Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 475: Billy Goats Guff

Episode Date: June 24, 2019

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irreverence to any topic that makes the news makes it big or makes us mad it's skeptical it's political and there is no welcome at this is episode 475 this is a historic this is an historic episode see so i believe it's an with an h i don't know and i'll tell you why this is a historic, this is an historic episode, Cecil. I believe it's an with an H. I don't know. And I'll tell you why. This is our pre-Iran war episode. We can look back on this wistfully. Yeah, this is that week before we went to war with Iran,

conveniently just before the election cycle. That's crazy. That's crazy that it works like that. Those Iranians, they just should think ahead a little and not blow up our drones or not blow up our drones while they're in their airspace.

Is that how that works? When you say it like that, it almost sounds like they have a right to their sovereignty of their own airspace. Weird. Yeah, but they may have possibly blown up

an oil tanker that wasn't ours. Who knows? You know, they're a state sponsor of terrorism, right? So there's a conversation that they're a state sponsor

of terrorism. Sure. And that's a conversation, sure. But I will say like- It doesn't stop us from Saudi Arabia at all. Right.

Yeah. It never ceases to amaze me that like, we have to go looking to be victims of, like we have to go overseas and be in the Mideast. And then they blow us up with a roadside bomb. And it's like, well, it wasn't in Newark. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. It wasn't like, if we just like weren't, it's like a guy with an RPG is only scary if you're in the place where the guy with the RPG is. Yeah. But all those guys are there. Yeah.

And none of those guys are here. And if we spent more of our time being here and less of our time adventuring around there. Yeah. There'd be a lot less people shooting us with that. Turns out, you know, it's interesting. I know it's an oversimplification. It is. It is very much.

But it's okay. that turns out, you know, it's interesting. I know it's an oversimplification. It is, it is very much, but it's okay. Because like, you know, I think that in certain times, you know, I understand that the president probably has more information. I, I would hope, let me just say this. I don't know. I'm going to say it's for certain. I guess if you show up to the briefings, I'm going to say, it's my great hope that the president has more information on all this than I will ever have. Right. It's my great hope that that's the truth. Yeah. president has more information on all this than I will ever have. Right. It's my great hope that that's the truth. Yeah. So I don't know all the ins and outs of all the stuff that's happening, but I, as an outsider, when I see what's happening and I think, you know, we had tried to make a deal

with them during when Obama was in office, we had tried to make a deal with them. We did, didn't we? We had a trade. We had a trade and we gave them, money and they said, okay, we won't do this. And we had trade agreements with them. And then we cut all that out. And now I think what's happening is the president's trying to like gaslight them, like in some ways by being like, look what you did. And you're like, yeah, but you cut off the deal. Like you're the one who cut all this deal off. Like you cut it off. They cut it off beforehand. You know, a lot of this stuff, it was easily preventable is what I'm saying from the outside, looking at it, it seems like it was easily preventable. And so I feel like, you know, like you said, there's a possibility that you're just drumming this up just to get into a fight so that people

feel a little less, they're more tentative when they vote for the change coming up rather than the hope, I guess. I don't know. I can't imagine being Obama in this situation. Be like, I had it locked down. I did all this work. I locked it down. They weren't enriching uranium.

Like we had a deal. We had a fucking treaty in place. It was working. It was working. And then it's just like terrible deal bad deal the worst deal going to war is a better deal like it's a terrible deal what do you fucking if we go to war in iran that's only one letter different than the last debacle yeah right like it's gonna be yeah a fucking complete debacle it'll be a worse debacle

because arguably iran is even better equipped to fight than Iraq. I don't know how much of a fight it'll be. I know that they were saying that Iraq, oh, they're pretty tough and then we walked right in and just rolled right over them all. It's not that I agree with a lot of the policies that Iran has. It's not that I'm here saying... No, I'm not a fan of Iran.

Cool, yeah. I love what they do over there. There's people... I was watching a story on Iran where the New York Times guy like disappeared. Like there was a guy who's like New York Times guy just disappeared for like, they put him in a camp or whatever. They put him in an interrogation. They take people into custody all the time.

They have a really strict shitty government. It's not, it's not that it's fucking, it's a nice government. And it's not that I think that we should be trading with them because, you know, I think that they're a noble nation. Right. I think that we should be trading and doing things with them or trying to prevent them so that we're not dealing with a nuclear Iran. That's why we should be trying to come to the table is to try to stop that from happening. Right. And you know, it's, it's coming out now. They're starting to enrich again. They're like, no, we're going to enrich some more because fuck it. Yeah. It's almost like being like, oh, man, that fucking dog is all it's a mad dog. Yeah. It's a mad dog. What do we do?

Well, I don't know. Back him into a corner and kick him a few times. Beat him. Yeah. Well, I did that. What happened? Well, now we're fighting. That's what now we're fighting. What the fuck? What the actual fuck is going on right now? what the fuck? What the actual fuck is going on right now? Yeah. So, and we don't even know for sure, like, like the, the, the evidence is in contest right now in terms of like those oil tanks. Yeah. There's people who are saying there's, there's Japanese. I thought I read that some of the Japanese people were like, that's not true. Yeah. They're like, that's not a sea mine. That's a fucking missile that was shot at that thing. Yeah. The facts are in contest. The only thing that pleases me is that I don't think,

and I don't, I don't think that Trump has the benefit of the doubt the way that W did. Yeah. Right? So when W got us into a grotesquely illegal war

based on a series of lies, he had the benefit of the doubt. Everybody was like, oh man, 9-11. Yeah, sure. You were the cowboy. He had the 9-11 card. Yeah, he could play it all day. You know, like,

you could do whatever you want. We trust our president. Now I don't feel like we're in the same position. Now I feel like it's like, well, how do we know Iran did it? Well, Trump said so. Yeah, but how do we know Iran did it? Like, there's no part of me that... Yeah, very different. It's a very different feel. I think, you know, if it would have happened under

Obama, I don't think that people would have been questioning it as much. You know what I mean? They would have been like, oh, okay, yeah. So maybe the erosion of trust prior to this, honestly, is a good thing.

I'm like, if you're making lemonade right now, right? Like if you are busy with fucking lemon shake-ups at the fucking carnival. If you're enriching your lemonade, if you're enriching your lemons

to make yellow cake lemonade right now. I mean, uranium is made of urine, so it's yellow, right? I have that right. I'm pretty sure I have that right. You have to pee on it. Look, after some asparagus, that shit is radioactive.

I'll tell you what. Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe the erosion of public trust is a good thing. Maybe, Tom. Those are words I said out loud. That's how bad it's gotten. Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe the erosion of public trust is a good thing. Maybe, Tom. Those are words I said out loud. That's how bad it's gotten. Maybe it's gotten so bad that I actually just said the phrase,

maybe the erosion of the public trust will save us. I just think it's such a terrible situation to be in. You had such an opportunity with that deal before. It's a great deal. And to not be in any position for that and now be on the verge of war because of it is just a terrible position to be in. I don't know how you swing this or spin this.

But it's funny because I listened to a thing this week because Trump announced this week. Trump announced he's going to be running. Wait, is he running for re-election? Oh my God. Whoa. In Orlando. I wasn't sure. I don't remember. Was it Orlando. Oh my God. I wasn't sure.

I don't remember. Was it Orlando? Could have been. I don't know. Was it disgusting in Goresh? It was in Florida. Trump was there. Was it a neon nightmare? But he announced this week and there was a bunch of people that were asking questions.

