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Wywiad z prof. Bohdanem Szklarskim, Fundacja Wspomagania Wsi, 29 listopada 2016 https://wszechnica.org.pl/wyklad/ameryka-po-wyborach/ Wybór Donalda Trumpa na prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych stanowił szok dla liberalnie nastawionej części amerykańskiego społeczeństwa i wielu stolic europejskich. Co przesądziło o sukcesie kontrowersyjnego miliardera oraz jakie konsekwencje będzie mieć jego prezydentura dla USA i świata zapytaliśmy prof. Bohdana Szklarskiego. Amerykanista mówił w rozmowie z Wszechnicą, że o zwycięstwie Trumpa zdecydowało wyrażenie dawno odczuwanych obaw i emocji językiem, na który nie mógł pozwolić sobie żaden polityk. Jako kandydat na prezydenta zaprezentował się jako wiarygodny wyraziciel emocji zarówno biznesmena jak i robotnika, którzy niechętnie patrzą na "polityczną klasę próżniaczą". Prof. Szklarski zastanawiał się, czy nowy prezydent jest w stanie sprawować władzę bez udziału waszyngtońskich elit. Zwrócił uwagę, że jednoczesne mianowanie Reince'a Priebusa, szefa Partii Republikańskiej, na kierownika administracji Białego Domu, i Stephena Bannona, szefa skrajnie prawicowego portalu Breitbart.com, na głównego doradcę, pozwala sądzić, że Trump będzie balansować między frakcjami. Mówiąc o polityce zagranicznej nowego gospodarza Białego Domu, amerykanista podkreślił, że w dyplomacji słowa mają ogromne znaczenie. Nieprzemyślane wypowiedzi Trumpa mogą ośmielać antydemokratyczne siły na całym świecie. Prof. Szklarski nie wykluczył też, nowy prezydent zawrze "biznesowe porozumienie" z Władimirem Putinem w sprawie Ukrainy i Syrii. Znajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/ https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/ https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historia https://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-nauka https://wszechnica.org.pl/#usa #ameryka #polityka #wybory
✨NEW EPISODE✨ 37: Let's Get Baking! April is Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month, and this week Kim Reince, Owner of My Cookie Therapist, chats with us about how she got into the baking industry, the role autism played in how she started her business, and her journey navigating motherhood!
Dans son talk sur le main stage de Paris Talks en Mars 2023, le champion de l'autonomisation de la jeunesse, Reince Trésor Gandou, raconte l'histoire de Luc et la fille Ghislaine, deux jeunes étudiants en quête d'intégration socio-professionnelle dans un environnement très hostile, compétitif et rempli d'incertitudes, à l'image de l'époque que nous sommes en train de traverser, une époque remplie d'incertitudes. Trésor argumente en lançant un appel pour l'accompagnement de la jeunesse car cela est une résponsabilité partagée. Ce talk a été enrégistré lors de d'édition 2023 du festival d'idées Paris Talks à la bibliothèque Nationale de France à Paris. Pour plus d'informations sur Paris Talks, rendez-vous sur https://www.paris-talks.com/
We explore the back story of the Werewolf, and the difference between the book and show, and who Tyrn was before Reince kidnapped her and why she is the perfect Cirilla doppelganger. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloreFantasyandLore Email: FloreFantasyAndLore@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Flore-Fantasy-and-Lore-100356535213434
Christianity and politics have a love hate relationship in the US. Despite the separation of church and state, many churches are highly engaged in the political process but they are not always well informed of the issues. Chad Connelly's work as chairman of his state Replication Party was recognised by the White House and he became the first ever Faith Envoy for the Republican National Committee (RNC). Through this role he built up church engagement to another level and has continued this endeavour through Faith Wins. Chad joins us to discuss the importance of voter registration, providing leaders with resources, identifying church liaisons and connecting with political thought leaders. Founder Chad Connelly was the Republican National Committee's first-ever National Director of Faith Engagement, a key position that influenced the elections of 2016. Having been elected to two terms as the Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, Chad set new fundraising records for the party, hosted two nationally televised debates that brought over $50 million in revenue and advertising exposure to the state, and held the largest Presidential Preference Primary at that time in South Carolina's history with over 607,000 voting in the election. Since 2013, he's traveled to 43 states and spoke to more than 82,000 pastors and faith leaders about the importance of pastoral leadership in the public arena. His work has led to trusted relationships with a wide variety of denominational and organizational ministry leaders across the nation and resulted in the highest evangelical turnout and vote in modern American political history in the 2016 elections. He has appeared on numerous national television shows and has been a featured commentator on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and others. Chad is well known in political and religious circles around the nation as an effective speaker, relationship builder and prolific fundraiser and is in demand as an inspirational speaker on a variety of topics. Chad is passionate about his home state of South Carolina, America and her true history but is most passionate about his family: his wife Dana and their four children. Chad is a life-long South Carolinian and he and his family live in Prosperity, SC. Faith Wins is dedicated to educating, activating and mobilizing faith leaders, helping them leverage their influence and impact within the governmental and political arena. https://faithwins.org/ Interview recorded 24.2.23 Audio Podcast version available on Podbean and all major podcast directories... https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! [0:22] Hello, Hearts of Oak and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Chad Connelly. Chad Connelly heads up Faith Wins, an organization in America that engages churches and politics. I met him a couple of weeks ago at a conference in Miami and was intrigued and excited by hearing his background story. So in this interview, we talk about how he got involved in politics and how he became the first national director of faith engagement in the Republican Party, a position which here in the UK we would be desperate for. Over in the US you've had this, and that was during 2016 during Trump's presidency, his first presidency. So we talk about how that happened, how he ruled that across the country, got engaged with churches, got them connected with politics and got them voting, got them inspired and got their congregations understanding what political engagement was about. Now we go into Faith Wins, the organization he started post that. So I know you'll enjoy this conversation with Chad Connelly. [1:34] It is absolutely wonderful to have Chad Connelly with us today. Chad, thank you for your time today. Honoured to be here with you. I really am, Peter, and I appreciate the opportunity, brother. Not at all. I had the absolute honour and privilege of meeting Chad over in Miami a few weeks ago, sitting at the table together and also listening to you speak. So I'm looking forward to unpacking a little bit about your story and what you do and to our viewers and listeners, faithwins.org is where you can find more of Chad. We'll get into that a little bit more. The links are in the description. If you're listening on any podcasting apps, Podbean, any podcasting apps, all the links are there so you can keep in touch. But just to our UK viewers, our non-US viewers, Chad served as chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, the first ever national director of faith engagement for the RNC or the Republican National Committee, for those of us not on stateside, and founder and president of Faith Wins. Now before we get into some of that Chad, you were literally born in Prosperity. I've never come across this. A town in South Carolina is called Prosperity. I thought it was a typo, but no, you're born in Prosperity. Yes, you know prosperity is a really small town, Peter. It's probably, you know, you probably heard me make the joke. There are four or five hundred people counting the dogs and cats. [3:03] So it's a small little town, a great slice of rural America. But I grew up here and actually built a home here. My mom and dad, my mom's passed now, but my mom dad's house is behind me and my grandparents house is behind them. And I never really thought I'd come back to little town, but I travel so much. I really enjoyed the little town feel. [3:25] It's always good to come back home. Always good to come back home. Chad, your background is in business, but maybe you can tell us how you moved from being involved in business to being involved in politics. [3:41] Yeah. You know, Peter, I went to college, got my degree in engineering, got into the corporate world. I was doing design and engineering testing. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy it. I did, but I watched my dad lose a career in downsizing in the late 80s and my career was going up, and his was ending and it just, it changed my life. I decided I wanted to be on my own. And at about that time I had been in the army, I'd served in the army and I think that my military service made me come to grips with what's this thing called freedom? Why do we have it? What's it about? And I think it wasn't that I disrespected the idea of freedom, it was, I didn't really grasp it. You know how it is when you're 16 or 18 or 20, you have all the answers, none of the questions, but you have the answers. And life has a way of making you think through stuff. And so I was in the army and I started thinking, man, people died for this thing called freedom. And it started me really on a journey to examine my freedom, what the gifts we've been given, the blessings of liberty, and then that, It made me deeper in my faith. It made me realize God's had his hand on me [4:55] my whole life and where people can deny that or ignore it or act like it's not true, they can't deny the things going on in their lives and they see around them. And so I was a Christian, I'd give my heart to Christ in my teen years, of course wasn't very serious about it. Married my college sweetheart and I got more serious about my faith. And I think the army was big in that Peter because you know, you start thinking about why would somebody die for something and Jesus died for all of us. And so I started reading biblical worldview books and those books really are what got me in my own business. It got me speaking for a living, got me coaching other people to get in their own business, and it really gave me an appreciation for the whole idea of America and for freedom. That's the short version, but then God just moved me into politics. And I'll give you more of it, but I'll let you talk and ask any other questions on that part. It's always interesting now people get involved in politics. I mean, I love politics. I lived and read politics for years, work in the House of Lords, all of that. But I always loved to find out how anyone made that leap because when we talk to people on the street, people generally seem disengaged with the political process. So what attracted you to begin to get involved in politics? [6:13] Well, you know, it was really reading the biblical worldview books and biblical worldview is we all have a worldview, right? We all have a way, a foundation, how we think, what we believe. And to me, it all boils down to one question, and that is, who says? There are only two answers. Man says, where there's no standard but me and you, which seems very haphazard to me, or God says. And if God says there's a standard, and if our standard is God and the Bible and the Holy Word, then that begins to inform our decision-making. And so when I was studying biblical worldview, I started realizing, oh boy, this, [6:49] here's why people turn from the faith or don't get involved in religion or relationship with Jesus. They don't want accountability. A lot of people, a lot of my friends, and they think, well, I don't want to be accountable to anybody. And I started realizing I am accountable. I am my brother's keeper. I'm responsible for myself and my family, my children, the people around me, my sphere of influence. I've been given this great blessing of being born in this free land. And that started to motivate me to, boy, there ought to be more like-minded people involved in this political thing, not just as a president or a congressman or woman, but school boards, city council. And so the more I read in those areas, I said, boy, I think God's telling me I better be involved in this. If I'm unhappy about something going on politically, it's really not political, Peter. It's spiritual. all our lives in a biblical worldview, my God's big enough to be in everything, everywhere, all the time. And while there's no question that people, I say the media and the left. [7:54] And I think that applies everywhere, have kind of taught us Christians out of being involved. You know, they say, ooh, you Christians shouldn't be involved in it. You're gonna offend somebody. And we're the very ones who don't wanna offend somebody. And so we put on our turn the other cheek Jesus, when really we might oughta find turn the tables over Jesus. And so the first thing I did in politics is, I did door knocking to get people to vote for a friend of mine for Congress in Charlotte, North Carolina, a great lady named Sue Myrick. After that, I actually went to Boston, Massachusetts and helped a guy named Mitt Romney run against Ted Kennedy. I had read about Senator Kennedy and the whole Chappaquiddick thing, and I couldn't believe anybody would vote for the guy. And so here's this little lost Southern boy, Peter, knocking on doors, you ought to vote for Mitt Romney. And of course, I didn't get a great response, but I felt compelled to do it. And I kind of had the bug. My boys came along, [8:51] CJ who's now 25, I was born in 97, Bennett was born in 2000, and we started doing political campaigns. They would sippy cup in a hand, a pacifier to mouth and a vote for somebody signed. That was how they grew up. And I got involved in the school choice movement. I got involved in the pro-life movement. I got on some boards. In 02, I actually wrote my first book called Freedom Time, where I was just explaining to people, you should be involved, get involved in the process. Don't sit over here on the side-lines and complain and whine and fuss and cuss. Get involved, make a difference. And after that, in 05, my wife Michelle, I met in college, her mom died, spun her into a deep depression. In July of 06, she took her own life, committed suicide, left me a single dad with two little boys who saw something nobody should ever see. But God used this too, Peter. It's a deep, raw part of my story and God's been good. I'm remarried, but I had spoken at Chick-fil-A the week before that. I said something I never remembered saying. I probably didn't say this when you saw me speak in Miami. [10:00] I said something I'd never remembered saying all the times I ever spoken. And I so didn't trust how bad Michelle was. I left her at her dad's home nearby and I went to Chick-fil-A headquarters in Atlanta. And I was doing a marriage and family talk, very humbling. Nobody in the audience knew my wife was home with deep depression, much less would put a gun in her mouth a week later. The boys were five and nine, they were sitting in the corner of the room, Peter, and I said, you know, I've messed up, I've made mistakes, but before God, man, I'm not going to be a failure with my wife and my boys. And I remember looking at the boys over there in the corner and going, hey, Lord, that was good. I'm going to I'm going to use that again. The next Sunday, we come in to find her. And I knew she was bad, I didn't I didn't know she had had some blues more than more like not really depression, more like deep blues throughout our marriage, but not that bad. And I knew it was bad, but I never thought she'd do that. Anyway, we get in from church to find her. The boys are on my heels. [11:06] I pick her up to cover, I didn't want them to see, right? And so I go to your room, go to your room, go to your room. I pull her close to me, I lay her back down. And in my spirit, I feel the devil say, ha ha, you failed. Immediately I feel the Lord put his arm around me and say this wasn't my plan but I have a plan for Satan's disruption. And as I'm laying my wife of 18 and a half years back down on the ground on the floor, Romans 8 28, now you probably know the scripture, I wasn't studying it, I wasn't reading it at that point but I had put it in my heart and the scripture says, and we know that all, things work together for good of those who love God and are called according purpose. And I'd read that scripture over and over again, and I don't know if anybody out there reads the Bible, there's times you read it and you're not sure what you read. Other times it leaps up off the pages and punch you and just really grabs you. And so Romans 8 28, I laid her back down and it came to mind. And I said, really Lord, all things? All things? All things? My wife's in a pool of blood. All things, Lord? Really? And he, And he said to me, did you believe it yesterday? Yes, Lord, I did. So I need you to trust me and believe it today. And I told him I would. Now, I was a mess. I had three or four months. I couldn't get off the mat, Peter. The boys, I sobbed. Michelle's my best friend. [12:31] I went back to my pro-life board several months later, and there's a guy in there who's in heaven now. He passed away a few months ago. And he just, three meetings in a row kept coming at me. Chad, you gotta meet this girl. You gotta meet this girl. I'm like, "JD, I love you, leave me alone. Get out my face", [12:47] I don't have time for any girl. I got two little boys that saw their mom come in. I mean, it's awful. It's awful. I don't wish it on anybody." He said, "you ought to meet this girl". And he got in my face at the second meeting. He said, "Chad, you're Mr. Positive. I've been watching you speak for years. This is not going to beat you". He said, "you know that talk you do about counting your blessings?" And I said, "yeah, JD, I wrote it". He said, "read your notes". And you know how a Christian brother, sometimes has to hold us accountable. And literally, I prayed for accountability and responsibility partners. And I went home that day and I read my notes and the Lord gave me three very specific prayers. I wrote down 103 blessings. I go to the next meeting. He says, "you got to meet this girl". And I finally said, "what's her name?" He said, "Dana". And I said, "JD, big question. How did she become single?" And he hung his head and he said, "man, I'm sorry to tell you, but same way you did". Turns out her husband committed suicide, Peter, almost two years to the the day before my wife. And she had two little girls, I had two little boys, and long story made short, six months later we were married, and today the kids are 25, 23, 22, and 21. We're blessed and highly favoured. That's been 15 years ago. It's the most monumental thing in my life though, to watch God work that way. And when people tell me there's no God, I don't have enough faith to be an atheist, I just don't. [14:07] It takes a lot of faith to think that we have the answers, that all this came because of an accident, that's beyond common sense. And I've watched God work in my life. And it doesn't mean he works the same way with people and he's got a purpose to fulfil. That scripture, Romans 8.28, if your audience hasn't read it, You ought to go read it. And we know all things work together for good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose. Now at the time, I had felt called into politics, Peter. I didn't know how, I didn't know what. I didn't know if it was elected or work behind the scenes. I was very involved in the school choice movement, the pro-life movement, and I thought it was that way. When Dana came along, I got back involved. As you said, I ran for state party chairman, and anybody who's familiar with American politics knows our state of South Carolina, you will be here a lot. You know, it picks presidents. [15:02] Ten out of the last 11 Republican nominees were whoever won in South Carolina. And we have what we call carve out states. There's Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. So I did every political show on television. It was a big bright spotlight on our state. And on one of those shows, a guy named Reince Priebus, and if you're political folks that are watching, have paid attention. He was Trump's, President Trump's first chief of staff. He saw me on television, and I was basically beating up the party for leaving out the faith vote. That was the long and short