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Just a few minutes ago, hello America, a lawsuit was filed against the ATF.

We're going to give you the exclusive story with the man who just filed it.

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He has just filed a lawsuit against the ATF about something that is really, honestly, going to affect all of us and all gun owners.

If they can get away with this,

they will come and take away your gun, and it will happen faster than you think.

Now, he is currently a structural engineer.

He is a decorated Marine Combat Veteran.

He served the United States with distinction in Afghanistan

and he has a pistol with a 10 and a half inch barrel and a stabilizing brace.

Well, that's a problem.

Why?

Because the ATF has changed their mind.

So he has just put together

a lawsuit and just filed it just a few minutes ago.

We've been waiting for this to happen, happen, and he joins us now from Wisconsin.

Sean, welcome.

Morgan Glenn, Mickey Frask.

Oh, man, I thank you for coming on, but thank you for what you're doing.

This

ATF ruling that they just changed and changed their mind, and I believe have no standing, have no way to actually do this legally.

If this isn't fought in the court and won, I think our Second Amendment rights are gone.

Do you believe it's hyperbole?

No, I'm inclined to agree.

You know,

unfortunately, this is just another instance in a long list of arbitrary bans by the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, to your point, many of which were at one point deemed acceptable to be purchased.

So I agree wholeheartedly.

Okay, so tell me about your lawsuit.

Why did you file it?

Why is it being filed in Wisconsin?

And what does it say?

Yeah, so the reason for filing, in short,

again, I believe this to be a massive overstep by the ATF, and I don't believe it to be a rightful or illegal thing to be done.

I find it unfortunate that now as a civilian, no longer an active service member of the United States, I still feel compelled to have to stand up for the rights of the people of this country.

And unfortunately, I'm doing so from a branch of government that has sworn to do the same.

Part of the lawsuit that we have actively amongst myself and two other veterans is just going against the ATF of this ruling.

We don't believe it to be valid.

We don't believe it to be a justified change in definition.

And so we wish to change that.

Okay, now you're filing in Wisconsin.

Who is filing with you?

Who do you have representing you?

Yep, so the wisconsin institute for law and liberty is the firm that i'm working with again i have two other veterans one is a resident here of wisconsin gabe tauser and the third is a veteran in the state of texas in amarillo

okay so if anybody doesn't know the wisconsin institute for law and liberty they are very very good

and have a really good track record at things like this so this is kind of the you know, the reason why I ask this, Sean, is

Rosa Parks was not the first woman to refuse to give up her seat.

She was just the best one to present to the world with the best chance of

it sticking.

So, I'm assuming that

there's others that are doing this, but you are also, you and your fellow

Marines or compatriots are

selected as one of the best cases out there.

Would that be true?

Do you know?

Yeah, I'd certainly hope so.

And, you know,

we pride ourselves on

not only our service, but our continued service to our country in all aspects now, you know, after all of our actual contracts with the Department of Defense have now ended.

So, yeah, I would be inclined to agree.

Okay.

So what are you arguing?

Because it's a pretty long

filing.

It's 25 pages and it covers a lot.

Yeah.

So again, you know, to

keep it relatively short,

we believe this ruling to be unconstitutional.

We believe it to be against what the ATF is within their bounds of being able to do.

You're effectively taking an estimated 10 to 40 million Americans that have purchased these braces and you are making them sell them overnight.

And by doing so, you are restricting their ability to not only have their gun rights, but to even participate in the voting experience as an American.

So

we stand to step in to hopefully stop or retract this change in definition so that we can again allow the people of this country to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

How do you feel about the chances there in Wisconsin?

So I believe the suit is actually formally being filed in Amarillo, Texas.

Again, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is the one who is heading this up, but there is a high likelihood that in Amarillo that this is likely to gain traction and get support.

So it is my understanding that that is the tactical choice there.

Perfect.

We are going and proceeding forward with that.

Okay.

I didn't know it was filed here in Texas.

That explains a lot.

Thank you.

That makes me feel much better.

Okay.

So you are looking to

overturn the stabilizing, but you're also, if I'm not mistaken,

trying to make sure that this overreach doesn't happen in other categories beyond the stabilizing brace, correct?

Yeah, so in general,

obviously we hope to set a precedent that, again, you can't unilaterally write law as the ATF.

And by changing the definition, they are trying to go around that and to do it by other means.

And so what we are hoping to do is to, again, by stopping this piece of definition change, we hope to set a precedent to where this cannot happen for any other instance of any other

type of item in the future.

So explain what that means because I mean I this this law has come out, and it is absolutely nowhere in the mainstream press.

And I think that's for a reason.

They're avoiding this because they know if people understand what this means,

they will be, you know, filing themselves.

I mean, it would be, I think, it would be overwhelming the system with litigation because it does just this one, put maybe up to 40 million Americans in prison.

And

it forces you to turn over something that the ATF themselves said was legal when you bought it.

Now they're changing with no grandfather law.

And this could go

all the way down to magazines.

This could go to, you know, they're talking about banning all semi-automatic weapons, which would mean that really

only the cowboy gun

is is allowed.

Oh, and the Red Rider BB gun, which will put an eye out.

And that is accurate, right?

Can you kind of go into where this leads if it's not overturned?

Yeah, so, you know, I think just recently, within the last day or so, they're finding now that formally some of the triggers that are sold in the industry are now to be considered machine guns.

You know, the trigger assembly itself exclusively is a machine gun.

You know, you already have instances where a vertical grip that is perpendicular to the direction of the barrel is making something a felony to own versus if it's 15 degrees, it is then safe.

You know, you have a lot of these distinctions that kind of exist in ambiguity to where you could very unwittingly do something that is illegal and become a felon unbeknownst to your choices.

And so there is definitely an opportunity to expand this if if it gets pushed through and it is successful to apply to quite literally any other aspect of the firearms industry.

And if we don't turn our gun in, or if we don't alert them with a picture and serial numbers and everything else,

if we don't say, hey, I'm this citizen A and I have this gun and I bought it here,

if this doesn't, isn't overturned,

I'm automatically, if I own one of these guns, a felon.

And they can arrest me.

But the problem is, this is exactly the way they did it in Germany.

They'll say, turn in your guns, but if you turn in your guns,

then they have a register of everybody.

If it is overturned, anybody who's turned their guns in and turned all that information in, they now have a registry of that.

And you're not going to get your guns back if you overturn.

So a lot of people are stuck in this place.

Look, I don't want to be a felon,

but I don't want to turn my gun in, and I certainly don't trust the ATF to give them my information.

Yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, it's worth mentioning that the current amount of NSA submissions per year handled by the ATF, they are oftentimes unable, given the manpower that they have, the resource allocated to process all of those in a given year.

I think the estimate is somewhere around 500,000 per year that are submitted.

They can't get to them now.

Okay, so wait a minute, wait a minute.

Explain that for people who don't understand.

For instance, if you have a legally owned automatic weapon, a machine gun, which is lawful, but they cost because you can only buy them from the, you know, prior to what, 1980 or 1990.

So they cost an absolute fortune,

and drug dealers aren't buying them over the counter.

So they cost a fortune, and you have to go and apply for what is called a stamp.

And that vets you, but to get that stamp takes over a year.

But in this case, they're saying you have to send all your information and apply for that stamp.

But this goes into effect in 120 days.

There's no way to process all of those stamps.

So what happens in between and they're playing cat and mouse on this.

They're being very coy on this on what that means if you've applied and you don't have it yet.

Correct?

You're absolutely correct.

So to apply for the free tax stamp is one of the routes that you can do to be in compliance with this new change of definition.

You can submit for your firearm to be what's referred to as an SBR, a short-barreled rifle.

The issue, to your point, it oftentimes takes anywhere from 9 to 18 months to get that processed and to be given the authority to legally possess that item.

Now, in any other instance, you would do so through a dealer who will hold on to the item until that acceptance is granted to you and then issue that and transfer it over to you.