The New York Times was there asking question after question to these people. And I also watched a town hall this week, a fucking absolute debacle of a town hall where they had a bunch of people talking about Trump and they're from Ohio. And all these Ohioans are like, yeah, no, Trump's doing a great job. And they're like, how? You got to explain that. And they're like, no, he's doing a great's doing a great job. Like he's doing it. He's, he's, the economy's better. And one of the things that they were saying was, he's finally allowing us to say the things we can always,

we always wanted to say. That's, that's 100%. Which is exactly it, right? And one of the things, one of the things. Because what they want to say is the N word, right? Yeah, what they want to say is they want, they want to use, they want to use racial slurs and they want to, they want to tell people,

you know, that they matter more than other people. That's what they want to tell people. And so one of the things that one of the guys- Just want to pee on a trans kid. That's all I want to do. How hard is that? It's radioactive pee too. But they said, this guy says, what would you want him to do more? And he said, well, I think he did a really good job, but I definitely want him to do more on immigration. The guy said, the woman says, well, okay, well, what do you want him to do? I want him to stop

the immigrants to come in, and I want him to get all the immigrants out of the country, is what he said. I want him to get all of them. And I'm just like, okay, well, then it's just Native Americans being like, how are you doing over there? Hello! And then in the back, like, in New York, one answers. I'm great.

I got all this space. Hey, there's nobody at my casino. When I heard that, I was just like, yeah, that's exactly it. Is the people that are shitty, those shitty people who don't like, who want to just whatever I can get for myself, be as greedy as possible. Those people are happy right now. And I will say this, there's a narrative out there.

It's not a true narrative, but it's a narrative that the president's been attacked by Mueller. There's a narrative that shows that the economy is way better than it ever was under Obama, which isn't true. It's just not true. Yeah, I mean, I'm going to list

a bunch of things that aren't true. Okay, I'm sorry. I'll let you do it. I'm going to list a bunch of things that aren't true. I'll zip it. Yeah, But there's, there's, you know, the, the, the economy's better. The, uh, you know, all the trade deals are working out. All the tariffs are working out, right? There's, there's a narrative out there. So I'm going to

tell the people who are listening, don't expect an easy race in 2020. Don't expect it. Don't expect it to be easy because there's a bunch of people out there who see only what they want to see. You could present them all the data in the world and be like, here's all the data. You need to try to digest that. And they would be like, oh no, that's just not true. That's fake news or whatever. So understand that it's not an easy run between now and then. Get out there and do something about this. If you want to go donate money or time to some campaigns, do it. When it comes time for whoever the nominee is, work for that person. Give some money to that person. Help that person out in any way that

you can because it's not going to be easy. It's not going to be an easy run. I think the things we can do that will have the most effect, I think there's three things. Three things you can do that's going to have the most effect in 2020. First of all, offer to drive senior citizens to the polls to vote. Yeah.

Offer to drive millennials to the polls to vote. Yeah. Organize a stamp drive for millennials. Millennials stamp drive. Just, you know, like, you know, like just,

just giving people free postage. Just vote. Yeah. Just go and do the thing people free postage. Just vote. Yeah. Just go into the thing. That's the thing. When you look at, when you look at protest votes, the non votes,

the non, it's not a protest vote. It's like a staying home in protest. I guess it's a better way to say it. That's what killed her. Yeah. That's what killed her. You know,

and don't forget that 63 million people voted for Trump. I don't know that it's going to be that high again, but it's, you know, it might be. Yeah. It might be. And it might also energize people like, you know, there's a possibility that some of this stuff can completely backfire. Yeah. I am like, there's no part of me that is willing to say out loud any of the things that I like

would want to. Normally I would predict with great and wild abandon a series of things which will not come to pass, right? And I won't do that again this year. Like in 2020, I'm just going to be like, yeah, I don't know. Like even after they call the election, I'll be like,

until they swear that fucker in, whoever they swear in. I ain't even going to look at 538. Like I ain't even going to look at that. I'm going to fucking tranquilize myself the day of the election night. Yeah. Like I'm just going to be like, ah, I'm going to eat 40 Xanax. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to have Xanax like fucking Eli Skittles.

We have to record that night. We have to do a live stream that night. Yeah. I'll just be fucking wasted. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm going to drive your waist. I think what we should do is we should get you a car because I think we need to do a drinking game

that night so like every state we win like the Democrats win we do a shot can we do an opioid game a fentanyl patch every time because I don't want to live through this every time the president

the current president wins the election we overdose on fentanyl that's the fentanyl. That's the fentanyl game. Overdose on the air? I bet you wish you were a patron now. Oh, Jesus. So, yeah.

But I'm going to warn people now. I mean, we're over a year out. Right. But I'm going to warn people now. It's not going to be easy. It's not going to be an easy fight. Because he's currently dancing this weird line where he's both the person in power and the underdog. He's an underdog outsider

president of the United States. He's still saying the game is rigged. He's still saying that. It's not that he's not saying that. He's still saying the game is rigged. He's still saying that he's not a political elite. He's still saying, I mean, he's the most elite political elite we have.

I love that we hired a billionaire, family fortune, real estate tycoon to be our everyman champion. And he is- We are the dumbest people. We deserve this. He is. That's exactly what he is.

That's exactly. And it's so funny because he is, and he's dancing this line very well. People are eating it up. They're eating up the fact that he's, he's both the establishment and the underdog and the establishment is against him. It's crazy. I've established that I'm the underdog. It's crazy. I don't know how your brain gets there. I mean, you just got, I think, I think at a certain point, you just have to live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance. There's a, again, I know I've mentioned this a constant state of cognitive dissonance. There's, again,

I know I've mentioned this before, there's a guy that I work with that I talk to about politics and he's a Republican. And like, every time I, we haven't spoken in a while, but every time I see him,

he grins this great big grin. He's like, things are going great. And I'm just like, where do you wake up in the morning? Where is it great? What are you talking about?

How is that great? Where do you, like, I wake up and I'm just like, I don't know that I want to live in this country anymore. And you wake up grinning ear to ear. I can't, I can'm just like, I don't know that I want to live in this country anymore. And you wake up grinning ear to ear. I can't, I can't imagine it. I don't know how we could be so far apart.

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That is the greatest headline I've ever seen in forever. It's so good. This is fucking amazing. So, Good Omens, I watched it. Good Omens is based on a book that was a collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It was a fun book. It was a really fun series. I think there were like six or eight episodes of it.

It was a lot of fun. And what it deals with is a demon and an angel and it's the apocalypse is nigh and the antichrist is born and the demon and the angel are like, but like, yeah, but being alive is fucking money and earth is really cool. Why don't we thwart the apocalypse

so that the earth keeps going? And so they joined forces and it's zany and kind of fun. Well, I guess the Christians got all whacked out on this. And about 20,000 of them signed a petition asking Netflix to cancel the McRib

or whatever. It's as reasonable as that. Yeah, it really is it's so funny because uh Neil Gaiman's tweet is basically like someone

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I know. And it's the first thing that comes up is where it's at. But like, that's it. That's it. That's all it takes. It's nothing. Nothing you have to do.

I love how incompetent this is. I love how milty they are too, like snowflakey they are about this whole thing. Like they don't want to see it, right? I don't want, I not only don't want to see it, which we could totally do by just joining Netflix. You could never see it. You could literally never see it.

You could watch the entire Netflix catalog and never see it. Put it in your eye like fucking clockwork orange. Sit on a fucking sofa with your eyes pried open, watching everything in Netflix. You could watch one on either eye. Like you could watch two TVs at the same time. You could matrix download the Netflix servers into your brain. Directly into your vertebrae or wherever they put all that shit.

Right into you and it wouldn't matter. You could watch it until the end of time and you would never see it. You would never even glimpse it. But it's so funny because they get so mad about it that no one should be allowed to see this, right? Think about that statement.

