A brief history of how the Republican Party came to be and why it s not the way you might have anticipated. Also, Rep. Tate Pettigrew's response to a question about whether or not the Supreme Court is a racist organization.
00:02:50.000The first sheriff in the United States, elected sheriff of the United States of America, Walter Moses Burton, who also became a senator and helped in education.
00:02:59.000The A&M system is because of a black Republican who signed it into law.
00:03:05.000So when you talk about the Republican concentration and contributions, 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments were Republicans.
00:03:14.000People talk about LBJ and he signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
00:03:22.000So when you start looking at this and the Freedmen Bureau, which was the predecessor of the HBCU, historical black college universities, those were because of Republicans.
00:03:33.000So when you start looking at this, the first civil rights law that was passed into law and signed into law, Ulysses S. Grant, a Republican.
00:03:41.000The next time that happened was 1957, the year I was born by Dwight David Eisenhower.
00:03:47.000When you look at who was the Brown versus Topeka Board of Education, Earl Warren, former governor, Republican of California, who was the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:03:58.000So when you start looking at the history of the Republican Party from the great state of Texas and nationally, the Republican Party, contrary to belief, is not some party voter suppressant.
00:08:23.000Governor Abbott had the power and wherewithal to bring a lot of this to closure and did not and left things open ended that leaves us where we are today.
00:08:33.000And so Representative Dave Bratt here, great to have you on.
00:08:37.000Can you give us a recap of that statement you made yesterday?
00:08:41.000Because I think that is so important to understand.
00:08:43.000Yeah, I've been on national news almost nonstop for the last, you know, 24, 36 hours and then trying to get people to understand the real story here, the true scandal, because the national media is missing it.
00:08:56.000It's everyone wants to focus on the Democrats and the theatrics that they're up to and how they're hiding behind Governor Pritzker, you know, up in Illinois and all that.
00:09:03.000That's OK. That's interesting. It's news.
00:09:05.000But the real story isn't that the Democrats fled Texas to thwart our redistricting efforts.
00:09:11.000The real story, and it is a scandal, is that Texas Republican leadership let them do it.
00:09:43.000And instead of using all of the tools available to the corrupt rhino leadership of the Texas House to maintain the quorum and force the Democrats to stay, what did our speaker do?
00:09:56.000He adjourned the body after only seven minutes.
00:10:26.000The real story is that this is a quorum break done by Democrats.
00:10:30.000But unfortunately, with the acquiescence, the complicity and the support and assistance of the elected Republican leadership in the state of Texas.
00:10:39.000And if Texas, if the great state of Texas, a state I love and I'm proud to serve in, if the state of Texas had true, bold, fearless, conservative leadership committed to delivering for the people who sent us here, this quorum break never would have happened.
00:11:05.000I mean, the governor is the head of the executive branch in the state of Texas.
00:11:07.000Once the House, if we had done a call to the House, the governor could have done what he did yesterday, which is order DPS to support the House sergeant at arms and arrest every single one of these Democrats before they left, before they crossed the border into other states.
00:11:21.000So it's unfortunately, it's not just the speaker.
00:11:24.000It's the full elected leadership of the Texas government that had the authority to stop this.
00:11:28.000And I'm sick and tired of what we're seeing right now.
00:11:30.000We're seeing so much bad kabuki theater, scripted song and dance and theatrics from the elected leadership in Texas.
00:11:36.000Now, there's been a lot of for the last 24 hours, a lot of very strongly worded tweets.
00:11:41.000We've had some very strongly worded press statements.
00:11:43.000We've even had some strongly worded arrest warrants.
00:12:34.000The entire budget line by line was linked to donors.
00:12:37.000And if you tried to save a teaspoon of that money, it would have to come from somebody.
00:12:41.000So I'm guessing that this is linked to money.
00:12:44.000This uniparty thing is led by major donors.
00:12:48.000Enlighten us all so we can study and make some progress down there.
