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Thomas Massie talks about AIPAC "babysitters" with Tucker Carlson, Israel's interference in US elections, Bishop Mark Seitz immigration treason, the SBC and women pastors
You're listening to radio looks lucid. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 118. The title of this episode is one man's the one man against a pack. Well, thanks for joining me here late night.
It's Goodness about 1145 p .m. On Saturday June 8th, it's already a week into June. Hard to believe, you know, I always it's kind of funny. You know, I get into June and I mean June's a beautiful month.
But but there's one thing I don't like about June. Well other than the fact that it's that Pride Month thing but No, this has nothing to do with that. This actually has to do with I don't like. The fact that the summer solstice is in June because what happens and the solstice is that's the longest day of the year.
That's June 21st, right? Well, anyway when you.
I.
Get past June 21st, that's the longest day of the year. Well the days start getting shorter up until December 21st. I Don't like it when the days get shorter. I don't like that. I love the light this time of year.
I always enjoy that and yeah, even I've Been leading a men's Bible study at church at we meet at the ridiculously early hours 630 in the morning on Fridays.
And I.
Have to get up early because I have to get there and open things up and get everything ready. So I get up about 430 in the morning on Fridays.
And.
You know, it starts getting light. I don't know if it's getting light at 430. Maybe that's not maybe somewhere around 5 or so. But I mean, you know by the time I you know get to the church and and all that it's already light.
I mean, it's you know, it's it's substantially light. This time of year and I always do love the love the long days that we we get here at the the peak of the Is we get into the the season of the summer solstice?
So yeah, I always I always look forward to that and Always kind of dread it when we get to around Around December 21st because then it's you know, the Sun goes down here where I am around about About 515 or so, so it's pretty much sundown by the time work gets off.
It's pretty much sundown that time of year, but not this time of year. Yeah this time of year. It's nice and bright and I like that a lot. Hey chance to go do some bike riding today. Got out on the trail got out early today actually did that.
I got up at a fairly recent, but I didn't get up super early, but I got out early and Did about 20 about 22 miles or so at one of the local trails. I got some good exercise. I was it was a beautiful day to ride.
It was as right right around 70 degrees or so when I was out and there wasn't a lot of a lot of wind. You know wind could really affect you when you're out there on a bike. I mean sometimes you get out and if you got that the wind at your back, of course, it's great.
You know, you feel like you're just boom you can feel like you can fly. You get the wind in your face on the other hand. It feels like you're going uphill the whole way. It can really slow you down, but there wasn't any wind.
It was it was it was pretty much neutral today. Anyway. So, let's see, what do we got. I've got a show here. I'm trying something a little bit different here today. I haven't actually done a lot of reading through any of the articles.
I'm gonna go over. And we're just gonna kind of read through them with you here and and see how that goes. So, why don't we dive into that and I wanted to start off the the title of this episode. It has was one man against a pack.
So, you know, we might be thinking well what on earth is a pack when I say a pack. It's a IP a see. That's a call I guess that's an acronym it stands for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a pack is.
Sometimes you hear people talk about the Israel lobby. There was a book written a few years ago by a couple of political scientists called the Israel lobby. Well, the Israel lobby is comprised of a lot of different organizations.
But if you wanted to pick out one organization that is is central to the Israel lobby I guess you'd have to say it's a pack there. They are the Kind of the 500-pound guerrilla of the the Israel lobby and they're very influential.
If you get if you're on X, I mean they they constantly post on X about all the the interference that they engage in in in American politics and There was an interview done this past week with that Tucker Carlson did with Thomas Massey.
Thomas Massey is the he's a Republican Representative from Northern Kentucky. I've talked about him some before he's I guess you might call him My favorite congressman and he's kind of like Ron Paul 2 .0 in a lot of ways.
I think he's Very much taken up the the mantle of Ron Paul in the House of Representatives and one of the things that that he has become known for is he calls himself a libertarian leaning congressman and as part of that he he refuses to vote for foreign aid.
Any foreign aid to any country and this includes Israel and this just drives the Israel lobby nuts. It drives a peg nuts and they have have run all kinds of ads against him a couple weeks ago. He had his primary and they were running all these these attack ads against him.
I Spent quite a bit of money about $400 ,000 running attack ads against him and He he won not only did he win his primary he had to two opponents in the primary. But here on 76 of the vote. So I mean he just just blew the competition away.
Despite all of the money that a pack threw at him and he sat down with Tucker Carlson this this last week. And it was an interesting it was about a two-hour interview, but I'd like to play a little bit of this for you.
Hopefully this will this will work and come through on the audio. We'll give it a give it a shot here. I probably should have tried this first. But let me let me just try to play this and this is this is maybe the part of the interview that's gotten the most.
Most.
Focus and this is where Thomas Massey is talking about the fact that Every member of Congress or at least every member of the Republican delegation apart from himself Has what he calls an AIPAC babysitter, you know, it's somebody that Is is constantly pushing the the AIPAC, you know the Israel the Israel lobbies Just desires on Congress.
It's very eye-opening interview, but I'm just I'm just gonna play a snippet of this maybe about a minute or so and.
