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.

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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.

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Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.

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The American Dream is in CRISIS - How Freedom Was Replaced by Comfort

The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

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The world is about to realize the DEADLY enemy we face

"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.