Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 26, 2022


Ep 684 ｜ Fascism Is Here, Not in Italy


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

156.97142

Word Count

8,581

Sentence Count

524

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

In this episode, we talk about the new Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Maloney, and why she is making a lot of people angry in the political sphere. She is trying to forge an anti-family, anti-natalist and anti-nationalist agenda, and she is saying that the identity that we have that comes from our biological gender is under attack.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Italy just elected a bold conservative as prime minister, and people on the left are
00:00:05.680 predictably maligning her as a fascist. Here in the States, though, we're facing an actual
00:00:11.560 fascistic threat. A pro-life activist was raided by the FBI last week on obscure charges. And in
00:00:18.380 North Dakota, an 18-year-old was killed by a man who took Biden's recent speech to heart,
00:00:23.780 justifying his actions by saying the boy was a, quote, Republican extremist. So troubling
00:00:29.740 times we're living in, but God is on his throne, and I've got proof that he is working now and will
00:00:35.720 claim victory in the end, no matter what. We will end on that note. As always, this episode is brought
00:00:42.800 to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com slash Allie. That's goodranchers.com
00:00:48.260 slash Allie. Okay, happy Monday, everyone. We've got a lot to talk about today. Some good,
00:01:04.500 some scary. At the end, I am going to encourage you about something I've been thinking about
00:01:10.740 over the past few days as I have traveled the country and met so many amazing people. So even
00:01:17.980 parts of today's episode make you think, oh my gosh, what in the heck is our country? What is the
00:01:26.500 world coming to? I promise that you will end this episode feeling good about the goodness and the
00:01:33.980 mercy and the sovereignty and the redemptive plan of God. We're also going to start the episode out
00:01:40.800 with something positive, a source of optimism, at least in the political sphere globally.
00:01:48.860 And that is Giorgia Maloney. I hope that I am pronouncing that correctly. When I visited Italy
00:01:55.160 in college, I noticed that they have a very sing-songy way of speaking. Giorgia Maloney. Did I get it?
00:02:03.160 Did I get it? Any Italian listeners or watchers out there? I want to tell you about this new prime
00:02:08.600 minister of Italy who is making a lot of the right people angry. Here's a clip from one of her
00:02:18.000 recent speeches.
00:02:19.260 It's under attack with gender identity. It's under attack with family identity. I don't
00:02:24.380 have to be able to define Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No. I have to be a citizen X,
00:02:31.280 gender X, parent 1, parent 2. I have to be a number. Because when I'm only a number, when
00:02:36.980 I don't have any identity, when I don't have any roots, then I'll be the perfect slave in
00:02:42.060 balia della grande speculazione finanziaria. Il consumatore perfetto. E questa è la ragione
00:02:51.700 per la quale oggi noi facciamo tanta paura. Questa è la ragione per la quale oggi questo
00:03:00.820 appuntamento fa tanta paura. Perché noi non vogliamo essere dei numeri. Noi siamo qui per
00:03:05.160 dire che noi non siamo dei numeri. Noi difenderemo il valore della persona umana.
00:03:08.300 All right. So let me translate for you. For those of you who are listening to this and
00:03:12.360 not watching on YouTube, if you're watching on YouTube, there are English captions at
00:03:16.420 the bottom. So here's the part that we played from her speech. She says they attack gender
00:03:22.220 identity. And what she means by that, she doesn't mean like left-wing gender ideology. She is
00:03:27.880 talking about in the context of this, the identity that we have that comes from our biological
00:03:34.640 gender. So she says they attack gender identity. They attack family identity. I can't define
00:03:40.220 myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No, I must be citizen X, gender X, parent one,
00:03:46.760 parent two. I must be a number because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity
00:03:52.420 and roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators, the perfect
00:03:57.900 consumer. That's the reason why. That's why we inspire so much fear. That's why this event
00:04:03.260 inspires so much fear because we do not want to be numbers. Now, this makes a whole lot of
00:04:11.320 compelling sense. If you have listened to any of my episodes with Justin Haskins about the
00:04:17.140 World Economic Forum, about the radical transformation of society, that those at the
00:04:22.420 World Economic Forum and their allies in governments around the world are trying to
00:04:30.280 forge specifically through anti-family, anti-natalist, anti-tradition, anti-nationalist
00:04:40.420 and climate change policies. And she is repudiating that. She is saying that's not the direction that we
00:04:50.000 want to go. That is not the kind of future that Italy wants. We are going to have a future that is
00:04:57.180 marked, that is characterized by our Italian identity, our identity as Christians, our identity
00:05:02.700 as part of our family, the heritage that we have, not just as Italians and as Christians, but as members
00:05:08.860 of our natural families. She is emphasizing the reality of gender, the importance of gender. In other speeches,
00:05:19.000 she has talked about the importance of the natural family. She said this in a speech, and I won't play
00:05:27.720 the clip. I'll just read you part of what she says. She says, yes to natural families, no to the LGBT
00:05:33.040 lobby. Yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology. And again, what she means by sexual identity there is our
00:05:41.380 identity that comes from our biological sex. Yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death, no to the
00:05:48.500 violence of Islam, yes to safer borders, no to mass immigration, yes to work for our people. So she is just
00:05:56.660 running straight into the subjects that people today, the GOP in America, even many conservative commentators and
00:06:06.120 activists consider too taboo to even talk about. And in the speech that we played a little bit of a
00:06:14.140 couple minutes ago, she says some other things that I found just really compelling and brave. She says,
00:06:21.200 this is a, this is about what we are doing here today. Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family
