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00:03:33.000You just need to, we're so in the thick of it, we can easily forget that for a lot of people, God bless them really, politics is not their big everyday obsession.
00:03:43.000They have church stuff and family stuff and job stuff.
00:03:47.000And they're just focused on the real world.
00:03:52.000And if you give them that nudge, you get them over the hump.
00:03:54.000And we just need to get more nudges to our people because a sad disadvantage we've historically had is simply that the left has more fanatics who are just diehards about destroying this country often than we have fanatics who are diehard about saving it because our people generally have more going on.
00:04:11.000If you have nothing else great going on in your life, you can get really obsessed with politics.
00:04:17.000And we just need to have the machinery to counter that.
00:04:20.000And that's what we've spent so long building up in Arizona, and we're hoping it will deliver returns for us in two weeks.
00:04:27.000And I had the same experience as Blake that when you go up to the doors, people are really lovely.
00:04:33.000Every single one of the people that we talked to, sometimes you knock on a door and they're not home or whatever.
00:04:37.000Sometimes it's a little uncomfortable because you got to go through a gate to get to a door and you're like, hey, you know, you stand back, you be respectful, you don't want them to feel like you're threatening them or something.
00:04:45.000You just say, hey, I'm a volunteer with Turning Point Action.
00:04:48.000We're just here to remind you to get your ballot in.
00:04:50.000And I would say nine out of 10 times, if you just extrapolate that out, I think we did almost 50 doors, Ryan and I.
00:04:59.000But if you extrapolate that out, it was like every single person was, hey, we're voting R up and down the ballot.
00:05:27.000And what else is very fun, Blake, is you go to these doors and Ryan and I kept looking at it.
00:05:31.000It was like they all had Halloween decorations.
00:05:34.000They seemed like they were community involved, engaged.
00:05:38.000And then you would pass by the houses that aren't on your list, and you're like, oh, I'm starting to basically be able to predict which houses are Republican because they're just happier and lovelier.
00:05:47.000And they're just part of the community and they're invested.
00:05:49.000So I thought it was like a really good experience in that way as well.
00:05:52.000So, anyways, four days in a row, R drops early voting in Maricopa.
00:07:36.000And then the opposition, the defense, They're arguing we're going to be filing objections to every potential expert witness, every potential juror.
00:07:44.000They basically lay out they're going to file an insane number of appeals against everything.
00:07:49.000And so they argue we should have the trial in the third quarter of 2029.
00:07:54.000And honestly, I don't know who's going to pull out ahead, but we are emphatic.
00:07:59.000Erica, her family, they've filed a request.
00:08:16.000So I think this is absurd on its face.
00:08:19.000And it seems like the defensive strategy is delay, delay, delay.
00:08:23.000And if you think about it, if they were confident in their case that they believe that Tyler Robinson is in some way innocent, why would you want him to sit in rotten prison for four years?
00:09:28.000And that figure is going to balloon to $10 million by the time this is done, maybe more if you go by the defense's timeline.
00:09:36.000So $1.6 million already spent, which is significant, which is substantial in a case like this.
00:09:42.000And it will balloon to over as much as $10, maybe even more million dollars that Utah taxpayers have to spend defending somebody the state is alleging is an assassin.
00:09:52.000So all of this process feels like this slow motion horror story.
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00:12:09.000So, some independent journalists, muckrakers, they basically went and they asked a number of.
00:12:18.000I guess they were canvassers for different groups about, you know, could they register to vote?
00:12:25.000So they posed as non citizens, Canadians, these types of things.
00:12:30.000And one time after the next, with all these different canvassers, all Katie Hobbs aligned, all Democrat aligned, they all encouraged these people posing as voters to register to vote, anyways.
00:13:30.000It's one of those things where we know it's going on, but then to see somebody go and expose it like this is very, very troubling.
00:13:37.000So, one of the groups that they spoke with was Stand Indivisible Arizona.
00:13:43.000So, obviously, this group has endorsed Governor Hobbs.
00:13:46.000Indivisible is the same group that does the No Kings protest.
00:13:51.000So, their journalist posed as a Canadian citizen, asked to register to vote.
00:13:55.000The canvasser Not only did she agree to help the alleged non citizen register, but when asked whether other Canadians could register too, she said, Tell them to do it online.
00:14:06.000Exhibit A. Another one Worker Power, that are also working to re elect Governor Hobbs.
00:14:12.000The journalist told the canvasser they were not a U.S. citizen.
00:14:15.000Despite this, at the journalist's request, the canvasser marked yes on the citizenship question of the voter registration form.
