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Interesting Change
« on: July 16, 2014, 07:55:50 AM »
Like many I get most of my new from Fox or the Blaze.  I know some of you like those outlets and some don’t.  That is not what this is about.  I started some years a go watching Glenn Beck long before he moved to Texas and started his own network.  I also realize some of you may not like him as well, but hear me out.

Beck has been right about many things over the years and he has been good at connecting the dots to show the average person how and why the evil in this country is doing what it is.  Like him or not, I respected him because he used to take a position that we have to stand together against this tyranny.

I say used to - Recently he has been on several of the Fox shows as a guest.  The change in him has been dramatic.  So much so, that it is almost sickening to listen to him.  Now all he wants to say is that anything this president or administration says has no meaning to him, and that we all need to sit down and stop the demonizing and communicate with each other to come up with solutions.  Really ???????????????????

We all know you can’t talk to these people.  You can’t reason with evil.  My point in all of this is his dramatic change in retoric.  I believe they must have gotten to him somehow, maybe threatened his family.  Just more evidence of how complete this take over is.  Here we are a year and a half away from electing a new president, (not that any election can change that much in a short period of time) and we have no constitutional conservative anywhere in this country stepping forward as a national leader.

In light of recent events and scandals, words cannot express.

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2014, 08:05:43 AM »
Yeah, ever since the demonizing of Bundy began Beck lost me for good...his old show on Fox was good at educating people on the roots of the progressive movement, their leaders, their aims...the associations and dangers of todays progs...I don't know if someone got to Glenn or if he is back on the juice or has had some LDS Smith-vision experience where he sees himself as the white MLK or what...I don't really care, bottom line - his weepy, preaching, hand-holding Kum-Bay-Ya elitist your-not-good-enough-to-associate-with-me schtick can be stuffed up his arse with a twist!

There is a real war coming soon and you are with evil or you are with Liberty, and just as our Founders experienced not everybody on Liberty's side is going to be pure as the driven snow and your best pal in life, but if they believe in Liberty and are willing to put it all on the line to defended it for themselves and all of us, then yes, I stand with them!  Anything caught in the middle is going to get trampled.

Beck should know better, he chooses not to.  He's made his choice, he'll have to live with the results.
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2014, 08:09:39 AM »
Yes, Beck has done some yeoman's work educating and dot-connecting, however, he's become a damn drama queen who is always thoroughly devoted to his "cause" of the moment.

I get that "this president or administration has no meaning to him" because he's run into the brick wall of having almost zero influence over events and he's turned to God instead, not a bad thing.  I've heard him acknowledge Evil -- and maybe that's one of the reasons for the pivot -- but, as you say, Evil cannot be reasoned with and if Beck thinks communication will result in a Casting Out, he's deluded.  His latest mission, bringing soccer balls and teddy bears to the border invaders -- nuts, in my opinion.  It's the equivalent of him bowing his neck to the jihadis instead of fighting on his feet.  Beck is of the opinion that we should not fight each other -- also nuts -- because the ones we must fight want to kill us, TWANLOC included.
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2014, 09:03:11 AM »
The American people ARE a compassionate people. We give.  We care. And the absolute worst thing that can happen politically is allowing the mistaken view that we do not care. To win politically one must never allow this impression to be falsely foisted off on the American voter. 

It is our caring that has gotten us into so much trouble. We passed SS, because we care. We passed Medicare, because we care. We spend more on education than any other nation on earth, because we care. But, truly thinking people must learn to care effectively.  And it is effective to show that we are capable of caring for these people without government taking our resources first, taking 60-90% of them to support the government, and dribbling out a little to those in need, while keeping them in perpetual servitude.

Conservatives can and must win first the hearts and minds of voters, and we can do it by doing what we know is right. Render TRUE aid and compassion. Do not allow the governmental cruelty of perpetual enslavement of these people, rather feed them, treat them, love them, then help them get back home to their parents. 
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2014, 09:10:02 AM »
I think "they got to him"  - I too have noticed a change.   For whatever reason he has tried to take a leading role in absorbing the conservative anger out there.. making sure it is not directed anywhere useful. There is no question in my mind  he is now playing for the other team - trying to keep middle America calm and looking for political solutions when we know that avenue is blocked and impassable.

