The David Knight Show - Tue Episode #2223: Tech, War, and the Expansion of Government Control

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

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of deceit. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 17th of March, year of our Lord, 2006. Yes, it is St. Patrick's Day, and today we're going to talk about Ted Cruz, taking on Catholics. This is coming at a time when we just saw what happened with Kerry Prejean Baller being kicked off. of the Religious Liberty Commission by Trump because we will not have any religious liberty or any free

speech if you disagree with the Zionists. We're going to talk about that as well as Trump's desperation for help. It's almost as if he made a mistake. And papers around the world

are blaming this on him and people are saying well, I don't think so. I don't think we're going to get drug into this quagmire that you created. He's getting the cold shoulder from all these different people. So his response, we'll talk about what his response is. We'll be right back. Well, the UK telegraph.

I mean, this is not the Guardian. It's not a left-wing rag. I mean, it's establishment paper. But the way they described this is Trump's mother of all miscalculations. And so, yeah, it is Trump's mother of all miscalculations. And right now he's out there screaming Help I need somebody

Help Not just anybody Help you know I need someone Yeah Yeah when he was running for president He said he wouldn't do this When he was younger, you know But he went ahead and did it anyway

Because he was told that he needed to by his boss And so here we are And his response to all this Many people are writing headlines like this We've got not just the telegraph, but there's also the

this is an article that was on mainstream media from Yahoo. That's where I got it, but I don't know who wrote the article here, but Trump's humiliating war miscalculation exposed. That's another version of that. And so

you know, if you can't get the get out of get them out of the hormones straight, well, We've got a lot of issues here. And it's much bigger, as I pointed out yesterday, much bigger than just oil. If you look at other things that travel through the Strait of Hormuz, there's a lot of helium that goes through. As a matter of fact, one third or slightly more than a third of the world's helium goes through the Strait of Hormuz as well.

And where does that come from? Well, that comes from the gigantic liquid petroleum gas facility. Raz laughing that has already been attacked once by Iran. They will attack it again, and they said, next time we will destroy it. You know, Trump didn't just kind of dismissed the idea that Iran could do anything because they were restrained in the past when they've been attacked by the U.S. and by Israel.

And so they had warned, you know, you do this again, we're going to let everything go. He just dismissed that. And so you got people now in the Trump administration saying, well, we need to move in and destroy Iran's facilities. They've already said if you do that, we're going to destroy all the other oil ports, the refineries, the drilling sites, all these different things. And so they've already done one small attack at the giant liquid natural gas facility, Razlophan, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.

And so that's in Qatar. and that produces, besides the natural gas as a byproduct, they get a massive amount of helium. And that's about a third of the world's helium. We don't use it just for balloons. We use it to make state-of-art semiconductors, and the facilities in Taiwan and South Korea are completely dependent on them for helium. We also use it in MRI machines. It's a consumable as part of the MRI machines, as well as launching rockets. There's a lot of ancillary things that are being shut down. It's not just oil. Oil is going to increase the price of everything,

but there's a lot of other materials that are being shut down by this foolish operation as well. In terms of global supplies, it's estimated there's only about a 45-day global supply of helium available. And so I guess Trump feels like, well, you know, we produce some of that here. In the United States, we produce a... quite a bit of it as well. So we'll be, everybody will be dependent on us for oil and for helium. So we win.

You don't win if you shut down all the supply chains. This is what Trump doesn't understand. This is the foolishness of his tariffs. Whatever your long-term plans are, you have to have a reasonable path to get there. They don't have any reasonable tactics to secure their long-term strategy. And they don't care about it.

either. They're just going to move fast and break things and figured out later. And this is a pattern that we see being repeated over and over and over again in the Trump administration, just like him relying on declaring something to be an emergency so that he can skip all the laws, all the rules and the Constitution. He moves quickly and he destroys everything. And then it winds up affecting us as well. Because if we shut down helium to the Asian manufacturers of chips, semiconductors, and they can't make those semiconductors, we don't have a way to do that right away. If you wanted to do that, that would take a long time to do that. And it's not something that the government can force. You know, they tried to subsidize this with the Chips Act from Biden

and now Trump and his socialist urges that he wants to do. He is trying to incentivize this, which basically just boils down to crony corruption. And that's what it is. It's not capitalism at all. It's just cronyism and corruption. So the inner circle of Trump, as the telegraph says, breezily downplayed the risk that the Iranian regime,

facing an existential fight for survival, would respond far more drastically than it did during the 12-day war last June. The White House appeared unprepared for Tehran to reach for its equivalent of a nuclear button, a shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. In those preliminary meetings, General Kane told Trump that an American attack on Iran would prompt the regime to close the Strait of Hormuz,

citing decades of U.S. preparation for such an eventuality. But he doesn't listen, doesn't listen to his military planners, which is a real concern thing in terms of what he's going to do next with Kargai Island. Is he going to take that over and is he going to have an amphibious landing of that or the straight-over moves or something like that? It would be absolute folly based on what military commanders are saying.

It would be like a, you know, a cavalry charge at Normandy Beach or something because the technology has changed since they did amphibious landings. And of course, there were always a costly thing. thing to do in terms of human life. Does Trump care about that? Well, there's no evidence that he cares for the lives of soldiers and sailors at all. None, none whatsoever. He has nothing but contempt for the people that he uses, just like Henry Kissinger. And so if this doesn't make sense as a military strategy, if Trump is going to do this just for fun, as he said, if he's going to do it to show, show how powerful he is by disregarding the lives of the people who have sworn to protect the

Constitution, not to do his every whim, quite frankly. This is a real possibility because he's arrogantly disregarded not only the law and the Constitution international rules of war and the morality restrictions that we had on it. But he's also ignoring the pragmatic advice of his military commanders. And so we've already seen this in terms of pushing back against the advice of General Kane. Sources familiar with the discussion

told the Wall Street Journal, Trump acknowledged the risk, but replied that Tehran would probably be, would probably capitulate before severing the world's most vital shipping lane. Even if it went ahead, the American military could wrestle back control regardless of the cost, right?

I don't care how much money how much material, how many lives it takes. You guys can do it. I've got a lot of confidence in you, he says, right? Just not, no confidence in their advice. And he doesn't care what anything costs, especially when it comes to blood. As a precaution he ordered Chris Wright,

the Energy Secretary, and Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, to develop options to combat a spike in oil prices. Well, how's that working? What do you think, these genius, as Chris Wright and Scott Bessett might be the first thing they do. You might think the first thing they would do be to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Oh, they forgot to do that. Go to a war on a gas tank that's half full. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives. and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

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He said, I can't say that we anticipated necessarily. That's exactly how they would react. But we know it was a possibility. Well, you know it was a possibility, but you did. didn't do anything to prepare for that possibility, did you? The drone attacks that killed U.S. soldiers on Sunday, 1st of March, the first U.S. deaths in the war were later reported to have led to an additional 30 troops being taken to hospital, suffering from a variety of shrapnel wounds, burns, and brain trauma.

The base that was attacked in Kuwait had concrete slabs to protect against ground. attack, but it had prefabricated tent-like structure overhead, just to give them, I guess, cover from the sun. This is a metaphor. This is a metaphor for the Trump administration. We're going to protect against a ground attack, but we haven't thought about the fact that there might be drones. After what we've watched with the Russia-Ukraine war now for a couple of years, they did nothing to protect from an attack from the above, from above. unbelievably stupid, isn't it? And so when you look at the possibility of all this and how it is escalating, it truly is insane. Even if you think sending Marines in is a good idea, you should have

prepositioned them in the region. So the policy director of Washington-based defense priorities, think tank. You don't wait two weeks for them to show up. And not only that, but it's, It's going to take two weeks from the point that he ordered one of the three amphibious assault ships to take off from Asia. It's a two-week journey from when he ordered it a day or two ago. He said, I think the biggest deal is the assumption that they would just bomb Iran and the regime would crumble. I don't think that's contrary to what we know about air power and what we know about Iran and how nationalism works.

I said for the longest time. It's a bad strategy to attack civilians. It's immoral. Everybody understands it's immoral. And that's one of the reasons why it galvanizes the public in a particular society. The people who are being attacked then fall in line behind their government no matter how bad it is. And that's what's happened in Iran. No matter how bad a government is, and this is going to be the textbook example of it,

Here's a government where they had protests. They're killing tens of thousands of people in the protests. Then you start bombing them. And guess what? They see you as worse than the government that they wanted to change. Trump shut down the regime change that he wanted by the civilian bombing. At the center of the miscalculation was the hubris engendered by the Venezuelan operation. Trump surrounded himself also with a bunch of yes men.

