Glenn: No more right and wrong, just political agenda

I want to talk to you a little bit about the truth tonight and if it matters, and I want to start with a story that is getting very little play in the mainstream media.

In fact, this is the way it’s reported by the Associated Press, and I just want to give it to you, an incredible story. “Authorities are investigating the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Central Texas who was assaulted by several men, some of whom used cell-phone cameras to record the attack. Court records filed in Austin indicate the girl ran away from home June 29 and was approached by a car with three men inside.

The girl was driven to an apartment about a mile away. Records say up to 10 men were at the apartment, with some taking turns having sex with the girl. She told police that some cheered…Two men have been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Twenty-four-year-old Juan Lozano Ortega and 26-year-old Edgar Guzman Perez were in custody Thursday, each on a $30,000 bond, after being arrested a day earlier.”

That’s the end of the story. That’s all they thought. That’s the best they could do, no other details that they felt were important enough to share because they’ve got other things to do, I guess. But there’s a little bit more to this story. If you take the Associated Press story and throw it out, there’s more, more that you probably should know.

First of all, she was a runaway. Did she run away from her parents? No, she was living in a place called The Settlement Home for Children. The Settlement Home is a place for…it’s a placing agency for foster children, so this isn’t some spoiled brat teenager mad because I didn’t get an iPhone, mom, for my birthday. This is a child who has been rejected her entire life. At 13, she probably understands she’s most likely going to age out of the foster care system in and out of homes, in and out, in an out.

So she runs away from The Settlement Home. She hitches a ride with three men she didn’t know, first mistake. They take her to this nearby apartment complex. The young girl is escorted into an apartment, only to find ten other males inside waiting for her. The next few hours have to be described as hell on earth, thirteen grown men up against one frightened 13-year-old girl, taking turns one after another after another after another.

Demented animals, and they reveled. It was a party for them, taking out their cell phones and recording all of it, one cheering another one on as they viciously raped a helpless 13-year-old girl, a girl with no family, no one really looking for her, no one coming to help, alone in the world, surrounded by men. Well, this gruesome attack goes on for hours and hours, all the way through the night and into the morning.

I just spent time with Elizabeth Smart. She told me when I was out in Utah she didn’t think she would live to see that morning. I’ll be you this 13-year-old girl didn’t think she’d see another sunrise. Well, finally they had enough, and they called off the attack. And one of these animals was kind enough to let her use his cell phone so she could call her foster brother, but her foster brother, not being a brother or a man, refused to help.

So, surprisingly, they had the compassion to drive her to a nearby neighborhood. They kicked her out of the car. They told her you gotta go find someplace else. Go find someplace else to go. She did find someplace else to go. She actually met a woman who brought her to another apartment, another apartment complex where this man was waiting for her.

Unbelievably, this 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted yet again in the same 24 hours asking someone for help. Well, of the 13 attackers in the first attack, these two have been arrested. What the AP and the rest of the media haven’t bothered to point out is that these two and the other 13 appear to be all of them illegal immigrants. The others are still at large. Where is the outrage? Where’s Al Sharpton? Where’s Barack Obama?

Shouldn’t the president give a speech and say something like this girl could have been my daughter, after all, my daughter is just turning 14? Boy, he could give that speech, couldn’t he? How about the speeches on the dangers of letting illegals live in the shadows? How about the speeches of let’s just be good to each other? Where are the marches – no justice, no peace?

It’s not going to happen, because see, nobody really actually cares about people anymore. It’s really only about politics. It’s not about Trayvon Martin. They had to make him look like a little 13-year-old boy when he wasn’t. Why? Because it would help them get elected or reelected or get them to cause trouble or get them to get more power. But you see, this little 13-year-old girl, you don’t have to doctor a picture of her to make her look 13. She is 13.