00:14:51.000The AFL CIO, Phone Bank Mobilization Voters for Governor Hobbs, their undercover journalist asked a phone bank trainer whether to ask the people being called if they're citizens.
00:15:49.000In other words, yeah, just kind of encourage them to come in and really they know almost no one's likely going to check.
00:15:56.000Or if they do check, we can use blue states to gum up the process.0.61
00:16:01.000Or ideally, the best thing possible, what they want to do, what they're doing in California, is they want to make it as easy as possible for illegals or non citizens to vote.
00:16:10.000So that they can have enough of it, that they can throw up their hands and say, What are you going to prosecute all of these people?0.66
00:16:54.000That's California's response because they said they already mailed the ballots, the ballots are out.
00:17:00.000And so they've already been commingled.
00:17:03.000Then LA basically says, hey, we're really sorry.
00:17:07.000This is their quote the registrar is not equipped.
00:17:10.000Or authorized to verify voter citizenship because it does not independently house citizenship related information beyond the voter attestation.
00:17:22.000As identified in federal and state law, and certainly is not equipped to do so within the election period.
00:17:30.000So, this is a case where we see in Arizona, obviously a state we're very invested in, we see canvassers registering people that are ineligible to vote, whether because they're a Canadian.
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00:21:13.000We had this conversation last week and it was so good that I wanted to have it again because we just barely scratched the surface, Professor.
00:21:22.000And it is the moral question of our day.
00:21:46.000I was told you already read it by the time I got it to you.
00:21:49.000New York wants to control who can buy troubled housing.
00:21:52.000Here's how the city council is set to pass a bill, the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, that gives certain nonprofits a head start on buying distressed buildings.
00:22:06.000Why is this so wrong, Professor Steele?
00:22:08.000Well, the first thing that it does, that's a really good question.
00:22:12.000I'm really happy to be here because this is really important stuff.
00:22:16.000And maybe I'll say before I get going, there are three fundamental points that I hope to make before we're done here on the ethics questions.
00:22:25.000But the COPA, as it's called, this Community Opportunity Property Act, is fundamentally what it does it says that owners of buildings cannot sell them if they decide to sell for 90 days.
00:22:43.000Only the government or some sort of NGO can purchase them.
00:22:55.000It's a backdoor to confiscating and for the government to get control of private property.
00:23:02.000The ethical question there are all kinds of economic questions about why that would be bad or issues, but the moral question is who owns it?
00:23:11.000If people's private property isn't theirs, if the government can take it, that's theft.
00:23:17.000And that's a fundamentally wrong thing.
00:23:20.000Yeah, I agree because ultimately we go back to seizing the means of production.
00:23:25.000These are these buzz expressions, phrases of the far left.
00:23:30.000And one of the central tenets of the American way is that we believe in private property.
00:23:36.000If you own a property, you have the right to sell it.
00:23:40.000You have a right to do with it as you will within certain boundaries, certainly.
00:23:45.000But this is actually a massive, massive blow to what we've always assumed and taken for granted here in this country that you have a right to your own property.
00:23:54.000This is why that squatters story a few years back blew up in such a massive way.
00:23:59.000People realize, hey, in certain jurisdictions, you don't have control of your own private property.
00:24:07.000Well, let's dive even further into it.
00:24:09.000This is, as you say, it's a step towards confiscation.
00:24:11.000It's essentially saying, yeah, if you have to have a narrow pool of potential buyers who have this right of first refusal, it's obviously not, oh, nonprofits have a right to buy it.
00:24:21.000Who are those going to be aligned with?
00:24:51.000It might lower the price that is charged to the person who's lucky enough to get one of these things, or maybe it'll end up being unfortunate enough to be put in there.
00:25:17.000And it puts things into the hands of those people.
00:25:21.000Now, there's a kind of, I don't want to say cleverness, there's a kind of strategy that they have involved here.
00:25:31.000And that's that they can't lower prices.
00:25:34.000What they can do is shift those prices to someone else, shift those costs to someone else, because it will be covered by taxes if they can't pay for the upkeep.
00:25:46.000The upkeep also, they won't have a very good incentive.
00:25:49.000Because they won't profit from it to make these things truly livable.
00:25:54.000Community housing, government housing in New York, and I saw some of it when I lived there, is not good.
00:26:00.000The projects are not good places because they are maintained by the government, not for profit.
00:26:06.000There's no cost control because there's no incentive to hold costs down.
00:26:09.000And at the same time, no incentive to provide quality because it is, you know, you've got basically a captive customer.
00:26:20.000But those are, again, those are kind of economic questions.
00:26:23.000The moral question is also fundamental.
00:26:26.000And maybe the first point I want to make is that capitalism is a moral system.
