Will the conclave elect a RADICAL pope to follow Francis?



After Pope Francis’ passing, the conclave to elect the Catholic Church’s next pope is now underway. This begs the question, will the next pope be “conservative” and orthodox — or will he follow in Francis’ footsteps and embrace leftist and globalist ideas?

LifeSiteNews co-founder and CEO John-Henry Westen has an idea, and he notes that we will be finding out very soon.

Westen explains that the “word on the street” is that a new pope should be expected by day three of the conclave.

“I don’t know anything about this,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” admits, “but it doesn’t look like there’s any real conservative that has a chance of getting in.”


“That’s an interesting question, because in the Church, of course, we don’t talk much about conservative, it’s more about orthodoxy, those who actually follow the Catholic faith and then those who don’t. And on those who do, there are a number,” Westen tells Glenn.

However, many of the cardinals who will be voting in the conclave were appointed by Pope Francis — who also reportedly increased the numbers of cardinals from 120 to 133.

“The rule book, called 'Universi Dominici Gregis' was put out by John Paul II and amended by Benedict,” Westen explains, “It said it should be a limit of 120. The thing is, if you check with a canonist though, the pope has the right to change that.”

“The other thing is this, there’s now 133 cardinals who are voting, 108 were named by Francis. That’s 81% more,” Westen continues. “So if you want to talk about a stacked deck, sure.”

“The only difficulty with that kind of very political calculus is this: Can you find enough guys who sign up to that kind of extreme left-wing, non-Catholic type of deal, and the answer is no. So you’ve got a bunch of cardinals that he named that aren’t going to be following in his footsteps,” he says.

“So what you have is a bunch of guys that really nobody knows, and they’re going to take what’s coming as it comes and have to deal with the aftereffects of the last 12 years, which has been a disaster for the Church from almost anyone’s perspective,” he adds.

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The New York Times blasts podcaster's ‘revisionist history’ —  while ignoring its own



A recent New York Times hit piece titled, “The Podcaster Asking You to Side With History’s Villains,” is a prime example of why many Americans no longer trust the mainstream media.

The piece criticizes “The Martyr Made Podcast” host Darryl Cooper’s revisionist history — which Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” believes couldn’t be more hypocritical, as the New York Times was behind the “1619 Project” written by Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Some of Cooper’s claims that the New York Times took grave issue with were that “Winston Churchill was the ‘chief villain’ of the war, not, by implication, Adolf Hitler,” and that “millions had died in Nazi-controlled Eastern Europe because the Nazis had not adequately planned to feed them.”


The New York Times also took issue with Cooper being platformed by Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan, who have had the podcaster on their own podcasts.

“They go on and on and on to talk about how ‘this just can’t stand, I mean, there’s got to be some sort of filter, and you know, Joe Rogan just can’t have on whoever he wants to have on,’” Glenn comments.

“That’s the problem, is it, New York Times? Is that the problem?” Glenn asks. “Let me just look in the past here and see if we’ve had this exact same problem with anybody else, because the person that came to mind was not Darryl Cooper, but Nikole Hannah-Jones, because I think those two are the same coin, and the coin’s counterfeit.”

“Jones, she did the ‘1619 Project.’ She did the same thing in reverse, except I think she’s actually worse, I mean, because I think she made up almost everything in that. She recasts American history as racist from the very inception of the country. Neither one of them is telling the whole truth,” he continues.

“They clutch their pearls because he has an audience, and only the New York Times can have that audience. But where was that concern when they gave an audience to Nikole Hannah-Jones and gave her a Pulitzer for a project now so discredited by the very historians that are now talking about Cooper?” he says.

“Where was the caution when they declared that 1619, not 1776, was the true founding of the nation? They didn’t question her authority; they didn’t say, ‘Well, she’s not a historian.’ They printed it. In fact, they taught it and endorsed it. They platformed it in schools,” he adds.

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Glenn Beck says if you live in THIS state, get out NOW



Even though Democrats lost the last election thanks to their progressive policies that alienated a huge portion of the country, that doesn’t mean they’re rethinking their radicalism.

