Ep 464 ｜ When Pharisees Get Power, The People Protest
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In this episode, we take a look at hypocrisy in our ruling class and how they conduct their lives. We look at some political activists, what they say versus how they live and what they do, and what hypocrisy means from the foundations of the word hypocrisy .
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
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Today we're going to talk about hypocrisy, in particular hypocrisy in our ruling class when
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it comes to how they conduct their lives, especially right now in the time of COVID and
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thinking about the potential of future lockdowns and restrictions and mask mandates, but not just
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that. We're going to look at some political activists, what they say versus how they live
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and what they do. Then we're going to talk about what hypocrisy really means, what it means from
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the foundations of the word, the origins of the word, but more importantly, how we see it biblically.
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And what it means for us as Christians. Now, before we get into it, I do want to say one thing
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about yesterday's podcast with Ben Shapiro. Got a lot of good feedback from you guys. So thank you
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so much for that. He is also, he is obviously a wealth of knowledge when it comes to lots of
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different things. Now, some of you, I think understandably, were offended by the first part
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of that interview when I was kind of poking fun at some conspiracy theories surrounding the vaccine.
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Now, you guys should know me well enough and you should have heard me talk about this enough to
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know that I reserve no judgment whatsoever for people who choose not to get the vaccine. As I've
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said before, you getting, not getting the vaccine or getting the vaccine is none of my business. It's none
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of your business, whether or not I'm vaccinated. I understand, unlike a lot of people, that unvaccinated
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does not mean infected. And so I believe in freedom. I believe in the liberty of personal
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choice. And I truly reserve no condemnation whatsoever for people making the decision that's
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best for themselves and best for their families. We were just joking around because Ben is,
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as you know, adamantly an advocate for the COVID-19 vaccine. And so, I mean, he has talked about that
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a lot and he has been incorrectly condemned by certain media outlets for being an anti-vaxxer
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and he's not. So that's what I was poking fun about. There is no condemnation, no judgment,
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no criticism from me towards you, whatever you choose about the vaccine. So I just wanted to
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clarify that. I'm not going to apologize for that because it was still, you know, it was a fun part
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of the interview, but I do want to clarify that for you guys. Now, let us talk about some hypocrisy
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that we are seeing in the news. The thing that sparked this for me was this story in the New York
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Post about Sean King. If you don't know who Sean King is, he is an activist who claims to be an
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activist advocating for Black lives. He is one of the first people whenever there is a confrontation
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between a police officer and a Black man, whether or not the suspect was armed, no matter what the
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origins of the confrontation were, he is always one of the first people to accuse the police officer of
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being racist and of targeting a Black person because of the color of their skin. He has called
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for doxing of police officers or he reveals identities of police officers that are not actually
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correct in the hopes that that person will be targeted. I assume in the hopes that person will
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be harmed in some way, that their family will be put in danger. So he is not a good person from what I
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see anyway, from the behavior that he demonstrates on social media. And in fact, there are people who
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identify as evangelical Christians who have associated themselves with him, which is unfortunate.
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There are a lot of people on the activist left that I might not agree with when it comes to their
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strategies or when it comes to their political beliefs, but I don't see them as grifters. I don't
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see them as terrible people who are just trying to dox anyone and everyone. I don't see them
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necessarily as someone who has a bad character or dishonesty. Unfortunately, from what we've
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seen from Sean King, he is someone who is extremely dishonest and who doesn't care who he puts in
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danger as long as he can perpetuate a particular narrative. He is going to give misinformation.
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He is going to leave out particular information as long as he can push this narrative that police
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officers and really white people in general are racist. Now, there are also a lot of people
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on the left who don't like Sean King because they also see him as a grifter. He has unfortunately
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been accused of a lot of shady business when it comes to raising money for supposed black
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causes. So let me read you this article. It's actually in Fox News. I originally saw it in the New
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York Post, and it actually outlined some of the accusations that he's been facing. So the title of
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the article is, Sean King lives lavishly in Lakefront, New Jersey home. Sean King has built
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his image on being a champion of the poor and disenfranchised, but the controversial civil rights
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activist lives like a one percenter in a sprawling Lakefront home records show. King, 41, moved earlier
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this year from a luxury two-bedroom apartment in downtown Brooklyn. And that luxury two-bedroom
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apartment, that sounds like a paradox to those of us who live in the suburbs, but I'm sure in downtown
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Brooklyn, that actually is a luxury. To the five-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot North Brunswick,
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New Jersey property with a lakefront backyard and gourmet kitchen, according to public records,
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the property, surrounded by lush, tall trees, was purchased by King's wife, a PhD candidate
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and educator in November 2020 for $842,000 public records show. Then that New York Post article gives
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us a little bit more context about why people are saying this is hypocritical. I do not care if he
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lives in a $10 million home. I think more power to you. I mean, that's part of what makes America
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this great place, that you can be anyone from any background. And if you can get enough people to buy
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something from you, like you can create a wealthy life for yourself if you are successful in doing
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that. Unfortunately, that means that shady people can also be rewarded. And that seems to be what
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happens here. This is from New York Post. King has been dogged for years by allegations of shady
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dealings and his charitable efforts and movements he has founded, including a lack of transparency
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and money he has raised for several criminal justice initiatives he has backed. Fellow activists
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and those who worked with him raising cash for everything from Haitian orphans to the families of
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black men killed by police have repeatedly raised questions about King's leadership and in some
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cases asked where the donations have gone. Samaria Rice, whose 12-year-old son, Tamir Rice, was shot dead
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by cops in Cleveland in November 2014. Truly, truly an awful case, by the way. That's my side note.
