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We Must DECIDE: Glenn’s Response to Trump’s “Guilty” Verdict

“Today is the day of choosing,” Glenn declares. When a Manhattan jury convicted former president Donald Trump on 34 counts after a trial that every credible attorney said was ridiculous, Glenn asked himself: Is America witnessing a rising sun or a setting sun? Will we step up and save our republic or will the world watch us fall? As for Glenn, his answer is clear: He will NOT surrender to bullies and tyrants who won’t stop at Trump. He will stand and declare, “May God save the republic.” So, what do you choose?

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GLENN: Yesterday, I asked myself something that Ben Franklin asked himself.

As they were writing the Declaration of Independence and as they were going through what they went through, he sat in his chair, after the Constitution.

And he had been looking at John Hancock's chair. And it had a sun on it. Half a sun.

And he said, this whole time, I have been sitting here, thinking, wondering, praying, is that a setting sun, or a rising sun?

He deemed at the end, it was a rising sun. I asked myself yesterday with be is this a setting sun or a rising sun?

Is this the day historians will write down as the end of America, where its people were still asleep, and just didn't really recognize it?

Or is it the beginning of a new chapter?

We are in our history. And in our lives, faced with challenges, that test our resolve. All the time.

Push us to the limits.

And it's in these moments, where everything seems unwinnable. Everything seems so steep.

The odds are all against us.

And those are the times you discover who you really are.

Those are the times you forge your character.

We as a nation, because we have been fat and lazy and we have had everything handed to us. Don't really know who we are.

Most people never change because they're afraid, at least I'll speak for myself.

When I was at my worst, I was afraid there was nothing good in me.

There was nothing good to discover. So I was afraid to look.

But you'll never find those things unless you look, unless you embrace the hard things.

You have to understand, that every trial, every setback. Will make you stronger. Will make you wiser.

Will make you more gentle. America, today is the day of choosing. Today is the day. It is now our turn, to step up, and save the republic.

And the world. Make no mistake. The world is watching. And I hope you feel the weight of that expectation.

I hope you realize the sting of failure. That will come, if we don't step up.

I thought a lot about Rudyard Kipling last night. I thought a lot about Teddy Roosevelt.

If I may paraphrase his poem, in the man of the arena. It's not the critic who counts. But the one who dares to step into the ring. To risk everything.

Who will fail over and over and over again. But continues to get up.

Tired. Face marred with blood and mud. But he goes up again and again and again and again.

It's really easy to quit. It is. It's easy to say, well, we have no chance.

Easy to be knocked down. And as humiliating as it is, to lie face down in the dirt, that's exactly what every bully wants you to do. That's why every bully, they command, stay down! Don't get up again! Stay down, or I'll give you a bigger beating!

But the man who inspires others to stand, continues to get up.

Wobbly. Barely able to fight. But he refuses to bend the knee.

Refuses to surrender to the bully. Failure is not the end.

Nor was this stain on American I couldn't wait yesterday. It is simply a steppingstone to the path of greatness.

A steppingstone to make America great again.

That's not just a slogan for a campaign.

That is true. We have lost our way. We have become an embarrassment for everything we say we stand for.

Each fall teaches us resilience.

Each setback strengthens our determination.

Every time the bully knocks us down and says, stay down! Every time, we get up, there's someone in the crowd watching who then turns our way, and sees the bully for who they really are.


Oh, Lord, hear the words of my mouth. Save our republic. But he will only match us, if we don't get up. He will not help us.

If we don't follow him, he will not. He cannot help us. So what we have in front of us today, is a decision. Do we get up? Or do we lie down, face down in the dirt?

What is possibly worth taking these beatings?

Donald Trump is just a symbol. He's a symbol of what bullies do to anyone who refuses to play it my way. To stay down.

Bullies come to town all the time. And they teach everybody in town, go along, get along.

Whisper. Don't you even whisper! Don't you try to help that beaten man to stand up. Don't you do it. We must decide, will we stand idly by, while the crowds chant Barabbas. We want Barabbas.

Building anything of value, whether it's a country, a career, a relationship.

We're simply our own character.

Requires unwavering dedication.

We have to be willing to get back up, time and time again, to face our fears. To face our doubts. To press on, no matter what happens to us.

It is through that relentless effort, that we become Americans.

We discover our true potential!

Not just as people.

But as a people, the world has always known, as Americans.

Not the kind of Americans we've become! But the kind of Americans we've all striven to be!

