The NXR Podcast - THE LIVESTREAM - Free Speech & Casinos： The Power of Local Resistance

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00:00:26.800 no one is coming to save you it's time to begin thinking about our current war as a struggle that

00:00:34.980 could last a generation or even longer like trench warfare in world war ii sometimes progress looks

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00:00:48.400 we have fights to win politically culturally personally and ecclesiastically and none of them

00:00:55.480 will be easy. When it comes to the political, we talk about politics frequently, but we often don't

00:01:02.120 dive into the actual strategy, practicals, and mechanics of how politics works. Why is that?

00:01:09.980 Well, in a word, localism. See, the biggest impact most of us can have is actually not at the federal

00:01:17.000 level. We only have one president, 50 senators, and 428 federal representatives, and billions of

00:01:24.440 are poured into influencing those particular races.

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00:01:31.360 may cost $2.8 million to run on average,

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00:02:24.020 welcome welcome we're back michael belch is sick i was gonna say we're back we're back he's one

00:02:37.180 minus one yeah yeah he's under the weather so pray for him if you can in your thoughts there's

00:02:41.160 a little bit of sickness still going around here but we're diving in today i know we're starting

00:02:45.400 a little bit late. We're going to talk about a topic that I think practically is just really

00:02:49.540 going to have a lot of impact, and that's going to be talking about what it looks like to actually

00:02:53.360 do politics. We obviously converse and discuss a lot politics on this show, but I think some

00:02:59.020 people could get the sense like, okay, you talk about it and you expound, and we talk, of course,

00:03:03.540 that culture can often be downstream of politics, right? All the approval for gay marriage didn't

00:03:07.820 happen before the Supreme Court made it legal, but after. Politics has an impact that downstream of

00:03:13.220 it people say well this is normal this should be accepted this is good and so it's profoundly

00:03:17.680 impactful but i don't think to date we've really talked about exactly what that looks like especially

00:03:23.000 on the ground how you do it right how to actually win no but but you're right like the old adage is

00:03:29.360 you know the politics is downstream of culture and culture you know comes from cultists the latin

00:03:34.460 you know worship and so culture is downstream of the church of theology and all that is certainly

00:03:40.340 true right the the church and it's a theology impacts culture culture impacts politics um but

00:03:46.140 this isn't just a one-way stream but rather a two-way street um you're absolutely right when

00:03:51.640 you think of a berger fell in 2015 that decision right there was certainly cultural changes that

00:03:56.740 led towards that legislative decision but upon that decision being politically made all of a 0.98

00:04:02.540 sudden it opened the floodgates for an even more perverse and homosexual friendly culture one of 0.99

00:04:08.260 the things that popped into my mind as you were saying that i can't help but think of uh the scene 1.00

00:04:12.140 of uh one of the episodes of seinfeld where elaine and jerry are visiting this restaurant you know

00:04:17.880 and they're having lunch and the owner comes out and asks how's the meal you know and i he's he's

00:04:23.000 a foreigner from some other place and uh they're talking to him and um and somehow you know the

00:04:28.540 topic of abortion comes up and he's very much pro-life and elaine you know she's a single woman 0.85

00:04:34.340 living in new york so naturally she hates movies and wants to kill them all you know um and so you

00:04:39.500 know the owner of this restaurant is saying no we protect you know the lives of unborn children and

00:04:44.200 how anybody could think otherwise is beyond me i can't believe you know that anybody would think

00:04:48.580 that um that the child in the womb is um is up for grabs and that it could just be put to death

00:04:54.460 and um and at one point you know he's getting you know passionate about his argument he says

00:04:59.340 what gives you the right you know who who gives you the right and elaine stands up from the table

00:05:05.000 you know in typical again single cat lady living in new york you know i mean just absolutely 0.98

00:05:11.980 atrocious and she stands up and she says the supreme court of the united states of america

00:05:17.400 now of course this one didn't age very well because jesus christ uh you know kind of trounced

00:05:22.680 the supreme court of the united states of america and that terrible decision um through supreme

00:05:27.320 court justices who overwrote that decision but at the time that this episode of seinfield was

00:05:32.140 being made that was you know at least perceived as the law of the land now technically it was

00:05:37.100 never law it was just a supreme court justice well their army enforced it right the army of

00:05:41.460 the supreme court right they don't have an army turns out you can just override judges and you

00:05:46.760 should when they're wicked when they're wicked if you happen to be the president of the united

00:05:50.620 states you just go and and override them also by the way it's like oh we still have too many

00:05:56.220 liberal judges yes that's correct also we have too many female judges yep out of nine four of

00:06:01.920 them are women you will not get 30 to 40 illegal immigrants out of this country which must happen

00:06:08.860 millions must go back whenever i go to costco i always think trillions i fly and i'm like there's 0.99

00:06:14.720 more here than ever oh my goodness gazillions more than the population of the entire world

00:06:20.140 have to go back but but the point is you're not going to send 30 to 40 million people back 0.99

00:06:24.120 uh with four um female supreme court justices because they're not thinking in those terms 1.00

00:06:30.040 it's like oh but she's based she's conservative oh she's based in conservative yeah she is a

00:06:34.540 conservative mother and praise god for it yeah that's great but the same maternal feminine

00:06:39.400 instinct that caused her to have seven children and adopt two from haiti that same instinct is 1.00

00:06:46.420 not going to to load mothers and children on planes to be shipped out of our country

00:06:51.560 nope so she's great amy coney bear fantastic as a mom in the home adoption i was adopted that's

00:06:59.240 great praise god uh as a civil magistrate ruling on these kinds of policies no thank you right

00:07:06.540 with conservatives like these you know then who needs liberals right so all that being said yeah

00:07:11.660 he needs to just go ahead and override it but my point was you know to echo your point back to the

00:07:16.960 you know the Seinfeld episode um we we always yes it's true that um that worship influence

00:07:23.180 influences culture and for the record it's it's not whether but which right so it's not just

00:07:27.860 christian worship but whatever you worship demon worship influences a particular culture too but

00:07:33.360 but worship religious worship of whatever stripe it may happen to be that influences the culture

00:07:38.860 the culture then influences politics that's all fine and dandy that's absolutely true neither you

00:07:43.840 or I are denying that on the show. However, we're simply adding to that, that it's not a one-way

00:07:50.980 stream, but a two-way street. And it works in the opposite direction as well. Sometimes politics,

00:07:57.920 laws are set in place and executed in such a way that that eventually shapes the heart of the

00:08:03.320 people. Just like Elaine, she feels extra confident as she's arguing with this guy who's

00:08:08.520 making you know making a defense for the unborn and she's so so confident that she's right on what

00:08:14.060 basis the culture no politics the supreme court yep they said this and so therefore it must be

00:08:21.580 true yeah absolutely and it's what i want to get across really in this episode is we need to start

00:08:26.920 thinking locally we're giving that example because it's relevant to all of us as americans i mean the

00:08:31.480 supreme court decision it stands for the law of the land and had a profound impact but there's

00:08:35.920 really only a handful of decisions, Obergefell being one of them, Roe v. Wade being another,

00:08:40.820 others you could kind of go down the list from there. But I mean, those are the biggest Supreme

00:08:44.360 Court decisions that have been made here in a very long time. But practically speaking,

00:08:49.240 think about COVID, for instance, there was tons of people in California, their sheriff was great,

00:08:54.160 and honestly, life continued as normal. So you, of course, have the average experience across

00:08:58.860 the United States. But for you personally, for you as the individual, especially for fathers,

00:09:02.960 for husbands, for landowners, for business owners, where you live is actually a lot more

00:09:08.920 impactful. And even within a given state that you could live in a red area and a blue state

00:09:13.080 and have a better experience than someone in a blue area in a red state. And so we have to start

00:09:16.880 thinking, as I wrote in the cold open, we're going to be in this for a while and the battle is going

00:09:21.460 to take place everywhere. It's not as though there's a single battle and we're bystanders

00:09:25.560 on it, right? We're in the grandstands. We're looking on, will Trump defy the Supreme Court?

00:09:29.880 what will they do? Will they let it happen? Sure, that's one battle that has to be fought,

00:09:34.020 but there are literally thousands of them that have to be fought on the ground everywhere else.

00:09:38.620 I want to go ahead and show that, for one, things are certainly getting a lot more political. I

00:09:43.060 think it's really helpful to kind of show people, because there can be a temptation, especially

00:09:46.200 among older individuals, to feel like, well, things is just, this is politics. This is business

00:09:50.040 as usual. There's always been ups and downs, always been concern, always been propaganda.

00:09:55.500 Let's pull up this first image, Nate. I just want to show that this is the amount of money that goes

00:09:59.780 into. This is as you're thinking about, do I run for office? Thinking about what it would take.

