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How Obama began America’s DARK transformation | PART 1

In May of 2008, Michelle Obama made a now infamous statement while campaigning in Puerto Rico for her husband, Barack. Her words, Glenn says, caused Michelle to be pulled from the campaign trail. Why? Perhaps because her statement exposed the Obama’s exact goal: To force the American people to make ‘sacrifices’ that would fundamentally alter our nation — its history, traditions, and principles — forever. In part 1 of his expose, Glenn revisits Michelle’s speech and demonstrates how her words have come true today. And the ‘sacrifices’ we’re facing now, thanks to our ever-growing, far-left government, could continue to get worse…

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GLENN: Can we just -- can we have a chat here for a second. On something that we really need to think about. If you were born in the 2000s, you're one of the people I want to commend right now, for your resilience. You have grown up in a time of war, you've never seen our country, not at war.

Your parents and teachers, probably taught you about 9/11. While at the same time, you no doubt heard the battle damage assessment numbers, and those killed in action. Reports on the evening news. And conversation on the dinner table and from your teachers. Afghanistan then turned into Iraq. And then back to Afghanistan. Then back to Iraq. Rinse, repeat, for 20 years.

You were probably in elementary school or junior high, when faith and trust on a systematic level, began to rapidly dissolve. The financial system crashed in 2008. And do we even know? Yeah. I mean, we do. But officially, who is to blame on that one?

Can you even trust the bank? Is the fed and the government for us or against us in that?
Could you lose your home? Were your mom and dad fighting all the time, because of the stress of what happened in 2008? We asked all of these questions. And in the aftermath, the mass protests, the Occupy Wall Street that you probably don't remember.

Everybody decided, I guess it's the fault of those giant corporations. It was yet more doubt thrown on to institutions we at least have some faith and trust in. Because they would, at one point do the right thing, or be held responsible if they didn't.

You've seen your church come under attack. Your faith. Suddenly, the religious values that, you know, you may have grown up with, listening to in Sunday school, are now being called bigoted. You've witnessed race riots. Cops. Firefighters being demonized. Local businesses burned to the ground. People may have been killed in your own hometown. Politicians and media appeared to drink it all in like a cold beer on a hot day. You've been brought up in an era where war was declared on American faith, hope, trust, pride, history. I don't even think you probably know our history.

And yet, here you are. Right now. Listening to this program. Good for you. Good for you. For people my age, it is really -- I can't imagine being your age. I can't imagine it. I grew up in a completely different America. Makes me sad, you'll never know summer like we did. That you'll never -- most highly, you have not participated in a baseball game or a football game, that wasn't organized. Or a soccer game that adults weren't telling you when and where to play. You probably have never just gone out with your friends. And just started a game in some abandoned field. Or some park, just to play for yourself. And you make up the rules, and you decide what's right and wrong. You solve the arguments.

Times were different. Less people locked their doors. That's what I like about the place I live up in Idaho. It's much more like it was when I was growing up. It's just simpler. Quieter. You know your neighbors. Everybody waves to each other, as they pass each other in the cars. You could rely on one another. Parades were more common. And no one expected an anti-American rioter to come in and spoil the day. We loved our country. Although, we didn't think our country was flawless. If you joined the military, it was called joining the service. Because that's how it was viewed. It was service. Now it seems like nobody sends their kids to service, if they're rich. It's a way to get out of poverty. It's a way to get free education. It's not about service. By and large, opinions were debated.

Today, opinions are used as an excuse for violence. You know, we could see Marxist or Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell, on television. Debating Marxists at universities or on Oprah. And it was done where everybody walked away in the end and shook each other's hand. And said, I respect you. I disagree, but I really respect you. That doesn't happen. That certainly, probably doesn't happen in your schools. If you grew up in the 2000s, man, everything has gone sideways, rapidly. Who is running the country during the 2008 financial crisis, the recovery? Occupy Wall Street. The beginning of Black Lives Matter. No one calls it out. But it was Barack Obama. Everything began to spiral out of control. And the America we used to know, became unrecognizable. Now, it's not his fault. All of it, at least. He put the pedal down, and he accelerated things. But this has been in the plans for a long time. And America wanted hope and change. We wanted change. I wanted change. All of us wanted complaining what was happening, you know, with the Bush administration. The government was seemingly getting too big. Nobody was being held responsible. We wanted transparency. That's what we meant by change.

