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Following Lady Gaga's pre-Super Bowl press conference about her "inclusive" performance, the media whipped everyone into a frenzy of anticipation about a musical beat down of President Trump. As we all know, Gaga skipped the politics and launched her performance with a rah-rah American message.
Once again, the media misled us with fake news. But they also missed the most important message in Lady Gaga's presser: How to achieve the American Dream.
Watch the complimentary video above for details.
GLENN: I have to tell you, I -- I'm not a Super Bowl fan. I've always watched it for the commercials and for the --
PAT: You're kidding.
JEFFY: What?
GLENN: And for the -- you know, everybody getting together and having wings and eating your face off and everything else.
I went to bed at exactly the wrong time. Holy cow.
PAT: Yeah, that was quite a comeback.
JEFFY: Yeah.
GLENN: Yeah. Quite a comeback.
But I will tell you, there was the quintessential, only listening to sound bites and letting those sound bites control your life example with Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga -- the whole thing was, Lady Gaga is going to say something about Donald Trump. Lady Gaga is going to say something about Donald Trump. She's going to make an anti-Trump thing.
Well, where did we get that from? Oh, I know. The press. And was it fake news, or did we play into that?
Did we see one sound bite and then say, "Oh, well, of course, she's going to make fun of Trump."
First of all, Lady Gaga has always been about inclusion. That's good one of her things.
JEFFY: Right.
GLENN: So she's always -- there's nothing new there. This isn't the Donald Trump thing. She was saying those things under Obama.
PAT: And, really, all she did -- was there anything beyond the song?
JEFFY: Uh-uh.
GLENN: What do you mean?
PAT: I mean, her statement -- she didn't make any statements about inclusion.
GLENN: No, she made no statement about any --
PAT: She just sang about it. Right?
JEFFY: Right.
GLENN: Last night, she said nothing.
PAT: Right.
GLENN: So all of this came from her press conference, where she said she's for inclusion and equality.
JEFFY: Inclusion and equality. Which she's always been for.
GLENN: She's always been there. Always.
So nothing new to be seen. The press wanted a story.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: And by making up a story about Lady Gaga, they missed one of the best stories from her press conference last week.
JEFFY: Right.
GLENN: Listen to what Lady Gaga said. Forget about inclusion. She said that in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, '15, and last week. But she also said this. Listen.
LADY GAGA: I am going to have to say that the preparation for this show is the show business version of the athlete. We have our own set of criteria that we go through myself, and my dancers have been training for months on this.
For two months, we dedicated our time to creating the story of the show, creating the musical score, and then we created the set, what it would look like. Then we choreographed the actual dance routine. And then we choreographed the pyrotechnics.
Additionally, to all of that, we go through an extensive amount of training so that I can sing and dance at the same time for the show, for 13 minutes.
What I would say is that what you're watching at the halftime show, it's not easy. And I say that because I want young people at home that are watching, when they see it --
GLENN: Listen to this.
LADY GAGA: -- if you have a dream to be something big, you should go for it, but you got to give it everything you've got.
JEFFY: What?
LADY GAGA: You got to wake up, and you got to eat it, breathe it, see it, every second of the day.
And if you do that, you might be lucky enough one day to wake up and be playing the halftime show.
PAT: Amazing.
GLENN: Is that not incredible?
PAT: That's great. That's great.
GLENN: That is exactly -- here's something uniting, she said.
JEFFY: No kidding.
GLENN: And all the press did, on both sides, was work us into a lather that she's going to say something outrageous.
First of all, the only thing Lady Gaga -- I think she's smart enough to realize that the only thing left that is outrageous is someone not being outrageous. I mean, that's the only thing that Lady Gaga can do that's outrageous is not do something controversial.
So we spent all of that time and energy reading those stories, talking about it, talking about before -- is she going to say something? Is she going to say something? She better not say something. I hope she says something.