This has all been pretty obvious, isn't it? I think it's interesting to see that finally people are saying this in public. Just like it took a very long time where people started calling the Trump shot a bioweapon. It was a bioweapon against us. And it was something that he did at the behest and the coordination with political entities outside of the U.S. against Americans. The entire COVID thing was a treasonous traitor

action that Trump took against the Constitution and against the American people. And even if you don't see it like that, you have to see the folly of it. And here we are again. Traitorious actions, criminal actions and violation of our law and

international law and everything else, all moral law. And stupid that's the Trump administration and a show. Trump jettisoned the traditional preparations for war, which include a wide circle of intelligence analysis and months of classified deliberations. And instead, he kept the team tight and small because he didn't want people talking about it, right? Pete Higgsath doesn't like people talking about what they're doing because what they're doing is so stupid and criminal. So Trump's humiliating war miscalculation exposed. European country.

reject Trump's call for help to reopen the Strait of Hormoos. They're his. Hold on a sign, please, help me. Merely, merrily, marry, maddy, be. Hattie. Rove your boat gently down the street. Become the Asians. They drive right past them.

Come on, stop. I know how I feel a wake up. Puckettys up. Pockets. A hootin. And Kim. Why nobody helps me to open Hormuz? Yeah, yeah.

The memes are better with AI, I think, than these people still. I like that. Anyway, Trump's standing in New York with his sign. Help me with Hormuz. I need some help. I got into a quagmire that I don't know what to do about. And it's going to mess you up as well.

They might have a different solution for this. Maybe instead of helping him with Hormuz, maybe they distance themselves from America. The president's threat of a very bad future for NATO unless it provides worship. So what does he do when, first of all, he gets into trouble? He screams for help. Then when help is refused, he threatens people. Yeah, he's a mafia don. That's what he is. So the art of the deal? No, no, he's just a mafia done. When he asks for helping, he doesn't get it, he threatens people. That's a real nice country you got there, you know. Anyway, European countries have ruled out sending warships to her moves, despite threats from Trump that NATO faces a very hard future,

very bad future, sorry, if members fail to help reopen the vital waterway. Kier Starmor said the UK would not be drawn into a wider war. But he said he was working on a viable plan. Well, Trump is, again, this is what he says in terms of threatening them. We are aggressively dismantling Iran's defense. Yeah, right. And ability to rebuild its missiles and drone capability is getting down to close to zero. And we're hammering their capacity to threaten commercial shipping in the strait of Hormos with more than 30 mine.

laying ships destroyed. We hit, to the best of our knowledge, all of their mine laying ships. Now they can put them on other types of ships, I guess, and drop them in. But we don't know that any have even been dropped in. We're not sure that any have been. We don't know what's going on. Negative for them if they do it. It's a form of suicide. But we don't know that they have dropped any in. But we've hit all 30 of their ships and destroyed them. They're all at the bottom of the sea. We strongly encourage other. the nations whose economies depend on the strait far more than ours. You know, we get less

than 1 percent of our oil from the strait. And some countries get much more. Japan gets 95 percent. China gets 90 percent. Many of the Europeans get quite a quite a bit. South Korea gets 35 percent. So we want them to come and help us with the strait. We have it in very good shape. countries. I said we've already taken care of Iran, but now because of the fact that literally a single terrorist can put something in the water or shoot something or shoot a missile, a small missile, and it's fairly close range because it is a tight area, which is one of the reasons they've always used that as a weapon. Iran has always used that as an economic weapon, and it's not going to be able to be used very long.

Thank you for watching. And remember, stay updated. So again, something that Iran has always used, right? They've always used that. So why didn't you do something about it? And, you know, just because China gets 90% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz, he thinks they're going to come in and help him. No, they're going to play the long game and they're going to set back and watch him twist. You know, a single terrorist, he said, can shut down the Strait of Hormuz, or maybe a single terrorist dictator. He says threatening

shipping. Well, didn't he do that with his tariffs? We have seen all of these things that he attributes to other people. We have seen him do the same thing as well. So he's urged China, Britain, France, Japan, South Korea to send warships to help reopen the waterway

even though they are not involved. And they're saying, no, thanks. So here's what it would take. securing the strait of Iran's long flank would mean a big commitment of warships or sizable ground operation. I would say or both. And so again, because of his ego, because he's not going to say we've had enough, Trump continues to move on. And he's going to wind up not with boots on the ground,

but boots in the ground. He's going to get a lot of people unnecessarily killed because the commander and thief is a fool as well. And so it's, it's amazing to see what this guy is doing. He's capable of doing anything. And he boasts about it. No restrictions at all, he thinks, on what he can do or what he should do. We're going to take a quick break. And we're going to come right back and we're going to talk about what's going on in terms of the Iran war as well. as the backstory behind it, the political push. What has happened to our country? To get us into a situation where a handful of people who are working for foreign power

because they're paid for them can do this to our country, it's disgusting. And I've said for the longest time that politics is downstream from religion. So we're going to talk about the religion that is making all of this possible. And that is how they are changing this. And Ted Cruz is at the epicenter of this big change. We're going to talk about what he's just done in the last couple of days. We'll be right back. So what's going on?

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You're listening to the David Knight Show. APS Radio delivers multiple channels of music right to your mobile device. Get the APS Radio app today and listen wherever you go. Well, before I get into any deeper into what is happening in Iran, I want to cover some other things. So there's an article from a free thought project, five stories you probably missed as war rages in Iran. That is so important. I mean, it's not just that it's a war that has global potential, but it's a war that threatens to plunge the entire globe into an economic depression, which is really what Trump has been doing from the very beginning. We look at COVID when you look at the tariffs, this is just the next step and the great reset of taking every single.

down for the globalist so they can rebuild their technocracy. And as part of that, the first story that Freethought Project talked about, the new NSA director has the same old positions on surveillance. This is the person who has been appointed by the Trump regime, Joshua Rudd, an army general who has signaled his support for the long-criticized FISA Section 702, despite claims from lawmakers and Rudd himself that the surveillance tool doesn't ensnare Americans. Civil Liberties groups have long warned that the American, that Americans' data is being swept up, along with the data of non-Americans. And of course, it is a fact.

It's not a theory. And it is a conspiracy to surveil everybody. And this goes back again to, if you remember Ron Wyden and asking James Clapper, because as much as I disagree with Ron Wyden on virtually everything, this is an issue on which he has really hung his hat. And I'm glad that he has because the conservatives aren't really focused on this either. And so he asked James Clapper that. I didn't remember James Clapper.

Are you spying on Americans without a search warrant? And James Clapper, oh, well, not intentionally, sir. You know, this kind of stuff, which is a lie. But he was never prosecuted for perjury. because we found out right away with the Snowden leaks that they actually were. There's no question about it. And then rather than change anything, you had Michael Hayden, who had been a former head of the NSA as well as the CIA, came out and said, I blame Ron Wyden.

He knew, all of his staff knew that we were doing this. And they put him on the spot and had him commit perjury. Of course, then they didn't prosecute him for it anyway. That's the problem, right? You shouldn't tell people that you're breaking the law, that you're breaking the Constitution. That was Michael Hayden's response. Just unbelievable what these people are doing. And look, when we look at what is happening with the Trump administration, all of this mania about artificial intelligence and pushing it, yes, there is a financial aspect to it.

And he is owned by the big tech people. but it's also the Trump administration's mania to do surveillance unlike anybody else. And that's really what AI is about. It's about surveillance. When you look at what's going on with the Pentagon and with War Pete coming after Anthropic, why? Because they've got two things they don't want to do. They don't want to have autonomous killing machines.

And they don't want to use AI for domestic surveillance. Because of that, we have to destroy you. And that tells you everything that you need to know about the. this criminal Pentagon, and this criminal administration, I'm sorry, regime. And so Ron Wyden, a longtime opponent of mass surveillance, raised concerns about Rudd's seeming lack of commitment to keeping other NSA surveillance activities in check. I asked General Rudd, said Ron Wyden in a statement, opposing his confirmation.

He said, I asked him whether if he were directed to target people in the U.S. for surveillance, he would insist that there be a judicial warrant. I told him in advance that I was going to ask the question. And then at the hearing, I offered him the opportunity to answer whether yes or no. I didn't get an answer. And so here we are. We've got somebody who's just like James Clapper, and he's being appointed by Trump to spy on the American people.

And then that takes us to the second story that Free Thought Project had. The fact, the Palantir CEO is warning that the military, will seize technology. Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, by the way, while he's doing this event where he's warning companies, you better be careful. If you don't tow the line, the government is going to take you over, which again is anthropic, which has the clawed large language model, was working with Palantir to do targeting and still is in this criminal Iran war.

And so don't get your hopes up too high about Anthropic. However, it is really surprised everybody that the Trump administration, especially War Pete, has declared that because they refuse to do their bidding in terms of whatever they asked, whether it is legal or not, that the response of War Pete was to say, well, that's it. We're going to put you out of business. We're going to tell everybody that if they deal with the U.S. government, that we will cut them off as contractors to make sure that nobody deals with you. So their response was to say, we're going to put Anthropic out of business if they won't work with us for domestic surveillance.

And so what Alex Karp does is he changes it, tweaks it slightly. He said, you better be careful because if you don't do what the government says, the government's going to take over your company. That's what he actually said. He said, if you expect the Pentagon to, he said, you can expect, he told this to fellow tech executives, you can expect the Pentagon to nationalize your products. If AI continues to replace human jobs, the Silicon Valley believes that we're going to take everybody's white-collar jobs and screw the military. See, that's the key.

