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You're listening to radio looks lucid. This is episode 126 title. This episode is
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What is the title of this episode? I think I know what it is. It's this is what this is the title of the episode It's 2024 presidential election preview.
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I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me here today It's great to have everybody here on a
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Friday night the this is the fallback night just to let you let everybody know you got this this is this is the
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One of the few things that I like about going back to Eastern Standard Time is you do get a fallback you get that extra
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Hour of sleep. So I get an extra hour I can sleep get an extra hour of sleep before I have to get up for church in the morning So see
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I can just go on and on here tonight. I got tons of time because I got an extra hour of sleep Anyway, I hope you're doing well here today.
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Hope you've had a good day a Good Saturday and enjoying your weekend and all those things.
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Yeah, we're finally here Almost at the very eve of the big events, of course,
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I'm talking about Tuesday's presidential election here in the United States and you know, this is something that I think a lot of us have
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I've thought a lot about written a lot about I think I've mentioned this here before on even on this podcast that I have a friend of mine
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And we I don't know how we got into this exactly, but but we always get together Sometime in December Leading up to Christmas for for a lunch and and he and I we were sitting there
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Last year and and talking and and and you know, he made the comment to me
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He says, you know, but when when we meet next year this time, he says we could be living in a very different world
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And and you know, I think a lot of us really do Have that sense about About this election and they have had that sense for some time
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You know, I think that there's there's a sense that there's some unfinished business from 2020 You know that there were things that went on there was theft of that election that took place
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That has never been dealt with adequately And this has been one of the big concerns that a lot of people including myself have had is the fact that The the
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Democrats were able to steal that election in my opinion and The fact that they've been able to make the fraud stick.
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I Think that's the the thing that has maybe been even more disturbing It's just the fact that they have and you know made that made it happen.
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I mean they made it stick You know, they they they got through all the legal challenges They got
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Joe Biden inaugurated and the only people who have been held accountable at all in that time
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Actually were those people who were trying to to address the issues of the fraud You know, they have been hounded out handed down they have been
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Prosecuted Some of them have been jailed. You know, there's a Steve Bannon, I guess he you know, he refused to appear before the
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The January 6 committee in the house and held him in contempt of Congress and he just got out from I think it was a four month four month prison sentence and some of Trump's lawyers have been indicted for bringing in for questioning the election in 2020 things of that sort so, you know, so not only have the people that have
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They committed the fraud have they not been punished but the people who've tried to Hold people accountable for committing the fraud.
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They're the ones who have been punished And and that that is that that's a real problem
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Because if if if you accept the thesis, which I do that there was massive cheating that went on in in the elections in 2024 or in 2020 rather, you know all those those six battleground states they all shut down the county at the same time and then all of a sudden they reopened and and magically somehow
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Joe Biden had been losing in these states and and and he made this massive comeback and And somehow won the election even though he spent all of his time
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The months leading up to that basically campaign if you want to call it that from his basement
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And there were a lot of there are many things that were very very suspicious about that whole 2020 election remember the hunter
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Biden laptop that whole story broke shortly before the election and You know, I mean and and you had people from the you know
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These deep staters these intelligence agents, you know former intelligence agency people they were coming out
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There was a letter signed by 51 of them. I think it was saying well, this is all the the the earmarks of Russian disinformation and Then excuse me, then of course the the social media companies of time spiked the story you couldn't comment on it on on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube I mean if you tried to do that, you know, you you got your your post taken down you could receive strikes
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Yeah, you could potentially be Barred temporarily even permanently from from posting on these social media sites
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The New York Post I think yeah, the New York Post because that was that's a major American newspaper and they're the ones that broke that story and And They had
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I think Today, I don't know if they had their their account suspended on X I don't know if that was the case or if they just had that story spike that I don't remember the details
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But but yeah, they they got severely punished on social media Particularly I recall on Twitter For for breaking that story, you know, they were spreading misinformation.
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Well, it turned out it was true you know the hunter Biden laptop was a true story and Of course the the really important thing about the hunter
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Biden laptop story wasn't all the the salacious stuff you know all of the kind of National Enquirer kinds of things, you know
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He's with pictures of him smoking crack or with these with underage girls and these are terrible things
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I don't mean to say that these are these are good things But that was really kind of a distraction Because the central the big problem was all the evidence that was contained on this laptop of Of basically a hunter
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Briden by Bribing. Well, that's that's appropriate of hunter Biden Really serving as the bag man
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In funneling bribe money to to the big guy, you know, of course You know, he was always referred to as the big guy.
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I can't possibly imagine who that would be. All right Yeah, I mean, you know the the
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Biden regime. I mean Joe Biden I mean it was a it was a great big, you know influence peddling scandal and if had been anybody else
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You know if it'd been if it'd been a Republican candidate if it'd been Donald Trump, I mean he'd been in jail for 800 years
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But Joe Biden can go out and he can engage in in Influence peddling it.
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It's apparently to the tune of you're receiving millions and millions of dollars from foreign
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From foreign Governments and that's totally okay. You know, we're we're we're down with that.
