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So guys, we got a lot of ground to cover.
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We're going to cover some stuff in the quick hitters.
2:46
So I was actually not going to be recording an episode this week, I had an AMA ready to
2:50
go for you guys.
2:51
So we're going to push that to the future.
2:53
But didn't want to let you know that we were covering a lot of ground because the, really
2:57
the news cycle is just not stopping.
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The news cycle is going insane and there's obviously a huge topic we need to talk about.
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But in the quick hitters, we're going to talk about a recent lawsuit judgment that may spell
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the end of child gender transition surgeries in America.
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Olympians currently representing the United States, expressing disappointment that they
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time if they don't participate in the voluntary gun buyback program.
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Former Uvaldi school's police officer acquitted of charges that he failed in his duties to
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confront a school shooter responsible for murdering 19 elementary school children and
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two teachers, singer Billy Eilish getting nuked by the Tongva tribe and then the Washington
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Post cutting a third of its staff.
3:39
But before we get to the main topic for a day, I do want to cover a couple of other things.
3:43
So the first thing I want to talk about is the Epstein files, the Epstein list.
3:47
So I've been asked a lot.
3:48
I've gotten a lot of DMs, a lot of emails.
3:50
Hey, Kyle, when you're going to cover the Epstein files, Hey, Kyle, when you're going
3:52
to have someone on the show to talk about the Epstein files, Hey, Kyle, Hey, Kyle, Hey, Kyle.
3:55
And the thing is, is I know where these requests are coming from because there's so much confusion.
4:01
And so for a lot of you guys, you'll ask me to kind of like research this stuff, break
4:04
it down and try to surmise some, I don't know, some usable wisdom that you can have in order
4:10
to operate on these particular topics.
4:13
But here's the reason why I haven't covered the Epstein files and why I'm not going to
4:16
do so in detail today.
4:19
The level of information that is out there is only eclipsed by the level of misinformation
4:25
out there.
4:26
They would have to become my full time job, right, put, you know, all my interviews on
4:31
the shelf, put the daily blade on the shelf, put, you know, being a husband and a father
4:35
on the shelf, just to start really breaking down some different things on the show.
4:39
So there was a guy here recently, let me go look, I'm going to look it up right now because
4:43
he was on Joe Rogan recently, hang on, we're doing alive.
4:47
Yeah, I do say that quote a lot.
4:50
I should probably figure that out.
4:51
All right.
4:52
Here we go.
4:53
Joe Rogan experience.
4:54
It was episode 2447 with Mike Benz.
5:01
They did almost three hours, almost exclusively on the Epstein files.
5:06
And then you get to the end of the episode.
5:07
And you're just like, I still don't even fully understand what's happening.
5:11
So in addition to that podcast, I've listened to other people's episodes.
5:14
So I've literally listened to hours and hours and hours of stuff on the Epstein files.
5:18
And so this is what I want to leave you with in terms of the Epstein files so that we can
5:21
move on.
5:24
I've been guaranteed by people and been told by people that, oh my gosh, there's this evil
5:29
cabal of millionaires, billionaires, maybe even trillionaires out there that are pedophilic,
5:37
you know, child sacrificing maniacs.
5:40
And they're also in control of politicians, entire countries are in control of the entertainment
5:47
industry.
5:48
They control the weather.
5:49
I've been told all these different things.
5:51
So just a small thought experiment for you guys.
5:54
So if you fall into that camp, right, that you think that there's this evil they out
5:59
there somewhere that's doing all these things and Epstein was involved with the they that
6:03
no one really knows, how can you simultaneously believe that these people are so powerful?
6:11
Again, running entire politicians as puppets, controlling entire industries, all those things.
6:18
But they're simultaneously not powerful enough to keep files with their names and videos
6:24
of them and pictures of them from coming out to the public.
6:27
I mean, what was it?
6:29
Thomas Massey yesterday is like, I have a thumb drive that was delivered to me.
6:32
It has all the names.
6:33
It has all the blah, blah, blah.
6:34
So they're powerful enough to control everything except for their names getting out.
6:42
Maybe like that that's possible, but I just don't know that that's incredibly likely.
6:48
So that's not me by any stretch, the imagination, excusing what Jeffrey Epstein did or any
6:52
of his associates.
6:53
Obviously, the stuff he did was incredibly evil and short of faith in Christ.
6:57
He's serving a very awful life sentence in hell, right or an internal sentence in hell
7:02
right now.
7:03
But I also want to talk about we've heard a lot of really in the last year from the some
7:09
of them alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein, right?
7:13
So some people have come up and they've had their day in court and it was seen that their
7:17
case, you know, their testimony couldn't even be used in court because of so many different
7:23
variances.
7:24
But I've just seen these different things where these victims, again, these alleged victims
7:27
are doing press conferences and there were commercials.
7:30
I think there was one during the Super Bowl and I just, I'm very confused by this because
7:35
you have these, these, again, alleged victims that are putting themselves in front of cameras
7:40
and putting themselves on television saying we're not going to be silenced.
7:44
Like we need the word to get out.
7:45
We need the list to get out, blah, blah, these different things.
7:47
And I'm sitting there like, okay, so you are a victim, right?
7:53
So give us the names.
7:57
So if this happened to you and there's these people that everyone would know, celebrities
8:01
and politicians and powerful people that were involved in your sexual victimization, tell
8:07
us who they are.
8:08
And then people are like, well, no, I mean, these people are going to get sued.
8:11
And, you know, if there's this big, you know, actor that's worth hundreds of millions of
8:15
dollars and you've got this gal living paycheck to paycheck, like there's an inequity here.
8:20
I mean, there's so many different people that would come to her defense and pay for her
8:24
attorney's fees.
8:25
I mean, Elon Musk even said that recently, like he would pay for anyone's attorney's fees
8:29
that wants to come out and name names.
8:32
But they're not naming names.
8:34
So I don't understand like, so there's something, well, there's a lot of things that are incredibly
8:39
weird about all this, but these, again, alleged victims, because I'm sure some of them are
8:43
legitimately victims, but other ones, I don't know if they're just trying to get there 15
8:48
minutes of fame or their moment to shine or a bag of money, but that's incredibly odd.
8:52
And then also this has been pointed out by a lot of people, but perhaps you haven't heard
8:56
it yet.
8:57
Isn't it so interesting that Democrats wanted nothing to do with this story until Trump got
9:01
elected?
9:03
They were in power, right?
9:05
They had the White House.
9:06
They had the House of Representatives.
9:09
And they didn't really care about the Epstein list.
9:12
They didn't care about this evil cabal of pedophiles that were, you know, raping girls
9:16
on an island and boys on an island somewhere.
9:18
They had, you know, they couldn't be bothered with that information.
9:22
But Trump gets into office and all of a sudden it's this big thing.
9:25
Again, where there's smoke, there's fire, this seems like more of a political firestorm
9:29
than it is this amazing, incredible, fantastical cover up.
9:34
But again, as more easily solidified information and easily defendable information comes out,
9:40
I will obviously talk about it on the show, but I don't feel like I can talk about it
9:44
in detail at this moment just because of the bevy of information that's out there.
9:48
Before we get into the main topic for today, obviously we got to talk about the Super Bowl
9:52
halftime shows because again, the Super Bowl, big cultural moment for the United States,
9:57
basically on any given year, that is the largest cultural moment because of the amount of people
10:01
that are watching it listening to it. But this year you basically had the NFL halftime
10:05
show versus the TPUSA halftime show, okay? So obviously the NFL halftime show, that's
10:11
the hegemonic one and then you've got TPUSA, something that was just thrown out there for
10:14
this year. And we'll probably continue, but this is the first one.
10:18
So you got Bad Bunny. So for most of you in this audience, thank God, you've never heard
10:22
of Bad Bunny until he was announced as the Super Bowl halftime show for this year.
10:27
So I had heard his name before and had never heard any of his music into this day. I've
10:31
still never heard any of his music. I saw some clips of videos of him, you know, when
10:36
it was announced that he was going to be the Super Bowl halftime show guy. I saw some
10:40
videos of him from music videos where he's cross dressing, he's acting very queer. Those
10:45
are his words not mine. And so it was one of those things where the crew that I was watching
10:49
the game with, we didn't want anything to do with that performance. There were a bunch
10:52
of kids around, a couple dozen kids around, and we didn't, we couldn't take the chance
10:57
of a grown man being in a dress or some sort of like LGBTQ nonsense going on, which is
11:02
the right posture, by the way, you should keep your kids from those types of things.
11:06
But now we need to talk about the lyrics. Well, actually, we'll talk about the lyrics
11:11
of the songs that he's saying here in a little bit, but there's nothing super overtly crazy
11:16
to report about the visuals of his performance. He was apparently dressed like a man the entire
11:20
time. I mean, in terms of the visuals, there was one time where two gay dudes were grinding
11:26
their weiners together. It was just kind of like a quick clip. So if you like sneeze
11:30
or looked away for a second, you missed it. But yeah, there were a couple of gay dudes
11:33
that were rubbing their crotches together. So there was that. But essentially the entire
11:37
performance was in Spanish. Spanish. A language that most Americans don't understand or speak,
11:45
actual Americans, that is, of course. So a Spanish speaking artist doing a performance
11:50
in Spanish isn't newsworthy, nor should it be. But in this case, it actually is because
11:56
of the setting of the performance, which is the Super Bowl, which just so happens to
12:01
be the biggest cultural event in America every year, as I've already said. And it's the culminating
12:05
game of the season for the National Football League, which is the biggest professional sports
12:09
league in America, with football being the most popular spectator sport in America.
12:15
And this year is the 250th birthday of our country. And the biggest cultural event of
12:21
the year will be an event where the halftime performance honored a bunch of central and
12:25
South American countries and Puerto Rico and American territory. It's not even its own
12:30
country, but no honor for this country. And it's done in a language that isn't English.
12:37
So you may have seen the clips or maybe you were even one of the unfortunate souls that
12:40
actually watched that performance. But remember when they started walking all the flags out
12:43
and then he started like naming all these central and South American companies or countries,
12:48
sorry. But where was all the American flags? Because the thing is about people in all those
12:54
other countries, all those people are either wanting to legally immigrate here or more
12:58
likely illegally immigrate here. But they don't want to leave their pride for their country
13:03
that sucks so bad that they want to leave it there. They want to bring that with them,
13:09
but they want the largest of America. So yes, it is at least a bit strange that the NFL
13:14
would choose to have a controversial explicit queer, Spanish speaking artists who do the
13:19
halftime show. But again, they know what they're doing, right? Because they know you either
13:23
are going to love it because you're depraved or you're going to hate it. But either way,
13:27
you're going to pay attention and you're going to talk about it as I am right now. But if
13:31
you ask the NFL, they really want to break into the Latin American market. Okay. I mean,
13:37
that's so that's part of this whole plan to display Latin American culture as if we needed
13:41
that in American football. But I just have to ask what should be an obvious question
13:46
at this point. Do you really think that people in Central and South America are going to
13:51
start watching American football because you had bad bunny perform the halftime show?
