Ep 776 ｜ China & Russia Join Forces as US Debates the Racism of Coffee
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The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, guys, but today we re going to laugh about it because sometimes that s just what you have to do to keep from crying. Today we re looking at some ridiculous things happening in our world, and we re having some fun with it.
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping came together to talk about how to take over the world.
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Meanwhile, we're meeting with the cast of Ted Lasso and debating whether coffee is racist,
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so things are going great. The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, guys, but today
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we're going to laugh about it because sometimes that's just what you have to do. This episode is
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make sure you do that by tonight because time is almost up. All right. The theme of today's episode
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is laugh so you don't cry. We're going to look at some ridiculous stuff that's happening in our world
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and we're going to have some fun with it. The reality is things look pretty bleak for the state
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of our country. And it's a chosen decline. It is because of policy choices that the people in charge
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have made, that our elected officials have made, most of them Democrats, some of them Republicans,
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to sell out Americans in the interest of themselves lining their own pockets, giving themselves power
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and also helping out other countries, all at the expense of the health of the American people.
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So we are facing all kinds of crises. We are facing an economic crisis. We are facing a supply chain
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crisis as we have been for the past few years, as has been building for the past few years. Obviously,
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we are facing a cultural and a moral crisis. The people in charge, all of our cultural influences
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can't even define the most basic fundamental facts about human existence, like what a woman is. We are
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glorifying sin and we are condemning that which is good, calling evil good and good evil. So we're
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in a bad spot. We talk a lot about that bad stuff and we try to approach it from a biblical perspective
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and remember that the Lord is still in charge and that he is sovereign over all of it and that his
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victory is sure. But we do have to look at the evil that is going on and to make sure that we are standing
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firm against it because at the end of the day, that's really all we can control. But within this
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is a lot of humor. There's a lot of ridiculousness. There is a lot of material for comedy and for satire
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and sometimes you just have to make fun of the things that are being said by the cultural elites,
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the things that are being shown to us, the way we are being led just so we don't always sit in the
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state of despair. So the things that you are going to look at and hear about today, we're going to be
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laughing at. But again, we are laughing as medicine so we don't just wallow in our tears and in
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desperation wondering when is Jesus going to come back and save us from this mess that we're in
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and the evil people who are leading us. So first we are going to look at the wedding of two powers,
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of two dictatorships, and that is Russia and the Chinese Communist Party. You know, they have
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already talked about joining forces and with Iran, another dictatorship in this war between Russia and
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Ukraine, as America has given so much aid, billions of dollars of help to this small country of Ukraine,
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Ukraine, all in the name of democracy. And it is shaping up to not be a great battle. We don't
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like it when three dictatorships come together who all have a shared hatred of the West and in
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particular the United States in common. And as these powers are coming together, well, I'll show you
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how our leaders are handling this crisis and what they're focused on. But first, let's look at this
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recent meeting, this very grand opulent meeting between Xi Jinping, who is the head of the Chinese
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Communist Party, and Vladimir Putin, the head of Russia, coming together to talk about how the world
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is going to change and how they are excited about it, which is chilling. So here they are coming
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together. And if you're not watching on YouTube, you need to because it's kind of entertaining.
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Okay, here we've got Vladimir Putin coming in at 5'7". We've got Xi Jinping coming in at about
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5'11". I would guess that Vladimir Putin weighs, I don't know, a buck 85? Maybe, no, maybe less than
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that. Xi Jinping, apparently, who is 5'11", which really means probably 5'9". He might be coming in a
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little bit more than that. Yeah, these are hefty boys. All right, so they're coming together. As you
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can see on this middle carpet, they're coming to shake hands. I can't imagine how awkward this is.
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I also wonder, were they making eye contact that entire time? It's like you're walking down a hallway
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and you see someone from afar that you know and you're not ready to say hi because you'll have
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to say hi like five times before you actually see each other. So then they took the picture together.
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They didn't put their arms around each other or anything like that. I think they're actually
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in Russia meeting. You see the Chinese flag. You see the Russian flag. They come together
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and they stand there. They don't smile for these pictures. Also, I don't know if we can pull it up
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as a picture. Maybe we can. When they enter the room and they've got the guards opening the doors,
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one thing that you'll notice that I just wonder like what the policy is or what their reasoning is,
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the guards that open the doors, they have to, they're standing perfectly still except their head
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is like on a swivel and has to turn towards their leader. And yet it looks like if you look closely
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that their eyes actually stay locked on each other and that they can't move their eyes but
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they're moving their head. I can't imagine how uncomfortable that is. I was actually teaching
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my toddler the other day because she is interested in animals that owls can actually swivel their head
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like 270 degrees all the way around. That's kind of what it looks like these guards are doing.
