Ep. 1893 - CHILDREN TERRIFIED： Leftist Mob Storms Church In Minneapolis
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A leftist mob burst into a church in Minneapolis on Sunday. Not only did the mob interrupt the religious service, but in the words of Don Lemon, who arrived at the church with the mob, they also traumatized kids. Is that the new definition of protest?
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on Sunday. Not only did the mob interrupt the religious service, but in the words of Don Lemon,
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who arrived at the church with the mob, they also traumatized kids.
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Watch this guy here, look, he's hugging his kid. And I imagine it's uncomfortable and traumatic for
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the people here. But again, careful, it's very slippery right here. It's uncomfortable and
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traumatic for the people here, but that's what really, careful, please, really slippery. Not
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kidding. That's what protesting is about. And so. Protesting is about traumatizing kids at church.
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Is that, that's the new position? Protesting is about traumatizing kids anywhere, traumatizing anybody.
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Is that? Protesting, it's all about traumatizing kids at church. That's the new definition according
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to the left. But according to the constitution, protesting is about petitioning the government
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to redress grievances. That's where your right to protest comes from. That's why protests are
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typically directed at politicians rather than say little kids trying to pray. Traumatizing children
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to achieve a political end is not protesting. It's terrorism. Not only is what the mob did not
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protected by the constitution, it is explicitly prohibited by federal law. Ironically, by the
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same federal law that the leftists use to round up pro-life advocates outside of abortion clinics,
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which means that lots of people, including Don Lemon, need to be arrested.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. A BBC host just hissed on camera at the name of Jesus Christ.
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Minneapolis. No longer just targeting independent journalists on the streets of Minneapolis.
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We'll get to that too. They're now busting into churches during church services to stop people
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from praying. Take a look. So you can see the protesters here have gathered over here.
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They're in the middle of the church. During the beginning of the church service, the pastor was
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speaking. And Nekima stood up and said her peace. And then the protesters surrounded her. But this is a
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clandestine mission. I think they found out one of, according to them, this is according to
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Operation Pull-Up, that one of the pastors here is a member of ICE. And so here we go.
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I think that is also Don Lemon. The Don Lemon of it all is very, very weird.
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He enters into this church with the mob, and then he's explaining the mob's position.
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This seems less like a journalist covering a news story than a journalist participating in a news
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story, a journalist encouraging a news story, a journalist breaking the law. In any case, though,
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the mob busts into church during the service because they say that one of the pastors is
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affiliated with ICE. Don Lemon, then dressed like an Antifa black block thug wearing a hoodie,
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goes up to one of the pastors and gets right up in his face.
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It's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship.
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Listen, there's a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to
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We're here to worship. We're here to worship Jesus because that's the hope of these cities.
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I want to be very respectful. Please don't push me, though.
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We're here. We're here to worship Jesus. That's why we're here.
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That's why we're here. That's what we're about.
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Don't you think Jesus would be understanding and love these folks?
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But did you try to talk to them as a Christian?
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I have to take care of my church and my family, so I ask that you actually would also leave this building.
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It's surprising to me that he would call himself a Christian.
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He says, I mean, we have a First Amendment right here.
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So you can just bust into anybody's private church service, any organization, any association.
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Hey, so I know I'm interrupting dinner, but hand me a turkey leg.
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I'm protesting. That's my constitutional right.
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I mean, you would have to be powerfully, powerfully stupid and ignorant.
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Meanwhile, you hear the mob just shrieking and screaming.
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And the pastor rightly says, I don't think they want to talk.
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Yeah, but come on, it's their First Amendment right.
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So what's crucial here is they don't have any right to do this.
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Not only do they not have any right to do this, it's actually against federal law.
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The FACE Act is really just used to stop pro-lifers from advocating outside of abortion clinics.
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But the way that they were able to get the FACE Act passed was to say, okay, well, we're going to stop demonstrators at abortion clinics.