of my talk that day on that TV show. And Reince, I knew him, I voted for him, but I didn't have any kind of relationship with the guy. And so he texted me. He said, 'hey, I'm a believer too.' I'd like to talk to you. You're right. We should be involved more. Let's talk about it. That's how That's how I got to be the first ever national director of faith engagement. Of course, I helped Trump in 16. I actually went to 43 states and spoke to 80-something thousand pastors just telling them, you got to get involved. How can you have a Matthew 5, salt and light, biblical worldview and not engage? How are you going to be salt and light if you're not engaged? And just imploring them to get involved. And then of course I left the RNC, [16:11] I didn't go work in the White House. I think I was probably Reince Priebus's only senior staffer not to go work in the Trump White House. And that's when I started Faith Wins. But man, we exist to just get Christians involved and let your voices be heard, not just your votes. And that's the short version. Look, I'm so honoured, Peter, I've gotten to watch God work in my life. He didn't always choose to do it that way. And that's where faith comes in. But the fact that a man named Jesus hung on a tree for me and for you is just amazing. [16:42] And what is it? Some 67,000 historical references by non-biblical figures that prove the life, the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And to get to watch him working life, it's humbling, brother. Chad, I love when you say that when you talk to atheists, I have the same conversation that I couldn't possibly have their faith to look at the complexity of the universe of the world, to think of simply the human body, never mind the universe, and to come to believe that actually there's no greater designer, figure body out there that actually is luck and chance. I said, well, you've got a lot more faith than I have, so I don't know how you come. So I agree completely. But I, National Director of Faith Engagement, that for a new role, you're the first person in that, that's quite intriguing because you get an opportunity to make that your own. You're not coming in a job description, but actually you get this and you think, wow, how can I take this right across the country? Tell me about those early days with something brand new, how you actually built that out. Yeah, that's a great question. You know what, nobody ever asked me. I do a bunch of TV and radio and podcasts. [18:06] Very few people ask that. I literally told Priebus, Reince, we got to do this right. Let's don't do a political approach. Let's do a spiritual approach. Let's talk to them about their biblical responsibilities. I told him, I said, Reince, I'm not going to push a candidate. I'm not going to push the party. I'll work for the party, but I really think God let me do something to go to all these different, because you know there are different groups of denominations and all the segments of Christians and churches. I really think working for the party, the blessing was I got to wade through all of that and say, look, I'm not here to split doctrinal hairs. I'm not here to discuss our differences. But if we don't unify over things like the defence of Israel, that's biblical, life, it's biblical. [18:53] Traditional marriage, it's biblical, religious liberty. Man, I can say sovereignty of states and borders. It's biblical. Those are biblical spiritual issues, not political. Now they've been politicized, but that doesn't remove my responsibility as a Christian, a dad, a husband, a Sunday school teacher. I got to tell the truth. And so when Reince and I sat down, that's exactly what I told him. That's the exact conversation I had with him. And I said, I need your assurance. You'll give me the latitude to do this the right way. And I said, Reince, it's no offense, but there are very few people in this political world who've done politics at the level I've done it, been a state party chairman, run a bunch of races, but also are Christian first. It's like they separate, right? It's like you described, and I think it happens everywhere. Some of it's intentional, some of it's fear driven. Some of it's just, I don't wanna deal with it. It's an ugly mess. I can't tell you Peter how many people say well we shouldn't get involved in politics. It's it's a dirty business. I'm like [19:56] if you're been to a meeting, I'm not deep in meetings can be political I know what that's exactly why we as Christians should be involved. It's a dirty mess, We should permeate society in every way and let's face it. This is where we failed So this conversation of you asking me that Reince Priebus and I to his great credit and he's a great friend and mentor. We sat down and had this very talk, fleshing this out. What's it look like? And I said, well, first Reince. You can't contact my pastor buddies. You can't ask them for money. You can't ping them about you must vote this way You cannot irritate them and and I'll tell you the truth when I first built my list I said you can't ping them. You can't hit them up with emails and all that junk. I [20:43] salted the list y'all probably use that term, I put fake names in the email list to make sure that he communicated with his data people. We're not doing this and it was about ten days somebody in the data department, hit up my pastors and one of my fake emails got the email. So I called Reince and said, hey man, we're not doing this. We're not gonna bug these pastors. And again, to his great credit, he made sure there was a firewall. And then I started keeping my own list and I didn't give it to him. I just said, I gotta have my word and integrity. So I quit giving cell phone numbers and emails to the party, which of course was much weeping and gnashing of teeth. But I want it to be authentic relationships, Peter. I think that relationships matter. I think our world right now is going through a time it doesn't value relationships like it, but I think it will again. I think we're gonna get back to a very high touch personal relationship driven society again, in your country and mine. If they value the ideas of liberty and freedom, we're gonna get back to where that person to person relationship matters far more than a digital ad or a television ad or whatever. And so when we started the program, I'm telling you, the people in the RMC building, the political people, it was, it was, they didn't get it. Quite frankly, a lot of them still don't. And they don't want to deal with pastors. They want to be able to say, hey, we control this or we've got the data or we can contact them. [22:12] And I was like, no, no, no, no, we're not doing it that way. About that because you look at one, first question is how did this position only start at that point? Secondly, how you kind of from over here, maybe in the UK, we look at the Republican Party as as a party that many Christians, we look at America's Christianity is not something to be ashamed or afraid about and people wear it on their sleeves passionately. So how did the RNC not really get it at the beginning. [22:47] Well, it's interesting. Part of this is the denominational differences. Part of it is, they're in political mode first, and you and I are Christians first. I tell people all the time I'm a Christian, that I'm a conservative, I happen to be a Republican because their belief system lines up most closely. And I also tell pastors, you're not going to find perfect. There are no perfect candidates. Only Jesus was perfect. He's the only one. And therefore, since there are no perfect candidates, there are no perfect parties either. And goodness, Peter, I'm married with four kids. We can't get our kids to agree on a Whopper or a Big Mac. That's normal. And Reagan said that, right? Reagan said, if you're 80% of my friend, it doesn't make you 20% of my enemy. And so we try to teach those lessons that you're looking for the person that most closely aligns. And I told them, don't vote on the party, don't vote on the candidate, don't vote on a personality, vote on policies and principles. So when we were building this, it was a complete oddity to the people inside the political structure. No doubt about it. And I think, let's face it, a lot of the political types will check a box. Okay, I'm covering the Hispanics, I'm covering the black vote, I'm covering the faith vote, whatever. And I think what Priebus did that set apart the RNC, and they've not done since to my my knowledge is he had a very specific plan for every segment of that. [24:10] And he had authentic people connecting with people of like mind and talking to them. Even if they didn't agree on issues, he really was intentional about authentic evangelicals talking to evangelicals and Hispanics talking to Hispanics down the line trying to really [24:27] go back to a basic relationship model. And let's face it, it worked. In 2014, we flipped nine US Senate seats, hadn't been done in 150 years. In 2016, a guy named Donald Trump hit a record. You know, and probably not the most evangelical guy to run, right? And again, we didn't tell him who to vote for. Romney, in 2012, had hit 78%. 