Ep 325 | 2+2=5?
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In this episode of Relatable, I discuss the importance of living not by lies and how we need to resist propaganda and misinformation from the left and right in order to remain sane in a world that is often characterized by hyperbole and hyperbole.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. So now we are back to our normal time with
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the podcast coming out first thing in the morning. Like I said on Monday, the reason
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why we had it delayed for the past few podcasts is because there was so much breaking election
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news, I wanted to make sure to give you the most relevant and up-to-date analysis as possible.
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And obviously this will still be relevant and up-to-date, but what we're talking about today
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isn't necessarily happening second by second. But what I've observed over the past few days
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since the election, we are going to be talking about this phrase that has just been ringing
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in my mind. I talked about it a little bit on Monday and it's the title of the book written
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by a guest that I had a couple of weeks ago. I think it was the Monday before the election.
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And so last week, Raj Rare and his book is Live Not By Lies. And the book talks about how we in
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America are in a pre-totalitarian state, that the social pressure and the social consequences
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that people are experiencing for having very mainstream political and social views is exactly
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what happened in, for example, the Bolshevik Revolution and every communist revolution. It
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started with real-life tangible consequences for people holding beliefs or having what Orwell calls
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in 1984 wrong think, how that ends up leading to totalitarianism. And we need to make sure that
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we are resisting that. And the main way that we resist that is to refuse to live by lies. So to
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refuse to imbibe and believe in deceit. And what that requires us to do is to be very vigilant in
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searching for the truth. Now, a lot of the deceit and a lot of the propaganda that we hear typically
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comes from the left. And the reason why I say that, I understand that it's going to offend some people,
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but the reason why I say that is because leftism controls all of our major cultural megaphones.
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So big tech, social media, the mainstream media all skews to the left, at least center left. And a lot
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of the media is on the far end of the political spectrum on the left. Our corporations in America
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are all repeating the leftist social justice talking points. Obviously, our celebrities,
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the entirety of the entertainment industry skews to the left. All of the mainstream is leftist.
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And so in order to have an idea that is outside of the mainstream, you are typically, you have to go,
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you have to go outside of those cultural megaphones and you have to seek conservative points of view.
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That does not mean there is not propaganda and serious misinformation on the right. There is.
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We've actually seen a lot of it over the past week in an effort to find evidence of fraud,
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which I believe there are some cases of real fraud that probably will hold up in court. We'll see about
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that. Whether or not it's going to be decisive in this election, we don't know. But there's also been
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a lot of false information that's been perpetuated by the right in order to build up the narrative and
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to build up the frustration and passion of people who believe that the election was stolen. Every
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sketchy looking video has been shared. And upon further scrutiny, we figured out that, okay, that's
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not actually an example of fraud. I think that's wrong. So propaganda and misinformation, whether it's
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coming from the right or whether it's coming from the left, is wrong. And we as Christians,
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as critically thinking people, we have an obligation to resist that and to seek what is true. And none
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of us are going to be perfect in that pursuit. I am praying every day for God to please show me
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where I'm wrong. Give me humility and let me lay down my pride when I am holding on to something that
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just isn't true or is inconsistent with your word, that is inconsistent with a biblical worldview.
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Show me where partisanship and bias is blinding me to reality because I want to make sure that I am
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living not by lies. That is my obligation, whether it means that I'm on the Republican side of things
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or not. I want to make sure that I'm not just repeating the talking points that the GOP or
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the conservative mainstream tells me that I have to say. And certainly, I don't want to repeat talking
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points that come from the left either, but that I am telling the truth. That is always my goal.
