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Do we have peace in the Middle East after Israel and Iran agree to a ceasefire? After the end of hostilities, solo missile hits Israel … but who launched it? President Trump isn't happy today … with either side in the Israel-Iran conflict. Immigration win at the Supreme Court for the Trump administration. AG Pam Bondi vs. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). Socialist anti-Semite rapper Zohran Mamdani about to be the mayor of New York City? Chicago residents do not like Mayor Brandon Johnson (D). Sure, it's hot … but it's been much, much hotter. NAACP refuses to invite President Trump to its annual convention. Tesla stock up as robo-taxis start running in Austin, Texas. Sixty missing children rescued in Florida. Who broke into the home of slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Horton? THC remains legal in Texas. AI making up books for a summer reading list. Israel calls off response after Trump warns, as Middle East peace apparently holds. 00:00 Pat Gray UNLEASHED 00:22 The Israel-Iran Ceasefire 09:09 Karoline Leavitt on Congress being Informed of U.S. Strikes on Iran 11:52 John Fetterman in Support of Strikes on Iran 21:45 President Trump is Not Happy with Israel 25:51 GOP Senators say Iran Attack was a Great Success 30:46 Illegal Iranians Coming to the U.S.A. 33:58 Obama Military Strike Announcement Montage 39:25 Pam Bondi VS. Rosa DeLauro on ATF/Gun Trafficking 43:42 What's Happening in the Race for Mayor of New York? 49:23 More from NY Mayor Candidate: Zohran Mamdani 55:57 Chicago Residents Voice their Grievances to Mayor Brandon Johnson 1:05:11 NAACP Will NOT Invite a Sitting President to their Convention 1:10:19 Elon Musk Deploying Driverless Cars in Austin, TX 1:12:12 Pat Gerbil UNLEASHED 1:14:34 New Documentary Says Boeing is At Fault for Two Crashes 1:18:23 Trump Truth Social Statements on Iran, the Middle East, and Fake News 1:27:50 AI Creates Fake Books for Summer Reading List Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, joins Paul Jay and condemns the Israeli attack on Iran as an unprovoked violation of international law—and a dangerous step toward full-scale regional war. Wilkerson argues that the U.S. is complicit, acting through Israel as a proxy.  Wilkerson analyzes the use of the military in L.A. and doesn't mince words: the Empire is collapsing into autocracy and militarism, and the consequences could be catastrophic. TranscriptListenDonateSubscribeGuestMusic Paul JayHi, welcome to theAnalysis.news. I'm Paul Jay. In just a few seconds, we'll be back with Colonel Larry Wilkerson to discuss the Israeli attack on Iran.Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, who says this is not an attack on the Iranian people. It's an attack on the Iranian regime. But in fact, it's exactly that, an attack on the Iranian people. The sovereignty of a country is not the sovereignty of a government. It's the sovereignty of the people, and it's the sovereignty of Iran that has been illegally attacked by every piece of the UN charter and international law, an unprovoked attack on the people's sovereignty.Now, I've been very critical over the years of the Iranian government. I'm not going to call it a regime. I don't know why it's more of a regime than most of the other governments or states that call themselves governments. My guest and I, Larry Wilkerson, who will be here in just a few seconds, we've both been very critical of the Iranian government and its repression of people and opposition movements in Iran. That has nothing to do with what's going on here. This is an out-and-out, unprovoked attack on Iran. We're going to talk about the reasons for that, but let me just add one other small thing, which we'll talk about. It's maybe not that small.Critiquing this Israeli attack is not anti-Semitism. In fact, this is just like the Cold War. When people condemned the Vietnam War, they were called communists. They're being soft on communists. Well, now, if you critique the crimes of the Israeli government, and now this unprovoked war, and of course, the genocide in Gaza, the bombings in Lebanon, now you're an anti-Semite. It's being thrown around just the way it was, the anti-communist rhetoric of the Cold War.Now, joining us to talk about this current conflict is Larry Wilkerson. Thanks for joining us, Larry.Col. Lawrence WilkersonGood to be with you, Paul. Long time.Paul JayFor people who don't know, Larry was the Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, both at the Joint Chiefs and at the State Department. So, let me start by asking you, Larry, what do you make of the way the media is covering this? I was a little surprised over the last year that there were at least some reports on how Gaza was being devastated. You saw quite a few pictures of the killing of children, and there was a glimmer of legitimate reporting for a while. Now, this is so one-sided. I watch CNN, and guest after guest is essentially from the Israeli government or the Israeli ambassador, and the fact that this is a complete violation of international law is not even mentioned.Col. Lawrence WilkersonWell, this is truly a disgusting display of the Empire's degradation and profound slippage from world leadership. There's no question about that. Not only have we violated international law, consistently, we have ignored even those or punished even those who didn't want to ignore it or were trying to do something about it, like South Africa and their application to the court with regard to the genocide in Gaza. I think it's appalling that we did a Yamamoto. We did a Pearl Harbor. We did a Saddam Hussein on Kuwait attack on Iran. We, not Israel, the United States of America, using Israel as its foremost in the frontline proxy, if you will, just like we're doing with Ukraine. We said, diplomacy was going to continue. We achieved tactical surprise, an enormous advantage for an Air Force attacking,

Yesterday, a week after a cretinous anti-Semite illegal alien tried to firebomb mostly-elderly peaceful folks walking on Pearl Street Mall in support of bringing home the Gaza hostages, the Mall was the fullest I've ever seen it. Had to be at least a few thousand people between Broadway and 14th street including Jews and non-Jews, politicians, plenty of law enforcement, and just so many people showing their support for the hostages, for Jews, and for Israel.

The show opens with a story I want to convey to the Greta Thunberg's out there, cos-playing as part of the pro-Hamas movement of the Left. We have to remember, that a culture of death does not want to coexist with one of life. The employment numbers come in better than expected, much to the chagrin of the Legacy/mainstream media. Rep. Jame Comer (R-KY) finally sends out one subpoena to Dr. Kevin O'Connor, with promises of more to come, which likely include former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The media still doesn't really get it, but it's fun to watch them scramble. In the meantime, the Left has made it clear, they love owning people and making others their servants to be ordered about and to do as they are told. We then look further into the tiff between Elon Musk and President Trump, through the eyes of Victor Davis Hanson. Ultimately, they needs to be put to bed and a reconciliation needs to begin as quickly as possible. On the subject of reconciliation, OMB Director Russell Vought once again had to explain the difference of what is and what is not allowed in a reconciliation bill. The DOGE cuts cannot be part of it. They must be separate, stand-alone recission bills. Piers Morgan is undoubtedly a hater of Israel, thereby making him an anti-Semite. But, thanks to him, I have become acquainted with Natasha Hausdorff. Finally, I end with a word about this being the anniversary of D-Day and how far we have fallen from that greatest generation. I hope we can recapture some of that mettle we once had as American pioneers, explorers and inventors. Please take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR,  TRUTH Social and YouTube by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. And, consider becoming a sponsor of the show by visiting my Patreon page!!

Shira Weiss is National Director of Run For Their Lives.I hope you'll join me this Sunday in Boulder on the Pearl Street Mall just east of Broadway, at noon, to support the organization and people who were maniacally attacked by an illegal alien anti-Semite and apparent wannabe jihadist.

Glenn discusses the act of terrorism in Colorado, as an anti-Semite allegedly attacked Jewish protesters using a flamethrower. Is America gearing up to have another 9/11-type attack? Glenn rants against the Democrats for accusing Republicans of being the violent party while ignoring the political terrorists in their party. Glenn's chief researcher and defense expert, Jason Buttrill, joins to break down the Ukrainian attack on Russia and what it means for future wars. CNN is unhappy that the R-word is making a comeback. Glenn discusses the hard truth about the R-word and reveals the real word people should be offended by. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Glenn discusses the act of terrorism in Colorado, as an anti-Semite allegedly attacked Jewish protesters using a flamethrower. Is America close to have another 9/11-type attack? Glenn rants against the Democrats for accusing Republicans of being the violent party while ignoring the political terrorists in their party. How long will we let hatred fester in the name of tolerance? Glenn and Stu discuss the failure of Kamala Harris in picking Tim Walz as her running mate. A new report revealed the Biden administration ignored over 7,000 warnings of human trafficking. How is the Democrat Party considered the compassionate party? Glenn's chief researcher and defense expert, Jason Buttrill, joins to break down the Ukrainian drone attack on Russia and what it means for future wars. The guys further break down how everything regarding wars and nuclear weapons is about to change. CNN is unhappy that the R-word is making a comeback. Glenn discusses the hard truth about the R-word and reveals the real word people should be offended by. How did the gay marriage movement morph into the radical progressive movement it is today?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE INTIFADA HAS BEEN GLOBALIZED IN BOULDER And not just Boulder. Let's not forget that in a very short period of time an anti-Semite tried to burn down the Governor of Pennsylvania's mansion with him and his family in it, two people were murdered outside a Jewish Museum in DC, and now we have a man throwing flammable devices, likely Molotov cocktails, at a group of mostly elderly people walking down the Pearl Street Mall to remind people that there are still hostages in Gaza. Eight people have been injured, one of them quite badly, and they ranged in age from 52 to 88. The man who did it was shouting about Palestine and his name is Mohamed Sabry Soliman.

It was the whack heard around the world. The door on the airplane opened to a bewildered Emanuel Macron who downplayed what we all saw, clear as day in video footage. But big news out of Israel is the elimination of yet another Sinwar brother. Also reports of Israel planning an attack on Iran are heating up while the White House continues to tell Israel to stand down. Also, an Israeli competes in the Indy 500, and suspicious packages keep arriving at Knesset members. In other news, in the US, two innocents were brutally murdered by a far-left anti-Semite in Washington DC, and we put some of our elected officials under the microscope for their pro-Semite rating.   ** Town Appliance - For All Of Your Appliance Needs! ** No matter the budget, Town Appliance will get you the right appliance for your needs and give you the most value for your money. https://www.townappliance.com/ Call/Text/Whatsapp: 732-364-5195   ** BONUS CONTENT AVAILABLE NOW BY PHONE! ** Subscribe At: 605-417-0303 If you're having an issue connecting to our call-in number: Alternate number: 605-562-3525   Get official KC swag and show your support to the world! https://kiddushclubmerch.com   Subscribe now to keep us going and access bonus content! https://buymeacoffee.com/kiddushclub/membership     We have a call-in number where you can hear the cast! Tell your friends and family who may not have internet access! 605-417-0303 To Call In From Israel: +053-243-3287   Follow us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiddushclubpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kiddushclubcast Join our WhatsApp chat: https://2ly.link/27DRp Send us you thoughts comments and suggestions via email: hock@kiddushclubpodcast.com  

5/28/22025 Luke 19:41 Hatred Of Israel Today Intro: Most people call it Anti-semitism…..what is a Semite? A person who speak a Semitic language, including Jews and Arabs. Semita is the latin for the Greek word “Sem” or “Shem” a son of Noah in the Bible who these people are supposedly descended. Semitic people is an ethnic or racial group associated with people of the Middle East including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians and Pheonicians. Descendents of Shem included Hebrews, Aramaeans, Assyrians and Arabs. Any groups who speak a Semitic language. My point…..It's not Antisemitism…… it's Anti-Hebraism. Anti-Judaism. Anti- Sons of Jacob, Anti-Jewish people. And it has infected the whole world including the modern day church! Many national podcasts and national conservative Christian broadcasters are Anti-Jewish people. Blaming Jews for all the trouble in the world. This is not acceptable with God. Genesis 12:3 I will bless them that bless thee. Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

12 - Dom kicks off today with a litany of stories to start this rainy Thursday. 1215 - Side - all time geek/nerd 1220 - Why did Al Sharpton compare the Israeli ambassador employee's killing to George Floyd? Are these murders because of Trump? 1235 - Attorney Wally Zimolong joins us to discuss why he decided to represent Sheriff Fred Harran in his case against Bucks County Commissioners blocking the police department's coordination with ICE to deport illegal migrants. Why is the county so against what the police department is trying to do? What is the history with cases like this? 1250 - Your calls. 1 - Is Matt Rooney reading from a mailer? SaveJersey.com Founder and WPHT Weekend Host Matt Rooney joins us and we find out how much validity that claim has. Which NJ gubernatorial candidates understand what the citizens of the Garden State want? Will raising the SALT tax help or hurt Jersey? How will school choice play a factor in the race? What's coming down the Matt Rooney media pipeline? 120 - Your calls. We listen to audio of an eyewitness of last night's shooting arguing with CNN. What was the White House's response to the shooting? 130 - Steve Feldman of the ZOA joins us once again to react to these brutal killings of two Israeli embassy workers by an anti-Semite. Steve commends 1210 fighting the good fight for Jewish people, and then expresses his deep sorrow for the event and the rhetoric that led up to this. How has social media exacerbated anti-Semitism in real life? How bad is the misinformation on the Israel-Gaza conflict? 150 - Whitemarsh resident and petition start Christine Balster joins us again to preview the meeting tonight regarding the cancellation of the town's Fourth of July parade. What is the agenda going to be for tonight? Is this year's parade going to be suddenly radically different from previous years? Is the town aware of the coverage this story is getting? 2 - Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday joins us today. How successful was the recent drug bust in Kensington? What is happening with Medicaid fraud in Pennsylvania? How do people scam that system? With Krasner's winning of the Democrat primary, will things change in Philadelphia? What does Dave think of Sheriff Fred Harran's collaboration with ICE, and does Pennsylvania have any ties? How is PA locking down on theft? 215 - Dom's Money Melody! 220 - What is the media buzzword of the day? 235 - Will people tax less on their bills if there's no tax on tips? 240 - Your calls. 250 - The Lightning Round!

1 - Is Matt Rooney reading from a mailer? SaveJersey.com Founder and WPHT Weekend Host Matt Rooney joins us and we find out how much validity that claim has. Which NJ gubernatorial candidates understand what the citizens of the Garden State want? Will raising the SALT tax help or hurt Jersey? How will school choice play a factor in the race? What's coming down the Matt Rooney media pipeline? 120 - Your calls. We listen to audio of an eyewitness of last night's shooting arguing with CNN. What was the White House's response to the shooting? 130 - Steve Feldman of the ZOA joins us once again to react to these brutal killings of two Israeli embassy workers by an anti-Semite. Steve commends 1210 fighting the good fight for Jewish people, and then expresses his deep sorrow for the event and the rhetoric that led up to this. How has social media exacerbated anti-Semitism in real life? How bad is the misinformation on the Israel-Gaza conflict? 150 - Whitemarsh resident and petition start Christine Balster joins us again to preview the meeting tonight regarding the cancellation of the town's Fourth of July parade. What is the agenda going to be for tonight? Is this year's parade going to be suddenly radically different from previous years? Is the town aware of the coverage this story is getting?

On this Monday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid covers the breaking news of former President Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis, focusing on the phony societal norm that says it's mandatory for public figures to show their moral support for the former President and his family when most of those same people didn't have a nice thing to say about the man while he was in office. In other news of the day, the Sid marched in yesterday's annual Israel Day Parade in NYC, the New Jersey Transit strike officially ends, a resurfaced video of Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani further proves he is a staunch anti-Semite, a Mexican Navy ship crashes into the Brooklyn Bridge killing two sailors and injuring several others, the New York Knicks bury the Celtics and get set to face the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, and the Yankees take two of three from the Mets over the weekend in this season's first installment of the Subway Series. Mike Lawler, Arthur Aidala, Curtis Sliwa, John Catsimatidis, Brian Kilmeade and Bruce Blakeman join Sid on this Monday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Esa Galloway, activist, podcaster, and friend of the show, joins us to dig deep and reflect on the substance underneath the news. Esa (Paul) Galloway returns to the show after moving from Nashville and the American Muslim Advisory Committee to activist and podcaster. We discuss Islamophobia: Is it still relevant? Anti-Semitism, so what is a Semite? If only the democrats could have... . Then remember who you are because your Existence is Your Resistance.

