The David Knight Show - Tue Episode #2233: The AI That Bombed Iranian Schoolgirls Is Now Picking Who The IRS Audits

Starting point is 00:00:01 In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 31st of March, year of our Lord, 226. Well, we're going to take a look at Donald Trump. He's got more corrupt pardons, and there seems to be a common thread amongst all these. The question is, what is Trump's real goal? this war? Is it to turn it into another Vietnam? Is it to turn Iran into another Gaza? Is Trump an evil genius? Or is he just a clown? Or is he all the above? We're going to take a look at the various

Starting point is 00:01:19 opinions, the different angles of this, and look at what happens with this if they continue this war and continue to cut off the oil. And we're going to take a look at this darling. And we're going to take a look at this darling of the left. James Tolerico. Pretty amazing what he is selling people as a Christian seminarian, quote unquote, especially the fact that this is what he is selling

Starting point is 00:01:48 is coming out in direct contradiction of what Christians worldwide are celebrating this week in terms of Christ resurrection. We'll be right back, stay with us. Well, real quickly, I want to thank Marty for matching funds and we're going to read the names of the people who contributed yesterday. Of course, Marty came in the program yesterday and offered to match donations from that point on yesterday as well as through the end of the show today. There's also something else that I just

Starting point is 00:02:28 saw that came from Ryan for the love of the road. He said, kick has a new thing called kicks drop. Just watch the show when it's live. The live stream loop counts as well. And we do loop that after the show. He said, after watching for X amount of hours, you'll get a chance to win 10,000 kicks, which is $100. And he said, and then you can donate it to the show. Well, thank you. I didn't see that. He sent this out on Saturday, I think. I was going to read it yesterday, and I forgot to mention it. I get caught up with the other news, and so I apologize. I don't do a good job of promoting the show. But Ryan does, and he has promoted the matching funds on Instagram and on telegram

Starting point is 00:03:12 where he has set up accounts for us. I really do appreciate that. So thank you to Ryan. Thank you so much to Marty for matching this. And we will talk about the read off the names here of people who have donated in the last 24 hours. But I want to begin with the news and begin with where we left off yesterday.

Starting point is 00:03:32 The fact that Trump's history of killing kids. Does any of this stuff surprise people? You know, there's a lot of pushback, and there should be, in terms of the targeting software, which is coming from Palantir and Claude, picking the targets. They had to pick a lot of targets. We've got to have over a thousand targets on the first day. And so when you start doing that, when you start picking targets as a quota, when you start using artificial intelligence to pick the targets, you wind up with a situation, like, you know, killing 160 or so young girls at a school with a double-tapped strike of cruise missiles.

Starting point is 00:04:12 And yet, when we look at what Trump's plans are, we just keep coming back to the truth and the wisdom of the founders of this country. People like James Madison, who said, the instruments of defense, quote unquote, abroad will become weapons of tyranny at home or something to that effect. I'm getting into any instruments or weapons, I'll probably mix those up. Nevertheless, that is true. what they tell us they need to defend us abroad

Starting point is 00:04:38 becomes the instruments of tyranny at home standing armies and things like that, but also Palantir. And we look at the all-on-board push for artificial intelligence that Trump has put out there. Now it's being announced that Palantir is going to be doing audits for the IRS, picking people for audits. Now, this is something I said was going to be their goal,

Starting point is 00:05:04 but it's coming even faster. than we expected. Because just take a look at what happened with Doge, for example, right? If you can audit all of the data of these massive bureaucracies in Washington, of course, they can audit any of our lives. And we saw that put into practice with Pulte, who was head of HUD for Trump. He went after Trump's personal enemies,

Starting point is 00:05:28 Leticia James, and he wanted to get Lisa Cook out of the Federal Reserve. So Pulte goes through and look at, set all of their real estate contracts with the fine-tooth cone to bring criminal charges against them. This is lawfare. And it's the same type of thing that the FBI has done to people like Martha Stewart for the longest time. Coming after her for insider trading and what they actually got her for, she didn't do any insider trading. What they got her for was a perjury trap. Well, you told us this under oath and yet the details are this other thing. You misrepresented that, right?

Starting point is 00:06:05 And so that's why they sent Martha Stewart to jail. And that's what they're trying to do with Letitia James, who I agree is corrupt. I'd love to see her in jail, but for the right reasons and in the right way. Lisa Cook also, her crime is opposing Trump, evidently, on interest rate policies or whatever. But just going after them to try to look at all their real estate contracts to see if they can find some kind of a contradiction there, which is essentially a perjury trap, which is the kind of lawfare they've always done. But the key essence of lawfare is that you have to defend yourself against it, and that in and of itself can ruin you when you're fighting the federal government.

Starting point is 00:06:50 So therefore, bring in Palantir to do AI audits of anybody that Trump doesn't like. That kind of opened my eyes when I saw it because it's, I've been. been a critic of Palantir for over a decade. I was criticizing them before most people were even paying attention to what was going on. I knew where this thing was headed. It's just the time frame is accelerated. Thought it'd be dead by now. Anyway, that's what's on the way.

Starting point is 00:07:22 The police surveillance state is what Trump is building for America. As he is destroying all commerce and supply chains around the globe, as he began doing in 2020. Why are we surprised about any of this? Why are we surprised that he'd kill 120 kids callously, carelessly, and without remorse in Iran when he killed millions of kids worldwide? Because this was the article that I was beginning yesterday and I didn't get finished with it. Two studies that have come out. And of course, guess what?

Starting point is 00:07:54 These studies have been shut down by YouTube, partners in crime. And the studies show, first of all, no children died of COVID, right? This is what they were telling us at the beginning. You have to get it because you've got to save grandma and grandpa, but no kids are getting any of this. That's what Fauci was telling us at the very beginning. So that right there was a tell to anybody.

Starting point is 00:08:21 Viruses do not do age discrimination like Apple is doing now. That's the other thing about this. When you look at the ramping up of the police surveillance, state globally. Apple, excuse me, has with their latest release. In case you have an iPhone, that releases iOS 26.4. I caught it just in time on my phone.

Starting point is 00:08:49 As a 26.3 to download it. Well, you want me to update this today? He's like, never, never. Why? Well, because it has put digital ID in front and center. And so there's stories about all these people in the UK. that's where they have enforced it is in the UK rigorously, saying that we have to do it to comply with the government,

Starting point is 00:09:09 and yet it goes far beyond what the government has requested. And there's a reason for that. They want to end anonymity on the web, that is big tech like Apple, Google, Facebook, all the rest of them. They want to end anonymity worse than the government does. Because if they can get rid of anonymity, then they can sell your data has higher quality. You know, they're marketing the data, tracking everything that you're doing.

Starting point is 00:09:38 If they can track it and say, this is not a bot, this is not an AI agent, this is a real person, then that data becomes much more valuable for them. And so that's what Apple and Google and Facebook and all these people are doing because they want ID more than the government does. But the government has its own purposes for it. But the way they're selling it to everybody is we've got to protect kitties from porn. Well, first of all, it's not going to do that. But secondly, that is not the reason they're doing it. It's not the reason why Apple did it.

Starting point is 00:10:11 So people are having problems with it because they paid for a phone. They owned the phone. And then without telling them, it's not in the release notes from Apple about iOS 26.4. Without telling them, they just bust their phone. You're going to have to prove to us that you're over 18. or we're going to cripple your phone. If it's anything that we think might be remotely dangerous, we're going to block you from it.

Starting point is 00:10:36 Block you from apps, block you from browsing the web and all the rest of these things. That's just the beginning. And it's a surveillance that is really the insidious part of this, not breaking even functionality of apps for your browsers. But that is what they're doing. And when people have to try to verify themselves, you've got a lot of people who are in their 60s and 70s

Starting point is 00:10:59 who are having problem because the ID that they have is not accepted by Apple. They want to have something that's digital, something that is a more recent document. So a lot of these people, oh, you want to see my birth or token. I want to see my passport. Doesn't recognize a scan of a physical passport from the UK. It doesn't accept that. And so you've got to get the right kind of ID or they cripple your phone. One instance was a woman who was in early 70s.

Starting point is 00:11:28 She said, I've had an iPhone since 2009. That's 17 years, folks. But they have crippled her phone because they, oh, you've got to prove that you're 18. So theoretically, what they're saying is somebody gave her an iPhone when she was one year old. And she has not quite 18 yet. No, she was something like 72. So we're seeing this happening all over the place. That is the real goal to control, to audit everyone.

Starting point is 00:11:58 But when you look at what happened with COVID, that was just moving the Overton window. And as I said before, they moved the Overton window so they could defenestrate the Bill of Rights. And that's exactly what they did. And so two parts to the study, but of course, they're being covered up by YouTube. One part says no kids died from COVID. Second part is no unvaccinated kids died from myocarditis. It's the Trump bio weapon that killed them. So don't talk to me about how this was an accident or this is casualties of war.

Starting point is 00:12:36 COVID was a war. COVID was a war to kill children, to kill the elderly, to kill everybody of every age, and to kill our economy in terms of small independent farms and businesses and that type of thing, which Trump has continued with his tariffs and now, with this blockade, the Trump embargo of oil, which is really what this is. T-O-E, he's stuck his foot in his mouth. Anyway, as they point out, despite the findings, and many others like them, a coalition of medical organizations are fighting to legally force

Starting point is 00:13:19 the government to keep recommending that even healthy kids and pregnant women take COVID jabs. And we just had this surgeon general who's been held up for a long time because she talked about some alternative help stuff. She was into all this new age thing. So Christians are very upset about Casey Means. Trump's pick for Surgeon General. They said she's into Wicca and the occult. And yeah, she is.

Starting point is 00:13:47 She's into all this new age stuff. But she's also not the person that the Trump administration and Maha would like you to believe. she's not a vaccine skeptic at all. And she proved that when she went before Congress and they asked her questions. She's just falling all over herself to praise vaccines. And so, again, what we see from Trump is one story that is what people want to hear. And then in practice, it is something completely different. And the question, of course, is, why do we even need a surge in general?

Starting point is 00:14:22 somehow we've done without one now for a year over a year. And we never had one in the early days of America. And there's nothing in the Constitution that warrants that. The surgeon general really is kind of a figurehead for public health. And as I said for the longest time, public health is an oxymoron. You either have individual help or you don't have any other kind of help, right? All help is individual. The public is made up of individual.