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So, okay, so the left, you know, we're going to protect the left's churches, which is where you go and sacrifice babies.
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And we're also going to protect the right's churches, which are just churches.
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Listen, here's our concession to you conservatives.
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We'll stop leftist mobs from ransacking your churches.
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But you need to stop praying outside of abortion mills where they're slaughtering babies to Moloch.
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But inasmuch as it's still the law, they are not allowed to do this.
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We wouldn't tolerate this in any other circumstance, even if we weren't talking about churches specifically, as one of the congregants mentions to Don Lemon.
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These people have come into our house, and they've interrupted our worship.
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This is a house of peace, and we try to proclaim that.
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But more importantly, if I was to break into any of their houses uninvited, cause derision and upset, according to their values, I would be kicked out, ultimately.
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And there's Don Lemon just looking like a complete, not even looking like a schmuck.
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He's just looking like a radical, like a real radical.
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Then he went a little more left, as CNN went more left.
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And since he's left CNN, now he's just cheering on the ransacking of churches.
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And the left just, oh, this was true in Mexico.
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The Nazis, too, which all of those movements were from the left.
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The Nazi movement was more from the right, but it's a little complicated.
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They, too, though, swore to get rid of the churches in Germany, radically change the churches in Germany.
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I mean, even going down to the origin of right and left, the origin of right and left in the French Revolution had the people on the right who defended the church and the people on the left of the National Assembly who hated the church and who ended up trying to destroy it in France.
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The church got the last laugh, but there was a lot of suffering in the meantime.
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So when we look a little closer at the establishment media, there's this clip going viral on the BBC of a BBC journalist interviewing some guy.
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My heroes are Santan Dave, Kendrick Lamar, most of all Jesus Christ.
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Well, it's lovely to meet you, Daniel Chengerai.
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I didn't know if that was a real clip at first.
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I like Kendrick Lamar and, of course, my ultimate hero, Jesus Christ.
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What is your business with me, Jesus of Nazareth?
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All of these political revolutions, they always go after the churches.
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There's a special kind of hatred with these radicals, a special kind of hatred for the
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And then you hear this woman, Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar, and, of course, Jesus Christ,
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And it shouldn't really be surprising because if you believe in Christianity, this makes sense.
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If you believe in Christianity, this makes sense.
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If you don't believe in Christianity, this doesn't make sense.
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What is it about the churches that get these radicals riled up especially in a way that
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If you don't believe in Christianity, it doesn't make any sense.
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If you do believe in Christianity, it makes perfect sense.
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This would be a piece of evidence number 10,558.
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the patriarchs and heads of the churches in Jerusalem with regard to Christian Zionism.
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Very controversial statement, according to the internets, just came out of not just the
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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, which is the chief Catholic prelate in Jerusalem, but the
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heads of the other churches around Jerusalem, the Armenian church, the Syriac church, the
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Greek Orthodox church, all those kinds of apostolic churches.
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A statement from the patriarchs and heads of the churches in Jerusalem on unity and
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representation of the Christian communities in the Holy Land.
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The patriarchs and heads of the churches in the Holy Land affirm before the faithful and
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before the world that the flock of Christ in this land is entrusted to the apostolic churches,
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which have borne their sacred ministry across centuries with steadfast devotion.
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Recent activities undertaken by local individuals who advance damaging ideologies, such as Christian
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Zionism, mislead the public, sow confusion, and harm the unity of our flock.
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These undertakings have found favor among certain political actors in Israel and beyond who seek
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to push a political agenda which may harm the Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider
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It says, may the Lord, who is the shepherd and guardian of souls, grant wisdom for the
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protection of his people and the safeguarding of his witness in the sacred land, the patriarchs
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There's been a lot of talk about Zionism generally, which is the nationalist ideology that sprung up
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in the 19th century that sent the Jews back to the Holy Land, where they had been a couple
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It hadn't really been in big numbers for a while.