A perfect example is the state of Washington, which just made a series of terrifying moves that caused Glenn Beck to say, “If you're living in Washington state, may I just say get the hell out now!”

For example, under current Washington law, the governor has the power to declare a state of emergency without initial legislative approval. During such emergencies, the governor has broad authority to limit or prohibit various activities and may suspend enforcement of certain rules and legal obligations affecting both public and private sectors.

Senate Bill 5434 was introduced in response to concerns about former Democratic Governor Jay Inslee’s extensive use of emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. SB 5434 sought to impose limits on those powers, but the bill ultimately failed to pass.

“Remember, this is the state that was talking about building little internment camps for people who wouldn't get vaccinated last time,” says Glenn. “If you think that they won't do that, you're out of your mind.”

Another scary move the state has made is the passing of House Bill 2077, also called the “Tesla tax,” that adds a 2% tax on zero-emission vehicle credits sold by automakers and a 10% tax on credits saved for later. Tesla, the main seller of these credits, is most impacted by the tax because it exceeds the 25,000-credit threshold. The bill is aimed at addressing the state’s mounting budget deficit.

Glenn slams this new tax on Tesla’s EV credits as a symptom of the state’s overspending.

“All of these states that have been spending money like crazy — California, Washington state — I'm not bailing you out,” says Glenn. “I will march to secede if this government is going to bail out the states that have been spending money out of control while our states have been responsible.”

“The Constitution is not a suicide pact, and because you are committing suicide doesn't mean my state has to commit suicide,” he adds.

Glenn’s last example of why the state of Washington is a sinking ship is House Bill 1131, which gives illegal aliens with convictions priority for pardons over citizens.

“HB 1131 allows convicted noncitizens facing deportation to skip the front of the clemency line ahead of U.S. citizens,” co-host Stu Burguiere reads from the bill.

“Sell your house, and get out of that state!” Glenn pleads.

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Biblical warnings fulfilled: The rising persecution of Christians foreshadows global instability



The persecution of Christians is described throughout scripture. Jesus warned about it in John 15 when he told the disciples, “If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” In Matthew 5 during the Sermon on the Mount, he said, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” In 2 Timothy 3, Paul wrote, “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”

History has proved their words true time and time again. From Emperor Nero to Maoist China to present-day Syria, Christians have been brutally persecuted for their faith.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” former U.S. Army Special Forces sniper Tim Kennedy said the Christian genocide we’re seeing unfold in the Middle East, Haiti, Congo, and other parts of Africa is a dire warning sign of major instability to come.

“There are some brilliant companies that are able to do predictive modeling using literally every public and classified source of information, and there's these events that are pretty predictable. They predicted what was going to happen in Afghanistan, predicted what was going to happen in Ukraine,” says Kennedy.

According to these companies, “on the very near horizon, as soon as late summer, we are going to see some real instability throughout CENTCOM and the Indo-Pacific region.”

The fact that Christians are currently being massacred in several predominantly Muslim regions foreshadows this widespread instability to come.

Thankfully, the Trump administration, specifically Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel, is working overtime to get ahead of this impending doom.

“If we look at the first 95 days of the president in office and our intelligence community, specifically the Tulsis and the Sebastian Gorkas, going to work with Kash Patel … and Pam Bondi, 45 Americans that have been illegally detained abroad [were] brought home,” says Kennedy.

“We are knocking on the door of a hundred radical terrorists wanting to do harm against Americans — dead. We are trying to get ahead of what we know is coming,” he adds. “Every time one of these places starts becoming less secure and stable, that is the breeding ground for radical adversarial groups that are funded by our adversaries, like China and Iran, to then conduct attacks on Americans.”

“Next year is going to be a tough year all the way around,” Glenn agrees. “What he's saying is coming is coming.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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WATCH: Glenn Beck RAGES over WaPo 'dictator' hit piece on Trump



Glenn Beck just returned from Washington, D.C., where he interviewed President Trump about his first 100 days in office.

One of the subjects they discussed was Trump’s Oval Office renovations, specifically the gold that’s been brought in. Since his inauguration, he’s added gold vermeil figurines, medallions, and decorative objects on the fireplace mantel, gold eagles on side tables, gilded Rococo mirrors above doors, and gold cherubs in pediments, among other accents.