Instead of concentrating on what she did say, and that is, "If you have a dream, go for it, but you understand, you have to sleep it, dream it, live it, eat it. You have to live it 24/7 and work hard. And then you may be lucky enough --
PAT: You may be.
GLENN: You may be.
PAT: There's still not a guaranteed outcome there.
GLENN: Correct. Correct.
I mean, how great is that --
JEFFY: That's outstanding.
GLENN: Here's somebody telling you how to achieve the American dream. And we missed it because we wanted to talk about politics.
Why? Why are we doing this to ourselves?
Look at the energy. Look at -- look at how they took a sound bite and made you hate Lady Gaga.
Now, you might not like her. You may not even know her. But how many people that don't know her, don't have any idea of who she is, now hate her because of all of the stories that she was so passionate about anti-Trump.
No, she didn't say any of that. She's for inclusion and diversity, which she has always been for.
She spoke out about it under Barack Obama.
PAT: And that's all I heard in the lead-up to her performance.
JEFFY: Right.
PAT: Was how the NFL wasn't going to stop her from saying anti-Trump things. That she intended on making some sort of statement.
GLENN: Where do they get that?
PAT: During the performance, there was nothing. Nothing.
GLENN: You tell me -- you tell me -- you name a rock or pop star that has started the Super Bowl halftime dressed like that, with those expectations, that starts it with the Pledge of Allegiance.
She started it with the Pledge of Allegiance. And Laura Ingraham immediately tweets, "Notice she left out God?" No, she didn't.
I mean, I have TiVo, so I could rewind it. Do you not have TiVo, Laura?
She said "Under God." But had to have something that we hated her for. Why?
Have you seen -- I haven't even seen a country star start the halftime with the Pledge of Allegiance. She started -- not only did she not make an anti-Trump statement, she started the week before with a pro-capitalism, pro-work hard, live your dreams, you just may achieve it message. Then started with the Pledge of Allegiance!
(chuckling)
GLENN: And the flag and fireworks.
PAT: Yeah, but she didn't say that she voted for Trump, so...
GLENN: Yeah, no, she didn't. I mean, it is crazy -- it is crazy what we have turned ourselves into it.
PAT: It is. Yeah, it is.
GLENN: Look at how much time we spent, wasted -- wasted on trying to hate each other. I don't get it. I just don't get it.
I have had such a come-to-Jesus couple of months. I really have. I mean, I -- yesterday, I went to church, and I'm listening to this sermon.
And this preacher -- I went to Watermark Church here in Dallas. And I'm listening to this preacher, Todd Wagner's partner, JP. And he is speaking.
PAT: So Glenn Beck is -- he is leaving the Mormon Church. Glenn Beck is leaving the Mormon Church. He went to Watermark Church over the weekend.
GLENN: Thank you, sound bite. Thank you, sound bite central.
So he's talking about, who are you? Who are you, really?
And I loved it.
He said, "And I don't give me that Jesus jibe. Well, I'm a child of God. Don't. Stop it. Stop it. Way too easy. Who are you?"
And he did this amazing sermon. And it ended with, he saw a movie called Lion. Have you ever heard of the movie Lion?
PAT: I've heard of it recently because of the awards.
JEFFY: The Oscars, yeah.
GLENN: Okay. He said it was fantastic. And he said, it ends with a stat: Eighty thousand people a year -- 80,000 children a year are kidnapped and put into the sex slave trade in India every year. 80,000 children.
He said, he got into the car, and he said, I looked at my wife and I just burst down in tears saying, what am I doing? I'm wasting my life. What am I doing?
Eighty thousand children, and I'm, what? Going to go see this movie. And then I'm going to go home to my house, and I'm going to be comfortable. And then maybe we'll talk about it. And then tomorrow I'll go to church and I'll preach.
What am I actually doing?
I have to tell you, if more of us could have that wake-up call, how much time did America spend last week on either defending or hating Lady freaking Gaga. Gaga is her name! How much time did we spend? How ridiculous -- what are we doing with our life? Our country is burning down to the ground, and we spent our time worried about Lady Gaga, who started her performance with the Pledge of Allegiance.