Think about the idea of no one should be allowed to see this. Now, I'm sure that there are some things that I could think of that my brain could think of that would be like no one should be allowed to see this. Now, I'm sure that there are some things that I could think of that my brain could think of that would be like, no one should be allowed to see this. That's off limits for everyone. My brain could probably think of a few things. Yeah, child porn. But when it comes, I don't

know if I'd go there, but anyway. What would he like to do with his time? But anyway, what would Alex Jones do with his time? But anyway, you know, there's a little, maybe a little, but not a lot. How do we get to a point where you're curating everyone else on the planet's stuff that they get to watch? The way in which they get to, I mean, this is book burning.

Yeah. This is fucking modern book burning. Well, it's funny because it's like delightfully pointless. Like boycotting in 2019, I think. Sure, yeah, I get it. Like they're never going to get it all out there. You're 20,000 people boycotting Amazon about something? Yeah, the trillion dollar company.

Right. Amazon's like, oh, 20,000 what? I don't even use that number. Like I don't even, I'm Jeff Bezos. I Amazon's like, oh, 20,000 what? I don't even use that number. Like, I don't even, I'm Jeff Bezos. I won't even use the number 20,000. It's not divisible by anything important.

All of Jeff Bezos, like when he goes to Amazon to order anything, the minimum number is 20,000. It's just, it's like, and I love the idea that this show of all shows which is like well maybe we shouldn't have an apocalypse like why we should have an apocalypse what are you saying that's sacrilege yeah and like your crazy worldview is not more crazy read your book like it's not sillier than this movie no no this movie is actually kind of an uplifting story about how like

humanity like the forces of evil and the forces of darkness combine to recognize the inherent good in humanity. And then humanity saves itself ultimately from its own destruction. You're like, why I need a different story where the locusts have helmets. Hear yourself for a minute. There's not an even number of horns among the even number of heads. Is there a grasshopper with a sword? Because if there's not a grass, is there a cricket with a scimitar?

You get the guy from Casino. He's like, I want an equal number of horns on every single head. Sir, do you know how long this is going to take? An equal number of horns on every head. Well, apparently mood altering medication leads to street drugs. That's what this very handsome young doctor said on the Today Show. That was Tom Cruise, the actor. They said he was some kind of scientist.

This story is from the Tampa Bay Times. Lawsuit accuses, just accuses. Accuses, everybody. Accuses. I'm not saying it's true. Scientology and David Miskovich of child abuse, human trafficking, and libel. So I grabbed this story, Cecil, because there's been a lot more Scientology criticism that's kind of made it into the sort of mainstream.

And I've consumed a tremendous amount of it. It's interesting to me. It was never interesting to me until Haley's like, oh, you got to watch this. I watched a few things, and it's fascinating. Have you watched any of these documentaries other than Going Clear? A few of them. Man, I find it to be an unbelievably fascinating cult, right? Because it is, by any of the useful definitions, Scientology is this crazy cult. it's just a crazy cult that somehow because like attractive people are a part of it

that are actors. Yeah. We're just like, well, maybe it's zany fun. You know what? Yeah. And it's not. It has all the same shit

that every cult you've ever heard of has. Yeah. Like it has the child abuse. It has the child labor aspect to it. It has the overt controls of people's behaviors, of their thoughts, of their sexual preferences and expressions. It has all of these things that every other cult has, but like some of those guys are on TV sometimes. Yeah. And so we're a little more like forgiving about it and a little more like, well, you know, they just want

to grab their E-meters and well you know they just want to grab their e-meters and you know yeah play psychologist but they're not psychologists because psychologists are evil but you know right but the thing is is like like if it was just grabbing an e-meter and taking a bunch of celebrity money yeah i don't think that anybody would really have a super big problem with it right like people would nobody would care people would be like yeah a couple celebrities get taken and they fund all these lavish things through celebrity money because they're taking a lot of the celebrity money.

But, you know, is it out harming, you know, just the average person? And it turns out it is. Like there's a bunch of stuff, at least according to this lawsuit, there's a lot of stuff that's going on that's really horrible. The main person in this is a Jane Doe, right? They're not listing the person's name, but they're talking about all the horrors that this poor girl had to grow up in. She's born into the cult and she winds up growing up there. She's working hundred hour weeks for 40 bucks a week. She's forced labor.

She's put in a pen for a long time. She finally gets smuggled out. And then they basically ransom her family away, say, we're going to make your family cut ties with you. And then so she comes back and is put in the hole for, you know, I don't even know how long. It's just this really horrible, shitty story. It's like something you would not expect in the United States. Yeah. And I want to talk about a couple of things that are a part of this. So the first thing that you mentioned is like the hours worked and the pay. So like inherent in this like Scientology sort of hierarchical structure is this work, work, work, work, work, almost no pay. And that's not allowed anywhere except for, again, we have crazy religious exemptions.

And every place that we see where there are good ideas that prevent people from being abused and prevent people from being taken advantage of or prevent a public good from being circumvented, anytime we have those, and then we have religious exemptions, all that we get from that is abuses in the name of religious exemption. Yeah. It happens in childcare centers. Childcare all the time. It happens with these like, there's never a time where somebody should work 100 hours,

I don't care for who, and get nothing. Less than minimum wage. Tiny amount of money. If minimum wage is fair for me when I work at McDonald's, minimum wage is fair if I work for a multi-billion dollar corporation like Scientology. Fair doesn't change because somebody put a religious word nearby. Right. Right.

Fair is fair. Right is right. Wrong and safe are wrong and safe. It's the same as true with like the measles exemptions. Like, oh, well, you know, can't get a vaccine because Jesus wants pockmarks on your ass or whatever. Like, I don't know. He's just into that. It's just this thing. Like that's always bad. There's, I can't think of a single time where a religious exemption created a better society, even in subculturally speaking. Yeah. When they go out and they do a service for somebody, they get away with it sometimes. Like

we talked about with the churches in the daycare, they get away with it as a service because they don't have to do all the same. They don't have the same rigors that all the other non, you know, the secular daycares out there have to go through. They don't have all the testing, all the things that they have to jump, the hoops that they have to jump through. And then here they don't have all the rigors of, you know, having to live up to those, to those laws that every other corporation out there, if they want to hire an employee has to live up to, or they're doing something illegal, right? You can, you can do this. You can absolutely work somebody a hundred hours a week for $42 a week, right? You can do that. It's, it's absolutely true. You can do it. It's against the law, right? You can do it

as, you know, as a company that like, let's say you're, you're importing migrants and you bring them in and you're making a milk cows for that a hundred hours a week, 42 bucks a week, right? You're making them do that. You can, you can do it, but that's breaking the law. It's like, yeah, you can also traffic in cocaine, but that's breaking the law. You have to deal with the consequences. Those are the consequences you're going to have to deal with. So, you know, but the thing is, is that now they're starting to have to deal with this stuff. And these lawsuits hopefully will bring some of that stuff to light. The other thing I want to talk about is the auditing and security check process. So as part of this lawsuit, one of the claims is that the auditing process and the SEC check process are inherently abusive. And from a couple of books and documentaries, I really feel like that's very, very true. So the auditing and security check process,

I at first, when I heard about it, I was like, oh, it kind of sounds like talk therapy hooked up to a fucking bargain basement lie detector. So what's the harm in that, right? Like talking to somebody, you know, about your problems or your emotional state or your, you know, how is that not just psychology under a new rubric with a little bit of new age, mumbo jumbo sprinkled in and you hold on to someone's cans while you're doing it?

Yeah, and a weird can device. But what I didn't realize is that it's mandatory. I didn't know that. That it lasts sometimes hours and sometimes days. People will be stuck answering question after question after question. And the techniques they use are absolutely brainwashing techniques. Like they're not dissimilar in any significant ways from all of the techniques that we use to brainwash people so that they feel trapped and they feel hopeless. And we remove them from their families.