In the

circumstance that we are discussing this morning, you already have that in your possession.

So when you exceed that 120-day mark and

you have still another anywhere up to 15 months to go before they could potentially approve this, you are, by your own admission, from the fingerprints and the photos that you have submitted to the ATF

in violation of what you can legally possess at that time.

So, you are at that point immediately a felon.

All right, so 120 days from the time of this law being posted, this law

had not been posted on the registry as of early last week.

When did they post the law?

When did the 120 days go into action?

It is my understanding that that was this morning.

It was formally entered into the registry, and therefore you would have 120 days as of this morning to be in compliance with this new change.

Okay.

Sean, I hope to have you on again.

Real quick, do you think this is going to the court will rule on this pretty quickly and hear the case?

I certainly hope so.

Given the nature of these, they're usually long-winded arguments and battles.

But with that said, we have hope that the choice of Amarillo to be the state that we are filing suit in will have an effect and this will proceed and

get some traction here.

Well, again, thank you again for filing this suit and coming on.

I really appreciate it.

I hope this story goes far and wide today because you need to understand: 120 days from today,

if you own

a pistol that has

a pistol grip, if you will, a pistol brace, you will be a felon in 120 days.

And none of the options are any good to deal with it.

Sean, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

That, by the way, is Sean Kroll.

He is,

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Yes.

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Hi.

Yeah, I can hear you.

Yeah, I can hear you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know what it's like at your house, but it's an absolute sheet of ice at my house.

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Oh,

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Yeah, and it will be until, not until anyone does anything about it.

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It does.

It does.

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Okay, I will try, and I'll let you know if I'm going to transition any direction that would make this more appropriate.

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This is a

don't miss a second of today's show.

Next hour will absolutely blow your mind on what is not coming, but what is already here.

And we just have to be calm, reasonable, not freak out, just be informed.

And I can guarantee you on some of these things, you will be the best informed of any of your friends.

And

you just need to continue to pay attention and be ahead because your friends, this is all going to hit them and they're going to have no idea what any of it means.

All right, so there's a couple of things that

I want to go over.

There's the fact that the lawsuit, which is this is great news, the lawsuit

or the arrest, the DOJ, on the pro-life activist.

You remember we had,

I can't remember his first name, Hoke

Studio.

Remember?

He was the guy who, Mark Hoke, he was arrested, you know, early in the morning.

The FBI come,

they pound on his door, they take him away.

And it was for this Trumped-up charge because he's a pro-lifer and he's a pro-life activist.

And

it went to court.

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jury just acquitted him of all charges and

agreed that it was an obscene cess,

an obscene show of excessive force.

So that is really good news.

There's also another piece of good news

that Americans now in the latest poll show that they are now saying inflation is not the biggest problem, immigration is not the biggest problem, the state of the economy is not our biggest problem, that it is President Biden and Congress, the leadership of our country, that is the biggest problem.

Thank God,

hopefully, that continues.

And hopefully,

Stu, I'd like you to look into actually all the nitty-gritty numbers.

Maybe you can give us a look at this tomorrow on

what people are actually saying.

Is they saying that, you know, is the left saying that it's President Biden and Congress, and that's why we need even more authoritarianism?

Or are they realizing what Ronald Reagan said?

The scariest words ever uttered is, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

And

one more piece of good news.

This is all starting to come apart.

First of all, CNN had its worst ratings in nine years.

And I mean, when I talk bad ratings,

they would have fired us at headline news had we had ratings like this.

Okay.

When we were at headline news,

we had ratings that were great for headline news, but horrific compared to everybody else.

Now CNN is dead last.

There's nobody, and I mean almost nobody watching.

What was that number, Stu?

Did you read that story today?

It was like

40,000 or what was it?

80,000 people.

80,000 people were watching during the day.

80,000 people.

That's, I mean, you can't pay for the electricity.

in that building for that.

You can't pay the,

you know, the rent.

You can't keep the lights on for that.

Now,

CNN is saying, well, we're not sure the people inside are revolting.

And I stand to tell you here and now.

That's true.

The people are revolting.

I don't like many of them because they're so revolting.

But the

people

at CNN are now starting to revolt and saying, see, this is what happens when you don't take a stand.

No, no, no.

This is what happens when you take a bizarre stand and you decouple it from truth.

The problem at CNN and many of these other places, and it's all going to happen,

these places are all going to burn to the ground.

And I mean that metaphorically, but

they have so

dishonored themselves.

They have lied and never apologized for the lie.

They've never said, oh man, did we get that wrong?

Okay, so that doesn't happen again.

Here's what we're going to do.

They've never done that.

So we should expect the same kind of reporting from all of these people.

And people aren't buying it anymore.

So that's more good news.

One more piece of good news.

Conservative groups are building an army of

personnel to take over the government.

This is one of the best stories I've read.

This comes from the Daily Caller.

Conservative organizations are coming together to develop well-trained personnel and detailed policy agenda for the next presidential administration.

Thank God.

Project 2025, organized by the Heritage Foundation, is bringing together 45 conservative groups to develop policy and personnel for the next administration.

We have been, how many times have we been asking for this?

This is exactly what the left has done.

They have pooled everybody together and they come and they look at everything from every line in the Constitution, every line in all of the policies from the administration, because the administration is our government now.

We don't have a balance of power anymore.

The Senate and the House, everything is rubber stamped with money.

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So they spent four years during Trump looking at all of the levers that the administration has.

I hope to God that the conservatives are going in and looking at all of those levers and finding out ways to turn all of it off because government is way out of control.

So that is really good news.

There's one other thing that I think is

good news.

It looks as though now, according to the Daily Mail out of London, that Hunter Biden did help secure millions of dollars in funding for a U.S.

contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research.

Okay?

This one is kind of a big deal.

Do you remember the story that we told you that really you didn't hear, if If you were only reading the New York Times or, you know, watching CNN, MSNBC,

you didn't hear this news.

This news was really nowhere.

If it was, it was reported for a day and gone.

When the Russians came in and were invading, the United States and Ukraine sent a team in to destroy all of these research labs.

They apparently, I hope, went in with flamethrowers and just burned the insides of these bio labs.

And we wondered at the time, gi,

what were in those bio labs?

And we found out that they were actually,

they were actually funded and run

with a partnership with an American group.

Does anybody have a problem with that so far?

So it's an American group, and I believe that group, isn't it, Stu, wasn't it from San Francisco?

It was,

I'm just looking for the name of it.

Bio, oh, no, it's Metabiota.

Meta Biota.

And

it was in bed with the Defense Department, but who put the deal together?

So here's what the Russians said yesterday, and apparently,

in doing some research, it is

mostly true.

That's important, it's kind of like the Princess Bride.

He's only mostly dead.

Mostly true is very different from true.

So let's look at what's true.

Russian government yesterday held a press conference.

They claimed that Hunter Biden helped finance a U.S.

military bioweapons research program in Ukraine.

However,

it was put together in a big propaganda ploy to justify why they went into Ukraine.

However, what you care about is the emails and correspondence that has been obtained by the Daily Mail from Hunter Biden's own laptop that he abandoned

shows that this is probably true.

The emails show Hunter helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota.

It's a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases.

They said,

you know,

I've never even heard of Wuhan.

I don't know what they're doing.

But here in Ukraine, why don't we set up all of these laboratories to test diseases to see what might cause a pandemic?

Oh.

Well, I know I want everybody's favorite crack addict to be involved in that.

I know I want the world's most corrupt government, Ukraine.

Absolutely, I trust them with all of the bioweapons

and biolabs.

I feel I can sleep at night with that.

So what happened was he introduced Metabiota to

allegedly some corrupt

oligarchs.

in Russia with gas.

And I don't mean, I mean,

you know, with

gas at barizma.

And according to the emails, it was a, quote, science project

involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine.

So

what Hunter Biden did was he and his colleagues at Rosemont Seneca

invested $500,000 in Metabiota through their technology partners.

They raised

several million dollars of funding for the company from people like Goldman Sachs.

