RADIOJanuary 04, 2024

KJP tries to blame $34 TRILLION national debt on ... REPUBLICANS?!

For the first time, the United States has hit a national debt of $34 trillion. But according to President Biden's press secretary Karine Jean Pierre ... that's the REPUBLICANS' fault?! Glenn and Stu review KJP's ridiculous attempt to blame the debt on Republican tax cuts and "trickle-down economics." Plus, Glenn and Stu discuss ... Will we even make it to the next election???

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STU: Did you see, we hit $34 trillion?

GLENN: I did. We're number one. We're number one.

Let's see if we can break that faster.

But, you know, this amazing accomplishment happened, while still cutting the budget more than anyone ever before.

STU: I know it's amazing.

Do we have that KJP clip. We've been playing on the four-minute Blaze today.

I don't know if we have that handy.

But it's her somehow trying to talk herself out of Joe Biden's failures with the debt in the cup.

It is -- I mean, again, we all know Karine Jean-Pierre. She's a complete moron. And throughout this entire answers, most of it, she's reading. And it's still this bad. You have to listen to this.

This is KJP I guess yesterday.

GLENN: Do you have any reaction to the new data our of Treasury that the national debt has hit a record of $34 trillion?

VOICE: So, yeah. If you look at that data. There's a trickle down at the time. If you think about it. Republican tax cuts are responsible for about 90 percent of it.

STU: Not true at all.

GLENN: Over the last few decades. Excluding mammalian spending.

STU: Oh. Oh. Wait a minute.

GLENN: Slow down here. Wait a minute. Excluding emergency spending?

STU: I love that.

Now, of course, the way the budget works. They don't believe up with one. They categorize all sorts of things as emergency spending. That is not emergency spending.

But just in recent history. Does anyone remember, I don't know. Six or $7 trillion we spent on just COVID?

GLENN: This is like, Stu. Stu. If you take Lisa, she is so frugal if you take away all of the purse spending.

STU: Right. She is a bargain basement.

GLENN: She's bargain basement. Okay. Just don't pay attention to the purse spending. Well, it's the purse spending that's the problem.

It's the -- it's the emergency spending that's the problem.

STU: Yeah.

It's like tell your wife. Look, honey, I'm completely loyal to you, without the exception of the Vegas trips. You know. With the exception of the trips to Epstein island. Everything is fine.

GLENN: Right. I do not have sex with underage children. Except when I go to the island with Jeffrey.
(laughter)
Wait.

STU: I mean, it's completely ridiculous.

And, you know, these -- and you could see, as she's going through this.

I love the mind. Or lack thereof of Karine Jean-Pierre.

First of all, she's flipping through pages. She knows questions are coming on $34 trillion. Probably actually literally knew it was coming. Again, this is part of the preparation process I would imagine for something like this.

All she can remember is the word -- the phrase trickle down. She knows that's negatively associated with Republicans.

GLENN: I know.

STU: You know, if you think about it. It's kind of a trickle down thing.

Is it?

Is it a trickle down thing?

It's a completely ridiculous thing.

You know, nonsensical catchphrase, she's memorized. And she's flipping through the pages. To find the context of what she's talking about.

I mean, does this happen to any other person, at any other line of work.

She's stalling to get to the page in her notebook, so that she can read the answer which she herself knows is filled with lies.

GLENN: Stu, this is an honest question.

Because I was thinking, jeez. Are we going to be dealing with this person next year too?

Yeah, probably.

And then I thought, do we even make it to an election? And I mean this sincerely.

STU: It's not that far away.

GLENN: I know. But listen to this.

Okay. As the decisions are disqualifying former president Donald Trump from the 2024 election, work their way through the courts.

A new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same ballot cleansing.

It's the only latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as insurrectionists. We have become a nation of -- early names. Blah, blah, blah.

In, where was it?

In North Carolina. In North Carolina, they, in their primary election, the Democrats have just taken the name of Dean Phillips.

Marianne Williamson. And Sank, what's-his-face?

Off of the ballot.

Leaving the only choice for Democrats, to be Joe Biden.

What the --

STU: I mean, again. Joe Biden is going to win that election by 60 points? Seventy points.

He's not in danger at all. Why would you do this?

Again, while you're arguing that we must protect democracy.