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That's always my desire. You guys let me know when that doesn't happen, where I accidentally say
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something that is not true. And I always want to correct that because in order to remain sane in
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this world that is so characterized often by propaganda and hyperbole and misinformation,
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in order to stay grounded and rooted, in order to really know what's going on and to see reality,
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we have to be vigilant and seeking the truth and double-checking everything we read and double-checking
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especially everything that we share. And so we've already talked about on Monday some of the
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misinformation that we are hearing from the right when it comes to the election and when it comes to
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fraud. And we talked to Jenna Ellis, who is a Trump lawyer, to try to kind of wade through some of
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that information to see what is actually going before the court and what the actual allegations
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are and what kind of substantive evidence they have. And so today, we're going to talk about some
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of the lies that we are seeing coming from the left in particular, and how if we are not careful,
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we will find ourselves believing deceit. Those of you who are in my Women's Book Club with
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Ali Stuckey on Facebook and have been there for a few months, we read 1984 together. That's something
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that I read in high school, and it's stuck with me since then. But reading it again, I actually listened
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to it this time, which I think was even more chilling than reading it. And at the end, sorry to give it
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away if you haven't read 1984, you might want to skip ahead. But at the end, Winston is being tortured,
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and he is trying to be re-educated and indoctrinated by force with the tenets of the party, with the
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tenets of Big Brother. And the goal in the end is to make him love Big Brother, this kind of like
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intangible force that is supposed to take care of them and tell them information and all of that,
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who is really in charge of everyone, spies on them, and all of that stuff. And he is trying to resist,
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but he is unable to because they convinced him that no reality really exists except with the party the
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people in charge tell him is real. So if they say that something didn't happen, that actually did
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happen yesterday, then that's what reality is. If they say that we're actually in this month, in this
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year, even when you know we're not in this month, in this year, well, you are wrong because the party
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is always right. So if the party says that reality says that two plus two equals five, you cannot insist
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that two plus two equals four, because the only reality that exists in 1984 is what the party tells
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you exists. And so in the end, unfortunately, Winston is successfully indoctrinated at the very
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end of the book. He is saying that he loves Big Brother, and so he has been converted into being a
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faithful party member rather than a rebel. And the way that he was able to rebel throughout the book,
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at least internally, is by metaphorically and literally insisting that two plus two equals four,
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reminding himself of what is true, trying to remember what actually happened in history,
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rather than just going along with the party talking points of rewriting history, which is what the party
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in 1984 did. That was how he remained sane. And of course, his sanity in the end broke down.
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And so in order for us to remain sane again, we have to insist upon the truth. So I'm going to give
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you some examples of the truth being manipulated and the psychological warfare that I think that we are
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enduring right now. Of course, first, from a biblical perspective, we know how important truth is.
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Obviously, when we're talking about the gospel being the ultimate truth, being the eternal truth,
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Jesus himself is the way, the truth, the life. No one can come to the Father except through him.
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Jesus said, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. In Romans 1,
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when we're talking about people who have rebelled against God, Romans 1.25 says that they exchanged the
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truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator.
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And so we know how important the pursuit of truth is. Ephesians tells us to speak the truth in love,
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to build up the body of Christ. Of course, in these ways, they're talking about eternal truth. They're
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talking about biblical truth. They're talking about gospel truth. They're talking about the embodiment of
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truth, which is Jesus Christ himself. But all truth, whether you're talking about scientific truth,
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any kind of natural truth, moral truth is going to be consistent with God himself from the biblical
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worldview, it's never going to contradict God and what his word says because God created all things.
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And so science, any kind of natural revelation or scientific discovery can possibly contradict what God
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says and what God does because he has authority over all of it. He is the source of all of it. He is
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the source of truth. So everything that is real, everything that is good, everything that is true
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is going to be consistent with God himself. And so when we're reading scripture and we see the importance
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of grounding ourselves in truth, it's not just biblical and spiritual truth, gospel truth, although that's
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the most important. We're talking about all kinds of truth. I mean, if you read Proverbs,
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we see the dangers of believing deceit. We know that God hates lying. We also read in Ephesians,
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the expressed command no longer to lie to your neighbor, but to tell the truth. And so we know
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that God is not just a God of truth. He's not just a source of truth, but that he commands his followers
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pursue and seek truth in all things and speak the truth in all things. Again, because we're fallible,
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we're going to get that wrong. I certainly have gotten it wrong. But that is our desire and that
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is our obligation. And so when we see some of the crazy stories that we have seen, in particular,
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in this case, coming from the left, we have an obligation to uncover it. But we are being told
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things. We are being told to just believe everything that we hear, to believe everything
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that we see in the media without any questions. So coincidentally, a couple days ago, Pfizer
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announced the coronavirus vaccine, said that it is 90% effective. Now, this obviously to anyone with
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any kind of consideration whatsoever, this obviously was purposeful timing. They decided to announce this