Hopefully this works. So let's give it a whirl here person. It's like your babysitter your AIPAC babysitter. Who? Is always talking to you for AIPAC, they're probably a constituent in your district. What they are, you know firmly embedded in AIPAC and.
Every member has something like this.
Every I don't know how it works on the Democrat side but that's how it works on the Republican side and when they and when they come to DC you go have lunch with them and. They've got your cell number and you have conversations with them.
So I've had like that's absolutely crazy. I've had four members of Congress say I'll talk to my AIPAC person and It's really what we call them my AIPAC guy. I'll talk to my AIPAC guy and see if I can get him to you know, dial those ads back.
Why have I never heard this before?
It doesn't benefit anybody. Why would they want to tell their constituents that they've basically got a buddy system with somebody who's representing a foreign country? It doesn't benefit the congressman for people to know that so they're not going to tell you that.
It's it's in. Have you seen any other country do anything like this? Like no Russia. Russia obviously determines the outcome of our elections. We keep hearing that. Does anyone have a Putin guy that they talk to.
Not only do they not have a Putin guy?
Look, they don't they they don't have a Britain guy. They don't have an Australian guy. They you know, they don't have a Germany dude like. It's the only country that does this that has somebody that like.
Uniformly, I guarantee there's some spreadsheet at AIPAC. Where. Where you know the the AIPAC dude is who's matched up with the congressman is there and then all the congressman's votes on the issue. Oh has the congressman been to Israel.
They they pay for trips for congressmen and their spouses to go to Israel. I may be. I mean, I don't. I'm not the only Republican who hasn't taken the AIPAC trip to Israel. But I'm probably one of a dozen that hasn't taken that trip and the other ones just haven't got around to it.
What's the trip like?
So, there you go, there's Thomas Massey talking about the the AIPAC babysitters and I think that's Pretty interesting stuff and it helps you understand why you have the the kind of.
Obsession.
With with Israel in our among our Congress. And I got to thinking about some of this and I thought this was very interesting and there's much more to the conversation. By the way than that. They actually probably talked about AIPAC for good.
Now goodness, I'd say at least 20 minutes maybe longer than that. It's a very interesting stuff.
But.
There was a and it got me to thinking about an article that I came across a number of years ago. This was actually published on Lou Rockwell calm and it it was an interview. This is it's not not an audio interview, but it was an article I guess you could say that quoted from an interview.
It was an interview done with with Noam Chomsky and Now you may be wondering why Steve quoting Noam Chomsky Noam talking some kind of socialist liberal what have you? Well, yeah, I mean he is he's he's he's a liberal guy.
He's a liberal. No question about it. He he came rose to fame. That's been a he's very elderly right now but he probably rose to Public fame I'd say maybe in the late 50s early 60s as a linguist. He taught linguistics at MIT for a long time.
And he's still a pretty well-known public intellectual, even though I gonna say he may be 90. He's not a young man at all. Maybe in his 80s or 90 as something like that. I know he's he's been around I've been around a while he's been a very public very famous public intellectual for a long time as well and One of the things yeah, it looks like maybe I'm over driving my audio here just a little bit I think I'm gonna pad this down.
So hopefully I didn't blow everybody's ears out or I don't have a lot of distortion in this that didn't. Look like it was kind of kind of peeking out there a little bit more than I wanted it to. But anyway, yeah Chomsky's been around for a long time.
Yeah, he's a liberal. So he's somebody that probably you or I may not have a lot of agreement with there's probably a lot of things We would disagree with him on but I thought he had a very interesting comment about election interference and This is something that he I just read a little bit from the article and This is again.
This is an article from 2019 and the article I'll just start reading. This is the this is not Chomsky speaking. This is the the author of the article speaking. So quote he is talking about Chomsky explained in an interview with Democracy Now that the media's focus on Russian collusion.
With regards to the 2016 US election was a joke. He did not confirm or deny his belief on whether or not it even happened but rather Explained and this is the part that quotes Chomsky himself. So I'm going to quote Chomsky quote first of all if you're interested in foreign interference in our elections.
Whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balances compared with what another state does openly brazenly and with enormous support. Israeli intervention in US elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done.
I mean even to the point where the Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu Goes directly to Congress without even informing the president and speaks to Congress with overwhelming applause. To try to undermine the president's policies what happened with Obama Netanyahu in 2015 end quote.
So that's that's what Chomsky had to say about Israel and I think this interview with.
With.
With Thomas Massey by by Tucker Carlson really proves that out. You know, there's some information that came out from Massey that I certainly didn't know before and I think probably most people that That follow the the Israel lobby don't know.
And that is the idea that you have if you're in Congress. You got an AIPAC guy you got an AIPAC babysitter to use what what Massey said? Very interesting very interesting revelation indeed from from that interview.
Now, let's see there was something I wanted to show you. Oh, oh, I know what it was. I actually got blocked. I Actually got blocked. I want to show this to you. I got blocked by I guess I'm a very bad person I suppose.