On this Monday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid covers the loud weekend that was for the New York Yankees and their "torpedo bats", modified lumber that some Yankees hitters have been using to make more solid contact at a higher frequency. The science behind the initiative, originating within the Yankees analytical department, was backed up by the tune of 16 Yankees home runs over the weekend, leading to a three-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers to open the 2025 regular season for New York. In other news of the day, President Trump's dealings with Russia and Ukraine turns a bit sour regarding the war between the two countries, the President also teases the possibility of a third term in office and the loophole that may allow such a run in 2028, DOGE head Elon Musk holds a Town Hall in Wisconsin, and Columbia University appoints a new anti-Semite as its President. Jeff Lax, Ron Johnson, Darryl Strawberry, John Catsimatidis, Alan Dershowitz and Wayne Kopping join Sid on this Monday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve reacts to the Signal group chat flap published at the Atlantic and how the Trump team's response is actually more proof that his second administration is much different from the first. Then, Pastor Joel Webbon joins the program to answer the question: Is he an anti-Semite? In Hour Two, Fake News or Not is Pew research on Americans' trust (or lack thereof) in the federal government. Finally, Gary Buechler from Nerdrotic joins the show to talk about the ongoing demise of wokeness and how Hollywood is having a hard time catching up. TODAY'S SPONSORS: FIRST CUP COFFEE: https://firstcup.com/ use code DEACE CONSTITUTION WEALTH MANAGEMENT: https://constitutionwealth.com/Blaze PREBORN: https://give.preborn.com/preborn/media-partner?sc=IABSD0123RA FAST GROWING TREES: https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=Steve+Deace+Show code DEACE REAL ESTATE AGENTS I TRUST: https://realestateagentsitrust.com/ RELIEF FACTOR: VISIT https://www.relieffactor.com/ OR CALL 800-4-RELIEF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part 1 of Episode 14, we lay out the opening salvos of the Federal Election. The Liberal launch drew about 300 in St. John's with Mark Carney locking out protesting fishermen; meanwhile the CPC kick-off in North York drew 2500 and turned away 1000 supporters.Marty Gold describes some of the obstacles the international banker-turned- Canadian nationalist faces in establishing credibility with voters, the challenges from the media Carney bristles at, and the policy ideas already lifted from the Pierre Poilievre platform. Also, you'll hear the statement of Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire in retiring from a 25 year career as an elected Tory.17.15 Part 2- Last week we filed four very unique reports with the Winnipeg Sun. By raising important issues the broadcast media ignores, we prove our role is crucial to the local marketplace of ideas.The reports included: - If Uzoma Asagwara can't take the heat the disclosure of vital wait time information could generate, Premier Wab Kinew needs to find someone in his caucus who can. For patients, it could be a matter of life and death.Debbie's Law poll result corners Asagwara on patient safety https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/gold-debbies-law-poll-result-corners-asagwara-on-patient-safety- No other reporter attended the city Open House on rezoning to allow for federally-subsidized multi-unit housing builds. Listen for more about what was said at the session, the questions that planners couldn't answer, and what some residents saw and didn't like. "We were not impressed with any of these density designs. I am still shocked at the examples they showed, of how crowded these lots will be, also because of the height."City staff on the defensive at Open House on new four-plex zoninghttps://winnipegsun.com/opinion/0322-gold-city-staff-on-the-defensive-at-open-house-on-new-four-plex-zoning32.20 - The whispers aren't so quiet anymore that NDP loyalists look with great longing towards Wab Kinew as a potential savior of their political fortunes. But within the realm of the federal NDP, he has a problem.On the anniversary of the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas he stated, “Israel has a right to exist and a right to defend itself.” But Kinew plays the ‘both sides' game, where any mention of antisemitism or Jew-hatred (both real things) is paired with grave warnings about “Islamophobia” or “Anti-Palestinian racism”.  Kinew courts the “anti-Zionist not anti-Semite” mob https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/gold-kinew-courts-the-anti-zionist-not-anti-semite-mob- The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, in partnership with Congregation Shaarey Zedek, organizes the annual observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day –Yom HaShoah.“Last year, the Lieutenant Governor participated as the lead reader, and this year,” wrote the Heritage Centre, “we are honoured to welcome the Premier of Manitoba to fulfill this role.”This was not a well-thought out idea. The blowback directed to the Shaarey Zedek synagogue, which is hosting the event, was immediate. "We would not want to do something to offend or endanger our congregants or community. We are trying to navigate the delicate political position this has put us in.”Invitation to Kinew for Holocaust event fractures Winnipeg's Jewish communityhttps://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/gold-invitation-to-kinew-for-holocaust-event-fractures-winnipegs-jewish-community41.30 - Federal subsidies subvert the coverage of mainstream outlets. Our ability to do these reports, investigations, interviews and analysis is because of the financial support of listeners and readers who ensure we can get out in the field and in the production studio to deliver the information the public needs to know. Hear why your contribution in Season Six will keep our independent coverage a key part of the public affairs landscape. Our current total is $660 towards the Season Six target of $10,000. Go to our Donate Page to help us along!

On this Wednesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, the two NASA astronauts who were stranded in space for 10 months have finally been returned to Earth thanks to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's SpaceX. In other news of the day, President Trump appears on Fox News with Laura Ingraham to debrief the American people on his phone call yesterday with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding their ongoing war with Ukraine, Senator Chuck Schumer appears on The View and continues to expedite his downfall, Hollywood A-lister and proud Israeli Gal Gadot has her Walk of Fame ceremony interrupted by pro-Palestinian, anti-Semite protesters, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams falls way behind in fundraising in the upcoming race to become the city's next Mayor. Anthony D'Esposito, Morton Klein, Joe Benigno, Peter King and Scott LoBaido join Sid on this hump day installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, President Trump doubles down on a statement he originally made on the air with Sid last year, saying that Jewish Senator Chuck Schumer essentially identifies as a Palestinian these days, the Jewish holiday of Purim begins at sundown tonight, rallies continue to be held around the country in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Hamas anti-Semite leading the Jew-hating charge at the University of Columbia who is currently in the custody of ICE and could be subject to deportation, and Socialist New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan over the arrest of Khalil. Ellen Karis, Romen Nahom, Anthony Cumia, Arthur Aidala, Bill O'Reilly, Elizabeth Pipko and Suzanne Miller join Sid on this Friday-eve installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Congressman Peter King joins Sid to discuss the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests in support of the University of Columbia's lead anti-Semite in Mahmoud Khalil, the graduate who's currently in the custody of ICE. King then delves into the ongoing Mayoral race here in New York City, before he speaks on some national headlines in the news today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Wednesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, every day Americans continue to spaz out over the plummeting stock market, responding to the back & forth tariff war that President Trump has initiated. The President warned Americans that there would be a painful period for the market in immediate response to his tariffs, and that patience is a virtue when it comes to Wall Street's abysmal numbers over the last couple of days. In other news of the day, the Department of Education is slashing half of its employees thanks to President Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE, and pro-Palestinian protesters continue to gather in support of Columbia's lead anti-Semite in Mahmoud Khalil, the graduate who's currently in the custody of ICE. Craig Carton, Charles Gasparino, Ellie Cohanim, Peter King and Scott LoBaido join Sid on this hump day installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW 0:00 SEG 1 Is Margaret Brennan an anti-Semite? Speaker’s Stump Speech is brought to you by https://www.hansenstree.com/ and is about why good policy makes good politics 19:56 SEG 2 Abby Foster, VP of Policy and Advocacy for the Retail Energy Advancement League | TOPIC: Are electric utilities failing Missouri? End the utility monopoly in Missouri | Why do rates keep increasing? | Nick Schroer’s Bill SB 487, which would create "The Electrical Choice and Competition Law” https://www.retailenergychoice.org/ 34:48 SEG 3 The Associated Press has been banned from the White House press briefings and Air Force One https://newstalkstl.com/ FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW 0:00 SEG 1 Is Margaret Brennan an anti-Semite? Speaker’s Stump Speech is brought to you by https://www.hansenstree.com/ and is about why good policy makes good politics 19:56 SEG 2 Abby Foster, VP of Policy and Advocacy for the Retail Energy Advancement League | TOPIC: Are electric utilities failing Missouri? End the utility monopoly in Missouri | Why do rates keep increasing? | Nick Schroer’s Bill SB 487, which would create "The Electrical Choice and Competition Law” https://www.retailenergychoice.org/ 34:48 SEG 3 The Associated Press has been banned from the White House press briefings and Air Force One https://newstalkstl.com/ FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 Introductions01:15 Tariff Followup03:21 Plane Crash Followup06:59 Kanye West13:20 Trevor Noah24:00 Oh, Canada29:30 The Super Bowl—Trump was going to drop tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada. Everyone (except his lapdog-sycophant Republican legislators) said it was a bad idea; he said, “It's happening…”And the markets reacted by tanking.So, he called everything off, and declared victory.Our president, ladies and gentlemen.—Speaking of our president being super smart: after the tragic helicopter/plane crash in D.C., he said, “It's DEI.”Well, a slew of white pilots later, one safety switch turned off, and a helicopter flying 300 feet above its fly zone…Oops.It's funny, because he created blame, anger, and victimization for no reason.—Everyone's favorite anti-Semite is back in the news!Kanye went on a hate-rant on Twitter, and the world screamed in horror.Come on… we don't expect this from him by now?This isn't news.We hit quite a few live chat comments during this segment.Jake compares Kanye to Mel Gibson and his racist rants using the n-word, and nathan compares Kanye still being able to stream music to notorious perverts who still get played: R. Kelly, and Michael Jackson.People separate the art, from the artist. —Ah, crybabies.Is there anything they won't cry about?Oh, right.No.They're crybabies.Trevor Noah made a joke about illegal immigrants voting for Grammy winners, and referenced the fact cocaine is produced in Columbia. What happened?Ten of the stupidest people on the planet jumped on Twitter to whine.Meanwhile, the actual president of Columbia, Gustavo Petro, said, “Cocaine is no worse than whiskey.”Should it be legalized?Should drugs be legalized?Maybe, as long as they don't do it like Portland, Oregon did.They decriminalized drugs, and gave homeless people more power than taxpayers. Odd choice, and it didn't work out for them at all.—Elon Musk is currently showing the world that he's an even bigger a-hole than you ever thought, which is amazing, considering everyone knew he was a pretty big a-hole to begin with.Well, Ontario Premier Doug Ford decided to act, and is voiding a $68 million contract with Starlink, a Musk owned business.Good on ya, Ford.We also talk about cuts to USAID. —We recorded this before the Philadelphia Eagles DOMINATED the Kansas City Chiefs, but now that it's over?Wooooo!Thank. God.Everyone is so sick of the Chiefs, and man, it's sad that Kelce seems to have lost some of his sense of humor. Patrick Mahomes took a joke question about refs in stride, but Kelce pouted. Fly Eagles Fly.Idiots on Parade: we mock the news, so you don't have to.Tune in and get your giggle on.Find Jake at @jakeveveraFind nathan atnathantimmel.com

Part 1 - You'll hear an introduction for our new listeners about TGCTS and our role in the public affairs landscape. We specialize in long-form interviews with elected officials, candidates, and newsmakers, holding government and institutions to account and providing a voice for the public. 6.00 Part 2 - A longtime director of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Wally Daudrich is a Churchill hotelier and eco-tourism operator (Lazy Bear Expeditions) and recently became a part-owner of the Winnipeg Sun. He decided to step up and run to become the new PC leader. "A lot of what I've been doing is building up trust with the legacy members," many of whom were put-off by the last leadership race process and 2023 election campaign. "I'm trying to bring those people back into the fold" and "fix the brand," Daudrich explains. His vision includes northern, mining and infrastructure development, citing the royalty revenues Saskatchewan derives as evidence mining could boost the provincial treasury by $3B. Daudrich discusses aspects the PC Party needs to shore up- improving communicating with members is at the forefront. He cites Pallister's pandemic management as a source of internal tensions and dissatisfaction, and says in comparison to places like South Dakota, "The government was being influenced by the wrong people." * To send feedback, topic or interview suggestions, or E-transfers to support our work - martygoldlive@gmail.com 19.00 - Daudrich believes that during the pandemic, Pallister was distracted by a constantly-critical media "that influenced the policy that we sought." He is also critical that caucus members "got pulled into that vortex" and didn't support maintaining "the semblance of freedom that we have." Daudrich and his wife worked hard to build a multi-million dollar business while raising 5 kids. He's opposed to policies creating a dependence on government funding and "a culture of victimhood." He wants citizens "to excel in your life" and create businesses, and wants to wean Manitoba off of federal transfer payments: "Why are we the only western province that has to have our hand out?" 29.20 Part 3 - Marty Gold asks Daudrich about his personal and business background, having a residence in the Morden-Winkler area, and policy matters. - On crime and public safety he says there's "a mood introduced under Justin Trudeau that we need to coddle these criminals" and for cops becoming social workers. - "We used to laugh at Saskatchewan" but now their mining policies underpin a strong economy. - Daudrich believes the proposed NeeStaNan Utility Corridor to build a rail line to Port Nelson could bring up to $100B in investments and jobs to the province. - "We've got hundreds of miles of coastline that gives us access to the North Atlantic and some of the biggest markets in the world for energy, for potash and agriculture products and we're doing nothing on that front." 47.00 - Daudrich is firmly against the "I'm an anti-Zionist not an anti-Semite" radicals terrorizing public spaces and dividing western societies. "I am an absolute supporter of the state of Israel and the Jewish people without any apology." He says the public has to closely assess whether politicians like Premier Wab Kinew actually take action against Jew-hate or just engage in "Symbolism over substance." * More about the Daudrich campaign is at Wally4Leader.ca * 57.25 Part 4 - Our Donate page on ActionLine.ca has handy lists of our Top Podcasts of 2024; interviews with political leaders, public figures and crime victims; and our reports on City Hall and the Legislature. It's a great way to get caught up on important issues that matter, and the lists serve as proof that when we kick-off the Season 6 funding campaign in February, we ALWAYS earn your support. Go to WinnipegSun.com to read more columns and news reports from Marty Gold.

We are still awaiting a decision on whether the anti-Semite will speak tomorrow to a group of Mpls teachers. matt Gaetz withdraws his name from Attorney General consideration. Is Pete Hegseth next? Johnny Heidt with guitar news.Heard on The Show:Eden Prairie Man Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Prison for COVID Relief Fraud, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Money LaunderingNow live: DNR officially launches new Eagle CamGaetz withdraws as Trump's pick for attorney general, averting confirmation battle in the Senate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We are still awaiting a decision on whether the anti-Semite will speak tomorrow to a group of Mpls teachers. matt Gaetz withdraws his name from Attorney General consideration. Is Pete Hegseth next? Johnny Heidt with guitar news. Heard on The Show: Eden Prairie Man Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Prison for COVID Relief Fraud, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Money Laundering Now live: DNR officially launches new Eagle Cam Gaetz withdraws as Trump's pick for attorney general, averting confirmation battle in the Senate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pat Garofalo in studio with the news that the Mpls Federation of Teachers Union intends to host a speech by virulent anti-Semite. We suspect that the event scheduled for Friday may get cancelled. Johnny Heidt with guitar news.Heard On The Show:A tale of two retailers: Target reports sluggish spending while Walmart has a stellar quarterLawsuit claims St. Paul Public Schools ‘misused' federal COVID funding violating federal lawWhat to know about Linda McMahon, Trump's pick for Education secretary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pat Garofalo in studio with the news that the Mpls Federation of Teachers Union intends to host a speech by virulent anti-Semite. We suspect that the event scheduled for Friday may get cancelled. Johnny Heidt with guitar news. Heard On The Show: A tale of two retailers: Target reports sluggish spending while Walmart has a stellar quarter Lawsuit claims St. Paul Public Schools ‘misused' federal COVID funding violating federal law What to know about Linda McMahon, Trump's pick for Education secretary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Abraham, the Semite, is told by G-d to go to Israel, from which the Semites are being driven out and dispossessed by Canaanite invaders

Caroline Glick, senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate, joins Sid to answer the most pressing question of the day: Is Tucker Carlson an anti-Semite? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special Guest Host Ken Hensley Ken dives deep into the intricate relationship between faith and obedience in the context of salvation and justification. He examines how Paul contrasts faith with works of the law, not with simple obedience to God. Plus, he addresses historical misinterpretations surrounding Luther's struggle versus Paul's struggle. He also takes a caller's valuable critique on addressing antisemitism head-on.   Paul the Apostle's statements about “Works” (01:09) Christine - Complaint about comment that Luther was anti-Semite because he was German. (15:57) Mark - Did Luther ask for a Catholic priest when he was on his deathbed? (19:53) Sal – A lightbulb came on listening to your talk today. (21:53) Brian – I read the Lutheran confessions and I don't believe the battle between faith and works is necessarily what people think it is. (32:23) David - I call it the 'Protestant Revolution.'  Luther introduced a lot of new ideas. (41:45) Jim – Did Allister McGrath bring out a new theology about Justification? (46:46) Mark - Is it okay to choose between the lesser of two evils? It seems like that is something we have to do in politics today? (48:09)