It's not about taking people's jobs. They're not going to take over your company because you're taking everybody's jobs. They're going to take over your company because you're not doing domestic surveillance for the military, for the standing army. The means of defense abroad have always become instruments of tyranny at home. Always, always, said James Madison. This is just observations of human nature and government over millennia. And that's what this AI is going to be. And it's now an open secret.

because of war peat. I guess we can thank him for that, even though he's criminal. But he said, you think they're just going to stand around while you screw over the military? They will take over your company. He said, if you don't think that's going to lead to the nationalization of our technology, you're retarded, he said. So they will either destroy your company or they will more likely take it over, nationalizing. Wasn't that the complaint against Venezuela that they nationalized the oil industry that was there?

Well, that's what they're going to do. And again, our government is no different from the evil governments that they want to fight, right? Despite Anthropic CEO's impressive rhetoric about these concerns, the company has filed a lawsuit to reverse this designation of being a supply chain risk and presumably continue contracting with the federal government. do target people for this criminal war. So there's that. And how about the irony of calling Anthropic a supply chain risk?

You know what the biggest supply chain risk to the military, to America, to the world is? Donald J. Trump. He is the guy, the breaker of supply chains. That's what he has hung his hat on since 2020. And he's back at it again. And then we take a look at his tariffs. Another supply chain risk, right? The $12 billion of handouts from the USDA that they promised that were very late coming.

A member, you know, when he put these tariffs on China, China just said, oh, we're going to stop buying $20 billion worth of agricultural products from the U.S. Just like that. And then they gave, they gave $20 billion to the U.S. government did to Argentina. Presumably, I guess, because Javier Malai is now in the Chabad Lubavik. So now we get Lubavich, I guess. So now he gets subsidies from fellow Chabotter, Donald Trump, and Jared Kushner.

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He turns right around and undercuts the farmer. I'll supply this for you. China wants soy and other things like that, but they don't want to buy from the U.S. because of the tariffs. So the guy that we give $20 billion to says, I'll handle it. And I'll give you the soy. So you don't have to buy it from America. So they subsidize him instead of the farmers, the American farmers.

And of course, it's not really that many Americans. I mean, the small guys are getting cut out now. It took a very long time to put any of these subsidies out. So that was back in September. Trump kept promising and Scott Besson kept, prime oh the subsidies are on their way on their way finally they said oh we'll do it in January sometime January didn't happen it just now started guess who's getting the money all the big guys it's like the what Trump did in terms of the was it the CARES Act I think

that was supposed to help small businesses so Trump changed the definition of a small business to include big businesses like his and you had more than than 50% of the money went to 5% of the companies. The same thing is happening right now. As Trump damages the farmers, it's the big agricultural interests who are getting the federal assistance, none to the small farmers. We want them out of business because if you got less than 1,000 acres, like Hillary Clinton said, I can't be bothered.

She's talking about nationalizing health care. She's, I can't be bothered with all these undercapitalized small businesses. If you don't have enough capital to bribe her or to pay Trump, they don't care about you. They would prefer to see you out because they're working for the big guys that are competing against you. So they finally came up with 12. So they give Argentina $20 billion and Argentina takes over the soy business with China that Trump destroyed. They give them $20 billion. And then they promised $12 billion to U.S. farmers.

but that was in September, right? So here we are, what, six months later? And finally, they kick it out, but when they do, it only goes to Big Ag. So, and then the key issue, they point out here in Freethought Project, adding insult to injury, the farms that are getting the bailouts are growing things like soybean,

safflower, sunflower, and canola. These are the seed oils. that supposedly Maha, making America healthy again, supposedly Maha is against the seed oils, because we all know how unhealthy they are. But instead, they're going to subsidize seed oil. They're going to subsidize and protect from legal liability glyphosate. This is what big ag wants.

And big business has its way with Donald Trump. And so he supports glyphosate. F of City also is fighting to keep fluoride in the water. We had a hard-won court case to shut down fluoride and to show that it was harmful. The judge agreed with that. And so the Trump administration appealed that. They want to keep putting fluoride in the water. Finally, we have the Department of Justice under the Trump regime.

Has another gun control move that is going on. A few days after the Iran conflict started, the Supreme Court began hearing, concerning whether the government has the right to infringe on people's gun rights if they are deemed to habitually use illegal drugs like pot, even though cannabis is legal in many states. The arguments hinge on provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968, signed by Lyndon Johnson. Despite the Trump administration claiming that they support the Second Amendment, the Trump DOJ chose to appeal a lower court decision,

which ruled in favor of a man who owned a firearm and admitted to using cannabis a few times a week. So they took away his Second Amendment rights. Is that a surprise from this Trump administration? They don't support the First Amendment. They don't support the Second Amendment. They don't support the Fourth, the Fifth Amendment. They don't support the Tenth Amendment. They don't support the Constitution, period.

Especially the parts that were supposed to fix the flaws of the original document in terms of honor. our individual rights. So there have been some silver linings, as I point out. The city of San Jose, California, meanwhile, has moved to tighten restrictions on the use of the flock surveillance cameras, the privatized, the public-private partnership to have a police state. And so that's happened since all this Iran stuff has happened. And so you have, and they said they thought that the pushback from some of the people who were supporting Trump, some of the self-described Maha people.

I just, I'm so sick and tired of all the variations of Maga because I can't stand the Maga cult. But they said, well, it was good that after Trump supported Glyphosite, there was some little bit of independent thought and principle. over blind Maga tribalism. You think? I'm not so sure. We can always hope and look for some signs of that. But here's some real positive, I think. You have United Airlines which fired people over COVID vaccine religious exemptions,

and there was a lawsuit against them, a class action lawsuit. And now that is moving forward. A class action lawsuit against you. United Airlines over the COVID-19 vaccine religious exemption policy can move forward said in a federal appeals court this week. The appeals court upheld a lower court's 2024 ruling that United discriminated against employees by placing them on unpaid leave after it granted their religious exemptions to the vaccine. So think about that. In order to, you know, they would have an issue if they said, well, we're not going to honor your religious beliefs, your religious exemption.

And again, everybody was war gaming. How can we do this? Let's say, let's tell them that bear aspirin was used in terms, was developed, even aspirin was developed in terms of experiments on, you know, fetal cell lines and things like that, which is not true. They did some experiments after the fact, but using Willow Bark and aspirin has been around for a very long time. Anyway, so there was this war gaming about how can we trick people up on their religious beliefs? And they had a series of questions that they'd all worked out how they were going to destroy people's religious exemptions. But rather than take that approach, they said, all right, you don't have to do it.

But if you don't do it, we're going to put you on unpaid leave to try to get them to quit. so I don't even get fired or get any unemployment. So there's a class action lawsuit that is going to be moving forward. That is good. Glad to see that. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives,

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By the way, when we were talking about the SAVE Act the other day, I talked about Trump's tweet. And he was saying, here you've got to pass the SAVE Act because we need to have ID presented and we need to make sure that people are citizens and so forth. So it was all about voting until you get to item number five. Item number five was no transgender surgery unless the parents consent to it. Remember I talked about that? He's now deleted that post because he's getting a lot of pushback against that. Why don't we put up something saying that parents, we can't sexually molest children like he did unless the parents consent, right? If the parents want to sell the kids to Jeffrey Epstein and me, that'll be fine.

if the parents want to molest the kids themselves. That's fine as well. How is that fine? Once you start doing that, once you start mutilating your child, you have changed. You are no longer a parent. You are a predator like Trump and Epstein. And you don't deserve parental protection. And so that's what's in the Save Act, believe it or not.

They make it sound like it's all about voting. None of this vote by mail, but Trump himself created. And of course, he was one of the initial pushers of all this transgender stuff as well with his beauty contest and so forth. And he and Melania and the log cabin Republicans and his rainbow merchandise when he was running for office in 2020. He's been a big promoter of that. The supporters of him really don't understand.

who this guy is. They haven't got a clue as to who this guy is. And so as they make this all about voting and then they throw this in and claim that they're standing for parental rights, the parental right to mutilate and to sterilize your child, that's not a parental right. That is predation and abuse. And so Trump has now deleted that social media post and saying that, Trans kids may receive gender affirming surgery if the Save Act passes and the parents consent to it.

What he wrote was, no transgender mutilation surgery for children without the express consent of parents. And we have seen that over and over again. Meanwhile, you have Republicans everywhere. Mike Lee is really doubling down on the Save America Act. it'll show who is fighting for secure elections and who fears them he says well i think i know who doesn't like fair elections i think i know who created this whole vote-by-mail scam it was donald j trump in his first term he was the one who created vote by mail it was one of the results of his unconstitutional fraud of the covid lockdown and rather than

than address that, you got people like Mike Lee saying, this is how you stand up for America. No, how you stand up for America, Mike Lee, is to try to walk back some of the stuff that was done to us in 2020. And to make sure that doesn't ever happen again. They're not doing anything to stop future pandemic McGuffins. They're not doing anything to block that kind of abuse of executive power based on a declared emergency. If you can declare an emergency, if the same person who declares the emergency, then hands himself dictatorial power.