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Blasted King on social media, accusing him of soliciting funds in her dead son's name without her
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permission and even about his identity as black or biracial. So that's a whole other thing with
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Sean King. Some people accuse Sean King of actually being white and trying to look black for purposes
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of activism and clout. I will not speculate on that. I'm just saying that those are some accusations
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that some people have, including some black activists on the left. So Tamir Rice's mom said this on
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Instagram. Personally, I don't understand how you sleep at night. I never gave you permission to raise
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nothing. Along with the United States, you robbed me for the death of my son. You are a selfish,
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self-centered person, and God will deal with you. King co-founded the Real Justice Political Action
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Committee in 2017 with former Black Lives Matter leader Patrice Cullors, who resigned from BLM a
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month after The Post revealed she had spent more than $3 million on real estate in the U.S. We'll get
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to that in just a second. The federal PAC helps to elect progressive district attorneys across the
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country to fight to end structural racism. Unfortunately, we've seen the repercussions
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of that, and it ends up in criminals being let loose into society and unfortunately raising the
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recidivism rate at the cost of people's innocent lives, taking in more than $3.2 million from 2019
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to 2020. So this is a guy who has been accused, and I would just say accused, you're innocent until
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proven guilty, but he has been accused time and again of taking people's money, cashing in on the
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death of Black people, and then taking the money for himself and not actually contributing to any cause
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that has substantively helped the communities that he says he represents. He says he represents the
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downtrodden. He says he represents the poor, the marginalized, the Black community, and yet it
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seems like he keeps on running into accusations of being sketchy and of grifting for self-gain. Now,
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of course, to me, this makes him a hypocrite, and not only because he says he's representing the
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downtrodden, he's just fighting for the little guy, and really he's lining his own pockets is what it seems
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anyway. But also because he talks about how America is this systemically racist place. It's this
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institutionally racist place. It's a place where people of color can't get ahead. He claims to be
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a person of color himself, and yet he is living in a house that is much more lavish than most of us.
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Most white people in the United States could ever even dream of living in. Almost a million dollar
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house that the vast majority of white people would never be able to afford, or Black people or people
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of any color would ever be able to afford. And we unfortunately see this continually from a lot
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of activists who claim that America is this oppressive place where Black people really aren't
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free. Cori Bush, a representative, said that recently on the 4th of July, and yet they themselves
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disproved that, but they will still say, no, no, no, no, you know, I'm the exception. I'm not the rule,
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but they have no problem. They have no problem lining their own pockets. And if it were true
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that America was systemically racist, you wouldn't be able to, as a Black person, make millions of
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dollars saying that America is systemically racist. That just doesn't make a whole lot of
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sense. And yet it's also, in another sense, not that hypocritical because this is what, I mean,
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this is what communists do. And I don't mean to say necessarily that he is, you know, he is a person
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that really wants to seize the means of production. But he is a communist in the sense that he sees the
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world as the oppressed versus the oppressors, the haves versus the have-nots. He somehow sees himself
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on the side of the oppressed and fighting for the oppressed. And he wants to reorder society,
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or he says that he does, to take down, you know, the powerful bourgeoisie. And people who claim to
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advocate for this kind of ideal very often are also the ones that are accumulating power and
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accumulating wealth, even as they say doing that as a person of color is basically impossible in the
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unjust society that we live in. Now, we mentioned Patrice Cullors, and I just want to talk about that
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because I don't think that we ever talked about it on our podcast. Patrice Cullors is a BLM co-founder.
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Like, you will remember, the Black Lives Matter organizers have said explicitly that they are
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Marxists. So when I say that they are Marxists, I'm not just saying that anyone who I disagree with
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is a Marxist or anyone who says Black Lives Matter is a Marxist, because I don't believe that.
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But they actually said that they are trained Marxists, and they have advocated for, supported,
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they have, they have stumped for communist leaders around the world for as long as they have been
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active in politics, including Maduro, including, including Cuban dictators. And so this is who they
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are. They are Marxists, they are communists, and they're not shy about that. And they obviously traffic
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in the same lie that people of color cannot get ahead in this country, that people of color aren't really
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free, that we live in this oppressive, systemically racist society, white supremacist society, this,
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you know, racist caste system where really only white people can get ahead. And America was founded
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on white supremacy, and its systems are so infected with racism that people of color just can't succeed
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in life. And yet, we read from the Daily Mail that she has built a $35,000 fence, an electric gate,
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around her new $1.4 million Topanga Canyon home that she bought with cash. And she also has some other
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properties, apparently, apparently amounting to, you know, a $3 million property portfolio is what is
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being reported here. And so it's not only this, it's not only that she says that she's a communist and
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that, you know, people of color can't get ahead in this country. And again, she is living more lavishly
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than the vast majority of people of any skin color will ever live in this country. But if you look at
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the demographics of where Sean King now lives, and where Patrice Culler now lives, it's vast majority
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white. So Sean King has moved into an area that I believe is only 17% black. Patrice Cullers now lives
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in an area in Los Angeles that I think is only like 2% black. So these are the same people who say
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that white people are on the side of the oppressor and that they just want to be one of the people
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that they're a voice for the marginalized. They don't want to live among the marginalized. These
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are also the same people who talk about defunding the police. And yet, they're living in a place that
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I guarantee you will never defund the police, probably has a lot of funding to the police and
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can rely on the police to protect them. They don't want to live in the communities that they say that
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they support. Speaking of defunding the police, here's another point of hypocrisy that I saw
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reported. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Post reported that she has spent thousands on security,
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including $4,000 plus to ex-Blackwater contractor. She spent apparently tens of thousands of dollars on
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private security in this year alone. And look, I don't blame AOC at all for having private security.