We change their support structure all the time. People are pitted against other people, and then they're pulled into these hours and hours and hours long repetitive interrogations by people trained to repetitively interrogate them until they break down their sense of ego and their sense of self, and the only thing that attaches them to the world anymore is Scientology. It's fucking abusive. I think that if you're a grownup and you want to sign up for that, I don't know that it's ever okay to sign yourself up for abuse. Like, I don't know that anybody would knowingly do that. So I don't know how, but I think a hundred percent of the time, a hundred percent of the time under the age of 18,

100% of the time, under the age of 18, under the age of legal consent, doing this sort of shit is absolutely abusive. It lays a groundwork from which people cannot emotionally and psychologically escape. It's fucking evil. That shit is just evil. The whole world's gone gay. Oh my God, what's happening now? We work hard. We play hard. All right, I grabbed this story because I didn't know it was still a thing. Did you know this was still, this is still a thing. Pinknews.co.uk, New York bans gay panic defense in murder cases.

So I had no idea that the gay panic defense was still a thing anywhere. And if New York just banned it- Where is it legal? It has to still be legal elsewhere because New York is quite progressive. Quite liberal, yeah. So the gay panic defense is,

if you hit on me and you're gay and I flip shit and I panic, I'm not fucking kidding, guys. And I flip shit because I'm. I'm not fucking kidding, guys. And I flip shit because I'm a whacked out homophobe and I freak out and I kill you. Yeah.

That when I'm arrested and tried, I get to say, yeah, I killed that guy, but he was gay and he hit on me. Yeah. And I flip my fucking mind. That was a, that's a, that that like it's 2019 and new york just

said no that's not a defense i who would even raise that defense ladies and gentlemen of the jury uh somebody tried to buy him a drink oh that doesn't seem so bad and it was a dude well you gotta kill him yeah you gotta be fucking what? What if panic is a defense? How will, like what would happen if like, like I'm at home

and let's say I have a phobia of like spiders and I'm standing there and I open the oven and I see a spider. I'm like, ah, and I kill my wife.

Sorry, I panicked. I like couldn't help myself. Oh, sorry there, love. I thought you were a spider. What other- Really wrong on that one.

What other panic-related things could happen? You'd be like, well, the guy checked my browser history, and I panicked. You know, I was at work, you know, jerking off like usual, and this guy knocked on the door, and I just, I killed everyone in the room. That's what I did.

I shut up. It was a weird meeting. It was a very weird board meeting. I shouldn't have been like, it's a fucking crazy thing to suggest that like, well, you know, I killed a guy

because I have poor regulation of my own emotional control. Yeah. I think that's why everybody kills people. How is it that, oh, also like, this is just, you could kill gay people. That, how is it that, oh, also, like, this is just,

you could kill gay people. That's what it is. That's what this is. We're joking about it, but like, there was a defense until like last week in New York.

I don't know how successful it was, but it was allowed to be used called, I killed him, but he was gay. He was gay. So it doesn't count. Yeah, well,

you know, like what would happen in an active shooter situation? Like if you panic during an active, like somebody, let's say somebody comes in here and starts shooting away

and I'm like, oh, I panic and I kill you. I'm just like, well, I was panicked. What do you want? I was scared. Like I don't understand. It's a 14 by 14 room

with two people in it. And I killed the wrong one. But you know what's funny is the police do this all the time too. You know, there's, there's a, there's a level of what the police do where they're like, I was afraid.

Yeah. And they were the ones who were armed in the situation. They were the ones who were coming into the situation armed with a radio, with other people there. And they were the ones who were afraid. And so they get away with this because they were afraid yeah i have a bat utility belt exactly right yeah i have a shotgun in the car yeah i've got a army of my friends yeah literal army of friends all my friends yeah who also have bat utility

belts and pistols right yeah and i was scared because you had a... I have fucking bear spray on my fucking belt. I have a shocker thing. I have like a million fucking things that can fuck you up. But I was afraid. To be fair, the shocker can be a bit of a surprise. The shocker, I'll tell you what, I'll kill you. I'll just kill you.

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News.com.au. U.S. missionary accused of letting 100 babies die in fake medical facility. If that sounds like what it sounds like, that's because that's the thing that happened. A woman was in Uganda, and she walked around in Uganda in a fake hospital, wearing a

stethoscope and a white lab coat and posted shit on her social media. And blog, yeah, blog. About, you know, treating patients. Which would be fine if she blog. About, you know, treating patients, which would be fine if she were a doctor, for example, who was wearing doctor clothes in a hospital and treating patients, but she was not.

She's not even like, like she didn't even take like a CPR course. Like, here's the thing. She's not a nurse. She's not a physician's assistant. She's not a doctor. She's not a physician's assistant. She's not a doctor. She's not a surgeon. She's not even anybody who's like flipped cursory through a medical book before.

She has no medical training, period. She hasn't even watched the season finale of Grey's Anatomy, guys. Like, that's it. She watched Scrubs, though. Well, we don't She watched Scrubs though. Well, we don't want no Scrubs. So, so,

uh, she pretended to be, and she was really just a missionary. Yeah. That's what she was. Yeah. And people from all over were like, fuck,

well, we don't have a functioning medical system. We don't have a lot of care. Poor as fuck. And we live in Uganda. We don't have a lot of care. So we'll bring our children to your hospital of horrors where they were primarily neglected.

They were certainly completely medically neglected. They were otherwise neglected in terms of no cause or care or treatment. And she was just a fucking missionary. Her goal was to save souls, but like she got to it by delivering more there, right? She's like, well, I don't know if there's enough people in the afterlife. Just kidding. So I'm going to add.

She's just standing there tapping her watch on the side. Like we need to get more of these people up there. There's a depravity to this where you're like, if the first dead baby doesn't catch your eye. That doesn't deter you from this course. Right. I mean, remember that time you did something and a baby died, Cecil?

I mean, other than the abortions. But like, you know, like where a baby you cared about died. I've never cared about a baby. And neither did she, as it turns out. I think, you know, I think you're absolutely right. This is absolutely monstrous.

There's a woman who's over there pretending to help. That's what she's doing. She's not helping. She's not doing anything to help anyone. She's, in a lot of ways, doing this to make herself feel like she's important. It's not that she's over there thinking that she's you know over there you know somehow help

because you gotta watch as these kids wither and die in your place as time goes on and you lose three digits worth of children right you're like

oh okay yeah maybe I wasn't helping maybe I actually made a mistake she went fishing for these kids these were kids suffering from malnutrition at local hospitals yeah and fishing for these kids. These were kids suffering from malnutrition at local hospitals. Yeah.

And she pulled these kids from hospitals into her fake fucking facility. So I can only imagine that like, that this can only be driven in my mind. I don't want to know the operation of my mind. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard. You're right.

But there is, if you believe that you're saving souls, and you believe in a world where souls are more important than the here and now, this makes some sense. This does make some sense, right? Yeah, absolutely. To save a soul means more than to save a life. Yeah.

And there is a problem. That's theologically true of Christianity, right? In Christianity, I don't speak for any other religion. I don't know them well enough. But in Christianity, the soul is more important than the here and now, than the actual life. So to save a soul is more important than to save a life. That's fucked. That's a worldview that is a garbage worldview that creates more pain and human suffering

and misery than we have to have. So we have more pain and suffering and misery than we have to have. So we have more pain and suffering and misery than absolutely necessary because there's this fucking mistaken idea that souls have a higher value than human life. That's fucking insane. Alternatively, she likes to watch people suffer. Yeah. You know, I can't think of another. I think that there's the middle ground there is that, you know, you're partially right, probably with the idea that she's, you know, thinking that she's saving them.

