In this episode, we take a question from the country of Georgia about the situation in Syria and South Korea. We also have a special guest call in from South Korea, who has a very interesting perspective on the situation.
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00:01:53.000So, yeah, just to introduce myself, I live in Georgia, the country, and pretty much the situation here isn't great at the moment.
00:02:06.000So pretty much what the government did was they said that they would delay EU accession talks until 2028. And the European Union is also pushing back against the government's decision against that,
00:02:23.000and also because the government passed a few controversial laws in the past year, such as the law on family values, which pretty much tries to get rid of LGBT propaganda in schools, and then another law, which is...
00:02:40.000A law on foreign transparency, which is to address foreign funding.
00:02:44.000It's kind of similar to FARA, the US law.
00:02:59.000So at the moment, Georgia and citizens can go to the EU visa-free, and they're threatening to end that too.
00:03:05.000So I'm just wondering what the current, the new Trump administration can do to help the situation out, and yeah, what the future could look like.
00:03:15.000Well, I can't speak to what the Trump administration will do, but let me understand this.
00:03:19.000First of all, it's amazing that you're calling in from the country of Georgia.
00:03:22.000One of our team members didn't know that Georgia was a country, and so she will be re-educated.
00:03:39.000And so let me ask you, Lucas, Just to clarify, so you're saying that basically a lot of U.S. diplomacy is being cut off because you guys passed a law to prevent LGBT propaganda.
00:03:55.000I'm fascinated to learn about other countries.
00:03:57.000So the two laws that were passed, the first one is one that concerns family value.
00:04:03.000So it bans LGBT propaganda in schools and other public sectors.
00:04:09.000And then the second law is the law on foreign transparency, which essentially addresses foreign funding to NGOs.
00:04:17.000So any NGO here that receives over 20% of their funds from foreign countries must register as an agent and disclose their funds to the government.
00:04:30.000So those are the two laws in question and the EU wants us to deal with those laws.
00:04:48.000Blake, do you have a thought on all this?
00:04:49.000This, Blake, is our expert Georgian here.
00:04:53.000Yeah, so I guess I don't have – I'm not an expert on what's specifically going on in Georgia.
00:05:00.000But what I will say is you can look at the headlines and you can see outlines very similar to attacks we've seen on the government of Hungary.
00:05:10.000It's very similar to the articles they were writing when Ukraine had the original color revolution.
00:05:17.000Back in 2014, where they'll say the government is attacking democracy, and then you dig into the details and it's stuff like, well, the government is promoting traditional families and opposing LGBT stuff.
00:05:31.000Okay, that's not democracy, that's just left-wing political stuff.
00:05:38.000What you'd see here if you dig into it is they're basically just saying if the government isn't as fanatically anti-Russia as we are, then they're not a democracy.
00:05:47.000If the government doesn't promote socially liberal stuff that we want, they're not a democracy.
00:05:52.000If they don't join the European Union and allow all of our big NGOs to do whatever they want, that's anti-democracy.
00:06:01.000And so I would certainly raise an eyebrow at all of that.
00:06:05.000And what I think is, as Charlie says, we don't know exactly what the Trump administration will do, but I do think Trump's general anti-intervention impulses would mean he will hopefully have a State Department that's less likely to try and tip the scales over what a country should be doing about its family policy and the like.
00:06:24.000And so I think we'll have a much better State Department under Trump than we've had under Biden or as we had under Obama back in the day.
00:07:10.000So, yes, my next book, unless there's something else that comes across, is going to be Stop in the Name of God.
00:07:17.000It is all about the Shabbat, and I believe that we are called to honor and be anchored to the Sabbath.
00:07:27.000Are you Jewish, or are you Christian, or are you Seventh-day Adventist?
00:07:30.000Actually, so I grew up Jewish, and then my husband was Catholic, and we just recently learned, we've been watching The Chosen, and we've been on this journey, and I think that there's an actual awakening going on, because we've actually realized and learned that there is actually a history where the apostles originally,
00:07:55.000you know, these two religions were joined, and, you know, just the whole history We have been reading on and so we have gone back to celebrating Shabbat as well as the Hebrew festivals, Hanukkah is coming up and are no longer celebrating Christmas, but we've just been doing a lot of reading and the Hebrew roots topic has been very interesting to us and inspiring.