Why on earth, there's no where you happen side at all. Dean Phillips is not going to win the election at the polls.

GLENN: But with enough positive thinking. And enough -- Marianne --

STU: Marianne Williamson may, with the right combination of crystals and oils may wind up winning. That's true. But like, it's not like he's in danger. Like when RFK Jr was on the ballot, maybe you could make an argument, he had a couple polls that looked good at the very beginning.

I don't know. It's a bizarre argument to me.

But he's not even doing. He's not even running anymore as a Democrat.

It's like, what is the point of this?

They're so anti-democracy.

And I know we're not a democracy. We're a constitutional republic. But inside of that, we do have elements of democracy.

GLENN: This is the democracy part.

You let the people vote.

You let that happen naturally vote.

Then they vote for the representative for the Republican.

STU: Yep.

GLENN: That's -- I mean, the only democracy part we have, they're trying to tear apart.

STU: I know.

And while they're making the argument with no pushback from the media.

And, you know, we might remind you had a the media has slogans like democracy dies in darkness.

Right? This is how they supposedly think about our system.

It's so sacred to them, that they can't possibly see it going away.

And yet, here they are.

Instead of just trying to go out and try to win. At some point, have the balls to admit you're in a contest against somebody else and win.

Like, you know, I'm so sick of people whining about losing.

GLENN: I know.

STU: And then acting as if -- just go out and win.

Ron DeSantis loses Iowa.

He should be able to come out. And say, hey, I got my ass kicked. That's what he should do.

GLENN: I haven't read anything in the National Review in a long time.

But I had to -- I had to read about, what if Trump wins?

The left can't handle a Trump victory in 2024, okay?

And it talks about how they are all saying, this is a dictator ship. This guy is going to destroy the country.

I mean, all the things that we say, about, you know, what the left is doing right now.

But we're still playing in the same sandbox.

These people, they're already subverting the Constitution. They're already breaking their own oaths and everything else. To keep him off the ballot. It's a pretty easy decision for the Supreme Court. There are five arguments. And at least three of them are -- you don't even have to be awake to go, yeah. That's not constitutional.

So they're doing these things now.

What happens, when the people who say, we were at a brink of a dictator ship. If he runs to pyro,it will be persecution.

People will lose their freedom. They will lose their property. He will take everything from them. He is just going to go on a vengeance tour. If you think that, really, and you think that the ends justify the means, and you're saving democracy. You cannot -- they're not going to sit down if he wins.

STU: Every single one of these outcomes seems to have a generous chunk of possibility that the entire system flames out.

Right?

Like, if -- if Donald Trump wins the primary and goes on and then gets put in prison, right? And maybe loses the election.

Like, can you imagine how people will react to that?

If the opposite happens, and he goes to prison and wins the election, can you imagine how the left would react to that?

Can you imagine if there's a close election that Donald Trump loses?

Let's just say, it's normal. That he just loses. Can you imagine how the people on the right are going to react to that, especially after what they believe happened in 2020.

Now, think of what happened with all of this, and you've got a potential dictator coming into power, as the left would say.

Imagine if Donald Trump just comes in and wins a boring close election. Can you imagine how they're going to react to that?

Like the chaos in the street, possibilities, are down every single term. I mean, look, maybe -- maybe the best argument to avoid it, in theory, would be someone who maybe -- Joe Biden isn't the candidate. And Donald Trump isn't the candidate. I don't know.

But I honestly don't even see -- there's passionate supporters on both sides of that. That wouldn't put up with it. I don't know what the heck would happen.

GLENN: Correct.

And also the left would just make the next Republican into somebody that is worse than Donald Trump.

STU: Worse. Yeah. Saying DeSantis is worse. He's going to be -- Nikki Haley is worse.
She will be a dictator. They will say, whatever they have to say.

And look, they have been trying that stuff for a long time.

It does seem they're at the end of their rope.

GLENN: You said, well, it's pretty hard to say it. Will you make it to the election, or past the election?

I mean, that's a real question.

STU: It's a real question. And I don't know.

You know, we've seen things break down in ways that we've never thought we would see in America. And we've seen it routinely, particularly after the past four World Series.

GLENN: And all of the unintended consequences that nobody -- it just doesn't work out, the way you always think it's going to.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

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