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after the election. Of course, to cynical people, we would say it's because they didn't want to give
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President Trump any credit. They did not want to affect people in the way of voting for him. And so
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they decided to announce it after, of course, the market boomed. It shot up right after this
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announcement was made. And so the tweets that you were seeing from left-leaning journalists were saying,
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oh, people said that the market would crash after Biden was elected. Well, it just went up
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however many points today. Yeah, it's not because of Biden. It's because of Pfizer. But already they
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are trying to kind of rewrite that history. So you think that everything is on the up and up because
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Joe Biden has been elected president. He's not even president yet. But look, a coronavirus vaccine
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is already out. Now, New York Times reported that this was not part of the Trump administration's
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Operation Warp Speed, which incentivized the development of a vaccine. Virginia Hughes of the New York
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Times said this. Pfizer's Dr. Janssen sought to distance the company from Operation Warp Speed
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and presidential politics, noting that the company did not take any federal money to help pay for
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research and development. We were never part of the Warp Speed. Amanda Carpenter, she is a journalist
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at the Bulwark. The Bulwark, if you don't know who they are, they are an anti-Trump, never-Trump,
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self-described conservative outlet. They are always very eager to discredit the Trump administration
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in anything they do. Amanda Carpenter tweeted this, Mr. Vice President. Well, first, let me read Mike
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Pence's tweet. Mike Pence tweets, huge news. Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President
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Donald Trump, Pfizer announced its coronavirus vaccine trial is effective, preventing infection
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90% of its volunteers. Amanda Carpenter, quote, tweets it and says this, Mr. Vice President,
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was Pfizer part of Operation Warp Speed? Yes or no will suffice to clear things up. So obviously a
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little tongue-in-cheek there. I replied to her, first of all, saying that Mike Pence did not say that
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Pfizer was a part of Operation Warp Speed, that he said it was a public-private partnership,
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which it was, as even Chris Murphy, who is a Democratic senator, said that it was. He admitted
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that it was because they promised, the government promised $2 billion for the development of this
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vaccine. That is a public-private partnership. But as it turns out, it actually was. Pfizer was a part
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of Operation Warp Speed, which is a product of the Trump administration. Daniel Dale of CNN says,
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Pfizer's head of vaccine development had told New York Times it wasn't part of Warp Speed because it
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didn't take research money. But that's not the whole story. And then he includes a screenshot
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that actually that shows that the spokesperson for Pfizer admitted, yes, we were a part of Operation
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Warp Speed. We did develop this vaccine because of the partnership and the promises of the Trump
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administration. And yet we were hearing all day yesterday. No, no, no. This had nothing to do
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with Trump's efforts. This had nothing to do with Trump whatsoever. If anything, this has to do with
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Joe Biden becoming president, which, again, is a lie. It is an attempt to make you think that just
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because Joe Biden became president, that things are on the up and up and coronavirus is out the door,
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when in fact it was the Trump administration's efforts that made this possible.
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Now, Andrew Cuomo, which is I can't say that he's the world's worst governor because we have a lot
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of competitors in that realm, a lot of competitors in that realm. But he is one of the worst governors
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because despite the fact that they that New York had, I think, is the second highest death rate
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in the United States from coronavirus, thanks to his efforts to put sick, COVID sick,
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elderly patients back into nursing homes where thousands of thousands of elderly people died
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because of that decision. Despite all of that, he passed himself on the back continually, wrote a
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freaking book about it, saying this is how New York got through it. When the guy didn't even make sure
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that the subways were sanitized first time in 100 years until April. I mean, he didn't even shut down
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mass transportation or slow down mass transportation in New York City until April. Like that was after
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it was booming in New York and people were getting sick and dying. And yet this guy continually has
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the audacity to pat himself on the back and his brother on CNN, Chris Cuomo, of course, aids and abets
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that kind of deceit. Again, he wants to propagandize you and manipulate you into thinking that New York
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did a good job, but they didn't. Yes, the death rate and the sick rate in New York is a lot lower
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now, but that's because so many people already died and got it. Everyone who could possibly get
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it in New York and died in New York already did. So he does not deserve any pats on the back. Andrew
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Cuomo had the audacity to say in an interview that he believes that we should not distribute the vaccine
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until Trump is out of office. I'll play you that little clip. You have two months and we can't let this
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vaccination plan go forward the way the Trump administration is designing it because Biden can't undo it
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two months later. We'll be in the midst of it. And I'm going I've been talking to governors across the
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nation about that. How can we shape the Trump administration vaccine plan to fix it or stop it
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before it does damage? So this is just another piece of evidence that Andrew Cuomo really does
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not care about the well-being of New Yorkers. He cares about the politics of it. He's a very
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calculating politician. And so he knows how to make you believe what he wants you to believe without
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actually having to care about New Yorkers. This is just another example of that. So apparently it's bad
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news that we now, according to Pfizer, have an effective vaccine. But we need to wait. I mean,
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theoretically, this vaccine could save people's lives, but we need to wait to administer it
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so that what Joe Biden can take credit for it and Donald Trump can't. I mean, that's really what
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you call Trump derangement syndrome when the just existence of Trump has made your brain
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into oatmeal to where you cannot think critically or compassionately in a position of leadership.