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We've even heard about Christian Zionism, which is the Christian, a Christian perspective
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This local individuals who are sowing discord, who are upending the proper Christian authority.
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And I did a little research because I don't really know because I'm Catholic and I don't
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follow these particularly Protestant trends all that closely.
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But I think what they're referring to is this guy, Robert Stearns, who calls himself Bishop
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He's not part of any apostolic Christian community, but he calls himself Bishop Robert Stearns.
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And he is apparently a vociferous advocate of the ideology of Christian Zionism.
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Here's just a little bit of what he said recently.
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If I had a hundred lifetimes, it would not be sufficient teshuvah, it would not be sufficient
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repentance for all that has happened over history.
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I'm here tonight to tell you that there is a new breed of Christian alive in the world
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There is a new breed of Christian that says along with you, for Zion's sake, I will not
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be silent and for Jerusalem's sake, I will not be still.
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We just want to get you all to return to Jerusalem so the apocalypse can come.
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When Mashiach comes, there will be a great press conference in Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem, the BBC and the New York Times will not be invited.
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The Jerusalem Post will be conducting the interview with the Mashiach and they will say to him
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They will say, sir, is this your first visit or your second?
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I was trying to have a sympathetic view of this and the end here is totally ridiculous
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because it violates the law of non-contradiction, which we've known about since at least
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Aristotle, which is that opposing statements cannot simultaneously be true in the same respect.
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So Christ is going to come back and the Christians are going to think it's his second
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coming and the Jews are going to think it's his first coming and they're going to say,
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And at this imaginary press conference, this pastor says, and our Lord will say, yes, yes,
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And if you're a Christian, you have to believe that.
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So he's trying to, I don't know, he's trying to be really nice or soft or something, but
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And then his other claim is that the existence of the present state of Israel is of biblical,
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prophetic, religious importance and is necessary for the coming of the apocalypse or whatever.
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Again, this is a view, I know there are a lot of people who share this view.
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However, this is a relatively new view in the history of Christianity.
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It's only been around for really less than two centuries.
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And this is not the traditional view held by Christianity.
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And it's not the view that I think is correct, which brings us back to the initial statement.
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Is this statement shocking new, even anti-Israel or something like that?
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This is a declaration from the Vatican on the state of Israel from 40 years ago.
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And 20 years after the second Vatican council, which says all sorts of nice things about Jews
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and all, you know, it's in no sense anti-Semitic in any way.
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The Vatican in 1985 says, the history of Israel did not end in 70 AD.
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It continued, especially in a numerous diaspora, which allowed Israel to carry to the whole world
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a witness, often heroic of its fidelity to the one God and to exalt him in the presence
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of all the living, citing Tobit, while preserving the memory of the land of their forefathers
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at the heart of their hope and references the Passover Seder.
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So here, the Vatican is writing not about the church as the new Israel, which is what Christians
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have always held, but he's writing specifically about the terrestrial and figurative Israel
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He's saying, you know, the Jews went all about this world.
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They didn't just end in 70 AD and they've carried this witness, which is often very heroic
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Christians are invited to understand this religious attachment, which finds its roots in biblical
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tradition, without, however, making their own any particular religious interpretation
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And then just to underscore the point, the existence of the state of Israel and its political options
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should be envisaged, not in a perspective which is in itself religious, but in their reference
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This is exactly what the patriarchs are reaffirming from Jerusalem.
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And this is why I would not call myself a Zionist or a Christian Zionist or any other
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It's not because I don't like the Jews and it's not because I don't even support the state
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As I think I've made clear, I am broadly supportive of the nation state of Israel, but I am broadly
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supportive of it, not because I believe in the principles of Zionism, which makes certain
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historical claims and religious claims that I just don't think are true.
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I don't think that the Jews are entitled to the Holy Land because of some religious premise.
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In fact, being Christian, I believe that the Old Testament is fulfilled in the New Testament.