00:06:26.980 so frightening? There is a single answer to all these questions because it defines us, because it is our
00:06:32.140 identity because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer
00:06:36.720 have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves. And so they attack national identity. They
00:06:43.380 attack religious identity. We will defend the value of the human being, every single human being, because
00:06:49.760 each of us has a unique genetic code that is unrepeatable and like it or not, that is sacred. We will defend
00:06:55.340 it. We will defend God, country, and family. Those things that, that disgust people today so much. We will do it
00:07:02.060 to defend our freedom because we will never be slaves and simple consumers at the mercy of financial
00:07:06.440 speculators. That is our mission. That is why we came here today. Chesterton wrote more than a century
00:07:12.640 ago. Interesting that she is quoting GK Chesterton. I like a lot of what Chesterton said. He was a
00:07:20.860 Catholic theologian, but a lot of Protestants really like Chesterton because of his wisdom. So she quotes
00:07:27.780 him saying, fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove
00:07:35.320 that leaves are green in the summer. There is an assault on truth and there is an actual battle being
00:07:42.280 waged right now just to defend what is obviously true, whether it comes to gender or the family or
00:07:51.180 national identity. She says, that time has arrived. We are ready. Thank you. For every action, there's an
00:07:59.340 equal and opposite reaction. People weren't just going to go along with the left-wing globalist
00:08:06.680 movement forever. There was always going to be a right-wing reaction to that. There was always going
00:08:12.640 to be a nationalist reaction to that. And I understand that that word nationalism makes a lot of people
00:08:19.320 uncomfortable, even on the conservative side, especially Christians, because you have been told
00:08:24.360 that nationalism is synonymous with Nazism, that nationalism is synonymous with fascism, that
00:08:31.060 nationalism is anti-God, is anti-Christianity, and anti-Jesus. That is simply not true. Of course,
00:08:38.460 depending on how you define it, it's important for us to define our terms. But nationalism in its truest and
00:08:44.180 historic sense is simply putting the interest and the well-being of your country first, even at the
00:08:52.820 expense of, at times, the interest and well-being of other countries. Now, that is only scary to some
00:08:59.880 people when it's coming from the right or when it's coming from especially a Western country. If America
00:09:06.920 says that, if politicians in Britain say that, if there was some rogue politician in Canada who still
00:09:12.060 believed that and said that, that would be called white supremacist somehow, that would be called
00:09:16.220 Nazi and fascist and extremist and radical and unloving, unempathetic and all of those things.
00:09:23.380 But the fact of the matter is, is that the institutions that have been designated by God
00:09:29.580 to exercise authority over their country are doing the good and the righteous thing by putting the
00:09:34.840 interest and the safety and the security of their people first, because God designated them
00:09:40.680 to be in charge of that country, not all countries. God put the constituents in that particular
00:09:47.120 country to be under the care of the government there, not the people of other countries. That
00:09:53.000 doesn't mean that you hate other countries. That doesn't mean that you think that they are
00:09:56.940 innately less valuable. That doesn't mean that you try to exploit them for the sake of selfish gain.
00:10:03.280 That just means that you are looking after your own people first. Countries are really like families,
00:10:09.960 and we've talked about this before. You love your family the most. You love your family first. You
00:10:16.440 put the needs of your children before the needs of other people's children. Does that mean that you
00:10:23.040 hate your neighbors? Does that mean that you hate their families? Does that mean that you think that
00:10:27.080 they're bad? That you think that you are innately superior to the people who live next door? That you
00:10:32.040 don't like their children? No, that's not what that means. You love them. You think that they're great
00:10:37.260 people? You want good things for them. But God has given you your family. God has given you the people
00:10:43.420 in your household. That doesn't mean that you don't help your neighbor. That doesn't mean that you don't
00:10:49.100 try to give resources to them when they need it, of course. But you do not starve your own children
00:10:56.060 to feed the children next door. You don't take food out of the mouths of your kids and give it to
00:11:03.580 some strangers' kids across town because that would be an abdication of your responsibility that God has
00:11:10.520 given you to steward the children that you have. The same thing is true of countries. Countries are like
00:11:18.480 families. We are supposed to look to the well-being of our countries, of our fellow citizens. First, that is
00:11:27.000 good leadership. That's good leadership. Again, that doesn't mean that other people are not made in the
00:11:33.280 image of God. They're just as valuable. Of course, we know that. We are talking about what good
00:11:39.520 leadership looks like here on earth, and it is putting the interest and the security and the
00:11:45.880 well-being of your people first, whether it's economically, whether it comes to immigration,
00:11:51.420 whether it's social policy. That is the job of every leader. We don't bat an eye when, say,
00:11:59.000 the leader of Zambia says, you know what? I care about my people the most. I love Zambia
00:12:04.060 more than I love Canada, and I care about the well-being of Zambian citizens before I care about
00:12:09.860 the well-being of Canadian citizens. No one would think that that's bad, but for some reason, when
00:12:14.460 other countries do it, when so-called right-wing politicians say that they want to put their country
00:12:19.280 first in Western countries, that's bad, that's evil, that's fascist, that's silly. It's always
00:12:26.060 right to put your country first. It's actually evil, wicked leadership, the kind of leadership that
00:12:31.200 we see in this country today when you sell out the well-being of your own citizens for the
00:12:37.220 betterment of another country, like what both parties in charge in D.C. have done when it comes to the
00:12:43.340 manufacturing jobs in Middle America that we have exported to China to their gain and our loss.