00:10:04.260 You'll see here, this is a graph and they're adjusted for inflation. So this is the same

00:10:07.880 amount of money, be it 1998, be it 2024. And in the blue, for anyone listening is congressional

00:10:13.260 races. And in the yellow kind of orange there, that's your presidential races. And it's the

00:10:18.600 amount of spending that took place across all of those races. And so from 1998, you would have

00:10:23.860 nationally adjusted for inflation about three billion dollars that were spent on all of these

00:10:30.200 races now granted there was not a presidential race in 98 that one came in 2000 but in 98 the

00:10:35.420 congressional race about three billion presidential race about maybe six billion today so this is just

00:10:41.820 25 years things have gotten much more political and those numbers jumped to 10 billion dollars

00:10:47.340 so jumped about three times as much money being spent on congressional races and then presidential

00:10:52.500 race all the way up to, take them all in total, up to $16 billion roughly. And so you're looking

00:10:58.540 at three to four more times money, multiplication of money. Billions and billions and billions more

00:11:06.340 dollars are flowing in politically. And you need to realize this. You need to realize that every

00:11:11.240 single race, even down to mayor and state representative and this, that, or the other,

00:11:15.260 they're actually, they're going to take money. And taking money means that we have to have guys

00:11:19.340 in business that then fund the people that are going into politics we have to have people making

00:11:23.140 money that fund candidates that they want the point is there's no easy way out you don't just

00:11:27.940 undo a system a 16 billion dollar enterprise of elections every two years of midterms and

00:11:34.500 presidential and midterms there's no just the christian prince comes in and wipes that all

00:11:38.280 away maybe there's like a two percent chance that happens but honestly like you need to be thinking

00:11:42.860 there's a huge apparatus and you can start 20 years from now like oh maybe maybe we should care

00:11:47.540 about these state houses and these state races okay and the best time to actually start wouldn't

00:11:52.020 be 20 years from now but it would be today yep anything else to add there yeah no that's well

00:11:58.140 said um that's well said yeah nobody likes it but um you can live in the 17th dimension or you can

00:12:06.400 live in the world that actually is and the world that actually is has a lot of corrupt things that

00:12:12.320 you have to deal with and uh the reality is that we live in a political world and a political world

00:12:17.880 is not inherently bad but we live in a corrupted fallen world that also happens to be political so

00:12:22.780 we have fallen politics and we have injections of corrupt capital you know and money talk about

00:12:28.560 dark money later all these kinds of things uh but yeah as you were saying that you know and we're

00:12:32.440 looking at 16 billion you know as the number across the screen you know for 2024 and i'm

00:12:37.260 thinking yeah i know at least a hundred million of that uh came from uh the adelson's yeah jewish

00:12:42.880 family that uh supported trump and that same jewish family is trying to put a casino in our 0.63

00:12:49.440 backyard here in texas turn dfw into a las vegas which stick around because we're going to dive 0.97

00:12:56.300 into that all kinds of crime yeah all kinds of degenerates it will it will over time not year

00:13:02.900 one but over time it will absolutely ruin our state yeah um you think the southern border they'll

00:13:08.120 get rich off of it too and our state will be ruined yeah we won't get rich off of that and

00:13:12.180 so then you're like well what's going like what's going on here um how are they how are they getting

00:13:18.460 away with this well part of the way you get away with it is you give a hundred million to trump

00:13:23.560 and sometimes when people are like oh i don't understand you know like is trump gonna cross

00:13:28.360 of rubicon you know and like i'm sitting here you know like trust in the plan he's playing 40 chest

00:13:34.020 i've got the fell for it again badges you know cover my entire body you know i can barely see

00:13:38.320 through my glasses fell for it again fell for it again fell for it again you know like trump mega

00:13:42.720 you know the drools coming out of your mouth and it's like hear me i voted for trump i'm glad that

00:13:47.680 he's president but you also just have to be honest um peter thiel palantir jd vance trump getting

00:13:56.280 100 million from the edelsons who are also jewish and putting a casino and dfw like

00:14:01.840 it's not looking great don't love it do not love it and right now to be honest we're on track for 0.92

00:14:08.480 uh if if these numbers continue we're on track for one to two million deportations

00:14:13.440 in four years yep and that's generous yeah one to two million uh which puts uh trump at what less

00:14:20.200 than half than obama so we just you just i like trump okay i do but i'm going to be honest about

00:14:31.040 trump and if trump gets federal funding for ivf which incarcerates children that be that begins

00:14:38.920 at conception which is not implantation but fertilization that's a child made in the image

00:14:43.680 of god if he gets federal tax funded dollars for ivf and is taking 100 million from this 0.96

00:14:49.960 jewish family that ruins my state and deports only two million people um and and people are like oh 0.96

00:14:58.320 there's so much winning i can't take the winning wake up yeah and enter into the real world and 0.74

00:15:03.860 those are the things we're going to talk about on this episode today um we need to be political

00:15:07.980 beasts and to do that we need to know we need to have a bible in our hand but we also need to have

00:15:14.460 preferably an iq above 85 and think in real world dynamics which involves strategy it involves

00:15:22.860 campaigns it involves money we need to get something done yep because the calvary's not

00:15:28.160 coming we've got to do something i love this comment so this is from missouri christians

00:15:32.600 against abortion they said this is true i spent a summer knocking to door knocking to remove our

00:15:37.240 state senator in missouri and ultimately so this is the state level this isn't federal but at the

00:15:41.400 state level in Missouri, and it ultimately resulted in outlawing transgender mutilation

00:15:46.100 for minors. How many Christians- Knocking on doors, and he did that. 0.68

00:15:49.480 Yep. And how many Christians totally oppose it, but never were even thinking, oh, this is something 0.71

00:15:53.940 could happen to my state. Oh, there's people that support it. Oh, they're running for office. Oh, 0.52

00:15:57.660 I should donate. Oh, I should give my time. You've got to start thinking local. Let me put some flesh

00:16:01.800 on the bones here. Nate, you can pull up the second graphic. Real quick, there was one more

00:16:05.400 comment. I got a shout out. Nathan, scroll up real quick. This comes from Dreamer, and he says,

00:16:11.400 good afternoon fellow real writers r-i-g-h-t not right the real right i i'd like to take credit

00:16:19.680 for that one i said uh the other day on twitter i said i'm bullish on the real right woke right's

00:16:25.280 not a thing doesn't exist if you want to hear my uh conclusive once and for all it should be done

00:16:31.700 i assume james lindsey's currently right now as we speak in the fetal position you know crying

00:16:36.300 but uh if you want to hear my once for all takedown of the uh the joke of a term woke right

00:16:42.180 then you can see me on uh on elijah shaffer's uh slightly offensive and uh and i i took that

00:16:49.280 deceptive joke of a term to task real right yeah we'll see may not catch on but at least one guy

00:16:56.520 in the chat our guy he's using it dreamer god bless you love it all right so let's pull up a

00:17:02.320 Graphic two here.

00:17:03.260 So I just want to show, we talk about state, we talk about local.

00:17:06.920 Look at the difference here in money.

00:17:09.700 Look at the difference in the number of just positions that exist.

00:17:13.200 And look at the just opportunity there is.

00:17:16.200 So federal level, one president, 50 senators, 428 representatives.

00:17:20.200 Guys, the Senate race costs $26 million.

00:17:22.320 If you have $26 million, give me a call.

00:17:25.300 Most of us don't have that, and it's hard to raise that amount of money.

00:17:28.160 At the state level, though, well, instead of 50 senators, there's 50 slots and all this

00:17:32.640 money, all these people, all the talents competing for, well, across the United States, you have

00:17:36.180 around 1,900 state senators.

00:17:38.820 Those races, they don't cost $26 million.

00:17:40.840 They cost, on average, so the average for those who win, about $150,000.

00:17:45.800 Raising that, that's a couple men who are lawyers and attorneys and doctors in your

00:17:50.480 church.

00:17:50.940 They really want to see you get into politics.

00:17:52.580 That's a lot more doable.

00:17:53.860 Same thing at the state representative level, about 5,500 state reps at that level.

00:17:59.480 Your average winnings, that's $70,000.

00:18:01.940 That's to get a campaign.

00:18:03.100 That's to run ads.

00:18:03.940 That's to get volunteers.

00:18:05.060 That's to do all of those different things.

00:18:06.900 And so your state level, same thing with local.

00:18:09.800 You've got, obviously, mayor of Los Angeles is different than being mayor of Timbuktu.

00:18:14.040 But you have a lot more opportunity right at this intermediate level.

00:18:16.820 You can go to the next graphic here.

00:18:19.180 And I really think we're thinking localism.

00:18:21.300 We're thinking Christian boroughs.

00:18:22.260 We're thinking, where can I have the most impact?

00:18:24.200 It's not federal.

00:18:25.680 Now, don't think too small either.

00:18:27.400 Well, I'm going to take over my HOA for Jesus.

00:18:29.560 Well, praise God, and you probably could.

00:18:31.680 And I'll even grant you, probably practically, as far as having an impact, if you could,

00:18:36.800 for example, I don't know, like raise chickens, ban offensive yard signs, you could actually

00:18:41.120 have a pretty quaint, well-manicured little neighborhood.

00:18:44.060 You could be practically beneficial at a personal level, but you're always doing the trade-off.

00:18:48.960 all right this will be beneficial to me but me and five other people now banning abortion at the

00:18:53.880 federal level that would be awesome that would be beneficial to millions of people right practically

00:18:59.100 impossible at the national level you guys have to understand legislation is so gridlocked it's just

00:19:05.420 hard to pass anything there's people that spend their entire career in politics they're trying to

00:19:09.180 just pass funding for interstates etc the other very very difficult to do practically down at the

00:19:15.120 low level, yeah, you could definitely do tons of things that are local. They're not going to have

00:19:19.220 much of an impact. You need to think county and you need to think state. And we're going to get

00:19:23.200 into some actual case studies of exactly this happening. You talked about Dallas. We're going

00:19:26.720 to talk about Colorado as well. But in your mindset, you need to know who's my state senator

00:19:31.160 in my district. Who's my state representative? Who's the mayor? Who's on city council for my

00:19:36.920 district? Who's my sheriff? Who's this? Who's that or the other? Maybe you have to move. You're

00:19:42.040 looking at it practically and you're like every single person that represents me they have none

00:19:45.680 of my interests in mind now you don't keep moving it's not well I moved here and and they're not

00:19:50.280 perfect he's not an abolitionist we're out of Tennessee and we're off to Georgia if you have

00:19:54.380 to make the move make it but then the best way to win at those levels you have to stay somewhere

00:19:59.140 like honestly the people that I see like for example in the Texas legislator there are a lot

00:20:03.700 of times people that have family ties to Texas for generations they're not people that moved around

00:20:08.440 We actually have Valentina Gomez is her name. 1.00

00:20:11.460 She's tried to win a number of different like House representative races. 1.00

00:20:14.920 She actually just moved here to run for Texas House District 31. 1.00

00:20:18.360 Nobody's going to vote for her. 1.00

00:20:19.680 She's all over the place.

