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00:05:05.000We conducted the largest call-in campaign in history to Kim Reynolds' office, who's the governor of Iowa, asking for her to take this down.
00:05:14.000I called on Ron DeSantis because Ron DeSantis decided to go on the CNN town hall with Jake Tapper of all people, right?
00:05:22.000You know, a great friend of us, great friend of America, someone who would never lie about anything, really.
00:05:29.000And he went on there and blamed all of this on Trump.
00:05:33.000And it's like, this is all Trump's fault.
00:05:34.000And of course, and Charlie would know the politics of it, that the issue being that Kim Reynolds is one of the biggest endorsers of Ron DeSantis in Iowa.
00:05:52.000Maybe it'll give us some momentum going forward.
00:05:53.000So anyway, these are all the politics.
00:05:56.000And I said to Ron DeSantis, instead of blaming this on Trump on CNN and thinking that's going to help your political standing, why don't you, and I actually said this, and we didn't have time, but I said it multiple times on the show this week.
00:06:08.000Ron DeSantis, why don't you go and get a sledgehammer and walk into the Iowa State Capitol and just take this thing down?
00:06:15.000Yeah, they'll probably charge you with something, but you could actually win the Iowa caucus if you do something like that, or at least do far better to enforce it.
00:07:02.000I have a statement here if we want to read it.
00:07:04.000So Cassidy said in comments provided to the Sentinel that he destroyed the shrine on Thursday in order to, quote, awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.
00:07:17.000The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of satanic altars inside Capitol buildings to be protected by the First Amendment.
00:07:32.000Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water.
00:08:48.000Well, so what be dumb or overreaching?
00:08:49.000What I was saying is that, like, yes, obviously there are real Satanists out there, but this group is a like left-wing Reddit LARPers who say, who will say on their own website, we are not actual Satanists.
00:09:04.000We've just decided to apply for this under the IRS code of religious.
00:09:08.000They do these things as a stunt to make their us mad.
00:09:33.000They're trying to in Texas because they say it's their religion.
00:09:36.000It's a satanic practice to receive an abortion.
00:09:39.000And they've even created the satanic abortion ritual on their website.
00:09:44.000And now, yes, to anyone who is Christian out there looking at this, we do have to question why it is that they choose this, like, why not Karl Marx?
00:10:07.000And I think this is somewhat stands out.
00:10:10.000At least it was that, like, the guy, what I like is that the guy smashed it and then, frankly, like, did immediately turn himself in and essentially say, I did this as an act of civil disobedience.
00:10:21.000Because I think what they always want to do is he actually planned this out pretty well.
00:10:24.000What they always want to do is, like, one, they want to provoke a perception of hypocrisy of Christians.
00:10:30.000So if Christians complain about, you know, being persecuted or that freedom of religion is in threat, and then as soon as someone essentially takes advantage of freedom of religion to put up a thing Christians don't like, they immediately want to smash it to pieces.
00:10:43.000And so the intent is to make Christians appear intolerant, Christians appear hypocritical, Christians appear kind of unhinged and violent and likely to overreact to things.
00:10:53.000And I think this guy going about it in the disciplined manner makes it less likely that will happen.
00:10:59.000But that is the intent of these things.
00:11:02.000The Satanic Temple also put up this message on their Facebook page.
00:11:06.000This morning, we were informed by authorities that the Baphomet statue in our holiday display was destroyed beyond repair.
00:11:16.000We are proud to continue our holiday display for the next few days that we have been allotted.
00:11:22.000We ask that for safety, visitors travel together and use the seven tenets as a reminder for empathy in the knowledge that justice is being pursued the correct way through legal means.
00:11:33.000Solve et coagula, which means, I believe, dissolve and coagulate.
00:12:26.000And just in case you're not watching Thought Crime or you haven't seen my multiple tweets about this, we are going to be organizing the next largest call-in campaign in history when we call her tomorrow to make sure she gets the message.
00:12:39.000Now, so just because, again, we want to foster discussion.
00:12:43.000So, trending right now on Twitter, as I was checking for stuff about this, trending on Twitter is Romans 13.
00:12:49.000Charlie, do you know what Romans 13 is?
00:12:50.000Submit to all leaders in authority because they are there for your good, Paul wrote.
00:13:51.000Therefore, one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath, but also for the sake of conscience.