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That's that's a good thing and we're gonna move forward with it But anyway, so I wanted to dive in on a few things today and just maybe talk about a few things that You don't always hear on on podcasts,
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I mean, so there is Quite a bit of analysis out there some of it's very very good from from independent journalists
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I'm not talking about the mainstream type people, but there is a lot of interesting information. It's out there put out by you know bloggers and youtubers and you know independent journalists and Sometimes it can be a little bit daunting you say well, you know, there's all these outlets and some really smart talented
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People people that you know whose work I respect and yet at the same time there are some angles to this election that are rarely if ever covered and that's one of the things
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I try to do and one of the the sort of the the niche that I find myself in you know, sort of reform political commentary, but even more focused and reformed of course, you know as as a scripturalist to somebody who's
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You know believes in the system the philosophical system of Gordon Clark the some of the the teachings that the
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John Robbins Put out on politics and economics
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You know, I try to do my commentary really from that scripturalist perspective and that's not something that you you hear very often
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And it's something that I really enjoy doing. I've always kind of been a bit of a junkie for political commentary
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I think that goes back to even when I was a kid. I've always been interested in that So I think there's some there are some things that even though despite the fact that there's a lot of I think very good
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Commentary that's out there. I think there's some some angles to this election that are very that that are not often addressed
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I'm going to try to address at least a few of those things today. Here's one of the first ones I was in a
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Bible study the other day and and one of the the gentleman It's a men's
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Bible study. He raised this point. He says, you know, one of the things that's amazing to me Is that nobody's made a big deal about?
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Kamala Harris being a woman You know and and and how you know one way or the other there's just been no commentary on it and and of course me being the
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The I guess I don't know theologically incorrect or politically incorrect or whatever you want to say
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Fuddy -duddy that I am I said, well, you know, John Knox had something to say about that And I think
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Got looks of recognition. Of course I knew what I was talking about and and I further went on to say my editorial comment on on John Knox is that he was right
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And of course what I'm talking about here and you may already know what I'm talking about if you're
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Of a of a reform bent and and you have a background in reform theology and Protestant theology, you know that John Knox wrote a very famous essay back in the day.
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This is back in the 1500s John Knox which is a great Scottish reformer and and the title this essay it's the first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women and that title maybe needs a little bit of explanation for for us because Knox is using the words monstrous and regiment in a way that probably we don't more than Maybe it's an archaic sense of the term
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So usually in a way that probably we wouldn't use them today when he says monstrous regiment
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What he means is unnatural government. So it's the first blast of the trumpet against the unnatural government of women
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Is what he's saying there and in it what he does is he argues that?
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it is It is an error Actually is is a lot more
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He he's more emphatic than simply just to call it an error But it's it's an error to to have
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Put a woman in charge of the civil government and I think that he was exactly right
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You know, John Knox is just devastating in that article It's really interesting to read through it and it's the kind of thing that I mean
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Gary I mean, it's gonna offend a lot of people Today if they were to read that but I would really challenge them to To think seriously about About Knox's argument,
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I'm not gonna repeat his old argument here. In fact, let me Get this because there's a quote.
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I'm just gonna read you one paragraph in here And it kind of give you a flavor of John Knox and I really hope you read it
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I'm gonna put in the show notes. I'm gonna put a link there's a trinity John Robbins, he did an edition of of the
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Now the monstrous regiment of women he called it the place of women it was published back in 19
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I think it was 1984 and I don't know for sure if this is the reason but I'm pretty sure
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I guess I'm pretty sure that he he published that in response to Walter Mondale's Selection of Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate if you're old enough like me to remember 1984
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You may recall that the the Democrat presidential nominee that year he ran against Reagan but the
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Democrat nominee that year is Walter Mondale and his His running mate he chose as a woman named
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Geraldine Ferraro and that had been Geraldine Ferraro and that had been the first time in American history were a major party now
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They've been minor party female candidates But this was the first time ever we had a major party a
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Democrat to the Republicans Will you ever had a woman on a presidential ticket now?
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She was a vice presidential The vice presidential the nominee the running mate but just she was still in a ticket, you know, and that was
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That was a pretty big deal. And and it was that year. I believe that That the
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Trinity Foundation published. I'm gonna double -check that. Yeah, it was published in August 1984 was when they did that and And So I'm sure that this was done in response to to Walter Mondale selection in fact, it probably was in all, you know,
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July or August when they had their when the Democrats had their Their national convention their nominating convention that year.
