In this episode of the End of the Dollar Empire series, we talk about the current economic and geopolitical situation, and the impact it has on the dollar and the dollar's value. We also discuss what the end of the dollar means for precious metals like gold, silver, and other precious metals that are not tied to the dollar.
00:00:47.860it is holy uh saturday uh for april year of our lord 2026 a welcome thank you for the word we're
00:00:59.640gonna get into our more traditional descent into hell which we we do every holy saturday we'll get
00:01:05.440to that uh part of the program uh in a while but i want to start that was very important to start
00:01:11.040with philip patrick day philip um just you know we've come up with the eighth installment of
00:01:17.880end of the dollar empire it's during a time of pretty unique turbulence geopolitically maybe the
00:01:24.360most turbulence we've had since uh vietnam war maybe even going back to world war ii given the
00:01:31.460the broad nature of this award that we're fighting in the middle east right now and of course you
00:01:36.560got the situation in Ukraine. And you've got the dollar. We have obviously enemies against the
00:01:43.500United States that are using the weapon to weaponize other currencies against us. We now
00:01:50.420know that in the Strait or Hormuz, which is clearly the center of battle, the center of gravity of
00:01:57.020this conflict, the tolling, we're now told, is being done in Chinese currency, in Chinese yuan,
00:02:04.000and that people are saying this is a fight over the petrodollar.
00:02:08.700At the same time, and we haven't had enough time to go through this and present it,
00:02:13.640so it'll probably be Monday or Tuesday of next week.
00:02:16.560We understand the new 2027 budget is coming out from the Trump administration.
00:02:21.440Bloomberg's already got a copy of it, but it talks about pretty significant deficits.
00:02:26.860I don't think we're going to get to Scott Besson, a former contributor here.
00:02:32.840his target of going from 6% to GDP to 3%. I think these deficits are going to be quite large,
00:02:40.120and I believe the Congressional Budget Office is actually projecting the 10-year
00:02:44.440increase in deficits is going to be in the tune of $16 to $20 trillion, so that the fiscal cliff
00:02:51.960we've been talking about seems like we're going, it appears from the math that we're going with
00:02:57.740the pedal to the metal. Put it in perspective, what does that mean for when people think of
00:03:03.960precious metals? They think of alternatives to more traditional investments they've got,
00:03:08.900and particularly investments that are directly tied to the dollar. Where do you think that puts
00:03:14.900us? I think it puts us in a very tough situation. We've been talking about this for a long time,
00:03:21.580and it's playing out in front of our eyes. Every new crisis turns or sort of reverts back to the
00:03:28.000debt. We see it with the Iranians now waging financial war against the United States.
00:03:33.840It's a very smart way to do it. They see their Achilles heel or Achilles heel,
00:03:38.220and they know how to attack. It's a big concern. We can't get a handle on deficit spending. And
00:03:46.020it's a reflection of how tough the situation President Trump inherited, President Trump and
00:03:52.100the team inherited was. We have to remember, you know, prior to this administration, there was
00:03:58.100no talk of debt or deficit from the Democratic administration. They didn't even recognize it
00:04:05.800was a problem. We came in very much focused on this. We had a department of external revenue.
00:04:12.140We had Doge initially, and the idea was to try and curb spending, but it's very difficult to slow a machine that is addicted to cheap money.
00:04:21.760And as you rightly point out, the deficit has expanded.
00:04:25.060We have tax cuts, which we needed to stimulate economic growth, but obviously they reduce revenue.
00:04:31.140That was mitigated by tariff revenue, but there's some question marks there.
00:04:35.520And of course, defense spending now has escalated, which means the deficit has expanded.
00:04:40.680And ultimately, if we do not get a handle on this and it's looking less and less likely, we know how this thing plays out.
00:04:47.900We continue to print money to meet debt service, and it only goes one way longer term.
00:04:52.940And that's really what Series 8 of the end of the dollar empire was about.
