0:00

You know, I think one of the best stories

0:02

today, because there's a lot of stuff happening

0:04

and we cover it all on the podcast

0:06

today. We also have a woman who

0:09

came from

0:10

China and

0:13

lived through the Mao Cultural Revolution,

0:15

remembers it, almost turned her mom in, it's crazy,

0:18

to comment on what just happened in Colorado

0:20

with the new guy who's a Marxist who wants

0:23

a forceful cultural revolution

0:25

to happen in Colorado. Yeah,

0:27

he's in there. He's in their house,

0:30

but don't worry about it. She's

0:32

here. We talked about that. Maui,

0:34

a big special tonight. But I

0:37

think that kid in Colorado that

0:39

had the don't tread on me

0:42

patch,

0:43

that the school kicked him out, it's

0:46

phenomenal that that's

0:49

turned around. And the Democrat that

0:51

is the governor actually helped turn it around.

0:54

It feels like there's more and more incidents like

0:57

this that are going on, but they are getting

0:59

away with it less. I think they're getting caught more frequently

1:02

and that's good.

1:05

Except at the federal level.

1:07

Oh, we're screwed there, obviously. So

1:10

we talk about how do we strengthen ourselves?

1:13

Should we should we kind of separate

1:16

ourselves? And you

1:18

know, blue people live in blue places and

1:21

red people live in red places? Or is that

1:23

the exact opposite of what we should

1:25

do? Great podcast for you

1:27

today. And here it is.

1:34

You're

1:36

listening to the best of the Glenn

1:38

Beck program. I

1:43

want to tell you a couple of really, really good stories.

1:46

First, let me tell you about the kid

1:48

in in Colorado.

1:52

Jayden is a 12 year old boy. He attends

1:54

Vanguard School, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1:58

He's in this video.

1:59

You may have seen it, it went viral on social

2:02

media.

2:03

It shows he

2:04

and his mom confronting a school

2:07

board administrator

2:09

who says

2:10

that he has to take the Gadsden flag

2:13

patch off of his backpack

2:16

because it's too disruptive. And

2:18

they're like, it's too disruptive. What are you talking about? It's

2:20

too disruptive. We don't want the flag

2:23

displayed in school because of its

2:25

origins with slavery and the slave

2:27

trade.

2:30

Now I'm just trying to figure that one out historically.

2:32

I mean, I can't, I don't know, don't tread

2:35

on me. How does

2:37

that relate to the slave trade at

2:40

all?

2:41

Okay, it doesn't, it clearly doesn't.

2:43

And these are the kind of boobs that we have

2:45

running our schools, all right? They

2:47

have no idea what they're even talking

2:50

about.

2:50

Now Jaden, who has kicked out

2:53

a class for having

2:55

the patch says, there's

2:59

no origins of slavery. This 12

3:02

year old, no origins of slavery. And

3:06

the school's director says, well, this is being very

3:08

disruptive in the school environment.

3:10

So they removed him from class. Mom

3:14

fought back against it, explaining

3:17

the coiled snake above the phrase,

3:19

don't tread on me, is not

3:22

a pro-slavery image. It has origins

3:24

in the Revolutionary War. It was a symbol

3:27

of resistance to British tyranny.

3:31

I'm free, don't tread on

3:33

me. So you could say it's actually

3:36

an anti-slavery. If you wanna talk

3:38

about slavery, it would be anti-slavery

3:41

because it came from the

3:44

North, it came from New England.

3:47

New England had already banned slavery,

3:51

but it's not about that at all. It's not,

3:54

it's about the British tyranny, don't

3:56

tread on me.

3:59

So, But now all these experts

4:01

are like, no, it's, it's,

4:03

it's slavery, it's slavery, it's connected

4:06

to Patriot groups.

4:08

Oh, okay. All right.

4:12

So wait, the flag chose

4:14

to be part of a Patriot group? The flag's

4:16

like, the snake's like,

4:18

I gotta, I

4:20

gotta, I just love

4:22

white people. Is that what happened?

4:25

Jeez. Republicans

4:28

have adapted this. Lefty

4:30

groups, a pro LGBT group

4:34

has adopted it as well. It's

4:36

really nothing to do with a snake. The snake

4:39

was sewn on or printed

4:41

on. I don't know if you, it's kind of

4:43

like a gun. The

4:45

gun didn't make the decision. The

4:48

person did. So

4:52

this is, this is

4:54

a flag that's already gone through the

4:56

government. EEOC,

4:59

they were like, somebody

5:01

was, was suing because the Gadsden

5:03

flag is slavery.

5:06

EEOC said, yeah, no, it's, it's

5:08

not a racist symbol.

5:10

Okay. So the EEOC, I

5:13

don't think I've ever agreed with anything the EEOC

5:15

has ever done. So

5:18

the ruling has come out, the school cannot discriminate

5:20

against Jaden's viewpoint

5:23

by declaring that this is just

5:26

a racist symbol and one that will be disruptive.