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She has a big platform and she is often maligned by people on the right. And so I guarantee you that
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she's got a ton of creepers that are after her. There are probably a ton of people that want to
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harm her. So I don't blame her at all for having security. Look, girl, I think that that's a good
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idea for you to have armed security. But do I think it is also hypocritical for her to have armed
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security and also advocate for defunding the police again in communities that she would never
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deign to live in and she would probably not even walk alone in at this point in her life? Yes, I do
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think it's hypocritical. She said this, she tweeted this a few months ago, right? Actually, I think that
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it was, yeah, it was last year. So over a year ago now in 2020, she said defund defunding the police
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means defunding the police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving
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school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget. So the exact
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same police remain in schools. And then she said also on June 9th, 2020 defund means that Black and
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Brown communities are asking for the same budget priorities that white communities have already
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created for themselves, schooling more than police, etc. People asked in other ways, but we were always
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told, no, how do you pay for it? So they found the line item. And she has also talked about,
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she's also talked about on Instagram, she said that defunding the police looks like living in a suburb.
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Affluent white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health,
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housing, etc. more than they fund police. Well, it's a little bit different. You don't have the
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same crime rates in a suburb, first of all, and I guarantee you suburbs will be the last place
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to defund the police. You don't have the same problems in the suburb that you have in the inner
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city. That's just that's just a fact. That's not a racial statement. That's just a fact. That is where
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we see the majority of the crime in the inner city. And unfortunately, the people who are victims of
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defunding the police, as we've seen in Minneapolis, as we've seen in cities across the country who
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decided to do that, as we've seen in New York, as we've seen in D.C., trying to deprioritize the
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police and to weaken the police so that they don't have as much power to be able, and in Chicago,
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to be able to catch suspects, and they don't have as much funding to be able to hire the police
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officers that they need. What we see is that crime has raised dramatically over the past year. And who
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are the victims of that? Disproportionately people of color, disproportionately women and children of
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color. So we've seen the murder rate, the violent crime rate in the communities that have sought to
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defund the police or weaken the police in some way. And AOC doesn't care about that. She cares about her
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own safety. Of course, she's going to pay thousands of taxpayer dollars to protect herself against those
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who want to do her harm. She doesn't lose a second of sleep at night thinking about the women and
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children who are being victimized in places where they no longer feel like they can call the police
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because they don't even know if the police are going to show up because the police in some of
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these places have been told not to enter into some neighborhoods to try to avoid any kind of negative
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confrontation that can make headlines. And a lot of forces don't even have the manpower anymore to be
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able to defend their communities and their cities the way that they're supposed to. And so you've
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actually seen a lot of cities change their mind on this and say, OK, actually, no, we need to increase
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the police budget. We actually do need more police officers. And so, again, it is hypocritical. It is
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hypocritical for AOC to advocate for defunding the police, something that will never affect her for
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the rest of her life because she's going to have a cushy life forever now, which, again, is fine. I
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don't care how much money she makes. I don't care that she has private security. But advocating for
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defunding the police is going to negatively affect people in poor communities, disproportionately people
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of color. And as a Marxist, again, she doesn't care about that so long as she is so insulated with
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privilege and power that she doesn't really have to think about it. So that's another example of this
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hypocrisy. Now we're going to get into some COVID hypocrisy.
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OK, let's talk about some of this COVID hypocrisy. You guys know that a lot of places right now are
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they are re-mandating masks. And if you haven't listened to last, I think it's last Wednesday's
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episode, I believe, with Steve Dace, where we went through a ton of data on masks, on vaccines,
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on COVID, on the Delta variant. If you haven't listened to it yet, then we will put it in the
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description of this episode so you can go listen to it and how it really does not make sense to
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mandate masks right now with the numbers that we're seeing, especially in K-12 schools. It just
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doesn't make any sense. And it makes even less sense when we see a lot of the hypocrisy from the
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leaders that are mandating these masks. This, again, is the New York Post reporting that the D.C.
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Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrates birthday maskless hours before the new mandate kicks in. And so we will put
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up a picture of this. There are photos of Bowser celebrating her birthday without wearing a face
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mask or anyone around her really wearing a face mask just a few hours before a new indoor mask
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mandate for the city kicked in. Of course, it looks like she did this on purpose. It looks like she
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purposely pushed off the mask mandate so she could have a birthday party with dozens of people all
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crowded together without masks. But she is still going to mandate that for everyone else. It looks
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like the scheduling here is a little suspicious. She had also just the night before she had gone to
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a Dave Chappelle show. She is in a picture with him and a few other people. Again, we'll put that up
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where none of them are wearing masks. Again, this is right before the new mask mandate went into place.
