Glenn RIPS Mamdani's Communist Independence Day Speech Apart | Guest: Jaco Booyens | 7/6/26
July 6, 2026
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5 min readThe Same Hand Reaching Into Your Truck and Your Wallet
On July 4th, the President pardoned a group of diesel mechanics in Alaska. Their crime: helping truckers keep their rigs running in sub-zero cold by defeating emissions sensors that would otherwise strand them at five miles per hour. One of these men, Max Burlock, a veteran and small business owner, was raided by roughly 30 armed EPA agents. Another grossed over $10 million selling tuning devices—a black market that, as Glenn Beck argues, tells you everything you need to know about a regulation that is failing the people it claims to serve.
This is not a story about trucks. It is a story about ownership.
Who Actually Owns What You Bought?
The central question Beck presses across the episode is deceptively simple: when you buy something with your own money, do you actually own it? Or does the manufacturer still control it? Or the federal government? The diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) system on modern trucks is designed to shut the vehicle down if the sensor detects a problem—even if the engine itself is perfectly fine. In Alaska, one transportation operator says the DEF system causes about 85% of his breakdowns. A state fleet manager calls it a "significant portion" of his maintenance costs. The people who wrote the rule work in an office 2,000 miles away and have never started a diesel at 40 below.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:09) **Show Opening & Theme: Who Owns Your Stuff?** - Glenn introduces the core question of the episode: when you buy something, do you actually own it, or does the government or manufacturer still have control?
- 2 (06:11) **The Alaska Diesel Raid: A Case Study in Government Overreach** - Glenn details the story of a diesel shop owner raided by 30 armed EPA agents for helping truckers bypass emissions rules to survive in sub-zero cold.
- 3 (11:16) **Your Power Bill: The Cost of Net Zero Mandates** - Glenn pivots to electricity costs, arguing that high bills in blue states are a direct result of renewable energy mandates, not market forces.
- 4 (14:33) **The Dam Hypocrisy: Blue States & Cheap Power** - Glenn examines the exception of cheap power in Washington and Oregon, attributing it to hydroelectric dams, which the same political coalitions are now trying to tear down.
- 5 (22:51) **The Declaration of Independence vs. The Collective** - Glenn reframes the entire discussion around the core philosophical conflict: the individual vs. the collective.
- 6 (33:19) **The Real Problem: Marxism & The Collective** - Glenn defines Marxism as the belief that the individual exists for the state, and links this to fascism, white supremacy, and other ideologies.
- 7 (46:55) **Confronting the Patriot Front on July 4th** - Glenn denounces the Patriot Front, a white nationalist group that marched in Washington D.C. on Independence Day.
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Show Notes
Glenn discusses the issues with government regulations, specifically those on diesel trucks and the DEF system and those on energy, as these regulations drive up costs for consumers, reduce reliability, and erode Americans' ownership of their vehicles, power, water, and property. CNN blames President Trump for the current political divide in America, but Glenn points out all the divisive rhetoric from prominent Democrat politicians who have actively fueled America's divide. Glenn discusses the group "Patriot Front" and the recent viral incident involving a black woman on the Metro in Washington, D.C. The Democratic Party today is radically different than 40 years ago, as it has gotten progressively more radical and open to socialism. Socialists will point to Denmark or Sweden when defending socialism, but Glenn lays out why places like Denmark aren't actually operating under socialism and exposes the intellectual dishonesty of conflating socialism with how these countries operate. Mercy Culture Church, Washington, D.C., lead pastor Jaco Booyens joins to discuss what's happening with faith and religion in the nation's capital.
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