00:12:48.700 That is wicked. That is wrong. Also, that we are not willing to secure our own borders, but we are
00:12:54.960 spending billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to secure the borders of Ukraine. I would love to
00:13:01.180 help in both regards, sure, but when the sovereignty of another country is clearly more important than the
00:13:08.280 sovereignty of your own country, that's not compassion and empathy. That is evil. And it seems,
00:13:13.340 like, the new leader of Italy realizes that, Georgia Maloney. Now, I don't know everything
00:13:19.640 about her, so I can't say that I agree with her on everything. I don't know if ultimately she will
00:13:27.800 be able to lead Italy effectively based on the platform that she has articulated. I really hope
00:13:34.220 that she is. And it just goes to show, because, you know, conservative leadership was also elected
00:13:38.700 recently in Sweden that people are tired. People are tired of this globalist, elitist, left-wing chaos
00:13:48.360 that is being forged by the people at the very top of the totem pole. You can call it populism. You can
00:13:56.000 call it, you know, whatever you want to, but it is in opposition to, it is a repudiation of the regime
00:14:04.860 that has held power for a very long time. So let me tell you just a little bit more about her and
00:14:11.780 what her position has been. She has been in Italian politics for a while. She opposed the lockdowns in
00:14:18.720 Italy that killed so many people. She opposed the vaccine mandates and the vaccine passports, and so
00:14:24.900 she was outspoken about that. She called for a travel ban from China into Italy, and the other
00:14:32.540 world economic forum global leaders like Macron in France said that she was racist for calling that.
00:14:41.880 Italy probably would have benefited from that kind of policy, though. Some of the things that she says
00:14:47.400 that she opposes euthanasia, abortion, gay marriage, gay adoption, transgenderism, illegal immigration.
00:14:54.780 She says that she stands for life, strong military, Italy first values, and religious freedom. And again,
00:15:02.680 she is more explicit and outspoken on a lot of these things than the GOP, than the conservatives here are.
00:15:11.980 I mean, we've got conservatives in the most conservative states in the country who won't utter a word about
00:15:19.700 LGBTQ issues, who won't say anything about gay marriage. Natural marriage and the natural formation
00:15:27.980 of the family, which has been around for all of human history, and which every time and culture has
00:15:34.640 recognized as the natural family, and every good civilization has recognized as the building block
00:15:42.920 of any stable society, it just in America became legal in 2015. So seven years ago, and already
00:15:55.220 conservative Christian politicians won't even touch it. And this woman is saying, look, I care about Italy.
00:16:01.440 I care about what has always been the building block of good civilizations. And that is the family.
00:16:08.600 That is the strong family. I care about that identity. I care about how it affects children and
00:16:17.480 how it affects future generations, how it affects our understanding of heritage and tradition. And I
00:16:24.120 want to try to uphold that as a Christian, as an Italian, as a mother. And good for her. You might not
00:16:29.820 agree with her. But guess what? That doesn't make her what the New York Times says that it does. And that
00:16:37.300 is a fascist. Can you believe it? Surprise, surprise. Because a woman believes in the definition of the
00:16:44.940 family and the definition of gender that everyone has agreed on for millennia, if not for all of time,
00:16:52.140 because of that, she is a fascist. She's just like Mussolini. And I'm going to talk a little bit
00:16:58.700 about that reaction, which will transition us into the rest of our episode in just a second.
00:17:02.980 All right. So surprise, surprise, the New York Times says polls have closed in Italy's,
00:17:22.020 this is yesterday, a pivotal election that could lead to Georgia Maloney, a far right leader with
00:17:26.680 post-fascist roots. What is post-fascist roots? Becoming the nation's first female prime minister.
00:17:33.560 Oh, my goodness. This isn't a win for feminism. This isn't us conquering worldwide misogyny. Wait,
00:17:43.140 why isn't this a victory for intersectionality? This woman taking charge. I'm so confused. I don't
00:17:51.140 understand the New York Times. Can you break it down for me? The New York Times also says Georgia
00:17:56.480 Maloney, who is set to become Italy's first far right leader since Mussolini. Since Mussolini. We
00:18:03.340 got to make the comparison to Mussolini. There were so many other ways that they could say this
00:18:07.580 that didn't make it seem like they were comparing her to the fascist dictator, murderous dictator
00:18:13.920 Mussolini. They could have said the most conservative leader they've had for in a while,
00:18:18.840 the first right wing leader they've had in a while. They could have said they could have just said the
00:18:23.100 first female leader because you know that if she were left wing, they wouldn't have said anything
00:18:28.640 about her ideology. They would have just said the first female leader because the left likes to pretend
00:18:35.560 like leftist values are just completely neutral and universally compassionate and good. And anyone who
00:18:40.680 opposes that is evil and fascist. So that's what they're doing here. Georgia Maloney, who is set to
00:18:45.640 become Italy's first far right, far right leader since Mussolini, says she supports Ukraine and has
00:18:52.380 moderated her harsh views on Europe. But European leaders are watching with caution and some trepidation.
00:18:58.540 Look, I'm also watching with caution and some trepidation because I don't like to get super excited
00:19:04.600 about leaders that come out strong and they seem like they align with their value, with our values,
00:19:11.520 and then they end up backing off because of political pressure. So we'll see. I'm excited
00:19:17.780 about what she says. I really admire her courage and just like saying it. She's not caveating it or
00:19:23.940 over nuancing her views. She's just like saying it like it is. And I really appreciate that. But I am
00:19:31.520 also watching with a little bit of caution because I have learned, we've all learned the hard way not to
00:19:37.620 put your eggs in any one politician's basket, no matter how great they sound. And the New York
00:19:43.720 Times, other outlets, a lot of left wing blue check marks on Twitter are all kind of freaking out
00:19:49.520 about her and saying that she's a fascist, Nazi, all of these things. And I just wonder at this point,
00:19:56.880 like who does that actually persuade? And is it meant to persuade? Is that kind of language actually
00:20:03.780 meant to persuade people? Or is it just kind of what they do at this point? Or do they really
00:20:10.200 think that? Like has the left really convinced themselves that anyone to the right of Liz Cheney
00:20:15.600 and Mitt Romney is a fascist? And so they really think that they are doing the right and virtuous
00:20:21.180 thing? Or is it a call to arms for their side? Is it to activate and agitate? Is it to try to
00:20:28.200 associate anyone who believes in the traditional natural family with fascism? So there is even
00:20:34.500 further vitriol and hatred from the left side? Now, some people will say it's not to persuade at all.
