RADIOJune 07, 2022

78 years after D-DAY, our leaders WON'T TELL US what they're fighting for

On the 78th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, Glenn reads the words of Eisenhower and FDR that he couldn't imagine President Biden would ever say today. As we remember those who put their lives on the line fighting for something truly brave and noble, Glenn argues that our politicians today believe they're in a similar fight — but they're not even telling us what they're fighting for "and they will blame their repercussions on ANYTHING"...

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GLENN: This is the Glenn Beck Program. Today is the 78th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion.

At Mercury One in our museum, we have one of the most awe-inspiring and precious items in the collection.

It is a flag that was on a landing craft, that brought men and tanks across the channel on D-Day. The ship was sunk by the Germans. On Omaha beach. And one of the sailors went down to rescue the flag.

It is that one flag tells the entire story of D-Day. It is ripped to shreds, frayed, the stars are still together.

This was the biggest military operation in world history. 3 million allied troops were sent across the channel.

No one knew if it would succeed or not. No one knew if Hitler was expecting them. If he -- if he was still there, his troops were on high alert. If he hadn't looked elsewhere, we were dead.

Imagine being on the shore of England, getting ready to go across the channel, knowing that really, truly, one of the most battle hardened and technologically sound armies was waiting across the river on the beach for you.

Eisenhower wrote a note. He wrote it to everyone who was going across. He said, you're about to embark on a great crusade, towards which we have striven these many months. And the eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere, march with you.

In company with our brave allies and brothers in arms, on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German's people war machine. The elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe. And the security for ourselves in a free world.

STU: And it's an important up.

GLENN: Savagely.

STU: Yeah. It's a great point you make there, Glenn. We did lose you here for just a quick second. Maybe you can back up a second.

GLENN: Are we there?

STU: Sorry. Yeah.

A little bit of technical difficulties.

GLENN: Yeah. I'm sorry. Okay. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people march with you.

In company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe. And security for ourselves in a free world. Your task ahead is not an easy one.

Your enemy is well trained. Well-equipped. And battle hardened.

He will fight savagely. But in this year, 1944. Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940 and '41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle. Man to man.

Our air offense is seriously reduced their strength in the air. And the capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of fighting men. The tide has turned. The free men in the world are marching together, to victory.

I have full confidence, in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle.

We will accept nothing less than a full victory. Good luck. And let us all beseech the blessings of almighty God, beyond this great and noble undertaking.

As they were reading that, and then launching one by one, FDR, was on the radio, talking to about the fall of Rome.

The next day, once they had gotten on to the beach, and were making progress, FDR took to the airwaves again, in one of the most outrageous speeches. If it were given today. That you will ever read.

Imagine your president, coming on the air, and saying this: Last night, when I spoke to you, about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment, the troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the channel in another and greater operation. And it has come to success, thus far.

But in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer. That's where the president today, if he even said that, would leave it.

He then says, and I'm quoting, Almighty God, our son's. Pride of our nation. This day have set upon a mighty endeavor. A struggle to preserve our republic. Our religion. And our civilization.

And to set free suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true. Give them strength to their armed. Stoutness of their hearts. Steadfastness in their faith. They will need thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed. But we shall return again and again. And we know that by thy grace. By the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore, tired. But night and by day, without rest. Until victory is won.

The darkness will be rent by noise and flame, and men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war. For these men are drawn from the ways of peace.

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise. And tolerance and good will among all thy people. They yearn, but for the end of battle. And for their return to the haven of their home.

Some dear Lord, will never return, embrace these father, and receive them.

Thy heroic servant, into thy kingdom. And for us at home, fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them, help us Almighty God to rededicate ourselves, in renewed faith in thee, at this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the into a single day of special rare. But because the road is long, and the desire, if great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer.

As we rise up each new day. And, again, each day is spent. Let the words of prayer beyond you're leaderships, invoking our help to our efforts. Give us strength too. Strength in our daily tasks.

To redouble our contributions, we can make in the physical and material support of our armed forces. Let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come. To impart our courage on to our sons. Wherever so, they may be.

And, oh, Lord. Give us faith. Give us faith in thee. Faith in our sons. Faith in each other. Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled.

Let -- let none of these impacts of temporary events -- of temporal matters, but of fleeting moment opinion

Let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With your blessings, we shall prevail over the unholy force of our enemy. Help us conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies.

Lead us to the saving of our country. And with our sister nations, in a world unity, that will spell a sure peace. A peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men, and a peace that will let all men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

But we know thy will be done, Almighty God, amen.

Could you even imagine hearing our president speak like that today?

We have a real problem in today's world, where we don't even really want to admit our own faults. If we're honest about what we're facing today, it's all of our own faults.

We let our -- we let our love of unbridled freedom, conquer our duty of responsibility.

We let our wants become our needs. And there is no one to blame anymore. Or at least there is no one that will take the blame.

Dwight Eisenhower has become one of my favorite people in history. Because while he said the eyes of the world are upon you, and we are going to win, in his pocket, on that day, he had written a letter for release, if things did not go well.

He said, our landings have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold. And I have withdrawn our troops. My decision to attack at this time, and place, was based on the best information available. The troops, the air, the navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. Any blame or fault that attaches to this attempt, it is mine alone.

Right now, our politicians trying to do something, they think very brave and noble. They haven't even told us what they're truly fighting for. It's not Ukraine that is driving up the gas prices. It is their fight for climate.

It is their fight for the earth, and they will blame the repercussions on anything.

It is the money printing of greedy politicians. And an absolute criminally incompetent fed.

The greed of the banks, that has caused this inflation. Treasury Secretary admitted it, last week.

Yeah. We misread. We failed to see things.

We shouldn't have done. But not our commander-in-chief. Let us not forget what honor truly looks like. And try to emulate that in our own lives.

Every day, beginning today.

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.

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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.