RLL 117: Trump Convicted

You're listening to Radio Looks List and I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 117. The title of this episode is

Trump Convicted. All right, well I hope everybody's been having a good week. It was certainly an eventful week over this past week, there's no doubt about that.

I had a good week. I took the whole week off of work, so that's always a good week.

Unfortunately, I do have to go back to school, so to speak, on Monday. I always complain about that.

I don't want to go back to school. Well, I guess I'm going to have to. But anyway, that's what happens when you get to be grown up.

You know, you got to go to work. Well, I tell you, I miss those days when

I had summer vacation. That would be just like the greatest thing ever. One of these days, maybe

I'll get to retire here and who knows. But right now, I just have to take my weeks when

I can get them. But it was a good week. You know, the weather was nice. I got some things done that I wanted to get done.

You know, it's always funny. I have these high hopes. I'm going to get all this stuff.

You know, I get this big list. Oh, I'm going to get that done while I'm on vacation. Oh, I'm going to get that done while I'm on vacation. I probably end up getting maybe like a quarter of the stuff done that I wanted to get done.

But you know, I made some progress, so that's good. And anyway, you know, it's kind of interesting too.

This is really the first day that I've actually felt fully awake, fully recharged.

You know, I really got run down over the past several months and I could feel it. And it just seemed like I was just always dragging around, tired.

And I finally got, I think I got myself caught up on my rest and that type of thing.

You know, it was a nice day. I was doing some yard work and worked a couple hours, did some weeding, you know, that kind of stuff.

And anyway, at the end of it, I went and I cleaned up, took a shower. And I was looking at my bed.

I thought, you know, it'd be really nice taking a nap. So I did. I laid down for about two hours. Had a great sleep this afternoon.

I woke up. I can't even remember what day it was. Wait a minute, this is Saturday. Oh, yeah, this is Saturday. I guess it gets like that sometimes on vacation.

But, you know, it kind of reminded me like when I was a kid or a mom would make me take a nap and I hated it.

I didn't want to take a nap. And now that I'm an adult, you know, I think I'd give half my earthly possessions to be able to take a nap and I can't do it usually.

But that's one of the nice things about vacation. I don't know. Maybe that's just I'm an old fogey or something like that. You know, it's like, what did you do on vacation?

I took a nap. You know, that was the highlight of my vacation. So, I don't know.

I say maybe, maybe that's just a sign I'm an old fogey or something. Anyway, well, that was my week this past week.

Oh, I did get a chance to do some bike riding yesterday. I went out on the, there's a bike trail here and I haven't been on it for a while.

It's 11 bike trail. It's actually an old railroad right away.

And I did my longest ride that I've ever done before. I did, did 30 miles. I did 15 miles out, 15 miles back.

So, it actually worked like 15 .8 miles or 30 .8 miles total for the round trip.

That's the longest single bike trip I've ever done. So, I was kind of happy about that. So, anyway, that was, that was some fun having a chance to do that.

And I'm going to turn a fan on here a little bit. It gets a little bit stuffy in this room in here. You know, maybe it's all the hot air that I'm blowing around,

I guess. I don't know. Anyway, so turning to what some, some events from this past week.

I put this, the sort of the top story, the lead story was Trump convicted. As, as we all know, that's, that's been in the news quite a bit.

And I, I mean, I personally was not surprised by it. I haven't talked a lot about it in, in leading up to this.

But, I mean, it was, it was pretty obvious. I think that, that they were going to get him on this.

Not because I think that he, he did any, that there's any sound legal basis for what was done.

But they were going to get him, by hook or by crook. I mean, this is, this is, it's weaponized justice.

And I really think that's the, the biggest takeaway from all of this. I think the thing that's the most dangerous is, is the fact that the, the

American justice system has been weaponized publicly. Very publicly.

And, in fact, I think that, that Tucker Carlson had a, I think he actually had a good comment.

You know, I should have saved this. Let me see if I can get a, his reaction to this.

Because I think he had some, some insightful comments to say on it. But let me see, hopefully

I saved that someplace. Oh yeah, yeah, this is what he, this was a, a post that he put out on X on the day of the, the conviction.

That was Thursday, May the 30th. And this is what Tucker Carlson said. Import the third world, become the third world.

I think he's talking about the, the origins of the, the judge in this case,

Juan Merchan. He says, that's what we just saw. This won't stop Trump. He'll win the election if he's not killed first.

But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world. Anyone who defends this first is a danger to you and your family.

And yeah, yeah, I think so. I think that, I really do believe this is an indefensible conviction.

And you know, some people, and you know, my attitude toward Donald Trump is this. I'm not somebody who worships at the feet of Donald Trump.