And so regardless of what happens here on the material world, what happens in the spiritual world's more important, right? So that's almost certainly a factor. But I think, you know, when I think about it, I think there is something to be said. It's not like she was doing this in hiding. She was doing this and posting it on social media. She was looking for validation for the things that she was doing. She was the savior of these people.

She was a person who was standing there and saying, I am saving. Look at what I'm doing. Look at how noble I am. And I'm taking every moment of this. And I brought this child in and I gave him an IV and I did all this other stuff. They're saying like, she wrote this stuff down. She wrote down the procedure that she went through to try to save these children. So she's telling the world,

she's standing on the street corners, telling everyone how holy she is. That's what I think the main motivation was. So she's like letting children die for the joy of being validated online by strangers. Sure. She's like a, she's like a,

oh my God. Yeah. She's like a, you know, she's not an Instagram influencer. Maybe if she's doing the medical thing, she's an Instagram intern, maybe.

I don't know. She's something, you know, but that's what she is. She's a, she's an Instagram intern, maybe. I don't know. But she's something, you know, but that's what she is. She's all right. You know, she wants hearties. She wants hearties and smileys and up, up thumbs. Yeah. And she's giving these kids an up thumb too.

How many babies, how many, how many attention happy units? Yeah. Equal a baby. Equal a hundred babies. Equal a life. Yeah. Right.

How many shares on Facebook? Oh my God. Yeah. That's many shares on Facebook? Oh my God. Yeah, that's what it's about. Doing the impossible, defeating the Equal Rights Amendment. In the marvelous process of self-government given to us by our founding fathers, it is possible for the people

to defeat the entire political and media establishment and to win despite incredible odds. All right, buddy, here we go. Cindy Jacobs, right wing watch. If Equality Act passes, Christians may start a civil war. I just want to talk about what the Equality Act is. On May 17th, the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act,

which would expand federal civil rights laws to include protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. So that's what that is. Well, that's a nightmare. All it would do is expand those protections. Would anything get her a haircut that was flattering? I don't want it.

I mean, what is that? That's like a motorcycle helmet that's melted. I just got to say, like what is that? For a woman who hates gay people, she has the butchest haircut I've ever seen a woman have. Seriously? Here we go.

She could lane split with that hair. Here we go. We are the voice preparing the way and there does come a time, Jim. All right, wait, real quick. Her voice and her scowl

do not match. Oh, yeah. You guys, I know that most of you probably never go to the site, but honestly, like, listen to this voice. Oh, that's just like

I never thought this. And she is the meanest looking person. Yeah, I know. She's scowling. She's got this perpetually angry face. Yeah.

But then she's got this Bambi voice and then her message is hateful. And it's also confusing. It's also weird. It's also weird. But she does look like, she looks like mom just caught you in her purse.

Like that's the face she constantly has. Where things turn. You know, when suddenly the Lord says, okay, no more. I'm not going to put up with this anymore yeah i just created humanity four billion years i did the whole thing i spun the whole thing around right but now i'm upset now i'm mad yeah yeah god was like uh you uh got like 200 years of institutionalized slavery i'm gonna let that go. You got concentration camps.

How many did that? Six million? Yeah, on the southern border. Oh, no. Different. Different concentration. I'm sorry. Six million new residents up here? Say, guys, grab a lemon bar. Yeah, I'm going to let that one go. Gay people can't get fired? Oh! Burn it all down!

Just wake it out of existence, God. You can rewind however there are millions of people praying you know so I think that

I think that we're in this sheep and goat steak place we are in this sheep and goat steak place what the fuck

does that even mean buddy if you don't know I can't tell you the sheep and goat steak place because i would go there i don't know that i need a goat steak but sheep sounds fine to me little mutton sheep sounds fine to me yeah you ever had goat uh i have i might have but i can't remember it i've had it a couple of times there's always goat curry at this indian place that i like so there's a buffet it's's a pretty good buffet, actually.

And every time I get it, I'm like, that's why I don't need a goat. You know what it tastes like? The way a goat smells. Is it really? It tastes like a chewy bubblegum zoo animal. It's horrible. It's the worst.

It smells like hay and farts. It's consolation. Yeah, it does. It smells like a hamster cage. It smells like somebody hamster cage. It smells like somebody has took a dump in the sawdust. Is that what it smells like? Yeah.

It's awful. It's like the fucking cedar chips in a hamster cage. That's the worst. Who wants to taste that? I would eat a goat. I would eat every living human. And then the goats. If I dropped a candy bar in their pen, I would probably still eat it. Don't get me wrong. And then the goats. If I dropped a candy bar in their pen, I would probably still eat it. Don't get me wrong.

But I'm just saying. We can flick those hard, dry turds off of it. Is that a Reese's Pieces or not? What is that? I don't know. Two great tastes. But it's the goat. It's the sheep and goat state.

State place. State place. Yeah. I don't know what that is. I don't even know what a state place is. I don't know. Like you can get rid of sheep and goat. I'm not even sure what a state place is. You can also get rid of place. State State place. State place? Yeah. I don't know what that means. I don't even know what a state place is. I don't know. Like you can get rid of sheep and goat. I'm not even sure what a state place is.

You can also get rid of place. State is place. That's what I'm saying. I'm in a state place of Indiana. What? What? We're in this place where I said many years ago, and I took quite a lot of guff in the press about it.

Billy Goat Gruff? We're in the goat place. It's the Billy Goat Gruff. Oh my gosh, she is a troll trying to cross a bridge. Look at that face. Tell me she's not a troll. We would even come to a place of civil war if this continues. And you know, oh my goodness,

I can't tell you which of the major press went after me for that. Well, I'm on board with the goats. Like I think in a war of sheep versus goats, I'm going goat. They're wiry. They got...

I have a feeling a goat could ride a sheep. Like have you seen the goats jump on shit? They fucking like, it's standing like a fucking thing. They stand on like an antenna for a car.

One of my favorite NPR stories is a story, it's like a radio lab or This American Life where this guy's driving along and he looks to the side and he just sees a goat just standing on a cow, just standing on top of the cow. And it distracts him enough that he like pulls over to the side of the road to take a picture. And then the story starts from there. And as soon as I heard that, I was like, I'm going to Google that. They stand on cows all the time. They stand on each other. They stand on everything. They're that, I was like, I'm going to Google that. They stand on cows all the time. They stand on each other.

They stand on everything. They're amazing. It's like, what if I was up here? I love them. So I think they win. Yeah. Yeah. They have top control. But it would never happen.

But you try to take the Bible away and say that we cannot preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Literally nobody said that. of the Lord Jesus Christ? Literally nobody's saying that. Who the fuck said that? Well, preaching is very similar to firing gay people. So like, I guess you really can't actually fire them unless you preach at them first. Right. Yeah. Well, I guess if you like lecture them shittily before letting them go.

That's like the lube that you need to let them go. There are millions of believers in America. Millions? She says millions. They're millions. Millions. Without the use of a single L sound. Millions. She skips right over it. Millions. It's like it's French.

It's like the millions. Millions. Millions of them. Yes. And I believe that would be the dumbest thing for them to do because if they do that or they pass this Equality Act, listen, there's going to be a shaking. There's going to be a shaking.