78% of the self-identified evangelicals voted for the Republican candidate in 2012. And I told Reince at the time, I said, Reince, if you ever hit 80%, the left can't win. I don't care if they're running for dog catcher or president and Trump hit 81%. And I believe it was because we were very intentional about going into areas and running up the score. We found that there were a lot of people sitting in churches who thought, my vote doesn't count. I don't care about this. I don't want to go to go vote. And our deal was, I'm going to get to know the pastor. And hey, Pastor Peter. [25:26] Listen, let's talk about this and I'll tell you to vote for, but can you do two things? Can you make sure they're registered to vote? And can you teach them to vote by the Bible? That's it. You don't have to say Republican. You don't have to say a candidate like a Trump or a particular Senator, but can you register to vote? And can you teach them to vote biblical values and use voter guides and so forth. I tell people, look, I'm not trying to get you to charge the beach at D-Day. Can you register everybody? And can you give them the vote biblical values? Those are our asks. And that's not difficult. And listen, you've read scripture, Matthew five. Jesus says, if you're not salt, I know you're probably familiar with this, then you are good for nothing to be thrown in the street and trodden under the feet of men. Not about you, Peter, or any other believers out there. I don't wanna be standing before the Father because we will all stand before the Father and be told I was good for nothing. That seems like a really bad life to me. And let's face it, [26:27] I think our world's hurting for purpose. You know, suicide's a big deal to me, obviously. We live through it. My wife and her girls lived through it. The girls lived through it. My boys live through it. It's horrible. You don't wish on anybody. When you see suicide rates like our world sees, you realize we're missing purpose. [26:47] They're missing purpose. And some people are retrievable. There are things going on. Michelle's depression was real. I don't doubt that it's real, but it goes back to purpose. and she felt like she lost purpose. And I know that from my experience. And so I think the political world is a great purpose for people. Go out and make a difference. You know, I was a Little League baseball coach because I wanted to make a difference. I'm a Sunday school teacher because I want to make a difference. I'm involved in my local community because I want to make a difference. You know, we had a family friend, his wife's got an incurable disease. My wife and I organized the Sunday school class to take a meal, just to take a little burden off because I want to make a difference. And there's so many unfilled needs out there that government is fulfilling wrongly in my opinion, that people like me and you, because scripture says the church and the individual should take care of people. There's not a jot, tittle or phrase about the government doing it, especially through coercion like we're seeing now. You must, and we're gonna tax you super high. So my whole message is get involved, Christian, get involved, find purpose. God's got a plan in your life, he doesn't make accidents, and so figure out what that is and spend the rest of your life doing it. [27:59] I want to ask you about your church engagement because I for this conversation with my church about abortion and pro-life, there is an absolute fear to engage that no, no, we need to be very careful what we say because we would offend people and there's an inability to come out and say this is what we believe but we will love those who have failed. And that's quite different from, I remember the one time was over in the States, quite a few four years ago in Houston, Second Baptist Church Houston, Reverend Ed Young, at Phenomenal Church and Tucker Carlson happened to be speaking that evening on a Saturday. I just was blown away by the.... Intentionality, I think, of bringing your faith into any realm of public life. In the UK there's that mass of separation. I mean, talk to us about that because that is quite exciting, that engagement generally with churches, in not only politics but across the board in public life. [29:12] Yeah, you know, I think as a Christian, the more you read the Word, the closer you get to God, the more, you know, my prayer is, Lord, I need wisdom today, every day, 15 minutes. I want to be more Christ-like. I want to have a better walk. And when you say those prayers, kind of dangerous prayers, if you will, right? Then what do you have for me, Lord? Then there's a response. You know, faith without works is dead. We don't get to heaven by our works, but our works are a response to what He's done for us. He died for our sins. So how do I say thank you? I believe it's by engaging, by activating, by doing my part. And part of that's the justice the Bible talks about. God is justice. God is just. The Bible doesn't talk about fairness, except with the weather and fair ladies, I believe, but justice is God. [30:05] And how do I let the murder of innocent babies go without me speaking up if I'm a Christian? And there are two victims, right? a girl and there's a baby that we take a life and I think they've been lied to. Listen, this is deeply personal to me. I know so many friends who've, and they didn't see a way out. My wife's involved in a local crisis pregnancy centre. [30:30] We've marched, we've counselled, my son and his fiancé started a pro-life group on their college campus at Clemson. It's deeply personal and I don't want to condemn people because, yep, with the grace of God, lie, right? And so we're all sinners saved by grace. We've all fallen short of The Glory [30:47] Of God. None of us is righteous, no, not one. We go right down the Roman road scriptures and we realize, you know, none of us is perfect. And so I don't want to condemn somebody who's made a horrible mistake. But I also want to reach out to them and I want to make sure they don't make that second mistake. And I told my kids, listen, mistakes aren't fatal for you. What you got to do is take them as learning experiences. I don't want you to be scared of making a mistake and I don't want to minimize the death of a baby as a mistake but in a bigger sense you want to think about it was I did something I can't undo. You know Michelle did something we can't undo. It's a horrible thing. I believe she got to heaven and she figured that out. But also understand that people do things every day they're influenced by their people around them or, mass media or whatever else. And we got to reach out to them and love on them and tell them there's a different way and tell them that there's a thing called forgiveness. And you know, he removes your sin as far as the east is from the west. So there's nothing that you or I do or have done that Jesus isn't willing to forgive us for except denying Him and the Holy Spirit, obviously. And so he is about forgiveness. That's why he died. He knew what we were going to do before he hung on the tree. And so my response to that knowledge, the more I read the Bible, the more I understand [32:10] that, is I got to get involved. And part of that is loving on people who've been through stuff relating to them, but also in a political sense, standing up for truth. And truth is, God made every single one of us with His perfect design. We messed it up, but He had a plan. He had a purpose. And Peter, if he had a plan and a purpose through the decision my wife made to commit suicide, then he's got a plan and a purpose. And far be it from me to question that. I don't understand it. It's beyond my capability to understand. But I do know God's got a plan and a purpose for me and for you and for everybody else watching and listening. What's up to for me is to find out when he strikes us with this thing about abortion, You know, our nation alone, we've taken what, some 65 million babies' lives. And who did we kill in the name of choice? Who did we kill in the name of convenience? Who did we snuff out a life far too soon because it didn't fit our plans? And so I've got a friend who was conceived by rape. [33:15] And I have a pastor whose granddaughter was conceived by rape. And I dare you, when somebody says, yeah, but rape, whatever, incest, why don't you tell Ryan, or that, and I won't mention her name, why don't you tell those two people their lives don't matter? And I think people don't think through that sometimes. And let's face it, we're in a society now where emotions and feelings count more than facts and that'll recentre. We'll get back to truth. Not completely and no one is too far, whatever they've done, whatever has happened is too far from God's ability to reach out as he is all powerful. Can I ask you about [33:59] Faith Wins. Faith Wins is all about engaging Christians and helping them understand that Christians have a responsibility to vote according to their values. Tell us about that journey. Why did you start it? You'd finish your time in the White House with that responsibility. You started Faith Wins. Tell us why and give us that journey. You know, I really, I think that when I left the the RNC and I just thought I should do this through a ministry side as opposed to through a political side. I think that pastors do respond better to the ministry angle than they do to a political angle and it just, it was a God thing. It really was a God thing. I was driving along one night and Faith Wins came in my mind. It was a prayer result. I believe God answered prayer. You know, what do you call this? If I do this on my own? Of course, now the responsibility is mine. Go raise money. Go tell people about what we're doing. But our laser focus is building relationships with pastors to get them to engage the culture. [35:06] I mean, Peter, we're living in a time when, I don't know if it's like this in your country, this whole, if a boy feels like a girl, he should swim or race or wrestle or whatever else against a biological girl. And that's pure insanity. And it defies common sense. How about those girls that have been working their whole lives? And I'll tell you what it tells me. I told a pastor yesterday and I with this. [35:31] The first time somebody said, if a boy feels like a girl, he should go to a girl's bathroom. Here's what I know. There wasn't a Christian in the room with a backbone. [35:39] Because if my mama, who's in heaven now, had been in the room when somebody said something that stupid, she would have picked up a chair and whopped somebody upside the head. It defies common sense. And so we're told, oh, you can't talk like that. And that's offensive. Listen, let's get people like that help. You know, that's not healthy for them. And this whole sexualization of children and genital mutilate, I mean, that's, [36:05] that's evil. That's demonic. That's not doing them a favour. But, you know, I live with somebody who had mental illness. I get it. Let's get them help. And some people you can't help. I'm the first to say it. We did everything we knew to do with her. But when you look at all the things going on around that movement and the the apologists who are pushing for it, it shows me that there are not enough Christians around. And all that's a big reason I started Faith Wins. Just go get involved, Christian. Don't sit on the side-lines. You will be held accountable for what you do and don't do. Part of Faith Wins is about providing leaders with resources. Tell us how you do that. Yeah, you know what we do is we teach them how to do voter registration. We hand out voter guides. We distribute them digitally and printed. We make sure they know about who's running. We get involved in judges races. We get involved on anti gambling, pro life, pro traditional marriage. We'd get involved in all sorts of things like that and we just educate them. We provide them the tools. Most states