00:20:21.240 So you've got to find somewhere.

00:20:22.720 You've got to say, I want to have an impact.

00:20:24.420 Ideally, it's practically achievable that you actually could do that.

00:20:28.660 And then you've got to stick.

00:20:30.120 I'm fighting for this county.

00:20:31.600 I'm fighting for this district for 40 years.

00:20:35.040 Helping candidates, door knocking, donating, vetting people.

00:20:38.440 encouraging hey you're awesome you love the lord you have a great job that will support this

00:20:42.680 you need to get out there you need to run for office so start thinking not so local you have

00:20:47.880 no impact not so high level that you would have impact but you can't do it but the county state

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00:22:43.380 all right right so say you're all in you say i want to i want to do this and i want to get

00:23:01.680 involved in politics one of the big things you're going to have to do and this is why

00:23:05.460 we haven't talked about it a ton we haven't talked about these local races we haven't talked about

00:23:09.400 what it looks is because I can't actually tell you state to state what it actually looks like

00:23:14.160 to get involved. So for example, Texas is one of the lowest paying state legislators. You make,

00:23:19.300 it's like six to $7,000 and you're in session about five months. And then if there's special

00:23:24.020 sessions for about eight months, now that's a full-time job. So that means you're getting paid

00:23:28.520 $7,000 and you're working for five months for basically $1,200. It's not a career. And this

00:23:35.680 is actually a barrier. Texas did it so that people don't kind of become career politicians.

00:23:39.740 They have to be successful outside of politics. But if you think about a young man who's got kids,

00:23:44.400 he's like, awesome, I want to do something for the Lord. Well, here's the deal, young man,

00:23:47.760 you have to be independently wealthy and able to do that. Now compare that to Pennsylvania.

00:23:52.700 Pennsylvania state legislator pays $106,000 a year. Well, all of a sudden you've gone from,

00:23:57.520 I could do this as a career. I just have to win a race. You've jumped way over to if you're in

00:24:01.320 Pennsylvania. New York also pays a lot. If you win a race there, that could totally be your career.

00:24:06.500 They're in session all year long. And so when it comes down to, I want to be involved, but where

00:24:10.980 should I be involved? The deal is you have to begin to know your area. You have to know what

00:24:16.280 they pay. You have to know how long legislators in session. You have to know city council. Every

00:24:20.940 city council, every board of trustees position, every school board position across the United

00:24:25.040 States, some of them have a stipend of $12,000. Some of them are full-time jobs. And so we can't

00:24:31.320 personally, hold people's hands through this. But here's the deal. People have got to start

00:24:36.100 becoming aware. They have to start knowing these things. They have to start vetting people. They

00:24:40.340 have to start saying, here's what it'll pay. And this person is able to do it. This person has the

00:24:45.180 time, especially if you're thinking about men, you're 40 to about 50 years old. Hopefully you're

00:24:49.500 successful in business. Hopefully you're successful in career. And that's the point to say, could I

00:24:54.260 take a couple months off and run a campaign? Could I take the time and door knock and be okay?

00:24:58.600 well actually then I'm probably have a sense of duty to do it early on in our founding it was

00:25:03.460 often public office it was viewed not as a privilege but as a responsibility that highly

00:25:08.480 capable oftentimes personally rich lord knows George Washington was not getting rich off being

00:25:13.580 president often high caliber personally rich men they felt it incumbent upon them I have to run

00:25:20.220 for office I have to do something I have the resources other men don't I have the money other

00:25:25.340 men don't i have the skills i have the conviction i have the passions other men don't and so what

00:25:31.180 you need to do if you're listening to this i want to get involved i want to do this you've got to

00:25:34.600 begin understanding what does my state's composition look like what does my county composition look

00:25:38.900 like what is my town my city council what does that composition look like anything dad no all

00:25:46.460 right let's talk about dark money all right so when it comes down to it uh we mentioned about

00:25:53.180 16 billion dollars is typically put into races like this if you're not familiar with the the

00:25:59.100 non-profit type of world there's a whole world of different type of non-profits that have varying

00:26:03.740 levels of disclosure so 501c3 for example those you have to disclose i think it's about five

00:26:09.260 thousand dollars who your donors are but there's a class that's called 501c4s these would be social

00:26:15.580 i think the word is social welfare organizations now you can pull up this image and we'll just

00:26:20.460 just keep it up for a minute so people are able to see it these social welfare institutions

00:26:24.860 they have a lot of money a pack have you heard of them before i have heard of them gosh i had

00:26:32.420 never seen their logo until right now thanks i hate it the american flag in a jewish star 0.51

00:26:39.160 the star of reframe that is just disgusting don't don't love it or is that no that's that's the

00:26:45.260 apac logo that's their logo is a 501c4 so i have on the screen here i have an example of these

00:26:51.360 organizations apac planned parenthood is another one the nra now how this works is planned parenthood

00:26:58.860 doesn't make money lord knows they're so wicked they actually they're happy to give you scholarships

00:27:03.600 and pay for you to get their services so it's like well how does planned parenthood make their money

00:27:07.980 well wealthy wealthy wealthy donors that have an agenda to push so apac for example is founded

00:27:15.100 by none other i by in part um the owner of only fans who is also jewish so you have someone that's

00:27:23.880 very interested in the things apac is pushing well i like this mission there's similar there's

00:27:29.240 like a common thread running through apac and just woven through and only fans no way shocker

00:27:36.520 you're telling me this for the first time you're telling me this for the first time all right but

00:27:39.320 you have you have donors and and think of a george soros for instance george soros does not roll up

00:27:44.820 and write a personal check to a campaign with George Soros Foundation on the top.

00:27:50.280 Someone goes and cashes it in.

00:27:51.640 They get to use the money for whatever they want.

00:27:53.620 But this dark money, and I'll get to why this matters in a minute,

00:27:57.300 is profoundly impactful on you trying to pursue political ends.

00:28:02.260 So these social welfare organizations, APAC, Planned Parenthood, the NRA is one of them,

00:28:06.540 for instance, they don't have to disclose where their money comes from.

00:28:10.160 So this is a quote from an online resource.

00:28:12.760 politically active non-profits such as a 501c4 are generally under no legal obligation to disclose

00:28:19.360 their donors even if they spend influence elections and so you have millions and millions

00:28:24.520 and millions of dollars we don't know where it comes from at least they don't have to legally

00:28:28.260 disclose these are who are giving me money we talked about the Adelson's this would be an example

00:28:32.760 of the way they do it they don't have to disclose and they fund these big conglomerates so then AIPAC

00:28:37.980 gets on the ground and they look at a candidate or they look at a proposition they say do I support

00:28:42.740 it or do i oppose it say they support a candidate well they often use what are called in-kind

00:28:48.500 contributions so say apac comes in all things said and done maybe they do it most likely they

00:28:54.360 probably don't they don't write you a check for two hundred thousand dollars like here's two

00:28:58.600 hundred thousand we trust you use it well if you don't no harm no foul but what they'll donate is

00:29:03.760 social media help graphic help volunteer time so they'll pay people that are volunteering on your

00:29:10.420 behalf they'll also run attack ads on your components so you have this money that nobody

00:29:14.900 knows where it comes from it's hitting apex coffers they find a guy and he's like i i like

00:29:20.880 the senator from florida who literally has an israeli flag in his office right they find a guy

00:29:25.640 like that oh the race is tight i don't know we're polling 50 50 they come in again they're not

00:29:31.120 writing personal checks to necessarily to his campaign but what they are doing is they're going

00:29:35.660 in they're attacking your opponent they're putting volunteers on the ground you say hey i need help

00:29:40.400 up with these ads. I need this, that, or the other. Now, there's not necessarily sometimes

00:29:44.500 collaboration, so they'll keep distance, but they have their interest. Same thing with Planned

00:29:48.860 Parenthood. Say they oppose you. You run for office. You make it clear, no, I think abortion

00:29:54.020 should be illegal. Life starts at conception. Well, Planned Parenthood could roll in and say, 0.99

00:29:58.120 we've got a guy that he's going to do this, he's going to do that, he's going to do other,

00:30:02.600 and they're going to go to his political opponent. All right, well, so we're here in the primary,

00:30:05.940 and we think this person has the best chance to take him down. So let's go ahead. Let's run

00:30:10.100 attack ads on all of the other opponents. Let's go ahead and do lobbying. Let's go ahead and make

00:30:14.740 all these contributions of resources and everything like that. And you guys have to understand like

00:30:18.720 that's how city council races are manipulated. That's how house representative races are

00:30:23.160 manipulated. Like AIPAC puts a lot of money into helping candidates that they want to win

00:30:29.720 and making sure the candidates they don't like lose. That's how that money flows. And to that

