The slavery reparations scam was gaining momentum for a while after George Floyd s overdose, but now the whole thing is collapsing. In fact, the race hustle scam in general seems to be falling apart. Also, Biden couldn t sit for an interview before the Super Bowl because he s a mentally handicapped vegetable. And a trans activist in Florida staged a die-in. We ll find out. Finally, a Christian organization spends tens of millions of dollars on a Super Bowl ad that is sure to do a lot more harm than good.
00:05:19.380Well, right off the top, here's what the just announced reparations bills do not include direct
00:05:25.500cash payments for descendants of the enslaved, as lawmakers behind the proposals insist reparations
00:05:30.780are about much more than just this. This is a defining moment, a defining moment, says Senator
00:05:36.800Steven Bradford, just after he and his colleagues in the Legislative Black Caucus formally introduced
00:05:41.560more than a dozen bills they say will lead to the start of reparations for California descendants
00:05:46.420of enslaved black Americans. We say we value reparations and wanting to heal the harms of slavery in
00:05:54.500this country and in a state. We have to make this a priority. It comes less than a year after the
00:06:00.100California reparations task force submitted this 1000 plus page recommendations report to the governor
00:06:05.700and legislature. In total, it featured 112 recommendations about how reparations could work in California,
00:06:12.180a state Bradford acknowledges was never formally a slave state, but one he says enacted policies since
00:06:17.540its founding in 1850 negatively impacting black Californians to this day. Other bills introduced
00:06:23.060include one to fund career education financial aid for redlined communities, another to prohibit
00:06:28.020discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles and all competitive sports within California,
00:06:33.620and one to restrict solitary confinement in California state prisons, but not included in any of the
00:06:39.060proposals, direct cash payments. Well, it's a little embarrassing. Hopefully no descendants of
00:06:45.060slaves went out and spent a million dollars in the past couple of months thinking that they'd get
00:06:48.820reimbursed because it turns out that's not happening. Instead, they're getting rid of solitary confinement
00:06:53.860and they are prohibiting discrimination based on hairstyles. That's what they're calling reparations,
00:07:00.100a bit of a step down, you might say. Now, as you'd expect, the most reprehensible anti-white racists
00:07:05.940in the country were deeply disturbed by this news. Semi-prominent race baiter Tariq Nasheed
00:07:10.660was especially furious. He wrote, quote, this package does not include any cash payments to
00:07:15.220foundational black Americans at all. It's a 111 page nothing burger dipped in nothing sauce.
00:07:21.780And that's true for the most part. And it's not often that this guy says anything true,
00:07:25.140but he does in this case. Still buried in these 14 proposals are a few very bad and unconstitutional
00:07:31.380ideas. So Tariq Nasheed is getting some bad ideas out of this. He loves bad ideas. He's
00:07:35.620going to get a few, so hopefully it makes him feel a little bit better. They'll be re-implementing
00:07:39.700affirmative action, other race-based initiatives as well. And one California assemblyman who supports
00:07:45.620these bills, Corey Jackson, actually wants to amend California's constitution to permit laws that
00:07:51.300would, quote, increase the life expectancy of, improve educational outcomes for, or lift out of
00:07:56.820poverty, specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized genders,
00:08:02.980sexes, or sexual orientations. In other words, he wants to be able to pass laws that would only help
00:08:09.060non-whites, which currently would violate both the California and U.S. constitutions, of course.
00:08:16.020That's what they're focusing on in California, a state that has no shortage of real problems,
00:08:20.660but they desperately want to turn the state into Rwanda and accelerate its decline even further.
00:08:26.020At the same time, it's very clear that they're not going to get everything they want. They are
00:08:33.860failing, these grifters are. The reparations grift is collapsing. And that's because the reparations
00:08:39.860grift and the whole race hustle scam as a whole depends on instilling and maintaining a deep sense
00:08:46.580of guilt in white people. But you just cannot keep an entire race of people crippled by undeserved guilt
00:08:54.500over ancient history forever. It just, it doesn't work psychologically. Eventually,
00:09:00.180that guilt turns into exhaustion, and the exhaustion turns into resentment, or at best, indifference.
00:09:07.380And that's when the scam blows back on the scam artists. We're seeing that happen more and more,
00:09:12.980actually. For example, I recently tweeted a statement that's completely uncontroversial to
00:09:17.620anybody with a baseline understanding of world history. Here's what I wrote.
00:09:20.500Quote, just a few days ago, I tweeted this quote. Slavery is world history. White people did not
00:09:25.620invent it and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place
00:09:29.540in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn't fully legally abolished on the continent
00:09:34.580until 1981. Now, most people reacting to that post were agreeing with it because it's obviously true.
00:09:42.100Slavery was an unquestioned fact of life across the entire world for thousands of years. In fact,
00:09:47.860for thousands of years, nobody even thought to question the institution like the most enlightened
00:09:53.860minds in the world for thousands of years. They might have suggested that slaves should be treated
00:09:59.220humanely in some circumstances, but nobody rejected slavery fundamentally as a concept.
00:10:05.620This was the case again, everywhere among all people for millennia. White Europeans were the
00:10:12.500first ones to argue that slavery as an institution should not exist at all, and that the slaves
00:10:20.100themselves have the right, have a human right to be free. So, you know, the unique relationship
00:10:27.140between slavery and Europeans is that Europeans are the first ones who figured out that it's wrong.
00:10:33.460That's just a fact. It can't be denied. If I should be blamed for slavery because,
00:10:38.500you know, white people participated in it, which they did, then I should also be thanked
00:10:44.100because white people abolished it. So where's my thank you note is what I'm asking.
00:10:49.220This is all kinds of kind of obvious to anybody with, again, a rudimentary understanding of history,
00:10:53.380which explains one of the prominent dissenters to my tweet who has no understanding of history at all.
00:10:58.980Henry Rogers, aka Ibram X. Kendi, was upset about this. And here's what he wrote in response to me.
00:11:04.500He said, quote, the ultimate white savior statement. That's what he said. It's obviously a meaningless
00:11:12.100reply. But since Henry Rogers is supposedly a serious academic and supposedly not just a fraudster,
00:11:18.580I figured I'd follow up with him. And I asked Rogers if he'd like to have a live,
00:11:23.460on-camera conversation about this issue. And if you didn't know any better, you would think that
00:11:29.620he would jump at that chance. After all, he's an academic. He has a PhD. I'm just a podcaster with
00:11:35.620a high school diploma. So he could easily school me in a debate about history, couldn't he? I mean,
00:11:40.660surely he'll jump at that chance, right? Wrong. Kendi replied to my challenge two days later. It took him
00:11:47.860two days to think about it, think about what his answer would be. And here's what he said.