00:20:42.240 It's not even to fear monger because the people that they're speaking to already believe that anyone
00:20:47.900 to the right of Liz Cheney is a fascist. And so it's just kind of I think Steve Day said on Twitter,
00:20:52.600 it's like just confirmation. However, you know, and this is kind of similar to the conversation that
00:20:59.000 I see people saying on Twitter a lot, like, it's pointless to point out the hypocrisy of the left,
00:21:04.240 or it's pointless to say, like, who the real racist is, or whatever, which side is actually
00:21:09.720 racist. And part of that might be true. But I think that they are disregarding a large segment of
00:21:16.500 people who consider themselves center right and moderate, especially a lot of women who actually
00:21:21.940 do, who actually do need to see the hypocrisy of the left, and who actually are, on the flip side of
00:21:32.540 that, convinced by language, like what the New York Times is saying that this lady is a fascist.
00:21:39.140 Like, I do think that they are susceptible to those kind of arguments. Like, there's a very emotional,
00:21:44.700 mushy middle that they probably consider themselves personally conservative, but are still,
00:21:50.580 like, persuaded by writers at the New York Times, it can very easily be manipulated into saying,
00:21:58.900 oh, well, I don't want to associate with her, or I don't want to associate with anyone on the far
00:22:03.740 right. I don't want to be called the fascist. I don't want to be called a racist. And if the New
00:22:09.140 York Times calls it like that, then it must be true. So I'm just going to consider myself a moderate,
00:22:13.780 I'm going to nuance myself into not really having any position at all. I think there's a large portion
00:22:19.360 of the mushy middle, who actually is kind of persuaded by language, like the New York Times is
00:22:24.880 putting forward fascism, racism, etc. And actually, they do have to, they do, we do have to point out to
00:22:33.060 them that that's actually not true, that there is a form of fascism that exists. And the real fascists
00:22:40.680 around the globe, and in our country today, are simply not on the right. They're not on the right.
00:22:46.600 And I know that some people will say, well, fascism is by definition, a right wing thing. Well,
00:22:53.900 it's a totalitarian thing. It's really not as simple as saying that it is right and left. It's
00:22:59.200 really defined by the wedding of corporate and elite and government power, and using that power to crush
00:23:10.620 political dissent. And if anyone has a monopoly on that wedding of power today, it is the left in
00:23:18.520 this country. And I'm going to give you some examples of that. The first example that we have
00:23:24.800 is this terrifying story that you might have seen over the weekend, where a pro-life activist named
00:23:33.220 Mark Hawk. I'm not really sure how to pronounce the last name. I will say Hawk for now. Mark Hawk,
00:23:40.640 he is the founder and president of the Kingsmen, which promotes, they say, healing for victims of
00:23:46.800 porn addiction and promotes Christian virtues among men in the US. In Europe, he lives about two hours
00:23:52.960 outside of Philadelphia. And he drives into Philly every Wednesday and spends about six to eight hours
00:24:01.920 at two different abortion centers doing sidewalk counseling. So he'll pray for women who are going
00:24:07.460 into the clinic. He will speak to them. And he tries to steer them towards pro-life organizations.
00:24:14.960 This is a strategy of a lot of pro-lifers. These are some of the most dedicated pro-lifers and
00:24:20.560 committed and compassionate Christians that you will meet who are spending time that they could
00:24:25.260 be doing a million other things, trying to persuade and minister women to not walk into clinics and
00:24:33.900 have their babies slaughtered. Like that is an absolutely worthy and selfless way to spend your
00:24:42.320 time. Last year, Mark took his 12-year-old son. He has lots of kids. He took his 12-year-old son to
00:24:48.960 the sidewalk counseling with him. And he says that for weeks and weeks, a pro-abortion protester,
00:24:57.140 a man, would get in his son's face and say really crude and inappropriate and disgusting things.
00:25:03.360 And he says that the man would say things like, your dad is an inappropriate word for a gay person
00:25:12.620 that some people might use that starts with an F, and other worse statements to the boy. And as you can
00:25:18.360 imagine as a parent who is so protective of your children, if someone is degrading your son like
00:25:24.420 that, especially if they're saying something with a sexual innuendo, I mean, that is really hard to
00:25:30.400 show restraint. But I also understand why Mr. Hawk, why he brought his son with him, because you want
00:25:38.140 to bring your son into ministry. You want to bring your kids into that. You want to show them what it
00:25:42.680 means to stand up against opposition and persecution and to show them what it looks like, to be courageous
00:25:49.400 and show compassion. And I'm sure it seems like, from what Mark is saying here, that his patients had
00:25:58.100 just worn thin. He told the man, he says, to leave his son alone. But the man kept talking to the boy and
00:26:03.980 eventually entered the boy's personal space. So Mark says that he shoved the man away from his 12-year-old
00:26:10.300 child. And the man fell back. Now, we hear that all of this is on video. I have not seen the video
00:26:16.780 released yet. So it might not be public. If it's public, I haven't been able to find it. But
00:26:21.420 apparently, this is all on security cameras. Now, the man did not sustain any injuries, but he tried
00:26:27.280 to sue Mark in the district court of Philadelphia. But the case was thrown out. They said, look, you don't
00:26:33.200 really have a case. People like shove people to the ground all the time. I'm not saying that assault is
00:26:38.340 okay. I'm not saying that that assault in general or shoving people to the ground is okay. But if
00:26:44.820 you're doing it in defense, especially defense of your child, if someone enters your child's personal
00:26:49.860 space, it goes beyond words to the point where you think that your child might be physically injured.