 

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2014, 09:15:43 AM »
Conservatives can and must win first the hearts and minds of voters, and we can do it by doing what we know is right. Render TRUE aid and compassion. Do not allow the governmental cruelty of perpetual enslavement of these people, rather feed them, treat them, love them, then help them get back home to their parents.
We are also encumbered by our own enslavement - we are not free to help these children, because our resources are stolen, our voices gagged and our freedom's limited.  Put your own oxygen mask on before trying to attempt to help others.  And I must say, where are these kids parents? I would never have sent a son or daughter on ahead - its all bad human stock, and I m not going to worry over much about it.  My compassion is limited to the very few people left on this planet who deserve it.  The rest are animals and vermin - and fall in the same category as the sparrows. God will help them them if he has a mind to. My heart is cold and hardened.



 

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2014, 09:33:21 AM »
I think "they got to him"  - I too have noticed a change.   For whatever reason he has tried to take a leading role in absorbing the conservative anger out there.. making sure it is not directed anywhere useful. There is no question in my mind  he is now playing for the other team - trying to keep middle America calm and looking for political solutions when we know that avenue is blocked and impassable.

I think you are exactly right.  Unfortunately, I see the entire country going the way of Beck.  You will have to convince me that there is enough courage left in this country to ever take it back.  I hope I am wrong.

PS - with all of Beck's money, his influence, and enough power to build his own TV station from scratch, he has had the potential to do great good for this country and it's people.  It would be very interesting to know the real story of how they got to him.  He of all people would be in a much better position to resist than most of us. 

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2014, 09:34:24 AM »
Add me to the numbers.  I began noticing the difference and have dropped listening.  He was a good 'teacher' for awhile, but to me Beck lost direction and focus, just becoming another talking head.  Everyones ideas for the reason may or may not be valid, don't know. 
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2014, 10:02:13 AM »
On another forum, a lot of them call him a "Judas goat"
I don't know if it's that or he became too full of himself.

He's always defusing and leading away from ways to deal with things.

I have mixed feelings on his take on helping those illegal immigrant children.
But, after they get fed, medical care and a soccer ball they need to go back home

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2014, 10:10:09 AM »

I think you are exactly right.  Unfortunately, I see the entire country going the way of Beck.  You will have to convince me that there is enough courage left in this country to ever take it back.  I hope I am wrong.

Maybe there is enough courage, maybe there isn't.

 All I can suggest is going back and reading about the insufferable acts before the revolution.  The Harbor was blockaded. Soldiers were quartered in people's homes. Martial Law was in effect.  It wasn't till they British marched upon Concord to take the Militia's arsenal  that the fighting started, and that, in part, was because the minutemen who met the British at the Old North Bridge believed the smoke they saw in Concord was the TOWN BURNING.  I took YEARS of misbehavior before that first real shot of resistance was fired, and only 3%  of the population fought, 10% aided, and 90% stood there like the dumb sheep most of the human race is and waited  to see who would be victorious and issue the them their next dictate about how to live and what to value.

History is made by interested minorities.  The only real question is your own courage - will you shoot when they come for your gun? Will you die rather than be made a slave?  Can you take at least ONE of the enemy with you when you do?  As long as 1% of the population is willing and able to do that - then there is courage enough to defeat the evil.

And then it will be time to turn our attention to the sheep.  It is time for a culling of that herd.  Poverty and Starvation will hopefully do much of the work for us,  but the Culture the sheep have adopted must be changed and restored to one that values liberty and expect self-reliance. There can be no rebuilding of our nation with the stock such as it is - just as Obama and his ilk cannot build a proper socialist hell hole without getting rid of us.

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2014, 10:12:53 AM »
I have mixed feelings on his take on helping those illegal immigrant children.
But, after they get fed, medical care and a soccer ball they need to go back home

I am a bit worried that the government plans to use this wave of immigrant children as   a way of obtaining a whole generation that can be molded and raised by the state - as the replacement for the people here now. And we know a leftist, once made, cannot be unmade by events , logic or reason.  This is a war, and these are the enemies recruits, young as they are.
 


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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2014, 10:24:44 AM »
Not trying to hijack my own thread, but in reading the responses, the idea comes to mind.  What if, all of these scandals are all being exposed to the public all at the same time on purpose.  End result, to overwhelm the media and society with so much that is bad, that people become numb to it and therefore no longer pay any attention to it.  Once that happens, and it seems to be,  they can do what ever, and no one pays any attention.

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2014, 11:02:58 AM »
As people realize that political solutions are no longer available, people are bound to react differently.

I think this is Beck just coming to grips with the reality that political solutions are no longer viable. His reaction is to "love one another as I have loved you," and let the chips fall where they may.