00:11:53.060Many historians have already explained why your statements about slavery are wrong.
00:11:56.900It would be a huge waste of my time repeating what has already been shared with you.
00:12:01.620Well, there you have it. He doesn't have to debate me because many historians have already said that
00:12:06.020he's right. The historians already agree with him. So what is there to debate? Who are these historians?
00:12:12.820Well, don't worry about that. There's many of them. That's all that matters. Don't worry about
00:12:17.140who they are. It's just, there's many. Who are they? They are many. They are legion.
00:12:22.180And why should their opinion preclude us from having a conversation on the topic?
00:12:26.900Well, don't worry about that either. In any case, the reaction to that conversation
00:12:31.460between me and Ibram X. Kendi was overwhelmingly hostile to Ibram X. Kendi. Everybody recognized exactly
00:12:39.140what's going on. This esteemed anti-racist academic who runs an entire anti-racist center at a major
00:12:44.740university and who managed to burn through $40 million in grant money in just a couple of years
00:12:49.780can't allow his claims to be subjected to any scrutiny. Even scrutiny from a high school educated
00:12:54.820podcaster can't do it because he's an intellectual lightweight and his ideas are as hollow and weak as
00:13:00.420he is. That's yet another sign that the anti-racist reparations grift is collapsing.
00:13:06.900And so is this footage from UCSF, which is supposedly one of the leading universities
00:13:11.300and hospitals in the United States. They rang in Black History Month this year by inviting
00:13:15.300a black supremacist named Dante King to campus. And here's what he had to say. Watch.
00:13:19.940Whites are psychopaths and their behavior represents an underlying biologically transmitted
00:13:26.500proclivity with roots deep in their evolutionary history. How can, how many of you could see the
00:13:33.060proclivity that evolved deep within the evolutionary history of whiteness by show of hands? How many of
00:13:37.940you could see it? Some people are sitting here. Oh no, I don't want to raise my hand. That's called denial.
00:13:43.620No, that's called, that was the dumbest you've ever heard. And that's why they didn't raise their
00:13:49.620hand. That's, that's, that's what that was all about. Now he goes on like that for a while. Uh,
00:13:54.340you hear a lot about genocidal rhetoric from the left, but this is actual genocidal rhetoric.
00:14:00.100He's saying white people are psychopaths and this is being said on a college campus. And like,
00:14:05.700it goes without saying, I'll say it anyway, that if, if anything, if it, if it went the other way and
00:14:12.420there was a white speaker up there saying, you know, black people are psychopaths,
00:14:15.940that person would probably be arrested. I mean, they'd be banned from campus forever,
00:14:19.060but they would probably actually be arrested for saying that because it would be considered a hate
00:14:23.300crime. Uh, and yet this is what you get, you get from a speaker on a college campus.
00:14:29.940You know, and this is someone lecturing at an institution that trains doctors and treats patients.
00:14:35.620And that, that can't make white patients at UCSF very comfortable to hear that.
00:14:40.980If you're not familiar with King, by the way, you should know that he offers an eight week
00:14:43.940course on diagnosing whiteness. So if you want to hear more about this, you can take the course.
00:14:48.500Uh, it will cost you $1,200 though. That's not clear how much UCSF paid for this lecture.
00:14:54.500They're a public university. So presumably they use tax money to pay for it, however much it was.
00:14:59.140And this is the reality of living in California these days. Even if the reparations bill fails,
00:15:02.660public institutions will find ways to take your money to spread anti-white race hate.
00:15:06.820But you could tell from the response to this footage, which went viral immediately,
00:15:10.660that people are fed up with this propaganda. Just like the FAA footage I aired on this show last
00:15:15.940week, someone on the inside had to draw attention to this video, which they did. Uh, and there are
00:15:21.860whistleblowers who are tired of these race hustlers. The more the race scam collapses, the more
00:15:27.540whistleblowers will come forward. The only remaining support for race propaganda really comes from,
00:15:33.300comes from an important place though, which is all of the largest corporations in the country.
00:15:38.900They're still committed to forcing this on us. So if you're watching the Super Bowl last night,
00:15:43.220especially the pregame, uh, you would have noticed that the NFL invited a woman to sing what's known as
00:15:48.020the black national anthem, which of course is a contradiction in terms. There is no black national
00:15:52.980anthem. There is no white national anthem. There is one national anthem. It's for the nation.
00:15:58.180Any country that has multiple national anthems for different demographic groups isn't really a
00:16:03.220country. It's a collection of different countries split up along ethnic lines and it will fall apart
00:16:08.820very quickly. But ensuring that this country falls apart is precisely the goal of the largest
00:16:13.860news outlets in the United States. So before the game, CBS interviewed the woman who sang
00:16:17.780this quote unquote black national anthem at the Super Bowl, whose name is Andra Day. And listen to what she said.
00:16:23.460I think, you know, but I'm not unaware of the conversation surrounding the black national
00:16:29.140anthem at the Super Bowl. Right. I think that's just a true conversation. Um, you know, and I think
00:16:34.100people, you know, they are, I'm going to say this in really polite terms, but I think people are, you
00:16:39.220know, change can be a scary thing for people. You know what I mean? But I think that it's a good thing.
00:16:42.980It's a healthy thing because if you're not changing and growing, I think you're, you're dying. Right.
00:16:46.500Of course. So, so for me, I will tell you, I am honored to be able to represent our ancestors
00:16:53.060and our culture in this way. But for me, even deeper than that, I'm a very spiritual person.
00:16:57.860Gayle knows. We talked about this before. I'm a praying person. And so that's really what I'm
00:17:02.500hoping. My goal is to diminish myself and really be in service of the spirit of God,
00:17:08.100whoever that is for people to be a vessel truly. And, and if people are able to sort of put down,
00:17:14.020you know, this, uh, this kind of negative connotation surrounding this or these prejudices
00:17:19.460or these ideas, then I think we could actually share in a really, really beautiful
00:17:24.820spiritual moment together. And that is my desire. And then to do the best that I can do,
00:17:29.700hopefully it goes well. Change is scary. She says, and if you're not changing and growing,
00:17:35.300then you're dying. And everybody at CBS pretends that's the most intelligent thing they've ever heard,
00:17:39.700but it doesn't even come close to making sense. Uh, now, I mean, it's true
00:17:43.780that, that when something is changing and growing, that means that it's alive.
00:17:47.620But the other problem is that you don't want, it's not necessarily good that a thing is alive,
00:17:51.780depends on what it is. A tumor changes and grows, but that's not a good thing.
00:17:57.700And so what she's really talking about is the racial division and race baiting that that's what's,
00:18:03.220what she wants to see grow and change, uh, which is something that we don't want. She's basically
00:18:08.580saying that we need racially segregated national anthems just for the sake of changing something.