Some have speculated that his redecoration symbolizes the golden age of America, which he’s promised to usher in. Others assume it’s hinting at economic policies, like a return to the gold standard.

But of course, the radical left is using Trump’s affinity for gold to bolster the "dictator" narrative.

“The sparkle conveys something more than insidious about how Trump views himself. Behold the new Sun King, the wannabe emperor who views his powers as absolute,” Glenn reads from a recent Washington Post article.

Or “he loves gold,” laughs Glenn, who can’t believe the lengths to which liberals will go to hold on to their "Trump’s a dictator" narrative.

“[Loving gold] is the thing he was most famous for before he was president,” adds co-host Stu Burguiere.

Further, unlike a dictator, Trump is “spending his own money” to make these upgrades.

The Post article also cited Trump’s decision to display paintings of former presidents as evidence that he’s aiming to be the Sun King.

“If you were a dictator, why would you put all of the other presidents?” Glenn aks.

When he spoke with President Trump during the interview about these renovations, the truth behind the gold and the paintings became evident.

He said to Glenn, “This is is the most important office in the world, and all of these people come from their big huge palaces and their big huge rooms of power that are gilded and have all of these paintings, all of the old trappings of power,” and “I want them to understand that this is the same kind of power, except it's a new power and a power beyond their understanding.”

“He is doing this to the Oval Office not to become a dictator, not to signal anything to America, but to signal something to all of the dignitaries that come into that office and sit in those chairs,” says Glenn. “That’s exactly what the Oval is supposed to do. … The whole point of that office is to project power to the world, not to the citizen.”

The Washington Post is “so full of bullcrap, I can't take it,” he lambastes. “He’s signaling to the world! You [Washington Post] people are so caught up in your own self-righteous, dim-witted, overeducated bullcrap that you can't get beyond yourself” to see that Trump is a master “negotiator.”

While Glenn can’t reveal everything he and President Trump discussed because of an NDA he signed, he promises that in the near future, we will see just how generous and how unlike a dictator our president really is.

“Every American should be grateful for what he is spending his money on and doing, and you will know more about that in the coming months. You will be shocked at some of the things that he is just saying, ‘I'm just going to write a check and do it.”’

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the episode above.

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Top 3 behind-the-scenes moments from Glenn Beck’s interview with President Trump



Glenn Beck just got back from Washington, D.C., where he became the first member of the media to interview President Trump about his first 100 days in office. Their conversation was expansive, jumping from one hot topic to the next.

However, off camera, there were just as many exciting things going on. On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn shared the best behind-the-scenes moments he shared with President Trump.

1. Solo in the Oval Office

“[President Trump] left me alone with my wife in the Oval Office for like five minutes,” he tells co-host Stu Burguiere. “I was alone with the Declaration of Independence. I mean it was incredible.”

“He said, ‘Nobody sits in here without the president,’” and “I said, 'I'm aware of that,’ and he said, ‘But I knew you'd want to look at everything, so I thought you'd be more comfortable if you were here by yourself,”’ Glenn recounts, calling the experience “fantastic.”

2. Personal White House tour

Even though Glenn was allotted a strict 40 minutes for the interview, as President Trump had a meeting with the National Security Council to get to, that didn’t stop the president from taking Glenn on a personal tour of the White House.

Just as White House aides were trying to usher Trump out of the interview and into the meeting, where high-ranking officials were waiting for him, he said, “Let them wait.”

“He takes us through the entire White House room by room, shows us all of the meanings behind things — all the amazing things that nobody knows about the White House,” says Glenn.

The tour even included a trip to the Lincoln Bedroom, which can only be given by the president of the United States.

Glenn says the room was “a time capsule,” complete with the famous massive rosewood bed, a spooky painting of Lincoln said to be his favorite portrait of himself, an enormous mirror, eight feet by four feet, and a writing desk where one of four copies of the Gettysburg Address resides.

3. The REAL Trump

While the media goes to great lengths to paint him in every negative light it can conjure up, the truth is that Donald Trump is “always energized,” personable and caring, a brilliant historian, and, most importantly, “still humble,” says Glenn.