Today's Friday episode opens, as is customary, with Tara Bull's Top 10 News Items the Legacy/mainstream media likely didn't tell you about this week. It's always great to go through those in rapid-fire style before diving into the news stack. Nothing says celebrating Independence Day like illegal migrants on the streets of Philadelphia lighting American flags on fire, while waving those of Palestine and Hamas. And, since I'm discussing pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist, anti-Semite, anti-Constitutional, anti-America people, let's check out four members of the Squad. It seems Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) all chose not to wish their constituents a Happy 4th of July. Today's jobs report is not nearly as good as the Left wants you to believe. Plus, they quietly revised the past two months numbers down over 111,000 jobs. We also saw unemployment go up to 4.1%. And, 74% of the jobs were in the public sector or healthcare. Next, we spend time going through more tap-dancing from the Leftist media outlets and their proxies. Joe Biden told Democrat Governors that he needs to get more sleep and not work so hard. The AP said Biden is “sharp and focused, but sometimes confused and forgetful.” That ought to help. Joe Scarborough has found a 3rd position to take on Biden's debate performance. Peter Baker, Chief White House correspondent for the NYTimes put out a tweet where it is so hard to decide which side he favors as a “journalist.” Olivia Nuzzi with New York Magazine wants us to know she first heard about the disturbed interactions people were having with Joe Biden starting in January, but it took her seven months to finally write her story. She must really suck at what she does. Little Brian Stelter was back on his on CNN and wants us to believe Democrats are must more pious and sanctified because they are at least having the conversation over replacing Joe Biden. Those waskily wepublicans are sticking with a “convicted felon.” VP Kamala Harris is on the damage control bandwagon. She is selling the tale that Joe is just as sharp and as on the ball as ever. He just had a bad night, but we need to give him some time to show the world he's totally fine. Similarly, the self-appointed consiglere of the Biden Crime Family Syndicate is out pushing the same narrative. Axios, however, may have revealed the most concerning item to today. It seems three of Jill Biden's closest advisers and confidants are the ones surrounding Joe Biden, where he's lost all independence. I don't remember voting for Annie, Ashley and Anthony, the triple A's, to call the shots. We start to wind down with the State Supreme Court in Wisconsin shooting down the law preventing ballot drop boxes. Seems they are pretty focused on being able to use them for cheating once again. We remind you of Kamala's soft bigotry of low-expectation stance regarding voter ID laws. And, we remind you that the VP is a very low-IQ person, even when she tries so hard to sound smart. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

