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- You're listening to Radio Looks Illicit. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 76. The title of this episode is the
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- Democrats war on the American people. Well before I dive into talking about that,
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- I wanted to ask a question of you. Have you ever had one of these cases where you know, you start a project that you think is going to be pretty easy, but ends up being kind of hard?
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- Probably most of us have been in that boat at one point or another and I had mine just the past couple of days.
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- What I did is I started this course on filmmaking, on photography, and video editing, this kind of thing.
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- It's actually a really good course and I bought it about a year ago, but I haven't had a chance to do anything with it. But I had some time here recently, so I started working through some of this and I found it very helpful.
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- I've already learned a lot, but one of the things as I was going through it, it talked a bit about gear.
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- It had a whole chapter segment dealing with gear, you know, camera gear, computers, this kind of thing.
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- And the good news is that most of the stuff I need, I actually already have. The one thing I didn't have is
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- I didn't have enough RAM in my computer system. My system had 16 gigabytes of RAM and I noticed when
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- I did some video editing a few months back, that it seemed kind of slow, that there was a lot of delays and whatnot in it.
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- And watching this video today, or the video a couple days ago, one of the things that the person who did this recommended is that you should have at minimum 32 gigabytes of RAM to be able to do video editing and have the system run properly.
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- So anyway, I decided, okay, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to get some RAM, because I checked my system, I found out, okay,
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- I've got 16 gigs. And so I went about, I thought, well, you know, adding RAM, well, that's pretty easy, right?
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- I mean, you don't have to be a total tech nerd to be able to do that. All you have to do is pop the side off your computer, take the additional
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- RAM chips, pop them into the slots that are in there, close it back up and you're done. Right? I mean, that's the way it's supposed to work.
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- At least I think it is. So anyway, I go in, I go over the other night to buy some RAM chips.
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- I buy the things and I bring them back and I go to put it in my system and I find that they don't fit, or at least one doesn't fit.
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- I've got this kind of big oversized fan and it overhangs one of the slots that I needed to put the chips in.
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- So I was frustrated with that. So I took them back and I made an exchange.
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- I was actually going to buy some larger chips and not use all four slots, but the guy over there that I talked to the second time, this is today, he told me, oh, we can get you a low profile chip that'll fit under the fan.
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- So anyway, I made this exchange and I bought the low profile chips and I brought them back and I was able to get those things in.
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- And I thought I had it all set up and I brought it upstairs and the system's malfunctioning. I'm getting the computers flashing at me and doing all these terrible things.
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- I got so frustrated. I have a very low frustration tolerance for things when they don't work.
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- And I know that that's a fault that I have and I've struggled with it my whole life. And it just, I get angry.
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- And this is one of the reasons why I'm not a do -it -yourselfer. You know, my dad is great at this kind of stuff.
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- He has the patience to work through it. I just get frustrated when stuff doesn't work. And honestly, it's kind of immature and kind of childish.
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- And I need to work on that. I'm not trying to defend how I feel inside.
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- I'm just telling you what I do feel. And I get so frustrated. So I threw the system back in my car, drove the thing over.
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- And anyway, I was able to go to the computer store and I was able to actually get them to put the things in. But it ended up costing me an extra 40 bucks to do that.
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- So I don't know. I felt kind of silly about the whole thing. But at least I got it done. But it sucked up all this time last night,
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- Friday night. It sucked up all this time today for me to get this stuff done. And as a result, I didn't get to doing some of the things that I wanted to get done today, including getting my podcast done.
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- So I apologize. I know this is being done a little bit later than I wanted to. And I probably am not as prepared as I would like to be.
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- So if I'm a little bit rough today, cut me a little bit of slack on that. I was having trouble with my computer, and that's not a whole lot of fun.
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- So anyway, I'm glad you joined me here today. Welcome to everybody that's on the live stream and also to those who are listening on the podcast as well.
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- You know, another thing that I had here this week or today when I was putting this together, I was trying to figure out what to call it.
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- I was trying to come up with some kind of clever title or something. I struggled for a while to come up with this thing.
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- When I was writing out my outline, I just called it Episode 76, Title to be Determined, because I didn't know what to put for this.
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- There was so much going on this week, and that was really the thing. And I couldn't really come up with a good, maybe necessarily unifying theme for everything.
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- And a lot of these stories are actually, they're all pretty important stories. So it's kind of hard even to find maybe one that there was a lead story.
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- But I finally decided to settle on the Democrats' war on the American people. And we'll talk about that a little bit more detail in a minute.
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- But just thinking about some of the stuff that was going on this week, you had Joe Biden and the Democrats really up the ante on the war on the
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- American people. Speaking of war, you've got this situation going on with Russia and Ukraine and some of the stuff over there.
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- We're in a position, we're probably closer to war with Russia than we have been in a very long time.
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- I don't think that the American people either probably understand how serious things are, because it's largely being kept from them by the media.
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- And what they do here is, in my opinion, a gross misrepresentation of what's actually going on.
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- There's the third thing you got going on. You've got that whole COVID vax mandate ruling from the Supreme Court, which was in some ways good, in some ways not so good.
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- And again, we'll talk about that. I've got a piece in here, I talk about the
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- Bergoglio administration. I think I've talked about the Bergoglio administration in the past. Well, there's just a number of things where the
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- Pope is coming out and making statements that could easily be something that was released by the
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- White House. They used to say there's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and the
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- Democrats. Well, I would say this, there's not a dime's worth of difference between the Vatican and the Biden administration.
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- Maybe we should just call it the Bergoglio administration and be done with it. Of course, Bergoglio, that's the last name of the current
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- Pope, Jorge Bergoglio. And so you got the
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- Bergoglio -Biden administration. Then finally, there's something about Hillary. I guess good old
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- Hillary Clinton, she's back from the dead, at least politically speaking, or at least that was one of the big stories this last week.
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- And I want to touch on that a bit as well. So in getting into our topics here today,
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- I guess I wanted to start here with maybe the title story from this past week.
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- And that is the Democrats' war on the American people. And specifically,
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- I wanted to talk here about Joe Biden and how he lectured the American people about his voting rights bill.
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- Now, the American elite class has been openly hostile to the historic American nation.
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- And when I say that, I mean specifically the legacy Anglo -American core population of the
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- United States. And in particular of that group, I'm talking about working class white people,
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- Christians, Republicans, political conservatives, and generally anybody from flyover country maybe that voted for Donald Trump or the kind of person who would vote for Donald Trump.
