RADIOOctober 07, 2024

Trump should make THIS promise after DeSantis' response to the port strike & Hurricane Helene

The port workers strike that threatened the supply chain right before the 2024 election has been postponed. And the announcement came right after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis threatened to send in the National Guard. Coincidence? Glenn doesn't believe so. DeSantis has also stepped in where FEMA hasn't and offered plenty of aide to Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina. With all that in mind, Glenn explains why he believes former President Donald Trump should offer DeSantis a seat in his administration if he wins ... and Glenn has the perfect department for him to reform.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: All right. Let me start with -- let me start with the name of the person, that is responsible for breaking the back of the strike.

Now, I'm glad they moved it down. You know, they just held it off. All right. We will hold off, until after the election.

And just about five days before the swearing in of the -- this is going to work out well.

So -- but we don't have that on the plate, to add to the stress of America. At least right now. And that is because of one man and one man only, Ron DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis came out yesterday, and said, yeah.

I'm going to call out the National Guard.

Because we're not going to be held hostage. So national guard is going to go in, and we'll open the ports. We'll open the ports in Florida. So we can get things and supplies in here.

National Guard will loan -- oh, my gosh. I love you.

I mean, if it wasn't for the icky sex, Ron, I mean, I would be gay in a heartbeat. Seriously, I just love you.

STU: Look how accepting you are. You want to talk about diversity on this show.

GLENN: Right. I don't.

STU: A gay Radio Hall of Fame member right there, I've got it.

GLENN: If it wasn't for the icky sex. Yes. Yes. Yes.

So, anyway, I'm sorry. I've -- I've got an appointment later on this afternoon, to burn some books in a hood. But this guy is amazing.

I think Donald Trump should announce a few members of a cabinet.

And he should do it right now.

He should announce, that Elon Musk has agreed to be, you know, the -- cost had much cutting czar.

STU: It seems like they floated that one. It's been discussed.

It's not official.

GLENN: He needs to announce that RFK, Tulsi Gabbard.

Elon Musk, and I've extended the invitation, to run FEMA, and close FEMA down. And give the state, the ability, the states ability to actually keep that money itself, and prepare for disaster. I would like Ron DeSantis to run FEMA. I think he would be unbelievable.

His term is up in '26. I mean, I would wait for that. Would you wait for that?

STU: Some of those ideas are great. That you just mentioned. So, yeah. I agree.

GLENN: You just can't get past your hatred for RFK, can't you?

You just hate him so much.

Because he jilted you. He said, I'm not interested in that icky gay sex with Stu.

STU: Okay. Please stop talking. Not even just about this topic. All topics. If we're going to put a lifelong Democrat into the administration, in some way, I would far prefer Tulsi Gabbard.

That would be my stance to that particular issue.

Just God forbid, for the wives of the other people.

GLENN: Okay. All right.

STU: God, please.

GLENN: We all know he's a Kennedy. So we all know.

STU: But I will say, is -- I mean, I don't know, honestly.

To be honest about it. Really, really love Ron DeSantis.

Really think I would like him to do something more important than -- than --

GLENN: That's fine. Whatever. I'm just saying -- I'm just saying.

STU: I think his job right now is great.

And I could see him with higher office, certainly down the road.

GLENN: Right. And I would give him any job.

STU: I wouldn't want to pull him out of Florida.

GLENN: No, no, no, no. I said, his term is up in 2026. When you're done with governor, what do you want to run? And involve him. But he is -- when it comes to disasters -- that guy, excuse the expression -- is an ass kicker. He's amazing.

GLENN: And used to be, something we really prized that crossed partisan lines.

Just the general competence in times of stress, used to be the thing that -- I mean, I think that was one of the things that happened with Bush.

Where like, he was seen. And I think largely unfairly for botching the Katrina stuff.

And it was more damaging to him, not because liberals against him.

They were all calling him a terrorist the whole phylum they said he was responsible for 9/11.

Right?

GLENN: Yeah. And he hated black people. He was letting people die.

STU: That's right.

GLENN: I mean, if you want to make that case, we can make that case about white people. But I'm not going to.

STU: George Bush does not care about black people, if you remember that from Kanye West, who has quite a journey since that particular statement.

GLENN: Yes, he has.

STU: When the media loved him back then, when he was saying those things.

But what happened with Bush, with Katrina, and a couple of other things in that area of time.

Was that -- it felt like he was incompetent. And his own supporters and moderates.

Kind of independent voters.

Started to bail on him. Right?

And then, of course, the war going poorly. Sort of added on to that.

But that was -- a really central thing of what we expected and wanted out of politicians.

Just, you know, yeah. You have opinions. We may have opinions. You may not like those policies.

In those moments. Are you going to be the person who steps up and gets the job done? DeSantis has done that every single time. Every time.

GLENN: Every time. Every time.

I wish I would have snapped a picture of him. You know, he was holding a press conference.

And behind him were what appeared to be miles of utility trucks.

And he's like, we're ready.

Yeah. You are.

You are.

You know, and he believes in the tenth amendment.

Oh. Oh.

So the unions are going to shut down our ports.

Well, no. I'm the governor of Florida. And if the federal government won't do anything, I'm calling out our National Guard.

And we'll keep those ports open.

That's the reason they folded. They lost all of their power.