Now, I don't know about you, but I trust Goldman Sachs as well.

And when Goldman Sachs is looking at a company to invest in, when somebody like Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, who completely disconnected from his dad, has nothing to do with any of his dad's stuff, even though his dad was in charge of Ukraine at the same time.

When he walks in, I, as an investor, say, you know, this guy may have a problem with Russian hookers and

cocaine,

but does he have access to any of his father's memo?

I mean, this guy is a genius.

He doesn't speak Ukrainian.

He doesn't know anything about it.

He's on the board of Burisma, which he has no gas or oil experience.

And now he's shopping biotech.

As drug addicts go, I think he's pretty credible.

Your thoughts, Stu?

Well, I mean, it seems to me that anyone who has enough experience with altering body chemistry as Hunter Biden would be an expert in this field.

Yeah.

There's no one else who's tried that many chemicals on himself, so why wouldn't he be an expert?

And, you know, just down below, a little lower, you know, in his, you know, just past his zipper probably is a biolab in of sorts.

You know what I mean?

They've developed all sorts of new bioweapons from that general region.

So, the reason why I bring this story up is all of these things are going to come out.

They're all going to come out.

The mainstream press is no longer the gorilla in the room.

People like you,

people

like the Daily Mail now can get to you.

Glenn Greenwald is the guerrilla, is the gorilla in the room.

These voices that you have empowered through subscription or just from reading

you now have empowered people who want to tell the truth so this stuff is coming out it's just going to be a race to the finish line which one of us crossed the finish line first and win this

and we will show you an asset that they are putting on the table today that is

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I'm going to tell you something in the next 20 minutes that hopefully will be a great example of why I have warned about the coming technology and how we need to brush up on our ethics and be very, very informed and guide these things and decide

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and

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is going through the roof right now.

There's a feeding frenzy

for their stock.

People are

very excited because BuzzFeed has said they're going to use OpenAI, ChatGPT, any of these things, and

they'll start having computers write stories.

So you use those people.

So think of money.

Oh, isn't that great?

This is following

Microsoft investing $10 billion in OpenAI, which is the maker of ChatGPT.

And BuzzFeed has announced Open AI is open for business at BuzzFeed.

I will tell you that every show we do, everything that we do, is made by hand.

It is,

we will not sell out.

I'm talking about the Glenn Beck program.

We will not sell out and have our shows written by machines.

We will do our own research and

dig deep.

I'm not a technophobe.

I believe, you know, Google has been a good thing in research.

It's been a good thing.

So I have no problem using devices, but I will not replace people

with machines, AI.

Now, that's going to put

anybody who does that.

It's going to put them in the exact opposite position as BuzzFeed.

You'll have a harder time making money because you refuse to lose our humanity.

But I will go a step further.

I am not ready for what they are now calling brain transparency.

I want to play something to you that is

hopefully eye-opening.

This is a clip, and we have the full 30-minute seminar on this.

This is just the first clip from the World Economic Forum.

There was a speech on technology, and it features a video that we'll have in here.

This video is like a little cartoon, and it shows how technology could monitor your brain waves and make you more productive at work.

This is shocking enough, but what is said after

is even more so.

Here's a clip again from the World Economic Forum.

Listen.

First off, a video.

It's going to make you see the future and understand a wonderful future where we can use brainwaves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love.

That's wonderful.

You're in the zone.

Even you can't believe how productive you've been.

Your memo is finished, your inbox is under control, and you're feeling sharper than you have in a decade.

Sensing your joy, your playlist shifts to your favorite song, sending chills up your spine as the music begins to play.

You glance at the program running in the background on your computer screen and notice a now-familiar sight that appears whenever you're overloaded with pleasure, your theta brainwave activity decreasing in the temporal regions of your brain.

You mentally move the cursor to the left and scroll through your brain data over the past few hours.

You can see your stress levels rising as the deadline to finish your memo approached, causing a peak in your beta brainwave activity right before an alert popped up, telling you to take a brain break.

But what's that unusual change in your brain activity when you're asleep?

It started earlier in the month.

You send a text message to your doctor with a mental swipe of your cursor.

Could you take a quick look at my brain data?

Anything to worry about?

Your mind starts to wander to the new colleague on your team, whom you know you shouldn't be daydreaming about, given the policy against intra-office romance.

But you can't help fantasizing just a little.

But then you start to worry that your boss will notice your amorous feelings when she checks your brain activity and shift your attention back to the present.

You breathe a sigh of relief when the email she sends you later that day congratulates you on your brain metrics from the past quarter, which have earned you another performance bonus.

You head home jamming to the music with your work-issued brain-sensing earbuds still in.

When you arrive at work the next day, a somber cloud has fallen over the office.

Along with emails, text messages, and GPS location data, the government has subpoena employees' brainwave data from the past year.

They have compelling evidence that one of your coworkers has committed massive wire fraud.

Now, they're looking for his co-conspirators.

You discover they are looking for synchronized brain activity between your coworker and the people he has been working with.

While you know you're innocent of any crime, You've been secretly working with him on a new startup venture.

Shaking, you remove your earbuds.

Stop for a second, please.

Stop.

How many feel comfortable with this?

This, remember, was introduced as, you know, your future and showing you how exciting things can happen in your future.

You'll be able to increase your productivity.

We'll be able to fight crime.

You'll be able to find love.

Who's comfortable with just this?

Now let me just play the beginning of one of the eggheads at the World Economic Forum talking about this.

Go ahead.

You have the rest?

What do you think?

Is it a future you're ready for?

You may be surprised to learn that it's a future that has already arrived.

Everything in that video that you just saw is based on technology that is already here today.

Artificial intelligence has enabled advances in decoding brain activity in ways that we never before thought possible.

You've heard a lot about AI over the past few years here at Davos.

It's been the talk of the hour.

But I want to talk about it in a different way, which is the ability to decode brainwave activity.

After all, what you think, what you feel,

it's all just data.

Data that in large patterns can be decoded using artificial intelligence.

Consider this.

The average person thinks thousands of thoughts each day.

As a thought takes form, like a math calculation, you're happy, you're tired, you're hungry, you're elated.

Neurons are firing in your brain, emitting tiny electrical discharges.

As a particular thought takes form, hundreds of thousands of neurons fire in characteristic patterns that can be decoded with EEG or electroencephalography and AI-powered devices.

In fact, what you're seeing here is my brain activity while I'm wearing a simple device like the one on the right.

We're not talking about implanted devices of the future.

I'm talking about wearable devices that are like Fitbits for your brain.

It used to be that there was very little we could tell from EEG activity.

But already, using consumer wearable devices, these are headbands, hats that have sensors that can pick up your brainwave activity, earbuds, headphones, tiny tattoos that you can wear behind your ear.

We can pick up emotional states like are you happy or sad or angry.

We can pick up and decode faces that you're seeing in your mind.

Simple shapes, numbers, your PIN number.

to your bank account.

It's not just your brain activity here that we can pick up.

We can also pick up your brain activity in different places, like as your neurons fire from your brain down your arm and send signals to your hand to tell you how to type, move.

All of that could be decoded through electromyography and that's what you're seeing here is a device now in the form of a simple wearable watch.

that can pick up that activity and one of the pivotal acquisitions of the field, Meta acquired this company, Control Labs, in 2019, because major tech companies are investing in helping to make these devices universally applicable as the way in which we interact with the rest of our technology.

In fact, the coming future.

We are there, gang.

Everything, Stu,

you remember the crazy days back in the 90s when I would talk about this stuff and it was really truly science fiction.

It was science fiction.

It was a prediction from people like Ray Kurzweil

of where we were headed in the very near future.

And when you said very near future, it seemed like it was a long way away.

You know, it was 2020, 2030, this would begin to happen.

And

I've been telling you since 2016, I started to get very, very specific that our jobs are going to be in danger.

Our jobs are going to be in danger because things like AI will be able to take jobs away from people.