This government is hanging by a thread, and I think that thread broke a while ago. And so why did Trump create this whole vote-by-mail thing? That's the thing that needs to be answered. Meanwhile, Florida is passing a voter ID bill that is modeled after the Save Act. This could all be handled at the state level, and if we do it at the state level,

we might get it without the transparent aspect of this. I don't know if that's in the Florida bill or not. Maybe, hopefully they didn't copy that part of it. Maybe they just stayed on the voting aspect of it. I agree with what's in the SAVE Act in terms of the voting aspect of it. That's why I disagreed with Trump in 2020 because he didn't agree with it. The guy is all over the place. Meanwhile, Democrats are,

referring Christenome to the Department of Justice to Pam Bondi for criminal investigation. Well, good luck with that. I don't think that's going to go anywhere at all. And, of course, it's not just that she lied about some of the details when she was testifying. The real issue is the corruption itself. Incredibly corrupt. That's inaccurate.

Madam Secretary. I'll read from the notice from your agency. Given the immediate action to significantly reduce illegal immigration and border crossings, DHS identified four companies. Four of the hundreds of thousands of companies in the United States, you identified four. One of those is this Safe America Media Company. Where is Safe America Media headquartered?

I don't know. I don't know either, Madam Secretary. We can't find it. We can't find a website. We did find an address that's registered for this company. Do you know where that address is? Is there a problem with this contract? I'll tell you about it.

Madam Secretary, the address is registered to a political operative. Madam Secretary, the company, and I'll give you an opportunity to respond. The company is registered to a political operative in Virginia. Do you know, just by way of example, whether this company that received $143 million in taxpayer dollars, has it ever done work for the government before? I don't know. I can't. The answer is it has not.

And do you know why we know that? because it was incorporated eight days, eight days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board? That $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before, and is registered, apparently, or attached to a residence from a political operative. And, of course, one of the subcontractors of that contract,

as you know is a political firm that's tied to you back when you were governor of South Dakota. The reason why I asked these questions is that this is taxpayer money. And I presume, I don't know this for a fact, but Senator Tillis noted yesterday the way in which your agency is blocking the inspector general from 11 different investigations that it is trying to conduct. I don't know if this happens to be one of them. I certainly hope it is because eventually the facts will become public in this. disregard. And that's the real issue. It's not about some perjury trap that probably caught her. And I'm sure she was lying because that's what she does. I mean, we saw the lies when they were talking about the murders of ICE committed by ICE in Minneapolis. And of course, the other person who is involved in this is her deputy, who was the spokesperson who was also telling lies as big as

Christine Homme about what had happened in Minnesota. She got a lot of motivation for doing that because she is knee-deep in hundreds of millions of dollars of corruption herself as well, the deputy. And so she's going to lie about all this stuff as well. 11 different investigations that DHS is blocking from DOJ. But I don't think there will be an investigation over perjury. Pam Bondi is a team player, if nothing else. Meanwhile, a judge has quashed the grand jury subpoenas of the Fed and Jerome Powell in the renovations probe.

Now, I think the renovation has the hallmarks of criminality in it, the amount of money that is there. But nevertheless, this was really something that was being done by Trump to intimidate Jerome Powell as the chair of the Federal Reserve. And so the judge called them on that. he understood that it was politically motivated. This is the criminality of this mafia administration, weaponizing lawfare. And, of course, everybody saw the Biden administration doing lawfare against Trump. And it was what got Trump elected, by the way. But now Trump has exceeded.

He's taken the example that was set by Biden, and he's gone way beyond that. Federal judge ruled the Justice Department subpoenas of the Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell, may not be enforced, according to court filings on Sealed Friday. District Judge James Boegsburg quashed two subpoenas, served on the Fed's Board of Governors that sought records about a $2.5 billion renovation project. That's what I'm saying. How in the world could you spend $2.5 billion on the renovation of a building? How many buildings cost $2.5 billion in the first place?

this is just a renovation. This is not even new construction. The judge pointed to abundant evidence that the subpoenas were part of a pressure campaign against Powell. Did prosecutors issue those subpoenas for a proper purpose, he said? The court finds that they did not. In other words, this is all political. There's nothing that is really there in terms of this probe because it wasn't even really really about the money.

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you had, as soon as that was put out, you had Judge Janine Piro flipped out. and because she's the one who has been charged. This Fox News commentator has been charged with taking this thing forward. So Trump is headed for the Supreme Court and he's headed for a bruising, says a raw story, because John Roberts has lost his patience with him. A meltdown by U.S. Attorney Janine Perrault over being blocked by Judge Boasberg in her attempt to subpoena, Jerome Powell, is setting up.

up a possible showdown in the Supreme Court, which will not go well, according to a former prosecutor. Former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aaronberg said Piro has every intention of going to the Supreme Court for relief, but he said that's not going to work out too well for them. According to him, Piro's saber-rattling combined with Trump's attacks on Powell on social media, We'll make it hard for the Department of Justice to get a sign-off to proceed from the nation's highest court. So again, Trump was his own worst enemy because he made it very clear that his attacks against Jerome Powell were because he didn't like Powell's policy,

not because he had a problem with the excessive, and I would say likely criminal $2.5 billion renovation. They made it about his disagreement on policy. they made it about some perjury trap questions that they had. It wasn't about the substance of it. On Friday, a furious Piro shouted at reporters by inserting himself and preventing the grand jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing evidence. Boasberg has neutered the grand jury's ability

to investigate a crime. What crime? You know, you have publicly tweeted out what your real purpose and all this stuff was. And so he read, your tweets. This is all just trying to intimidate this guy and try to change his policy. This is a self-inflicted wound. Trump put out all those statements, and you know, it's going to be rough for you when the opening lines of judge's ruling feed Trump's own words back to the

prosecutors. What he said was, well, here's what your boss wrote. I know what this is about. this is not about the issue that he has with the cost of the renovation. He leaned on Trump's own words. He said, I have a common sense that everyone else here, like everyone else here, and I don't have to put my head in the sand. We can see what's going on here, he said. In that tariff ruling recently, Roberts seemed like he's lost some patience with Trump. He didn't give the president anywhere near the deference that he gave him in the immunity ruling.

I think this ruling will hold up on an appeal, especially because you've seen other rulings by the Supreme Court that show that they put the Fed in a unique place, a special bubble that protects them. Yeah, that's right. I don't like that either. I also don't like Trump's arrogance. This particular case, he was hoisted by his own batard. Or maybe we should say hoisted by his own hubris. We're going to take a quick break, and we're going to come back and take a look at what is. happening with the Iran War.

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Well, I've got some comments here. Mark Young 12 says Ted Cruz, his lobby total is $6.1 million. check how much your senators and reps take in from Israel. Of course, this is coming from APEC. Let's talk about that before we get back into the Iran War because, as I said before, religion is upstream of politics and, of course, politics is upstream of war. Jerry Alitalo says Joe Kent announced his resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

He said pressure from Israel had pushed Trump into war against Iran. well that's great and so when you look at this you know the question is if you're going to resign with this stuff and make a public statement i think that's important and that might be the best way to push back from this stuff rather than stay inside of it i think that would be a better way for tulsie gabberjee has been marginalized inside the administration if she really is opposed to the war as she has consistently said she ought to stand by those convictions publicly and I've never heard of that guy before, but kudos to him for leaving. Again, the argument is, can I change things if I stay inside?

No, you can't. Not in the Trump regime. You can't. If it's been thoroughly co-opted from the top down and if they're going to go against your recommendations, you might as well get out and publicly oppose it. I think that's the best thing that you could do. Live free or perish says if Trump doesn't like your country, he puts tariffs on him. That's right.

He said, I can do whatever I want. I can destroy a country. And he doesn't just mean with his military might at his disposal now. He means that he can do it economically. And of course, tariffs are taxes. And taxes are the power to destroy. So, but in the end, the consumer in America pays the consequences. That's right.

We pay the consequences for the wars. And we pay the consequences. And we pay the taxes as well. And we pay the taxes for. the war. And so, as a matter of fact, that's even when Eric Peters writes about his daily briefing that he's been putting out almost daily about the Iran war, he says the war taxes, and they puts the date because you can think of it that way. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

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at spreeker.com. Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Let's talk a little bit about Ted Cruz and what he's been up to lately. And I'll skip over a little bit of this stuff. Let's go directly to Mr. Cruz himself. There's an article up on LifeSight News, which is a Catholic site. And they're very upset about it. what Ted Cruz has said about Catholics. And understand that the problem that Ted Cruz, you know, this Kerry preaching baller, is Catholic as well. And the issue really is this conflict that is developed between the so-called Zionist Christians,

which I think is an oxymoron. Zionism is a political movement, right? And so what you're saying is you're a political Christian. I think Christians should be involved. I think we should speak out. I think we should have some discernment, but it shouldn't be the main thing. And it really is the, it needs to be below the more important things, but not for people like Ted Cruz, because he's getting $6.1 million from APAC.