00:13:57.000For because of this, you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
00:14:04.000Pay to all what is owed of them, taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
00:14:15.000It's the longest political verse in the New Testament.
00:14:16.000So, this is this, if I remember, Charlie, and correct me if I'm wrong, but there were a lot of pastors who cited this during COVID.
00:14:21.000Well, it's also the most quoted verse during Nazi Germany, but that's neither here nor there.
00:14:25.000But yes, I mean, but then let's just depending on that, but here we are.
00:14:49.000Now, but it also says there for your good.
00:14:52.000I just feel like that's a cop-out because even if the people are sovereign, well, the people elected the governor of Iowa, who said we're not going to take this down.
00:14:59.000But the governor is still not the sovereign.
00:16:18.000They try to use some sort of a pretty good idea, maybe for their own purposes and pervert it and try to destroy Christianity with it.
00:16:28.000Yeah, but the only way they're really destroying Christianity, I feel, is that they are trying to troll us really badly, which is they're trying to do this to embarrass us.
00:16:37.000And the only way you get embarrassed by any of this is by reacting to it in the wrong way.
00:16:41.000If you don't react to it at all, no one really knows.
00:16:44.000You don't think it's an embarrassment for it to be to be up there?
00:16:47.000I mean, how often do you think of the Iowa state capital otherwise?
00:16:51.000Well, if the Iowa State Capital, how often do you think about the Roman Empire?
00:17:01.000I mean, it's a symbol of some sort of societal and moral decline where a country that once would believe in ethical monotheism and have all of these Christian principles, obviously, nine out of 13 states required you to be a Protestant Christian to be an office holder to then have a satanic display in the state capitol.
00:17:27.000But to add on to that, though, is that if we think, okay, if we're going to say the founders didn't intend this, they thought, you know, you could enforce religious requirements and you could enforce blasphemy laws, specifically at the state level.
00:17:40.000But given the drift of America at this point, what's more likely to happen if we decide actually the government can dictate religious stuff and prohibitions?
00:17:49.000What is the blasphemous statement most likely to be punished for?
00:18:08.000They were perfectly fine with the Hebrew congregation, perfectly fine with Catholics.
00:18:13.000I mean, there is, or just nothing like deism.
00:18:16.000The idea that Satanism fits perfectly within the founder's vision of religious liberty just doesn't fit.
00:18:24.000I mean, but it's it, the religious liberty provision is being abused.
00:18:30.000And whether it's like civilizational altering or not, it is obvious.
00:18:34.000And if it, if they're trolling us, I guess you could say it's working, but like we do believe we're in an invisible war against Satan, right?
00:18:41.000Charlie, the question that I have, I guess, or Tyler, going ahead, but take it, it's just like, why is it that, you know, if we call ourselves, we say, oh, we're the conservatives, and Kim Reynolds, and even in her response to this, she said something about how, well, we support freedom of speech, but we understand she used the phrase good versus evil.
00:19:00.000We are in a contest of good versus evil, and I will always stand on the side of good or something, you know, something along those lines.
00:19:05.000But my point is, it's like, but what were you doing to actually fight for that?
00:19:09.000So I guess my question, and Tyler, if you want to take it, you know, is like, why have conservative leaders just been so okay with like doing nothing in the face of all of this?
00:19:26.000And if satanic monuments are going to become the golden calf of how we defend the Constitution, I think it's the same thing, which is like the intent that was made when the golden calf was created, right, was not even a vile one by any means, right?
00:19:53.000I think it has a direct correlation, which is like we shouldn't be allowing ourselves to create all these different things just in the name of defense of constitutionalism.
00:20:04.000And there's a really great analogy to that where it's like, and I and you look at this guy, right, that went and smashed this thing.
00:20:10.000And that's the immediate thing I think of is when Moses came back and he's like, okay, we're going to obliterate this thing because these people have no idea what they've not seen the force through the trees of what we're of what we're doing here.
00:20:23.000And we're going to have a lot more problems coming amongst our people here.
00:20:27.000And that's exactly what's kind of going on.
00:20:29.000I think that that's where people are so fed up.
00:20:32.000Can you talk about the populist contingency that we have now in the movement, where it's like we have all these people that do not see the force through the trees.
00:20:41.000They do not see ultimately what the angle is of what the conservative movement should be, which is conserving something for a purpose.
00:21:17.000I mean, they murdered people because people made cartoons of their, you know, I have my disagreements with the practices of Muhammad, to say the least.