00:26:55.120 Yeah, I think that the least that you can do is shove that person backwards. And so the case was
00:27:00.960 thrown out. There was no case. He tried to sue him. And it just wasn't a legitimate case, obviously.
00:27:08.760 And yet this past Friday, September 23rd at 7 a.m., 25 to 30 FBI agents pounded on the door
00:27:16.980 of Mark's rural home and yelled for the family to open up. 25 to 30 FBI agents
00:27:24.500 with guns pointed at Mark and his family knocked on the door 7 a.m. and said, open up. Mark went to
00:27:35.780 the door and he said, please, I'm going to open the door, but please, my children are in the home. I
00:27:40.580 have seven babies in the house. You would think you would think that at some point they would say,
00:27:49.100 you know what? Like, this is not this is not necessary for us to show this level of force.
00:27:55.880 But Mark opens the door and the agents point their guns at Mark and his wife named Ryan Marie and
00:28:01.520 instructed the kids to go upstairs. Ryan Marie reports afterwards, the kids were all just screaming.
00:28:07.220 It was all just very scary and traumatic. Yeah, I can imagine. And the agents put Mark into a vehicle,
00:28:14.040 did not give Ryan Marie the warrant until she asked about it. That's unconstitutional.
00:28:19.100 Seems like the Fourth Amendment is just out the window at this point. Ryan Marie says that they
00:28:26.420 said that they were going to take him whether they had a warrant or not. This is what it looks like
00:28:31.160 for the DOJ to be above the law. The warrant charges Mark with violating the freedom of access
00:28:36.980 to clinic entrances, which I have learned is a very obscure law that is rarely, if ever,
00:28:45.440 actually in force. And it is apparently they claim that he attacked a patient escort.
00:28:52.760 They contend that he shoved an escort in their press release. They call it a reproductive health
00:28:57.380 center, which is not neutral language, by the way. So that tells you the that tells you the ideology
00:29:06.380 of Joe Biden's and Merrick Garland's Department of Justice.
00:29:10.400 Mark was taken to the federal building in downtown Philadelphia. Local pro-life advocates are
00:29:16.780 sponsoring a fundraiser for the Hawks. We will put the link to that in the description of this episode,
00:29:24.580 both if you're listening and if you're watching on YouTube, and held a prayer rally at the Philadelphia
00:29:29.340 Women's Center abortion facility on Saturday, September 24th at noon. So that is what has gone down
00:29:36.280 with Mark Hawk. So Mark, he admits that he shoved someone, he gives the reason for it. And now the
00:29:44.160 federal government, even after the case had already been thrown out of court in Philadelphia, the federal
00:29:51.340 government, under the direction of Joe Biden and Merrick Garland, showed up at this pro-life activist
00:30:00.840 house, armed, a SWAT team, I guess prepared to kill him if he didn't perfectly comply exactly how he how
00:30:11.900 they wanted him to in front of his seven children because he shoved a harasser to the ground. And even if
00:30:21.120 even if it were true, by the way, that say he had violently shoved this guy to the ground, say that he
00:30:29.020 really had gone out of his way to shove this person to the ground who was escorting a woman into the
00:30:35.260 clinic to slaughter her baby. Does that really require a SWAT team to come into his house? Like they
00:30:42.040 knew that he was not physically dangerous. There was no indication of that. They knew that he had
00:30:48.020 children in the home. He warned them of that. There was absolutely no reason for them to come at him
00:30:53.400 in this way, except for intimidation. Keep in mind, the DOJ made no charges, no arrests that we know of
00:31:04.140 concerning the series of attacks on pregnancy centers just a few months ago after the Dobbs decision was
00:31:09.240 released. There was arson. There was vandalism. There's intimidation, threats of violence. No
00:31:14.100 progressive activist from Jane's Revenge had her house raided by a SWAT team of 30 armed FBI agents.