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So she had announced this mask mandate was going into place and she got in all of her maskless
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activities before that happened. She had also, so this is according to the Washington Examiner,
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not 24 hours into the indoor mask mandate she imposed on D.C., Muriel Bowser officiated an indoor
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wedding with hundreds of fellow maskless guests. So you tell me, do you think Muriel Bowser and other
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leaders who are doing the same thing, do you think that they're afraid of the Delta variant?
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Now, I'm not telling you that you shouldn't be concerned. I've talked to a lot of nurses. Some
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people are concerned. Some people think it's being sensationalized. And it is a little bit more
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contagious and maybe slightly more deadly than the original variant. This variant, by the way,
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comes from India. And we're hearing all kinds of contradictory messaging about whether or not
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the vaccine is really helping people not get this particular variant and not spread the can
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and not spread the variant. And that is why now they're imposing these mask mandates. But they
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don't actually seem to be very afraid of it. And if you're saying, well, it's because Muriel Bowser and
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all the people there are vaccinated. Well, according to the CDC, according to multiple reports,
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according to the study out of Massachusetts, apparently like you are just as likely to get this
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Delta variant. And again, there's contradictory messaging and contradictory data on this. But
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according to some reports, you are just as likely to get this variant and just as likely to have,
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you know, a viral load that can pass on to someone else. And so this would be, according to that logic,
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very irresponsible. I wouldn't call it irresponsible. I would just call it hypocritical. We also saw a lot of
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hypocrisy from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, which, of course, we have seen for the past year as she is
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imposing all kinds of restrictions, regulations and mandates on Chicago. She is flouting them
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herself. She got her hair done without a mask on. She went to, you know, some kind of Biden celebration.
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I'm pretty sure she went to a Black Lives Matter rally a year ago. And yet she pretends like she really
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cares about the health and safety of Chicago. But this is really incredible. And so
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she attended Lollapalooza music festival amid reinstating COVID restrictions. According to Fox
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News, despite announcing plans to resume more pandemic restrictions in the city, the Democrat
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mayor continued to host Lollapalooza, which is one of the largest music festivals in the country. If
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you're watching on YouTube, we will put a picture up. I mean, hundreds, hundreds and hundreds, thousands
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of people mashed together. I'm sure some of them are wearing masks. I'm sure a lot of them aren't.
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I mean, you see these pictures. I mean, this looks like 2019. None of these people in these pictures
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are wearing masks. No one cares. No one is afraid of it. But this is a lot of money for the city of
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Chicago. And so Mayor Lightfoot is is not going to she's not going to stop that from happening because
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that's important for her. And yet she is going to reinstate all of these regulations. It's politics.
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And so I hear a lot of people on the left saying, oh, the right is politicizing this. Really? Do you
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think it's the right politicizing this? Or do you think that the right is a little bit hesitant
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to accept the integrity of all of these mandates and restrictions when we see so much hypocrisy? And
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we see that really leftist politicians are politicizing this kind of thing. I mean, you know,
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you understand that there are people. I saw I heard a terrible story about this young woman who she
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overdosed. I guess that's correct word on on alcohol to the point to where she died. And yet after she
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died, she was in the hospital. They tested her for coronavirus. She tested positive for coronavirus.
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And because she tested positive, her family was not her parents were not allowed to come in and see
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their daughter who had just died because of that. That was a story from a nurse who follows me. I've
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heard several stories like that. And of course, there have been elderly people who have died in
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nursing homes and in hospitals whose families weren't allowed to come see them and be with them
00:25:52.060
as they died. And so if this does not boil your blood, that while people are going through the worst
00:25:59.300
tragedies of their lives like that, because of the restrictions of some of these leaders,
00:26:03.760
even while they're doing what is politically advantageous or personally advantageous to them,
00:26:08.500
I don't know what will. Hypocrisy makes people really frustrated. It's not just the COVID restrictions
00:26:14.640
that people are mad about. It is more than that. It is the hypocrisy of the leaders that are
00:26:21.080
implementing these kinds of restrictions. Not to mention, not to mention what's happening at the
00:26:27.280
border, which I just want to touch on briefly. Well, first, let me mention also just very briefly
00:26:33.620
that Axios reported that Obama is planning a birthday bash amid COVID concerns. So like we're
00:26:39.480
hearing everywhere in the leftist media that we really need to care about the Delta variant. We are
00:26:43.340
hearing rumblings of lockdowns again in particular places. And yet he is apparently having about 700
00:26:51.200
people to his $12 million home in Martha's Vineyard. Again, another great example of just how oppressive
00:26:58.040
the United States is. And so again, I think a lot of people see this as hypocrisy. Maybe he's not the
00:27:06.200
one that's implementing the restrictions, but he is certainly going against the narrative that everyone
00:27:12.420
needs to stay inside with a mask on. I can almost guarantee you the people at Martha's Vineyard at
00:27:18.300
President Obama's birthday party will not all be wearing masks. And again, even if they're vaccinated,
00:27:23.760
we're hearing that they still could pose a risk and a threat. That's why people are saying that
00:27:28.520
vaccinated people still need to be masked up. So you see why people could be frustrated. And then
00:27:33.180
we've got what's happening at the southern border, which I will get into in just one second.