This is why

when I've ever spoken of universal basic income,

I have not dismissed it.

out of hand as un-American.

Universal basic income, as it's been debated,

is wrong, and I do not think it's an answer for anything.

I think it will only cause more problems.

However, what I have said is we have to discuss something

because what's going to happen is these tech companies like Microsoft,

Google, and others, they will start to

create things that take the jobs.

You won't be able to have a job.

And, you know, if you think that

creative jobs, well, I have a creative job.

It will take your creative job.

It can already write and perform vocally and with instruments any style of music, and you have no idea you're listening to an algorithm.

No idea.

Humans are not involved.

Try Chap G DPT.

Ask it anything.

And you can't tell that you're not

in an interaction, really, with a machine.

It is so far beyond a Google search.

These things are going to impact everything.

For instance, Microsoft is now working on releasing an, I guess it's an app or a system that you say, I want to develop a website, and you tell the AI, and it will develop it for you.

Already images can be

produced using AI.

You describe what you want to see and it might in 10 seconds come up with a hundred different images that could be photorealistic

and

80 of them might suck.

10 of them might be eh.

but five of them might be really good.

This is only going to get better and better and better and better.

So, now what do we do?

Are you comfortable

with

your brain waves being taken?

Remember, they just told you that they can get your pin code.

Your pin code.

It's not a bunch of useless data.

They can get down

into everything.

Now,

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if you remember, and I don't know how many people do, there was a story out of China where factories are starting to

force their workers to wear hats.

And these hats have this wearable technology in it that this woman was just speaking about.

Now, this story came out two, maybe three years ago, and it monitors the brainwaves, and they can see who's paying attention and who's not.

It also can give them like a little electric shock if they happen to not be paying attention.

And

it's a little freaky because the corporations know everything about these people.

And remember, the corporations are in a public-private partnership with the government.

When she says to this group at Davos, are you ready for

wearable technology to scan brain waves?

The crowd is kind of mixed.

You hear kind of like, no, not really.

But she's talking to the elite.

They're not going to be the ones in the office.

They're going to be the ones monitoring everybody's brain waves.

This is why this is so dangerous to be discussed only with the elites.

They are deciding right now what kind of technology they will be using to keep us in line and to keep us productive.

And

you're going to have a hard time getting a job if you don't want this technology.

These are the things that

are right here, right now.

There's two things I want you to know.

I'm writing a new book.

In fact, it's just in final edit and going to the printer.

I'm writing a part two of The Great Reset where it covers a lot of technology.

And we're also going to be doing a documentary film, hopefully, by the end of the year

on

technology.

This is the thing that you have to be prepared for.

You have to understand what's coming.

And speaking of what's coming, the World Economic Forum also said a massive global cyber attack is coming within the next two years.

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All right, let me talk a little bit about a book that I read years and years ago, and I have recommended it to so many people.

I think it is truly, at this point,

maybe one of the most important books that you can read to

shake the dust off your brain and

to make your brain a little more nimble and understand what we are truly

if we have an attack on the United States.

And I want to talk to you about this because it is all about technology.

There was a book that was written years ago called One Second After.

It is such a powerful book.

Now there's, and I just found this out the other day, a couple of weeks ago, there was a follow-up one year after and five years after is being written right now.

And it is also in development to be either a TV series or a mini series.

If this was done like

they did

the day after

when I was growing up in the 80s, this would stun the American people as much as that did, if not more, because the death toll is off the charts.

One second after revolves around an

EMP, which shuts down everything.

It fries all electronics, and it's not an easy fix.

You don't fix it right away.

It goes on and on, and

about 90% of the population will die.

within the first year.

I think it's 80 or 90, but the guy who knows is William Forsgen, who is with us now.

He is the author.

Bill, I don't know if we've ever talked to each other before, but I am a huge fan of your book.

Oh, good morning, Glenn.

You sound like you have a bit of a cold, actually.

Yeah, we

talked several times right after the book came out.

Okay, okay.

It's been a long time.

I'm just going to start reading one year after and then five years after.

I wanted to talk to you, however, not about EMP, because you are one of the leading experts in not just EMP, but also cyber attacks.

And I'm very concerned that we are not paying any attention at all, not just as a government, but as people.

We have no idea what a war with Russia would at least start as a massive cyber attack.

Can you get into the details of how likely and what that would mean to the American people to have a major cyber attack on our electrical grid and our infrastructure?

Well, great question to start with.

Ace one, just within the last couple of months, maybe you recall in Washington State and also twice in North Carolina,

somebody shot up the substation.

All you need is a high-power rifle.

Shoot out the transformers.

And about 100,000 people went without power.

Doing a cyber attack on a national level or an international level, you could call it an asymmetrical first strike.

In regular terms, that means if you can successfully initiate a cyber attack on the United States, you've essentially decapitated our command.

Our grid shuts down.

What do we do next?

And this is really akin, like in the 1940s, something that was not understood because World War I was the first time we used planes and they weren't the same at all.

It was the opening salvo, and we've seen this in Afghanistan and Iraq, is planes flying in and dropping bombs to disrupt the infrastructure.

You don't need to do that anymore, right?

Not at all.

You know, you and I grew up during the Cold War,

the whole thing of mutual assured destruction, like in the movie The Day After.

Correct.

They launched a bunch of missiles at us.

We launched a bunch of missiles at them.

Endgame, nobody wins.

An asymmetrical first strike is just to throw several weapons above the United States to do an EMP.

or even doing cyber.

Just a bunch of people sitting at councils over in Russia someplace, and they blow out key parts of our grid and shut it down.

We are extremely vulnerable to that.

Just last month, I was meeting with the South Carolina Energy Consortium.

These were all the executives for the whole power grid in South Carolina.

They told me repeatedly this was their number one concern.

that we will undergo a cyber attack and we're blinded.

Because

think about

what isn't dependent on electricity.

That's where we come up with

that year, 80 to 90% of Americans could very well die, you know, post-major cyber attack or an EMP strike.

So when you look at a, I know an EMP just fries everything.

A cyber attack, we're used to seeing, you know,

that come back online right away there's a problem but we're talking about possible cyber attack of our critical infrastructure how long would it take if it's done right

i mean how long does it take to get that back online

okay uh doe report from about five years ago indicated that the average component in our electrical system is up to 40 years old we're running a 1970s 1980 electrical infrastructure.

Very vulnerable.

Now, take those huge transformers that you see occasionally on the highway, you know, these things as long as a

trailer.

To replace one of those from the time you place an order where the electrical company says we need a new one until you stick it in and put it online takes up to two years.

And guess where they're manufactured?

Oh, my gosh.

China.

Yes.

Yes.

Do you think that's a good question?

So wait, so wait.

Do you, when they do a cyber attack, can it destroy those or is it just destroy the software?

It destroys both software and potentially can destroy hardware as well.

It doesn't take too much.

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.

Yes, it's terrifying.

Why do you think I stay up at two in the morning staring at the ceiling?

Oh, and

I will

I will tell you,

once you start to look into how vulnerable we really are, I mean, it's like talking about the just-in-time

supply chain.

It's great, but you talk to somebody prior to COVID, you'd explain to them, no, you don't understand.

If there's a massive disruption, it's over and you're not getting it back.

And nobody would understand.

Now they're beginning to understand, but this is so much bigger.

Explain one of the things that you put in your book, One Second After,

is

the layout of how people die and why people die over a year.

And it's things you just don't think about.

Without electricity, you know, people who need insulin, it's over.

Can you go through some of those things?

Sure.

Okay, let's, I call it a Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Remember, we learned that in school, you know, that we need oxygen and food.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's say the fundamental building block of our society is electricity.

We're not even really aware of it anymore.

Okay, here's how it would go.

Let's say we shut things down just for a month.

Day one, where are you going to get your water?

You know, in a major city, where are you going to get your water?

Simple drinking water.

It's going to be out within a day.

Medication.

And even if you have, I thought immediately, well, I have a well, but unless I have my own energy, that well's not working.