I can't say I'm far off from that, except that I've got too much ammo stored to let it all go to waste. I'm more in the watching and waiting for a sign camp.
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2014, 11:04:25 AM »
Weisshaupt, you are absolutely correct. Were looking at the drafting of Obamas security force
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2014, 11:23:58 AM »
On another forum, a lot of them call him a "Judas goat"
I don't know if it's that or he became too full of himself.

He's always defusing and leading away from ways to deal with things.

I have mixed feelings on his take on helping those illegal immigrant children.
But, after they get fed, medical care and a soccer ball they need to go back home

Period!
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2014, 11:29:31 AM »
Not trying to hijack my own thread, but in reading the responses, the idea comes to mind.  What if, all of these scandals are all being exposed to the public all at the same time on purpose.  End result, to overwhelm the media and society with so much that is bad, that people become numb to it and therefore no longer pay any attention to it.  Once that happens, and it seems to be,  they can do what ever, and no one pays any attention.

Everything they do is for a reason.

Don't worry, post away.

As to not paying attention, that has been going on a while now...and they are doing whatever they want, now!  They mock the weakling Boehner for wanting to challenge in the courts just one little element of lawlessness...the Left gives no ground and allows no quarter, no compassion and no sympathy for their enemies, and unless some of missed it, their enemies are ALL OF US!  Anybody who loves Liberty and the principles of our Founding are merely traitors awaiting state action to the Dem's & Prog's!

Time we treated them as enemies, and if weakling punks like Boehner and the rest of the Pubbies cannot lead like freedom-loving patriots, then they too will be trampled into the dirt by the next angry mob, as our Founders were labelled!!!

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2014, 12:05:32 PM »
I got pretty tired of Beck on Fox rather quickly, yes he educated but never provided a solution.  He would make grand statements about "hear what you can do after the break" but never produced a single solution.  I lost interest in him before he left Fox.
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2014, 12:21:00 PM »
Not trying to hijack my own thread, but in reading the responses, the idea comes to mind.  What if, all of these scandals are all being exposed to the public all at the same time on purpose. 

Scandal Fatigue is certainly part of thier strategy, as a new outrage of the day is rolled out to cover the old one - but longer term, its a kick the can tactic.. none of these things goes away, nd like the dollar,  they pile up.
At some point people have to conclude where there is smoke there is fire, and then they get to the realization that this fire can't be put out thtough political action, and they plan accordingly.  There is nothing now to be done besdies prepare for the worst.  The individual acts against us are duly noted, but we are all now just waiting for the day we see the humvee driving through our neighborhood and the SWAT team headed to our doors - because there is nothing else we can do without giving this POS the excuse he needs to declare martial law.
 

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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2014, 01:01:55 PM »
Glenn Beck to the parents of the illegal alien avalanche:

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"“I believe that the Lord God almighty gave us our children personally, and it is our job to care for and nurture them, to love them, to experience the joy of seeing them grow,” Beck said. “You are not giving them a better life if you are not part of it, no matter where they are.”

Beck said that this Saturday, he will do all he can to care for the children who are here. But he will also comfort them by telling them they’ll be going home soon.

“If they are thirsty, we will give them something to drink,” Beck began. “If they are hungry, we will give them something to eat. … But I want you to know the words that I will use to comfort them [are] the words that I think every child wants to hear: ‘Don’t worry. Soon, you’ll be back home, and you will be with mom and dad.’”
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Re: Interesting Change
« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2014, 04:47:43 PM »
Conservatives can and must win first the hearts and minds of voters, and we can do it by doing what we know is right. Render TRUE aid and compassion. Do not allow the governmental cruelty of perpetual enslavement of these people, rather feed them, treat them, love them, then help them get back home to their parents.
We are also encumbered by our own enslavement - we are not free to help these children, because our resources are stolen, our voices gagged and our freedom's limited.  Put your own oxygen mask on before trying to attempt to help others.  And I must say, where are these kids parents? I would never have sent a son or daughter on ahead - its all bad human stock, and I m not going to worry over much about it.  My compassion is limited to the very few people left on this planet who deserve it.  The rest are animals and vermin - and fall in the same category as the sparrows. God will help them them if he has a mind to. My heart is cold and hardened.
Many of those "kids" have parents here illegally and since the halfrican has hinted of general amnesty, they stampeded to the gates and through. I know some of this is true because I talk to those that are here illegally. Damn shame, if we could only get the progtards to voluntarily leave at a ratio pf 5 'tards for every migrant border jumper I think I could accept that.
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