Jaden Gadsden, a 12-year-old boy in Colorado was kicked out of class because he had a "Don't Tread on Me" patch on his backpack. His mom fought back and got him back into class. Now, a judge has ruled that the patch is a racist symbol.
00:00:00.000You know, I think one of the best stories today, because there's a lot of stuff happening, and we cover it all on the podcast today.
00:00:07.640We also have a woman who came from China and lived through the Mao Cultural Revolution.
00:00:15.260She remembers it, almost turned her mom in.
00:00:16.900It's crazy to comment on what just happened in Colorado with a new guy who's a Marxist who wants a forceful cultural revolution to happen in Colorado.
00:00:28.200So, yeah, he's in their house, but don't worry about it.
00:00:36.380But I think that kid in Colorado that had the don't tread on me patch, that the school kicked him out, it's phenomenal that that's turned around.
00:00:49.860And the Democrat that is the governor actually helped turn it around.
00:00:53.940It feels like there's more and more incidents like this that are going on, but they are getting away with them less.
00:01:00.660I think they're getting caught more frequently, and that's good.
00:02:03.180It shows he and his mom confronting a school board administrator who says that he has to take the Gadsden flag patch off of his backpack because it's too disruptive.
00:02:18.280And they're like, it's too disruptive?
00:14:33.920It's going to get very, when there's no food.
00:14:36.960And, you know, because of, you know, the Green New Deal, when all of that wind power is producing all the electricity that it's supposed to produce.
00:20:27.660He started this church and he wanted to retire.
00:20:31.560And asked if we'd bring it into our church family that's called Harvest.
00:20:36.340And so now it's been a part of our churches for seven years.
00:20:41.700And, you know, it's usually a very happy thing to go over there.
00:20:45.380A very close congregation of around a thousand people.
00:20:48.960And man, when I spoke to him last Sunday, it's like they were all collectively traumatized till, but yet still filled with hope.
00:20:57.720And that is, I think, one of the most important things right now is to bring, yes, help.
00:21:03.220And thanks to you and Mercury One and others that have helped us, we've been able to bring tangible help to people, helping them get clothing, food.
00:21:13.480We've helped a hundred families in tangible ways financially to survive this thing.
00:21:19.820But I think the thing that we have to offer that's more important than anything is hope.
00:21:24.240You know, it's been said that men can live 40 days without food, three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but not one second without hope.
00:21:34.420And there's a lot of people on this island that have lost hope.
00:21:38.520I was talking with J.P. Decker, who works with you at Mercury One, and he brought to my attention the fact that there have been a number of suicides.
00:21:47.800Since this has happened among those who have lost their home, their livelihood, and apparently their hope.
00:21:57.700I, you know, from everything I read, the people who were in the water that watched people burn to death and watched people, you know, eventually give up and drown all around them.
00:22:11.580You know, the, you know, the one woman who finally after two days of looking for her son, she was turned around, turned around by the police and everybody else.
00:22:23.180And they said, no, we've already cleared all the houses.
00:22:26.340She went back to what was left of her house and her son's bedroom was still fairly intact.
00:22:32.340And he was, uh, he had not been incinerated and he was sitting on what was his bed holding his dog.
00:22:40.500Once you see these kinds of things, uh, up close and personal and one after another, after another, I mean, what are you guys dealing with over there psychologically?
00:22:57.360Yeah. You know, I know people, I think misuse the concept of PTSD, but I think you're really seeing this on a widespread scale because these people have experienced major trauma in stories like that one you just shared.
00:23:15.160And they were told to not go to their home and, uh, and they were, and they were told to, to not leave and they were turned back again.
00:23:23.680And many of those people were incinerated because of that.
00:23:27.180And for the ones that just broke the law effectively and, and disobeyed what they were told, they, they lived.
00:23:33.940And so this without question has been horribly mismanaged on so many levels.
00:23:40.540And, but that's, we stepped in immediately because we're there on the ground and in every way possible.
00:23:47.700I mean, giving people, you know, a man who lost his livelihood, gave him fishing pole so he can go out and dish again.
00:23:56.280Uh, we have one couple in the church, they own a round people pizza and, uh, they just made all of their pizza free and for anybody that wants it.
00:24:05.200And so we got in this truck and we're driving around just giving pizzas to police officers, to people anywhere.
00:24:12.060But I tell you what, Glenn, people love pizza.
00:24:23.520You know, little things matter, but I think, you know, there's something called the ministry of presence where you're just there and you listen to people and you care about people.