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- Now, you think back when Barack Obama was president, he famously talked about the small town people.
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- And he was talking particularly about white Americans. He said that they were bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.
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- They weren't prepared to face the future, and they were bitterly clinging to this past, you know, their guns, their sort of Bible -thumping
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- Christian religion. And of course, he had complete contempt for them. And I thought at the time that that was—I thought
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- I was offended by what he said. But on the other hand, I was partially glad that he did say it because it got out in the open and made very clear exactly what—not just what
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- Barack Obama thought of the American people, but really what the entire sort of coastal elite class thinks of the average
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- American person. They hold them in contempt. They really do. And then, of course, a few years later, this was in the 2016 presidential campaign, you had
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- Hillary Clinton. She kind of upped the ante a little bit. And she called the American people—she made her famous statement there about the deplorables.
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- And that actually kind of became a rallying cry for a lot of Trump supporters in the in that election, in the last few months of that election.
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- She made that statement fairly late. I think it may have been in September or October or sometime in the fall of 2016.
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- Yeah. In fact, here's an article I found. This is from the Washington Post. She made it on September 6, 2016.
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- So it was less than two months or just right about two months prior to the actual election.
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- She called them, I guess, a basket of deplorables. She talked about them being irredeemable.
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- She says, I'm all that stands between you and the apocalypse. Which, of course, would have been the election of Donald Trump.
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- Clinton told the cheering crowd, She launched into all things she found deplorable about Trump. He threatened marriage equality.
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- That is, he didn't think much of same -sex marriage. Cozied up to white supremacists.
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- Well, you know, a white supremacist is—that's pretty much just an ordinary white person who goes about his business.
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- I mean, it sounds like a really terrible thing to say about someone. But the context in which the Democrats use the term white supremacist just means just a regular old person.
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- Somebody like maybe you and me. You know, you don't have to be some crazy
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- Klansman or some overt racist or skinhead or something like this or a neo -Nazi.
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- No, you don't have to be any of those. You just have to be a regular person. And you can be denounced as a white supremacist.
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- And that's just the world we're living in right now. So let's see, I guess Trump, I guess he cozied up to white supremacists.
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- Made racist and sexist remarks. All things she found so personally offensive. And again, this is from the Washington Post.
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- She says, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters in what I call the basket of deplorables, right?
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- And there was laughter and applause. And interesting too, this was actually a speech that she gave for Barbara Streisand at a glitzy fundraiser in New York City.
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- A group of LGBTQ supporters. And if you don't know what that stands for, LGBTQ, that's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer is what that means.
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- So a group of LGBTQ supporters who were gathered at a
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- Cipriani restaurant in the Democratic candidate had one job, to fire up her donors. Well, she did fire up her donors, but she also fired up her opponents as well.
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- It says, Clinton apologized the next day in a very Clinton -esque manner. I regret saying half. That was wrong, she said in a statement.
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- What was the magic number? She didn't say. She did, however, double down on calling out Trump's bigotry and racism.
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- So I don't know, maybe it was a third, maybe it was a quarter. I don't know, maybe it was 10%. I don't know, I don't know. But according to her original speech, it was half.
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- And the truth of the matter is, I think it's probably, I think half is probably an understatement.
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- I think probably she means like 99%. And that's certainly the sense that you get from the
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- Democrats. And not just, you know, in particularly the Democratic elite.
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- You know, and I'm talking about, you know, when I talk about the elite, I mean people like Barack Obama, I mean people like Hillary Clinton, you know, the sort of the professoriate, if you will.
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- And these kinds of things, you know, the big shot corporate donors, the people in Hollywood, the entertainment industry.
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- I mean, you know, Hollywood's just horrible. I mean, not only are their movies immoral, and they have been for a very, very long time.
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- But just the absolute just hatred of just the ordinary American people that comes out of their mouths is really astounding.
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- You know, I mean, there's these people that will get up and sanctimoniously lecture you about how tolerant they are.
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- And they're tolerant of everybody except for you and me. And as far as I'm concerned,
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- I don't want to give these people a dime. I mean, I say not only are their movies very often pornographic, but just their attitude and the contempt and the hatred that comes through not only in their movies, but also in their words and in their actions outside of the productions is just appalling.
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- So yeah, you have Barack Obama, you have Hillary Clinton, but now you got Joe Biden. And Joe Biden and the people that surround him have really upped the ante.
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- He gave a speech this past week on voting rights. You know, the Democrats have this big voting rights bill that they want to push through, which basically federalizes elections and allows the
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- Democrats to rig and to cheat and to scam even more than they did in 2020. And, you know, they want to make it permanent.
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- And if you don't think that's the most awesome thing in the whole world, well, in Joe Biden's words, and I'm paraphrasing a bit here, but basically he called, implied, very strongly implied, and if you don't agree with him on this whole voting rights thing, that you're some kind of a racist, and you're probably a domestic terrorist on top of all that.
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- So, you know, you're an all -around, you know, you're right back in that basket of deplorables, as it were, right back in Hillary's basket of deplorables, and you're bitterly clinging to your guns and religion.
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- Well, I do cling to my guns and religion, but it's not bitterly. I actually do it joyfully. I'm thankful to the
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- Lord God Almighty. He called me in Jesus Christ and saved me and washed me from my sins.
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- And by faith in Christ alone, I'm justified, I'm saved, I'm adopted. And that's a joyful thing to cling to.
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- And, you know, in terms of my guns, I have a right, as do all other Americans and all other people, we have a
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- God -given right to defend ourselves, to keep and to bear arms. It's guaranteed to us in the
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- Constitution, that right is. And I do exercise it. And I thank God that I still live in a country, for all of the problems we have here in the
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- United States of America, and they are legion. We still have that. And I'm very grateful to God for that.
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- So yes, I do cling to those. But again, it's not out of bitterness. I'm thankful for it. I'm thankful that I live in a country where I can still say that.
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- Now, see, going on here, you know, the Biden regime, I mean, they've just been openly hostile. Again, to really the legacy core population of the
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- United States of America. And they've just taken it, you know, they've taken the whole thing up an octave. I mean, you know, as bad as Hillary was, as bad as Barack Obama was in that regard.
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- Well, you know, this guy, this Biden regime is even worse. And here's an example of what I'm talking about.
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- This is from USA Today. And this is a story. It's titled, Kamala Harris, January 6, will echo in US history like Pearl Harbor.