13:57
I mean, guys, let's be real. If JLo and Shakira didn't pull that off with their performance
14:02
from however many years ago, I don't think bad bunny can, but you know, I digress. But
14:08
really to the NFL, is that what you think? Do you really think that you can pander to
14:12
a group of people in a way that will make them forget football and start watching and
14:17
paying attention to football? I mean, do they honestly think that having bad bunny go up
14:22
on stage and do, you know, whatever it is that he does is going to get someone in, you know,
14:27
Guatemala or Columbia or Argentina to watch a Thursday night game between the New York
14:32
Jets and the Tennessee Titans. Is that something that you think is going to happen? Because
14:35
it seems a little foolhardy to me. But because the entire performance was in Spanish, a lot
14:40
of people miss this. We need to talk about the lyrics to the songs that he's saying.
14:46
Again, most of the people watching it had no idea what was being said or sung or whatever
14:52
you would call what bad bunny was doing into a microphone. But I did a little bit of research
14:56
and let's just say it's egregious. Okay. Now I know some of you listen to this and in
15:00
the car and the gym with your kiddos around or something like that explicit language warning
15:05
coming, I am going to be reading bad bunny lyrics, the lyrics that he's saying in front
15:09
of the entire world at the Super Bowl. Okay. So here is your warning. If you want to skip
15:14
ahead or you want to pause this and listen to it later. Okay, there you go. I've extended
15:17
out the warning. You have been sufficiently warned. So here is one of the songs. I don't
15:23
know how to pronounce this word, but it's a faira. And so I'm going to go ahead and read
15:26
the lyrics of the song here. Again, he sang them in Spanish. But if they were in English,
15:30
they would have sounded like this. She came ready already, ready to brush together. She
15:35
sucks my lollipop. She gets on her knees. Hey, how dare you mommy to come without panties?
15:41
Yes, so that your panties get wet, get horny and versatile, more [inaudible] than Betty Boop.
15:48
The one who got horny mommy was you. I stay killing with the you pussy with dick, dick
15:54
with ass. Push it in your tits rubbing my nipples. Push it in. I don't know why I haven't
15:59
seen the pussy, but let's go to bed to F you in panties. Okay, that's something he sang
16:06
in front of the entire world. Another song he sang was T. T. M. Pragunto. And this is
16:11
some lyrics from that song. Here are some. Uh, let the ones I already F'd smile. Today
16:17
I have one tomorrow. Another. The one from Barcelona that came by plane and says that
16:22
my dick is fire. So that was sung in front of the entire world. Another song called party.
16:28
Here's some lyrics from that. She wants to grind and get high. I'll smack that ass whenever
16:33
you want ready for you to get horny and you will still, and you will still want it sit
16:38
on top of my dick. I've made your pussy sentimental. Uh, and your panties are wet. And so guys,
16:44
that's just a sampling. That's just a sampling of some of the words. So if you let your kids
16:49
watch that filth of a halftime show, that's what you expose them to. So good job, dad.
16:55
But now let's talk about the TP USA one. So obviously there was their initial announcement.
17:01
It was after Bad Bunny was announced. They came out and said, this is ridiculous. We
17:05
don't want, you know, to expose our families to this. So we're going to do our own. And
17:10
then there were some initial names that were kind of bandied about. We kind of thought
17:13
they were going to go like a Christian, you know, way. And so we heard about Forest Frank
17:17
and Brandon Lake and Cody Asbury and some of those guys. But then it was like weeks and
17:22
weeks. And if not months of silence, there was just silence. So much so that I was like,
17:27
Hey, I don't even know that TP USA is actually going to follow through with this. And then
17:30
shortly before the Super Bowl, they announced the lineup. So it was Lee Bryce, who I had
17:35
never heard of before, Gabby Barrett, who I'd never heard of before, a guy named Brantley
17:39
Gilbert, who I'd seen pictures of, but I'd never heard his music. And then Kid Rock.
17:44
So boy, oh boy, it was my 13 year old self super pumped about that. And so just to be
17:49
honest, you know, after seeing that lineup, I was not like overwhelmed and pumped and excited
17:54
about the lineup. But I was like, Hey, I'm not going to watch Bad Bunny, I'll be at a
17:57
Super Bowl party with some friends. So certainly we will go ahead and give it a shot. So when
18:02
it got to the halftime show, it started off with Brantley Gilbert. And so I'm sure there
18:08
are some Brantley Gilbert fans in my audience, but I just got to say for me, I'm just not
18:13
really into the whole I kind of pseudo tough guy, dude bro, America country music thing.
18:19
It's just when it is kind of like contemporary Christian music guys, it's just when it hits
18:23
my ears, it just doesn't agree with my palate and maybe your things just not my thing. So
18:28
I was kind of turned off from the beginning, but hey, I'm here, I'm at this party with
18:32
a lot of my friends, a lot of my foxhole guys. And you know, so all the guys are outside
18:36
on the porch watching all the gals are inside and the kids were off, you know, playing and
18:39
having a good time. So and it was during his set, actually, I don't know, he played two
18:44
songs or something like that. And I don't know this to be true, but it's almost assured
18:48
at this point that the whole thing wasn't live, which is kind of defeats the purpose
18:53
of doing something to compete with a live performance at the actual Super Bowl. So I thought that
18:57
was a little weird. And then there was a gal that came on named Gabby Barrett. I thought
19:02
she was fantastic. And again, I never heard of this person before and it was kind of hard
19:05
to hear because you know, it's kind of loud on the porch, but you could just tell that
19:08
the girl could sing. She could actually sing like she wasn't hiding behind her band or
19:13
hiding behind, you know, her microphone with brass knuckles on it or something like that,
19:17
whatever that's about. But I thought she was spectacular. So hopefully Gabby gets a nice
19:21
little bump from this. Then it went to a guy named Lee Bryce. Again, I never heard of
19:26
him before. Yikes. Ouch. It's just, it's just not really my sound, not really my thing.
19:32
If you're a Lee Bryce fan, great, you know, God bless Lee Bryce. But it was around that
19:37
time when Lee Bryce was doing his thing that I posted on Instagram. Is there a third option
19:40
for the halftime show? Because I was just like, goodness gracious. This wasn't really
19:44
enjoying myself. And that was really, if I'm being honest, I was around the time when most
19:48
of the people in my crew kind of checked out. And again, this is a bunch of guys from Oklahoma
19:52
that love America. And this is kind of like the America thing right in all of us were just
19:56
like, yeah, like we're all like looking at our lives and they're looking at us and everyone's
19:59
like, God Lee, this needs to be over soon. Then we got to Kid Rock. So you can hear the
20:05
entrance music for ball with to ball. And I leaned over to one of my buddies and I go,
20:08
Hey, wouldn't it be awesome if he came out in the mink coat like he did at, you know,
20:11
Woodstock back in the day. And so he pops up on screen like literally like pops up out
20:16
of the ground and he's wearing jorts and like a cut off mink coat. And I was just like,
20:20
all right, well, this is kind of funny. But you could tell because you could tell he recorded
20:28
a live version of ball with to ball, but then they were playing it back because the lip sync
20:34
track was off. Like it was out of whack. Right. And so at one point, you can see his mouth
20:39
moving his mouth moving, but the audio track is somewhere else. Again, it could have been
20:43
live and some just got messed up or whatever. There was a lag, but you know, didn't quite
20:48
pull that off. So that was a little strange. And then there was this very beautiful, but
20:53
seemingly oddly timed and out of play song played by a vinyl violinist and a cellist.
20:59
And at this point, we're all like, what in the world are we watching? What, what is this?
21:03
We went from ball to ball to these, these people playing this, you know, is admittedly
21:07
a very, very beautiful. I think it was even a Christian hymn, if not, it was just a beautiful
21:11
song. And then they announced somebody named Robert Richie, which sounded familiar, but
21:17
eventually you can kind of realize when this person looks up that it was actually Kid Rock
21:21
because Robert Richie is his real given name. So he was singing Till You Can't, which is
21:27
a Cody Johnson song, which automatically made me think, well, why didn't they just get Cody
21:31
Johnson? I mean, maybe they tried or something like that. But it was interesting. I didn't
21:35
really know Kid Rock was going to be, or sorry, Robert Richie was going to be covering a
21:38
Kojo song. But if you were able to make it all the way to the end of this rather underwhelming
21:46
show, you get a surprise additional verse to Till You Can't. So not in the original by Kojo,
21:52
where Kid Rock sings again, Robert Richie sings, you can give your life to Jesus and he can
21:57
give you a second chance, okay, to which I would say amen and amen. But man, did you have to slog
22:04
your way through a bunch of unfortunate stuff to get there? Okay. Now, it wasn't until afterwards,
22:10
I didn't really realize this until Monday, that because I was in my head, I was like, man,
22:15
you sing the lyrics of Bawatabah. I mean, that first verse you're talking about topless dancers
22:20
and people that are addicted to drugs and, you know, people that do violence, like it's, you know,
22:25
it's in a gathering of unfortunate folks in that first verse. And then he does this Jesus
22:30
song and it's like, okay, there's an inequity here. But what was supposed to happen, how they built
22:35
that is like, okay, here are the people, these depraved people that everyone knows are depraved,
22:39
right? Look at the first verse of Bawatabah. And then you have this beautiful transition. And then
22:44
you get a song that basically talks about Jesus in the gospel. Okay. So it was an actual beautiful
22:51
thing that they set up because it's like it went from depravity to the foot of the cross on Golgotha,
22:56
right? But a bunch of people, me included, just flat out missed that. I mean, at least initially,
23:02
but I would say there's a lot of people even to this day that are pretty confused about that,
23:06
that transition. I mean, no one in my crew got that. Like, we're all Christians. We all go to
23:11
the same church. No one really got that. Okay. And so I feel like, uh, TPSA, like big fan,
23:18
I know they're going to keep doing this. They're going to keep getting better at it. But there was
23:21
just a lot of stuff before the main message, which kind of got lost. And also Kid Rock, Robert Ritchie,
23:27
was still singing. The show was still going. And the second half was kicking off. And so
23:33
the guys in my group, we turned it back over to the game. And so we didn't even get to the full
23:38
end of the performance. And so obviously it's the first time you do something like that,
23:42
they spent a lot of money on it. They tried their best. And I think it will get better.
23:46
So I think in the future, there will be an honest to goodness comparison between, hey,
23:51
did you watch the Super Bowl halftime show or the TP USA halftime show, which, you know,
23:55
I think is a good thing. So a lot of people have done this. And I know we're going a little bit
23:59
long and we still have to get to the main topic. We're going to talk about the Trump stuff here in
24:02
a second. But a lot of people basically said, Hey, this is what should have happened at the
24:06
halftime show. And there's maybe some advice for TP USA going forward. Here's the thing about the
24:10
halftime show, as long as it's controlled of the NFL one, as long as it's controlled by Rock Nation
24:15
and JZ, we're not going to basically get anything that I'm about to say, because it's going to be the
24:19
same kind of junky filth that we've gotten over the last few years. But I want to go ahead and say this,
24:24
I would love to see an actual band at the NFL halftime show for a change. Because I looked up
24:30
the last 20 Super Bowl halftime shows and there were only five bands out of the 20. So Maroon five
24:36
and 2019 Coldplay in 2016, I guess you can call them a band, the who in 2010 Bruce Springsteen in
24:42
the E Street band awful, 2009. And then Tom Petty and the heartbreakers in 2008. So all the others
24:47
have been artists. But the thing that was, it seemed like a huge miss for the NFL here is they were
24:53
doing the halftime show, they were doing the Super Bowl in the Bay Area. So if you wanted to do
24:59
a band in the Bay Area, how about we do some Bay Area legends? Metallica, right? That's their area.