00:22:29.000And multiple deployments, including on the George Washington aircraft carrier.
00:22:35.000I couldn't grab from his bio, you know, where exactly the Washington was during that time.
00:22:39.000I just pulled up his, because I guess he ran for Congress at one point in Mississippi.
00:22:43.000So, it seems to me that he actually traveled from Mississippi to go and do this.
00:22:47.000I don't have all the details on this yet.
00:22:50.000But I was actually looking that he came very close to winning his primary in Mississippi.
00:22:56.000So, Mississippi, those races are, it's pretty much a primary race where, you know, if you win your primary, you're going to, it's like a, um, you know, fait accompli for the should run again.
00:23:05.000So, I'm kind of thinking that he should, but I actually don't know if he, if he's filed yet, but you know, Tyler, what's our what's the Mississippi filing deadlines?
00:23:13.000Because if this, put it this way, if that guy's on the rate on the, on the ballot in Mississippi, I think he'll do well.
00:23:21.000Mississippi is such an interesting place because it produces a lot of really weird moderates there, but you know, moderates, yeah, like who?
00:23:29.000Oh, I don't know, like uh, Haley Barber, oh, yeah, Haley Barber.
00:23:33.000Okay, all right, I'll give you that entire family that's run the place for like the last 30 years, fair, No, I got you.
00:23:39.000Um, so it's when it when it comes to this guy, though, it's um you know, I think we'll do what he basically could have been a sitting congressman right now doing.
00:23:51.000Would have been like, could you imagine?
00:23:53.000I'm kind of, I'm kind of glad he wouldn't because I think if a sitting congressman did do it, it would be impossible to extract like the public.
00:24:00.000Because he lost, what do you mean, publicity stunt?
00:25:19.000I don't know if it would have propelled him past Trump, but it certainly would have made it a competitor.
00:25:24.000It would have at least made him the chief talking point in the country, which part of the problem is just that he's never actually, you know, no one cares about this race.
00:26:14.000It's fine that my daughter does it, but you need to get off right now.
00:26:17.000Yeah, just to have a debate where Ron DeSantis plays all four of the major non-Trump GOP candidates.
00:26:23.000See, if you could actually pull that off, again, that would be really good for him.
00:26:28.000That would have been something that actually gets him, gets people interested in the campaign, makes people kind of interested in him, but it's populist, like an actual populist.
00:26:39.000Like I remember, look at JD Vance, the way he responded to the East Palestine train wreck, right?
00:26:46.000So you could have had a, you know, a traditional GOP senator may have like, may have said, I'm going to hold them before a hearing, right?
00:26:53.000Which I think he still did that eventually.
00:26:55.000Or you're saying, I'm going to conduct an investigation into the National Transportation Safety Board, the NTSB, and we're going to see what's going on for all of this.
00:27:05.000But what JD Vance did was so good in terms of populism was that he actually went to East Palestine and he's talking to people who are there.
00:27:20.000And suddenly, because there's a chemical slick here, then it's like, wow, something's actually going on.
00:27:25.000And JD Vance, it's like a 15-second video, but it became the most viral video of JD Vance's entire career because he just took up the mantle of populism for like five seconds.
00:28:15.000Daniel disobeyed government authorities in Daniel 6 when the king Nebuchadnezzar said, you're not allowed to pray and opened up the window to pray and he ended up in the lion's den.
00:28:27.000So biblically, it gets back to Acts that you obey God and not man.
00:28:31.000So when there is a very simple, like a very clear, like non-cloudy, non-murky commandment from government to do something against what God's will is, then you disobey.
00:28:44.000For example, like you're an SS officer, you must go kill 100 Jews.
00:28:48.000Do you say, well, you know, Romans 13, I must, now that's an extreme example, obviously, right?
00:28:53.000But, you know, the one in Exodus is very similar to that.
00:28:56.000So if they're the Satan display does not go that far, but at the same time, it's pretty clear that, you know, the principalities of darkness will not be tolerated.
00:29:06.000But it's an interesting theological discussion because during COVID, we saw people say, well, I can't resist tyranny.
00:29:12.000And biblically, it's a lot more complicated than that.
00:29:17.000I mean, Charlie, where's Romans 13 when literally the Romans were throwing, you know, were throwing Christians to the lions for practicing Christianity?