But that's not what we got.

And we know that, because Michelle Obama talked about it. On May 14th, 2008, she was immediately pulled from the campaign trail, after this speech. But I want you to hear it one more time.

VOICE: And Barack knows we are going to have make sacrifices. We're going to have to change our conversation. We're going to have to change our traditions. Our history. We're going to have to move into a different place, as a nation, to provide the kind of future that we all want, desperately for our children. And he is the man to do it.

GLENN: So in America. In America, we used to agree on the future. We saw certain things as self-evident. That all men were created equal, and endowed by their creator. And I know that might sound like hogwash to you. But it's a mission statement. It's not something that we did. It's something we tried to strive for. And as you will learn, as you grow older, you make a ton of mistakes in life. And a country does as well. And the idea is to learn from those mistakes. But you have to have history. And you have to know what (cut out).

Have we made sacrifices? Well, we've made sacrifices of our time. I can't imagine -- I mean, I just can't get over, how much time we spend arguing with stupid stuff right now. How much time we have spent in politics. Politics, especially national politics. It shouldn't be really hardly even on our radar. It should all be local politics. But we don't pay attention to that.

So many people, maybe your parents have sacrificed their dreams and their job. Small businesses, they sacrificed. Because of covid. Home Depot could stay open. But not the locally owned ace hardware store. We have -- we have sacrificed our liberties. In exchange for the collective. We have made a sacrifice for our honor in Afghanistan. We've sacrificed our place in the world. Our credibility. Our credibility really, with our own allies, we have sacrificed. And we are certainly sacrificing right now, our relationship with anyone who holds the dollar as a reserve currency. In many ways, we've sacrificed you, the 20 something, in the last 15 or 20 years, to some sort of social experiment. Not only with, you know, drag queen story hour and everything else. That we have no idea, other than history. We have no idea of how that's going to turn out. What kind of mark these things will leave. Good or bad. We don't know. Never been done before. But we also socially experimented on you, with -- with technology. We've sacrificed our safety on the streets, from mobs, BLM, Antifa, January 6. The shootings every day in Chicago, nobody seems to care about. We've sacrificed our way of life. We've sacrificed our medicines, and so many things. And this didn't start with Obama. It started with the globalist. The idea that, you know, trade is -- is unlimited. And we can just like be consumers. And not makers. Now, that just seems wrong intuitively. But when we start to hit shortages like medicine, we really see how stupid it is. But we have sacrificed our common sense. Because are we doing anything about these things?

We've sacrificed our doctors. We were told, we could keep our doctors. But many of us were told, have lost our doctors. We have lost the scientific method. We have lost and sacrificed debate and critical thinking. And -- and the search for evidence.

We have sacrificed an awful lot. And it's all called the new normal. All those things that we've sacrificed. We're now sacrificing. We're going to sacrifice millions of people, that will most likely starve to death in the next two years. Why?

For political reasons. That's really all it is. We're going to sacrifice people's lives. And we are going to forever change the lives of people, here in America. And it's just going to be called the new normal.

Michelle then went on to say, you know, we're going to change our conversation. I didn't know what she meant was, change the rules of conversations. Basically, you can't have a conversation. Any kind of spoken or written word, now has to go through the woke filter. It's where we lose and sacrifice many of our freedoms and liberties. You put to make a public statement, about a Snickers bar, you better craft it in a way, that checks off all the intersectional, feminist, and LGBT boxes. You, because you're in your 20s, may not understand, how important freedom of thought, and real diversity is. That's the diversity of thought. You cannot make progress without benchmarks that can be measured, which is the scientific method. And you'll never make progress, unless people are comfortable, to say, that's a stupid idea. Well, I disagree with you on that. And you have it out.