00:18:12.500And then at the end, she implies even, even more nonsensically that somehow this will lead to
00:18:16.340unity. We'll be unified by having separate anthems. Even though the whole point of singing the anthem,
00:18:21.780the one national anthem is to show our national unity. That's the whole point.
00:18:27.220But the point of this revival of the black national anthem is to take us back to the
00:18:30.980pre-civil rights era. This is not progress. It's regression. That's what this is a deliberate
00:18:35.860callback to. It's when the NAACP first started pushing the song after an NAACP official wrote it.
00:18:40.420And for the past three years, the NFL has been trying to equate this with the actual national
00:18:45.140anthem. The implication is that we're back where we were in the early 1900s. It's like when Joe Biden
00:18:50.900says that it's Jim Crow on steroids to require voter ID. They are desperate to convince us that we are
00:18:56.500living in a white supremacist hellscape, which obviously is nonsense. But again, it's falling flat.
00:19:01.860Andrew, they performed this black national anthem before the commercial break, before the teams came out,
00:19:06.340several minutes before the national anthem was played. And to the extent that people responded
00:19:10.900to it at all, it was panned for the most part on social media. Very few people thought that it was
00:19:15.700inspirational or unifying or whatever. This is the response all of the post-BLM, post-George Floyd
00:19:22.660ideas are receiving now from defunding the police, implementing reparations, the black national anthem.
00:19:29.060It's all falling flat. What this means for race hustlers like Henry Rogers is that they're gonna have
00:19:36.340to find new jobs soon. What it means for the rest of us is that at long last, our moment of national
00:19:42.900racial insanity might eventually come to an end. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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00:20:54.020Now, before the Super Bowl, traditionally, the president will give an interview,
00:20:57.140and this is the kind of thing that you would think any president would be eager to do. Like,
00:21:00.820it gives you a chance to get your message out to a huge mainstream audience. It's an election year on
00:21:06.180top of it. What is there not to love? If you're the president of the United States,
00:21:10.420you get this chance to do the interview, especially if you're a Democrat president,
00:21:13.700and it's a friendly interview with the media propaganda outlet. It's like, there's no,
00:21:17.780it's a win-win. You can't lose. Unless you are senile, which is the whole reason why Biden declined
00:21:25.460the invitation this year, just as he declined it, I believe, last year to give this interview.
00:21:32.580Because he's so incapacitated that he can't sit for even a 10 minute,
00:21:35.540you know, a softball interview. Putin did two hours. He can't do 10 minutes.
00:21:40.580Instead, the White House put out this 45 second video featuring Joe Biden before the game. Watch.
00:21:48.820The Super Bowl Sunday. If you're anything like me, you like to be surrounded by a snack or two
00:21:55.220while watching the big game. You know, when buying snacks for the game, you might have noticed one
00:21:59.940thing. Sports drinks bottles are smaller. The bag of chips has fewer chips, but they're still charging
00:22:05.300you just as much. And as an ice cream lover, what makes me the most angry is that ice cream cartons
00:22:10.020have actually shrunk in size, but not in price. I've had enough of what they call shrinkflation.
00:22:16.660It's a ripoff. Some companies are trying to pull a fast one by shrinking the products
00:22:21.700little by little and hoping you won't notice. Give me a break. The American public is tired of being
00:22:28.100played for suckers. I'm calling on companies to put a stop to this. Let's make sure businesses
00:22:33.540do the right thing now. Um, 45 second video. Now, this is not really the point. You know,
00:22:42.740we'll get to the substance of what he's saying, such as it is, but 45 second video. And just for fun,
00:22:49.540uh, I counted the number of cuts in that video and I counted about 13, 13 cuts in a 45 second video.
00:22:58.500And, uh, and why do they do that? Well, like they, they try to make it seem,
00:23:02.500oh, we're making a trendy, like TikTok video with all the jump cuts. That's not why they're doing it.
00:23:06.580They're doing it because they can cut around all the mistakes because you know, this, they sat him
00:23:12.260down to talk about, uh, the fact that bags of chips are too small. And we can assume that this,
00:23:20.100the actual video is probably 15 minutes long of him just rambling about snacks. And they had to find
00:23:26.58045 usable seconds in there. And that's why you get all the cuts. Uh, cause he can't,
00:23:32.900it should be, you should be able to say to the president of the United States, okay,
00:23:35.220we want to do this dumb video or, you know, can you give us a minute on,
00:23:39.460but if you wanted to do this video, can you give us a minute on the fact that
00:23:44.260the chip bags of chips are too small? Can you just talk for a minute about that? He should be able to
00:23:48.340do that, but he can't. So that's why they have to cut around it so much. Um, and this is what
00:23:54.420they're focused on. You know, there's a lot of crises currently unfolding across the world,
00:23:58.180people dealing with major problems. And Joe Biden is worried that bags of chips don't have as many
00:24:04.260chips as they used to. And I especially liked the part where he says that what, what makes him the
00:24:09.220most angry in the entire world is that ice cream cartons have shrunk in size. And I, and I believe
00:24:16.900that I think that's, he's being totally honest. I don't think that he's, uh, I'm perfectly willing
00:24:20.820to believe that the thing that makes him the angriest in the world right now, the thing that
00:24:24.740makes him the most upset is the, uh, the smaller ice cream cartons. But I think that the point isn't
00:24:32.260even that this is a petty issue for him to be focused on. It is, it is petty, but, uh, and there are
00:24:38.100more important things that he should be worried about as president, but this issue shrinkflation,
00:24:45.460which it doesn't even make sense as a term, by the way, that's like, those are putting two opposite
00:24:49.900things together, but, um, it is important because it is directly related to inflation. I mean, in fact,
00:24:58.820this is inflation. What he's talking about is inflation. It's another example of the cost of goods
00:25:03.080going up. So the real problem is that Biden is complaining about another marker of a, of a poor
00:25:10.400economy while taking no responsibility for it himself. He's blaming the companies that produce
00:25:16.320the snacks for the inflation that his own policies are causing. And he's hoping we don't notice.
00:25:22.200Um, but even worse than that was, or maybe worse than that anyway, it was what the Biden camp put
00:25:30.480out after, uh, the game. So before the game, they had all they could get out of Biden's 45 seconds,
00:25:36.64013 cuts, um, after the game, well, he's, he's already in bed. He's long since in bed. So instead
00:25:43.940they put out after the chiefs won in overtime, Joe Biden's Twitter account posted this, uh, posted this
00:25:49.480tweet. And so there it is, it says, just like we drew it up. And then you see Biden there with the
00:25:55.220laser, with the red laser eyes and all that. So the whole point is that they, you know, this is
00:25:59.900obviously a joke about conspiracy theories and they're admitting jokingly that Biden rigged the game
00:26:04.380or whatever. Um, the really sad thing about this is that it was posted at what had been like 11 o'clock
00:26:11.940Eastern time. So again, Biden had been in bed probably for four or five hours at that point.