There couldn't have been a more uniting message than what she presented. Hello.
What do you say we concentrate on bigger things? What do you say we concentrate on real things? What do you say we look at our life and say, "You know what, maybe there's -- maybe there's more to being alive. Maybe there's a bigger responsibility that we all have than politics."
Somebody wrote yesterday -- somebody tweeted to me, "You're just afraid of the war." What?
PAT: What? First of all, what war?
GLENN: What war? What war?
PAT: Yeah, and you're not afraid of a war?
GLENN: Yeah, that was my first thought. Yeah, you should be afraid of war.
PAT: Should be.
GLENN: And what they were implying was the war between the patriots and the progressives. Oh, dear God.
(laughter)
PAT: So we're talking civil war?
GLENN: We're talking civil war. Anybody who is rooting for a civil war is out of their mind. Go read history. Just go look at the pictures of the dead bodies in the field. You're rooting for a civil war?
PAT: Good times, man. The Civil War. Remember those? Those days don't come back. Well, they could. We're trying to make them come back. Good times.
GLENN: Yeah. So rooting for a war. And I said -- and the message was, because they hate us and we must hate them.
My message yesterday on Twitter was, "We all have to remove the hatred in our own heart." That's all that has to be done. Not everybody is going to do it. But you have to remove the hatred in your own heart. You have to remove the willingness to jump to hate or have somebody talk you into hate.
I hate to go to a Broadway show tune, but in South Pacific, there's a great line: You have to be carefully taught how to hate. And it's true. We're not born hating each other. We didn't hate each other ten years ago, 20 years ago, last year. Now, all of a sudden, people who loved each other, all of a sudden hate each other's guts. Can't stand each other.
One side or the other is an absolute enemy. It's not true. It is as true as Lady Gaga is going to say something really controversial. She's going to finally put Donald Trump in her place -- in his place.
Yeah, either that, or she's going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance.
A new report accuses CAIR Action, the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of breaking state laws with its political activism. Glenn Beck reviews this story...
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GLENN: So let me go over what is -- what's happening with -- with CAIR.
You know, the Founding Fathers were obsessed over accountability.
Because they knew one thing. You know, they did. They must get suggestions from people on, you know, through tweets. They studied every single system of government.
Every single republic that survived. That didn't survive.
Why didn't it survive?
They studied all forms of government. They were trying to come up with something that could -- could set people free.
And they -- they worked really hard on putting our checks and balances in place, because they knew, once power slips into the shadows. They knew, once power slips into the shadows, once influence becomes unmoored from law, what rises is not a republic.
It's a machine. And that's what you're seeing right now. We're not living in a republic. We're living in a machine.
We -- I think we're staring at one of the largest unregulated political machines operating in the United States ever! Okay.
There have been a couple of groups that are doing sweeping investigations, two watchdog groups. One of them is NCRI and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.
And they have concluded now that the political arm of CAIR, he known as CAIR action, has been operating nationwide with no legal authority, to do the things it has been doing for years now.
They're not allowed to raise money. They've been raising money. Coordinating political campaigns.
Not allowed to do it. Endorsing candidates. Not allowed to do it, they're doing it. Mobilizing voters, shaping policy, functioning as a national advocacy network.
They don't have the legal authority to do any of it. And no one has said anything.
Now, according to the report, CAIR action doesn't just have a paperwork problem.
Investigators found, state by state, that it lacks the license, the registrations. The charitable authorizations, required to legally solicit money.
Excuse me. Or conduct political activity, in any of the 22 states in which it operates. Think of that!
I know how serious this is, because I remember what it took to get the license in each and every state, for Mercury One.
So we could operate. We could raise money. We could do things in those states. It's a lot of work. And if you don't do it, you go to jail. And they find out pretty quickly.
Okay?
22 states, they operate not one, zero legal authorization.
In Washington, DC, the city where CAIR action is incorporated, the department of licensing and consumer protection told investigators, they have no record of CAIR action ever obtaining the basic business license required to solicit funds or to operate.