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So this was published right in recent. I'm sure this was published in response to that But here here's a just a quote from From John Knox, this is what he says quote to promote a woman to bear rule superiority
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Dominion or Empire above any realm Nation or city is repugnant to nature contumelious to God a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance and Finally, it is the subversion of good order and of all equity and justice
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The revealed will and perfect ordinance of God do manifestly oppose that any woman shall reign or bear dominion over man for God first by order of his creation and after by the curse the
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Malediction pronounced against the woman by the reason of her rebellion has pronounced the contrary
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This is so good I'm gonna read a little bit more of it here and the Knox continues He says first I say the woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man not to rule and command him
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The st. Paul does reason in these words man is not of the woman But the woman of the man and the man was not created for the cause of the one but the woman for the cause of the
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Man and therefore ought the woman to have power upon her her head. That is a cover and sign of subjection
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Of which words it is plain that the Apostle means that woman in her greatest perfection should not have Should have known the man was
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Lord above her and therefore that she should never have pretended any kind of superiority above him No more than do the angels above God the
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Creator or above Christ Jesus their head So I say that in her greatest perfection woman was created to be subject to man
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But after her fall and rebellion committed against God there was put upon her a new necessity And she was made subject to man by the irrevocable sentence of God pronounced in these words
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It would greatly multiply the sorrow and thy conception with sorrow shalt thou bear children and thy will shall be subject to the man
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And he shall bear dominion over thee Hereby may such as altogether be not blinded plainly see the
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God by his Sentence has ejected all women from Empire and Dominion above man
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End quote now I could go on Knox is really devastating in in his argument.
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This is this is some really I think it's actually some of the most powerful Stuff that I have ever read from a
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Christian on any subject I mean, this is one of the greatest essays that any Christian has ever written. And yes, John Knox was right
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Yeah, and that is a really hard thing for people today to hear. I mean that that's gonna offend almost everybody
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And and yet that's that is is the situation which we find ourselves Today and you know,
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I mean the very fact that you have a woman heading up a presidential ticket This is the second time in just the last eight years, of course
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Hillary Clinton ran in 2016 now we have Kamala Harris Now that's a sign that there's something seriously wrong in the
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United States of America that we're even entertaining this and regardless of what the outcome of the election is
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On Tuesday or you know, who knows we might not know for two months We should know by Tuesday But you know with that that that's a whole nother can of worms there with all the rigging lying cheating and fraud that goes on Particularly from the
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Democrats party of rum Romanism and rebellion Particularly from those guys
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Yeah, it's Who knows I mean I I doubt seriously whether we're going to know what the results of the election are on on Tuesday night as much as we should
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Know those things but I mean the very fact that we're even entertaining this idea that we would have a woman president is a
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Shows how Devolved the United States of America has become in terms of its
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Christian understanding of politics This is a Protestant Republic You know that one of the things
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I learned from from Christian Pinto he does noise of thunder radio and he's a documentary filmmaker a real very talented researcher and you know, he
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In some of his programs he's talked about a speech that Samuel Adams gave prior to the signing of the
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Declaration of Independence And one of the comments that Samuel Adams made he said this he said today the reign of political
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Protestantism will begin and You know, so I mean you have
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The the United States of America has always been a Protestant Republic if you if you want to know
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Well, what is political Protestantism? Well, take a look at the Declaration of Independence. Take a look at our
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Constitution take a look at the The Bill of Rights and if you want to go back before that you even go back to to the
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Magna Carta You know, it's the idea that the government, you know, one of the big ideas is the government is also subject to the to the law of God You know that sovereigns are not sovereign
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I mean, they they don't have a right to just make up right and wrong all on their own but those Who are in authority are also subject to the word of God.
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They're God's minister Which means they they are not Do not have their authority originally
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But they have their authority given to them by God and because they have their authority given to them by God They are subject to the law of God They don't have the right to just go out and do whatever they want to do
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They don't have a right to lie cheat and steal and murder. They don't have a right to do these things
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Although many people seem to think that they do have a right to do those things, but that's those people are not thinking
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They don't have a Christian political theory But yeah, I mean our nation was founded as a
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Protestant Republic And yeah, we have devolved very greatly over the past almost
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Well, you know, I guess it in a couple years would be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the
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American Revolution But we have fallen very far And I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of actually come back to that idea
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In fact, why don't we we talk a little bit about that right now? Oh, I mean, well tell you what before I go on to that.
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I just want to say this Talking there a little bit about John Knox there was a really a good
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Presentation that was put out and in really a I guess you almost call it a summary of Knox's argument
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It was put out by Paul Elliot with the teaching the word ministries and There's about a six minute
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YouTube video that was put out by by him and by his organization I'm gonna put a link in the show notes to that.
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So it's a really good summary Paul Elliot, if you don't know, dr. Paul Elliot, he is a
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Christian. He is a Teacher Bible teacher Very sound in his thinking he did a lot of work for the
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Trinity Foundation. I know he was friends with John Robbins and Someone whose work
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I respect a lot and I think that it's really a very good piece That he puts out and and again, it's sort of us.
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I would call it a summary of John Knox's argument and and Paul Elliot, he answers a lot of questions in in this, you know, maybe questions people might have.
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Okay Well, what about this or what about that and he addresses those in in this video? It's only about six minutes long
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I think he does a really good job presenting that argument against the idea of a
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Female president. In fact, the title of it is a woman president biblical and he the answer he gives unequivocally is no
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No, it's not and it's it and I think that might shock a lot of Christians, too Because I think there are a lot of Christians that would say well, you know, it just all depends upon our qualifications and blah blah blah
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Well, no That's that's actually not Not the correct view and again,
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I'll leave it to To Paul Elliot to to make that argument. I think he does a good job of it
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So and as I said, I'll put a link to the show notes for it for you
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Now for that particular Particular video, you know, there was a video too and I know
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I've written some about this but Some blog posts a few years ago.