00:30:35.560 point there is a tactical incentive so you know all of this there is a tactical incentive to not

00:30:42.220 drawing that type of opposition that if you can fly under the radar you actually have a better

00:30:48.240 chance yeah now if you've done it right they go back they find the tweets well hey stand your

00:30:53.160 ground but there's something really to be said for for example on the positive side of things

00:30:57.500 here in texas we have the dunn brothers big time oil billionaires they have been politically active

00:31:03.340 they put money into people's campaigns they fund conservative causes all this out of the other

00:31:07.700 it's better to it's kind of called sometimes like hide your power levels it's better sometimes to

00:31:14.040 hold back a little bit and get 150 000 in support from the duns and win your race than to run to be

00:31:21.900 all up front to attract tons of attention make donors like that that wouldn't like all of your

00:31:26.500 views uh i'm not really going to support that guy seems like a bit of a loose cannon it's better

00:31:31.740 sometimes because you got to be thinking long term well i stood on my principles and i lost

00:31:36.200 yeah but how much better would it have been if you won yeah like like there's we lost it but but i

00:31:43.020 was out there and i was principled yeah but you fell short by just a couple hundred votes and and

00:31:48.300 you could have probably made that not even if you changed your views so i'm not talking about

00:31:52.480 compromising i'm not talking about you're sitting there in the interview and it's like well do you

00:31:55.820 believe in abortion you're just like well i gotta win this race and yes yes i do you know on demand

00:32:00.440 anytime anywhere of course not but practically speaking like just just really practically

00:32:06.760 there's not a lot of reform theonomists out there bankrolling theonomists going into politics but

00:32:13.120 there are a lot of conservatives with billions of dollars bankrolling conservative candidates

00:32:17.440 those exist anything to add on that no that's wise um politicians have it on good authority

00:32:26.740 that uh politicians sometimes lie believe it or not believe it or not and that gets into a broader

00:32:32.480 topic well but it is actually it is a theological category a lot of guys you know plenty of debate

00:32:38.420 i'm not saying it's it's settled and just you know black and white but um but there is actually

00:32:44.040 a debate to be had you know like did rahab sin in terms of you know all of a sudden the guards in

00:32:51.020 jericho or knocking on her door you know right have you seen the uh israeli spies yeah um do you

00:32:57.640 know where they are and she's like oh they went that way you know meanwhile they're hidden um in

00:33:02.660 in her her living space um or um the midianite um uh or i'm sorry the egyptian midwives the

00:33:12.520 egyptian midwives you know who say oh well you know the hebrew women they're strong women and

00:33:16.640 they just end up giving birth before we get there you know but it's because they feared god and so 0.92

00:33:21.460 they defied and and were willing to be um intentionally deceitful uh towards pharaoh

00:33:27.560 you know so there actually is a biblical principle for you know they call it a sprawl actually did i

00:33:32.940 think a whole sermon on this the lie of necessity the lie of necessity and in this particular case

00:33:39.200 there are you know there are degrees of deception so there's uh outright you know blatant lying but

00:33:44.480 then there's also um simply not divulging not volunteering certain details of the truth so

00:33:52.180 there's a difference in being sat down on national television and being asked you know um when do you

00:33:58.320 believe you know human life begins and just outright lying versus you just playing certain

00:34:04.300 cards close to the chest uh during the campaigning season uh so that you can get the buku bucks from

00:34:11.220 the nominally conservative you know donors um and win your race and then once you've won um and

00:34:18.700 established that victory then come out swinging you know hiding your power level so there really

00:34:23.100 is something to be said for this like even in in the art of war um you know even within you know

00:34:28.340 the the ramifications of just war theory um you know so it's like it is a just war uh so are we

00:34:35.160 lying in a category that would actually be categorically sin uh by having you know our

00:34:41.680 platoons dressed in camouflage i mean what is camouflage other than um an entire uniform that

00:34:47.280 says i'm not here but you are here right and you're you're communicating you're conveying by

00:34:54.240 by your apparel uh that you're not somewhere when you are right which is a lie um but again so uh

00:35:02.780 thinking through those things theologically, carefully, and strategically, and finding a way

00:35:10.480 ethically, right? There are certain barriers where it's like, all right, well, you can't do that.

00:35:16.540 That really is just categorically a sin. But there is a way of being, you know, innocent as doves

00:35:22.660 and as shrewd as vipers. And Christians do need to develop, I think, a godly sense of shrewdness. 1.00

00:35:29.200 i think that sadly there are many times that we are innocent as doves and also as shrewd as doves

00:35:38.040 and and that's a failure yeah there was a conservative candidate so city council races

00:35:43.160 are typically not partisan if i go to vote for city council it's not going to say republican

00:35:47.100 or democrat because those are local those aren't involved at the state level but there's a city

00:35:51.540 council member here in georgetown and he was really pretty conservative but when it came to

00:35:55.780 renting the district he's like if i go door to door and i try to get this small like group of

00:35:59.800 a couple thousand people to vote for me or this idea then i lead off of these issues they're

00:36:04.480 ultimately the end of the day like a lot of them will be turned off they won't be motivated to come

00:36:08.100 out but he said here's what i can do i can make my campaign about preservation of historic

00:36:12.440 georgetown we have a beautiful town square square lots of historic buildings and so he's conservative

00:36:17.080 and he agrees with all the things that we talked about but he said you know what i don't have to

00:36:20.980 lead off with those they're still true i still hold them to your point but but here's what i'm

00:36:24.940 going to do i'm going to go door to door and i'm going to knock on doors i'm going to say hey

00:36:27.900 i'm really interested in keeping georgetown georgetown keeping its historic structure

00:36:32.840 keeping all the things that make it the town that we love perfectly permissible for a christian to

00:36:37.960 do yeah you get to decide what you're going to emphasize that's different uh being strategic

00:36:42.880 on what you emphasize and what you choose strategically not to emphasize is not the

00:36:49.060 same as categorically lying exactly and if you're in upstate new york you want to win win an election

00:36:55.160 Yeah, you know, they probably don't lead off with Christ as king.

00:36:57.660 Is he king?

00:36:58.300 Yes.

00:36:58.780 And here's the deal.

00:36:59.760 Once you get in office.

00:37:01.020 But why in upstate New York?

00:37:02.880 Why particularly?

00:37:04.780 Why not leading with Christ as king in that particular area?

00:37:09.060 I just believe it or not.

00:37:10.800 Someone had a good comment here.

00:37:11.900 Once again, Missouri Christians Against Abortion.

00:37:14.120 They said this, a lot of times money doesn't even matter in local races.

00:37:16.900 The state senator we removed outspent us 10 to 1.

00:37:19.720 If you have a group of hardworking, dedicated Christians, you can move mountains.

00:37:23.100 absolutely that's absolutely true and when when west is talking about money it's just um

00:37:27.740 it's it's one or the other when he says money it's good to put it i think in those

00:37:32.920 in in those terms in those categories just to be thinking that on average ordinarily right so

00:37:39.000 sometimes god does something extraordinary but ordinarily um you you win with volunteers that's

00:37:44.980 true um but ordinarily uh it takes capital to get those volunteers right so it's like hey if we can

00:37:51.820 have these many people knocking on doors you know then then we can do it for free but ordinarily it

00:37:56.500 costs money to get that many people who are knocking on doors um and running some ads and

00:38:00.740 things like that uh real quick i just wanted to draw attention to a super chat that we got

00:38:05.740 because we always want to prioritize the guys who are generously giving to this ministry we

00:38:10.120 appreciate it this is from the salty sailor he gave us 20 super chat thank you he said uh ga

00:38:16.800 good afternoon new to the fight got slapped across the face by isker on tucker carlson

00:38:22.280 and it's been a wild ride for this non-denominational baptist whose theology has been

00:38:28.000 thoroughly rocked i'm here for all of it uh is there a discord um to organize to organize local

00:38:35.720 real writers that's a great question i'm not aware of one probably should i'm gonna get to

00:38:40.780 how to organize here in the third segment but really appreciate the super chat yeah thank you

00:38:44.700 the great question of how do i connect with people that are like me yeah uh just another example to

00:38:49.660 kind of because it's really helpful i think to see it on the ground a great example would be

00:38:53.180 the christian prince himself minor level dusty devers so his campaign race he was running in one

00:38:59.020 of the reddest no the reddest state in the united states which is oklahoma and he was running in the

00:39:04.380 reddest district inside of oklahoma and the reason he was even running in the first place just as a

00:39:09.260 general principle like if you have an incumbent that is somebody who's already in office and

00:39:12.700 and they're really popular, it's hard to get them out.

00:39:15.940 But in his case, the state senator who was there for his district

00:39:19.720 had actually left to be appointed to another position.

00:39:22.380 So he had what's called an open primary.

00:39:24.280 And an open primary is a really great way to distinguish yourself.

00:39:27.320 So instead of needing and requiring to get as much name recognition

00:39:29.700 as the guy that's already in office, who's had 10 years to do it,

00:39:32.840 in an open primary, it's however many people decide to show up and compete.

00:39:36.520 Typically, there's a runoff between the top two.

00:39:38.480 So he wasn't competing against an incumbent.