00:27:38.980
Okay, because I want to get into the biblical portion of all of this, I'm just going to very
00:27:49.360
briefly talk about what's happening at the border. And again, why people are so upset about some of
00:27:56.280
these restrictions because of the duplicitousness, the duplicity, however you want to say it, of the
00:28:04.540
leaders that are implementing them. So I'm going to show you a video of one thing that is happening
00:28:10.800
at the southern border. There are hundreds and consequently thousands of people that are
00:28:18.800
infiltrating the United States every day. And the sketchy thing about it is that there's hundreds of
00:28:25.500
them showing up. And then the federal government is transporting them by bus and by plane to different
00:28:32.600
cities in the United States. We have no idea why. We have no idea where they're going. We have no idea
00:28:39.500
how long they're staying. We have no idea if they're being tested. We have no idea if they're
00:28:43.260
being vaccinated. Actually, I've heard from a source familiar with the matter that they are not being
00:28:49.480
tested, that they're not being vaccinated. I heard some bunk statistic the other day that 90% are
00:28:54.600
vaccinated. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. I know that they're not being tested for the most part.
00:29:01.220
They're not being vaccinated. We don't know in a lot of cases where they're coming. It's not just
00:29:05.900
South America. It's not just Mexico. It is also places like Haiti. It's also places like Africa.
00:29:13.140
They're coming through the southern border, even as the northern border is basically closed. So there's
00:29:18.160
a lot of sketchy things that are going on. And if we were really worried about the spread of this,
00:29:23.200
like if we were really worried about the rise in cases and we were really worried about the Delta
00:29:27.220
variant, we would close the southern border in an instant. But it seems like the same people who
00:29:32.300
are fearmongering about the virus aren't actually scared of it because they're not closing the
00:29:36.640
southern border. I mean, we are talking now hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that
00:29:42.220
have been transported from the border into the interior of the United States. I mean, a lot of
00:29:47.340
people slammed Donald Trump for saying America first and oh, Christian nationalist, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:53.140
Tell me what do you think is better leadership? America first or America last? Like, who would
00:29:58.240
you say is a better mayor? Like, is the is the mayor of Tulsa a good mayor of Tulsa if he actually
00:30:04.700
cares about the city of Oklahoma City more? And if he prioritizes the needs of Oklahoma City more than
00:30:13.520
he prioritizes the needs of Tulsa? No, you would say that that's a bad mayor. Wouldn't you say it's a
00:30:18.660
good mayor to say, you know, this is the best city in the world? I love Tulsa. And my focus is on making
00:30:24.880
Tulsa the best place it can be and prioritizing the needs of my constituents and Tulsa? Like, you would
00:30:29.160
say that that's a really good mayor. So why is it different on a presidential level? Like, why do some
00:30:34.500
people who identify as progressives or progressive Christians say that it is some evil, fascistic,
00:30:42.540
you know, Christian nationalist, bad thing to say that we're going to put America first? No, that's
00:30:51.200
what you do. You put the needs and the priorities of your family first. That's what nations are. They
00:30:56.200
are akin to families. And a good leader prioritizes the needs and the safety and the resources and the
00:31:03.260
industries of his own people before the needs of people from other countries. That doesn't mean that
00:31:09.940
you hate people from other countries. It doesn't mean that you're mean to migrants. It doesn't mean
00:31:15.160
that you're a bigot. It just means that you're a good, responsible leader. Joe Biden is not a good,
00:31:19.400
responsible leader because his federal government is actually putting the needs of Americans last.
00:31:24.580
And that is hateful. That makes you a wicked, wicked ruler. And again, this is hypocrisy that's going
00:31:31.900
to make people mad. This is exactly why we are seeing protests from around the world.
00:31:39.800
Again, we're going to show you some pictures and maybe I'll throw even to a video of some protests
00:31:49.320
in France. But we're seeing anti-lockdown protests in Canada, in France, in England, in Germany,
00:31:55.520
in Australia, obviously in the United States. It's not that anyone wants anyone to die from COVID. No one
00:32:02.700
wants that. And none of these people rallying, I guarantee you, think that COVID is fake. I guarantee you
00:32:07.840
that they've all been affected by it in some way. Maybe they've had it themselves. They've had a
00:32:12.200
friend who has had it. Maybe they even have a family member who's died from it. I am close to
00:32:16.820
people who have had family members die from it. I certainly don't think it's fake. I think it can
00:32:21.320
be dangerous for a lot of people. I also think that there are nefarious motivations behind these
00:32:26.240
lockdowns. I also think that there are a lot of other dangers, a lot of other threats to people's
00:32:30.720
lives on a daily basis. The fact that there were far more people, far more kids who died by suicide
00:32:36.080
in the past year and a half, I guarantee you, exacerbated by these lockdowns, then died by
00:32:40.620
the coronavirus, means that I have to expand my compassion beyond people who are just harmed from
00:32:49.240
coronavirus. There are a lot of dangers, a lot of threats, a lot of causes of death that we are not
00:32:54.220
even recognizing or talking about today because compassion has become so narrow that the only thing
00:33:01.480
that the media wants to report on is deaths by COVID. There are a lot of things that people die
00:33:06.040
from, unfortunately, sadly, tragically on a daily basis. And this is not worth ruining people's
00:33:11.820
lives and ruining people's livelihoods, taking away their will to live and everything that makes life
00:33:17.560
worth living for a virus that for most people, they have a 99.8 or higher even likelihood of
00:33:27.520
surviving. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. That's exactly why you are seeing people
00:33:32.080
protest around the world. Let me play you a brief clip from a protest in France.