And so they're attacking traditional Catholics because the traditional Catholics are holding to the doctrine of about what happens and in times and what Israel's standing is before God. They're holding to the traditional Christian understanding that has been the understanding not only of Catholics, but of the reformers as well, of the Protestants. And so this has been something that has been common throughout Christianity for millennia until you had the dispensationalists and the Darbiest and the Schofield Bible

and the massive amounts of money. money that Israel is giving to a lot of preachers. I mean, this organization that Netanyahu has helped to create that is working as a liaison to get pastors to politically support Israel is flowing in, has flown in the last year, so thousands of pastors to these conferences that they hold, where they go in and they lecture to them about the importance and the uniqueness of the state of Israel, this foreign government and then. Now go back to your churches and preach from the pulpit when I'm telling you that they all need to support Israel.

And this is something that the state of Israel is spending, talk about lobbying the politicians. They are lobbying the pastors as well. They're giving them lots of money. And they've got this traveling tour. And I've talked about this as well to go through and quote unquote, educate the pastors into their, Israeli theology.

They're co-opting the churches, just like they've co-opted our government. And Ted Cruz is one of the key people in all this. Ted Cruz endorses an article accusing traditional Catholics of being parasites. And, you know, this is, as LifeSight News is looking at this in the last week, we've seen what happened to Kerry Preaching Baller. and we see this op-ed piece that's being put out there and they go, wait a minute, this is, they're coming after us. And there are some Protestants out there who are not Zionists, who are saying the same thing.

And they said, this is something that is going to come after anybody who opposes Zionism and the state of Israel. So it comes this essay that Ted Cruz put out. He says it is from a, as LifeSight News characterizes the author, a Republican Zionist account that's called Insurrection Barbie. That's on X. Ted Cruz says, read every word of this. It's the best most comprehensive explanation of what we are fighting. And they repeats it.

Read every word of this. And there's a lot of words. 8,000 words. And I haven't read it yet. I didn't have time to read it yesterday, but I will read it, and I'll tell you if I see anything different. This is the characterization, however, from LifeSight News, and I think they've got it right.

The author claimed that the Republican Party is being taken over by a small block of Catholics and undermining its support for Christian Zionism. I would say that is a an oxymoron. Again, as I said before, Zionism is a political movement. And it is being used for a divide and conquer. We can look, if you want to know what Zionism is, of course, Zionism is saying, we're going to have a homeland for the Jews. And initially, Rothschild and others were looking at a lot of different places. It wasn't just Palestine. They were looking at a lot of different places to have a homeland. And so it really is,

is now being used as a way to divide and conquer. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster. The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show, upload it once, and Spreaker,

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article, says LifeSight News, continues with the author describing the block of Catholics as, quote, parasites saying they are engaged in theft and the slow poisoning of existing institutions. Would Ted Cruz ever say that about Paula White and the prosperity gospel movement that is so tied to Donald Trump? Are they parasites engaged in theft and the slow poisoning of the church? I say they are, but he would never say that. Deploying a medieval theological framework, they said, against Christian. Zionism. Again, yeah, it was not only medieval, it went way before the medieval times. It was a thousand years earlier than that. It has traditionally been the understanding of theology.

The other stuff is the novel interpretation. And of course, to dispensationalism, they added Zionism. So they said there, which is political, we've got neocons out there who are pushing for war, right? maybe we should call these people neo-christians because they've got a new theology that's only a couple hundred years old and they're using that to push neocon wars just call them the neos just say no to neos they worship a political movement and they worship a foreign government and they seek to replace the lord jesus christ with this political government. As a matter of fact, Ted Cruz at the same time all this stuff is happening, says, you know, you need to stop saying Christ is king.

Because we've got to replace the Lord Jesus Christ with the state of Israel and Netanyahu. Well, Netanyahu may have already met Lord Jesus Christ for all we know. Certainly a lot of indications of that. They're not seeking to evangelize, he said. They said, Ben Shapiro calls them frauds and grifters, and we believe that they are. Yeah, it's not the frauds and the grifters, folks, are the people who are using Christ for their politics. The people who are using Christ for their prosperity.

People like Ted Cruz, people like Paula White, and people like Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick. The doubt refers to undermining the political ideology of Christian Zionism. They said their goal is not conversion. their goal is doubt. Well, I would ask these 1,000 pastors who had an all-expenses paid trip to Israel so they could be propagandized by that government. Was your goal in going there to give the good news about the Lord Jesus Christ, or was it to take some shackles? What was your purpose? 30 pieces of silver, I guess they handed you.

I don't know. The article which Cruz described as being the best and most comprehensive explanation about what we are fighting condemns Catholics for the embrace of traditional Catholic doctrine. The chief objection raised is Catholic opposition to Christian Zionism, which it treats as central to evangelical Protestantism and to the American Republic. That's one of the most amazing aspects of this article from the quotes that are in the LifeSight News article. In other words, we're supposed to believe that the foundation not only of Christianity, as we call it, the understanding of people who follow Christ.

I don't talk about Christendom. I don't talk about governments as being followers of Christ. They never are. Governments are always opposed to Christ. They don't like to have another king. But when you look at what they are pushing, it is to tell us that the American government was set up, and our society was founded to get Jews back to their homeland, which is what Zionism is about. It's about having a homeland, not necessarily even the original land that they say, but to have a

homeland somewhere. That was the purpose of America. That was the purpose of Christianity. That was the purpose of the Bible, according to these people. The essay claims that modern American conservatism rests on a theological claim, which is not about America at all. This is what the article says, that God made an eternal, unconditional covenant with the Jewish people, that the modern state of Israel is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy, and that Christians who bless Israel are obeying a direct divine command. Remove that conviction,

and you remove the moral engine that has driven evangelical political engagement for half a century. For half a century. Well, you know, that has not been the understanding of Christians for 2,000 years, not 50 years, but 2,000 years. If that were true, you know, what do we say about the creation of America, the other two centuries of America? What do we say about 2,000 years of Christianity and 200 years of America? You'd slow them out the window, right? The pilgrims who came here in 1620 were not focused on the establishment of the

a Jewish political state in Palestine. They were focused on propagating the gospel. You can see it in the May of Our Compact, right? We want to bring the gospel to the people who already live here. Now we've got pastors who go to Israel, and they don't even want to take the gospel to them, right? They take their coin, but they don't give them anything in return. For most of Christian history writes this article, the dominant theological position regarding the Jewish people was supersessionism, replacement theology.

The belief that the Christian church has superseded the Jewish people as inheritor of God's covenant promises. Under this view, the promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now fulfilled in the church. Actually, they're fulfilled in Christ. When you talk about, I will bless those. And through you, all nations will be blessed. That was about Christ. And this is I say from the very beginning, people like Ted Cruz and these self-described Christian Zionists want to replace Christ with a political state of Israel in that promise. So they said the Jewish people, according to them, have no special ongoing covenantal status.

Well, if you look at Galatians, if you look at Romans, if you read those, you see that, yes, they were a very integral part of God's plan. And yet the reality was that true Israel was always about, was always based on the people of faith. It was never about a genealogy. It was never about geography. It was always about faith. And people who would trust Christ. As a matter of fact, this is something that is not just with this insurrection Barbie. It's not just something with Ted Cruz.

This is being pushed by Newsmax. Look at this graphic right here. It's got a pyramid and it shows the foundation of Western civilization. So you've got a pyramid and at the top of the pyramid teetering at the top is Western civilization. So it shows the foundation of this pyramid is Judaism and then Christ and then Christianity and then the USA. What's wrong with that? Well, first of all, you know, that is, it's not a timeline. This is a foundational thing that he's talking about here.

I have a real problem with Christ not being the foundation, number one. He's got Judaism as being the foundation. And we've heard this from Huckabee. We've heard this from Huckabee. We've heard it from Ted Cruz. Now, here is Newsmax pushing this. Judaism, it says, is the foundation of the free world. This is a screenshot from their report.

I would suggest a different way of looking at this. And I would say that you've got a situation where Christ is a foundation. And what we have here is not a pyramid situation, but you have a foundation of Christ, and you have people regardless of whether they are male or female, free, or slave, Jew or Gentile, regardless. the people that build on that are building based on faith. And so there'll be a line going up from Christ that would be based on faith. As Paul said, this is the Christian understanding. Christian understanding has always been what the New Testament said,

which is that not all of Israel was Israel, right? That the people who followed God were Israel and the people who, because they were the children of the promise. And that's what Christ said as well. He said, you say that you're children of Abraham. He said, Abraham saw my day and rejoiced in it. That was what the promise was about. It was about Christ coming.

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And he would bring, most importantly, peace between God and man, because that's really what people need. All of this other stuff, you know what, we play the, uh, we play the, uh, the Christmas song. And actually, I did an instrumental version of it because I like the tune, but it was Longfellow's poem. You know, there is no peace on earth. I hear the Christmas fellow. I heard the bells on Christmas day.