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Christ is the new covenant, the fulfillment, the, you know, everything that was typified
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in the Old Testament is fulfilled in Christ and the church as the new and spiritual Israel.
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And I don't believe just because a people was on a plot of dirt 2,000 years ago that that
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If that were the case, we'd have to turn the Black Hills of, you know, we'd have to turn
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And yet, I am broadly supportive of the nation state of Israel because I don't like the alternatives.
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I don't like the idea of giving Iran more power in the Holy Land.
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I don't think the Muslims have been particularly protective of the holy sites.
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Sometimes they've been better than others, but the Ottoman Empire doesn't exist anymore.
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The current options in the Holy Land are not great, and we're not probably not reestablishing
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So as a practical political matter, then also on the point of international law, the Jews
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were bequeathed some of this territory by the British Empire, which had control of it after
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They then had a declaration from the United Nations purporting to advance international law,
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So any way you slice it, it seems to me that according to the current nation state system,
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But crucially, that is not Zionism, and it doesn't imply anything as a matter of biblical
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prophecy for the modern nation state of Israel.
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You don't have to support the nation state of Israel, but if you do, you can do so without
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adhering to the relatively novel theology of Christian Zionism.
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I like, if you told me if I had to make a choice between hanging out and eating a pastrami
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sandwich with the guys who make pastrami sandwiches and eating shawarma with the guys who make shawarma,
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I'm taking the pastrami sandwich 100 out of 100 times, okay?
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You can be philo-Semitic and not adhere to the relatively novel ideology of Christian Zionism.
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That's clearly what the patriarchs of Jerusalem are saying.
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Anyone suggesting that this is a, I don't know, a break with tradition or anti-Semitic
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or anything like that, I think is just totally insane.
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Now, speaking of, really drilling down on Christianity, there is a lib, James Tallarico,
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who's gone viral for being a lib politician who's ostensibly Christian.
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And he just went on Ezra Klein's show on the New York Times and I think expressed what
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Here is left-wing politician Christian, par excellence, James Tallarico.
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Getting down, good on Ezra Klein for just drilling himself, trying to get down to the
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question of whether or not he's actually a Christian.
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How do you think about the competing claims of different religions?
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Do you believe Christianity to be more true than other religions?
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Do you believe there to be exclusivity in these beliefs, that they're incompatible with
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I also think other religions of love point to the same truth.
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I think of different religious traditions as different languages.
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So, you and I could sit here and debate what to call this cup, and you could call it a cup
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in English, you'd call it something else in Spanish and French, but we are all talking
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I believe Jesus Christ reveals that reality to us.
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But I also think that other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways with their own
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And I've learned more about my tradition by learning more about Buddhism and Hinduism
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And so, I see these beautiful faith traditions as circling the same truth about the universe,
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And I think the most destructive thing is when religion becomes an end in and of itself.
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My pastor always told me growing up that religious symbols are like aspirin.
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If you get lost in the symbols, if you get lost in the words, you're missing the reality
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that we're all trying to describe and talk about.
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He says, do you think Christianity is more true?
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He didn't even start out by saying, is the only religion that contains any truth whatsoever.
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He says, do you think Christianity is more true than other religions?
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And do you think that Christianity makes exclusive claims to the truth?
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Or is correct in its exclusive claims to the truth?
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Which shows you that Tallarico's real religion is liberalism.
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And that's true for a lot of Democrat politicians.
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It's true for someone like Joe Biden, who says that he's Catholic.
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It's true for someone like, I don't know, someone like Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, really down
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Biden makes such a big show of being the greatest Catholic in the world.
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You know, he's always as Catholic as they come, isn't he?
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Until it conflicts with his liberalism on an issue like abortion.
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And then when it comes to that issue like abortion, he goes with liberalism.
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The church says this is a non-negotiable issue.
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You will be excommunicated, very likely, if you support abortion.