00:04:58.040It wasn't a suggestion that the dollar is collapsing tomorrow, but it's more of a warning of if we continue down this path, and it seems more and more inevitable as time goes on.
00:05:10.680How can people sort of navigate those climates?
00:05:14.020How can they protect themselves heading in?
00:05:16.120So that was the key sort of topic for End of the Dollar Empire Series 8.
00:05:21.800And like I said, it's never been more topical than today.
00:05:25.800And looking at the current situation, it reminds me of what Admiral Mullen said back in 2010.
00:05:32.300And that is that the national debt is the biggest national security risk that we have as a country.
00:05:39.400And that was $30 trillion of debt ago.
00:05:43.820Listen, this war with Iran, from a military standpoint, should be very simple.
00:05:48.880They cannot compete with us in any way.
00:05:51.460Their military is a joke, pales in comparison to ours.
00:05:55.060But we're going to struggle with this because all they have to do is not lose and cause
00:05:59.020enough financial distress globally to force a change domestically here in the United States.
00:06:05.160They know the goal, and it's a tough enemy to fight when you have a debt level like we do.
00:06:12.260You bring up Admiral Mullins, the chief of naval operations at the time, and the chairman, I believe the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
00:06:20.420He had a lot of prominence as being an out.
00:06:24.580Now, he got criticism, et cetera, for being one of Obama's chiefs, but he's a pretty broad and deep thinker.
00:06:31.780You may not agree with everything the guy has to say, but I want to just go back and put it in a timeframe. When he warned, and they were doing the national security strategy memo, and the Pentagon by law is required by statute to come out and put a strategy together, they kind of shocked people that year and saying, hey, look, we have these threats around the world.
00:06:55.160Things are, you know, things are happening. Back then, it was almost more of the still the global war on terror was there. But he said the biggest ticking time bomb we have that's going to cripple the United States and limit our ability to actually provide security to our people is the national debt. When he said that, you said that was $30 trillion. What was the national debt when he said that?
00:07:19.980literally what would he 38 trillion it was eight and a bit trillion i must have been 29 and some
00:07:27.180change this was a colossal amount i think uh yeah it was a colossal increase since then
00:07:34.240i think from memory it was about 13 trillion back then so but but but but but but what it what this
00:07:41.100this is the point is that we have a system now that structurally it's so tough to make changes
00:07:48.400and you don't have the political will to do it in the Republican side.
00:07:52.360More importantly, folks, the Democrats literally don't care.
00:07:56.420I mean, they want to just spend with no restraints at all.
00:08:02.600Because then I'm going to get to the specifics now of there is a flight to quality.
00:08:06.440The dollar is seeing some strengthening because people are panicked throughout the world.
00:08:09.700But just overall, on the arc that you see of this spending,
00:08:15.000which it looks like in the congressional budget,
00:08:16.880And we've had enough commissions of people warning about it, warning us about the world's financial system continues to buy, the central banks continue to buy gold to try to get away from dollar-denominated securities?
00:09:39.640Right now, I think the world realizes we're in an unsolvable mess, and I think that we'll continue to finance deficits, continue to devalue currency.
00:09:51.760And at the end of the day, if I'm a foreign central bank with a long-term view, it doesn't make sense for me to hold dollars.
00:09:58.260And if I'm going to, I'm going to need a risk premium, and that's what we're starting to see.
00:10:02.720Talk about that for a second, because at first you saw the strength thing, because as soon as the balloon goes up, as soon as they start shooting, particularly on a broader scale and particularly someplace as sensitive as the Middle East to the flow of oil, people naturally, money managers, governments naturally piling to the dollar, at least for a short term, for safety.
00:11:13.500Look, we saw it in 2020 when COVID hit, there was panic, there was confusion, there was
00:11:18.380a flight to cash, gold dropped, and then it went on to move significantly.
00:11:22.960Exactly the same thing in 08. Significant moves in the market, big crash, flight to cash, gold dropped 30%. And then it went on to double in value. So I think it's a holding pattern. What was unique about this climate as well was just colossal upside in precious metals in the lead up, right? Gold's up 8% this year, but it did 65% last year, 27% the year before. It's up about 300% since the pandemic.