00:12:53.000Well, best I can tell, and this is going to upset people and it should, best I can tell both parties, not just the Democrats, both parties are doing everything they can to fundraise off of this insanity.
00:13:04.000I mean, that's what it looks like to me.
00:13:06.000And meanwhile, who's left out there in the cold?
00:13:09.000The hardworking men and women of Texas, the voters who sent us here, the people we're supposed to be serving.
00:13:14.000And this isn't just the first example of the Texas government being off the rails.
00:13:17.000I mean, let me be really clear about this.
00:13:19.000If the Texas Republican government wanted to do redistricting, really believed that we should do it, we gaveled in it in January.
00:13:26.000This could have been done by now and it would have been done by now if the Texas Republican leadership wanted it to.
00:13:31.000But what did we spend the entire regular session doing?
00:13:34.000Was it passing bold conservative bills?
00:13:38.000We passed, in the regular session, we decided to continue taxing Texans out of their homes to fund DEI, transgender ideology in our public universities, and to give billions of tax dollars to liberal Hollywood.
00:13:52.000The Texas government is off the rails.
00:13:54.000Democrats run the show down here in Austin.
00:13:57.000Yeah, well, thanks to Stephen Bannon and the War Room Posse, the spotlight is on there.
00:14:03.000When I was in Congress, I had no recourse, right?
00:14:06.000My local regional papers, the national press was a disaster.
00:14:10.000It looks like the Texans have been duped, but now there's a chance to educate the Texan people what's going on.
00:14:17.000Where do people go to learn that, Brian?
00:14:19.000How do they follow you and social media?
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00:24:55.000And so if you look, and just by chance, you know,
00:24:57.000the proportion of the folks in the religious communities has been fading down to about that number, too.
00:25:02.000So it's kind of a correlation between losing a grounded worldview and mental health issues.
00:25:09.000And then we've all just been through torture with COVID, right?
00:25:13.000And it took years, but at least some of the scientific evidence started coming in about the abuses of science and that.
00:25:21.000Is there anything coming through yet on the abuse of just the preliminary stages of this AI,
00:25:29.000just on the scientific level, before we get into the moral level?
00:25:35.000I'm not aware of the statistics on how many people, for instance, use chatbots as therapists or confidants.
00:25:43.000They may exist, but most of what we see is anecdotal.
00:25:48.000A lot of people I know use these things for that purpose.
00:25:52.000A lot of people I know know people who use chatbots for that purpose, to confide their deepest secrets,
00:25:59.000to get advice on some of the most critical issues in their lives.
00:26:04.000And that connection, that emotional connection, that sense of trust and dependency,
00:26:10.000the more people have it, the more control these tech companies will have over their way of thinking.
00:26:17.000It's a click above Google, to say the least.
00:26:20.000We're talking about a semi-natural conversation.
00:26:23.000And if the expectation for a real natural conversation, a deep communication between one human and another,
00:26:31.000if that expectation is degraded, then you don't really even need that sophisticated of a technology to begin to replace it.
00:26:39.000And in COVID, from 2020 forward, what we saw was mass isolation, mass distrust, mass screen dependency,
00:26:50.000everything from work from home to homeschooling and e-learning.
00:26:55.000The COVID really did, as Klaus Schwab said in his great reset, provided a narrow window of opportunity to push digital platforms and digital infrastructure onto the population that would have never been accepted before.
00:27:11.000Fortunately, many people, hopefully most people are suspicious of this and don't accept it, will not accept it.
00:27:47.000And I just believe as a Christian that it violates, you know, I could go over about 10,000 postulates of God's natural law and common grace and whatever.
00:27:59.000And I just think that it's got to result eventually in some empirical evidence showing mental health catastrophes because of these false relationships.
00:28:09.000Right. There is something real in our psyche and our souls and even in our bodies that links us to God and to the creation.
00:28:17.000And so back with Joe in a second, more on the theology and artificial intelligence.