WABC Host Curtis Sliwa joins Sid live in-studio to discuss the arrest of the subway car anti-Semite in Anas Saleh, and why in the world the 24-year-old was not charged with a hate crime and only received a desk appearance ticket for spreading his hate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, tonight is fight night as we gear up for the first presidential debate between incumbent President Joe Biden and challenger and former President Donald Trump. Sid welcomes on a flurry of guests that help him give listeners a great idea of what they can expect during tonight's debate. In other news of the day, the anti-Semite that spewed his hate on a New York City subway car a few weeks ago turns himself in only to receive a mere desk appearance ticket, the aid pier that Biden and his administration had installed on the shores of Gaza continues to run into issues, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reiterated America's concern regarding Israel's avoidance of Gaza civilians, the Mets run roughshod on the Yankees once again, and the Knicks retain forward OG Anunoby before making their first round selections in this year's NBA Draft from the Barclays Center. Bobby McGuire, Curtis Sliwa, Paul DiGiacomo, Bill O'Reilly and Mike Sapraicone join Sid on this Friday-eve installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode, Jonathan and Sy talk with the incredible Brandi Miller about:-        How faith and churches change when we engage with the political idolatry of the American church-        The spiritual and political fruit of the MAGA movement-        The good things people still want and can find in Jesus and Christian community amidst all the nonsense-        Developing inner lives that can sustain political engagement and community building-        Plus, Jonathan and Sy discuss some fascinating numbers about the political views and voting patterns of the average Black Christian versus the average overall DemocratMentioned in the Episode-            Our anthology, Keeping the Faith-            Brandi's podcast, Reclaiming My Theology-            Her other show, The Quest Church Podcast-            The article on Black, Christian political beliefs and votingCredits-        Follow KTF Press on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Subscribe to get our bonus episodes and other benefits at KTFPress.com.-        Follow host Jonathan Walton on Facebook Instagram, and Threads.-        Follow host Sy Hoekstra on Mastodon.-        Our theme song is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra – listen to the whole song on Spotify.-        Our podcast art is by Robyn Burgess – follow her and see her other work on Instagram.-        Transcripts by Joyce Ambale and Sy Hoekstra.-        Production by Sy Hoekstra and our incredible subscribersTranscript[An acoustic guitar softly plays six notes, the first three ascending and the last three descending – F#, B#, E, D#, B – with a keyboard pad playing the note B in the background. Both fade out as Jonathan Walton says “This is a KTF Press podcast.”]Brandi Miller: God made people in God's own image, and people's job is not to conform into your pastor's version of following Jesus. It's to conform more into the likeness of Jesus as you become more yourself. And so instead of going to a pastor who is essentially saying, “Follow me as I follow Jesus,” you say, “We're following Jesus, and you're gonna discover who you are along the way.”[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Welcome to Shake the Dust, seeking Jesus, confronting injustice. I'm Sy Hoekstra.Jonathan Walton: And I'm Jonathan Walton. We have a fantastic show for you today. We are talking all about church and politics with the great Brandi Miller, who many of you know. And we're doing our new segment, Which Tab Is Still Open?, diving deeper into one of the recommendations from our newsletter. This week, a closer look at the political beliefs of the average Black Christian versus the average Democrat. If you think those are pretty much the same, you've got stuff to learn [laughter]. So stay tuned.Sy Hoekstra: Brandi Miller is the host of the podcast, Reclaiming My Theology. As she calls it, a space to take our theology back from ideas and systems that oppress. She's also now newly the host of the Quest Church Podcast, which is unsurprisingly for Quest Church in Seattle [laughs], where Brandi has the staff position of Chief Storyteller. Before that she was a justice program director with a college ministry working at the intersection of faith, justice, and politics. If you know Brandi, I don't have to convince you that this is a good conversation. If you don't, just, you need to get to know her, so [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yes, yes, yes.Sy Hoekstra: Get ready for this one.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, we talked to her about her perspective on evangelical politics, how she sees people's faith changing as they engage with the American church's idolatry, and what Jesus has to offer as a vision for us in this political landscape. There is a lot in the episode, I hope you're ready. Her article in our anthology was called, “Left Behind: What American Evangelicalism Has Lost and Needs to Find.” And of course, you can get the anthology at keepingthefaithbook.com.Sy Hoekstra: And before we get started, just a reminder that we have been telling everyone we need your subscriptions [laughter], please. The best way, if you are into what we do, helping people try and leave the idols of White America and seek Jesus through this media and you want to help us build something that can do that in an effective and far reaching way to people, we need your support. We have been doing this as a side gig for a lot of time. For a long time it's been me and Jonathan in our rooms with laptops trying to make things work, and they have worked [laughs]. But if you wanna see that stuff grow and you wanna see this stuff continue for a long time into the future, we really do need your support.So go to KTFPress.com, please become a paid subscriber. Get access to all the bonus episodes of this show. Get access to our monthly subscriber chats that we're starting, get access to comments on our posts and support everything we do centering and elevating marginalized voices. If you cannot afford a subscription, like if money's the only barrier, please just write to us, info@ktfpress.com, and we will give you a free or discounted subscription. Whatever you ask for, no questions asked. We want everyone to have access to all the stuff that we're putting out, but if you can afford it, we really, really want the support.Actually, one of the things that you'll be supporting now is that our newsletter is free. So anybody can go to KTFPress.com, sign up for the free mailing list. You get news about KTF press, you get all kinds of stuff like that, but you also get recommendations from us every week that are things that we think will be helpful in your political education and discipleship. And you will also get things from us that we think are helpful in staying grounded and hopeful in the midst of all of the difficult issues that we are all seeing in our news feeds and in our politics and everywhere else and in our churches. So please, KTFPress.com, become a paid subscriber. Thank you so much in advance.Jonathan Walton: Yep. Thanks in advance, and here is the interview with Brandi.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Jonathan Walton: Brandi, thank you so, so much for joining us on Shake the Dust. We really appreciate it.Brandi Miller: Of course. Glad to be here. Always glad to get to spend time with you all, so.How Does Faith Change When We Engage with The Idolatry of the American Church?Making Our Political Theology Accessible to EveryoneJonathan Walton: Yeah, I mean, now you wrote this bomb essay. Okay. And so something that you said, which [laughs] is still true in 2024: " The result of the syncretism of American religion, propaganda-based iconography and political power is cultish religiosity centered on Donald Trump as God's Messiah sent to buttress patriotism, political power, and global dominance. Regardless of his lack of demonstrable Christ-likeness in his politics, it is clear that pandering to his constituents' desire for Christianized power in the United States has framed him as the president who will ‘bring America back to God.' This is a trade-off: Christian practice and the way of Jesus for American Christian power and utopianism.” End quote.Monstrous, amazing text, right? [laughter] Now, after you wrote this, you became a staff member at a church, right?Brandi Miller: Mm-hmm.Jonathan Walton: And you have a large community of people following and engaging with you online. And as you try to teach and disciple people out of this syncretism slash nonsense, how have you seen their faith change?Brandi Miller: Well, one thing I'll say is something that's changed about myself first, because even as I hear back my own words, I can hear how inaccessible they are to a common regular person. Like how many four to six-syllable words can I use to say Donald Trump does not look like Jesus, and that does not matter to most Christians who follow White American religion. That is what I was trying to say, that there is a propaganda based way of doing religion that has indoctrinated a ton of us into a traumatic type of spirituality that we cannot hold. And so I think even a critique of myself in a way that I've changed is trying to ask, how do I take what is a political reality rooted in a current religious moment and strip it down in a way that a regular person can understand?Because if I am theologizing people out of their own experiences or trying to pull them out of a demonstrably terrible politic and they can't understand where we're going, then that's on me. And so I think that part of my trying to engage with a lot of this stuff has been my own change around how I engage with it so that people who are trying to follow Jesus outside of this kind of syncretism with American nationalism can actually come along.When People See the Idolatry, Staying in Church Community Is HardBrandi Miller: That being said, I think that, I mean, it's been kind of bleak honestly. Like I think that the church that I work at is a church that is people's last stop on their way out of Christianity specifically for these issues. Because they can see the ways that American politics have more say in the lives of people who identify as Christian than Jesus does.And when that is the case, it is really hard to be a part of a Jesus community. And so what I'm seeing a lot is people trying to figure out, can I actually trust community as I follow Jesus? And a lot of people can't. And it makes sense to me, and they leave. But what ends up happening is that people are like, “Well, I can follow Jesus outside of the church,” and I actually believe that some people can do that. But I think because community is at the core of following Jesus, when you leave in those contexts without any kind of community to buttress your faith at all, it's really, really hard to, with integrity, continue to live out those values, and it's really easy to become increasingly cynical in the media ecosystem that we have.And so I don't really know what to tell people pastorally, right? Because there are many ways that I could say, “No, no, no, just come back to the church,” but the church isn't trustworthy. And I can say, “No, go on your own,” but with a lack of community, a lot of the faith stuff falls apart because it's meant to be done together in a non-westernized religious context. And so I'm finding that to be a pretty sad and frustrating space to occupy. So I think that'd be my first bid.What People Can Still Get from Church Community Even after Seeing the IdolatryJonathan Walton: I have so many thoughts, but I'm going to let Sy ask his question.Sy Hoekstra: No, no, no, go for it, Jonathan. We have time.Jonathan Walton: [laughs] So in the midst of that, this new like re-imagining of what community would look like, independent of the colonized faith, what we call it at KTF, White American folk religion, what I call it in Twelve Lies, are there any fireworks of imagination that have happened that you're like, “Oh, that looks nice. That might be something that is hopeful,” for a group of people who are on this subway stop at the end of the line?Brandi Miller: Well, I mean, I think that people still want all the good stuff, right? I think people want connection and community and gentleness and kindness and meekness and self-control and the fruit of the spirit, and the beatitudes. I think people still want the Jesus stuff. People want to live in an accessible and just world where people can be fully themselves, where the image of God in me meets the image of God in you, and somehow in that magic we're transformed. I think people still want that, and I think when people come and get a taste of that, it's really, really beautiful. Because what it results in really is friendship and friendship results in systems change and system change results in world change and political change.Jonathan Walton: Right, right, right.Brandi Miller: And so, I think that what I've seen happen is a lot of progressive spaces have done one of two things. One, said like, well, the individual transformation doesn't matter. And I'm like, that's actually not true. The health of the individual and the health of the system are always a cycle that are moving over and over and over again. And so we're like, “Well, F individual transformation and let's just like go do the system change.” And I'm like, yeah, but if like people don't change, then they're not gonna be alongside you as you change the systems and not understand why the systems change would be good for them. And I think churches do that too.Jonathan Walton: Right?Brandi Miller: So I think a lot of progressive media culture does that on one side, and then the other side uses all of this abstraction to describe what the world looks like when it changes, which is, I don't know, right now sounds like the end of postmodern empire. Like we're in empire collapse right now. And I'm like, “No one knows what that means.” Most normal average people do not know what it means. So they're like, “Let's find creative ways to engage post empire collapse.” And I'm like, can you just say that the United States is participating in all kinds of evil, and when our comeuppance happens, it's going to result in a completely different societal structure that we are not ready for.And so, what I'm always looking for are glimpses of what could life look like after that? Which I think is what you're asking. And a lot of that looks like people choosing to care for each other well to build more simple lives rather than more complicated ones, to choose work that isn't their entire identity and allowing themselves to explore who they are outside of the kind of enculturation that happens when we don't have a life outside of that. And that is what I've seen change people's politics. It's not like having a fancy activist job. It's seeing how your neighbors are suffering and doing something about that together, or getting a measure on a ballot that changes things for folks.And so I think that I'm seeing glimpses of people entering into more embodied, simple space that is actually transformative and actually grounding and does a lot to downshift some of our very present anxiety. And I think that's been really good. And so I think there's some structural and systemic things I've seen too, but a lot of the stuff that I'm seeing is people trying to make sense of this abstracted language and say, what does this actually mean for my life in real time, and how can that be good?The Fruit of the MAGA MovementSy Hoekstra: One thread there that kind of leads into my next question is, you said that the idea that your church is the last stop on a lot of people's road out of Christianity, when I was a kid, I would, in evangelical churches, I would hear the sentiment a lot that—I would hear that sentiment a lot actually. I would hear like, “Oh, when you go to a progressive church, that's just, you're just on your way out [laughs], so don't ever go there.” That was the kind of, that was the warning, right?Brandi Miller: Yeah [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: But basically, what I hear you saying is the reason that it's their last stop or the reason that they're on their way out is not because of they've lost their way or a lack of integrity, they don't really care about Jesus, whatever. They actually care about Jesus maybe more than the places that they left, and got so hurt as a result that that's why they're on their way out. And that's, I think that's a reality that Jonathan and I see a lot too, and I just wanted to point that out to people. But also this kind of gets a little bit into what my next question was, which I also had a big long quote here, but I'll just summarize [laughs] because Jonathan already read a big long quote [laughter].Jonathan Walton: I did.Sy Hoekstra: You basically talked about how there are a lot of masks that evangelicals wear to cover their support for Donald Trump's racism. So it's like the sanctity of life or pro-gun politics or pro-Israel politics. And that it basically that the result of that is you're not talking about the racism of Donald Trump, you're talking to people about those masks and saying, “If you're not willing to wear this mask, then basically you're an enemy to be negated because you're a baby killer, or you're an anti-Semite” or whatever it is. But I wonder if four years on having seen so much more of the fruit of the MAGA movement, if there's anything that you would kind of add on to this description of how it operates.Shifting Acceptable Political Discourse Far to the RightBrandi Miller: Yeah. So one of the main things I think about right now is the Overton window. So for folks who aren't familiar with the Overton window, it's essentially the range of acceptable political thought from left to right. And so there is an acceptable range of political thought, I'm doing some writing and thinking about this right now, but that what is considered far on the left and far on the right changes as that window shifts farther left or right. And what we've seen in the last four years is the Overton window shift so far to the right, that stuff that would've been considered so extreme, so outlandish, so problematic as to not be acceptable is now mainstream.So when George Santos can have an entire political campaign and multiple years of being in the public spotlight, and everyone be like, “Ah, this is just kind of like normal run-of-the-mill American politics,” that's wild.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, yeah [laughs].Brandi Miller: When Donald Trump can have dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of criminal, like of criminal… or like he has so many, so many things that are happening right now at felony levels, and we're like, “Oh, I mean, he's just like working through it.” That is so wild to me, that the Overton window has shifted so far to the right that Marjorie Taylor Greene can do every bit of chaos that she's doing. That Mike Johnson is considered a normal speaker of the house.Jonathan Walton: That is, ugh… [laughs].Brandi Miller: We've moved so far right, that now what used to be considered moderate is considered hyper progressive. That being like, hey, like… maybe we should give people… that we've actually reversed, like with Roe v. Wade, we've reversed rights for people and we consider that normal. Like the Overton window has shifted so aggressively to the right that it is so, so damaging. And that has just continued over the last four years.Shifting Acceptable Religious Thought Far to the RightBrandi Miller: The thing I am observing and doing a lot of work around right now is what does it mean when the Christian range of political or range of acceptable religious thought also shifts to the right? And so I've been asking the question, what is that?What we're talking about really is orthodoxy. We're saying there is this range of historically acceptable Christian thought, but when that gets chain linked to the Overton window and shifted to the right, the way of Jesus that gets to be considered left or moderate or something becomes completely unidentifiable to most Christians. And when that happens, the only response that we have in those super conservative spaces or that have moved to the right that much is to parrot political actors and call it holiness. And that is what I'm most concerned with and what I'm seeing most right now, is that people can't even have conversations because of those things like, yeah, you're an anti-Semite or you're a baby killer, or whatever.You can't even have the conversations about why that ideology became important to someone, because even questioning the ideology itself or that indoctrination feels like it's a deviation from holiness because your religion is so connected to nationalism that to separate those feels like sin.Sy Hoekstra: It's almost, it's like the way that you might get a question shut down in church because if of something you're asking about some orthodox doctrine or whatever, like expressing a doubt of some kind.Brandi Miller: Yep.Sy Hoekstra: You're saying that's not just religious anymore basically. That is political. Or the politic—because the religious and the political are so closely linked that your political doubt is religious doubt almost.Brandi Miller: Yes. Yes, most certainly. Connected to God's connection to a nation.What Is the Good That All the Idolatry Is Overshadowing?Jonathan Walton: Yeah, I got in this conversation with a… Sometimes I opt into the online debates to get fodder for more posts [Sy laughs]. And I asked someone what they meant by Orthodox. They were saying “Israel is God's nation. The United States should support Israel because we are also God's nation, we're mirror countries of each other. This is an orthodox view.”Sy Hoekstra: Whoa.Jonathan Walton: They had obviously no, like no image or thought about the non-evangelical 200-year-old, 50-year-old, 25-year, 2-year-old church that they were in [laughter], you know? But all that to say, as you talk about Jesus on your show, talk about Jesus in your writing, talk about Jesus in your church, talk about Jesus with us. We're constantly trying to get people to look at the Jesus of Nazareth and not the Jesus of nationalism. Right? What would you say in this era, like with the church and politics, what value do you think Jesus's teaching, Jesus's witness, his life, death, resurrection has to offer us this election season? And what is the good that all the syncretism that we're talking about is just completely overshadowing?Following Jesus Helps us Find Ourselves and Resist Structures That Demand ConformityBrandi Miller: Well, right. The Jesus story is a continuation of the Hebrew story, and that story is centered on a God who cares about righteousness. And righteousness is not adherence to political doctrine, it's right living in harmony and wellbeing with other folks. Dr. Randy Woodley talks about shalom in the community of creation and that you know that the world is well when the marginalized say so. And the Hebrew scriptures follow that journey really, really closely. Even if the people fail in it, God's calls stay consistent to make sure that the orphan and the widow and the foreigner are cared for. And that we know that a whole community is healthy and well and living rightly when that's the case. And Jesus lives out that same story.And part of that story requires that people are given the chance to be themselves. That if we believe in this kind of, there's a lot that I do not believe about how we extrapolate Genesis one and two, but I think one of the core things is that like God made people in God's own image, and people's job is not to conform into your pastor's version of following Jesus. It's to conform more into the likeness of Jesus as you become more yourself. And so instead of going to a pastor and essentially saying, ‘Follow me as I follow Jesus,” we say, “We're following Jesus and you're gonna discover who you are along the way.” And that is what Jesus does with his disciples. Right? Jesus invites a diverse group of wackadoodle dudes to come and be themselves [Jonathan laughs]. And they change a lot. They change a lot, but they don't change away from themselves, which I think we see in the story of Peter, right? Peter's a fisherman at the beginning and he's a fisherman at the end. And the way in which he's a fisherman is really different, but he is still at his core in some ways who he is. And I know there's some conflation with vocational and whatever, but there are ways that people are, that people who were zealous in the beginning are zealous, but in a more refined way at the end. People who were engaging with the people in a particular way are doing so less judgmentally at the end.So I think there's a way that there is an invitation to become fully ourselves that we do not get in church spaces because we're told that sanctification or that honoring the death and resurrection of Jesus is to become less like yourself. It's to do this… I think we just take the John the Baptizer quote, “more of him, less of me” out of context when you're like… y'all, the reason he's saying that is because they think he's the Messiah and he needs to make some stuff really clear. He's not saying, I need to become less of myself. John needs to become more and more of himself in order to do what Jesus has invited him to do.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Brandi Miller: And so, because in the church we often say, let's collapse our identities into one social, political and religious identity, people lose themselves. And so I think part of the invitation and the good that we offer to people is that you get to be yourself. And that justice work, this other side of the coin in the Hebrews text around justice and righteousness is making things right when righteousness, when people's ability to live fully as themselves to live original blessing is not in place. And so I think that there's an invitation in the way of Jesus to live fully as ourselves and to make right the spaces where people are not offered space to live the life that is abundant.Jonathan Walton: May it be so in churches and spaces this fall [laughs] where that could be extrapolated. And as you were talking, I was just like, yeah, “God loves you,” should not be a controversial statement.Brandi Miller: Right…. Woof…Jonathan Walton: Right? Like it shouldn't [laughs].How Has Brandi's Calling Changed around Political Engagement?Sy Hoekstra: Alright. So, on your show, you're often talking about theology and culture. You obviously have a ton to say about politics though, and I've heard you say on the show you'd be kind of more interested in getting into that somehow at some point in your life. And you took a break from the show recently. Basically, you're in the middle of a season on purity culture, and you kind of took a break from the show because you felt some tension between talking about theology and church culture and purity culture with everything that's going on in Gaza. And I'm just wondering how the last four years have affected your sense of calling or your desire to engage politically from someone who has largely played a pastoral role.Helping People Develop Inner Lives that Can Sustain Political EngagementBrandi Miller: Yeah. Some of what I'm learning is that regardless of whether there's an urgent political moment that people are still entering into these spaces in a lot of different ways. And so me stopping the podcast because of everything happening in Gaza and trying to figure out how to respond wasn't actually as helpful as I had hoped it would've been. It didn't make more space for people, it just disengaged people from one of the only spaces that they're engaging with religion at all. And so pastorally, I think what I ended up doing was leaving people behind. And I didn't, I think I was so at that point unsure of how to respond to what was happening in Gaza and didn't know what my role would be, and felt like as a person who's, it's a little bit like one of my Jewish friends was talking about the parable of the virgins and the oil.Some of us just showed up really late to this party, and we know so little, we've showed up so late, that it feels pretty impossible to show up effectively. And so I was trying to be responsible with what I did and did not know about Israel, Palestine, Gaza, all of that. Instead of just saying what I could unequivocally say, which is that violence in all forms, particularly genocide, is an egregious violence against God, against people and needs to be dealt with aggressively. Like, I can say that without any… we can say, “Free Palestine,” because that is an easy thing to, it's pretty easy for me to say, to agree with that idea. What I did though in being like, oh, purity culture isn't connected, was to say that people have on-ramps to these kinds of justice expressions that are far away.And maybe it's like [laughs], I hate to use this metaphor, but like, or parallelism rather. Yeah, I hate to use this parallelism, but when I think about how QAnon feeds into conspiracy theories, I think there's a lot of ways that progressive Christianity can feed people toward better, more just politics. And so when I take away the on-ramps, I take away people's opportunity to enter into a more just spirituality. And so me choosing to not talk about sex for four weeks or whatever, for me it felt like it was a solidarity practice, but it really was just cutting off people from a community that they cared about. So I think I would say that that was like one thing that I'm learning.And that is, and I think that what I'm trying to figure out is, as a person who primarily plays a pastoral function, what does it mean to invite people into a discipleship that can hold the politics that they're engaging with? Because one of the things I learned from 2016 was that many of us had a ton of passion, a ton of anxiety, a lack of knowledge, and we weren't able to hold onto the activism at the level that we held it during Black Lives Matter. We just weren't able to do it. And so, I think I'm trying to ask how do you build people's inner lives and community orientations in such a way that we can actually hold the political movements that we want to see happen?So how do we become community organizers locally and nationally when our inner lives aren't able to hold even the basics of our day-to-day lives? And that's not a knock on anyone, it's just a, we don't know how to cope. We don't know how to be in therapy. We don't know how to ask good questions about our lives. And so I think that I'm still asking the question, what is the role of the pastoral in the political, when most of my examples of the pastoral and the political is just telling people how to vote once every four years indirectly so you don't lose your funding, and nothing else otherwise.Helping People Learn and Grow through Curiosity and Questioning AssumptionsJonathan Walton: Yeah. I care a little bit about that, the inner life, peace [laughter]. I write, you know, I have a whole thing about that. So as you're talking, something I feel like I've run into is, I had a conversation with someone and they said to me, “The church discriminates against queer people? What do you mean?” And I looked at them and I was like, they were not being facetious, they were not joking. And like, and so I watched this train wreck happen in her brain, right? Where it's like, so then I just said, “You know, let's just talk about conversion therapy.” I said, “Let's just start there…” UN resolutions that say this is to—like all she, you could see it on her face she's like, like she did not know.And so I watched it happen and couldn't stop it. So Brandi, when someone is sitting across from you and you see this lack of knowledge and the capacity to harm. Right? So there's this lack of knowledge, but they're gonna say the homophobic terrible thing whenever somebody asks them, and you are the pastoral person in residence with them. What habits, practices, tactics do you employ not to destroy them, like intellectually? How do you not reduce them to their ideas? How do you love them and meet them where they're at so that they will be at church next week? They will be, like all those kinds of things, to stay on the journey with you.Brandi Miller: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: And stop hurting people.Jonathan Walton: And yeah, and stop hurting people.Brandi Miller: Yes. Yeah, I mean, you become a master of caveats, and that's the easy thing. The hard thing is to believe that people are trying their best. I think that most people, and I'm really learning this and trying to learn this in the best ways I can right now, is that if you're not just like on the internet where I know people are not trying to do their best, they're just being mean, like in real life with people who are sitting, who you don't have to question whether they're a bot or not, people are trying to do the best they can and the best they can might be terrible. And that's okay, because when people are trying to do the best that they can, and when people are given the benefit of a doubt, they are more open to engaging with things that are embarrassing or challenging or confusing.And so a lot of what I do is ask questions in the context of my own experience. I'll say, “Hey, when you say that, that hits me in a really strange way, and it's kind of hurtful and I can see where this would be hurtful for somebody else. Can you help me understand where that idea came from for you and how that became so important to you?” Or like, “I can hear that this is really important to you, can you help me understand why?” Because if I can understand that why, I can create a human connection that allows me to walk someone through, like, “Yo, when you say to me as like a partnered queer person, that my future marriage is not God's best, when did that become so important to you? When did thinking about like queerness in this way become so important to you?And how big, like on a scale of one to 10, how big does that feel for you? And what would that feel like for you if I said something back to you like, ‘You're heteronormative marriage where it looks like your wife doesn't really like you that much, you're kind of a jerk, isn't God's best for you,' what would you say back to me?” Like what a strange thing for you to say to me. And so I think I do a lot of assuming that people are doing their best and asking a lot of origins questions. Because I think that most of evangelicalism is more concerned with indoctrination than it is with development and discipleship. And when you can expose the indoctrination, it opens up a lot of space for questions. Because I know a lot of people that have said to me things like, “I have never thought about that before,” or, “I have never considered that before.”Or, “It came from this book.” And I'm like, “Well, have you read these other books?” Or they're like, “It came from this verse.” And I'm like, “Well, have you read the equivalent verse in the gospels that exists?” And the answer usually is no. The people have not done their due diligence to come to their own ideas. They have parroted because parroting in the church gives you survival, and I understand that. I understand that being able to parrot ideas gives you belonging. And so to fall outside of that, to ask questions outside of that risks your belonging. And so I try to create spaces where people's stories can belong, even if their ideologies need to be questioned and engaged with differently. So I think that's the main way that I engage with that pastorally at least.Jonathan Walton: That is amazing. So being able to sit down with someone, see someone across difference in a way, and turn to wonder, awe and curiosity as opposed to prejudice, judgment, and condemnation. That's great. Amen.Where Listeners Can Find BrandiSy Hoekstra: Can you tell our listeners where they can find you or your work on the internets.Jonathan Walton: Or in real life. Or in real life [laughs].Brandi Miller: Yes. Yeah, you can… if you're not being a weirdo, you can find my church, Quest Church out in Seattle [laughter]. We're doing the best we can out there. I work there, I'm a regular person out there, so don't be a weirdo [laughter].Brandi Miller: But I'm online in several spaces. Primarily, I have a podcast called Reclaiming My Theology, that takes a topic.Jonathan Walton: Five stars, five stars, five stars.Brandi Miller: [laughs, then says very quickly] If you'd give it, it takes 30 seconds to do [laughter]. Yeah, that is exploring different types of problematic or oppressive ideologies and how they wiggle their way into our interpretation of the Bible and Christian culture and how they create Christian culture. We're working through a series on purity culture now that feels like it's never ending, but it's like a perfect intersection of a lot of the other forms of oppression that we've talked about. So we'll be in that for a little bit. And then I just launched a podcast with Quest Church, talking to people about formation practices that make them feel at home with God. And so if you're looking for more of a formational storytelling bend, I'm interviewing folks around those practices right now, as well as the stuff that I'm already doing on the podcast that takes a little bit more of an academic theological bend.Sy Hoekstra: What's the name of that one?Brandi Miller: The Quest Church Podcast.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, okay, got it [laughter]. Okay, cool.Jonathan Walton: Cool, cool. Nice.Sy Hoekstra: Thank you so much for that. If you go and listen to Reclaiming my Theology, you'll hear some familiar voices like Jonathan Walton and Tamice Spencer-Helms and other people that you know. Brandi Miller, this has been fantastic. I'm so happy you joined us [the sound of clapping]. Jonathan's actually applauding, I don't think that's ever happened before [laughter].Jonathan Walton: She's great. She's great. Lovely.Sy Hoekstra: Thank you so much for being with us.Brandi Miller: Yeah, delighted to be with you all. Thank you so much for the opportunity.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Sy and Jonathan's Thoughts about Christian Community and Communicating Theology Well after the InterviewSy Hoekstra: Okay, Jonathan, that was fantastic [laughs].Jonathan Walton: It really, really was.Sy Hoekstra: What are you thinking coming out of that? Where are your thoughts at?Jonathan Walton: Yeah, so I'm actually stuck on the first thing that she said.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, okay. After that you blacked out and then you don't remember the rest of the interview.Jonathan Walton: [laughs] Well, I remember it. But one of the… I thought to myself, you know, I've changed a lot in the last four years since we wrote the essays that we did and since KTF started and all those things. And so it really pushed me to reflect. And when I was in journalism school with Peter Beinart, who is an amazing writer and commentator, especially right now.Sy Hoekstra: Who you've mentioned before, yeah.Jonathan Walton: Yes. Yeah, I mean, his work is just amazing. But something that he said in class was, you need to write for the language of the bleachers, like between a fifth and eighth grade level. And that is not a knock on people who are not educated or didn't go to university. It's more like we don't talk like this on a regular basis.Sy Hoekstra: You mean you don't talk the way that highfalutin people write [laughs]?Jonathan Walton: Exactly.Sy Hoekstra: Gotcha.Jonathan Walton: Right. And it was one of those things where I was like, huh, I wonder, would I say things the same way now? Or how can I say them so that people leave saying, “Oh, I know what he meant and I understood what he said,” versus, “I don't know what half those words meant, but it sounded really good [Sy laughs]. Thinking of reflecting on how Jesus spoke to people and who he called and how he called them was something that I just, just struck me about that response. And then obviously we also threw out some big words, some large terms and all those things. And one of the things that stood out to me that I didn't know about was the Overton window that she said. I'd never heard of that before.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, okay.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, but what has become normal. Having a term for that's just helpful. For me, like [laughs] I think I've mentioned this before, is that when I feel anxious, when I feel worried, when I feel concerned, one of the places that I go is information. I need to put it in a box. I need to have words to just feel grounded to engage. And now I can just say, “Oh, the Overton window has shifted [laughs], and that helps me have a place to stand [laughs] in a lot of our discourse and gives me more space to do what she talked about at the end, which is like, can I love people across difference? And when I have cohesive frameworks and information especially like in context, and I can do that more effectively. So I learned a lot. I was challenged and I'm really grateful.Sy Hoekstra: I think actually the thing that stuck out to me, kind of, I end up in a similar place, even though I'm coming from a totally different angle. Which is that the thing that she articulated about the how political doubt becomes religious doubt in like our current, kind of nationalist Christian nationalist landscape was really interesting to me. Because you hear it, so it's such a common thing if you think about it, right?Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: At least I've heard so many times people just be like, how can a Christian possibly vote for the Democrats? Right? Or asking like doubting Republican orthodoxy is actually grounds to doubt the foundations of your faith or the seriousness of your faith, when Jesus had absolutely no issue having people who he called disciples who were wildly politically different from each other.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So when she talks about wanting to talk across difference like that, or wanting to how Jesus helps people become a better version of themselves, he was doing that with people who were like the Roman empire is fine and I work for them and I get rich off of them and that's great, like Matthew [laughs]. Versus the Roman Empire is the enemy and we need to throw them off via murder and other forms of violence, AKA Simon the Zealot. And like they're just sitting together with Jesus. They're both followers of Jesus, no question.Jonathan Walton: Exactly, right.Sy Hoekstra: And they have opposite political views. And one of them is like really earnestly advocating and killing a bunch of people [laughs]. Right?Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: And that is like, it's just a, I don't know, in the context of some of the church context where I grew up or some of the… like it's just a lot of the conservative Christian context now that is unthinkable, but it is also the absolute norm for Jesus [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: So that gives you a sense of when you're a place where your church culture is off, when something that is unthinkable is the norm for Jesus [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Exactly. Exactly. That is what I hope we would say when someone says, what is syncretism?Sy Hoekstra: So syncretism is another one of those big words. I'm not sure we defined it right. Syncretism is a word that a lot of White westerners use for basically poor Black and Brown people, and sometimes Asian people.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: When it's like, oh, you are a Christian, sure, but you're also practicing this native thing. Like my wife's family's from Haiti, right? You are Catholic, but you're also doing this voodoo stuff. And so that's not real pure Christianity, that's syncretism. And now…Jonathan Walton: Exactly.Sy Hoekstra: You were saying Jonathan, sorry, that was… go ahead.Jonathan Walton: No, but like, so Brandi's just turn of phrase when she said, oh, when someone's political foundations are shaken, their religious foundations are shaken. That is syncretism.Sy Hoekstra: Right, yes. Exactly.Jonathan Walton: And so putting it in that language just makes it more effective, more practical, more illuminating for people as opposed to saying, “Well, you're political and social and religious ideologies are enmeshed with one another, but creating an agenda…” It's like, we don't need to talk like that [laughs]. You know what I mean? We can just say it plainly and things God can meet us in that.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Which Tab Is Still Open?: Average Black, Christian Voting Patterns and Political Beliefs vs. the Average DemocratJonathan Walton: Alright Sy. Let's jump into our latest segment that we introduced during the bonus episodes, and now we're bringing to you on our wider feed, is Which Tab Is Still Open. Out of all the highlights we've sent around lately in our newsletter, what's still standing out to us? And so, Sy, this one's yours. So go for it.Sy Hoekstra: This one, yeah, this one is mine. It was an article that I had in the newsletter recently by a professor named Ryan Burge, who is a political science professor and a statistician. He's basically one of the go-to experts in America for a lot of media and other sources for data about religion and politics, like surveys, pollsters, et cetera. So he's a professor at Eastern Illinois University, but he's also an American Baptist Convention pastor [laughs]. So this article is about the average Black church attending Protestant. In a lot of these polls and surveys they ask people how often do you go to church, as a measure of your religiosity. Just like an estimate basically, of your religiosity.So he says for the average Black regular church attending Christian, what is the kind of differences in their political beliefs between just the average overall Democrat? And we talked about this in one of our, in the March bonus episode, that for like a lot of people don't realize the distance between… a lot of White people don't realize the distance between [laughs] average Black voter and average Democrat voter, because Black people always vote Democrat, right?Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So if you're not kind of familiar with the culture or the politics, then those, the Black people and Democrats can be synonymous. So basically what he said was the average Black church goer is like a self-identified moderate. Is like almost in the middle of the political spectrum. Is more moderate than the average Democrat on abortion, immigration, policing, all kinds of stuff. Not conservative, but more moderate than the average Democrat. And they've become more moderate in recent years. And so there's an actual kind of statistically significant shift toward the right, but voting hasn't changed at all. Or there's been very little change in actual votes.And then the other interesting thing that he pointed out was the average… they do these polls where they have people rank themselves on a political spectrum from one to seven. So one is as liberal as it gets, and seven is as conservative as it gets. And then they also have people rank the Democrat and Republican parties for where they are, like the party overall. And in the last 10 years, the average Black church going Protestant assessment of where the Republican party is, has not changed at all, like in any significant way.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: So meaning when Donald Trump is the standard bearer, no significant difference in how radical or how right the Republican party is than when Mitt Romney was the standard bearer [laughs], right?Jonathan Walton: Yep.Sy Hoekstra: So you're saying that, “Yep. I get it, totally.” I think to a lot of people, that is some pretty stunning news [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.Sy Hoekstra: So, I don't know, the interesting points to me are just how our assumptions are like about voters in general are based on how White people vote, because White people vote very ideologically and Black people just don't. Like I've seen other polling data where it's like, basically Black people self-identify as liberals, moderates, or conservatives at roughly the same rate as White people. They just don't, Black people just don't vote ideologically. That's the difference, right? And then yeah, that thing where there's no difference between Trump and Mitt Romney is so interesting [laughter].Not no difference between those two men, but no difference between the parties under those two men. And by the way, the rest of the Democrat, the average Democrat thinks the Republican party is far more to the right than it was 10 years ago.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: So, basically what I'm saying is Black people knew the whole time [laughs], Black people knew what was up with the Republicans, and the assessment hasn't changed. I don't know, that to me is just a thing that people need to know. I don't know. When people say like, you hear sometimes from progressive people, “Listen to Black people, listen to Black women.” It just gets thrown out there, is like a, what I think to some White people probably sounds like just this weird ideological platitude that people are saying. But this is the reason [laughs]. The reason is marginalized folks in a system understand the system better than people in the dominant positions of the system, and have a, I don't know, have a kind of a clearer sense of where things are, have a more practical view of how to handle themselves in that system, which I think is the non-ideological voting. And yeah, all that stuff is really interesting to me. And I'm wondering what your thoughts were since this was my recommendation.Jonathan Walton: Yeah. I mean, I've… there are so many things that come to mind as we're talking about this. One thing is that the Overton window, as Brandi mentioned [laughs], it has shifted for some people, right? When we talk, when Randy Woodley talks about how people in the United States do not have the luxury of saying, “Oh, it doesn't matter who's president.” Marginalized people know it matters who is sitting in a political position. If it doesn't matter to you, then that creates a different set of problems. And I think another thing I think we have to remember is that [roughly] 70 percent of the voting population in the United States is White. The people who are registered, the people who turn out.And so there's, I think just there's a lot of context to layer over top of this that can obscure just the basic reality of the emancipation and the passing and Civil Rights Act. And the reality is, Black people voted for Lincoln because he wanted to stop slavery. Lincoln was a White supremacist. Lincoln literally argued in his presidential debate in Illinois that he did not believe that Black people were equal and could never be cultured to be with White people.Sy Hoekstra: And therefore we should send them back to Africa.Jonathan Walton: And therefore we should send them back to Africa. That is Lincoln. But why did we vote for him when we finally got the chance to vote, kind of with… [laughs]? It's because he said he did not want to have slavery exist anymore. Now, fast forward to the Civil Rights Act. Why did we all turn into Democrats? Because they said, “Hey, you should actually have civil rights.” Not equal rights, not full rights, not decriminalization. Not all, just some basic civil rights. Bam, now we're in that camp. This has always, always, always been about survival. The statistics are great. You could do the analysis, there's wonderful data that comes out. But at the end of the day, I'm gonna listen to my mama [Sy laughs] and say, “Oh yeah.”It would be preposterous of her to vote for anyone who is for the active destruction of her community. And the reality is, most of the time that is Republicans. Now, there are destructive policies against Black people that come from the Democrats. The difference is, just like we see here, the difference is this thing called White supremacy. One party says White supremacy exists. The other party says it doesn't. One party says White supremacy exists and desires in rhetoric to make it stop, even though they pass policies that continue to perpetuate it. The reality is though, there are more Black people, more people of color, more women in the party that has a donkey and not an elephant. And therefore, we will ride donkeys [laughs].And so that does not mean that we are for… we, when I say Black Christians, are for anything that the Overton window to use Brandi's saying again, has expanded. So Black folks' views on abortion, Black folks' views on war, Black folks' views on policing. Again, we like to be safe too. And unfortunately, a lot of times in communities of color that equals calling the police. That equals saying, “Hey, can someone help me?” Right? In Baltimore, in Chicago, in over policed parts of New York City, Black folks still have to call the police. Like it's not some utopia where we're just gonna let everything go. That doesn't exist in our communities.We still actually desire for the systems to work for us. We do not desire the system to destroy us. And so we use the systems and desire to make them better. And so these numbers I think are exceptionally informative at illuminating the, or illuminating the reality that many people in marginalized communities already know. But hopefully there'll be a common place for us to talk about it. Now there is a resistance to academia and research in progressive and conservative circles [laughs]. And so someone may say, “Well, that's just not true because it's not true for me.” But hopefully it will create some common ground to be able to have a cohesive conversation about Black folks, the Democratic party and progressive and conservative politics.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, that's what we're trying to do. Political education, man [laughs].Outro and OuttakeJonathan Walton: Lord have mercy.Sy Hoekstra: Lord have mercy. This has been a great conversation. We were so happy that Brandi came on. And thanks for talking as always, Jonathan.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: We will see you all in a couple of weeks. Our theme song is Citizens by Jon Guerra. Our podcast Art is by Robin Burgess, transcripts by Joyce Ambale. And as I'm gonna start saying a lot, I'm stealing this from Seth at Can I Say This at Church? This show is produced by our subscribers [laughs]. Thank you all and we will see you all in two weeks.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Jonathan Walton: And he loves wackadoodles, I'm gonna use that one. Loves wackadoodles [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: That I have never heard. Is that because I'm not from the south that I've never heard that? Was that… [laughter]?Jonathan Walton: Well, no. Brandi's not from the south either.Brandi Miller: Also, you know I'm big up north here. I'm a Pacific Northwest girly full on. There's no doubt there [Jonathan laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Is that a Brandi quote? Is that from you?Brandi Miller: No, I'm certain that come from somewhere.Sy Hoekstra: I'm just lost. It's fine.Brandi Miller: Maybe it's Black. Maybe that's what it is.Sy Hoekstra: Well, obviously if I am the confused one and you're not, that's my first thought as well. So [laughter], there's always, there's just like, I'm so used to that point in conversations at this point in my life where I'm like, “Oooooh it's because I'm White” [laughter]. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ktfpress.com/subscribe