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I wonder what their reasoning is behind that. They have to turn their head toward their dictator
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or else maybe they get decapitated. I don't know what it's like. Okay, here's a little clip also
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of Putin and Xi Jinping talking afterwards. I guess their meeting went well.
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That's sweet. All right. Okay. Let me interpret for you. Since I know Chinese and Russian fluently,
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Xi Jinping said change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years and we are driving this
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change together. Putin said, I agree. Xi Jinping, please take care, dear friend. Putin, have a safe
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journey. That is chilling. That's chilling. Like we are talking about two dictators, two countries that
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have no interest in human rights whatsoever, have no interest whatsoever in free speech, freedom of
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religion, who are only interested in their own power. I don't think people understand all of the
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anti-American progressives who over the years have said how terrible it is that America is the global
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superpower, that we have only been a vessel of oppression for all of these years. And of course,
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spreading evil things like white supremacy. Like I don't think that you understand that there is
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always going to be a world superpower. And if it's not a country with a constitution like the United
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States, we all believe it's actually embedded in our founding that human beings are made in the image
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of God, that they're given by God certain inalienable rights that the government should not have the
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right to arbitrarily take away. If you do not have a country that is leading the world with that kind of
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foundation, which I agree, we've done so extremely imperfectly. I would certainly say that as someone who
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loves this country and loves the constitution, then you're going to have dictators do it. Do you want to
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know what that looks like when they're in charge? When they run the world economy? When they have the
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responsibility then to police the world and make sure their boots are on the ground everywhere and
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they're imposing their values? I mean, that's part of why I am a nationalist. Although I recognize there's
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always going to be a world superpower that's just the way it is. Entities like China and Russia,
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Iran, they're not interested in just kind of paying attention to themselves without trying to claim
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world power. But I do believe that America, like all countries, should put the interest of their own
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people first. I don't think it's good for countries to be going in and meddling in all of the affairs
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of other countries. I think it's good to put the interests and the security of your people first. And it's
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actually amazing how many people on the left, especially the so-called Christian left, think
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that that's bigoted or wrong or fascist or Nazi-like. Actually, I think that's the most compassionate,
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most logical, most peaceful approach that you can have to geopolitics and national politics
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is simply taking care of the business that you have first. That doesn't mean that we're
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isolationist. But I think that we've seen now what it looks like to be so involved in the conflict
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of two other countries like Russia and Ukraine, selling out our own interests and safety and
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security to do so. Well, it's actually creating a new axis of evil that is probably going to
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make us extremely vulnerable. So it's not shaping up to be a good thing here. And so how are our leaders
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handling all of this? What meetings are they having? Well, the first meeting that I've seen
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to discuss all of this very important stuff, what is maybe the end of Western democracy,
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is a meeting between the cast of Ted Lasso and the White House. So we'll pull up a picture.
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Here's the cast of Ted Lasso, which I'm so sorry. I know that there are a lot of Ted Lasso fans out
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there. My husband, fan of the show Ted Lasso. I tried to watch it. All right. I love comedy.
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I love comedy. I love comedic shows. I could sit here and talk about all of them.
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I did not like Ted Lasso. I understood why people didn't like it the first season.
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It was cute. It was lighthearted. It was light on the wokeness. And then, of course, as they always
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do, they dabble into politics in the second, third season. And it just wasn't as good after that.
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And here, Ted Lasso is. He apparently took questions at this press conference.
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He was hugging Corrine Jean-Pierre. He apparently took questions at this press conference as Ted Lasso.
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Why? I don't know. I'm not really sure. And so that's what's happening. That's our serious country.
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That's where our focus is and where we are channeling our energy for literally no reason
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that aligns with our protection or safety or well-being at all. And perhaps it's because this
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is who we have as our leader. We have President Joe Biden, who I'm so sorry, but he cannot talk.
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He can't talk. All he was doing here was reading from a teleprompter. On Tuesday, he hosted an event
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at the White House to honor the 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medals and award honoring
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individuals or organizations whose work has deepened to the nation's understanding of the
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human experience, whatever that even means. So here he is trying to honor one of the winners.
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It's a poet named Richard Blanco. And remember, he is reading this. It's not from memory. He is
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And always one moon, like a silent drum tapping at every rooftop and every window of every county,
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Okay. And he actually says, you can tell he's about to say, oh, I'm getting so old. And then he
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switches. So he actually had the ability, the awareness at that moment to say, oh,
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I shouldn't be saying I'm getting so old. But that's what he's about to say is his excuse. I'm
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like, Biden, we know. We know. You remember the Civil War. We get it. This was a mistake,
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guys. This was a mistake. And I don't think that we should be electing people who are this old.