00:39:39.740 he was competing in open primary and his campaign was not well funded it was definitely outspent

00:39:44.480 i'll get to that in a minute but what he did have was a church that door knocked for him every day

00:39:49.680 every week for months on end like you need something like that some type of do i have capital

00:39:55.760 maybe do i have volunteers do i have a church case he also did network he also did get capital

00:40:01.420 so he had a network he had a local church and all those people were volunteering you know night and

00:40:05.740 day uh giving all their spare time people and god bless for work yeah praise god uh but even in

00:40:11.740 dusty's case with all the the free volunteers that you know rallied to his aid he's still got

00:40:17.160 an infusion of not much but some capital from uh from christians yep well and then what happened

00:40:22.880 though and to the point about well you can be outspent you absolutely can and i would say

00:40:27.440 momentum is on our side but during i think it was a college football it might have been the state

00:40:31.880 championships there around like oklahoma or uh around october november he was literally running

00:40:37.320 for office and he would see a huge i mean these cost 500 grand we don't know where the money came

00:40:42.560 from he said i had attack ads to me on college ncaa football i'm watching football and here

00:40:48.640 come attack ads at me i don't know what they're for i don't know why dusty said that hundreds of

00:40:53.040 thousands of dollars of dark money probably from bart barber well they'd have to be rich in the

00:40:58.420 first place okay yeah but um but those are the types of dynamics now he did a great job he had

00:41:03.960 conviction he had the resources he had the capital infusion and he made it happen but those are the

00:41:08.040 type of dynamics i mean that ruins people's races you're doing good you're doing good someone gets

00:41:12.480 wind of it they roll in they push some cash in and you just you can't you don't stand a chance

00:41:17.880 everybody that was watching football that weekend which in the south i mean what 98 of people right

00:41:22.500 98 of people just heard the the best angle they would have to attack you that's tough to overcome

00:41:28.320 So those are some of the dynamics at play.

00:41:30.800 Right.

00:41:31.240 All right.

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00:42:33.720 super chats jeff halfley he uh gave us five bucks thanks jeff he said in a small state you can run

00:42:38.740 for office at the state legislative level for uh with 25 000 and a whole lot of elbow grease

00:42:45.340 running door to door that's probably true yep but what he's recognizing is in that case it still

00:42:50.440 takes capital 25 grand and a lot of like what we described with dusty a lot of guys who are

00:42:56.340 volunteering their time working hard going door to door and trying to get it done and then guy

00:43:02.220 gave us a super chat for ten dollars thanks guy he said uh there's a group of lgbt activists led

00:43:08.100 by a gay episcopalian uh priest many such cases uh holding a pride event in our small rural

00:43:14.160 Pennsylvania town this June. The men of our church are organizing to oppose it. Any advice? 0.80

00:43:20.700 So I'm from Pennsylvania, and so the laws there are generally not favorable. So the politics of

00:43:25.900 Pennsylvania is that Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and the other end typically influence a lot of

00:43:29.420 state politics, even though a lot of the people, like he's saying right now, it's a small town.

00:43:33.480 They're pretty rural. They're pretty conservative. The politics of the state are not favorable,

00:43:37.620 and I say that because if there was a state law, and I would still look at them. I would look at

00:43:40.920 your state's obscenity laws. If there's a state obscenity law that would be thought to perhaps

00:43:45.880 put the kibosh on something like this, then I would use that. I would get involved with your

00:43:52.620 local sheriff, your mayor, and city council to go ahead and say, hey, the state law on the books in

00:43:57.520 Pennsylvania prohibits displays of overt sexuality in public. This event looks like it would do that. 0.74

00:44:03.000 What you can do is you can simply put pressure on them. Will the mayor see it the same way that,

00:44:06.980 though this yeah this would definitely violate it maybe maybe not but you know what helps him

00:44:11.320 see it that way dozens and dozens of emails from individuals saying by state law this is not

00:44:16.060 permissible there's legal penalties there's legal fines all of these things so that's one way you

00:44:20.100 can attack it with the law but here's the problem with this without necessarily knowing anything

00:44:24.700 about the town this that or the other when the work hasn't been done leading up to something

00:44:29.600 it's very hard to then at the moment you know the pride parade's coming to town the events

00:44:34.900 happening here this that or the other it's very hard in that time because you're up against all

00:44:40.180 the pieces that were put in place leading up to it so a great help here and a great way to shut

00:44:44.980 it down would be a city council that wouldn't approve the permit well but most of my city 0.82

00:44:49.380 council is woke and they're gay well exactly and that's the problem that's where we're not just 0.80

00:44:53.860 thinking like right now i may be able to shut this down or able to shut that down you need to be 0.98

00:44:58.340 thinking years in advance who's running for city council in two years is it one of our guys because

00:45:02.980 this will come up again and again and again and practically speaking long term obviously there's

00:45:07.940 the cultural stuff out there but literally on the ground well they need a permit to do this

00:45:12.260 parade they need a permit to do this event they need a permit to uh to do this type of pride thing

00:45:17.780 well what would really help is if you had a city council and say it's of six members or eight

00:45:21.780 members and four of them you know would shut it down well boom then you've solved the problem

00:45:27.060 border requires is you got to be thinking ahead and so i can i even here in texas we've had some

00:45:32.580 of that i can commiserate with the difficulty of well that doesn't help me because we're not two

00:45:37.220 years ago we're now but that's why we had to begin thinking about what are we putting in place now

00:45:41.620 that as these things come back to town we might not be able to stop it now but we can do now

00:45:46.260 certainly you can if it does happen you can preach you can pray you can play music you can sing you

00:45:51.860 can rally other churches i'll get to the importance of that in a minute uh but also it's going to be

00:45:56.660 coming around each year and uh it's time to get some guys up in city council that would say hell

00:46:01.060 Hell no, we're not having that in our town.

00:46:03.100 One follow-up from Jeff Halfley, another $5 super chat.

00:46:06.080 Thanks, Jeff.

00:46:06.660 He says, Dusty Devers had a respected family name,

00:46:10.860 tons of door knockers, and a Christian right-wing family

00:46:13.880 that were angel investors.

00:46:15.920 So all this is helpful, just giving an idea of what it takes.

00:46:19.700 So it sounds like his name, and I know Dusty personally,

00:46:23.040 but his name was known in the town, in that district.

00:46:28.300 People knew who he was, knew his family.

00:46:30.640 they'd lived there for a long time been there long standing uh tons of doorknockers that was

00:46:35.220 primarily people in his church but all of them volunteering dozens and dozens and dozens of

00:46:40.260 hours and on top of it still couldn't get away with just name and volunteers alone an infusion

00:46:47.020 of capital from a right-wing family that were angel investors then he followed up one more time

00:46:51.580 jeff halfley saying uh deavers was also a pastor which gave him a certain amount of insulation and

00:46:56.960 respect um yes and i would like to iterate on that point um in the context of the reddest district of

00:47:04.660 the reddest state in america and he only won by 400 votes like all those things in his favor in

00:47:09.440 that context and in the reddest district the reddest district of the reddest state in america

00:47:14.740 with a infusion of capital from an angel investor with an entire church volunteering dozens and

00:47:21.260 dozens and dozens of their hours and time um and also with uh a name that had been in that area

00:47:28.320 the deavers living in that area for a very long time recognizing business with his name in it a

00:47:32.560 personal property business that's right and with um and with him also being a pastor in a place

00:47:38.200 where that actually would would mean something positive right right so it's like hey he's a

00:47:42.600 pastor that'll help him out you know in san francisco california no it will not uh but in

00:47:48.080 that context and all that put them over the edge uh for a state senator position by a 400

00:47:55.300 voter margin and so it's just important to be aware of what what it costs right i'm i'm just

00:48:02.920 reminded of the scripture you know that no no one builds a tower without first counting the cost

00:48:07.240 otherwise you know he'll get halfway through the project and then have to count his losses and be

00:48:11.480 done and everybody will mock him along the way or if you're going to war you know with an army of

00:48:16.000 10,000 against somebody who's a general or a king that has 20,000, then you're going to go and send

00:48:22.700 ambassadors to treaty for peace because you can't win. You don't have what it takes. And so it's

00:48:30.860 important for Christians to do this, but it's also for Christians preemptively to count the cost and 0.59

00:48:36.080 to recognize this is what it's going to take to win. And I also think that it's important to

00:48:40.320 consider where it's actually possible to win, which is part of the reason why I wrote this book

00:48:45.240 fight by flight um realizing that you know if i could sum it up in just a sentence i would say

00:48:51.760 that the evangelical church for the last 50 years um instead of winning somewhere we opted for losing

00:48:58.320 everywhere i'll say that again instead of strategically and deliberately choosing over

00:49:03.240 the long haul to balkanize centralize and win somewhere we opted for losing everywhere we lost

00:49:11.160 overseas right in the same way that america i mean the evangelical church has just followed

00:49:16.240 america's politics to the t we have not been leading the way we've just been copying and

00:49:20.740 doing everything five to ten years behind uh the the eight ball uh so america's you know uh time

00:49:26.620 to export some democracy we just found oil you know in in the middle east and so we go over there

00:49:31.840 and then you know 20 years later we're leaving billions of dollars of machinery and equipment

00:49:36.220 and ammunition and all of it being picked up by countries like iran then putting pressure on

00:49:41.240 israel and then all of a sudden having trump who's supported by 100 million dollars by the

00:49:45.540 addelson's family and uh and then you know your lucky son uh or god forbid in some cases daughter

00:49:51.160 gets to go bleed out and die for israel right these things matter these are real things that

00:49:55.700 is actually the sequence um and we've had the same strategy my point in bringing that up is

00:50:00.360 we've had the same strategy even as christians when it comes to global missions we go into some

00:50:05.420 country to export the gospel um we don't actually count the cost right we're not not really sending

00:50:11.300 people that are qualified and then when we get there on the ground they're not really actually

00:50:14.900 supported they don't have the injection they don't have the financial support they don't have

00:50:18.460 the team that they need and and nothing really happens um and then we've done the same thing

00:50:23.740 locally like we're going to plant churches we're going to plant them everywhere and we're going

00:50:26.920 to plant thousands of thousands and thousands of churches and we're going to plant them you know

00:50:30.900 in manhattan you know and we're going to plant them we will fight in the beaches we will fight

00:50:34.840 in the air. We will plant them everywhere. We will plant them everywhere, right? We're going

00:50:37.940 to plant them in Manhattan. We're going to plant them in San Francisco. We're going to plant them

00:50:41.100 in Washington, D.C. We're planting one that meets there. That's right. And we're even going to opt

00:50:45.200 for the bluest, most libtard districts that you could possibly imagine. And five years later, 1.00

00:50:52.400 150 grand is spent and everybody's dispersed and there's no church there to speak of. And so we've

00:50:58.960 done this again and again and again. And so we need to know, we need to be involved in politics.