Starting point is 00:14:52 individuals. You can't ignore the health of all the people, all the, um, herd and then say that, um, you know, even though you've got unhealthy individuals in the herd, uh, individuals that you poisoned with a bioweapon, then you want to talk about public health? How absurd. Going beyond children, however, writes, uh, the new American, uh, they note that, uh, one person who was writing about this, the studies, his name is utter. He knows that some of his family members took the jab. He states too that perhaps a third of them have experienced significant adverse effects like Gianbrae syndrome, myocarditis, tachycardia, etc. He said I wrote in 2021 about a friend who passed away from heart inflammation after a COVID shot. Around the same time I met three men within a

Starting point is 00:15:41 short period of the same recreational facility who all told me unprompted, quote, I had a heart attack. and all three of them had gotten COVID jabs not long before their heart attack. So he says, then, of course, there is also the nurse who contacted me, explaining why she would not get jabbed. She said she couldn't believe all the new diagnoses that she had seen since the vaccine rollout. And I know we've been talking about this for five years. And we'll continue to talk about it as long as these phonies like RFK Jr. pretend that they don't like the COVID jab,

Starting point is 00:16:20 but they're not going to do anything to stop it. This is as phony as the people who said, I'm against the COVID jab, but hey, it's Trump and it's just like sugar water. Remember what Alex Jones said, right? So he said, you can take mercury and aluminum. You can take a little bit of that and you're injected in your veins,

Starting point is 00:16:35 which he had rightfully told people for decades. You should not go anywhere near that stuff. Don't inject mercury and aluminum in your veins. But you can do that for Trump. you know, it's just, this is not the bad vaccine. Gates has got the bad vaccine. And so this is where we are right now. So will we ever hear the verified truth about COVID shot injuries and the true magnitude? The writer at the New American says, I wouldn't bet on it. The evidence for thorough investigations appears to have died suddenly. And so certainly, when you look at Trump, you know, should the mass murder of,

Starting point is 00:17:16 of the careless targeting of children in a school. Should that be anything that surprises us? Should it surprise us that Trump targets people who happen to be in the wrong kind of boat? Blows them out of the water. And if they survive, they circle around and murder them. And then boast about it. Should that surprise anybody?

Starting point is 00:17:37 I mean, this is the guy who lied to your face about both the pandemic and his bioweapon and boasted about being the father of the vaccine. And rather than telling us, rather than confessing to killing millions of people, he flipped it around and said he saved millions of lives. Well, the WHO is teeming with a Singapore firm that is tied to Pfizer and with Bill Gates in order to roll out global vaccine passports. And of course, the significance of the vaccine passports was to control movement. It can be about the vaccine today. Tomorrow, it'll be about your political opinions. So the firm is called Timasek.

Starting point is 00:18:18 It's owned by Singapore government. They participate in $250 million investment in bio-intech, which is the real company behind Pfizer, the German company that they partner with. So the Gates Foundation and this organization are going to roll out, quote, interoperable digital health wallets. This is the 2030 agenda that you've seen them boast about in the Ukraine 2030 video.

Starting point is 00:18:47 Now, everything that you do with government is going to be streamlined. It'll all be about your little big brother iPhone. And you'll just be able to soar right through all these obstacles that government has put in your life. In terms of all these regulatory hurdles that you have to go through at the DMV and all the rest of these things. Now you can just go right through that digitally. No problem at all. Isn't that great? That's what they've realized over time is if they just,

Starting point is 00:19:14 make something inconvenient and time-consuming enough, most people will just adopt whatever they give them that eases their passage. That's right. You know, and it's the sort of thing, Travis, you know, when we had the video store back in the 80s, you know, I'm looking at it and I'm thinking at the time, I couldn't keep up with all these regulations for the businesses if I didn't have a computer to do it. And of course, those are very, very primitive, crude computers today. Now they have taken it to the extreme that they're going to use it to audit our lives and to create the surveillance state. So one of the companies that is involved in this, of course, BlackRock was there at the very beginning and was among the top 10 shareholders and dozens of corporations that were mandating the vaccines for their employees. One of those companies is MasterCard.

Starting point is 00:20:04 During the pandemic, MasterCard supported the Good Health Vaccine Passport Initiative. the backing from the Gates Foundation that was linked to the ID 2020 Alliance. Remember, I pointed this out back in 2020. I pointed out all the time. I said, this is what it's about, folks. Look at it. He even picked the date and he's right on schedule. He had picked up ID 2020.

Starting point is 00:20:31 Everybody gets a global ID in 2020. And he was laying the foundation for that with the vaccine passports in 2020. 2020 from Gates's standpoint, a lot of it became about the passport, the digital passport itself. There was also another agenda that he's had, IA2030, and that was an immunization agenda, IA, immunization agenda. And the subtitle to that on his website was everyone, everywhere, every age, every vaccine, right? and they're going to keep track of that with the ID track. It's going to be your auditing record there. Well, I pointed out at CPAC, you had a lot of people who were, you know,

Starting point is 00:21:17 CPAC has ended, has now been really, by all accounts, a major, major failure. And even to the extent the people that are there are so clueless that even when the guy running CPAC got up and said, How many of you want to see impeachment? Yeah. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings? No. That was the wrong answer.

Starting point is 00:21:44 How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings? No. Yeah, yeah. Tell them what they want. Tell them what to believe. They have no clue. We've got to keep this house majority. How many of you agree with them?

Starting point is 00:21:59 Not everybody was fooled. This is how much I'm standing. what I believe. I left out of the event. I was backstage. I was backstage with Ted Cruz. I was backstage with everybody. And I confronted them on what they're doing here. And the lies that they're telling you guys about the rooms being full. They're not full. They're bullshit. This is supposed to be in America First Movement. It's not. There are more other country's flags here than American flags here. And I refuse to stand next to the bullshit. CPAC is falling. I won't. I won't tie my brain next to it. This is trash.

Starting point is 00:22:36 Yeah, you know, talking about all these other countries' flags. I mean, they had Reza Pavlovi or whatever, I think, is his name. He's the son of the Shah, right? I don't remember if Reza is his name or his dad's name. But this evil king that the CIA, Mossad, put in charge of Iran, oppression, like Stalin. Many people said, you know, the secret police that he had, Sevaq, was as bad as anything that Stalin or Mao had.

Starting point is 00:23:02 And so he's speaking there while the left is out there with a no king's rally. And Trump is pushing us into this communism because he's handing this issue to them on a silver platter. And yet not everybody realizes that this is bad. As a matter of fact, there's one person who is really suffering from Trump delusion syndrome. He is a president of peace. So this is to bring peace in the area. when this when this gets taken care of it's going to be peace and it's what yeah right i believe i'm on true social that's the only social media i do and i believe that he's going to have um you know

Starting point is 00:23:43 bring peace and it's got that guy standing behind her he's kind of laughing about this he's a genius and we trust president trump all of us trust president trump he's a genius and you aren't right yeah he may be a genius but you certainly aren't if you don't understand what's going on This is a matter of fact, some of the people who have given money, this is from Bruce Fenton who gave $60,000 to his campaign. He says, I'm a Republican. I supported Trump. I raised money for him.

Starting point is 00:24:11 I voted for him. I donated $60,000 to his campaign. And he attached a screenshot of the money that he'd given him. He said, Trump lied. He rug pulled us all. I didn't vote for Lindsey Graham or for America second policies. No, let me say, America is not in second place. America is in last place with Trump.

Starting point is 00:24:32 He said, you can disagree with me if you want. It's your right to be fooled. But if you say TDS, Trump Drainjew syndrome, or I'm a liberal, you need to get a new argument. There are millions of conservatives and members of the now torched broad coalition just like me. The only ones left supporting him are Maga always Trumpers, who placed the man above the policies and above our country. country. That's absolutely true. I still get all the hate comments on Twitter whenever I say anything about Trump. It's amazing to me how strong the delusion is. It's just like this woman. She says, oh, no, no, he's a genius. He's playing 40 chess. So he's playing you lady. As a matter of fact,

Starting point is 00:25:17 that interview was an MS now reporter who was going around talking to people at CPAC. And after she talked to a lot of people and played the clips, this is what she had. to say about her impression of CPAC. I've spoken to a lot of people today, and my head is still spinning a little bit because I asked people a lot of questions, and what I was receiving was an alternative reality. I asked, for example, about the Fox News poll that you just mentioned showing President Trump's disapproval rating, and people said that they didn't believe it. And I said, wait, but this is Fox News.

Starting point is 00:25:55 You don't believe the Fox News poll? They didn't believe that. I asked him about gas prices. And they say that they don't blame President Trump. They say that it was worse under President Biden. And I said, wait, but the president decided to attack Iran, that stricted supply. There's the whole supply and demand thing. They say, no, they don't blame him.

Starting point is 00:26:19 And then I asked them about Iran. And they said to me, multiple people, that that is America first. and I was trying to understand how that was America first. I said, wait, but he promised no forever wars. He promised no forever wars forever and ever. And they somehow explained that what President Trump is doing is best for America. Yeah, yeah. They'll say whatever they're told to say.

Starting point is 00:26:51 As a matter of fact, you know, she's talking about gas prices. again, some people are getting it. Let's take a listen to one more woman who we spoke with. If you could say something to President Trump, he was going to hear you right now, what would it be? You're a worthless pile of shit. And you voted for him, how many times?

Starting point is 00:27:12 Three times. That was my bad. Apparently, I'm an idiot. Apparently. But there's a lot of people that you can fool all the time. They'd vote for him a fourth time, a fifth time, or whatever. whatever. This is the poll that showed that he had 100% support. You believe that? North Korea. This is a reporter asking Trump about this 100% poll. Polls have shown that MAGA is essentially unified behind you as our Republicans when it comes to Iran.

Starting point is 00:27:44 There's been reports that, you know, the United States might be sending 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. Are you concerned that a move like that could potentially change the unity? I don't know. I seem to have great support. Because CNN came out with a poll today. Then I'm at 100%. And they said they've never seen a poll like that. The CNN poll said I'm at 100%. And they've never seen that before, which is an honor.

Starting point is 00:28:10 I was impressed that CNN would do that. But as far as Strups are concerned, I can't. He's at 100%. Just like Kim Jong-un, right? Or Saddam Hussein. Yeah, exactly. Of course, you heard that CNN polled MAGA. Now, anybody that self-identifies as MAGA without any shame for having voted for this guy,

Starting point is 00:28:34 anybody who still supports that is like that woman you heard who is totally disconnected from reality. Of course, they approve of everything he does 100%. It's a Trump delusion cult. And those people are going to always support him no matter what. But Trump loves that. And by the way, the ego has landed now. Trump is going to put a signature on U.S. Fiat dollar bills breaking a tradition since 1861. That's when we first got some Fiat greenbacks, right?

Starting point is 00:29:07 That was Abraham Lincoln financing his war of aggression against the South. He coined a fiat currency. He created an income tax. And since then, even with Abraham Lincoln, He didn't have the ego that Donald Trump does. So Donald Trump is going to put his signature on the dollar bills, which even a desperate like Lincoln didn't want to show what an ego he had. But Trump has absolutely no shame.