5:29

Even the governor of Colorado, a Democrat

5:32

said, the Gadsden flag is a proud symbol of

5:34

American revolution and an iconic

5:36

warning to Britain or any government not to

5:38

violate the liberties of Americans. Yeah.

5:41

Almost like it's appropriate today

5:44

when they're telling you, you

5:47

can't speak out at the

5:49

school board meeting. And then

5:51

don't tread on me. Seems like

5:54

a pretty good motto.

5:57

Or when they're telling you stay at home.

6:00

You're killing every grandmother on

6:02

the planet. Wear this mask. Could

6:05

I have the don't tread on me flag on the mask? Could

6:07

I do that? That would be weird. I wonder if

6:10

you put a mask and the don't tread on

6:12

me flag together

6:14

if they cancel each other out and disappear.

6:18

Most people don't know that the

6:21

snake

6:22

was really a important symbol

6:26

for our founders. The snake and the skull.

6:29

The skull usually would have

6:31

a crown

6:32

above it and

6:35

it represented no king

6:37

but God. The king dies

6:40

and he becomes a skeleton. So

6:42

no king but God. The

6:45

snake was selected because

6:47

it doesn't want to bite you. It's

6:50

just sitting there in the grass. It's like sunning itself.

6:52

It's like, ah, the sun is

6:55

so great.

6:57

And you come walking along, duh, duh, duh.

6:59

And what does it do? It doesn't sneak up on you

7:01

and bite you. It rattles.

7:05

Stop where you

7:07

are. I

7:09

mean, I have a ranch. Rattlesnakes

7:12

everywhere. I kind of like

7:15

it because it's extra security. Go

7:17

ahead, come across that field. Do

7:19

it. Rattlesnakes

7:21

everywhere. Now, if you're smart,

7:25

you're paying attention. Those are like booby

7:27

traps. But these booby

7:29

traps, they actually rattle

7:31

before they bite. Stay away

7:33

from me.

7:34

Don't walk on me

7:37

or I'll bite. That's

7:40

why our founders loved it. It wasn't

7:42

an aggressive thing. Well, I mean, if you're a mouse, but

7:44

if you're a human, it's not an aggressive thing.

7:48

It's minding its own business. You

7:55

know, there's the very first political cartoon ever

7:57

done in America. was

8:03

done by Benjamin Franklin

8:06

and it was a rattlesnake.

8:09

And it looks pretty much like that snake on

8:11

Don't Tread on Me. It was a rattlesnake

8:13

and it was cut into 13 pieces.

8:17

And it had on each piece,

8:21

each state or each colony.

8:23

And underneath it just said, unite or

8:26

die.

8:28

Meaning we could all go our own separate ways.

8:31

The king will cut us up, we'll help

8:34

him. Or

8:38

we could join together and live. I

8:43

bring this up because by the way, the kid who is

8:45

fantastic, I love

8:48

this kid.

8:49

This kid, by the way, his favorite book

8:52

is The Creature from Jekyll Island

8:55

by the Tuttled Twins. Love

8:58

this kid.

8:58

He knows what he's talking

9:01

about. He's back in school with the flag

9:03

on his backpack today.

9:05

Congratulations.

9:07

Now I see a lot of things

9:09

that are happening at the state level, even

9:12

in states like Colorado.

9:15

Colorado just put in their

9:20

house,

9:22

Coloradians, people

9:26

from Colorado decided that

9:29

they really thought this teacher

9:31

who is a Marxist

9:33

and wants a Mao-like

9:37

cultural revolution, he talks

9:40

about an aggressive cultural

9:43

revolution. That's code for Mao.

9:46

They just elected him and put him in the

9:49

house. Okay, it's their

9:51

state. You can do it.

9:55

You also have people like this. Now,

9:57

the question is, and I mean

9:59

this sincerely,

10:06

The time is coming when

10:08

we are in

10:09

real trouble, real trouble. I

10:12

don't know if you saw Tucker on X yesterday.

10:14

He did an interview with

10:17

Viktor Orban from Hungary.

10:20

Okay, that's a little frightening.

10:22

Viktor Orban's like,

10:23

yeah, yeah, World War III.

10:25

Everybody here knows.

10:27

Ukraine is losing. There's no way to win.

10:30

You got to make peace right now because

10:32

the only thing you can do is start sending

10:35

boots on the ground to help them because they're

10:37

out.

10:38

You do that, it's World War III. You

10:41

start sending the jets over and everything

10:44

else, World War III. He'll use a nuke.

10:46

He will.

10:48

You should probably trust the people who

10:50

have been taken by the former Soviet

10:52

Union and have lived next to Russia,

10:55

our whole existence.

10:57

You should probably listen to us. I mean, there's an ocean

10:59

between you and us.

11:02

You may not know what's best. I

11:05

think he's right on that. But

11:09

as tough times come

11:11

and you live, if you live in

11:13

Washington, DC,

11:15

there's no way you get a fair trial. No way.