00:29:30.000All of our original martyrs come from the persecution of Christians by government authorities in Rome.
00:30:40.000Midwives said to Pharaoh, because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women.
00:30:43.000They give an excuse for their vigorous and give birth, so on and so forth.
00:30:46.000So God dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied and grew very strong.
00:30:50.000And because they feared God, he gave them families.
00:30:55.000So Charlie, but why is it so, and this is something that, you know, like, let's talk about COVID, right?
00:31:01.000COVID, we don't have to go so far back as to, I mean, obviously, yeah, right, sure.
00:31:05.0001930s, Germany is the most extreme example that we could probably think of.
00:31:09.000But even during COVID, why was it that predominantly in the Western church, we saw so many Christian leaders calling for people to go along with the COVID guidelines?
00:31:24.000Pope Francis gets out behind all this stuff.
00:31:27.000And even up to the point, and I will always say this, that I'll never forget the day that I showed up to a church and the doors were closed.
00:31:35.000And it was like 10, you know, you got to get the kids ready and everything.
00:31:37.000And it's like five, 10 minutes after the service began and we couldn't come in.
00:31:45.000And it's never happened to me in my entire life.
00:31:47.000And of course, you can look in and see that there's all this like empty space in there.
00:31:51.000And it, I'm telling you, something like inside me just snapped, just absolutely snapped to think that a church's doors would be closed during service.
00:32:02.000I mean, the American church did not value liberty and a spirit of fear, not a spirit of fear of the Lord, filled a lot of these pastors in these churches.
00:32:10.000And we saw them misquote Romans 13, in my opinion.
00:32:13.000But Blake's argument is what a lot of them made.
00:33:14.000So the question is, let's look at, so this particular incident, was this person doing the will of God, or was he, should he have submitted to the satanic symbol?
00:33:24.000So let's pretend that it wasn't a troll because it probably is some form of a troll.
00:34:46.000And so that's its own kind of, it's like a libertarian worldview that views Satan as like the ultimate rebel who can't be, you know, whose authority does not reign him in.
00:34:55.000So there, that one cares more about the idea of like, oh, let's embody the principles of what we think Satan believes, but it is still not really, it doesn't worship Satan except to say that like, actually, the Satan as described in the Bible is like totally fine.
00:35:08.000Like he had it right to rebel against God.
00:35:12.000And so, but neither of them is really a religion in the sense of like, let us assemble and pray to Satan because we want Satan to like do good things for us or anything like that.
00:35:24.000You know, you don't, you don't die and then, you know, believe that you go to Satanist heaven or hell heaven or whatever the heck that you would come out of that.
00:35:32.000I mean, just we as Christians do believe, and I know you're Christian, Blake, we believe Satan is a real being in the universe with real power, not ultimate omniscient, omnipotent power.
00:35:43.000And yeah, when you see a display of Satan.
00:36:03.000Because it plays right into that phrase, right?
00:36:08.000So if that's your motto is to make the world think that Satan doesn't exist.
00:36:12.000Then what you would do is come up with a troll organization to troll people into worshiping Satan, because they don't actually think that they've gone so far around the bend that they're actually worshiping the father of evil and the prince of lies, that they're just messing with the Christians, investing with the status quo.
00:36:29.000Actually Charlie, I I had pulled up the seven tenets of free of uh, excuse me, seven tenets of Satan.
00:39:43.000What if you, when it was empty and it was closed at night and no one's there, you blew up an abortion clinic because there's equipment in there that's expensive and all that.
00:41:33.000It's not the one who's like thumping the rule book.
00:41:35.000It's the one who's stealing all the money from the Bank of Monopoly.
00:41:38.000True enough, but I do think, one, if we're Christians, we just believe that we'll ultimately win because kind of God will put a finger on the scales.
00:42:28.000At the end of the day, what does matter is that anytime that people are thinking about Satanism and kids are exploring that, we know that brings a dark force into their life.
00:42:39.000I think that I think actually one of the things that we haven't discussed at all was this entire episode brought more attention to Satanism and kids that mostly young people, because we've seen this in different periodic times, start investigating this stuff.
00:42:53.000With the internet today, they look into it and whatever, whether it's gay Satanism or it's real Satanism or it's like just satanic acts that I think the devil wants us to partake in, that always opens up the door to which is and what are they targeting right now all over the country is schools.