00:51:04.420 we need to win, right? And not just say, oh, well, we gave it our darndest, you know, and my

00:51:09.860 conscience is clear before the Lord. It'd be nice to actually win. It'd be nice to win. And so knowing

00:51:15.880 what it takes up front, what is the cost so that we don't build half of a tower and then abandon

00:51:20.800 the project so that we're not making, you know, treaties for peace with somebody who's got twice

00:51:25.100 our army, you know, and we're embarrassed and then we have to turn around, tuck our tail between our

00:51:29.440 legs and run away. We'd like to go out. We'd like to be involved, but we'd like to be successful.

00:51:34.240 And if so, you need to count the cost.

00:51:36.200 What does it take to win?

00:51:37.720 But also, where can we win?

00:51:40.620 And that's the whole point of the fight by flight.

00:51:43.280 It's not to speak of cowardice.

00:51:45.200 It's not saying, hey, you know what?

00:51:46.740 We can't win, so therefore we just quit.

00:51:49.120 No, it's we can't win here today, right now.

00:51:53.060 But we can win over there right now.

00:51:55.680 And so we're going to bring in reinforcements.

00:51:57.540 We're going to fall back so that we can actually balkanize

00:52:00.940 and accumulate greater forces in an area where we actually can win.

00:52:06.560 So we're going to win here, we're going to fortify,

00:52:09.200 we're going to tamp down and then expand our victory out.

00:52:13.520 Once we've got this locked down, this district,

00:52:15.480 we're going to go over and try to win the next.

00:52:18.320 But to do that, you have to think long-term,

00:52:20.440 you have to think strategically,

00:52:22.280 and it can't just be a purity spiral, right?

00:52:24.780 It can't just be grandstanding.

00:52:27.220 It actually has to be people who are shrewd

00:52:30.240 and um and resolute and deliberate um that they actually want to win yep absolutely like for

00:52:38.120 example so all of that calculus well divers had family and a job and a church like say you're a

00:52:42.940 young man you're here in this episode you're like i love it i'm in seattle washington and i'm gonna

00:52:47.220 go run for this well my brother in christ do you have do you have a family that's able to help you

00:52:51.620 generations there well no do you have a church that would get involved well no my church is

00:52:56.000 kind of non-denominational. They're pretty squishy. Okay. Do you have wealth personally?

00:52:59.840 Well, no, I don't. Do you have a name in the community? No, I don't. Do you have people

00:53:02.800 that would at least invest? No, I don't. You're not going to win. You are going to waste. And

00:53:06.160 I've seen it. I've seen here in Texas, like we want to take this district that's blue

00:53:10.320 and turn it red and they'll spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars. And

00:53:16.280 they barely moved the percentage vote, maybe 5%. We don't have the luxury of wasting our

00:53:22.260 time and so you need to practically and ruthlessly if you're thinking about office do i have an

00:53:27.700 actual shot at doing this you can do it you have those different things in place maybe this side

00:53:32.160 or the other there are factors but be honest do those apply to me because if not i need to build

00:53:38.000 a business so then in 10 years i do have an actual shot that's right much better to build a business

00:53:42.800 and actually win in 10 years than to run every two years and lose all of those end up at 10 years

00:53:47.380 still no slot still no business i'm glad you said that wes because a lot of the young men who are

00:53:51.420 listening to us right now they they need to hear that they need to be aware um that the advice that

00:53:56.640 we're giving right now is not advice that uh they need to go out and pursue today now what they

00:54:02.100 actually need to do is they need to get married they need to have kids they need to start a

00:54:05.200 business they need to be successful and they need to be rich and they need to do that and it's going

00:54:09.580 to take them 10 years to accomplish that and then once they're at that point um then they need to

00:54:15.620 run or throw in their weight and their support with somebody else who's going to run um but

00:54:20.660 but it's going to take a team it's not just some guy in isolation living behind enemy lines alone

00:54:26.180 it's going to win some political race in seattle that hates christ um that's that's not going to

00:54:32.480 happen and so um instead of trying to to win everywhere but ultimately losing everywhere

00:54:37.760 we need to actually uh consolidate and deliberately fall back behind certain lines and choose to um

00:54:48.440 to help someone else. For a lot of you, you're not going to be the guy. Not today. Eventually,

00:54:54.760 you might be, but not today. Today, the best thing you can do is simply identify who is the guy and

00:55:01.860 then fall in line and help him. Maybe you're a volunteer lead who's going every Saturday for the

00:55:06.860 next three months is going to lead a team of volunteers and go door knocking on every neighborhood

00:55:12.380 you know, within this, you know, this, this area. And, and that's great, you know, but

00:55:18.820 there are guys who are, are doing this and they need support. They need donations. They need

00:55:26.060 volunteers. But that's, that's what you need to do. You need to identify who's the guy and it's

00:55:31.660 probably not you, right? It's not going to be everybody listening to this. That's just the old

00:55:36.260 adage of like, if everybody, you're called to be a leader and you're called to be a leader and

00:55:40.080 No, you're not. You're not. If everybody was a leader, then nobody's a leader. The whole concept

00:55:46.100 of leadership is that there are fewer leaders than there are followers. Everybody, by the grace of

00:55:52.480 God, if you're a Christian man, you should be able to lead yourself, and you should be able to lead

00:55:56.440 a wife and a family. But not everybody's going to be a pastor, and not everybody's going to be a

00:56:00.540 politician. Not everyone is going to lead in the ecclesiastical sphere or the civil sphere.

00:56:07.140 that that's going to be a minority that's just the nature of leadership there are fewer leaders

00:56:12.640 than there are followers so the first thing that we need to do is we need to identify

00:56:16.720 who is the lord already using who's got the best chance who has the most expertise someone who

00:56:24.440 didn't just show up yesterday they've been in an area so we need to identify men and we need to

00:56:30.140 identify places people and places uh what is a place that actually could be won it's feasible

00:56:36.620 okay now who's already living in that place and has reputation long-standing presence in that place

00:56:42.760 who has some expertise who has some political savvy who has some capital some money and how

00:56:48.060 can i come alongside him and and see to it that he actually um is able to secure a victory exactly

00:56:57.100 but that was the problem with like the church planting movement is everybody wanted to be a

00:57:00.440 church planter and so a bunch of guys including myself end up biting off more than they can chew

00:57:06.200 and get wrecked you know and in politics it's the same thing people go out they get wrecked

00:57:11.580 um so identifying fertile places high caliber men and how can i help and how can you help that's the

00:57:21.080 biggest that's the last piece that i want to add to it it was salty sailor he asked how do i find

00:57:25.180 people? And that is, that's an excellent question. So it could be like, I believe this. And I mean,

00:57:29.860 looking at the statistics within your mile radius, honestly, there's probably 50 guys who think the

00:57:35.320 same thing. They love Jesus. And maybe some of this is Protestants and Catholics, but in a given

00:57:40.160 area between Protestants, Catholics, you've probably got dozens, maybe even a couple hundred.

00:57:44.240 They're young men. They're starting businesses. They have families. They go to church and they

00:57:48.560 want to be politically active. But here's the problem. How do I find them? For one, you need

00:57:52.840 to network. This is make time a year, once a year. It doesn't have to be ours. Go to a conference

00:57:58.240 because what there's going to be at a conference is a bunch of people with name tags. And some of

00:58:01.400 those name tags will say the same town or at the very least the same state that you're from. So

00:58:06.180 you have to network using social media as another great way to do it. Hey, I love this guy. He's in,

00:58:11.020 you know, he's in North Carolina, he's in Georgia, he's in Oklahoma. And actually I don't live that

00:58:15.320 far away from him and I can help him when it comes time to run for re-election. So you need

00:58:19.540 to network, but here's what you also need too. And this is what I'm seeing is actually, actually

00:58:23.200 creating the networks. You need a crisis. You need something that then brings the men like,

00:58:28.640 I don't like this and I don't like this and I don't like this. And then it actually brings

00:58:32.260 them together and they realize, well, we're all together now. We just beat this thing we don't

00:58:36.120 like. Hang on. We could actually do something. One of our guys, he could run for office. We

00:58:40.180 could vote for him. And I want to give you the example. We've talked about it a little bit

00:58:43.100 already, but in Dallas, this just happened. This is not like years ago, like literally right here

00:58:48.400 on the ground. The Adelson family is the owner of a hugely profitable casino that is mostly based in

00:58:54.740 Las Vegas. This would be Sands. I think it's Resort and Casino. That might be the name of it,

00:58:59.040 but it's billions and billions of dollars and it's a cash cow. And then you have Texas. Texas

00:59:03.960 doesn't have any casinos right now. There would need to be approval at the local level and the

00:59:07.820 state level. But imagine if you had one of the first casinos in Texas and it was huge and it was

00:59:12.580 big. And say you positioned it between the two airports that are right there in Dallas, Fort

00:59:16.880 Worth and Dallas. So you had a massive city with millions of people. You had airports that people

00:59:21.260 could fly in. You could join it to like say a sports teams like the Dallas Mavericks who were

00:59:26.640 recently bought by the Adelson's. So you could join to a sports team. You could make billions

00:59:31.540 and billions and billions of dollars. Now here's the thing. You have to get city council. So what

00:59:36.120 I'm talking about was what they are attempting to do in Irvine. I almost said Irvine, California.