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In fact, I think I did it back in 2016 when when Hillary was running but there is a
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Back, I think it was in 1980 or around there. I and Rand and the objectivist philosopher she was on Phil Donahue show interesting.
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You know Phil Donahue who did some really actually some very interesting stuff Some serious stuff and he he had her on I think on multiple occasions
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Excuse me and and she got on there and she said that she would not vote for a woman president and They know that a good woman would would not think about running for president or wanting to be commander -in -chief
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And the audience was really offended. I mean the audience is filled with a bunch of feminists. This is back in 1980 and They were very hostile in their reaction to what
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I and ran said now I and ran now she was an atheist But She was closer to the mind of God on that subject than many people who are you know
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Evangelicals, you know even you know, you could find probably I would say most even conservative
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Christian ministers might hem and haw around around that particular question. If somebody asked him is is is a
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Is a is a woman president biblical and there'd probably be a lot of like I say hemming and hawing from people who?
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Who claim to be followers of Christ and maybe they are I shouldn't say that Yeah That someone is is not a
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Christian just because they don't give the right answer to the question is a woman president biblical But the the correct the only correct answer that is no, no, it's not and But there are a lot of people
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I think that would probably be a little bit afraid to be that direct about it But we need to be direct about it.
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I think feminism Is really one of the most destructive one of the most dehumanizing philosophies
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And it's never gained widespread acceptance. I mean it it really attacks us
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Really, you know in a very fundamental way that I I don't know if there's any other
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Philosophy or way of thinking out there that's that's quite that's destructive to the degree that feminism is
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I mean, it's it's just pure poison and It has has disordered modern society to such a degree that it's we're barely functioning and I really do believe that a lot of the a huge amount of the problems that we have
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In the West is as a result of of adopting that that particular philosophy and it's everywhere
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I mean you you can't get away from it is and unfortunately, it's even seeped into evangelical churches to some degree
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So enough about that a Few other things here.
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Let's see what time we've been going here. Oh goodness It's I've already eaten up half an hour and I just getting warmed up here
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You know a few few other things about this the presidential contest, let's see. I'm gonna do a little screen share here and Let's take a look
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Well, too No, that's not what we want to do. This is what we want to do. All right, here we go
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Let's make sure I did this, right? Okay, so there we go. All right.
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So now here is something is it's I think interesting This is actually a tweet that was put out by Elon Musk Was that today?
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Yeah. Yeah, actually that was today and it's just a summary of the the media coverage of Of Harris and Trump and the kind of quality of the coverage that that both candidates have gotten according to this
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Says the headline here. It says the legacy media is election interference and it lists
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ABC CBS and NBC So the big three television networks and and according to this coverage
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Kamala Harris 84 for 84 percent of the coverage she's received from these these three outlets has been positive
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So it's been you know, rah rah Kamala Go Kamala. You're awesome.
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Kamala isn't isn't Kamala just the most awesome thing you've ever seen. Yeah you know, it's amazing how the
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The media machine has gone into to full swing to to make her the the greatest thing since sliced bread
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So any pro 84 percent of her coverage they've considered to be positive and for Donald Trump on the other hand 89 % of his coverage has been negative.
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So it's almost a mirror image and let's see if I can blow this thing up a little bit Who was?
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Okay, so it cites as a source it says based on the Media Research Center analysis of ABC CBS and NBC news coverage of the 2024 presidential election
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And it gives the period July 21st to August 17th, 2024. So, you know roughly that that month period
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That one month period so, you know, who knows maybe it's a little bit different You know over the past couple months, but I doubt it's probably that much different that's probably a
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That's probably a pretty constant number You know orange man bad that's been the the message from the legacy media now for you know, it's for nine years
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I mean Donald Trump, you know He he famously came down the escalator there at Trump Tower with Melania and that was
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I think in June of 2015 So it's been it's been over nine years since that took place. I mean, I remember that it's just hard to believe
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We just had this this just anti Donald Trump media harangue for the past nine years
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And it's just non -stop and It's it's it's an amazing thing to watch
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So yeah, I mean that that's not surprising that that those numbers are that skewed. I mean, I I would would say that that Just kind of just going from my own experiences.
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I think those are very believable numbers now
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There was in fact it was in a Bible study this morning some discussion came up about this there was a
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Christianity Today article it has it's got the headline. It's called voting is important to me.
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That's why this year. I Won't vote. It's by this fellow named Robert postic and he's a political scientist who as a
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Christian and Anyway, he writes through this and then basically he says a plague on both your houses, you know, both
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Kamala And Donald Trump are so bad. I'm not gonna vote for either one Now I will say this
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Just withholding consent not voting for either candidate that actually is a legitimate decision.
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I know you even Gordon Clarke talked about that in his logic book.