00:43:09.000So, especially like Middle Delhi, Iowa, where you've got like you know, kids that can get themselves in trouble.
00:43:15.000And it's just like the thing with me, that this is part of the reason why I really appreciate the guy that did what he did.
00:43:20.000It was just like say his name, just Michael Cassidy.
00:43:25.000Nobody speaks of Michael Cassidy without the title.
00:43:27.000She just be done with it, move on, knock it over, and get out of here.
00:43:33.000And that's like the point that you brought up: the governor should have been the first one to like put a black tarp over the top of it and get out of that.
00:43:40.000And part of it, Blake, I think you can understand is that we are seeing the effects of Satan everywhere, right?
00:43:45.000And so we're seeing it with drug addiction, we're seeing with the open border.
00:45:40.000We're practically at war against Russia and the government also guaranteed all deposits of the second largest and third largest bank run in history.
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00:46:32.000Our next topic is going to be a movie.
00:46:34.000I don't know if you've actually, have you seen this movie trailer yet, Charlie?
00:46:38.000No, I like you guys have to lead on this.
00:46:39.000Blake, before we go here, we've got a comment in on this regarding Blake and ad reads that I'm just like, Blake, you are clearly like in the chat under a false name, right?
00:47:52.000Citizens of America, the so-called Western forces of Texas and California have suffered a very great defeat at the hands of the United States military.
00:48:06.000Mr. President, do you regret the use of airstrikes against American citizens?
00:49:37.000So, Charlie, the big controversy that's been raging online after this came out is, so you see that shot in there where it's the American flag that only has two white stars on it, as opposed to, of course, the 49, which we have now.
00:49:54.000But in this, the two stars are California and Texas.
00:50:00.000So the question that has arisen online is, at least on the online right, is what possibly could be the politics, like the political setup here that drives California and Texas to join together and then secede from the Union.
00:51:16.000Even though I'm not from the West Coast, the only way that this works is if nuclear Holocaust happens in certain parts of California and all that's left is the Central Valley.
00:51:27.000And that's like really the Texas of California.
00:51:53.000I could, I could think of the Otslan movement, and yet, but when I watch the trailer, it's like, so okay, maybe they somehow take control of Texas and then also get control of California.
00:52:02.000But then the problem with that is you don't actually see any Hispanic people in the trailer.
00:52:07.000Like maybe Hollywood mixed race America.
00:52:25.000I mean, America's deeply divided politically, and we have members of Congress talking about a national divorce.
00:52:30.000And we're going to engage with this very raw topic with this ridiculous fantasy where there's a Florida alliance and Texas and California team up to attack the White House and journalists are heroes when in fact everyone knows that journalists are scum.
00:52:45.000Well, and so then Kirsten Dunst is plays one of the journalists, and then who, by the way, she's married to Jesse Plemons in real life who plays the guy who's like, kind of American are you?
00:52:58.000And they've been a bunch of um, they've been a bunch.
00:53:01.000So I've been trying to work my like Hollywood sources to try to like get someone to say um, you know what, what is really going on here, because you really can't tell.
00:53:11.000By The way, did you notice the sniper with the fingernails?
00:53:35.000Yeah, what stood out to me, full manicure.
00:53:37.000What stood out to me is like what they mentioned on the best evidence that this is sort of some dumb Anti-Trump thing is like it's this third term president and he kind of has this bombastic rah-rah thing and what they're saying is they're saying approving airstrikes on U.s citizens, and all I could think of is, uh, was it Swalwell who just was punking people on twitter about Joe Biggs?
00:53:58.000Yeah, that Swalwell said this to Joe Biggs, who is now currently in jail.
00:54:01.000Over january 6th, the former Infowars host?
00:54:04.000Um, he said basically, like we'll, we'll conduct airstrikes on you if you come at us.
00:54:11.000Yeah just, the left loves to brag that.
00:54:13.000They'll just airstrike the crap they were when these guys took over.
00:54:17.000They're obsessed with like, we have drones and drone strike.
00:54:20.000Yeah, like when they took that dumb thing all the time uh, Oregon or Nevada, whichever it was the uh, the Bundies took it over and yes very, they were gonna drone strike them.
00:54:52.000So I'm guessing that that's probably right.
00:54:54.000They've got Nick Offerman on because this is another example of Yellowstoning.
00:54:58.000So conservatives like Nick Offerman because he played Ron Swanson on Parks and Rec.