00:11:50.320So I think when we see a lot of confusions, traders will stop, they'll take profits, move to cash, wait, and then reposition for the longer term.
00:11:58.940So for me, this is a strong buying opportunity.
00:12:01.980I am personally capitalizing on it because I think prices will continue to move up longer term.
00:12:07.840The fundamentals today are stronger than they were a week, two weeks, a month ago.
00:12:13.060It's just a case of timing and volatility right now.
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00:19:19.300He went there to greet and recognize and redeem all the holy men and women from Adam and Eve all the way up until the thief on the good thief on the cross.
00:19:30.640And he announces his proclamation of eternal life to those who have been waiting because the belief of both the Old Testament Jewish people and Christians for most of the past 2000 years.
00:19:44.280that until Christ died on the cross, the righteous people like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
00:19:50.220Esther, all these people were waiting.
00:19:54.160What do we get the phrase waiting in limbo?
00:19:55.580They were literally waiting in limbo, waiting in Sheol.
00:19:58.540And Christ descends victorious and he announces the gospel and he brings them up.
00:20:08.860It's a quiet day in the liturgy, but it's the day in which we recognize the redemption of all those who came before Christ, the harrowing of hell.
00:20:23.140What is, is this what St. Augustine refers to?
00:20:26.980When St. Augustine one time has a quote, I think he says, a thousand years before Christ came, there was actual Christianity.
00:20:33.020Is that is that what he means, that there were people that were living that didn't know Christ or were born centuries before, you know, millennia before Jesus manifested into into our world?
00:20:49.320That what he's talking about, that that men and women who are holy and devout but didn't obviously know about Jesus because he hadn't been born yet.
00:20:58.680Is that was that what he's referring to? Is that why Christ went to went to hell or at least a part where people are not totally condemned to bring back those pagans that live Christian lives?
00:21:13.080Yeah, that's the idea is that before Christ, people were saved by expecting the Messiah, by expecting the Son of God.
00:21:22.520So you see this already in the book of Genesis after Adam and Eve sin in Genesis chapter three, verse 15, God promises what's called the Proto Evangelion.
00:21:47.680Did they know the details of his name would be Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, suffered under Pontius Pilate?
00:21:53.660They did not have those details, but they did trust in the promise of God that one day a woman would give birth to a son, the son of God, a Messiah figure who would indeed crush the serpent's head.
00:22:07.240So they were trusting that. And as time goes on in the Old Testament, you have the covenant with Adam and the covenant with Noah and the covenant with Abraham and then the covenant with Moses and the covenant with David.
00:22:18.340All of these are more and more revelations of the coming of the Messiah, more and more information is given.
00:22:25.480And those people who are living in accordance with God's law and they're having faith in the coming Messiah, those people are justified by faith in Christ.
00:24:29.920When Mel Gibson and Steve McAvity and the team made Passion of the Christ, they went back to the to the to the book that had come out by Catherine and Emmerich.
00:24:40.860Right. The German nun that had these visions and that had actually gone through, I guess, a paper review and had the had the stamp of simply put certification.
00:24:52.100Right. That this had been gone through a not a council, but gone through a formal investigation in that.
00:24:58.940And they're coming up with the second, they've been working on the second, the sequel to that, which is about the resurrection.
00:25:06.300And my understanding is they're also relying upon Catherine Ann Emmerich's book, which has a quite moving and dramatic part in her visions of Christ's descent into hell.
00:25:19.540Is there anything, are you familiar with the work of sister Catherine Ann Emmerich?
00:25:25.680I am. Yes. And I was able to talk to Mel Gibson about this and he doesn't want any of the details
00:25:30.640of the film, of course, being shared, but he is, he's announced that he is going to do the
00:25:35.500resurrection of the Christ. And it's going to also incorporate this mystery of the harrowing
00:25:40.280of hell, which I think on, on the big screen is going to be magnificent when it's accomplished.