11:18

I think if you live in New York City, there's

11:20

no way you'll get a fair trial. If

11:22

it's political,

11:24

if you're like, yeah,

11:26

my child is my child, not your child,

11:29

they're not going to get a sex change. No.

11:32

You're not going to get a fair trial.

11:35

California, do you really think?

11:39

Now, things are changing, for instance, in

11:42

Washington, DC.

11:44

I don't know if you've seen the climate activists

11:46

that have glued themselves to the roadway

11:49

again.

11:50

Honestly,

11:51

I just think, did you see the, I

11:54

think it was in New Mexico, but it was

11:56

on the native side.

11:58

I think it was on the Navajo, You know,

12:01

Burning Man was happening and these dopes

12:04

just blocked traffic and traffic was

12:06

blocked forever.

12:08

And they were on the Navajo side.

12:10

So the Navajo Rangers came.

12:12

They just

12:14

took their truck and went through

12:16

the blockade and then turned around

12:18

and started going. And the kids were like, they can't do

12:20

that. What are they doing? We're not violent. What

12:24

are you kidding? And the guy gets out of the truck with his gun. He's

12:26

like,

12:27

get out on the ground right now.

12:30

And he's aggressive. Yeah, he's

12:32

aggressive. And these hippies are like, you

12:35

can't do that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you're in

12:38

a different country.

12:39

You don't think you are, but you

12:42

are.

12:43

You're in the Navajo Nation now and

12:45

they don't play by the same rules.

12:49

In Washington, D.C., all of these

12:52

climate activists were out and

12:57

people were blocked. Now, this has happened two days in

12:59

the last two weeks. People are blocked

13:01

for like an hour, two hours. They're

13:04

just blocked

13:05

and they're getting out of their cars and they are starting

13:07

to accost these people. And they're like,

13:09

what do you think you're doing? I have

13:12

a house payment. I have a car payment.

13:15

I'm raising kids. I'm trying to feed my

13:17

family. Get the hell out of the street.

13:20

And it's getting ugly. It's

13:22

getting really ugly.

13:24

The people, the good news is I think the people

13:27

have had enough of this. They've had enough

13:30

for that to happen even in Washington, D.C.

13:32

That's interesting.

13:36

So now they I don't know, they they they took

13:38

a chisel and got the guy's hand, you

13:40

know, off of the concrete, but they

13:42

were all arrested. They'll be back because they think

13:44

they're Martin Luther King. So they'll be back.

13:50

But

13:50

the question is, which

13:55

way is your state going? And

14:00

should we consider, because

14:03

I know I have, I

14:05

moved to Texas for a reason. I

14:09

have a ranch in Idaho

14:11

for a reason.

14:13

I bet on two states. There's

14:17

other states that I'm sure might, you

14:19

know,

14:19

actually stand to. And these two states might

14:22

eventually fall. I don't know.

14:25

But I bet on two states. I

14:27

didn't want

14:28

to be in New York.

14:30

Those people will eat you. They will. It's

14:34

going to get very, when, when there's no food

14:36

and you know, because

14:37

of, you know, the green new deal, when all of that wind power

14:39

is producing all the electricity that it's

14:43

supposed to produce and

14:45

nobody has any power and you're in Washington DC and

14:47

you're in a skyscraper, 55,

14:50

60 stories tall with people in it and their children

14:52

and they're all hungry. I

14:55

don't know. I don't know. I don't

14:57

know. Some new recipes might be tried out.

14:59

I'm just saying.

15:03

Or do we stay in those

15:05

places? Because

15:09

we know that our founder

15:11

said unite or

15:13

die.

15:15

And what we're doing is we're separating

15:18

ourselves. I don't have an answer

15:20

for this. I really don't.

15:22

I'm,

15:23

I'm really struggling with this.

15:27

Do we unite or do

15:30

we separate? Do we balkanize? Bad idea.

15:36

But is it the only idea? I don't

15:38

know. Because

15:41

I got to tell you, I'll never go to Washington

15:43

DC. Never again. Because

15:45

I know if I'm arrested for some political

15:48

reason, I'll never get a fair trial.

15:49

Never, never. This

15:53

is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really

15:55

want to thank you for listening. Okay.

15:58

Let me play. Can I see you? start with

16:00

the audio from last

16:03

night of Governor

16:06

DeSantis on television

16:08

talking about what's happening

16:11

in Florida. Listen to this. Well this thing's

16:13

gonna hit us on Wednesday morning. It's gonna

16:15

be a major hurricane. People

16:17

need to heed the instructions from their local

16:19

officials. You still have time

16:22

this morning and early afternoon to be

16:24

able to make the preparations that you need

16:26

to. You are gonna start seeing on the Gulf

16:29

Coast to Florida some of the effects of this

16:31

as we get into Tuesday night. The

16:33

state we have tens of thousands

16:36

of utility workers staged

16:39

ready to go in for rapid power restoration.