Starting point is 00:29:39 And that's on the fiat currency. He's also getting them to put his picture on a coin to be minted, all right? A gold coin. So again, his face on a real coin. real money and a signature on the Fiat stuff. This is such a action. This is such a narcissistic action. You can look at it as a, you know, every other president, basically.

Starting point is 00:30:03 As far as I'm aware, other people put them on things. That's right. You never had a living president. It gives us picture on money. And you never had anybody else put their signature on the paper. And yet, RFK Jr. Travis tells us that he's not a narcissist. Sorry, we've seen the evidence. I don't really care what you want to tell us.

Starting point is 00:30:24 You just want power. As a matter of fact, when we look at these people who want power, we had Cash Patel's emails were hacked by Iran. And this is all over the Internet saying that this is Cash Patel dancing. It turns out that it's not even though it looks just like him. He's actually done things that are even worse than this, quite frankly, if you look at his partying and his frat-boy parties and taking the plane with his girlfriend to the far corners of the world for entertainment, he's not even

Starting point is 00:31:01 worse stuff than this, but that does look like Cash Patel, doesn't it? But it's not. That's one the things that's good for AI. It can go back and search all the videos and say, I found a match for this. This was originally released in 2022, and this is a video of such and such a guy gives his name and so forth like that. So it is good to go back and to verify what is fake in this current environment that we're in social media. But yeah, that is not Cash Patel, but he has done things like that that are even worse. But getting back to Trump's ego, he's doing this, by the way, to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. when we got rid of our kings, right. Basically what he's doing is signing the, making the U.S. officially dead. We now have

Starting point is 00:31:54 dictator Don. It'll put both Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's signatures on future fiat currency notes. Well, we don't have a signature from Soros as well. Let's get him in there. We should have Scott Besson, put Soros's signature right underneath Scott Besson. So there's no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name. It is only appropriate this historic currency be issued at the semi-quincennial, said Bessent. Again, they've all got their ways to suck up to him, don't they? We got Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, imagines this new reward. Ah, let's do a new reward. We'll call it the America First Reward Award. And we'll make the first re-send. And we'll make the

Starting point is 00:32:44 first recipient, Donald Trump. Can we go down to the trophy store right now and get one? It's pathetic what these people are doing. Suckups and sycophants throughout his administration. It's first time in history that a sitting president has placed his signature on U.S. currency or his face. And I guess we should render to Trump what is due to Trump. Whose face is on that coin? By the way, I got to tell Tony, I don't want any of those gold coins with Donald Trump's face on it. Anything but that. That's probably going to go down in value. The first $100 bills with Trump and best signatures will be printed in June with other bills following in later months.

Starting point is 00:33:30 And so, again, he's going to put out a $100, I'm sorry, a $1 coin. and he ended the penny, and now they're going to mint a dollar coin. What does that tell us about inflation in the Federal Reserve? So we're dropping off the pennies and we're rounding things up to a dollar coin. Also, I have to say, it's sinister to me that he's putting his face right next to the inscription in God we trust. Yeah, yeah. Because for a lot of people, Donald Trump is their God.

Starting point is 00:34:06 That's right. How long it'll be before you move that, right? In Don, we trust. But maybe what he'll do is he'll say, in the plan we trust. Trust the plan. Trust is the plan. So again, he's helped oversee renaming the Kennedy Center, which by law was supposed to never be named anything other than the Kennedy Center.

Starting point is 00:34:32 So he leaves that there and he puts his name above it. the Trump and John F. Kennedy Center. And R.K. Jr. doesn't have a problem with that. I got to break in one more time real quickly. I was watching Looney Tunes with our son the other day. And there's an episode where Bugs Bunny is dealing with Wiley Coyote. And he walks up to Wiley Coyote's mailbox. And on it, it says Wiley Coyote, super genius.

Starting point is 00:34:56 And Bugs Bunny just turns around and looks at the camera. Like, you know, communicating to the audience that, you know, if you have it, you don't have to tell people you have it. That's right. It doesn't say stable genius? No, it says super genius. Oh, okay. Well, RFK Jr.

Starting point is 00:35:09 is telling us that Trump is just the opposite of a narcissist. He tells us that he is an empath. No, he is a sociopath. That's what the guy is, a psychopath. Again, the story that I told yesterday about how supposedly at a dinner, Trump takes out a Sharpie, flips over the mat, and draws a map on the back of the map. back of the mat and labels all these countries of the Middle East and how many draws a map

Starting point is 00:35:40 of the Middle East labels the countries and talks about how many puts out a number for how many troops they've got in each place. And I said, no. So anybody check his work? Did he get the map right? Would any of you know any of that information? This is what Trump does all the time. He throws out stuff that is not true and pretends that it is true. And so he did not attend CPAC by the way. but you did have his FCC chair, Brendan Carr, was there. He told the crowd on Friday that Trump was, quote, unquote, winning his personal war against the mainstream press. No, that is his war against free speech and a free press against the First Amendment. And so, again, this was going back to one more quote from RFK Jr.

Starting point is 00:36:26 He said Trump understands the use of power better than probably any president we've had since Roosevelt, Maybe in American history, this comment here on Mediite that says, well, he didn't mention whether he's talking about Theodore or Franklin Roosevelt, right? I'm sure as a Democrat, he was talking about FDR. And it was FDR who understood how to wield power, who understood how to overthrow the Constitution. And that's precisely what Trump is doing. He is one of the most significant presidents that we've had. And unfortunately, the significant presidents that we have. are for the most part evil now, except for the founders, the significant presidents,

Starting point is 00:37:06 were the ones that took us into Civil War, Great Depression, World War II, all these fourth turning presidents, and that's exactly what Trump is. He's another fourth turning president to overthrow the existing order and to push us down the authoritarian hill. So again, FCC Brendan Carr says, look at the results so far. PBS defunded NPR defunded Joy Reed gone from MSNBC

Starting point is 00:37:34 Sleepy-Ey-eyed Chuck Todd Gone Gone Jim Acosta Gone John Dickerson Gone and he could start With all the comedians That he tried to get rid of Of course some of them

Starting point is 00:37:44 That didn't work It just made them bigger Unfortunately Because they're not comedians They are court jesters for communism But again this is the FCC chair Boasting about censorship I thought you were there to allocate spectrum

Starting point is 00:37:58 Right frequency spectrums and to police that. Instead, you've gotten into content and you're boasting about how you cancel people. The Trump administration is no better than the UK or Europe or any of these other sensors anywhere in Western civilization. Now it has become a universal value of Western governments to control and censor speech. It is the antithesis of what Western civilization was about. It's the antithesis of what made Western civilization great.

Starting point is 00:38:29 It is the dark Orwellian future that we are headed toward. And you got the FCC chair, who, by the way, his position there's not even in the Constitution, boasting about how he and Trump are destroying the First Amendment. Trump has signed a memo directing the DHS pay TSA agents. I think they got their paychecks yesterday. Again, where does the money come from? Well, he can do anything he wants. Again, you know, he could have filled up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because the Congress

Starting point is 00:38:59 and Mike Johnson will give him whatever he wants, and they certainly don't care about spending money, really. The other thing I think is interesting about this is the fact that ICE is getting paid. This is a protest. All this stuff was created is a protest by Democrats against the actions of ICE being over the top and criminal in terms of the way they were treating people. No respect at all for the Constitution, due process. warrants anything else like that.

Starting point is 00:39:33 And so they said, we're not going to fund Homeland Security. Well, somehow ICE got funded. They're paid out of some other separate thing. And so the Democrats are saying, we're going to shut down the funding because of ICE. Meanwhile, ICE is not affected whatsoever. It affects TSA. This is the gang that can't shoot straight. And if we want some straight shooting, what disturbs me more than anything else is the pathetic

Starting point is 00:39:59 cries about, give us back the TSA. We can't fly without TSA. They don't care how much misery and how ineffective this organization is missing 95% of the time when they're tested. They can't find anything. So it tells us, just as the TSA wrote in their own internal documents, and that was accidentally released, that there is no threat against airports, airplanes. And there hasn't been. 9-11 was an inside job news flash. You heard it here first, right? And we've all known that 9-11 was an inside job. And so this is all security theater. Everything they do makes people less secure at the airport.

Starting point is 00:40:39 But everybody is scared to death now to fly without the TSA. You know, we're scared to death to have a drug that's not FDA approved. Well, what does that take? All that takes is paying the right people inside the FDA and you get a passing grade on it. The FDA is there not to protect your health. it's there to protect the pharmaceutical companies. Because when something happens, their defenses, well, hey, it was approved by the FDA. I paid them for that, right?

Starting point is 00:41:08 And so then they walk. Well, I mean, we can't fly without the TSA. They hire the best and the brightest there. They're keeping us safe. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, it does clog up the airports if you think that you've got to have them. And so Mike Johnson is going to advance a new $60. DHS funding package, but Schumer says it's DOA.

Starting point is 00:41:33 And of course, his protest against the actions of ICE agents is DOA. None of this affects the ICE people. It's why I say it's so pathetic, the two wings of this government. Nobody knows what they're doing. So Trump, meanwhile, yet another betrayal of his base, he backs Section 702 reauthorization, even though he campaigned on killing, FISA. As a reason says, the president's much less concerned about the law's potential for

Starting point is 00:42:04 overreach now that he is in charge of the government that is wielding it. So he wants to weaponize, he's not against government being weaponized. He just wants to be the one wielding the weapon. House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to pass a temporary extension that renews the law as it is. And Trump agrees with that. He says, when used properly, FISA is an effective. tool against my enemies. No, he didn't say that, but that's exactly what it is. It's quite a shift from his previous position on the topic where he put, wrote out an all-upercase, kill FISA. He did that in 2024 when he's trying to get elected.

Starting point is 00:42:44 He'll say anything to get elected. And then he puts an uppercase. It was illegally used against me and many others, right? It's the kind of power that is antithetical to a free society. Representative Jim Hines, the Democrats, says allowing this authority to expire would put the American people at severe risk. Yeah, let me say this is as effective as protecting us as the TSA is. None of these things protect us. They all put us at risk.

Starting point is 00:43:22 And so we're going to take a... quick break here. And when we come back, we're going to get into what is happening with the war. We'll do a quick update on the various aspects of the war. But before we go to break, we do have some comments. Yes. We have Audi M-R. And he says, how lovely that a network of pedophiles are looking out for America's kids. Yeah, that's right. A pedophile network. Yeah. Now, I tell you, Iran doesn't refer to the Trump administration. They call it the Trump-Ebstein regime.