At one point, President Trump said to him, “Every day, Glenn, I wake up and I say to myself, 'I can't believe I'm in this house.'"

To hear more of Glenn’s behind-the-scenes stories from his time at the White House with President Trump, including a story about Hillary Clinton allegedly stealing doorknobs, watch the clip above.

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Young people are FLOCKING to the Catholic Church — here’s why



According to several recent reports, including one from the National Catholic Register, we’ve seen a huge surge in Catholic conversions — especially among younger generations. A recent New York Post article highlighted the “growing number of young people turning to the Catholic Church from other denominations, religions and even no faith at all.”

What’s behind this sudden flocking to Catholicism?

Glenn Beck says that people are drawn to Catholic rituals because they offer order and meaning in this era of progressive chaos.

He reflects on Michelle Obama’s infamous 2008 speech, during which she claimed that “we are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history.”

A decade and a half later, and it’s clear that uprooting tradition results in division, displacement, and disorder.

Tradition, Glenn explains, is “deeply human” and serves to “mark moments that matter in our lives” and “helps organize things in our mind.”

Catholicism, which is predicated on tradition, can restore the emptiness our current culture has adopted.

“Rituals in Catholicism — the Eucharist or the confession — elevate this instinct, this need to the sacred, so it’s not just a routine; it is a bridge to meaning,” says Glenn. “That matters because when you have meaning and there's a storm in your life, it gives structure so it doesn't feel like the storm is just going to wipe you out entirely.”

Modern worship doesn’t seem to offer the same stability as traditional worship. The Post article notes that “Gen Z crave clarity and certainty” and are therefore “rejecting lax alternatives of modern worship.”

“Why? Because modern worship tells you you can believe anything; there are no real rules,” says Glenn.

The problem is, that kind of progressive doctrine lacks substance, which is what the human soul is designed to thirst for. Ritual and tradition can offer a solution because they “build communities — like a congregation singing together in unison or a neighborhood block party,” says Glenn.

“We now live in a world of screen and rush,” he explains. But rituals and traditions “will slow you down, make you present in the moment.”

“They're not about rules; they're all about meaning if you do it right. This isn't about recognizing one faith over another. This is about recognizing what rituals do for us.”

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the clip above.

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‘Permanent dystopia’: Former OpenAI researcher warns of ‘reckless race’ for AI control



AI development companies like OpenAI and Google DeepMind are in a "reckless race" to build smarter AI systems that may soon become an “army of geniuses.” While that may seem like a good idea to those behind the technology, it might spell disaster for mankind.

“It’s going to be very thrilling — and also very scary,” former OpenAI researcher and AI Futures Project Executive Director Daniel Kokotajlo tells Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“It’s the stated intention of the CEOs of these companies to eventually build superintelligence,” he continues, noting that “superintelligence is fully autonomous AI systems that are better than humans at absolutely everything.”

“That sounds like a movie that we’ve all seen,” Glenn comments, concerned.


“They totally have seen those movies,” Kokotajlo says of those behind the push for superintelligence. “And they totally think, yes, it could go really bad. In fact, that’s part of the founding story of some of these companies.”

“Lots of people at these companies, especially early on, basically had similar thoughts of, ‘Wow, this is going to be the biggest thing ever. If it goes well, it could be the best thing that ever happens. If it goes poorly, it could literally kill everyone or do something similarly catastrophic like lead to a permanent dystopia,’” he continues.

One major issue that could lead to the latter is that those who end up running these companies or are in high-up positions at them are not the ones who are concerned about where this is all headed.

Those who are concerned — like Kokotajlo — are the ones who quit who walked away from millions in equity.

Kokotajlo tells Glenn that he walked away when he was told there was going to be a large focus on addressing questions like, "How do we make sure that we can control the AI when they’re smarter than us?” As time went on, he noticed there was little to no effort being put toward addressing these questions.

“That's just an example of the sort of thing that made me quit,” he explains. “We’re going to build anyway, even though we don’t understand it, don’t know how to control it, and, you know, it’s going to be a disaster. That’s basically what caused me to leave.”

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White House endorses COVID lab leak theory, but will anyone be held accountable?