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- In fact, let me do this. I'm going to go ahead. Yeah, there we go. Okay. So this is from January the 6th.
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- Insurrection day, right? Supposedly. That's a bunch of hooey. But that's, of course, what the
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- Dems want you to believe. I don't want to drive too far into that right now, but maybe we can. So let's see, what did
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- Kamala say? Marking one year since the insurrection at the US Capitol. Yeah, the
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- USA just reports as the insurrection. And nobody up there was armed. And a lot of these people were simply just basically, some people call them boomer cons, you know, boomer conservatives, you know, people in their 50s and 60s are up there without any arms.
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- But, you know, in things like this, actually, many of them were apparently let into the Capitol. But the
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- USA reports this as an insurrection, which would have been the lamest insurrection that I've ever seen.
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- But they call it that. They push the propaganda, the regime propaganda.
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- Let's see, Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday likened the attack to two other seminal moments in American history,
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- Pearl Harbor and 9 -11. And here's a quote. Quote from Kamala Harris. Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault.
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- End quote. Harris said at the Capitol, kicking off a day of events commemorating the January 6th attack.
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- They had a whole day to commemorate this thing. Yeah. In fact, I think they were standing on, they had that candlelight service day on the
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- Capitol steps singing. What were they saying? Is it God bless America? I think it was. It's just terrible stuff.
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- Harris, she continued. She said some dates in U .S. history, quote, occupy not only a place in our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.
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- December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021.
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- Now, here's the thing, and think about what's being implied in these statements here.
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- Now, on Pearl Harbor and on 9 -11, the United States of America was attacked by hostile forces.
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- In the case of Pearl Harbor, it was Imperial Japan. In the case of 9 -11, you were talking about Islamists, Muslim extremists.
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- Now, I don't want to go into all the stuff regarding 9 -11. I think that a lot of what is reported about 9 -11 in the mainstream press is not accurate.
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- But let's just go with what Harris talks about here.
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- I mean, 9 -11, you got the whole Osama bin
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- Laden narrative, et cetera. And let's just go with that for a moment, for argument's sake.
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- So the United States was attacked by foreign powers. On both of these occasions. And she's likening both of those occasions to what occurred on January the 6th.
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- So, I mean, she seems to be suggesting here that the Capitol was attacked by a group of foreigners.
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- By, you know, foreign terrorists or foreign insurrectionists or almost like a foreign army. And of course, that actually is in keeping with the way the
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- Biden people and others, you know, I've talked about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton just as examples.
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- And they're not the only ones, but those are two prominent examples. That is how they think of the historic
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- American nation. You know, the legacy, you know, Anglo -American core population of the
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- United States, of which I am one. Now, I've talked about that maybe a little bit before. I mean, my ancestry here in the
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- United States goes back before there was a United States. You know, as there are as many other millions of Americans are.
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- And I can tell you that those Americans are not domestic terrorists. They are not, they do not hate
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- America. In fact, I would say those Americans are some of the most loyal Americans there are.
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- But the Biden regime has decided to make war on them. And it's not only is it a sad situation, but it's actually deeply concerning.
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- Because what they have done is they have turned disagreement into claims of being an enemy of the state.
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- You know, they have created a list of political enemies. And there's a story just this past week.
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- Again, this is from the New York Times here. This is on January, date of January 11th, headline, Justice Department forms domestic terrorism unit.
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- The moves in keeping with Attorney General Merrick B. Garland's vow to make combating domestic terrorism a priority.
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- And if you go through here, you can tell who they're targeting. And I can tell you, you know, you might think, oh, they must be going after BLM.
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- Nope, nope, they have shown zero interest in Black Lives Matter, even though they spent all last year burning down cities from coast to coast.
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- We might say maybe Antifa, you know, Antifa. I don't know how you pronounce it, but it's Antifa or Antifa.
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- I guess I've been saying Antifa more recently, so I'll stick with that. But you think, well, maybe they're targeting
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- Antifa, right? I mean, they spent all of last year literally assaulting the city of Portland.
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- And they've been doing the same here this year. But no, that is also not the people that they're going after.
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- So just who are they going after? Well, we can read through here. All right.
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- So this is a person, this is a statement by Jill Sanborn, the executive director of the FBI's National Security Branch.
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- And she said this to a Senate panel. OK, so this is a person highly placed within the
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- FBI giving official testimony here before the Senate. And this is what she said, or at least a summary of what she said.
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- The two most dangerous types of domestic extremists, Ms. Sanborn said, are driven either by racial or ethnic belief.
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- Oftentimes, quote, advocating for the superiority of the white race, end quote, or by anti -government sentiment from members of militia or anarchist groups.
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- Racially motivated extremists were the primary source of lethal domestic extremist attacks in 2018 and 2019, according to the
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- FBI data. Oh, but in 2020, militia and anarchist groups are responsible for three of the four lethal domestic extremist attacks.
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- It's interesting here, again, you know, they don't say anything about Antifa. They don't say anything about Black Lives Matter, but they do actually,
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- I think, in another place here. OK, so here's somebody else. I guess there's another spokesman, somebody, the last name is
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- Blumenthal, singled out a handful of groups, including the Atomwaffen Division, a small paramilitary neo -Nazi group that has disseminated violent messaging on social media.
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- Social media, Atomwaffen, that's the German word for atom bomb. So it's some neo -Nazi group that's out there running around doing really stupid stuff, apparently.
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- But yeah, they're really serious. That is a huge threat to the American Republic. Of course, that's complete nonsense.
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- I mean, are there people out there who are white supremacists? Are there people out there who are militants and things like this? Yes, there are.
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- But these people hardly even exist at all. In any kind of organized form.
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- And it's ridiculous for Merrick Garland and for the FBI to continue to target them and continue to drum this up as though somehow it's some great, huge, tremendous threat to the
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- American Republic, which it is not. And of course, the Biden administration, the Biden regime, has been doing this since the very beginning.
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- They have a thing, they call it the War on Domestic Terror. And there were a number of, there were some bills that were drafted, at least a bill that was drafted right about the time that Joe Biden was inaugurated.
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- And the bill just continually just pounded home this idea of white supremacists, of neo -Nazis, of a whole basket of people that you and I would say, yeah, these are not good people.
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- But again, the people, these groups hardly even exist. There's almost nothing there.
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- But they try to make something out of nothing. They're making a mountain out of a molehill. And this idea somehow that they are the greatest threat to our republic is just laughable.