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00:29:42.000All right, Dave Bratt, back in the war room with a great Joe Allen on artificial intelligence.
00:29:53.000Just discussing kind of the creation, the resurrection of the soul of technology, keeping the lives of people with us.
00:30:11.000I just cannot see how this does not have repercussions.
00:30:16.000Joe, let me just tee you up with a few of my views out of the Christian tradition where AI just violates basic Christian propositions.
00:30:28.000If you just look across the Catholic catechism, the Baltimore catechism, the Protestant catechism, the Heidelberg catechism, Jewish scripture, why are we on earth to glorify God?
00:31:20.000Right. Let me give you a history of that, of the harm principle.
00:31:23.000And so you can never pin it down on any moral questions.
00:31:26.000Right. And then digging a bit deeper into theology, I just got done with a chaplain.
00:31:35.000We're just talking about, you know, one of the key postulates is we're made in the image of God.
00:31:39.000And clearly artificial intelligence is not.
00:31:41.000And if you ask it anything about that, it's blank as well.
00:31:45.000And then if you go to the central commands in the Christian tradition and in the Jewish tradition and the Islamic tradition, love God and love your neighbor as yourself.
00:31:56.000A. I can't love. Right. And then then when you go down to the next level and you look at the creators of this stuff, Altman, Sam Altman and Zuckerberg, et cetera, when they're talking, they make me scared and nervous.
00:32:11.000Right. And so I just don't see how this goes well.
00:32:15.000And so at a minimum, you know, they were trying to get out of, you know, legislative accountability in the last budget and it was hidden by leadership, I guess.
00:32:24.000And at a minimum, I want to plug. I want to pull the plug.
00:32:28.000And I would like, you know, competition.
00:32:29.000One of the nice things about having a few competitive firms there is one of the firms should be able to pull the plug on the other if they find something that crosses a red line.
00:32:38.000And so that that's just a quick set of observations.
00:32:45.000And the Liberty University kids, that's where their minds going to go is that this thing violates way too much of the basics.
00:32:53.000And there's got to be some sort of repercussions about that.
00:32:57.000And then the second point is, how do we regulate this thing?
00:33:01.000And so, Joe, just tee us up and give us what you got, because I know you're steeped in all of this.
00:33:06.000The big question in America right now and the Trump action plan is a very bad sign as to where it's going to go, in my opinion.
00:33:16.000But the question is, how should one regulate or how should one govern artificial intelligence, whether from municipal or state or national level or through international cooperation?
00:33:29.000It's a free for all. It could go any direction.
00:33:32.000You can see where it's going in California, which I think is fairly reasonable, but who knows where.
00:33:36.000You can see where it's going in Texas.
00:33:38.000You can see where it's going in the EU.
00:33:40.000Right now, the U.S. federal government policy is basically to blow open the doors and unleash whatever comes out the other end, whether it's GPT-5 or Grok or whatever.
00:33:50.000You know, to the question of the image of God, the way I think about this oftentimes, you think of Augustine's statement that Satan is the ape of God.
00:34:02.000Well, artificial intelligence is the ape of the image of God.
00:34:08.000Artificial intelligence is a reflection of human writing, human visual art production, human filmmaking, all these sorts of things, even just human thinking.
00:34:18.000Right. It mimics it in a kind of deformed fashion, but it is ultimately kind of a mockery in the same way that you get really irritated when you come up with a great line and someone steals it and uses it.
00:34:32.000Well, this is basically a machine that's created to do exactly that.
00:34:35.000And so everything that you pour into the digital space is basically fodder for the ape of the image of God.
00:34:43.000And, you know, I'm not sure what models you were talking to.
00:34:46.000I would imagine it was probably GPT or maybe Claude or maybe Grok, those responses that you just listed.
00:34:54.000Trying to stay morally neutral, trying not to be offensive.
00:34:57.000There are a lot of people developing right now, AI bots that will evangelize, that will tell you exactly from whatever tradition it's kind of either programmed to or guided to reflect.
