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Victor Glover, the first African-American man to ever fly solo around the moon and the first person to ever take communion on the International Space Station, delivered a message to the world on Easter Sunday from his perch on the ISS.
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What a broadcast today. I'm going to give you the short version here. This is the edited version.
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You can find the full version at glenbeck.com slash torch.
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But the president had an Easter message that didn't feel like, here comes Peter Cottontail.
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It was a little frightening regarding the Hormuz Strait.
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Also, Victor Glover, he is an amazing astronaut.
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He wants this to be about humanity, but he took it into a different place.
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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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all right so i want to talk to you about victor glover because i think this guy is absolutely
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amazing he is the pilot of artemis 2 and yesterday there was a message from him in space and i want
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you to hear the whole message listen to this as we are so far from earth and looking back at you
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know the beauty of creation i think that for me one of the really important personal perspectives
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that i have up here is i can really see earth as one thing and you know when i read the bible and
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I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us who were created it's you know you
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you have this amazing place this spaceship you guys are talking to us because we're in a spaceship
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really far from earth but you're on a spaceship called earth that was created to give us a place
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to live in the universe in the cosmos maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what
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we're doing is special but we're the same distance from you and I'm trying to tell you just trust me
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you are special in all of this emptiness this is a whole bunch of nothing this thing we call the
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universe you have this oasis this beautiful place that we get to exist together i think as we go
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into easter sunday thinking about you know all the cultures all around the world whether you
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celebrate it or not whether you believe in god or not this is an opportunity for us to remember
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where we are who we are and that we are the same thing and that we got to get through this together
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amazing amazing now remember this is the same man who went viral last week
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for saying that he was yes proud to be the first black man going around the moon but
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i don't want you to think of that i don't i don't want to be known for that
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so i don't want this to be about race he said quote this needs to be about human history it's
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not the story it's a story of humanity not black history not women's history but human history oh
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my gosh how long have we been pining for somebody to say that right now everything in our world
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is trying to shrink all of these stories break it apart divide it turn it into smaller and
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smaller pieces until all we can see is us me myself and i but then you get 240 000 miles away
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and suddenly none of that holds from that distance you can't see red states and blue states
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you barely see countries there's no trending outrage no cultural tribes it's just a blue
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marble hanging in the black sky and if you're honest and you really look at it
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there's no political argument there you see a miracle
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Glover just said when you look back at earth from space that's what you feel and he would know
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This is a man who has spent six months on the International Space Station.
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On the International Space Station, he took communion every single week, every Sunday, in space.
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Floating above the world, circling it every 90 minutes, watching sunrises and sunsets stack up like seconds.
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and choosing every week to stop and remember something eternal.
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He said, we've all heard the phrase, there are no atheists in a foxhole.
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He said, there aren't any atheists at the top of a rocket either.
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Because when you see creation like he's seeing it now,
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when you see the scale, the precision, the beauty,
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And somehow or another, more connected at the same time.
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I think that's the part that we have lost if you live in a big city.
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And the first time I went out to the mountains with my family.
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We are super small in the grand scheme of things
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everything it becomes the entire universe to us our own little gravity well and you get stuck there
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and you just begin orbiting yourself and your problems but space if we allow it has a way of
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breaking that it forces perspective imagine being in that capsule and looking and seeing
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the side of the moon that no man has ever seen completely not even in pictures we have never
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seen it. They are seeing something no human eye has ever gazed on, and most of the world is yawning.
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But if we can take that one moment and really imagine it for ourselves, it reminds you,
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you are part of something huge, and you're part of something. You're not the center
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of everything. You're part of something. And perhaps if we let it, that's why this
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mission matters right now, not because of the rockets or technology or what SpaceX is
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It's just the simple reminder, look up again, look up, look up, not just at the stars, but
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But it's all right here in the order, in the design, in the mathematics.
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In the moments we usually rush past, I made a promise to myself just recently.
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I am not going to be the first one that stops hugging.
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Do you know in Disney, if you're a princess or a character, you're not allowed to stop hugging before the child does.
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if that child hangs on to you for 20 minutes and is hugging you,
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They know psychologically what that means to the kid.