00:26:31.000It's got some fundamental moral principles built into it.
00:26:37.000And the first one is the inalienable right of the individual.0.64
00:26:41.000Those rights are God given for a non believer, they're just a part of our nature.1.00
00:26:46.000But they are a part of our nature, they are given to us, and they are superior to government.
00:26:52.000Any power that government gets is derived from.
00:26:56.000Any just power government has is derived from us giving it permission.
00:27:01.000Capitalism is built on that fundamental recognition.
00:27:04.000And from private or from these unalienable rights, we then get the right to private property the things that people have justly acquired through building it, creating it, having been given it voluntarily, and through free trade.
00:27:22.000Free trade is a fundamental moral principle.
00:27:26.000Because if we are constrained by each other's rights, then all trade is voluntary.
00:27:32.000That means that the parties to a trade both benefit.
00:29:24.000It teaches people to feel as if they are victims and that they are helpless and that they need government, they need the state to intervene and take care of them.
00:29:38.000And the principle of taking people's property, that's theft.
00:29:42.000That's the fundamental basis of socialism.
00:29:44.000So, Professor, accepting all that is true, but so we're seeing some headlines, you know, touting there's been a lot of wins for America.
00:29:50.000So, for example, there's a piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday American exceptionalism is no myth, and it points out a fact that's gotten viral lately that even in the poorest U.S. states like Mississippi are now significantly higher income and wealthier than places we thought are kind of our equals like Britain, Germany, France.
00:30:07.000We're just richer than everybody now, way richer.
00:30:11.000So, that's clearly related to capitalism.
00:30:12.000But then, why in America does it seem like so many young people are Unhappy people constantly are saying they feel stuck that they're not getting ahead.
00:30:23.000We hear how rich America is, it seems like people are all claiming they don't feel very rich.
00:30:30.000And because it seems like it's a threat to our capitalist system that people feel this way, yes, it is.
00:30:35.000And I think, first of all, it is something more fundamental than economics it's mindset.
00:30:39.000The ideas that people have, they're taught to feel that victim.
00:30:44.000This is what colleges, most colleges, not Hillsdale, teach is that you're a victim.
00:30:49.000I've had students who have transferred from other schools, and they told me at my big state school that I attended, I think that 50% of the people were actually mentally unstable, and they all felt like victims.
00:31:03.000They're taught to feel victimhood, and they're taught that someone else is responsible.
00:31:33.000Socialism, at one level, is theft, it is stealing from people.
00:31:38.000And you see this story in New York, which is why I think it's so important that we highlight it.
00:31:42.000This is not making headline news around the country right now, but it is massive, massive, massive because it is a precursor of what is to come from the DSA crowd.
00:31:52.000Dipping their toe in the water, and it is, it's just terrifying to watch it play out.
00:31:59.000This is going to be the first election that I am going to have the opportunity to cast my vote in.
00:32:04.000These midterm elections, what do you think is going to be the most relevant piece to the younger generation of voters?
00:32:09.000Across the age spectrum, people are finding that what we were taught was the American dream is just completely a lie.
00:32:41.000So I don't believe in downsizing the American dream at all.
00:32:43.000You have to understand that the love that Andrews talks about how you should have for this country, and I agree with him, even with all of our problems.
00:32:51.000There are people who don't think like that.0.74
00:33:23.000That's why they're going to seize these distressed properties and give them to these NGOs that they bless.
00:33:28.000If someone really believes that the American dream is not possible, they ought to go spend, we ought to finance them to go spend some time in the third world.
00:33:40.000I've been to countries in West Africa.
00:33:43.000I was in the poorest, I think it was ranked at the time the fourth poorest country in the world.
00:33:49.000You have no idea if you think that the American dream is dead and that there are no opportunities here.
00:33:55.000You have no idea what you're talking about.
00:33:59.000You're surrounded by some of the greatest wealth and the greatest opportunities.
00:34:02.000That have ever existed for any human being, and you are turning your back on them.
00:34:50.000And this permeates throughout the culture.
00:34:52.000I love this line about Britain from one of the people in this piece.
00:34:55.000She says, I thought British politeness existed like in movies, but the reality is that present day British culture is very individualistic, but without the sense of charity and helpfulness that many parts of American culture.
00:35:09.000I pay a huge amount of taxes and an immigration surcharge just to access the NHS.
00:35:54.000Tomorrow, they're gearing up for that.0.82
00:35:56.000It's a you know, yes, it's a lot of Muslims, it's a lot of children of migrants, but it's being spearheaded by socialists and communists.0.76
00:36:03.000So they are actually spearheading and getting their foot soldiers out into the streets.
