RADIOOctober 24, 2023

Glenn: 'If THIS goes wrong, we are at World War III'

China is stationing 6 warships in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy is increasing its presence in the area, and Iran might have a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is allegedly trying to delay Israel's ground invasion, reportedly to free more hostages. But Glenn believes there may be other motives. Glenn reviews the latest updates as the war appears to escalate even further and warns that we're entering dangerous waters: "If this goes wrong, we are at World War III."

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GLENN: According to reports now, up to six Chinese warships are currently stationed in the Middle East. China's People Liberation, Army, the CPLA, reported engagement in a joint military exercise with Omani Navy while visiting Oman. Again, it's like, you know, when -- when Mexico got their hostages, you know, or their people out of Israel, and they use their Air Force.

I thought to myself, I thought, I didn't know Mexico had an Air Force. Same thing with Oman. Didn't know I found it on a map.

And they have a Navy. It's cute. It's cute.

It's probably a little like the Cayman Islands. And the British Virgin Islands. Or they use British ships.

Because I don't think they're British anymore.

They got rid of those occupiers. I'll tell you that now.

So the Navy escort task force. Is now by Kuwait. Which is right there, near Iran.

Which I think is really, really -- no. Seriously. It's -- now.

My question is: Why has Israel not responded.

What is happening there?

Now, I've got a couple of ideas, on this.

One, the New York Times is reporting, that the US is advising Israel to delay the Gaza invasion.

For needed hostage negotiation.

Now, apparently, two Americans got out.

The -- the Palestinians have returned to American hostages over weekend.

I love it, that we're working with Qatar. Because, you know, they're -- I mean, they're just the number one funder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

And that's big -- big funder and founder of Hamas.

So that's -- that's really good. I hope we gave them some money. In exchange for these hostages.

I don't know if it's about the hostages, as much as it is a very convenient way for the United States to delay any kind of ground invasion, until all the media turns on Israel. Because that's what's happening. They're already saying.

They haven't done anything yet. And they're like, they're such a bad country. They're going to kill all these people.

And if they would have acted last week. Or the week before, you would have seen, more sympathy.

But I think we are -- I think this is a complete game. That the White House is playing.

To keep Bibi Netanyahu and the Israelis from not striking.

However, there is another possibility.

Obviously, you know, I'm not in the rooms.

Advising anyone.

But I did think, are they just preparing to go to the head of the snake?

Now, I don't think so. But we do know that they -- that Israel. I mean, Iran now has one nuclear weapon.

And are just about to develop its second nuclear weapon.

So is it possible that they are just going to target Iran.

It's clerics, or its nuclear facilities.

Now, the nuclear facility is supposedly buried so long. So deep, that you're not supposed to be able to knock it out with any kind of conventional weapon.

The army seems ready to go, they've been ready for a few days. Aerial bombardments, meant to prepare the ground.

Are meeting with diminishing returns now at this point.

And the widely accepted reason over in Israel. Is international pressure.

Plus, the long train of visiting dignitaries. And possible negotiations.

The problem with the ladder is that Hamas will probably go for the drip, drip approach. Meaning to drag out more time. And the media will continue to turn on Israel.

If they're going to target Iran, most likely they'll target the nuclear installations. What was the reactor?

They did this in like 1981, I think. And, you know, they went after the reactor. And it was good.

Now, maybe if the main operation is successful this time, you'll see the Mossad taking out a few top scientists and military leaders as we have in the past.

But, you know, Gad Saad said, that this would take incredible. I'm quoting testicular fortitude.

And I don't know. Most are saying, it can't be done. Different from 1981.

Blah, blah.

It's difficult. But they all said it couldn't be done back in 1981, as well.

You know, the Tom Cruise guys, they do exist. They're probably as short. But not as good looking.

And most of them are probably Israelis.

So, you know, they kind of have this don't miss with us kind of image.

But we'll see.

If they can pull it off.

That means the testicular area may be made out of steel on Bibi Netanyahu.

I'm not really -- I'm not really sure.

But we will continue to watch this.

Let's see. There's a couple of other things.

PAT: That would majorly escalate this thing however.

