Justin Barkley fills in for Glenn Beck who is still recovering from a Thanksgiving hangover. He talks about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the New York City traffic, and Biden's appearance with Al Roker on NBC's "Today" show.
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00:02:43.500You know, while most folks would normally take off, and right now, I think that this time of the year, the holidays, there's one individual who is sort of off.
00:03:38.720But I thought it was kind of interesting that this parade, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, there were people you could see out in New York City and they weren't wearing masks.
00:03:47.580I mean, even though they were outside, that's still kind of a big, that's a big step for a lot of those folks.
00:03:52.620So I thought that was kind of interesting.
00:03:54.040But I didn't really recognize any of the names, a lot of the people that were going to be these big celebrities.
00:04:39.620He decides he's going to call in for a surprise, and I'm using the air quotes because you can't see me right now, but a surprise phone call with Al Roker.
00:04:51.600I tell you, there's nothing surprised about anything.
00:05:05.620Here, I just kind of have a bit of an outline.
00:05:08.140I may have, like, some ideas of things.
00:05:10.280There's stories that I have bullet points I want to talk about or whatever.
00:05:13.300And then you've got to be flexible because things might come up or you get a phone call or something that pops up and you're going to maybe talk about something different.
00:05:21.940So you've got to be able to be fluid, like gender, you know, these days.
00:05:28.420You've got to be able to go with the flow.
00:10:05.720We'll talk about that a little later on this morning.
00:10:08.440But in every category, in every area, I don't know that there's one place that you could pick and say, you know, we're actually better off than we were, specifically in COVID.
00:10:23.740More people have died this year than last year, and that's with a jab.
00:11:01.560It's Justin Barkley in for Glenn Beck this morning on the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:13:11.600I think the only person who thinks so may be the man who's brain dead in his basement.
00:13:18.040That there's just no way, in fact, the polling shows this is just a man who is increasingly less and less popular every day.
00:13:29.300The only person who is less popular than this resident is the vice resident.
00:13:37.460She is the only one who is, in fact, less popular than him.
00:13:41.660And I saw a story yesterday, I think it was New York Post.
00:13:43.780The polling's so low now, especially where he's in the Nantucket, I guess with the billionaire friend of his staying the weekend at the compound there.
00:13:53.040Polling in the single digits from one resident, at least, who flipped him a single digit.
00:14:01.360Because yesterday, what he was making his way through on the motorcade.
00:16:50.460But she's facing that, staring down the barrel of possibility.
00:16:55.220And at the age of near retirement, and there are, what, 13 states, I think it was, that are now suing a part of that action.
00:17:06.860And that's separate again from the OSHA, Department of Labor issue.
00:17:13.940And that is also separate from the DOD, and so there's several different prongs of this administration that is trying to administer all these different rules and mandates to us that may, in fact, be illegal.
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00:26:57.380It's unmistakable that it's intentional, in fact.
00:27:00.480Even though, you know, Joe Biden is really mentally challenged.
00:27:07.220I mean, he proved it in just that little short statement where he mumbled his words.
00:27:13.240You know, communist China is his Santa Claus.
00:27:16.600And they have paid him and his son enormous amounts of money, and he is now doing their bidding.
00:27:24.400But the entire agenda of the left, and he is hard left.
00:27:31.740He may not actually be a communist, but he has been doing the bidding of our enemies since he was elected many decades ago.
00:27:42.420He was put into office by an organization called the Council for a Livable World, which was founded by a guy named Leo Szilard, who was a Manhattan Project scientist.
00:27:56.800And the Soviets called him their most reliable source for information on the atomic bomb.
00:28:03.660So, in other words, he was committing treason.
00:28:05.700And he founded this anti-nuclear organization to put up people to run for office to do their bidding.
00:28:18.700And Joe Biden has always voted with the Soviets in the Senate.
00:28:22.820And, I mean, it's really stunning that he gets away with being considered a moderate, which he is nothing of the sort.
00:28:30.780He's really just basically somebody who is so unethical that he's willing to, you know, work for the highest bidder.
00:28:41.000And the highest bidder over the last few years has been the communist Chinese, and he's been doing their bidding.