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And Biden says, well, I'm supporting abortion anyway.
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Because when liberalism and Christianity can go hand in hand, don't forget, liberalism
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is an outgrowth and really a perversion of Christianity.
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When they diverge and when they conflict, he's picking liberalism every time.
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Christianity says marriage is a union between a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation
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Liberalism says two fellas doing weird stuff together can be marriage.
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They always go with liberalism when there's a conflict.
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He's just doing a really dumb version of Kant, basically.
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He's saying, well, Christianity has some truth.
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I mean, look, the true thing that Tallarico is saying is that even in natural religion,
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you can find a little bit of truth, partial truths.
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You can in something like Buddhism or Greek paganism.
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Because the existence of God can be known with certainty from the natural world.
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Because Christ is the logos, the logic of the universe.
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So in as much as we are engaging with the natural world in anything resembling a rational way,
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you're going to get some hint of religious truth.
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Then you fast forward to the Jews, and the Jews get a real revelation
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So there, you're getting a pretty good glimpse of revealed religious truth.
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Even with Islam, you're getting a bunch of heresy.
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But at the very least, it's heresy that comes against Christianity.
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So in that way, it's kind of clarifying of Christianity.
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If you're a Christian, you have to believe it is the truth.
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That the church possesses the fullness of truth.
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You have to believe that if you're a Christian.
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And if you don't believe that, you're probably not a Christian, right?
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If you are not, at the very least, willing to say Christianity is more true than Buddhism,
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you're not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
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I suppose if you're baptized, then you have an indelible mark on your soul.
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But when it comes to the ascent of your intellect and will, you're not really Christian.
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He says, no, it's just they all these religions, including Christianity, point to the truth.
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I would say all of these religions in some way point to the truth, which is Christianity.
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I guess you could say, but he says, no, no, no.
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All of the religions, including Christianity, point at some other truth, which is just liberalism.
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Liberalism just says, well, look, there are these abstract truths about human nature
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that previous religions tried to sort of get at, but basically got wrong.
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When it comes down to it, you really ultimately cannot be a Christian and a true committed ideological liberal.
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Because they make contrary claims and they can't simultaneously be true in the same respect.
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Speaking of irreverent religious discussion from legislators, Ilhan Omar going viral for having this to say about the United States.
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The one place where we thought we would never experience this is the U.S. goddamn states.
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I don't like it when people take the Lord's name in vain.
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I'm not saying I haven't done it in my life and I don't like that I did it in my life and people shouldn't do it, especially not legislators.
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Because when you take the vulgarity out of what she says, she's calling the country God forsaken.
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And that's offensive in a much deeper way because she's not from this country.
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And the only way she was able to come here is by claiming that this country was going to give her refuge.
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That her own country was such a mess that she was going to come here as a charity case and we were going to be really nice to her.
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This country, which ostensibly could have saved her life and which made her wealthy, which made her famous, which gave her political power stupidly.
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And she has that kind of ingratitude to say about the country, that vulgarity.
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She, by her very presence in this country, degrades our political order so visibly.
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Her complaint is we don't want infinite Somalis to come in.
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And if you expected something else from America, that's too bad.
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I'm sorry that I'm not all that sorry, but I'm sorry that you, you know, miscalculated or something.
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But if your complaint is that now we want you to leave, well, I'm not sorry for that.
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You certainly shouldn't be in political office.
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It would seem committed immigration fraud to come here anyway or to bring your brother here.
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And if my saying that makes you hate our country even more, well, I'm glad we have clarity.
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I don't know how to say get out in the Star Wars dialect, but go.
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Go back to Somalia or the new country that's being carved out of Somalia.
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I'm glad we finally have agreement with Ilhan Omar.
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You know what they teach you in schools these days?
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And they teach you a bunch of nonsense at worst.
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You know what they teach you in popular culture and on television and in the movies?