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He says, you know, you don't have to pick one or the other If both of them are bad, you can withhold your consent
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As a voter and that is that complete completely legitimate? So it's it is a legitimate
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Christian stance to not vote for a key for either candidate if you don't believe either candidate is
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Is up to the job now, I I don't agree With with Robert postic's analysis and there was a an article that was written by Owen strachan
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In in response to this was published by the dot the Dobson Culture Center. I apologize
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I've kind of got hiccups right now for whatever reason you had this came out of nowhere Let's see here
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I'm just kind of going through this and I want to take a look Well, we'll just read through a little bit of it here this is strachan writing
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He says quote according to Christianity Today, the American presidential election does not represent a binary choice
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So argued Robert postic in a Christianity Today essay titled voting is important to me. That's why this year
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I won't vote And in his article post excited. Dr. James Dobson in support of his position
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Let's see here. So Just a second here
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Okay, I'll just read this paragraph this again. This is strachan talking He says this quote we have perplexing choices to make in life
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Every husband sent to the grocery store knows this in abundance However, the 2024 presidential election is no elusive quest for a spouse or peanut butter in our judgment
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It is a binary choice because of policy one major candidate has a record of support for unborn babies religious liberty
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The natural family marriage the free market national border security legal citizenship and global peace through strength
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The record of the other major candidate stands against these biblical principles so in Quote, so, you know,
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I I would have I you know I I would say that strachan is is is on target with his remarks here
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Yeah, that's one of the things with Donald Trump I mean, I I've been castigated by some people for you know for say how can you as a
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Christian support Donald Trump? You know, he's you know, he's been divorced and he's been involved in all of these things.
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Yeah, he's a casino owner. I mean that Donald Trump is not a perfect guy and I'm not here to defend every single thing
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Donald Trump has ever said or anything else or everything he's ever done But I will say this about him in in in watching him over the years and listening to him,
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I would classify him as a a political political
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Protestant I think he's an inconsistent political Protestant, but he is a political Protestant and I really do think that that gets to the heart of why
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Certain people hate him so much Because one of the
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And this is the thing it just absolutely just drives the globalist types just makes them apoplectic is that he actually does believe in And in the
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Westphalian world order he believes the idea of Westphalian sovereignty, you know, that is the the idea that that the nation -state is the highest level of government and essentially that a nation -state is a legal illegal person in international law and And you cannot you know, one nation does not have a right to invade another nation
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Or to interfere in the internal politics of a of a of another nation it's basically the the
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West Westminster sovereignty of the Westminster world order is is a global system of of nation -states
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That are there to cooperate with one another that have rights as a legal person and and they have an exclusive right to To you know that the governments of these nation -states have an exclusive right to set policy with within the nation's borders without being interfered with from the outside This was something in the
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Westphalian sovereignty. The Westphalian world order was developed was developed or came out of the
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Thirty Years War which went from 1618 to 1648
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It was settled by the Peace of Westphalia and it established the modern world and and it's in what it was
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It was actually the Protestants Fighting against the Roman Catholics that wanted to tell them how to how to how to run things and these
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Protestant countries said we don't Want you know, we don't want the Pope bossing us around anymore and they had this pan -european war the
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Protestants forces of the different countries Were known as the Allies and I believe
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I haven't checked this out But I'm pretty sure that that's that's where that term, you know, we talked about World War two
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For instance, we talked about the Axis powers and the Allied powers Well, I believe that that's where that that term came from it originated back in the in the
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Thirty Years War You know the Protestants were the Allied powers. It was a pan -european war.
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It went on for 30 some years is extremely destructive and Yet the in the end the good guys won and And it ended the ended papal power in in the victorious nations
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The Pope could no longer boss these these nations around So it was a it was a great victory for for Liberty and and one of the things about the
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Westphalian world order is that by having a multitude of Independent nation states
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It's a bulwark. It's a bulwark against tyranny If you think in history, you know, the the great tyrannies have always been these
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In most cases have been these these large empires that just absorbed, you know, many many
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Nations, you know many people groups, you know, many many languages and in peoples and tribes and tongues.
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What have you they were all Subsumed under this great imperial power and these these powers tend to be abusive
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Well when you have a multitude of nation states That are you know each with an independent government those can be those are a very strong bulwark against centralized abusive power
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And which of course is something that Antichrist the Antichrist for him in church day. They love that stuff And and I really do believe and I said this before and I'll say this again here now that really what you're seeing this whole
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Fight between globalists and nationalists that's usually the way it's it's posited today
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What you're seeing is you're seeing a fight between geopolitical Protestantism and geopolitical
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Romanism geopolitical Protestantism is the Westphalian world order in order of independent nation states the the
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Globalist, you know the New World Order, you know, whatever you want to call them That is geopolitical
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Romanism And and these these are opposing ideas and they're in conflict well
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Donald Trump Believes in the Westphalian world order. I've never heard him actually talk about the
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Westphalian world order explicitly But if you listen to his statements over the years, that's what he's describing
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You know national border security is one part of this You know that you can't just have millions of people come pouring across your border and then you're expected to feed clothe
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House them and provide jobs for them and rob your own people to do this
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You know that sort of migrant invasion that's that's political Romanism I talked about that last week in my
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Reformation Day talk I'd call it Antichrist irredentist immigration assault on America Irredentism is
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Jesuit immigration warfare and that's what we're experiencing here in the United States and not just in the
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United States But throughout the Western world and this is attempt by Rome to subvert the
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United States and other independent nation states and Fold them into this giant globalist
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Empire That's what's going on with this. Now. That's why you're seeing these these migrant invasions
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They're doing this to capture these capture the United States and these other countries for for Rome.