Exactly.

You start with water first.

Look at what happened in Sandy in New York, 2012.

Within a day, lines were around the block at McDonald's with people waving $100 bills.

I'll buy some burgers.

Sorry.

We can't take credit cards anymore.

And even then, we're out.

So water first, food and medication next.

Think of a nursing home that has been cut off for just three days with no medication.

The care for patients, the terrible suffering that will happen within a matter of days.

And then, of course, command and control.

Within how many days will the city start descending into looking like Chicago 24-7?

It will just, it will just be

72 hours, is my guess, is when it starts to get really bad all over the country.

All right, William, I'd love to have you come out and do a podcast with me because

there is so much to discuss.

But I want to leave the audience with one thing.

Didn't Donald Trump

commission a study on our infrastructure and then have to have them report and then fix these things.

Didn't that happen?

Grent, you might have had to hit your delete button because I'm about to go Tourette's syndrome on this.

Yes.

Donald Trump,

a good friend, okay, very close friend of mine is Newt Gangrich.

We've done some books together.

Newt also says this is the number one concern.

About three months before the end of the Trump administration, Trump mandated all our major different federal federal agencies, DOE, DOD, Homeland Security, were to set out a blueprint of what we have to do.

They were to report to him about three months after they thought he would be reelected.

He was not.

Biden came in on day one,

Biden dropped the whole thing.

So we're spending a trillion dollars on green energy.

We're not spending a dime on preparing our infrastructure for a possible strike.

Unbelievable.

Or even just to make it happen.

Unbelievable.

So we'll have a lot of wind though.

We have.

Yeah.

But nothing to get it to your house.

The last thing is,

the last thing is on

these power stations that you see sitting on the side of the road, and it's protected by chain-link fences.

We've already had some of them shot at.

And it's my understanding that if nine go down, it could bring down the entire grid.

Is that true?

Absolutely, yes.

Again, in that conversation with the Carolina Energy Consortium, they said nine to twelve key infrastructure nodes, take those out either from a direct physical attack, from terrorists, or even screwing them up with cyber issues.

You take those down, and then the whole grid will just start to cascade down, one after another.

Relays going off, systems going off, and then we're sitting in the dark, and we don't know what the heck to do next.

William Fortune is

you need to read one second after if you haven't, read that book to get an understanding of what's coming.

That's an EMP, but we are now looking at something we never even considered airplanes flying into buildings until we did, and we had to.

And this is much easier to pull off.

And the World Economic Forum is predicting that it will happen globally within the next two years.

William, thank you very much.

We will talk to you again.

And again, you're invited for a podcast.

Our producers will reach out.

I hope you can do it.

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Well, I hope you're getting prepared.

I hope you have your party hats.

I hope your tree is going up right now because the White House is planning to end the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency on

right around the corner, May 11th.

Just May 11th.

And you might say, you mean May 11th, 2020?

No.

No.

2021?

No.

No.

2022?

No.

We're going May 11th, 2023.

And I think it's just right on time.

Could it possibly be

more timely for the Biden administration to nail this one?

Getting rid of this is just incredible.

Now, of course, it's going to affect all sorts of funding things, and this is why they've, a big part of the reason why they've kept this in place the entire time.

You can speculate as to what the other reasons are, but yes, it is only a few months away, and that's really going to be life-changing.

I know so many people are living their lives as if we're under a COVID pandemic emergency right now.

Every once in a while, you're out in a store, you see someone with like nine masks on, you're like, wow, there are still people really doing this.

But most of us have moved on to the place where we don't want to get sick.

We'd like to avoid it.

But that's not the real world right now.

This is not COVID emergency land, despite what the president says.

He doesn't dictate these timelines.

The American people do, and he's learned this over and over again.

888-727-BECK is our phone number.

Glenn's going to join us back here in just a second.

And Rand Paul is going to be here as well, someone who's fought very hard against the restrictions of covet and so many other things back to him next actually we're having so many technical difficulties today it's been a bizarre experience trying to do the show today uh and people uh you know it's it's it's easy to uh to to laugh at people in texas and say hey you guys aren't you guys the tough guys the guys that are supposed to be able to get through everything you know the uh independent types and then you know an inch of ice hits the ground and we all shudder like we're the most northeastern liberals you'll ever ever imagine.

So we'll get into that here in a moment.

At least the northeastern liberals will drive to work in the ice, but not here.

We'll come back to here in just a second.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

It's the Glenn Beck program live from Texas, a state that

normally can get through some of the weather, but not right now.

The whole area is shut down.

It's a little cold and there's a little bit of ice outside.

So we're going to sit here and we're going to push our way through it here.

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I'm at my home right now as we push through and get you through what's going on in the world.

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We're right to the ed of the COVID emergency.

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We'll get into that here on the Glenn Beck program.

So

I'm fascinated to see how all of this has played out because it hasn't played out the right way.

I think we can all kind of figure out that this should have gone another way about a hundred different times.

We all understand where we were in March, April, May of 2020.

We understand that it was an uncertain time at some level.

We saw really crazy stuff happening overseas.

People are being welded into their apartments in China, which is just slightly out of step with their normal lives.

Usually they're taking them and putting them, you know, minorities behind prison walls.

They decided instead to take their average citizens and weld them into their homes because they might have a virus and this virus of course there were times at the very beginning when you didn't know what it was and it was all over the news and people were being welded into apartments where you can understand people freaking out maybe they made some wild decisions maybe they reacted in a way they shouldn't have

And that's something that I think we can all understand and at some level have some grace for.

But, you know, especially when it got to the point where a place like Italy, which is a little bit different than China, has a little bit closer connection to maybe Western view of the world and freedoms.

And then, you know, all of a sudden they're shutting down Italy and it's a little bit weird.

And then you're watching an NBA game and they just, you know, decide not to play it with a full stadium and everyone cancels the games and South by Southwest gets canceled and the Final Four gets canceled.

I mean, it was a weird time.

Okay, I get it.

We had a situation that was very, very strange.

And not one that I think most Americans were

competent to just deal with on a day-to-day basis.

People, we weren't used to that.

We were told that this was over.

We were told that this wasn't going to happen.

Just like we've been told that inflation wasn't going to happen and that a housing collapse wasn't going to happen and so many other things weren't going to happen.

And then they seem to happen over and over again.

The black swan event seems to be more white swan these days.

It's really common.

But that is kind of how we started this thing off.

And some of those early moments you could understand.

Obviously, President Trump was the president at the time.

And he, you know, look, kept.

Anthony Fauci employed his entire rest of his administration.

You know, there are plenty of questions.

I know President Trump was out criticizing Ron DeSantis about how

he closed down his state for a while.

There were some GOP governors who didn't have any closings.

DeSantis had some, although they were minor on the scale of the country.

That's going to be a point of criticism from Trump to DeSantis.

I'm sure when DeSantis gets in this race, which I do think he will, he will be firing back on the other side of this and talking about the times where Donald Trump fell down.

Maybe he was too restrictive.

I mean, you know, it's not that long ago that Donald Trump was criticizing Governor Kemp in Georgia for opening up too quickly, opening up too broadly.

That whole era

is a mess, and there's tons of stuff that needs to be revisited and looked at really carefully, mainly to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

Accountability is really important, of course.

But even more important than that is to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

It's one of the reasons why we focus so much on these lawsuits that have wound their way through the courts.

Lawsuits where a church was shut down in the middle of the pandemic, what weren't allowed to have people come and worship.

I mean, that is just straight out, blatantly a First Amendment violation in my mind.

And the courts have generally sided with that.

But a lot of times, what we have are situations where, you know, a state, a blue state, puts on some crazy restriction.

And, you know, the time passes, they remove the restriction, and then we we don't go back and revisit it.

We don't go back and look at these things and say, wait a minute, that was wrong, and we need to get it, you know, through the courts to make sure that everybody knows it can't happen next time.

Because look,

a pandemic is something that is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

We had multiple other pandemics that have happened and hit us, not to the scale of COVID or 1918, but

once in 100 years, is it really the right

summary of what we have?