I don't think that he's the Messiah. I don't think that he's infallible.

You know, Donald Trump is a, he's a flawed character. I don't think there's any, any doubt about that.

But yeah, he's someone who has really been, for a lot of people, a symbol of the older America.

A symbol of sort of the historic American nation, if you want to call it that. You know, and, and he's somebody, and I, and I think this is an angle in talking about Donald Trump.

But I think this is one of the reasons why he's hated so much by the establishment. Because he really is a symbol of the earlier

Protestant America. He's essentially a political Protestant. Now, I know he's, he's a very flawed individual.

At times he has, you know, he's done some things that, well,

I mean, are sinful. And I don't think, in my own observation,

I don't think he probably is a Christian. But I do think he's a cultural Protestant. And I think his political inclinations, in my opinion, are essentially sort of historic

Protestant American politics. He believes, I do think, in limited government.

He has given speeches, and some very good speeches, on support for the nation -state.

So he's someone who believes in the Westphalian World Order. I've talked some about that, and I've written some about that on my blog.

And I've talked some about that on the podcast as well. And that is where the highest, the

Westphalian World Order, that's what came out of the Thirty Years' War that was settled in 1648.

And that war was between the Protestant forces, Protestant nations of Europe, and the

Roman Catholic forces. And the Protestant forces won. And essentially what it did is it created the modern world, the modern system we have of international relations.

The idea that the nation -state is the highest form of government, and that nations are essentially legal persons.

And, you know, just like you can't go and, you know, punch your neighbor in your face, you can't go as one nation and attack another nation, and seize its territory, or try to interfere in the internal functioning of your neighbor.

You know, just like you don't go barge into somebody's house and you say, hey, I don't like the color of your carpet. You know,

I mean, you don't have a right to do that. And in nations, it's the same way in which they relate to one another.

You know, you don't have a right to go barge into your neighbor nation's country and essentially tell them you don't like the color of the carpet they're putting down, or whatever.

You know, the nations have a right to order their own internal affairs as they see fit, nation -states.

And, of course, this is something that's always been hated by the Roman Catholic Church. There was a quote, and I don't have it here handy.

I'm not going to read it right now. But the pope at the time, I believe his name was Innocent X, he just railed on the rest failing in world order.

And he talked about how it was invalid, and et cetera, et cetera, for all time.

You know, and he just, you know, hurled curses at the world. But he hated the idea that the nation -state was the highest level of authority because it meant that Rome, it meant that the papacy couldn't interfere in the internal workings of nations.

They couldn't, you know, appoint kings in this type of thing, of nations.

They couldn't tell the nations what to do, just like they had done all throughout the medieval period.

The Reformation put an end to all of that. The Westfalian world order is geopolitical

Protestantism. There's a quote that was from Samuel Adams.

He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. I believe he was President John Adams' cousin.

I think that was his relationship. I know they were part of the same family. I think they were cousins. But he gave a speech before the signing of the

Declaration of Independence, and he said, I think this may not be an exact quote, but it's close.

He says, you know, today the reign of political Protestantism has begun. And I mean, that's what the

Constitution of the United States really represents. That is political Protestantism. The idea that you have limited government, the idea that you have maximum personal freedom, things like freedom of speech, which has been very much under assault by the

Zionists in the United States here recently. And it's not just the

Zionists that are opposed to it. They happen to be the ones that are the most aggressive in attacking that right now.

But there have been other groups that do as well. But that's part of political

Protestantism, is defending freedom of speech, defending right to private property, defending having inalienable right, well, inalienable, maybe that's not the best way to say it, but having

God -given, constitutionally guaranteed rights, like the right to free speech, as we were just talking about, that is just essential to the personal liberty of any people.

And governments do not have a right to abridge that, although they do. But at least here, one of the blessings we have as Americans is that we have that written down in a document.

And it does make it harder for tyrants to encroach on that liberty.

Of course, the best reason to have the right to free speech is to preach the gospel.

I mean, there's lots of people in our government who I think love to have the preaching of the gospel eliminated.

But anyway, but Donald Trump, yeah, I think Donald Trump, I think the ultimate reason why he is hated so much is because essentially he is a political

Protestant. And again, I'm not saying that Donald Trump's perfect. I'm not saying Donald Trump's not without flaws.

I'm not saying that Donald Trump, I'm not trying to defend every single thing that Donald Trump's ever said or done. But I think he does stand for that.

And that is deeply offensive to the kinds of people that we have who are in positions of authority in our country today.

And I think that's really one of the, in my opinion, that's the reason for just the rage and the hatred that they have for him.