00:25:45.220And, and yes, the, the vision of Anne Catherine Emmerich, she was a German nun, a consecrated
00:25:51.040version and she had extensive visions about the entire life of Christ, but also this mystery of
00:25:57.820the descent of Christ into hell. And she gives the same basic outline or structure that you see
00:26:04.340in the early Greek church fathers, the early Latin church fathers, and that is Christ coming down
00:26:10.860and he smashes the gates of hell. He breaks down the gates of hell. And many of the early icons,
00:26:17.660There's an image of Christ standing on top of the broken gates of hell and he's reaching his hand out and he's grabbing the hands of Adam and Eve and pulling them out and upward into heaven.
00:26:30.020It's a very beautiful image to see that mankind all the way back to Adam and Eve is being offered eternal salvation.
00:26:37.320And Anne Catherine Emmerich has that same vision and she reveals that the faithful of the Old Testament, men and women, are now being incorporated.
00:26:46.880In fact, St. Thomas Aquinas, he even elaborates on this and he says that the experience of the Old Testament faithful of Christ ascending into hell counts for them as baptism, which is a very kind of profound way of thinking about it, that their initiation into the life of Christ and salvation for them begins not with baptism, but basically engaging with the true Christ in his descent to where they were and then freeing them.
00:27:14.680So there's a lot in the mystical tradition and visionaries and the church fathers of this beautiful mystery.
00:27:21.060And I would encourage people on this day, you know, yesterday was Good Friday.
00:27:26.520Tomorrow is the celebration when people will be breaking their Lent and eating meat and candy and maybe wine and some whiskey and really enjoying the festival of the resurrection of Christ.
00:27:38.400Today is a day to consider this hidden mystery that Christ cares not just for us in 2024, but he cares for every human person going all the way back to our original first parents.
00:27:53.800And I think that's a beautiful mystery for us to meditate on today.
00:27:59.460From Holy Saturday to Good Friday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and then Easter.
00:28:06.280Can you walk us through the early church?
00:28:07.720How was it? How was it commemorated? How was it? How was it remembered? And what were what were the what were the ceremonies or rituals they went through over that kind of four day period?
00:28:21.160you know i i wasn't raised a catholic and so i i didn't grow up with any of these
00:28:27.140liturgies or mysteries or ceremonies but as an adult when i became a catholic i was exposed to
00:28:33.540this ancient very ancient liturgy of what's called holy week and holy week technically
00:28:39.420begins on palm sunday and that's when we commemorate christ coming into jerusalem and
00:28:43.280literally the the priest will bless palms and and the congregation holds palms and processes around
00:28:49.140the church and enters the church, sort of greeting Christ, coming into our midst.
00:28:53.860And then things pick up again on Thursday, called Holy Thursday or Maundy Thursday.
00:28:58.420And this liturgy usually takes place in the evening, and it commemorates the Last Supper
00:29:03.080and the washing, Jesus washing the feet of the disciples and the institution of the Holy
00:29:09.720So it's a very solemn, very beautiful liturgy.
00:29:12.660And then the next day is Good Friday and there is a service, a liturgy in which the cross of Jesus Christ, which has been veiled previously, is now unveiled.
00:29:25.400And there are some very beautiful prayers to Christ and the faithful come up to the front of the church and kneel and kiss the cross.
00:29:35.880And the deacon or the priest says, you know, behold the wood of the cross.
00:29:42.160You know, this is the sign of our salvation.
00:29:44.320So what we're doing is we're reliving those key events from the four canonical gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
00:29:52.100Palm Sunday, the commemoration of the Passover and the institution of the Eucharist.
00:29:56.460Good Friday, the recognition that Christ is on the cross and the cross is the pathway to our salvation.
00:30:05.860Holy Saturday is the longest liturgy of the year.