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And I decided when I heard that I am not going to be the first to break a hug.
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And he came home for Easter and I hugged him and I thought we were going to be
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but we didn't rush past that moment, and it was nice.
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Victor Glover didn't find God for the first time in orbit.
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He found him the same place that you and I can,
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maybe we should do something we haven't done in a while.
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and the understanding that we are all part of a story that is much, much, much bigger than
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ourselves. Not black history, not white history, not men history, female history,
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not political history, human history. And it is still being written today.
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I don't know about you, but with all the problems in the world,
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we are so blessed to live at this time we are seeing history written in so many different
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good and bad we are seeing human history written in gigantic bold capital letters
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letters that you could eventually we will see it from space
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the story of humankind and we're writing it and part of me says when i look at the bad stuff
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it's going to be interesting to see what that story says another part says i know humans
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i know americans especially we eventually get it right it's going to be exciting
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to see what and how we write in this next chapter
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somewhere over the isfahan province over the weekend an american f-15e fighter one of these
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Jets doesn't just fall out of the sky, it's hunted down and gravity does all of the work.
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his body hit the earth hard enough to remind him that he's still alive but not much more
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sprained an ankle maybe worse no time to check he has got to get on the move
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the clock doesn't start when you land it starts when someone sees you land and somewhere in war
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guys come because I know the good guys are coming
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and they're not just soldiers they're bounty hunters
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so he goes up up the mountain and he finds a break in the rock barely wide enough for him
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to breathe and he is jammed for 36 hours he stops being a man and he becomes part of that rock part
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of that terrain no movement no sound no second chances because if they find him
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At least not immediately, because in a war like this, the signal might not be friendly.
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So, the United States did something that we always do in war, everybody always does.
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The Central Intelligence Agency began pushing out noise into the system, whispers, signals,
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digital breadcrumbs, telling everybody listening that we've discovered the airman and he's already
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been recovered. The story is over. Nothing left to hunt. A ghost rescue, if you will. Fiction.
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It was designed to keep this guy hidden in the rock until we could find him.
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At the same time, a battlefield is closing in around him. Communications are jammed,
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roads are disrupted some sources say that it was the common iranian that were disrupting the roads
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trying to keep people off of that mountain one way or another whoever was doing what eyes were
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diverted and everybody was looking in a wrong direction this wasn't just about a rescue this
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was about control and shaping a reality so one guy could slip through it then night falls
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and with it the part of the story that never makes the headline
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quietly deliberate across a sovereign border that
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does not welcome them and they begin to climb the same mountain
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Does any of this bring back memories of Jimmy Carter?
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A hundred of America's best suddenly not a rescue team,
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but now a target waiting for rescue themselves.
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Somebody has to make that decision who understands what failure looks like.
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again more aircraft go in in contested airspace in the middle of the night a hundred of our
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soldiers our special operators they're on the ground rescuing one guy send in more aircraft
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and then destroy the aircraft we can't leave a man behind but we also
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if there was a holy crap moment that was it he's right that was the edge that was the razor
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and then again was precision the american military smaller aircraft lower faster come in pieces and
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they leave in waves and before they go they erase all the footprints they destroy the aircraft the
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Helicopters that were there on the desert burned.
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Nothing left that can be studied, used, or turned.
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Because in this war, what you leave behind will fight you tomorrow.
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And above all of it, while this is going on, no victory parades, no immediate leaks, nothing.
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until it's all over and our one man is out alive.
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And then, and only then after the risk is passed,
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This was one of the most daring search and rescue operations in U.S. history.
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But if that's all you take from this, you've missed it.
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another jet went down, 13 Americans already gone,
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they're still calculating, they're still watching.
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This is modern war, not lines on a map, but a single human being bleeding, hiding, waiting while a nation bends itself to bring him home,
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and others walking into the dark fully aware they may not walk back out.
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This is the line between chaos and order, between abandoning somebody and refusing to.
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If you get anything from this story, you should get that.
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Boy, you change presidents, you change whoever is running the Pentagon.
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And it's easy to go back to what took us centuries to become, an honorable military that never, ever leaves one man behind.