00:24:33.580And that goes a long way because, you know, when you're dealing with trauma, you've got to talk about it.
00:24:52.260Now you're holding, you're allowing the, uh, church facilities to be used for teachers and parent groups and, you know, educational support.
00:25:00.580And then the preschool is, uh, is childcare for families.
00:25:04.540Uh, I mean, this is turning into kind of a full-time, uh, thing.
00:26:03.420And then it's a tourist attraction, beautiful street back to my social media.
00:26:08.380I posted a drone shot that we had done two weeks before this fire.
00:26:13.500Cause I was there doing a program with CBN, uh, featuring our church and happier days.
00:26:19.240And I put this drone shot of what Front Street looked like in its heyday and its glory, right next to a shot of the same places that we just took, uh, on that same street.
00:28:06.600And thank you, Greg, for being such a good steward of the money that Mercury One has given the church to be able to, to help all these people.
00:28:27.900Uh, so you, so you know, um, the, several of the charities that he mentioned, um, Billy Graham and Samaritan's Purse, um, we helped them, uh, get the first, I think it was a C-130, um, off the ground right away when this was happening.
00:28:46.720That was also, um, your money and we appreciate it.
00:28:50.980If you'd like to help and then help those who are now in Florida as well, uh, I, government is not the thing.
00:28:59.380It is the local people that always fix the problems.
00:29:03.320Uh, so why send your money to an inefficient where they're using maybe 40 cents on every dollar?
00:30:53.400There's much worse things that he said, but here's the good news.
00:30:56.120In Denver, the, uh, state house of representatives had an open seat and the Democrats have just appointed him to take that seat in the state house.
00:31:08.880So you have an open Marxist in the state house of Colorado who's calling for a forceful cultural revolution.
00:31:19.260Well, there is somebody that is running for the country's house, uh, and she knows all about this.
00:31:28.860She was actually supposed to be a guest on this show.
00:31:30.820She was here in our green room the day Robin Williams died, and we haven't had a chance to have her back.
00:33:03.340What's going on in our beloved new country.
00:33:06.100And, uh, but lots of people, especially they are used in this country.
00:33:10.080They don't realize it because they don't know they never left it under.
00:33:13.520You know, it was, uh, Victor Orban was talking to Tucker Carlson yesterday and he said, you know, you guys have an ocean between you and Russia.
00:34:15.960I did not turn my mom in because during the mouse cultural revolution, if you believe in any other religions, you're Christian, Buddhist, whatever other religion you believe in.
00:34:26.680I mean, you are deemed to be one of the five black classes and you are country revolutionary and you should be the enemy of the people.
00:34:37.980And don't you feel like this is, in an insidious way, almost the same things that are going on now.
00:34:47.540They're teaching our kids that your parents are wrong on things.
00:34:53.400And your parents should be shut up and maybe you should be taken from them.
00:34:57.380I mean, I published in my op-ed when New Hampshire trying to pass parental rights bill, but suddenly we failed to pass in New Hampshire.
00:35:06.740I published my story growing up under Mao that there is always a secret between schools and the parents because they truly believe parents have no rights.
00:35:24.220Of course, that's how common they think.
00:35:26.520Why would I come to America to testify to support parental rights?
00:35:30.300Is that the inherent human rights, natural rights, and American value that kids belong to us, belong to the parents, not belong to the village, belong to the societies?
00:35:42.600It's very scary to see what's going on here.
00:35:45.400So you've been in Congress and I would imagine you know the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution better than a lot of the Americans that you serve with.
00:35:54.200That's what brought me to this country.
00:35:57.840When I was in law school in China, third year, I was looking for something because I was totally depressed, lost, because I was told to study law.
00:40:41.940So what is the thing that you are going to, what is the thing you're going to change?
00:40:46.480What is the thing that you're going in to fight?
00:40:48.980Well, I'm trying to use my stories to remind people why America was my promised land.
00:40:55.740When I was in China, dream about more freedom and dream about, you know, just live my American dream.
00:41:03.900And it took me 20 years actually in this country, learning English, learning the culture to get rid of the indoctrination I received.
00:41:12.900And throughout my 24 years, living in China under one party, CCP dictatorship, we don't want to go down the wrong path because there are lots of people, including some electing to Congress, and push for socialist policies.
00:41:28.960And now I feel like there's some kind of like, for example, when you talk about work and cultural revolution, I feel like there is some kind of things going on trying to defeat America.
00:41:43.720And I thought America is a free country based on individual rights and liberty, like our forefathers put into funding documents.
00:41:53.800But our young people today remind me of my youth.