And it's also the rage and the hatred they have. I mean, if you are a believer in the

Lord Jesus Christ, and if you have the same, if you are a political

Protestant, you are targeted. You are not liked. You, you, you know, the establishment of this country does not like you.

And they make that very clear, how much they don't like you. They do that on a continual basis. So yeah, they're really gunning for Donald Trump.

And you know, I think what Tucker Carlson said, especially there, he says, you know, anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and to your family.

And that's exactly right. And there are plenty of people out there that are trying to defend this stuff. Of course, you would expect the

Democrats would do this, but there are a lot of Republicans out there that are trying to push this type of thing as well, that don't like Trump, that want to get rid of him, and are quite happy to join the chorus of those who are calling for him to be, you know, scrubbed from the presidential ticket and this type of thing.

I thought there was an interesting post. Well, I thought that I had it here. It was a piece that was out by Jonathan Turley.

Oh, here it is. This was a piece of his that was published in The Hill is the name of the newspaper.

It's a Washington -based newspaper. Jonathan Turley, he's, if you ever watch Fox News, he's, I guess you call him their legal analyst, and he's a law professor at George Washington University.

He's a Democrat, but he's somebody, you know, I've listened to him over the years, and I believe he's a fair -minded man.

He's someone who does respect the Constitution. And here's what he says here.

He says, Bragg's thrill -killing Manhattan could prove short -lived on appeal. I'll just read a little bit of this thing here.

This is what Jonathan Turley says. He says, The conviction of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan of 34 felonies produced citywide celebrations.

This thrill -kill environment extended to the media where former U .S. Attorney Harry Litman told MSNBC's Nicole Wallace that it was a, quote, majestic day and a day to celebrate, end quote.

When I left the courthouse after watching the verdict come in, I was floored by the celebrations outside by both the public and some in the media.

The celebrants would be wise to think twice before mounting this trophy kill on the political wall.

The Trump trial is a target -rich environment for an appeal, with multiple layers of reversible error, in my view.

And here's a few things. I'm just going to, I'm not going to read all of it, but I'll just touch on this. Turley lays out a few of the problems.

He groups the problems with the case against Trump and the conviction of Trump, I should say, into four categories.

He starts off with the judge. Acting Supreme Court Justice, Juan Mershon, was hand -picked for this case rather than randomly selected.

This is only the latest in the litany of Trump cases where Mershon has melted out, meted out tough rulings against Trump and his organization.

With any other defendant, there would likely be outrage over his selection. Mershon donated to President Biden, even though the state bar cleared that violation based on the small size of the contribution.

It later stressed that no such contributions were appropriate for a judge. We learn later that Mershon has contributed to a group to stop the

GOP and Trump. Mershon's daughter is also a Democratic organizer who has helped raise millions against Trump and the

GOP for the Democrats. So yeah, this is Juan Mershon. I saw something earlier.

I was doing some research on him, and the donations he made were something in the range of like 15 bucks or something like this to Joe Biden.

And there was $15 he gave to a couple of political organizations.

I don't know if they were PACs, maybe, in the range of like $10 to $15. Probably in total, it looked to me like his total contribution were a whopping $40.

So you say, well, what's the big deal? Well, you know, for a judge, judges should not be making political contributions.

And even the, what was it, the, there was a court in New York, the state of New York that said that.

Let's see if I can find that here. It says the state bar cleared that violation based on small sizes.

Oh, it was the Bar Association. So this was the New York Bar Association that later said, it stressed that no such contributions were appropriate for a judge.

So this was a New York State Bar Association saying, yeah, you know, it's really not appropriate for any, for a judge to make political contributions.

If you think about it, yeah, I mean, that would make sense, right? Especially in a case like this.

And it's interesting that this guy was handpicked. You know, why was he handpicked? I haven't really been able to find out all that much about him.

And I'm sure that maybe there's people that know more about this than I do. And just some of the articles that I saw, I didn't see anything specifically why he was handpicked.

My guess would be because he was somebody who was willing to go through with what is in, certainly in my mind, and I think the mind of many people, a very fraudulent trial.

And he was willing to do this. He was willing to do the dirty work. And this is

Turley. He continues here. I'll quote from Turley's article. Quote, to his credit, CNN legal analyst

Eli Honig, has previously said that this case was legally dubious, uniquely targeted

Trump, and could not succeed outside of an anti -Trump district. On the judge, he recently challenged critics on the fairness of assigning a

Biden donor, whose earmarked donations for resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump's radical right -wing legacy.