And most times, you'll find that both sides, have a point. Not all the time. But many times. And just by arguing, you're like, oh, my gosh. I see why you're thinking that. Oh, I understand you now. It's still wrong. But at least I understand. Let me explain it this way. (cut out)

The church, the teachings, the sacraments, now been labeled bigoted. Our deep religious founding as a country, that proclaiming one's faith. Whatever faith that is. Or no faith at all. How -- how we got to a place now, to where that's a revolutionary act. I'm going to finish what Michelle Obama talked about on tomorrow's program. But the fundamental transformation that she spoke about is here.

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Meet the pro-Intifada candidate NYC Democrats just elected

New York City Democrats just elected 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a "socialist Muslim", as the Party's candidate for mayor. But Glenn Beck argues that his radical beliefs are actually communist and Islamist.

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VOICE: Z10852. Something weird is going on. The World Trade Center is on fire.

VOICE: Seriously the top of the building. We're trying to get information.

VOICE: Top level of one of the --

VOICE: To unfold from New York City.

VOICE: A plane crashed just --

VOICE: My sister is in that believe. I hope she's okay. I have to come to New York.

VOICE: It's pandemonium.

VOICE: It's raining papers.

VOICE: Wait a minute! Stop just a second. Why are we -- why are we -- I've got breaking news. Breaking news, yesterday. New York City just elected as their mayoral candidate for the left. And the Democrats, a -- a Muslim radical, who is also a communist!

So, you know, it only took you 25 years. It only took you 25 years, New York, to go completely insane.

Somebody who is -- well, I mean, if I might quote Michael malice today. I am old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.

But you've got a -- you've got a communist jihadist apologist now.

Who was -- you know, well, CAIR put $100,000 behind his bid for New York City mayor.

So you have somebody who is endorsed by CAIR. That's really good.

He also was somebody who said, you know, he was -- he was for the shooting of the United Health Care CEO.

Said he was looking forward to driving down magnum Joan avenue. I don't know. Sounds like supporting people in the streets. Maybe it's just me.

Then he also said that he was going to globalize the intifada, which I think that's -- maybe -- maybe that's just me.

I mean, what do I know?

Tim Miller who is a podcaster. Asked him a few weeks ago. Asked him about his pro Palestinian slogan. Globalized the intifada. And he said, for me, ultimately, what I hear in so many, is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in standing up for Palistinian human rights. Oh, is that what you hear, Mr. CAIR?

Really? Huh, that's interesting.

Right. So globalize the intifada.

I mean, I mean, sure, that's -- I mean well, let me go on.

Because I don't want to take him out of context.

He then delved into the semantics of the intifada, citing the United States Holocaust memorial museum's use of a word for a translation for uprising, in an Arabic version of an article, a museum published about the Warsaw ghetto.

Oh!

So this is just a comparison, about the -- the armed rebellion against the Nazis!

I don't know if that makes me feel better!

I mean, if we're globalizing that.

We're the Nazis in this scenario.

Because I don't think it's the Palestinians.

I certainly don't think it's anybody who is like, hey.

Global jihad. I don't think it's those guys.

Or the Nazis. Who are the Nazis in that?

And it seems, if that's what you mean, then it's not just a harmless kind of slogan about human rights. It is a call for violence on the streets.

Because I don't know if you know, that's what happened when the Jews had their uprising against the Nazis.

I'm just saying!

But, hey, hey, free Palestine.

Oh, that's not what that means, gang. That is not what that means, but don't worry about it. He's just going to be possibly the new mayor.

And that's great. By the way, the Columbia faculty members signed a letter defending Hamas.

They were also among the donors to his mayoral campaign.

So, you know, you don't have anything to worry about.

And his father, who used to work at Columbia. Do you know, Stu?

Is his Dad -- is he still a professor at Columbia University?

He said that -- this violent terror thing of Islam, is not a part of Islam. Now, I've read the Koran, and much of the hadith.

And I'm pretty sure the violence is a part of that. But no.

No. This is something entirely new.

And his father while at Columbia university, wanted everybody to know, that this is actually -- this is something that came out of America!

America is really responsible for this.

And, you know, it really started with the Reagan administration, you know, when he started -- when he started with his very religious terms, to finish the war against the evil empire.