A whole lot of shaking going on. House passes, it says on this, House passes deplorable equality act. And there's a bunch of people like, there's Nancy in the background, a bunch of other people, but house passes, like,

like it's not, what, what, what could possibly be deplorable about not discriminating against somebody? I don't know how you're just like, okay, everybody, you on the side,

get out your pro discrimination, pom poms. We're going to do a cheer here. Give me a D. Like, actually giving them a D is the problem. That is the problem, yeah. Don't give me a D. There's going to be a shaking

and Christians will rise up. The whole country's Christian. Where are they going to fight? They're going to be like, are we all on the same side? I think the problem is, I think the real problem is, is that the Christians are rising up,

but they're just rising up uncontrollably. You know what I mean? These Christians are very mad. I hope this doesn't last more than four hours. All these gay people make me rise up, and it makes me real uncomfortable. Listen to me, Hatcher. You got to tell them, silent breed is people. Oh my God, this is amazing.

This is amazing. This is everything. Right wing watch. Rick Wiles, finally not talking about the Jews. Like, let me just say, like,

it takes a little work to find some time where he's not just hating on the Jews. One minute and a half without the word Jew in it. 90 whole seconds. Plant-based meat alternatives are a satanic plot

to create a race of soulless creatures oh god finally rick wiles we agree hard agree let's get started here when you go to your favorite fast food restaurant you're going to be eating a fake hamburger if i order one yeah like if i order, if I go to the regular fast food place and I just get a regular, as he fucking flips out about Whopper, I'll just get a Whopper. It'll be made of ground up cattle assholes or whatever they use for it.

You're going to go to the grocery store and buy a pound of fake hamburger or a fake steak and you won't know that it was grown in some big corporation's laboratory. That sounds amazing, by the way. It actually does. It sounds awesome.

I want to live in that world. Like, I just, I want to say, like, if I could go and buy a steak and it was made without harming any animal, without the deplorable conditions of factory farming, without the huge waste of resources that goes into the production of meat,

without the environmental impact. And it tastes so good that when I buy it from the store, I can't even tell the difference. Sign me up. I'm trying to figure out where I lose in that. Sign me up. I don't know where you lose.

I don't know where you lose. Tastes exactly the same. You can't tell the difference. Oh, good. What? Wait, are you lose. I don't know where you lose. Tastes exactly the same. You can't tell the difference. Oh, good. What? Wait, are you saying that I can't taste the suffering in it? I mean, because that's what you're getting down to. That's what the real thing is. What I don't get is that

if we had that technology to do it, which we are starting to, it's not that we're there yet. What is it like the Wonder Burger or Impossible Burger? That's different though because that's not... I don't think that's fake meat. That is or not fake meat, real meat. I don't think that's real meat. I think that's

I don't think that's like lab vat grown meat. Oh, right, right, right. That's just like a thing that's supposed to very much taste like meat and also act in some ways and have the texture like meat. Is that not what he's talking about? No, he's not. What he's talking about is lab-grown meat,

like where they like actually... Oh, it's actually muscle. Like muscle that they actually grow in a lab. That sounds so good. Yeah, I mean, if they could do it. Yeah, let's do it. Meat not ever attached to sentience? I thought that...

Didn't they already start to do that or something like that? I think that they have. They've started to work on it. That's the improbable burger. That's a little different. This is the nightmare world that they're taking us into. It's so good.

It's a nightmare for the cows. They're just like, I don't want to go up there. You go up there, Bill. You go up there. I saw a big fucking thing that came out and stuck fucking Tony in the head. Pulled his fucking dead carcass out and stripped it of all the meat. You go. You're made of meat. They're like, uh, Bill, you're going to be okay? Bill, you're going to be okay? Yeah. Bill's not okay. I'll tell you, I have struggled throughout my life

because I would be an ethical vegetarian if it was easier to do. I recognize that that's a failing on my part ethically to not be a vegetarian. I try to do the best I can, not so much to limit my meat content, but to try to buy things that I know at least the animal didn't suffer or things like that. I've also tried to change what I'm eating so that I'm eating less of, you know, what I would consider a, you know, on the hierarchy of more sentience. I consider that I eat that less if I can, you know, things like that.

Like eat less cows, eat more chickens because chickens are tiny, weird little creatures that I don't care as much about. That's celery with feathers. I don't care as much about for sure. So I, you know, there's some things that I try to do, but I'm not, I recognize my own failings, but the moment they're like, yeah, you can get a chicken

breast without killing a chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken breast without killing the chicken. Right. Like there's no, especially they're like, yeah, it's exactly the same. It's just grown in a lab. Okay, great. And then suddenly there's less pollution. There's less suffering. There's less people. And you know,

it's not just animal suffering either. Look at those horrible conditions that the people who produce that meat, who cut that meat up, the horrible conditions that they have to go in. Meatpacking plants and abattoirs are not like awesome jobs where people have long lasting careers. They're not even places where people have long lasting thumbs. Yeah, exactly. Yes. It's a horror show, but they're migrants. So it doesn't matter. They're changing God's creation. Why? Because they want to be God. They want to do exactly what Lucifer did before the flood. It's why God destroyed it. He said he regretted that he ever made mankind because they were destroying his creation.

The Bible says God is coming back to destroy those who are destroying the earth. Republicans. I mean, seriously. Republicans. Like, take the beam out of your eye, dude. Oh my God. They just got that new director of the EPA in there.

And I hear he's doing way more damage than Pruitt ever did. Because he's not in the spotlight. He's not an idiot who's like fucking ordering a weird fucking talking, like quiet booth for his fucking- His little talking coffin or whatever. Crazy talking like secret conversation booth

that he wanted to put in. He's not doing that shit. He's just out there being like, yeah, I'm just going to fucking roll back everything. It's fucking Walmart up in this pig. I'm rolling back every motherfucking thing. Okay. It's cheaper and faster and everything's covered in oil.

Every single thing is covered in oil. And those tiny plastic beads for no reason. The ones that like fish inhale or whatever. Yeah. They're finding them in fish in like the, like the deepest part of the ocean. Now they're just finding in like the most remote part of the ocean. They're like them in fish in like the deepest part of the ocean now. They're just finding in like the most remote part of the ocean.

They're like, yeah, there's a bunch of plastic down there. Yeah, but they're gently exfoliating. So fuck you, Cecil. The fish is like, man, I feel so good now that all these fucking like shampoo beads are in this motherfucker.

I'm a first world fish, bitch. Get the hell out of my way. God is an environmentalist. Environmentalist? Seriously. He created this planet. He created the universe. And he's watching these loose...

I think one is a subset of the other, but I'm not a fucking... All right, I created the planet, but I forgot to put it in a universe. So we're going to need a new planet. The Farians destroy his his planet destroy the animal kingdom the plant kingdom change human dna why they want to change human dna so that you can't be born again what difference would that make god is still made of magic i know right like he's the

one who created everything well it's not like he's like, wow, oh shit, it did work. Did you change the codes on me? Honey, what's the password? I'm trying that little button clicker from my garage and it won't open. Sorry, no go.

Honey, go on LastPass and tell me what the password is for humans again. I think it's uppercase exclamation point IQ. Change our DNA so we can't be born again. I love that God's just like,

fuck it. Now I don't know what to do. You guys changed it. As if there's some biological element to being born again. Right? Like as if like you could like

see some bullshit ritual expressed in your DNA. Yeah, you suddenly change your DNA bullshit ritual expressed in your DNA. You suddenly change your DNA. I think changing your DNA is just inherently bad. I think this is always bad. I don't think any humans are like, man, I got more DNA in this.