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Starting point is 00:49:10 Thank you, Marty. And you guys have an hour and 10 minutes to fill up the tank. That's right. It's pressure tactics now. I've got to sell, sell, sell, sell. Well, somebody's filling up Trump's think. We've got a lot of crooked billionaires who are ripping people off for millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars.

Starting point is 00:49:30 But, you know, a million dollars buys a pardon from Trump. We've seen that over and over again. We saw that in his first term. Rudy Giuliani and John Kiroku, John said that he heard that Rudy could talk to Trump for a pardon. goes there and he excuses himself or talks to him for a second and gets up, I got to go to the restroom. And the two guys that are with Giuliani says, we can get that pardon for you, but it costs you a million dollars.

Starting point is 00:49:56 He says, I'm not going to pay you a million dollars if I had it, you know. But here we have a nursing home owner who got a Trump pardon. The families of his patients, however, got nothing. And there were horrific issues in these nursing homes of abuse and neglect. You had people who were found. with open wounds and maggots in their wounds, who subsequently died.

Starting point is 00:50:22 This story from ProPublica begins with the story of Doris Colson. Remained spirited even as their illness progressed, watching cooking shows on TV, working crossword puzzles, wheeling herself down the hallway of her nursing home to show off her granddaughter when she came to visit. She had been admitted in Arkansas

Starting point is 00:50:41 because she had Parkinson's disease. And she was at risk of children. choking when she swallowed. That April, the facility's operations are taken over by Skyline Healthcare, a New Jersey-based company that was buying up nursing homes across the country. Medical records for the retired cardiac nurse, who is then 71, were marked nothing by mouth. And I guess the initials are NPO.

Starting point is 00:51:05 That's kind of confusing. Why wouldn't it be NBM if it's nothing by mouth? because they do have the do not resuscitate is DNR, the initials of it. Anyway, these people are not confused about it. It was just negligence. Then in September, a nursing assistant found her unresponsive and hanging off the side of her bed. Her skin, ashy, her breathing shallow. She's taken to a hospital in a coma and died several days later.

Starting point is 00:51:33 The chief cause of death was aspiration pneumonia, according to her death certificate. They said they found scrambled eggs in her lungs. Well, this guy, as they looked at him not only for neglect, but of course, what the government sees as the big crime is the fact that he didn't pay his taxes properly. So they came after him for that. Alleging the cost cutting at Hillview left her without care that she needed. The family brought several lawsuits, bought lawsuits against him. Many families did. And yet, he was still expanding his empire until.

Starting point is 00:52:11 he got into some tax issues. A judge in 2020 awarded nearly $19 million in damages. Her family, though, has never been able to collect anything. He had by that time relinquished all of his property in Arkansas, so there's nothing left in the state for the family's lawyers to seize. Nor was there enough information about assets that he might hold in other states. So he gets out of there. Then a federal prosecutors in New Jersey charged him with orchestrating a $39 million

Starting point is 00:52:39 dollar payroll tax scheme connected to his nursing home empire. As a matter of fact, he put himself down as an employee, made up a name for an employee and paid himself, I think, $5 million off of that as well. The guy is a real fraudster. He pleaded guilty last April, failure to pay the IRS taxes, withheld from employees and failing to file a financial report for his employer benefit plan. A federal judge sentenced him to three years in prison. But he only served three months. Trump granted him a full pardon, negating his criminal conviction. Few clemency decisions illustrate more clearly than the case of Schwartz, who paid himself millions of dollars from his nursing homes while diverting tens of millions owed to taxpayers and employees, and who has failed to satisfy

Starting point is 00:53:28 at least three multi-million dollar judgments awarded for grieving families. So Trump has, this is not the first time that Trump has granted clemency to a lot of figures that are in major health care fraud. But it's not just that. That is the common thing. If you look at the people, the common factor is that these guys, like this particular guy, Schwartz, was a rabbi. And he has been pardoning one crooked rabbi after the other. So Benjamin Landa, he wasn't a rabbi, but his father was. but that is the common thing.

Starting point is 00:54:08 And when you look at what he did with Benjamin Landa, another nursing home owner who defrauded and harmed people, he got $31 million in Medicare overpayments. And Trump pardoned him. And how did he pardon him? But he did the same thing he did to Jared Kushner's criminal father. He made him an U.S. ambassador. Now, Jared Kushner's father is U.S. ambassador to France.

Starting point is 00:54:34 This guy who is a criminal. who ripped the federal government off from Medicare overpayments, $31 million, Trump made him ambassador to Hungary. He's done this over and over again. That seems to be the common thread, especially when you look at how did Schwartz case get brought before Trump? Well, it was highlighted by Laura Lumer. She also accused the judge in the case of anti-Semitism against Schwartz,

Starting point is 00:55:03 even though she offered no evidence, and even though he was making all kinds of demands in his prison cell for kosher food and things like that. But she claims that she wasn't paid even though there was a million dollars that was contributed to Trump campaign organizations. Her payoff will be in the future at some point in time whenever she wants to run for office again. She'll be able to count on the Israeli lobby because anything for Israel, that's Laura Lumer. So she falsely claimed on X that he was not responsible for the tax violations, that he had been unfairly blamed for the collapse of the nursing home, and that he had paid back every dime.

Starting point is 00:55:47 Laura Lumer is one of the most lying pieces of garbage in the Maggi universe, I got to say. Those claims are contradicted by the court record and by Schwartz's own guilty plea in which he acknowledged responsibility for the unpaid payroll taxes. While he repaid $5 million, that covered only a fraction of what he owed. Just that one case was far more than that. Federal prosecutors said that under Schwartz's plea agreement, the IRS could have pursued the remaining balance, but that won't happen now that Trump has pardoned him.

Starting point is 00:56:21 He doesn't have to pay anybody anything. His faith also became part of the Trump administration's public celebration. of the decision. He's Jewish. And now he can join his family for Shabbat. And weeks later, he attended the White House Hanukkah Party. Schwartz paid more than a million dollars to lobbyists to press the White House for on his behalf, the secure pardon, according to lobbying disclosure forms.

Starting point is 00:56:52 But again, Lumer says she didn't get any of that money. I don't know. Is she telling the truth about this? She doesn't tell the truth about other things. She said that she heard about Schwartz's case in a group chat with members of an Orthodox Jewish outreach movement who asked her to look into it. And of course, you know, we should not put any Jews in jail for any reason whatsoever. Melissa Colson said Trump's pardon of Schwartz reinforced our belief that justice is not applied equally. Apparently, he's got some money somewhere, she said, because he's not paying the people who have won lawsuits against him for abuse.

Starting point is 00:57:28 and neglect, but he's got enough to bribe the Trump administration, bribe lobbyists to pressure them. So he has patients, families, millions of dollars, and a $39 million payroll tax fraud scheme. So again, when we look at this, some people are getting with the program in terms of understanding what's happening in the MAGA movement, but many are still clueless and many are still clueless about people like Laura Lumer.

Starting point is 00:58:03 As LifeSight News points out about CPAC, they said Trump's popularity is certainly waning and he only has himself to blame. The advisors that he surrounded himself with, coupled with his decision to do pretty much whatever the pro-Israel faction within his party wants, has left many long time Trump voters feeling alienated. Not only is the GOP going to be slaughtered in the midterms, as voter turnout will undoubtedly be far less than what it will. was in 2024. His historic coalition very well may break apart for good. And I say good. That's another one of these things like the Tea Party that never had any principles, never had any policies. It was all based around a cult of personality. Now, the Tea Party was not based around a cult

Starting point is 00:58:46 of personality, but it's based around this idiotic idea simply that we're taxed enough already. Don't raise taxes. Well, what do you do about that? Do you cut spending? If you got spending, cut it. They didn't have any answers. It wasn't a movement. It was a fad. And that's the way Maga is as well. Maduro's son, meanwhile, is saying that the U.S. prosecution has absolutely nothing on his father, the president of Venezuela. He said, who was abducted, kidnapped by U.S. commandos in early January, indicted on several charges related to drug trafficking and weapons possession. His son, who is still there in Venezuela, in an interview to RT, said that his father's defense team has presented, quote, innovative arguments, unquote, during the ongoing trial. He said,

Starting point is 00:59:38 there is no evidence that Nicholas Madura and his wife committed crimes. They faced charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices. This is a guy who was head of a country. He's not allowed to have machine guns. What kind of weapons does Donald Trump have? He's got a nuclear button on his desk, as he liked to say. Trump and the CIA, what utter hypocrisy to come after the head of his foreign state

Starting point is 01:00:19 and say, this guy wants some machine guns? And you notice, they don't charge him with any. narco crimes that don't charge him with trafficking cocaine. They charge him with conspiracy to do these things. He talked to somebody maybe, right? Well, prove it. Last month, Venezuela and Vice President Delci Rodriguez, who assumed power following the U.S. intervention,

Starting point is 01:00:41 emphasized that Maduro remains Venezuela's legitimate head of state despite his kidnapping. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov characterized Maduro's abduction by U.S. Special Forces as a, quote, flagrant violation of international law. That's true. One of many crimes by the Trump regime against law, our policy,

Starting point is 01:01:05 moral law, international law, our Constitution, you name it. People ought to be locked up for the rest of their lives. Trump threatens, meanwhile, to destroy all of Iran's power, oil, and water facilities just as retribution. Yeah, he's not a criminal at all, folks. He's a great guy. He really is.

Starting point is 01:01:25 He's not a mafia crime figure, not at all. So just ask yourself this. Who is the crime boss? Who is the terrorist-in-chief? As a matter of fact, when you look at the drug wars, we've said all along, it's the CIA that's really running the drugs. And it's the UN agenda that is there. Retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark advised the president

Starting point is 01:01:50 against bombing Iranian power plants on the civilian. infrastructure last week, warning that such an attack could be considered a war crime. Hey, just add it to his rap sheet. He said a lot of people will say it's a war crime because mostly these power plants are probably there for the civilian population. You think? Yeah, bombing civilians, by the way, is a war crime despite the fact that it has now become accepted practice since World War II.

Starting point is 01:02:18 If you can show that it has a military connection, he says that's different. But if it's simply to put pressure on the government by hammering the civilian population, then that's a dejure war crime. Well, it's also terrorism, right? Terrorism is the threat of violence and attacks in order to achieve a political goal. So Trump is actually literally a terrorist. He said, maybe we take carg island, maybe we don't. We have a lot of options.

Starting point is 01:02:47 It would also mean we have to be there for a while. Yeah, the whole time, he says we, he's not going to be taking Carg Island. It's not going to be barren. It's not going to be Eric, who, by the way, is 42, and he could sign up for the army, and he could go. And it's not going to be Ben Shapiro, who is also 42. It's not going to be Laura Lumer, who is under 42. It's not going to be any of them who go and take Carg Island.