00:55:04.000And Ron Swanson has like one of the most base depictions of someone on the right in modern media in probably the last decade.
00:55:13.000He's like, like Charlie, you remember that line where he's like, he's like, my idea of a good government is like one guy in a room somewhere and his only decision is who do we nuke?
00:55:53.000So the reason I call it Yellowstoning is because that's when they take someone that conservatives like and then put them into something new.
00:56:19.000And for whatever reason, they'll come up with some setup that Texas and California go against him because he's trying to turn the United States into a dictatorship.
00:56:27.000And it's like, it's like California doesn't like that because they're leftists and Texas doesn't like that because they're pro-freedom.
00:56:35.000And so they decide to unite together and fight the dictator in the authoritarian or so it just fits in with everything that they've been talking about with Trump lately and saying he's going to be a dictator.
00:56:47.000And then he masterfully flips around and says, well, maybe for a day, but we're just going to focus on a couple of things.
00:56:53.000But none of this makes sense, though, because Nevada and Arizona would end up going the way of like a California, Texas scenario.
00:57:24.000What's actually ridiculous about these Civil War setups is like the American Civil War makes sense because you can have 80, 90% of the population in a state in the original Civil War.
00:58:28.000Like in history, where you see this happen is like you'll have an army unit that's all some ethnic minority and they speak their own language and they're not super well integrated with everyone else.
00:58:36.000Those are the guys who can do some sort of rebellion or some conspiracy to overthrow the government.
00:58:41.000These days, all of our units are guys thrown in for the government.
00:58:46.000This is actually one of the reasons that the U.S. military, after the Civil War, instituted this idea of the PCS, the permanent change of station.
00:58:53.000So you didn't have regionally defined units.
00:59:17.000So Fort Gay Satan isn't just soldiers from Massachusetts.
00:59:21.000And so as you go down, so as you go down the list, right, you know, Norfolk Naval Base and Norfolk Gable Air Station.
00:59:27.000So part of the reason is to prevent this localism from ever happening in the first place because you're constantly shifting around between these bases and between units.
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01:01:54.000So the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, let me get this story real quick.
01:02:00.000So this is a story that's breaking just the last couple of days.
01:02:02.000So the SPLC, they claim that, you know, they're, you know, they're named Southern Poverty, but they don't really care about any of those things anymore.
01:02:09.000So they defend poor people in the South.
01:02:10.000Yeah, you'd think they would do that, but in fact, they're attacking poor and middle-income people in a Appalachian state.
01:02:49.000I don't know that they're headquartered there.
01:02:51.000No, they're headquartered in West Virginia.
01:02:53.000Yeah, but they're doing some nonsense where they're trying to dox, they're trying to get all of their donors on a flimsy pretext so that they can leak anyone who's donated money to V Dare.
01:03:02.000It's super sinister what they've been doing.
01:03:08.000Yeah, we'll have to, we should cover that on the show sometime.
01:03:11.000So what's happening this time, though, is so V Dare is headquartered, or at least they are operating out of Berkeley Springs.
01:03:18.000It's a town in West Virginia, about a mile, about an hour from DC.
01:03:23.000And they, V Dare owns, they call it the Berkeley Springs Castle.
01:03:26.000It's like a large house that I think used to be some sort of, it was like a, it was a large house that was owned by someone because it used to be a spa town.
01:03:33.000There's mineral springs in Berkeley Springs.
01:03:56.000So they, you know, they live in this town, and the SPLC is upset essentially that the town hasn't like murdered them or done this uprising to drive them out of the town or like unpersoned them and made it or like Joseph Smith them in Navu, Illinois.
01:04:19.000So when you say their whole existence is a thought crime, this actually becomes like the dryest risk.
01:04:24.000You're not allowed to buy a house in our town.
01:04:26.000So there is a local charity in this town that they exist to raise money to beautify the town for Christmas.
01:04:34.000Let's put up public Christmas decorations in Berkeley Springs.
01:04:37.000Yeah, they hold like the town Christmas party at the castle.
01:04:39.000They host a Christmas party at this castle that is also a fundraiser for this event.
01:04:43.000And they've done this since my understanding is since before this was ever owned by VDARE because the building is 100 years old.
01:04:49.000Yeah, so they went out and like they were attacking this Christmas part, this town Christmas party like last year SPLC was, but then and they were basically saying, how dare you do this?