I think they understand that -- I think we understand that. And I'm sure the administration is strongly recommending they don't do that.

GLENN: What are they going to do?

PAT: I think they should do it.

But I don't know.

They -- you know, they are the head of the snake.

GLENN: Right.

PAT: And that's the only way to put a stop to this.

And so, but it does escalate things. So it's --

GLENN: I think pretty much anything they're doing.

PAT: It's a big decision.

GLENN: When I saw that China.

Now, China was there already.

But to have them move their ships in, shows, you know, that's Iran.

And Russia.

So there is an axis of evil.

And those three are together.

And --

PAT: With us.

GLENN: Against us. Against us.

PAT: Right. But they're all in the same general vicinity.

GLENN: If this goes wrong, we are at World War III, quickly.

PAT: No doubt. Yeah, and there's all kinds of things that could go wrong. That somebody makes a mistake. There's a hair trigger by somebody, and it's on. It's a really dangerous situation.

GLENN: So you have the rest of the world, however, turning.

And you look at what's happening around the world.

England is going to turn against Israel.

Because I don't think England will have a choice.

I mean, these countries have allowed themselves to be laid waste. By so many Islamists.

It's not Islam.

It is Islamists.

People who believe that the Koran must be implemented as the highest source of law.

Those guys are crazy.

I know some Muslims that are not crazy.

But they're reformed. And they would be the first -- the Islamists would behead.

So they're the kind of people that shut their mouth, you know, in their own community, because they don't want to be dead. But look at what happened over the weekend. In London. It was not good. It was not good.

And you're starting to see moves. There was a -- they won't even give the details of the terrorist strike in London. Did you hear about this, Pat?

PAT: No.

GLENN: So in London, first of all, the BBC, will not say that Hamas is a terrorist group. The BBC.

And that's really kind of not good.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Fueling more anti-Israel and anti-Semitism.

Because they're -- they -- they won't say that the Palestinian, Hamas was wrong.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: They're saying, that it's -- well, it's a charity. It's a charity.

Sure it is. Sure it is.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: There was -- there was a hit in London, I think it was.

Let me see if I can find it real quick. There was awe hit, where the authorities won't even say what it -- what exactly happened. They said that it was -- yeah. Here. Pro-Palestinian terror attack.

Alleged terror attack has already been carried out in Britain by an asylum seeker, waiting to avenge deaths in Gaza.

According to the telegraph, the man who came to the country, in 2020. Look at that. It's 2023. Okay?

Told police, he had carried out the -- as yet, undisclosed action for Palestine.

Newspaper reports, the case cannot fully be revealed for legal reasons.

But that the suspect is now in custody, after being arrested. He said, he had done it, because Israel had killed children in Gaza.

Now, that's a bizarre thing.

He's already carried out, his mission. But they won't say what it was.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: What does that -- what kind of -- what is that?

Questions have been raised over wide details about the incident have not been disclosed. But security sources, told the publication. They may be downplaying it. So they don't have a repeat attack. Or copycat attacks.

Nations around the world are on high alert. So-called wolf attacks by extremists motivated by the worsening situation in the Middle East. In Brussels, Belgium on Monday.

A -- a man with a gun, downed two Swedish football supporters before being shot dead by the police. He was motivated by his Palestinian love. Because they're just such lovely, charitable people. He was just giving away bullets.

So he gives the bullets away too fast, for some people. Who are you to judge?

Who are you to judge?

So you have the terror threat. All over Europe. Going up.

How are you -- how is France going to handle this, if Israel goes in, and bombs Iran?

Or does more with Hamas?

You're going to have all these western countries, saying, stop it. Stop it right now.

Because they'll number trouble.

So you will, what? Sacrifice the Jewish state.

Is that what happens?

PAT: That's foretold somewhere too.

GLENN: Somewhere.

PAT: I'm trying to think.

GLENN: Yeah. It's weird, wasn't it?

PAT: Was it Michael Buble, that foretold that?

GLENN: I think -- Fly Me to the Moon, where all the nations gather around.

PAT: Yeah. That's what it was.

GLENN: Something like that. They're all against Israel or something.

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.

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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.