Starting point is 01:03:15 That's not the we that Trump is talking about. And it's not the we who are going to be staying there while. missiles and drones rained down from above on them either. It would be some other we people. Tim Burchett, Congressman from Tennessee, cautioned, quote, a lot of Republicans, he said, would be firmly against such a move. Meanwhile, War Pete's former colleague at Fox News,

Starting point is 01:03:41 Joey Jones, I have no idea who this guy is, suggested they should, quote, spill their enemy's blood and then get the hell out of there. just to remind you that we are the aggressors. Just to remind you, don't turn to Fox News for your news. These people are evil. They embrace evil. They cheer evil.

Starting point is 01:04:03 They cheered the pandemic. They cheered the vaccine. Tucker Carlson kept his mouth shut. He knew. That's what Fox does to you. I can't talk about that. I can't talk about Building 7 or I'd lose my job. Right?

Starting point is 01:04:16 That evil at Fox News flows down from the top. They're simply murderers. We are the aggressors. That we is the aggressor that is happening here. Well, Minnesota Democrats have voted down the motion to advance age verification bill. You know, this is one of the few places where the Democrats in Minnesota are voting down this Internet ID to protect kids from pornography. But they're doing it for all the wrong reasons. they are voting against it because they want kids exposed to pornography and they even say that.

Starting point is 01:04:56 It's truly amazing. When you look at this voter ID stuff and the Republicans are 100% on board, yeah, we've got to be the mommy and daddy of everybody. You know, we can't have the parents take away their phones or not pay their bill and just, you know, not buy them one in the first place. No, we have to have government protect us from all this. This is what the Republicans are offering. Meanwhile, the Democrats said, we don't want to protect kids. from pornography, that's education for the trans kids and the LGBT. So we want them educated with pornography because how else would they become LGBT if they

Starting point is 01:05:30 didn't have pornography? That's what the Democrats are saying. This is, this folks, it's our choices and politics. Can you imagine? This is, which one do you want? It's absolutely insane. Democrats in Minnesota House voted down a procedural. motion last week that would have advanced a bill requiring age verification for pornographic websites.

Starting point is 01:05:54 It's not about that. It's about the government. It's about ending anonymity. And it's about controlling information. It's about controlling what you see. And it's about controlling you. Not just what you see, but creating a dossier about you and everything that you have done to profile you. And just think about, you know, the fact that when they're doing, you know, doing the targeting on day one of the Trump-Iran war, and they target this school, think about that, whether it's done deliberately or it's done as an error. It's still really scary when you stop and think about it. And they're going to use AI to target us for audits. They're going to use AI to target us for all this geospatial intelligence stuff, looking at what you do and determining

Starting point is 01:06:44 what your religion and your politics and all the rest of the stuff is, and then taking the appropriate action and persecuting you for that. So again, the Apple has gone beyond even what the UK requires because they're doing it for money. So in Minnesota, they said they were concerned that the language of the bill was too broad and that it could be used against LGBT people because they want it to recruit children. And that's exactly what they said. quote, young people would be kept from accessing content that, quote, could be educational if they are queer. Or if we want to make them, you know, trainees or whatever.

Starting point is 01:07:27 So that's what they're concerned about. And so that's Minnesota's response to it. So your response is we either run in fear to have government be the parents. That's a Republican approach. And then we destroy all anonymity on the web so we can track every. everything that everybody does. Or the Democrats say, well, no, we want to be able to recruit young kids, gaslight them to mutilate their bodies, right? Steralize their bodies. Minnesota bills would create state right to sue government officials for constitutional

Starting point is 01:08:01 violations. Now, this one I agree with. I absolutely do not agree with the absolute immunity that J.D. Vance was talking about, these people who went over the line with ICE and Border Patrol killing people. State workarounds to the procedural quagmire of federal civil rights legislation. This is needed. This is needed as a reaction to Trump's Gestapo ICE. So qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that allows government employees to dodge lawsuits in cases where the right that they're accused of violating hasn't been clearly established,

Starting point is 01:08:40 they say. So qualified immunity was supposed to protect officials who couldn't reasonably know that they were violating somebody's rights, but in practice it has become a time-consuming, frequently absurd legalistic roadblock to getting civil rights suits against police officers to trial. They need to be held accountable for what they do. And if you don't hold people accountable, that's just a license to commit crimes, just like the federal government is not held accountable to the money that they spend. So we wind up with this massive dam that is about to burst over our heads.

Starting point is 01:09:21 Also, call me crazy, but I don't think we should be making people cops who don't know what a person's rights are. I don't think that should be a official. I didn't know. It's just like, well, then you don't qualify for the job. You're fired. Get out. Good point. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:09:38 I don't think we should be making people vice president who say that they've got absolute immunity for anything that they do either. And that's J.D. Vance's position. Well, then we come to Lindsay Graham and his views on the Iran war come under attack from Republicans. It's got to the point where even his old pal in arms, John McCain, who wanted war everywhere with everyone. And, you know, the two of them were Tweedledee and Tweedled dumb.

Starting point is 01:10:04 I should say Tweedled D and Tweedle War. But now John McCain's daughter is pushing back on Lindsey Graham. and this is this truly amazing Liz Cheney not not Lindsay Graham's daughter I think it well it might be let's see is that Did I get that right here? Megan McCain is pushing back probably not Liz Cheney

Starting point is 01:10:28 She probably loves it just like Dick Cheney did But even Megan McCain The daughter of John McCain Knocked Lindsey Graham Who was once her father's closest friend in Washington Remember we played the clip where they went to Ukraine before this stuff kicked off with Russia. And he's saying, next year, we're going to go into Ukraine.

Starting point is 01:10:49 We're going to get Putin. You guys, and he's talking to the Ukrainians there, you guys going to be in there. You're going to be killing Russians. He's real excited about it. The people that were there, though, they kind of stood their stone-faced. They were not too excited about that. Anyway, she said, Megan McCain said, there's nothing like a single childless subtergenerian, 70 years old or plus, telling American mothers to send their children to go die in a war.

Starting point is 01:11:20 And that's exactly what he's doing. He says, I go back South Carolina. I'm asking them to send their sons and daughters to the Middle East. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, go die for Israel. And then as all this is happening, Lindsay Graham is seen. in Disney World holding a fairy wand

Starting point is 01:11:47 of course he would be holding a fairy wand and it's kind of interesting to see the reactions from the left and the right the left is out there saying how dare him go to Disney World and he stands in a line that's not very long at a buffet in order to get fed but compare the length of that line at the buffet to the TSA lines in the airports

Starting point is 01:12:06 how dare him do that and then you've got some people on the right critics of the war who talk about the fact that he's hanging out in Disneyland while he wants to send other people to die in the war. Well, I just imagine Lindsey Graham going by and getting his makeup done at one of those fairy places. And this is what I think it would probably look like. This is a special moment. There he is, Miss Lindsay in his dress. Or you can do it this way. You could say, Grock, remove all the fake fairies and leave the real one there. I think, yeah, this is Lindsay Graham.

Starting point is 01:12:59 Again, the Mickey Mouse warmonger. Having breakfast at Chef Mickey's Restaurant as the shutdown hit 44 days. No, that's not the real issue. The real issue is that he wants to send other people to their death. Oh, Lindsay, but if you send all the kids to die, who's going to come to Disney World? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The buffet line is much shorter than the TSA line, said many people.

Starting point is 01:13:24 Graham defended the trip saying I was invited to a meeting in South Florida on Friday with Steve Whitkoff, the guy who kicked this whole thing off. I guess they're talking about yet another real estate deal. The people in Florida better be careful. There might be some incoming cruise missiles next, right? To talk about the possibility of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. I went to Orlando to meet with friends afterwards. I'm already back in South Carolina, and he posts a picture of him in hunting gear holding a shotgun instead of a fairy wand.

Starting point is 01:13:57 That should fix it, right? I guess you can fool the people in South Carolina. I've had a lot of people in South Carolina say, no, we're not fooled about Lindsey Graham. They keep pushing him in. He's selected, not elected. One of the things that gets me is there is a type of Southern gentlemen that Lindsey Graham emulates. There's a type of Southern gentlemen, they're not very frequent anymore,

Starting point is 01:14:19 who are so kind and calm and laconic in the way they speak that they almost seem homosexual. And that's who Lindsay Graham is like. But instead of being that kind, Southern gentleman, he's this wicked demon. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the headlines from Daily Caller put it this way. Lindsay Graham plays with toys at Disney World as he pushes for military action in Iran. because he's toying with people's lives. That's what the guy is doing, actually. $59 all-you-can-eat meal at Chef Mickey's buffet-style dining and stuff. I bet you could get these all-you-can-eat buffets in Vegas.

Starting point is 01:14:58 I bet they're really cheap right now because nobody's traveling. Nobody wants to come to America. You know, Vegas is circling the drain, and I'm fine with that, quite frankly. Anyway, the hawkish senator has never been married, who has no children. and is holding the bubble wand, he said, for a girl that he doesn't know. He said she was outside the restroom or something. Be very careful with Lindsey Graham around the restroom with children. Okay.

Starting point is 01:15:28 You don't want to have it. That's a real warning sign. So he's ridiculed after he's photographed carrying a bubble wand. And one person said, well, the area is like fantasy land. which is right on the nose. Congress is living in fantasy land with each side blaming the other for its failures to reach compromise.

Starting point is 01:15:50 They would reopen the government, believing that voters are believing what they are selling. I'd say the fantasy land is what they're selling people when it comes to Iran. I will say, it is sad that he couldn't be there

Starting point is 01:16:03 with his best bud, John McCain, you know? I'm sure back in the day they probably took many trips to Disney World together. Yeah. Probably the song, you've got a friend in me, was just playing the entire,

Starting point is 01:16:13 time as they strolled arm and arm through the park. It was probably beautiful. It's pathetic that you got somebody whose entire purpose in life is to get other people killed. And he gets away with it. Well, now things are pushing back from the right on this so much that even Lindsay is saying, hey, you know, to Trump, we need to wind down this war. Yeah. Well, it's a sign that they're losing, quite frankly. They're losing their voters, if nothing else. They're losing. They're losing the economy. So he's urging the president to wind down the war. This was after he had a call on Monday morning with Trump. The call itself reportedly came after Trump had gone on his ministry of truth, social, and announced his administration was, quote, in serious discussions with a new

Starting point is 01:17:04 and more reasonable regime to end the military operation, but threatening that if a deal was not reached shortly, he would respond by obliterating all of Iran's power plants, oil wells, and desolonization plants. They will respond in kind, and he will take the whole thing down. We'll talk about what that really tells us all about this. He said, I support diplomatic efforts to end the conflicts consistent with our military objectives, said Lindsay. So, again, you know, if you go back to the tar baby issue, you know, Brer Rabbit, first he got caught up in that tar baby, but then he was kind of wildly himself, and he's got a way of getting out of this thing. The only issue, you know, is what is the long-term plan for Trump? A lot of people have said, well, he's stuck in this situation.