On April 18, the White House publicly endorsed the COVID lab leak theory. The government’s official COVID website was also redirected to a new page titled “Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19,” which contends that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and was leaked by accident.

The revamped site criticizes Anthony Fauci, David Morens, Andrew Cuomo, the WHO, EcoHealth Alliance, and the Biden administration, among others, for actively promoting false information and covering up the truth.

It cites five points to support the lab leak claim:

1. “The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.”

2. “Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.”

3. “Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.”

4. “Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.”

5. “By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.”

After years of the Biden administration and his loyal media allies promoting a lie, it’s refreshing to see the government proclaim the truth.

But while Glenn Beck sees the website as “an amazing thing,” the information on it isn’t exactly news.

“Most of this stuff we had within six or eight months of the actual outbreak,” he says.

The real question is: “Who’s going to jail over this?”

The other question is: Why doesn’t the legacy media seem interested in correcting the narrative?

“Millions of people died here. You'd think that it would be something [the media] would focus on and draw a lot of attention to and continue to kind of beat the drum until someone was held responsible, and they don't seem to have any interest in that,” says co-host Stu Burguiere, noting that most of these outlets “have run an op-ed” about the lab leak theory and called it good.

“If we make a mistake, we correct it because it drives us crazy that we made the mistake, and I don’t want anybody to believe that I’m standing behind something that is wrong and a lie,” says Glenn.

The legacy media clearly doesn’t have the same convictions.

“They knowingly lied” about COVID, Joe Biden’s cognitive state, and Russiagate, and yet, “There’s no consequence.”

“They’re not going to lose any advertisers. The New York Times hasn't lost any real money because of this. Their people just continue to watch,” says Glenn.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Glenn Beck reacts to passing of Pope Francis



Earlier this morning, Pope Francis passed away at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. He was 88 years old and riddled with health issues. His replacement will likely be decided in the next 15 to 20 days by a secret conclave of cardinals, who will vote until a candidate secures a two-thirds majority.

As the world braces to find out who’s next in line, Glenn Beck has a story to tell — one that mainstream media would never dare to touch.

He keenly recalls the day Francis was announced as the next pope following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI — a “staunch conservative,” who “stood for everything the modern world wanted the Church to abandon.”

Benedict “had moral clarity; he was a traditionalist and a spiritual authority,” Glenn reflects. However, it didn’t take him long to figure out that “Pope Francis was going to be none of these things.”

As the media speculated about who would be next in line, pundits brought up Francis, formerly known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and claimed they knew very little about him.

However, “Within 10 minutes [of the announcement], everybody on every network started talking about how great he was going to be” and that “he was practically Jesus,” says Glenn.

That’s when he could see the writing on the wall — “They like him,” which means “this guy is going to be a nightmare.”

Contrast their celebration of Francis with their contempt for Benedict, who “would not compromise on life” or “marriage” and had “no applause for the modern world.”

“The globalists hated him, the media called him rigid, progressives called him dangerous, and the machine went to work behind closed doors because that machine is in every government, and make no mistake — the Vatican is a government,” says Glenn.

Although it will never be admitted, Benedict didn’t resign; he was removed due to “a soft coup by the progressive faction inside the Church who was eager to align Rome with Davos.”

“We've seen it in Hollywood; we've seen it in the media — it's the replacement of the immovable with those who are more malleable; the strong replaced by the inclusive, the faithful with the fashionable,” Glenn reflects.

Pope Francis is case and point. He entered the picture and “immediately everything about the Church changed.” Suddenly, there was “global applause,” “doctrinal ambiguity,” and “climate change sermons.” Overnight, the Church became “less about salvation, more about sustainability and collective salvation; less moral compass, more moral relativism.”

The deep-state mentality is pervasive, Glenn explains. It “runs in institutions, and when those institutions start to resist the world's direction, they're infiltrated, they're neutralized, and they're repurposed.”

That’s what “happened at the Vatican,” says Glenn. “I saw it.”

To hear Glenn’s wild story about his chilling encounter with the very man who was leading the opposition to oust Benedict and hear his take on where the Catholic Church is headed, watch the episode above.

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