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- But this is a political agenda. And of course, what they want to do is they want to say, well, if you happen to be a conservative or a
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- Christian, or maybe you question the narrative about the vaccine or something, well,
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- I mean, you might fall in one of these categories. Yeah, I mean, they're weaponizing dissent. That is what they are doing.
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- And it's extremely dangerous. It is un -American, it is unconstitutional, it is un -Christian. And it needs to stop.
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- So let's see, I want to move on to something else here. What do we got? Oh, here's, now here's a story that you may not have heard a lot about.
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- And that is some of the potential conflict going on with Russia over the situation in Ukraine.
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- It's not been widely reported in the US. There's been reports out there, but it hasn't been the lead story.
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- But I mean, the hostilities between the United States and Russia right now are at the highest they've been,
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- I'd say probably since the Cold War. I mean, it's, at least that's kind of the sense that I get.
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- And yet, I don't think that people really understand the gravity of the situation. And what reporting is done, in my opinion, is also highly inaccurate.
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- You know, I go back and I think about, it's kind of interesting going back,
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- I mean, of course, I grew up during the Cold War. And I remember when the Soviet Union, this is in the late 80s, early 90s, when the
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- Soviet Union was getting ready to go belly up. I still remember George H .W. Bush and James Baker running around desperately trying to find a way to prop up the
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- Soviet Union. And that struck me as really bizarre because I thought to myself, well, you know, I've been growing up since I was a kid up until at that time
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- I was in my early 20s. And all I'd ever heard is, you know, Cold War, oh, we have to win the Cold War or else we have to spend billions of dollars and hundreds and trillions of dollars or whatever in order to defeat the
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- Soviet Union. Well, the Soviet Union here is about ready to go belly up. And these guys are running around trying to bail out the people that we were told that we had to defeat.
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- And something didn't seem quite right to me about that. That just didn't seem, I don't know, there was something wrong there.
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- And I couldn't quite put my finger on it at the time. But I remember it definitely left me puzzled.
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- Now, I think what happened, and this was a distinct impression I got at the time, I really do think the national security complex and the
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- Pentagon and some of these other agencies that were so deeply involved with the
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- Cold War, I think they were deeply disappointed that the Soviet Union fell apart.
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- It's almost like they lost their playmate. They lost the reason for existence. And they were,
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- I think, a bit desperate trying to sort of cast about to find a new reason to justify their huge budgets.
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- I mean, when you have a gigantic budget, you have to have a gigantic enemy to justify it. And all of a sudden, the
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- Soviet Union wasn't around anymore. And they really literally didn't know what to do with themselves. And I really do think that that's a lot of what was behind the desperation of Bush and Baker and a lot of other people in sort of the national security complex to try to prop up the
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- Soviet Union. They didn't want them to go away. They wanted the game to continue. It gave them power. It gave them purpose.
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- It gave them money. And even today, I mean, the United States, the military budget of the
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- United States is over a trillion dollars. And I understand that the amount that the
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- United States of America spends on the military every year is greater than the next 10 countries combined.
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- So, I mean, that's how completely out of line American military spending is compared to the rest of the world.
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- We have this gigantic, you know, I guess it was Eisenhower, he called it the military industrial complex.
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- And it has, far from making our country safer, it's actually been an enormous burden on the taxpayers.
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- And it has put us in, I think it's actually endangered this country. It hasn't made us safer.
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- It's made us less safe, in my opinion. And what's been going on here, it seems to me, over the last number of years is the, you know, they tried the whole thing with the global war on terror, but that seems right now to kind of have run its course.
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- I guess now they've got the domestic war on terror. So that's a big thing. I guess they want to make war on the
- 28:54
- American people. But they've also switched their attention back to Russia. You know, and of course, during the
- 29:01
- Trump administration, it was Russia, Russia, Russia all the time. And Donald Trump, when he tried to actually normalize relations with Russia, the security complex, you know, the diplomatic complex, you know, the whole foreign policy establishment, military establishment, they absolutely lost their minds.
- 29:21
- They absolutely lost their minds. They couldn't deal with it. I remember there was a guy, that John Brennan fellow, in fact, he was one of the people that worked to try to overthrow
- 29:29
- Donald Trump to have him. Apparently, I think he may have been involved in trying to prevent him even becoming president.
- 29:34
- But once he became president, I think he was also involved in plots to remove him. And I suspect he was probably part of what went on with the rigging of the election in 2020.
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- Now, I don't have any proof of that, but I just, I strongly suspect because he's the kind of guy that would be involved in something like that.
- 29:52
- You might say he's the usual suspect or one of the usual suspects. But anyway, he absolutely just completely lost his mind on TV.
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- And I remember reading this article where he actually called Trump's meeting when he met, when
- 30:06
- Trump met with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in the summer of 2018, he called the president's performance nothing short of treasonous.
- 30:17
- Those are his exact words. There's a story in CNN that I found about that. He said that Donald Trump's performance at the
- 30:24
- Helsinki conference with Putin was nothing short of treasonous, which is incredibly strong language to use.
- 30:31
- And I think it's very inaccurate as well, especially considering that he was, that John Brennan was himself engaged in what
- 30:37
- I think could be argued as treason in the way he tried to subvert the duly elected president of the
- 30:44
- United States, Donald Trump, and to have him removed from office. I think if anybody committed treason,
- 30:50
- I think it was John Brennan. But anyway, so you have this situation going on over there.
- 30:58
- There's this hostility against Russia that goes all the way back to the Cold War. You've got this gigantic Pentagon budget.
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- And these people have to figure out what to do with all of this military hardware.
- 31:10
- There's something else that's a component to this whole hostility with Russia as well.
- 31:15
- And that is this belief among the American foreign policy elite in American exceptionalism meaning that America has a right to world hegemony, a right to rule the world.
- 31:28
- America is called the exceptional nation. It's the indispensable nation. There's all this sort of really megalomaniacal ideas that occupy the minds of our foreign policy establishment.
- 31:41
- So that's another thing that drives the hostility to Russia. And one of the reasons they hate Russia so much is because Russia is one of the few countries, maybe along with China, maybe there's really only two or so, or maybe a few others that actually have the determination and the capability militarily to stand up to Washington.
- 31:56
- And Washington does not want there to be any military rivals out there. So the genesis of the most recent conflict with Russia, and again, you won't hear this in the mainstream at all, but the genesis of this current round of conflict with Russia goes back to at least 2014.