that means voter guides. It means how to conduct voter registration. It probably means having a pastor come in to train their people. It kind of runs the full slate of whatever it takes. We make an assessment of what do they need in that area and we go at it. When you engage with churches, what are the conversations? I guess you meet some people who are engaged politically. [37:32] But I guess, as I've known for many of my conversations, you meet many people who are completely disengaged. Tell us about that and how those conversations go. [37:44] I remember the first time I got a pushback from a pastor. I was in a town in Colorado in 2013. And I knew it was coming, but I'd never really heard it framed. And I already felt like some people hide behind the pulpit, some people just don't want to deal with it. Some people, they think I'm gonna make somebody mad. So this pastor said, "Chad, we just, you know, I appreciate what you're doing. I just, we don't get political." And I didn't know what to say. And it kind of, you know, took me aback. And so when I don't know what to say, I always whisper a quick prayer. "Okay, Lord, you better give me something." And then I ask a question, what do you mean? And it gives me a chance to think. And he said, "well, you know, we don't talk about controversial stuff." And here's what the Lord gave me. "Well, do y'all talk about the Bible? He preached the whole council of God, as scripture says." He said, "what do you mean?" I said, "well, I don't believe life is a political issue. It's a spiritual issue. Traditional marriage, religious liberty, defensive visual, I can go down the line. Those are biblical issues. And yes, pastor, they've been politicized, but how does that remove our responsibility to be salt and light?" He said, "nobody's ever told me that." And then last fall, I had a pastor, I was in the state of Wisconsin. [38:53] This pastor got saved late in life, tattooed, full-arm tattoos. Pretty big church in a medium-sized town in Wisconsin. He came up to me and he hosted our meeting because my pastor that works on my team had asked him to be the host. He said, "Chad, I wanted to host because your pastor's a long-time buddy. He's been a mentor. But I just gotta tell you, I'm pretty sceptical." I said, "pastor, what are you sceptical about?" He said, "well, I just guessed the whole political thing." I said, "do you think I want you to be political?" He said, "yeah, I thought so." I said, "no, no, I want you to be biblical." [39:28] He said, "I don't think I understand". I said, "you should stick around for my talk." So I did, he said, "I can't, I'm too busy." I looked out, I did my 15 minute talk. He was out there. David Barton did his 40 minute talk. He was out there. When we got done, our conversation and our avenue, our approach to explaining it, he comes over, he grabs you by the arm firmly. And he said, "Chad, I've never heard anybody explain it this way. And I got to tell you, I want to be ground zero for everything you're doing in our state." And Peter, I can tell a story like that from virtually every state, because we're going out into the nooks and crannies. Faith Wins had 132 meetings in 24 states between February and November last year, so if someone has got a better pulse on Christian America in the nooks and crannies, I'd love to meet them. Save me some time. I'd like to meet them and ask them their experiences, but we had 24 different denominations host our meetings. We have over 40 different denominations attend our meetings. We had 27,000 people in those meetings in very specific areas, and we had over 4,100 pastors in those 132 meetings. And so we got a pretty good take on what people are thinking and feeling. And you're seeing what's happening in Asbury. I think God's moving. I think God's moving in our nation and the world. I think that he's tapping us on the shoulder. Hey, hey, who shall I send? Here I am, send me, said the prophet. So I think the onus is upon us. [40:52] Or perhaps I was reading about Asprey today and feeling that excitement within me, reading about what was happening and wanting God to continue doing that and to spread out. My prayer was, well, as I'm going to CPAC, maybe a little bit of Asprey and CPAC would be wonderful. Just mess up the agenda. But can I say, obviously connecting with churches is about connecting, I guess, with political thought leaders. And many, I assume you come across pastors, I come across many people and they say, well, you know, I just need to stay in my lane and to what I've been called to do. And I'm thinking, well, your lane is the world, your lane is everything. Why live yourself? How do you kind of encourage, I guess, encourage those maybe within churches that feel, well, I need to constrain myself to what God's given me and their worldview is quite small and you're trying to enlarge that worldview? [41:53] I think the way that works is, and you're exactly right, because I don't ever wanna disrupt what a pastor's main thing is, right? I believe it is preaching the gospel to tell the truth. And so, I'll give you this analogy that our friend Bob McKeown uses. If you and I walk in your office there, and you say, well, it's 40 feet wide. And I say, well, Peter, I think it's 35 feet wide. And those are just opinions. until we pull a tape measure out and we have the truth. [42:23] And truth reveals error and error hates truth. And that's why you see so much truth being confronted these days. Well, that's not my truth. No, no, no. You get to have your experience. You don't get to create truth. Truth is his, not ours. You know, we can have an experience and that's our experience. But we got the bugs view of the windshield. God's got the helicopter. And so we don't get to decide what truth is. And when truth reveals error, that's why you see all this error going absolutely nuts. If they ask you to go down to the local university and say a prayer, they're going to say, Peter, what are you going to pray about? You're going to say, well, I'm going to pray in the wind or goat's breath or eagle's feathers. Ooh, that's wonderful. But if you say you're going to pray in the name of Jesus, all hell breaks loose because truth reveals error. And so I think that when they think I got to stay in my lane and just preach the gospel, we are. And every time you tell the truth, that is preaching the gospel. You know, I've got a buddy named Bill Feddory says two things. He says, number one, we got to get everybody to heaven we can, and number two, make sure it keeps it legal. And I think that part of what a lot of these pastors that won't engage, they think they're going to lose a tether in the church, or they think they're going to lose, you know, respect. And the truth is, the churches that preach the truth, the unfettered, [43:45] unfiltered, absolute Word of God. They don't change it for their own needs or wants or feelings. They're growing. The mainline churches in America, they're hurting. Some of them are dying. And the reason they're dying, I've got five new couples in my Sunday school class in my little town. And every one of them came from a mainline denomination that's capitulated on the truth. They've watered it down. They've apologized for it. They won't jump into into the culture wars and tell the truth. And our pastor's preaching truth, and I'm sure trying to in my Sunday school class every Sunday. [44:19] I want to end on the truth, let me ask you one question before we end on that. It seems to be what you're doing has gone past the party limitations. I mean, it's what you're talking about has taken on a life of its own, you're engaging churches irrespective of whether the RNC is happy or not, irrespective of who is running or not. Actually, what you're doing [44:44] has passed that point of, I guess, control and ownership. Tell us about that because it's then irrelevant what the ideas or policy or campaign is of any particular party. What you're doing is now separate and much bigger than that. Yeah we think so and we think it's been a God thing. Thank you for for saying that. That's awful nice and it's certainly been a prayer and a heartfelt desire that Christians not just give votes but voices. And, you know, there's too many candidates, too many staffs that don't acknowledge a biblical worldview. They don't understand it. They see it from their own worldview, which is, as I said, who says only one question, only two answers, man or God. Man's always going to have a standard that moves all over the place, different based on the different people, and God's going to have a standard that doesn't move, whether it's inconvenient or not. I think it's gotten bigger because we've been able to tell candidates and party people, Love you, proud of you, but no, you're not gonna hire us. I've had presidential candidates already. We wanna hire your network. That is not how we work. [45:49] And we're gonna get pastors out to maximize the Christian vote. But if you're not talking their issues and you're not standing for truth, they're probably not gonna be with you, just quite frankly. And so I raise money through donors who believe in this. And I talked to them, you met some of them, probably in Miami, who just have bought into what we're doing and they realized we gotta get our nation and the world back to a foundational truth that doesn't move with the changing winds. And we gotta be able to identify liberty as, true freedom is freedom in Christ. That's true freedom. Bondage, releasing the bondage and the chains of sin. That's true freedom. And we gotta get people back to understanding truth instead of all this haphazard, all over the map, ricochet rabbit stuff that we see today. So we think it has, we just thank the Lord for it, and we're humbled, we're excited where we're at and where we're going. [46:40] Can I end off on a paradox that I see? America's traditional culture of Christians being engaged in politics, even though you have a separation of church and state, you have huge Christian engagement. Well, we in the UK, we have an established church, we have that connection and yet we are seeing traditionally that has been very much one with our education system, with our health service, all of that came from faith, came from the church. But now we have a huge disconnect and it's curious that over in the States where you have that separation, you seem to have churches being engaged where over here in the UK we have that connection in theory in our constitution, but we have a separation. I mean, speaking to that on the