RADIOJanuary 01, 2024

Is there ANY way out of CHAOS in 2024?

As we leave 2023 behind, Glenn believes the next 12 months will decide the future of America. The nation is facing major pressures from all over: potential wars, a troubled economy, violence in our streets, and an uncertain political landscape come election season. What if former president Donald Trump goes to jail? What if we see a Trump vs. Biden rematch? How would half the country take EITHER outcome of that election? Will the Democrats nominate someone else, like Michelle Obama? Glenn reviews all the potential chaos that 2024 may have in store.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Okay. So yesterday, on yesterday's podcast, we talked about how does this end?

I mean, let's just play this out.

How does this end?

The next 12 months are going to decide America's future.

And think of the pressures that are upon us. You've got war. If we have time I'll get into what's happening in Ukraine. And what the president did yesterday.

And, you know, we played yesterday, the audio of -- of Lindsey Graham and John McCain. In 2016, saying, right after the election, this is going to be the year, 2017, we're coming.

And we're going to teach Russian and Putin a lesson.

And that didn't happen. I think Trump thwarted that. So what happens?

His second term is lost. And we go, where?

Right into Ukraine. So we have that. We have the economy.

We have the trouble on our streets.

We have all these pressures on us. And now, let's throw this log on the fire.

We have Donald Trump and Joe Biden running. In normal scenarios, that wouldn't necessarily be so bad.

But we're not in a normal scenario.

You have Donald Trump running. Who the left is trying to knock out.

They're trying to take your choice away.

They're trying to make sure that he can't run.

And they're using every trick in the book.

How does that work out, do you think?

If Donald Trump is -- goes to jail, do you think there's maybe 20 percent. To hell with that?

Ten percent of our nation, that will not stand for that? I think that's a pretty easy bet.

What do they do?

I don't know.

What does the FBI help them do?

I don't know.

So if he -- if he goes to jail, bad news. If he doesn't go to jail, and Biden runs, let me ask you.

Biden runs, and he wins.

Is anybody on the left, or anybody on the right, going to believe it?

I'm not.

I mean, I just have a really hard time.

If there's anything funny going on, I'll have a really hard time. If he loses, what's that outcome?

We would be happy.

Do you think the left is just going sit around and not set the country on fire?

Do you think they're not going to do what Hillary Clinton said to do with Joe Biden last time?

Never concede. Never concede. It was a stolen election.

So you have the same scenario.

So what -- what is the plan?

That, I can't come up with another way out on those two things.

Trump wins. Biden wins.

Trump goes to jail. Trump doesn't go to jail. Biden loses.

I mean, I can't think of other scenarios.

I'm pretty good at this.

Okay. Let me give you one more.

How does this one end?

Biden runs. We're getting up to the election.

They decide there's -- there's not going to be a debate.

And we all know it's because Biden, in a year from now, is going to degrade even more, cognitively.

And so he's looking worse and worse, when he does speak.

And so they keep him out, and there's no debates. That's not going to work out well.

And if that's happening, people will know. Both in and out of the Democratic Party. Oh, my dear Lord.

It's Kamala!

Is going to be the president.

If she's the president, at any time, the world is on fire.

But I don't think anybody wants her to be the president on the left!

So what happens? Kamala Harris replaces as the top of the ticket. Trump wins. Unbelievable. Street is on fire. Right?

But if Biden and the Democrats know that he's not going to make it, what they should do is replace Kamala Harris. But they can't. Because she was a token. Remember? I'm going to find a black woman. Oh, okay. Well, let's not go get the best person. Let's just go get the person of color.

If you want to know how that ends, just see what happens at Harvard right now. The left will set the streets on fire. So there's no way out there.

Now, let me share something with you, that only the Democratic Party can do.

The democratic party, after the election of Ronald Reagan, they -- they did not want that to happen to them. Some outsider cannot just come in.

What did the people know?

So we need to have veto power. And they're called superdelegates.

These superdelegates at this point, have all been chosen by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

They're in the bag for all the elites.

And it is within their purview to vote against what the public has voted for. So you're a Democrat. You are out at the polls. You vote for Joe Biden. And they get together and say, Joe Biden is a disaster.

Nobody really wanted him, but nobody stepped up to take it from him. We can't make this happen. We can't let this happen. It will be a disaster.

And so they have the power then, to override the vote of the primary.

And they can nominate, hmm. Michelle Obama.

People ask all the time, who is really running the country?

My guess is, the traffic between Georgetown, and the White House, pretty high.

My guess is, it's the Obama administration is that actually running this place.

And they're letting him do all of the -- all of the tough things. All of the tough things. Let him do it.

He serves one term. Who could possibly be elected auto such a short period of time? Who has the name recognition?

Who has the trust?

Who can remind people how great it was that, remember when Barack was in -- in office?

We just got started. And then we had to leave.

And, oh. And then Donald Trump.

And we're going to finish this!

It's the first female black president. Michelle Obama.

The only one that is going to have a problem with this, in the Democratic Party, will be Michelle Obama.

She doesn't like the country. She hated the White House.

But, boy, wouldn't -- wouldn't that be something.

The only -- as a fiction writer, the only scenario that works for me, that I can see playing out, in anything other than a disaster.

But as always, the Democrats always have a win-win scenario. It's always bad for America.

But it's win-win for them.

He runs, he loses. The country is set on fire.

The president still has executive power. He takes control. It was an unfair and rigged election. And January 6th, and whatever, the streets are on fire. For at least three months, if there's an inauguration, I'm not saying there wouldn't be. But streets are on fire for three months. Dramatically impacts America. Okay?

That's a win, if you're trying to destroy the country. And then, if you realize, that the globalists are really the ones, who are buying, you know, 15 million-dollar homes on islands. Who couldn't pay their student loans, when they got into the presidency. If you realize, those globalists, are really the ones behind the scenes, pulling the strings, anyway.

All you would need is just to soften people up on to what could be coming.

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.

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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.