16:42

We also have urban search and rescue

16:44

teams staged ready to go. If there

16:46

needs to be rescue operations

16:49

we will lead the effort on that. And

16:51

then of course we have other types of supplies

16:54

as people need. So we're ready to go

16:56

on this. This is a storm that's

16:58

hitting a part of the state that hasn't had a major

17:00

hurricane on the current track in

17:03

a long time. And so that's a lot

17:05

of woods, a lot of forests. I

17:07

think you're gonna see a lot of debris as a

17:09

result of this storm and that means we

17:11

have our guys ready to clear the roads. It's

17:14

amazing. They

17:17

are taking action prior

17:19

to, you remember,

17:22

a year before, to the day, the

17:24

year before Katrina,

17:28

I was on the air and I told you the most

17:30

dangerous city in America was

17:33

New Orleans because the levees

17:36

have been used as

17:38

a political fundraiser

17:41

forever and then they never fix

17:43

the levees. And

17:44

I said it is the most dangerous.

17:46

If it is hit straight on

17:49

it will cause chaos unlike

17:52

anything we've ever seen. 12

17:53

months later to the day it

17:56

was happening. It

17:59

didn't take take a profit

18:01

to see it, it only takes somebody who's looking

18:03

at what is not being

18:06

done by

18:07

the government. The same thing with Maui. What

18:09

we've learned

18:11

from Maui, A, about the

18:15

government we'll get into later,

18:18

but what we've learned is the people

18:20

can take care of themselves.

18:23

The people are taking care of

18:25

themselves. The community is coming together.

18:28

Someone I talked to that has been to

18:30

Maui or is in Maui has said

18:33

the same thing. This is a tight-knit

18:35

community that is really helping

18:38

each other. You can't expect

18:40

a government who is several time

18:43

zones away to be your first responder.

18:46

For one reason, they suck. They

18:49

always suck.

18:52

You need people closest to the ground. That's why

18:54

we don't give to big national

18:57

charities unless we

18:59

know they are the first on

19:02

the ground and they have a long track record

19:04

of being the first in and the last

19:07

out. When you give

19:09

your dollars to Mercury One, you're

19:11

not really giving them to Mercury One.

19:14

We are just finding the place where those

19:16

dollars

19:17

will get the most bang for the

19:19

buck because we don't take anything off the

19:21

top. The first places we go

19:24

are local churches, the

19:27

local churches, the local clubs,

19:32

the local emergency people that

19:34

have dealt with these things over and over

19:36

again. The

19:37

churches are usually one of the

19:39

best places.

19:41

Greg Laurie, he's the guy who was

19:43

in the movie Jesus Revolution,

19:45

or he wasn't actually, and it was about him

19:48

and that whole revolution.

19:50

He

19:53

has a church there on Maui in

19:55

this community. It's

19:58

an amazing story. and they were the

20:01

first people out to be able

20:03

to help, and we wanted to get the story from

20:05

him on what's going on. Welcome,

20:08

Greg. Greg Stilwell Welcome,

20:12

Greg. Good to be with you. Thanks so much for inviting

20:14

me to be on your show. I was actually

20:17

just in Maui yesterday, and

20:20

we've had a church there, as you mentioned,

20:22

for 41 years now. A friend of

20:25

mine started it. He's a pro

20:27

surfer. He started this church, and

20:29

he wanted to retire

20:31

and ask if we'd bring it into our church

20:34

family that's called Harvest. And so now

20:37

it's been a part of our churches for

20:40

seven years, and, you

20:42

know, it's usually a very happy thing to go over

20:44

there, a very close congregation

20:47

of around a thousand people. And man,

20:49

when I spoke to him last Sunday, it's

20:51

like they were all collectively traumatized

20:54

still, but yet still filled

20:57

with hope. And that is, I think,

20:59

one of the most important things right now is

21:02

to bring yes help. And thanks to you

21:04

and Mercury One and others

21:07

that have helped us, we've been able to bring tangible

21:09

help to people, helping them

21:11

get clothing, food. We've

21:13

helped a hundred families in tangible

21:16

ways financially to survive

21:18

this thing. But I think the thing

21:21

that we have to offer that's more important than

21:23

anything is hope. You know, it's

21:25

been said that man can live 40 days

21:27

without food, three days without water,

21:30

about eight minutes without air, but not one

21:32

second without hope. And there's

21:34

a lot of people on the side that have

21:37

lost hope. I was talking

21:39

with JP Decker, who works with

21:41

you at Mercury One, and he

21:44

brought to my attention the fact that there have been a

21:46

number of suicides since

21:48

this has happened among those who've lost their

21:51

home, their livelihood, and

21:54

apparently their hope. And so we're

21:56

really working on that.

21:58

So from everything

22:00

I read, the people who were in

22:03

the water that

22:05

watched people burn to death and watch

22:07

people, you know, eventually give up and

22:09

drown all around them, the,

22:13

you know, the one woman who

22:16

finally after two days of

22:18

looking for her son, she was turned

22:21

around by the police and everybody else, and

22:23

they said, no, we've already cleared all the houses.