00:28:46.660But the overall issue was the left has always, their goal has always been to destroy our country.
00:28:56.100They have always worked with our enemies.
00:28:59.020And this is deliberate, deliberate, manufactured crisis.
00:29:05.320And, in fact, in my book, who was Karl Marx, I have a whole chapter on orchestrated crisis where the goal,
00:29:14.640and, in fact, that was what Glenn Beck first discovered, my work on the crisis strategy back in 2009.
00:29:26.300And he did a series of shows based on the research largely, well, a lot of it anyway, that I provided through my writing.
00:29:34.580And it's all about overwhelming the system with problems, creating fractures in society, just deluging us with problems.
00:29:47.020They started with welfare, but now it is in everything they do, the border, swamping the border, all the chaos, all the legal chaos, letting people out of jails, no bond.
00:30:00.400All of these things are designed to create chaos, uncertainty in our country, all of it.
00:30:09.120And he is leading the parade right now.
00:30:12.560James Simpson's with us right now, Arthur.
00:30:14.580And let me ask you, because you particularly mentioned this bail reform issue and some of these things that we've been hearing about.
00:30:23.500But the man who drove that SUV, I know that CNN and MSNBC and the rest of them point you to think that the SUV was responsible for the killing there in Waukesha.
00:30:34.580But the man who was behind the wheel should have actually been in jail.
00:30:39.740And there's great conversation about that.
00:30:42.560Apparently, he was out on a $1,000 bail.
00:32:50.000So it's no wonder, James Simpson, the author of Who Was Karl Marx?
00:32:54.320The Man, the Motives, and the Menace Behind Today's Rampaging American Left.
00:32:58.140It's so weird why we constantly feel divided and are divided by folks in the military, politicians, or not military, but media, politicians.
00:33:10.320It's actually military now because we've got Millie out there saying, I want to know about white rage.
00:33:16.900So, I mean, it's coming at us from every angle.
00:33:21.180And, again, as I mentioned, you know, this is either another level of sheer incompetence or it's intentional.
00:34:15.980Do they really care about gay rights or transgender rights or any kind of rights?
00:34:19.820No. What they have done is put – and I, you know, I can't – don't take me to say that I think everybody who's gay and joins the military hates America.
00:34:35.260But the fact of the matter is that a lot of them do, and they have said so.
00:34:39.860They would be more than willing to shoot Americans, which is not something that was true of the military 10, 15, 20 years ago.
00:34:49.820And so they are literally corrupting and sabotaging our military, and it also affects good order, morale, and discipline.
00:35:03.340And so people in the military are really demoralized.
00:35:07.740I had the opportunity to meet Matthew Lohmeyer last week, who wrote the book about how he was fired from the Air Force.
00:35:17.920He was an instructor fighter pilot, and he was fired from the Air Force because he raised the issue with his superiors that they were teaching Marxism in the Air Force.
00:35:31.260And he was fired, and, you know, so that kind of thing just demoralizes the ranks, this forcing people to take the shot.
00:35:44.000It is an effort to push out people who don't want to take the shot, who, as you and I, I think, understand, are much more likely to be on the conservative side than the liberal side.
00:35:57.840And so he's deliberately sabotaging and weakening the military and, honestly, setting us up for attack.
00:36:08.800Because when our enemies see us in this degraded state where our economy is also being sabotaged, it just astounds me that he talks about how we're back.
00:36:29.100That's why the stock market's been going up and down.
00:36:31.200It can't make up its mind about Joe Biden.
00:36:34.140And I think pretty soon here on it's going to finally say, uh-oh, now we know who this guy is, and you're going to see the stock market go down.
00:36:43.660But the whole thing is to weaken us at every aspect, divide us, and hopefully provoke us into a genuine insurrection so that they can then have the pretext to clamp down and silence us.
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00:44:22.560Every day in this country, the left is doing its best to make sure the next generation of kids, that's your kids, your grandkids, that they don't know where they came from.
00:44:34.840They don't understand liberty and American exceptionalism.
00:44:37.780That's what we are fighting every single day.
00:44:39.840The left's bad ideas with the good ideas.