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It's not Joe Biden's fault that he's this old. I mean, I don't think that he's a dumb person.
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I think that he's just old. And this is how old people act. They can't see very well. They don't
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have very good memories in a lot of cases, not all cases, of course. There are very sharp people who
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are Joe Biden's age, but he's not one of them. He's not one of them. He needs to be on a beach in
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Delaware. And it's it's cruel. It's cruel that Jill and other people in his life are putting him
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up to this. But that's because he's just a shell of a president. He's not making any of these
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decisions. That's why you have friggin Ted Lasso up there when Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are
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meeting together because he doesn't know what's going on. Other people are making these decisions
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who are more interested in progressive morality, progressive culture wars than they are in protecting
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the United States. And speaking of Jill, Jill seems to also be frustrated. Jill Biden seems to also
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be very frustrated with Joe Biden. And maybe this has been happening for a long time. So this is
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yesterday. He hosted a reception celebrating Women's History Month. What do you want to bet there are some
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men there who say that they're women being honored? And, you know, by the way, like the Joe Biden behind
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the scenes when someone tells him, like, hey, do you think men can be women? He's like, he doesn't
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believe it. He's like every other old man out there who understands biology, but he has to pretend again.
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So here he's airing out his marriage problems with Jill Biden yesterday at the White House.
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We were talking inside. Jill has and I think I told Nancy this before. Jill has put messages on my
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mirror while I'm shaving. So I make sure I see. And one that was put in about a year ago was stop
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trying to make me love you. Stop trying to make me love you, Joe. I'm never gonna love you. When are
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you gonna get that through your thick head that I married you for power, buddy? I always wanted to be
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the first lady. Now I am. Stop trying to make me like you too. It's too much to ask. Stop it.
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Why would he say this? Did he mean to say something else? Actually, I watched the clip afterwards and
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everyone's like, as they often do when he says things that don't make any sense just like you do
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when you visit your grandfather in the nursing home and he says something that he wants to be a joke.
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And of course, you love him and you respect him. And so you laugh at it. But you're like, I have
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no idea what he just said or why he even said that. That's exactly what's going on here. People are
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laughing so they don't cry. People are laughing because they're nervous about this. Jill Biden's
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probably mortified. Like, what if she what if that's really what he meant? And he like she really
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wrote that on a note like she actually didn't write him notes like encouraging notes every day.
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But every day was like, I hate you every day. I wish I never married you every day. Stop trying to
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make me love you every day. You have terrible breath. Like what if that's what's going on here?
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This is really sad. I don't know if I would be that surprised. It has to be a cruel woman that
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allows her husband in this state to be president. It's got to just be like a naked thirst for power
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here. So that's our president. Good times. Good times. Good times. I don't think that we have to
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wonder at all why we are in the state that we're in, y'all.
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Okay, I don't know if you guys saw this headline about coffee being racist. Every week, it's
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something new. Shoelaces are racist. Dog parks are racist. Brushing your hair is racist. Breathing as a
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white person is racist. And this time, maybe coffee apparently is racist. And the reason why this
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actually connects to the first segment that we just had is because race propaganda has actually
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been pushed by the Chinese Communist Party and Soviet Russia in the United States for a very long
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time. And the 1930s, Soviet propaganda tried to lure black Americans actually away from the United States.
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And one propaganda poster will put this up on YouTube so you can see it. There was a shackled
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and bloody black man beneath the Statue of Liberty. It's juxtaposed with a pretty picture of a rainbow
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nation. And so under the first picture of this black person being oppressed by the United States,
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it says under capitalism. And the second reads under socialism. Isn't that a familiar message
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that we keep hearing from the left and have heard especially recently over the past few years?
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And so a lot of the propaganda that's pushing the race wars, a lot of the funding behind it is
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actually from Russia still today and also the Chinese Communist Party. Like after the George Floyd
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incident, which we've talked about before, you saw state actors on Twitter who are just part of the
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Ministry of Propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party talking about how awful and racist the United
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States is, how they need to stand for racial justice, social justice. I mean, this is at the
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same time that they have one million Uyghurs who are enslaved in the country of China. I mean,
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they don't believe in human rights. They are an atheistic totalitarian regime. They don't believe
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that people are made in the image of God. They don't believe that individuals have innate worth
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during COVID. I mean, the New York Times even reported on this. China was evicting African
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immigrants from their homes, kicking them out of restaurants, pushing this false narrative that it
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was actually the Black people in China, actually the Africans in China that were spreading COVID.
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Of course, that was absolutely ridiculous, but they use any excuse to discriminate against the people
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that they want to discriminate against. And so it's all hypocrisy. That's what they do. That's what
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Russia does. That's what the Chinese Communist Party do. So just remember that. Remember that.