00:33:43.720
So yeah, people are going to be super frustrated. People are going to be really, really frustrated
00:33:47.720
by all of this. And again, it's not just the restrictions and the regulations. It's the hypocrisy of
00:33:53.260
it. People just don't do well with hypocrisy. They do not do well with their livelihoods being taken
00:34:01.400
away from them. They don't do well with seeing their teenager become a shell of who they were
00:34:07.540
because they have been forced into virtual learning for the past year and a half for a virus that is no
00:34:12.800
more deadly to that age group to ages zero to 17 than the flu. There are a lot of nurses, a lot of
00:34:19.260
parents that I've talked to that tell me, and I know this firsthand, that RSV, that croup, that hand,
00:34:26.120
foot and mouth are really, really bad this year. Even the flu right now, which is rare for the
00:34:31.000
summer, it's really bad among kids. A lot of you have personally reached out to me and said that
00:34:36.060
your kid was in the hospital with RSV just a couple of weeks ago. Both my kids had RSV just a couple
00:34:41.560
of weeks ago. It transferred to my husband and me as well. And so there are a lot of sick kids right
00:34:48.000
now because unfortunately their immune systems are shot from being locked inside for the past year
00:34:53.980
and a half. I personally think that there is a negative bacterial effect on kids when they are
00:35:02.060
wearing masks all day. And so unfortunately, we have harmed kids and the strains of viruses that are
00:35:08.020
going around right now that are not at all COVID are seriously and intensely impacting kids. But no one
00:35:14.140
cares about that. Like no one wants to report that. Apparently, it only matters when someone is
00:35:18.960
negatively impacted by one virus and not other viruses. It's really sad. It's really sad. And
00:35:24.940
the media hysteria about this has killed people. I mean, there are also reports of nurses who don't
00:35:32.880
want to treat people who are COVID positive, especially people who are unvaccinated with COVID
00:35:37.840
because they're afraid of getting it or they just have some, you know, political leaning about it.
00:35:42.660
I don't think that that accounts for most nurses at all. I've only had very wonderful experiences
00:35:51.260
with nurses in my life. But certainly that is happening. I saw one thread on social media from a
00:36:00.120
nurse on Twitter that talked about a man who tested positive, an old man who tested positive, and he was
00:36:06.500
placed in a holding pattern in the hospital because no one wanted to treat him because he was COVID
00:36:11.220
positive. And they didn't want to do this invasive, invasive procedure that he needed because he was
00:36:16.560
COVID positive. And he ended up dying while he was waiting. He needed this procedure. They didn't want
00:36:21.400
to do the procedure because he was COVID positive. And so because and that's unscientific. So because
00:36:27.380
the media has caused hysteria about this, people are actually dying from it. Okay, so this is life and
00:36:32.720
death. This hypocrisy actually matters. And now I know the hypocrites that I just listed,
00:36:37.420
were all, they were all Democrats. That's wasn't my goal. This is just what's in the news. And it
00:36:44.780
is Democrats who are, who are implementing these kinds of restrictions and then flouting the
00:36:51.680
restrictions. They tend not to be Republicans. Republicans have their own problems with hypocrisy,
00:36:56.600
too. And I have no problem calling that out. There are plenty of people who identify as conservatives and
00:37:02.060
Republicans who are hypocrites. Hypocrisy is wrong, no matter whether you have an R or a D by your name.
00:37:08.140
But the stories that are in the news right now, they do happen to be, they happen to be centered on
00:37:15.500
Democrats who are acting like hypocrites. And that makes people very frustrated.
00:37:23.440
Okay, so let's talk about this word hypocrisy, which again, does not just describe Democrats.
00:37:29.920
That's not the point of this. The point is to explain how frustrating hypocrisy is and how it
00:37:36.880
really can drive people to the brink, especially when it comes to our leadership. But as Christians,
00:37:43.260
we are also called to reject hypocrisy. Just for fun, I wanted to look up the etymology of the word
00:37:49.900
hypocrite. There are words like this that we use all the time. We know what they mean generally, but
00:37:54.820
we don't really stop to ask where they come from. And I like looking at the origin of words
00:37:59.900
I think it can really help us better understand them. Hypocrite comes from the Greek word
00:38:05.740
hupokrisis, which means to play on stage or to pretend. Hupo or hypo means under. So for example,
00:38:14.020
if you have hypothyroidism, you have an underactive thyroid. The opposite is hyper, which means over or
00:38:20.440
in excess. Now the krisis and hupokrisis or hupokrisis probably comes from the Greek crinian,
00:38:28.600
which means to separate, to judge, to decide, to distinguish, to discern. So it would seem,
00:38:35.080
getting to the most literal meaning of this word, that to be a hypocrite means to fail to distinguish
00:38:40.880
or to under distinguish between reality and pretend, or to pretend that something is reality
00:38:48.500
when it's not, to act, to play a role, and then metaphorically to be something else entirely
00:38:53.580
backstage. It's used in language to describe people who pretend to have a particular virtue,
00:39:01.180
to pretend to have a certain value, or who preach that virtue and that value and promote it to others.