25:07
They're one of the biggest acts in the history of music, one of the best selling acts in the history
25:11
of music. They just happen to play heavy metal. Why not give Metallica? I'm still open to that.
25:16
But if you don't want to do a band, okay, then how about we get someone that's an actual musician,
25:21
not just somebody, you know, doing a seizure and talking on stage through auto tune.
25:26
I mean, I thought about someone like John Mayer, I'm a huge fan of John Mayer, the guy is an
25:30
absolutely spectacular guitarist in singer songwriter. I mean, in my opinion, other than Metallica,
25:35
I think that John Mayer might have a shot at matching the best Super Bowl halftime performance ever.
25:40
That was from Prince in 2007. If you haven't watched it, you don't know what I mean, go watch it,
25:45
then you will know what I mean. I won't hear any other opinions. And look, if the NFL ever felt
25:49
like they wanted to stop again, it's not going to happen with rock nation. But if they wanted to
25:52
stop ignoring the majority of the people that consume their product, how about a country show,
25:58
right? Tell me that the NFL couldn't get George Strait to come do a country show.
26:03
I mean, then you kind of have that next tier of guys are going to be in that George Strait,
26:07
you know, stratosphere, probably at some point, I mean, Chris Stapleton, the owner of the greatest
26:12
national anthem in history, right? How about Cody Johnson, Morgan Wall and Luke Combs,
26:16
I mean, Carrie Underwood, I mean, you could do a really amazing country music show. And yeah,
26:21
it's going to get made fun of by like hip hop people on Instagram. But who cares? I think that
26:26
would be enormous. But this also goes for the TP USA event as well. If you want to do a Christian
26:32
show, just go for it. Because again, the initial reports were that TP USA was going to do like
26:37
a pro America, but explicitly Christian show by, you know, typically Christian artists. So if
26:42
you're going to do that, just do it. Do a Brandon Lake, Forest Frank, Phil Wickham, Corey Asbury,
26:47
kind of a kind of a show. So anyway, that's my feedback on the Super Bowl halftime show and the
26:53
TP USA halftime show. But we need to get into the main topic for today. Hey guys, real quick,
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So you might have heard old president Trump had something posted or he posted on his true social
29:18
account. And we're still not 100% sure if it was him or somebody else. Cause a little bit of a stir,
29:23
if you will. So if you don't know what I'm talking about, consider yourself blessed but allow me to
29:27
bring you up to speed just before midnight on Thursday of last week. This is February the 5th.
29:32
There was a 62 second video posted on Donald Trump's official true social account. So the main part
29:38
of the video was it's kind of documentary style, but it was about the 2020 election. And you know,
29:44
the supposed fraud and the fixing and the stealing of the election and all that, which is not what
29:49
anyone really cares about anymore. And that's not what anyone's focused on right now. It's pretty
29:53
much baked into the cake at this point that Trump will never let go that, you know, the 2020 election
29:57
was stolen thing. So even though he had his day in court and provided no substantial evidence to
30:02
prove his case, but let's just keep working through the story. It wasn't the first 60 seconds of the
30:07
video talking about the supposed stolen election from 2020 that anyone is talking about. The entire
30:13
world and everyone in it apparently is talking about a one to two second clip that was somehow
30:19
mushed onto or into the very end of the video. So it was clearly not part of the main video.
30:25
But if you have not seen the clip, let's go ahead and watch it here.
30:28
Initiated by a court order, the Michigan investigation team obtained forensic access to a DS 200 tabulator,
30:36
the machine that counts of votes. A tellet 4G wireless chip manufactured in Taiwan
30:42
was discovered embedded into the motherboard. The voting machine tapes clearly indicate modem
30:48
engagement and transmission of election data. Some of the anomalies that we noticed in the
30:55
2020 general elections that five key states all stop counting at the certain time in these key
31:02
battleground states. These were all where the software, the mini machines, the SNS machines were
31:07
used, the the smartmatic, the gyms software. So when the vote stopped counting, and this has been
31:14
noted in other countries as well, President Trump was significantly ahead. When reporting
31:19
and counting resumed, there was a massive spike occurred that that favored Joe Biden.
31:25
Well, there you go. That's a thing that happened. So for those of you that are not in the know and
31:37
they're just listening to this. So the video clip is from a documentary style video by Patriot news
31:42
outlet.com. And then like I said, right at the end, inexplicably, there's a short clip showing an
31:48
AI video, a former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle depicted as primates. So it looks
31:55
like Michelle was a gorilla in Brock was an orangutan. So the clip is set to the song The Lion Sleeps
32:00
Tonight. And there's a subtle but obvious watermark on the video that says, and I'm not sure how he
32:05
pronounces this, but it's zero underscore X. So it's X E R I S underscore X. So the person's name is
32:12
zero zero is whatever. So and boom, right there. We supposedly have the smoking gun, right?
32:21
This post on President Trump's true social account finally once and for all proves beyond a shadow
32:27
of a doubt that Donald Trump is indeed a terrible but despicable racist, right? I mean, this is all
32:33
the evidence that we need, right? Well, if you take a look at the internet, that's the conclusion
32:39
you come to. I mean, people left right and center were absolutely apoplectic at this, right? So the
32:47
people on the left were always going to react this way. We obviously knew that but even people on
32:51
the right, you had politicians that are currently Republican serving in the center of the house
32:55
coming out to crying this, there was an immediate overwhelming reaction from a bunch of Christian
33:00
pastors pastors here in this country. And I'm going to address them more directly here in a bit.
33:05
But all this does lead to a pretty obvious question, if we're being honest,
33:09
where in the world did that short clip of the Obama's even originate? Well, to remind you,
33:15
the watermark on the video is zerias or zerias underscore X. So if you go to X and look that name
33:22
up, it brings up a profile with at the at the moment around 54,000 followers. It's an anonymous
33:27
account. And it's an AI video and kind of meme account that seems to be incredibly pro Trump
33:32
for omega. And so is this a real person that is super mega and really likes Trump or is this some
33:38
sort of foreign actor that is trying to so discord in our country? We don't really know. But it's
33:44
in very, very important question that no one seems to be really interested in at the moment,
33:48
unfortunately. But the clip of the Obama's is just a small part of a 55 second video,
33:54
which I found, which I will play now. So let's go and go to the clip here.
34:24
All right, so that's where that little
34:54
Obama clip came from. So the entire point of this video is twofold is to make Trump seem like the
34:59
leader in the room and for prominent Democrats to look like fools. And so if you're only watching
35:04
this or if you're only listening to this, rather, you have Donald Trump, who's depicted as a lion,
35:09
right? So he's, you know, the king, then yeah, Brock, Michelle Obama is apes or primates. Joe Biden
35:14
is a baboon. Yeah, Kamala Harris, she's a tortoise. Hillary Clinton is a warthog, hilarious. AOC is
35:20
a donkey. Also hilarious. Chuck Schumer's a zebra. Kim Jeffries, who's the house or the house minority
35:26
leader. He's a meerkat. You have Zoram, I'm Donnie, who's a hyena will be Goldberg is a hippopotamus.
35:32
And there was one other person I couldn't figure out who they were. They were a pig or something
35:35
like that. But the video is meant to be funny and edgy and derisive and offensive. And that's,
35:40
you know, seemingly the entire point. But the reality is guys is there is a history that I mean,
35:45
a very, very dark and sinful history of depicting black people as apes. So a lot of people actually
35:50
you know, at least colloquially think that it started with Charles Darwin with the work that he
35:54
did, who you know, he actually somewhat accidentally laid the groundwork for scientific racism,
35:59
but it actually goes back centuries before him. So it actually goes back, you know, according to my
36:03
research to about the 16th century, there was a Spanish author named Antonio de Torque Mata.
36:09
In 1570, he wrote a story about a woman being raped by an ape, which created a hybrid offspring,
36:14
which supposedly led to the rise of black people. So there's plenty of other examples throughout
36:19
history of these types of things. So yes, it is offensive to many for anyone to be depicted as an
36:27
animal, right, even in a satire video. But specifically super imposing the faces of two black people
36:33
onto apes carries a much more pointed and offensive connotation. We just have to be really honest
36:38
about that. And is that what Zarias, the creator of this video meant to do? Did he mean to do that?
36:46
I mean, we can't know for sure. But if I were to venture a guess, I would say yes. Clearly,
36:51
this person knew what they were doing. While at the same time, if we're being honest, there are
36:55
two other black people in this video that are not depicted as apes. You know, Kamala Harris was a
37:01
tortoise and whoopi Goldberg was a whatever she was or an anakeem Jeffries is another one was
37:06
depicted as a mere cat. So who knows what the person that made this video, who knows what their
37:10
motivation was, but I certainly don't believe that it's an accident. But regardless of the person's
37:15
motivation, there is the reality that we have to deal with, which is that the sitting president of
37:21
the United States of America shared a video, which included a short clip of two prominent
37:27
black Democrats as apes. So what did the Trump administration have to say about it? So well,
37:33
initially they tried to just kind of, you know, wave their hand over it and pretend like it was
37:36
nothing like nothing was going on. They called it fake outrage and fake news. But as the backlash
37:41
grew and it grew immediately, the story from the administration did change a little bit.
37:45
So they said that Trump saw the video, but he only watched part of it that he sent the link to
37:50
the social team or someone on his staff to post it on his true social form. Maybe that happened.
37:54
Maybe that didn't. Who knows? But they said that the social team or the individual staff or two
37:59
did not watch the entire video. They posted it not knowing the Obama ape clip was on there and
38:04
that's pretty much it. So Trump himself, while answering questions from a reporter while in Air
38:10
Force one, he said as much. He said he didn't watch the whole thing. He said it should have been caught
38:15
by the social team. He said it was a bad picture. He said that they decided to take the video down,
38:20
which of course is the right call. So a reporter then asked him directly if he condemns the image
38:25
and without hesitation, Trump said that, yes, indeed, he does condemn it. But he didn't apologize
38:30
for it, which, you know, guys, this part for the course for him, he doesn't really apologize for
38:33
anything. I think we all know that at this point. I think he should have tried to reach out to the
38:37
Obama's to apologize for the post, which again, thinking in terms of geopolitics or whatever,
38:43
the Obamas would have rejected a phone call from Trump because if they accepted the phone call
38:48
from Trump and accepted an apology from Trump, it would have put it, you know, an end to the whole
38:53
kerfuffle, right, which would actually help Trump and the Republicans. But I think Trump should have
38:57
at least made a show of reaching out to the Obamas. So that should be that though. But nothing is
39:03
that simple. So here we are talking about it. So even after the explanation from the Trump
39:08
administration, everyone rushed to condemn and express their alarm and outrage over the video.
