Glenn Beck reacts: Minnesota rapper who joined France protests returns to America with a chilling message



An obscure rapper from Minnesota who goes by the name of Tufawon (real name Rafael Gonzalez Jr.) recently traveled to France and joined protests at a high school in Saint-Denis alongside Greta Thunberg. He led chants, including “f**k ICE” and “ICE out,” and performed his song “No One Is Illegal.”

When Gonzalez returned to the United States, he posted the following Facebook message urging white Americans to stir up the same dissent here:

“After returning home from France I can clearly see how we need to become far more radicalized in the states. We have to be more enraged. Our comfort is hindering our progress. It really and truly needs to be white people that go outside and raise hell if we want to see revolution. There are far too many neoliberals that are just as bad as the fascists. The French have figured this out a while ago. Now it’s time to take it to the next level. Go f**k s**t up white people. It’s your time.”

Beck mocks the 40-year-old’s claim that rioting produces real results, noting, “We’re going to have a teacher who shows up in a classroom we just burned down.”

Gonzalez’s rallying cry reminds Glenn of Hitler’s 1933 speech in which he said, “Don’t talk to me about victory. This isn’t victory. Victory only comes after war.”

“There is a whole book that is written about this particular speech and about how he wrote it because he was nuts. ... Kind of like this,” he adds, referring to Gonzalez.

As for Gonzalez’s claim that “white people” specifically need to join the unrest, Glenn retorts, “I thought all white people were bad.”

He then turns to Gonzalez’s remark that “there are far too many neoliberals that are just as bad as the fascists.”

“I told you they're going to come and eat you. They are going to eat you, my friend,” Glenn laughs, underscoring his repeated warnings that radicals will eventually turn on the moderate left.

“‘The French have figured this out a while ago,”’ he reads from Gonzalez’s Facebook post. “Yes, they did when they pulled the guillotines out.”

Interestingly, when Gonzalez spoke with the New York Post, he claimed he traveled to France for vacation and that his participation in the French protests was “very spontaneous.”

“What a coincidence that is,” Glenn scoffs.

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Glenn Beck: France’s riots aren’t really about schools — they’re about something much bigger



Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people across France marched in protest of living costs and deteriorating public services. Those marches were quickly overtaken by violent, masked groups who looted shops, set cars and buildings on fire, and clashed with police in cities including Paris, Marseille, Lyon, and Limoges.

Even though more than 2,000 people were arrested, police largely failed to contain the chaos in several cities.

But that chaos and destruction, says Glenn Beck, had “nothing to do with the schools” or any other valid grievance.

It has everything to do, he argues, with the budget the French Parliament was scheduled to vote on yesterday, although it ended up being postponed to a later date.

“The street was sending Paris a message before the vote, and the government is now stuck in a trap with no good door,” says Glenn.

He explains how cutting spending infuriates the mob because it means fewer services, but not cutting spending worsens the debt crisis, which also infuriates the mob.

“If they vote it down, the lenders get nervous and the interest rates climb. Then the borrowing costs rise. Then the jobs disappear, and everything costs more, which is exactly what the people are marching about in the first place, so either way somebody loses,” he says.

The best-case scenario, says Glenn, is they “agree on a budget” and vow to “pay this loan back,” even if it means financial constraints. If the meeting “falls apart,” however, he predicts a snowball effect, where lenders raise France’s borrowing costs, the government has to borrow even more just to cover its bills, rates climb farther, and the debt spiral spreads pressure across Europe while France’s ability to fund basic services keeps shrinking.

“That's Italy. That's Greece. That's Germany, and it's already starting. Their borrowing costs went up this month, and France now pays more to borrow than either of them,” says Glenn.

The third potential outcome is what will happen if the budget falls apart and nobody does anything about it. In this scenario, the European Central Bank will either step in with harsh conditions that make daily life even harder and fuel more unrest — or break its own rules to bail France out, which signals that the rules no longer matter and spreads the crisis further.

This should matter to Americans, says Glenn, because America is teetering on the same debt trap as France — spending more than it earns. And if lenders lose confidence in the U.S. the way they’re losing confidence in France, Americans will feel it in higher mortgage rates, higher car payments, and job losses.