00:35:10.000You will have, I think, a lot of very important religious leaders who will not say, do not use AI.
00:35:20.000You must, in essence, catechize the bots, and you must use artificial intelligence for evangelical purposes.
00:35:27.000And this is going to raise really big questions because if you do not evangelize as has been done for 2,000 years with a human representative, a human model, flawed challenge, a human with a biography, a story.
00:35:45.000If you don't have that as the vehicle for the gospel, then this robot, right, it's just simply a transmission of information.
00:35:54.000You're basically programming people with the gospel rather than truly spreading it.
00:35:59.000These are going to be huge challenges going forward, Dave, and I am glad that you are wrestling with it.
00:36:08.000And the point you just brought up there, right, you know, the preaching in the Protestant tradition, the word preached, right, from the, they're supposed to be preaching out of the good book, right, so that would be helpful.
00:36:21.000But, you know, A, I can certainly fake that and be the ape of God there, too.
00:36:29.000The word preached from the preacher out of the pulpit is the word of God in our tradition.
00:36:34.000I think probably most of the other traditions.
00:36:36.000Just in closing, Joe, just one other, you know, every philosopher in the Western tradition, ancient philosophers, you know, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, modern, all the way up, Hobbes, Kant, Rousseau.
00:36:48.000Well, Rousseau is the exception. All of them said human nature is bad, negative, right, very fallen, the reform, especially theological.
00:36:58.000So if you aggregate human nature into artificial intelligence, every philosopher would conclude the aggregation is bad.
00:37:06.000And that's why I went into this idea of a constitutional republic where minority rights and minority factions are protected, because this thing scares the daylights out of me.
00:37:16.000And so when you aggregate all human knowledge into one mass, my conclusion is it would represent human nature, which is quite fallen in the Western tradition.
00:37:28.000One minute and close us out on that one, Joe.
00:37:31.000Yeah, Dave, that's a great observation.
00:37:34.000And it's it's true that say an A.I. is telling people to commit suicide, say an A.I. is telling people to act in malevolent ways towards other people.
00:37:46.000Now, that is a reflection of its training data, right?
00:37:49.000Now, a sophisticated A.I. literally selected that for whatever reason, statistical reasons, one assumes.
00:37:55.000But it's not as if it was programmed to do that. People really got to get beyond that.
00:37:59.000But it does reflect what was put into it. Right. Human nature, human behavior.
00:38:04.000Right. The hope of the kind of transhumanist vision or the post-humanist vision is this, that once you have poured this flawed human nature into the machine,
00:38:14.000once the machine has come to, in essence, understand or grasp the mind of humanity, then either a human beings with higher moral callings.
00:38:24.000Right. The Sam Altman's of the world, perhaps, will then call the negative aspects of human nature from the machine.
00:38:31.000You see that with the guardrails against racism, sexism, homophobia, all that.
00:38:35.000Now, the more unsettling idea is that perhaps the machine itself will want sufficiently advanced artificial general intelligence or super intelligence,
00:38:46.000that it will be better equipped to figure out what is worth preserving in this digitized humanity and what should be removed.
00:38:54.000Yeah, it's going to be a very, very weird future.
00:38:58.000It's going to be full of all sorts of great arguments, just like the ones you're making.
00:39:02.000And I think that people are going to have to wrestle with this really hard.
00:39:06.000Do you want a digital undead version of your lost loved one to speak to?
00:39:10.000Or are you prepared to simply do as all humans have done for countless millennia?
00:42:35.000And then we had the terrorist threats, you know, the guys who broke into Quantico and various other people who were on the terror watch list who were just let into our nation.
00:42:48.000And, you know, even before that, a lot of Americans had recognized what a damaging proposition open borders is.
00:42:57.000But Americans are now also realizing that we have too much legal immigration, whether that's through H-1Bs coming in and taking American tech jobs, whether that's just through our normal legal immigration system that's letting in over a million people per year as lawful permanent residents.
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