39:13
And everyone that had expressed that outrage before Trump had anything to say about it,
39:17
they just doubled and tripled down on their initial statements, which, you know, is not
39:20
particularly shocking. But this entire situation comes down to you, everybody falling on one of
39:28
two sides. So side one is that Trump saw the entire video. He knew that the clip of the Obamas's
39:36
apes was in there and he liked it. So he wanted the whole world to see it. And he directed his
39:42
social media team to post the video as is or he did it himself, which clearly makes him a vicious
39:49
racist. And this is just the latest example of it. But it is the example, right? That's side one.
39:54
Now we have side two. Trump saw a video talking about his favorite subject in the world,
40:00
which is that the 2020 election was stolen. He watched the first part of the video, probably
40:04
20 or 30 seconds of it, but he didn't watch the entire thing. He shared the video or had his
40:09
staffer share the video. They too did not watch the entire video. And they posted it at the direction
40:16
of the president. Those are the two sides. Those are the only two plausible options.
40:22
So which side do you fall on? Well, I can speak for myself. I think that side two is most likely
40:30
and most plausible by a mile. Okay. Is side one possible? Yes, it certainly is. But if you believe
40:39
side one, then you think that Donald Trump is one of, if not the most stupid major political
40:45
party politicians in the history of the United States of America, and that he has essentially
40:50
no political acumen whatsoever. And I just got to tell you, if you believe that, I think you need
40:56
some help. I don't think you're playing with a full deck. You see, because you can hate Donald
41:01
Trump and, you know, there's plenty of people that do, you can hate his policies, some of which
41:05
I do, you can hate the things that he says, some of which I do, you can hate his pettiness,
41:10
which I certainly do. But to deny his political prowess and skills are ridiculous. I mean,
41:16
guys, the man completed the greatest presidential political comeback in the United States history
41:20
by winning the 2024 general election. And he won the 2016 general election. And in both
41:25
elections, he had the entire mainstream media apparatus and the entire culture of fighting tooth
41:30
and nail against him. And yet somehow some way he won fair and square both times. Now you may not
41:36
like him, but the guy has a knack for politics. And that's like completely undeniable.
41:41
So let's just move forward and assume that side two is the side that aligns with reality,
41:47
which is what I believe happened, that he didn't watch the entire video.
41:51
Then I need to just tell you something. We need to be people that can hold multiple thoughts
41:56
simultaneously in tension. Because all of the following things can be true at once.
42:01
Trump is a talented and gifted politician. He will never let go of the claim that the 2020
42:07
election was stolen. He or his staff foolishly and recklessly posted a video that Trump saw on
42:13
the internet without watching the entire video. And if it was a staff that posted it, his staff
42:18
foolishly and recklessly posted a video from his official true social account without watching the
42:23
entire video, Trump is not a racist. And this is an enormous mistake for the Trump administration.
42:30
And it will have dire consequences for the Republican Party.
42:33
All those things can be true. And guys, really, I just got to tell you,
42:40
I think all those six boxes, they're checked. I think they all are true. They can be wrong.
42:46
They might be wrong, but I think it's very unlikely. So where does that leave us?
42:51
Well, I think it leaves us with a question that I posed as the title of this podcast.
42:56
Can a single social post sync Trump's presidency? And a lot of you may not like this,
43:05
but the answer is a resounding yes. Yes, it could. And this is the main reason why.
43:16
Truth is not nearly as important as narrative.
43:20
The truth is not nearly as important as narrative.
43:27
And in this case, the spin has already happened. And just, you know, for just about everybody,
43:34
the narrative has been solidified in their brains. Trump is a racist and unfit to be president.
43:41
So need I remind you about the fine people on both sides, hoax, right? Some of you know what
43:47
I'm talking about. But if you don't, in August of Trump's first year as president, this would
43:51
have been in 2017, there was a rally to protest the removal of a Robert Lee statue and the rally
43:56
was in Charlottesville, Virginia. So a bunch of white nationalists and neo nazis showed up,
44:00
so did a bunch of leftist protesters. So there was a bit of a powder keg there.
44:05
Violence broke out, obviously. And tragically, a woman named Heather Heyer was killed when a
44:11
man drove his car into the crowd, an absolute tragedy. A few days after this went down,
44:15
Trump did a press conference where he addressed what happened. So I'm actually going to put the
44:19
entire C span video in the show notes. So I can't show the whole thing here because I
44:24
don't have the rights, but you can watch the entire thing from C span. And I chose C span
44:27
because they don't edit any of the footage. It's just raw footage, you know, from beginning to end.
44:32
So before the quote, that's in question, the fine people on both sides thing, Trump talked about
44:38
why he waited for more of the facts to come out before making a full statement, which is always a
44:43
good idea for people to keep in mind, including you. He talked about how the guy in the car was a
44:48
horrible murderer. He talked about how it's a slippery slope when you start talking about taking
44:53
down Robert Lee statues. He wondered aloud if Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were next,
44:58
which, you know, of course, they were always next. He talked about race relations in the country.
45:03
He also talked about the different groups that were represented in the crowd and in the
45:07
occurrences of that day. So there were the people that were peacefully protesting the removal of
45:12
the historical statue. There were white nationalists and neo Nazis that were violently protesting,
45:18
which he condemns. And then there were leftist agitators that were violently protesting,
45:22
which he condemns. So now let's get to the most important part of the presser. So it starts around
45:28
the 18 minute and 22nd mark of the C span video. So if you're clicking on the show notes and you
45:34
want to watch the entire thing, the part that I'm about to play starts around 1820. So let's go to
45:39
the clip here. Yes, I think there's blame on both sides. You look at both sides. I think there's
45:52
blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it. And you don't have any doubt about it either.
45:59
And if you reported it accurately, you would say and you had some very bad people in that group.
46:13
But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group,
46:21
excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were
46:27
there to protest the taking down of to them a very, very important statue. And then renaming
46:33
of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. Right. So there it is. That is the infamous
46:39
fine people on both sides. Quote that the mainstream media in the left has weaponized against Donald
46:43
Trump and really all Republicans until this day. So if we're being honest, guys, in a vacuum,
46:49
that quote sounds pretty terrible. I mean, all by itself, the quote sounds like he's saying that
46:56
there were some very fine people specifically on the side of the white nationalists and neo-Nazis,
47:02
like in the group of white nationalists and neo-Nazis that there were some very fine people.
47:06
Okay. But as I will remind you, for as long as I have breath in my lungs and a microphone to speak
47:11
into context is everything. Context is everything. So I already gave you some context about Trump
47:20
was saying leading up to the now infamous quote, right? And you have the entire link to the entire
47:24
video on the show notes to prove that I'm not spinning or lying. But now I'm going to show you
47:29
the quote immediately following the infamous fine people on both sides. Quote. So there isn't a gap
47:36
between this. Okay. So I'm literally starting the video right back from where he left off. Okay.
47:41
So let's go back to the video on the C span video. It starts around the 19 minute mark.
47:49
What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay. Good. Are we going to take down the statue?
47:55
Because he was a major slave owner. Now we're going to take down his statue. So you know what?
48:01
It's fine. You're changing history. You're changing culture. And you had people. And I'm not talking
48:19
about the neo Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. But you
48:24
had many people in that group other than neo Nazis and white nationalists. Okay. And the press has
48:31
treated them absolutely unfairly. Now in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also
48:38
had troublemakers and you see them come with with the black outfits and with the helmets and with
48:44
the baseball bats. You got a lot of bad. You had a lot of bad people in the other group.
48:49
And there it is. It's the key quote, which absolutely and completely topples the mainstream
48:59
media and leftists and liberal narrative on what Trump actually said during that press conference.
49:04
So I actually read it again here. I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and the white nationalists
49:10
because they should be condemned totally like I'll read again for emphasis. I'm not talking about
49:17
the neo Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.
49:21
So was Trump saying that there were fine people that were also neo Nazis and white nationalists?
49:28
Nope. Nope. He didn't. He literally drew a line in the sand between the people that were
49:35
protesting the removal of the Robert Lee statue. Okay. There were the fine people that were
49:40
peacefully protesting the removal of statue because they disagreed with it. And then there
49:45
were white nationalists and neo Nazis that were not peacefully protesting the removal of statue
49:49
and Trump outright said that they should be and I quote again condemned totally. So it's about as
49:56
unambiguous as it gets. So here's the thing about the hoax. People still believe wholeheartedly
50:04
that Trump said there were very fine people that were white nationalists and neo Nazis
50:08
and they refuse to be swayed off of that opinion. Now most of them, I would venture it a guess
50:15
and likely even a lot of you listening this right now never heard the follow up quote before.
50:20
You never even heard it. Why? Because the media didn't want you to hear it. Why not?
50:29
Because it would have made it impossible for them to gin up this fake outrage which
50:34
is exactly what it is. And I got to give it up to them. It certainly worked. Because there are a
50:41
bunch of ignorant people walking this planet that still think that Donald Trump said that white
50:45
nationalists and neo Nazis were fine people, which gets back to my main point. Truth is not nearly
50:51
as important as narrative. And just like how the mainstream media on the left worked overtime to
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make sure that you thought that Donald Trump was saying nice things about white nationalists and
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neo Nazis, the mainstream media and left is working overtime right now to convince you that Donald
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Trump is a vicious racist that purposefully posted a video depicting Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
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as apes and that he knew that clip was at the end of that video about election fraud. And you know
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what? As I sit here just kind of reading the tea leaves, it looks like it's going to work.
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It looks like it's going to work. And if it works, it basically dooms the remainder of Trump's
51:35
second term in office, especially if Republicans lose both the House and the Senate later this year
51:42
with the midterm elections. And you can be guaranteed that the Democratic Party and the
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mainstream media, but I repeat myself, are going to repeat this ad nauseam. And everyone running
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for a Senate seat or a House seat or a governor's mansion or anything like that is going to use this
51:58
situation to their advantage, which takes me back to one of the statements that I believe to be
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true about this whole thing. This is an enormous mistake, enormous mistake for the Trump administration.
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And I think it will have dire consequences for the Republican Party. And the reason is is because
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the margin for error for Trump and the Republicans, especially this election cycle, it's razor thin,
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razor thin. I mean, they literally cannot afford for mistakes like this to happen,
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but they let this one slip through and it will likely cost them dearly. And I mean, here's the
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thing. It could have been any number of random images or videos at the end of the video, right?
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Have you thought about that? Like there could have been, you know, a two second clip of a murder
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video. Like, dude, it could have been porn. Like it could have been child porn. I can you imagine?
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Like Donald Trump's watching this video about election fraud. He watches 20 seconds of it.
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He sends it off to his staff. They don't watch it either. And they just post it. And there's
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some sort of like sexual assault video on there. I mean, Trump and his staff, I mean, tighten the
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ship. I mean, come on. But there's, you know, there's been this question kind of floating around.
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Perhaps you've been asked it. There are Trump voters right now that are being asked the question,
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do you regret voting for Trump now? Because he should, because I'm someone that's on the
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internet all day. And I think you should, to which you should, and I will respond, of course not.