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That's the line, and for one night, on a mountain, on the side of a mountain in Iran, in between two rocks, we held that line.
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president trump tweeted something this weekend on easter mind you and i'm going to quote
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tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in iran there will be
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nothing like it exclamation exclamation exclamation open open and he says the whole
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thing, the effing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll live in hell. Just watch. Praise be to
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Allah, President Donald J. Trump. Now, there are several ways to look. There are several ways to
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look at this, okay? Oh, dear God, the president's gone insane. Oh my, a man who has never had a
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drop of alcohol in his life somehow or another on Easter decided to drink or he's doing something
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else now I'm not claiming to know what exactly that tweet is all about but I'd like to I'd like
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to tender a guess here this sounds like a man who is trying to compress time okay a deadline
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He named targets, power plants, bridges, infrastructure.
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Dems, of course, are screaming for the 25th Amendment because they think he lost his mind.
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And that is an important subcategory of this story.
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Whatever you think, when it comes to war, he takes it very seriously.
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To the leadership in Tehran, especially the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard,
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um the tone is not the headline the clock and the specific bombing targets are that's the headline
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because they have to ask themselves a simple question right now is this guy serious
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it is this the last warning uh or is this the first move we don't know and i have always said
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do you remember this from the movie Dirty Harry?
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Well, to tell you the truth in all this excitement,
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but ian this is a 44 magnum the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head
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clean off you've got to ask yourself one question do i feel lucky well do you punk
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that is exactly what the president did do you feel lucky well do you punk now would dirty harry
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have pulled the trigger did he have what what how did that scene end dirty harry this the the
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secret to that character is he's just crazy enough to do it and you don't know so that's
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what they're doing they've seen threats before they've survived how many presidents they are
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now asking themselves wait a minute is this backed by strike packages uh what is the navy positioning
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what are the quiet messages we're getting from behind the scenes remember this is a very dangerous
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territory because I've been telling you over the last year or so that wars, especially world wars,
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are all started by a simple miscalculation. If they believe this is a bluff or pressure just
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for negotiation, like all the other presidents, they just might test it. And then what does the
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president do? If they believe it's real, what they're going to do is they're going to look
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for the smallest possible concession to avoid a strike without appearing weak.
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They're going to be like, hey, let's try to bleed some time here.
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Now, there is a third option, and I want to come back to the 25th Amendment.
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They may think that our Congress and our people do not have the stomach for any of this,
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this is honestly this is going to be the big story of 28 29 if donald trump can
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can be replaced by someone else who understands this method of maga and everything else if he
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if jd vance or marco ruby or somebody like that win and we go down this same path you are going
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to see those people who are just digging in right now begin to slip away because i think almost the
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entire world is thinking there's only two and a half more years left we can outlast him we can
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outlast him we can outlast him that's what's happening with nato that's what's happening
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uh with europe it's happening uh with russia it's uh it's happening with uh those people in
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in the united states of america who have been playing fast and loose with our money and
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corruption and everything else. We just have to wait him out only two and a half more years.