00:36:07.000This is a country with free health care, this is a country with massive, massive government subsidies and handouts to everybody up and down the income spectrum.
00:36:18.000And they're still rioting, they are burning down their country.
00:36:22.000So I thought that socialism was supposed to make all this go away, I thought it was supposed to make the anger go away within the population.
00:36:29.000But it seems to have the opposite effect.
00:36:46.000That's one of the fundamental things that it does.
00:36:48.000That's a bad way to go through life, thinking that you'll be better off by tearing each other down.
00:36:57.000The real thing that we ought to be working on, of course, is.
00:37:02.000Providing opportunities so that people can be self sufficient, make themselves better off, and that's where true dignity comes from.
00:37:09.000I do want to make a point about morality, if I can just do that.
00:37:15.000One of the points that socialists will make is that, well, you're just in it for yourself, it's individualistic, capitalism is bad.
00:37:22.000We're actually, each one of us, given by our Creator, we're put in charge of ourselves.
00:37:28.000We are given self responsibility, and self interest is the thing that we are given so that we'll have the incentive to take care of ourselves.
00:37:36.000That's not a negative thing because we also take care of each other.
00:37:42.000This is Adam Smith, but it's also biblical.
00:37:45.000The Bible in the Torah, the Old Testament, Leviticus, talks about the principle of justice and says do not treat rich people or poor people favorably because of their status.
00:38:02.000Another point that is made in the Bible is love your neighbor as yourself.
00:38:08.000That is, you have self love and love for your neighbor.
00:38:11.000Those are moral principles, but those are embodied in capitalism.
00:38:14.000They are not embodied in socialism, which tears down, which inspires class struggle, class warfare, and tearing down each other.
00:38:23.000So, Professor Steele, you're making way too much sense for your average commie or socialist, but this is the battle lines in our country, and I want everybody to have access to this.
00:38:34.000I want you to get what I'm about to tell you.
00:39:17.000The number one thing Blake and I encounter when we talk to students, well intentioned students on college campuses, our students at Turning Point, is they do not understand the fundamentals of the economy, how it works, how it rewards you, how it punishes you.
00:39:30.000We have to explain capitalism all over again.
00:39:34.000Final 15 seconds to you, Dr. Steele, to maybe encourage people to take the course.
00:40:01.000Get your kids and family members to take it.
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00:41:05.000It is our Ask Us Anything hour, and I thought we'd mix it up this week.
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00:41:26.000But we're bringing in Sean Davis, who is the founder and CEO of The Federalist, a great American institution.
00:43:16.000Like, actually, I was thinking about this this week because of this call her daddy clip that went viral where they're basically encouraging women that it's never too late to get a divorce and you can find somebody better for you and all that stuff.
00:43:38.000I don't know, Blake, if you, Blake or Sean, you got things you want to add to this.
00:43:41.000Well, I think, yeah, it's, we are called to.
00:43:44.000Love our enemies, in fact, and to forgive those who persecute you.
00:43:48.000But that is, it's the classic thing that you do have to divorce the individual person with a soul who we hope may be saved through God's mercy and the evil that flows forth from them and from all of us, that we have to hate evil because if you do not hate evil, that is iniquity, lies, violence, wrath, any number of those things that God abhors, if you don't despise those things, you are ultimately not trying your hardest to love God, to love what is good.
00:44:18.000And In fact, when you properly hate evil, that is probably the best way to avoid falling into hatred because hatred, wrath itself, is actually a quite evil thing.
00:44:30.000And it is when you are properly pursuing love of God.
00:44:33.000Like, it's like what we saw with that call her daddy thing.
00:44:36.000That when we saw that clip, we might even want to play it again.
00:44:39.000It's like all of us, we winced, we jerked back because it was so appalling how repellent what they were saying was.
00:44:47.000And that evil flowing forth from it, that drives us towards good.
00:44:51.000Charlie would be able to give a far better answer on this point.
00:45:37.000Because as we were saying, you aren't, deep down, we are supposed to love even sinners.
00:45:42.000And I think Charlie would probably be more precise on that if he was pushed back.
00:45:47.000But obviously, we have to just detest evil that is out in the world.
00:45:51.000And only through, like, really getting this.
00:45:54.000Intense reaction to that sort of evil, are we able to cultivate good?
00:45:59.000You have to develop your moral sensibility to the point where when you see wantonly wicked things, it just, you can't even bear to look at it.
00:46:26.000And there's a reason he hates sin because it's incompatible with him.
00:46:29.000You can't be sinful and be in his presence.