Imagine how long would you last in business, especially if you were controversial.
How long would you remain in business, if you never had a business license?
You think somebody would figure that out?
In a sooner time than I don't know. A couple of decades!
This report means, that the organization if true, is engaging in unlicensed inner state solicitation.
It has exposed itself to allegations as serious as deceptive solicitation. Wire fraud and false statements to the IRS. These are big things.
And this is not political rhetoric.
Are these phrases written in black and white. In the law.
And by investigators. In California, one of CAIR's most active hubs. The state attorney general has said, the state attorney general of California has said, same pattern here!
The state of California, to say, yep. That's what's happening here.
CAIR action has never registered with California's charitable registry.
Never filed the required CT1 form. And has no authorization whatsoever to request donations. But they've been doing it in California anyway.
Fundraising, selling memberships. Issuing endorsements. Mobilizing voters. All of that has been done by CAIR action. There's no record of any license. Any permission, ever. Going to CAIR. From California. That's according to their attorney general.
Wow!
That's pretty remarkable, huh? How does that happen?
It's not just the coast. It is also happening to the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West. Every state hosting its own CAIR action fundraising page, complete with the donate now and become a member portal, despite no trace of the legal filings required to operate. That's bad!
Now, here's where the stakes rise.
Because CAIR action presents itself openly, as the political arm of CAIR National.
Investigators are now warning that any unauthorized fundraising or political activity.
Could become CAIR's national responsibility as well.
So, in other words, the parent, CAIR itself, might be held responsible.
Meaning, this is want just a rogue subdivision.
This could implicate the entire National Organization of CAIR.
Now, this is happening at the same time it's coming under national scrutiny. It's also Texas.
And I think Florida have designated the group a foreign terrorist organization. Members of Congress are now asking the IRS, the Treasury, the Department of Education to investigate all of its partnerships, all of its financing, all of its influence operations. I mean, I think they're going to be in trouble.
How long have we been saying this?
But every time, I have pointed out anything about CAIR, I have been called an Islamophobe, which shuts everything down. That is a word, developed by people like CAIR, to shut people down, so you'll never look into them.
So what happens next?
First of all, the reports have to hold up.
Regulators now have an obligation. Not a choice. An obligation to act!
State attorneys general in these 22 states, they might pursue fines, injunctions, criminal referrals.
All of them need to take action!
The IRS, needs to take action. Investigate tax exempt fraud. Treasury Department may review foreign influence or money flow violations.
Anything coming from overseas.
Oh, I can't imagine it. They're so buttoned up, right now.
DC regulators may determine whether CAIR actions entire fundraising operation has been unlawful from the beginning.
But here's the deeper question. And it's not bureaucratic. This one is constitutional.
Can the United States tolerate an influence machine, that operates outside of the legal framework, designed to prevent corruption, foreign leverage, and untraceable money?
If I hear one more time, talking about how AIPAC has just got to be investigated. Fine. Investigate.
I'm not against it.
Investigate.
Why aren't you saying anything about CAIR?
It feels like it might be a tool in the hands of a foreign operation.
Why aren't you saying anything about this?
Because here it is! It's not like, hey. I wonder why.
This is it! This is it! This isn't about silencing CAIR. Muslim Americans are -- that are full citizens, they have every right to speak. Every right to vote. Every right to organize. Participate in public life. No question! They can disagree with me, all they want.
But no organization. None! Not mine. Not yours. Not theirs. None. Should operate a nationwide political network, in the shadows and be immune from all of the guardrails that every other group must follow!
That's called a fourth branch of government!
That's how a fourth branch goes.
By the way, CAIR has placed all kinds of people in our Department of Homeland Security. Et cetera, et cetera. This organization has done it!
This is -- you cannot have a fourth branch of government.
They must abide by the laws.
No -- you can't have a branch that nobody elected. Nobody oversees.
Nobody holds accountable.