end and how kind of that works. [47:39] Well, in America, that whole idea of separation of church and state has been mislabelled. That was in a private letter by Thomas Jefferson in 1802. Thomas Jefferson wasn't there when the US Constitution was written. It was just hearsay. But it was taken out of context over 150 years later in a Supreme Court case. It was used by the up-and-coming modern progressive left to say, oh, you can't be involved. And see, our First Amendment assures freedom of speech just because you're a Christian or you're behind a pulpit. You don't lose that. And I think the more you see judges that are committed to our constitutional, they're constitutional conservatives, they're not trying to rewrite laws. You're seeing a rebalancing of that in America right now. You know, you probably watched, you are probably familiar with that coach out in the state of Washington, Peter, who was fired for doing a silent prayer at a football game. He had done it for years, never promoted it, never made people do it, but people came out of the stands after the game. The kids on the teams came out and it became a big deal. The school district punished him, they fired him, the guy was mocked and lied about, he lost his job. I think he lost his house. [48:50] And a Christian attorney that was at that meeting, Kelly Shackelford at First Liberty Institute took it up and they finally won last June, the right to pray in public like that. And that's a big reversal for America. So coach Kennedy, they had to pay him back pay, they hired him. And I'm sure you remember when that football player on Monday night football about six weeks ago, when he went down, do you know what those football players did and everybody in the stand? They took a knee. There was not a Supreme Court ruling. There was not a school district punishing them. There wasn't a newspaper reporter saying, no, you can't do that. So when people are in dire straits, you know what they do? They pray. They may not know to God. They may not know how. They may not know why. And so this whole idea of separation of church and state has been a misnomer, it's been mislabelled, it's been misapplied. And in America, when you read America's founding documents, those words don't appear in any American founding document. It's been so misinformed to people people are miseducated about it. We've been trying to re-educate them and teach them about the truth and going back to America's original history. Just to end, Faith Wins for probably a quarter of our viewers or state side, a quarter of our listeners or state side, how can they get involved? Can they register? Can they donate? How can they get involved on the website? [50:13] Absolutely. That's faithwins.org .org you've got on your screen. We'd love to have you involved. We'd love to know where you are. We'd love to invite you to our meetings. We were in Iowa yesterday We got meetings in South Carolina this week coming up. We were in 24 states last year. I know we're gonna add Oregon, Washington, [50:31] Minnesota Maine, I know we're adding those four states this year, but if you go on that website You'll see where our meetings are. We'd love to have you come they're free. They're open to people, We want to help educate people we want to have those dialogues and conversation And so faith wins, F-A-I-T-H-W-I-N-S, faithwins.org. We'd love to have you involved. Chad, thank you for coming on. The story of what you're doing with Faith Wins and your story with RNC is exciting and inspiring. So thank you for joining us and sharing your story with us. Thank you, brother. God bless you. Thanks for what you're doing. I hate to won't see you at CPAC, but I know I'll see you soon. I'll see you soon. Thank you so much, Chad. And thank you to our viewers, listeners for watching, for tuning in, for being part of the conversation and look forward to seeing you on our next interview. So thank you so much and good evening to you all.
Who makes the laws that impact Americans? Politicians! We all know that every story has multiple sides. So, in this episode of Off the Wall, hosts David Armstrong and Jessica Gibbs welcome Reince Priebus, former White House Chief of Staff for President Donald Trump and chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), to give a Republican viewpoint on what is happening in American politics. Reince shares his take on the recent midterm elections, the future of the Republican party, and how these will impact the average American. You'll hear Reince speak about the role of media in the intense political division in America, why it's so hard to fix the immigration problem, what's on the Republican legislative agenda for the next two years, and much more. Episode Timeline/Key Highlights: [00:09] Introducing Reince Priebus & The topics of today's episode. [05:41] What happened in the 2022 midterms? [10:26] Why wasn't there the “red wave” that people talked about coming into the midterms? [12:16] How can the Republican Party change their messaging to capture the attention of the 9% of Americans who are Independent? [16:00] Could a non-partisan, middle-centrist presidential candidate get elected? [18:55] Where is the Republican Party headed, especially with Donald Trump announcing his candidacy to rerun for president? Is the Republican Party moving away from Trump? [22:30] In Reince's view, what kept Joe Biden from supporting a strong border? What drives us to vote against people who stand up for movements we believe in? [24:40] Why you shouldn't let your personal opinions about politics drive your investing decisions. + What is on the Republican legislative agenda for the next two years? [27:35] Realistically, what issues could President Joe Biden tackle in the next two years? [29:30] Why is it so hard to fix immigration? [34:38] Why are Democrats getting elected in border states if illegal immigration is such a problem in those states? Please see important podcast disclosure information at https://monumentwealthmanagement.com/disclosures. About Reince Priebus: Reince Priebus currently serves as the President of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, a nationwide law firm with more than 260 attorneys. Prior to joining Michael Best, Reince was named White House Chief of Staff shortly after the 2016 Presidential campaign. Prior to managing the White House staff, Reince served as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Before serving as RNC Chairman, Reince served as chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. He was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in both 2016 and 2017. Reince previously served as a visiting Fellow at Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School and is currently an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Additionally, he is also an exclusive speaker with the world-wide speaking company, The Washington Speakers Bureau. Reince received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law. He practiced as a corporate litigator at Michael Best's Milwaukee office for many years before moving to the D.C. area. He was raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin and is a die-hard Packers fan. Connect with Reince: Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reince Read his full bio at https://michaelbest.com Connect with Monument Wealth Management: Visit our website: https://bit.ly/monumentwealthwebsite Follow us on Instagram: https://bit.ly/MonumentWealthIG Follow us on Twitter: https://bit.ly/MonumentWealthTW Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/MonumentWealthLI Connect with us on Facebook: https://bit.ly/MonumentWealthFB About “Off the Wall”: Off the Wall is a podcast aimed at helping you answer the questions: What is the point of my wealth, and what actions can I take to accomplish that purpose? Your answers to those questions will be different from everyone else's. As Wealth Managers, we're skilled at helping our clients think through these challenging, but important, questions. Learn more about our hosts, Dave and Jessica on our website at https://monumentwealthmanagement.com.
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SPOILERS EVERYWHERE! We are discussing Season 2, episodes 6 and 7. We'll recap the entirety of it and have a great time talking all things Witcher. Those things include things like... the massive reveal at the end, who hired Reince, who were those riders in the desert, and what is with all the monoliths? Josiah has read the books and played countless hours in Witcher 3 and therefore, may end up merging or confusing what happens in each as it relates to the show. John has read through Blood of Elves and that is the extent of his knowledge of the source material. We're hoping that this makes for some very different outlooks on the show and for a good discussion. Follow us on Letterbox'd https://letterboxd.com/josiahblizzard/ https://letterboxd.com/johndoyle/ Send in a voice message, question, or request here: https://anchor.fm/racking-focus-podcast/message Remember to write us a review at Apple Podcasts and to email us at rackingfocuspod@gmail.com with comments, suggestions and films you have for us to review. Visit our website: http://www.rackingfocuspodcast.com Follow us on Instagram at Rackingfocuspodcast and join us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter @podfocus --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rackingfocuspodcast/message
Episode 51 of Adversity University featuring our guest, US Army Chemical Response Team Leader, Brayden Reince. Co-Host's Sean Giles and Garrett Metcalf take some time to break down Brayden's path to his his military career and the adversity that comes with it. Brayden is also currently a medical student at the University of South Carolina. Executive Producer Sam Thrutchley.
B04-E04 | This week, we open pandora's box and our favorite characters are embroiled in a great big mess. Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri set off a chain of events for better or worse, competing coup d'états take place, and our big bad is big mad. Get ready to navigate the chaos as fate hangs in the balance.[Beer talk and tangents begin at 01:13:30. Skip ahead to the analysis at 01:19:14]Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts! Support our podcast by donating to us at buymeacoffee.com/midnightpod.Read along with us by picking up Time of Contempt, by Andrzej Sapkowski at a book store near you.Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy. Additional music is Meydän by Elk.