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- At that time, it was in 2014 that the CIA engineered the overthrow of the duly elected government of Ukraine.
- 32:25
- And the reason the CIA engineered the overthrow of the government of Ukraine is because the government of Ukraine decided, after some consideration, to seek closer ties with Russia and to not pursue closer ties with the
- 32:40
- NATO alliance. They felt that a closer alliance with Russia would benefit them more.
- 32:47
- And this greatly angered the NATO people, the foreign policy establishment in the
- 32:54
- United States, and they overthrew the government. They installed a government that was openly hostile to Russia and has essentially made
- 33:00
- Ukraine into sort of a client state of the United States. And what has happened here over the last few years is that NATO, which is essentially the
- 33:13
- United States, has moved weapons into Eastern Europe, for instance, into Poland. I know,
- 33:18
- I think maybe, I want to say Romania, perhaps. I could be wrong about that. But I know there's at least a couple of countries over there.
- 33:24
- They have been supplying arms to Ukraine. They've been conducting military exercises in the sea, by air, and also by land.
- 33:34
- In close proximity to Russia. In other words, they're doing this right on Russia's doorstep. And Russia has expressed repeatedly great concerns about this.
- 33:43
- And I think that you can understand their concerns. I think back, you know, I mean, what if you had, say,
- 33:50
- Russian armies conducting military maneuvers in Mexico, or you had the
- 33:56
- Russian fleet sailing around in the Gulf of Mexico, or off the east coast, or off the west coast, maybe off the coast of California or something.
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- I mean, people would be bothered by that. And rightfully so. And I think that if you think about that from Russia's perspective, when you have
- 34:16
- US forces in Eastern Europe and attempting to push even closer to Russia and into Ukraine, you can understand why they're concerned about that.
- 34:24
- I mean, this is one of the great principles of foreign policy, is the golden rule.
- 34:30
- Treat others as you would like to be treated, for this is the law and the prophets. That's what Jesus said. And that applies not just on a personal level, but it also applies on the national level as well.
- 34:41
- And, you know, I didn't do this. I'm going to see if I can find a quote here real quick. There was an article, and I've talked about this,
- 34:47
- I know I've written about this before. This was an article in, it was put out by a group, by Foreign Policy, which
- 34:55
- I think that's the, one of the big mainstream groups puts this out. And I think it's the
- 35:00
- Council on Foreign Relations book is what this is. Council on Foreign Relations organization, I think, is the publisher of Foreign Policy.
- 35:08
- And this is an article that goes back to 2012 when Ron Paul was running for president. And they've got this fairly contemptuous headline.
- 35:15
- It says, Ron Paul invokes the Millard -Filmore Doctrine. The Millard -Filmore Doctrine. Okay, well, you know, so what's the
- 35:22
- Millard -Filmore Doctrine? Oh, well, we won't put it up here. But I'm just going to read through this. It says, Ron Paul invokes the
- 35:27
- Millard -Filmore Doctrine, question mark. And the writer here, it's Uri Friedman is his name. He says, let's face it, when
- 35:33
- Millard -Filmore, the undistinguished, uninspiring 13th president of the United States comes up in a political conversation these days, it usually is the butt of jokes.
- 35:41
- And he gives an example. When five of your six candidates could not be elected president if they were running against Millard -Filmore,
- 35:47
- I think you can presume they will not dot, dot, dot, you know, whatever. So yeah,
- 35:52
- Millard -Filmore is kind of thought up as sort of the butt of jokes. But if you actually read what
- 35:57
- Millard -Filmore wrote, the man had a lot of wisdom, certainly when it came to foreign policy.
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- In fact, he gave a State of the Union speech. And this goes back to, I believe it was in 1850.
- 36:13
- And Millard -Filmore actually applied Jesus' golden rule to foreign policy.
- 36:19
- So I'm going to read this here to you. And I think you might find this interesting. This is a quote from Millard -Filmore.
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- He says, Among the acknowledged rights of nations is that which each possesses of establishing that form of government which it may deem most conducive to the happiness and prosperity of its own citizens, of changing that form as circumstances may require, and of managing its internal affairs according to its own will.
- 36:40
- The people of the United States claim this right for themselves, and they readily concede it to others. What he's really describing here, this is actually the
- 36:48
- Westphalian world order, which I've talked about before. Let's continue with Filmore. Quote, Hence it becomes an imperative duty not to interfere in the government or internal policy of other nations, and although we may sympathize with the unfortunate or the oppressed everywhere in their struggles for freedom, our principles forbid us from taking part in such foreign contests.
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- We make no wars to promote or to prevent secessions to thrones, to maintain any theory of balance of power, or to suppress the actual government which any country chooses to establish for itself.
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- We instigate no revolutions, nor suffer any hostile military expeditions to be fitted out in the
- 37:22
- United States to invade the territory or provinces of a friendly nation. The great law of morality ought to have a national, as well as a personal and individual application.
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- We should act toward other nations as we wish them to act toward us, and justice and conscience should form the rule of conduct between governments, instead of mere power, self -interest, or the desire of aggrandizement.
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- To maintain a strict neutrality in foreign wars, to cultivate friendly relations, to reciprocate every noble and generous act, and to perform punctually and scrupulously every treaty obligation, these are the duties which we owe to other states, and by the performance of which we best entitle ourselves to like treatment from them.
- 38:05
- Or, if that in any case be refused, we can enforce our own rights with justice and a clear conscience.
- 38:12
- End quote. So that's Millard Fillmore. Now, if you've never heard a Millard Fillmore quote, you might be shocked by that. But that is one of the best statements that I have ever read on foreign policy.
- 38:23
- I mean, right there, Millard Fillmore showed more integrity, more Christian integrity, in his understanding of foreign policy and his application of the word of God to foreign policy, probably than exists in the entire foreign policy establishment today.
- 38:37
- I mean, that is a remarkably Christian, sound, intelligent, just statement.
- 38:46
- And all credit to Millard Fillmore. But everybody wants to make fun of him. I mean, he was a complete idiot, and a fool, and a loser, and uninspiring, and blah, blah, blah.
- 38:54
- Everybody just knows this. And this is one of the reasons why you can't—it's much better to actually go out and read original sources for yourself, because when you do that, you find out a lot of things, maybe a lot of assumptions that have filled your mind maybe aren't right.