22:26

She went back to what was left of her house and

22:29

her son's bedroom was still fairly

22:32

intact and he was, he

22:34

had not been incinerated

22:36

and he was sitting on what was his

22:38

bed holding his dog. Once

22:41

you see these kinds of things

22:43

up close and personal and

22:46

one after another after another, I

22:49

mean,

22:50

what are you guys dealing with over there psychologically?

22:56

You're dealing with trauma. You

22:58

know, I know people, I think misuse the

23:01

concept of PTSD, but

23:04

I think you're really seeing this on a widespread

23:06

scale because these people have experienced

23:10

major trauma in stories like

23:12

that. When you just shared it, that's so

23:14

unbelievable and they were told to

23:16

not go to their home and,

23:18

uh, and they weren't, and they were told to, to not

23:21

leave and they were turned back again and

23:24

many of those people were incinerated because

23:26

of that. And for the ones that just broke

23:29

the law effectively and, and

23:31

the disobeyed what they were told, they lived.

23:34

And so this without question

23:36

has been horribly mismanaged on

23:39

so many levels. And but

23:41

that's, we stepped in immediately because

23:43

we're there on the ground and in

23:46

every way possible. I mean, giving people,

23:49

you know, a man who lost his livelihood,

23:52

gave him fishing pole so he can go out

23:54

and dish again. We

23:56

have one couple of the church thing on around people

23:59

pizza. And they just made

24:01

all of their pizza free for

24:04

anybody that wants it. And so we

24:06

got in this truck and we're driving around just giving

24:08

pizzas to police officers,

24:10

to people anywhere. Boy, I'll show you what, Glenn.

24:14

People love pizza. I saw the power of

24:16

pizza. I mean, it's a little thing,

24:18

but we give it to them in the name

24:21

of Jesus Christ. Here's a pizza. Thank

24:23

you. You know, little things matter. But

24:25

I think, you know, there's something called the Ministry

24:28

of Presence, where you're just there and

24:30

you listen to people and you care about

24:33

people. And that goes a long

24:35

way because, you know, when you're dealing

24:37

with trauma, you've got to talk about it. You've

24:40

got to process it. And of course, we pray with them

24:43

and we point them toward Christ. And

24:46

because he is the one who's ultimately going

24:48

to give us the hope we need.

24:50

You have preschool. Now you're

24:53

allowing the church facilities

24:55

to be used for

24:57

teachers and parent groups and, you

24:59

know, educational support. And then the preschool

25:01

is childcare for families.

25:04

I mean, this is turning into

25:07

kind of a full-time thing. How

25:09

long can the church do that?

25:12

We'll do it as long as it needs to be done.

25:16

And we're working with other organizations, Rickery

25:18

One, Samaritan's Purse, the Billy Graham Evangelistic

25:21

Association. We're

25:24

also helping people just with the practical

25:26

things like filling up their

25:28

insurance forms and making their claims

25:31

because a lot of these people don't know how to do

25:33

it. They didn't have internet

25:35

for quite a while. We've run into some of

25:37

those Starlink systems so

25:39

people could just... Like literally, there

25:42

was no communication on this island. People

25:45

couldn't text each other. They couldn't call each other.

25:48

They couldn't communicate at all. And this fire,

25:51

as you know, just incinerated everything

25:53

in its path. When I got there,

25:55

we got down on what is called Front

25:58

Street, and that's kind of... the

26:00

main destination of Lahaina. People

26:02

come from around the world, the business that they

26:04

said, tourist attraction, beautiful street,

26:06

back to my social media. I posted

26:09

a drone shot that we had done two

26:12

weeks before this fire, because I was there

26:14

doing a program with CBN, featuring

26:17

our church in happier days. And

26:19

I put this drone shot of what Front Street

26:22

looked like in its heyday and its glory,

26:25

right next to a shot of the same

26:27

places that we just took

26:30

on that same street. And it looks like a war

26:32

zone. It's just incomprehensible,

26:36

because I pretty much know every square inch of that

26:38

street. And you know, think of all

26:41

those buildings, your favorite stores

26:43

and restaurants, but even more obviously,

26:45

the loss of life. I mean, you're walking

26:48

through effectively a graveyard,

26:51

and it's very sobering, it's

26:54

very sad. But

26:56

at the same time, I see,

26:59

the Bible talks about beauty coming out

27:01

of ashes. And I see that happening

27:04

there. Here's the amazing

27:06

thing is downtown in Lahaina, there's this tree,

27:08

it's a banyan tree. And it was

27:11

actually planted interestingly, dedicated

27:14

to the first missionary that came to

27:17

Lahaina. And this tree somehow

27:19

survived. And to me, it's a picture

27:21

of resilience and

27:24

about how if a person is rooted in

27:27

a relationship with God, they

27:29

can survive anything. And I think

27:31

that tree has in many ways become a symbol

27:33

for the people on the island. They're gonna come

27:35

back again, they're gonna rebuild

27:38

again, but the loss of life, those

27:40

people can never be replaced.