I got blocked by Christians United for Israel. You notice here this this is me, this is my my ex account and it says you're blocked. You can't follow or see Kufi Christian United for Israel's posts. I I was a very bad person in their eyes and I want to show you.
Let's see. Hopefully I can can find the offending tweet here and you might be thinking Oh, you know you were. You're on there reviling people or saying all kinds of outrageous things or something that actually.
No, not at all.
Made a very I just actually made a a theological point and let me see if I can. I thought I had this pulled up and Apparently I didn't so let's see if I can scroll back through my tweets here. There's a tweet of a of a Jesuit advocating that we celebrate Pride Month.
Christians should do this as the Jesuit. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's great. But that's kind of that's kind of an interesting Tweet there, but it's not what I'm focused on here. So, let's see if I know this is in here somewhere.
He's just like, you know, if you you make tweets, you know, the The or post I know they're called post now. They're not tweets. I keep forgetting that but when you make posts the There's a place you can go back and view all of your old posts.
Here we go, in fact, you know what I'm gonna do. I Thought that I did this but I'm gonna just make sure that I did this. I'm gonna go ahead and take a screenshot of that post. Yeah, all right, there we go and Let's see here.
Tag that thing. I use this program it's called Evernote and It's where I it's actually really good to let you clip all kinds of stuff off the web like stories and that kind of thing. I don't think I could do this podcast if I didn't have Evernote.
I'd be.
Be.
Be in a bad way there. Okay. So there we go. We just clipped that thing.
All right, here we go, so. Well, that's not what I wanted it to do. This thing took me someplace. I didn't want it to go. Well, let me try this again one more time. I'm sorry to be taking up so much your time.
But you know, you got to learn how to improvise a little bit when you do these these live streams. They'll tell you I'm doing a live stream and I'm just kind of feel like I'm faking my way through it.
I apologize for that. Let's see here. I'm getting close getting close getting close getting close. Let's see. Yeah, okay. Here we go. Here we go. I'm gonna show you the tweet that got me booted by Christians United for Israel.
And we're gonna.
Do this this and here we go. Okay, so Christians United for Israel. This was back on May 19th, and they put out this this this post and it says Christian Antisemitism is an oxymoron. Christians cannot hate that which God loves and God loves all his children.
Not the least of which are the Jewish people who are called the apple of his eye Proverbs 7 2. And I replied to that and I said God's people are those who have faith in Jesus Christ not ethnic Jews and That is in fact true.
That is that's that that is what the New Testament teaches. It teaches that those we become children of God, you know, not by the will of man not by the flesh but by God teaches those of us those those who are Jews or Jews or ones inwardly whose circumcision is of the heart.
Not of the flesh. Being being a physical descendant of Abraham does not make you a child of God. It's faith in Jesus Christ that makes you a child of God. Well, I put that out there on Christian United for Israel's Xfeed and I got promptly Promptly blocked by them so they don't want to hear that and you know, of course now, you know, here's the thing.
Do they have a right to block me? Well, of course they do. I believe in free speech and if if Christians United for Israel doesn't want to hear what the Bible has to say about how people Become children of God.
Well, then they can they can plug their ears and stamp their feet and say I can't hear you. You know, they're welcome to do that. But it's pretty lame. It's pretty weak. I mean, I I actually go in and I'll say this to apex credit.
You know, I go out on the APAC X feed quite a bit and disagree with them quite a bit and they haven't blocked me. And I go out on I go out on the US Conference of Catholic bishops website and I always I like to troll the US Conference of Catholic bishops were for all their nonsense that they put out in particular about About immigration.
I've never been blocked by the US Conference of Catholic bishops. But you put one post out there on Christians United for Israel that they disagree with but you're blocked you're out of here, man. So, I mean, you know the the Israel lobby in the the the the Roman Catholic US Conference of Catholic bishops, you know, they're there.
At least a little more tolerant of divergent views than then Christians United for Israel. When it comes to that lobby you better toe the line or you are history so. So anyway, I thought that was it was kind of interesting how how they reacted to that tweet.
I'm not I have to say I'm not terribly surprised or particularly crushed by it. But I think it's more interesting than anything else. Let's see. What else we have here. So that's enough about well, I do have one more story about the Israel lobby.
Let's take a look at this. This is a an article from Politico and It's from let's see a June 1st. So it's from a week ago. Headline is Netanyahu accepts Congress invitation to speak despite blow black blowback Tensions have been mounting in recent weeks after speaker.
Mike Johnson announced his plan to invite Netanyahu to address Congress. So yeah.
The.
You know Congress, yeah, they can't wait to bring BB Netanyahu to come over here and lecture us and tell us how awesome he is and Now we better just get in line and in the fork it over because you know, we're not so awesome but he's awesome and in Israel's awesome and Americans just better just shut up and and do what they're told.
There's a lot of people that that Seem to think this. I know Nikki Haley does. Nikki Haley's talked about, you know, we need to send send aid to Israel. No questions asked. So you're not allowed to ask a question.
You know heaven forbid, you know. If if you you're an American and and maybe you have some questions about the way US money's being used by Israel. You're not allowed to ask a question in her mind. Oh, no.