00:39:06.540
We've just given you many examples of that. But don't represent it and live it out themselves.
00:39:12.300
What we see in Scripture, throughout Scripture, from really Genesis to Revelation, that God hates
00:39:18.820
hypocrisy. He hates the pretense of righteousness coupled with a rebellious heart. He hates outward
00:39:24.520
obedience accompanied with a self-serving spirit. So in the Old Testament, we see that David says to
00:39:33.220
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it. You will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
00:39:38.720
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
00:39:45.040
Isaiah 29, 13 through 14, talks about the fact that the people are honoring God with their mouths.
00:39:53.420
They draw near to God, and they honor Him with their lips, but their hearts are far from them.
00:40:01.840
And so they actually fear man and what man thinks more than God. And so this is the Lord basically
00:40:10.000
talking about frustrating and confounding the wisest of Israel to show that He alone is the source of
00:40:16.780
wisdom and power to invoke sincere fear and worship of Him, because at this time they were fearing man
00:40:22.680
more than they feared God, and they were hypocrites. God cares very much about sincerity. Again, He hates
00:40:29.420
pretense. He hates deceit. He cannot be deceived. Proverbs 6, 16 through 19 talks about the six things that
00:40:37.280
the Lord hates, the seven things that are an abomination to Him, and one of them is a lying tongue.
00:40:43.620
So this is bad news. This is bad news for a lot of politicians in both parties. It's also comforting,
00:40:50.180
I think, that the Lord hates what so many people in power are doing and plotting and scheming that manifests
00:40:55.700
itself in the oppression of civilians. And one day, because He hates all forms of sin, He will pour out wrath
00:41:02.040
and exact perfect justice. One of the ways that David actually defends his own righteousness in the
00:41:09.360
Psalms, in Psalm 26, 4, is to say that he doesn't even associate himself with hypocrites. Jesus calls
00:41:16.480
out hypocrisy quite a bit in the New Testament. You could even say that this was one of the central
00:41:21.420
themes of Jesus's ministry, to call out outward righteousness in order to gain attention and power
00:41:28.780
that was then undermined by inward selfishness. We see this in Matthew chapter 6, when He says,
00:41:36.580
when you give to the needy, when you pray, when you fast, don't do any of these things to get the
00:41:42.620
approval of other people. Don't be loud about it. Don't be showy about it. The people who are doing
00:41:47.480
these things, outward forms of righteousness, in order to get the applause and approval of other people,
00:41:52.620
He says, have already received their reward. So He's saying people who do good things for a
00:41:58.620
reward here on earth in the form of accolades, that's all you're going to get. You get no reward
00:42:04.360
in heaven for that. You want a fleeting applause for your good deeds? You got it. But that's all you're
00:42:09.580
going to get. And then in Matthew 15, 1 through 9, He talks about a conversation that He has, or Jesus is
00:42:17.160
having a conversation with the Pharisees, and He accuses them of trying to get around particular
00:42:24.460
commandments to gain in a selfish way. He talks about trying to get around the commandment to honor
00:42:34.980
your father and mother by avoiding the responsibility of taking care of their parents financially with this
00:42:41.320
kind of godly sounding excuse. And what He's saying is that they are making void the Word of God,
00:42:48.920
that they have not understood the real intention of the law, because God's law has always been about
00:42:55.800
obedience from a heart that is dedicated to Him. And a heart that loves and is dedicated to God
00:43:00.780
never asks, what can I get away with? How can I skirt this law on a technicality? How can I look
00:43:07.060
righteous to other people and avoid sacrifice? But rather, how can I best glorify God? How can I most
00:43:13.760
authentically and fully obey Him? So He's saying to the Pharisees in this chapter, you don't love God.
00:43:20.520
You love yourself. You don't worship Him. You worship yourself. You don't seek to give God glory. You
00:43:24.660
seek to glorify yourself. Okay, then your reward is all the attention that you're getting here on earth,
00:43:29.540
all the power that you've accumulated by your hypocrisy, and you got another thing coming for
00:43:34.920
you in eternity. And let me just make another point on this in His conversation with Pharisees.
00:43:41.040
You often hear people who identify as progressive Christians talking about how Jesus denounced the
00:43:47.080
Pharisees as a way to make the point that Jesus didn't like religious people. And they call anyone
00:43:53.200
a Pharisee who expresses any care at all about Christian morality, sexuality, etc. They point to
00:43:58.780
Matthew 7, 1 that says, judge not lest you be judged. They point to Romans 2, 1 that says not to judge.
00:44:04.900
And they use these verses to say that you're not allowed to criticize any action, any kind of lifestyle,
00:44:09.940
any belief system. Because if you do, you're just a judgmental Pharisee. And Jesus hated the
00:44:14.680
judgmental Pharisee. But here are a few problems with that. And this is where we're going to close
00:44:20.100
out. What people who use this line really mean when they say that is that conservative Christians
00:44:28.360
aren't allowed to say what's right and wrong behavior according to the Bible because that is
00:44:32.820
Pharisaical. But they have no problem using the Bible to support what they say is right and wrong
00:44:38.440
and calling anyone who doesn't align with their definitions of morality and love,
00:44:43.020
usually conservative Christians, not real Jesus followers. So in using Matthew 7, 1 to call anyone
00:44:48.840
who cares about, for example, the Christian sexual ethic of Pharisee, they themselves are being
00:44:53.900
judgmental and violating Matthew 7, 1. Both Matthew 7, 1 and Romans 2, 1 are not talking about discerning
00:45:01.140
between right from wrong and righteousness from sin. Both are talking about hypocrisy.