00:08:26.000So, yeah, I'm just fascinated by this.
00:08:30.000Less about the biblical rigidity of it.
00:08:33.000I'm going to get into that in the book.
00:08:34.000But more about what it can mean for a country and a civilization that is drowning in modernity to disconnect and literally cease all work and all activity.
00:08:45.000Your specific question is, do I follow other Jewish festivals such as Sukkot or Shavuot or Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah?
00:08:55.000I think I'm missing a couple there, but those are the main ones.
00:08:58.000No, and the main reason being is obviously as a Christian, we do not feel bound to the specific Jewish festivals.
00:09:06.000However, the Shabbat is very different.
00:09:11.000And the Shabbat is by far the most repeated law in the Torah, repeated of remember the Sabbath, remember the Sabbath, punishment by death, by the way, if you desecrated the Sabbath publicly.
00:09:22.000And the Shabbat, unlike Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Shavuot, or Sukkot, Shabbat is a celebration of Genesis 1-1.
00:09:31.000In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, or otherwise known as Perashit.
00:09:35.000And the Shabbat fundamentally is not just about the atonement for sins.
00:11:59.000The Supreme Court case is obviously what's getting a lot of the attention because you have...
00:12:04.000There's like 25 states that have passed laws.
00:12:07.000Only some of those have come into effect.
00:12:09.000A lot of them are currently being held back by the courts.
00:12:14.000They paused them pending the Supreme Court case.
00:12:17.000Yesterday, everyone's trying to read the tea leaves about what the Supreme Court thought on that specific bill, which is...
00:12:25.000You know, they're getting into very funny things like John Roberts called the Transgender Council from the ACLU, Mr. Does that mean he's leaning against us because he used their preferred pronouns?
00:12:37.000The people I've been talking to seem pretty confident we will win this case, hopefully six to three on the normal conservative-liberal split.
00:12:47.000If we get that, it'll actually matter a lot how they rule on it.
00:12:54.000We discussed this yesterday where they were arguing that, oh, it's sex-based discrimination to say that you can't mutilate kids because, oh, this girl can take estrogen, but this boy can't.
00:13:06.000It would be interesting how the court rules because they could say this is just not sex discrimination or they could say it is sex discrimination, but it's okay.
00:13:15.000It passes a threshold of scrutiny to allow that.
00:13:18.000and what my friends pointed out is it might be better if we got that second ruling because that would pave the way to have more court rulings and more laws that acknowledge men and women are different and the law can affect them in different ways it's okay to say the military is presumptively for men the draft is presumptively for men you're allowed to do that and so it would be it'll depend a lot how the court structures that and that will shape Everything else that happens in
00:13:48.000terms of sports, in terms of protecting kids, in terms of child custody.
00:13:53.000So we're all kind of waiting and holding our breath on how they'll frame that.
00:16:56.000What sort of precedent does the Hunter Biden pardon set for America, especially after what we've seen with the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Trump, and especially the weaponization in South Korea when the president called for martial law?
00:17:13.000What sort of, like, what mark does this leave, you know, this weaponization of our political systems?
00:17:19.000What mark does it leave for America and for the world?
00:17:29.000We're getting Georgia, we're getting Syria, we're getting South Korea.
00:17:33.000South Korea is definitely an example of where America could go if things get worse.
00:17:38.000South Korea is a democracy, but it's a very fraught democracy.
00:17:41.000The other night I was looking at their list of presidents that they've had, and it's like overthrown, overthrown, assassinated, military coup, imprisoned for 22 years, investigated for corruption and committed suicide.
00:17:55.000It's wild how all of their presidents – Why is that though?
00:18:58.000This pardon on Hunter Biden, you really can – it's hard to overstate how nuts it is because he didn't just say – he says in his statement, I think this specific prosecution went too far and wouldn't have happened if he wasn't the son of a president, which, you know, setting things aside, if you're doing crimes as the son of the president, it does seem a little bit worse than it would be otherwise.