Does anything even matter anymore? Does the truth matter? Is there such a thing as right and wrong? I don’t even recognize us anymore. I’m in our New York City studios today, New York City that has Michael Bloomberg as the mayor and soon could possibly have Anthony Weiner of all people, a man – do you think Anthony Weiner should be – look at this. Should he be anywhere near elected office, let alone leading the largest city in North America, one of the largest on the planet?

You know what’s really amazing is people are actually saying oh, you know, we shouldn’t pay attention to this. One week, one week before his big redemption video or interview goes to print in People magazine, he posed for pictures. There he is. That’s the pictures from People magazine, but as this was being printed, he actually starts up a sexually charged online relationship with a 22-year-old progressive activist.

He didn’t even try to hide it. He used his own name most of the time – the arrogance and the insanity of the rest of us. And here’s the biggest disgrace – this is still being defended. It’s all being defended by people. Andrew Sullivan actually came out and said sexting shouldn’t exclude anyone from public office. Really? Sexting shouldn’t?

Let me read it to you. “In this new Internet age someone has to be the person who makes sexting not an excludable characteristic for public office. If it becomes one, then the range of representatives… we can choose from in the future and present will be very, very different in experience and background than the people they are supposed to represent.” Andrew, may I just point out, I don’t think it’s sexting.

I mean, if he was sending, you know, explicit pictures and you know, hey, honey, I’m so hot and bothered by you right now, can you put the kid down early tonight so we can have animal sex on the kitchen table, I wouldn’t care. That’s up to him. It doesn’t matter. And if he wants to do animal sex with somebody else, I don’t care either, but he shouldn’t be trusted with our cities. It’s the fact that he lied about it. It has nothing to do with this sexting. He’s lying while asking us to trust him.

Is there no right or wrong anymore at all? Any? Is there any concept? Everybody else is doing it. Just accept it. Why not? Let me show you Slate.com and what they’ve said. “Anthony Weiner’s sexts don’t make him look like a sexual predator or even a freak. They make him look very, very ordinary.” Really? Wow, I mean, do you have a girlfriend that you’re trying to put into your Chicago love nest? What does he call it, a fallout shelter?

He calls this some bizarre name, someplace where they could go and just live out their wildest fantasies. Do you have a high heel fetish? Because I don’t. I mean, if that’s normal, I’m so proud to be abnormal right now. Spending all of your free time telling a stranger on the Internet that oh, you’re so hot, I love you, and sending naked pictures of yourself while you know, your wife is just down the hall, you know, with your firstborn kid, just a year old – that’s normal? Really, is it? I don’t think so.

We’re witnessing a society that is completely detached, and we’re detached from anything because we have an agenda. Why didn’t we tell the girl, why didn’t we tell the story of the 13-year-old girl? Because of an agenda. The second rapist was black. The others were illegal immigrants, so we don’t tell a story. That’s not a good story. That doesn’t help us with our agenda.

Right now MSNBC, they’re praising her for her courage. Imagine that, praising her for her courage – really, the people who fancy themselves as warriors fighting the good fight against the war on women? You want a war on women? It’s this guy, and they’re praising her staying with him. She’s been humiliated how many times? How many times does she have to have…not just once but twice. She’s not a woman – that’s pathetic. It’s pathetic.

I’m all for forgiveness in a relationship. I’m all for that. Nobody’s perfect, etc., etc. This guy is a sexual predator. That’s who he is. He’s a freak. He’s out of control. If she wants to do it, fine, but I’m not going to praise her for it. And look at me, I’m not attacking her. I’m just saying what are you thinking? What are you thinking? If this is my sister, get away from the monster. This guy relentlessly objectifies and corrupts all young women. He does. I mean, and they’re fine with it.

Let me give you another story. How about Nancy Pelosi’s progressive pal? This is the Mayor of San Diego. He’s refusing to step down despite the fact that he’s groping women at the office. He can’t even be trusted with women in the office. We’re a people who have no shame. We have absolutely no shame. He won’t step down. Nancy Pelosi was asked how she feels about him, and she says, you know, what happens in San Diego should be left to city residents. Oh, should it? Is it Vegas now, San Diego is? You have no opinion.