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That's what's going on So Yeah, I mean Donald Trump is a he's a he's a political
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Protestant and it just absolutely just makes these these globalist types Just apoplectic.
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They can't they can't process it So Donald Trump gets a lot of things right these kind of big -picture issues
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For all of his faults. He gets these things right in this and it just and I have never seen anybody just evoke the kind of just raw hatred that Against himself that Donald Trump does now you can say, okay, sometimes he's indelicate and things he says in that but Yeah Even even if he were the most polite gentleman people would just despise the man
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Because of some of his ideas, you know the idea that the United States Does not have an obligation to be overrun by migrant hordes by the
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Pope's migrant hordes And there are some people that just cannot They they can't handle that they get totally triggered.
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Yeah, that's what they call that That's where that Trump derangement syndrome so -called comes from and that's a real thing
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You know, I mean I used to think that I was kind of a joke But I mean, I I really do think I mean there are people that just cannot handle
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Donald Trump's ideas. They are so offensive to them that they can't Just can't process it
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So anyway, you got that going on So, yeah,
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I I think that it would be a mistake for Christians to sit this out I think we should be voting and I I think
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I do believe the best choice. I Didn't say a perfect choice But I do believe the best choice is is
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Donald Trump I think that if Kamala Harris does get in there that she is going to be an acceleration as to the downside
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You're going to see a significant Acceleration of the decline of the United States of America a loss loss of Liberty You're going to see you know, you think the migrant crisis has been bad so far.
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I mean, I think it's gonna get worse You know in this country can't stand can't take can't take this.
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I mean, this is just unsustainable Of course, that's the whole idea The people that are doing this they they don't want it to be sustainable
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They want to collapse the system and they want to remake this country in in in their own image
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And that's not an image that's going to be friendly to to life and to Liberty and the pursuit of happiness
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At all to to quote the Declaration of Independence I haven't been drinking.
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I swear I haven't been I got it. I've got apple cider in this
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And I had some coffee that was it But I keep hiccuping in his microphone. It sound ridiculous.
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Anyway one thing about Donald Trump and this is a actually a tweet that he put out today or tweet a post post on X and I've noticed he's put out a lot of Catholic stuff and he says wishing everybody
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Everyone a blessed and happy All Saints Day. And like when you look at this thing, it's this very Roman Catholic image or near right in the middle here.
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Of course, there's Our Lady of Guadalupe And then you've got a crucifix here and I don't know about everything else on here, but I mean it's a very
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Catholic looking image Yeah, he's put out quite a few of those things.
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In fact, he put out one About month back or so is happy birthday Mary and it was a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe It's like oh good grief
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Yeah, so that's that's a side of you know, I mean Donald Trump's a Presbyterian at least a nominal
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Presbyterian and as a Presbyterian He shouldn't be putting things like this out And I know it's electoral politics, but I mean,
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I'm sure that's how he would defend it But it's it's not something he ought to be doing It is a mistake
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You Know it's it's it's actually sinful to put out images of Our Lady of Guadalupe you know, that is a if it's anything,
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I mean the early of Guadalupe is a a Demonic apparition, you know that that that teaches false doctrine
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Now Tim Kaufman's done some very interesting work on on Marian apparitions and all of the just the the false teaching
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You know because these apparitions make these statements they send these messages and there are all these unbiblical types of things really some some demonics demonic stuff and Donald Trump should not be promoting those sorts of things
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One thing, you know, we've I've talked some about election fraud In fact, I was even going to talk about election may title this this talk election rigging
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But we were we're kind of coming up on election. So we don't we haven't actually seen seen the
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I We it hasn't actually been rigged yet. Although I would say I think there's been a lot of pre rigging
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Some elections shenanigans, here's an example. I want to show you something Let's stop sharing this screen and see if I can share something else here.
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There's me just a moment Um Let's see, yeah,
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I'm sure this is a window. Let's see how this looks. Okay. Yeah, here we go This is I I don't know that this rises to the level of election rigging or election fraud per se
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But it's certainly some gamesmanship and what this is. This is if you're looking at this. This is an image of a of a
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Hamilton County Ballot it was it's not about what?
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Sample ballot, I guess that's the right word for it Hamilton County. That's that's the the county that contains
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Cincinnati. I live in Hamilton County I don't live in Cincinnati proper but I do live in the same county and this isn't the
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Hamilton County Board of Elections and If you're looking at this, I've got a couple couple of items circled on here.
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It's the the The section of the ballot dealing with the presidential election and the very first candidate list that says for president
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Kamala D Harris for vice president Tim Walz and I Expected when
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I first looked at this to see Donald Trump listed right under that. Well, no, there's actually three other candidates between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Donald Trump is the fifth candidate listed down there's there's a total of six presidential candidates on the ballot
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Donald Trump is listed as number five Between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump you get chase
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Oliver the Libertarian you get Peter Sonsky who I've never heard of before and you have
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Jill Stein who I've heard of but again, she's she's a minor party candidate And Donald Trump's fifth now
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Do you think there's maybe a little election and gamesmanship being put out by the Hamilton County Board of Elections?