00:45:06.240
Matthew 7 goes on to say that before you call out sin in another person, you got to remove the sin
00:45:11.240
from your own life. You got to take the log out of your own eye. Romans 2 goes on to say that you
00:45:15.520
are wrong to judge others for doing the very same things that you are guilty of. Jesus, hear me,
00:45:22.100
this is so important. Jesus did not condemn the Pharisees for being too religious or too righteous or
00:45:29.600
too holy or even too judgmental. Jesus condemned them for being hypocrites. It's not that they were
00:45:36.880
too obedient to God. It's not that they were too righteous. It's that they had outward obedience that
00:45:43.740
was accompanied by a selfish, unregenerate heart that did not love God. So their spirit was one of,
00:45:50.760
what can I get away with to try to skirt full obedience to God's law when it's inconvenient,
00:45:54.900
rather than I love God and want to obey him as much as possible. Back what we read from David in
00:46:02.700
the Psalms, it's not sacrifice that the Lord really requires. It's a contrite heart before him. And that's
00:46:08.180
something that can happen on the right or the left, that kind of hypocrisy, the right or the left at the
00:46:12.620
theological spectrum or political spectrum. But people who call themselves progressive Christians
00:46:17.600
should realize how susceptible they are to this line of thinking. Because I am constantly hearing
00:46:23.880
from that segment of the world, all the ways that we can get around what the Bible teaches about,
00:46:29.460
say, modesty or gender or sex or porn or marriage or any area of Christian morality.
00:46:34.340
And I'm always hearing, you know, the argument from absence with some people who identify as
00:46:39.680
progressive Christians that Jesus never talked about abortion. Jesus never talked about homosexuality.
00:46:44.600
And not only is that incorrect, because he does talk about these things, you know, honoring
00:46:51.280
the honoring children, for example, and honoring sexual morality. But it's also a fallacy. It's a
00:46:59.900
misunderstanding of the Trinity since Jesus is God and everything that God says, Jesus also says. But
00:47:05.880
it's also emulating the spirits, demonstrating the spirit of what can I get away with? How can I find a
00:47:11.600
way to do what I want to do? And that is not representative of a heart that loves and is
00:47:16.180
submitted to God. We hear from them that God really only cares about social justice. He doesn't care
00:47:22.120
about our sin. The reality is, and I promise I'm about to, I know I keep going, but I promise I'm about
00:47:28.200
to end this. The reality is if Jesus were alive today, these same people would call him a bigot and
00:47:33.300
a Pharisee. Because for all their talk of Jesus's condemnation of religious people and his association with
00:47:39.080
the lowly and the sinners, the prostitutes, the tax collectors, which also important for this crowd
00:47:44.100
to note, the tax collectors were seen as the scum of society because overtaxation was considered a
00:47:48.480
form of oppression. The adulterers, they seem to ignore that Jesus called all of these people to
00:47:55.500
repentance. He forgave their sins and urged them to sin no more. Not to mention, he reiterates the
00:48:01.120
biblical definition of marriage and gender in Matthew 19. So he would have been seen as hugely
00:48:05.480
problematic to many people who profess to be progressive Christians today. Jesus cared about
00:48:10.140
sin. He came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law. He didn't come to say sinning doesn't
00:48:14.520
matter. He came to take the definition of sin to the next level by saying it's not just about what you
00:48:19.500
do. It's about why you do what you do. Jesus cared about what we do on the outside, but he wanted it to
00:48:26.500
be done from a place of sincerity and love, not hypocrisy. 1 Peter 1, 22 through 23, 2, 1 through 3
00:48:35.460
says, having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love,
00:48:41.600
love one another earnestly from a pure heart since you have been born again, not of perishable seed,
00:48:47.220
but of imperishable through the living and abiding word of God. So put away all malice and all deceit
00:48:53.660
and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants long for the pure spiritual milk
00:48:59.760
that by it you may grow up into salvation if indeed you have tasted and seen that the Lord
00:49:06.720
is good. So this is true for all of us. Like this is something that I take to heart. We all have the
00:49:12.340
tendency to be hypocrites. We all struggle with hypocrisy. It's even more frustrating when we see it
00:49:16.960
from our leadership class, but it's something that we all have to look inward and examine in our own
00:49:21.520
selves. We all have the propensity towards self-righteousness and judging other people of
00:49:25.920
the same things that we are guilty of. And so thank the Lord that we can be sanctified
00:49:29.880
by the Holy Spirit, that we can be justified by grace through faith, that he calls us to radical
00:49:36.160
transparency, radical honesty. I pray that he would continue to sanctify me in that way. That's my prayer
00:49:41.840
for all of us. It's especially my prayer for people in power because it causes a lot of unrest that is
00:49:47.540
going to end, I think, in a very ugly way. So let's continue to pray for honesty and true virtue,
00:49:54.380
not just among ourselves, but also from the people who lead us. All right. We'll be back here tomorrow