He asked, how would folks have been, would folks have been just fine with the judge staying on the case, if he had donated a couple bucks to re -elect

Donald Trump, maggot forever? Absolutely not. Well, yeah, of course not. So, I mean, you know, this judge was obviously biased.

There's another section. So that was, he say, Turley divided his, the problems with the case into four sections.

So that was the judge, and there's a second one was the charges themselves. And he says, writes

Turley, a leading threshold issue would be the decision to allow Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively try

Trump on violations of federal law. So yeah, so here's a guy, you know, he's a

Manhattan District Attorney, but he's prosecuting this trial on a violation of federal law. Well, you don't prosecute, you know, the supposed violation of a federal law in a local court.

You don't do that. And it talks about, you know, the

Federal Election Commission likewise found no basis for a civil fine. The Justice Department declined any criminal charges against Trump under the federal election law over the alleged hush money payments.

So the feds looked at the thing and said, nah, we're going to pass on that. But this Alvin Bragg, he was all over that.

So yeah, that's a problem there. And it talks about the evidence. Judge Mershon allowed a torrent of immaterial and prejudicial evidence to be introduced into the trial by the prosecution.

That included testimony from porn actress Stormy Daniels that went into details about having sex with Trump. She included a clear suggestion that Trump raped her.

After this utterly disgraceful testimony, Mershon expressed regret, but actually blamed the Defense Council despite their prior objections to the testimony.

So there's that issue. And then he talks about the instructions that were given to the jury. Even with all the reversible errors, some have held out hope that there might be a hung jury.

That hope was largely smashed by Mershon in his instructions to the jury. The court largely used standard instructions in a case that was anything but standard.

However, the instruction also allowed for doubt as to what the jury would ultimately find. When a verdict came in, we were still unsure what

Trump was convicted of. So we're not even sure what. So I guess Trump was convicted. He was a very bad person.

He's done some horrible things, but we're not really sure exactly what. That seems to be essentially what

Jonathan Turley is saying here. So yeah, this was not a good day for the

U .S. justice system. It was not a good day for America. There's another article

I found here this evening when I was doing some research, and this one's by Julie Kelly.

And if you've followed any of the stuff going on with, say, the J6, trials, you know, all the

January 6th defendants, she has just been tirelessly covering that for really the last,

I don't know, at least three years. I know it seems like from almost the time that whole thing started.

So I'd say at least three years, maybe longer than that. She has been busy writing and interviewing and talking about that particular case.

And she has a post out here. It's a piece posted on her substack.

It's titled, The Grin of Evil in the Post of Cowards. And she subtitles it,

Successful tyrants also prevail because their opposition is craven, impotent, and feckless. On that score,

Joe Biden again drew the luck of the Irish. So she writes here,

Joe Biden can even wait 24 hours before publicly gloating about the history -making criminal conviction of former

President Donald Trump. Under the guise of announcing a proposed ceasefire agreement in the Israel -Gaza war,

Biden took to a podium in the White House State Dining Room at 1 30 p .m. on Friday. He began his statement, not with details of the peace plan, but rather with a lecture about how the rule of law prevailed in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against Trump.

Yeah, this is something I always love. And these are these are these Democrats that like to come out and talk like this, but they like to come out and say, no one is above the law.

You know, they give this very, very pompous sort of way that they talk about this.

No one is above the law, you know, and some of the people that do this the worst. Hillary Clinton is horrible about this.

You know, she loves to go and talk like that. I remember some, at some point, this is a number of years ago.

There was like a thing about, I don't know, it was Roe v. Wade, you know, the whole thing about abortion was coming up.

And of course, this was before that Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court. But she was out there, at one point she was talking about, it's the law of the land, you know.

And again, you know, this sort of very pompous, sort of unctuous way of talking. And it's just like, oh, please, you know.

And to hear some of these people talk the way they do, it's really, truly gagging.

Because, of course, some of them are people who are, and act very much like they're above the law.

But anyway, so, you know, Julie Kelly continues writing here. She talks about, oh, she's quoting

Biden here.

And this is what she says. This is a quote from Joe Biden. Donald Trump has given every opportunity to defend himself, end quote.

Biden said of his 2024 Republican presidential rival, quote, and after careful deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous verdict.

They found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felon counts, end quote. So, yeah, this is one of the things that the, oh, the anti -Trumpers love to talk about.

Now, and I knew that they were going to do this. You know, it's like, as soon as he was convicted, every time they go out and talk about Donald Trump, the headline's always going to be, convicted felon,

Donald Trump. Former, you know, convicted former president, Donald Trump, or convicted presidential candidate,

Donald Trump. Something like this. And that's always, that's just going to be just repeated ad nauseum between now and the election.