00:46:32.000It's why we had to have Christ take the sin upon him, become sin for us, and die that our sins might be forgiven through him, that we might one day be reconciled to God.
00:46:43.000So God hates evil and he calls us to hate evil.
00:46:46.000So I was reminded of Psalm 139 here, and I apologize for bending down and showing everyone my very shiny forehead here.
00:47:16.000So we were told that David was a man after God's own heart.
00:47:19.000Obviously, we know he was sinful, that he had people killed.
00:47:23.000We know the story of Uriah and Bathsheba.
00:47:24.000He was not a perfect man by any means.
00:47:27.000But when we have David, whose kingdom is what Christ on earth descended from, he traces his earthly royal lineage to David.
00:47:38.000And when we have David saying, Lord, I hate your enemies with complete hatred, I think that tells us something about how we should feel towards those who hate God and towards the hatred of God.
00:47:49.000And where that becomes difficult is that it's easy to say, well, I'm going to hate the bad things and love the good things.
00:48:04.000And if you just go out there trying to be hateful, I'm going to hate this and I hate that because this psalm says to be hateful, but you don't have the discernment and you don't actually have the underlying love that you're supposed to have for everyone else who is made in God's image.
00:48:16.000That's where you're going to end up being consumed by, I think, an evil hatred and an evil malice.
00:48:21.000But we are called to hate what God hates and love what God loves.
00:48:25.000And so I think we probably need to remove the stigma on hating things that are very deserving of being hated.
00:48:53.000And by the way, one other thing I'll add to this is that I think immeasurable harm has been done to our country by something that I call sewing circle Christians, where we have this aversion to hating evil, really, is what it is, or fighting back.0.95
00:49:08.000We're so concerned about having the appearance of good that we allow evil to fester.0.91
00:49:37.000The judge is desecrating the memory of the great Charlie Kirk while taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answers to.
00:49:44.000The whole country is mocking him and our quote unquote legal system.
00:49:48.000Justice for Charlie, President Donald J. Trump.
00:49:52.000I mean, I could quibble, but directionally, I completely agree.
00:49:55.000And I'm actually grateful to the president that he would sound up on this and chime in because I can just tell you, being on this end of it, I know Blake will agree, it is like a never ending, it's just cruelty.
00:50:40.000Whatever it is, I think a reasonable takeaway from this, just in every red state, we control our state's justice systems.0.61
00:50:47.000It should be a general reform priority.
00:50:50.000If we need to spend a few million extra bucks to have a few extra judges, a few extra public defenders, bailiffs, courtrooms, whatever it needs to be, but especially since COVID.
00:51:00.000Legal proceedings have gotten stretched out.
00:51:02.000More people have realized all these ways they can game the process to make it last longer.
00:51:08.000And I 100% believe with this defense, part of their strategy out there is they know if they can drag this on, the more weird conspiracy theories will just percolate out into the atmosphere, get out into the environment, make it harder for them to do proper Vore Dyer in this case for jurors.
00:51:24.000And they just increase the chances they can get some sort of Lindsey Clancy situation, get a holdout juror who's not going to go one way or the other.
00:51:30.000I think that's part of their strategy.
00:51:32.000And one of the ways you fight against this is, especially in a case like this, huge amount of evidence was gathered right away.
00:51:39.000This case should have been able to be taken to trial in four months, not four years.
00:52:23.000The question my group had is we've had a lot of voters where we've gone up to the door and they've told us either they've switched parties and they're leaning toward GSA or they're saying that they don't want anything to do with the election or voting ever again.
00:52:41.000Because the script we're using isn't working right now.
00:52:45.000I've got some good answers for you on that one.
00:52:47.000So, people who are not voting or say they don't want to vote again, you have to ask them, do you think everyone else in America is smarter than you are?
00:52:56.000I'm going to guess most people are going to say no to that.0.98
00:53:00.000And then I think you say, well, why would you want a bunch of people who are dumber than you voting?1.00
00:53:20.000Some of the houses have said that, and then a handful have actually been pretty threatening and violent that we've just not gone back to those houses.
00:54:09.000The one thing we've heard a lot about is if there's a big scandal that was on the news, they bring up a lot of them just didn't like Trump anymore.
00:54:20.000If there's one guy that told us that we were all pedophiles and that now that we've stepped foot on his property, he had to go and wash the front porch.
00:54:31.000That sounds like a colorful individual to say the least.
00:54:35.000I mean, if they're angry about Trump, Charlie would always say, You're not voting for a perfect person.
00:54:41.000You're not expressing your undying love in the belief of the perfection of a specific person.
00:54:47.000You're voting for the direction you want your country to go in and the direction.
