The Glenn Beck Program
It's Time We Treat the Cartels the Way They Treat Us | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Vivek Ramaswamy | 2/26/25
Wed, 26 Feb 2025
Glenn tells the heartbreaking story of a Texas rancher who was killed by a suspected cartel IED while he was driving near his ranch. Glenn lays out the importance of standing up against the cartels, who are so willing to take the lives of our own. It's simple: The cartels are terrorists, and we must treat them as such. Glenn reacts to radical leftist Washington Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal's recent meltdown about President Trump cracking down on illegal immigration. "If we don't have this labor, our way of life will crumble." Where have you heard that argument used before? The Left's view on immigration is exploitation masked by progressive "compassion." Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joins to discuss his campaign for Ohio governor and the policies he plans to implement. Glenn and Stu discuss the changes coming to the Washington Post as Jeff Bezos tries to distance the outlet from its liberal bias. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) joins to discuss why we must pass the REINS Act. Glenn and Stu discuss how humans are now forming romantic relationships with AI chatbots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: How are cartels affecting American safety?
Also, I want to just think out loud a little bit on the idea that we should get rid of all of these illegals. I mean, it sounds pretty harsh, doesn't it? Let's think that one through. Also, the drug cartels and an IED that killed a Texas rancher, not in Afghanistan, but here on our border. We go there in just a minute. First, let me tell you about Cozy Earth.
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So I want to tell you a story. I mean, the blood-soaked dirt of Texas tells a story that I don't think you want to hear, but you probably should. A rancher, calloused hands, sun-creased face, the kind of guy that gets up with the chickens in the morning and wrestles a living from earth. He stepped outside to just check on his herd.
One moment, he is breathing in the crisp morning air near Brownsville, Texas. And the next, he's gone. I want you to remember, this is in America. There was an IED, a coward's weapon, planted by a cartel. It turned this American, just living his life, into... Pieces. A mangled memory. It blown his boots off. Now the cattle wander untended. His widow is... left there wondering what's left.
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Chapter 2: What is the U.S. government's response to cartel violence?
This isn't Kabul. This isn't Fallujah. This is our land, a stone's throw away from where I sit right now, where cartels are running wild, and now they've brought their war here. Now, we have ignored this for a very long time. Our government was in bed with them. This isn't murder. This is a declaration of war by the cartels. So what did the U.S. State Department do?
Well, this happened a few weeks ago, and the State Department just put a warning on border towns like it's some third-world hellhole. The Texas AG commissioner, Sid Miller, told ranchers, hey, you should avoid dirt roads and any suspicious junk. Like what? Like you're dodging snipers in Fallujah? This is America. We're not supposed to cower on our own soil. Hey, you want to survive today?
Here's what you need to do. No. Foreign criminals have turned our ranches and many of our cities into kill zones. These cartels, correct. He was correct for saying this. Trump called them terrorists and terrorist organizations. And he's right. But you know what they thrive on? Spinelessness. That's what they thrive on. Spinelessness. They want you to cower. They want you to be afraid.
They rake in blood money while now planting bombs in our backyards. And what do we do? So far, nothing. So far, nothing. It's one little story today you probably won't even see unless you're looking for it. We have drones that can spot a snake and track it. We have AI that tracks every move. We have AI that can go in and find where every penny is.
We have special operators who make these cowards wet themselves. When they plant... an improvised explosive device on our U.S. soil and kill an innocent American citizen, I don't know. I think we should use some of those tools that we have at our disposal. Crush this cancer. Use them. Tell Mexico and their cartel buddies, sorry, gang. Homie don't play this game anymore.
Yeah, say it just like that. I want to hear Trump say that. America should not ever bend or ignore. You spill our blood on our soil, we bury you. That's the line. We don't want war with anybody. We don't want foreign wars. But you bring death onto our soil? We will kill you. We will kill everybody that's involved with you. We will burn your empire down to the ground and then we'll go home.
Cross our line and your empire burns. That's the message. Now, Trump has done a very, very good job at sending the message. Do you know how many people crossed? I think, what was it, yesterday? They had 200 people across our entire border on the south kind of approach like, can we come in? No. That is a 15-year low. So we've sent the message, but we've sent the message to the regular people.