00:45:24.800I've always, or have been at least for the last few years, a little twisted, a little conflicted on this holiday and others like Columbus Day, for example.
00:45:53.380I was adopted growing up, and I found out a couple of years back that I have some Native American heritage.
00:46:03.540I have some Native American blood in me, in fact.
00:46:14.780And there's one particularly that's apparently a chief in my history somewhere back in the family tree in Alabama, Cherokee, something.
00:46:24.220I don't know enough about it to talk at any sort of length of intelligibility on it.
00:46:30.060But I found that to be kind of interesting.
00:46:31.780So when people, like, you know, the Black Lives Matter Twitter account comes out with this posting about the dry turkey, the overcooked stuffing on stolen land, I think to myself, well, whose land was it before they got there?
00:46:49.440Because these folks, indigenous, I mean, they were moving around, and there was, in fact, other tribes that they were in conflict with at some point in time over that land.
00:47:12.260And so I guess all land would be stolen at some point.
00:47:38.280And this is particularly disturbing because it's a great organization that does a lot of good.
00:47:44.100But the news is this morning that the Salvation Army, according to the Daily Wire, the story I'm reading here, wants white donors to, quote, offer sincere apology for their racism.
00:48:02.700Am I having to struggle with, you know, the fact that is the white side of me the problem or the or the indigenous side of me?
00:48:10.360Or I didn't even know that I had any of this until, you know, maybe I at one point now I start to sort of figure this out.
00:48:17.020And with kids, I've heard stories about kids in schools that are going through the CRT or the DEI, whatever they call it, a critical racist theory.
00:49:08.340It just, you cannot, no one ever wins in this hierarchy of this woke-ness.
00:49:21.040So the Salvation Army, again, I think is falling hook, line, and sinker for the charity is asking its white donors to do more than just drop some coins into the kettle, they say.
00:49:30.780Leaders of the Army want whites to apologize for being racist.
00:49:38.060The desire is that salvation is to achieve the following, the Army says.
00:49:41.260An online resource titled Let's Talk About Racism listing several goals, including to lament, repent, and apologize for biases or racist ideologies held and actions committed.
00:49:55.460The resource claims Christianity is inherently racist and calls for white Christians to repent and offer a sincere apology.
00:50:05.560Whoever wrote this and whoever allowed this to go out from the Salvation Army is purely evil.
00:52:09.300And it's just sad to see that Salvation Army, a great organization that has done so much work in the past, powerful work, made such an impact, would be led astray.
00:52:21.600But this go woke, go broke, infects everybody.
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00:57:56.280Officials at the school and administration told him and everyone else to take their flags down because they had challenges, legal challenges,
00:58:01.760from parents saying, wait a minute, why are you pushing politics in class?
00:58:12.160Let's stick with arithmetic or whatever subject you're supposed to teach.
00:58:16.120This man took to some sort of social media and made this announcement.
00:58:21.440After 10-plus years in education, I tendered my resignation today, drove home for the last time, and won't be returning.
00:58:30.140I was already feeling a high level of teacher burnout and struggling to meet the day-to-day demands of the education field.
00:58:36.800But when administration came around and told me I had to take down my pride flag, I told them, no, I was not going to be an active participant in the suppression and oppression of an already marginalized group that I'm a part of.
00:58:52.840This is Russell Ball, 33-year-old phys ed and health teacher.
00:58:57.300Now, my health teacher was teaching sex ed, too.
00:59:00.000So I think that's probably the case here, and I think it's important to the situation.
00:59:07.520This individual says he's bisexual, and that's why he was displaying that flag in class.
00:59:16.360I don't really think that politics have any place in that classroom, specifically your politics of what you do in the bed.
00:59:26.320You do what you want to do, but at the end of the day, I don't think we need to talk to our kids about that.
00:59:31.020In fact, I don't think you need to be talking to my kids about any of that.
01:00:05.680So much we could talk about, but I really want you to sort of give you an opportunity to expose what's happening in the classrooms.
01:00:15.000Because some of the things I heard you talk about, and it's been happening intentionally for quite a long time with Planned Parenthood and folks in the classrooms with your kids, it was so disturbing.