Starting point is 01:17:58 No, get me out of this Iran mess. This is a disaster, a total disaster. So sticky tank. Oh, critter. He learned a power. awful lesson, but he learned it too late. But it just goes to show you what comes of mixing up with something you've got no business with in the first place. Yeah, that's right. Well, you know, they keep sending these mixed messages as he's bragging about how well they're doing and how he can completely obliterate Iran.

Starting point is 01:18:34 You've got Marco Rubio and even Trump himself begging for help and then threatening the people that he's begging for help from. This is like G7 to help with the Strait of Vermont? Well, it's in their interest to help. I mean, the other countries get far more of their fuel from there than we do. But what kind of help are you going to ask? Is it wine-speakers, naval help? Well, those specifics, I'll leave it to the Department of War as to exactly what.

Starting point is 01:18:59 But it's in their interest. It's in their national interest. Do you think President Trump criticizing NATO this morning that sentiment? I think he just made an observation. And the observation is that the United States is constantly being asked. to help in a war, and we have more than any other country in the world, on a war that's happening in another continent in Ukraine. But when the U.S. had a need, he didn't get positive responses. So right now he's just making the observation in that, you know, I think there was a couple

Starting point is 01:19:28 of the leaders in Europe who said that this was not Europe's war. Well, Ukraine is not America's war, and yet we've contributed more to that fight than any other country in the world. It is America's war. The president don't have to take into account down the road. You know, it's interesting because Trump and Rubio will say the obvious thing that NATO is the United States. And this is NATO's war. It is the U.S. war.

Starting point is 01:19:53 We are using Ukrainians as surrogates to fight. That's exactly what it is. And so it's very disingenuous for them to say that, obviously. And you hear Trump trashing allies, even as he's asking for help, even as he's asking for help from Saudi Arabia. this was going to happen. He didn't think he'd be kissing my ass. He really didn't. He thought he'd be just another American president that was a loser where the country

Starting point is 01:20:21 is going downhill. But now he has to be nice to me. You tell him he better be nice to me. He's got to be. Threaten him. It was really something. Well, you know, a lot of people point out that Trump is in a tight spot here, right? That tight spot now?

Starting point is 01:20:41 Brother Warthal, we always joke about that in the family. That's one of our favorite films. But he's in a tight spot now. He's stuck with that tar baby, as many people point out. If he backs off, he looks weak. And, of course, the U.S. is going to take a big hit. Already is baked in. We take a big hit with a petro dollar,

Starting point is 01:21:02 as well as with our defense contracts, as I pointed out at length yesterday. We have stolen money from Switzerland who gave us money for defensive anti-ballistic missile systems, we've stolen that money from them without their permission and continued to do so even as they protested. So what kind of trust can people have in the U.S. military industrial complex to fulfill their contracts and to not steal our money?

Starting point is 01:21:31 I mean, you look at it, it's like Biden stealing Russia's money in the early days of the sanctions. they've taken their power and they are destroying it. This empire is turning on itself. It's cannibalizing itself in terms of abuse of power. And so the options that he has are to run away, but that's going to really harm the empire. Or to double down and to invade and try to occupy parts of Iran,

Starting point is 01:21:59 which is destined to fail in the long term. It's going to create a lot of loss of life, tremendous expenditure of money as well. and it's going to be a political failure. Well, those are the two options that I've been seeing people say, but I think he's got a third one. His third option is to keep going on and telling everybody how we're winning because we're able to bomb and so forth

Starting point is 01:22:22 and just keep on bombing. You know, he can carpet bomb with B-52s for a very long time. They can do another Dresden firebombing. They can do a Tokyo firebombing with conventional weapons. And it's even to the extent now that we have, a guy of the UN who's a diplomat with an organization has sounded the alarm and said the UN is talking about a nuclear bombing of Tehran. He said, think about the fact this is 10 million people. It's more than the combined population. He rattles off a bunch of capital cities, a district of

Starting point is 01:22:58 Columbia, you know, Washington, D.C., London, Berlin, Paris. He says it's more than a population of these cities combined. And he goes, you people don't even know what you're destroying here and the numbers of people that you're destroying. But they're casually talking about dropping a nuclear bomb as well. And so when you look at it, it's really the political cost that's involved in that. They don't care about the number of people that they kill. And as people pointed out about World War II, the firebombing of Tokyo was much worse than,

Starting point is 01:23:28 in terms of damage, much worse than what happened with Nagasaki or Hiroshima. the fire bombing of Dresden was worse. And so they can use conventional old weapons, which we've got tons of. We're running out of the state of the art, complicated, really expensive stuff. But we got a lot of the old stuff still there. So that is a third possibility for Brow Rabbit. You know, don't throw me in that briar patch. He might just continue to do that because in the long term, that is what Israel wants.

Starting point is 01:24:00 Israel doesn't want the nuclear weapons. Israel doesn't want a regime change. Israel wants Iran and the neighboring states destroyed like Gaza. And that quite frankly is probably what Trump is more than willing to do. Meanwhile, he has confirmed rumors that there is a massive military complex being built beneath a new White House ballroom. And this is, it wasn't a rumor. It was actually investigations where people looked at this.

Starting point is 01:24:32 And the plans and what they were doing and said, that's going to be an underground bunker. So for a while, they said, well, we're going to have an underground visitor center for when people come in. Now they've admitted the truth because it leaked out. This is what Trump had to say. The military is building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed. But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom. And that's under construction and we're doing very well. So we're ahead of schedule.

Starting point is 01:25:04 It's part of it. The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what's being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing. The glass on the windows, you see the big windows. The glass is extremely thick. It's high-grade bulletproof glass. So all of the windows are bulletproof. I think the Times wrote, gee, some of the windows are fake.

Starting point is 01:25:29 We have no fake windows. They said, they talked about a stairway on the south. We don't have a stairway in the south. That was replaced a long time ago. But this is a view of it from the north. And that's if you see it, it fits in with the White House. It's almost a twin to the White House. It's something we just wanted to pay tribute to the White House.

Starting point is 01:25:52 They want to pay tribute to themselves. You know there was a book that I've mentioned a couple of times on this show, Raven Rock. The subtitle of it was, the plan to save themselves and let the rest of us die. As he wants to push us into one war after the other, as he wants to push us perhaps even into a nuclear war, these people are busy building bunkers for themselves. You know, as we've got now hypersonic missiles,

Starting point is 01:26:16 they move much, much faster, as I was pointing out. You can go from Iran to Israel with a hypersonic missile in less time than you travel the 90 miles from Cuba, to Florida when I was a child during the Cuban Missile Crisis. So the missiles are much faster. So that means that these SOBs who are taking us into one war after the other don't have time to get to Greenbrier or some of their other hideouts that they were going to, you know, weather the nuclear attack, leave the rest of us to die.

Starting point is 01:26:50 Now they've got to build some shelters closer to home. That's what this is about. These people who talk about national security, they're only interested in their own security. Everything that the so-called defense department is doing is an offense. It's offensive to other people. It's offensive to God. And these people are pushing us into one war after the other.

Starting point is 01:27:13 And they're going to protect themselves. Not you. You can forget this golden dome thing. That's just a golden grift. And we can see how useless that is when you look at the Iron Dome or these other anti-ballistic missile systems. The Golden Dome is what you'd see if you could flip Donald Trump's hair over. Yeah, that's right.

Starting point is 01:27:34 But you know, you went to, Mom took you guys to the big hole there, which is part of this. That's how that book opens up. Start talking about big hole and how they had the underground, deep underground communication things that are part of this network that they've set up for continuity of government. So their government can survive so that they can survive. some shape or form while the rest of us died. They don't care anything about ordinary Americans. We could see that in spades in 2020. The military is building a big complex in the ballroom, he said. And I found out about it because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed. That wasn't a rumor.

Starting point is 01:28:14 He said, we have all bulletproof glass. We have drone-proof roofs and ceilings. And unfortunately, we're living in an age where that's a good thing. It's a good thing because of him and people like him. The rest of us don't have bulletproof glass in our homes. We don't have drone-proof roofs, and we don't have nuclear bomb shelters. Only they do. So he says it's no secret.

Starting point is 01:28:41 The military wanted it more than anybody. Yeah, they're having a ball with their wars, aren't they? So let's put a bomb shelter under the ballroom while we play games with everybody else's lives. The project is being entirely funded by private donors, he said, instead of taxpayers. Yeah, it's being funded by the donor-owner class. The other people are pushing us into these wars. The ones that think they're going to have to scurry down into it if something happens when they're hanging out in Trump's ballroom. That's right.

Starting point is 01:29:09 I've got to say, you know, since when are you going to have private donors building a military bunker, really? And so now the price tag is up to $400 million. Remember when it was first introduced, it was all going to be privately funded, is what Trump was saying. I wonder if any of this is true. the price tag when it was first unveiled last July was 200 million. Then over the fall, we saw that it went up to 300 million. Now, here we are nine months after he first talked about it, and the price tag has doubled to 400 million.

Starting point is 01:29:47 And so it goes with all the stuff that they do. It was supposed to be a secret, but it became unsecret because of people that are really unpatriotic saying things, said Trump. I just got to point out how stupid that sentence is. It became unsecret. You know, there's sayings. You could, well, the cat's out of the bag. You know, the horses out of the stable or something.

Starting point is 01:30:08 That's right. That's right. Yeah, that's the vocabulary of a third grader. Yeah. And the people who support him have the mentality of a kindergartner of the site. So when we look at, well, I'm going to leave it at that. And we're going to take a quick break. Some comments we want to get before we take a break.

Starting point is 01:30:26 We've got a lot. I want to start by thanking Neurodivergent 1. Thank you very much for the tip. It says thanks, Marty, for your support and generosity. Thanks, David, for being a voice of reason and light in a dark world. And yes, we want to thank Marty because he is matching tips today until the end of the show, which means you now have just 29 minutes to get your donation in under the wire if you'd like to help support us.

Starting point is 01:30:45 The time is going fast. And IRS machine gun, he says, I just paid 120 bucks for 20.6 gallons of diesel, almost got three quarters of a tank. Wow. prices are going up. I remember after Hurricane Katrina happened, diesel went through the roof. It had been dirt cheap for the longest time. And it stayed, you know.