We talked about this yesterday, on yesterday's podcast. So what needs to happen is total transparency. CAIR action has to release its filings. Its donor structure. Its compliance records, if they exist. Equal enforcement under the law. I don't want them prosecuted in special ways.
Look, if AIPAC is doing the same thing. AIPAC should be prosecuted exactly the same way.
I want it equal. I want constitutional rule.
If conservatives, if Catholics, pro-Israel, environmental, Second Amendment groups, if they have to comply by the state law, so does CAIR action.
And if CAIR action has to do it, so do the Second Amendment groups and environmentalists, and pro-Israel and conservative groups. The law cannot be selective. It can't be!
I don't know how that's controversial in today's world. But somehow or another, they will find a way.
The Feds have to review all of this. If the report is accurate, the IRS and the Treasury have to determine whether false statements or unlicensed interstate solicitations have occurred.
Americans deserve to know what exactly, who is influencing our elections. Who is shaping our policy? Who is raising money in their state?
Especially physical the organization claims political authority, that it doesn't legally possess.
Because history will teach us one unchanging lesson. When a republic stops enforcing its own laws, someone else will always step in to fill that vacuum because power abhors a vacuum!
Unregulated, political power abhors a free people. So while it's about CAIR, it's not about Muslim Americans. It's not about religion.
As always, at least on this program, we try to make it about the rule of law.
One standard for everyone or no standard at all!
And that more than anything, will determine whether or not our institutions remain worthy of the freedom and responsibility that we have entrusted to them.
America is entering a year of historic upheaval from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the spiritual shock that followed, to Trump’s tariff revolution, China’s rare-earth war, collapsing energy grids, AI displacement, and the looming fights over Taiwan and Venezuela. Glenn sits down with BlazeTV hosts @deaceshow and @lizwheeler along with his head researcher Jason Buttrill, to break down the biggest stories of 2025. Plus, they each give their most explosive prediction for 2026 that could shape our politics, economy, national security, and civil rights in ways Americans have never experienced before.
For nearly a century, Washington DC has been ruled by an unelected “expert class” operating as an unconstitutional fourth branch of government — accountable to no one, removable by no president, and shielded from all consequences. Glenn breaks down why Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commissioner could finally dismantle the 1935 precedent that empowered technocrats, how Ketanji Brown Jackson exposed the Supreme Court’s embrace of expert rule, and why America cannot survive a government run by people who never face the voters and never pay for their failures.
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GLENN: Okay. So President Donald Trump fired the federal trade commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. Federal Trade Commission is an administrative position. I mean, this is under -- the head of the federal trade commission is a cabinet member.
And if the justices uphold Trump's firing of Slaughter, that will overturn a precedent that was horrible, that was set in 1935. Remember, 1935, we're flirting with fascism. You know, everybody thinks. Because they haven't seen the horrors of fascism yet.
Everybody thinks fascism is neat, blah, blah. So what they do is they say that this is an independent person. And the president can't fire them. Because they're, you know, an independent agency.
Well, wait. That would make a fourth branch of government. Our Constitution is really clear.
There is no such thing as a fourth branch of government. Right?
So that's what they're deciding. Now, here is Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is talking about how we really need to listen to the experts. Cut four.
VOICE: Because presidents have accepted that there could be both an understanding of Congress and the presidency. That it is in the best interest of the American people to have certain kinds of issues, handled by experts. Who, and I think you -- in your colloquy, Justice Kagan, have identified the fact that these boards are not only experts, but they're also nonpartisan. So the -- the seats are actually distributed in such a way, that we are presumably eliminating political influence because we're trying to get to science and data and actual facts, related to how these decisions are made.
And so the real risk, I think, of allowing non- -- of allowing these kinds of decisions to be made by the president, of saying, everybody can just be removed when I come in, is that we will get away from those very important policy considerations.
VOICE: We will get away from US policy considerations, and it will create opportunities for all kinds of problems that Congress and prior presidents wanted to avoid, risks that flow inevitably, just given human nature, the realities of the world that we live in.