America, we have got to get a hold of our children, and I don’t know how we do it in a country – I mean, we look like the old fuddy-duddies. You just don’t understand sexing. Yes I do. Yes I do. Got it. The future of American Progressives, we are in deep, deep trouble. The ones we are growing, the 22-year-old Weiner sexting partner, she said that Weiner could send all of his naked pictures, all of them that he wanted as long as he kept legislating the way he was.

But if we continue to disregard right and wrong, and it doesn’t matter what anybody does – this is so far beyond anything that Bill Clinton ever did. We make fun of countries like Italy and France because they elect perverts and liars. What are we doing? This is our fault. And New York will probably elect this guy, and we will go the way of those countries. And those countries are on a timetable. They’re on critical – they’re on life support now.

No one’s going to be able to trust anything. The truth doesn’t matter. We turn from the truth, and they’re perverting absolutely everything.

URGENT: FIVE steps to CONTROL AI before it's too late!

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By now, many of us are familiar with AI and its potential benefits and threats. However, unless you're a tech tycoon, it can feel like you have little influence over the future of artificial intelligence.

For years, Glenn has warned about the dangers of rapidly developing AI technologies that have taken the world by storm.

He acknowledges their significant benefits but emphasizes the need to establish proper boundaries and ethics now, while we still have control. But since most people aren’t Silicon Valley tech leaders making the decisions, how can they help keep AI in check?

Recently, Glenn interviewed Tristan Harris, a tech ethicist deeply concerned about the potential harm of unchecked AI, to discuss its societal implications. Harris highlighted a concerning new piece of legislation proposed by Texas Senator Ted Cruz. This legislation proposes a state-level moratorium on AI regulation, meaning only the federal government could regulate AI. Harris noted that there’s currently no Federal plan for regulating AI. Until the federal government establishes a plan, tech companies would have nearly free rein with their AI. And we all know how slowly the federal government moves.

This is where you come in. Tristan Harris shared with Glenn the top five actions you should urge your representatives to take regarding AI, including opposing the moratorium until a concrete plan is in place. Now is your chance to influence the future of AI. Contact your senator and congressman today and share these five crucial steps they must take to keep AI in check:

Ban engagement-optimized AI companions for kids

Create legislation that will prevent AI from being designed to maximize addiction, sexualization, flattery, and attachment disorders, and to protect young people’s mental health and ability to form real-life friendships.

Establish basic liability laws

Companies need to be held accountable when their products cause real-world harm.

Pass increased whistleblower protections

Protect concerned technologists working inside the AI labs from facing untenable pressures and threats that prevent them from warning the public when the AI rollout is unsafe or crosses dangerous red lines.

Prevent AI from having legal rights

Enact laws so AIs don’t have protected speech or have their own bank accounts, making sure our legal system works for human interests over AI interests.

Oppose the state moratorium on AI 

Call your congressman or Senator Cruz’s office, and demand they oppose the state moratorium on AI without a plan for how we will set guardrails for this technology.

Glenn: Only Trump dared to deliver on decades of empty promises

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The Islamic regime has been killing Americans since 1979. Now Trump’s response proves we’re no longer playing defense — we’re finally hitting back.

The United States has taken direct military action against Iran’s nuclear program. Whatever you think of the strike, it’s over. It’s happened. And now, we have to predict what happens next. I want to help you understand the gravity of this situation: what happened, what it means, and what might come next. To that end, we need to begin with a little history.

Since 1979, Iran has been at war with us — even if we refused to call it that.

We are either on the verge of a remarkable strategic victory or a devastating global escalation. Time will tell.

It began with the hostage crisis, when 66 Americans were seized and 52 were held for over a year by the radical Islamic regime. Four years later, 17 more Americans were murdered in the U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut, followed by 241 Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing.

