RADIOJune 28, 2024

Post-Debate Reaction: The Most TERRIFYING Part of the CNN Presidential Debate

Glenn is furious after watching the CNN Presidential Debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. But it’s not for the reason you may think. President Biden’s performance was terrifying – he looked and sounded old, seemed to lose track of his sentences, and lied all over the place – and even the mainstream media is panicking. But while they all talk politics, Glenn says they should be talking about the COUNTRY: “How do we get this man away from the nuclear football?!”

Transcript

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GLENN: Wow! Wow! Last night, I watched something I've never seen before.

This country just continues to get more and more bizarre.

When the president -- I'm going to spend some time here talking as if you've watched the debate last night.

Because we have so much to cover. But I will tell you -- let me just play the first thing that came out of Joe Biden's mouth last night. Do we have the first cut with his opening statement, please? Let me look for the number, I'm sorry. It's cut six.

JAKE: President Biden, inflation has slowed, but prices remain high. Since you took office, the price of essentials has increased. For example, a basket of groceries that cost $100 then, now costs more than $120.

And typical home prices have jumped more than 30 percent.

What do you say to voters who feel they are worse off under your presidency, than they were under President Trump.

BIDEN: You're going to take a look at what I was left with when I became president. What Mr. Trump left me.

GLENN: Okay. Stop.

When he walked out first, he looked like The Walking Dead. And I think you're going to be surprised at some of the things I say today because I'm not playing politics. And I'm hearing everyone else play politics.

He looked really bad. Really bad. And then when he opened up his mouth and that came out. Well, I just -- it was breathtaking. Breathtaking. Just his presentation. Continue, please.

JAKE: President Trump.

BIDEN: We're going to take a look at what I was left with when I became president. What Mr. Trump left me.

We had an economy that was in freefall. The pandemic was so badly handled. Many people were dying. All he said was it's not that serious. Just inject a little bleach into your arm, you'll be all right. The economy collapsed. There were no jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 15 percent. It was terrible. And so what we had to do was try to put things back together again, and that's exactly what we had to do.

GLENN: Okay. That's probably the clearest he was all night. Let me give you -- cut 14, please. Biden on the border.

JAKE: -- given that, why should voters trust you to solve this crisis?

BIDEN: Because we worked very hard to get a bipartisan agreement, that not only changed all of that, that made sure we were never in a situation where you had no circumstance, where they could come across the border with the number -- purported -- right now. We significantly increased the number of asylum officers -- significantly -- by the way, the Border Patrolmen endorsed me. Endorsed my position. In addition to that, we found ourself in the situation where, when he was president, he was taking -- separating babies from their mothers. Putting them in cages. Making sure the families were separated. That's not the right way to go.

What I've done, since I've changed the law. What's happened? I've changed it in a way that now, you're in a situation where, 40 percent fewer are coming across the border illegally. It's better than when he left office, and I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban. The -- the -- the total initiative, relative to what we can do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers.

JAKE: President Trump.

DONALD: I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either.

GLENN: Stop. Cut 11. Here's Joe Biden on Medicare.

BIDEN: We would be able to worry about his debt, we would be able to make sure that all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system. Making sure we're able to make every, single, solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the -- with the COVID. Excuse me. Dealing with everything we have to do with -- look, if -- we finally beat Medicare.

JAKE: Thank you, President Biden. President Trump.

DONALD: Boy, he's right. He did beat Medicaid. He beat it to death, and he's destroying it again.

GLENN: Okay. Stop. That is one of the first fumbles that Biden made. And notice, Donald Trump did not take a swing at him. He said, yeah. He did. He did hit Medicare. And he damn near destroyed it.

He's not making fun of his age. It's the most restrained I have ever seen Donald Trump.

And we'll get into the strategy, which I believe was the strategy of the night for Biden. Which was a complete and total disaster. Let me -- gosh.

STU: Stunning.

GLENN: It's like Sophie's Choice here. I've got so much that I have to get on the show today. And I just don't -- I'm just -- I'm going to just have to assume, that you knew what happened or that was enough information.

It was something I have never, ever seen before. It was terrifying. Terrifying.

If I'm Putin, I am -- I am storming Europe. If I am China, I am going in to Taiwan, right now. It -- this is the weakest our president has ever appeared. Okay.