Like I say your job is just to shut up and fork it over. You just better get in line mister. Yeah, it's kind of like kind of like Christians United for Israel. Just you better get in line. You better tow that line.
No, no disagreement allowed here so anyway. Yeah, Netanyahu. He's supposed to come I think it should say yeah, I thought I heard that it was toward the end of of July. Somewhere around there. I don't think it says here.
It just says that he accepted but my understanding is it's supposed to be sometime toward the end of July. So it's probably about another. Oh, I don't know. Maybe maybe six weeks or so before he comes but Well, we'll definitely cover that when when that occurs.
Now.
On another front here. I wanted to talk some about the whole Immigration thing. It's very interesting today. I was actually listened to a podcast. It was Chris Pinto and he was Talking about his podcast from Let's see June the 5th, so it was just a few days ago and in there he was talking about he's got a new film coming out Called American Jesuits and he goes over the Jesuit influence in the United States and and on our politics.
Very similar to what goes on with the Israel lobby. And you know the I've referred to this before there's a An article was written a number of years ago by John Robbins and back in 2006. So you're going back almost 20 years.
I was 18 years ago. It's called the religious wars of the 21st century and in that particular in that. That article he talks about The interference in in American politics by both Rome and in Israel. It's it's actually a very brilliant piece.
It's one of you know, John John Robbins. I mean, I think his body of work was very high quality and he's he's he's the biggest influence the biggest single influence on my thinking and In in reading in reading his work.
I mean this there's really nothing I do not a sentence in this podcast not a sentence anything that I write in my blog. It isn't at least to some degree or another influenced by by his work. I found it just extremely helpful in in clarifying my thinking on a whole wide range of topics and.
Right. Let me you know, I don't have that pulled up, but I think I can find it. I want to read want to read a particular Portion of this here and. And because what he does is he deals with. He deals with.
Okay, so here we go he's talking about the the influence of of Rome and in Israel on the United States politics. And let's see, what does he say here. He says the prolific authors Norman Geisler and RC Sproul and many lesser-known Protestant theologians.
Philosophers as well are disciples of the official philosopher the Roman Church State Thomas Aquinas their influence has misled most Protestants away from a biblical and reformed view of philosophy and apologetics and into a compromise with Rome medieval Islam now usually called fundamentalist Islam and medieval Judaism with its establishment with the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948 are on the rise as well all three religions Romanism Islam and Judaism are false militant and violent devout members of each group hate oppose and plot against members of the other two, but today the date is 2006 and not 1006 and they're true believers of each of these medieval religions have access to nuclear biological chemical and electromagnetic weapons so there you go and He continues there's a lot of really good stuff in here, but just one other line I want to read you here.
Agents of both Israel and Rome are active in the United States both gathering intelligence and influencing policy. The US government is manipulated by foreign interests. Both Israel and the Vatican see the United States as a proxy in this religious war.
This is exactly right these are some of the I Had these are some brilliant comments from John Robbins and and I say that because I've read an awful lot of stuff on politics and and you know Israel and even some things about Roman Catholicism and its influence.
But I have never seen a single writer make this point that he does that you've got three medieval religions. They're they're medieval. They are violent. They're false. He talks about and the three religions he brings up our Romanism Islam and Judaism and the fact that you've got.
In particular, you've got Israel and in the Vatican attempting to influence American policy. Muslims are trying to do some of that too. Although I don't think their influence is nearly so great. You know, we hear a lot in our country about you know The dangers of Islamic influence and Sharia law, but I'll tell you I will say this.
I think that political Judaism is a much bigger threat to our Constitution, I mean there was a Law that was passed in the house hasn't been passed in the Senate yet, but a law passed in the house that attacks Free speech it's a direct attack on our First Amendment and Massey and and Tucker Carlson discussed that amendment.
I'm not going to go into it here. I think I've talked about that before. We'll probably talk about it again, but I don't want to get too far off track. But anyway You've got this tremendous influence in both Israel and the Vatican and you really see that we've already talked some here today about Israel's influence on our Policymakers.
And then you've got the Vatican. You know the the this immigration Illegal immigration disaster that we're experiencing. From the time the Biden regime took over is it's it's the Vatican's immigration policy.
It's being implemented by a Roman Catholic president. With close Jesuit ties, by the way, you know, the Jesuits have been trying to flood America with with Roman Catholics since. At least since the mid -1800s and who knows probably earlier than that, but certainly.
There's proof that they've had these these plans to do this since since the early 1850s 170 years ago or so. But here's a story and this is from the let's see. This is the New York Post. Let's take a look here.
So here's a story from the New York Post it says Biden administration offers mass amnesty to migrants as it quietly terminates 350 ,000 asylum cases sources. So read through this a bit says while the Biden administration's attempting to look like it's getting tough on the border Behind the scenes its operating program of mass amnesty for migrants the post can reveal that shows it since 2022 more than 350 ,000 asylum cases Filed by migrants have been closed by the US government if the applicants don't have a criminal record.