00:26:16.820Uh, some intern put this tweet out. And the point of the tweet is to lean into the conspiracy theories
00:26:23.960to lean into Joe Biden being an evil genius. That's what the, you know, the, the kind of red
00:26:29.420laser eyes and all that's about. Um, and they're doing it even jokingly for a reason. And the reason
00:26:36.740is that if, if Biden is some kind of puppet master with a grand scheme, that means that he's at least
00:26:44.540mentally cognizant, right? He's aware he's awake. And that's why they, that's why they, they like
00:26:51.220this. They tried to get, what was it? Dark Brandon or something. They tried to get that going for a
00:26:56.260couple of years as a way of pivoting off of a let's go Brandon. And then they had the dark Brandon
00:27:01.320meme, which is basically just this. It's like portraying the president as Darth Vader is what
00:27:06.980they're, that's their, that's how they're selling him. Um, because they've decided that
00:27:14.400it's politically advantageous to portray Biden as an evil supervillain because at least that means
00:27:20.700he's not a vegetable. Uh, so they, they figured like, we'll take that. We got to choose either he's
00:27:25.660a vegetable or he's an, he's a, he's a supervillain and we'll take the supervillain instead.
00:27:30.160Um, but you can hardly blame them. Like, you know, in terms of strategy, they're, they're
00:27:38.480probably right that those are your two choices and either he's, this guy's completely evil
00:27:43.120or he's a senile. And I guess you, if you're running the campaign, you'd rather he'd be evil,
00:27:49.160I suppose. Moving on to this, CBS Austin, uh, has a report. Florida LGBT activists staged a series
00:27:56.540of protests at the department of motor vehicle locations across the state on Friday. Dozens
00:28:01.160of individuals dressed in pride flags and safety vests entered DMV properties and laid down in
00:28:06.700mock death, a protest known as a die-in protesters can be seen holding signs, reading hate kills.
00:28:13.300The protest came in response to a policy change by the Florida department of highway safety and
00:28:16.940motor vehicles last month that prevents changes to the gender marking on Florida driver's licenses.
00:28:21.660demonstrations in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, and Gainesville lasted 37 minutes to represent the
00:28:27.10037% of trans Floridians who have faced harassment due to an incorrect gender marker, according to the
00:28:32.980youth action fund. So apparently they were inside the DMVs doing this. And we have some footage of
00:28:38.860one of these, uh, I don't know which DMV this was at, but this is one of these die-ins. And here's
00:28:43.540what does that look like? Now, first of all, if they're doing this, um, you know, right outside
00:28:54.660the DMV inside the DMV on the property of the DMV, then it's a crime. And, uh, when, when, as we know,
00:29:04.200when pro-life, when pro-lifers have sat outside of abortion clinics, you know, they, they end up
00:29:10.540facing 11 years in prison for that. So if they did commit a crime here, I hope that's what Florida
00:29:14.780does. Arrest them all and throw the book at them. You know, like that, that's what, that's where we're
00:29:21.320at now. You do this to ours, we do it to yours. So arrest them all, charge them with every single
00:29:27.120thing you possibly can and try to put them in prison for as long as you possibly can. Um, but you know,
00:29:34.600they're, uh, well, you can't arrest them cause they're all dead. Uh, they're dead because their
00:29:37.680driver's license has the correct biological sex on it. They've died. The DMV, you know, a man goes
00:29:44.080in there, DMV puts mail on the driver's license and, and the guy just collapses and dies on the
00:29:48.400spot. That seems to be the claim here. Um, when, when actually, but when you think, when you think
00:29:53.920about it, you realize that the claim is actually worse than that because what they're really doing
00:29:57.760here is they're doing two things. One of the things they're doing is that they're threatening to
00:30:03.080kill themselves. That that's, that's the implication is most of the time when trans activists claim that
00:30:08.760something is killing them, what they mean, and they'll tell you this is that they don't like the
00:30:14.800thing, whatever it is, and they might kill themselves because of it. And we hear about the
00:30:19.320trans genocide and all that kind of stuff. All of it is totally fictional, but you listen to the stats
00:30:24.680of all the, it's it, most of what they're talking about is suicide because these people, as we've,
00:30:30.320as we've discussed many times, these people wield suicide threats as a political tool and they do
00:30:35.860it in a way that no other social movement in the history of the world ever has. Um, now you can
00:30:43.780think of individual protests here and there of monks, you know, setting themselves on fire, self
00:30:47.840immolation, that sort of thing, which by the way, it shows a lot more commitment than these people
00:30:51.340are at least you can give them that. But, um, I'm talking about a broad social movement where one of
00:30:58.720their primary bargaining chips is this constant specter, this constant threat of suicide. You
00:31:06.060don't find this anywhere else. This is the only time you go back to, go back to the, uh, the civil
00:31:10.580rights movement, right in the middle of the 20th century, were they threatening to kill themselves?
00:31:16.200No. In fact, in almost every case where a group of people have actually been persecuted in some way,
00:31:23.760unlike trans people who are not persecuted at all, they're the opposite of persecuted in this country,
00:31:27.480but whatever there's been persecution, you find that generally suicide rates for the persecuted
00:31:32.200groups go down. They don't go up. Usually they go down. And that's because you find usually a kind
00:31:38.260of resiliency, uh, a sense of purpose and cohesion in the protected or in the persecuted group rather.
00:31:46.260And it's human nature to respond that way. Yet with trans people who are not being arrested,
00:31:52.380who are not being sent to labor camps, you know, not having any of their fundamental human rights taken
00:31:57.040away, they're killing themselves at extraordinarily high rates and threaten to kill themselves at even
00:32:01.340higher rates than that, which tells us that this has nothing to do with persecution. Their problems
00:32:05.920are all internal. And one of the problems is an extreme level of narcissism. You know, this, this is,
00:32:13.500this is, this is a hallmark of toxic manipulative narcissists where they try to get you to do what they
00:32:20.680want by threatening to harm themselves. It's, it's a classic manipulation tactic of narcissists.
00:32:27.260Usually you find it in abusive relationships and that sort of thing, where someone says,
00:32:31.920don't leave me or I'll kill myself. Yeah, it's, it's that kind. It's like, it's evil. I mean,
00:32:37.200it's, it's people that do that are evil. Uh, the worst kind of manipulation you could possibly
00:32:44.160use against someone. And generally when you find that in relationships, we all would agree.