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That so much of the progressive left-wing propaganda that we hear is actually being promoted,
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promulgated from foreign actors that want to see our destruction. Remember when we talked about last
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week, that study that said that its conclusion supported the idea that kids of gay parents actually
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fare much better than kids with a mom and a dad. And then we looked at the data,
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and it doesn't actually prove that. We looked at the other studies that disprove that. And then we
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also found that study was at least partially funded by the Chinese Communist Party. And remember,
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the Chinese Communist Party does not allow LGBTQ representation in media or on social media.
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Gay unions, what is called gay marriage, is not legal in China. And so why would they be pushing that
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kind of progressive propaganda here in the United States except to divide and weaken and destroy?
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The same thing happens with race. So I'm not saying that this article that we're about to go into
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is written by the Chinese Communist Party. Unfortunately, there are people here who are
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all too ready to accept the kind of propaganda that we see that's being pushed by these kind of
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foreign regimes. And so we have plenty of people, plenty of academics here who are willing to push
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this kind of insanity that really does the bidding of our enemies. So here's this. Here's this story.
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This is from, this was circulating on Twitter. This is from afro.com. Is coffee racist? How drinking
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coffee perpetuates white supremacy? Quote, every facet of the coffee industry, in fact, is rooted
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in racism. From the moment the whites viciously stole coffee from black and brown people to the
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present day Karen sipping her morning cup of white supremacy. Whites have been able to drink the fruits
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of our labor and our culture with impunity. Okay, what? What? Again, this is just like everything with
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critical race theory, just like everything with this kind of racial so-called anti-racist ideology.
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It's not actually based on facts. It's not based on reason. It's not being perpetuated by people
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with a sound mind. It's being based on feelings. When you start with the premise, which a lot of
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these critical race theorists believe is a given, that white people are oppressors and that black and
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brown people are oppressed, and you look at everything through that lens, that of course this
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is the conclusion that you're going to come to. Now, I'm not going to say that there's been
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no exploitation of people when it comes to the making and the sourcing of coffee. I think that's
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true of a lot of different things, by the way, but it has nothing to do with white supremacy,
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has nothing to do with racism whatsoever. But again, when this is your starting point,
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when all you're thinking about is white oppressors, black and brown oppressed, then literally everything
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can be colored by racism. Everything makes you a victim. The reality is, as we've talked about so
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many times, here's the history of the world. The history of the world is people being oppressed
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and people being oppressors. People of all nationalities, people of all people groups,
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people of all ethnicities have been enslaved and enslavers. There is still slavery going on today
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in Africa and in Asia, and not a single white person is involved, has nothing to do with white
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people. And yet, you won't see very many articles about that, how those black people in Africa are
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still being oppressed today because their oppressors are not white. And so you just kind of exclude that
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from the narrative, because again, it doesn't match your starting point, your premise, your assumption
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that white people have a monopoly on oppression, and black and brown people have a monopoly on
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being oppressed. That's just not historically true. White people have been enslaved for many,
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many, many hundreds of years throughout history. Black people have enslaved white people. And by the
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way, like these categories of black and white, they're also arbitrary based on like what melanin count.
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And so articles like this, they have a faulty premise, they have faulty assumptions, and it only exists
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to breed resentment and violence and hate. I actually saw this advertised on C-SPAN. It was some,
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I don't know, legislative meeting or something where there was some black activist. I don't think we have
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the clip right now saying, you know, calling for the extermination of white people, not the extermination
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of racism, not the extermination of white supremacy, but actually the extermination of white people.
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And that is why, I mean, I don't know if that's necessarily why, but that has to be driving some
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of the violence that we see. It is far more likely for a white person to be assaulted or killed by a
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black person than the other way around. Despite the fact that black people only make up 13% of the
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population, that is statistically true. You can look at all the crime data in our country. That is
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statistically true. And yet we hear or we believe that it's the opposite, again, because of this faulty
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premise that white people are always the oppressors, black and brown people are always the oppressed.
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But if you actually break it down, if you actually want to look at the facts, it's just not true.
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And you'll remember our friend, Michael Knowles, he called for the eradication of transgenderism as the
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idea that a man can become a woman and vice versa. And I mean, he was absolutely maligned by every single
00:26:26.360
media source as a Nazi. And yet this person, he's on live TV and he says that not should we
00:26:33.180
exterminate or extinguish white supremacy, but actually that we need to kill all white people.