I'm fucking winning out in this deal. Take some out. Yeah. I don't even need it all. Whatever. I think we, I think we really need to just stay with the amount. That's where they're going with this to change the,

the DNA of humans. So it will be impossible for a human to be born again. There has never been a dumber thing. Anybody's ever said that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. We went from lab meat to people who can't get baptized as grownups because their DNA has changed, and we don't even know how that happened. Somehow, they ate the wrong steak, and then suddenly your DNA got switched around. God's like, you're standing there, you're like, I did all the wrong steak. And then suddenly your DNA got switched around. And God's like, you're standing there,

you're like, I did all the right things. God's like, you ate one of them improbable burgers. Oh, fuck. They want to create a race of soulless creatures on this planet. They already have. Republicans. Doomsday clock for global market crash

strikes one minute to midnight you hear that john tomorrow could we could look back and say yesterday was the last day to order and get prepared this offer comes with 22 buckets plus a bonus of six additional buckets for a total of 28 buckets all this food is for a gift of two thousand,500. This story is from Right Wing Watch. We haven't had Jim Baker on the show in a long time. Here's Jim Baker. Christians must pray for Trump because we're so close to the Bible being illegal. All right.

He's back with Cindy Jacobs again, her husband and his wife. And what's in front of Lori? What is that? I don't know. Probably like colon cleanse or something. Probably. She's full of shit. We just had a whole day of prayer for President Trump.

Now I believe God's going to answer that prayer. I do too. Okay, guys. So real quick. He's got a weird shoulder. Then it flipped over to like a weirdly cropped image of Trump where there's just like a hard line. Like they just cut his fucking right shoulder off.

He's grinning at the president at the camera and that's all fine and good but then it says donald j trump 42nd president of the united states 2017 to present as if there's anybody who's like now who was that that they're talking oh the current president guy oh the guy they told me to vote for. I was mixed up on who. How do you pray for President Trump and his family? Well, I pray every day for them. I pray every day. I think a lot of believers do.

The Bible commands us to do that. I pray that God will give him wisdom. Oh, geez. When is it going to happen? When is he going to do it? Right there. My goodness. Look, here's the thing. going to happen? Oh, God. When is he going to do it? Right there. My goodness. Look, here's the thing.

I'll keep my fingers crossed too. Yeah, right. Like, I guess with you doing your mumbo jumbo and me just being optimistic, maybe one day he will have a unit of wisdom, but I do not believe that's true. Cindy, maybe skip lunch while you're praying. Like, give that a fast or whatever.

See what you can do. Spirit of wisdom and might will be upon him from Ephesians 1. I pray for his protection. Amen. I pray for peace for him. I pray that God will give his mind peace. Can you-

I pray it gives his mind peace too. The whole thing shuts down. I want it to go real, real slow. I'd like it to go dark. Yeah. Like that's what I- Yeah, yeah. Because he's sleeping everybody.

All right, NSA. I want him to go and take a long nap. He's an old man. What I want him to do is go to sleep now and not wake up until after the election. That's what I want.

I pray that God will give his mind peace. Can you imagine? No, I really can't. The onslaught. I know you're going. That feels like a position in football. The onslaught. The onslaught. I know you're going. That feels like a position in football. The onslaught.

The onslaught. I'm sorry. No, please do. No, really. What this man's going through. Please do. It's supernatural what he's taking. Yeah.

It really is. Yeah. How he is standing and how he just keeps. Do you know what I love about Lori Baker? How realistic all of her plastic surgery is. how he is standing and how he just keeps you know what I love about Lori Baker how realistic all of her plastic surgery is it looks so real

oh you can hardly tell that she's been completely reconstructed from chip parts we can build her bigger stronger faster

every time she smiles you hear that bionic man ding ding ding ding ding ding, ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Nothing moves right. I know. It really doesn't.

It really doesn't. It's like all frozen in a rictus. It's like when you, it's like when you like, like you poke at one area and like her eyebrow wiggles and she's like, that's not real.

How is that possible? Railing back. Yeah. Yeah. Incredible. This is to god? Railing back. Yeah. Incredible. He listens to godly counsel, too. Yes, he does. What I love is how they're talking about him. They're like, oh, look at what he has to deal with.

Look at all this stuff. Never had to see anybody deal with this before. And what's so funny is Trump is like this big fucking, his job is he sits in front of a big vat of shit and he just stirs it and he stirs it. And then he slaps the fucking paddle on top of it and he's covered in it. And what they see is,

look at how much, how he's covered in shit. Look at what he's doing for us. And you're like, yeah, but he kind of did something like, like I don't want to victim blame here, but let me tell you something. He's doing something to

cause this to happen to him, right? He's a guy who's out there stirring shit constantly. He's out there constantly on the attack. And they're like, oh, he's taking more shit than anybody. And you're just like, no, he's done more

wrong things. First of all, it's not like he woke up and somebody's like you're president now like he asked really hard for this job he's super duper asked real hard to be this guy absolutely and then like the criticism is being leveled not at him for being like an e like the criticism is leveled specifically for the actions he has undertaken. Right. And that's what happens when you're a guy who put yourself into a position of mighty authority. Yeah. It's one thing to be like, uh, Obama's black. So let's hang him an effigy. Sure. Let's draw him as a, as a racial caricature that has nothing to do with, I don't like his policies. They scare me. he has a worldview

that doesn't match my worldview that would be fine yeah that's fine that's legit this is not oppression like investigating somebody for wrongdoing is not oppression no matter what the investigation yields yeah it's not wrongdoing like it's not oppression none of this like yeah you had this coming when you said, I want this job. Also, I'm going to do a bad job at this job. If anyone needs me, I'll be golfing with the Russians. Yeah. And then like, do you see the thing you said the other day where he's like, oh yeah. If, if they came to me with information, I would not report it to the FBI with it. Yeah. And then everybody was like, the fuck did you just say? And he's like,

no, of course I would report it to the FBI. I never said I wouldn't report it to the FBI. And then you could just play back the tape. But he, the thing is, he'll, he does that all the time.

He does that all the time where he'll just lie. He'll just come right out and lie and say, no, I never said that. And you're like, yeah, but here's the tape. He's saying, I never said that.

It's amazing. It's, it's literally amazing. What's amazing is that people buy it. Yeah. That's the amazing part. It's not that somebody's so blatantly and brazenly lying. It's not that.

It's that the people that see it don't believe that it happened. That's amazing to me. And then the people that see it, they're like, oh, man, he's being oppressed. What do you mean he's being oppressed? You can watch him lie to you. Yeah. He does. He believes in it. What do you mean he's being oppressed? You can watch him lie to you. I mean, more— He believes in it.

You know, we have, like you, probably some kind of inside information on things that are going on. And, you know, we always kind of hold up some of the former Republican presidents, you know. Right, like Reagan. Yeah, and he far surpassed— I love that. Like Reagan. Yeah. And then they just stop. They just stop. They're

like, we can't name another one of our fucking cultural political heroes. Like Reagan. Most of the far surpasses most of them in terms of the godly counsel he has around him that he listens to. You would never think it when he first started running for office, who would have ever thought that we would have a president that would so surround himself with godly counsel? Would never have. And so there's a blessing that comes from that. The controversial president, the Trump, who uses language that we don't like sometimes. But we're seeing him become more and more godly.

You know, we're seeing him want to put by. That's because he wants to court you idiots. I mean, it's so fucking transparent. Like anybody, the problem, what's crazy to me, what's crazy to me is these guys have been suckering all these people for so many years and they can't spot a sucker. Yeah, I know. You know, it's either that or they don't care what the, I think what they're did there. I, maybe they can spot a sucker. Actually, now I'm going to take it all back. They can spot a sucker and they totally believe it.

They don't believe anything Trump is saying. They just know that it's going to get people on their side. And so they'll use it. They'll use it to their advantage. Yeah, I'm going to take it all back. They can spot a sucker and they're using it.

I love that every time like his indiscretions and like his horrible behavior comes up, they can't even deny it. Yeah, they just have to say he's getting better. They have to be like, well, you know what I mean? He used to be awful like an hour ago, but he's actively, it's not even he's gotten better. We haven't even elected a guy who's had a transformation.