Or otherwise not deemed a threat to the country. This means that while migrants are not granted or denied asylum The cases are terminated without a decision on the merits of their asylum claim. They're removed from the legal system and no longer required to check with authorities.
This move allows them to legally indefinitely roam the US without fear of deportation effectively letting them slip through the cracks. And I I guess probably vote for Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.
I think that's one of the reasons why you have all this interest in the from the Democrats and letting these people in because they're The the plan is to make them all all citizens, you know to sort of wave a hand, you know say, you know absolve OTA absolve I absolve thee in Latin.
And in bless them and grant them American citizenship and and of course to make sure they vote in election for for good old Jesuit Joe Biden, I Very much think that that's I think that's part of the plan to To steal the election and I I think the Democrats are going to steal the election again this year and you know.
And I hate to say that I almost I feel bad about saying that. Because it sounds really As they like to say sometimes today it sounds really black pill it sounds really negative it sounds really defeatist.
I don't like being that way and and I I don't want to come off that way with that said In in listening to Chris Pinto and I think his his views on this are very similar to mine and of course. And he's not the only one or I'm not the only one that takes this line.
And here's here's kind of here's the logic of it. If you accept the argument that the 2020 election and even the 2022 election were stolen. What that means is there's there's there's a I think it's very evident in my opinion that there is massive corruption at the very highest levels of our government and The people that stole the election the presidential election of 2020 they made that theft stick they made it stick.
They won that thing. You know, I I don't like to say this, you know, the bad guys won and in order to have Elections in my opinion that that are actually that actually matter that the American people can trust the people that did that set that thievery they have to Be held accountable, you know, they have to be some people that are prosecuted.
Some people need to go to jail for this stuff and Has that happened. I mean have you seen that happen over the last going on almost four years now well We put that that question to me the answer is no.
There hasn't been anybody go to jail. There hasn't been anybody that's been punished over any of this. And as a result, I don't think that there's going I think you're going to see the same thing happen in 2024 as you did in 2020 in 2022.
They're going to steal the election. And you know, there are different ways that they might do that. I mean we can all you know, there's different people that advance different theories. It may be something that nobody's even thought of.
I mean a lot of people have talked about the illegal alien voting angle. I've seen some stories that say up to a third of illegal aliens are registered to vote. I don't know if that's true I wouldn't be terribly shocked if it's true.
Because they have a lot of these states that are now giving illegal aliens driver's license and a lot of those states. They have this thing. They call motor voter. So you will go to get your driver's license you register to vote.
You don't think that that's happened. I I do. There's a one one member of Congress. Mmm, I his name's escaping me right now. I should have should have prepared this note here tonight. But he's he even floated the the idea.
He says well the framers of the Constitution really never made it clear whether illegal aliens should vote or not. He's he's a Democrat and he's trying to trying to sort of pave the way for Jamie Raskin, that's who was saying.
Yeah, Jamie Raskin was talking about this and I've got a clip save somewhere. I don't have have it handy. I'm not gonna look for it. But Jamie Raskin, he's a Democrat pretty hardcore Democrat from from Maryland.
And and he was was raising questions. Well, you know the framers of the Constitution really didn't say anything about. You know prohibiting an illegal aliens from voting. Well, you know, I I think that's I think that's part of the plan.
I mean one of the the things with the the way the election was stolen last time is it was a multi-pronged affair. It wasn't just one thing. There were a lot of things that went into it there were a lot of inputs there are a lot of various different ways that that election was stolen the things that they used to to to tilt the playing field in The favor of Joe Biden and they're gonna do that again this year.
I mean unless something happens with me now in the election time. I don't know how that doesn't happen. There may be one. One one way that the the Trump could win and that is if he is sufficiently deferential to the The establishment.
I think there's a wing of the establishment that would prefer him over Biden. You know something to talk about the deep state sort of as if it's a monolith. Well, I a lot of people that that that talk about the deep state will tell you that there are different factions within the deep State and I think there may be some that support Trump.
You know Trump has has some commentators have noted. It has dropped some of the positions that he had back in 2016. Like for instance normalizing relations with Russia. I think more than anything else that stance, you know.
His desire to normalize relations with Russia. I think more than anything else that got him.
Removed.
From the presidency and and so I mean it's possible maybe that he has has Want enough friends over. Maybe maybe there's a faction who would would would allow him to get in but I don't think. We have free and fair elections.
I I don't believe that.
Mean, we'll see what happens but in my opinion I think the most likely scenario is that the the Democrats rig either Joe Biden back in or or some other Democrat, you know there's rumors out there of Hillary Clinton somehow sliding in to to the the presidency.
Now that's possible. Yeah again, you know, you can Read various accounts of that in people's arguments and I don't know if that's true or not. I don't think it's insane and I don't dismiss it out of hand.
But we'll see but you know what I I would say is is I don't believe that we will have Free and fair elections in 2024. I don't believe that. But we'll see. We'll see what happens. So anyway, what was I gonna talk about here?
Oh, he's talking about just yeah Joe Biden and his You know his is this mass amnesty and and the fact that you're going to have there's a very good chance. I mean, I I personally believe that if That that is part of the strategy to have these illegal aliens cast the votes Americans won't cast now another Immigration related story.