They're all familiar carol play. You know, peace on earth, goodwilled man. But there is no peace on earth, a goodwilled man. His son was fighting, I think, killed in the Civil War, the War of Northern aggression. And it's like, so don't talk to me about peace. you're not going to allow people to have self-determination. You have to impose your will on them, and you're willing to kill and die for that. Don't talk to me then about peace.

But that was not what Christ brought. He did not bring peace between people. He said it was going to be conflict between people. He brought peace between God and man, and that's really what we need. Why are the nations raging at the Lord and His anointed, His Christ? Well, because they want the power. So what this essay tells you is that Ted Cruz and his Zionist ilk have sold their soul, quite frankly. When we talk about 3D chess, how about deluded, determined, and dangerous?

Because that's what these people are. You know, you read the Galatians, Romans, the rest of the Bible. It's all laid out there even in a commentary about the specific issue. That's what's so amazing about it to me. That was a foundational promise. It was not about the nation of Israel. It was about the Lord Jesus Christ. And as such, usually the Bible doesn't go into such detailed explanation of a passage. And yet this is what these people have done. They have rejected that detailed explanation, refuted it and ignored it. And so, So the Republican Party writes this essay, and grassroots energy will come from a coalition

dominated by ethnically and religiously defined Catholic and Orthodox nationalism with evangelicals present but no longer theologically sovereign. Again, the divide and conquer. We got to divide people politically into evangelical and Catholic camps. When if you talk about the politics of it, you know, I have my disagreements with Catholic theology. I don't agree with a lot of the teachings on various things. But we can have common cause when it comes to trying to stop abortion, when it comes to enshrining life, when it comes to trying to trying to promote America first in families. There's a lot of common ground

in politics, especially, right? We may have our doctrinal differences about teaching. And I'm not saying that's not important. But we take a politician like Ted Cruz, Cruz. On all of the so-called conservative issues, there ought to be lockstep between both Protestants and Catholics on all these different issues. When it comes to being pro-life and anti-war and pro-family, there shouldn't be any dispute there. They're on the same team. Why is he trying to divide this out? Because of Israel. That's the only reason. The Judeo-Christian vocabulary that every Republican president since Reagan has used will have been replaced by Christian civilization, which means something entirely different, says the essay.

Well, again, when I look at these types of things like Christian Zionism and Judeo-Christian, I see that as a framing that is more moving from Christ to politics. right and again these other social issues are very important being pro-life anti-war pro-family and all that's very important it's not more important than your understanding of christ and so we can still have those disagreements we have the first amendment because we want people to be able to disagree on the most important things and yet when it comes to politics it ought to be common cause. These are the people who are creating division. And quite frankly, I don't care about the Republican Party or Democrat Party or any of these. And I don't really care about

these institutions or these denominations either. So they have, they've got political parties, they've got clubs, they've got nations, they've got many different churches that are all seeking to replace Christ as the focus. They all want to replace Christ with their institution because they're people like Paula White. If you want to talk about somebody who's a grifter, it's Paula White is out there. And of course, Paula White says that Donald Trump is, excuse me. Well, let's see. I don't know if I got that here.

The one about Paula White saying that Trump is God. Can you find that for me, Travis? I'm having trouble finding that one here. I thought I knew where it was. I don't see it. Anyway, let me know if you got it. Trump would be saying no to God. And I won't know.

And any time that rises against him, it would be condemned according to the word of God. It is God that raises up a king. It is God that sets one down. And so when you fight against a plan of God, you're fighting against the hand of God. Well, wouldn't that be true in terms of attacking Iran or any other country like that as well? A simple fact of the matter is, yes, God is sovereign with the affairs of man, but somebody like Trump can be a blessing or a curse. And you are allowed to criticize him. She may not be because that's where she gets her money.

But so, yeah, if you disagree with Trump, you're disagreeing with God. because Trump speaks for God just like Paula White speaks for God, which means that neither one of them do. So Ted Cruz shared an article which conflates opposing Sol of Scripura with being an existential threat to Israel. And of course, this is from the Catholic point of view. What they mean by that is Sola Scriptura, and this is the fundamental disagreement between,

Protestants and Catholics, and that is what is our ultimate authority. They would say it is the church. We would say that it is the Bible. They would say the church gave you the Bible. We would say the Bible was agreed upon by everybody as something that had been there from the beginning. It wasn't something that was created in 300 AD. So these are the disagreements that we have.

And these are important disagreements to have. And that's why we have the First Amendment, so that you can have the freedom to disagree about the most important things. But quite frankly, I think Ted Cruz is Sola Zionism. That's really the only thing that he cares about here. That is his whole reason for existing. And it is why he wants to censor and divide people against each other. Cruz himself attempted to walk back his endorsement of the article since the initial writing.

Remember, he was emphatic to read every word. He said that twice. He said, we desperately need to preserve the strong union of faithful Catholics and evangelical Protestants. The article lays out how profoundly harmful their conservative efforts are to drive a wedge between them. We desperately need to preserve the strong union. He needs that for support, but he needs even more so the support of a foreign government and of a faith that despises Christ. So he is Israel first.

We can see this with the Trump War because it really is the Israel War. And we see it from Lindsey Graham especially. You know, Lindsey Graham, I'll be with Israel, right? It's not Christ alone, but it is Israel alone, according to Lindsey Graham, according to Ted Cruz, according to Paula White and Donald Trump. So remember that Ted Cruz got booed off the stage by Christians when he said, if you'll not stand with Israel, then I will not stand with you. It's the same thing, essentially, that you have Paula White saying. And let's see, I have this, here we go.

This is what Carrie Prejean said when she went on with Tucker Carlson. I've been a loyal supporter of the president for almost 20 years. This goes back to when I was 21 years old and I was Miss California at the Miss USA pageant. And I've known him. I consider him a dear friend, and I will tell you right now, I do not recognize our president. I think that we are an occupied nation. I think that a foreign country has occupied our government. And we are seeing now that this president of the United States of America is being influenced by a foreign government.

And MAGA, let me tell you right now, MAGA is dead. It is deader than dead. And Americans are furious. We do not recognize President Donald J. Trump anymore. You never realized and recognized what he was in the first place. It was always there. Anyway, this is all coming. Ted Cruz's promotion of this article came right after he claimed that Christ the king to say that is anti-Semitic.

And it came right after she was kicked out of the Religious Liberty Commission because of her beliefs. Senate came after War Pete's mentor, Doug Wilson, called for Catholic processions and other public expressions of faith to be banned in America. He said, you shouldn't be allowed to do that in public. It's like, what? Have you read the Constitution? Obviously, Doug Wilson hasn't read the Constitution or doesn't agree with it because they haven't called Pete Heggseth to the carpet for violating the Constitution as well as the law of God in his rapacious murders and wars bragging about the people that he kills and ignoring Constitution, domestic law, Pentagon rules, international rules like the Geneva Convention, as well as most importantly, God's rules. So I don't know what's happening

to some of these people that are there. But there was an interesting op-ed piece about all these things as well, not just from the Catholic perspective. I get why they feel like they are under attack. But from the perspective of Protestants, this is J.D. Hall writing, he says, Operation Goy destroy. He said the Israel First people are tightening the noose on historic Christianity. He said, they're coming after us, all of us, and we need to be ready to push back. So you have the White House Commission declaring that your theology is wrong, violation of the First Amendment as well as of the free exercise of religion. And we've already seen the Zionist people come after free speech,

saying you're not allowed with free speech to criticize Israel. A U.S. Senators declared your confession of faith to be a hate slogan. And the CIA has declared a journalist, that would be Tucker Carlson, to be a foreign agent for talking to the wrong country before the wrong war. The only question is if they're coming for you next. And again, these are all First Amendment issues. Paula White told a Federal Commission to stop promoting historic Christian theology on social media. Ted Cruz told a national Christian television audience that saying Christ is king is basically saying the same thing to say that you hate Jewish people.

The CIA has allegedly wiretapped a journalist's phone for talking to Iranians, but it's really for criticizing Israel. All three of these stories popped up over the weekend, and they all preach a single theme. The Israel First Lobby is more powerful than you think. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster. The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple.

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Tucker Carlson in his fight here with the Trump administration, the Department of Justice is, he's been referred to the Department of Justice by the CIA because he was talking to people in Iran before this war. But you know, he also talked to the other side before this war. He talked to Donald Trump himself, as a matter of fact when you look at the

let's see where is this I'm fine I guess so many clips here I'm having trouble finding the one that I want but let's see

I don't know can you find that Travis it's the here it is right here Trump was talking about Warhawks with Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson helped to get Trump elected a second time. From that standpoint, he deserves what he gets, I think. But he helped to get him elected a second time by letting Trump go on his show and pretend that he was against regime change in foreign wars. And I didn't speak to him about it. But then, you know, go a couple of years forward or go now. And I don't blame him for sticking in with his daughter. But his daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb.

Talking about Liz Cheney. She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrel shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained up in the face. You know, they're all warhawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, will, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy. Which he's about to do. A stupid person.