And one of the things, too, that Julie Kelly talked about was the evil grin that Joe Biden had, you know, at the press conference.

It says, this is what she writes. She says, after several minutes of stumbling through more prepared remarks about the ceasefire proposal,

Biden started his signature brittle march out of the room. A reporter asked a retreating Biden to respond to Trump's accusations that he is responsible for turning the former president into a political prisoner.

And she goes on to write, the Dr. Evil grin sparked immediate outrage on the right.

Trump's team quickly turned the clip into a campaign ad. Biden's signature grin has gotten him a lot, gotten him a long way in politics.

He is little more than a glad -handing blowhard with low -level intelligence and a tan of Irish charm, who just happens to know better than almost anyone in Washington how to game the system for political and personal benefit.

But this grin was different. It was not the smile of a dunce, once again, shocked by his own undertone success and dumb luck, but the sadistic expression of a twisted tyrant, gratified by tormenting his political foe and everyone around him.

So, yeah, she goes on to write about how Biden enjoys inflicting suffering on others.

You know, inflicting pain is how sick freaks like Biden maintain power. The harder the boot on the throat, the bigger the grin.

So, yeah, it's really disturbing. Yeah, that look on his face as he's walking out of the room.

Yeah, that's an evil grin of an evil man. I call him

Jesuit Joe because he does have very significant Jesuit influences in his background.

And, you know, and I mentioned, you know, the fact that Donald Trump is a political Protestant. Well, Joe Biden is a political

Romanist. And, you know, this is an angle that I don't think that I've really seen anybody bring up, but I think this is a very important dynamic.

I mean, this is political Romanism versus the historic American political

Protestantism. And, you know, right now, the political Romanists have their boot on their throat, and Joe Biden's enjoying it.

So, you know, that's what's going on here. Well, anyway, so enough about Donald Trump, even though that was my lead story here.

I wanted to talk a little bit, too. You know, this is, you know, June is always one of my favorite months, okay?

I mean, it's a beautiful time of year. When I was a kid, school got out. Unfortunately, I'm not a kid anymore, as I said, so school doesn't get out.

But anyway, June's a fun month. And it's a good month.

I've always enjoyed the month of June, but they've turned it into something that's not so great.

You know, now it's a month, I think last year I called it the month formally known as June. The reason

I said that, of course, is because it's Pride Month, and it's where we can go and celebrate sin the whole month long and see what a wonderful, amazing thing this is.

There's a lot of memes out there, and of course, you know, all these corporations just go out of their way to push the whole

Pride Month celebration. Now, some people have talked about the fact that apparently this year, here in 2024, that some of these companies, these corporations have kind of turned down the heat on the whole

Pride Month thing. There's even some indication that public support, at least they were talking about among Republicans, for example, has declined for so -called same -sex marriage, which isn't marriage.

That's a violation of the definition of it. That's not marriage. And of course, one of the things you see is, you know, every business from every corner feels like they have to get in on the act.

In fact, I saw one meme today. It was kind of interesting. It was done, it was a meme sort of done in, it was based on the biblical account of Exodus, you know, where the final plague was going to be set on Egypt, and of course,

God told, you know, the Israelites, well, you know, that you have to put the blood of the sacrificed

Passover lamb on the door, on the lintel of their house.

And it showed a guy that was doing something like that, you know, he's dressed up in sort of the old clothing, and he was brushing on rainbow colors on the lintel of his house, and the caption was something to the effect of, every corporation in the month of June.

And that's actually pretty appropriate. I mean, I think, you know, so many of these corporations, I don't know if they actually believe this stuff, if all the people involved didn't actually believe this stuff, but they seem, they have to act.

They think they have to act as though they do. And I've been looking at a, in fact,

I'm looking at something on X right now, and it's a picture, let's see, I'll show this here. You know, even the, let's see here, there we go.

You know, even sports get into this whole thing. This is a thing, this was actually put out on X, posted on X by Josh Dawes.

He's a Baptist, and he seems to be a genuine

Christian, and I know he's opposed to this type of thing. But he puts out a, there's a picture,

I guess, it was posted to X by Major League Baseball, you know, and it's got the Major League Baseball logo, but it's got the

Pride colors in the background. You know, and that's just so typical. And I found out even my hometown team, the

Cincinnati Reds, they're going to have their Gay Pride Day next Friday.

I guess, I don't know, what is that, the 5th or the 6th, I guess it is. You know,

I'd like to be able to go to the ballgame. I guess it's next Friday, the 7th is what it is. You know, I'd like to be able to go to a ballgame on Friday.