The people are like, God, you know, I want to live a better life. Uh-huh. No. Sorry. Come in the front door. Not the back door. Not the window. Not down the chimney. You're not Santa Claus. So we've done a good job. Trump, in very short order, has sent a very clear message. And he started to send the message to the cartel. But you cannot allow time to pass.
after they kill an innocent American citizen on their own land in their own town. No, we are staring down a beast and I mean a nasty one. When cartels start to plant bombs in Texas and flood our streets with fentanyl and laughing while we bicker about root causes, but what is the root cause? A rancher is blown apart on his own land. And the response? Nothing. Yet. This isn't a crime.
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Chapter 3: Why is Glenn Beck critical of the Left's view on immigration?
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You know, I heard something yesterday that I wanted to share with you because I thought, you know, I'm from Seattle. Representative Jayapal is from Seattle. She can't be totally bat crap crazy, right? Maybe... Maybe I just haven't thought of things in the correct fashion. So here's what she said yesterday.
We can't let them deport the millions of families across this country who have been doing the work that keeps our economy going every day. We can't let them scapegoat and criminalize immigrants who contribute, who are our neighbors, our friends, our churchgoers. If you look at the food that's on your table, think about who picked it. If you look at your homes, think about who built them.
Oh, my God. If you look at your vulnerable elders and your kids, think about who's taking care of them.
Who's caring for them? Boy, you know, I heard that case, and that just struck right to my heart. You know, I thought to myself, my gosh, maybe we're wrong. She could be correct. Let's look at her side of the argument. I mean, just for a minute. I don't expect you to change, but I want you to listen with compassion.
You sons of, you people who just don't, you just hate people of other colors for no apparent reason. That's the only reason why you want these illegals, as you might call them, out. Have some compassion, man.
So let me just, I want you to, unless you're driving, close your eyes for just a minute, and I want you to imagine a twilight world, shadowed and stilled, where the hum of life is faded to a whisper. Picture the sprawling farmland, its fields once ablaze with golden wheat and beautiful verdant rows of produce. Just, it's a painting. Except now it's desolate.
Stocks are brittle, fruit rotting where it falls on the ground. Zoom closer in. A construction site. Skeletal beams rising like bones of some forgotten beast abandoned mid-creation. A restaurant. There, on Main Street, in your own hometown, its windows dark, its tables bare. The aroma simmering spices replaced now just by the dust of neglect. Oh, you might say, I'm finding that hard to imagine.
But it is the precipice which we teeter upon when we contemplate casting out the undocumented souls who breathe life into our nation's veins. Let's really look at her case. These workers, vilified, yet so rarely beheld, are the unseen architects of our own prosperity. Yes. Consider the ledger here of reality. Over 70% of those who tend our fields are foreign born.
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Chapter 4: What economic policies does Vivek Ramaswamy propose for Ohio?
I really don't know if you should be connecting with the underworld and the bottom of the barrel with all of the people at work. You know what I mean? Really?
Yeah. It's an interesting take. I don't know what to make of it, though.
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Now, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to be the governor of Ohio. And yes, please, is my response. Vivek Ramaswamy joins me in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about realestateagentsitrust.com. I started this company probably about 10 years ago. We've done billions of dollars in business and saved people time and money on selling and buying their home. It's a business that I started. It's just... It is...
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Chapter 5: How will AI technology shape the future according to Vivek Ramaswamy?
Capitalism is the greatest system known to man to lift us up from poverty. We've started to apologize for that as well.
No, I want Ohio, and look, I say this for Ohio, but I say this because it has a national significance too, Glenn, is I want Ohio to set the standard for the rest of the country where we embrace property rights, where we embrace capitalism and meritocracy instead of apologizing for it. And the beauty of our system is that so much of saving our country
actually has to come from the level of the states, has to come from the people. That's what James Madison envisioned. That's what our founding fathers envisioned. So I think federalism is the way. The path to our golden age runs through federalism. And that's why, look, I think that saving this country is a team effort.
That's why I chose to run for this position after great conversations with President Trump, with Elon. Frankly, both of them, they came out within hours of my announcement, within an hour or so. to both endorse, and I was proud to receive their support, and others statewide here as well. But that's because this is going to be a team effort to save the country.