00:31:21.040 That's because this is not about justice or punishing violence. This is not even about this
00:31:27.680 particular pro-life activist. This is about you. They want you to see the story and think,
00:31:34.180 whoo, I'm glad that's not me. Now I know not to go pray at abortion clinics. Now I know
00:31:39.480 not to do anything that might put me in a situation where the DOJ will be able to find something to use
00:31:45.620 against me. I won't go to a conservative protest, no matter how peaceful it is. I won't go to a
00:31:50.480 conservative event. I won't stand on a street corner and pray for people. I won't say out loud
00:31:57.440 that, hey, I think that elections should have the utmost integrity. I won't own a bakery or a florist
00:32:04.400 shop and attempt to live according to my values because the progressive powers that be will find a
00:32:10.580 way to weaponize the state against me until I comply. Those are all things that are happening
00:32:15.120 right now. I've heard Dennis Prager say, in all the history of leftism, of progressives being in
00:32:23.500 power, they never allow dissent. Ever. You cannot find a left-wing government in the history of the
00:32:31.360 world that allows, that tolerates political dissent. And that is true of all totalitarian regimes, not
00:32:40.220 just the technical dichotomy of right versus left. It's just that leftism always tips over into
00:32:46.860 tyranny. Always. Joe Biden was not kidding in his speech a couple weeks ago, standing against a blood
00:32:55.080 red wall flanked by the military when he says that he considers you an enemy of the state. Now, Joe Biden
00:33:03.740 may not personally think so because he may not personally think at all, but his people do because
00:33:09.140 Biden is a puppet. His administration is extreme, totalitarian, fully prepared and equipped to
00:33:15.680 punish political opponents, all the while pretending you are the fascist and they are the protectors
00:33:20.800 of democracy. That's where we are. People getting arrested, not because they pushed someone back from
00:33:30.460 their son who was being harassed, but because you, they view you, those who hate abortion, who hate the
00:33:40.140 genital mutilation of children, who are opposed to the extremist and deleterious climate change agenda,
00:33:50.940 who don't want the radical change of society that the World Economic Forum and their allies and global
00:33:59.960 governments are pushing for. They see you as a threat and they are using people like this pro-life
00:34:09.620 activists as forms of intimidation. If there is any fascism that exists in the United States, if there is any
00:34:20.860 example of fascism that exists in the United States, it is this. It is this. We talk a lot about the
00:34:29.740 wedding of governments and corporate power that we see from our, from the Democrats that are in power,
00:34:37.740 from our current governments, how the Biden administration and big tech come together to
00:34:45.320 censor the speech of people that they don't agree with, that they don't like. So don't you see
00:34:52.780 that it is all projection, that it's all a show? And you know, I said this last week, and I still mean
00:35:00.020 it. I don't understand. I do not understand how a logical thinking person, especially a person who
00:35:10.260 considers themselves moderate or center right, could be on board with the Democrat Party just because
00:35:19.360 you're scared of some boogeyman of Christian nationalism or like threats to democracy from
00:35:25.840 the right, which is a mirage, by the way. I mean, unless you like tyranny, like unless you like the
00:35:34.840 wedding of corporate and government power to try to punish dissent, unless you like political opponents
00:35:40.640 being arrested by the federal government and charged. I mean, this pro-life activist is facing
00:35:48.860 11 years in prison in fines of over $300,000 because he is a pro-life activist. So unless you
00:35:55.540 like that, like unless you enjoy high crime, unless you enjoy teachers unions and the education system
00:36:05.900 working against children's success, like, and I guess if you like drag queen story hour, you like
00:36:13.620 the genital mutilation of kids, like if you enjoy those kinds of things and support those kinds of
00:36:18.880 things, like if you are having a good time with inflation in the state of our economy, then sure,
00:36:26.260 like I guess it makes sense to vote Democrat. I have a really hard time understanding though,
00:36:31.240 if you oppose those things, like how you could still be on board. And look, I wish the current GOP
00:36:37.320 were more courageous and clear like Maloney from Italy. Unfortunately, many of them are not,
00:36:44.660 but I think that can change. I think that can change. I think we can start electing the right
00:36:49.000 people. I think there is a global movement towards that. And so I am hopeful. I am worried about this DOJ.
00:36:56.880 I am hoping, I don't even know if this is possible since they are so above the law, but that they are
00:37:02.780 over playing their hand and that we can get some people in charge who will rein in the absolutely
00:37:08.720 corrupt and unfettered power of the intelligence and security state. I want to talk to you about
00:37:16.000 another story of the extremism that we are seeing agitated on the left by the likes of Joe Biden and by
00:37:25.280 the rhetoric that we are constantly seeing in the media of calling people on the right extremists
00:37:32.200 and fascists and Nazis simply for believing very traditional and normal things.
00:37:39.300 Okay. So I wanted to make sure that I mentioned this terrible, terrible story of this teen. And his
00:37:57.400 name is Kaler Allinson. And he was a North Dakota native, 18 years old. He was struck by a car,
00:38:09.280 and killed in McHenry, North Dakota by a 41 year old man named Shannon Brant, who believed apparently
00:38:19.360 that this kid was a Republican extremist and therefore he deserved to die. And so let me tell
00:38:28.260 you, let me back up a little bit and tell you what happened. So the suspect, Shannon Brant,
00:38:34.560 said that he struck Ellingson with his car because they had a political argument at an event in McHenry.
00:38:45.200 And he believed that the pedestrian was calling people to come get him. Brant admitted to leaving
00:38:50.360 the scene of the incident where they had this alleged argument. So Brant apparently sought him out
00:38:57.360 and hit him with his car and then called 911, like told them what happened. And there's a little bit
00:39:05.320 confusion about like what actually went down, what the argument entailed, why this Brant guy seemed so
00:39:14.660 paranoid about what Ellingson was apparently like going to do. And Ellingson knew that this guy,
00:39:22.580 Brant, was out to get him and was going to try to harm him in some way. Again, there's confusion
00:39:28.100 about like what actually transpired. But Ellingson called his mom and was like, Mom, I need help.
00:39:33.580 This guy is trying to harm me in some way. I think he's going to get me. And he was hiding.
00:39:39.460 Ellingson was hiding in this alley and Brant somehow found him with his car and ran into him and killed
00:39:45.680 him with his car and told the police. This guy was a political extremist. Of course, now we are
00:39:52.320 seeing it reported. There's no evidence that he was some Republican extremist. There's no evidence
00:39:57.380 that this Brant guy had like any reason to believe that at all. And one of the saddest parts about this
00:40:04.880 is that he posted $50,000 bond on Tuesday, September 20th, Brant, and is now released.
00:40:13.380 And so he is walking free after murdering this kid because he said he's a Republican extremist,
00:40:21.300 which, by the way, like even if he had been a Republican extremist, whatever the heck that
00:40:25.560 even means. But even if he had been the most extreme right winger that exists on the face of
00:40:30.680 this planet, that would not justify his murder. So I do kind of think it's weird how this is being
00:40:35.560 reported. There's no evidence that he was a Republican extremist. OK, so what if there had been?