The superstar once condemned as the most notorious anti-Semite in American sports is playing nice, even though he now works for the most influential pro-Israel donor in American politics, who happens to have Donald Trump in her pocket. Which is exactly why the NBA doesn't want you to know more about Miriam Adelson. New York magazine's Elizabeth Weil introduces the sports world to the king-making, history-altering extremist queen of courtside. Further reading: Miriam Adelson's Unfinished Business (Elizabeth Weil) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The superstar once condemned as the most notorious anti-Semite in American sports is playing nice, even though he now works for the most influential pro-Israel donor in American politics, who happens to have Donald Trump in her pocket. Which is exactly why the NBA doesn't want you to know more about Miriam Adelson. New York magazine's Elizabeth Weil introduces the sports world to the king-making, history-altering extremist queen of courtside. Further reading: Miriam Adelson's Unfinished Business (Elizabeth Weil) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, the idea that Congress needed to pass a bipartisan border law to revive the existing law is a lie, and President Biden is a detestable low life and a dangerous man who uses the open border for power and profit. We were told over and over by Biden and people like Alejandro Mayorkas and Karine Jean-Pierre that our southern border was secure, which have all been lies. Biden is the arsonist who burned down our secure border created under Donald Trump, and now he is acting as the savior for finally enforcing our border laws. This election is about our Republic, our Constitution, our values, and our culture under attack by Biden and the Democrat party. Also, the Democrat media continues to report the Hamas statistics and blame Israel for the deaths of Palestinians, and the Biden administration is encouraging it. Biden is an anti-Semite and does not like that Israel is standing up and fighting for its survival, and while he says he supports Israel he is working against them. The liberal media have taken the First Amendment to empower them to push their Marxist ideology and Jew hatred. Later, Mark speaks with Fox News host and author Pete Hegseth about his experience being targeted politically and having military orders revoked, as well as his new book The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this Monday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid dons his brand new "Super Jew" t-shirt after acting quickly on Friday afternoon while riding the subway alongside a fellow Jew who was being threatened by a mentally disturbed anti-Semite. Sid sprung into action to protect the man in the face of a potentially tragic incident. In other news of the day, NYPD cops clash with pro-Palestinian protesters in Brooklyn over the weekend, Diddy releases a video apology following the emergence of a security tape showing him violently attacking his ex-girlfriend, Iranian President Raisi suddenly dies in a helicopter crash over the weekend, the IDF finds the bodies of three hostages while moving deeper into the Gaza strongholds of the terrorist organization known as Hamas, and the Knicks fall in Game 7 to the Indiana Pacers to sadly bring their season to a close. Mike Lawler, Curtis Sliwa, Rich Lowry, Mark Messier, Scott LoBaido and Marc Provisor join Sid on this Monday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Protect yourself from the perils of modern technology with high-quality faraday products designed and developed by yours truly by going to RONINBASICS.com today.  In this week's episode of the Adams Archive, I have a discussion with Eric Moutsos. Eric is the host of the American Moutsos Show, the founder and CEO of the health and wellness company Freedomblends, and a former police officer who has been at the center of political activism in several different high-profile situations. Eric is the author of the book Dispatched, recounting his fight against leadership during his time as a police officer, and the lead in a recent documentary called “Non-Essential” which follows him through his journey of fighting back against the government during Covid lockdowns. We discuss the controversies he has found himself at the center of, the Israel-Palestine war, selling out conservatives, good vs. evil, and more.  You can find Erics social media profiles, podcast, book and more by clicking here All the links: linktr.ee/theaustinjadams ----more---- Full transcription  Adams archive.   Hello, you beautiful people. And welcome to the Adams archive. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening today on today's episode. I am going to be talking with Eric Mutzos. Now, Eric is a political commentator and podcast host of the Eric Mutzos show. He is also a CEO of the Freedom Blends supplement company. And Eric has been at the center of several. controversial events, one of those being almost 10 years ago, when Eric was a police officer for almost seven years, he actually had to fight back against the police department that he worked for, who was forcing him mandating him to basically be a part of a gay pride parade.  Pretty wild stuff. Fast forward a few years later, during COVID times, Eric was also at the center of some controversy, as he basically organized and gathered several rallies to help small business owners during the time of COVID lockdowns, as well as through an entire concert during the same time, where he had to get shut down by the state, fought back against that, and eventually lost his job. One out. So Eric is an author. He was also a part of the recent documentary, which outlined that organization of those situations during COVID lockdowns. So without further ado, we have a great discussion today about good versus evil current events, the Israel and Palestinian conflict, the college campus protests that are going on, we get into some conspiracy theories, of course. So. Let's go ahead and jump into it. 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And the only way, the only way to stop that is by utilizing a Faraday bag and airplane mode, doesn't do it. Turning your phone off. Doesn't do it. They constantly have access with softwares like Pegasus. So help yourself help your family eliminate those harmful effects of EMFs by going to Ronan basics. com.  checking out our newest products, signing up for some of the newer drops that are coming out just this coming week. Alright, so thank you so much for listening. I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart, leave a five star review, hit the subscribe button. And let's jump into it.  The Adams archive.   My dream is to one day have a little homestead  I've got 20 chickens now, but my dream is to have a homestead.  living off the land the way that God wanted us to.   Amen. That's awesome, man. Yeah that's something I think a lot of people it's so interesting how many people got chickens after like post COVID. I think there's something primal that when everything goes to hell a little bit I don't know what it was, but it seems like  I fell into that too. We have a chicken coop out back. We had nine chickens that, that we had we even had ducks for a little bit, but it was funny because it's so many people that you saw.  Just chickens were like the first step that people took in their journey to like becoming a little bit, well, I almost think that's more of a realization about  the government, not actually being the father figure that was going to. take care of you that everybody thought it was. And it chickens for some reason was like the gateway drug into homesteading for everybody. Even if you live in a small city. I live in a, I live in a city area and  it was pretty easy to get to the proof through the city and everything. They just got to come out and check out the coop and things. But yeah, it was really, it's funny how many people I think ended up getting chickens as a result of COVID, which is such a weird correlation but Yeah. It's funny. So, and when you talk about homesteading  I think that was something that went.  That came out of COVID too, was the amount of people that realized that our governmental structure and the  protective layer that we thought our government gave us between us and the food supply chains, water all of those things essentially crumbled that when we looked at what happened through the grocery stores, right, I remember going to the grocery stores and all of the meat being gone. All of the eggs being gone, all of the milk being gone, and people started to wake up to that idea  this isn't a a movie, right? It's not every, it's not a things can go south pretty quick, and I think we saw that with, COVID,   Yeah. Well, and it's going to, but people don't understand. That was just the first wave,  of what I believe is coming, but it's you have to understand that this is all, it's all biblical. Everything that's happening right now, it's all this. God, knows the beginning to the end and he's already seen the whole thing out. And now, We you and I and listeners, viewers, we're now here as the test to see where we stand. Like I'm convinced this whole sucker goes down probably within the next 10 years. I don't mean to scare anybody, but it's evident that I believe God is preparing his people with like ideas of,  chickens and things like that. He's getting his people ready to leave Babylon entirely because as soon as they bring in this beast system, which I believe they will, as soon as  the, dollar dies.  That the, dollar dying is going to be very, intentional.  It's, not going to be, Oh, all of a sudden they know exactly what they're doing.  Just like COVID,  COVID, was the left and then the overhand right was the Vax.   And so then, so now  with the financial system that's going to go and it's not going to be, in my opinion, it's not going to be a recession or a depression. I believe it's going to be a collapse and that's why we got to be ready for what's coming because you're either going to have to,  where are you at on, do you, when I talk about this Christian stuff or you, do you believe in God, Austin?  Absolutely. Yeah,   Okay. Sorry. I just don't know. Sometimes when I'm talking to people I don't know.  But I believe that the devil duplicates everything that God does, everything beautiful he does. He's got to have a counterfeit to it, right?  And so this new world order is just the counterfeit of what God has always been trying to get his people to do, which has become one heart and one mind. Because if everybody did that,  it would be, everybody would share with everybody. There would be no poor among us. Everybody would, you'd grow what you need and you give the rest away. And that's the environment that,  consider the lilies, right? Jesus taught it. Consider the lilies, the  birds of the birds of the sky. You don't think I can feed you. That's the whole point. That's what, well, the city of Enoch was taken up, but  I'm, trying to get prepared for that. And even if that doesn't happen, which I hope I'm crazy, I hope that in 10 years,    you  know what I mean?   to be fair.    Yeah I really do like just get, okay, that's great. I'll put me in the ward house but, I don't think I am crazy. I don't think that  I believe that what's crazy are all of these people that have their heads in the sand that don't even realize what's happening. Our state of Utah, let me just read this to you. The state of Utah, we just won the best state, right? We just won the very best state of Utah.  And we're, talking about of what?  The best state of what?   Right.    We're about my our state is about to flip over to blue. We're  purple right now because we have a governor of the state of Utah that uses pronouns to little kids on zoom calls, bro.  It's actually, it's.  That's fairly surprising, too, especially Utah. Obviously a very big religious  sects within Utah itself. And I guess that's an interesting thought, too. When you talk about the dollar collapsing, right, you can speak about that from, like you did a biblical perspective. sense, but you can also look at. that from what's happening,  socioeconomically across the world, right? Geopolitically right now between the brick, right? If you look at the way that India and Iran and China and Russia are all teaming up right now, have all already moved away from the dollar. And when we look at India and you look at China, those are the two biggest world powers when it comes to industry today, right? It's not like United, the United States of America is manufacturing things in an extremely high level. When we're outsourcing our talent, our menu, when we're outsourcing.  I, have a business background. I run a business and several. And so when we're outsourcing talent to do  most of the jobs, we're outsourcing it to India and when we're outsourcing manufacturing, we're outsourcing it to China. And so when you have those, organizations, those countries that are now moving away from utilizing the USD,  the dollar.  In their everyday trades and I ran when it comes to oil, right? We're, messing with some very dangerous territory politically in getting into this potential escalation with Iran, with which and Putin's already talked about his response. What it would be if, situations escalated with Iran, we're already seeing tensions rise with Taiwan and for China, right? We are literally being put in a position where. If nothing else, our leadership is putting us in a place where our economic system could very well collapse just from the decisions being made by our leaders.    Yeah, that's right. Well, and it is going to happen. And so You know, the more money we give to Ukraine, it's going to start happening to the deep state part of Israel. I have to be careful saying this because people think if you're, you question what's happening with Israel or some kind of like anti semi, it's  no, the deep state has infiltrated every single government across the world. And so if you don't think that,  so look at Israel, I look at Israel a lot like America, the majority of people in America are good people, right?  But guess what? Those of us are questioning our government that's happening in Israel too, just FYI. And so just big, make sure before you start throwing your flags all over your bios, that this whole thing  is a  big, operation. And it's,  Even me saying this right now, I can't even believe I'm saying this from where I used to be even like four years ago, when you start to wake up to this stuff,  it's so, unbelievably overwhelming, but at the same time, when you see the big picture of it, this is all supposed to go down just like this.    Yeah, And I think that's there's been like a, almost a lot of weaponization of spirituality when it comes to the Israel Palestinian conflict, right? I think it's been really interesting to see the way that the right, like conservative right, has all almost simultaneously, in lockstep, decided that they're without question, right? And there's definitely things to question there, right? I've been somebody who's been looking at the situation and I, don't, like to wholeheartedly buy blue or red, right? I generally consider myself to be a more of a libertarian. I would say in a sense where I think less lesser government in most situations is generally a positive thing.  And so I don't really feel like I have skin in the game. Right. So, so when I look at the Palestinian and Israeli conflict, you see the big money and conserve like the conservative industry pushing and backing all of the influencers, all of the you see the daily wire, PragerU.  You see these large organizations  sending the biggest influencers over to Israel with a, almost a documentarian style videographer behind them. They pay for them to go over there. They pay for them to speak about these things.  And they almost have blinders on and I'm not ignorant to either side. I look at what's going on in Palestine, and I look at what's going on in Israel, and what happened on October 7th is, it's a tragedy. It's horrible. It shouldn't happen, right? Terrorism in any sense is absolutely atrocious.   but don't you think that it's possible that October 7th was a deep state operation within itself?   Absolutely. So when you look at  The amount of information that the, IDF had, Leading up to that  It's, staggering. It's almost very,  like almost gives you the idea of Pearl Harbor back in the day, right? You see the, amount of signals that they had. And then you, look at the IDF and see how much more technologically advanced they are than even some of the intelligence agencies that we have here in the United States, right? And then you think that 40 guys on big fan.  and parachutes     So, it's  so obvious. It's so obvious, man. It's  and now you got what? 30, 40, 000 people that have died in Gaza. And it's and people think, yeah, well they're human shields. It's they just dismiss it. It's no, There's innocent people dying.    Absolutely.   innocent people dying over here. There's innocent people dying over here. Like we should be standing on the side of innocent people wherever that is.    And    To me, it's I don't look at anybody differently, dude. I don't, I look at somebody as a child of God. Yeah. They might not believe in Jesus yet, but I look at them like God loves all his kids and he's just trying. And now we're killing each other like this and cheering it on and saying, we got to flatten it. And look, I've come a long way. Like I remember even when Trump dropped the big old what's that big old MAGA bomb that he dropped at one point.  I can't remember what it was called.  Sure. There was, I'm sure there was a few of those    I know it just come. And I remember like making jokes about it. And it was like, and they did hit that. They didn't go, Trump didn't go in and do what Israel's doing to Gaza. But I, the point that I'm trying to make is that I've come a long way in this a short amount of time on how wicked it is. War. War. In any degree yes, God wants us to defend  he wants us to defend that as a godly principle to defend yourself,  man, but when we,  it's so obvious what they're doing they want us in third world war. They need us in third world war. They're funding both sides of this, of these  little college  Riots that they're starting to have their fun in that side. And so then it pushes all these people. Now it's this war, but it's so obvious. Don't participate in it. Don't participate in it. Call for peace. It's  but that's what they need.  And you see it, the  conservative side of things when it came to what was going on between Russia, like you almost saw a complete 180 between the Republican party and the conservatives that were out there that always generally were a little bit more. Historically pro-war than the liberals or the Democrat side of things, right? You look, you go back to almost anything pre 2018 and.  The left was staunch in almost every situation across the board, anti war in almost every sense, right? There were the, they were the cool liberal hippies in the seventies. They were against Vietnam. They were  there was a complete 180 at one point, very recently where you saw a glimmer of light for their conservatives and Republican party, where they looked at what was happening in Ukraine and they said, no, we don't want any part of this. There's no reason that, this war should be happening. And there's absolutely no reason that our attacks. Hours should be going to fund it. Right? And, so When, you look at that now,  I was optimistic about the conservative party for such a long time because they were the ones calling out against war, against the war machine. And now you look and, they're the ones that are flying the, Israeli flags saying that they, can do no wrong no matter how many innocent children, women. Families, they bomb there. There's nothing that it's, all in the name of, and I think you, you pointed to something there specifically that I've noticed as a theme, anytime that they're trying to create a narrative, especially when it comes to these terrorists in the middle East, they always use human shields. I I was in I don't know, fourth grade, fifth grade when 9 11 happened, but I can't tell you that if I had to think of one thing in my mind that made them terrorists that the  mainstream media painted the narrative with, it was that idea. It was the human shields that completely, they dehumanize women and children by utilizing them as human shields. Right. And you saw all of this propaganda going out, right? Just like you saw with Ukraine, the ghost of Kiev that ended up being a video game. Right. You saw the,  women and the men being sent out in buses. I've done some videos on this and, you saw all of this propaganda being pushed out and the human shields is at the very top of the list for these people when they try to paint a narrative around terrorism.    well, and that's the only thing they can say too, to justify it as human shields. And it's just no, there's certain wars. When I was a police officer, if there was like a hostage situation, right. You don't kill both of  them. That's not what you do. That goes against every, it's what's the point of the government being there?  It's like we're trying to help. And, so that, that excuse doesn't fly with me  and all, I want to say on this topic is just be very, prayerful about it.  The devil wants the devil wants us. He wants bloodshed. That's where we're to the point. We've, already like swiftly went through this and the next phase of the sexual revolution and the devil's like really salivating for, blood at this point. And so my, answer  is, to, not do that. My, my answer is to call it out for what it is. Call out the wickedness for what it is. Don't call for war. Don't justify war because  if we have that in our hearts and if we really are going to accept that as a collective whole, that's okay. That what's happening say in, in right now in Gaza, if that's okay,  we're not, going to be part of, the kingdom of God if our hearts are thinking that's okay. Does that make sense?   Yeah. Absolutely. And that's the thing that I you said you, you use the word like the, noun of the devil. Right. And you talk about the same people who are pushing for war, right? Who are profiting from these things, right? That the people who both funded Hamas to become what they are today, who funded Al Qaeda, who then turned on us who funded. Almost every side of the war, and you see it as a microcosm with what's happening in the universities, which you alluded to as Well, right? Every single one of the tents that were being set out at these extremely expensive universities were all this the same tent because they were sent them by the organizations, the same organizations like APAC, who are funding all of this. All but seven of the politicians that are currently making decisions on whether or not to send money to Israel,  And so you look at you, you look at all of the narratives that have come out more recently.  And I, only mentioned this because you, mentioned the devil, right? You mentioned the,   Well, I look at, we talk about God, right? Like we talk about God all the time, but we don't talk about what the adversary is doing in his plans.  And he hates  when we call out his plans. He hates it. So bad. And that's why he hates people that speak truth.  Because he, likes to just, he needs to justify himself too, right? He fell from heaven, it's he has to be justified and so, he believes he's right.  And so that's what I'm trying to say is that  we, have to call these things out when we see it. And I'm not saying you have to use devil. You could just say, Hey, it's wrong what they're doing. Right.  I just, say those things because I believe this is a huge spiritual war that we're in and we have to start identifying it as such. If we're going to like, Be able to,  ascend higher. Maybe that's the right word. If we're going to be,  if we're going to be able to defend what's coming in the next little while we, the only words that we can use as Jesus Christ, like those are the only words that we're going to, that will have the power to, to not only stop what's coming, but  to, transform things. What's happened, what's going to happen where we have to start using those types of words, in my opinion.   Have you seen, And, speaking of that, have you seen Tucker Carlson speak on the spiritual aspect of what's going on more recently? Have you seen some  Yeah.  Yeah, he's right. And, I'd add  to it. He's absolutely right. And  now I don't know much about like the aliens and stuff. I really haven't got into it that much.  Is it possible? Sure. Anything's possible, but the, point that I think with Tucker, what he's trying to make is that this is very, we just see in the physical because we're being tested right now. God, is literally just watching us and he's just testing us. Yeah. He's  what are you, made of?  You got to understand that the kingdom of God is where he lives.  If you, look in  let's see first Corinthians 1540, it talks about degrees, right? The degree that God lives in that celestial kingdom degree. That is where kings and queens live.  And, so why I bring this up is because we're, in this test to see where it is that we are going to place ourselves based off of the decisions that we make here.  The whole purpose of this earth life I'm  don't you love that this is what we were going to talk about, Mike, when we were prepping for this podcast?  Like not one thing, right?  So good.   it's all good.   This  is the kind of stuff  That I  I think most people are thinking it. I think most people think about this kind of stuff, but to try and articulate it and then to try and because yeah, could I be wrong on this stuff? I could be,  but, it's so evident that this is such  a, spiritual test to me.  When, you talk about it being spiritual, right? In the most basic sense, you're talking about good versus evil, black versus   white. right. Huh.  versus light, right? And so when you look at, when you look at the things that have been happening over the last four to five years, we've seen truth as a fundamental weapon for the side of the good. And we've seen how often the side of the bad, right? You want to say black and white  the, side of evil, whatever you want to call it, Satan, the devil, whatever    they try to stifle the truth. Right? The truth is evident. The sun will always show the next day and it will eliminate the darkness. And so even if you just take it from the most simple sense when you look at something that says, who is trying to stifle the truth and who is trying to  It's very evident who is on the side of the good and who is on the side of the evil, right? And so even if you just say there's good and there's bad and there's people who are perpetuating good values and there's people who are perpetuating  evil for the purpose of self  inflation of ego for the purpose of integrity. Monetization for the purpose of the very same people who I'm talking about who are being flown to Israel to have a videographer behind them, to, to,  never  for a second to speak about the  atrocities that are happening in Gaza today.  Right? So if you wanna vet your influencers, you wanna vet the people that you're following, you wanna.  Do you ever disagree with them? Right. Because  if I, if there's somebody out there that I never,   Yeah. Oh, I do  all the time. And, I try, are you asking me like rhetorically? Are you just,  you're, do you want to know?  that was rhetorical, but you can go ahead and answer it.    Oh I'm just saying I, I do all the time. Hey, be really careful with this.  This could be very well a deep state operation. Hey, be careful with this. There's a lot more to this story stuff like that because here's the truth. We're, None of us are fully awake to this awful situation that we're in  and we're gonna get in a place where we might Be in a position where we're wrong about something and then you got to quickly check yourself spiritually hey Why do I feel off about this? Why is there something off about it? Oh because you're being deceived. That's why And so I try to do it to good people that I follow and there's some big ones and they're  they are hook line and sinker  on support in Israel under any circumstance. And it's you guys, this is  in Israel. This is wickedness to me.  And, it's clear, it's  God is gathering his people right now and ultimately there's going to be like really a group  I don't know how far you want me to hear about these like I guess Conspiracies you want me to hear   We go deep  on this podcast, so feel free.  when this system goes down there you're gonna have to bow down to one of two gods   Now we're all up into Israel and I, every single time, it's just  bowing down. And so, and I'm not saying that A lot of these things could be true, right? There's, a lot of things that, that, that could be true. However when we, go along with it, whatever narrative, whatever that, whatever the government's feeding us, if we just go along with that as if it's true,  we're in a lot, we're in a world of hurt.   Absolutely. And I think if you look at the government, right, you look at all the things that have come out more recently about the, not when you say the government, it sounds it's, the government is what, 500, it's like millions of people, right? But when you look at the government,   the federal government is the, just the federal government is millions.  right, exactly. So, so when you talk about the government you're talking about the governmental officials who we duly elected, right? Put that in quotation marks, but duly elected officials who have gone into these positions of power. There has been a unbelievable amount of information that has come out more recently. Let's say the last three to five years showing that those people, right? And this is when, we talk about my spirituality or my beliefs in religion, one of the things that was a big,  Part of my moving more towards religion and spirituality, having grown up Presbyterian at a young age and then moving a little bit away and coming back now  is realizing that all of these people in positions of power, all of the people that are holding office right now, there's a  very, large group of these people who have shown themselves to be  Worshipping the darkness, right? That have shown themselves to go in, in worshiping Malak at Bohemian Grove that have shown themselves to be within Hillary Clinton's emails, all of there's so many examples of this of, showing that the people in the highest positions of power have absolutely in one way, shape, or form. Gone to, you see it in music, you see it in the movies and the TV shows that are being pushed out. You see it in politics. You see all of the, highest positions of culture and society.   Well, you see it even with Trump and you see it with politicians on our side as if Donald Trump's going to come and save us, right? Yeah.  Right. Yeah, You go back to QAnon, right? The, he has the   military. in my opinion, a deep state operation.  Well and it did it, if it was, and it, and I think that it very well was,  if it was, it did exactly what it was supposed to do. It made people look silly. It de-legitimized the opposing opinion. Right. Now, if you were pro-Trump, right? Even just the terms maga or far right, or Q anon they, associated every single person who was.  Pro Trump to be a Q and I and conspiracy theorist. And then they took that to the furthest and said, Oh, they believe that Trump owns the military and that he can do no wrong. And really someday he's going to come back. And there was all of these, there was the very furthest extent. of what QAnon believed. But then even if you just take it maybe 10, 20, 30, 40 percent back from the craziest sides of their belief systems, when you look at what was happening between Pizzagate  and all of these more, somewhat considered to be extreme conspiracy theories, but there's foundations there's seeds of truth in a lot of it. But then you get into the very, very craziest side of it. And those were used the, very farthest Extreme conspiracies, and I'm not saying that Pizzagate itself wasn't, didn't have legitimacy to some of the claims that were happening, but what I am saying is that when they said that he still has the military in his pocket and any day now he's going to come back and be the president, he's really the president of the United States. It delegitimized all of the legitimacy within the movement that was happening of people who believed things that are very real, right? All of the people waking up to the very thing that I'm talking about this satanic worship by politicians and Hollywood and the music industry that were happening and what that entailed when you look historically for that, when you talk about. Sacrifices and how far you want to get down that rabbit holes,  but you see what I'm saying is that they utilized a very proven and true system to de legitimize the very legitimate concerns that people had surrounding what, whatever the movement was, that was QAnon to begin with that turned into what it was later on,      at this point, I think the most important thing that we can do is just get prepared  physically and spiritually, really that's it.  