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That's a reset on all the anti-American nonsense that you're getting in schools and you're getting
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Hey, before we get to my favorite comment of the day, we have a new episode of Bar Fight
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I hit people driving out of the Walmart parking lot.
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I don't support violence, but some of you guys have never had your ass kicked and it
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Listen, I've almost gotten hit by a deranged retailer.
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You guys are like, yee-haw, for like not feeding babies.
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I'm delighted to be joined by our two esteemed guests, including our first ever returning
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You guys are quite literally taking an 80-20 position on this line.
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Because they've been lied to about what happened.
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If you want a job where you can go terrorize ISIS for you.
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Our second guest, marketing and influencer sensation.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Victor Simpson, 4487.
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I'm absent-minded in the morning and in the afternoon and the evening.
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It says, France has a civil war every few years so they can win something.
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There's all sorts of rioting in the streets in France.
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And this is one where I really don't totally blame it on the Muslims.
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Muslims have been trying to conquer France since at least the 8th century.
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Not just Ilhan Omar, who's whining and screeching about this country.
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She's kind of the most, weirdly, she's the most likable.
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And then Rashida Tlaib, I guess she's George Harrison.
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Well, Tlaib freaked out over a simple post from the Department of Homeland Security, saying we will have our home again.
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Department of Homeland Security says we're going to enforce the law, kick out foreign criminals.
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It literally, when I see it as a Muslimah, as a Palestinian, as a child of immigrants, I see that this is something that is evoking, like, I'm not welcome here.
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It is very clear what is intentionally happening here.
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Okay, so if Rashida Tlaib has some legal right to be in this country, which I guess she does, that's too bad.
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But if she reads from DHS, we will have our home, and she reads herself as being outside of that, if she reads that as an attack on her, we will defend our home, says the Department of Homeland Security.
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And she reads that as an attack on her, that is an admission.
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I think Homegirl's telling us something here about her real position in the United States and how she really views the country.
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If she viewed it as her home, then she'd say, yes, great, we will have our home again, won't we?
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If, however, she views herself as a hostile foreigner who's attempting to conquer the country, and she views resistance to that as a threat to her, well, that tells us something, too.
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And if that's how she views it, then I want her out, too.
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There's a clip, I don't think we're allowed to play it because it's from a litigious social media account, but a great, great clip, it was really well done, of an ICE officer pulling up and yelling back at the journos and the agitators and the rioters.
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They're screeching at him, and he rolls down his window, he says, hey, hey, hey, we're here to arrest a child sex offender.
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It's not like these guys are just going in willy-nilly scattershot.
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They are in these places to go arrest particular people, one of whom, many of whom, but one in particular here, was a child sex offender.
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He rolls down the window, he says, hey, you guys, you're obstructing us, you're putting yourselves in danger, you're violating the law to protect a child rapist.
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And the guy, actually, the ICE officer in question was himself, I think, Hispanic, certainly of exotic origin, was not a white bread guy.
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He says, what, you people are insane, of course.
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And this is backed up by the most famous pedophile hunter probably in the world, Chris Hansen.
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Some of you are too young to remember that show, to catch a predator, whereas he would do these stings, and these bumbling guys would come up and be like, oh, hey, hi, are you here to go see a 12-year-old girl?
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You know, and they've got all sorts of terrible things with them, and they just confessed multiple times that they were going to do this.
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Anyway, Chris Hansen still does these stings, and apparently, it relates to immigration enforcement.
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We have seen an increase in illegal immigrants being caught in our stings across the country, and it seems today that we can't do a sting, whether we're in the South or the Midwest or West Coast or East Coast, without catching somebody who's in this country illegally.
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We cannot do a sting without catching somebody who is in this country illegally.
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It can either mean that illegal aliens are more likely to solicit minors, or it can mean that there are just so many illegal aliens that statistically you're going to get some pedophiles in the group.
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Yeah, we can't do a sting without some illegals showing up.