GLENN: Okay.
Now, remember, what she's saying here is, we have to have experts.
We have to have experts. We have to have experts that don't really answer to anybody. Okay?
They're appointed. And then they're just there. This from a, quote, judicial expert, who cannot define a woman, because she's not a doctor.
She's not a scientist.
She needs an expert to define a woman.
That's how insane her thinking is. Okay?
Now, I would just like to ask the Supreme Court, when you want things run by experts, do you mean things like the State Department, or the counsel of foreign relations, that have gotten us into these endless war wars for 100 years?
Because these are the things that Woodrow Wilson wanted. He wanted the country run by experts.
Okay. So is it like the Council of Foreign Relations, that keep getting us into these endless wars.
Or is it more like the Fed, that directs our fiscal policy, that has driven us into $38 trillion of at the time. We have all powerful banks. That strangely all belong to the fed. And endless bailouts for those banks. Are those the experts that you're talking about?
Or are you talking about the experts that are doctors, that gave the country sterilizations, lobotomies, transgender surgeries. You know, or should we listen to the experts, like the ones that are now speaking in Illinois, to get us death on demand like Canada has, with their MAID assisted suicide, which is now the third largest killer in Canada. MAID, assisted suicide, third largest killer in Canada. Experts are saying, we now need it here, and they're pushing for it in Illinois. Or should we listen to the experts? And I think many of them are the same experts strangely, that brought us COVID. Yeah. That was an expert thing. They were trying to protect us. Because they need to do this for our protection. So direct from the labs in China with the help of the American experts like Fauci. We almost put the world out.
Should we listen to those guys?
Or the experts that brought us masking, and Home Depot is absolutely safe. But Ace Hardware wants to kill grandma. Which are the experts that we want? That we want to make sure that we have in our lives? That they don't answer, or can't be fired by anybody. Because I'm pretty full up on the experts, myself. I don't know.
But you're right. These experts would keep the president in check, and they would keep Congress in check. And you in check!
And the Supreme Court, which would be really great. You know, and you know who else they would keep in check? The people.
So, wow, it seems like we would just be a nation run by experts, and our Constitution would be out the window, because that's a fourth branch!
And if you don't believe me, that, you know, these experts never pay a price. Can you name a single expert?
Give me a name of an expert, that gave us any of the things that I just told you about.
Give me the name. I mean, give me the name of one of them. Give me the name of one of them that went to jail. Give me the name of one expert that has been discredited.
You know, where your name will be mud in this town. Do you know where that came from?
Your name is going to be mud. It's not M-U-D. It's M-U-D-D, that comes from Dr. Samuel Mudd. Okay? He was a docks man. He was an expert. He was that set John Wilkes Booth' broken leg. He made crutches. He let him stay there for a while. He claimed he didn't know him, but he did know him.
In fact, one of the reasons they proved it.
Is because when he pulled the boots off -- when he pulled both of his boots off, right there, in the back, you couldn't have missed it. It said "John Wilkes Booth."
He's like, I have no idea who he was.
Yeah. Well, you knew him in advance. This was a predetermined outpost where he could stay. It's clear you could know him.
The guy was still discredited, we still use his name today. Your name will be mud in this town.
And we think that it's like dirt, mixed with water kind of mud. No, it's M-U-D-D, Dr. Mudd. The expert that was so discredited, went to jail, paid for his part of the assassination of -- of Lincoln.
Give me the name of one of the experts in the last 100 years, that has brought us any of the trials and the tribulations. The things that have almost brought us to our knees. Give me the name of one of them. Can't!
Because once an expert class, they don't answer to anyone. So they never go to jail.
Wow! Doesn't that sound familiar. People never going to jail!
There's a rant that's going around right now, that I did in 2020. And everybody is like, see. He's talking about Pam Bondi.
No, no. I got to play this for you, a little later on in the program. But I want to get to the experts and what the Constitution actually says about that. Because you don't need my opinion. What you need are the actual facts. So you can stand up and say, yeah. I think Ketanji Brown Jackson is an idiot. Okay?