This was I think very interesting. Let's me get that here in front of us. Just a moment. All right, so here's the story here it's got a hem. It's just some zero hedge and it says Wall Street admits biggest economic shocker all jobs in the past year have gone to illegal aliens.
Hmm, very interesting. Just read through this a bit for much of the past year. We've had Much of this pet for much of the past year. We have been pounding the table in two very simple facts. Not only has the US labor market been appallingly leak weak with most of the jobs gained in 2023 and meant to signal how strong the Biden recovery has been about to be revised away but more shockingly all of the job growth in the past few years has gone to illegal aliens and.
They show several starts charts here and one it says stunning statistic there has been zero increase in the jobs for native-born workers in over five years since July 2018 and they have this graph if you're You're watching the audio part of it there's this graph and shows the number of native-born Americans who are employed versus the number of foreign workers and in another.
In another chart, they show those foreign workers. Those are mostly illegal aliens they say and and the the American.
You know.
Native-born workers. There there are numbers of flatline whereas foreign-born workers. I mean is just going up up up up up up up. At a very steep angle. Here's another one. They say here Why of all the new jobs since 2018 gone to foreign-born born workers.
I immigrants because you can be an illegal immigrant and deportation proceedings not to mention anyone seeking asylum and get Authorization to work in the US for up to five years. No questions asked. I didn't know that so if you can be I guess if you're in the process of getting deported you can go find a job.
Well, I I guess you can get an authorization to work in the US and find a way to to hang around. And here's a third third set of graphs here from zero hedge. It says price has never been higher and are starting to accelerate to the upside again.
All the jobs created in the past year have been part-time. So, you know, they're they're constantly, you know, Biden's constantly around boasting about all these jobs that he's supposedly created well, they're part-time jobs and.
Then they continue with a third point. There's been zero job growth for native-born Americans since 2018 so six years of no growth for a native-born American workers all jobs have gone to immigrants.
Mostly illegals. In fact, let me expand this here. There's been zero job growth for native-born Americans 2018 all jobs have gone to immigrants mostly illegal immigrants. Real wages have not only been negative for most of Biden's presidency.
They just turned negative again. You know, yeah, if you have a job. You may have noticed that all of a sudden you're you know, your paycheck is going. Isn't going as far as it used to. I mean I know that I've experienced that and I think a lot of people have and you keep getting squeezed more and more and more.
As as prices continue to rise and as the government and the Federal Reserve continue to devalue the dollar. Through their policies and then part of the problem is of course as they import more and more labor that drives the price of labor down because the more of something that you have the The less it the less value it tends to to have you make it less valuable.
So if you've got this this huge surge of labor coming into the US market. Well, it's gonna tend to drive down the price of labor. That is the the wages that the working people earn. Here's another story on immigration this is interesting this is From the US Conference of Catholic bishops that they constantly put out these propaganda pieces and this particular one.
It's titled approach to US Mexico border reflects a crisis of conscience as Bishop sites. Well Bishop sites. It's Bishop Mark sites.
He's a.
Bishop of El Paso, Texas, and he's also the the chairman of the US CCB's Immigration committee. This is just some June 4th, you know, one of the things that's interesting, you know I followed the US Conference of Catholic bishops pronouncements on immigration for I'd say I don't know.
It's been close to 10 years now. It's been a long time. I know this. And I can I could actually go write one of these things For them I think because basically what you have to do is you have to to start out Crying about some supposedly horrible thing.
The federal government is doing and then talk about You know protecting the the most vulnerable among us and then try to deflect by saying well, yeah. But the but but but Asians do have a right to control their borders.
You know, they put out that that red herring to make people think that they actually believe that which they don't that's a huge lie. Remember you're dealing with Antichrist here, you know Antichrist the father of Antichrist.
It's it's the devil. You know, that's if you wonder why the Roman Catholic Church is so evil. That's why. It's the Antichrist, it's the little horn of Daniel, it's the Beast of Revelation 13. It's you know that that's that's what that's what you're dealing with here in the Roman Catholic Church dealing with Antichrist Satan's masterpiece I think John Robbins called it that Satan's masterpiece and He was certainly right about that.
Let's read a little bit of what Bishop sites has to say here. Quote. We are deeply disturbed by this disregard for fundamental humanitarian protections in US asylum Law said Bishop Mark J sites of El Paso today after President Biden issued approximation restricting access To asylum at the u .s. Mexico border.
Oh my goodness. Now, this is just the end of the world.
Let's see sites goes on a cries. There is a crisis of conscience at the u .s. Mexico border. Well, yes, there is. You're you know, his policies that sites is pursuing is destroying the United States of America.
That that should I would hope that that would bother his conscience, although it probably doesn't bother his conscience. In fact, I'm sure he's cheerleading this thing just like his his predecessors before him in the Roman Catholic Church.
They love doing this and and it's not just in the United States. I mean Rome is working to to destroy all the nations of the West through this massive flood of Welfare migration. That's what's going on.