- 39:10
- You know, and these are assumptions, these are things that we import from the news media and what have you.
- 39:16
- It's very easy to do that. And that's why we have to be active in thinking about things and in comparing the words and the ideas that we see presented to us in newspapers, or online, or on TV with the word of God.
- 39:28
- Because the word of God is our standard of truth. Millard Fillmore understood that. All honor to him for that.
- 39:34
- Well done, sir. And I wish we had current political leadership that had the integrity of Millard Fillmore.
- 39:44
- But the United States, you know, you notice that Millard Fillmore talked about, you know, we don't foment revolutions, etc., etc.
- 39:50
- Well, maybe they didn't do that back in 1850, but they sure do it today. I mean, that's what the CIA does.
- 39:56
- There are actually rumors—you may have seen some discussion about that stuff that was going on in Kazakhstan last weekend.
- 40:03
- And there are some people who really think—and I think a very good argument can be made for this—that that was probably the
- 40:10
- CIA trying to run another one of their color revolutions in Kazakhstan the same way they did in Ukraine.
- 40:16
- And they're trying to send a message to Russia and say, well, you know, we can do this anytime we want and try to get them to back down in Ukraine.
- 40:25
- But I mean, Russia has made it very clear that they are not going to back down on this. And this is a situation we need to watch closely.
- 40:34
- And as Christians, of course, we need to pray that cooler heads prevail.
- 40:41
- Because right now, it is a very tense and dangerous situation. Let's see, what else do we got here?
- 40:47
- Okay, we had, I guess, this past—we had that Vax Mandate ruling from the Supreme Court. And I guess it was partially good news.
- 40:55
- I mean, I'm certainly glad that they overturned the Vax Mandate for employers of 100 or more employees, because that certainly would affect me, and it would probably affect most of you who are listening to this.
- 41:07
- But they upheld the ruling for people in the medical profession. Well, I mean, the fact is, there's no constitutional mandate.
- 41:18
- There's nothing in the American Constitution that gives the federal government any power to mandate any medical treatment for anyone.
- 41:26
- It just doesn't exist. And yet the Supreme Court somehow found a way to do this.
- 41:32
- And I liked what Paul Craig Roberts, he wrote a column on this, and I think he kind of got to the heart of the matter pretty well here.
- 41:41
- And the title of his column is Supreme Court Delivers Schizophrenic Ruling. And I'll just read a bit of this here, quote,
- 41:47
- In a schizophrenic ruling on January 13, the U .S. Supreme Court ruled against the Biden regime's COVID vaccine mandate for private businesses, but for the mandate for health care workers.
- 41:57
- Ordinary Americans might wonder why the justices protected some people for undergoing a coerced medical procedure, but not others.
- 42:03
- The obvious inconsistency in their position probably has not occurred to the justices. As they see it, in the case of private businesses,
- 42:11
- OSHA was exercising power not conveyed to it by Congress, but Congress did give authority to the
- 42:17
- Secretary of Health and Human Services. From whence came the mandate for health care workers to promulgate rules as the
- 42:23
- Secretary finds necessary in the interest of the health and safety of individuals who are furnished services by Medicare and Medicaid services.
- 42:32
- So the mindless justices, the Nuremberg laws do not enter the decision, only whether the authority imposing a
- 42:39
- Joseph Mengele policy of coerced medical intervention is the okay from Congress to do so.
- 42:44
- This thinking or lack thereof indicates the completeness with which the rule of law has collapsed in the United States.
- 42:50
- Employees of private companies are protected against orders by OSHA to undergo illegal coerced medical interventions, but employees of companies that deliver
- 42:57
- Medicare and Medicaid services are not protected from the same mandate if issued by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- 43:04
- What we have is the complete separation of law from justice and the violation of the U .S. Constitution that requires equal treatment under the law.
- 43:11
- The justices have, again, delivered unequal treatment. As I have noted on many occasions, the
- 43:17
- United States is the Constitution. If the Constitution is dead, so is the United States. I think that's quite a good short column there.
- 43:25
- You know, one little thing here about the Nuremberg laws or Nuremberg Code, which he mentioned,
- 43:31
- I did a little bit of checking on that. And what's interesting, if you go out to the U .S.
- 43:37
- Department of Health and Human Services, that's the HHS that Paul Krager I was referred to in his column.
- 43:43
- If you go out there, there's actually a page on the Nuremberg Code. And the page with the link on it,
- 43:51
- I'll just read this to you. It says, this is from the, this is actually the National Institutes of Health, which is part of Health and Human Services.
- 44:00
- So this is the National Institutes of Health webpage here. It says, the Nuremberg Code, the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
- 44:08
- This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent, should be situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice.
- 44:16
- Now, the fact that this appears on the NIH website, which is also part of Health and Human Services, that certainly,
- 44:23
- I think, implies that the NIH and the Health and Human Services has consented to the
- 44:31
- Nuremberg Code. Now, the Nuremberg Code, there's actually 10, I don't know what you want to call them, 10 parts of the
- 44:38
- Nuremberg Code. But the first one is the most important, and it deals with the necessary of consent.
- 44:46
- And let me just read through that here. Quote, the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
- 44:52
- This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent, should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion, and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.
- 45:14
- The latter element requires that, before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject, there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment, the method and means by which it should be conducted, all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected, and the effects upon his health or person, which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
- 45:35
- The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment.
- 45:43
- It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity."
- 45:48
- End quote. Now, of course, this whole thing with the vaccines is the largest medical experiment on the human population that's probably ever been conducted.
- 45:59
- The COVID vaccines, all of them, in the United States are given under what they call an EUA, Emergency Use Authorization.
- 46:07
- That is to say they're experimental. They have not been approved by the
- 46:13
- Food and Drug Administration. Now, some people will say, oh, well, the Food and Drug Administration gave approval back in April, or back in August of 2021.
- 46:21
- Well, no, they didn't. What they did is they gave approval to a drug called Comirnaty, but you cannot get Comirnaty in the
- 46:27
- United States of America. You can't get it. It's not available. So any of these inoculations, any of these injections that you get, whether it's from Pfizer, whether it's from Johnson &
- 46:42
- Johnson, whether it's from Moderna, any of these, none of them are
- 46:47
- Comirnaty. None of them have been approved by the FDA. All of them are experimental.