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It's honestly insane. So here's the truth. From what we know, Pfizer was ahead of Operation Warp Speed.
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That was a product of the Trump administration. It was a private public sector partnership.
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And we can thank Donald Trump and his administration's efforts and Pfizer for
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getting this done. This has nothing to do with Joe Biden at all. The market going up had nothing to
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do with Joe Biden at all. Do not believe those lies. Do not be psychologically manipulated.
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OK, our next lie, our piece of psychological manipulation that we are seeing comes from
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Girl Scouts. So this has nothing to do with the election. But James Lindsay, he is the author of
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the book Cynical Theories. He said Girl Scouts is going full woke on Twitter. Troop leaders will have
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to affirm we live in a systemically racist society or risk being removed. Anyone who identifies as a
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girl identified person can participate. Pronouns are required. So this is absolute craziness.
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I just want to remind you that these ideas of intersectionality, critical race theory,
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having to affirm by force that America is not just a country that experiences racism,
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as all societies do, but as a systemically racist society, that that is required for being accepted
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into an organization like Girl Scouts. That's a new phenomenon. That is not something that has
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always happened. This is new. This is an empowered wokeness that feels like it can take away your
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association with organizations like Girl Scouts based on your political beliefs. The idea, as we've
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talked about so many times, that America is systemically racist in 2020 is at best debatable,
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if not an outright, complete, flat lie. I mean, please read Discrimination and Disparities by
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Thomas Sowell, as we read in Women's Book Club with Ali Stuckey. I mean, it busts so many of the myths
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that we see from people like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. Go follow Neil Shenvey, who talks about
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the critical race theory mentality that is bolstering this idea that America is systemically racist in
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2020. It's not actually based on reality or data. It is based on this kind of intangible idea that once
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you start poking holes in it with data and with logic, you see is really just a sham. It's a way
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to shame people and guilt people as the Girl Scouts are doing. Anyone who identifies as a girl-identified
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person can participate. So that means boys can participate in Girl Scouts. And it's important that
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we are watching this redefinition of what it means to be a girl, what it means to be any gender.
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Apparently now it's something that you identify as, which means that there is no significance in
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your anatomy. There is no significance whatsoever in being a biological girl. There's no significance
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in having a uterus. There's no significance in being able to bear children. There's no significance
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in those things. As long as you identify as a girl, you are just as much of a girl as anyone else.
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That's what the secular world is telling us. And I think it's important that we uncover what
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is actually behind that. So I know I keep mentioning Women's Book Club with Allie Stuckey.
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We've read a lot of awesome books this year. We're reading Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy.
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She goes through the secular mentality on abortion, on transgenderism, on promiscuity,
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and the different issues today that we are facing in relation to the body. And what she says is
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the secular worldview holds on to this philosophy of dualism. It breaks up the body and the soul,
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that the internal self is actually what determines what the body is or what the body can do. But
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we don't believe that as Christians. We believe that the body is not just determined by what we feel or
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what we identify as or what our brains tell us, but that our body in and of itself has a purpose.
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And that purpose is determined not just by science, which it is, but by the God who created it.