It'd be a good ballgame to watch, but I'm not going down to that. You know, that's very disappointing.

In fact, as far as I am aware, I have heard there's only one Major League team that does not have a

Gay Pride Day, and that's the Texas Rangers. I did read that somewhere.

I don't know if that's still true or not, but I do recall reading that last year. But all the other, all of the 29 teams do this, unfortunately.

And he's got, I'm just kind of scrolling through Josh Dawes' feed here. It's got a post out by the

U .S. Department of Education, you know, filled with all the rainbow colors. And, you know, every student should feel safe attending school in America, free from discrimination and valued for who they are.

That means creating a welcoming and safe learning environment for every LGBTQI plus student and ensuring educators have resources to support, et cetera, et cetera.

I'm not going to read any more of that. Now, there's a, here's another one here.

June is Groomer Awareness Month. Sesame Street. So here's Josh Dawes.

He has a, this is a post out by Sesame Street. Happy Pride Month from Sesame Street. Today and every day we celebrate and uplift the

LGBTQIA plus. So they've even got an extra letter in there. Over and above what, who was that?

The Department of Education, they only, the Department of Education, they only had six letters. Let's see, with a plus there.

Let's see. Sesame Street, they've got, they got seven. They got seven letters and a plus. So I guess Sesame Street, they celebrate

Pride Month even more. It's kind of like, you know, it was that, that account in, I think it's in,

I can't remember if it was in First or Second Kings, but it talks about King Jehu of Israel, the

Northern Kingdom. And he was, he was a real, he was a drainer of swamps, you know, and, and one of the things he did is, he got rid of the priests of Baal.

And as a, as a ruse, you know, he said that, well, Ahab worshipped Baal a little, served

Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much, you know, and he got all the priests of Baal in and he actually had them executed.

But he did it, he did it, the way he got them to congregate was he pretended as though he was, was, was a supporter of Baal.

So it looks like, I guess the Department of Education celebrates Pride Month a little, but Sesame Street celebrates

Pride Month much. That seems to be, be the, what they are. And I don't think that's a ruse from them.

Now, I remember watching Sesame Street as a kid, you know, it was Big Bird, you know, that type of thing. It was a cookie monster, but you know, now it's, it's all about LGBTQIA plus.

So they're pretty happy with that. And now here's somebody, this is kind of interesting.

He says, encouraging news to kick off the Noahic Covenant Appreciation Month tomorrow.

It's got a picture of Noah's Ark there in the rainbow. So that's the appropriate use of the rainbow.

And of course, as Christians, you know, I mean, it's, you know, we find it offensive to have, you know, the rainbow co -opted for, you know, what is essentially a, an evil purpose.

And, you know, when I say these things, and I think this is important to say this, this is not to say that there's no hope for people who are, struggle with the sin of homosexuality.

As Christians, we don't hate them. We don't wish them ill. We do call them to repentance and to faith in the

Lord Jesus Christ. And he can heal, and he does heal people of that. Paul talked about that explicitly in,

I think that's in 1 Corinthians, where he talks about that people who engage in homosexual activity, he says, they will not inherit the kingdom of God in such were some of you.

Were, you know, that's that, the key there is the past tense were. So we do not hate those people who are trapped in that sin, but we do call them to repentance.

And they do need to repent, because if they do not, things are not going to go well for them.

You know, we all have to appear before the judgment seat of Christ, and things will not go well for those people who engage in that sin and do not repent of it.

So anyway, that's just a few things there on, on the month formerly known as June.

Now, kind of moving on to another topic, this is something, I haven't talked about this in the podcast for a few weeks here, but getting back to the issue of immigration, and particularly the role of the

Roman Catholic Church in immigration. And this was interesting, this was something that I found a little bit by accident.

I mean, I wasn't actually looking for it, but I was just looking for something on, I was just reading through some posts in this that were related to immigration.

And this is what I found here, it was put out by someone, she calls herself Defender of the

Republic. And I'll just read this particular tweet. Let's see, maybe

I can share this thing on the screen here. Stop sharing that.

There we go. Okay, we're going to share this window. So this is what she writes here, she says, made some observations as I boarded a flight in Tucson, Arizona.

At security, there is a line specifically for illegal immigrants that says no ID line. So we've seen that before and some other things

I've covered here on this podcast. She continues, my assigned seat on the plane was taken by a migrant family, so I had to move seats across the aisle, not the window seat,

I paid for. There were several of these families on my flight, all with blue five below bags and white envelopes.

I managed to get a picture of the envelope. And what do you know, now here's, this is the money, this is me talking here, this is the money quote, this is what she says, so what do you know?