Let's see here and. So he continues the crisis of conscience when the vulnerable family seeking safety and means for a dignified life for label invaders or illegals. Well, they are invaders and they are illegals.
Terms that master humanity. No, it doesn't master humanity. It simply is calling them what they are and this is what they are doing. You know, it's just like when you call somebody who steals a thief.
You know, you call somebody who lies a liar. You call somebody who murders a murderer and you call people who violate our immigration laws. Yes, they are illegals and and they are invaders. They're invading the United States of America at the behest of the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church state.
That's what's going on. They are carrying out the Vatican's immigration policy. This sentiment in no way violates a country's right and responsibility. Maintain its borders and regulate immigration. The furtherance of the common good.
Well again, this is one of these throwaway lines where Rome tries to talk out of both sides of his mouth. Well, I Have never once ever, you know, and I have read is certainly like I say. It's been close to ten years never once have I ever seen any press release from the Roman Catholic Church state from Antichrist.
Ever. In.
Support anything that was good for the American people when it comes to immigration. When it comes to immigration the Roman Catholic Church's stance is shut up and fork it over. It's just kind of like what the Israel lobby is.
You know the Israel lobby wants you to shut up and fork over all your money to Israel so they can you know go go bomb people and.
Put you know supply. You know medical benefits to their citizens and this type of thing and you're just supposed to shut up and do it because God said. So well, I mean, it's the same thing with the Roman Catholic Church you know, you're just supposed to shut up and Pay the freight you the billions of dollars hundreds of billions of dollars if you're an American taxpayer it It totals in the hundreds of billions of dollars just in the taxpayer funds that go into this stuff.
And it doesn't count all of the other social costs that accompany this such as lost wages. You know Americans Americans are not getting more and more jobs. The jobs are all going to these foreigners these people who are here illegally and who are brought here principally by the Roman Church state.
But Rome doesn't care about that. They just want to get the people in get them on a dole and keep them in and eventually make them citizens. Yeah, that's the game plan here. Yeah, and You know my sights goes on he he continues to whine a little bit I'm not gonna read any more of him.
Don't have much use for for what he has to say but he is a he's a treasonous liar and And he and other people they they really need to be removed from the country he he is an agent of a foreign power in the same way that the The Israel lobbyists in much the same way I should say that the Israel lobbyists who lobby for for Israel at AIPAC are also agents of a foreign power.
That that's what they are. That's what you know in in one serving the interest of Israel one serving the interest of the Vatican neither one of them are serving the interest of the American people and in fact the policies that they both advocate are destructive of of the American nation.
They are amount to theft and You know, it's it's it's a disgraceful thing that this stuff's allowed to go on. It seriously needs to stop. And it's not going to stop until the American people say enough is enough.
That's one of the reasons why I do this podcast. Hopefully to encourage people to understand what is going on and who's doing this stuff and put a stop to it. Yeah, I mean as Christians we need to take the lead on these sorts of things.
Here's another story and this is a kind of shifting gears here a bit since we since I know this is the month formerly known.
As June.
It's it's pride month. I saw this this post out here on on X about Jack Phillips and Jack Phillips. You may be familiar with him. He's a Colorado he's in Denver, Colorado. He's a baker and he's been in court for I don't know probably the better part of the last 10 years if maybe longer than that.
Because he refuses to bake gay wedding cakes. If I just read the the the post here on X it says. Remember when cake designer remember the cake designer that declined to bake a cake for a gay couple's wedding.
Well, the alphabet mafia is after him again an activist attorney asked Jack to create a custom cake pink on the inside and blue on the outside to celebrate and symbolize a gender transition. Jacksters everyone, but he won't create a cake with the message that violates sincerely held religious beliefs.
Well, actually he doesn't serve everyone. He serves people that he he just he will not serve people that that promote the gay agenda. And that's fine. That's actually a good thing that he doesn't do that.
One of the problems if I'm gonna read here, this is a. The next story here is related to this and it's put out by a Organization called Alliance defending freedom and it has a headline here here. It says activist lawyer targets Jack Phillips and third lawsuit.
And says after over 10 years in court masterpiece cake shop owner Jack Phillips is still being sued and it goes on explain some of the lawsuits here and At the very end of this. This is a legal organization, it's Alliance defending freedom and it's got a headline here a header here says how are Jack's rights being threatened and.
The response is we live in a country where freedom of speech and religious freedom are protected while Americans may disagree on certain issues. We should all be free to express what we believe without being punished by the government.
Well, I agree with that. Now the Israel lobby doesn't agree with that. The Israel lobby wants to punish you if you disagree with with Israel. They want to they want to prohibit you from reading the New Testament.
If you if you read a New Testament where it says that the Jews killed Jesus. Well, you they consider that anti-semitism and they they want to have a go at you. But they're not the only ones that are like that you've got the the homosexual lobby is this way.
But that's really but I think that that's a mistake in this particular case. I don't think that. That ultimately this is really an issue about freedom of speech. I think the proper way of going about this is this is a matter of property rights.
Jack Phillips owns a bakery and He has every right to serve whom he wishes to serve and not serve whom he wishes to not serve. That's what I mean, I mean we have that terms well, it's your business. Well, this is literally his business.