01:00:25.900It blew me away when I heard you speak not too long ago here in Grand Rapids.
01:06:43.800It really isn't unlike any other company, a strategy where they're going after, brands are going after consumers at a very, very young age to win them over from the childhood.
01:06:57.340And that's what's happening in schools with Planned Parenthood.
01:07:34.200Yeah, so, I mean, I can't say it's terribly uncommon, but so there's a lot of states that have really great laws on the books about parental consent.
01:07:47.120And unfortunately, though, the Supreme Court ruled that any state that has any sort of parental notification,
01:07:52.760parental consent laws on the books surrounding abortion,
01:07:55.360they must also have something called judicial bypass in the law that states that a minor child can have an abortion without the parents knowing.
01:08:06.100They just have to go in front of a judge, and that judge can essentially consent for the minor child to have an abortion without the parents knowing.
01:08:16.880And there are organizations set up in all the states that have parental consent laws that basically find judges that will just rubber stamp a court order
01:08:28.680for a minor child to have an abortion without the parents knowing.
01:08:33.060And so, like, in my state, in the state of Texas, the organization is called Jane's Due Process.
01:08:39.240And so they just walk with a girl through the process.
01:08:42.420The girl goes in front of a judge via Zoom.
01:08:44.840They walk with her through that process.
01:08:51.380And the sad part is that, you know, she can go to school one day, and the school counselor, the school nurse,
01:08:58.960you drop her off at school thinking, oh, she's going to learn about math and science.
01:09:02.500But really what's happening is the school nurse, the school counselor, whoever,
01:09:07.700can take her from school that day to an abortion clinic, have a surgical abortion where the risk is possibly death,
01:09:15.440she's going to sign that consent without you knowing, without your consent, and she's going to have that abortion procedure.
01:09:23.260She's going to be brought back to the school.
01:09:25.340You're going to pick her up at the end of the day, and you're not going to have any idea that your daughter just underwent a surgical procedure without your knowledge.
01:09:35.500So this is just something that I never realized.
01:09:39.820And I think there's a lot of people that maybe don't realize what's happening in their schools and what's perfectly legal and that could take place.
01:09:48.460So, Abby, I mean, number one, I wanted parents to be aware.
01:09:53.620I think we know that things are really, I mean, especially the last couple of years, you've got to be, if your eyes are open,
01:10:00.800you've got to be aware that crazy things are happening in schools with their kids.
01:10:04.160But this just takes it to another level.
01:12:35.100And she walked into one of these places where a resource center where they were going to give, you know, resources and health care and all these different things to these moms that come in and inquiring.
01:12:47.240And the outstanding happy ending that came out of this was nothing short of a miracle.
01:12:55.400So I have a friend that works at a pregnancy center in New York, and this woman came in, and there's a late-term abortion clinic right next to this pregnancy center.
01:13:09.360And this woman walked in to my friend's pregnancy center, and she put her hand up in my friend's face, and she said,
01:15:29.660And just, you know, next week on December 1st, the Supreme Court opening arguments in front of the Supreme Court are going to be taking place.
01:15:37.840And, you know, we may see Roe overturned this spring.
01:15:41.940And so we all need to be in prayer and we all need to be doing our part in taking action.
01:15:47.780Abby Johnson, you can go and find out more at abbyj.com, abbyjohnson.org websites where you can get more information and stay in touch.
01:15:58.900One of the things that I think we always hear, Abby, before I let you go, is this argument from people, a lot of times from the left,
01:16:06.980and they'll say things like, well, you know, they care about a child up until they're born and they don't really care about it afterwards.
01:16:13.680So some of the things that I've learned about these organizations that are doing this work is the incredible things that they do behind the scenes to get women actual health care,
01:16:24.080but also resources to take care of those babies.
01:16:26.800And I've seen you post this on your Facebook page where there's something happening and you need some help for a specific woman out of the blue,
01:16:33.580and then people just come out of the, like the flood works, just outpouring to help these women.
01:23:34.500My new son, Henry, eating too much of mom's pumpkin pie.
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01:28:11.000It is Justin Barclay in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.