00:54:52.000There's a lot of stuff you can point towards for the direction of this country being better, that the border is secure, that a lot of people who are illegally here are getting deported, that they're building billion dollar battery factories and chip factories and car factories in America to re industrialize our country.
00:55:11.000There's a lot of that, but I mean, if someone's violently angry at you, unfortunately, you do have your work cut out for you on that one.
00:55:23.000There is an absolute positive case to be made.
00:55:26.000And if they bring up the Epstein stuff, I would just challenge them and say, well, listen, more documents have been released under the Trump administration than were ever released from Biden or Obama.
00:55:38.000As a matter of fact, they didn't even bring up the Epstein case the entirety of Biden's administration.
00:55:47.000And you can say, listen, I don't love the way everything's been handled.
00:55:50.000I don't agree with the way it has been rolled out, but we've still had more progress than that.
00:55:55.000But let me just brass tacks it for you.
00:55:58.000In a period where you're going to have some of these.
00:56:00.000Defectors that don't like Trump anymore, the actual best strategy is to just point out how bad the opposition is.
00:56:09.000And I hate to be sort of cynical like that, but this is why negative ads on TV work is because the DSA, the Democrat Party writ large, has gone way further down the left wing rabbit hole than most voters realize.
00:57:00.000They will go too far, they will destroy this country.
00:57:03.000So sitting on the sideline is never an option.
00:57:06.000And that's just a political reality that in a cycle where your people are less popular, point out the flaws on the other side.
00:57:14.000It tends to be the most effective strategy.
00:57:16.000It sounds maybe cynical, but it works.
00:57:21.000I talk about jobs and industries on this show all the time, but I didn't expect to find an entire skills trade community on TikTok plumbers, electricians, builders, and contractors sharing the work they do every day.
00:57:33.000And it went way beyond tips and tricks, people were sharing their craft.
00:57:37.000Connecting with local contractors and talking about how they were building their businesses and growing their teams.
00:57:42.000It opened my eyes to how people in the trades are using TikTok to share their skills, make connections, and find new opportunities.
00:57:48.000I remember thinking, this is exactly what we need more of people sharing what they know and creating opportunities for others.
00:57:54.000And I never expected to find a community like this.
00:57:59.000You start with something you know, and suddenly you're finding a whole new side of it that surprises you and leaves you wanting to know more.
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00:59:52.000There's a lot of like, I know there's something related to like the habeas corpus, right?
00:59:56.000They call it like state habeas, where basically lawyers are allowed to raise tons of legal issues that are not even in the trial record.
01:00:05.000So they can basically say, oh, ineffective defense lawyer, jurors engaged in misconduct.
01:00:11.000We have new evidence that requires new investigation and sort of.
01:00:15.000The like the built up, we have common law, a lot of built up legal precedent makes it so that the norm is just incredibly, incredibly time consuming.
01:00:49.000And I think we could certainly aspire to that at the federal level.
01:00:53.000At the state level, I would guess the biggest barrier would be what we were talking about.
01:00:57.000You should, if you made it so that we're going to pay to make every appeal in a death penalty case happen as quickly as possible, we're going to put special judges on this to hear those cases, get through the appeals, bam, bam, bam, bam, you could probably speed up the process quite a bit.
01:01:13.000To make it go even faster, I think we're going to need new Supreme Court precedents.
01:01:18.000We do have a pretty friendly Supreme Court right now.0.95
01:01:22.000With, if like a state, maybe Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, some state that's pretty friendly to us, if they tried really hard to build up a speedy process of judicial appeals to get an execution happening in under 10 years, under eight years, under five years, I think we'd have a good Supreme Court set up to be open to this idea.
01:01:42.000But you just got to make it a priority.
01:01:44.000And I think sadly, it's not been a big priority in a lot of states to make that happen.
01:01:49.000Well, there's also been a very concerted movement over the last 30 or 40 years.
01:01:55.000By the left, almost exclusively the left, to jam up the process, to make it as painful as possible, to torment the victims, to try and make it as drawn out and lengthy as possible in the hopes that maybe this witness will die or that witness will die.
01:02:09.000And then you can go and get a new trial and then there won't be any facts left because everyone who witnessed it is dead.
01:02:13.000And oh, well, I guess we just can't kill this person anymore.
01:02:16.000I don't think it is a problem with our mechanisms.
01:02:19.000I think we have a lack of will as a people.
01:02:21.000We have a judiciary that is puffed up on its own importance.
01:02:24.000They now view themselves as not a co equal branch, but as a superior branch.
01:02:29.000And I think what we, it's not a mechanical solution where, oh, we just need to do X, Y, and Z and this will happen.
