RADIONovember 14, 2022

Glenn's response to the 'TRUMP vs DESANTIS' fight

Glenn is not going to engage in the "Trump vs DeSantis" fight. Instead, he has a message for conservatives: We are blessed to have both men on the side of freedom. They are both fighters that get things done. As Democrats float Biden and even a Liz Cheney/Stacey Abrams ticket for 2024, Glenn asks: do they have even ONE fighter of Trump or DeSantis' caliber? And he warns that Democrats would want nothing more than for Republicans to tear themselves apart. So, don't give them what they want...

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: I want to talk to you a little bit about what is -- what period of time we're now entering. We are entering. And we are still at this point, what I believe is the last phase of America, as we know it.

What comes, next, is an entirely new system, or a restoration of the original system. And it is still not decided. And it is going to be a fight to the -- to the wire. Fight to the finish. It's going to be a photo finish.

Let me give you this piece of information, to begin with. An endorsement, according to polls, an endorsement from President Biden made an individual less likely to support a candidate.

If a candidate was endorsed by President Joe Biden, would it make you more or less likely to vote for that candidate?

46 percent said a Biden endorsement would make it less likely to support a candidate. While 28 percent said it would be more likely to support a candidate. Have you seen polls like this? On Donald Trump? When it comes to Republican candidates.

Republican candidates, that he endorsed, did well. Some of them. Some of them did not. Right now, we are blessed by having Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, both on our side.

They are both fighters. They both have different styles. But both of them get things done.

Yesterday, and I'm not going to get into it. Yesterday, Donald Trump attacked Ron DeSantis, on truth social.

And people started arguing, immediately, online.

I am not going to engage in this. And I urge you to not engage in this. We have an opportunity, right now, to have both of these guys, on our side. I want both of them in the fight.

This is not a fight that is going to happen, because of one man. This is going to happen, because you are involved. And all of us are pulling in the same direction.

And whether Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis know it, they're pulling in exactly the same direction.

DeSantis should come out and say, look, right now, you know Trump is responding to a lot of people that are trying to pit us against each other. He should say nothing bad about Donald Trump. He should admit that Trump is right. He helped him win the governor's office.

But he should also say that he considers Donald Trump a friend, and that Donald Trump has been there his entire life. And if Trump isn't talking about you, you're doing something wrong. But he has nothing bad to say about Donald Trump.

Now, I've said this to people, and they've said, wasn't that the Ted Cruz?

And I said, well, yes. And no.

Ted Cruz had words to go on. Ron DeSantis can just be quiet, and just keep doing his job. I am also not somebody, who -- who is -- I learned my lesson in 2016.

I learned my lesson.

My way is not usually the right way. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not.

But I am tired of trying to overthink elections. Let the American people, and more importantly, God sort it out.

If we remain loyal to what we believe, we're going to be fine. I thought Donald Trump was going to be the worst president ever. He turned out to be one of the best presidents of my life, policy-wise.

So am I upset that maybe Donald Trump will have another turn?

Nope!

Nope. Am I upset that Donald Trump may have another turn, and he spends four years, and Ron DeSantis finishes up in Florida, and then he does an eight-year term. Nope. Not at all.

I think that's fantastic. Would I -- would I mind if Donald Trump decided to bow out? I think it would be a loss, if we lost him as a vocal supporter. If he just kind of disappeared.

I think it would be a bad thing.

If he decided, I'm not going to second guess Donald Trump, I did that once. It was foolish to do.

Here's what I would suggest: Let's count our blessings, of having two great fighters. Can you name one on the democratic side?

Did you hear that -- in fact, I want to play this for you. This is crazy. Play cut four. This is MSNBC. Listen to this.

VOICE: What about we pair up Liz Cheney and Stacey Abrams, and actually talk about universal voting, and election reform?

I can see them doing kind of a czar thing with the administration, that's completely bipartisan. That would be exciting.

VOICE: That's --

GLENN: Stop. Stop. That would be exciting?

Good. That's who they're thinking. That's what they've got going for them. Here's Biden, play cut three, another of the brain trust.

BIDEN: And you help me keep my commitment. And I will help promote the first black woman to the Supreme Court, justice Jackson. Guess what, she's probably the smartest person on the Supreme Court.

GLENN: She's probably the smartest.

She couldn't identify what a woman was. She's probably the smartest woman on the Supreme Court. Wow. That's an incredible thing to say.

This is their brain trust. Let's celebrate that we have two of them. And let the system work it out.

We cannot separate ourselves from one another. If Donald Trump wins the nomination, I am all in.

If -- if Ron DeSantis wins the nomination, I am all in.

It is really important that we don't divide ourselves. That's what the Democrats do. That's what they need. You know if you look at -- I read a great op-ed. Let's see if I can find it. Read a great op-ed today.

From, gosh, I think she's an intern at the Federalist.

And she was writing about New York. And she said, you know New York is not necessarily a loss. Let's look at this in perspective. We've heard people say, that, yeah. Well, there's no way, they can win. Because all of the people that agreed with the conservatives have moved.

Well, that's not entirely true. Look how close he got. If all of those people that believed in you know constitutional rule, left, well, there's still a lot of people there, that are convinced of it.

And as things get worse and worse. There's only two ways that it then can go. Only more people wake up, or more people are duped.

I don't know which way it's going. But if they got rid of all of the people, that could have swayed this, it was still pretty damn close.

More and more people are waking up. I just want you to know, it's never my way or the highway here.

I'm going to have opinions on things. Both for and against DeSantis. For and against Trump.

That's what you pay me for, with your time.

We may disagree. I celebrate that. I think we should have disagreements. Lockstep is not the American way. We need to have those disagreements. But we need to be able to walk away, and respect one another.

So I'm going to do my utmost to earn your respect. On how I handle myself, on this.

But I want you to know, up front, I am a big supporter of Donald Trump.

And I am a big supporter of Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump has proven himself under the microscope, that is every intelligence agency under the planet. And every media source on the planet.

He has -- he has not broken a sweat under that light. That's hard to do. And he has proven himself to be true to some of the things that he promised us. In fact, I think most of the things that he promised us.

He did -- he actually completed. Ron DeSantis is doing the same thing, except at a state. And we need them at state and federal.

And I will happily be for either one of those. Let's stay focused.

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.

Transcript

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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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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

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?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.