Their flights were sponsored by Catholic Community Services. And she's got even a picture here, and I don't know that that shows up real well on the,

I don't know if we can blow this thing up here in the video to make that a little more obvious.

But right here, it's got this Catholic Community Services logo. So that was who was sponsoring the flights.

Now, I had talked about this, and I believe I know I wrote about this, and maybe we did this on a podcast, I don't recall now.

But there was some investigative reports that were done a few months back,

I think maybe February and March, by James O 'Keefe in Tucson, Arizona, and he was actually investigating this outfit called

Casa Elitist. And this

Casa Elitist, it was this organization that was sponsored, the sponsoring organization behind Casa Elitist was this

Catholic Community Services. And what this just highlights, once again, and again,

I wasn't even looking for something about this particular group.

I just happened, I was, like I say, I was going through doing some research, just looking for stories on immigration, and I happened to come across this.

And it's amazing how, when you look for Roman Catholic influence on immigration, you find it all over the place.

But not many people take time to look for that. I've quoted this fellow before.

It was Dr. Ryan Cole, and he was somebody who had been, got a lot of attention during the

COVID pandemic. He is a pathologist, and he was very early on out there questioning the vaccine and saying, you know, this is a dangerous thing.

This is causing people serious health problems. And sometimes he was questioned.

People would ask him, well, Dr. Cole, how come you're seeing all these problems? And all these other supposedly eminent scientists out there, and doctors, and what have you, they're not seeing the problems you are.

How come you're seeing it and they're not? And his response to all of that was, one cannot find that for which one does not look.

One cannot find that for which one does not look. And that's a very good point. And it's true, not just in science, too.

One application of that is finding out who's behind the border chaos that we have going on in our country.

And not just in our country, but throughout Western civilization. The same thing's going on in Europe. So who's behind this stuff?

Well, you don't have to scratch very hard to uncover the Roman Catholic influence.

The influence of the Roman Catholic Church. They're all over this. They've got dozens,

I don't know, for all I know, it could be hundreds of organizations, various, one sort or another, on the border facilitating the invasion of the

United States of America. And this is just one group, this Catholic Community Services.

And the people, they probably came through the Casa Elitist program, for all I know.

It wouldn't surprise me. This was at the Tucson Airport in Casa Elitist. They're located in Tucson.

Tucson's right on the, it's in Arizona. It's very close to the border. So it would make sense that they would have an organization like this in Tucson, the

Catholic Church, that is. And they love this stuff. I mean, they think that it's, when you read through the statement after statement after statement by high -level people in the

Roman Catholic Church, it becomes very obvious that this is a tool that they're using to try to subvert the

United States of America. And not the United States only, but also, as I said, all the nations of the

West. You know, they want to remove nation -states because nation -states are an impediment to global government.

And the Roman Catholic Church is the premier globalist organization. Don't ever forget that.

This is something that is missed by almost everybody. But if you read through the documents of the

Roman Catholic Church, I mean, what you will notice is that they are constantly calling for globalism, for world government.

They love world government. And of course, this goes back to, Rome has always been this way.

You know, Rome is the little horn of Daniel. That's, you know, if you read through Daniel 7, there's this little horn that makes war on the saints and wears them out, and essentially really chokes them out until such time as Christ returns.

Now, nation -states are a bulwark against globalism. Nation -states are a bulwark against Vatican tyranny.

But the Vatican is constantly working to try to undermine them. And that is the principal reason why

Rome is doing this. They are trying to subvert, to undermine, to destroy the independence of the

United States of America and get us into some system of global government.

That's the plan. And immigration is one of the tools that they intend to use to make that happen.

It's not just immigration. They've got other ways of doing this as well. For instance, climate change is another major tool of the globalists.

And just to show you a little bit of this, what I'm talking about, this was an article, this is from CBS, and this is actually a transcript of a conversation.

I don't know if you, I wrote a post on this a couple weeks back, but the Pope was on 60

Minutes. I called it 60 Minutes with Antichrist, was the article. And what

I did is I just went through and I went through the transcript of this interview that he had with Norah O'Donnell and just commented some on it.

But let me see if I can scroll here to find. Okay, yeah, here we go.

I'll just read a little bit of this. So this is Norah O'Donnell talking. My grandparents were Catholic, immigrated from Northern Ireland in the 1930s to the

United States seeking a better life. And I know your family too fled fascism. And as you've talked about with migrants, many of them children, that you encourage governments to build bridges, not walls.

Then Pope Francis speaks. Migration is something that makes a country grow. They say that you

Irish migrated and brought the whiskey and that the Italians migrated and brought the mafia. Laugh, it's a joke.