Well, what does that look like? I always try to tell people at least get a year's worth, at least a year's worth of food for your family, at minimum. I don't know why that year is  stands out to me. I think maybe  you look at Noah, do you remember how long Noah was on the boat for? It was about 375 days that he was on the boat.  It's, I think that  there's something to that year, Mark.  And And I believe that we have to have  at least the provisions that much that we can, because people will die, right? People will die of starvation. And so don't let it be you. Have water.  Know that there's water in the ground. Go to the lowest part and start digging. You're going to hit water. That's a lie that they tell us. I'm telling you. And they hate that. It's like hydrogen and oxygen create water.  And it's they've lied about how much  water is never ending. Just like oil. I don't care what anybody says.  I'm just telling you the truth. So,  get prepared physically  and then get prepared spiritually, which is get right with God  repent, we all need to repent every day.  And we all do stupid things. That's why Christ came. And if we're prepared physically and if we're prepared spiritually, there's nothing to fear.  Don't be afraid  because that's all you can do.    that's an interesting thing That I, think a lot of people, like I talked about that where the, creeping fear in, the, Realization of that through covid, where even the what I believe was 100%, one of the most successful psychological operations that happened in Covid was the toilet paper shortage.   That was amazing.   The, toilet   paper shortage  showed people, it made people freak out, just an everyday essential  . You didn't need it. Right. You can find, you can get a towel and wash it. There's so many different ways, get a bidet, right? There's so many different ways that you can deal with that issue. But the toilet paper shortage to me was a  shock test. So I I did a podcast, a full five hour breakdown on a document that it was actually leaked from the CIA. That's called silent weapons for quiet wars. Have you ever heard of that?   b  no, I haven't.    So silent weapons for quiet wars was a document that was found in a fax machine in the 1980s in from a  purchase of a IBM fax machine so they did a whole a wholesale sale of all of these materials that were happening at IBM and one of the things that was interesting within the machine itself was a document from the 1940s and 50s, I believe. And it was a secret closed door document by the CIA. And what it essentially did was it outlined everything that we're talking about here today. It outlined the way that they wanted to manipulate the financial Society, they wanted to manipulate the way that, that people engaged with each other. But one of the things that they talked about, there's a theory or actually a framework called shock testing and shock testing originally came from the aviation industry in which they would, take the, wings of the airplane. They would take all of that and they would put it through a series of tests and based on the information and data that they took back from that shock test, and it was literally like basically shaking the materials to see that it would withstand.  And how it would react to certain amounts of pressure and stimuli and,  all those things. And so they took that fundamental ideology of what shock testing was in the aviation industry and they utilized it to start to weaponize big amounts of data against the general public. And there's some really the most interesting document. It, I would say I've read is called silent weapons for quiet wars. And within that shock testing, the idea was we want to utilize certain types of tests against the public. Like how would the society react if we got rid of toilet paper and what they might find is that if we Have a toilet paper shortage, that people might start buying large amounts of water. and they might also start purchasing chickens. That's a very  real potential correlation, right? So they found these weird correlations and causations that happen due to these shock tests. And so I 100 percent believe these things are happening today. And the way that they're happening is much scarier than it was in the 1950s and 1940s that it was being weaponized against the general public because now they can use AI algorithms to do Hundreds of thousands of these tests at a time and see exactly how the General public is going to react.    have you gotten into all the patents? I did an Instagram reel on like the United States patents on direct energy weapons. Oh man,  Oh,  it's unbelievable. You can go to you. So I did it when it came to Hawaii, you can go to YouTube right now  and you can go to Lockheed Martin's Insta or Lockheed Martin's YouTube channel and you can see them.  Same, thing with,  like all of these major military industrial complex companies, they have like literal star wars type advertisements right now on YouTube  Oh yeah.  about direct energy weapons and, boasting about how amazing they are and how efficient they are. And then, they want to take the videos that you and I create on Instagram and they want to call it misinformation when literally Lockheed Martin has Dozens of videos right now on   Oh yeah,  man.  It's so the weapons that they have, it's,  and I, equate it to right now when we see all the things that are happening with the weather, I equate it to  I don't know if you remember in the old Testament  when, the Pharaoh, which is the government when, they were showing their magic to Moses, like their, tricks. And I think that's what's happening right now. I think this is their tricks the, what they're spraying in our skies, what they're putting in, the air, there's going to be project blue beam. You're going to just be seeing a whole bunch of  Really, fascinating. Look, remember all those lightning storms that were hitting all over the United States? Do you remember that? Just  lightning, everywhere. I was getting videos from   everywhere. When was that?    Oh, it was last year sometime.   Okay. Interesting.   a whole Instagram reel on it, but  lightning probably every 30 seconds for two hours straight, but  it was, you can tell it wasn't your normal lightning. It was definitely a weather modification.  And so I think what's happening is the devil,    Sure.   the government, whatever you want, darkness, however you want to label it.  This is their way of showing that  is his world. This is he's in control. And I again, I believe God's just sitting back, wait and watching  what, his Children are going to do.  then when he starts to speak, it's, there won't be enough bunkers that Zuckerberg can build that's going to hide the truth. them from God. I'm telling you right now, like when he starts to speak and when he steps in,  look out    And so you mentioned a couple of things there. The one being the weather modification, right? Talking about cloud seeding or,  I can't even think of the original conspiracy term at this point. What is it  for cloud seeding?   chemtrail.   Chemtrails. Thank you. Thank you. Again, same  It's been  happening for decades.   How many times, I was fact checked by Instagram on it, maybe two years ago.  You look at what was happening in the,  who's the, United Arab Emirates. Just recently they had a huge flood in Saudi Arabia,   Yep. that, that,  right. And they have been basically sitting on, every news channel being  so excited to share how much cloud seeding they're doing.   Right. Yeah.   It's so, yeah they, openly say it. It's so stupid that people  can't even, they don't even believe I'm a pilot. I'm a pilot. And I know, yeah. Okay. Well, how many doctors are out there pushing the V?   That doesn't make that to me, just because you're in that profession means nothing to me. I'm sure you're a great person. I'm sure you would never spray people intentionally to kill people. But just because you're a pilot doesn't make, doesn't mean that the government's not doing this. I'm sorry. I don't know how else, it's like cops, right?  I was a cop. I didn't, I had no idea how wicked the upper three letter agencies are. No idea.  I thought by getting into law enforcement, that was like the top  echelon of integrity. Unfortunately, it goes the other way around. The higher you go up, the more corrupt it gets.  And when you see that and you realize that's what we've become  as, an Amer as,  this, people that we, were supposed to be a city on a Hill, right?  When you see  that, we have become really the bad guys in a lot of sense, like really, if you think about it, dude, like  we were, you and I were good people, right? And your listeners are good people, but like what this country has become,  it's, right? It's really not good, like  really, not good,  the worst, like we are worse than Rome. We are worse  than Babylon of old, the United States of America.  And I mean that and I know that I keep bringing this stuff up but, it's so, On my heart that we have got to get right with God, like we've got to repent  because, when this hits, it's going to be too late if you don't have that light inside of you navigating this darkness.   Yeah, and it's actually something recently that I've been more interested in. Have you heard the conversation or seen some of the  discussions surrounding the collapse of Rome and actually Rome turning into the throne? Three, if you look at a map and you look at the  I forget the name of it. It's a certain monument that's in Washington, DC. It's also in London and it's also at the Vatican. And so when you look at this, the three different areas that, that these places of this,  Gosh I can't remember the term of it, but it's also in from ancient Egypt, but it was essentially a  a monument that, was utilized to show between Rome  collapsing and then reintegrating  itself into the new world, essentially by leveraging the United States as its military arm, London in. Where the other monument like this is, I believe it starts with an S. I, I just can't  I can't think of it, but London being the financial arm and then the Vatican being the spiritual arm of what was originally ancient Rome. Have you, seen that at all?     No, but it doesn't  it's all going to repeat itself.  It's all going to come together. That's what I was trying to explain to you is that  God's gathering his, his the house of Israel, like spiritually, I'm not talking about physically spiritually it's gathering. And then on the flip side, the devil is starting to,  bring in all of his house. Right. And so you're going to see all of these big the who, and  the you're going to watch all of them start to come together into one big monster here soon.   Yeah. Yeah. There's a really interesting you should look into it. It's really interesting conversation around how the collapse of Rome was essentially never actually happened. And it was really the integration of the Roman ideology. And that's why you look at the some of the things that people point out about this is that you look to the  the types of architecture that is in Washington, DC, Rome, and London. And the way that they kind of framework, this is that. Each one of those individual  I guess what you would call cities are actually their own individual,  areas outside of the government in which they are housed within, right? Washington DC is not a part of the, 50 States of the United States, right? It's its own individual entity. within that, right? Same thing with the Vatican. It's, it actually is not a part of the government. It's not housed within the country that it's in. It's its own subsection of that, right? So they can have their own laws. They can have their own rules. They can have all of these things. Same, thing with the, financial arm, which is London. And so there's a really interesting conversation that that, I've seen come up pretty recently, actually around that. And I'll have to, I'll send you some stuff on it. It's really interesting.  But when you talk about  the, spiritual aspect of everything that's happening here, when we look to the, escalation of tensions, right? We're at a time now where  all of the institutions have lost trust. And that's because  each one of them is leading with the darkness, right? They're leading with lies. They're leading with manipulation. They're leading with  all of the they're, trying to stifle the truth,  right? Each one of these institutions. So when you talk about the three letter agencies, the CIA, the FBI, even when you're talking about the governmental institutions, do you think there's any current institution that isn't compromised?     No, there's not, there are some good people within that are just quiet  when you say good, well, they should be speaking out, but there are some that are very aware of what's happening that are just trying to get their 20 years, right? That, that was happening at the police department.  It's  I there, there's these cops that knew these things were wrong, but wouldn't say anything about it. For example, Occupy Wall Street. Remember that I worked that downtown Salt Lake City when they did the Occupy. Salt Lake City and it was very dangerous chanting F the police and they only had two of us working at a time You know inside the park they would post this up there and it was like you guys there's only two of us and I put in a complaint and I got in trouble right hey there I don't feel safe, but there's only two of us while there's hundreds and hundreds of people Chanting F the police and you have me in here like some kind of a pawn like that's dangerous You And I and, trouble's the wrong word. I got in my my, my supervisor was upset, but it turns out that I was right.  Right. So, so I didn't get trouble on paper when it started to go up the chain. Oh yeah. Mootsos is right. We need more people in there.    So, so tell me about that. You were a part of the police force for how many years?     Seven.  Seven years. And so that was a part of the, what I alluded to a very beginning of this is you had some of the controversies surrounding that, that kind of maybe speak a little bit more to the values that you hold dearly to yourself. What, was the situation that you found yourself in that was probably the most high profile out of, everything that you experienced with the police?     Well,  and this obviously is part of my book too,  I finally made it over to the motorcycle unit. I've got a, I've got a crazy story.  It is a, wild story in those seven years.  But I finally made it over to the motorcycle unit and was doing really good. We, yes, there are police quotas, a lot of them.  And that was part of the reason why. They didn't like me from within is because I called out their quota system.  And,  that's how most departments, not all departments, but that's how most departments operate is based off of money, right? You got to get a certain level of arrest to not only get local money, but then you get federal grants  based off, of numbers. Right?  And  so when I,  when,   when, they talk, when you talk about quotas, is that like more of an unspoken rule? Or is that something they're   Oh, absolutely. Yeah, it's unspoken because they know that it's wrong, but they have, there's no other way to do it. When I was a motorcycle cop  we had, to get 20 points a day. That was our goal. Well, a one ticket was a point and then a DUI was worth 10 points. So if you got two DUIs in a shift, then you got your 20 points.  So I chose to do more DUIs because  I believe, that people shouldn't be driving around drunk, right?  When you're giving petty tickets, it just doesn't feel good as a, it's  and I'm not saying arresting drunk drivers feels good, but maybe I saved a few lives and I don't know about it. Who knows?  But, when you're giving out a ticket for some stupid thing, cause you got to hit your 20, it sucks your soul a little bit at a time when you're looking at a person who's just driving just how you're going to drive when you go home.  Which there's so many violations on the road. There's hundreds and hundreds of laws. I don't care who you are. You're breaking the law when you're driving somewhere from point A to point B. And it, so when you're writing these, tickets all the time, it's, it doesn't change behavior. Now, some people would argue it changed behavior, but what about giving somebody a warning? What about seeing red and blue lights behind you  and, that scaring you enough  Oh, geez I'm sorry. Yeah, you need to slow down and I'm not. Look, I'm, there are certain people that deserve tickets. Don't get me wrong. But  when you create an entire industry. And jobs based off of money that you're getting. I think it's wrong. Anyway, I called that out.  And I got in trouble, but with not actually getting in trouble, I got blacklisted in many ways. Once I called out the quotas and I recorded my sergeant too, just in case they ever say that it didn't happen, it did happen.  But when I finally got on the motorcycle squad, I was the number one DUI officer by far. I think I had 160 DUIs in that year. And then,  the next person below me had 85. I was a hard worker, right? Never been written up. Never had an IA. Never had, I never went to IA.  I had  I had awards  in my file. So,  I was,  I really, put in my heart and my soul to my career, right? And when I was a motorcycle cop, they wanted five of us to come in and they wanted us to celebrate.  in the LGBTQ parade.  So they wanted us to, they wanted us to participate. They wanted us to lead the gay parade in our police uniforms.  And when I saw that assignment,  I can't explain it to you, but it was, every it's maybe how people felt during the vaccine.  Don't do that. Do not take it. That's how I felt. It was dark and this is nothing against gay people. I just don't believe it theologically. Does that make sense? So I don't hate anybody. But because we live in this such polarized idea that if  disagree with someone's lifestyle that you must hate them. No, I love you. There's nobody on planet earth that I hate. I don't, some people I don't like and I wouldn't hang out with.  But I don't hate anybody. And so I was asked to trade assignments. I said, Hey, I went to another cop, and I said, Hey, will you be in the parade?  And I will do your traffic post. And he's yeah, no problem. So we switched spots. An hour later, an email comes down that says there will be no trading positions in and out of this. And I'm like, I knew that they knew that I got a trade, or they would have never said that because it's within our policy to trade. They were upset. At least that Sergeant was upset that I got a trade and they were going to force me into something that they knew was against my faith.  Because I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. That is the very definition of marriage.  And when I say these things, you have to understand I'm a sinner too.  I'm a sinner. I got problems, but I believe  in a,  value system that I try to live by. Right. I believe that we are. quickly devolving literally into animals. There's now furries in Utah in these, and I covered this story and I'm the bad guy for covering the story that there's a whole bunch of kids,  dressing up as furries pooping on the floor in some of these schools. I'm getting reports.   Well, you, if you The bad guy, I think it depends on who you ask. Right. And I think honestly,   I'm just saying in the media now,  I'm the bad guy. Like I exposed,  let me go let me go back. So, Because I'll go off on a tangent.  So they called me in the office, because I said, hey look I don't I sent an email, really professional, hey, I don't hate anybody, I love all people  I just don't feel that the police should be involved in this speech.  Because, it is free speech.  What they're trying to do is normalize it because the police are involved in it.  And now look at us now. What has the state become? Well, the state has become, ironically, the forced religion. The religion, that we weren't supposed to have a separate separation of church and state. Well, guess what? The L-G-B-T-Q to a lot of people is a religion.  It is a dogma. It is. It is a faith.  they believe this as much as some people believe in God.  And so, I was not going to bow down to that false God religion. Because that's what it is in my opinion. And I, and again, I know that there's going to be some people that are gay listening. I love you. And I hope you know that. I love you. I just don't believe that's the order of heaven.  Because God wants us to become like him,   Well, when.  He wants us to become perfect like him.  right. and when you look at the military, I was in the military, so I did four years in the Air Force, and when you look at the military, they would, you would get in trouble if you are found being a part of a parade, if you're found to be a part of a protest, and you're in uniform when you do it,  that's an  advocation   by the establishment, right?  So Like, even if, is that it's against our policy to wear something over your uniform. But yet the chief of police and all the lieutenants and all the sergeants and some officers, they're all wearing the gay  lay the Hawaiian gay thing over their uniform.   Right, exactly. And so you're, when you're in a position of power, which is what you are, whether you're in the military, whether you're a police officer, whether you're in whatever position that you're in, that if you're advocating for a certain  if any of the police officers that were in your unit wanted to go there and dance in the parade or support them while not In their uniform or representing the police force, let alone. That's perfectly fine. Let alone  forcing people to advocate for something that maybe they don't believe in. And to your point  I'm, passive in the same way that you are. You do what you want to do. I have no, no, problems with anybody who, is. gay or lesbian. Now, when we get into the,  TQIA plus    Well, and kids, community,   that's a whole other issue. It's, we could, that's a whole other speaking of tangents that we can get into is the, hijacking of what is a sexual preference into being what is a fetish, personal fetishes that are then being enforced on youth.  But back to the original conversation, which is that there's no reason at all. In my opinion, and coming from the opinion of somebody who worked for the government in a position that wore a uniform that would, we would not be allowed if you went to a gay parade in your ABUs or in your blues, your dress blues  we would have, gotten in trouble. Right, let alone forcing somebody to be in the police force to be a part of that and show that the police force is now advocating for this,  against  whatever their religious beliefs are, there should,  the Supreme Court has ruled on this,  they said, I believe it was the,  it was the bakery that said that they didn't want to bake cakes for somebody who was  asking them to.   Yeah. Jack Phillips. Yeah, that was Jack Phillips. That was about the same time period. Cause my story was about  2014 and I think his was either 2012, 2013. In fact  I ended up, talking to him,  to Jack Phillip. Yeah. Because when he heard my story and I guess I should finish the story. So,  a couple of days go by.  And I get this text message from my deputy chief, who's one of the highest of the high up in this.  Hey we want to see, we need to see you on Wednesday in my office. And dude,  my, my heart, like I, I immediately knew I'm like, this is not good. This is not good.  Don't worry. We just want to talk. And I'm just like yeah, I don't believe you. I don't believe you.  And it turns out they didn't just want to talk.  They  took my badge and my gun for discrimination.  And dude I, don't know how to explain it. It's even like thinking about, I go right back to that moment. It was like everything flipped upside down.  I couldn't believe what I was hearing  and I remember like I as a, shoot, how old was I? 30,  I don't know, 32, 33, right around that point.  I'm crying dude. Like I'm literally crying. I can look down and I've got tears splashing my badge and they took my badge. They took my gun. Like I'm some kind of a criminal dude. Drove me home  took all my stuff. And then two days later, all of a sudden  my entire, story, Was blasted all over national news,  officer refuses gay pride parade,  which wasn't even true. So it wasn't even a true story.  It was, absolute lie from the Salt Lake Tribune that I didn't want to protect gay people. That was the narrative.  And so. I'm now in, I'm now in like  complete disarray. I don't know how I'm going to, I don't know what I'm going to do. And then the police department comes out and condemns me in front of everybody. We don't tolerate bias, bigotry, or hatred.  So they didn't even do an investigation, bro.  They,   I was on, what's that?   and smeared you publicly within the mainstream media.   Oh dude  I didn't, even get a chance to go through the process. Right?  Hey  this is under, investigation where we can't comment. It's under, oh no,  don't tolerate bias, bigotry or hatred.  Threw me under the bus, dude.  And when that happened, I am, I knew it was over. There's, why in the hell would I want to go work for a, for an organization that doesn't, that is not inclusive, that is not diverse, that is not loving,  that,  that, is not tolerant, because that's who these people are.  They, are tolerant unless you disagree with them, unless you have your faith.  And so, That happened 10 years ago, dude.  That was probably the most,  it was one of the hardest things that I've ever had to deal with in my whole life  really.   Because, a difficult thing for you to deal with too, Because, the reason that  knowing at least having this conversation with you and knowing a little bit about your personality, it seems like your, values and your morals drive your decisions every day. And that's very   likely. dude  I, you got to understand like I'm a sinner, right? I,  yeah. You got to understand  I believe these things as an ideal, but I fall short all the time. And so when I talk about this stuff, people think that I'm somehow, I think I'm better than someone else. And I'm, and I do not believe that. I must, I'm like, I look at myself as a very, imperfect person who needs a lot of help on a daily basis who needs to repent. But there are certain things that I just, I can't live with. Right.  It's like I, I couldn't  knowing how I felt when that assignment came down, I couldn't go and do that and then live with myself. Right.  I couldn't     because I don't believe it.  It's crazy to me to see that happened in Salt Lake City of literally any city within the United States of America.   well, well, Salt Lake City like I said, our state, man,  we're quickly turning blue. And it's because we have so many  nice Christians here.  The kind of worship, not all, but there's many Christians that worship the gospel of nice and no quarrels, no contention. That's the highest level of,  of, goodness when that's not true. Like it's  we, have to stand up for truth. If we do not stand up for truth, we don't have, we won't have a, country. Does that make sense? It's like  we,  I try to articulate this to people.  When you have something  and you have a certain knowledge  and you don't live up to that knowledge, where much is given, much is required.  And so Salt Lake City of all places is that we should have been  a city that everybody looked to Utah wow, those guys got it right. But unfortunately, we are falling fast. I don't know if you've read the book, The Letter to the American Church, but on my podcast, I had a man named Eric Metaxas.  And he wrote this incredible book called letter to the American church. And it's just about how Marxism has infiltrated our churches  and it's all going down in the name of niceness.  You just have to, you just have to be really nice and not bring this stuff up because if we bring this stuff up as Christians, that's not what Jesus would do.  And, I submit that's the exact opposite. Jesus, his very first words were to repent. Literally his first words on his mortal mission, repent. That means that we need to turn back to God.  And right now our country is on the verge of complete destruction because of, what we've allowed from abortion to this sexual perversion that has entered into our school system.  That's, in cartoons, right? This whole they, them,  man, I'm telling you dude, like  we are, inches away from Being wiped off this, the face of this planet right now because we  totally, screwed it up.   And so you spoke to a few things there and I'll touch on a couple of them. So the first one being the infiltration of liberal ideology within the church. I can't tell you how many churches I've drove past. in the last six months that are hanging a trans flag outside of their church. It's in, and again I'm somebody who's struggled with their faith several times throughout my lifetime and is still trying to work on that and grow in that, aspect of my life and find myself there, whatever that means. Right. But, even just seeing that and being so puzzled by the idea that, there would be some sort of,  It is social infiltration of the ideologies that we're seeing that are very much founded in sexual perversion, right? Let's, put the Bible aside and let's just say you look at what's happening with the, trans ideologies the, hyper sexualization through TV shows, which you mentioned as well.  All of those things that are  the and, to find that within a church setting, something that is so. so.  I  don't know the right word for it. So sensitive, right? When you're putting yourself in a position of authority, when it comes to spirituality between somebody else and God, right?  The, amount of power that you can wield within that setting is alarming if you utilize it the wrong way.  We saw that  within some of the things that have come out from the Catholic Church and so the other ways that, that faith has been weaponized and utilized by bad people, bad actors within those, settings to, to utilize that framework as a way to push their own ideologies or their own perversions or their own  their own wants and needs, whether it be monetization, money, sexualization, those types of things. So to, to see that being outright pushed in front of a church where the very doctrine that these people claim to, to worship speaks pretty, at least from my familiarity of it, pretty clearly on those, subjects. And so to, see them just be outright just, Against the, very thing that they claim to, to represent is, pretty alarming, right? And, to say that like 2014 a decade ago when this happened to you, so to see that already within a community that is very of, I would say  any, city that at least I know of within the United States, Salt Lake and, Utah specifically is very, religious in, this sense.  And so to see that happened all the way back 10 years ago as a precursor to what we're seeing today, specifically, not  Yeah. the institutions of the government with the police force, but also within the churches themselves over the last couple of years.    Well  and I don't know if it was a vision or whatever, however you want to look at it, but I saw what was coming.  Like when I had my experience, I just had it just in my mind's eye. Right. Like when you think ahead it's like we're talking about the digital currency. We see that this is going to be a very, real possibility. Right. And so I saw. All of this stuff happening.  I saw it, dude. I saw the sexualization of kids, what they were going to do. I was even warning on Facebook 10 years ago about pedophilia stuff, about,  minor attracted people. I posted about that 10 years ago and people thought I was nuts.   It's unbelievable.    Hmm. was trying to warn people even way back then, this is coming. This is coming. This stuff's coming. And so that's why you can't change definitions like marriage. I don't care if people want to have a civil union. Great. Get the government out of all  of our,  relationships. Right.  But, when you start to change definitions, that was the floodgate, bro. And I said that, I said, if you change the definition of marriage, which is, Between a man and a woman. If you change that, anything can go. And now what have we seen? What is a woman? You can't even define it. The left cannot define what a woman is.  That's, how far we've gone. And what's next age.  That's what's  next. I'm telling you, there is no such thing as age. There's no such thing as men and women.  Kids are now animals in school. Age is next and it's going to be pushed at an alarming rate and we are going to be like, how can you even come close to participate? The governor of our state of Utah, Spencer Cox,  he vetoed a bill that would prohibit men from playing against girls in girl sports.  he vetoed that bill. Now, luckily the House overrode him or they, the legislators ov