And I used to have, I'd have meetings. a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people. So whether it's her, whether it's sick, I was surprised a little bit with Dick Cheney. I didn't know him at all. I only had essentially the one or two phone calls and it was only a call saying thank you very much for doing that for Scooter Libby. That was nice and Scooter Libby by the way was beyond that he couldn't believe that it happened. Nobody would do it. They should have done that for him years before. But I was a little bit of Yeah, well.

Strategy of nation building and regime change is a proven absolute failure. We will break. And he's proving it again. We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt, and in Syria. regime change takes chaos. You've seen how that works over the last 20 years. That hasn't been too good. Not a reckless interventionist globalism.

We're getting out of the nation-building business. My honest guidance to those young men, and I think their concerns are very legitimate. But if you're worried about the world spending out of control, if you're worried about a military draft, if you're worried about, God forbid, a world war, the best way to prevent it is to vote for Donald Trump. And I really believe that. Well, it hasn't aged too well, has it. And so, yeah, Tucker talked to Trump. And that's just what they're saying.

The New York Times reported that Tucker met with Trump three times in the weeks before the strike, lobbying against it each time. Trump conversely tried to get Tucker on board to fight for Israel because he is a great deal of influence in American conservatism. Trump ignored Tucker, bombed Iran anyway, then called Tucker a traitor on social media for having tried to get him to not start this failed war, and it is already failed. The CIA Mossad referral followed shortly afterwards. The sequence is not even subtle. So just think of it as, think of the CIA Mossad as just two branches of the same thing, really.

They're partners, except one of them is a junior partner. And it's the CIA. that is the junior partner in all this, as Trump is the junior partner in this war. Rod Martin floated the idea that Tucker had it coming for claiming that Israeli paid influencers even existed. Of course, that's not a claim. That's a documented fact, writes J.D. Hall,

with registered Foreign Agent Requirement Act filings attached. I think that's what FARA stands for. But FARA is a registration, I think, is what it is. Foreign Agent Registration Act. And so the vast majority of Israel's paid influencers are not registered through Farah. People like Ted Cruz and Mike Cuckabee show that is an exception. We've watched $145 million funnel into American evangelism from the Israeli government and from Jewish philanthropic sources in a single year.

This is the amount of money that they are feeding into these Protestant churches to get them to go to Israel on a free trip and the various things that they've done, as well as propaganda that they have funded, that is a traveling show, literally a traveling show. We have watched pastor after pastor board a Potemkin propaganda tour, get whined and dined at the expense of the Israeli government, collect their geopolitical talking points over a subsidized dinner in Jerusalem, then fly home to their congregations as self-described public ambassadors for the nation of Israel. And so they went to Israel for the money and for the politics. These pastors did not go to Israel to spread the gospel about Christ because that is not

welcome there. So again, they were throwing Christ overboard for their political ideology. They are judasus. We have watched a thousand American pastors cycle through the Friends of Zion Museum Ambassador program funded at Benjamin Netanyahu's personal request and then they return home with instructions to preach Israeli government foreign policy objectives from their pulpits. We've watched Netanyahu address the top 50 American Zionist organizations on video

and hand them specific tactical marching orders and to instruct them to go a war against their own countrymen for the crime of noticing a genocide. And again, we've seen people like Hagee and San Antonio. His entire megachurch is all about worshipping the state of Israel. He's got Israeli flags or he has Israeli politicians come and speak. It's disgusting to see how politicized this is. And just understand that when you replace Christ with politicians, you are not strengthening your religion.

You are diluting it to the extent that no longer exists anymore. None of those organizations has filed a fair of registration that they're legally required to file. We have watched APAC, an organization that exists in its current form, specifically because John F. Kennedy forced its predecessor, the American Zionist Council. Kennedy, JFK, forced them to register as a foreign agent. after which they dissolved, changed the name, waited for Kennedy's assassination, then relaunched without registering. We've also watched them promise to spend hundreds of millions of dollars destroying America First politicians at the ballot box.

People like Thomas Massey. And again, Massey has spoken out about this. And finally, I know the DOJ wants to say they're done with this document production. The problem is they've taken down documents before we were able to go over to the DOJ and look at the unredacted versions. They took down some of the most significant documents. Two of them involving Virginia Drey's case and other things, the picture of Epstein in a room where it's got CIA written on the boxes, that's been taken down. We want to be able to look at all these files. They can't keep those documents down after they've already produced them.

That's right. And he has come under attack from Erica Kirk's version of Charlie Kirk's organization now. And, you know, they are saying, you know, he's anti-Zionists and all the rest of this stuff. So TPSA is now coming after Thomas Massey. He goes, what is this about? and there were people brought back tweets where Charlie Kirk said that Thomas Massey was his favorite politician because he stood on his principles

and because he was America first. Now under Erica Kirk, they have gone completely against that and gone against Thomas Massey. And he's pointed out that's money from Jewish billionaires who are Zionists. Carrie Pre-Jean Baller sat down with Tucker Carlson.

I played that clip for you earlier to describe in detail what was like to be on the Trump so-called Religious Liberty Commission, while holding the theological convictions of the majority of Western Christianity over the last 2,000 years. She said it looks like being summoned to the principal's office by a woman who preaches God will give you a Cadillac and clear your hemorrhoids if you sow a seed of faith offering. This episode is brought to you by Spreker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives,

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It's prosperity for the so-called pastors that are there. She's a joke, just like the Religious Liberty Commission is a joke. And she is the chief advisor to Donald Trump. Of course, he would find somebody who is all about the love of money and somebody who is the root of all evil. According to Ballard, Dan Patrick, who is the commission chair and the lieutenant governor of Texas, opened a conference call by informing her that her job was not to protect religious freedom, despite that being the commission's stated mandate, as written into the executive war that created it.

No, he told her that the commission's job is to, quote, protect the president's reputation. You know, we've heard this over and over again. We've heard it from RFK Jr. He said, well, my job here is to restore people's trust in the FDA and these other HHS organizations. Really? Your job is not really to support informed consent to make sure that first do no harm. No, your job is to restore people's faith in an institution that is corrupt, owned, and has betrayed them over and over again. Why would we want our faith to be restored in that?

And then you had Tulsi Gabbard. She said the same thing. My job here is to restore faith. Faith in government. Faith in Trump, actually. So we want people to have faith in Trump. We're not going to change anything. As a matter of fact, we're going to make it worse.

So you've seen this over and over again. So the purpose of the Religious Liberty Commission was to make the president look good. It wasn't to support religious liberty. this came as a revelation to Carrie Preachian Baller. Obviously not a listener of the program. In a particularly scumbag move, they also denied her lodging where they were all staying, and that was at the Museum of the Bible, forcing her to stay off-site despite the fact that she was traveling alone and she was concerned about her safety in the cesspool of Washington, D.C.

She ended up staying across the street in a hotel. and she had to recruit a Muslim woman from the commission's advisory board to walk with her over in the morning because the body devoted to religious liberty could not manage basic logistical dignity for one of its own commissioners. Well, for either one of them, actually. When she arrived, a former Ted Cruz staffer materialized and attempted to steer her into a private back room to meet with Dan Patrick and Paula White before the hearing started. She agreed to come only if her companion, Samira, was permitted in the room. They dismissed Samira, so Ballard dismissed the meeting and very wisely dismissed it, according to J.D. Hall, because it looked like a setup. At the hearing itself, she counted 17 separate mentions of Israel and then asked the panel of Jewish witnesses whether any of them would condemn what Israel had done in Gaza. And we do have a lot of Jewish people who have condemned what the state of Israel did in Gaza.

I remember when there was the election of Mamdani, they had Israeli press asking people on the street how they voted. And they were flummoxed that there would be Jewish people who would vote for Mamdani. And they said, well, we did it because we did it as a protest of what Israel is doing in Gaza. And you got people in the state of Israel itself that are not happy with Netanyahu's policy. policies. And they have protested it. They have been beaten for doing so. So anyway, she asked if they would condemn what had been done in Gaza and they would not. She then asked her now famous question, whether or not supporting the political state of Israel made her an anti-Semite. She said, yes or no. They declined to answer that as well. Tucker in his interview with Kerry preaching

Ballard. He pressed a natural follow-up interview question, said, did Paul White or Dan Patrick ever open a Bible? Did they explain from any text and any language at any point where her theology was wrong? Did they engage the doctrine at all? Well, the bottom line is that doesn't matter if you've got a commission on religious liberty. They're not there to debate the doctrine. They're there to support people's right to disagree. And so it was irrelevant, whether they, had their theology right or not, or were they based it on the Bible. We know that it's not based on the Bible. They told her she could not hold her theology without explaining why, which means the official position of the Trump White House Religious Liberty Commission

is that covenant theology, the framework of Augustine, Calvin, the Westminster Confession, the London Baptist Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the broad reformed tradition, not just the Catholic tradition, but all of those Protestant traditions, that millions of American Christians hold is anti-Semitic, therefore, and disqualifying for federal service. Every confessional congregation and Christian holding to historic orthodoxy in the U.S. Just got quietly indicted by Prosperity Preacher and a Texas lieutenant governor who, between them, have never successfully exegated a single Bible verse.