Or thought we did.

I've always believed the American was defined by a can-do spirit.

A people who crossed the Rockies.

Tamed the West.

Changed the world!

Rescued and healed. I didn't realize how much until I studied history.

Real history. Not the crap they teach you in school.

Real history.

I never really understood how stained our name is. From those in power. Those who only serve through corruption and greed and sometimes out and out evil.

That I have truly always believed. And I -- I still do today. That the American truly believes in honor and integrity and truth and justice. That that is the American way.

I will tell you this: Yesterday, for those who live in the shadow of fear around the world. Yesterday may have changed that belief for those people.

But it did not change it for me. I will not surrender to those words. I will not surrender to the belief, that puts me and other Americans into action. Yesterday, was a defeat. But we are not done!

Each of us coming together, you're not going to do anything grand. I'm not going to do anything grand.

I'm not telling you today anything you don't know. We just have to remember, every step forward, no matter how small, contributes to the journey.

Where people who continue to stand up, those people who refuse to give in, always end up winning.

The value is not in just the destination, but the courage and perseverance that we show along the way. It wasn't that we always one with no cost. Americans have always paid a high cost!

For what we believed in. That's what's admirable. And, quite honestly, that's what Americans have lost that put us into this position.

By doing the hard things, by refusing to give up. We build a legacy of strength and integrity. And I fear we've squandered it. Because we must understand it.

That's what we've lost.

That is what the world will lose, should we fail.

Should America fail.

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Meet the pro-Intifada candidate NYC Democrats just elected

New York City Democrats just elected 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a "socialist Muslim", as the Party's candidate for mayor. But Glenn Beck argues that his radical beliefs are actually communist and Islamist.

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VOICE: Z10852. Something weird is going on. The World Trade Center is on fire.

VOICE: Seriously the top of the building. We're trying to get information.

VOICE: Top level of one of the --

VOICE: To unfold from New York City.

VOICE: A plane crashed just --

VOICE: My sister is in that believe. I hope she's okay. I have to come to New York.

VOICE: It's pandemonium.

VOICE: It's raining papers.

VOICE: Wait a minute! Stop just a second. Why are we -- why are we -- I've got breaking news. Breaking news, yesterday. New York City just elected as their mayoral candidate for the left. And the Democrats, a -- a Muslim radical, who is also a communist!

So, you know, it only took you 25 years. It only took you 25 years, New York, to go completely insane.

Somebody who is -- well, I mean, if I might quote Michael malice today. I am old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.

But you've got a -- you've got a communist jihadist apologist now.

Who was -- you know, well, CAIR put $100,000 behind his bid for New York City mayor.

So you have somebody who is endorsed by CAIR. That's really good.

He also was somebody who said, you know, he was -- he was for the shooting of the United Health Care CEO.

Said he was looking forward to driving down magnum Joan avenue. I don't know. Sounds like supporting people in the streets. Maybe it's just me.

Then he also said that he was going to globalize the intifada, which I think that's -- maybe -- maybe that's just me.

I mean, what do I know?

Tim Miller who is a podcaster. Asked him a few weeks ago. Asked him about his pro Palestinian slogan. Globalized the intifada. And he said, for me, ultimately, what I hear in so many, is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in standing up for Palistinian human rights. Oh, is that what you hear, Mr. CAIR?

Really? Huh, that's interesting.

Right. So globalize the intifada.

I mean, I mean, sure, that's -- I mean well, let me go on.

Because I don't want to take him out of context.

He then delved into the semantics of the intifada, citing the United States Holocaust memorial museum's use of a word for a translation for uprising, in an Arabic version of an article, a museum published about the Warsaw ghetto.

Oh!

So this is just a comparison, about the -- the armed rebellion against the Nazis!

I don't know if that makes me feel better!

I mean, if we're globalizing that.

We're the Nazis in this scenario.

Because I don't think it's the Palestinians.

I certainly don't think it's anybody who is like, hey.

Global jihad. I don't think it's those guys.

Or the Nazis. Who are the Nazis in that?

And it seems, if that's what you mean, then it's not just a harmless kind of slogan about human rights. It is a call for violence on the streets.

Because I don't know if you know, that's what happened when the Jews had their uprising against the Nazis.

I'm just saying!

But, hey, hey, free Palestine.

Oh, that's not what that means, gang. That is not what that means, but don't worry about it. He's just going to be possibly the new mayor.

And that's great. By the way, the Columbia faculty members signed a letter defending Hamas.