00:19:19.000But anyway, he doesn't just pardon him for those.
00:19:22.000He just says, blanket pardon any criminal activity ever committed in an entire 10-year period from 2014 to now, which means it covers all the Ukraine stuff.
00:19:31.000It covers all manner of reckless and potentially corrupt behavior.
00:19:37.000And they're also talking about they might pardon other people in the Biden administration to forestall any investigation of them by Trump.
00:19:46.000There's been reporting on this, that they might give one to Adam Schiff, to other people, Anthony Fauci.
00:19:53.000And so, again, you're seeing that everything the Democrats claim will be a bad thing Trump will do, they do themselves.
00:20:00.000So they massively weaponized the Justice Department, and then they also used the pardon power to just blanketly get people off for a huge array of crimes.
00:20:10.000And there really is no precedent for this.
00:20:13.000People will say Trump pardoned Jared Kushner's father, but Jared Kushner's father had served his sentence.
00:20:19.000And so this was just, you know, it was honoring him.
00:20:22.000It was giving him a prize for not reoffending, for reintegrating into society.
00:20:28.000He served his time, and Trump only pardoned him for that offense.
00:20:32.000This is much further, and it is definitely...
00:20:35.000An ugly precedent if we see this become the norm of just every side has to pardon all of its people every time to keep them from getting prosecuted by the people who come after them.
00:20:47.000And a bunch of pardons might be better than everyone getting prosecuted all of the time.
00:20:53.000But it's definitely a decline in the American Republic from what we had before, because ultimately what a, you know, Democratic Republican system of government operates on is you use elections to solve your disputes.
00:21:08.000You let the people decide what policies will be.
00:21:10.000You don't just you know, you don't just endlessly try to destroy each other through every means necessary because that's the path to civil war and worse.
00:21:20.000I would agree that the precedent it does set, though, is that it gives Donald Trump an uninterrupted, a clear shot to do January 6 pardons.
00:21:44.000Look, I'm going to be realistic about my diet in December.
00:21:46.000It's going to be the worst month of the year in terms of eating right.
00:21:49.000Inevitably, all of us are going to be stuffing ourselves with treats, meats, and dishes into our mouths, leaving very little room for the right stuff.
00:21:57.000But I will take balance in nature every single day.
00:21:59.000Balance in nature is made from whole fruits and veggies.
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00:22:38.000Okay, Lizzie, thank you for being a member.
00:24:42.000And you should be aware a lot of these things are scams.
00:24:45.000That said, I don't want to ever say someone should categorically stay away from it because there are people who've made enormous amounts of money off of it.
00:24:57.000It has definitely carved out a niche as it is a way for people to have some autonomy and independence from overreaching governments, overreaching regimes.
00:25:11.000So I don't want to say it's anti-Christian.
00:25:14.000I've seen some people claim Bitcoin might be something from biblical revelation.
00:25:20.000I think I once saw people claim it was the mark of the beast.
00:25:23.000I don't think it's any of those things.
00:26:14.000Yes, I live in South Carolina and I've been traveling up at least once or twice a week to volunteer in North Carolina.
00:26:22.000And to try to talk about it just simply brings tears to your eyes as it is devastating up there.
00:26:30.000If you'd like to send Blake down, we'd love to have him and we'll take him up there to Silverado's.
00:26:37.000And he can come and volunteer and he can head off with some of the people who go out and help people muck out their homes and just see everything out there.
00:31:22.000But, Blake, remind me to do an issue in a future episode.
00:31:25.000The amount of women that want to stay at home and they financially have to go into the workforce, I think is a tragedy.
00:31:33.000I think it's a tragedy that things have become so expensive, the cost of living has gone so much, up that moms can't be with their kids to raise them because they have to go work in a job that their heart's not in it.
00:31:45.000So, look, the pressure, to be honest with you, is on your husband to be able to find a job productive enough for him to be able to produce for you.
00:32:00.000And the men need to feel that pressure.
00:32:02.000Men need to be able to find a job and find a career productive enough, work hard enough that your wife does not have to go into the workforce.