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when you you see Kamala Harris listed number one and Donald Trump listed number five five out of six.
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Hmm that seems a little bit suspicious to me as a little gamesmanship there and of course, Hamilton County used to be a
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For years and I mean in it when I you don't even have to go back that far For this to be the case but was was a
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Was a Republican stronghold and within the last I'd say 10 12 years or so.
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It's become completely Democrat Now the the greater
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Cincinnati the surrounding counties is still very conservative area It's still a very Republican area, but Hamilton County itself is is completely or nearly completely
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Democrat I don't know if there are any county -wide offices that are currently held by a Republican I Could be wrong about that.
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But I know the entire County Commission is is now Democrat and Yeah It's it's it's almost a clean sweep there the
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Hamilton County Republican Party is is largely Been kicked to the curb as it were.
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So yeah, that's like I say, I don't know that that really rises to the level of election fraud But it's
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Yeah, it's a little fishy. I would say at best Let's see.
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What else we got going on here. Oh Now here is a here's a piece here by Let's get this back here
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This is Paul Craig Roberts and Paul Craig Roberts is writing here and he says the title of this piece
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This is a short piece here. He's got a link here, but it says a tsunami of Trump votes and He says the
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Democrats are set to steal the election. They have everything in place except enough votes to hide their theft
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Watch the video of the Trump grand finale listen to the speeches by Robert Kennedy and Tucker Carlson Marvel at the mass of audience
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It appears that Americans have cast off their insouciance and are going to take back the country from the two corrupt political parties
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Both of which have unleashed evil on America and the world Now Paul Craig Roberts is
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I think he's an interesting writer and he has been Consistently one of the most
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I Pessimistic writers that I've read about the the status of the state of the
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United States of Western Civilization And In the he's emphasized the likelihood that this election is going to be stolen
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This is maybe the one of the most I would say over the last four years Perhaps the most hopeful thing that I've seen him him, right and you know, and I hope that he's right about that Yes, sometimes the
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Trump campaigns use the term too big to rig and Yeah, that is they are they they want to have a vote that's so big that it just overwhelms any ability of the the
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Democrats within the Rhino Republicans to steal the election I include the Rhino Republicans in this because You know guys like Mitch McConnell and some of these people, you know the
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Senate The the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, I think yeah, they're very happy They were very happy to see see
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Donald Trump lose lose quote in 2020 Because Joe Biden to them really represents the establishment and and Donald Trump was a challenge to that and and Yeah, so I you know in in thinking about this election me my base case
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People say well Steve. What do you think's gonna happen? Because I had a friend of mine Contact me this past week.
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He sent me a text and he says well, you know, what do you what do you think? What's what's your opinion? What's gonna happen?
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And let's see. I want to get this Get this out here Read a little bit of this to you here
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Yeah, so he asked me here he says Says Butler County is opposite.
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Well, let's see. That's not where it is. Oh, he said, yeah, what does Steve think about the election? and I guess he and his his wife had voted early and they they both voted for Trump and I respond to him
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I said, well, they're gonna rig it for Kamala. At least they're gonna try real hard to do that I pray that they fail and and I think that that really is as a
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Christian I think is is the in my opinion the the proper way of of approaching this, you know, sometimes
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I don't know about you, but I've always struggled with being kind of like a glass half -empty guy.
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Okay? I mean, I know I should maybe I shouldn't be that way But I can always I'm really good at finding ways to look in the dark side of things.
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I'm trying to do better in that Because of course as a Christian, I know long -term we have every reason they have hope and optimism
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I mean, it's not just a naive silly hope. I mean we we do I mean if we're Christians, you know
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We believe that in the resurrection of the dead we believe in the second coming of Christ You know, we believe that we'll have a home in in in heaven for all time and Those are amazing promises and those are things to look forward to those are things to be optimistic about we know their righteousness will reign
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We know that evil will be punished But it doesn't mean that we can't go through difficult times and Sometimes it can seem as though you know, the the bad guys
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Have everything going for them and in some ways, you know in this world they they they do and You know, the the power of evil is is
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Truly astonishing and it's not something that you and I could ever stand against on our own But you know, we just got done celebrating
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Reformation Day, right and you think about the words of Martin Luther wrote in his great hymn
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A Mighty Fortress, you know that we have the right man on our side the man of God's own choosing and he must win the battle
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It's it's his fight. It's a fight that he's going to win and Now sometimes we might we might lose some individual fights, you know, we might lose some individual battles
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But ultimately the battle belongs to the Lord. He's going to win this thing And I think that's something to keep in mind when we're dealing with Going into something like an election on on Tuesday, but I think it has some very profound effects on not just what the not just Liberty and Property and in life and and these types of things in the
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United States, but really I think it has significance of the whole world and and sometimes it can seem like you know, oh these these guys, you know, they're so powerful they
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They they've got all they've got the media they've got academia they've got the intelligence communities, you know the deep state they've got you know got
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Antichrist on their side, you know, they've got got all of these things that that are just You know the money and the prestige and all of this is is behind You know, what is is some remarkably evil ideas?
