Posted on 03/17/2016 8:43:00 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
During his radio broadcast Thursday morning, Glenn Beck outlined eight predictions he made starting in 1999 — all of which, he says, have come to fruition.
The first, Beck says, was in 1999, when he was a radio host on WABC-AM, and he predicted that the now-deceased al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden would attack the United States.
“In 1999, I said, ‘Are you ready to fight terror? It’s a completely different world. Osama bin Laden — there will be blood, bodies and buildings in the streets,’” Beck said.
From there, the conservative firebrand continued to build his list of past predictions.
Beck said he saw the “downfall of the GOP” coming in 2003 or 2004, when he started to feel “something isn’t right.”
“If anybody is a long-term listener,” Beck said, “they remember that I would talk on the air and say to everybody in Washington, ‘Do you realize what’s happening? Do you realize that you’re disenfranchising people?’”
During the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004, Beck said he was predicting the bursting of the housing bubble and the banking crisis, which came in 2008. The radio show host said he told listeners, “Don’t take out these loans.”
Beck’s radio show co-host Stu Burguiere chimed in, saying Beck was focusing a lot on radical Islam at that time, too. “Yeah, that was the rise of Iran,” Beck agreed.
“I was the only one — remember how everybody said that we were crazy when I said, ‘Wait. We’ve got to start talking about the Mahdi. We have to start talking about the Twelfth Imam,’” Beck said.
In 2008, Beck said he predicted what he described as “the hatreds of the ’30s,” the rise of Nazism and anti-semitism, specifically in Europe. Anti-semitism has been a growing problem in Europe since the start of the Syrian refugee crisis last year.
British Justice Minister Michael Gove said Thursday during a speech at an inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism Conference in Berlin, Germany, that “modern anti-semitism finds a home in far too many hearts.”
“Europe is on the verge of complete collapse,” Beck said.
Beck went on to say he also predicted the rise of socialism in the United States and the “unmasking of the Marxists.” Radio show host Pat Gray pointed to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a self-avowed democratic socialist, as proof of that prediction.
“In 2008, I said, ‘They’re going to start admitting that they’re Marxists and socialists,’” Beck remarked.
Beck then said he predicted the rise of the “Bubba Effect” — a common theme for the radio personality — in 2008. The “Bubba Effect” is when people begin to feel they have been pushed too far by an overbearing government and begin to respond in violence.
Beck credits the “Bubba Effect” for the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, along with last week’s violent protests in Chicago ahead of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s canceled rally.
Lastly, Beck said he predicted in 2010 the rise of the Islamic caliphate in the Middle East, which today is the Islamic State. “They mocked and mocked and mocked on that,” Gray said.
Are the following actions conservative?
-Signing a liberalized abortion bill granting abortion on demand, making it law.
-Giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and not securing the borders.
-Supporting the passage of the Brady gun control bill.
-Supporting the passage of the NAFTA Free Trade Act.
Guess which “conservative” did all of those things.
Ronald Reagan.
Based on the above actions, Donald Trump is more conservative than Ronald Reagan.
Didn’t he sell his furniture because end days were upon us? And hasn’t the food he put in his fallout shelter expired waiting for the total destruction of the US? And did he predict that fellow Mormon Romney would win? (No, guess that was Karl Rove, Dick Morris, and Michael Barone.) Would love to have the “also-ran” list of his predictions.
I used to listen to him years ago driving I-80 in western PA when he was doing those prank calls to 7-11 clerks ... that was great.
We need to take the Larry King approach to Rush here, regarding Glen Beck and simply say:
“NEVER HEARD OF HIM”
That’s how Larry dealt with Rush while getting schlonged in ratings.
Damn, you fine folks are funny in the morning..lol. Glad I came back here to get through my night shift. This thread sure has elicited laughter numerous times.
Thank you for finally getting it.. Sheesh! Took long enough.
Glenn Beck = Ted Cruz. Enjoy boyz. I don’t want either of you waffling pukes in my foxhole. If you stand dumbfounded you are useless.
Of all the people you cite, which one has forsworn his empire to offer change to his neighbor. If that answer holds no sway to you I can only assume you prefer statism. Trump 2016!
Beck is a pompous a$$ in love with the sound of his own voice. I like his two sidekicks though. Wish they had their own show.
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Glenn Beck is an ass. He’s mentally ill, and partying with Bob Beckel’.
His was brought on FOX to say things MEgyn Kelly wanted said, but didn’t want them coming from her mouth.
All he can do is yell Hitler and Brown shirts, a puppet for MEgyn Kelly.
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Oh, get over yourself. It was a joke. I’m sorry you are the only one that took it seriously.
Interrupting people while they are trying to do their jobs, lying to them, mocking them for not being up on the latest pop culture trends, and mocking them for not even realizing that they are being lied to?
That's funny? Maybe it is, until you realize what's really going on.
Media elites think that regular people working regular jobs are worthy only of mockery and disdain.
Media elites like Beck are scum.
Glen Beck is the latest Mormon Prophet.
“Glen Beck is the latest Mormon Prophet.”
And Cruz is the latest Dominionism King. Or so his daddy says.
According to his father and Huch, Ted Cruz is anointed by God to help Christians in their effort to “go to the marketplace and occupy the land … and take dominion” over it. This “end-time transfer of wealth” will relieve Christians of all financial woes, allowing true believers to ascend to a position of political and cultural power in which they can build a Christian civilization. When this Christian nation is in place (or back in place), Jesus will return.
Hillary can take this guy out so easy - no wonder the left is nuts over Trump. He is the only sane candidate.
” Nostradumbass.”
very funny, I like it....consider it stolen
I predicted that.
I have a prediction for Glenn Beck....
DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
I read that site a couple weeks ago. It’s on one of the following links. A couple other links are here, too, mentioning some bizarre connection between Cruz’ Dominionism and a group Romney’s in — some Apostolic Reformation.
http://www.7culturalmountains.org/
Basically, there’s more to Cruz’ determination to reach the White House than just politics. He truly believes he’s Divinely ordained to preside over one of the “7 Mountains”. Apparently he believes God overlooks cheating and lying in order for this to be fulfilled.
We’re still waiting for his “WAIT FOR IT!!! MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!” he did every other month.
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