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And so our biological reality is significant. It actually means something. Being a girl is a
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biological reality, and that biological reality is good. It is significant. It separates you from
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people who have a different biological reality, aka boys. And so that is the biblical worldview,
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that the body was purposely and perfectly made by God, that your biological reality actually means
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something. It is actually significant. It is actually good that God created it that way,
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that when he made the male and female in Genesis, he didn't just say this is good like he had about
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the rest of his creation, but he said this is very good. And that is a reality that's not just repeated
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throughout the biblical canon, but also by Jesus himself in Matthew 19. A lot of people on the left
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like to say Jesus never talked about gender. Jesus never talked about marriage. Yes, he does.
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Yes, he does. In Matthew 19, he talks about that God made the male and female for this reason.
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A man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife. To say that God doesn't care
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about marriage or doesn't care about gender is to totally misunderstand the character of God.
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God doesn't do things arbitrarily. He doesn't do things accidentally. He didn't just happen to
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make half of creation with this anatomy and half of creation with this anatomy for no reason at all.
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And for us to just identify as whatever we want, it's purposeful. And for us to worship God,
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for us to worship the creator, we must also revel in his creation, not worship his creation,
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but revel and honor his creation for the purpose that he gave it. And so for us to redefine what it
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means to be a girl or redefine what it means to be a boy based on this idea of dualism, that who we are
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internally gets to determine who we are on the outside rather than our internal and our external
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actually being meaningfully intertwined, it's to deny biblical reality. It's not just to deny
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scientific reality, which it absolutely does, but it's also to deny a biblical worldview, which means
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we are bound not just to the scientific reality of what it means to be male and female, but we are also
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bound to the biblical truth that God made the male and female, that anatomy does matter. We can't give
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into this dualistic idea that says our body is subject to whatever we identify as in whatever
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we feel. We believe that God gave bodies a purpose and that our anatomy has a purpose and that it's
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good. And that isn't actually, that's a much more positive view of the body than the secular worldview
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has. A secular worldview says your biology is totally arbitrary. It doesn't matter at all. All that matters
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is what you think on the inside, that it's not significant to have a uterus. It's not significant
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to have female anatomy. It's not significant to be a girl. That's not any, you're not any more
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beautiful as a girl than a man who identifies as a girl. What a degrading view of the body.
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Like what a small view of the body. God has an amazing view of the body because he created it
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perfectly. And so it is so much more healthy to teach that worldview and that perspective about the
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human body and about biology than it is the secular worldview, which is actually very self-loathing,
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which is actually very body-loathing, ironically, in the world of self-love and self-indulgence
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that the secular world teaches so much. And so we live not by the lie that our biology is arbitrary,
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that anyone who says that they are a girl is a girl, but we realize that God made girls and boys
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purposely and perfectly. And that positive view of the body is one that is very healthy mentally and
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healthy spiritually. God says that for the Christian, our bodies are a dwelling place for
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the Holy Spirit. We know about the resurrection of the bodies, that we're not just going to be
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forever these bodiless spiritual beings or spirit beings that have no form or face. No, God says that
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we are going to have our bodies. They are going to be renewed bodies. They're going to be restored
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bodies. They're going to be spiritual bodies, but we will have human likeness. We will have our bodies.
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That's how much God cares about the body. And so for us to reject that, to say, well, God didn't have
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any purpose in creation and the creation of our bodies. God doesn't care about the physical. He just
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cares about the internal and our bodies are totally arbitrary. We can define them as girl and boy as we
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see fit. We can do whatever we want with our bodies. God doesn't really care about that. You don't
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understand the creator, not just the creation. You don't understand the creator. And so that's why
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I always say, you know, when people have misunderstandings about these so-called social
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issues, they always go back to theological misunderstandings. It is not controversial,
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by the way, for you to hold to the definition of gender that human beings have held for all of human
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existence. These ideas are new. This idea that you are a girl just because you declare you're a girl or
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and you feel that you are a girl or a boy. Either way, these are new ideas. This is like something
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that has developed over the past two to 10 years. And so you are not the radical one. You are not the
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crazy one. That's what I want to tell you, that you are not the crazy one for saying two and two makes
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four. You are not the crazy one for saying a girl is a girl and a boy is a boy. And it's important for
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girls and boys to have separate spaces. Like you're not the crazy ones. They are the radical ones.