00:30:08.320it could be three, sometimes five hours, some of the Greek liturgies. And this is a very long
00:30:14.200ceremony with lots and lots of Old Testament readings reminding us that Christ is descending
00:30:19.040to the people of the Old Testament. And usually at the end of that liturgy towards the end
00:30:23.320was the baptism of new Christians in the early church. They would go through all of Lent in
00:30:28.780what's called catechesis. They'd be catechumens. And then on that evening, on Saturday evening,
00:30:35.480after this long liturgy and fasting, they would be baptized. And then Sunday morning,
00:30:40.940wake up early. It's the resurrection of Christ. And of course the faithful have been fasting and
00:30:46.180doing penance and avoiding certain foods. Finally on Easter Sunday, it's just, you know,
00:30:51.780it is the highest and holiest day for Christians. And it's marked by family,
00:30:57.600feasting, prayer, hymns, liturgy, of course, the holy sacrifice, the mass, the Eucharist.
00:31:04.200And so it's the most intense part of the whole year for Orthodox, Catholic, many Protestants.
00:35:03.780You know, I don't know if they experienced it, you know, as centuries or how that happened.
00:35:07.580But, you know, we living now in 2024, we we also are in, as you just said, we're in a valley of tears.
00:35:17.240You know, many of us are dealing with loss of employment or cancer or broken relationships and addictions and problems and all these things.
00:35:26.820And I think the important thing is that Christ pierced into the darkness.
00:35:33.060Christ descended into hell and he forgets none of us.
00:35:38.440And no matter how dark things are getting for you and and how difficult things are in this valley of tears.
00:35:45.460I mean, we're not literally in hell, but sometimes it can feel like that.
00:35:50.460The Lord Jesus Christ dies on the cross and he seeks for those that are lost.
00:36:26.640And really the cure for all of our societal problems and our personal problems, whether they're physical, mental, spiritual, and all the way up to, you know, communism and socialism that's, you know, creeping in on our society.
00:36:40.720The only true answer for that is the way, the truth, and the life.
00:36:46.420And Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
00:36:50.020And in John, beginning of John's gospel, he is the light in the darkness.
00:36:53.440So I would just share with everyone watching, return to Christ, find Christ, go to church on Sunday.
00:37:01.220Yes, I know there's hypocrites, there's problems in the church, but reconnect with Christ.
00:37:05.840And I think this weekend, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Resurrection Sunday, the Paschal Mystery is the right time to reach out and embrace Christ and find that healing and that redemption.
00:37:18.560So I think this is really the lesson for us. And he stands before us and he says, knock and it shall be open to you. So knock.
00:37:30.540Where we are in this country, in the world, obviously, we talk all the time about this is spiritual warfare. Right.
00:37:36.700And there's really no compromise with the side of darkness.
00:37:41.740Now they've thrown up this this phrase Christian nationalism, like they're trying to get they're trying to intimidate Christians to stay out of the public square.
00:37:50.020They're trying to intimidate Christians from actually being part of a movement that wants to take its country back.
00:37:56.380What are your thoughts about all this?
00:37:58.000you know the holy looks a great time to reflect on this because in a way judas iscariot and many
00:38:05.940of the people of his time were demanding for jesus christ our lord and savior to initiate
00:38:11.540a political movement that would overthrow the romans and of course our lord and savior jesus
00:38:17.960christ wanted something much more significant than that and so i think we got to be careful
00:38:24.220that we don't throw in our lot with that understanding of Jesus Christ. That being said,
00:38:30.060when he rose again from the dead and all 12 apostles taught that he is the Messiah and that
00:38:35.500Christ is King. He is the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. And so there is a social dimension
00:38:42.000and there's a political dimension to Christianity. There always has been, and there always will be.
00:38:48.980When we say Jesus is the King of Kings over and over in the Bible, that entails that there are
00:38:53.460other kings, worldly kings. There are temporal princes, you could say premiers, presidents,
00:39:00.440prime ministers, and that his lordship extends over that as well. The Christian nationalist
00:39:06.960movement, I'm always a little careful about it because there's people in all different
00:39:10.680parts of that spectrum of what it means to be a Christian nationalist. I think it's
00:39:16.020safe to say that in the Christian tradition, in the Catholic tradition at least, there's been a
00:39:20.740integration between the church and the state. And that hasn't always been negative. And there's
00:39:29.560great positive elements to that. And I don't think we should be afraid of that. We've already learned
00:39:35.400that a strict separation of church and state just gives complete power to the secularist,
00:39:42.820atheist, communist, Marxist. So there needs to be a better balance, a better integration there.