Starting point is 01:31:04 They said, oh, it's going to take out all the refineries. And then, of course, it didn't. But they didn't let that stop them. They had the excuse they needed to jack the price up. And I'd seen that happen before. You know, you go back and look at the price before the OPEC oil embargo and gasoline was $2 a gallon. I'm sorry, $3 a gallon. So it quadrupled up to $12 a gallon.

Starting point is 01:31:22 And I said, okay, in today's dollars, what is that? about, you know, a gallon, it was per barrel of oil. Okay, it was $3. A barrel of oil was $3. A barrel of oil went to $12. And in today's market, that would be $88. It basically stayed there. That's kind of the range of where we were before this drove everything up is a little bit cheaper than that. But that's basically where it stayed. It's going to be a ratcheting effect. We're not going to see these prices come back down. This is just helping his friends who have oil companies. You look at the price of Chevron stock sky high, went sky high. Same thing with the military industrial complex contractors. They go sky high. These guys are going

Starting point is 01:32:07 to rich. The donor owners of Trump are going to get rich. And it's not just other countries that are suffering. You know, they're saying, oh, this is going to be great because we've got so much oil here in America and we've got oil that we can tap now in Venezuela. And maybe we can steal the oil from Iran. Well, it's not that. Even if they do all of that, the people who are going to benefit from this are going to be the oil companies, the people making weapons systems. It's not going to be you and I. We're going to be in the same basket as the rest of the world that is going to see everything go up in price and is going to see shortages at the same time. I want to say thank you very much to S.A. Miller, 123. That is incredibly generous. It says, thank you, David and

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Starting point is 01:33:35 Wow. Thank you. It says, okay, one more in Under the Wire, depending on when the show ends. L.O. have a terrific Tuesday, everyone, and keep it going. And we've just got another one from Khan Think. Thank you very much. It says Massey raised 350K last night. Oh, well. You know, that's good. I want to see him resist Trump. He's the only person that's got the backbone to stand up to Trump.

Starting point is 01:33:58 You got to love him for that. And where did he stand up against Trump? The first time Trump wanted to get him out, primary him out, was because he stood up to this insane spending spree that Trump kicked off the pandemic in lockdown with. And he said, you're going to have to come back here and vote. I'm going to require all the Congress to come back here and vote. So everybody in Washington hates Massey.

Starting point is 01:34:22 but for, you know, that's for doing the right thing, really. And Trump said, we're going to primary him out. Of course, it was a very easy walkthrough for him. So now he's got, because he also opposes giving money to Israel, as he opposes foreign aid for everybody. And of course, Israel has done this over and over again. I've seen them do this to Pat Buchanan and many other conservatives who said, we've got to stop foreign aid.

Starting point is 01:34:46 And even if you want to stop foreign aid for every single country, Israel will come after you to take you down. And then boast about it. We've seen the people saying, you know, Mark Levin, yeah, we cancel Pat Buchanan. We can cancel these people as well. You know, give us our money. And it's not your money. It's our money. But good for him for standing up to APEC. Good for him for standing and to Trump's spending and to Trump's wars and to Trump's depravity with the Epstein documents. So I'm glad that he raised a lot of money. We're going to take a quick break. Folks. We'll be right back. You're listening to the David Knight Show.

Starting point is 01:36:59 Elvis. Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles, and the sweet sounds of Motown. Find them on the oldies channel at APSRadio.com. Well, this week is the week that Christians everywhere commemorate and celebrate the sacrifice of Christ. His life was not taken from him, but he laid down his life for his friends, he said. And yet, with all this happening, we have. of this guy, James Tala Rico, who is running for Senate in Texas, to be the Texas U.S.

Starting point is 01:37:34 Senator. And he won the Democrat primary. And he has won the hearts of all of these late-night talk show hosts and others. Stephen Colbert went to war with CBS over getting him on the show. And I think they blocked it or something. I saw some of the things about it. I really didn't care. but he was desperate to get Tolariko on,

Starting point is 01:37:57 and they did not want him on. And so he was, because CBS is now owned by Ellison and the people were supporters of Trump, so they're trying to push back against that, evidently. So he still got the interview out. They put it up on YouTube or something, or they aired it later. I don't know what happened,

Starting point is 01:38:16 but the clips are out there now. And we got a couple of clips from it. But then there was this back and forth with Pete Hegsus, pastor who has a podcast. And on the podcast, he said, you know what this guy really needs? He needs to be crucified with Christ. Now, Tala Rico claims that he grew up. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher or something. So he said, I grew up in the Baptist church. And now I'm a seminarian at the PC USA, the Presbyterian seminary. So don't tell me that he doesn't know what that means. Either the guy, is unbelievably dense to not have heard that, but he knows exactly what that means.

Starting point is 01:38:59 I mean, this is a metaphorical thing. Snopes got it right, but the New York Times and the Austin paper, which is statesman, yeah, the Austin statesman, they were absolutely flabbergasted. They couldn't believe what it was. And Tala Rico demagogued off of this. He said, you may pray for my death, pastor, but I still love you. He knows exactly what they were calling for. They even said it later in the podcast they were praying for his conversion.

Starting point is 01:39:30 You know, we talk about being crucified with Christ. That is something that you hear if you're in a church, you grow up in a church, or if you read the Bible, you can't miss that. I mean, we'll talk about being buried with Christ and baptism, raised to walk in a newness of life. That's what this is really about. It's not just about the death, right? We don't stop at the death of Christ. It's about the resurrection of Christ. Because resurrection is a testament that he has defeated death that came because of sin.

Starting point is 01:40:00 That is the heart of the gospel. And to say to be crucified with Christ is to talk about what it's like to live as a Christian, to put Christ's priorities first and not yours. So that's talking about the Christian life. These people are basically rebuking him. But they don't rebuke the guy that goes to their church, Pete Hegsa. death. And what Tala Rico has done is he set up this dichotomy. He says, well, you know, those Christian nationalists, all they want to do is kill people. And the poster child for that is

Starting point is 01:40:30 War Pete. That's why I have a real problem with War Pete. He really is a poster child of hate, of death. And so Tala Rico is right about that. But Tala Rico is not offering people what Christ offers them. And he's not offering them the gospel either. But we've gone back to the point, what it tells us about our society, folks, is that Christians are failing to get the most important message out, the good news about Christ, why he died, what he accomplished in his death. I mean, here we are at Easter, right? And we're back to pagan Rome, where they accuse the Christians of cannibalism because of what was said about communion or the Eucharist or whatever we want to call it. The fact that Christ said, you know, do this, remember. It's

Starting point is 01:41:20 of me, this wine is my blood and, you know, the bread is my body, says, ah, cannibalism. They're eating flesh and blood. That is basically what the New York Times and the Austin statesmen are doing with all this stuff. Now, it's really talking about not living for yourself, but living for Christ. You know, we were told that in the last days, people would become lovers of self. That is the antithesis of what they're talking about. So again, the discussion on this podcast that had the pastor who is the pastor of the home church in Tennessee that Pete Hegeseth goes to, they were talking in the discussion included prayers about God, quote unquote, killing him.

Starting point is 01:42:06 This is the way it's presented by the Austin statesman. The guy's name is Brooks Potiger, I guess, is how he pronounced his name, a pastor at Pilgrim Hill Reform Fellowship in Tennessee, the home church of Hegeseth, criticized Tala Rico during a recent episode of his podcast, Reformation Red Pill. And again, this is metaphorical, but it is profound ignorance of the press and our society that he can exploit this and say that they want to kill me. And people believe that.

Starting point is 01:42:40 But it is pure demagoguery on James Taloiko's part. Again, I don't, I know that the PC the Presbyterian Church, PC USA, is about a century ago that there was this fight over the inerrancy of Scripture and they picked the wrong side. And so the denomination split at that point

Starting point is 01:42:58 and then they split again the mid-20th century. So the Presbyterian Church, the PC USA has gone down a very different path. But I don't think they're so far down that path that they don't know. So either James Tolariko gets an F at seminary or these people are even worse down that path and I thought that they were. But again, he is basically the leftist version of Hexeth.

Starting point is 01:43:28 Because what he is selling is a different kind of nationalism. He is a big proponent of LGBT, he's big proponent of transing kids. He's a big proponent of abortion and all these social issues. And he dresses it up and baptizes it with the fact that, oh, I'm in seminary. and it is these people like him to go their churches they've got their rainbow flags that they put up right it's a kind of nationalism isn't it and of course if you go the other direction like pete heggseth you can go to churches like hagey's church and san antonio they've got flags of israel both of these people are selling you something that is fundamentally not Christian is

Starting point is 01:44:17 not following Christ. They've got their idols. Their idols are the things of this world, the kingdoms of this world. Their idols are themselves in the case of the left. You know, they are looking at this and saying, Tala Rico says, well, you know, my grandpappy told me that there's two commandments. And that is, that is true. That was, he had a guy who asked Christ. He said, so what are the, what is the most important thing today? He says, well, the most important commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and then to similar to that is to love your neighbor as yourself except what these guys are saying is well I think I'm God I can decide what is right and wrong I can decide that there's not just male

Starting point is 01:45:01 and female but there's all these gradations in between so I'm going to reorganize creation and contradiction to God's design and I'm going to redesign marriage and contradiction to God's design. I'm going to do all these things. And I'm going to do it to please myself. And I'm going to love myself. Not going to love my neighbor and tell them where we stand before God without Christ. I'm not going to tell them that. I'm not going to tell them how to make peace with God and who they need in order to make peace with God. You know, we look at this, as I said before, when we're talking about the third temple. There's not going to be a third temple, folks. They can build whatever they want, but it won't be a temple.

Starting point is 01:45:47 The Jewish religion hasn't been practiced since the temple was destroyed. And it was sacrificial. And it was messianic. They lost the sacrifices when they lost the Messiah. The blood of bulls and goats can't take away sin. It's simply a picture of Christ in what he would do. He is the lamb. I went many years ago, I went to a Passover sater with some friends who are Christians,

Starting point is 01:46:14 Messianic Jews. And they went through and they explained what the current, the modern Passover meal for Jewish people is like. And it's amazing all the pictures of Christ in it. It truly is throughout Passover. It was all a picture of Christ. And so, you know, when you look at the dispensationalists who make an idol out of Israel and say, well, you know, we've got to, this is all about what's going to happen. The future is all about the Jews. It's not. The future is about Christ. And the Old Testament pointed to him. As Jesus said to the Jews of his day, he said,

Starting point is 01:46:52 you search the scriptures because in them you think you have eternal life, but they testify of me. That's your hermeneutic. That's how you should read the Bible to understand it. It testifies of Christ. And so they have a Passover meal that doesn't have a lamb in it because they missed the lamb. And they don't have sacrifice.