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They are the people that are denying truth. They are the people that have waded into the
00:27:31.300
waters of insanity, not you. And they will do everything that they can to make you feel like
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the crazy person, to make you feel like the bigot, to make you feel like you don't know what you're
00:27:40.900
talking about and that you are anti-science, that you are anti-truth. You have to cling to the fact
00:27:46.820
that they don't know what they're talking about, that they are the crazy ones, not you. And that's why
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it's so important. Again, guys, to be in the word of God and to go to the authority and the creator
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of heavens and the earth to define what is something as basic as male and female. You
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wouldn't think that you would need to read your Bible to be able to affirm that obvious reality,
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but we're in an age where we do. And that is why I say, again, that the time is coming gone for the
00:28:12.320
cultural Christian. The time is coming gone for us to just say, you know, it's popular, it's lucrative,
00:28:17.420
it's safe to be a Christian. Having something as basic, having a belief as basic as, hey,
00:28:24.340
men are men and women are women and anatomy matters, a basic idea that people have believed
00:28:29.020
whether they were Christians or not has now become a controversial, quote, archaic theological
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belief. And if you do not know why you believe that, then you will easily stumble and fall.
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And so it's so important for us to be in the word of God, to know why we believe the basic things
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that we believe, even about the body. I highly recommend Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy. It's
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an amazing, mind-blowing book that will give you so much equipment for arguments like this
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and have you realize that the biblical worldview, especially about the body, is the loving, holistic
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one, is the positive one, whereas the secular worldview isn't. It's actually the very self-loathing,
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hateful, unhealthy one. I highly recommend that book. I highly recommend being in the word and
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surrounding yourself by people who can encourage you and hold you accountable and you can help
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each other realize that, okay, the world is going to get crazier and crazier. They're going to convince
00:29:22.700
us, try to convince us to live by lies. We're going to refuse to do that. And we are going to make sure
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that we encourage one another to live by the truth. Wokeness is post-truth. You need to deny it with
00:29:35.880
everything that you have. Okay, before I get into the next lie, which is just so rich,
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I can't wait to tell you about it. Let's take a quick ad break.
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All right, this set of lies comes to you from Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Pakistan. And let's see,
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there are a few other countries, Cuba that's involved with this, North Korea. So all of the
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world's biggest human rights violators, guess what? They sit on the UN's council for human rights.
00:30:22.100
Yes, that is why the United Nations is an absolute joke because on their human rights council are the
00:30:28.000
biggest perpetrators of arbitrary detention, genocide, infanticide, torture, terrorism. And they
00:30:37.960
had a little meeting a couple of days ago to talk about human rights violations in the United States.
00:30:44.960
I mean, I have never seen so much propaganda in my life. But if you've read again, oh my gosh,
00:30:50.580
how many times am I going to plug Women's Book Club with Ali Stuckey? I don't mean to do this. But
00:30:54.920
if you read the book that we read about North Korea, Nothing to Envy, and we read some of the
00:31:02.320
propaganda that people in North Korea received on a daily basis about the United States, the evil
00:31:09.900
imperialist warmongers in the United States, the evil capitalists, you will know that the kind of
00:31:15.980
propaganda that was being propagated at this UN Human Rights Commission meeting with these various
00:31:24.940
terroristic nations, you will know that this propaganda has been around for a very long time,
00:31:29.980
that it is completely baseless. And I think the scary part is, is that it is being repeated by
00:31:36.320
leftists and academics here. Like the Democratic Party says the same things that these terroristic
00:31:41.700
regimes are saying that we are systemically racist, that we're very bad, that we violate human rights,
00:31:47.620
when I'm not saying that we are a perfect country. But hey, if places like China and Iran and Pakistan
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are repeating propaganda that has has been around in communist regimes about America for 100 years,
00:31:59.000
and we are actually hearing that reiterated in the United States by academics, by left wing
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activists, by the Democratic Party, by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, then maybe all of you guys are
00:32:10.460
on the wrong side of things. Like maybe it's important for us to seek the truth about this
00:32:13.920
stuff before we just repeat these systemic racism talking points. Like maybe we should actually dig into
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history and look at the data rather than repeating the talking points of freaking China and Iran.