00:39:48.860And I think that's a conversation that more and more people are having kind of seen the last week, Steve, you know, this huge fight on on social media over, you know, is it wrong to say Christ is king that people find find this to be offensive in some way?
00:40:02.440And it shouldn't be at all. This is a core, fundamental, central belief of Christianity, and it does have political and social implications.
00:40:11.820So I think my short answer on that, Steve, is I'm a little bit concerned about the term Christian nationalism because of all the different versions of it.
00:40:22.860But I am, of course, not at all opposed with the historic Christian or Catholic understanding that there can be a proper, healthy integration of Christian moral teaching with the state.
00:40:33.760how did and i don't keep up with all the different you know aspects although we did talk about this
00:40:40.560early in the week it did come up this the christ how did christ as king become controversial i
00:40:47.000remember as a a child in in in catholic school you know christ was king of kings christ is king i
00:40:53.580think heck half of the half of the third of the catholic schools had some sort of either place
00:41:00.620in the front of the school, or they had some aspect of a bunch. I think a lot, some of the
00:41:05.540schools we play, I think is elementary school. When I was at St. Paul's where I went to elementary
00:41:09.600school or Catholic grammar school, what it was called. I think Christ the King was, was one of
00:41:16.240the teams we played from down at Tidewater. I think it was, how did that in your mind get to
00:41:20.940be controversial? It's something that's the Catholic, at least the Catholic church, I'm not
00:41:25.060so sure about the process, but the Catholic church has used that phrase for, since I've
00:41:30.280been around for, you know, 70 years. Yeah. I think the, I think the phrase Christ is King
00:41:35.540has been around since the year 33. It's, it's old, it's ancient. Christians have always believed it.
00:41:40.700But what we've seen, Stephen, your audience knows this is, you know, over the last 50 years
00:41:46.540that the fact that any Christian would say something in public or pray in public or quote
00:41:54.780scripture or that a politician would make reference to their Christian faith is offensive.
00:42:00.600We're told you keep your your your Christianity, your prayers, your Bible verses, you keep them
00:42:06.920at home, locked away in the safe. You know, it's kind of like you have to be a closeted Christian
00:42:12.600and Christianity, if you want to believe that at home, it's fine. But don't bring it into
00:42:16.940the workplace movies television politics and so i think the fact that christians are on social
00:42:25.880media saying christ is king it's it's bringing about a response from the secular side
00:42:33.700that's offensive to them they're like you can't say that and i think it's just part of the social
00:42:39.460conditioning and christians are starting to realize that by saying christ is king that
00:42:45.420there's nothing wrong with it, but by saying it, it's somehow they're going to be canceled for it.
00:42:50.700And so I think that's why this small phrase, crisis king, has become so controversial because
00:42:56.880the left doesn't want to allow us to even say that out loud in public in a tweet. I mean,
00:43:05.640it's an indication of where we are as a culture, a decaying culture.