00:26:38.640
Crickets from the same people that were calling Michael Knowles a fascist for saying that we
00:26:42.720
should get rid of a bad idea. Okay, so it's not just coffee that's racist, apparently. It's also
00:26:48.960
picnics. The Philadelphia Inquirer, you probably remember this from 2020, said that the word picnic
00:26:55.560
is racist, which actually, if you look back at the history, the etymology of this word,
00:27:02.020
it had nothing to do with this. It had nothing to do. They were saying it stands for something
00:27:06.120
really bad that you pick an N word and you kill them. Apparently, that was what this article was
00:27:12.560
saying picnics were about when that's not really true. And by the way, that's not what people think
00:27:17.100
of when they're thinking of going out to a park, laying a blanket down and eating some sandwiches.
00:27:21.480
But again, it's all about stirring up resentment. Peanut butter and jelly. The New York Times says
00:27:26.040
December 16, 2016, peanut butter, jelly and racism argues that peanut butter and jelly being associated
00:27:32.360
is an example of implicit bias like black men and violence would be. You can read that article for
00:27:38.460
yourself. See if you deduce anything else from from their reporting. Kaiser Health News says that
00:27:44.560
dairy is also racist. Civil rights groups say school lunch programs. Dairy emphasis is
00:27:51.440
racist because children of color are more likely to be lactose intolerant.
00:27:58.400
Well, I also am sensitive to milk. I also don't do well with milk. So I agree with that.
00:28:06.460
Sure, I agree. It is racist. Bicycling Washington Post in 2021. American cycling has a racism problem.
00:28:12.840
Remember the cover of the New York Times also said that the equestrian world is racist because
00:28:17.740
there are not helmets that fit certain kinds of black hairstyles. Again, is a helmet going to be safe
00:28:27.440
if it's like six inches off of your skull? No, it's not. I don't think it has anything to do with you
00:28:33.040
being black. Medium reported that running is too white. It doesn't have to be. Again, agree. I don't
00:28:40.120
like running. So running is too white. And it is because I am an ally that I choose not to. ABC said
00:28:46.680
that national parks are racist. America's national parks face existential crisis over race. Not enough
00:28:52.280
black people are going outside. So that's the problem. NPR say that STDs, names of STDs can be racist.
00:29:01.380
Monkeypox is apparently a racist name, but it's not going away anytime soon. Okay, that's the most
00:29:08.500
important thing. The energy system. Highways. This is what Pete Buttigieg says, that highways
00:29:16.340
can be racist. Ballet, according to Marie Claire, it's very racist because it has unbearable whiteness.
00:29:25.500
There's just not enough black people going up on their tiptoes. And then camping is racist,
00:29:31.340
according to Fast Company. Philosophy is racist. Fox News, Loyola professor claims organized pantries
00:29:38.220
organized pantries are rooted in racist and sexist social structures. Okay, I got to read this a
00:29:45.440
little bit. The recent TikTok trend of showing off perfectly organized and styled home pantries
00:29:49.520
is rooted in a history of classist, racist and sexist social structures. Cleanliness has historically
00:29:57.500
been used as a cultural gatekeeping mechanism to reinforce status distinctions based on a vague
00:30:02.400
understanding of niceness. Nice people with nice yards and nice houses make for nice neighborhoods.
00:30:09.300
This is Jenna Dritton, Loyola University associate professor of marketing. What lies beneath the
00:30:15.520
surface of this anti-messiness pro-niceness stance is a history of classist, racist and sexist social
00:30:22.780
structures. So you hear that black people? This professor doesn't think that you can organize your
00:30:28.540
pantry. You need to make it messy in order to really be pro-black and anti-racist. So for that
00:30:38.580
reason, I will be giving away all of the plastic containers and plastic boxes that are in my pantry
00:30:46.140
and I will be pouring chips everywhere this afternoon. So that's what's racist. And then, oh,
00:30:52.360
Robin DiAngelo, our anti-racist Sherpa, she's got something to say that will solve all of these
00:30:59.820
problems for black and white people. It's a really interesting solution to this. I feel like I've
00:31:05.340
heard it before, but I can't, I don't know, I can't put my finger on it. We'll see if you can guess.
00:31:09.700
Okay, you'll remember Robin DiAngelo wrote the book White Fragility. And you were told by all of your
00:31:27.600
silly friends in 2020 that you need to read White Fragility. And actually, if you pushed back against
00:31:33.080
the black squares, if you pushed back against all of the ridiculous things that we heard in summer of
00:31:37.660
2020, that riots are the voice of the unheard and all that stuff, then it's just because you are
00:31:43.360
fragile. That is what we call a Kafka trap. They accuse you of something. And then if you deny being
00:31:49.460
that thing, it's actually because you are that thing. So someone says, well, you're a racist. And
00:31:55.120
I say, no, I'm not a racist. And then they say, well, you're just saying that because you are racist.