00:32:24.700
But apparently they needed to take the time to talk about how the freest and fairest country in the
00:32:32.760
world is doing. And they ignore that they are like in Iran, for example, pushing homosexuals off of
00:32:40.220
roofs. And in China, they have concentration camps of Muslims where they are forcibly sterilizing women
00:32:48.520
and aborting their babies as they did to their own indigenous people for years and years. And probably
00:32:55.620
you're still doing they spy on their citizens as well. And we could get into Saudi Arabia, where I think
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that women aren't even allowed to really speak. And Pakistan and Cuba, the biggest human rights
00:33:10.300
violators in the world are talking about human rights in America for the United Nations. That is why the
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United Nations, guys, is a joke. That is why the WHO, which is also which is also a part of the UN and is
00:33:25.260
basically run by China, is a joke and why it was so good for President Trump to say we're not spending
00:33:30.420
money at the WHO anymore. We're not going to be a part of the WHO anymore. And of course, Joe Biden is
00:33:36.360
saying that he is going to make sure that we are back in with the WHO so our tax dollars can continue
00:33:43.300
to fund that corruption. So that's great. So that's the that's the set of lies that we are seeing from abroad.
00:33:51.260
And unfortunately, they are finding a partner in the Democratic Party here. All that kind of anti-American
00:33:57.780
hatred that we have seen for the past century from places like Soviet Russia and North Korea and in China.
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It's a jealousy fueled hatred saying how terrible and awful we are. I mean, these are all talking points that are now
00:34:10.460
repeated by people in the Democratic Party, leftist academics, left wing activists. I mean, they have
00:34:16.420
they have perpetuated that kind of propaganda for so long and have worked so hard. These terroristic
00:34:23.140
regimes have to infiltrate the United States with that kind of propaganda. And it's worked. And that's
00:34:29.900
they they want to see America fall from within. And so they want to see the kind of fighting and the
00:34:35.840
division that we're seeing now. They love seeing the riots and the arson and the looting that's
00:34:39.860
happening in various cities. That's why China and Iran both said, hey, we would really love for Joe
00:34:45.080
Biden to be to be the president because they know that he is weak on foreign policy in the same way
00:34:52.280
that Obama was, that he's going to capitulate to China, which is the biggest geopolitical threat to
00:34:56.720
the entirety of the world. And they know that they're going to lift sanctions on Iran so they can get
00:35:03.100
millions and millions of dollars in the same way that they did under Barack Obama. And so, of course,
00:35:09.340
these countries are very excited about the victory of the Democratic, the possible victory of the
00:35:14.680
Democratic Party under Joe Biden, because they have the same sentiments. They have the same talking
00:35:20.020
points. Again, I just want to remind you that you are not crazy. You are not crazy for knowing and
00:35:26.240
believing that America, with all of our faults, is a very good country, that we are the freest and
00:35:30.540
fairest country that exists, that we have had a lot of dark parts in our history, but no country
00:35:35.280
has made as much progress as quickly as we have. People will tell you that's white privilege. People
00:35:40.180
will tell you that you're wrong. They're just repeating communistic talking points that have
00:35:44.040
literally been around for a hundred years and they don't even realize it. They think they're
00:35:47.580
intellectual and academic. All they're doing is imbibing deceit and manipulation. That's just not
00:35:52.660
true. You can criticize your country and you can be honest about the parts of our country that right now
00:35:57.360
are not good, that have not been good throughout history, without imbibing communistic propaganda
00:36:02.200
that is creating the very division that places like Iran and Saudi Arabia and Pakistan want. So again,
00:36:10.720
it is our obligation to pursue the truth. It is our obligation to pursue reality and to know what is
00:36:18.360
true and to reject this kind of propaganda. Here is my next lie and it's coming from Whoopi Goldberg
00:36:27.120
of The View. So I'm going to play you this little clip where she is telling people who voted for Trump
00:36:33.040
to suck it up. Hillary Clinton didn't say, hey, wait a minute, this doesn't feel right. Stop the count.