And I do think leadership at the level of the states, especially starting a year or two from now, after a lot of those programs have been pushed back down to the states and the people where they belong, I do see a bit of a leadership gap there, and that's a big part of why I was called into this. And we're going to set a national standard. We can call it the Ohio standard.
We can call it a modern-day Northwest ordinance. But a conservative state, when governed according to conservative principles, actually, can be a magnet for the rest of the country.
Okay, I've got a serious question for you. But first, an even more serious question. Every time I've ever endorsed any candidate, they always lose. So what is my non-endorsement worth to you, Vivek?
Your friendship is worth a lot to me. And we'd love to have you in Ohio. We'll turn that into a Midas touch.
So I do want to talk to you about something that you are you're qualified to answer. And I think there are very few people that are qualified that people. Trust and know that can speak on this. You know, Musk came out and talked about the singularity on Sunday and said we are on the event horizon of the singularity.
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Chapter 6: What role does federalism play in Vivek Ramaswamy's vision for Ohio?
But we also want to be the state that has two and one year and even six month or nine month vocational programs that train people to be an electrician or a welder or a builder and give them also in their respective fields, even the training needed, know how to use that AI, how to use that next generation of technology to apply it to their respective fields.
That's what true modernization looks like. So I don't want to fall in this camp and say, oh, well, that technological revolution is for somebody else. No. How do we harness the fruits of that to actually improve our own lives, even in fields that weren't traditionally thought to necessarily be technologically forward fields? I want to change that attitude. And, you know, it's not either or.
It's not one is more elite than the other. We're all elite in the way I look at it. But I don't refer to the other professions as the trades profession. I call them the professions because that's what they are. They deserve the same degree of dignity and respect. But at the same time, it's not going to be by chasing our past. It is going to be by leading us to chase our future.
So I do think that requires a new generation of leadership. And at the state level, it's a big part of why I'm stepping into what I see as a leadership vacuum.
So I think Donald Trump has ushered in a completely new era that is not even nobody even begins to understand it yet. I mean, I think he's going to be remembered as our first real technology leader. President and he is changing everything about the system and it's long needed to be changed.
But when he comes to like last night in the House, they passed a budget, the budget really, I mean, I guess it's a step in the right direction, but it's still growing the deficit. And, you know, it has some good things in it, but also has some other bad things. You have Congressman Davidson from from Ohio that voted against it last night.
And part of me is is with Massey and people like that are like, hey, you know what? We've got to cut, cut, cut. How do we get America or the people of Ohio or the Congress and the Senate to understand trillions of dollars need to be cut? No more eating around the edges. Trillions of dollars need to be cut. How do we get there?
Well, the truth is one of the paths is grow, grow, grow. It goes to that spirit that you talked about. That's where I think as a great leader of a state, you can at least help in that regard where if you're depressing economic growth, then your debt-to-GDP ratio becomes even worse because your GDP growth rates are lower.
So one of the areas to focus on is just robust economic growth through mass deregulation, through mass unlocking of private sector potential, through slashing and burning bureaucracy wherever necessary. And that's one positive side.
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Chapter 7: Why should America audit its gold reserves now?
There's a couple of people who could who could probably a few people in the timeout corner that maybe they can bring back in.
Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, there's not a lot of their current writers that would qualify for this approach.
They have a lot of Republicans. They have a lot of Republicans that write for them. I'm confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. Doc, I can barely move my head. I can't turn. I can't turn at all. I'm excited for us together to fill that void.
Now, that sentence is just funny. That was comic relief. I'm excited for us together to fill that void. Right now, they're all like, you son of a... Oh, yeah.
They're already... They are all typing their... This is a good whiplash, though, right? Like, I want this injury a little bit. It's nice to see that.
I just hope it's real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, look... When you change an opinion, there's two ways to do it. One, it's over years and you're slowly putting things together. And then there's one day that you go, you know what? I believe in America. And everybody's like, of course you do. You've been saying this for a long time. You've just denied it forever.
But you've been that way for a long time. You've been moving that way. No whiplash there. And then there's the other where you're like, I'm Satan. And I believe Jesus is the answer. And you're like, wait, what?
Wow, what a turnaround. You know, that one's kind of shocking. We're seeing a lot of that these days. And I can give you some examples that you don't want to hear. But with Bezos, I mean, look, there's a lot I have problems with Bezos. Really?
I think his new wife is wonderful.
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