00:32:50.600It's like, if you're talking to someone and they're saying, you know, talking to a woman and
00:32:54.440saying, my boyfriend saying, if I, it's threatening, if I, if I break up with him, he's going to kill
00:32:57.860himself. We would usually, well, this is like, that's all the more reason to break up. This person's
00:33:01.760dangerous and it's like, it's like, shouldn't be doing that. It's wrong. And yet trans activists have
00:33:08.160taken that and they've adopted it on a wide scale as a political tool. And the proper response to it
00:33:16.620is like, disgust. How dare you use a tactic like this? This is like, this breaks every rule of basic
00:33:26.860decency that we all have recognized up until now. But we're used to that from trans activists. Like
00:33:33.800they, they just don't, they don't abide by any standard of decency whatsoever. They just don't,
00:33:38.160they don't recognize any moral or ethical, uh, standards at all. Um, although we should
00:33:45.120acknowledge that when they claim the driver's license will kill them, it's not just suicide
00:33:48.280they're referring to. Uh, one of the activists, so there's the suicide threat and then there's also
00:33:52.260just lies as well. Uh, one of the activists involved in this demonstration said this to explain it.
00:33:57.900Every time a trans person has to present an ID that now presents an opportunity for them to be
00:34:01.880forcefully outed. Trans people already face heightened violence that physically threatens
00:34:06.000their daily lives. And this only places them at greater risk for folks who are not at a
00:34:10.080significant risk of being killed just because of who they are. I can see why our action might seem
00:34:14.700dramatic, entitled, or even silly. You think? But for trans Floridians, the danger is very real and ever
00:34:22.220present. Well, and that's just a total lie. Of course, that's an absolute lie. Uh, trans people
00:34:29.060face a heightened violence, uh, heightened, heightened violence, heightened threat of being
00:34:34.880killed for folks who are not at a significant risk of being killed just because of who they are.
00:34:38.960It might seem dramatic. Well, you know, if you listen to the show, you've heard, you've,
00:34:44.020you've already heard this claim debunked many times, but you know, really we can't debunk it or not
00:34:47.940because it keeps getting repeated that in reality, trans people as a group have a lower murder rate.
00:34:57.380Okay. They are less likely to be murdered than members of the general public. Their murder rate
00:35:05.380is lower than the general public. That is a fact. You can look it up. Uh, a vanishingly small number
00:35:13.600of trans people are killed every year. And in almost every single case, the ones that are killed
00:35:17.560are killed, of course, for reasons that have nothing at all to do with who they are. And I mean,
00:35:21.780well, they might be killed because, uh, very often things involve prostitution, drugs. So if they're
00:35:28.740killed for who they are, it's the, who they are problem is like prostitute, drug addict, that sort
00:35:32.860of thing. But as far as trans person just being killed for being trans, you might have one or two
00:35:40.460cases a year at most. It's like, it almost never happens. Um, and, uh, and, and overall, even if you
00:35:49.200take all murder into account, you are safer. The statistics tell you, you are safer being a trans
00:35:55.940person than non-trans. That's what the stats say. So this is a total lie. Um, so they just lie about
00:36:01.840everything all the time. Nothing they ever say is true. Like you can't, you can't, if they told you
00:36:05.380it's raining outside, you have to go check yourself because they lie instinctively about everything
00:36:08.720and, uh, they wield suicide like a weapon. And, uh, these are just, it's just awful all around
00:36:15.520really. So I guess how we could sum it up. All right. Speaking of awful PBS has this, a majority
00:36:20.400of taxpayers feel that they pay too much in taxes with many saying that they receive a poor value in
00:36:25.040return. According to a new poll from the university of Chicago, uh, Harris school of public policy,
00:36:30.000two thirds of us taxpayers say they spend too much on federal income taxes. The tax season begins
00:36:35.220about seven and 10 say the same about local property taxes, while roughly six and 10
00:36:40.040feel that way about state sales taxes. Generally speaking, Republicans are more likely than Democrats
00:36:45.080to view taxes as unfair, to say they're, they're, they're paying too much in taxes and to see taxes
00:36:49.440as a poor value. The poll found that few U S adults have a high level of confidence that the
00:36:54.320institutions that ultimately use their tax dollars spend those taxes in the best interest of people
00:36:58.640like them. But people tend to trust governing bodies closer to home with their tax dollars slightly
00:37:03.000more. 16% are extremely or very confident in their local school district compared to 6% for the
00:37:07.900federal government. Um, well, let me, uh, just stop right there. But the only disturbing thing about
00:37:14.840this is that it's also two thirds, uh, say they pay too much taxes. That leaves a third who feel that
00:37:21.460they're taxed just right. That's the only thing concerning to me because not to spoil the ending,
00:37:26.860but I can answer this question for you. Yes, you are taxed too much. Uh, and yes,
00:37:31.140it is extremely unfair. Whoever you are, whatever your income bracket is, it doesn't matter. You,
00:37:36.400you are taxed too much. Um, way too much. And there are plenty of people who effectively pay
00:37:42.720no income tax. Um, and that's not really fair when you compare it to the people that pay like
00:37:46.76035, 40% of their income and income taxes. But even the people who pay no income that you're
00:37:50.920still paying tax in a million other ways. So everybody is taxed too much. Uh, if you work for
00:37:55.340a living or if you're married to someone who works for a living, then you are taxed way too much.
00:38:00.360We all are, um, everybody should pay less, a lot less, everyone. And when you really think about
00:38:07.120this, and I like to review this every once in a while, just so we all remember how screwed we are,
00:38:10.200because it's a good thing to keep in mind, especially as we get into election season.
00:38:14.340So if you think about it, all you have to do is, is you go, you think about your average day
00:38:19.580and all the things you do on an average day. So we're not even taking into account like big purchases
00:38:25.320and, you know, these moments when, when you're, when you really feel that tax bill, I'm talking
00:38:30.020about average day. You wake up in the morning and your bed, your bed was taxed, right? When you
00:38:37.880bought it, you turn on your lights, which are taxed, both the light fixtures when you purchase them
00:38:42.940and the electricity is taxed. Uh, you take a shower, you pay a tax on the water that's coming out.