Part One: Biden Won’t Be Tweeting at 1AM Welcome to Hardly Focused, aka The Jack and Mike Show! Or The Mike and Jack Show. Whatever you want to call it, it’s just the two of them for this one. To the surprise of nobody, Mike is very happy that Donald Trump is finally out of office. He’s also hopeful that Trump will be convicted, and tossed out of Mar-a-Lago. Jack points out that Trump’s youngest, Barron, apparently speaks with an Eastern European accent. He also points out that he feels ashamed for having once found Ivanka Trump attractive. Elsewhere, Bernie Sanders is once again a meme. Enjoy it while you can, it won’t be funny for very long! Part Two: Joe Exotic Doesn’t Get His Pardon Jack begins this segment by discussing the “Diet Coke” button that ex-President Trump had in the Oval Office. Mike reminds the room that Trump drinks upwards of 12 Diet Cokes per day. As of writing, Biden had this button removed entirely. In somewhat related news, Tiger King Joe Exotic is disappointed to have not been pardoned by Trump. Exotic claims it’s because he’s “too gay.” That’s not stopping him from hoping President Biden will give him a break. Jack mentions that he needs new shows to watch, having considered re-watching Tiger King. This leads Jack and Mike to discuss the upcoming episodes of Saturday Night Live. Maybe John Krasinski will finally catch a break! Part Three: We Stopped Serving Breakfast at 11:30 Jack begins this segment by asking Mike if people pilfer through his recycling. It’s a common practice where Jack lives. Jack then explains what “grocery shopping” is in regards to local radio host Howie Carr’s penchant for stealing office supplies. On that note, Jack features three stories for “How Fucking Dumb Are You?” A woman from Sussex is under fire for calling the police when she missed McDonald’s breakfast. Jack has the audio of the call! You won’t want to miss this one. Waffle House employees are fired for pouring food on an inebriated customer, and filming it. A woman from Pennsylvania tries to steal an ambulance after robbing a convenience store, and realizes she doesn’t know how to drive it. Peace to Larry and Mira. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hardlyfocused/support
B04-E01 | Welcome to the Time of Contempt era, where our plot is moving lightning fast. We get royal messengers, Geralt in leather (again), slimy lawyers, cameos from our favorite characters, and a death with world-changing consequences. We'll break down Chapter 1 for you with the help of wine. [Wine talk and tangents begin at 01:10:55. Skip ahead to the analysis at 01:20:51]Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts! Support our podcast by donating to us at buymeacoffee.com/midnightpod.Read along with us by picking up Time of Contempt, by Andrzej Sapkowski at a book store near you.Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy.
B03-E08 | It's the summary chapter and we go a little off the rails as we break down Blood of Elves one last time. We do a mini summary, our rankings, a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, and an overall analysis of Book 1 of The Witcher Saga.[Beer talk and tangents begin at 01:20:39. Skip ahead to the analysis at 01:32:51]Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts!Pick up the next book in the series, Time of Contempt, by Andrzej Sapkowski at a book store near you.Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy.
B03-E06 | Get ready for some royal intrigue, deception, and a fair amount of whiplash with all of your favorite rulers and sorcerers in Chapter 6 of Blood of Elves... Well, favorite may be a bit of exaggeration. So, transform into an owl and follow along as we navigate these jumps through time and space together. [Cider talk and tangents begin at 01:12:46. Skip ahead to the analysis at 01:23:59]Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts!Join us on this wild journey by reading Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski. Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy. Additional music from the U.S. Marine Band.
B03-E01 | Oh, you need a montage! A Ciri training montage! We rejoin our favorite father-daughter pair on the road to Kaer Morhen, the witcher fortress, as we begin Blood of Elves, Book One of the Witcher Saga. But first, we take a rather lengthy pit stop to catch up with an unexpected duo. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts!Join us on this wild journey by reading Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski. Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy. This episode also uses Homeroad by Kai Engel.
"The Investigation" sits down with former White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who opens up about the Special Counsel's investigation and Robert Mueller himself, calling him "an American hero." Cobb takes us inside the Trump White House, revealing his thoughts on President Trump the individual: "he is a very direct, forceful presence," to his own first day on the job: "within the first 15 minutes...Kelly replaces Reince, and Scaramucci gets fired. So I was a footnote on day one." Plus, more insight and analysis from our ABC News Investigative Team on upcoming Congressional committee hearings and more anticipated testimony from former Trump associates. Follow Kyra on Twitter @kyraphillips Follow Chris on Twitter @vlasto Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmosk Follow John on Twitter @santucci Support this podcast with a review on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/2UJIsJs Recommended listening... -- Start Here: The daily 20-minute news podcast from ABC News. http://bit.ly/2SA62eg -- Powerhouse Politics: Headliner interviews and in-depth looks at the people and events shaping U.S. politics. http://bit.ly/2SsGwr7 -- FiveThirtyEight Politics: Nate Silver and the FiveThirtyEight team cover the latest in politics, tracking the issues and "game-changers" every week. https://53eig.ht/2RF3eb1 ==================== The Investigation is produced by ABC Radio. More info: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com
Syndicated Youtube host and author Chuck Morse interviews Massachusetts Republican activist Bob Parks.
TeamClearCoat - An Automotive Enthusiast Podcast by Two Car Nerds
Episode 102-This one gets weird... Well, we tried. We really did. We were totally just going to talk about cars this time. And we did okay - garage updates, autonomous car legislation, and our fantasy transcontinental drives are all decidedly "car topics." But we just couldn't stay away from the magnetic draw of The Mooch and his gloriously inauspicious career in the White House. Also, Dave tells some really horrendous dad jokes. TeamClearCoat website AutoWerkz Blog TeamClearCoat Drivetribe TeamClearCoat YouTube Channel TeamClearCoat Instagram TeamClearCoat Twitter TeamClearCoat Facebook TeamClearCoat Video Game Recommendations on Steam
There's a shakeup at the White House, Ben debates Cenk, and there's more Trumpcare fallout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Trump still wants to replace Obamacare
Monday, July 31, 2017 - McCain dramatically scuttles Obamacare reform, giving democrats and republicans what they both really wanted. Reince is out as White House Chief of Staff and General Kelly is in. The Publicity Stunt that was "The Mooch." Are people inherently good or bad? This and much more on this episode of the Propaganda Report Podcast. Episode originally aired on Saturday, July 29th, 2017 on WSB radio Atlanta. If you like the show, rate and review us on iTunes, or Donate and Support the Show Via Patreon, and/or help out by sharing the show with your family and friends. Subscribe to the Propaganda Report podcast on iTunes for weekly in-depth propaganda analysis by clicking here. If you’re an android user, subscribe on Google play by clicking here. For weekly propaganda analysis, check out our main site https://propagandareportdaily.com/ Check out our new website for weekly propaganda analysis by clicking here. Check out Monica’s blog here. Click Here To Subscribe To Monic’s Youtube Page. Click Here To Subscribe To Brad’s Youtube Page. SHOW NOTES & LINKS – CHECK BACK TOMORROW AT https://propagandareportdaily.com/ FOR MORE DETAILED SHOW NOTES.
The Trump administration took America on another drama filled roller-coaster ride this week. We are only six months into the new administration. When does the winning start and the tweets stop?
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There's no way for pundits to make excuses that "both sides" are to blame for the health care cruelty of Republicans. That doesn't stop them from trying. And of course, we recorded before news of Reince's departure and Mooch's divorce. Grr. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.comSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)
The unfortunate demise of Snooty the manatee, throwing Reince under the Priebus, reunited with Jeremy from Parma Hts, OH and Michelle who may have dated 1 or 2 Neandertahals.
While falsely accusing us, the restaurant planner accidentally proved the truth. Maybe she should run for President. - More -
Emmy and Peabody-winning producer and journalist Chris Whipple (60 Minutes, ABC News Primetime) discusses his new book called The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency. He'll reveal why the Chief of Staff is considered the 2nd most powerful job in government, who is considered to be the gold standard of White House Chiefs, and why the burnout rate is so high. He'll talk about how this relatively recent position was born out of Dwight Eisenhower's experience in the military and he'll discuss the Presidents who tried (and failed) to get by without a Chief of Staff. Plus, Chris rates the new Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, and reveals which mistake is a "hanging offense" for a White House Chief of Staff. Order The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency on Amazon or download the audio book for free with special promotion for our listeners at www.audibletrial.com/kickassnews. You can read can visit Chris Whipple’s website at www.chriswhipple.com and follow him on Twitter at @ccwhip. Today's episode is sponsored by the Amazon series Bosch. Stream season 3 of Bosch on Amazon Prime on April 21st. Please subscribe to Kickass News on iTunes and take a minute to take our listener survey at www.podsurvey.com/KICK. Support the show by donating at www.gofundme.com/kickassnews. Visit www.kickassnews.com for more fun stuff.