01:04:58.000And it's like, and they're for their from their perspective, as you say, like it's always been just an event center.
01:05:03.000Like it's never, you know, even before they bought it.
01:05:05.000So it's always been just like a local place where you hold events.
01:05:08.000And so these are weddings that are there, et cetera.
01:05:11.000These two people affiliated with the SPLC, Hannah Gaius and Michael Edison Hayden.
01:05:52.000He has been published in the Daily Beast, which is allegedly a publication.
01:05:57.000Formerly of ABC, formerly of Newsweek, couldn't keep a job at story full, ends up at the bottom of the barrel itself at the Southern Poverty Center.
01:06:09.000And so what they do is how Hannah Gaius and this and this piss guy, they bought tickets under, I believe, a fake name to attend this party so they could all see the attendees.
01:06:29.000But so they break into this Christmas party under false names.
01:06:33.000And what I can reveal that I don't think has been reported publicly is they were literally taking the Brimolos kid, I think an eight-year-old, and they're trying to pepper this eight-year-old with questions, you know, about the house that this is in.
01:06:46.000And, you know, do they know anything about some of the back rooms of this house?
01:06:51.000Is there, you know, can you tell us anything about this?
01:06:53.000So they're literally interrogating an eight-year-old child on how they could potentially scope out this building that they have decided that they want to infiltrate in Berkeley Springs because the owners have committed unspeakable thought crime, the unspeakable thought crime of wanting America to have a lower immigration rate and an actual abortion.
01:07:10.000And then they went and they went to the Daily Beast and the Daily Beast is like, this is amazing journalism.
01:07:32.000Ultimately, like, this is what this is about.
01:07:34.000Last year, a year ago, the Washington Post contacted, I think, the extremely tiny town tourism office for Berkeley Springs and essentially says, Hey, you know, we're going to publish a piece about your town and all of this, but you know what might help you guys, you know, if you got better advertising, like if you bought advertising with the Washington Post, they literally did a shakedown like this.
01:08:00.000By the way, so the play was called The Books, and The Village Voice described it as the post-golden shower literary discussion romantic dramedy you've all been waiting for.
01:08:14.000So it's he wrote a golden showers play.
01:08:17.000And this is this was over a decade ago.
01:08:19.000This is before any of the, you know, like it's possible that this is actually where the Russia Gate story of Golden Showers comes from.
01:08:28.000That they were actually doing an homage to a scene in the play.
01:08:32.000So I just, so I'm looking at the summary that was sent me by my friend, and it's even weirder than I thought.
01:08:37.000So they were, so Hayden and Hannah, they had to travel from New York just to attend this event, to crash this event in Berkeley Springs.
01:08:45.000By the way, you know, under fake names.
01:08:47.000In all disclosure, they did the same thing to last year's New York Republican gala to not only all of us who were there, but they actually tracked me and Tanya Tay on like a train because I guess they were like coming up from DC on the same train as us.
01:09:01.000They were stalking, Charlie, they're stalking us in the train station, taking photos of me and my wife as we're like walking through Penn Station in New York into Moynihan, which is a beautiful station, like taking photo of us behind Tanya Tay looking gorgeous as usual in like you know, just her full travel attire.
01:09:20.000And then they start posting like they took this train at this time, like completely deranged mental bio-Leninist behavior.
01:09:28.000This is a good reason, by the way, that you know, we should care about being fit and attractive because you want to make sure that if you know, disgusting SPLC parasite subhumans are stalking you, that they'll take photos and be like, they look so good.
01:09:40.000Why the Attorney General of Alabama hasn't gone after these people yet?
01:09:43.000They're headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, right?
01:09:47.000Volunteers at the event, because this event, it was at the castle, but it was hosted by a different charity.
01:09:52.000They did not recognize the SPLC reporters, but became concerned when Hayden, who is in his 40s, singled out the Brimolo's eight-year-old daughter and attempted to draw information from her regarding the off-limits back office areas of the castles where this girl personally lives.
01:10:13.000So these people traveled 300 miles under fake names so they could corner an eight-year-old to interrogate her about her home.
01:11:23.000This is someone who can tell us who's allowed to like.
01:11:25.000To tell us who's allowed to hold where the town's allowed to hold a Christmas party who goes after eight-year-olds and in his spare time writes stuff about golden showers with just complete.
01:12:01.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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