Trump trial ends early for the day. Bragg trial is ridiculous and fundamentally unfair election interference. Yale anti-Semite protesters arrested. How do parents feel paying 100K a year to send kids to these schools? Anti-Israel protesters use the term "Zionist" as a slur. 13 House Democrats voted against resolution condemning Iran, all 13 are non-white. Buck's trip to St. Barts. VIP emailer on Dr. Jill Biden's degree.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, nobody cared when Sen Chuck Schumer and other Democrats attacked Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch and harassed them at their homes, but now Donald Trump is attacked for speaking out against a corrupt judge. By going on CNN to talk about Trump, D.C. District Court Judge Reggie Walton has violated basic ethics laws and destroyed the integrity of the court. If Walton is allowed to get away with this, he will set a very dangerous precedent of a sitting judge with an active caseload going on national television to discuss a political ruling. Also, President Biden is selling out America to Iran and China among other countries around the world, which is why our border is wide open. Biden will sell out anyone and anything for control, and he has been a racist and anti-Semite his entire life because all he cares about is money and power. Meanwhile, Joe Rogan made a very dangerous statement on his podcast, comparing what Israel is doing to Hamas to the German killing of Jews during the Holocaust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Texas moves toward deporting illegal immigrants, with the go-ahead of the Supreme Court; the House GOP holds the Biden White House to account over the disastrous Afghanistan pullout; and the media decide Donald Trump is…an anti-Semite. Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEj Ep.1929 - - -  DailyWire+: Take advantage of Jeremy's March of Man-ness deals now! https://bit.ly/4a7fHwV Watch Bill Whittle's An Empire of Terror only on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/4aink3N Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw  - - -  Today's Sponsors: Birch Gold - Open an IRA in GOLD and get a FREE infokit. Text "BEN" to 989898. http://www.birchgold.com/Ben  IFCJ - Donate today at https://BenforTheFellowship.org  Ramp - Get $250 off when you join Ramp. Go to http://www.ramp.com/Shapiro Grand Canyon University - Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University: https://www.gcu.edu/ - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB

Bill Maher has revealed that he has a two-hour interview with Kanye West that will NEVER air - because Kanye is a "very charming anti-Semite" and Maher doesn't want young people to hear his "heinous views." Plus, The EU may consider sanctions against Tucker Carlson for his interview with Vladimir Putin. And, Ice Spice delivers a groundbreaking first performance of her hit song  “Think U The Sh*t (Fart)” after being nominated in FOUR different Grammy categories. Ep.278 - - - Binge ALL 10 episodes of Convicting a Murderer here: https://bit.ly/3RbWBPL Grab some “Yes We CANdace” merch here: https://bit.ly/3Amm13Y - - -  Today's Sponsors: PreBorn! - Help save 10,000 babies from abortion: https://preborn.com/candace Balance of Nature - Start your journey to better health! For a limited time, get 35% off your first order as a preferred customer + a FREE Fiber & Spice. Use promo code CANDACE at checkout: https://www.balanceofnature.com/ - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3RNly1c Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3U5DF4a Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3Ug6Thd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3d9dZ6k

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, President Biden has blown up the Middle East and has blood on his hands, from the Iranians protesting against their tyrannical Islamonazi regime to the Jews in Israel under attack by Hamas. The citizens of Israel can never live in peace while Biden is president because he does not want Israel to win. If Palestine is rewarded for slaughtering and kidnapping people and given more land, Israel will die. Like Barack Obama, Joe Biden is an anti-Semite surrounded by like-minded people in his administration, which is the most anti-Semitic presidential administration since the creation of Israel. The Biden regime does not have the back of Israel because it doesn't even protect Americans, leaving our borders wide open so we have no idea if terrorists are coming in. Also, the Democrat party is now using tactics never done before in American history in order to win the Presidential Election in 2024. They want to nationalize our elections and turn our entire country into California and have removed virtually all checks and balances in the election process. When you have a Democrat party and a media that hates the country and will do anything for power, it is a big problem. Meanwhile, Nikki Haley is spending more than ever to buy her way into the presidency and is now being endorsed by the Koch Network. Charles Koch hates a strong border, a strong military, and most of all hates Donald Trump. Later, what the judges and special counsel in the case against Donald Trump are doing is assuring that he will be convicted of at least one count, so when Trump runs for president in the 2024 election, he will be called a convicted felon by Democrats and the media. What the Biden Department of Justice is doing to Trump is worse than Stalin or Mussolini. Finally, Mark is joined by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to talk about her values and background before Congress, and to discuss her new book, MTG. https://45books.com/products/mtg-the-story-of-america-first Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Christie, the former governor of NJ and GOP presidential candidate, talks about the apparent terrorist attack at the Rainbow Bridge near Canada/U.S. border, Joe Biden's weakness, OSU-Michigan, and whether Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis is more qualified — plus, his belief in a conspiracy to kill JFK. The cofounder of RealClearPolitics, Tom Bevan, joins Clay to talk about the polls showing Trump way ahead and if it's all a head fake because the left really wants to run against Trump. Caller: A child of Holocaust survivors, says people calling Trump an anti-Semite and Hitler are idiots. Caller: Clay was right about the covid sheep with the jab. Clay tells you how grateful he and Buck are for you.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, the Biden administration is trying to topple the Netanyahu-led Israeli government behind the scenes because President Biden learned from Obama who is an anti-Semite. Secretary of State Antony Blinken thinks he is the Prime Minister of Israel and king of the world but is a very sick and destructive man acting with the consent of Biden. The Israeli press, like in America is the mouthpiece of the most radical left-wing elements and is being funded by dark money organizations like George Soros and Hamas front groups as well as Biden and Blinken. The goal is to take out Netanyahu and get someone running the government who will capitulate to every demand made by this incompetent Biden administration and anti-Semitic State Department. Also, the Biden administration is literally getting away with murder in Israel, Ukraine, and the American southern border. What is happening on our southern border is a disgrace to both American citizens and migrants, but most of the media is blind to the situation and refuses to report it. It is an impeachable offense and a high crime to not abide by our nation's immigration policy, because the president does not have the authority to ignore it and allow our borders to be wide open whether the media likes it or not. Later, Dan Abrams, founder of Mediaite and host and producer of numerous court and law and order shows on cable, has failed to reveal on numerous of his platforms that his brother-in-law, Greg Andres, was assistant special counsel on Robert Mueller's team investigating the Russian collusion hoax and President Trump. This explains Mediaites's unhinged obsession with smearing Trump, and now the secret is out that Dan Abrams has tainted all of it. Should we hold Abrams accountable for what his brother-in-law did? Enjoy Mark's most recent Election Special: Apple Podcasts  Spotify Amazon Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Freedom of speech online is freer than ever, thanks to the new reality created by Elon Musk. Charlie dives deep into Musk's latest maelstrom, as he's being denounced as an anti-Semite for denouncing the ADL's anti-white and anti-American activism. But Charlie also offers some criticism of the right, and explains why it should celebrate liberal Jews coming to their senses, rather than complaining they didn't do it sooner.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charlie went to bed on Friday after a full week of covering and supporting Israel nonstop, only to wake up on Saturday to bizarre claims he is an anti-Semite. Charlie responds to these insulting and ridiculous attacks, then digs back into the far more important story: How was Hamas able to launch such a successful attack, and who needs to be held accountable to make sure it doesn't happen again?Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.