7 AM - 1 - Mitt went to dinner with The Donald and Reince. 2 - What do you get for giving $1 million to the Inauguration?. 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - Is the Mindfulness Craze Turning Us Into Suckers?.
Left is in meltdown mode. Chelsea Handler cries. Mom kicks son out of home for 'voting' Trump in a mock elementary school election. Others write the eulogy for the 2016 campaign & try to pick up the pieces. Donald Trump interviewed by Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes. Slate tells Dems not to run candidate whose turn it is. Article in The Stranger. Reince Priebus as Chief-of-Staff. Some are bothered the Trump selected an 'insider,' but Reince also did a great job supporting Trump down the final stretch of the campaign. Of course Democrats made an error in their math. What is the new Republican healthcare plan going to look like should they repeal & replace Obamacare? Those upset by Hillary loss should realize she isn't the savior: Jesus is. And we, with God's help, are the ones who hold the answers to our own problems on earth - not the government.
Left is in meltdown mode. Chelsea Handler cries. Mom kicks son out of home for 'voting' Trump in a mock elementary school election. Others write the eulogy for the 2016 campaign & try to pick up the pieces. Donald Trump interviewed by Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes. Slate tells Dems not to run candidate whose turn it is. Article in The Stranger. Reince Priebus as Chief-of-Staff. Some are bothered the Trump selected an 'insider,' but Reince also did a great job supporting Trump down the final stretch of the campaign. Of course Democrats made an error in their math. What is the new Republican healthcare plan going to look like should they repeal & replace Obamacare? Those upset by Hillary loss should realize she isn't the savior: Jesus is. And we, with God's help, are the ones who hold the answers to our own problems on earth - not the government.
Monday, Nov. 14th, 2016 - Anti-Trump protesters flood the streets to smash cop cars, start dumpster fires, and attack Trump supporters. Their anger is being fueled by disinformation and propaganda from the mainstream media who pretends to want the country to heal. Yet despite this claim, the media provokes more protests, which have devolved to rioting, with every story they report. On this 11th episode of the Propaganda Report we look at stories intentionally designed to further enraged the mob which are being used to keep the country in a chronic state of civil unrest. We also briefly talk about the truth behind Pearl Harbor. Links to books and documents mentioned are below. If You Haven't Yet, Be Sure To.... Click Here To Subscribe To The Propaganda Report On iTunes Click Here To Subscribe To The Propaganda Report On Google Play Music Click Here To Subscribe To Monica’s Blog Click Here To Subscribe To Brad’s Youtube Page Also in this episode: - Hillary Clinton supporters have lost their mind, and they're completely oblivious to it. - How Atrocity Propaganda works. - Hillary Loses! Cancel everything! - Hillary blames Comey. - Post Election Stress Syndrome. - The ideal propagandee is..... - Burn the electoral college! - A Very Disturbing Mannequin Challenge - Peal Harbor: An Inside Job? Video of Hillary supporter who wants her to walk into Supreme Court and change electoral. Articles Fueling Protests Is Trump Hedging On His Promises? Will Trump Speak Out Against Bigots? Michal Moore - Our Job Is To Make Sure Trump Doesn't Take Office Michael Moore - Get Out and Protest North Carolina GOP Condemns KKK Parade LGBT Community Fears Backlash of Trump Victory The Mannequin Challenge Takes on Racism in Frozen Frames Voters target Electoral College members to switch their Trump ballots, elect Clinton NBA DOING MORE THAN TAKING A KNEE NBA DOING MORE THAN TAKING A KNEE Book Recommendation Propaganda Technique in the World War Article about the opening of the Russian archives after WWI revealing the truth behind the purpose of the war. The titles of archives and documents mentioned in the article and in the show are in the "Notes" section of the article above. You can find most of them by doing a google search of "title, author, pdf" You can find a surprising amount of books and documents by adding "PDF" to your searches.
It's Bannon and Reince, leftists continue to lose their mind, and SNL destroys itself Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Matthias and Jordan are back this week to chat with Ryan Moy (@alwaysonoffense) about the future of the GOP and whether or not it can find "basic values as a party" and rebuild after the election. Terrible Opinions Ryan is apparently very, very particular when it comes to his Halloween candy. Jordan is upset that Jonah Peretti's bizarre tweet about Ivanka Trump is only one more example of the media industry tossing ethics out the window to get attention. Matthias thinks "journalists" like Kevin Robillard of Politico who take decent people out of context and sic Twitter trolls on them should be (metaphorically) burned at the stake. Consultants! Reince! Dumpster fire! Analysis, predictions, fears and hopes blend in our take on what the post-election conservative landscape will look like. Matthias really wants to know who exactly will be responsible for steering the GOP after Nov. 8. Is it enough for the GOP to replace Reince? Are those conversations already happening and is a plan for the party's future after Donald Trump in the works? Ryan discusses the possibility that Carly Fiorina will be tapped as the new GOP chair and details what she would bring to the table, while Jordan speculates on what the most powerful combination would be for 2020. We debate whether or not the alt-right will continue to infect the conservative movement after the election. Predictions Matthias depresses everyone with the prediction that the media will continue to give the alt-right oxygen by covering white supremacist events and otherwise bringing attention to their cause. Jordan points out that Trump's reaction if he loses the election could determine whether or not the media continues to make a profit from that kind of coverage (if he goes on that long vacation as promised and disappears from public view, not so much). She predicts that most of the GOP will wake up after the election and attempt to shock everyone with how much Trump never happened. Ryan predicts that Trump TV will launch and will be a fairly successful enterprise.
Warning: Explicit language In Episode 25 of Capitol Fight Club, John Gray, Brian Darling, Sam Sacks and Sam Knight battled over where Donald Trump should go from here, how he did in the debates and what the recent release of lewd footage about Donald Trump says about his chances in over the next month. Round 1 centered around who won the second presidential debate Sunday night in St. Louis. Round 2 focused on the tape itself, what it says about Trump’s character and what it means for congressional republicans running for re-election. Capitol Fight Club is a weekly face-off between two political insiders on the Right versus two on the Left. Darling and Gray (editor of The Ideas Factory) worked for Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and both write for Conservative Review. Our progressive friends, “The Sams,” Sam Sacks and Sam Knight, are the co-founders of the progressive blog The District Sentinel. Nate Madden of CR is the producer and the moderator of the podcast.
Steve and the team psychoanalyze Reince Priebus after he threatens Republicans who haven't boarded the Trump Train yet.
Driftglass and Blue Gal celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. We remember, actually remember, Andrew Breitbart, while Bill Kristol pretends to. Trump defies physics, the Tea Party was a scam all along, and Reince rallies with Trump because he's a Republican (again, never forget. No rebranding!) More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)
Jackie and Dunlap on whether Trump is more like Garfield or Heathcliff, Bernie Sanders gets mad at violence, who likes Hillary, and Reince Priebus gives up. Sponsors: Frogchurch Coffee and Biscuit Baby Days. Thank you kindly! Please rates and reviews. Youtubes, iTunes, Chachis.
Eliana almost gets in a bar fight in Williamsburg which reinforces Brent and Lar's determination to never go outdoors. A new Town of the Week and a discussion of the villain powers RNC Chairman Reince Priebus probably has when he battles Captain Planet.
After 46 episodes, everything lined up in such a way that we could have James’ wife Angela on as a guest. It’s a fun, almost completely unplanned episode. James and Jon ambushed Angela after work, and it worked out great. There aren’t many official topics, but many things are discussed. There’s also joke machine, the … Continue reading Episode 46: I Laugh More Than I Expect To →
Our featured guest this week is the Chairman or RNC, Reince Priebus. Master Priebus (because that makes him sounds like a Jedi) joins us to discuss the Wisconsin recall, the Democrat response to Cory Booker, and the RNC's social media outreach heading into November. We're also joined by The Transom's Ben Domenech, and Congressional candidate Sean Bielat (R-MA).
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