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What are some remarkably evil ideas, you know? You know, I think the the highest the the the highest good in the the
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Democrat Party is is abortion Women wanting to kill their kids.
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I mean that's that seems to be Maybe the single biggest plank in the Democrat platform and it's just it's just pure evil
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I mean and you know and in flooding the nation with with illegal aliens and forcing
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Americans to pay for it They love that kind of thing, you know, if Kamala Harris wins, I mean you're gonna see a revival of talk about reparations
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You you notice there hasn't been any talk about that. But I think if she does win Yeah, you're there's going to be there is going to be talk about that You're gonna see a push for that type of thing.
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You're gonna see attacks on the First Amendment You're gonna see attacks on the Second Amendment the right to bear arms
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There's all kinds of evil just waiting in the wings to just flood out into the United States if if she wins
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It's my prayer as a Christian that the Lord would frustrate the plans of the people who are trying to rig the election and I Have no question that they're trying to do this
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They're really working hard to make that happen. It's been my base case that they will do that now
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I say that not because because I like that but simply because Again, you know think about what happened in 2020 and nobody's been held accountable
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If nobody's been held accountable what's going to keep them from doing from rigging this thing from stealing it again well the grace of God Yeah, the
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Lord can frustrate people's plans. I mean these guys are there they're they're men. They're not God and you know that has been my prayer, you know that the
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Lord would throw sand in their gears and That he would keep them from being able to carry out the plans that they they want to do and I mean very clearly
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That is the plan They're going to do this And there are different theories about how that might happen
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And as Christians, I mean we can't be naive about this and I'm not saying this because Because I'm trying to be negative.
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I'm not saying this because I'm trying to be doom and gloom You know, I I learned a new word fairly recently the the word doom scrolling
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Maybe you've heard about that, you know doom scrolling is where you know You go online and maybe you go on X and you you you scroll through all of this this bad news
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I mean, there's some people that get some kind of kind of like weird high off of doing that You know, they like to read all this. There's really negative news.
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I don't know. Maybe I've doom scrolled a few times Okay, I'll cop to it. Yeah, I've done that once or twice Maybe I shouldn't but But yeah, you know, it's easy to get caught up in this
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Some some all this negative news and there's a lot of negative news out there and we can't be naive
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You know, we can't just stick our head in the sand and say oh, well golly, you know These elections are just just perfectly well run when
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I think very obviously that's not the case. I mean you've got You've got the
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Department of Justice suing some of these states to force them to keep to keep
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Illegal aliens on the voter rolls. What's up with that? I mean, why would you do that? The only I mean the most logical explanation the only reason
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I can think of why the Department of Justice So called would do that is because of the plan that because they plan this administration the
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Democrats plan to steal the election Why else would you do that? I?
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Mean that really shouldn't be a Democrat Republican thing I mean, he doesn't it isn't it pretty basic that the idea the idea that people who are not
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American citizens Should not be voting in American elections It's not because we don't like people from other countries
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But this is the United States of America and that's that's part of being a citizens
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We have the privilege to choose our own government If if you can if anybody anywhere in the world can vote in an
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American election Then Americans have no say in what even goes on in their own country I mean the whole idea of having a nation is is a nation state is is completely undermined
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It's a complete overthrow of the Westphalian world order and the implementation of the
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Romanist Globe New World Order And that is not a good thing That's not a good thing at all that is is profoundly unjust it is unrighteous and It's the type of thing that should be condemned
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You know and I would like to think that that you know there I'd like to believe that there are
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Democrats that would just that would see the the justice in Election security, but they don't at least not the people that run run the
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Democrat Party I'm sure there are rank -and -file Democrats who have concerns about this, but those who run the party are incredibly evil people
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It's it's truly an amazing thing so yeah Paul Craig Roberts offers offer some hope here
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And he's been somebody who's been pretty consistently pretty consistently negative I'm going to certainly stand by what
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I said, and I'm just going to say you know The the
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Dems they are gonna try to steal this thing don't be naive and when you see some crazy things happening
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Tuesday And in subsequent days, don't be surprised and Let us pray the justice is done.
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Let us play the truth comes. Let us pray for discernment You know as Christians. We need to pray for discernment because we we are bombarded 24 -7 with propaganda
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And let us pray that the Lord would grant us discernment to separate truth and falsehood
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And with that I think it's a good time to wrap it up. You know this is actually maybe my longest podcast It's almost an hour and a half good grief
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Well over an hour anyway, let's see I've been yakking for well just over an hour
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What's that yeah hour and one minute all right? Well? I think that's probably a good stopping place here
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I do encourage you to to go out and to vote on on Tuesday and May the
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Lord Bless the United States of America And may he bless our Constitution may he bless his people in this land and may we continue to be a beacon of Liberty And with that I'd like to say may the
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Spirit of Truth guide you in all truth For the next week until we talk again
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May the Lord be with you and wish you a blessed Lord's Day a spirit of truth guide you in all truth as you read and study