27:43

Greg Laurie, he is the real life guy

27:47

that you might've seen in the Jesus

27:50

revolution, that was his story. And

27:53

he is a senior pastor at Harvest Christian

27:55

Fellowship. One of their

27:57

branches is... right

28:00

there in Lahaina in Maui

28:02

and He has been on the scene The

28:05

church has been working and thank you Greg

28:07

for being such a good steward of The

28:10

money that mercury one has given the church

28:12

to be able to to help all these people.

28:14

Thank you

28:15

We we like to give it to people who understand

28:18

sacred money

28:21

Well, thank you so much and for

28:23

all the folks that invested we really

28:25

appreciate it and god bless you all thank you

28:27

very much So you so, you know

28:29

the several of the charities that

28:32

he mentioned Billy

28:34

Graham and Samaritan's Purse We

28:38

helped them get the

28:40

first I think it was a c-130 off

28:44

the ground

28:45

Right away when this was happening. That was

28:47

also

28:48

Your money and we appreciate

28:50

it if you'd like to help and then help those

28:53

who are now in Florida as

28:55

well I

28:56

Government is not

28:58

the thing. It is the local

29:00

people that always fix the problems

29:04

So why send your money to

29:06

an inefficient where they're using maybe 40

29:10

cents on every dollar?

29:12

The rest in is is in overhead

29:14

100% of the money goes

29:17

directly to whatever it

29:19

is. We're trying to serve

29:21

in disaster relief

29:24

Give to local charities and local people

29:26

and if you don't know who to give there

29:28

You can go to mercury one and we will

29:31

find those people for you mercury

29:32

one This

29:37

is the best of the Glenn Beck program So

29:40

let me tell you this story real quick

29:43

teacher, Colorado He

29:45

gets up and he says all

29:48

kinds of things in his

29:50

classroom went on a Marxist rant He

29:53

said I want to tear some s up for

29:55

you. Are you ready? What's happening

29:57

in our schools?

29:58

showing up in our classrooms. You

30:01

know, we have ideological

30:03

circles up here.

30:04

We compete on who knows Marx better,

30:06

who knows Lenin better.

30:09

I'm a Leninist, I'm a Marxist. Kids don't

30:11

care. It's important to know the theory,

30:13

but you have to have some practices. You have to get

30:16

out into the streets. You have to get out into

30:18

the workplace. You have to go with your

30:20

families. We're just sitting, talking

30:22

in an ideological circle. Our kids still

30:25

going to schools that are underfunded where

30:27

they're investing more in their failure than in

30:29

their success. Your communist

30:32

theory won't save you.

30:34

Only revolution will save

30:36

you. And

30:36

it won't be the person who understands Lenin

30:39

or Marx the best. It will be a revolution

30:42

that is led by the people.

30:45

He has said, quote, I'm

30:47

for a forceful cultural

30:50

revolution.

30:52

He goes on, there's much worse things that he said,

30:54

but here's the good news. In Denver, the

30:58

state house of representatives had an

31:00

open seat

31:01

and the Democrats have just appointed

31:04

him to take that seat

31:07

in the state house. So

31:09

you have an open Marxist in

31:11

the state house of Colorado who's

31:14

calling for a forceful

31:17

cultural revolution. Well,

31:19

there is somebody that is running

31:22

for

31:23

the country's house.

31:25

And she knows

31:27

all about this. She was actually

31:29

supposed to be a guest on this show. She was here

31:31

in our green room the day Robin Williams

31:34

died. And we haven't had a chance to

31:36

have her back. She's now running for

31:38

the US House. Her name is

31:40

Lily Tong Williams. She's a

31:42

survivor of Mao's cultural revolution

31:45

and recognizes all the signs.

31:48

And she is now running for

31:50

Congress in New Hampshire's second congressional

31:53

district. Again, she's already

31:55

there now. Welcome.

31:57

How are you? Well, thank

31:59

you for having me back. back, Glenn. It's great

32:01

to see you both here and the

32:03

great introduction and my

32:06

story is like

32:08

American Dream story. And

32:10

like you mentioned it, I don't like what's

32:13

going on in our country today. I'm very

32:15

terrified. The terms they're

32:17

using

32:18

and the tactics they're using. What

32:20

does a forceful cultural revolution

32:22

mean? Is use

32:25

whatever violence necessary to

32:28

destroy the old traditional

32:31

cultures, systems, institutions,

32:35

also nuclear families.

32:38

I have been calling this American cultural

32:40

revolution for a few years. Me and

32:43

other Chinese immigrates. I know. And

32:45

we're very, very loud on Twitter.

32:48

And to educate people, and I have

32:50

on my YouTube channel, I interview

32:52

immigrants who fled totalitarian

32:55

regimes like Cuba, you know,

32:58

Venezuela and China and

33:01

Vietnam. We are talking about the same thing. What's

33:03

going on in our beloved new country?

33:06

But

33:06

lots of people, especially our

33:08

youth in this country, they don't realize

33:11

because they don't know they never left it under.