But here's the issue, and this is why I speak out against it. I mean, have friends. and I have friends like Gerald Salenti, for example. What they are doing has so poisoned him against Christianity. He can't, he sees the evil that the Israeli government is doing it. When these people back them no matter what they do, it puts him off against Christianity in general. And we see the same thing happening now with Warpeep and with Doug Wilson.

And so we have to speak out against that because that's not what Christ is about. I've seen people poisoned against Christ because of people that they have dealt with or institutions that they have dealt with. You know, we have situations in Protestant and Catholic churches of people who have been abused by pastors and priests and that type of thing. And there's unfortunately a lot of that. I see a lot of that being reported in the Christian press all the time. That is, you know, whenever you have a church or something, it's a soft-tarm.

It's a soft target for terrorists. It's a soft target for Satanists and pedophiles, as a matter of fact. Because people are blindsided by that. It's very easy for the wolves to get in among the sheep, because the sheep are typically not paying any attention to that, especially if the wolf comes in, not just dressed as a sheep, but even better as a sheep dog. This is a person who's supposed to protect you from the wolves, but they, in fact, are a wolf themselves,

pretending to be a sheep dog, a protector of the sheep. And so we need to look at that, and as bad as that is, we need to understand that that is a perversion of what Christ is about. It's not a characterization of that. And that's why this needs to be pushed back against. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brand. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster. The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple.

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quote, almost an online code word that means I hate Jews. He puts that word there, almost. Try to give him some wiggle room. But we all know what he's saying. He's saying, if you say Christ is king, that means that you hate Jews. I would say that if you don't give the Jews the gospel, if you continue to push this thing and say, you're special because of your genealogy,

because of your ethnicity or whatever, and there's an issue with that as well. But if you tell them that they're favored by God because of their ethnicity, not because of their faith in Christ, you are the one who hates the Jews, Ted Cruz, if you're going to give them that deception. Cruz also volunteered that Christ is king

appears to have originated online and invokes imagery of the Crusades. Well, tell that to War Pete. War Pete is out there with crusader tattoos on his body and he's telling everybody, if you want to look at Western civilization, think a crusader, he said. And again, I've always looked at the Crusades and I thought, what a stupid idiotic thing that was. To go to war, to fight people over a piece of land that you think is holy. There's nothing holy about that land. The holy land is not holy folks.

It was a geographical area that has interest to people who understand what happened there, but it is not holy ground. Holy ground is where God is. Holy ground is where the Lord Jesus Christ walked when he was there. But he's not there now, and it's not holy. It's like Moses and the burning bush. That land did not stay holy forever because there was a burning bush there. He was told to take his sandals off because that was holy.

because he was in the presence of God, not because it was something special about that land. So, again, the Bible tells us exactly the opposite of what Ted Cruz does. The Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ was born, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And you have people who have been in politics like this little senator who don't like competition from God. They want to be God themselves. Even the watered down perennially woke episcopal church of which Tucker Carlson was a communicant has been singing Crown him with many crowns since 1851. That phrase did not come from 4chan, says J.D. Hall. It originated at the empty tomb and Christians have been saying it in every language on every continent and every century since.

And they were saying it long before anybody had a social media account long before that song. or a carefully cultivated opinion about the modern Levant, Cruz called replacement theology a heresy in the same interview. He described it as the belief that God's promises to Israel are no longer valid, which is a dispensationalist caricature of covenant theology. The so-called replacement theology, better known as covenant theology or fulfillment theology, teaches that God kept his promises. He kept them in Christ, not in land,

deeds and they are for all of any country, of any genealogy, all those who are united to Christ by faith. The real issue, folks, is what your relationship to God is. It's not what your relationship to Israel is. That is such a political perversion of all of this stuff. What Cruz and White accomplished together this week is that they finally answered Carrie Prejean Baller's question. She had asked a panel of witnesses on record whether they, whether they're, whether,

you have to support the political state of Israel or be characterized as an anti-Semite. They refused to answer then, but the answer arrived this week, assembled from an interview on CBN and a White House phone call. If covenant theology is anti-Semitism and Christ is king is a hate slogan, then the roster of anti-Semites includes everyone from Augustine to John Calvin and the entire Western Westminster Assembly, and people like Charles Spurgeon and on and on. The Israel First Lobby is not a normal foreign interest group.

Normal foreign interest groups hire lobbyists. They throw fundraisers. They write strongly worded letters to congressional staffers. But the Israel First Power apparatus funds federal commissions, plants theological hall monitors inside White House advisory bodies, deploys the CIA against journalists it dislikes, and gets the U.S. senators to go on Christian television and instruct believers to retire their confessions of faith.

One thing J.D. Hall left out is that the Israel First lobby also sends us on quixotic crusades against their enemies. That's what this war is. A PAC alone has promised to spend enough money in American elections to fund a small nation's military budget. And it does this without filing a single Farah form because the Justice Department that is currently preparing a criminal referral against Tucker Carlson for talking to Iranians

has decided that particularly paperwork doesn't apply to A-PAC. This is not a lobby that plays by the same rules as everybody else. After all, why should they? They are the chosen people, God's favorite. and the rest of us have animal souls. Israel is not like most nations. It is sophisticated and well-funded intelligence agency that has demonstrated repeatedly

this willingness to go after critics in foreign countries through means that go well beyond strongly worded diplomatic cables. And that is the reality of why we are in this war, folks. We'll be right back. Stay with us. You're listening to the David Knight Show.

Whether you're feeling like the blues or blue grass, APS Radio has you covered. Check out a wide variety of channels on our app at APSRadio.com. All right, welcome back. DG8. Thank you for the tip. He says, David, God TV was banned and removed in Israel for sharing the gospel of John. David, if these Zionists actually support biblical teachings, they would understand the biblical Jews don't return to Israel until three and a half years into the tribulation.

The Israel of today is irrelevant to the Bible. Yeah, it doesn't even, again, it's all politics. It has a theological basis that has been used to push Zionism and the kind of stuff that we hear from Ted Cruz and from Mike Huckabee. But you've got, for example, the Orthodox Jews say the same thing I've said. It's like, if God wants to give the land to the Jews, nobody's going to stop him. So the Orthodox Jews said, we don't like the state of Israel, the ultra-Orthodox Jews, I should say. We don't like the state of Israel.

And the state of Israel doesn't like them either. You can see video after video after video of soldiers beating Orthodox Jews who are protesting the secular state of Israel and what they're doing. And they said, yeah, we think God's going to give us the land of Israel, but we think God's going to do it, that we're not going to do it ourselves. and as I've said in the past, you want to go back to Abraham, take a look of what happens to people, even Abraham, when we decide that God gave us a promise and we want to see it fulfilled in our way and in our timing. That's when really bad things happen. That's why you got Ishmael and all of his descendants that are currently fighting

against the Israelis that are there because Abraham decided that he was, God wasn't keeping up his end of the bargain. as quickly as he should. But let's talk a little bit about what we see happening with the Trump administration because it is truly amazing to see that out of their own mouths, they convict themselves. And, of course, this goes back to the war now against Mark Kelly, who for all of his cowardice of not being able to come out and say that the Trump administration did anything illegal.

Obviously, they did with the war in Venezuela and with many other things. He and this other person put together video said, You're not supposed to follow illegal orders if you're in the military. And for that, War Pete went to war against him. Because illegal orders apparently are the only kind that War Pete wants to give. And so now we've got, in just the last couple of days, we have Hegsa saying we're going to give no quarter to Iran, which again is always been routinely condemned.

People like Santa Ana gave no quarter. to their political enemies. And this is something we've had international agreements for, just like the Geneva Convention, for the same reason that you don't murder people who have been shipwrecked. They're now non-combatants, and it's just like civilians. And so we said, you're not going to murder civilians,

you're not going to target them, and you're not going to kill people who have been shipwrecked, and you're going to give respectful treatment to prisoners of war. And we did that to protect our own military. And now Hegset is out there saying, saying no quarter. And Trump is saying, yeah, I might attack Carg Island just for fun. Just for fun. You're going to kill a lot of people, including your own troops, just for fun? That is despicable. It's one of the most despicable things I've seen. And so he said,

Mark Kelly said these two comments, the no quarter comment by Hegsef and the just for fun remark by Trump tells me that there was never a clear strategy for this war. Well, that's the least of it, isn't it? They're just making up objectives as they stumble along, all the while our troops are put at risk and Americans are paying for it at the pump. Under Article 23 of the Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1890 and 1907, it is prohibited in war to declare no quarter will be given to enemy forces. That's where we are right now. We are the country that overthrows governments, assassinations leaders, and initiates war of our choosing, wars of aggression. I am disgusted with the American government, and you can take that to the CIA and stuff it

down their throats. I'll oppose this stuff as long as I'm here. Thank you for joining us. the common man. They created common core to dumb down our children. They created common past to track and control us. Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing and the communist future.

They see the common man is simple, unsophisticated, ordinary. But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God. That is what we have in common. that is what they want to take away. Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation. They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.

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