Then came the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996, which killed 19 more U.S. airmen. Iran had its fingerprints all over it.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian-backed proxies killed hundreds of American soldiers. From 2001 to 2020 in Afghanistan and 2003 to 2011 in Iraq, Iran supplied IEDs and tactical support.

The Iranians have plotted assassinations and kidnappings on U.S. soil — in 2011, 2021, and again in 2024 — and yet we’ve never really responded.

The precedent for U.S. retaliation has always been present, but no president has chosen to pull the trigger until this past weekend. President Donald Trump struck decisively. And what our military pulled off this weekend was nothing short of extraordinary.

Operation Midnight Hammer

The strike was reportedly called Operation Midnight Hammer. It involved as many as 175 U.S. aircraft, including 12 B-2 stealth bombers — out of just 19 in our entire arsenal. Those bombers are among the most complex machines in the world, and they were kept mission-ready by some of the finest mechanics on the planet.

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To throw off Iranian radar and intelligence, some bombers flew west toward Guam — classic misdirection. The rest flew east, toward the real targets.

As the B-2s approached Iranian airspace, U.S. submarines launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles at Iran’s fortified nuclear facilities. Minutes later, the bombers dropped 14 MOPs — massive ordnance penetrators — each designed to drill deep into the earth and destroy underground bunkers. These bombs are the size of an F-16 and cost millions of dollars apiece. They are so accurate, I’ve been told they can hit the top of a soda can from 15,000 feet.

They were built for this mission — and we’ve been rehearsing this run for 15 years.

If the satellite imagery is accurate — and if what my sources tell me is true — the targeted nuclear sites were utterly destroyed. We’ll likely rely on the Israelis to confirm that on the ground.

This was a master class in strategy, execution, and deterrence. And it proved that only the United States could carry out a strike like this. I am very proud of our military, what we are capable of doing, and what we can accomplish.

What comes next

We don’t yet know how Iran will respond, but many of the possibilities are troubling. The Iranians could target U.S. forces across the Middle East. On Monday, Tehran launched 20 missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar, Syria, and Kuwait, to no effect. God forbid, they could also unleash Hezbollah or other terrorist proxies to strike here at home — and they just might.

Iran has also threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz — the artery through which nearly a fifth of the world’s oil flows. On Sunday, Iran’s parliament voted to begin the process. If the Supreme Council and the ayatollah give the go-ahead, we could see oil prices spike to $150 or even $200 a barrel.

That would be catastrophic.

The 2008 financial collapse was pushed over the edge when oil hit $130. Western economies — including ours — simply cannot sustain oil above $120 for long. If this conflict escalates and the Strait is closed, the global economy could unravel.

The strike also raises questions about regime stability. Will it spark an uprising, or will the Islamic regime respond with a brutal crackdown on dissidents?

Early signs aren’t hopeful. Reports suggest hundreds of arrests over the weekend and at least one dissident executed on charges of spying for Israel. The regime’s infamous morality police, the Gasht-e Ershad, are back on the streets. Every phone, every vehicle — monitored. The U.S. embassy in Qatar issued a shelter-in-place warning for Americans.

Russia and China both condemned the strike. On Monday, a senior Iranian official flew to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin. That meeting should alarm anyone paying attention. Their alliance continues to deepen — and that’s a serious concern.

Now we pray

We are either on the verge of a remarkable strategic victory or a devastating global escalation. Time will tell. But either way, President Trump didn’t start this. He inherited it — and he took decisive action.

The difference is, he did what they all said they would do. He didn’t send pallets of cash in the dead of night. He didn’t sign another failed treaty.

He acted. Now, we pray. For peace, for wisdom, and for the strength to meet whatever comes next.


This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Globalize the Intifada? Why Mamdani’s plan spells DOOM for America

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If New Yorkers hand City Hall to Zohran Mamdani, they’re not voting for change. They’re opening the door to an alliance of socialism, Islamism, and chaos.