Starting point is 01:47:14 is for their sins because they don't have a temple because they have missed the guy who is the temple. And so this is case with all man-made religions. They all have a set of works that they want to do and they'll come up with their own things that they say justify them before God. And for Tala Rico, it's his thing, well, we just love everybody. You know, that's how we're going to. So that's his work. He thinks he can work his way to God by loving everybody. And yet, Tala Rico, like each and every one of us, all of us have sinned and fallen short

Starting point is 01:47:53 with glory of God. And each and every one of us has turned his own way. And nowhere is that more clear than with James Tolariko turning his own way. And yet he's got his idea that, well, he can make it all up to God by just loving God somehow. Well, Christ said, if you love me, keep my commandments. It's more than that, and what does it look like when you do that? But here's what he has to say in terms of his salvation.

Starting point is 01:48:20 Jesus in Matthew 25 tells us exactly how you and I and every one of our fellow believers how we're going to be judged and how we're going to be saved. By feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger. Nothing about going to church, nothing about voting Republican. It was all about how you treat other people. Don't, don't. It wasn't all about how you treat other people. Not at all.

Starting point is 01:48:49 What a lion. What did to see where he is. Look, you got King David, right? A man after God's own heart. And yet, what did he do? He committed adultery. He murdered the husband of the woman that he committed adultery with to cover up the adultery. And then what did he say?

Starting point is 01:49:09 He said to God as he repented, he said, against you and you only have I sinned. Well, you know, he had sinned against the woman. He had sinned against the man, too, didn't he? But ultimately, it's about sinning against God. And what do you do for that kind of rebellion? Well, that's what Christ is about. And what does it mean to love your neighbor?

Starting point is 01:49:30 If your neighbor stands condemned before God, isn't it love to tell them about the sacrifice and the free gift of grace that Christ has given us? Isn't that love? he also had this to say. And although President Trump has said that these settlements are... Oh, I'm sorry, that's the wrong one. Let me stop this.

Starting point is 01:49:51 Tala Rico is not really focused on Christ. He's focused on his politics. And, you know, it's kind of interesting when he says, well, we love our neighbor. We, you know, we give them homes or this or that. He mentions a bunch of circumstantial things that are, you know, they're all good things. And we should help people with that. But he wants the government to do it. And so for him, it's the government.

Starting point is 01:50:12 taking care of everybody is our salvation. He really doesn't care about Christ. He thinks that there's many different ways to God, right? You're called to love all of our neighbors, including our Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu-seek, agnostic, atheist neighbors. Atheism. And forcing our religion down their throats is not love. And it's why I have thought...

Starting point is 01:50:38 No, telling them about the free grace of God is love. He doesn't want to do that. For that sacred separation. And again, you know, Jesus said there's many different ways. Broad is a path that leads to destruction. Many people are like, there's a narrow way. It's only one person wide, folks. The person of Christ himself.

Starting point is 01:51:01 He said, I am the way. I am the truth. I am life. I am the resurrection. Right? And yet he says, it doesn't matter. You know, we can follow these other places. They need to either show.

Starting point is 01:51:14 that seminary down or kick this guy out. He should be getting an F at any real Christian seminary. It also shows that he's, if he even believes any of this, what he's bought into is this idea that you are supposed to just unquestioningly accept anything. Love to them is just acceptance. That's right. I love my son, but I sometimes make him mad because I don't let him do things. I tell him no.

Starting point is 01:51:39 I tell him, no, you can't play with this or you can't play with that because it's dangerous. No, you can't put that in your mouth. It's bad for you. Yeah. So here we are coming up to Easter. And Tala Rico is basically saying to people, it didn't matter that Jesus gave his life for people. It's not effective at all. It's not necessary.

Starting point is 01:51:56 You can be a Buddhist. You can be a Hindu. You can be an atheist. And it really doesn't matter. You know, what Christ did doesn't matter. That's not Christian folks. And we have to be very careful about demagogues like this guy. It's just amazing.

Starting point is 01:52:10 And yet the people who got it right. surprisingly was Snopes, I guess. They're like a broken clock. But this is so obvious even Snopes can see through it. And just as another thing that Paul said besides being crucified with Christ, he said, you know, some people preach Christ out of selfish ambition like what we just saw, right? But he's not even preaching Christ. He's just using the label out of selfish ambition. Some people preach Christ at a selfish ambition and rivalry. But even when that happens, okay,

Starting point is 01:52:44 provides an opportunity for people to give the gospel and hear the truth about Christ. They don't understand, even as they remember the resurrection this week. Tolerico doesn't understand it, and he doesn't see the picture of the Passover and the picture of the Christ's sacrifice in the Passover. One of the things that these pastors referred to him,

Starting point is 01:53:09 they jokingly referred to him as Talariko of Tarsus, referring to Paul of Tarsus, right, who wrote, I am crucified with Christ. Tala RICO has described himself as an avowed Christian and as a progressive, and has been the target of heavy criticism from conservatives for, quote, praising transgenderism, and he once said that God is non-binary. Yeah, he did actually say that. that. So he pushes LGBT agenda. He pushes mutilation and sterilization of minors. He push it same-sex mirage. He pushes abortion. This is why the pastor said he needs to be crucified. He needs to be

Starting point is 01:53:57 converted. You know, we talk about conversion. What does that mean? What is the etymology of that? Well, vert means to turn, right? You have an advertisement. That means to turn somebody to your product, right? Convert means that you're turning people with, right? That's the whole point. That's what he was talking about when he said, crucified with Christ. You're turning people's lives. It's changed. And they turn with Christ to follow Christ. That's what conversion means. And yet, he doesn't embrace any of that. And so he gives you a version of salvation without Christ. Yeah, you just help poor people, and that's it. You know, that's all you're supposed to do.

Starting point is 01:54:42 And somehow you love God. I don't know what that is a warm feeling about God or something like that. No, we have to realize that our sin is rebellion to God. And he has said the wages of sin is death. And that's why he said there's no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood. That's what the sacrifices of bulls and goats were to point to, the fact that there was a serious violation and to take it seriously. And it pointed to the sacrifice of Christ that he would be the lamb, that he would be the

Starting point is 01:55:20 Passover lamb. Well, J.D. Hall says that Tolerico speaks evangelical as a first language. He's been there long enough that he can speak the lingo and he can fool people like Stephen Colbert. He said most Democrats who try to court religious. voters look like a man who's attempting to assemble Swedish furniture without instructions. There's pieces everywhere, nothing fits, and somebody's going to get hurt. They hold a Bible at an awkward angle.

Starting point is 01:55:51 They cite the wrong verse. They say, as Jesus said, and then they paraphrase something that sounds suspiciously like a hallmark card. They show up to black churches and election years and clap on the wrong beat. So he grew up in a pew. He knows the texts. And he knows the cadence. And he knows the vocabulary.

Starting point is 01:56:11 That's why I said he's a demagogue because he's lying about all of that stuff. Calorico can drop evangelical vocabulary words into a conversation with the easy confidence of someone who actually sat in a Greek exegesis class. And we're talking about this. Since there's a lot of people who don't know the phrase crucified with Christ, I guess we should mention what exegesis is. It actually comes from a Greek word, which means to a Greek. Exposite to explain the text. And so you'll frequently hear people talking about exegesis, you know, what is the text they're really saying?

Starting point is 01:56:48 Let's draw out what it's really saying. Versus isegesis where you are reading into the text what you want it to say. So who is this guy, James Tenerico? Well, he is a former middle school teacher. He's an eighth generation Texan, a Presbyterian seminarian, who has not become a minister yet. He's a long ways away from this, I would say, hopefully. And so he likes to talk about the Bible and his polemics.

Starting point is 01:57:20 And so, again, when we talk about Christian nationalism, you know, you've got people like Pete Heggseth, who's also into Jewish nationalism, or you've got people like Tala Rica who is into LGBT nationalism. and they want to use whatever power and persuasion they have to push those secular agendas. He frequently criticizes conservative Christians' opposition to LGBT rights as a form of Christian nationalism that distorts Jesus' teaching. But again, what he is selling is a religion that's got its own flag, its own politics as well.

Starting point is 01:57:59 And so he generally supports LGBT so-called rights. and he says that he's in favor of same-sex mirage and fully affirms gay marriage. He's one of the most vocal defenders of transgender rights in Texas politics, particularly that of trans youth. In other words, he's perverting God's design, not just for marriage, not just for relationships, but he wants to mutilate and murder children from abortion to the, trans mutilation that is there. Trans children, he said, are God's children made in God's own image, and there's nothing wrong with them. They are sacred. He actually said that. That's a quote from him.

Starting point is 01:58:46 Well, you know, we are made in the image of God, but sin has marred that image. Christ died to restore that, to make things new. So we are disfigured figuratively, but he wants to disfigure these kids literally and surgically. And so what he's saying is you don't need Christ. You need sterilization and mutilation. He has opposed bans on gender affirming care for minors, calling such debates painful and describing the care as life-saving for transgender youth. Well, you need to talk to some of these kids who've been gaslit about this and now have

Starting point is 01:59:27 major regrets about this. As a matter of fact, he also says, said that there's not just male and female, but we got a whole spectrum there of different things. Well, that's not what Christ said. As a matter of fact, what Christ said was in the context of divorce. He was asked about divorce, and Jesus said, haven't you read? Then in beginning, the creator made us male and female? You know, that's the purpose of marriage.

Starting point is 01:59:55 That's the core of it. And he is throwing all that out. He says, he'll's strong pro-choice position. Hold it because I got one more thing to say about how deceiving this guy is. How does he argue for abortion? Well, he goes on with people like Joe Rogan and, you know, Stephen Colbert. And he says, well, you know, when the angel came to Mary, God did that because he needed Mary's permission in order for her to have a baby.

Starting point is 02:00:28 It's like, well, you miss the next part of the story where she goes to meet Elizabeth who is pregnant with John the Baptist. And before he became John the Baptist, he was John the baby. And John the baby, when he heard Mary's voice, leaped inside the womb of Elizabeth. It's a person. It's referred to as a person, not a choice. He is a very dangerous demagogue. And it's not just politics that he's perverting. He's perverting the most important things around there.

Starting point is 02:01:01 Again, he preaches love yourself. That's what he's saying with his version of the nativity. You've got to love yourself. There's nothing more important than your decisions. You are God. God has to bow to what you wish to happen. That is not the reality, folks. You're not to think of yourself as God.

Starting point is 02:01:22 And you're not to love yourself more than your neighbor, more than God. This is a true perversion of the Christian teachings and a following Christ. And this is one of the reasons why he is so dearly loved by the left. And yet, when we look at the alternatives, the Republican side, there's nothing at all to get excited about there. But we need to be very careful about what this guy says about the most important thing. The most important thing in life is not our knowledge of the Constitution. Our most important thing in life is our knowledge of Christ and our relationship with Christ.

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