00:59:41.400 Irvine, Texas. Irving, Texas is right there. It's between Fort Worth and Dallas. There's a bunch of

00:59:45.740 land i think that they have bought there and they want to bring a casino in but here's the deal

00:59:50.340 practically speaking we talked about dark money we talked about being on the ground they have to

00:59:54.380 actually get approved for rezoning as well as the state legislator has to actually approve texas to

00:59:59.100 be able to have casinos i'm going to read from dallas express just kind of get a sense of the

01:00:03.520 dynamic and i'll talk about how this kind of brought people together the dallas express a

01:00:07.700 mysterious organization with ties to the las vegas sands corporation appears to want to influence

01:00:12.540 the outcome of Irving's city council race.

01:00:15.100 A series of signs have popped up in Irving

01:00:16.720 supporting the candidacy of city council

01:00:18.560 candidates David Paff, Tony

01:00:20.600 Grimes, and Priscilla Vigilante.

01:00:23.300 Each sign is a disclosure

01:00:24.360 paid for by the Lone Star Conservative

01:00:26.780 Action Fund. That sounds pretty conservative.

01:00:29.020 Lone Star Conservative Action?

01:00:30.720 By the Lone Star Conservative Action Fund

01:00:32.600 at the bottom. Similar text messages for

01:00:34.560 each candidate have been sent to Irving residents

01:00:36.420 with the same disclosure. So they're blasting out

01:00:38.600 texts to people that live in the area telling

01:00:40.500 them who to vote for. The organization

01:00:42.220 is a 501c4, so its donor lists are unavailable to the public. However, the executive director

01:00:47.520 listed on the forms 990 is Aaron DeLeon, owner and president of Leon Strategies. The ex-account

01:00:53.300 Leon Strategies only follows three profiles with the Texas Destination Resort Alliance being one.

01:00:58.800 The Pro Casino Texas Destination Resort Alliance follows his ex-account. They received $25,000

01:01:04.000 from Sands Back, Texas for Opportunity and Prosperity Pact. Little is known about the fund

01:01:09.040 beyond its donations. The organization's website

01:01:11.180 espouses general support for

01:01:13.000 law and order and low taxes, although

01:01:14.960 it does not share any specific policies that

01:01:16.860 achieve these ends. Likewise, the fund's

01:01:19.020 newsletter appears to only have one

01:01:20.940 entry, which went out over three months ago.

01:01:23.440 Neither the newsletter nor the

01:01:24.820 X account appear to have existed before January

01:01:26.940 of this year. Practically speaking,

01:01:29.500 you have a

01:01:30.320 beautiful town, you have a lot of people that live

01:01:32.820 there, lots of families, and

01:01:34.880 this big group worth billions and billions

01:01:36.860 of dollars, they're coming in and they're trying to buy

01:01:39.020 an election now the thing that stopped it from happening was there's a city council member who

01:01:44.020 read the fine print this gets back to my point earlier you have to actually have been at work

01:01:49.220 for years in order to have a chance you can't wake up tomorrow and stop something you don't

01:01:53.340 have anyone in office you don't have any capital but there's a great guy in the city council and

01:01:57.300 he read the little footnote that said when they were voting they were voting on rezoning and he

01:02:01.340 blew it up he said hey hey do the residents actually want this hundreds of people came out

01:02:05.280 nearly all of them spoke against the casino and now they're fighting for the city council race i

01:02:10.140 think it's called the it's called the anti-predatory gambling associations that's their

01:02:16.380 political action committee if you're in that area and you're interested in the fight but here's the

01:02:20.320 deal it brought tons of guys together that didn't know each other maybe they listened to this show

01:02:25.060 or another show but they said there's a casino coming in and i want to meet other people that

01:02:29.820 don't want it either i want to get active i don't want this in my backyard and so practically

01:02:34.620 speaking like ah the pride parade's a great example hey we don't all have to agree we don't

01:02:39.300 all have to go to the same church we don't all have to be this out of the other but you know 0.97

01:02:42.480 what we do agree on you know what we can start from here's the foundation we don't want a pride 0.98

01:02:47.100 parade in our town another great example this is just in colorado this is happening as we speak 0.84

01:02:51.360 house bill 3 13 12 house bill 13 12 is a bill that categorizes among other things misgendering

01:02:59.660 so this would be you know calling your child they say i'm dad i'm a i'm a girl and i'm really a boy

01:03:05.580 calling them a boy as coercive abuse and that coercive abuse if this bill passed could then

01:03:11.400 be used as justification to take children away from the parents right the title of this episode

01:03:16.380 is free speech and casinos but on the ground a bunch of guys chase davis being one of them

01:03:21.140 got a bunch of pastors together jay jay jay jay the guy out there in boulder boulder colorado

01:03:26.900 So now he didn't do it all across the nation.

01:03:29.020 So it was not, I don't care if you're in Washington.

01:03:30.940 I don't care if you're in Montana.

01:03:32.020 I don't care if you're in Texas.

01:03:33.140 You have to come here.

01:03:34.620 But what he did rally is local pastors.

01:03:37.620 Pastors, Christians, you need to be speaking out about this.

01:03:40.880 This is a bill in our state that could have terrible consequences.

01:03:44.180 They rallied on the front steps of the Capitol.

01:03:46.460 This Wednesday, if you're in Colorado, you're near the state Capitol,

01:03:49.240 they're rallying again as the bill is heard in committee.

01:03:51.400 And it's likely, and I hope by God's grace, the bill will die.

01:03:54.960 Now, did it die only from that action?

01:03:56.600 I don't know, maybe, maybe not, but it's those type of things.

01:04:00.440 And now you have a network of 15 to 20 pastors.

01:04:02.700 They're not all in the same denomination, sure.

01:04:05.080 But they say, man, this is, I didn't like this.

01:04:08.440 Now we've got each other's phone numbers.

01:04:10.860 Let's see who runs a session from now.

01:04:13.640 Let's see who we could support.

01:04:15.160 Those are the type of things you have to be looking out for.

01:04:17.480 You need to network, but you also need to look for that crisis

01:04:20.080 and use that crisis to build a team and to build a team and say,

01:04:24.280 this is what we're going to be opposed for.

01:04:26.000 this is what we're going to do not the national level not the hoa level the county the state

01:04:31.160 level right this is what we want to mid-level well said yeah that's really helpful find a crisis

01:04:35.500 and use that to rally with other like-minded people and raise a bulwark a defense against it

01:04:40.780 uh this is from ben he gave us a five dollar super chat thanks ben he said addelson you say

01:04:46.360 surely they don't wear small hats they do they very much they absolutely do uh what is our topic

01:04:51.880 for wednesday that would have to be asked hopefully michael's feeling better okay so

01:04:56.480 that's michael all right michael belch um i'm just going to trust in good faith it's going to be a

01:05:01.100 good one and then uh any plans yet for friday or kind of waiting to see we got something in the

01:05:07.360 news i mean you got pakistan and india right whatever way that goes we're taking 100 million

01:05:13.500 refugees like so and so attacks so and so yeah we better not be the details don't matter we're

01:05:18.580 getting refugees yeah we better not be you're getting enriched you're getting diversity but 0.95

01:05:23.420 i it seems pretty close to war like there's been terrorist incursions i haven't paid close enough 0.98

01:05:28.160 attention because i'm not indian i'm not pakistani but there's been terrorist attacks

01:05:31.720 incursions threats across both sides hopefully by god's grace that's saber rattling and then

01:05:37.460 same thing in india israel and iran israel wants the u.s on their side they want to go to war

01:05:42.540 all the stuff about nukes and so we'll see we could have world war world war three on friday

01:05:47.740 and we would have something to talk about oh my goodness uh let's pray that that's not the case

01:05:52.020 uh but yeah it would be great uh maybe for friday we can uh try to put some stuff together do some

01:05:56.720 research and address some geopolitical uh issues that are going on uh because yeah that's uh

01:06:02.940 there's a lot going on and um and we need to be aware of it um i was thinking you mentioned india

01:06:10.120 and i was just thinking about h1b you know visas and all that kind of stuff but

01:06:14.820 And part of the difficulty at this point is per capita, you know, America has, you know,

01:06:21.200 more geniuses and higher caliber men than India does. You know, India is a big country, 1.3 billion

01:06:27.680 potential Americans live in India. They're not even Indians, right? Every other country, 1.00

01:06:33.120 there are Americans and there are potential Americans, right? That's all other countries 0.99

01:06:37.140 are. They're just places, you know, filled with potential Americans. But 1.3 billion potential

01:06:42.640 americans that live in india but the problem is over decades of you know the blessings of diversity

01:06:50.060 um you know we've we've taken the best and brightest from all these other nations