And she's really not an expert on anything. Especially the Constitution. You need the facts, on what the Founders said. Because the Founders would be absolutely against what they did in 1935.
Because that just -- what does it do?
It just sets up a fourth branch of government.
The biggest media merger in modern history is unfolding, and Glenn Beck warns it’s the most dangerous consolidation of power America has faced in decades. With six corporations already controlling 90% of the nation’s news and entertainment, a Warner-Netflix or Warner-Paramount megacorporation would create an unstoppable information cartel. Glenn exposes how “too big to fail” thinking is repeating itself, how global elites and “experts” are tightening their grip, and why handing our entire cultural narrative to a handful of companies is a direct threat to freedom. The hour is late — and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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GLENN: By the way, it's never good when you consolidate power. It's never good.
And what is going on now, with this Netflix Warner Brothers paramount stuff, I don't care if Larry Ellison is a conservative or not.
No one should have that much power.
I did a show, gosh, four years ago. I don't even remember when I did it.
We looked it up. In the 1980s. 19 percent of American media was owned by over 50 companies.
Forty years later, 90 percent of the media is watched and controlled by six companies.
National Amusements, the Red Stone Family controls CBS, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, gaming and internet. Simon & Schuster Books. That's all one.
Disney, ABC, ESPN, History Channel, Marvel, Star Wars, video games and print.
TimeWarner controls CNN, Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, video games, internet, and print media like TIME. Comcast, MSNBC, NBC.
CNBC, Telemundo, the Internet.
New Corp. Fox. National Geographic. Ton of others. Sony, with a ton of movies, music and more. The big six. They're valued at nearly $500 billion.
Now, this is something I put together five years ago. So I don't even know. This is probably not even valid even today.
And now we're talking about Netflix, Warner Brothers. Paramount, into all of these one giant corporation. It's wrong! It's wrong!
We can't keep putting all -- everything into the hands of just a few! It's what's killing us!
We've got to spread this around. We can't -- the government cannot okay mergers like this.
They're big enough he has
What happened -- what happened when the banks went under, or almost went under in '08. What did they say the problem was?
They said the banks are too big to fail.
Too big to fail.
Because they were providing all of the services, everybody needs. All the time. And there's only a handful of them.
So if they fall, then everything falls.
Right?
That was the problem. So what did we do to fix it?
We made them bigger!
We let them merge with other banks, and gobble up other things!
And started taking on the local banks.
And so now, your banks that were too big to fail. Are now even bigger. And their failure would be even worse!
What is wrong with us?
Seriously, we're not this stupid.
We're not this stupid.
I think we're just this comfortable.
We just think the experts have a plan. No. The experts don't have a plan.
Their plan is stupid. Their plan is to make it bigger.
Every time it fails. Make it bigger. Push it up.
Make it more global.
No. Haven't you seen what the entire world is like?
The entire world is over-leveraged. The entire world is on the edge.
The entire world is being redesigned.
So what do we do? We don't allow them to make things bigger! We need to start taking more individual and local control of things. They're making it bigger. Which will make the problem bigger. And make the problem so big, you won't be able to do anything about it, because all the experts. All of the heads. They'll all -- there will be six of them. And they will all be sitting in one room.
And they will all be making the instigations. And with them, making those decisions will be all the heads of all the countries around the world, that you're not going to have a say in any of that. They're already trying to do it with the WEF.
But if -- if the Supreme Court says, no, experts matter. And the president can't fire them. You will not have any control over anything!
We're at this place, where we can back out. We can turn around.
We can do it.
It's not too late. But the hour is growing very late.
I don't know about you, I don't like being this.
Up to the edge, you know what I mean?
I would rather have lots of breathing room, between me and the edge of the cliff.
But we don't have that anymore.
Everything has to be done right.
And we have to pay attention.
And the worst thing we can do is make things bigger.
Dream big, think small.