00:40:40.240 What if he had been the most Republican extremist and he had said terrible things to this guy and he
00:40:45.760 had been he had said all these kinds of things that this left wing Shannon Brant thought was
00:40:51.540 thought were bigoted? Who cares? It doesn't justify killing an 18 year old. Have you heard a peep about
00:40:58.500 this story from the Biden administration who, again, just a couple weeks ago called Republicans
00:41:03.820 extremists, said they're a threat to the Republic, a threat to democracy. We have to get rid of that
00:41:09.460 threat. This Shannon Brant person is just taking that to his logical conclusion. He's just taking
00:41:15.920 Biden's speech seriously. And look, I don't think that it is right to connect every action that someone
00:41:24.040 in a political party does with the rhetoric of the people in charge of that party. I don't think
00:41:30.320 that's always fair. I don't think it's always fair, but it is pretty darn clear that it is correlated
00:41:37.240 at the very least. Maybe it's not a completely causal relationship, but it is absolutely
00:41:43.520 correlated when the president of the United States stands up there and says we have to do something
00:41:48.680 about this Republican extremist threat to democracy. And someone simply takes his words to heart and does
00:41:56.400 something about it. Are we really that shocked? Are we really that shocked when a left winger traveled
00:42:01.140 from California to Brett Kavanaugh's house to kill him because he was scared of Roe v. Wade?
00:42:06.500 Like when you watch MSNBC or you watch CNN or you look at Twitter or you hear what the president of
00:42:12.000 the United States says or what the press secretary says or what Merrick Garland says about the people
00:42:18.520 who are opposed to Democrats, when you hear what they say and how they describe us, are you really
00:42:23.680 all that shocked that there are people out there that simply take the next logical step? Because
00:42:30.320 that's what this is. And apparently, apparently, though, you're not supposed to make that correlation.
00:42:36.060 You're not supposed to make that relationship because remember, remember, it's just right wingers
00:42:40.800 who are extremists. It's just you. It's just you pro-lifers. It's just you who are against the genital
00:42:45.820 mutilation of children. You're the extremists, not the ones out there killing teenagers simply because
00:42:51.640 they have some kind of alleged political disagreements. But this is what that kind of
00:42:59.180 attitude and that kind of mission that currently characterizes the left wing is going to continue
00:43:06.620 to produce. So you see in these two stories how they have a sandwiched like you see how they have
00:43:13.340 people at the top, the DOJ saying, if you defend yourself against our voters, if you defend yourself
00:43:23.800 against our activists and the people on our side, if you push back when you are pushed or you are
00:43:30.360 threatened or you are harassed, you're the one that's going to get in trouble. So don't even try
00:43:34.660 to defend yourself. That's what they're making sure of. They're making sure that you are going to be a
00:43:38.940 victim of violence from all the people down here. They're activists. They're voters. And then if
00:43:46.100 you try to fight back, they're going to make sure the people at the top at the DOJ do something about
00:43:50.140 it. It's not going to be the leftists that inflict violence, that inflict violence who are going to
00:43:54.400 get in trouble. It's going to be you. They're making sure of that. You see that? You see how frightening
00:44:00.780 that is by the people who call you a fascist? The people who say they're protecting democracy? The
00:44:09.420 people who say they want freedom? You know, I don't think that we live and die by elections in this
00:44:17.780 country. I know that we have all been disappointed by the people that we have voted for. We all wish,
00:44:22.860 as I said, that our Republican politicians had a little more spine. And of course, ultimately,
00:44:29.300 as Christians, we know that our hope isn't in the elections or our politicians. We understand that.
00:44:37.540 But man, this election in November matters. It matters who you vote for. It matters that you vote,
00:44:42.740 even if it is simply a vote against the Democrats, even if it is a vote against the people who are going
00:44:50.320 after parents, concerned parents at school board meetings, aka the current DOJ, even if you're just
00:44:55.920 voting against the totalitarianism that we are seeing on the left, even if you're not so sure
00:45:02.480 about the guy that you are voting for, I guarantee you it is better than voting for the bad guys.
00:45:08.180 Because that is what it is at this point. They're the bad guys. And when you wake up to that, a lot of
00:45:14.280 things start making more sense. All right. Now, I promised you some encouragement. So I will give you some
00:45:20.680 encouragement. All right. Kind of scary times, my friends. Scary times that we are living in. And
00:45:38.680 even if even if there is a red wave this November, even if the there are politicians that take charge
00:45:45.460 that we really like and really do have a backbone and do things that we want and oppose the Democrat
00:45:50.700 Party, like even if we have all of that, we still live in a depraved, in a corrupt world. And unless
00:45:59.680 there is a revival, a spiritual reawakening, I'm not so sure that we can hope in things getting
00:46:09.260 that much better. We can hope for political change. I think that's fine. We can hope for cultural and
00:46:14.380 social change and work for those things. You know, I think that's fine. As we often say,
00:46:18.380 politics matter. Policy matters because people matter. Politics affects policy. Policy affects
00:46:23.040 people. By the way, you heard that phrase here first. We've been saying that alliteration for a
00:46:27.600 very long time. So, you know, all of those things to be true. And yet, and yet we also recognize that
00:46:37.060 this world is not our home, that our citizenship is first and foremost in heaven, and that our king,
00:46:44.140 is Jesus. Our hope is Christ. Our eyes are on the things that are above. Our focus is not on the
00:46:50.740 things that are transient and temporary. This world, no matter who is in charge, is passing away.