They were also among the donors to his mayoral campaign.

So, you know, you don't have anything to worry about.

And his father, who used to work at Columbia. Do you know, Stu?

Is his Dad -- is he still a professor at Columbia University?

He said that -- this violent terror thing of Islam, is not a part of Islam. Now, I've read the Koran, and much of the hadith.

And I'm pretty sure the violence is a part of that. But no.

No. This is something entirely new.

And his father while at Columbia university, wanted everybody to know, that this is actually -- this is something that came out of America!

America is really responsible for this.

And, you know, it really started with the Reagan administration, you know, when he started -- when he started with his very religious terms, to finish the war against the evil empire.

So, you know, that's where -- that's where 9/11 came from.

Is what -- don't worry about it! Don't worry about it!

Because who am I? I'm clearly just -- am I an anti-Semite today, or am I an Islamophobic? I can't remember which one.

Oh, it's probably both. Anyway, Islamophobia. Let me just explain Islamophobia. I haven't even gotten to the Communist part of it. Which is really, really -- New York, you're in one for hell of a ride. Buckle up.

It will be a fun rollercoaster for you. My gosh, I've never been happier that I've been away are if New York.

Anyway, I just want I to know, there is Islam. And then there is Islamists. Now, an Islamist is somebody who really wants Sharia law.

That's political Islam!

That's not a faith. That's political Islam.

Now, let me make really -- something really clear. Criticizing Islamism, is not Islamophobia. Pointing out the dangers of, oh. I don't know.

Political Islam. The ideology that seeks to use the tools of democracy, ultimately to destroy democracy, is not an attack on Muslims.

No. Uh-uh.

You know why?

Because Muslims are often the first people in line.

The first victims of the ideology.

So let's draw a bright, bright line between Islam as a faith, millions of people can practice that faithfully and peacefully.

It's mostly peaceful, okay?

Then there's the Islamism.

Islamism is something entirely -- that's a political project.

A theocratic political -- oh. Left loves theocracies. They love it.

Of course, you never see a problem with it.

See it when an Islamist is touting it. Anyway, it's not about prayer. It's not about fasting. It's not about spiritual life.

It's all about power. It's about merging of mosque and state. It's about implementing Sharia, not as a personal code of conduct. But as a governing legal system.

And it's -- it's supremacy.

Absolutely. Faith.

Religion.

It's -- there's one thing that's supreme.

It's misogynistic.

Deeply intolerant of all kinds of things.

Descent. Secularism. Other faiths. Even competing interpretations from inside the faith itself.

It will behead them too.

So let's -- let's be honest here for a second.

You know, CAIR should be labeled an international terror organization.

In my opinion. In my opinion.

Oh, does that make me -- that makes me an Islamophobe. I'm sure. I'm sure they will start a campaign against me on being an Islamophobe.

Stand in line, guys. You've been doing it since 2001, okay?

I don't really care. And I don't think the American people. I think that record, all the grooves are worn-out on that one, okay?

This is not a religion we're talking about. When we're talking about Sharia law. And we're talking about globalize the intifada. What does that mean, actually, to globalize it?

Does that mean we now want to do what is happening to Israel? All over the world?

Has the Palestinian plight become our plight you now, as Americans?

That there has to be an intifada here!

Because it's the kind of the same. You know. It's kind of the same over, you know, with what the Palestinians are going through.

Well, it's very much like what the Jews went through with the Nazis.

That's a weird one. That one makes my head hurt. It's very much the same as that. And very much the same as the fight against Donald Trump.

Oh, this is going to be fun. It's fun!

Really fun. You know, the irony here is, the ones that will scream Islamophobia the most, are the ones in the progressive left, the champions of feminism, LGBTQ rights. And secularism.

They're going to -- no. You want -- they're going to stand with the people, who want to kill them first.

See, this is how smart they are!

This is why it's going to work out well, in New York City.

Let me just say. If you have an ounce of common sense, you run a business, you have an ounce of wealth. And I don't mean wealth like, you know, hey, Lovey.

Let's get on the boat for a three-hour tour with a suitcase full of cash. I mean you saved anything, anything, get the hell out of New York City.

I mean, this is about survival. This is about free speech. This is about women's rights.
Religious pluralism. Secular legal systems. Liberal democracy.

But it's also about failed principles of Communism. Okay?

First, you have to call out political Islam for what it is. Okay?

And we have to do it with the clarity that we call out white nationalism.