So, you know, that's where -- that's where 9/11 came from.

Is what -- don't worry about it! Don't worry about it!

Because who am I? I'm clearly just -- am I an anti-Semite today, or am I an Islamophobic? I can't remember which one.

Oh, it's probably both. Anyway, Islamophobia. Let me just explain Islamophobia. I haven't even gotten to the Communist part of it. Which is really, really -- New York, you're in one for hell of a ride. Buckle up.

It will be a fun rollercoaster for you. My gosh, I've never been happier that I've been away are if New York.

Anyway, I just want I to know, there is Islam. And then there is Islamists. Now, an Islamist is somebody who really wants Sharia law.

That's political Islam!

That's not a faith. That's political Islam.

Now, let me make really -- something really clear. Criticizing Islamism, is not Islamophobia. Pointing out the dangers of, oh. I don't know.

Political Islam. The ideology that seeks to use the tools of democracy, ultimately to destroy democracy, is not an attack on Muslims.

No. Uh-uh.

You know why?

Because Muslims are often the first people in line.

The first victims of the ideology.

So let's draw a bright, bright line between Islam as a faith, millions of people can practice that faithfully and peacefully.

It's mostly peaceful, okay?

Then there's the Islamism.

Islamism is something entirely -- that's a political project.

A theocratic political -- oh. Left loves theocracies. They love it.

Of course, you never see a problem with it.

See it when an Islamist is touting it. Anyway, it's not about prayer. It's not about fasting. It's not about spiritual life.

It's all about power. It's about merging of mosque and state. It's about implementing Sharia, not as a personal code of conduct. But as a governing legal system.

And it's -- it's supremacy.

Absolutely. Faith.

Religion.

It's -- there's one thing that's supreme.

It's misogynistic.

Deeply intolerant of all kinds of things.

Descent. Secularism. Other faiths. Even competing interpretations from inside the faith itself.

It will behead them too.

So let's -- let's be honest here for a second.

You know, CAIR should be labeled an international terror organization.

In my opinion. In my opinion.

Oh, does that make me -- that makes me an Islamophobe. I'm sure. I'm sure they will start a campaign against me on being an Islamophobe.

Stand in line, guys. You've been doing it since 2001, okay?

I don't really care. And I don't think the American people. I think that record, all the grooves are worn-out on that one, okay?

This is not a religion we're talking about. When we're talking about Sharia law. And we're talking about globalize the intifada. What does that mean, actually, to globalize it?

Does that mean we now want to do what is happening to Israel? All over the world?

Has the Palestinian plight become our plight you now, as Americans?

That there has to be an intifada here!

Because it's the kind of the same. You know. It's kind of the same over, you know, with what the Palestinians are going through.

Well, it's very much like what the Jews went through with the Nazis.

That's a weird one. That one makes my head hurt. It's very much the same as that. And very much the same as the fight against Donald Trump.

Oh, this is going to be fun. It's fun!

Really fun. You know, the irony here is, the ones that will scream Islamophobia the most, are the ones in the progressive left, the champions of feminism, LGBTQ rights. And secularism.

They're going to -- no. You want -- they're going to stand with the people, who want to kill them first.

See, this is how smart they are!

This is why it's going to work out well, in New York City.

Let me just say. If you have an ounce of common sense, you run a business, you have an ounce of wealth. And I don't mean wealth like, you know, hey, Lovey.

Let's get on the boat for a three-hour tour with a suitcase full of cash. I mean you saved anything, anything, get the hell out of New York City.

I mean, this is about survival. This is about free speech. This is about women's rights.
Religious pluralism. Secular legal systems. Liberal democracy.

But it's also about failed principles of Communism. Okay?

First, you have to call out political Islam for what it is. Okay?

And we have to do it with the clarity that we call out white nationalism.

Got to do it with that. Got to -- you know, the Klan. Really bad people.

Really bad people.

Anybody who is shouting for globalized intifada?

Pretty bad. Pretty bad people.

Okay?

Now, let's get to communism.

Because that's another cool, cool angle of the new Democratic candidate for -- for mayor of New York City.