- 46:53
- The idea that if you're going to force somebody to take an experimental treatment, you're violating the
- 46:58
- Nuremberg Code, which is at least given tacit approval by being out there on the website of the
- 47:04
- NIH and also the Health and Human Services. And of course, it's not just the fact that people are being forced to take an experimental drug, which obviously violates the first point of the
- 47:17
- Nuremberg Code. But it also talks here too about the, you know, in order to be able to give an affirmative decision that the person who's potentially going to participate in the experiment, there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment, the method and means by which it should be conducted, all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected, any effects upon his health or person, which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
- 47:46
- Well, I mean, the drug companies, the federal government, the social media companies, all these have done everything in their power possible so that people don't have the correct information.
- 47:57
- I mean, they flat out lied, first of all, about the dangers of the virus. And then they have also suppressed the dangers of the vaccine.
- 48:10
- They've done this willingly. They've done this knowingly. I don't think it's possible to give informed consent when you're not given proper information.
- 48:18
- Something else I wanted to talk about here too, besides the VAX mandate, I wanted to talk about the
- 48:24
- Bergoglio administration. I've mentioned that before in, I think it was another podcast, but it's really striking.
- 48:32
- And I noticed here in the past week or so, there have been several stories that really show that there's not a dime's worth of difference between the ideas coming out of the
- 48:41
- Vatican under Pope Francis and the stuff that we're hearing coming out of the
- 48:46
- Biden regime. For instance, on immigration, there's a headline, and this is in Breitbart News. In fact, I think all three of these examples come from Breitbart.
- 48:54
- Breitbart does some really good job reporting on the Vatican. So, okay, here we go.
- 48:59
- Pope Francis, we cannot hide from migrants behind walls and barbed wire. And there was another article,
- 49:06
- I guess I didn't, I was actually going to use this, the other article, but he talks about that there's an obligation,
- 49:13
- Pope Francis said recently, for every nation to take in migrants. So there's an obligation, you can't get out of it, you can't shirk your duty, you have to do this thing.
- 49:24
- So, and of course, what do we hear from the Biden administration? Of course, they've opened the borders and people are pouring across by the millions.
- 49:33
- So I mean, again, there's not a dime's worth of difference between what the
- 49:38
- Pope's talking about and the actual policies that are being put into effect by the Biden regime. Then you've got the thing going on with COVID.
- 49:46
- This is an interesting headline here. It says, Vatican threatens unvaccinated employees as Pope Francis laments the layoffs.
- 49:52
- So he threatens the employees of the Vatican with being laid off at the same time he laments people being laid off.
- 49:59
- Kind of interesting there. I'll read a little bit of this. The Vatican threatened its unvaccinated workers
- 50:04
- Wednesday while Pope Francis prayed for all those who have lost their jobs during the pandemic. The governor of Vatican City has decreed that employees must possess a super green pass, attesting to vaccination against coronavirus or proof of having recovered from the disease if they wish to continue working.
- 50:21
- Those who attempt to go to work without the vaccine passport will be turned away and the missed time will be considered an unjustified absence without pay, the decree states.
- 50:28
- If the absence from work continues, employees will be liable for future penalties, including loss of their jobs.
- 50:34
- Three Swiss guards already have resigned from the Corps when faced with the obligation to receive the vaccine if they wish to continue in the
- 50:40
- Vatican's employ. In a curious juxtaposition, the same day the Vatican decree was released, Pope Francis lamented the loss of work of so many people because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has led some to commit suicide.
- 50:51
- You know, there's the logic of Antichrist for you. On the one hand, he's forcing people to make a choice between taking an experimental deadly vaccine and their job.
- 51:03
- And then at the same time, he's lamenting all the job loss and suffering that's come from the pandemic, to which he's contributing greatly.
- 51:10
- Kind of amazing. All right. So here's a third thing. And of course, you know, that's just to continue that comparison, you know, the position of the
- 51:19
- Vatican on the COVID vaccines is pretty much the same thing as what you're getting out of the Biden administration. And even after the
- 51:25
- Supreme Court struck down the mandate for private employers, Biden was out there, I guess that very same day, he was encouraging employers to still keep pushing the vaccine mandate, even though they're not required to.
- 51:37
- He wanted them to take up the regulatory burden and continue to run with it.
- 51:43
- And here's the third way in which the policies of Pope Francis are virtually identical to those of the
- 51:49
- Biden regime. Here's a headline from Breitbart again. Pope Francis, no one is exempt from fighting climate change.
- 51:55
- So, you know, I guess we all have to try to save the planet because we're all going to die from some horrible environmental catastrophe if we don't listen to the
- 52:04
- Pope. And of course, this is the same kind of thing that the Biden folks and the progressives are pushing here in the
- 52:10
- United States. You know, there's another headline I saw where the Pope was urging Joe Biden and the
- 52:16
- Joe Biden people to push forward with the Paris climate accord, which Donald Trump had the good sense to take us out of way back in 2017.
- 52:25
- But of course, good old Joe Biden, you know, hopped right back in. I don't know if you could call him Jesuit Joe Biden.
- 52:31
- You know, he does attend a Jesuit parish and his boss is the Jesuit Pope over there in Rome.
- 52:38
- So I don't know, maybe we could just call him Jesuit Joe. But yeah, Jesuit Joe put us right back in this Paris climate accord, which, of course, will economically cripple the
- 52:45
- United States of America, which I assume is one of the purposes behind the Paris climate accord. That's enough there.
- 52:52
- Like I say, we've got the Bergoglio Biden administration going on, and it's quite remarkable to see how these, how the policies, the policy prescriptions that come out of both of them are virtually identical on all of the big issues.
- 53:05
- Now, last thing I wanted to cover here was Hillary was back from the dead. You know, I saw this, Tucker Carlson did a piece this last week.
- 53:12
- I'm not going to play it. It's about a 10 or 12 minute segment. But he talked about Hillary Clinton's, I guess, political resurrection, as it were.
- 53:20
- And he cited a piece from the Wall Street Journal. I'll just take a look at this briefly.
- 53:25
- This is a piece from January 11th, 2022. And it's titled Hillary Clinton's 2024 Election Comeback.
- 53:31
- Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have become unpopular. It may be time for a change candidate. Now, honestly, that's one of the funniest things
- 53:38
- I've ever read, a change candidate. Hillary Clinton is a change candidate. Hillary Clinton is the establishment's establishment.
- 53:45
- There's nothing change about her. That's one of the most asinine things I have ever read in all my life. But nevertheless, that's what the
- 53:52
- Democrats, I guess there are two of these guys here. Who are they? Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein.