In negotiation. They lost all of it.

So it was -- thank you, Ron DeSantis for saving the country on that one.

STU: Can I ask you, Glenn, about -- and this is lower priority, than the stuff you have been talking about.

When it comes to your trip to North Carolina, yesterday in this whole region.

But there is a political concern here. Right?

We have an election that is a month away.

GLENN: I have to tell you.

May I tell you a quick story on this? A couple days ago, we rescued a woman who was up -- two women that were up on a mountain.

And they were flagging the helicopter. And we were taking somebody else to the hospital, I think. And so the other helicopter was called. And they came.

And they picked him up. They brought him down, from the mountain.

They were out of food and everything.

And one of the first things they said was, before we go back up, we need to vote.

Can you -- can you take us?

I mean, these people are pissed.

They are pissed.

If -- if North Carolina does not go hard for Trump. I would be shocked.

STU: Really?

GLENN: Oh, they're pissed. They are pissed.

STU: That's a big part of the reason I'm asking.

Because, you know, this is a key swing state.

I -- I think Donald Trump, if he doesn't win North Carolina. I don't think he could win.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: I mean, there's a path. It's possible.

But I think it's super unlikely if he doesn't win North Carolina.

GLENN: I mean, the very, very cynical part of me. Which is almost all of me at this point.

Says, one of the reasons they're not helping there.

You've just taken out a swath of Trump supporters. Okay.

This is -- this is --

STU: Some have died.

But also some have -- totally --

GLENN: That's what I mean. You can't get two polls.

These people. They don't have cars. Their bridges are washed out.

It will be tough. But I'll tell you, I -- I met several people.

The old lady?

Who we rescued. She's like 80 years old.

She's fantastic.

And she didn't know who I was. Or who Cory Mills was.

We were just helping her get into the -- and as she's being put into the Life Flight, she's just this, damn Biden, he doesn't give a flying crap. And she was colorful.

And I thought, hmm. I think I know who she's voting for.

You know. And this used to be Democratic country.

STU: Oh, really?

Because I think of that part of it is seen as more red.

GLENN: You do now.

These were tobacco farmers. Okay?

And, you know, they don't have health care.

They don't. These are poor, poor people.

And so, you know, they've been for government assistance. Because they've needed government assistance.

But now they see what this government assistance really means. No. They're not interested.

This has turned people, at least in that area, I think this has made them generational Republicans.

STU: Just because of how bad this response has been.

GLENN: Everybody I -- everybody I talk to, was pissed at the federal government.

They were pissed.

I heard -- I can't tell you how many times I heard, yesterday.

Really.

How much money are they giving to these illegal immigrants?

And we've got nothing. No one is on the ground.

I'm telling you, I didn't see National Guard. I know the National Guard is there.

They've been there for four or five days.

But I didn't see any of them.

And I was in, really, some of the hardest hit areas.

I didn't -- there was no federal anything, except the satellite truck for FEMA.

Which wasn't working at the time, but they're going to -- they are where the people are. No, they weren't. They're out in the middle of nowhere.

Signing people up. So they can get their paperwork in. And start the system, to help chug along.

And there was -- they were helping one person.

It was despicable. Then there was another place, where FEMA was at another center, where they were -- they put up showers. So people could take showers.

Which I thought was really nice. Until they said, no. Not for the people.

But for the volunteers. So the volunteers could take showers. Not the people! Anybody could go and take a shower.

It was -- it's obscene! It's obscene!

When -- when Mercury One is the one that is providing all of the O2 for all of the ambulances and one of the hospitals, because they can't get it. When that's happening.

Excuse me, federal government, when there are people, literally, we're saving their lives.

Because we're providing insulin and life-saving drugs, that they can't. That nobody else has.

Government is not there, handing out these drugs.

I mean, you can go into the cities. You can go into homeless areas. You know, they'll hand you drugs there.

You know, lots of drugs.

You need heroin. They'll help you out on this.

But insulin. They're not there.

It is -- it is shameful.

I started telling you earlier today off the air.

I asked you. Do you remember the day I came in. When we were air vacking people out of Afghanistan? I should say, trying to.

We had an Air Force there, of 737s. And 747s on the ground in Iraq. Sorry, Afghanistan. And the State Department was blocking us. And then something happened that day, where they mocked us. They mocked us.

The State Department, we said, okay. It's been three days. We got all the paperwork. That you told us, we had to have. Everybody on paperwork.

Oh, no. You need form 117B. What is that form? It's a new form. Okay. Where do we get that form?

Well, you can only get it at the embassy in Afghanistan or Kabul.

You closed the embassy three days ago. Yeah. Well, how do we get that?

Well, it's just something you're going to have to figure out. Click.

I walked right on to your stage. And I was so mad. I said, I will renounce my citizenship, if this is who we are.

This is evil!

I was that close yesterday.

This country is so good, so good, the people are so good, and it's the government that has gone very dark.

They don't care!

I know we have the most compassionate politically correct people who just want the whole rainbow to come together.

They despise. They despise great swaths of people.

San Francisco goes down. And they need help.

You damn right, Mercury One will be down on the ground.

And we won't be saying, who did you vote for?

We will help them.

Appalachia goes down. We're all out of money.

Oh, my gosh.

You print money!

You print money!

I can't take it.

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.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

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.