We have much more travel now.

We have international travel.

We have people passing these things all around to each other.

Not to mention, we should point out, we still have labs across the world working on things like gain of function research.

That's still a thing.

You know, if you go back, you can see

the timeline of this.

You know, it was something that

health officials and scientists wanted to do, and there's some reason to understand why you'd want to do it.

But it's just too risky.

So the Obama administration bans the funding of this, federal funding, back in, I think it was 2014, saying, wait a minute, this might be a little too risky.

We shouldn't do this.

And what's funny about that is they didn't ban the process.

There was no movement.

globally to ban the process.

There was no attention from Congress to actually pass a law law to ban

this process.

It was just like, hey, we won't fund this.

We won't send any of your tax dollars to this.

Important, sure, but not the end of the game.

And then you have that winding through as the very end of the Obama administration, there was the inkling they were going to lift this ban.

It was actually lifted during the Trump administration.

And, you know, fast forward a couple of years, all of a sudden we got COVID.

Now, we don't know for sure where this came from.

We don't know for sure that it was a result of gain of function research, but there's a lot, a lot of circumstantial evidence that would point in that direction, especially as

it

ties to these labs in Wuhan.

So, we go through this whole process,

and we still have

gain of function research being done around the world.

This is not something that has been banned.

You'd think a rational reaction to this was like, okay, we don't even know for sure that gain of function research was

the culprit here, but there's obviously a pretty straight path to this being the culprit.

Let's just all say we take a breather on this, take a little break.

Well, some of the funding has dried up for it, but it's still going on in private institutions, and certainly it's going on in places like China and Russia.

And so, and you're never going to be able to ban it there.

So, we should expect another pandemic.

We should expect another one of these things to happen eventually.

And who knows, it could be a lot worse.

We do know, obviously, most overwhelming percentage of people who got COVID, even in the worst times, were able to survive it.

Unless you were in a high vulnerability group, that was

a different situation for a lot of people.

But still, the overwhelming majority, in fact,

almost everybody was able to survive it.

They may have had negative effects.

They may know someone who was affected and did not make it through.

That's the story of a lot of people.

The idea that we're not going to have another one of these things in our lifetimes, you know, look, it's probable that we will.

Maybe we'll be under control like SARS and MERS were, but there's been plenty of these things.

You remember the bird flu.

You remember the swine flu.

These things are breaking out, and you never know when they're going to break like this.

The point is, we now have this experience where we went through COVID.

We were able to look at this and say, hey,

we saw the reaction of the world.

It was not sane.

So let's solve this now.

So the future, we have these guidelines.

I mean, that's essentially what the Constitution is.

The Constitution is basically a document that outlines what our founders felt.

And they said, hey, we've been trying this this way a bunch of years here.

And I know everyone loves the whole king thing.

That's been working out great for everybody.

But like, we've decided we don't like that anymore.

And we know when a situation pops up, when there's going to be something that is challenging for our country, We know what people's instincts are.

We know for generations and generations and generations what people do in these situations.

Number one, they look to some centralized authority to tell them what they need to do, what they should do, what is demanded by the king or the dictator.

And secondarily, what people did for generations, centuries beforehand, was to basically go along with it.

They might not have liked it.

They may have at times revolted.

but generally speaking, what societies did was say, Hey,

I'm going along with this.

This is life.

The king tells us what to do, we go along with it.

Well, we broke off from that pattern here in America.

And we said, Hey, let's come up with a couple of documents, principles that are clear, that are inalienable,

that can

guide our future response to every challenge that our society can face.

Challenges like a pandemic.

And, you know, to me, quite clearly, one of the things that we say in that document is you can't close down a church really for any reason.

If people, I mean, if they're murdering people out back, sure, you can, if they're violating other

rights,

life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

If they're violating the life thing, yeah, you can shut them down.

But generally speaking, if people want to go and

they're not murdering people, sacrificing them in the back room, you pretty much need to let them do what they need to do.

That's a really important fundamental principle, and it was ignored during COVID.

Your freedom of movement, your freedom to earn a living, your freedom really of everything.

I mean, I'm sitting here in Texas where

when a bit of water falls from the sky and it gathers on the ground and then it gets cold below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, We call that ice.

And most societies in our country are like, okay, well, I'll drive a little slower.

Here in Texas, it shuts down.

It's like COVID-19 today.

It's like we're in March 13th, 2020 here in Texas today.

Nobody goes out.

Nobody moves around.

I haven't seen one car pass by.

That's just not,

we're not equipped for this.

We're not equipped for this life down here.

We have no sand trucks.

We have no salt trucks.

We got nothing.

So we just kind of all sit around and wait for God to turn the temperatures around.

That is what we do.

And he'll eventually do it.

It'll be a couple days, probably, but he'll do it.

Society, though, shuts down here right now.

And generally speaking, it's by choice.

But we can't get to a situation where we allow the central government to have this sort of power.

And it's important to go through these lawsuits to reverse this.

The reason I bring all this up is because the White House is now planning to end the COVID-19 national emergency.

And if you think, wait a minute, we have a COVID-19 national emergency still,

yes.

It's supposed to be ended on May 11th.

We'll see if that actually happens.

May 11th, 2023, by the way, is the date on that.

Not May 11th, 2020.

You know, I joke about Texas, but on May 1st, 2020, I was out at a restaurant with my family.

committing the ultimate sin of indoor dining.

The next next day, my wife and I went out again to a restaurant on May 2nd, 2020, and on May 3rd, 2020, my daughter and I went out to breakfast on an indoor dining in 2020.

And mainly it was because our house had become completely insane.

I mean,

six weeks of lockdown was more than my family was equipped for.

We're not very tough, as I say.

I'm not a native Texan, so

I don't claim to be tough.

But the fact that this national emergency is still on, not on May 11th, 2020, but on May 11th, 2023, shows how out of control this can get.

I mean, this is a story in Pennsylvania, if you go back many years, there was a big flood.

I think it was the late 1800s, and it really destroyed a community.

They decided to put a very minimal, temporary tax to make the rebuilding happen.

That way, it was the Jonestown floods.

And

they put this tax in.

And

they then extended it a little bit.

Then they kind of added a little bit.

And then they they moved it over to the general fund.

And guess what?

If you live in Pennsylvania, guess what tax you're still paying today?

And in fact, it's been hiked several times since the initial flood tax.

It's still in effect today.

Over 100 years later, over 130 years later, it's still in effect today.

This is what these governments do.

They will happily put together a national emergency because that gives them powers they didn't have before.

And who doesn't want powers that you didn't have before?

That's what government wants.

This is all,

despite the fact that we now are looking at the results of this emergency spending and realizing so much of it was wasted.

And we knew this at the beginning.

This isn't a surprise.

We weren't sitting around saying, I think this time they're really going to nail it.

We all said this at the beginning.

I remember I did a show back in, I don't remember when it was, April 2020, saying like, hey, guys, we're spending an awful lot of money on COVID.

Is this, shouldn't we stop doing this like immediately?

Isn't this wrong?

Shouldn't we stop?

That was like before the second batch of spending.

We've since had five or six more batches.

We've spent multiple trillions of dollars justified on this.

I think it's five or six trillion dollars we've spent on this, not to mention all of the extenuating circumstances applied to Fed spending, which is out of control.

We're now learning that $5.4 billion in COVID aid may have gone to firms using suspect social security numbers.

They're saying

this comes from the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, or PRAC.

Yes, PRAC.

PRAC offered the estimate in an alert issued to the Washington Post.

Republicans are holding their first hearing this week to study the roughly $5 trillion in federal stimulus aid approved since spring 2020.

And if you're thinking to yourself, wait a minute, they haven't been looking at this the whole time.

No.

Republicans are going to come in now that they have power in the House and say, hey, we're going to look at this spending.