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Glenn Beck: This small town reminded me what America USED to be



Glenn Beck’s sister recently decided to make a big change, and it has opened Glenn’s eyes to something that he didn’t realize existed in America anymore.

“My sister just moved to Idaho. And for her whole life, almost her whole life, she lived in the same neighborhood in a town called Bellingham, Washington, which is like Marxist central,” he explains.

“It’s a beautiful town. The water, politically, it’s as far left as America can get. And she wasn’t far-left. She’s not a Marxist. She’s not even a Democrat. And in a neighborhood where politics was kind of the, I don’t know, the membership card, decades on the same street meant she had very few friends,” he continues.

“And so she packs up, and she moves to a small town about 10 miles from mine, and it’s a very religious town,” he adds.


As Glenn drove around the area, he noticed families looking up from what they were doing to wave — despite having no idea who he was.

“Mom’s in the front yard with the three kids and a garden hose, and you drive by and they’re like, ‘Hi!’” Glenn says.

“Old couple on their knees, you know, with the tomatoes, and every single person looking up and waving at a car they don’t know,” he continues.

And then when his sister had a truckload of sod delivered to her house, what he witnessed was “bizarre,” in a good way.

“And so this sod is delivered and comes in the morning. Landscapers aren’t due until about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. So, all day she had a driveway full of rolled-up grass sitting in the sun and a street full of neighbors she had known about for about a week,” he explains.

“Five o'clock, the landscapers show up. But so did the neighbors. Nobody called them. Men still in their, you know, work boots and moms and a church youth group and a pack of teenagers who apparently had nothing better to do on a week night than unroll a stranger’s lawn,” he continues.

“This does not happen anywhere in America anymore. But it was great,” he adds.

The lawn was done within an hour, and the youth group was sitting on his sister’s lawn eating pizza.

“It was a town full of people that take their faith seriously, as seriously as anybody else in America,” Glenn says. “And the only membership they checked was, ‘Do you belong to the human family?’ She did. That’s enough.”

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Glenn Beck: The girl everyone thought was dead opened her eyes



This last Saturday, a 15-year-old girl in a remote Guatemalan village was believed to be dead. Her family brought her home for a wake, and mourners gathered around her coffin. Then, hours later, she opened her eyes.

The extraordinary story prompts Glenn Beck to revisit a forgotten historical fear held by even George Washington — being buried alive.

“Some say her father was carrying her towards a clinic and just felt her go still. Some say she had gotten to the hospital and the hospital pronounced her dead,” Glenn explains.

“And Dad has put her in a box. He gets a box, picks [his] daughter up, I mean, it’s, you know, the mountains. Picks her up, puts her in the box, puts her in the car, drives her home. The coffin goes into the house, and they start having a wake and, you know, doing it the way that generations in Guatemala and the mountains have done it forever,” he says.


“All the neighbors come, women are bringing food, somebody lights candles, nobody leaves her alone. Seven hours, maybe eight, she’s perfectly still in the box,” he continues.

“Around 2:30 in the afternoon, somebody is standing near the coffin and sees the girl’s eyes open up. She doesn’t move, just her eyes open up,” he says.

“Then she tries to sit up.”

That’s when they started giving her oxygen. Now, it’s reported that she is “getting better every day.”

“There’s no medical report. Nobody has produced a death certificate, you know, nothing. Deep faint, heart that goes quiet, body goes cold, frightened father can’t find a pulse, goes to the hospital, they can’t find a pulse,” Glenn says.

And had she not woken up, had they buried her too quickly, she would have been buried alive.

“Being still in the room,” Glenn says, is what saved the girl.

And this is what George Washington was afraid of.

“Washington wasn’t afraid of dying. He said so. The fear was being given up on while you still could be reached,” Glenn explains.

“And we do that now, not with coffins. We do that with people. The marriage that we call dead. The friend we wrote off. The son who wandered off and stopped calling. We’ve written them off,” he continues.

“We pronounce it. We close the lid. And we go home early. The bell never saved anybody. What saved things were those people who refused to leave the room,” he adds.

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Glenn Beck reacts to Ilhan Omar home raid: ‘You don’t take her on unless you have it’



Yesterday, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation into alleged immigration fraud, which Fox News reported was tied to childhood paperwork filed by her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed.