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So are they more likely than the native population to solicit kids for sex, or are there just so many of them that you can't throw a rock without hitting an illegal alien?
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The people, there's some critics of Trump on the right who are really understating how many illegals have been shipped out of the country.
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First of all, Barack Obama did not actually deport 300,000 to 400,000 illegals a year.
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In this case, it would be liberals who are trying to defend their policy of effectively open borders.
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Because the 300,000 to 400,000 deportations under Obama were largely just turnaways at the border, and they counted that.
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So the people who are being deported are actually ISIS going in, arresting these people, shipping them out of the country.
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The Trump administration last year deported at least 525,000 or so, and probably many, many more.
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Because we have reports from the various labor department and also from anti-immigration groups that show that self-deportations, because of the rather flamboyant way in which these people are being deported, self-deportations could be well over 1.5 million people.
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So you could have well over 2 million deportations just last year.
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Maybe the administration is just trying to puff up its numbers.
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No, you actually, you can track it in a few ways.
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One, we see that rentals, rental prices declined four months in a row.
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100% responsible for that in mass migration generally, including legal immigrants.
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100% responsible for that in California and New York, 60% nationwide.
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So that would be one sign, wow, people really are leaving the country.
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And I'm quoting ABC News here, so not exactly a conservative outlet.
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U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data reveal.
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This suggests a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades.
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Could it be because all the drugs, all these illicit drugs were coming across the southern border,
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thanks to the cartels and our foreign adversaries?
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And then when you cut off the flow of the immigrants, you cut off the flow of the drugs, and then the overdose deaths drop.
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So by the way, this also reveals that when you cut off supply, demand changes too.
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Sometimes you hear, especially from the libertarians, well, we just need to fix the demand problem.
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You know, the real problem isn't these face-tattooed cartels.
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The real problem is that Americans like cocaine, and sometimes it's laced with fentanyl.
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I mean, that's a problem to get people to not want to do a bunch of coke.
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But also, if you cut off supply, demand shrinks also.
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That's not an excuse to just do nothing on law enforcement.
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Okay, speaking of drugs and partying and all this stuff, there's one clip I got to get to.
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He's this 19-year-old kid who does meth, which I discouraged, but he does it to look thinner.
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And he takes all sorts of drugs to look better because he's a looks-maxer.
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And so anyway, Clavicular went out with a number of other kind of edgy, I guess, right-wing live streamers and influencers,
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including the Tate brothers, Andrew and Tristan Tate, including Justin Waller, who actually was also on Michael Land,
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including guys like Nick Fuentes and Sneeko, who is another one, Myron Gaines.
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And they all went out to a club, and that was it.
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And the reason that I find this politically relevant is because there's a very funny clip of Tristan Tate and Justin Waller
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being very nice to my former guest, Clavicular, but telling him that he got something wrong.
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Because in our interview, Clavicular said, I find Gavin Newsom to be sexier than J.D. Vance,
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and therefore, I am going to vote for Gavin Newsom.
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And here are these two guys gently correcting this young pup.
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And I, yeah, I went viral for basically saying,
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I said I was going to vote for Gavin Newsom because you love J.D. Vance, you know what I mean?
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However, you're an American, and I'm an American, so I don't tell other Americans who to vote for it.
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But if Gavin Newsom is running against J.D. Vance, I will be voting for J.D. Vance,
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and that's my vote, and you can do it and vote with yours.
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You vote for whoever you like, but I'm voting J.D. Vance.
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I'm voting for America, and that's probably going to be J.D.
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So it's like, this is not a hostile interaction, and I'll get very briefly to what this whole kind of show was
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because it was really going viral on the internet, and I think people are just misunderstanding what this was.
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But I like this, one of the scenes of this episode of the, you know, edgy right-wing live streamers go to a club.
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One of the scenes is, hey, did you, are you, you're so, like, edgy and contrarian that you endorsed Gavin Newsom?