That I just -- I think is cuddly and cute. Sure, it led to 100 million deaths. But this time, New York is going to be radically different. Oh, did I use the word radical?

I didn't mean to use that. What's radical about this guy?

Nothing. He's just like you!

Well, not exactly.

But let's talk about communism, next!

Now, the new mayoral candidate that's running there in New York City. That so many young people rushed to defend and vote for. He's promising free buses.

That's going to work out.

Where are you going to get the money for free buses.

It's free!

City-run grocery stores.

Oh, rent freezes. And finally somebody has done it. A 30-dollar minimum wage.

So under the banner of equity. And, you know, we will tax the wealthy. And the corporations. You know, we're going to squeeze another $10 billion out of them.

Really?

Because they're going to call a U-Haul.

You know, they will call something like U-Haul. There will be a lot of -- there will be a lot of movers that are like, how do I get the truck back from Texas or Florida back up to New York? Nobody is moving up there.

But he's going to do it.

Now, his vision isn't really new. You know, just -- just tax people, so we could have city-run grocery stores. You know, I remember -- I'm old enough to remember those city-run grocery stores in Moscow.

They were great.

The shelves were empty.

But that's just Moscow.

It worked out completely different in Venezuela.

Where, oh, no.

It didn't. That's right. The grocery store.

They were eating the zoo animals.

But it will be different in New York.

Because they have rent controls too.

And that will just choke the housing supply, but don't worry. As a young family.

You know, you voted for it.

You know better.

It will work this time.

So, you know, I like building ideas, I just don't like usually building on the graves of 100 million people.

But, you know, why not? Why not?

You know, use this dogma.

And this time, it will be different. It's not like it was in China. Where the great leap forward, was a gross -- a gross parody of progress. Venezuela, which was oil rich. One of the richest nations in the hemisphere now sees 90 percent of its population in poverty!

Yeah. Darn it. You know what they did?

They decided to take state control of things.

You know, like grocery stores. And it worked out well. How is that free busing working out in Venezuela?

I just want to -- I just want to know.

Anyway, then you've got the globalize the intifada. Which is going to drop a little violence in, and anti-Semitism in with your communism.

Which is weird!

Because violence and anti-Semitism, always happen. When it -- when it comes to -- when it comes to communism.

This is weird!

I've got to play something for you. Because this has talked about on me earlier this morning.

Oh, wow.

Wait a minute. This is -- this is the whole coalition coming together here.

So this is going to be good. New York, this is going to be great.

It's going to be great for you.

No. He's going to uplift you. Then the social fabric of New York City is just going to be -- just one.

It's going to be fantastic. Don't worry about your 120 billion dollars in debt. Or your 10 billion-dollar deficit that you have right now.

You are going to charge the rich more taxes, and they will stay right there.

They will be like, you know what, that 46 percent in taxes that I'm paying, this is just not enough. It's just not enough.

I need to pay 60 or 70 percent to be able to pay my fair share. So that's good. That's good. That's good.

You know, they're not risking 100 million people. It's just 8 million people.

This time, it's just 8 million people.

But, hey. For those of you in upstate New York. That aren't going to be part of this experiment.

Don't worry, you get to pay for it. Because they'll kick it up to the state. The state will have to subsidize everything. And don't you love it?

Really, don't you want to subsidize the really crazy ideas of New York City?

I mean, why don't you have a -- why don't you have a democratic socialist. A/k/a communist mayor.

Why haven't you done that? Are you not progressive enough? Are you not looking into the future?

Are you stuck in the past?

I don't know. I don't know. The graveyard is pretty big. I have a hard time getting past that one. You know, yeah, so I'm stuck in the past. Because I can't seem to pass that graveyard, and get to be down the path with you. But it's going to be a paradise.

Forget arithmetic. You know, or human nature. This time, it's going to work. It's going to work. So all right!

Wish I lived in this morning.

No wait. Nope. I don't. Nope, I don't.

And Ted Cruz, stop it. Stop writing, hey, come to Texas. No. No. Don't come to Texas. Don't come to Florida. Go to California. It's beautiful this time of year. Go there. Go there.