It only took 25 years for New York City to go from the resilient, flag-waving pride following the 9/11 attacks to a political fever dream. To quote Michael Malice, “I'm old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.”

Malice is talking about Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist assemblyman from Queens now eyeing the mayor’s office. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state representative emerging from relative political obscurity, is now receiving substantial funding for his mayoral campaign from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR has a long and concerning history, including being born out of the Muslim Brotherhood and named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case. Why would the group have dropped $100,000 into a PAC backing Mamdani’s campaign?

Mamdani blends political Islam with Marxist economics — two ideologies that have left tens of millions dead in the 20th century alone.

Perhaps CAIR has a vested interest in Mamdani’s call to “globalize the intifada.” That’s not a call for peaceful protest. Intifada refers to historic uprisings of Muslims against what they call the “Israeli occupation of Palestine.” Suicide bombings and street violence are part of the playbook. So when Mamdani says he wants to “globalize” that, who exactly is the enemy in this global scenario? Because it sure sounds like he's saying America is the new Israel, and anyone who supports Western democracy is the new Zionist.

Mamdani tried to clean up his language by citing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which once used “intifada” in an Arabic-language article to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. So now he’s comparing Palestinians to Jewish victims of the Nazis? If that doesn’t twist your stomach into knots, you’re not paying attention.

If you’re “globalizing” an intifada, and positioning Israel — and now America — as the Nazis, that’s not a cry for human rights. That’s a call for chaos and violence.

Rising Islamism

But hey, this is New York. Faculty members at Columbia University — where Mamdani’s own father once worked — signed a letter defending students who supported Hamas after October 7. They also contributed to Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. And his father? He blamed Ronald Reagan and the religious right for inspiring Islamic terrorism, as if the roots of 9/11 grew in Washington, not the caves of Tora Bora.

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This isn’t about Islam as a faith. We should distinguish between Islam and Islamism. Islam is a religion followed peacefully by millions. Islamism is something entirely different — an ideology that seeks to merge mosque and state, impose Sharia law, and destroy secular liberal democracies from within. Islamism isn’t about prayer and fasting. It’s about power.

Criticizing Islamism is not Islamophobia. It is not an attack on peaceful Muslims. In fact, Muslims are often its first victims.

Islamism is misogynistic, theocratic, violent, and supremacist. It’s hostile to free speech, religious pluralism, gay rights, secularism — even to moderate Muslims. Yet somehow, the progressive left — the same left that claims to fight for feminism, LGBTQ rights, and free expression — finds itself defending candidates like Mamdani. You can’t make this stuff up.

Blending the worst ideologies

And if that weren’t enough, Mamdani also identifies as a Democratic Socialist. He blends political Islam with Marxist economics — two ideologies that have left tens of millions dead in the 20th century alone. But don’t worry, New York. I’m sure this time socialism will totally work. Just like it always didn’t.

If you’re a business owner, a parent, a person who’s saved anything, or just someone who values sanity: Get out. I’m serious. If Mamdani becomes mayor, as seems likely, then New York City will become a case study in what happens when you marry ideological extremism with political power. And it won’t be pretty.

This is about more than one mayoral race. It’s about the future of Western liberalism. It’s about drawing a bright line between faith and fanaticism, between healthy pluralism and authoritarian dogma.

Call out radicalism

We must call out political Islam the same way we call out white nationalism or any other supremacist ideology. When someone chants “globalize the intifada,” that should send a chill down your spine — whether you’re Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, or anything in between.

The left may try to shame you into silence with words like “Islamophobia,” but the record is worn out. The grooves are shallow. The American people see what’s happening. And we’re not buying it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

How private stewardship could REVIVE America’s wild

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The left’s idea of stewardship involves bulldozing bison and barring access. Lee’s vision puts conservation back in the hands of the people.

The media wants you to believe that Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is trying to bulldoze Yellowstone and turn national parks into strip malls — that he’s calling for a reckless fire sale of America’s natural beauty to line developers’ pockets. That narrative is dishonest. It’s fearmongering, and, by the way, it’s wrong.