53:27
Of course, I don't regret voting for Donald Trump. If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had been elected,
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the decay of society would have continued to pace from what Biden said in motion,
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or really what Obama said in motion. So I lament the fact that Trump did something so
53:45
furiously stupid, while at the same time, if I could go back in time, knowing that he was going
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to do that ahead of time, I would vote for him again. Because I need to remind you,
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when you're voting for a candidate, especially when the choices between the Republican nominee
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for president and the Democratic nominee for president, your vote doesn't mean that you 100%
54:06
agree with everything that candidate will do or has ever done. Because duh, your vote doesn't
54:12
mean that you will 100% align with every policy position and prescription that candidate has ever
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or will ever propose. As I know, any of this works. A vote simply means that you think that that
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candidate aligns more with your morality and your choices, and that they will slow the decay of
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our society more than the other guy or gal. So I really like the way that pastor Josh Howerton puts
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it. So he said this a lot from the pulpit, but he and I were talking via Texas recent this weekend.
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And so I'm actually just going to read the text to you. A vote is not a sacrament.
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A sacrament is something holy that you cannot mix any impurity into some well-meaning, but naive
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Christians treat their vote like a sacrament and think that they are sinning if they vote for someone
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who has any impurity in them or their policies. But even the most basic common sense makes it clear
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that's not what a vote is. A vote is simply a choice about the best available path forward.
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Sermon on the Mount. We are the salt of the earth. The church's job is to preserve from decay.
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So when a Christian votes, they are simply asking which set of policies best preserve society from
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decay, to which I would say amen and amen. I agree with him. I agree with me. But now I need to talk
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about pastors. I have a message for the pastors that raced to social media to join the pile on
55:32
against Trump. So I was actually talking to a very prominent person within Christendom here
55:37
recently. No, it was not Joby. No, it was not Chandler. But you would know this person if I
55:41
mentioned them, but it was private conversation. So we'll keep it private. He said that this whole
55:47
situation with Trump right now, that it's the posting of the black square 2.0 test. And that
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most pastors have failed it miserably. So what does he mean by that? Well, back in 2020,
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when a career criminal in derelict named George Floyd overdosed and died while in police custody.
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Do y'all remember what everyone seemed to post on social media all at the same time? Yep, the black
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square. So people from all walks of life posted a black square with hashtag BLM or hashtag Black
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Lives Matter. And most of them did it as part of hashtag blackout Tuesday, which was on June the
56:23
2nd of 2020 after George Floyd overdosed and died. They did this to signal to the public and to their
56:30
followers that they were against what they thought happened to George Floyd and that they supported
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the statement Black Lives Matter. Okay. Because these people thought that George Floyd was murdered
56:44
by a white police officer because George Floyd was black. And they thought that when you said
56:52
Black Lives Matter, that you were just talking about a statement. But there are some problems
56:58
with those two beliefs. As the evidence came out, it concluded that George Floyd was not murdered
57:03
by a racist white cop. In fact, the prosecution in that case didn't even allege that in court.
57:10
And they could have the federal government. There was no hate crime legislation that was brought
57:17
against this person, right? Against this white police officer. In the toxicology report,
57:24
show that George Floyd had in his system at his time of death, three times the amount of fentanyl
57:29
to kill a person, nor fentanyl for a NPP, which is a precursor and metabolite of fentanyl,
57:36
methamphetamine, cannabinoids, cotanine, which is a metabolite of nicotine, morphine, which could
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have come from heroin and caffeine. That was all in his system. Oh, oh, yeah. And he had COVID.
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Yeah, code. So no, he was not asphyxiated to death from the cops shin being across his shoulders and
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neck. If you've ever been choked out or if you've ever been, you know, choked unconscious or
58:07
something like that, you kind of have an idea of what that takes. I could put my shin across your
58:10
neck and shoulders for the rest of the weekend. And you'll never pass out. The autopsy found zero
58:17
evidence of his fixation and zero damage to George Floyd's neck and trachea area. Okay, he did not
58:23
choke to death. So the overwhelming evidence is that George Floyd's heart exploded because
58:29
of the bevy of drugs in his system that he chose to ingest. One doctor even said around this time
58:37
that if they had found George Floyd dead in his apartment with that toxicology report,
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it would have been the easiest, open and shut case ever of overdose. And now to Black Lives Matter.
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I think every person with a functioning brain and even base level morality would agree with the
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statement Black Lives Matter. Of course they do. Black Lives Matter, brown lives matter,
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yellow lives matter, white lives matter, what an unborn lives matter, whatever thing you want
59:01
to put in that they all matter because they're all made in the image of God. But that isn't
59:05
actually what Black Lives Matter or BLM actually stands for. Because Black Lives Matter is not a
59:11
statement. It's an organization. And that organization has a purpose. So this is according to the what
59:17
we believe section of the BLM website. This was before people noticed it and before BLM scrubbed it.
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But here are the things that they believe eradicating white supremacy and building local power to
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intervene in state and vigilante violence against black communities, broader broadening family
59:33
and community structures. We disrupt the Western prescribed and nuclear family structure requirement
59:38
by supporting each other as extended families and villages that collectively collectivism care
59:44
for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mother's parents and children are
59:48
comfortable. This was framed as rejecting patriarchal norms that force mothers into double shifts
59:54
and promoting communal child rearing and support networks. Queer affirming and inclusive spaces.
59:59
We foster a queer affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing
1:00:04
ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking is also for dismantling cisgender privilege
1:00:09
and embracing diverse gender identities and expressions. And then family friendly and anti patriarchal
1:00:14
practices, making spaces inclusive for parents and children, dismantling patriarchal requirements
1:00:20
that limit women's public participation in centering black joy, healing and collective liberation,
1:00:26
global black family and comrade based organizing, describing itself as part of a global black
1:00:32
family that engages comrades across contexts with an emphasis on love mutual support and revolutionary
1:00:38
change in intersectional focus intersectional focus, explicitly centering black women queer
1:00:44
trans and gender nonconforming people as leaders in the movement while addressing overlapping
1:00:48
oppressions, racism, sexism, homophobia, et cetera. That's what BLM the organization believes.
1:00:55
And the founders of BLM, namely Alicia Garza and Patrice colors, have said openly that they are
1:01:03
trained Marxists. And Patrice colors her mentors, a guy named Eric Mann, who's a former member of
1:01:10
the weather underground, which you may have heard of. It's a far left group that advocated violent,
1:01:15
direct action against supposed US imperialism and racism. And they killed people.
1:01:20
And oh boy, oh boy, did a bunch of prominent Christian figures get caught up in this.
1:01:27
So here's just a short list of the people that posted the black square with the hashtag
1:01:33
BLM or whatever, Joel Osteen, my favorite Andy Stanley, Craig Rochelle, Stephen Furtick, Tony
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Evans, Carl Lentz, Christine Kane, Brian Houston, Joyce Meyer, Kari Jobe and Toby Mack.
1:01:47
And that's just a sampling. And let's actually focus a little bit on Craig Rochelle of Life
1:01:53
Church. So I used to attend his church for over a decade, and he has a lot of influence in my city
1:01:58
and my state and within Christendom. So he's going to get some very special attention from me.
1:02:03
After George Floyd overdosed and died in police custody. And one day after Craig posted the
1:02:09
black square on social media, he held a special midweek service via Life Church focused on prayer,
1:02:16
lament, and intercession because of racism in America, racism. You know, the thing that had
1:02:23
nothing at all to do with why George Floyd died. And he was joined by his wife, Amy, and pastor's
1:02:29
Herbert and Tiffany Cooper from people's church in Oklahoma City. I'm just taking a stab in the
1:02:33
dark here, but I'm assuming he chose Herbert Cooper because Cooper is black. So the event was structured
1:02:39
worship and prayer and, you know, to ask God to reveal what the church could do in order to take
1:02:45
action against racism, racism. You know, the thing that's nothing at all to do with why George
1:02:51
Floyd died. And then the Sunday following this special midweek event, Craig paused his sermon series
1:02:57
to do a one off sermon called racism and the responsibility of the church. Racism again, you know,
1:03:04
the thing that has nothing at all to do with why George Floyd died. So pastor Craig emphasized
1:03:10
that if one part of the body suffers, the whole body suffers, and in the sermon, he argued that
1:03:15
the church cannot remain silent or neutral in the face of injustice. Because he had already
1:03:19
figured out that it was an injustice that happened to George Floyd that day. And there was a call
1:03:25
to action in the sermon where he challenged the congregation to do the work, do the work. I feel
1:03:31
like I've heard someone say that before. I think it was a college professor with a nose ring and
1:03:35
green hair, but he wanted people to do the work of listening and learning rather than just offering
1:03:41
surface level sympathy. So then Craig's good buddy, Stephen Furtick hosted Craig, Craig, and
1:03:48
T.D. Jakes for a high profile discussion at Furtick's church called a conversation on race,
1:03:53
justice and the church. So highlighting Craig here, he didn't just casually get into all of this.
1:03:59
Like he jumped in with both feet. He doubled and tripled down. And he brought his entire
1:04:06
church, his entire flock and all of his fans with him. And even after all the dust settled
1:04:12
on this situation, to my knowledge, none of them express regret over posting the black square.
1:04:20
And none of them have deleted their posts supporting Black Lives Matter, the organization.
1:04:25
And guys, I don't have a ton of grace inside my body. You might be shocked to learn that. But
1:04:31
I would have grace for any of these people if they had done something later. So let's take Craig,
1:04:36
right? Because some of you think I'm picking on him poor guy. But let's take Craig. Let's say
1:04:40
a year goes by and he's like, geez, seems like George Floyd, you know, he's dead because of his
1:04:46
own decisions, which is unfortunate. It's not tragic because he made those own decisions,
1:04:51
those own decisions. You know, we should feel bad for his family, not so much for him. You know,
1:04:56
we can hope that he had put his faith in Christ before he died. Like we can we can hope all those
1:05:00
things. But man, it kind of became revealed that Black Lives Matter was a big time financial
1:05:05
grift. It was a money laundering scheme. It was a real estate acquisition scheme. This is a communist
1:05:12
organization that doesn't align with biblical ethic. This is a Marxist organization that doesn't
1:05:16
align with the biblical ethic. Craig could come out and either do a video or a, you know, some sort
1:05:22
of a post and say, Hey, I'm leaving the black square post up. But I know a whole lot more now
1:05:28
about the situation than I did back then. It's obvious that, you know, I would have never supported
1:05:33
the Black Lives Matter movement. If I knew it was going to be such a godless Marxist one,
1:05:37
which he could have surmised from the beginning if he had done, you know, two seconds of research.
1:05:42
But you come out and you just say, Hey, my bad. I shouldn't have done that. I'll be better in the
1:05:47
future. I think everybody would have been like, all right. Okay, correct. 95% of people have been
1:05:52
like cool. Cool. Hey, we all make mistakes. Here's, yeah, you're me a copa. Here's your Mulligan. No
1:05:57
big deal. I mean, a lot of pastors have done that with COVID, right? You know, there were
1:06:01
pastors that shut down their churches. They were terrified, blah, blah, come to find out. This wasn't
1:06:05
the thing that it was made out to be COVID-19 wasn't the thing that it was made out to be.