00:32:01.400
It's the same thing with white fragility. They accuse you of being some kind of white supremacist or
00:32:07.060
perpetuating white supremacy, either knowingly or unknowingly. You say, well, no, that's not true.
00:32:12.700
And they say, well, the only reason you're denying that is actually because of your white fragility.
00:32:17.100
So it's a trap because there's no way out of it. You either have to accept what they say and say,
00:32:23.480
okay, yeah, sure, your accusation of me is correct, which no one wants to say because you're not a racist.
00:32:29.300
Or if you deny their accusation, and then you're just something else that's awful.
00:32:35.680
So it's not, again, coming from a place of reason. It's not coming from a place of soundness. It's not
00:32:41.960
coming from a place of logic or truth. Rhetorical tricks, plays on words, logical fallacies are really
00:32:50.280
all these people have. That's why when you hear Ibra Max Kendi, by the way, trying to explain what
00:32:56.260
anti-racism is, he actually uses the word in the definition because he doesn't really have
00:33:01.280
a clear definition of it. The most coherent definition that I've heard him say is basically
00:33:07.080
that you have to discriminate against white people today to make up for past discrimination
00:33:11.920
of black people in the hopes that, in the hopes that everyone will end up one day, one day in the
00:33:18.640
future, on the same level or have the same outcomes, which is just a racialized version
00:33:26.300
of communism. How has that worked out in the past? Has it worked out well? Like you should look at the
00:33:31.740
history of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, when he also through racial resentment, and this idea that
00:33:38.060
white people are oppressors and colonizers, when he went after the white commercial farmers
00:33:43.460
in his country for the sake of his people, for the sake of black Africans, what actually happened
00:33:49.980
to Zimbabwe after that? Did things go well? They used to be the breadbasket of Africa. Then they scared
00:33:56.340
all of the white commercial farmers away. The indigenous people there didn't know how to
00:34:00.460
commercially farm. Now it's one of the poorest countries in Africa because that's what communism
00:34:04.100
does. That's what race wars do. How's South Africa doing? Not great. And so this kind of stuff just
00:34:12.520
leads to destruction. And it's a shame. It's a shame on any Christian that pushes it. It's a shame
00:34:17.320
on any Christian that pushes this idea of white privilege and unconscious bias against black people
00:34:26.320
by white people, putting more responsibility for repentance and reparations and reconciliation on
00:34:32.420
white people than you do black people. By the way, that is what the Be the Bridge curriculum does.
00:34:38.000
It does. It treats white and black people differently. It gives white people different
00:34:42.160
responsibilities than black people. Like you should read some of the rules in the Facebook page
00:34:47.160
for the Be the Bridge community. What white people are expected to do and to not do, say and not to
00:34:55.760
say versus black people. That's not impartiality. That's not the impartiality that God calls us to
00:35:01.560
over and over again in the Bible. That is partiality. That's not the justice and true equity that God defines
00:35:07.620
in Scripture that's the opposite of it. I could go on and on on that. And we have many times.
00:35:14.020
But here's Robin DiAngelo's solution. This is a person, by the way, whose book has been promoted
00:35:19.040
by many people in the Christian community. Here's what she says should happen to end the tensions or,
00:35:27.240
I guess, end the oppression of black people in the United States.
00:35:30.620
I'm a big believer in affinity space and affinity work. And I think people of color need to get away
00:35:36.540
from white people and have some community with each other.
00:35:42.620
Okay. Is that not, I mean, is that not happening? I think people, I mean, they congregate with people.
00:35:49.660
They form communities around people, primarily who share their values, but also who share their same
00:35:54.600
culture, share people that it's, or share community with people that it's easy to get along with. I
00:36:00.520
certainly don't think that black people need that kind of directive from Robin DiAngelo. But I want to
00:36:05.140
point out the hypocrisy here. One, I mean, this is just segregation. All right. So if it sounds
00:36:10.560
familiar to you, like if you're familiar with segregation in 20th century America, that's
00:36:16.340
basically what's going on here. And then Scott Adams. So he is a cartoonist. He has authored for
00:36:24.440
a very long time that I think it's called Dilbert, the Dilbert cartoon. So his cartoons are no longer
00:36:31.060
being run in places like the Washington Post and other outlets because he said in a video that he
00:36:38.540
thinks that white people should get away from black people. He believes that the black people in
00:36:44.180
general don't like white people. He was referring to some poll, which I'm not sure about the legitimacy
00:36:48.660
of this poll that he's talking about. He suggested that white people should separate from black people,
00:36:53.800
surround themselves by white people. And that's just the way that it should go. I mean,
00:36:58.160
he got absolutely lambasted for this in the media. He lost some sources of income that he has because
00:37:05.720
they're no longer distributing his cartoon. And just, I mean, from the left and the right called
00:37:11.540
a total white supremacist racist, where he would argue that he is not saying that white people are
00:37:16.840
better. He's not saying that he dislikes black people or that he hates black people. He just,
00:37:23.020
I guess, based on this poll and based on some things that he believes that he's seen,
00:37:28.480
that he believes that white people should separate from black people. So he gets canceled in a lot of
00:37:33.700
ways because of that, at least maligned as a racist. Robin DiAngelo, is she going to get any widespread
00:37:41.100
pushback for this? She's saying the same thing. She's literally saying the same thing as Scott Adams.