00:38:47.840You drink some coffee that was taxed. Uh, you get into a car that was taxed. You leave your house
00:38:53.660that of course is taxed. You drive down the road, burning gasoline that is taxed, uh, depending on
00:38:58.840where you live. Maybe you pass through a toll, you know, which is a tax. Maybe you get pulled over
00:39:03.760on the way because you have a taillight out or you're not wearing your seatbelt. You go on 13 miles
00:39:07.900over the limit. That's also a tax. You go to work and you're taxed every second that you're at work,
00:39:13.500your taxes, your tax just for earning an income. Like your money is taken from you before you
00:39:17.680even see it. And, and the IRS takes what it wants and gives you the leftovers. Uh, if you eat lunch,
00:39:23.440of course, that was taxed. Every moment of the day is taxed. And then you get back in your taxed car,
00:39:28.400you head back to your taxed home, you eat another taxed meal on your taxed plates with your taxed
00:39:33.580utensils. You wash them off in the taxed sink with the water that's taxed. You put it in the dishwasher
00:39:38.540taxed, pay more water and soap tax. You're taxed all the time, like everywhere, no matter what you do.
00:39:46.400And then you die and you're still taxed. So there's nothing you can do to escape it. Um,
00:39:52.340every, every, every, every step of the way, they, they bury you in the ground and they got to pay
00:39:56.180a tax on that. You just, you can't until you're like decomposing in the ground and all of your
00:40:01.200money has been already distributed. Only then are you no longer taxed. Uh, like well after your death
00:40:09.640is when it stops. So it's always funny to me when I hear people, anytime anyone points to some other
00:40:17.520group and says, Oh, they don't pay enough. What are you talking about? Do you, we all pay so much.
00:40:23.200We're just being scammed all the time. We're being ripped off always every second of our lives. You
00:40:29.300understand that. And, and do you, do you understand that, that the whole, like one of the fundamental
00:40:37.540reasons that this country even exists is that the founding fathers were upset over a tax on tea.
00:40:46.020And of course there was a lot more to it than that. It wasn't just that, but, but they were
00:40:49.680upset about a tax on tea. We, we pay taxes on our tea. I got news for you. You go buy a Snapple or
00:40:55.440something at the gas station. You're going to pay a tax on that. We pay tax on everything else.
00:41:00.780It's, it's way beyond like the founding fathers looking on from the grave or like, what are you,
00:41:04.640what are you guys doing? Why are you allowing any of this? This is insane. Um, but, uh, it's,
00:41:11.560it's, it's where we are. So the answer is every single person in the country is, is way too taxed.
00:41:17.280And, uh, and then on top of it, uh, all the money or almost all the money that's being taken from you
00:41:22.220is just being squandered. It's just being wasted right away. It goes to nothing that benefits you
00:41:26.920whatsoever. Some of it, billions of dollars collectively going overseas to countries you've
00:41:32.680never been to, uh, to governments that you know, nothing about being used in ways that you'll never
00:41:38.880find out about. And that will certainly not benefit you at all, you know, and that's just
00:41:45.220the tip of the iceberg. And then so much else of it's going to pay the incomes of, uh, of
00:41:50.960government bureaucrats who shouldn't even have jobs to begin with. And the only reason they have
00:41:55.240a job is just because the job exists just for them to fill it and get paid and, and, and on and on and
00:42:00.320on. Um, so yeah, we're all screwed. Let's get to, uh, was Walsh wrong?
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00:42:58.320Can't wait to see you there. Okay, we got an assortment of comments dealing with some of the
00:43:02.420things we talked about last week. First one says, many homeless people do have trouble meeting their
00:43:06.480rent. They're not drug addicts. They aren't lazy, but they may have high medical bills. They may lack
00:43:11.180the talents that can land them these high paying jobs with great benefits. You are far, far too harsh
00:43:16.420on this matter. Well, you don't need a high paying job to be not homeless, you know. Yeah, it's difficult
00:43:23.420to get a high paying job, certainly. It's not difficult for a competent, mentally healthy person who's not
00:43:33.760addicted to drugs to at least afford somewhere to live that is not a cardboard box on the street corner, you know.
00:43:43.180And you can call it harsh, you can call it whatever, I don't care. It's just, it's simply the reality.
00:43:50.000And, you know, sometimes when I talk about the homeless problem of where it comes from and the realities of it,
00:43:57.620which, and the basic reality is, again, that there's a reason, in almost every case, there's a reason
00:44:03.880someone is homeless. And it's not simply that they've run out of money or something or they fell
00:44:07.280into hard times. It's that they're addicted to drugs or they're psychotic or both. That's usually
00:44:14.480the case. But anyway, when people take issue with that, I want to assume that these are all people
00:44:22.380who don't live in a city or anywhere near it and they've never encountered homeless people.
00:44:27.460But then, of course, I know the opposite is the case. Like, most of these people that would take
00:44:30.340issue with what I'm saying are going to be left-wingers who, many of them, you know,
00:44:34.320statistically live in urban areas or close to them. So, which makes it all the more confounding.
00:44:39.740Because it's like, if you've ever had any sort of interaction or, you know, you encountered homeless
00:44:44.340people at all, which I have many times in my life as anyone who's lived in or around cities,
00:44:48.180has, it's like, this is obvious. You know, it's very often that it's very, it's extremely rare that
00:44:53.500you have any kind of interaction with a homeless person where it does not become obvious within
00:44:57.820like two seconds why they're homeless. But, you know, I guess this is just people wanting to live
00:45:10.260in a, you know, I guess in a certain way, it's a more attractive world to live in, but we don't have
00:45:16.380to acknowledge that. And we can think that everyone is homeless. It's just, these are all
00:45:20.120decent, hardworking people that have fallen. You know, it's, it's all the pursuit of happiness,
00:45:24.140you know, all the homeless. These are all pursuit of happiness type cases. Instead of acknowledging
00:45:28.800that that's like an extreme rare exception. Okay.
00:45:38.580Ann says, sorry, Matt, we have this one wrong. Taylor Swift is internationally popular amongst the
00:45:44.120young ladies of our world. Most are not even of age to vote or U S citizens. I don't think she has
00:45:49.780the power you're giving her. Uh, I don't know how much power you think I'm giving her. I didn't say
00:45:57.800that she's the most powerful person in the world or that, uh, or, or that she alone is going to
00:46:03.080determine the outcome of the election, but she has a lot of influence. And that's, that's really what
00:46:09.980I'm talking about when I say the kind of power we're discussing here is the power of influence.
00:46:15.180You know, we have this term influencer, you know, which is kind of, which is, there's an irony to it
00:46:20.760because most of the people that we call influencers are not really influencing anybody, or at least
00:46:26.320their influence is, is quite small and quite narrow. The people that in our culture who really
00:46:34.100have the influence, we would never call influencers because it would be a major step down. Like you
00:46:37.800wouldn't call Taylor Swift an influencer, uh, because it's something quite beyond that. Right.