Here’s what’s really happening.

Private stewardship works. It’s local. It’s accountable. It’s incentivized.

The federal government currently owns 640 million acres of land — nearly 28% of all land in the United States. To put that into perspective, that’s more territory than France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom combined.

Most of this land is west of the Mississippi River. That’s not a coincidence. In the American West, federal ownership isn’t just a bureaucratic technicality — it’s a stranglehold. States are suffocated. Locals are treated as tenants. Opportunities are choked off.

Meanwhile, people living east of the Mississippi — in places like Kentucky, Georgia, or Pennsylvania — might not even realize how little land their own states truly control. But the same policies that are plaguing the West could come for them next.

Lee isn’t proposing to auction off Yellowstone or pave over Yosemite. He’s talking about 3 million acres — that’s less than half of 1% of the federal estate. And this land isn’t your family’s favorite hiking trail. It’s remote, hard to access, and often mismanaged.

Failed management

Why was it mismanaged in the first place? Because the federal government is a terrible landlord.

Consider Yellowstone again. It’s home to the last remaining herd of genetically pure American bison — animals that haven’t been crossbred with cattle. Ranchers, myself included, would love the chance to help restore these majestic creatures on private land. But the federal government won’t allow it.

So what do they do when the herd gets too big?

They kill them. Bulldoze them into mass graves. That’s not conservation. That’s bureaucratic malpractice.

And don’t even get me started on bald eagles — majestic symbols of American freedom and a federally protected endangered species, now regularly slaughtered by wind turbines. I have pictures of piles of dead bald eagles. Where’s the outrage?

Biden’s federal land-grab

Some argue that states can’t afford to manage this land themselves. But if the states can’t afford it, how can Washington? We’re $35 trillion in debt. Entitlements are strained, infrastructure is crumbling, and the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and National Park Service are billions of dollars behind in basic maintenance. Roads, firebreaks, and trails are falling apart.

The Biden administration quietly embraced something called the “30 by 30” initiative, a plan to lock up 30% of all U.S. land and water under federal “conservation” by 2030. The real goal is 50% by 2050.

That entails half of the country being taken away from you, controlled not by the people who live there but by technocrats in D.C.

You think that won’t affect your ability to hunt, fish, graze cattle, or cut timber? Think again. It won’t be conservatives who stop you from building a cabin, raising cattle, or teaching your grandkids how to shoot a rifle. It’ll be the same radical environmentalists who treat land as sacred — unless it’s your truck, your deer stand, or your back yard.

Land as collateral

Moreover, the U.S. Treasury is considering putting federally owned land on the national balance sheet, listing your parks, forests, and hunting grounds as collateral.

What happens if America defaults on its debt?

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Do you think our creditors won’t come calling? Imagine explaining to your kids that the lake you used to fish in is now under foreign ownership, that the forest you hunted in belongs to China.

This is not hypothetical. This is the logical conclusion of treating land like a piggy bank.

The American way

There’s a better way — and it’s the American way.

Let the people who live near the land steward it. Let ranchers, farmers, sportsmen, and local conservationists do what they’ve done for generations.

Did you know that 75% of America’s wetlands are on private land? Or that the most successful wildlife recoveries — whitetail deer, ducks, wild turkeys — didn’t come from Washington but from partnerships between private landowners and groups like Ducks Unlimited?

Private stewardship works. It’s local. It’s accountable. It’s incentivized. When you break it, you fix it. When you profit from the land, you protect it.

This is not about selling out. It’s about buying in — to freedom, to responsibility, to the principle of constitutional self-governance.

So when you hear the pundits cry foul over 3 million acres of federal land, remember: We don’t need Washington to protect our land. We need Washington to get out of the way.

Because this isn’t just about land. It’s about liberty. And once liberty is lost, it doesn’t come back easily.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.