1:06:09
We should have kept the churches open. We should have kept the schools open.
1:06:12
I'm completely okay with people saying, I was scared. I was confused. I didn't know what to do.
1:06:18
I listened to the government and the government lied to me. I'm sorry. I should have been a better
1:06:22
leader. I should have been a better shepherd. My bad. I think most people would be okay with that.
1:06:28
Okay. But apparently prominent Christian figures in our modern day culture learned nothing from
1:06:35
the George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Black Square situations, nothing. Apparently, none of them
1:06:42
think that it's okay or advisable to take a breath, wait for the dust to settle and for their emotions
1:06:49
to settle before making a public statement or a public declaration of some kind. Because social
1:06:55
media has been wall to wall since last week with prominent Christian figures condemning President
1:07:01
Trump as a racist who is morally unfit to guide our nation. And some of them have even lamented
1:07:07
that he beat Kamala Harris to win back the White House, which inherently means that those people
1:07:14
would be a okay if Kamala Harris was in office, which would have been the most godless administration
1:07:22
perhaps in the entire history of this country. There would have been a further crackdown on
1:07:27
religious rights, specifically for Christians. It would have been the most pro baby sacrifice,
1:07:32
aka abortion administration in United States history. The transing of the the kids would have
1:07:38
continued to pace just to name a few things. But hey, Trump posted a video without watching the
1:07:43
entire thing. So these geniuses conclude that he's a vicious racist that shouldn't be in office.
1:07:47
But I said earlier that I actually have a message for these pastors and I do. It's actually a message
1:07:53
really to the pastors and their entire flocks. If you didn't say a damn thing publicly after
1:08:02
Charlie Kirk was martyred and didn't say a damn thing publicly after leftist protesters
1:08:08
stormed an evangelical church service in Minnesota here recently, but you piped up immediately to
1:08:15
decry Donald Trump as a racist after that video was posted that he obviously didn't fully watch.
1:08:21
Spare me your performative outrage. I don't want to hear it.
1:08:26
All your outrage shows me is that you are easily manipulated, easily swayed by your emotions,
1:08:34
and easily puppeted. That you get a little bit of stimuli at the very beginning,
1:08:40
and then you create this entire worldview and philosophy. And guess what? The writer of Hebrew
1:08:45
says you will have to give an account someday for how you shepherded your flock. And what you've
1:08:50
taught people in the last week is that it is completely okay to not wait for the truth to come
1:08:55
out. It is completely okay to be swayed by media narrative and the things that you see on social
1:09:00
media. It is completely okay to cut off people even in your congregation that disagree with you
1:09:05
because you are the most righteous because you have surmised what is most appropriate in this
1:09:12
situation that you know exactly what to do. And you're leading your flock in that way.
1:09:19
But you're a puppet. You're a puppet. Again, many things can be true at once. It can be
1:09:25
insanely stupid that the Trump administration did this. And also Trump is clearly not a racist.
1:09:31
But you don't have the ability to hold two ideas in tension. This isn't about black, white, and gray.
1:09:39
This is about holding things in tension. Let's actually revisit the list of the prominent
1:09:45
Christians that I mentioned earlier that posted the black square. So Joel Osteen, Andy Stanley,
1:09:49
Craig Rochelle, Steven Furtick, Tony Evans, Carl Lynch, Christine Kane, Brian Houston,
1:09:54
Joyce Meyer, Kari Job and Toby Mack. You know what all these people have in common?
1:09:58
They didn't have a damn thing to say about Charlie and not a damn thing to say about the
1:10:06
Minnesota church being stormed by leftists. There was no midweek prayer services, no interruption
1:10:11
to their current sermons or tours that they were on. No special events were held. They didn't say
1:10:16
we need to learn from other communities and really have a conversation, not a single solitary
1:10:22
damn thing, not a single word. But I'm supposed to take you seriously about your opinion about what
1:10:30
Trump said or what Trump posted. Really? You have no moral authority. I don't care how many books
1:10:40
you sell. I don't care how many campuses you have. I don't care how many people are following you.
1:10:45
You do not have moral authority here. You have a seared conscience.
1:10:50
I mean, just imagine you had nothing to say when one of the most prominent living Christians was
1:10:57
shot in the neck in front of thousands of people. Nothing to say. That Sunday following Charlie
1:11:05
Kirk's murder on September the 10th of last year, that Sunday was perhaps a sociologist have thought
1:11:11
the most attendance at church services across the board in history. You can be bothered.
1:11:20
You just kept your sermon series going. You had to guess preacher coming and preach.
1:11:25
You didn't take any time to acknowledge what had happened to acknowledge the fear and anxiety
1:11:30
that was being felt by Christians that thought that, you know, if this happened to Charlie Kirk,
1:11:35
could I be next? This growing violence that's happening from the left. People on the left that
1:11:40
are actually celebrating that this Christian father and husband was murdered in front of everybody.
1:11:46
Yeah, nothing to say. Nothing to say. An evil evangelical acts 29 church, right? In Minnesota.
1:11:55
You have leftist protesters in Don Lemon storm it. Terrify the children in the congregants.
1:12:01
Again, try that in a small town, but they terrify these individuals. They basically get the entire
1:12:07
service to screech to a halt. It's a miracle. No one was hurt or killed in that physically,
1:12:13
even though they were certainly harmed emotionally. Nothing to say. Nothing to say.
1:12:20
But you want me to follow you down the primrose path to hell by condemning everything else that
1:12:27
you see going wrong. I'm sorry. That's not how any of this works. So I'm giving this message to
1:12:34
you guys in my audience because you have a pastor. You attend a church. What did they talk about
1:12:41
the Sunday after Charlie Kirk died? If you go back and remember what I said that if your pastor
1:12:47
didn't even make mention of it, perhaps you're not at the right church. People are like, oh,
1:12:53
well, the church shouldn't be political. I'm sorry. Someone who talked about politics was murdered
1:12:58
mainly because of his Christian faith. That's martyrdom.
1:13:01
And if your pastor couldn't find it in his heart or in his schedule to mention it,
1:13:08
that's maybe a hint to you. If your pastor got spun up by all the nonsense going around in 2020,
1:13:16
so much that they posted the black square or they acquiesced to the culture that said
1:13:20
certainly George Floyd experienced some sort of injustice, which does not align with reality or the
1:13:25
facts. Perhaps that's a hint to you as to how easily your shepherd can be manipulated by culture.
1:13:33
Need I remind you that the culture we live in is atheistic. It's not God honoring and it doesn't
1:13:41
look for truth because if you look for truth, you would honor God and you wouldn't be an atheist,
1:13:48
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And in that journey, the cattle were likely fattened on hormone packed feed, pumped full
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a recent lawsuit judgment that may spell the end of child gender transitions and the surgeries
1:16:27
here in America. So this is according to Benjamin Ryan on X, and he also has a sub stack. And this
1:16:31
was on January the 30th, breaking first D transitioner to take a medical malpractice lawsuit to trial
1:16:37
wins a $2 million judgment. So Fox variants sued her Westchester, New York area psychologist and
1:16:42
plastic surgeon for the gender transition mastectomy. She got it 16. I was the only reporter to attend
1:16:48
the entire three week historic trial. The entire case file was put under seal when the trial started,
1:16:53
although I obtained all those documents before they were sealed. And all the transcripts transcripts
1:16:58
from the trial are also under seal. The riveting trial was sparsely attended and there was only one
1:17:03
other reporter at the trial. And he only intended for part of it as I observed and took few notes.
1:17:09
So my own hundreds of pages of notes from the trial will likely remain the only way for the
1:17:14
public to learn about the finer details of what transpired possibly ever or until an appeal should
1:17:20
that happen. Okay, so some fortunate that there's only one person that covered this because then we
1:17:26
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1:17:31
person's information that they put out on X or sub stack, you can see that this is a huge deal.
1:17:36
This is enormous. So this, you know, right to the big takeaway on this one, this is the beginning of
1:17:43
the end of the trans industry for children for sure. Because the trans revolutionaries are not as
1:17:49
loud as they once were. The left is not featuring trans people as much as they want to in their
1:17:55
advertisements or their political commercials or anything like that. But the hospitals, the
1:18:00
surgeons and doctors that have taken, you know, they have been part of this barbarism. They've
1:18:05
been put on notice. Because, you know, Matt Walsh making a documentary and a bunch of Republican
1:18:11
screaming about how evil and awful and satanic this all is. That's not going to stop the hospitals
1:18:16
and surgeons from doctors and doctors from taking the money. Like, okay, you can scream and be mad
1:18:22
and maybe even hold up a sign outside my office, but I'm just going to keep cashing these checks.
1:18:26
Right. I'm keep stacking these bills. And so, but now if the hospitals and surgeons and doctors who
1:18:34
are making money hand over fist, because you don't just do these surgeries and you're good to go,
1:18:38
you're mangling people. And so the reason why they do these surgeries is because the amount of
1:18:42
follow up appointments that they're having to do and the amount of money that these hospital
1:18:46
networks can keep stealing from insurance and things like that for doing these barbaric procedures.
1:18:52
But if you're going to be cost millions and millions of dollars per person in lawsuits,
1:18:58
that just ain't going to work and ain't going to do it. So the trans industry for children feels
1:19:05
like it's dying, which is fantastic. I think we should be expanding this out to trans surgery
1:19:11
should not be a thing in total. Because there's some Republicans and people on the right, they're
1:19:15
like, Hey, if you're an adult and you want to, you know, get breast implants as a man or, you know,
1:19:20
chop your penis off or like, you know, I don't know, if you're a female and you want to shave off
1:19:25
part of your arm and have them sew it on top of your penis to make a look or on top of your vagina
1:19:29
to make a look like a penis or whatever, you want to do that stuff? Hey, you're an adult, do whatever
1:19:32
you want. That's the libertarian strain that doesn't align with morality, which is the problem
1:19:36
with libertarianism overall, is it doesn't have a base level morality other than just do whatever
1:19:40
you want government can't tell you what to do. Right? It's like, okay, well, things are more
1:19:44
complicated than that Ron Swanson. And so ultimately in this type of thing, I think it is a tremendous
1:19:49
thing that a jury, especially a jury in New York, I mean, my goodness, to be able to find
1:19:54
this, this doctor and the psychologist liable for taking advantage of this impressionable and
1:20:00
obviously mentally ill young lady in chopping off her breasts when she was 16 years old.
1:20:05
And again, the judgment was for $2 million. That's not all going to that gal. But even if it did,
1:20:10
even if it was 10 times that it's not enough. It's not enough. But I hope that every single
1:20:16
hospital surgeon and doctor and psychologist that had a hand in any of this nonsense,
1:20:22
I hope that they are all responsible are they're all held accountable and responsible for all this.
1:20:28
Our next quick hitter, Olympians currently expressing are currently representing the United
1:20:32
States, expressing disappointment that they are currently representing the United States.