00:36:39.180
She didn't say this isn't right. I'm not going for it. She didn't say any of that. So all of you
00:36:44.360
suck it up. Suck it up like we sucked it up. So here is why here is why this is so crazy. And this
00:36:53.160
is what we're hearing from a lot of people in the media that Trump supporters are sore losers. That's
00:36:57.780
the only reason we're talking about fraud, that we're triggered, that we're just breaking down because
00:37:01.940
we just can't take the reality of the election. This is coming from people, Whoopi Goldberg included,
00:37:07.360
by the way, who still have not accepted the results of the 2016 election, who have literally been
00:37:12.380
melting down for the past four years, who all claim that the 2016 election was illegitimate
00:37:18.080
because of Russian collusion, which even though there is intervention, apparently, in the 2016
00:37:23.400
election, again, there is no evidence whatsoever that it was decisive in any way or that there was
00:37:28.600
any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to win. There's no evidence of that whatsoever.
00:37:33.400
And we spent millions in tax dollars trying to prove that through Robert Mueller, and he wasn't able to.
00:37:37.880
And yet, Democrats, the Democratic media, were not able to accept the results of the election. I mean,
00:37:45.620
the past four years have been spent trying to discredit Donald Trump. I'm not trying to say
00:37:50.000
that Donald Trump was the perfect president, but they've been so fixated on melting down over the
00:37:55.620
reality of his presidency, they refused, some of them, to even call him the president. They said,
00:38:00.700
not my president. Now they're telling us to suck it up. Because why? Because we're saying,
00:38:04.960
okay, we want to go through a legal process to make sure the election was fair. If it is fair,
00:38:09.900
then, okay, then we accept the results of the election and Joe Biden will be president and
00:38:15.420
we'll call him President Biden. We're not going to melt down. As you can see, like, after the media
00:38:21.160
announced Joe Biden being the president-elect, whether he officially will be or not, there were
00:38:28.600
no riots. Like, there was no looting and arson. Businesses didn't have to worry about Trump
00:38:34.020
supporters going out and burning down businesses the way that businesses were scared of Biden
00:38:39.240
supporters doing so if Trump won. Like, you understand that it's not Trump supporters that
00:38:45.000
are freaking out right now. It's not Trump supporters that are burning down cities. It's
00:38:49.140
not Trump supporters that you have to worry about. Just because Trump supporters want to go through the
00:38:53.500
legal process of making sure all legal votes are counted and illegal votes are not counted doesn't
00:38:58.200
mean that we are not sucking it up when sucking it up is the opposite of what Democrats have done for
00:39:03.940
the past four years. I mean, Trump derangement syndrome has infected so many people's minds on
00:39:09.540
the other side that I can't even, I can't even, I can't even believe that they are telling
00:39:15.240
Trump supporters that we are being sore losers. It's really amazing. Again, do not buy into the
00:39:22.360
manipulation. Do not buy into the craziness. Do not buy into the redefinition of reality. We know
00:39:28.660
what is true. We know what is true. And yes, we should suck it up, by the way, if there are any
00:39:32.820
people melting down. We should, because it's reality. And if Biden becomes president, he becomes president.
00:39:38.460
And that's just, that's unfortunate. We don't like that reality. But we're going to continue to try to
00:39:46.240
uphold the Constitution, protect the Constitution. We are going to continue to try to protect our,
00:39:51.120
the institutions of this republic that have made it good and great. We are going to continue to
00:39:57.960
resist any kind of tyranny. But we accept the results of the election. And we don't try to live
00:40:03.780
in some fantasy where we believe Biden is going to get impeached every month the way the Democrats did
00:40:08.600
for the last four years. And so they can gaslight us all they want to. They can castigate us all they
00:40:14.480
want to. They can reprimand us and wag their fingers and rewrite history all they want to. We've got
00:40:19.280
the receipts. We know you guys literally melted down for the past four years. You don't have any
00:40:24.120
moral authority whatsoever to tell people to suck it up. You don't. You don't. I have a lot more to go
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through. There's a lot of gaslighting going on right now in the media and on social media. And I just want
00:40:36.700
to remind you, I just want to come alongside you. If you're feeling crazy, if you're feeling like,
00:40:41.720
oh my gosh, I'm losing, I'm losing my mind because these people are trying to memory hole things that have
00:40:47.680
happened. These people are trying to redefine reality. You're not. You're not crazy. You're
00:40:52.040
not crazy. Two and two make four. I can promise you that. Okay, that's all I've got for today. We'll be back