would have said the system was rigged when they came, when the Justice Department, you know, colluded with the White House and

came up with some bogus, you know,

bogus plea deal that nobody in the world would have ever gotten.

This is, now, there's no sentence.

It says up to 25 years.

There's no sentence, so we don't know.

You know, but it's

this is normal.

This is the way it works usually.

It just usually happens to people much, much faster than this.

And

when Donald Trump was

at trial, we weren't saying the system was corrupt.

We were saying the system in New York City and Washington, D.C.

is corrupt.

Because just because of the voter base, you can't get a fairer trial if you're Donald Trump.

But that doesn't mean the whole thing is corrupt.

You know, my point is, you have to play ball the the people in power in New York want you to play ball.

That's corrupt.

You know,

I think generally we get it right.

I think often that happens.

I still think we have the best system out there, even though there are massive problems with it.

And specifically in this case when it comes to Donald Trump, and that, like, I actually have legitimate hope that the system, the legal system gets the Trump verdict right eventually.

Right.

Like, I I think there's a good chance it gets overturned on appeal.

The problem with that, though, is that the timeline of the legal system and our political system are not are not working together very well unless you happen to be a Democrat.

And that, of course, is intentional.

But, you know, like I do think that eventually the court system will probably suss this out.

And I'm not at all surprised that, you know, Hunter Biden is guilty in this case.

It was pretty blatant, but like that is overlooking what you just brought up, Glenn, and that they tried to completely brush this under the rug.

I mean, the political system tried to get involved in this multiple times to make sure this didn't occur.

They got caught.

And so now we have a jury who actually does come to the right conclusion here.

Obviously, he was guilty of this.

So, yeah, there's no, there's, you know, they weren't saying you can't bring up this person

to prove that he was innocent.

This was his gun.

That is his signature on the paper where he lied.

That's a huge penalty.

Then,

when his

sister-in-law lover

was

found that, you know, found that his gun was in the glove box, she went and took it in a bag that had cocaine powder in it, threw it into a garbage can behind a supermarket.

She should have been charged, quite honestly, as well, I think.

But she took the gun and she threw it into a garbage can because she was afraid their kids might find it.

Well,

so you're going to let somebody else's kids find the gun?

What do you, you know,

there's no

question

that this is exactly what happened, and you didn't have to make up laws to say or

skirt around whole

sections of the law to get this.

You're just enforcing the law.

What's ironic about this is

dad's such the big anti-gun, you know, throw the book at him forever if they've, you know, they've ever had a cap gun in their life.

And he's going to end up, I truly believe, he's going to end up pardoning him.

I think he will as well.

Of course, you know, these penalties are for thee, not for me.

And so all of these hardcore, I'm Mr.

Tough anti-gun guy, this is the exact type of stuff that Joe Biden was pushing for, larger penalties for these type of actions.

Now, I think there is the best defense for Hunter Biden, which they didn't really get into in this particular trial, and it will probably come up on appeal, is a Second Amendment defense.

I don't know that it's a winning defense, but I think there is a good argument that the question itself is not

properly represented in our histories and traditions as whether you're an alcoholic or a drug addict and you can't have a gun if you are right like you know if you go back and look at the early uh machinations of that of that it there's very much in our histories and traditions and like for example you go into a bar they take your gun as you go into a bar they give it back to you when you leave right like that that type of stuff was you know common going back to the you know the

you know the when guns first were being killed yeah um but typically it wasn't it's not one of those things where they would do the same thing if you were an alcoholic you'd never get a gun, even when you were sober.

Right.

And so the...

Yeah, I think you could make a really strong case for that.

Yeah.

And saying that, you know,

I'm a recovering alcoholic.

Should I own a gun?

You know,

it's the practicing, are you using drugs?

Are you using alcohol?

We could argue about that, and there might be a case to do it.

However, the left would not be for that.

The left would be for all alcoholics, no matter in recovery or not, shouldn't own a gun.

And all teetotalers as well.

Yeah, and all teetotalers, yeah.

But

that is not what this case is built on.

This case is built on you lied on this federal form.

You cannot lie.

Everybody knows that.

Everybody knows that.

And it's true, and it's one of those things that I find this case to be the least interesting interesting part of the Hunter Biden saga.

Oh, this is a good thing.

It might not even be a constitutional question.

Like, I don't think there's he didn't shoot anybody.

Like, there's a lot.

I mean, he should have, he should be,

the laws should apply to him like they apply to everyone else.

But, like, to me, much more interesting to me is more is the tax stuff, the financial stuff, and the stuff that ties into international business dealings that seemingly involve many of his family members, including maybe his dad.

I mean, certainly his dad, in my view, but legally, we don't have that proved yet.

But can I ask you one other question?

This came up while you were gone, Glenn, and I've been meaning to ask you about this every second

since we talked about the story.

I've never had sex with Hunter Biden.

Oh, okay.

Oh, okay.

You cleared it up.

No,

this is a story that came out, and Pat and I talked about it last week.

And we both said on the air, the only person that we know that can possibly answer this question is Glenn Beck.

The story is from the New York Times and it's painted as this like

sob story about how we're so mean to Hunter Biden, right?

Like that's the tone of the story.

The headline is, Hunter Biden's paintings not quite the refuge he sought.

The president's son started selling his artwork years ago, drawing potential ethics concerns that we're discussing congressional testimony this year.

And it goes through a very long, you know, feature about his incredible painting, but it gets into details on the finances that I have never seen before.

And if you remember, they were talking about these paintings going for $500,000 a pop.

Correct.

In testimony that came out, they found that actually the most money he made was $85,000 for any of these paintings,

which they

hilariously say is not common for a novice painter.

Really, it's not common for a novice painter to make $500,000 or $85,000 for a painting.

Right.

But they go through the details here.

Right.

All right.

And they say, all in all, the gallery sold about $1.5 million worth of his art.

Okay.

Just thrown in there with no crinkled eyebrows at all from the New York Times is Mr.

Biden's earnings proved more modest than the early hype had suggested.

He reported $130,984 in gross income from art sales during the first two tax years that he was represented by the gallery.

They just go on as if that's nothing.

But is this the normal arrangement?

$1.5 million in art sales only nets $130,000 to the artist.

He's getting 8%

of the sales.

Is that even possible?

No.

No.

If you are bringing something to the table, which he is, he's bringing fame.

He's bringing people will come to the art show just to see him.

You can negotiate for a better rate.

Because I was a new artist, I negotiated with my gallery 50%.

They take 50%, I take 50, because they're doing work, I'm doing work, whatever.

And if you're a new artist, you would do that.

He's a new artist, and

this guy is bringing a lot to the table.

Hunter is.

He's bringing not only the art, but he's bringing, I'm the president's son, and I'm in the newspaper all the time.

So people are coming into this guy's gallery.

However,

you know

it might be shady.

You know

you're I don't you know, I don't know.

If this was somebody who knew Hunter Gall Hunter Biden, who he did,

and knew that he was on the up and up and everything else, he should not get 8%.

It would be more likely that he would get

45, 55%.

Yeah, like I could see

you getting a really good deal with a gallery because you also are bringing

some level of notoriety, right?

When you're not just like, but like, and he'd have a similar thing.

Even if he got half of what you got, it would be much, much more than what's reported here in the New York Times.

No, this is, this is, that's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

8%

is ridiculous.

He obviously, if that's the real deal, he obviously made it while smoking crap.

I mean, honestly, that's ridiculous.

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