01:02:35.000We have this kind of sickness throughout the entire judiciary, the entire legal movement, where it's almost a fetish in how long it takes.
01:02:47.000What should happen is that when someone faces a capital charge, they should be tried almost immediately.
01:02:53.000The appeal should be heard immediately afterwards.
01:02:56.000And then there should be a tree and a long rope out back behind the courthouse.
01:02:59.000To finish the job, we didn't have problems with this early in our history because we didn't have people obsessed with this fetishization of process where they could pat themselves on the back for how fair they were.
01:03:14.000And I think it's important to remember that mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
01:03:19.000And we are doing a grave disjustice to victims and their families with this absurd process we have.
01:03:25.000When the first two vials of the penobarbital or whatever it was used on Krista Pike didn't work, they should have brought in a third, a fourth, a fifth, or a sixth.
01:03:34.000This business where now she's out and we were somehow doing like resuscitations on someone who is sentenced to death is absolutely insane to me.
01:03:44.000I suspect it was illegal, but we should not be having debates about, oh, should we try to execute her again?
01:04:10.000I was looking at some of the delays, and it's crazy some of the stuff.
01:04:13.000For example, death penalty appeals, there's essentially a specialized bar for it.
01:04:19.000And as a result, one way you can delay this, if you're a state that has the death penalty but your elites don't really like it, like California, they just have a shortage of death penalty lawyers.
01:04:28.000And so it takes ages for a convicted person sentenced to death to be assigned this defense lawyer who's barred within the capital, you know, for capital cases.
01:04:39.000I guess it's just going to take us 50 years to execute this person.
01:04:42.000They, of course, don't want to execute them.
01:04:45.000I think very often it's also a matter, I think it's kind of considered untoward to pursue the death penalty, to try to pursue it aggressively.
01:04:54.000I think even among Republicans, there's often this concession oh, the death penalty is not really good.
01:05:05.000They're fanatics about making sure nobody is ever executed.
01:05:09.000And We're not comparatively as gung ho about saying people who have convicted heinous crimes need to face the sentence that was handed to them.
01:05:24.000And I would just remind everybody you know, the entirety of the defense for Tyler Robinson, for example, these are crusaders against the death penalty.
01:05:33.000That's what they've devoted their entire career to.
01:05:36.000They want to end and abolish the death penalty, if not in statute, in practicality.
01:05:43.000And so they're willing to fly around the country, take these cases where they know that the defendant is guilty and they can see it from all the evidence, but they still loathe the death penalty.
01:05:55.000And so they devote their careers to it.
01:05:56.000They fight it, they fight it, they fight it.
01:05:58.000And by the way, the state of Utah is going to be on the hook for over $10 million when this is probably all said and done to defend an assassin.
01:06:05.000So that's, you know, but they're proud of this.
01:06:07.000They want to set up precedents that block and gum up the works increasingly.
01:06:11.000And to Blake's point, the states that adequately resource.
01:07:12.000But so my question is this My caucus voted me on our vetting committee for our local elections coming up for like town board stuff, county legislator.
01:07:22.000So I've done hiring of people for jobs and stuff.
01:07:25.000But like when vetting a candidate that wants to run for reelection, other than looking at their voting track record, what Are some other things you guys would recommend to look for?
01:07:34.000Because we have a town candidate who sided with two far left Democrats to clear cut 18 acres for a solar farm when we had another Republican and a Democrat voted no.
01:07:45.000And this Republican wants to run for re election.
01:07:48.000So, what would you guys recommend I should ask them, other than how they voted and everything?
01:07:55.000So, my general view on candidates, whether they're for judicial positions, for politicians, I would like to know the politics of their spouse because, in my experience, If you're looking, for example, at a male politician, if their spouse is much more conservative and right wing than they are, you're probably going to be safe for a very long time.
01:08:16.000If you're looking at a male Republican who's got a super lefty or squishy wife, I'm sorry, you're cooked.
01:08:22.000So I would look for the candidates whose spouses are even more right wing than they are.0.97
01:08:26.000That's also a good rule for picking Supreme Court justices, it turns out.1.00
01:08:55.000But she asked Did sign gifts end with the apostles, in our opinion?
01:09:02.000And that is, of course, the Acts of the Apostles describes many signs and wonders achieved by the apostles, similar to the miracles of Jesus, that they were able to drive out demons, heal people.
01:09:13.000Perform other miracles, and people have wondered since we don't see this happening as prominently today.
01:09:20.000Did some people have speculated maybe that was just an apostolic era gift to get the church on a roll and then lapsed?
01:09:28.000Other, I mean, others believe these are actively going on.