Seems like $5 trillion.

there's probably some problems in there we should figure out who uh took advantage of the system

and who didn't you know there's some spending programs involved in the covet situation where they just gave out money without getting even the most basic paperwork from people people could apply for grants claiming they had lost money in their business or whatever and

they didn't have to prove that they had a business.

This money went out and it was a full grant.

So when they realized later on, oh, these people didn't even have businesses, they didn't even have a mechanism to claw it back from these people because the way the system was set up was free cash for everybody.

Just ask for it.

Now, part of me thinks to myself, why didn't I know about this at the time?

I spent a lot of money on taxes, and maybe I should have been out there like claiming every single thing from the government, just been like, hey,

my

corn harvesting business is having troubles.

Can you send me $50,000 for my corn harvesting?

Because I need to harvest more corn, whatever it was.

We should have maybe just, maybe this is the answer.

We just get on board with this stuff.

We're going to go bankrupt anyway.

Our money's not going to be worth anything anyway.

Might as well grab it right now.

The suspected wave of grift targeted two of the government's most generous emergency initiatives: the Paycheck Protection Program, known as PPP, and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan, dubbed IDL.

So we've got, just if you're keeping track of the acronyms at home, PRAC, PPP, and IDL.

IDL is a good name for it.

It's EIDL, but it mainly hit people who weren't doing anything.

So IIDL actually works relatively well.

This is all started under the former president, managed under the Small Business Administration.

$1 trillion in loans and grants were supposedly aimed to help cash-strapped companies stay afloat during all of this crisis.

But the money also served as a wellspring for criminal activity.

This is a shock to me.

Malicious actors took advantage of the SBA and its poor oversight to bilk Washington out of seemingly massive sums.

In the latest example, PRAC, found that the SBA, now we're up to the SBA as well, so we've got SBA, PRAC, PPP, and IDLE.

In the latest example, PRAC found that the SBA failed to prevent a wave of applications from collecting federal money using suspects' social security numbers.

And that's not all.

Because you think to yourself, okay, well, we spent these trillions of dollars.

At least people

were helped.

At least everyone, you know, got to live in their houses and keep their, you know, some level of their lifestyle.

Of course, we're also finding out that utilities shut off power to nearly 6 million people during the pandemic.

So we spent trillions and trillions of dollars, and a lot of that money went to people who didn't deserve it at all, who gave false information information to the government.

In addition to that, millions of people had their utilities shut off.

Like,

we couldn't get the money to the right places

over and over again, both on the grift side and on the people who really needed it side.

This is, of course, why the government is terrible at this stuff and should just never even attempt it.

There's some argument for very early spending in the pandemic.

We all know that.

However, they're talking about 86% of these shutoffs coming from just 12 companies from October or from 2020 to October 2022.

And these companies are now going to become the villain.

When, look, they may very well be villainous.

We'll have to look into that.

And hopefully the Republicans are going to do that.

But we have to also understand that every single time the government tries this crap, this is the result.

This is what happens every single time.

This is how this all works.

This is how society works.

When you fund a centralized authority filled with people, unafraid of losing their jobs for performance reasons, unafraid of what could happen to them.

They're not running for election next time.

These are people who, you know, many of them do their best.

There's a lot of good people working in government, of course, but the incentive structure is not set up to make this

work well.

And, you know, when you fund trillions of dollars in spending, even if it's military spending, if it's spending on a pandemic program like this, you have to expect massive amounts of fraud, massive amounts of incompetence,

massive amounts of problems in every single direction.

People who should be helped, that won't be.

People who shouldn't be helped that will be.

It's just a cataclysm, a non-stop catastrophe.

And it's wondering why we keep trying it over and over again.

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It's Stu in for Glenn, who's,

I don't know, his house is surrounded by ice now.

I think he's iced in.

No internet can get in or out.

If you remember the movie Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner, where eventually the spiders started attacking the house and they enveloped the entire home in a giant web.

That's pretty much what happened except with ice.

And that's what Glenn is dealing with right now.

So I'm going to take you here to the end of the program.

888727BECK is the phone number.

And I was going through...

As I was home yesterday, and we're going to be home for a couple days, it looks like, here in Texas with their weather issues,

I was going through an old computer trying to clean it all up and get it ready so the kids could use it for school stuff.

And

I came across a graphic from 2016 that I had saved on the desktop.

And it was this graphic, I think it was from like 538.

And it was a,

it looked like basically five circles set up

like the Olympic rings, kind of layered over each other.

And each one was labeled something different.

It was like, you know, moderate,

America-first,

libertarian, socially conservative.

I don't remember what all five categories were, but they were all five ways to break apart Republican thought and right-leaning thought.

And then they had plotted all, I don't know, 20 candidates running in 2016 for this nomination.

And, you know, you've got Trump is on there.

And, you know, you remember the Trump and Cruz and who's a guy, Kasich from Ohio, and you had kind of some of the people who wound up at the end, and then you have a bunch of people you can't even remember that these people actually run campaigns.

Like, I don't even remember this.

And what struck me about this is there's a new sort of analysis about looking toward 2024 where they're starting to think that 2024 might wind up shaping up more like the 2000 Republican primary, where

you had George W.

Bush and John McCain, a few other people who were in there representing different factions.

You had Steve Forbes, for example, who ran and kind of was running basically a main one-issue campaign on the flat tax.

You had other people in the race, but generally speaking, it was a two-person race.

It was ended pretty quickly.

I believe, if my memory serves,

Bush or McCain won every state in that primary.

And of course, George W.

Bush wound up winning it, going on to serve two terms.

The landscape right now, at least this is how a lot of analysts are looking at this, they're saying, hey, this looks like the same type of thing.

You'll have Trump, you'll have DeSantis, and then you'll have some other people who jump in the race running for their little factions, but don't really have a chance of winning.

We'll see if that's how this plans out.

But

you can see how this is playing out because of how the DeSantis derangement syndrome is now rising to the top of the media.

Along with, of course, the healthy scoop that you'd expect of the Trump derangement syndrome that will never go away, the DeSantis derangement syndrome is now in effect as well.

And

it kind of pops his head up in a bunch of different ways.

You, of course, just get the typical, actually, Trump was bad, but DeSantis will be worse type of analysis, which, you know, is just,

I mean, not only does it disregard everything they said about Trump, where they said he was this unique threat for, you know, five years, but also is just like, not really based on anything.

It's more vibes, right?

They just don't like him now because they think he might win.

So they have to say he's really bad.

And they have to convince people who might, you know, because there's that dangerous middle for Democrats right now and the media where they look at,

and this is not necessarily how it's going to play out, but this is how they are predicting it may play out.

They're saying, hey, Donald Trump, obviously a unique personality, and there was a good chunk of people who would consider voting for Republicans, who just didn't like Donald Trump and wouldn't vote for him.

Say what you want about that mindset, but it certainly does exist.

It showed up most prominently among suburban women

in the polls.

But could Ron DeSantis solve that problem?

Or on the other

way the media looks at this, could Ron DeSantis make that problem worse for us?

We were counting on suburban women for the rest of our lives, and now what if they like Ron DeSantis?

That will be terrible.

That's certainly the way they're looking at it.

And I think it's also manifest in

the way they're covering a lot of his policies, DeSantis' policies in Florida.

For example, this whole education debacle that's going on.

I had Stanley Kurtz on last night.

He's from National Review.

He really broke this story back in September of

this

course.

that was in Florida or proposed to go through Florida, where

it was supposed to be about teaching about African-American studies.

And, you know, you're going to study the history of the African-American in the United States.

Who wouldn't want that?

You want to study slavery?

Absolutely.

You want to study racism?

Absolutely.

Those things should be studied.

But what shouldn't be studied is crazy critical race theory,

socialist principles dressed up

as

African-American studies.

And even to the point, as Ron DeSantis pointed out the other day, what we're seeing, he said, quote, there's a course on black history, and what are the one of the lessons

about queer theory.

Now, who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory?

And he went on to explain that this is actually in the course.

Stanley Kurtz got this back in September and actually saw this in here and tried to expose it.