00:37:47.720
And yet you will still have Christians promoting Robin DiAngelo. She's still going to get paid 20k
00:37:54.080
an hour to make white people feel bad about themselves. And she is saying the same thing as
00:38:01.820
1970s segregationists said, the same thing as Scott Adams said just a few days ago and got lambasted for.
00:38:10.380
And yet we're supposed to pat her on the back. We're supposed to applaud her. Like,
00:38:14.440
do you see the toxicity of this ideology? Again, all it does is breed hate. And another example of
00:38:21.380
that, there is a diversity chief at the Pentagon because every Pentagon needs that. Every good
00:38:28.500
Pentagon has a diversity chief. Her name is Calissa Wing. She's an army veteran, thankful for her
00:38:35.440
service, not thankful for her ideas. So she's the current DEI chief at the Department of Defense's
00:38:41.120
education activity. Okay. And she tweeted this. This has now been circulated. I first saw it shared
00:38:49.740
by Charlie Kirk. He says, this is the Pentagon's diversity chief saying she's exhausted by white
00:38:54.700
folks. We are not a serious country. Calissa Wing says, I'm so exhausted at these, at these. I'm so
00:39:01.180
exhausted at these. I would love to see someone be exhausted at me. I'm so exhausted at these white
00:39:07.340
folks in these PD sessions. This lady actually had the caudacity, get it? Caucasian caudacity to say
00:39:15.660
that black people can be racist too. I don't, where would she get that idea? That's so weird.
00:39:21.280
Hmm. I had to stop the session and give Karen the business in all caps. We are not the majority.
00:39:28.680
We don't have power. A thread. Why ask for assistance? That's so weird. I have no idea why someone would be
00:39:36.000
around you hear the words that you have to say and think that black people can also be racist. Of
00:39:41.920
course they can. Racism is not prejudice plus power. It's just discriminating against someone
00:39:47.760
because you don't like the color of their skin, whether that's in your words or actions. And this
00:39:51.780
person absolutely is. You can't tell me that black people can't be racist, that black, that white people
00:39:56.480
can't be, or that brown people can't be racist. You absolutely can. And by the way, God doesn't care.
00:40:01.880
God doesn't care what you define as racism. If you hate someone in your heart, that is hate.
00:40:08.960
He's not interested in all of our fancy terminology and our euphemisms for hate. Like he doesn't judge
00:40:15.320
black people less for hating white people than he does white people for hating a black person,
00:40:20.800
because he does not start with this faulty assumption that all white people are a little
00:40:25.960
bit worse than black people, that all white people are a little bit more culpable for oppression
00:40:32.860
than black people, thankfully, because God is actually impartial and just. So that's the state
00:40:41.220
of our country right now. Race relations have gone down the tube. Things were getting a lot better,
00:40:46.840
don't you think? When Barack Obama was elected, like things were pretty good. Like it felt like it was
00:40:52.580
maybe possible to move into this post-racial world. So not one where we didn't recognize
00:40:57.780
differences, but one where those differences really didn't matter, where people were being
00:41:02.580
rewarded mostly on merit. Now, affirmative action has existed for a long time, but it did seem like
00:41:09.260
that was becoming less of an issue. And then we got these racial culture wars, especially when it came
00:41:16.040
to police interactions and these narratives pushed and people realized, wow, I can really make a whole lot
00:41:22.440
of money by making these previously obscure academic theories like critical race theory
00:41:26.940
mainstream. We've seen the trickle down effect of that. The trickle down effect of that is broken
00:41:31.520
communities, divided churches, looted stores. It's not good. It's not good. I mean, and again,
00:41:39.300
the saddest thing to me is how many Christians have perpetuated this stuff, operating completely out of
00:41:45.680
partiality because they think it'll get them points with the secular left. Newsflash, they're going to
00:41:51.760
always hate you anyway, until you completely capitulate.