Don't take it badly, but migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot. Norah O'Donnell says,

I grew up in Texas. I don't know if you've heard, but the state of Texas is attempting to shut down a Catholic charity on the border with Mexico that offers undocumented migrants humanitarian assistance.

What do you think of that? Okay, well, Norah O'Donnell is, I'm not really telling the whole story there.

There was this, and I've talked about this again on the podcast and I've written about this. The attorney general of the state of Texas, Ken Paxton, has brought a lawsuit, charges, some type of legal action against this outfit called

Annunciation House, which he's accused of running a stash house and helping migrants evade legal authorities, this type of thing.

And of course, he's gotten nothing but massive amount of grief from the

Texas press over this and what have you. And now even the Pope weighs in.

And of course, Norah O'Donnell lobs him a softball question which he can knock out of the park.

I mean, you can see her bias in just the way she asked the question. She says, well, it's just this Catholic charity on the border that just offers undocumented migrants humanitarian assistance while they're illegal aliens and they're helping them evade the law.

That's what Annunciation House is doing. But I mean, the way she frames this question, it's just like, oh, well, they're just poor, honest, hardworking people that just want nothing but to help others and then the poor and the downtrodden.

Well, this is a bunch of hooey, the way she frames this question. So the

Pope responds, he says, that is madness, sheer madness to close the border and leave them there. That is madness.

The migrant has to be received. Well, no, no, there is no obligation for this, and when he says receive, he doesn't just mean ushered into the country.

He means be showered with fabulous cash and prizes. I mean, that's what the Roman Catholic Church means.

It means that you, if you're an American citizen, you have to foot the bill for these people and the government has a right to take the money from you and give it to them.

Now, that's called theft, but Pope Francis, he believes in theft.

I mean, of course, you're dealing with the office of Antichrist. So, of course, he's not gonna be, have an appropriate view of private property.

He thinks your property there, if you're an American, your job is to shut up and fork it over. That's what the

Pope thinks. And he says, thereafter, you see how you're gonna deal with him.

Maybe you have to send him back. I don't know, but each case ought to be considered humanely, right? Well, the Roman Catholic Church, they have, you know, there was that,

I think it was that bill, was it that George Bush, I think, signed in the law, no child left behind, you know, some educational bill.

Well, the motto of the Roman Catholic Church state is no migrant left behind.

And, you know, what they wanna do is they wanna get them in and they will, by any and every means, try to keep them in.

I've highlighted before in this space about, you know, the absurdity of how the Roman Catholic Church has fought the deportation of people who've been in the country for 20 plus years on temporary protected status.

You know, there was this earthquake, I believe it was in the late 90s in Costa Rica.

And when the Trump administration went to try to deport these people who were in the country, in the

United States, on temporary protected status, oh, the Roman Catholic Church, the

U .S. Catholic bishops, oh, they raised all kinds of fuss about this. They said it was a heartbreaking decision and blah, blah, blah.

You know, once these illegal aliens are in the country, the Roman Catholic Church will fight tooth and nail to make sure they never leave.

And not only do they never leave, but that you have to foot the bill for them. You know, and that's

Rome. This is interesting here. It says, a few months after becoming

Pope, Francis went to a small Italian island near Africa to meet migrants fleeing poverty and war.

And here's what Norah O'Donnell says. She says, your first trip as Pope was to the island of Lampedusa, where you talked about suffering.

Okay, so Lampedusa is this small island off the coast of Italy, and they're being destroyed with illegal aliens, overwhelming them.

There was a story, maybe last year, there was another huge wave coming in. There's only like 6 ,000

Italians that live on this small island of Lampedusa, and there were like 9 ,000 migrants. You know, they just come over, they come over on boats and just flood into Lampedusa.

And of course, the Pope goes there to lecture the Italians and tells them they're very bad people if they don't like being overwhelmed on this small island with migrants.

You know, his message to them is shut up and fork it over. Same thing he tells to Americans. So anyway, he goes on, and eventually he kind of transitions into talking about his other favorite topic, which is climate change.

So anyway, enough about that. There's something else I was gonna add.

What was it? Let's see here.

Well, I guess that's really about everything that I had here. There's a lot more I could go on and on about, but I won't. Let's see how long we've been going here.

Goodness gracious, it's almost an hour. I get started, I can't stop flapping my gums.

Anyway, thanks to everybody who's been watching the program. It's been great to have you here. And to those who are listening, or will be listening on the recorded stream as well.

And I wanna say as well, I wish you all a blessed Lord's Day tomorrow. And until our next podcast, may the spirit of truth guide you in all truth as you read and study