00:46:56.300 It is dying. It is decaying. The hope and the home that we have is eternally in heaven. And one day,
00:47:06.720 Jesus will take complete control and every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ
00:47:12.960 says, Lord, there will be no more politics. There will be no more partisanship. There will be no more
00:47:16.660 sorrow or sadness or sickness. And we will all live together as Christians in perfect peace and in joy
00:47:25.360 with Christ. That is what we have to look forward to. But I also want to give you hope and encouragement
00:47:30.860 that God is working. He is doing things right now. Every moment of every day, he is using Christians
00:47:38.640 for his glory and the good of other people. That I promise you. I have been traveling the country a
00:47:44.600 lot over the past few weeks. I don't typically travel as much as I do now, but I've been speaking
00:47:48.380 to a lot of organizations at a lot of different kinds of events. A lot of them have been pro-life
00:47:53.220 organizations, pregnancy clinics, different kinds of Christian groups that are just doing amazing work.
00:48:00.600 You haven't heard of most of them. You haven't seen them trend on Twitter. The work that they're
00:48:06.580 doing is not making headlines unless it's a left-wing rag that's trying to demonize them or slander them
00:48:14.360 in some way. And yet, I can promise you from the testimonies of the people that have been affected
00:48:20.980 and served by these organizations, by the lives that have been saved, that God is working through
00:48:27.980 the unsung and unseen obedience of Christians on a daily basis. I spoke at an event for Houston
00:48:38.340 Pregnancy Center recently, and a table of moms stood up, all with babies that had been born in the past
00:48:45.780 year. And the director of the pregnancy center said, and I immediately just started crying, that all of
00:48:53.140 those babies are alive today because of an abortion pill reversal that is given by Houston Pregnancy
00:49:00.540 Clinic. And all of those moms, after they took the abortion pill, walked in by the grace and direction
00:49:06.460 of God into Houston Pregnancy Center, took an abortion pill reversal. Their baby was saved and is alive
00:49:12.780 today. When you see that kind of work being done, despite the political climate that characterizes the
00:49:19.800 United States today, you know that no political power, no state authority is ever going to be able
00:49:26.880 to overcome the plans and purposes of God. Because if God is for us, who can be against us?
00:49:36.020 And there are a lot of people who oppose the work of Christians. We have always been a boil on the back
00:49:42.720 of tyrants. We have always been an impediment to tyranny. We have always been an obstacle to wicked
00:49:47.780 totalitarians. And we still are simply by being a threat to wickedness. Simply by doing what Christians
00:49:55.060 have done for thousands of years. And that is taking up the cause of the vulnerable. That is caring for
00:50:02.700 and speaking for the people who have no voice. And guess what? You are going to be demonized
00:50:09.020 for caring about life, for trying to protect kids from an ideology that is mutilating their minds and
00:50:15.300 their bodies. You are going to be demonized. You are going to be pushed back against for standing for
00:50:22.300 the natural family. You are because you are swimming upstream. You are going against a very powerful
00:50:31.580 force that does not tolerate opposition. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart,
00:50:39.020 Christ says, because I have overcome the world. And that is not to say that ultimately the battle
00:50:46.580 that is happening in the world is right versus left, because it's not. There's a lot of unsaved
00:50:50.360 people on the right. Like there's a lot of people on the right that are going to hell that use the name
00:50:56.620 of God in an idolatrous way that are not at all incongruents or they are not at all in alignment
00:51:04.000 with scripture. And so I'm not saying that this perfectly plays out right versus left. But I am
00:51:10.800 saying that the ideology of this age, which happens to be secular progressivism, is anti-God. And
00:51:20.380 Christians who oppose it will be seen as an enemy. And we just have to accept that. And we simply,
00:51:28.280 with courage, have to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
00:51:35.320 It doesn't matter what they call you. It doesn't matter what they do. We are on a mission.
00:51:42.260 And we are answering a higher calling by standing for the things that we do. We are continuing to
00:51:50.460 raise respectful and peaceful ruckus, but a relentless one for the things and the people that matter.
00:51:57.020 And that's going to make people angry. But I promise you, God can do incredible, life-changing,
00:52:03.820 life-saving things through the simple and the private and the seemingly small obedience of
00:52:10.420 courageous Christians. That Pro-Life Center has been around for decades in Houston, and they have seen
00:52:17.300 abortion centers come and go in their area. They are serving the most vulnerable and the poorest people
00:52:23.200 in their area, despite all kinds of pushback and persecution. Same with an organization that I
00:52:29.300 spoke to in Washington. The different organizations that I'm speaking to across the country, they deal
00:52:35.040 with a lot of opposition, and yet God has shown himself faithful. And so while politics matter,
00:52:41.160 while elections matter, we understand that the sovereignty and authority and good plan of God is
00:52:46.860 transcendent. And it surpasses any kind of political or cultural opposition that we face today. And that
00:52:57.060 gives us a lot of hope that we serve a very, very strong and powerful God who promises to declare
00:53:03.460 victory in the end. And in the meantime, all we have to do is simply be obedient. That's what
00:53:08.840 Christians have always done. We are simply carrying the torch that Christians have for millennia.
00:53:23.580 Okay, so there's a million other things that I want to talk about, but I don't have time to talk
00:53:29.900 about it today or else this episode will be a million hours long. So we've got a ton to discuss
00:53:37.480 tomorrow. I want to discuss Stacey Abrams saying that a heartbeat in a baby in the womb at six
00:53:44.840 weeks is a myth. It's a conspiracy theory. Apparently, politicians and men coming together
00:53:50.640 to manufacture a sound to manipulate women into keeping their children. That is hilarious and
00:53:55.720 very sad. Gavin Newsom, speaking of abortion, has a campaign ad that is advertising, you know,
00:54:02.480 throughout California or it's advertising California in other places. And it's using
00:54:09.040 it's using scripture. It's using Mark 12, 20 or 1231 to justify abortions. Again, hilarious if it
00:54:20.720 weren't so sad. And so we're going to break all of that down and much more probably tomorrow. All right.
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