Never before in my lifetime. I remember -- I wasn't around for Kennedy. But I remember when Reagan was in the hospital after being shot. And that was a very nerve-wracking time. Because he's not in charge, and he transferred the powers to the vice president, while he was in the hospital right at the beginning. It was terrifying! Because you knew the world was watching. Now, here's -- there are -- there were three things that happened last night. Or a few categories.

One, those who knew -- those who knew that Joe Biden was like this, should be the most freaked out. And I'll explain in a minute.

Those who believed in the media and all of this garbage that, no, this is just Republican, you know, a cheap fake.

He's never been more sharp. He's never been better than he is right now.

He's so sharp and nimble.

Anybody who believed that, and you saw this performance last night.

You were probably in shock.

And you're lost today. You don't know what to think today.

But here's what those people who believed the media and were shocked last night. Here's what you should be thinking today: I cannot trust any of my trusted sources.

Because they all lied to me. And I'll get to it in a second, on why this is so important. Then there were those who -- who ran this con.

And who participated in this con, and I include every member of the press corps.

Anybody who has talked to him, anybody who has seen him, anybody who has seen him up close and personal, has had conversations as the press.

You knew it. You knew it. Also, those who ran the con in the White House and the Democratic Party. Shame on you!

We need -- we do need a list of the people who ran this con.

And covered for him.

And I'll explain why, again, in a second. And then there are those, and they can fit in the last three categories, but the last -- definitely the last two.

Those who are today responding by saying, the democratic party is in trouble. That what are we going to do for the election? Can we get him to step down, before the convention? If we do, how do we pick -- are you out of your mind?

We are now facing nuclear threats that we haven't faced since the 1960s. But in the 1960s, we had a jackass of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev. But he was at least aware.

We had Jack Kennedy, who was in so much pain, not unbeknownst to you.

The doctors were jacking him up on drugs, but at least he was sane and all there!

We have a president, that will have seven minutes to decide. Seven minutes.

You know, I don't know if you know what it is like. If there is a launch of a nuclear weapon, or even one that we think has a nuclear bomb in it.

If North Korea would launch a hypersonic weapon at us, we would have less time than seven minutes.

We wouldn't be able to verify if that was a nuke or not.

The president has seven minutes to decide. And what happens? They open up the football. And they take out what's called the black book of death. That's how serious this is!

It's called the black book of death! They open it up. And it is like a -- it's a -- it's a Cheesecake Factory memo.

Menu.

And the president has to look through it. And say, okay.

This city, this system, these ships. These silos.

And then the guy who is with the football is kind of like an actuary.

He then has to look at you all of those. And take each selection.

And then go back to the president and say, within seven minutes, okay. Mr. President, this is going to result in this many Ted. Your target is North Korea.

But the -- the selections that you made, some of those cities are up against the border of China. The radiation will blow into China, and you'll kill an additional 250,000 Chinese.

The Chinese will look at that as aggression against them, and they may launch against you. You may now include the Chinese. Also, up north, you're up towards Russia. You're going to kill citizens, in Russia as well.

Is this your selection, sir?

I am so angry today, that I haven't heard one single person on television or in the political realm, talk about the country! They're all talking about an election. How do we replace him before the convention? How do we get him off of the ticket?

How do we get this man away from the football! Do you know what our enemies were thinking last night?

This country is in more danger. Clear and present danger, than we have been, I believe, possibly in my lifetime.

We are weak! The world knows it. We have enemies, everywhere. They know it.

They are threatening nuclear weapons!

We cannot have this man with the black book of death and the button!

Does anyone understand, what you actually saw?

You didn't see a presidential candidate. You saw the president of the United States!

Where is anyone?

If you were celebrating, because you were like, oh, this is going to be great for Trump. A, be careful what you wish for. But, B, more than self, their country loved.
If you are somebody, who is on the left, thinking, oh, well, this just played into the, quote, caricature that the right was trying to build about him. We weren't trying to build that. Do you think we want our country to be destroyed? Does any American want our president to look like that?

Any American? What the hell is wrong with us?

I -- I -- I -- we're in more trouble, not because of -- not because of Joe Biden.

We're in more trouble, because people are not recognizing the danger, that is right in front of us!

You know, I've been saying a lot lately. May God save the republic. He cannot. He cannot do what we won't participate in.

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

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.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

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.