00:43:10.160uh how do people i know you're combating that every day with your shows your podcast
00:43:17.140uh your writings where do people go to get access to all of it
00:43:21.440they can find me at dr taylor marshall on rumble youtube or you can just put in taylormarshall.com
00:43:28.680and you can find my books and blog and website and all that
00:43:31.780how have you not been uh how have you not been canceled off youtube it's shocking i can see
00:43:40.100rumble but uh well steve you're you're you're very bold as well um i i'm still hanging in there
00:43:45.680yeah and um i'm still saying crisis king and and touching on a lot of these issues but for
00:43:51.300some reason i've been spared so far but i'm on rumble as well rumble's a great place to be
00:43:57.220rumbles a great place we're up there dr taylor marshall thank you so much and thank you for
00:44:02.780spending thank you happy easter crisis crisis king thank you thank you sir boy how'd that become
00:44:11.020controversial like i said i think i think a bunch of the schools we played when i was a kid
00:44:16.420christ is king or christ the king um we're going to take a short commercial break here in a moment
00:44:22.700want to make sure that everybody, uh, uh, we really want to thank the audience on a, uh, on
00:44:28.180Holy Saturday to, to come to the worm. But we always try to do people have been with the show
00:44:33.740for the last couple of years. We always try to do a special on Saturday to, to, um, really think
00:44:41.320about what happened between the crucifixion that, you know, according to the, our faith, Christ died
00:44:46.200at approximately 3 PM on Friday and what happened until dawn on, uh, on Sunday. And that's where
00:44:52.400every year we spend time with on Holy Saturday discussing this. Dr. Tom Williams, I did an
00:44:59.020interview with Dr. Tom Williams. I'm going to replay parts of it because quite frankly,
00:45:02.940it was so powerful and particularly about persecution of Christians in the modern world,
00:45:08.260which is a topic that does not get enough coverage. We're going to be back in a moment
00:45:14.680with our Holy Saturday special in just a moment.
00:48:18.060We have, for those of you that are watching Unreal America's Voice or Rumble or any of our streaming services or channels, you can see we have the classic picture of Christ and his descent into hell.
00:48:31.220I realize some aspects of the Protestant brothers and sisters don't either adhere to this or have never been taught it.
00:48:38.540It's a whole new revelation for some people.
00:48:40.600but in the Catholic churches, a whole concept of, uh, this, uh, from the time that Christ died,
00:48:47.720what actually happened, uh, until he, he rose and it gets to, um, this issue of spiritual warfare.
00:48:55.820You know, we have so many guests on here so many times that say, Hey, at the end of the day,
00:49:01.900everything we're fighting for, everything that this revolves around is a spiritual war between,
00:49:06.220good and evil and between the traditions of the Judeo-Christian West and the Christian faith in
00:49:14.560this country as a new Jerusalem and the forces of darkness and the forces of evil. Now,
00:49:21.460everybody doesn't believe that and that's fine. Everybody in this movement doesn't believe that
00:49:24.760and that's fine. Many, many people who support President Trump don't believe that. They believe
00:49:28.360in President Trump and what he's done and more of the temporal side and what he's doing,
00:49:33.740either deregulation or taking the ministry of state or just being a leader, a strong leader that people can rally around.
00:49:40.900And that's fine. It's as long as you're, you know, the enemy of my enemy right now is my friend.
00:49:47.540But there are those that have really, I think, thought this through to a very deep level and understand that there's something going on here that's extraordinary.
00:49:55.200And that's why I continue to say the the victory in 2016 was absolutely providential.
00:50:03.720And I know that because I was there and I could see it.
00:50:32.420And then when I took over Breitbart, even a couple of years later, after Andrew passed away, got to know President Trump even more so.
00:50:41.080He started coming on the show, et cetera.
00:50:42.640And our history of standing up for President Trump early on in 14 and particularly 15 against Fox News and the Murdochs and their their instrument, Megyn Kelly, has been documented, well documented by Megyn Kelly herself and other people at Fox.
00:51:00.740But that victory in 2016 was definitely providential. Hillary Clinton and what she represents is a force of darkness. That was the really the managed decline of our nation.
00:51:15.740What happened in 2020, particularly because they saw what President Trump did while he was there.
00:51:20.660And remember, the power of President Trump in this movement, he's not overly churchy.
00:51:27.240If you know, he's not a particularly churchy guy.
00:51:29.500I think he has a very deep and abiding faith.
00:51:33.860Now, the left just mocks and ridicules him all the time.
00:51:37.700But his faith comes out in things that are important, very important.
00:51:42.180And you see, no one that didn't have a deep and abiding faith could have the courage he has.