Didn't get much

attention back then.

Eventually, this has come out, and finally, it has been fully

pushed back now by the DeSantis administration.

And of course, this is one of the things you have to deal with if you're on the left.

This is unfortunate if you're on the left.

It ruins your little plan if you're on the left.

But if you want government schools, which I personally don't want, I don't want them at all.

I don't think we should have,

I'd prefer a world in which everyone had a private education.

That is my world.

I understand that I'm not in the majority on that.

I don't want public school at all, but you know who does?

The left.

The left really wants public school.

And here's what happens when you have a public school.

The people in charge

at the government level get to decide how those schools operate.

That's why I oppose it.

It's one of the things I don't like about public school.

That's one of the things the left loves about it when their people are in power.

And for so long, they have had this wonderful game they've been able to play on everybody.

And this, you know, Republicans are big players in this as well.

They've decided,

well,

sure,

government schools are going to exist, and we're going to embrace that as people on the right.

This has been the argument.

But when government is in charge of deciding what goes on at these schools, we're going to just abdicate that responsibility.

We're not going, the trustees of these schools, the high-level people, we're just going to name our buddies, we're going to name our donors, we're going to put people in there without expertise, and we're not really going to push back against what happens in these schools at all, despite the fact that it's our responsibility to deal with them.

So now Ron DeSantis is saying, hey, wait a minute.

You know what we should do?

We have control of this government.

We were elected in his case by almost 20 points.

We should do something about this.

And so he is.

Now, there's

a thread that's gone around, gone wildly viral on the left from a guy, I don't know how to pronounce his name, Judd Legoom.

We'll call him Judd Legoom.

But he's a big lefty.

He got a big presence on Twitter.

And he got over 20,000 likes on this tweet thread talking about education policy in Florida.

And, you know, he says Florida teachers are being held, told to remove all books from their classroom libraries or face felony prosecution.

What?

The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to groom students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

And he posts a clip of the statutory changes and highlights a few words.

He underlines classroom libraries, commits a felony of the third degree, and we are seeking volunteers to assist with vetting and

compiling a website.

That is all in there.

What he doesn't, of course, underline is the fact that what he's saying is all material in school and classroom libraries must be included that are included on the reading list must be, quote, free of pornography

and material prohibited under this particular statute.

Now, free of pornography,

I mean, I'm not an Olympic-level hurdler, but I feel like freeing your classroom library of pornography is a low hurdle to clear.

This is something that we as a society should be able to accomplish.

And, you know, if you're on the fence on something, I don't know, is this hardcore porn?

Is it not?

Maybe keep it out of the classrooms, right?

Like, maybe let mommy and daddy make that decision at home.

Maybe that's not even the right decision, but it's certainly the low hurdle to clear is to keep it out of classrooms.

He goes on to talk about these separate laws that he, I think, mistook to think were one law working together.

It's hard to understand how his analysis kind of goes awry here.

But he says the don't say gay bill prohibits all instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in K-3 classrooms and instruction in other grades that is not appropriate or developmentally appropriate.

But

the law applies to classroom instruction, not library books.

The Stop Woke Act is also limited to classroom instruction.

The teacher training approved by the federal, excuse me, the Florida Department of Education does not inform librarians that don't say gay and stop woke do not apply to library books.

And it goes on to say that it's not going, like the big controversy on the left is that teachers can now not determine for their students what books should be in these libraries.

Instead, it's not Ron DeSantis who makes the decision, but librarians will make the decision.

So now the left is vilifying librarians

over teachers.

It's hard to understand.

He goes on to try to explain it incorrectly, but I wanted to kind of walk you through what the Stop Woke Act, for example, does, because I don't think people even know this.

There's eight steps to it.

Let's go through it real quickly.

So you know what's actually in it.

You might say, oh, well, I know that Ron DeSantis is not trying to stop people from understanding black history or slavery because he's not the Nazi they try to make him out to be.

And that's true.

But understand what is in here.

First of all,

it forces

schools to teach things like slavery.

It actually requires them to do that.

That's an important part of what happens in Florida schools.

And of course, I went to school.

I remember learning about this.

I went to public school, unfortunately.

You probably can tell that by listening to the program every day.

But

here is what is banned on the Stop Woke Act.

Members of one race, color, sex, or

national origin are morally superior to members of another race, color, sex, or national origin.

You can't teach that because of the Stop Woke Act.

You can't say white people are superior to black people.

You also can't say black people are morally superior to white people.

You can't do it.

You can't say men are morally superior to women.

You can't say Catholics are morally superior to Protestants.

You can't say any of that.

Next up, you have an individual by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.

You can't say all white people are racist.

You can't say all black people are racist.

You know, here's a nice handy tip.

You can't assign negative characteristics to people based on skin color.

You can't be, to state it another way, racist.

You can't teach racism as doctrine.

That shouldn't be controversial in this country.

And you know what?

It isn't controversial to people in Florida.

It isn't controversial to people across the country.

It isn't controversial to parents.

This is only controversial to the minds of people on Twitter and people in the media.

What else is prevented by the Stop Woke Act?

An individual's moral character or status is either privileged or oppressed

and is necessarily determined by his race, color, sex, or national origin.

So you can't say, okay, well, because I happen to be white, I'm an oppressor.

Because you happen to be black, you're oppressed.

You can't teach that as doctrine or the other way around.

You also can't teach members of one race, color, sex, or national origin cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race, color, national origin, or sex.

An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, bears responsibility for, or should be discriminated against, or receive adverse treatment because of actions committed in the past by other members of the same race.

So we can't say, hey, slave owners back in the 1700s mean that you, little Billy, in class, get a detention.

We can't do that.

These are basic things.

I mean, there's eight of them, and they all kind of are right on this pathway.

This is simple to understand things.

Don't be an overt racist when you're teaching kids.

That is all this thing requires.

And this is controversial on the left because the left has been, but is also going, completely insane.

This is a major problem that anything like this could possibly be held up as controversial.

And yet our media is telling us that everybody thinks this.

You're in the minority if you don't think it.

If you think people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, you are the problem.

It's not the country that I want to live in.

I won't accept that.

I will not play into that.

I don't think you will either.

And the longer and harder we push back, and thankfully, there are people like Ron DeSantis who are doing this at a government level, the more we push back, the more I think people will realize this stuff is nuts.

We've gone insane as a country, and we need to go back to the right course.

Glenn Back.

Beck.

Dan McLaughlin asked a really interesting question the other day.

How old is Karin Jampir?

How old is she?

I mean, we know her wardrobe costs more than the gross national product of Turkmenistan, but

how old is she?

Now, honestly, if you would have asked me that question just out of the blue without me looking, I probably would have guessed

mid-30s.

I mean, she looks pretty young, and she doesn't seem to have like a super deep

understanding of the world.

I assume she's not in her 20s because just from the, it's the, you know, it's the job.

You're probably not going to get that job in your 20s, though.

I know the Biden administration might do that.

But she's apparently older than that.

She's maybe 47.

And the reason I say maybe is because we don't, we have a bunch of different sources saying a bunch of different things on this.

She was born in Martinique.

She graduated high school in 1993.

She graduated college in 1997.

Public sources seem to be unable to agree on when she was born.

So the New York Times says she's 47.

Caribbean National Weekly says

she's 47.

Wikipedia says she's 47.

However,

others, Business Insider, says she was born in 1977, which would make her 44.

Yahoo News says same thing, August 13th, 1977.

The Washingtonian says she's a 44-year-old.

The Hill says she's 45.

Washington Blade says last year she was 45, so I guess she'd be 46.

Her memoir says it was 1974, so I guess we can assume it's 47 years old, but doesn't it seem odd that we have this many different pieces of information on this really basic thing?

Now I know, as I get older, I start to forget how old I am, so maybe she just has been telling people incorrect information, and honestly, she'll read anything that's in front of her.

So maybe someone just kind of did an anchorman to her and gave her the wrong date.