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So you're going to see things change dramatically in two and a half years. You're going to see a
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gigantic swing back the other way. If we lose this next election, if we win the next election,
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things are going to change. And you're going to see these people go, oh crap, I can't last
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another four years or a possible another eight years. And that's when this is why I believe we
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need 12 years to totally wipe this thing out. We've got now two and a half years or two years
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almost in our in our hip pocket. We need about 12. We need just another 10 more and we can we
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can wipe this out. Now, that's what they're thinking. Is he serious? Is he not? But what
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about the Iranian people that's really important that we look at what are the Iranian people taking
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from this quite honestly uh crazy ass tweet from the president of the United States
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is he playing crazy strategically I believe so but what are they thinking
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work all right let me just go through some of the the lies that i'm seeing online right now and they
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are very well crafted one we're sending a hundred thousand troops into iran we're not sending a
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hundred thousand troops into iran that's not happening but if you look at that if you look
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on social media you will find that trump was at walter reed this weekend something seriously
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seriously wrong he might be catching what benjamin netanyahu has which is death um
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the latest um coming out today is trump is crazy and he's going to nuke iran tomorrow
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okay how about this one artemis is not in space really of course we have the super classics of
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Israel is responsible for Charlie Kirk's death but now the latest is that Israel employed and
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I'm not making this up somebody else did um employing the Mormon mafia to do it now being
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a member of the church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints I've not heard of the Mormon mafia I mean
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unless it's there to you know you know change people's minds through the force of you know
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eating jello with carrots in it or you know having funeral potatoes i don't know how that is but
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the mormon mafia apparently is the one that killed charlie kirk that's the latest they seem to be
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everywhere online you look at just just go through x just as a test and just look at the comments of
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even the most inane stories it is all division and hatred and i mean like i've never seen it before
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and we are just slowly sliding into it as if nothing has changed now most of this stuff it's
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coming out in studies that the most viral the most divisive especially on things like war and
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our politics all originating from foreign sources and bots but we just shrug that off like oh well
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and yet we argue about what's real and what's not online i saw a story this weekend and i showed it
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to my wife and i'm like this can't be true right it said that prince william and princess catherine
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or whatever her name is kate yeah whatever um that they're separating and they're living separate
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lives they're headed for divorce they've already you know you know split up all of the you know
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castles or whatever and my first reaction was not outrage it wasn't even skepticism because i just
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i just didn't think who would make that up you know what i mean my first reaction was sadness
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i'm like oh you've got to be kidding me almost an automatic acceptance that something stable has
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just broken and then i find out it's not true i mean because i start looking into it i think i
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contacted ricky and i'm like ricky is this true at all total fabrication another rumor another
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ghost story dressed up as news but it was really well done really well done so my question was over
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the weekend that i kept kicking around all weekend was who would do that who makes that up why would
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you make that up years ago i said that there is a phase civilizations enter before real collapse
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before war before economic failure and i called it the trust implosion or trust
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so i want the um anatomy of that story what what was that because it's such a ridiculous
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stupid story. Why would you do that? Well, first, it targets a symbol of continuity,
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stability, tradition. Even that is collapsing. Now, you could make a real case that it's
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collapsing because, oh, I don't know, the defender of the faith, King Charles, is a lunatic
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and didn't even issue an Easter message and instead is busy with Islam. I mean,
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he's the defender of the faith you can make that case and that's real no no no this one was
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emotionally loaded and it was believable the way it was done spreads fast verifies very slowly and
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most importantly it leaves something behind even after it's disproven doubt it leaves doubt
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now let me turn to the war with iran this weekend rising tensions again centered around the strait
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of Hormuz. A narrow strip of water quietly determines the price of your gasoline, your
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groceries, our future, all of that. But here's the thing. Americans aren't just debating what's
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happening. We're now debating whether or not we can trust what we're being told is happening.
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And it's not just, you know, the government's doing propaganda. No, no, you don't even know
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where this is coming from. One side says this, we have to go in. One side says we were tricked
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to go in. Another side says the whole thing was a lie. Another side says, you know, America is bad
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and it's all of these, it's crazy. And I don't know about you, but the more I read, the fewer
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and fewer of them that I read, I believe that any of the people that are writing this are acting in
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good faith. People are not making mistakes. This is intentional. Look at Europe. Immigration
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intentions, protests, government saying one thing publicly, doing another privately. Public knows
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it. Not because they trust official statements, but because they see contradictions that no longer
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line up. So trust erodes. Look at your own life. Inflation is cooling. Is it? My grocery bill is
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not cooling. Insurance isn't cooling. Cost of a house isn't cooling. Everything I see in my
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life tells a different story. So you're not just questioning the numbers, you start to question
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who's giving you the numbers and why they're doing this. And then comes the accelerant,
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the environment that we live in. AI-generated content, conflicting narratives, entirely
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different versions of the same reality, each presented with absolute certainty and done in
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such a way that, you know, if you're my age, you just don't think you could fake because it's just
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too good it's too elaborate i told stew once back in the 1990s i said there's going to come a time
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before 2030 where you will not be able to believe your eyes or ears and when that happens all bets
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are off we're there gang you know there was a time when we argued interpretation but now we're not
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even getting to interpretation we're getting to is that story even real
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this one i can usually say well that would benefit this group or this group but who creates a lie
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about the royal family because it seems ridiculous now maybe not in england but over here it seems
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pretty ridiculous i find the answer to this a little uncomfortable because it's not just one
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group. There are state actors, countries like Russia and China and God knows who else,
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Iran. They understand that you don't have to defeat a military of a nation if you can fracture
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the country psychologically. Then there are ideological movements that believe chaos is
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necessary. That's the Twelvers in Iran. That's the Marxists and the communists,
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that a system has to be destabilized before it can be replaced.