Glenn Beck calls the authorization of this raid very “significant” because a federal judge in D.C. — a place notorious for some of the most radically left-wing judges in the nation — found probable cause sufficient to authorize the raid three weeks before midterm elections.

“If I were ... the attorney general and I had DHS agents come in and they said, ‘Sir, we need a warrant to go into Ilhan Omar’s home,’ I would look at those agents and say, ‘Are you out of your mind? Show me the evidence.’ And if it wasn’t a very, very high standard of evidence, especially right before an election ... I don’t think I would approve it,” Glenn says. “I’d say, ‘Come see me in three weeks. ... Come see me when you have more than this,’ only because this is a political firestorm, and that does matter.”

As of now, Glenn isn’t sure how this will play out.

“This could be really, really good, or this could be really, really, really bad. You don’t take her on unless you have it,” he says.

Glenn’s chief writer and researcher, Jason Buttrill, notes that on September 13, White House border czar Tom Homan appeared on Fox News and confirmed that there was an “ongoing criminal investigation” involving Rep. Ilhan Omar. He specifically referenced possible immigration violations and marriage fraud.

“So, just a few weeks ago, Tom Homan confirms that, and today there is a raid at least on her Washington, D.C., home, and we’re still not sure about her other home back in Minnesota,” he says.

But what Glenn wants to know is what Omar could possibly have in her home to warrant an authorized raid.

“It’s not a general search. You have to go and say, ‘We believe this evidence is in the house, and we believe it most likely is in a safe or in a bedroom,’ or whatever,” he says.

Even evidence she “married her brother,” he says, would not be enough to authorize a home raid.

“What are you going to find? Literally, what are you going to find? ... Maybe a family album with your brother in it as a family member?” Glenn says.

“I don’t know. Apparently, a judge was convinced off of something that may or may not be there,” Jason says.

Glenn, stunned that a D.C. judge of all people authorized this raid, says he “[hopes] that it’s a fair judge but a judge on their side.”

“I’m hoping that they got a judge who’s not just a crazy Republican,” he sighs. “This is going to matter how it plays out in the press. ... And you know how it’s going to play out in the press, so please, please, DHS, don’t have done anything and cut any corner.”

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Glenn Beck: Executing Fort Hood terrorist must send a message to the Muslim world



How should America execute a convicted terrorist who turned his weapon on his fellow soldiers?

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says that while it should be about more than carrying out a sentence, the execution of the Fort Hood shooter should not be televised.

“We live in a society that already diminishes death so much. I don’t want it on TikTok,” Glenn says, explaining that exposing the public to an execution will “rot our souls.”

“It needs to be dignified. … And it needs to send a very strong message. Just killing him will not send the message. Killing him at Fort Hood is a very good thing. Sends a message that America is serious,” he explains.


“This was a guy who betrayed his country and went into his own company, went in at Fort Hood and shot up people in Fort Hood, including his own people that served in uniform with him. That needs to be seen by Americans, and we need to know that we do not tolerate it,” he adds.

However, the most important message that needs to be sent is to the Muslim world, which Glenn believes needs to see that “we don’t buy in to your false god.”

“It’s a false god if you think that you’re going to get virgins for killing innocents. So we don’t buy in to your false god, and we are not afraid of your false god, and we are not afraid of you,” he says.

“We’re not playing your game,” he continues. “We’re not going to be called Islamophobic.”

Glenn points out that an all-female firing squad would send an even stronger message: “If you actually believe that you’re not going to get your virgins because you’ve been killed by a woman, then I will insult you every day by killing those monsters … with a woman firing squad.”

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‘We’ve lost Dearborn’: Why one woman is taking the Muslim-run city to federal court



Attorney and Federalist senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland is taking the city of Dearborn, Michigan, which includes Muslim Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, to federal court.

Cleveland alleges that the city has violated the Constitution’s Establishment Clause by promoting one religion over others, and after hearing the full story, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck can’t help but agree.

Glenn explains that the purpose of the First Amendment, when it comes to religion, is “protecting the religion against government,” not the other way around.

“Well, in Dearborn, they’ve gone the opposite way. They are only celebrating Islamic holidays,” he says.