00:46:43.200Um, but this is about influence and, uh, like it or not, I wish it wasn't the case. She has an
00:46:51.840enormous amount of influence and, um, and, you know, again, more irony, the, the influence even
00:47:00.500becomes all the more greater, uh, the more that she's talked about. And, you know, I was watching
00:47:08.680the Superbowl last night, uh, for example, and I was checking Twitter while I'm watching Superbowl,
00:47:14.140which is like, why even do that? I understand. Um, but I am actually kind of interested in people's
00:47:19.320analysis of the game as it's unfolding. And of course, I'm just seeing a ton of tweets about Taylor
00:47:24.380Swift. And here's the thing, all of them that I saw were for people who hate her. It's, and I'm
00:47:31.840sure there are people tweeting about Taylor Swift who like her, but that's not what I saw. I did,
00:47:34.900my whole feed is like Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift. And it's all people complaining.
00:47:39.580You know, if nobody complained about it, we would hardly ever hear about her.
00:47:42.600Many of us anyway, like me in the circles and, and in the worlds that I live in,
00:47:47.640I would hardly hear about her at all. If it wasn't for people on my side, incessantly complaining
00:47:52.840about her. Um, so maybe there's a lesson to be learned from that. Finally, I hope you're wrong,
00:47:59.760Matt. If Trump runs against Biden, Trump has a good chance of winning, but I'm not so sure the
00:48:03.320same results obtain if he runs against Gavin Newsom. Um, yeah, I think that's, uh, look, I I'm
00:48:12.480terrible making political predictions, just like my, my political predictions are even worse than my
00:48:16.000sports predictions. So, uh, but I will say that it seems to me right now, it's, it's hard for me to
00:48:21.800imagine Biden winning at this point against Trump. But, and that's, there's a lot of reasons for
00:48:26.640that, but we don't need to get past the economies and shambles and he's a vegetable and everybody
00:48:30.460knows it. And it's just, it's, that is quite a hurdle to get over. And I'm not sure that he does.
00:48:36.080Um, but you put Trump up against, uh, against someone who's younger and it was not Biden.
00:48:43.660Then those clearly those two major advantages go out the window.
00:48:50.340It's someone who's younger than Trump. So the age factor is gone now. Now, in fact,
00:48:54.140not just the age factor is gone, but now it's, now it's a problem for you because Trump is still
00:48:58.540the young man in the race, even though he's 80. Uh, so you put someone in there who's in their fifties
00:49:03.440or whatever Gavin Newsom is. And then all of a sudden age becomes a problem for Trump.
00:49:10.120And then also if it's not Biden, then it becomes a lot more difficult to blame that person. You can
00:49:16.640still make the connection and say their policies are the same as Biden's, which is true, but it
00:49:21.240doesn't have the same visceral impact. So I think that, um, yeah, it would certainly be a major
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00:51:03.960Unfortunately, I cannot give a full analysis of the Super Bowl or the Super Bowl ads if for
00:51:09.140whatever reason anyone actually wanted me to do that. I watched the game rather half-heartedly,
00:51:14.320paying only vague attention because I was bitter that my Baltimore Ravens weren't playing in it. I'll
00:51:18.960admit that. I was bitter. And in protest against this injustice, I boycotted the event. I mean,
00:51:24.920I still watched it, but I watched it unenthusiastically. So it was a heroic form
00:51:28.780of activism on my part, you must admit. But in any case, I did happen to glance up during an early
00:51:33.700commercial break when we saw what would prove to be one of the most viral ads of the night. It was
00:51:38.040another Super Bowl commercial for the He Gets Us campaign. The campaign, first run by a group called
00:51:43.260the Servant Foundation and now run by a group called Come Near Incorporated, both funded by mostly
00:51:48.720anonymous, but we can assume extremely wealthy donors, is ostensibly meant to evangelize and
00:51:54.280promote Christianity. Indeed, they're spending tens of millions of dollars to run these ads during the
00:51:59.700Super Bowl. There are many very credible and biblically grounded Christian groups in the world that
00:52:04.460would love to have the resources to run a commercial during the most watched television event of the
00:52:09.540year. But most of them wouldn't have those kinds of funds if they fundraised and saved for a decade.
00:52:15.080The people that are behind He Gets Us do have that money, which means they have a unique chance
00:52:20.520that few Christians will ever have. They're able to present a message to 100 million people all at the
00:52:27.760same time. In fact, this Super Bowl is certain to be among the most watched events of all time,
00:52:33.000making this an unprecedented, or nearly unprecedented at least, opportunity. So what will they do with it?
00:52:38.900What message will they send out to those 100 million souls? How will they use the millions upon
00:52:46.160millions of dollars that these 60 seconds of ad time will cost them? Will they call the world to
00:52:51.960repentance? To humility? To obedience? To virtue? No, no, no, and no. Instead, they did this. Watch.
00:53:08.900Don't ask me what you know is true. Don't have to tell you I love your precious heart. I was standing. You were there. Two worlds collide.
00:53:15.900know it's true, don't have to tell you, I love your precious heart, I, I was standing,
00:53:32.940you were there, two worlds collided, and they could never tear us apart,
00:53:45.900okay, so for those listening to the audio podcast, the ad consists of images, which may not have been
00:53:54.080AI generated, but certainly look AI generated, images of various people getting their feet washed
00:53:59.600in various situations, and then we see the words, Jesus didn't teach hate, he washed feet,
00:54:05.720appear on the screen, now before we even talk about the actual images themselves, and what they
00:54:11.760specifically depict very deliberate choices that were made, and who gets their feet washed, and who
00:54:17.240does the washing, we can already determine that the ad is, at best, a wasted opportunity, the most
00:54:23.720generous thing I could possibly say about a message like, Jesus didn't teach hate, is that it's
00:54:29.780redundant, and pointless, and benign, and that is, again, in its best form, because everybody already
00:54:37.640knows that Jesus didn't teach hate, okay, we know that, it's the only thing that most people these
00:54:44.300days know about Jesus, the fact that Jesus didn't go around telling his followers to hate people
00:54:49.020is an extremely well-established fact, again, again, it's like the only well-established fact
00:54:55.020these days, so nobody was ever confused about it, we know that Jesus didn't hate people,
00:55:01.940we know that hating people is bad, nobody believes in or promotes hate for its own sake, even hateful
00:55:10.300people don't see themselves that way, okay, so yeah, there are hateful people, people, but they
00:55:15.440don't see it that way, so if you declare hate is bad, everybody will agree, whether they're hateful
00:55:21.420or not, and you will have accomplished nothing, now, of course, you know, it's not actually true
00:55:27.000that hate is always bad, there are things we're supposed to hate, we're supposed to hate sin,
00:55:31.200just as Jesus did, hate should be directed at bad things, we should hate bad things, and we should
00:55:36.860love good things, this also may seem obvious, but it's a distinction that many people in our world
00:55:42.800often miss, which is just another reason why putting out a broad anti-hate ad that offers no
00:55:48.940further insight into the issue is useless, and if it's not useless, then it's actively harmful,
00:55:54.560and that is the case for this ad, which brings us to the images on the screen, so who are the
00:56:00.860people getting their feet washed, well, we see a few sort of non-specific generic feet washing
00:56:06.320scenarios, if that can even exist, and then we see a white man washing the feet of a Native American,
00:56:12.040we see another white man washing the feet of a climate protester, we see a white woman washing
00:56:17.040the feet of, I guess, her Muslim neighbor, we see a white woman washing the feet of an illegal
00:56:21.400immigrant, we see a cop washing the feet of a black guy in a back alley, kind of strange,
00:56:27.020I don't know what's going on there, we see a priest washing the feet of a gay black guy on the beach,
00:56:30.900and then we see a woman outside of an abortion clinic getting her feet washed by what appears
00:56:36.400to be a pro-life protester. Now, you'll notice that, unsurprisingly, the ad is very careful to
00:56:42.100make sure that it doesn't depict a white person getting his feet washed by a non-white person,
00:56:47.700so we see every combination of feet washing going on, except for that one. Apparently,
00:56:53.860Jesus calls us to wash feet unless you're black and the other person is white, because that would
00:56:59.100be racist. And this already tells you everything you need to know about the campaign and the people
00:57:03.260funding it. The ad strictly follows and respects the left-wing victim hierarchy and dutifully makes
00:57:09.760sure to not depict any image that would run afoul of the rules of intersectionality. If they had
00:57:16.200reversed the roles in any of these scenarios, then the ad would have been, to at least some small
00:57:21.700degree, culturally subversive. Okay, what if it was a black guy washing the feet of the cop?