33:13

You know, it was, Victor Orban

33:15

was talking to Tucker Carlson yesterday

33:18

and he said, you know, you guys

33:20

have an ocean

33:22

between you and Russia. They occupied

33:25

Hungary, listened to the people of

33:27

Hungary. We know how they operate.

33:30

And I hear that all the time from immigrants

33:33

like you that come here. You

33:35

thought you got away from it. You were in a free

33:38

country. And now the same

33:40

exact language and the same tactics.

33:43

It's happening. Yes, I

33:45

summarized Mao's features of Cultural

33:48

Revolution. I was two years

33:50

old to 12 years old. I was

33:52

indoctrinated to believe only

33:54

communism or religions were

33:57

demonized. And I would

33:59

go home.

33:59

tell my Buddha's mom to say, stop

34:03

praying.

34:04

You know, it's like you should believe Mao

34:07

and believe in communism. I

34:09

was a child. Of course, I did

34:12

not know. And I feel guilty.

34:14

And it's like, thank goodness I did not turn

34:16

my mom in. Because during the

34:18

Mao's Cultural Revolution, if

34:21

you believe in any other religions, you're

34:23

Christian, Buddhist, or whatever other

34:25

religion you believe in,

34:27

you are deemed to be one

34:29

of the five black classes.

34:32

And you are county revolutionary.

34:35

And you should be the enemy of

34:37

the people. And don't you feel

34:39

like this is, in

34:43

an insidious way, almost

34:45

the same things that are going on now. They're teaching

34:48

our kids that your parents are

34:50

wrong on things. Don't listen

34:52

to your parents. And your parents should

34:54

be shut up. And maybe you should be taken

34:56

from them.

34:57

I published in my op-ed

35:00

when New Hampshire trying to pass Parental

35:03

Rights Bill, but sadly, we failed to

35:05

pass in New Hampshire. I

35:07

published my story growing up

35:10

under Mao that there is

35:12

always a secret between schools

35:16

and the parents because they truly

35:18

believe

35:19

parents have no rights. Your children

35:22

belong to this state. Of

35:24

course, that's how communists think. Why

35:26

would I come to America to testify

35:28

to support parental rights? Is that

35:31

the inherent

35:32

human rights, natural rights, and

35:34

American value that kids belong

35:37

to us, belong to the parents,

35:39

not belong to the village, belong to the societies,

35:42

it's very scary to see what's going

35:44

on here.

35:45

So you've been in Congress, and I

35:47

would imagine you know the Declaration of

35:49

Independence and the Constitution better

35:51

than a lot of the Americans that you surf

35:53

with.

35:55

That's what

35:56

brought me to this country when I was

35:58

in law school

35:59

in China. China, third year,

36:02

I was looking for something because I was

36:04

totally depressed, lost,

36:06

because I was told to study law. It's

36:09

not for justice. It's not for equality.

36:13

It's actually Communist Party's tool

36:15

to govern the people. So I become

36:17

very- But you didn't know that at the time when you first

36:19

got in. You were still part of the brainwashing. Well,

36:23

why start to ask questions when Mao

36:25

died when I was 12 and then 14 years old

36:27

and Party

36:29

said Mao

36:30

is not a god. Mao

36:33

actually was a human being and

36:35

he made a mistake. So

36:37

I was talking to myself,

36:39

oh,

36:40

let me say I was lied to.

36:42

I was chanting non-live chanmai mao

36:45

for straight six years in

36:47

government schools. He was like

36:49

a god to me because I went

36:51

home demonized my own mother who is a Buddhist.

36:55

Then I say long live chanmai mao, 10,000 years,

36:57

double 10,000 years. That's

37:00

one million years. How did he die? I

37:02

had a little brain left. I was asking

37:04

that question inside of my head when he died.

37:07

And then later Party said, okay, he was

37:09

a human being. I was totally lost.

37:12

And I said, I'm going to study law.

37:14

When I have a chance to go to college, I'm

37:17

going to transform China to

37:19

rule of law society, no longer rule

37:22

of man. But I was wrong. I realized

37:24

I could not achieve that dream in China

37:26

because I realized there's a one party

37:29

dictatorship, but I went to

37:31

this dancing party and I

37:33

met the foreigners and

37:35

I met one American student.

37:37

And later he asked me to visit him

37:40

in the foreign students dormitory. And

37:42

he's the one who told me about the Declaration

37:45

of Independence and the US Constitution.

37:48

My light bulb turned on. I have

37:51

individual rights and liberty.

37:53

After that,

37:54

he put America in my head

37:57

and I was talking to myself.

38:00

Oh, I have individual rights. I

38:02

shouldn't have to report who I'm going to see

38:04

when I go to see him. I suppose

38:07

register at the dormitory

38:09

door to say who I'm going to meet. What

38:11

is my major? Where's my dormitory address?

38:14

There was a guard at each foreign

38:18

student and scholars' buildings.