- 54:00
- They want you to think Hillary Clinton's a change candidate. I don't know. I lack the words. I don't even know what to say about that.
- 54:05
- So you dive into here and they say, well, Hillary Clinton may be the actual most viable candidate for the
- 54:12
- Democrats. And you know, the thing is, they may actually be right about that. But then that just goes to show you how universally awful all of the
- 54:19
- Democrats are. I mean, Hillary's crooked. We know that. She has deep -seated hatred and contempt for ordinary
- 54:27
- Americans. We know that. And there's one other thing, and I have to mention this. I'll probably get myself in a lot of trouble, but I'm going to mention it anyway.
- 54:34
- Well, she's a woman. You know, and as a Christian, you know, it's not enough as a
- 54:40
- Christian critic or a Christian observer of politics to simply, when we're dealing with female presidential candidates, simply to say, well, you know, we agree with her here, but we don't agree with this.
- 54:51
- You know, she's crooked and blah, blah, blah. I mean, those things are true. But as Christians, no
- 54:57
- Christian should support a female woman presidential candidate. You know,
- 55:02
- John Knox dealt with that very decisively back when he wrote his essay, you know, The First Blast of the
- 55:08
- Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. And he absolutely, he was absolutely devastating in that essay.
- 55:14
- It's an extended argument that it is improper to put a woman in charge of a nation or a city or any sort of a government.
- 55:23
- And he reasoned right out of the scriptures, and his logic is absolutely devastating. And John Knox was right.
- 55:31
- But not too many people have ever read his essay. In fact, I think probably even if you go into a lot of conservative, even if you go into a
- 55:37
- Presbyterian church, you probably have a hard time finding anybody who's actually read that essay. And if they have read it, finding anybody who would actually agree with it.
- 55:46
- But yes, John Knox was right about that. You know, and as Christians, when we analyze politics, the cure has to go at least as deep as the disease.
- 55:55
- I mean, Western civilization has all but collapsed. You know, now is not the time for half measures.
- 56:02
- You know, we have to speak frankly, we have to speak boldly, and we have to apply the word of God.
- 56:08
- The fact of the matter is, there shouldn't be a woman presidential candidate.
- 56:14
- In a sound society, that would not exist. But because of feminism, because of the evil of feminism,
- 56:21
- I mean, it has created this situation. And there's a lot more to say about that, and I'm sure probably we'll come back and talk about that.
- 56:28
- I think there's a really good chance, I mean, the Republicans are going to try to give us the monstrous regimen as well. There's a number of prominent female candidates.
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- There's Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota. There is, oh, who's the one?
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- I can't think of her name right now. Nikki Haley. Yeah, Nikki Haley is another one who's very prominent.
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- She very well could be the Republican candidate. Either one of them could be the Republican presidential candidate in 2024.
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- I think it's entirely possible. And I think it's certainly possible Hillary Clinton could come back in 2024. I don't think that's crazy.
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- So I'm sure we'll have opportunities to talk about that. But yeah, we're getting on to about an hour or so. It's been a while here.
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- Anyway, I hope you found some of this informative. When I put these things out there, I do this not to try to scare people, not try to freak people out.
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- There's a lot of bad news out there. And I wish I could bring you better news than what
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- I do. But I mean, we have to be honest. We have to face things squarely. We have to face things honestly. The Bible doesn't say go off and run and hide in a corner someplace.
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- Although sometimes it is appropriate to hide. But the consistent message is that as Christians, we are supposed to engage the world for Christ Jesus.
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- That's our job. The Apostle Paul talks about putting on the whole armor of God. Christ talks about when you have a light, you don't put it under a bushel, do you?
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- No, you don't do that. You set it on a lampstand so it lights the whole room. That's our job is to be salt and light.
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- And we can't do that. If we're afraid to speak out. You know, the Apostle Paul, when he wrote to the
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- Ephesians, he wrote and he said to them, and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
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- That's Ephesians 5 .11. And that's a great verse. And now that version I read to you, it's the
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- New King James Version. And I looked at Clark's commentary here this evening, Gordon Clark's commentary, and he made a number of good remarks here.
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- Of course, one of them he said is what this verse tells us, you know, have no fellowship with the unfruitful work of darkness, but rather expose them, is there's really two things here.
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- He says, and it's not enough just to not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.
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- I mean, obviously we shouldn't be doing that. You know, we shouldn't be involved in lobbying for abortion rights as Christians.
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- You know, we shouldn't be in the business of supporting female presidential candidates. You know, we shouldn't be in the business of furthering, you know, aggressive foreign policy, interventionist foreign policies, things like this.
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- We shouldn't be in the business of promoting forced vaccinations, and a whole bunch of other things.
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- Some of the things we've talked about here today, we shouldn't be in the business of doing that. But it's not just enough not to be involved, we also have to expose them.
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- And I like the New King James Translation. He says, but, you know, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
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- And in fact, Gordon Clark agreed with that. He thought that that was the best, in his view, he seemed to favor that as the best translation.
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- The King James has reproved, but the New King James has exposed them.
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- What we need to do is we need to expose the lies that are told to us. You know, whether it's by Anthony Fauci or the
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- Jesuits or the Pope, you know, the Antichrist, all these guys, that whole basket of deplorables, we'll put them in a basket of deplorables there.
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- They are actually pretty deplorables, pretty deplorable folks. Hillary Clinton, I guess we could put her in there as well.
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- Our job is to expose them as Christians. That's one of the things we need to do, expose their lies, expose their false economic, expose their false politics.
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- We need to do that. And we can't do that if we're running and hiding. So, I mean, we have to be bold and are a witness.
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- We have to put on the whole armor of God and go out there and fight like good Christian soldiers. That's what we're called to do.
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- I hope you found this message encouraging. That's what I want to do. I want to encourage you. I want to embolden you.
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- I want to help give you some of the tools to be able to go out and to do this. That's why I do this podcast. If I weren't doing that, there's, you know, there's plenty of other podcasts you could listen to.
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- There's plenty of other things that I could do. But I feel obligated before the Lord Jesus Christ to be able to speak the truth, to apply the word of God to these things that we've discussed.
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- Anyway, as I say, I hope you found that helpful and have enjoyed the podcast and gotten something out of it.
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- Until next time, until we talk again, Lord willing, in a week, may the spirit of truth guide you in all truth as you read and study