But of course the the freedom of association Was was destroyed back in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and like so many things, you know. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was actually an attack on civil rights. It was the exact opposite of what it purported to be.
It's just like the patriotic the the Patriot Act was unpatriotic you know, it's it's interesting how everything is always actually the opposite of what the the name is and.
You that.
His his case really ultimately needs to be argued as a matter of property rights. As a Christian baker he has a right to say no to the request to to Make a homosexual themed wedding cake because it's his business.
You know not because of freedom of speech as much as we value freedom of speech I mean fundamentally this is an issue of property rights and that's how this really should be argued. I think ultimately it needs to be argued or we're just gonna keep going through this time after time after time.
And let's see. What do I have here? Oh. Maybe just use this as a quick quick closing story here. It's a this is a this is from the AP. It's about the Southern Baptist the headline here says Southern Baptist are poised to ban churches with women pastors.
Some are urging them to reconsider and Let's see, this was a this is an article actually it's just a couple days ago I'll read a bit of it here it says from its towering white steeple and red brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelical and Evangelistic sermons.
First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist Church. On a recent Sunday, it's pastor for women and children. Kim Eskridge urged members to invite friends and neighbors to an upcoming vacation Bible school a perennial Baptist activity to help reach families in the community with the gospel.
But because the pastor is a woman First Baptist days in the Southern Baptist Convention may be numbered and they they kind of go through here and And talk about this but apparently there's a Amendment it's called what I think it's called the law amendment lew the law amendment I think that's named after the the man who brought it that essentially says that the the Southern Baptist the Southern Baptist Convention will not will Will not permit any church within that convention to to have women pastors.
Which is actually biblical. I mean, that's that is that's what the New Testament teaches. That's a Paul very make clearly makes that makes that very clear. And he talks about the qualifications for elder and for deacon to be the husband of one wife, etc.
I mean, you know the the offices of elder and deacon are open to men only and of course we. It's Presbyterian, you know, we we consider I consider the the pastor to be that isn't the role of an elder.
And it's it's entirely proper that the ministry should be restricted to men. I know that that that's very unpopular in today's world.
We have have the feminists who have this idea of interchangeability that you know. Men and women are are the same and and what a man could do a woman can do and what a woman could do a man Could do and blah blah blah.
You know, of course I think you know, it's interesting, you know, we've got these. These trans jet these trans women quote trans women I mean, they're just men that are are pretending to be women, you know competing in women's sports and and Some people are don't like that and and they shouldn't like that.
You know, I mean, it's it's ridiculous. You know, you've got these men invading women's spaces, but on the other hand, you've got women invading men's spaces you know, and this is a case where you have these These these females these women who who want to be pastors when God says that that's They they can't do that.
You're not allowed to do that. And I know that's that's that's that's highly shocking to a lot of people. It's deeply offensive to the feminist mindset, but that's that's what the Bible teaches. And Christians have always understood that until just the last few decades and and even many still do.
And I'm glad to see this this amendment here in the in the Southern Baptist Church. I don't know if this is past or not or if it's even been voted on yet. But this is in fact Mike law. I guess this is the fellow who who's brought this this amendment Says amendment proponents say the convention needs to reinforce its doctrinal statement the Baptist faith and message.
Which says the office pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture. Yes it is. And here's a quote from Mike law quote if we won't stand on issue and be unapologetic unapologetically biblical. Then we won't stand on anything said amendment proponent Mike law pastor of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia and It says law contended the issue has been a canary in the coal mine for liberal denominations that is having women pastors several of which began ordaining women and later LGBTQ plus people and that's absolutely right.
In fact, I saw a post on on X sometime within the last month or so and I thought it was very insightful as I Was a woman that posted this and she says, you know if and I think it may have even been about this The Southern Baptist law amendment and she made the point that she said if you allow women pastors, you know.
The next thing that's gonna happen is you're gonna have LGBTQ plus pastors. And I think she's absolutely right about that, I mean once you you open that Open that door just a just a just a crack, you know.
Once you let that camel's nose get in the tent it's gonna be straight downhill and you're gonna end up with with all the you know, all of the The transgender people and and lesbians and homosexuals and they're gonna end up taking over the denomination so yeah, I think it certainly is the right thing to to take that stand that.
That the Southern Baptist Convention is taking it, you know, let's pray that that happens. I said maybe they've already voted on it. I probably should check that I didn't said I was kind of going through this a bit sort of sight unseen here today, so.
But but you know keep you know as Christians we should be praying for those who are In positions of leadership in our churches and our denominations that they would follow the scriptures. They would have the courage the the wisdom the knowledge To do what is right, and I'm glad to see that this this Baptist pastor is is working to do the right thing.
So Something that to keep in prayer. All right. Well, I think that wraps it up today. My throat's getting a little bit scratchy here and I've been I've been battling here for about an hour. I think that's probably about enough.
So Anyway, I wish everybody a blessed Lord's Day tomorrow and until we talk next time May the spirit of truth guide you in all truth as you read and study God's word.