00:57:27.360But you would never see that. Okay, even though, and people defend the ad to say,
00:57:30.580well, are you saying we shouldn't love each other? Okay, then, okay, well, then why don't we have the
00:57:34.640black guy wash the cop's feet? Shouldn't he love cops? If you saw that, well, that sends the wrong
00:57:40.880message. We can't have that. But you know, at least that would have offered the viewer something
00:57:47.300that they don't already see. It would have given them something to think about. It would have
00:57:52.620challenged the viewer. But they made sure not to do that. So what's the problem here? Aside from the
00:57:59.960political correctness with the racial dynamics, what's the problem? Well, to begin with, we should
00:58:04.720say, Jesus did not go around washing everyone's feet. Okay, there is precisely one story in the
00:58:11.940New Testament of Jesus washing feet, and it was at the Passover meal before his passion and death.
00:58:17.460In that case, he washed the feet of his disciples. Okay, the people closest to him, his disciples,
00:58:23.620people that have been following him, literally, throughout his whole ministry. And now that did
00:58:27.920include, of course, the disciple who was about to betray him. But the point is that these were his
00:58:32.060disciples. Like, he wasn't out in the street washing the feet of every unbeliever and unrepentant
00:58:37.080sinner who walked by. And we often do this these days. Like, we take singular moments in Jesus's
00:58:43.700ministry, and we extrapolate them, making them out to be regular occurrences. But that's not a fair or
00:58:50.940accurate assumption. So when we say, Jesus didn't hate, he washed feet, it makes it sound like it was
00:58:57.060something. It was like a standard form of greeting. He just went around. There's one story of that
00:59:02.520happening in a very specific circumstance for a specific group of people. Did he ever go out in
00:59:11.300the public and wash feet? Well, we don't know. Like, we don't, there's no reason to assume he did.
00:59:16.540There's no mention of it. But we do know that out in public, whether or not he ever washed feet,
00:59:23.760we don't know. But we do know that his fundamental message was this, repent and believe. I have not
00:59:28.520come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, as he says in the Gospel of Luke.
00:59:31.980This was his message, not stop hating, okay? It was never that. It was repent and believe.
00:59:39.320And yet, neither one of those points were mentioned in the ad, curiously enough.
00:59:44.040So, is this a good entry point, though? You know, maybe that's the argument. Well,
00:59:48.140yeah, it's not really the Gospel, but it gets people in the door with the feet washing stuff.
00:59:55.280Well, no, it's probably not a good entry point. It probably won't get them in the door. And even
00:59:59.260if it does get them in the door, they'll be coming through the door for the wrong reason.
01:00:03.260When you say to unrepentant sinners, come and get your feet washed, you are reaffirming them in
01:00:08.640their sin. You're feeding into their pride and ego. Okay, for the disciples, this is another key
01:00:15.120difference. For the disciples, getting their feet washed by Christ was a humbling experience for
01:00:21.280them. They felt uncomfortable at first. They tried to stop him, okay? They knew they were unworthy.
01:00:28.620But, and that, again, a major point here was humbling for them. But if somebody sits down and
01:00:34.980says, yeah, come wash my feet. I deserve this treatment. Come cater to my every whim. Then the very
01:00:40.200last thing you should do for that person is actually wash their feet, whether literally and
01:00:45.380metaphorically. You know, you are not saving anybody's soul by feeding their ego. Yes, we should
01:00:53.300be inviting sinners into the fold. We're all sinners after all, but we're inviting them to repentance,
01:00:57.340to strive for virtue, to live holy lives, or at least to try. The problem with modern Christianity in
01:01:02.820many cases is that it offers the invitation, right? But it forgets what the invitation is for.
01:01:09.700Now, what you see in this ad is not Christian love. This is self-debasement. It's a humiliation
01:01:15.020ritual meant to satisfy the egos of people who need their egos punctured, not inflated even more.
01:01:23.580And does it work? Does this kind of messaging actually succeed in growing the church? Does it bring
01:01:28.500in the lost sheep? Does it do whatever it's supposedly meant to do? We don't need to speak
01:01:34.700theoretically about it. If you're a defender of this kind of messaging and you say, oh, it brings
01:01:38.900people in. Okay, where? Where has it worked? Christianity in the West has been sucking up to
01:01:44.900people who hate it, has been sanitizing itself, has been watering down its message, preaching against
01:01:49.980hate, but never saying a word about repentance for decades. And over those decades, we've also seen a
01:01:55.000record number of people leave the church. We've seen church attendance dwindle to record lows while
01:02:00.980atheists and unaffiliated self-identifications rocket to record highs. If this hippie Jesus
01:02:06.560messaging was ever going to actually work, you think it would have started working at some point over
01:02:12.260the past, I don't know, 50 years? Unless, of course, the collapse of Western Christendom means that it is
01:02:19.920working. You know, if that's actually the point, if that is the goal, then actually it has succeeded
01:02:27.760beyond anyone's wildest dreams. And that ultimately is why the He Gets Us campaign is today canceled.
01:02:37.100That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.
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