00:42:06.300
All right, that's all we got time for today. I guess there was some laughing, but mostly it's just
00:42:11.320
sad. Also, I just, I meant to say this at the beginning and I forgot. I don't know if y'all saw
00:42:16.320
also that Kamala Harris wrote a letter to Dylan Mulvaney. I've been really trying not to talk
00:42:21.380
about Dylan Mulvaney this week. He came out with this video pretending to be Eloise, you know,
00:42:26.200
like the six-year-old little girl, and this is a grown man. But I'm like, okay, I try. I did my
00:42:33.100
earnest message last week, sharing the gospel. Not that he will ever hear it, but hopefully from
00:42:38.960
someone he will hear the gospel. But I still think it's an important message to put out there. And that's,
00:42:43.120
those are my real feelings. But I have to be honest, like I go between feeling just so angry
00:42:49.120
at the people, at what he's doing to influence young people and to believing things about gender
00:42:56.420
and identity that just aren't true. And also just grossed out that this is a grown man that pretends
00:43:02.260
to be a little girl that dresses up like a little girl. It's like part of this for sure. I don't think
00:43:07.560
that this is necessarily all of it for him. I don't know, but it's definitely a fetish. I'm sorry.
00:43:13.060
Like five years ago, when we had our thinking caps on just a little bit, if someone told you,
00:43:18.980
like a grown man, a 27-year-old man with a five o'clock shadow, if he pretends to be a little girl
00:43:25.360
or dresses up like a little girl, acts or talks like a little girl, like do you think that person
00:43:31.040
is well? You would say, no, I don't think that person is well. Would you allow that person to
00:43:35.560
influence your children? No, you wouldn't allow that person to influence your children. Of course
00:43:39.540
not. Do you think that person should be glorified as some kind of hero by the White House? I think
00:43:44.680
that we would all laugh. And yet that's what's happening right now. Kamala Harris wrote a letter
00:43:49.980
to Miss Dylan Mulvaney, just thanking him for his heroism and all of that, his bravery. And the funniest
00:43:58.600
thing is, the most ironic thing is his authenticity. When in fact, he has made an entire lucrative
00:44:04.560
career out of pretending to be something that he is not, nor will he ever be. And once again,
00:44:11.080
I will point out the irony in all of this is that if he were an actual woman, he wouldn't be getting
00:44:18.720
a letter from the White House. He wouldn't be becoming famous. He wouldn't be getting all of
00:44:23.980
these sponsorships and all of these partnerships. If it was just a woman dressing up as Eloise,
00:44:30.480
if it were just a woman posting TikToks, like no one would care. It is because everyone,
00:44:37.920
everyone, no matter what they say, understands that this is a male dressing up like a woman.
00:44:42.000
So that makes it interesting. That makes it bizarre. That makes it, I guess, for some people,
00:44:46.100
courageous. It's the only reason why he has any attention. It's the only reason why Kamala Harris
00:44:50.260
is writing him a letter. If he were an actual woman, he wouldn't be getting this kind of attention.
00:44:55.360
And yet here he is, exchanging the truth of God for a lie. I mean, God is so merciful and so patient
00:45:03.840
that any of us, I mean, that this country even still stands, that this kind of evil, this kind
00:45:10.620
of subversion and perversion is tolerated at all. And it's got to just be because he is exceedingly
00:45:17.200
patient. And he just wants more people to come to him, to be called to repentance.
00:45:26.400
I read this morning in my Bible reading, one of my favorite Psalms, and that is Psalm 24.
00:45:35.160
And really, it's the first few verses of Psalm 24 that always just comfort me when I think about
00:45:42.380
the state of the world, the people who are trying to run the world, like Putin and Xi Jinping,
00:45:47.580
what we've got going on in our own country, and just the evil that is so pervasive and so big,
00:45:52.000
and we just feel like we have no control over it, don't really have any power to push back against
00:45:56.720
it. And then I read the first verse of Psalm 24, which is,
00:46:00.820
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
00:46:05.880
for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. And Psalm 37 is also a comfort
00:46:11.900
that God is still on his throne. He is exceedingly patient, but he's not doing nothing. And as we
00:46:18.340
said at the beginning, his victory is sure. He looks down from the heavens and laughs at those
00:46:25.960
who think that they are more powerful than him. No one is. Not Vladimir Putin, not Xi Jinping,
00:46:32.820
not Joe Biden, not Kamala Harris, not Dylan Mulvaney, not Robin DiAngelo, not any of these ridiculous
00:46:39.120
actors. God is in charge. And he's got the final say. That's what I take comfort in and all of this.
00:46:45.840
And that's why we can ultimately find joy. That's why we can laugh so we don't cry. Because we
00:46:53.700
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00:46:59.940
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