He's in the process of becoming a better person. Yeah, yeah. Right? Not that he isn't, he's not even a good person. We can't even go down that road, Cecil. Right. He'll get there. Yeah, eventually. Second term. He's not even a good person. We can't even go down that road, Cecil. Right. He'll get there. Yeah, eventually.

Second term. He's a work in progress, guys. Bible reading back in school. That's right. Come on. That's right. Bible reading back in school and prayer. All the things that the church has been stolen from the church, he's wanting to restore.

Yeah. It's been stolen from the church. He's wanting to restore. Yeah. He wants to restore the dignity and power to the church. Yeah. And not take the Bible away. Right. We're so close.

They don't get this. But we're so close to the Bible being illegal. Yeah. How close do you think we are to the Bible being illegal? I don't even know how you do that. By the way, this week, the Supreme Court upheld a case allowing a 40-foot cross on public land in Maryland, saying that that was not a Christian symbol. It's not a religious display.

It's a 40-foot cross maintained on public land. But they're going to take away your Bibles and make them illegal. Never. That's when that's going to happen. But he made a deal with the devil. She's the devil. He made a deal with the devil.

It's true. All right, this story is also right-wing watch. Mark Taylor is the firefighter prophet. Hillary Clinton would have locked Christians in FEMA concentration camps. We've got a long road to hoe on this one. I don't even... Okay, well, let's just play it.

It's Mark. You've got thousands of pastors across the United States that were caught. There's a list called the clergy response team. You can look it up through FEMA. And what these guys were designed to do, and this is the influence of the 501c3, what these guys were designed to do. The 501c3?

Those are really powerful. It's an organizational tax code for charities. Those are very powerful. Whenever you get one, you have to submit your plan on how you would rule the world. It's like a pinky in the brain 501c3. I have a question.

When he says you can look this up, what does he mean? Do you think, Cecil, that he means Google will return a search result and therefore it's true? Oh, it might return a search result, but it'll be like fucking,

it'll be like that one eco-terror watch or whatever the fuck in the website, geoengineering watch. Yeah, right, yeah. That's what I mean. It was like anything

Google returns. It's on geoengineeringwatch. Yeah, that's what I mean. Anything Google returns. It's on geoengineeringwatch.org though. There's a guy who's got a lot of videos. You should watch him. Because he has a lot of them. His name's Dane Whittington. What they designed to do is that before

Trump came into office, that everybody thought Hillary was going to get in. They never thought she would lose. When they came to do the roundup, see the 501c3 was designed. This is what the Lord was showing me. Is that when Hillary, if Hillary would have got in, they were going to come to the churches and say, you're going to preach transgender and homosexuality from the pulpit.

And if you don't, we're going to shut you down and they were going to shut them down and turn them into a mosque. Because you know, you know, those mosques are so inclusive to the gays and the trans. That's it. That was just all those mosques, you know, like where they, you know, what they do, what they do in certain parts of the Middle East, they'll actually invite them to come on the roof.

Or scream from the rooftops how happy they are that they're gay. We have a rooftop bar. We are barring you now from the roof. I just want to say right now, that first step's a doozy. It's 141 flights up, steps up. It is one step down. You know, what's crazy to me is these tournament-

How do you get to mosque? Of all the religions, that feels like the most militant one. Right. Like, it feels like the one that's the most strict. Not progressive. It'd be funny if they would turn them all into Unitarians, right? That at least has some level of like,

where you'd be like, oh, okay. All right. Okay. At least, you know, it scans. But like the rest of us, you're like, no, mosque? I don't know know i think you're using

the wrong word here it's not a mosque so so we used the tax code first you've been forced through the tax code that's the key okay everybody goes to jail on like like everybody's like al capone they go to jail for all the fucking tax code who shows up at a church like... Yeah, you don't have to... Oh, yeah. I hear from the government. 501c3 is my badge. Anyway... I'm agent 501c3. I noticed you haven't been paying taxes,

so I'm going to need you to say this tomorrow on your next sermon. It says, all my parishioners have to cut off their penises? Yeah. Otherwise, you're a mosque on Wednesday.

What the fuck? How does that? It makes no sense whatsoever. I have two boxes. I have a box full of scissors. I have a box full of beanies for being a mosque. It's your choice. Okay, here's how it's going to go.

Men line up over here. Ladies over here. Now we're going to go swap seats, but you don't have to change sides. Gentlemen, scissors. Ladies, glue. All right. Panic Temple is what they were going to do.

And legally, they can do it because you signed the contract. Guys, they own you. You signed the contract. What contract? That's a 501c3 contract, Tom. Get with the times, guys. They own you. You signed the contract. What contract? That's a 501c3 contract, Tom. Get with the times, man. What contract?

The contract. So when that didn't happen, they had a backup with, or they were at the time. When that didn't happen because it literally couldn't, because there's like no way that that could have happened.

I know I predicted some crazy shit and none of it occurred. They were going to have people and all they had to do on this list, FEMA list, according to the response team, is that when a natural disaster happened, a hurricane, earthquake, whatever. There's several places in the United States where

there are no natural disasters, where they just don't have natural disasters. We kind of live in where there's no natural disasters. There's rare natural disasters. Once in a while, they'll be a tornado around here. Yeah, but they're hyperlocal. Yes, right.

Like a tornado's like, not even a whole town usually, unless it's a town. You're right. It's not even a natural disaster, really. I mean, it is. It's a natural disaster

and since it's natural and it's a disaster for those people, but it's a disaster for a small, like a town, not a- Right.

It's usually like a few blocks of a town that get like really walloped. Yeah, and it's not, it's not a hurricane. Right. Which town that get like really walloped and it's not it's not a hurricane right which could you know or just a giant fucking earthquake

or something hurricane which if you're black and in New Orleans could totally kill you they were designed to get their congregation under control

take away their guns and usher them to a FEMA camp Josh this is the biggest part of betrayal take away their guns and usher them to a FEMA camp. Josh, this is the biggest heart of betrayal you could possibly have. That is treason. To me, that is treason on an order that is just unbelievable. The person you trust the most, your pastor from the pulpit,

was actually working against you, signed on with FEMA, waiting for this disaster to happen. And when it happened, they were going to leave the FBI to you, those on with FEMA, waiting for this disaster to happen. And when it happened, they were going to leave the FBI to those who were causing trouble. And they were going to come to your house, talk you into give up your guns and submit to civil authority and usher you themselves into a FEMA camp, all for the conditions where I think they would get food and their families would be taken care of. What? I don't. What?

I think he's saying. Help me. What he's saying is that if there were a natural, so, so this plan, this amazing plan that they've come up to come up with is that they would indoctrinate people and force them to sort of come to a set of codified beliefs.

Once they had them at this camp, because they would have to agree to these beliefs in order to get this help from being displaced or being affected by a natural disaster. The problem is that this giant plan relies on the fact that you can only do this to people that are affected by a natural disaster. So you have to be like, you have to be like in Washington being like, well, how do we take them over? Well, we've got to get them into our clutches. Okay. How do we get them into our clutches? We get them dependent on us through FEMA camps. Okay. Great idea. Where do we do it? I don't know. Once a year, maybe. And we get about

10,000 people. If that probably amount less. Okay, it's mostly people from the south. Yeah. And here's the conditions, guys. I'm drowning. I mean, it's about a hurricane. Yeah, alright. Do you like gay people? Right now, I don't really care very much. I could use... Yeah, look, we'll help you and your family, but you can't bring your guns, okay? I don't even know where they are!

Everything's underwater! Can you just lower that basket for my dog and me? Oh, Jesus. What a dumb fucking... Everything is like this fucking amazing Rube Goldberg device of a plan to try to get you. Instead of just like, you know that they did this way easier

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