And this is why Cleveland is taking the city to court.


“If I didn’t do it, no one was going to do it,” she tells Glenn. “It has been a problem that I’ve been trying to rectify with the city for over a year. I did everything I could to try to avoid bringing a lawsuit. I basically went to city council and begged them to work with me, and they refused.”

“But the mayor has made clear that he will favor Islam, that he has a disregard for people who disagree with Islam, who hold other beliefs. The rhetoric that has come from him is extremely disturbing,” she explains.

One example Cleveland uses is the renaming of a street in Dearborn after a man named Siblani, who has called Hezbollah and Hamas “freedom fighters.”

“The mayor went and celebrated the street being renamed in Siblani’s name,” she says.

When a pastor complained, the mayor said on video, “You’re not welcome here.”

“You also had the mayor blaming Israel, on October 7, for what happened on October 7,” Cleveland tells Glenn, who doesn’t have much hope for the city.

“I think we’ve lost Dearborn. It’s an Islamic city, and I’m with you 100%,” he says, shocked.

“It’s extremely disturbing,” he adds.

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‘France doesn’t exist anymore’: Glenn Beck on the ‘two Frances’ battling for the soul of the nation



Two massive gatherings took place recently in France: an 800,000-strong Mass on September 26 hosted by Pope Leo XIV at Place de la Concorde and a nationwide student protest on October 6 over school funding that drew roughly 256,000 people across France and 56,000 in Paris.

The latter gathering escalated to violence in some areas.

“Schools set on fire. Teachers, principals attacked. Around 2,000 arrests in Marseille. Reports say the flags were in the streets. They were Algeria, Hamas’, Palestinian,” Glenn Beck says.

“One crowd, almost a million people come out to kneel. The other crowd comes to burn the buildings where children learn to read. France is not having a bad week. France doesn’t exist anymore,” he declares.

“I think there’s two Frances, and they’ve been fighting over the same house for more than 200 years,” Glenn continues.

He recounts the way the nation split after King Louis XVI was executed in 1793 during the French Revolution.

“Across the front of Notre Dame stands a row of 28 stone kings with crowns on their head. The revolution orders them down. ... So the workmen haul them off the cathedral with ropes and then smash their heads off in the square. ... But those kings were not kings of France. They were kings of Judah, the ancestors of Christ,” Glenn says.

Meanwhile, the revolutionaries turned Notre Dame into a “Temple of Reason”; an opera singer was put on a constructed altar as the Goddess of Reason, standing in for the Christian worship they had just banned.

“They’re having sex on the altar. It’s horrific what is happening there. ... After that falls apart, the cathedral is used as a storehouse. That’s one France,” Glenn says.

The other France, he says, was “watching.”

“Somebody gathered up those broken stone heads, the faces smashed, the noses gone, and they buried them under a courtyard across town. No speech, no protest. We don’t even know who did it,” Glenn recounts.

Eight years after the Festival of Reason, Napoleon cut a deal with Pope Pius VII that allowed priests back into the churches and restored public Catholic worship.

“The most powerful man in Europe looked at his country and conceded, ‘We need God.’ You can smash the statues, but you can’t smash what people bury to keep,” Glenn summarizes.

“That’s what showed up last week [in France]. ... Every expert had declared Christianity and Catholicism in France dead. I’m not sure. I think it was buried underground, waiting.”

But the statue-smashers are back with their guillotines, too, he warns.

“Many of the kids in the street have no idea what they’re tearing down any more than the mob did in 1793,” he says. “They didn’t know whose faces they were breaking, but whoever is organizing them knows exactly whose faces those are.”

For too long, France has kept its Christian roots quiet, he says. It’s why “Islam is so active over there.”

“You cannot just leave a vacuum. ... It doesn’t stay empty. Whatever you refuse to pass down, somebody else will gladly pick it up. In Marseille last week, somebody did. And he was waving a different flag,” Glenn warns.

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Glenn Beck warns France's debt crisis is a 'dress rehearsal' for what's coming here



The tea leaves are spelling doom for France. Roughly €3.6 trillion in public debt, rapidly approaching budget decisions, and political unrest in the streets indicate collapse is on the horizon.