Got to do it with that. Got to -- you know, the Klan. Really bad people.

Really bad people.

Anybody who is shouting for globalized intifada?

Pretty bad. Pretty bad people.

Okay?

Now, let's get to communism.

Because that's another cool, cool angle of the new Democratic candidate for -- for mayor of New York City.

That I just -- I think is cuddly and cute. Sure, it led to 100 million deaths. But this time, New York is going to be radically different. Oh, did I use the word radical?

I didn't mean to use that. What's radical about this guy?

Nothing. He's just like you!

Well, not exactly.

But let's talk about communism, next!

Now, the new mayoral candidate that's running there in New York City. That so many young people rushed to defend and vote for. He's promising free buses.

That's going to work out.

Where are you going to get the money for free buses.

It's free!

City-run grocery stores.

Oh, rent freezes. And finally somebody has done it. A 30-dollar minimum wage.

So under the banner of equity. And, you know, we will tax the wealthy. And the corporations. You know, we're going to squeeze another $10 billion out of them.

Really?

Because they're going to call a U-Haul.

You know, they will call something like U-Haul. There will be a lot of -- there will be a lot of movers that are like, how do I get the truck back from Texas or Florida back up to New York? Nobody is moving up there.

But he's going to do it.

Now, his vision isn't really new. You know, just -- just tax people, so we could have city-run grocery stores. You know, I remember -- I'm old enough to remember those city-run grocery stores in Moscow.

They were great.

The shelves were empty.

But that's just Moscow.

It worked out completely different in Venezuela.

Where, oh, no.

It didn't. That's right. The grocery store.

They were eating the zoo animals.

But it will be different in New York.

Because they have rent controls too.

And that will just choke the housing supply, but don't worry. As a young family.

You know, you voted for it.

You know better.

It will work this time.

So, you know, I like building ideas, I just don't like usually building on the graves of 100 million people.

But, you know, why not? Why not?

You know, use this dogma.

And this time, it will be different. It's not like it was in China. Where the great leap forward, was a gross -- a gross parody of progress. Venezuela, which was oil rich. One of the richest nations in the hemisphere now sees 90 percent of its population in poverty!

Yeah. Darn it. You know what they did?

They decided to take state control of things.

You know, like grocery stores. And it worked out well. How is that free busing working out in Venezuela?

I just want to -- I just want to know.

Anyway, then you've got the globalize the intifada. Which is going to drop a little violence in, and anti-Semitism in with your communism.

Which is weird!

Because violence and anti-Semitism, always happen. When it -- when it comes to -- when it comes to communism.

This is weird!

I've got to play something for you. Because this has talked about on me earlier this morning.

Oh, wow.

Wait a minute. This is -- this is the whole coalition coming together here.

So this is going to be good. New York, this is going to be great.

It's going to be great for you.

No. He's going to uplift you. Then the social fabric of New York City is just going to be -- just one.

It's going to be fantastic. Don't worry about your 120 billion dollars in debt. Or your 10 billion-dollar deficit that you have right now.

You are going to charge the rich more taxes, and they will stay right there.

They will be like, you know what, that 46 percent in taxes that I'm paying, this is just not enough. It's just not enough.

I need to pay 60 or 70 percent to be able to pay my fair share. So that's good. That's good. That's good.

You know, they're not risking 100 million people. It's just 8 million people.

This time, it's just 8 million people.

But, hey. For those of you in upstate New York. That aren't going to be part of this experiment.

Don't worry, you get to pay for it. Because they'll kick it up to the state. The state will have to subsidize everything. And don't you love it?

Really, don't you want to subsidize the really crazy ideas of New York City?

I mean, why don't you have a -- why don't you have a democratic socialist. A/k/a communist mayor.

Why haven't you done that? Are you not progressive enough? Are you not looking into the future?

Are you stuck in the past?

I don't know. I don't know. The graveyard is pretty big. I have a hard time getting past that one. You know, yeah, so I'm stuck in the past. Because I can't seem to pass that graveyard, and get to be down the path with you. But it's going to be a paradise.

Forget arithmetic. You know, or human nature. This time, it's going to work. It's going to work. So all right!

Wish I lived in this morning.

No wait. Nope. I don't. Nope, I don't.

And Ted Cruz, stop it. Stop writing, hey, come to Texas. No. No. Don't come to Texas. Don't come to Florida. Go to California. It's beautiful this time of year. Go there. Go there.