1:20:36
So their winner Olympic started last week, not sure if anyone really cares, but here we are.
1:20:40
But for some reason, United States athletes are being asked political questions at their press
1:20:45
conferences. They're not being asked about, you know, anything sports related, as if I was
1:20:51
really waiting to solidify my opinions about what is going on in this country until a freestyle
1:20:56
skier gave me their input. But let's actually go to a clip of a couple of these freestyle skiers
1:21:02
giving their opinions at a press conference. I feel heartbroken about what's happened in the
1:21:07
United States when, you know, I'm pretty sure you're referencing ICE and some of the protests and
1:21:12
things like that. I think that as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody's rights
1:21:19
and making sure that we're treating our citizens as well as anybody with love and respect.
1:21:24
And I hope that when people look at athletes compete in the Olympics, they realize that
1:21:29
that's the America that we're trying to represent. It brings up mixed emotions to represent the
1:21:34
US right now, I think. It's a little hard. There's obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest
1:21:40
fan of and I think a lot of people aren't. If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I'm
1:21:46
representing it just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going
1:21:50
on in the US. So yeah, I just kind of want to do it for my friends and my family and the people
1:21:56
that support me getting here. Okay, so the first guy in the video is a freestyle skier named Chris
1:22:00
Lillis. So he thinks that we need to love and respect our citizens in this country as he's talking
1:22:06
about it in another country. But I missed the part where he said that we need to love and respect our
1:22:13
citizens by keeping violent, criminal, illegal aliens out of our communities. People that are
1:22:21
murdering Americans, raping Americans, stealing from Americans. Chris Lillis, I seem to miss the
1:22:29
part where you drew that connection, which is a little strange. And then we have Hunter Hess,
1:22:35
also freestyle skier and scholar, apparently, he has mixed emotions, getting paid to do a dumb sport
1:22:42
that only is relevant once every four years and it's mildly relevant at that while wearing an
1:22:48
American flag plastered on his chest. He's he's got some mixed emotions, you guys. Then he hits us
1:22:53
with, well, if it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I'm representing it. Okay, well,
1:23:01
just like in everything, just like what I talked about when you vote for a political candidate,
1:23:05
you're not co-signing anything they've ever said or anything they ever will say, anything they've
1:23:10
ever done or anything they will do in the future. That's not what that is. But when this is your job
1:23:16
to represent your country at the Olympics, that's what you signed up for. And then he hits us with
1:23:21
the just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that is going on in the
1:23:25
United States. Okay, well, also breaking news from Hunter Hess, water is wet and snow is cold
1:23:32
because duh, you're wearing the flag because you're representing your country. Now Trump
1:23:37
responded to this saying that's hard to root for a guy like that, a guy like Hunter Hess, which
1:23:42
is 100% true, of course, because the Olympics ultimately are about two things, athletic excellence
1:23:50
and representing your country. That's what the Olympics are. So the Olympic trials process
1:23:56
pretty much takes care of number one, because it weeds out the inferior athletes, usually,
1:24:01
but it's basically impossible to root for someone that completely disregards number two,
1:24:06
which is representing their country. So let's take America out of it. Let's say somebody was
1:24:10
up there and they're representing the UK at the Olympics and they have nothing good to say about
1:24:15
the United Kingdom. Okay, well, if you're an English person, all right, well, some of the
1:24:21
few people there that are actually still English, but if you're an English person, it wouldn't be
1:24:26
hard to support that guy. Hey, this guy's supposed to be representing my country. I love my country,
1:24:31
but he doesn't seem to like you can't really root for that guy. And this also kind of sheds a light
1:24:36
in a lot of people pointing this out about how liberals and leftists feel about this country.
1:24:40
So basically, if Democrats and leftists are in office and doing Democrat and leftist things,
1:24:45
they're all about it. They love this country. Yeah, America, sort of, right? It's tempered,
1:24:50
but it's there. But if Republicans are in office and doing Republican things, they don't like it.
1:24:55
You know, I remember back when George W. Bush was president when I was in college, I heard some
1:24:59
people say, well, he's not my president. I was looking around like, wait a minute. Is there a,
1:25:04
is there a, like, am I on a hidden camera show? Wait, are you not a citizen in the United States?
1:25:09
Well, yeah, I'm a citizen. Okay, well, easy flowchart time citizen in the United States.
1:25:13
George W. Bush is your president. You doofus. What are you talking about?
1:25:17
Like, I didn't like it when Barack Obama was in office for eight years, but he was my president.
1:25:22
I certainly didn't like it when Joe Biden was president. But as I was talking to a guy yesterday,
1:25:27
you still pray for that guy. You want that guy to be the best president possible,
1:25:32
because again, you want to slow the decay of society, which will lead to more human flourishing,
1:25:36
right? But big takeaway on this one. Okay, great. To the U.S. athletes complaining about being
1:25:44
U.S. athletes, I hear you. I understand your obviously well thought out concerns.
1:25:49
So here's my offer. You get a one time, one way ticket to any country in the world,
1:25:56
and you will immediately have full citizenship in that country. So where would you like to go?
1:26:04
Where you want to go? Oh, I'm sorry. There's no other place you'd rather live
1:26:11
than this horrible country that you have mixed emotions about representing.
1:26:14
Oh, you don't want to go anywhere else. You actually want to continue to live in the greatest
1:26:21
country in the history of civilization. Oh, that's interesting. And also, by the way,
1:26:26
in a country seemingly full of hunter-heses, be a Tamara mensa stock. So I want to show you this
1:26:34
to remind you, I think I showed this after it happened, but this was her reaction after she won
1:26:39
the women's 65 kilogram freestyle wrestling gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which was held
1:26:46
in 2021. Let's go to the clip here. I feel to represent your country like this. It feels amazing.
1:26:52
I love representing the U.S. I freaking love living there. I love it. And I'm so happy I get
1:26:58
to represent you. I mean, look at that. And guys, she's supposed to be one of the oppressed ones,
1:27:07
right? Because she is a woman, and she's black. So intersectionally speaking, she's way more
1:27:14
oppressed than hunter-hesse. And she's brimming with so much joy, not that she just won the gold
1:27:20
medal, which is spectacular and amazing, but because she loves this country and all of her flaws.
1:27:26
And this country has some flaws, but she loves her country and loves representing it nonetheless.
1:27:31
So be more like her. All right. Next quick, either here, Canada threatening its citizens with
1:27:35
prison time if they don't participate in the voluntary gun buyback program. This is according
1:27:40
to the Daily Wire on February the 4th. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians could face prison time if
1:27:44
they do not turn in their newly prohibited guns under supposedly voluntary gun buyback program
1:27:49
that is testing the strength of Canada's bureaucratic regime. Since May 2020, the Canadian government
1:27:54
has attempted to institute a massive assault style firearms compensation program that will
1:27:59
reportedly trade cash for prohibited guns. If Canadians not turn in prohibited guns by October
1:28:04
the 20 October, 2026, they could face up to five years in prison. The program has faced massive
1:28:10
pushback from provincial leaders and gun rights organizations who say it will only disarm law
1:28:15
abiding Canadians, which of course, of course, it will only punish law abiding firearms owners
1:28:22
because law abiters would be the only ones that would even think about comporting with this law
1:28:26
to begin with. And that's basically what all these laws are meant to do. And of course,
1:28:33
the leftist Canadian government is playing word games. It literally cannot be a voluntary program
1:28:38
if you throw the people in prison, if they don't comply, right? It literally is a confiscation.
1:28:43
If the government officials end up taking firearms away from law abiding Canadians,
1:28:47
ironically, at the threat of a gun. It's a big takeaway here. It's actually really hard to feel
1:28:54
bad for you, Canada. You voted for this. You voted for your current and future oppression
1:29:04
from your own government. And I know there's some guys in Canada are in my audience. That's
1:29:10
our second biggest country, I think, in terms of this show. You're screaming at your speakers
1:29:14
right now. No, no, no, not me, not me, not me, but enough of your countrymen and women,
1:29:19
enough of them voted to have exactly what's taking place to take place. They have bought the lie
1:29:26
that, Hey, we don't even need guns. We have the local police. We have Mounties. We have the military.
1:29:34
We don't we don't need to be able to protect ourselves. But need to remind you what happened
1:29:40
in Australia that a mass shooting, they did gun confiscations across the country, which didn't
1:29:47
end gun violence, by the way, because that's not how any of this works or criminals don't care about
1:29:51
laws. That's what makes them criminals by definition. And then COVID happens. And the government said,
1:29:56
getting this camp. Don't go outside. Don't go to the beach. And certainly don't talk back.
1:30:09
And COVID seemed to be a dry run for something even more intense in the future. And what do
1:30:15
Australians have to fight back law-abiding Australians have to fight back? Nothing. Nothing.
1:30:23
Surfboards, rugby balls, boomerangs. Well, good luck. Canada. You're the next one up.
1:30:35
All right. Next quick hitter here, former Uvaldi school's police officer is acquitted of charges
1:30:40
that he failed in his duties to confront a school shooter responsible for murdering 19 elementary
1:30:44
school children and two teachers. This is according to the Texas Tribune on January the 21st, a former
1:30:49
police officer was acquitted Wednesday evening of charges that he failed in his duties to confront
1:30:53
the gunman at Uvaldi Texas Elementary School during the critical opening minutes of what would
1:30:57
become one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. jurors deliberated for more than seven
1:31:02
hours before finding Uvaldi former Uvaldi school's police officer Adrian Gonzalez 52,
1:31:07
not guilty in the first trial over the hesitant law enforcement response to the attack that killed
1:31:11
19 children and two teachers at Rob Elementary School on May the 22nd of 2022. The trial was
1:31:17
a rare case in the United States of an officer facing criminal charges on accusations of failing
1:31:22
to stop a crime and protect lives. Gonzalez had faced the possibility of up to two years in prison
1:31:27
if he had been convicted. At least 370 law enforcement officers ultimately rushed to the school where
1:31:32
77 minutes passed before a tactical team finally entered the classroom to confront and kill the
1:31:37
gunman. Gonzalez was one of just two officers indicted, angering some victims families who had
1:31:42
said they wanted more officers held accountable for the law enforcement response. Gonzalez has been
1:31:47
charged or had been charged with 29 counts of child abandonment and endangerment, each count
1:31:51
representing the 19 students who were killed and 10 others who were injured during the trial jurors
1:31:56
heard the medical examiner describe the fatal wounds that some of the children and that some
1:32:01
of the children were shot more than a dozen times. Several parents of victims described
1:32:05
sending their children to school for an awards ceremony and the panic that ensued as the attack
1:32:10
unfolded. Again, just an absolutely horrific thing that will just it'll never heal until Christ comes
1:32:17
back. But before I give you my big takeaway on this one, I do need to lay out the obvious and
1:32:21
remind you of some things. I have never been a law enforcement officer. I do not know what it's like.