01:28:14.200I am from Grand Rapids, Michigan, high atop the thriving metropolis, as we continue the Glenn Beck program today, the post-Thanksgiving edition.
01:30:26.520Why are we still listening to any of them?
01:30:32.780The WHO officials on Thursdays warned of a new COVID-19 variant that's been detected in South Africa.
01:30:39.160The new variant contains more mutations to the spike protein, the component of the virus that binds to cells, than the highly contagious Delta variant.
01:30:50.380Because of these mutations, scientists fear it could have increased resistance to vaccines, though the WHO said further investigation is needed.
01:31:01.700The UK temporarily suspending flights from six African countries due to the variant Israel barred travel to several nations after reporting one case and a traveler.
01:31:11.760Two cases were identified in Hong Kong and Belgium also confirmed a case.
01:31:18.140So the market's now in a bit of a chaotic front here.
01:31:31.500And of course, you know, that means Fauci is going to be out there on all the shows.
01:31:35.020And then Monday we'll have all the great Fauci video clips to play where he is contradicting himself and saying just the latest ridiculous things.
01:31:44.100So that's, by the way, all of this, as the FDA says that it wants 55 years to process FOIA requests about the jabs, meaning data may not be available to the public conveniently until 2076.
01:32:08.080I think we'll find out what really happened with JFK and UFOs and the rest of it before we actually find out what the data between the jabs here.
01:32:24.500Portugal, one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, has declared a state of emergency and is imposing new restrictions to curb the sudden surge they're seeing.
01:32:35.500This was a story even before we heard about this South African variant.
01:32:41.660Now, I thought it was racist, by the way.
01:32:46.200You remember, we couldn't call this the China virus because it comes from China.
01:33:24.780Because we went from Delta to South Africa.
01:33:26.860There's a bit of a disconnect here, folks.
01:33:31.180And I'm not really sure what it is, other than maybe these Greek alphabet letters weren't scary enough for folks.
01:33:42.560So at one point, I thought they were just going to go through the entire alphabet until they got to one that stuck and scared people sufficiently.
01:33:52.180We're moving on to the South African variant.
01:33:54.060So folks there in Portugal, one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, declaring state of emergency, imposing new restrictions.
01:34:00.640Because with 99.2% of adults at least partially vaccinated, they're saying vaccine passports for major events, bars and clubs, as well as mask mandates for public transit.
01:34:15.560Portugal has announced they have new restrictions, proving once again that I guess if you just follow the experts, you can end the pandemic, huh?
01:34:29.200And this also comes as news is summer of 69, right?
01:34:51.520Apparently what happened here is after you test, you can still test positive for like, I don't know, months on end, even though you're not contagious and you're not actually sick with it, apparently.
01:35:03.640So that brings in more question about the testing and all that you see.
01:35:09.480By the way, it's not like anything's on the line here with people, like their livelihoods or life in general or economy.
01:35:16.180Not like anything's hanging in the pallet.
01:35:17.840So, you know, the accuracy of these tests.
01:35:56.500In California, Santa Cruz County has now issued a mask mandate indoors for private homes.
01:36:08.420No word on who exactly will be doing the policing of this.
01:36:12.200But if you have anybody who lives outside of your home, apparently you are required to make them mask up.
01:36:19.920Which is almost as crazy as the clip from CBS.
01:36:29.260And I don't know if you saw this or not, but apparently getting ready for Thanksgiving, the folks at CBS had a bit of some advice for folks who were going to hold Thanksgiving gatherings.
01:38:14.980By the way, before I'm done with his Rona report, I'll just tell you, New York Times reporting,
01:38:20.500despite vaccines, this is their headline, by the way, the U.S. has lost more lives to COVID this year than last.
01:38:28.940But as you know, yesterday, Biden said to Al Roker over the phone during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade that everything's good because we're back.
01:38:39.000And somebody who texted me earlier on my text line said, does it mean we're on our backs?
01:43:27.700I mean, you guys got off the ground and running and quickly spread like a virus all over the country in ways that folks in the Biden administration probably wouldn't like to see that happen.