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Then there are algorithms that reward outrage over truth
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some of them, honestly, this is the most frightening, just bored.
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They've decided watching things burn is its own reward.
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I ask you that because it is so important to realize that
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Because it's not just the chaos that is being created.
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It is the chaos that has become its own ecosystem.
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You read the story, you believe it, you feel it, then you correct it.
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When I saw that, I'm like, I can't believe anything.
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about something so stupid why would you lie about that and they're everywhere they're everywhere
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about stupid stuff but those agents of chaos know that when enough people reach that point
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when suspicion becomes the default setting that's when trust implodes and then what happens
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Well, not necessarily immediately, not always dramatically, but always consistently, the society loses.
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It loses trust in institutions, in its information, and ultimately with one another.
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We already don't trust our own family members, some of us.
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we already are hostile to the people that we're around all the day we don't trust people who vote
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differently than us so they're part of the problem we're all we all have somebody in our life that
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we feel that way about so then our life our own connections sometimes to our own family is
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unstable there's no cohesion on anything and in that environment every new event like the ones
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we saw this weekend, doesn't resolve the tension. It adds pressure. Crap. This is not abstract
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anymore. This is personal. So what do you do? Well, first thing you do is you slow down. You
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slow down. If something hits you emotionally really fast, it was designed to. Truth can
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withstand scrutiny but manipulation depends on speed so slow down second ask a better question
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not just is this true but who benefits if i believe this who benefits if i spend any time
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on this because you already know the answer agents of chaos and you don't want to be anywhere near
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chaos third you have to rebuild the trust where you actually can and you can't i can't rebuild
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your trust in any of the institutions okay it's not going to happen nationally at least not yet
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so you think locally friends family community civilizations don't rebuild trust from the top
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down they rebuild it from the inside out that's also how you destroy it you rot it from the inside
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out fourth thing you need to do is reduce your own fragility less debt more stability more
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awareness of where your essentials come from because when systems wobble resilience becomes
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freedom and this matters because with that you start to demand something different from leadership
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clarity you know you you you watch what's actually happening you match words with actions
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you stop managing perception and you start rebuilding the credibility because the american
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people can handle the hard truth they can what we cannot survive against is this constant
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contradiction and beyond washington the states community churches they all have a role local
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governments have to bring decisions closer to the people. Communities must rebuild civic life
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that isn't just political theater. And churches, especially the churches, must remember who and
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what they are. That is a place where truth is not negotiated. It's a place where people can
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disagree without becoming enemies, where moral clarity exists without hatred, and it must always
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be that way but it starts with tell the truth because when trust collapses in a culture people
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begin to look for anything solid and if they don't find it there they will find it somewhere else and
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that is already happening so that story about the royal family it looks small it seems small but it's
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not i mean that's what that's what bothered me i think so much about i've seen all the big stories
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But if you start pulling on it, you realize, oh my gosh, look at how many threads are already loose.
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Trust collapse doesn't arrive with one headline.
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It arrives as a quiet belief, a quiet correction, a lingering question.
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If we have enough people that reach that point,
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We're going in that direction, and the direction can only be changed the same way it was lost, not from the top down, but from the inside out.
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One person, you, telling the truth, no matter how unpopular it makes you, and say it with love and respect.
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One house, one neighborhood rebuilding trust with the neighbors.
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know each other. We don't all agree with each other. We all have the same basic principles
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and we're all looking out for one another. And it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree.
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We're all a member of the community and we know what is generally true. Focus on those things.