01:06:54.240 and hamstrung them in many ways to where they become you know perpetually dependent on america

01:06:59.940 and foreign intervention from us and help and tax you know our tax dollars and all in aid and all

01:07:05.340 these kinds of things and then also uh because we've taken the best um you know even with the

01:07:10.980 meritocracy i've been thinking about this a lot lately maybe we could eventually do an episode but

01:07:15.160 um this is this is where it gets into you know you know all the the ridiculous you know accusations

01:07:20.920 about the woke right uh but what do you do if your country uh for 50 let's say 50 years since

01:07:28.120 the 1970s has betrayed its own native populace uh by um by importing by the millions uh the best

01:07:37.200 and brightest from india and every other nation for that matter you know from china from this

01:07:42.420 place from that place and so uh you've crippled these other nations to where they're now dependent

01:07:47.140 on you that your citizens are used as a tax farm to prop them up but but you know because you've

01:07:52.660 taken the best away from those nations but by taking the best away you've flooded your own 0.98

01:07:57.120 nation over the course of five decades with um a surplus of indian geniuses you know and um and 1.00

01:08:05.240 chinese geniuses and this and that and the other and then you know all of a sudden your native

01:08:09.840 population uh predominantly especially you know young white conservative men have woken up to the

01:08:16.760 strategy that's been played on them before they were even born and are starting to speak out

01:08:21.440 against it and saying hey i don't like that you know i can't own a home um i i'll never be able

01:08:26.440 to have a single income family my wife will never be able to stay home we won't ever be able to have

01:08:30.980 kids if we do have kids we can't afford to to teach them because we're dependent on two incomes 0.99

01:08:35.420 um and so they're going to end up having to go to public school and be indoctrinated to hate their

01:08:39.800 parents you know and and believing you know from the time that they're seven years old that they're

01:08:43.480 a you know a gay furry you know or whatever um and they're realizing this and naturally like 0.55

01:08:48.680 they're angry about it and they start to speak out against it and and then the conservatives 0.68

01:08:53.180 you know we're not we're putting the woke away uh we'll put the woke away wherever we see it woke

01:08:57.980 on the left and woke on the right and you know and they say well the solution is not to be woke 0.52

01:09:02.800 uh in either direction we don't want to be woke against white people we don't want to be woke for

01:09:07.680 white people we don't want to be woke and so it's just a meritocracy and you're just going to have

01:09:12.140 to compete uh but but then the jobs that they have to compete for are literally with 8.2 billion

01:09:18.940 people on the planet for half of a century we have extracted literally the highest iq highest

01:09:26.660 caliber most gifted most most utterly unique like one in a million people from every country

01:09:34.340 in the world for half a century for 50 years and brought them here so hey you know it's we're just

01:09:41.020 what do you want we're conservatives don't you want to be a conservative you young right winger 0.52

01:09:44.940 man don't be woke don't don't give give in to the marxist dialectic just just be a conservative

01:09:50.600 and you can get that job you just gotta earn it on a meritocracy well who do i compete with

01:09:55.440 oh well just the top 0.001 percent most brilliant gifted people of all time out of eight billion all

01:10:02.340 over the planet because we moved them here should be easy an episode on that i think could be really

01:10:08.600 helpful yeah i'm sick and tired like seriously i i am angry i am i am livid at this um oh well

01:10:16.640 that's just woke right no there are there are native americans who don't stand a chance

01:10:24.460 their country has been ruined right and you don't fix it you're not going to be able to fix it by

01:10:30.660 just saying okay well now that we've stacked the deck for 50 years against you you caught it caught

01:10:37.160 me though you caught me being a communist for 50 years before you were even born but now i'm going

01:10:44.200 to i see the error of my ways and i'm going to change change my ways and and so now that i've

01:10:49.840 rigged the deck entirely against you

01:10:53.100 from before you were born for 50 years,

01:10:55.380 I'm now going to repent.

01:10:57.980 And what am I going to do to fix it?

01:10:59.780 Now I'm just going to say,

01:11:01.180 well, let's just let the best man win.

01:11:05.580 You got this, champ.

01:11:06.860 And they don't stand a chance.

01:11:08.240 Yeah.

01:11:09.040 And we think that's conservative.

01:11:10.660 With conservatives like these,

01:11:13.240 who needs communists?

01:11:14.480 Well, I'll give a human side to it.

01:11:15.800 I'll keep the details very vague,

01:11:17.520 but someone reached out

01:11:18.420 and they said they work

01:11:19.080 with a lot of individuals from india and it was a team icebreaker and it was basically you know

01:11:23.240 like where would you where would you want a vacation where would you want to be and so many

01:11:27.680 of them said i uh i want to go home i want to see where my family's from like they're here and

01:11:33.980 they're working in whatever industry it is and it's like well that's great the american dream

01:11:37.460 right and you ask them like what would you do if there was no other nothing on you no other

01:11:42.280 compulsion oh i would go home for sure nowhere else in the world i'd rather see and it's like

01:11:46.640 we haven't it's not we have not done ourselves a favor lord knows we haven't done them a favor

01:11:50.960 either we've ripped them out they're rootless they're groundless they have and just so the

01:11:56.080 gdp goes up right well they make money well they're going to get to the point where they're

01:11:59.700 like who cares about this money i want to see my grandpa and grandma again i want to spend time

01:12:03.620 where i'm from i've done nobody favors i want to see my home i want to see my history so yeah you

01:12:09.040 haven't helped them the people that you've imported here you certainly haven't helped their countries

01:12:13.120 because you've taken the best shot that each of these nations had their best their brightest and

01:12:17.980 taken them away and you haven't helped our country because you've infused it number one you've

01:12:23.880 crippled these other nations so now we all have to be a tax farm supporting them so high taxation

01:12:28.380 for us to write all of our our crimes um and then in addition to that our native population now has 0.92

01:12:34.320 to compete with the 0.01 percent of the the very best globally around the world um so yeah so you've 0.52

01:12:42.640 just at all three categories you hurt the nation they came from you hurt our nation where they

01:12:46.200 came to and you've hurt the people that you moved but you have not hurt the bankers to make lots of

01:12:50.620 money on these software as service companies that's right uh you have not um you have not

01:12:55.520 hurt david bonson no but we're grifting yeah get that out of my face uh all right all right i forgot

01:13:05.200 to plug thanks for tuning if you're in colorado fight 1312.com fight 1312.com that's the website

01:13:12.100 to go to they're going to be rallying on wednesday if you're in the dallas area the anti-predatory

01:13:16.240 gambling association that's a political action committee go there see if you can donate those

01:13:20.900 are the two things locally find people get connected network be strategic play for the long

01:13:26.960 game yep and for most of you at this point of your life uh playing for the long game being

01:13:32.000 strategic getting connected getting involved um primarily what that's going to mean for most of

01:13:36.500 you not all of you uh there will be some individuals there will be some exceptions but

01:13:40.880 for most of you what that means is throwing your hat in the ring with somebody else that means

01:13:45.740 lending your sword to somebody else most of you are not going to be king but you can help

01:13:53.400 somebody who is called by God to be a king for him to be able to achieve and and I think a big

01:14:02.680 part of it honestly in all this a big part of it in terms of virtue is simply it requires humility

01:14:09.600 That's part of the reason why we don't get things done

01:14:11.560 is because we constantly spread our forces too thin.

01:14:13.780 And the reason we spread them too thin

01:14:15.020 is not even just that we're all hopped up on hopium,

01:14:18.280 wishful thinking, and we just believe.

01:14:21.020 Part of the problem, we spread our forces too thin 0.99

01:14:23.480 because everybody wants, too many chiefs, not enough Indians. 1.00

01:14:26.480 Everybody wants to be in charge. 0.98

01:14:28.120 Everybody wants to plant a church.

01:14:30.740 Everybody wants to be the guy who runs for political office.

01:14:33.200 Everybody wants to be,

01:14:35.280 and nobody really wants to support

01:14:37.160 what somebody else is already doing.

01:14:38.440 Find somebody who's uniquely gifted by God and who the Lord in his providence, in his sovereignty, in his grace has his hand upon that individual and that person is already experiencing, they're already reaping success and blessings and what they're doing is working and it's growing and go there and lend your support.

01:15:00.280 It doesn't have to be you.

01:15:02.360 But what you can do is you can find guides that the Lord's already using

01:15:06.420 and shore up the victory that God's providing there.

01:15:10.580 A good metric is, oh, should I be a pastor?

01:15:12.920 Should I get into politics?

01:15:14.180 Has anyone ever at some point in your life said you should do these things?

01:15:17.720 Not a single person in your whole life has said like,

01:15:19.640 hey, you have a gift for the pastoral, or hey, I think you'd be a really good politician.

01:15:23.440 If nobody said that at any point, you're 30, 35, 40,

01:15:27.100 then honestly at some level you're probably not.

01:15:29.200 but if like again and again people have told you to the point where you can't escape it and you're

01:15:32.800 being solicited for the job like honestly like some people like Thomas Massey tried to live in

01:15:36.920 the woods people were literally begging him like please come out and run for this district I think

01:15:41.700 it was open so an open primary like if you have that happening that's probably a good sign from

01:15:46.340 the Lord that you're called to it nobody's told you told you it nobody suggested it then get out

01:15:51.080 there and knock some doors for someone else champ yep amen thanks for tuning in we'll see you again

01:15:55.020 Lord willing on Wednesday.

The NXR Podcast - April 28, 2025

THE LIVESTREAM - Free Speech & Casinos： The Power of Local Resistance

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