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The guy who said he wants, like, more trans kids and destroyed his whole state and the economy and all that.
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I'm so contrarian that I said that because I find Gavin Newsom sexier, I'm going to vote for him.
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He's like a pro-trans, pro, like, the far left burned his city to the ground, like, destroyed the, you don't want to go that far.
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Never go so contrarian that you're endorsing Gavin Newsom.
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I got a real kick out of that from these two guys, Justin Waller and Tristan Tate.
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It was a show of all these kind of edgy guys going to a club.
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And there were these chicks who were there and they're like dancing with them and talking about taking them home and, you know, it's bumping all this music and what, what is this about?
00:48:35.480
I don't think, yeah, I just don't think people really get what it is.
00:48:39.840
Everyone's focusing on the political aspect because some of these guys sometimes talk about politics.
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Live streaming generally is just the extreme of reality TV.
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And now, then it evolved into the Jersey Shore and Real Housewives.
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And I'm actually pretty impressed with the quality of this because now that politics is really in vogue, unlike, you know, years ago, fashion or music was more the thing.
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So now it's like vaguely about politics, but not really.
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They're not really, they're kind of, you know, like the presidential election comes up as it might on another reality show.
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But otherwise, the thing I'm really impressed with about this is when they're making the Jersey Shore a survivor, they had months to edit, to cut it, to, you know, had writers on staff that were creating some of the tension.
00:49:56.120
I don't know, I think most of it's probably pretty boring, but it's impressive that they can grab audience and do all of this live in what is reality TV.
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Reality TV, which is itself an outgrowth of game shows, which is basically the earliest form of television entertainment.
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As TVs are first emerging in the 1930s and 40s, that's where you get game shows.
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What the live stream does is just because it's doing it live, because there's no editing really at all when it is live,
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it's just even further blurring the line between public entertainment and private life.
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And in some ways, I blame millennials for this.
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You know, in many ways, we really ramped this up when we all started taking pictures of our lunches when Instagram came around.
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We all just had to let everyone know about our turkey club that we ordered at brunch or whatever.
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And so there's something kind of sad about it because, look, you watch it just like you'd watch reality TV, and it can be entertaining, and it's kind of trash TV.
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I'm not even, look, obviously, certain political ideologies, I hope they don't emulate either.
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Like, it seems like everyone's an influencer now, and that's fine.
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You need a private life to have a good life, to have peace, to flourish, to grow up, to do the things that will allow you to mature and flourish and have a good life.
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And you can't do that if every second of your life is on camera.
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It's fun for us to watch the Jersey Shore, to watch people go out to the club, whether it's at the Jersey Shore or whether it's this thing.
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And if you're living all of your life to just perform for others, dare I say even to mog others, like that can be kind of fun in the short term.
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But if you're living all your life that way, you will have a miserable life.
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You won't do the things that actually give you satisfaction, which ultimately can only come from the kind of peace that you get when you live your life in its real purpose, the purpose of which is to know God and to serve him here and to be with him for eternity.
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This reminds me of something St. Thomas Aquinas pointed out, which is the cause of despair.
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You know, that's as bad as it gets in this world.
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And despair, he says, comes from two things in particular, sloth especially, but lust as well.
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Because lust especially, you know, I guess tastes, you know, foods and drinks and stuff, but lust especially causes us to focus on sensuous pleasures, the pleasures of the senses, the pleasures of the material world.
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And to take our eyes off of spiritual goods, which is the only place that we'll find our peace.
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Because we're beings that have a finite body, but we have a rational soul, which is immaterial.
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And so if you're only feeding the body, your soul, which is really driving you, is going to fall into despair.
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That might be the most anyone has thought about the clip of the edgy right-wing streamers going to the club.
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But I had to touch on it, especially because there was a reference in it to my interview with Mr. Ikeler.
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
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I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
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Vader Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
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How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
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Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.