00:52:26.380So at the end of the day, I see this as a, I see this and I've always seen this as a
00:52:30.960spiritual conflict because I saw it up front, up close and personal.
00:52:33.920And I will tell you that the steal in 2020 was also providential.
00:52:40.840The victory in 16 was providential. So was the steal, because that was to show us that this was just no longer managed to climb by the elites.
00:52:48.400This was something far darker, far more urgent that they were trying to understand the power that President Trump had seen in the populist movement,
00:52:57.460the nationalist movement to kind of break these globalists and to break these elites.
00:53:01.520They pulled out every stop in the summer of love of 2020, all the way through the stealing of the election, the transition integrity project, all of it.
00:53:11.600Then the whole thing, when they first took over the debanking, the deplatforming, all of it, putting up signs like the Stasi back in Eastern Europe.
00:53:19.200If you see anything in your neighbors, identify it.
00:53:23.920That's just not normal American politics.
00:53:25.860People know, and if you talk to them, even people that don't agree with President Trump, people who don't like President Trump, people who are not particularly drawn to MAGA, people who don't like the deplorables or America first, people who, quite frankly, think MAGA is a little kooky or even dangerous or could be dangerous.
00:53:43.160they understand that something's deeply wrong the country's on a deeply wrong path
00:53:49.360deeply wrong not kind of wrong on the margins and that took the steel in 2020 to expose to people
00:53:57.680because they they did it so rapidly so in your face and so much of it so much of it
00:54:05.680targeting the american family so much of it and the children and what they've asked for and what
00:54:13.140they want to redefine society is so repellent to people that believe in the tenets of our
00:54:19.180civilization, the Judeo-Christian West, and they don't have to be churchy or part of an
00:54:26.780active, organized faith or religion to believe that.
00:54:31.860And that is the power of this moment, because we've come back ascended.
00:54:38.060And how is that? And that's really because of, I think, a tremendous amount of prayer and sacrifice from the most religious people, deeply religious people in our movement.
00:54:49.300One thing I can tell you, I don't go to any of these public events or any of these talks or speeches or the CPACs or the Mike Lindell's or all these other conferences I go to.
00:54:59.020that a, I won't say vast, but a good portion of the audience,
00:55:05.160more than the majority, almost two-thirds,
00:58:13.620And that's what we have to be on watch for.
00:58:16.720It just didn't happen that one of their top public intellectuals, Robert Kagan, wrote in one of their top news platforms, the Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Washington Post.
00:58:29.360That is, as the New York Times, the paper of record of our nation.
00:58:33.740The Washington Post feels it's the paper of record of all of all politics.
00:58:37.260So when you're in the editorial page there, and I think particularly on a Sunday, that's the big league.
00:58:42.920He's the one that wrote the essay about the justification of Brutus's assassination of Caesar.
00:58:54.440And you take whatever you take, the you you you can extrapolate from that where he was going.
00:59:02.680That is why this weekend is so important for us to kind of collect ourselves and think about the basic deepest tenets of our faith.
00:59:10.100But also, starting on Monday, how do you take those tenets of your faith and gird it with that power, gird it with that belief?
00:59:19.160How do you translate that into your public life?
00:59:21.720Now, I realize there's some, and I'm not saying they're wrong.
00:59:24.840There's some that just say, I don't want to get into the public square.
00:59:28.220I don't want to be part of any of this.
00:59:29.980I just want to live my life, and I want to live it as close to the precepts of Christ as I can and do whatever I can do out in the real world.
00:59:39.260That's fine. It's all an individual choice. You have free will.
00:59:42.600You have to make that determination yourself.
00:59:44.660But if you made that determination that my faith is connected to what I do in the in the material world, that I will be held accountable for this.
00:59:59.340And I understand because I've been blessed to be in this time.
01:00:03.360Then this is the time that God in his infinite wisdom decided you were put here for.
01:00:13.700And this fight is going to be a fight at the end of the day is a spiritual fight.
01:00:19.120And the winners will be those that don't quit.