01:43:39.280Yes, we started Stand Up Michigan during the lockdowns here in Michigan, and we quickly grew to almost 400,000 members.
01:43:49.040That was, of course, during the lockdowns.
01:43:50.820And people were wondering, where can I get truthful information?
01:43:57.740And we really just allowed them to tell their stories and what is it you're going through and try to provide them with solutions, which is something that our government, especially our governors, were certainly not doing.
01:44:08.160It was just stay home and wait to hear from me as to what we're going to allow you to do with your lives, your businesses, your kids, your schools, and so on.
01:44:15.540And so over the course of 2020, of course, the message got out, and it spread around, and somewhere was in Virginia.
01:44:22.580Stand Up Virginia was formed, and they have a website, StandUpVirginia.com.
01:44:26.520They've done lots of amazing things, but one of the things was go all the way down to the local level and the Loudoun School systems and so on.
01:44:32.600I'm sure many of your listeners had seen the Stand Up Virginia signs that were held up at those school board meetings.
01:44:40.800But what we've seen now is it's one thing when you affect our lives individually or even our businesses to a certain point.
01:44:47.880But when they've come for our children again this last fall, when they decided that we are going to first keep them out of school or we're going to have them in school in masks, we're going to now force vaccinations potentially on them.
01:45:00.740That's when the parents said we've had enough.
01:45:03.080And that's the point, obviously, we need to get to.
01:45:05.220It's the question we've asked, I think, for the last 18 months is, what is it going to take for you to stand up and actually get involved?
01:46:01.420Well, the greatest thing we have in America is a republic, which means we have local governance and control.
01:46:08.360Now we need to take that back because we've just been asleep for way too long.
01:46:12.600So what we've seen here and what we pivoted to in 2021 is getting involved in local areas with local county chapters in order for you to get involved in your own school system, get involved in your own local government.
01:46:26.020What you're going to find is they're filled with liberal progressives who are part of this game.
01:46:31.620They either live in fear or they listen to just the left and they listen to this progressive agenda.
01:46:53.040It's actually changing and controlling your local community, which means whether it's your school board or it's your city council, county commission, whatever level you need to get involved in, you have to show up and you have to get involved.
01:47:18.960Every day in this country, the left is doing its best to make sure the next generation of kids, that's your kids, your grandkids, that they don't know where they came from.
01:47:30.620They don't understand liberty and American exceptionalism.
01:47:33.560That's what we are fighting every single day.
01:47:35.840The left's bad ideas with the good ideas.
01:48:57.520I never really wanted to talk about politics.
01:49:04.300In fact, it's just not one of my favorite topics.
01:49:11.380But I have been working on the radio since I was in high school, doing all kinds of different formats, working for different radio stations all across the country.
01:49:24.760And I found myself working in talk radio back in 2012.
01:49:30.860And the things we talk about would be mostly the news of the day, things that were topical.
01:49:54.140And over the last almost two years now, what we talk about at that water cooler, in fact, whether we actually get to get together around a water cooler, has changed.
01:50:30.480The last couple of years, it's been the thing that I've had to talk about because...
01:50:40.480I just felt called to be here through these things with the folks that I get a chance to talk with on a daily basis with my radio program and my podcast, etc.
01:52:36.140And standing up can look as simple as sharing the stories that you just aren't hearing anywhere else that we share on a daily basis on the radio.
01:53:30.380And Ron, we were just talking about those things that people can do.
01:53:33.940But you have people literally coming together in various different ways all throughout the country to get involved and engaged in the process.
01:57:13.840And what Stand Up Michigan did is become an umbrella for all those organizations to let them get involved in the area that affects them most.
01:57:21.280And that brought, basically didn't take away their identity, but lets us have and speak with much bigger collective voice.
01:57:27.740We've got to come together, and we've got to make sure, because there's enough of this division happening, I think, on other levels,
01:57:38.740that we don't fall into that same trap ourselves.
01:57:42.800And make sure that we find the things that we do agree with on each other, those common core principles, you know, those values.
01:58:17.360And then you can get live broadcast and links to all kinds of information and resources that will help you be able to stand up in your community.
01:59:18.500And we'll go through these lightning fast, though.
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