1:32:27
I've also never been shot at. I do not know what it's like. But I do want to read to you the
1:32:34
official oath of office. Okay, this is the word for word text of the oath as prescribed in article
1:32:41
16 section one of the Texas Constitution for law enforcement officers. I name do solemnly swear
1:32:48
or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of peace officer of the state of
1:32:53
Texas and the city of Uvaldi and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend the
1:32:59
Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state so help me God. Then there's the law
1:33:06
enforcement code of ethics. So this is from the Uvaldi police department. And like most Texas
1:33:11
agencies, they adopt the standard code of ethics. So the very first sentence explicitly addresses the
1:33:17
duty to protect. So here it is. As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve the
1:33:22
community to safeguard lives and property to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against
1:33:30
oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder. So big takeaway.
1:33:41
If you are not willing to lose your life in order to safeguard the lives of the peaceful against
1:33:47
violence, then don't take the job. Don't take the job. Adrian Gonzalez is guilty. He was not
1:33:58
found guilty, but he is guilty because as a law enforcement officer, you are not called to think
1:34:05
of your life cheaply, but you are actually called to think of the lives of those you protect as
1:34:11
higher and of more value than your life. It's what he raised his right hand and said out loud
1:34:20
before he got that job. So if you're currently in law enforcement and you care about your life
1:34:26
more than the lives of the innocent people in the community, especially elementary school children,
1:34:31
please quit. Please quit. And if you're not going to quit, please change your mindset.
1:34:38
Please make an agreement with yourself. Please come to the realization that one day you might
1:34:44
have to give up your life for someone else because that is the oath that you took before God.
1:34:51
Again, at the end of that oath is so help me God. And God is watching.
1:34:59
And I wish there were more men that had taken that oath seriously that day when all those
1:35:04
children and those teachers were murdered. All right, next quick, it are here. Singer Billie
1:35:09
Eilish getting nuked by the Tongva tribe. Okay. So the modern day thing, a phenomenon,
1:35:15
whether it's the the Grammys or the Emmys or whatever award show, is you go up there,
1:35:20
you're probably wearing a pen with kind of the cause du jour. So last year it was, you know,
1:35:24
Israel and Gaza this year, it's ice out and all the different things. And then we got Billie Eilish.
1:35:28
Okay. So let's go ahead and say, I think she won an award for the best album or best song or
1:35:32
something like that of the year. And so she's up on stage. She's giving her acceptance speech.
1:35:36
And then she says this, no one is illegal on stolen land.
1:35:40
And yeah, it's just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now.
1:35:58
And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room. And I feel like we just need to keep
1:36:03
fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices really do matter and the people matter and
1:36:09
I say, sorry, so powerful, so brave. But hey, she's depressed and edgy and angsty and artistic.
1:36:21
So she's probably right, right? So before we get to my absolute favorite part about the story,
1:36:27
let's just break down the logic of the first thing that she said, no one is illegal on stolen land.
1:36:32
You can see that she was really proud of herself for saying these words and then immediately had
1:36:38
absolutely nothing to say. She was just trying to figure out something else to say. But she's
1:36:42
making several errors just in her first sentence. So she's making a category area error because
1:36:49
illegal applies to actions or legal status, not to existence. She's making an equivocation fallacy.
1:36:56
She's using the word illegal to mean two different things. So legal status and moral and natural
1:37:02
rights. So she's equivocating those things. She's committing the genetic fallacy. So she's
1:37:07
arguing that current laws are not valid because of the circumstances of how the origin of the land
1:37:11
took place. But as many have pointed out, all of the current United States territory was either
1:37:17
settled, purchased, or conquered, which also describes basically all of the land occupied by
1:37:23
any country ever across the entire globe. She's also committing a false equivalence. She's equating
1:37:29
historical territorial conquest with modern immigration law violations. Also, she's committing
1:37:35
the self refuting argument, because if the land was truly stolen as she claims, then you have to
1:37:41
also uphold that borders and immigration laws are actually a thing. But Billy Eilish is the leftist.
1:37:48
So she doesn't believe in borders or immigration law. And if there's no such thing as borders,
1:37:53
there's no such thing as stolen land. You know, and all that's very, very interesting and ironic.
1:37:58
And there are several other things that she did wrong, even in one sentence, it's incredible.
1:38:02
But we'll leave it there because I want to actually dovetail that last point into my favorite part
1:38:05
of the story. This is according to the New York Post on February the 3rd. It's so great. The Native
1:38:10
American tribe that owns the land under Billy Eilish's multi million dollar Los Angeles mansion
1:38:16
said celebrities should explicitly reference the tribes if they want to use them to virtue signal.
1:38:22
The Tongva tribe confirmed the bad guy singers three million dollar home does sit on its ancestral
1:38:28
land after the 24 year old user Grammys acceptance speech to rail against ice and insist that no
1:38:34
one is illegal on stolen land. The indigenous inhabitants of the Los Angeles basin known as
1:38:39
the first Angelenos said they appreciate Eilish's sentiment, but noted that the performer hasn't
1:38:44
contacted them directly and insisted that next time she explicitly referenced them. Eilish has
1:38:50
not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property. We do value the instance when public
1:38:55
figures provide visibility to the true history of this country, a Tongva spokesperson told the
1:39:01
Daily Mail. It is our hope that in the future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced
1:39:05
to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles basin remains
1:39:09
Gabrileino Tongva territory, the spokesperson said. So big takeaway on this one.
1:39:17
If leftists like Billie Eilish were to give up their property, to give the property back to
1:39:23
the American Indian tribes that lay claim to those lands, I would actually take them a lot more
1:39:29
seriously. I would. I mean, they'd still be wrong on so many fronts, but I would at least take their
1:39:37
complaints more seriously their land acknowledgments more seriously. But then each of these leftists
1:39:44
would get both barrels of reality right to the face because the immediate question that they would
1:39:50
have to try and answer would be to whom do I owe this land to exactly? Because as has been pointed
1:39:58
out, where did the Tongva tribe get the land from? So did they just pop into existence in that valley?
1:40:08
And it was their land and it's always been their land until the evil white man came in and settled
1:40:13
it or conquered it or purchased it? Oh, the Tongva tribe took it from another tribe who took it from
1:40:22
another ancient people group and another ancient people group and who the heck knows who laid the
1:40:27
claim to the land initially, which is exactly how it goes. I mean, think about me like I have
1:40:34
chalk tall Indian blood in my system. Imagine if I were to try to figure out to which land the,
1:40:42
you know, belongs to the chalk tall, it'd be impossible. Because the chalk tall, you know,
1:40:48
raped, pillaged, stole land and property from people and it happened to us as well.
1:40:54
So who does the land go to? Which is why all of this unravels. It's ridiculous that she said what
1:41:02
she said, but she is in a room full of like a bunch of clapping penguins that don't really know the
1:41:07
difference between any of these things, but it goes along with their political priors. So they're
1:41:12
just going to go along with it. All right, last quick, either here the Washington Post cutting a
1:41:15
third of its staff, according to Politico on the February the fourth, the Washington Post told employees
1:41:20
Wednesday that it will begin sweeping layoffs. The latest blow to the story newspaper under a
1:41:24
billionaire owner Jeff Bezos confirming weeks of speculation about drastic newsroom cuts. So real
1:41:29
quick, I'll get back to the story here in a second, but let's pause because language matters.
1:41:33
Even in the beginning here, there's a lot of coded language. I mean, they called it a
1:41:37
storied newspaper. So there's an immediate implication that the people that report for them are
1:41:42
untouchable because it's so storied, right? Also, they make sure to mention Jeff Bezos is a billionaire.
1:41:47
More on that in a second. Let's get back to the article. We have grappled with financial challenges
1:41:52
for some time. They have affected us in multiple rounds of cost cuts and buyouts, along with periodic
1:41:57
constraints on other kinds of spending. The post executive editor Matt Murray said in a newsroom
1:42:02
note seen by Politico, stating that the reductions would impact nearly all news departments.
1:42:08
The size and scope of the layoffs are not immediately clear, but hundreds of post
1:42:12
employees could lose their jobs, according to post reporters with sections including sports,
1:42:17
Metro books and international coverage hit particularly hard. The latest round of layoffs
1:42:21
cafe tumultuous 18 months for the post, which Bezos purchased in 2013. The newspaper has undergone
1:42:27
significant leadership changes and was roiled by a decision from Bezos and publisher Will Lewis
1:42:33
to scrap a planned editorial that would have endorsed then Vice President Kamala Harris,
1:42:38
over now President Donald Trump, shortly before the November 2024 elections.
1:42:42
So the reaction from this obviously left us in liberals. They love the Washington Post. They
1:42:47
love their covers. They love the bend of their politics. So they didn't like this. But then he
1:42:51
had all these people whining like, Oh, you know, journalism is dying and journalists are being
1:42:55
targeted and somehow Trump's involved and probably the Jews are involved or something like that.
1:42:59
But guys, the stat that matters is that since 2023, just since 2023,
1:43:05
WAPO has lost around $177 million, $177 million. Okay. But then a lot of people were looking at
1:43:18
even the losses, they were acknowledging the losses of the Washington Post. They were looking at
1:43:23
approximately what Washington Post employees are paid. And then they were looking at Bezos's net
1:43:28
worth as a reason why none of this had to happen. Oh, Jeff Bezos could pay for the entire Washington
1:43:34
Post to do everything that is still doing. And it would only take this much of his net worth,
1:43:38
which right to my big takeaway on this one, it is simply astounding that more people don't even
1:43:42
have a basic level of understanding as are pertains to economics. Okay. Do you know one of the main
1:43:49
reasons why Jeff Bezos is one of us, if not the richest person in the world, right, near the top
1:43:55
of the list, because he doesn't hold on to losers. He doesn't continue holding on to investments
1:44:03
that are bleeding money. Because that's stupid. Because the Washington Post is not a charity.
1:44:10
It is a business. And I tell people this all the time, you know, young guys, if I'm mentoring
1:44:16
them, you know, they're, they're getting a job. Maybe it's their first big boy job out of school,
1:44:20
they're going to make $45,000 or something like that. Okay, great. I tell them, you have to bring
1:44:26
that organization at least $45,000 worth of value, or you're not essential. Because if you bring
1:44:33
$10,000 worth of value, they should probably cut you. And if you bring significantly more than
1:44:39
$45,000 worth of value, at some point you should be able to negotiate a race. But it's based on the
1:44:45
value you bring in, not the value you perceive in yourself. So a lot of these journalists think
1:44:49
that they are entitled to a job because they really like their work. They really like writing,
1:44:55
and they really like doing their thing and all that, to which I would say so. And so you like
1:45:02
your job, you want to keep it. Congratulations. Welcome to everyone that's ever had a job that
1:45:06
they liked. But you were not entitled to that job. And when you refer to Jeff Bezos' net worth,
1:45:12
that is this net worth if he were to liquidate all of his assets. But you only realize those gains
1:45:19
when you liquidate them. And so his cash flow and net worth would be deeply affected if he
1:45:25
continued to fund things that were not also cash flowing, that were not in the black, that were
1:45:30
constantly in the red. And so these people will probably land on their feet. Maybe some of them
1:45:37
won't, maybe some of them should have never been journalists because they were never journalists to
1:45:40
begin with. But at the end of the day, that's capitalism, that's economics. All right, guys,
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