To calm the riots, politicians are pitching debt cancellations, but Glenn Beck sees the writing on the wall — the same writing that preceded Greece’s catastrophic crash in 2009.

Roughly a year after the killing of a 15-year-old boy by a police officer that sparked mass riots, “The new government opens up the books and admits the old government lied: The deficit was not what they said; it was more than double that,” says Glenn.

“All markets stopped lending to Greece. And on May 5, 2010, the day before Parliament voted on its first bailout, a general strike filled the streets. It was chaos,” he continues.

Amid the unrest, a “neo-Nazi party called the Golden Dawn” and “a coalition of Marxists and Maoists and Trotskyists” rose to political prominence. From the latter emerged Alexis Tsipras, who became prime minister after promising to tear up the bailout. He called a referendum, and 61% voted no, but he signed a third bailout — one “with harsher terms than the ones the people had just rejected” — anyway.

“That's how the story ends with Marxists every time,” says Glenn.

“Three bailouts, 289 billion euros, the largest rescue of any country in history — and the Greek economy shrank by 25%; unemployment hit 27%; and for the young, it was over 40%. A whole generation got on planes and left,” he continues.

The only reason Greece is even still standing today, he explains, is because “[Germany] could afford to save it.”

But France, Glenn says, is in a predicament far worse than the one that nearly destroyed Greece. “Greece's whole debt was 300 billion euros. France is 3.6 trillion euros. That's more than 10 Greeces combined.”

And even worse, this time, there’s no lifeguard to pull the drowning country out of the deep end of the swimming pool.

America certainly can’t do it, Glenn argues. “We're $40 trillion in debt. For 80 years when the world got in trouble, it always looked at us ... but a lifeguard who can't swim is just another body in the water.”

The truth, he says, is that all the lifeguards are gone.

“What happens when the world can't bail everyone out — when it isn't one small country that lied about the books but three or four of the biggest ones that told the truth but kept spending anyway because they had absolutely no discipline?” he asks.

“Here's what happens. The same thing that happened in Athens, except nobody comes to rescue.”

France, Glenn argues, is a “dress rehearsal” for what could come to America. Between our own debt and the planted “seeds” of the Marxist-Islam coalition, he fears destruction is knocking on our door.

“The good news is the seed is not a harvest,” he says. “Greece came back. 2019, the Greeks voted out the Marxists.”

“The thing you have to remember is Greece had time and had somebody else's money to buy it. We only have ours.”

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French author tells Glenn Beck why she fell in love with America: 'It's endless'



Lea Martin arrived in America expecting to find the country she'd heard about her entire life: uncultured, superficial, and different from Europe in all the wrong ways.

Instead, she found something she never anticipated.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has read her new book, "Dear Land of the Free," and he calls it “almost like a love letter” about his beloved country.

Martin explains that she wrote the book after she broke up with her ex-boyfriend and felt “disassociated.”


“I felt like, oh my god, I need to write this love letter to this country that gave me so much and helped me transform so much,” she tells Glenn.

“So, it’s just my whole love for this country that gave me so, so much,” she adds.

“What was it that flipped you … because I know what people say in Europe about America, and it’s almost a cartoon version of us. But what was it that you either saw that you were like, ‘Oh my gosh, I have this all wrong,’ and what flipped you to this?” Glenn asks.

“When I arrived in the U.S., I had so many cliches, and I’ve never dreamed about moving to the U.S. It just happened because of my ex,” she explains. “And then when I arrived here, I realized how wrong I was because we have so many cliches around food, around Americans, around so many things here.”

“And I realized I was so wrong,” she says, noting that “one of the biggest cliches” is that Americans are “uncultured” because they don’t travel as much as Europeans.

“And I’ve realized there’s a lot of nuance in this cliche,” she says.

“It’s so easy for us to travel because also the flight tickets there are way cheaper, while in the U.S. it's more complicated. This country is so huge. Like, when even I was in Pennsylvania, I did a road trip in Pennsylvania, and I was like, I’m still in the same state, but I can drive hours and hours and hours,” she explains.

When she road-tripped through Texas, she found the same thing, calling it “endless.”

“Each state has its own specialties, people, mindset. It’s so interesting,” she adds.

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