01:09:30.000Uh, so do either of you guys have a take on that?
01:09:33.000Yeah, I'm not a cessationist, which would be what you would call somebody that believes the acts of the apostles, as Blake used the Catholic phraseology there.
01:09:42.000Yeah, I believe that the gifts are still ongoing.
01:09:44.000I mean, even in the Catholic church, you have these great stories from.
01:09:47.000Throughout Catholic tradition, of you know, priests getting blown back to the back of the sanctuary, but then the Holy Spirit came on them.
01:10:13.000So I actually really believe this stuff, but I am skeptical, especially when it is not done, especially the gift of tongues, not done the way that the Bible.
01:10:22.000So, you know, you're supposed to have an interpreter if you're going to do that in public.
01:10:26.000Most churches that do tongues in public don't ever have an interpreter.
01:10:31.000That's something that I'm always skeptical of.
01:10:37.000Yeah, I've never been, I guess, what they call a secessionist.
01:10:41.000God can choose to have miracles whenever, however, he wants.
01:10:46.000He doesn't, you know, we can't limit God.
01:10:48.000And I think we do this thing a lot where we decide that if we don't see something very often, then that must mean that it can't happen or it won't happen.
01:10:58.000I also think, kind of post enlightenment, we have gotten way too comfortable with trying to make everything way too cerebral and technical and mechanical.
01:11:10.000We try to take away from the spiritual and heavenly realms and try to say, well, this is for a scientific reason.
01:11:54.000I tend to believe now that post-resurrection, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, There's a different mission in the church than there was at the time.
01:12:06.000It was this little seedling of a church that needed to be fed and spread.
01:12:11.000I feel like we're at a different stage of, I guess, apostolic history now.
01:12:16.000It's almost impossible for anyone anywhere not to have heard the word, to not have heard the gospel.
01:12:22.000And I think that probably may be the larger reason maybe we don't see all these crazy, dramatic miracles of the like that we're in Acts anymore.
01:12:36.000It's not as, that specific framing is not as common in the Catholic Church, but generally the Church believes that miracles can still occur, that they generally won't say you must believe in any specific one, with rare exceptions.
01:12:51.000So, as an example, Fatima, a very popular miracle, but you're not required to believe that that occurred, or Our Lady of Guadalupe, similar ones, similar stuff with various saints.
01:13:01.000But nevertheless, there's a very strong Church tradition that certain saints, like St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, that they Had miracles occur in their life.
01:13:11.000There's a rich tradition of that, and we certainly do not believe that miracles have stopped being able to happen.
01:13:17.000And so that would be the Catholic perspective on it.
01:13:20.000I mean, in order to become a saint, you have to have certain miracles sort of like, you know, you have to be responsible for certain miracles or something, right?
01:13:43.000Yeah, so my question is about Charlie's eschatology.
01:13:46.000I know that he talked about it, but he wasn't that specific, probably for good reason.
01:13:50.000But I was kind of wondering if he was post or pre or amillennial, mainly because I've been doing a lot of research and I was always kind of on the pre side, but lately I find so much hope in the post side.
01:14:04.000And I just have so many pre millennial people and churches around me saying, Oh, this is so bad.0.73
01:14:19.000So, just to explain that for those who don't know, pre post amillennialism, this is the belief in the Bible, it refers to like a 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth.
01:14:29.000And people debate what form that would take.
01:14:31.000Amillennials would say that's maybe not a literal thing.
01:14:35.000Premillennials, this is what you probably encounter the most in evangelical circles, they believe that's often associated with the belief in the rapture.
01:14:41.000There will be a period of tribulation for the church, it will end with Christ's return, he will rule on earth, and then there will ultimately be the final judgment and last things.
01:14:51.000And then post millennialism, this is associated a lot with maybe kind of liberal Christians who believe we'll kind of create the millennium on earth through evangelism, and then Christ will return after that millennium.
01:15:03.000As for what Charlie believed, Charlie focused a lot on going against people who argue, we know we're in the end times right now.
01:15:31.000We have a lot of specificity on this because he ran into what you said that people use it as an excuse to be inactive, to say, Oh, I'm checked out from things.
01:15:40.000And that was what Charlie fought against more than the specifics on that.
01:15:54.000So he expressed sympathies for premillennialism.
01:15:58.000But he said he wasn't necessarily a dispensationalist.
01:16:01.000I think that Charlie was hesitant to wade into these waters too definitively because a lot of his friends feel differently, and he was always kind of behind the scenes picking their brains.
01:16:13.000I know that Jack Hibbs would talk with him a lot about this stuff, and they would kind of disagree and argue, but it was friendly.