38:21

So I did not have a right to talk to

38:23

anybody, had to report it. So I

38:25

was very embarrassed and I slipped

38:27

into his building a couple of times talking

38:29

more

38:30

about USA. And

38:32

I thought, oh, this is a great country.

38:35

All men are created equal.

38:38

And

38:39

I said, what do you mean? He said, you

38:41

are born Chinese and you have different

38:43

skin color, but you are created

38:46

by God. You have individual

38:48

rights by being you,

38:50

born

38:51

by being you.

38:52

My life came on and never turned off.

38:55

So I said, oh, this is a cool country. If

38:57

someday I have to leave China and this

38:59

is a country I will come.

39:01

So I always had America in my

39:03

mind. So third year. How

39:05

difficult because it was so foreign to you. We

39:09

say we hold these things to be self-evident.

39:12

How long did it take you to realize

39:14

that that was self-evident? I mean, when he

39:17

said those words at first, you couldn't

39:19

have understood.

39:19

No, I was puzzled. That's why I asked him,

39:21

what do you mean? What is self-evident

39:24

mean? Because in China, I grew up in

39:26

a communist country. Their rights

39:28

are collective sense. Workers'

39:31

rights. So my parents are illiterate

39:34

workers. They had workers' rights, peasants'

39:36

rights, and the soldiers' rights, teachers'

39:39

rights, women's rights, all collective sense.

39:41

I never heard

39:43

individual has a right. Wow.

39:45

And that was just I couldn't

39:47

quite get it. So that's why I

39:49

had to go back. And when I went back,

39:52

I already started rebelling. I'm not going

39:54

to register. So I did not register

39:56

at the door because I knew what we

39:58

were talking about.

39:59

supposed to be not PC, I

40:02

will get into trouble to say, I'm going to spend

40:04

lots of time with this American

40:06

student, you know, so I just look

40:09

in and slick out. And but I feel

40:11

like there's something excitement,

40:14

you know, in me. So when you came here,

40:16

you didn't plan on running for Congress

40:18

until you started seeing things go wrong.

40:21

We're talking to Lily Tong Williams. She's

40:23

a candidate for the US House in

40:26

New Hampshire. She's already a Congressperson.

40:29

No, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not elected. Yeah.

40:32

I thought you were already. I thought you were running for Senator. I did not win

40:34

last year. Oh, you did win last year? OK. Yeah.

40:36

So I was on your radio show last year.

40:38

Talk about ESG last year. Right.

40:41

Yeah. Yeah. So what is the thing

40:43

that you are going to what is

40:45

the thing you're going to change? What is the thing that you're going

40:47

in to fight?

40:48

Well, I'm trying to use my stories

40:51

to remind people

40:53

why America was my promised

40:55

land. When I was in China, dream

40:57

about more freedom and the dream

41:00

about, you know, just leave my

41:02

American dream. And it

41:04

took me 20 years actually in this

41:06

country, learning English, learning

41:08

the culture to get rid of the

41:11

indoctrination I received. And

41:13

throughout my 24 years living

41:16

in China under one party,

41:17

CCP dictatorship. We

41:20

don't want to go down the wrong path because

41:22

there are lots of people, including some

41:25

elected into Congress and

41:27

push for socialist policies.

41:29

And and now I feel

41:31

like there's some kind of like, for example, when you

41:33

talk about work cultural revolution,

41:37

I feel like there is some kind

41:39

of things going on trying to

41:42

defeat America. And

41:44

I thought America is a free country

41:47

based on individual rights and liberty

41:49

like our forefathers put

41:52

into funding documents. But our

41:54

young people today remind me my

41:56

use.

41:57

I was a young pioneer, Red Guards.

41:59

I was totally brainwashed

42:02

and my parents had no rights. I

42:05

just, I couldn't even sleep last couple

42:07

years, especially during the riots and the

42:09

burnings. It's like, what's going on?

42:12

I feel like something, history

42:14

is repeating itself. And

42:16

I feel it's my duty to come out,

42:19

to tell my stories, for the whole

42:21

country to hear me.

42:23

And my unique voice

42:26

matters. We have to have a courage now

42:28

to speak the truth, even though I have

42:30

been targeted by CCP. I bet

42:33

you have. To say, shut up! In this country, you

42:35

are traitors, like a traitor to who? I'm an

42:37

American citizen. I have a free

42:39

speech and I have a citizen's

42:42

duty to tell the truth. So if

42:44

I say my country is getting destroyed

42:47

by the Marxists and socialists

42:49

and young people who don't know what freedom

42:51

is about, it's my duty to come

42:54

out to warn people. I

42:56

don't want to relive another socialist

42:59

country. I don't want my children

43:01

to lose their

43:02

American dream.

43:04

If you would like to help Lily

43:06

Tang, you can go to lilytangwilliams.com,

43:09

L-I-L-Y, lilytangwilliams.com,

43:13

and help her on

43:15

her fight for America,

43:19

a candidate for the US House.

43:21

Na, na, na, na!