You may already have seen the video from June 2013, where Glenn Beck talked about a whistleblower who wanted to come forward with information that would bring down the Democrats, and the Republicans, and everything. He was visibly shaken, He was going to release the info the next day, but then said nothing. The rumor was that his life had been threatened.
During the next few years, Glenn Beck got sad, and reflective, and at times rather weird. He cried on-air. I'm sure most people are aware of his reputation as an odd duck. But there are some things I didn't know, or didn't connect, until now.
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In 2013 an anti-child-trafficking organization was created, Operation Underground Railroad, with a bunch of Navy SEALs and special forces folks. Beck gave them $1.5 million to get started. (Info in Blaze story linked below.)
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In May 2016, Beck was suspended by SiriusXM after a guest, Brad Thor, made a sketchy remark about Trump being "assassinated". Beck supported Ted Cruz at that time, with surprising fervor. He warned of "civil war" if Trump won.
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In September 2016, Cruz endorsed Trump, and Beck had an angry, disproportionately betrayed-sounding meltdown. "There is no difference between the two teams any more! ... And so, we will just soak each other in buckets of blood!"
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Immediately after the election, Beck shared his perspective, trying to bring the country together. He said, "We are going to pay for the sins of the past. There's gonna be dark days ahead." He warned that all Americans are going to be struggling to figure out "what the hell just happened." He said, "I want Donald Trump to know he is my President."
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A few weeks later, Beck did a joint show with Samantha Bee, trying (awkwardly but sincerely) to bring the country together. Notice the date: Dec 19th.
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Two days after that, The Blaze did a story about Beck, Operation Underground Railroad, and Haiti. Let that sink in. Beck sat down with Sam Bee and tried to unite the country, then he went to Haiti to do a story about child sex trafficking.
Okay, with me so far? Here's the next thing. Beck appeared on Tucker Carlson on January 9, where Tucker was relatively nice, almost deferential to him, making him the first guest in Tucker's new time slot. Beck adopted a wait-and-see attitude about Trump. One exchange stands out: "Do you think being in this business makes you happy? Has it made you happy?" Beck: "No. ... Thinking that my voice was bigger than it is ... that we can move people and change the world, it made me very unhappy. That's not my job, it's not any of our jobs. Our job is just to be ourselves, and try to be a good example. And by doing that, Tucker, I've learned a lot in the last five years." He added, referring to the country: "We're stronger than we were, than I thought, but we're also, um, in more trouble in some ways than I thought, at least eight years ago."
Beck has since criticized Trump on a variety of subjects, and praised him on others. But both Cruz and Beck seem to be solidly behind Jeff Sessions.
Watch the videos and see what you think.
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RedGreenAlliance ago
Very interesting. When i first started to 'wake up', Beck's vids especially the Soros expose, was great. I was surprised and disheartened with his behaviour in the last year and probably mental breakdown. He was a clear Globalist shill this last year, from the man who could NEVER have been a shill if he had exposed Alinskyite tactics, Obama's background, and Globalist kingpins like Soros. It never sat right with me, i always felt there was something else going on. This theory makes sense but I guess we are reduced to speculation.
Maybe he felt Cruz was best in a Machiavellian way, because he knew how awful and corrupt the system was and that Trump had the potential to expose it all. Pedo Satanism, Trafficking, the lot. So he felt the country would be in ruins if exposed, a civil war, and he would rather a 'muddle through' globalist-controlled candidate like Cruz who he probably knows is compromised but at least he's a Republican.
SoberSecondThought ago
Maybe. We don't know what Cruz told Beck, or for that matter what Trump told Cruz. Or when the story changed. It's very hard to piece it all together.
But I'm betting that Beck at some point read the foreword to The Franklin Cover-Up by John DeCamp, where he quoted William Colby about not throwing your life away fighting something too big to defeat as an individual. Colby's remark about his one-man victory parade on Red Square is very poignant.
Sometimes, there are forces too powerful for us to whip them individually, in the time frame that we would like. We have to keep working at our goal. But we have to be sensible enough, not to risk everything and get ourselves destroyed or killed in the process. That victory we seek may take much longer than we wanted, and come in ways we never anticipated.
Maybe, just maybe, you have to have your own private victory parade. You maybe have to face the fact that you cannot ‘right’ all the ‘unrightable wrongs’ That there really are people too powerful, interests too big; that the rich and the powerful, even when doing evil, can and will succeed and you can do nothing about it at that moment.
I won't judge Beck too harshly without having all the facts. There's just way too much that we don't know. But this does look to me like him taking Colby's advice.
RedGreenAlliance ago
Great comment