July 6, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies. | |
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room, here's your host Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Back in the War Room with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Love the intro with Stephen K. up there like an Old Testament preacher, thundering it down. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Also pray for our country. | ||
| Pray for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| God's mind is not our own, but God in an instant can make new things happen, right? | ||
| What seems impossible with God, all things are possible. | ||
| And so we're going to kind of do a reflection on Independence Day. | ||
| We got in some of Steve's great friends, Larry Schweikart's with us, Bill Federer. | ||
| We're going to go back and review a little history. | ||
| That matters, but we're going to connect the dots from history to economics to the institutions necessary to have our republic, to have freedom. | ||
| And so there's no one better to have in the house than our friend Larry Schweikert. | ||
| Larry, if you want to give us just a quick bio of what you studied, a couple of the books that fit in with the War Room that you want to pitch ahead of time. | ||
| And just give people a sense of your credentials and then connect all the dots that we just laid out. | ||
| Thank you, Larry. | ||
| Thanks for being with us. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Thanks, Dave. | ||
| Well, my background is I have a Ph.D. | ||
| in economic history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and I did most of my early work on banking prior to 1900 and written two or three books and a few articles that are cited all over the place. | ||
| But it was interesting to hear you talk about the Chamber of Commerce and growth and so forth. | ||
| We just had brand new jobs numbers come out that are all rosy. | ||
| And as we always know, first they're going to revise those downward. | ||
| In about two weeks and you also were mentioning Politico and I would add to Politico the Hill and Axios. | ||
| Those are kind of the big three of the Democrat mouthpieces that when they want to put out information that they want you to hear they're going to put out through those three mouthpieces. | ||
| And so it reminded me of a time in 1991 when I was invited by Milton Friedman and others to go to Europe as part of the Mont Pelerin Society. | ||
| And at one time, I was in a room with five Nobel Prize winners, and I wasn't one of them, which is pretty depressing. | ||
| But at any rate, one of our tasks was to meet with Soviet economists. | ||
| Now, this is before the Soviet Union fell, and I think you'd find this pretty appropriate. | ||
| They were asking us, how do we make a transition to capitalism? | ||
| And I said, well, it's got to be quick. | ||
| There's no slow way to do it. | ||
| You just got to jump in with both feet. | ||
| I said, for example, you would take a steel factory, give it a value, have the government come out on Friday night and say it's worth $2 million. | ||
| You have X number of employees. | ||
| Give each employee an equal share of the steel company and go from there. | ||
| And they looked at me incredibly puzzled and were shaking their heads. | ||
| I go, what's wrong? | ||
| They said, you don't understand. | ||
| Nobody believes the media. | ||
| If the government said that, nobody would believe it. | ||
| And I think that's really almost where we are anymore, that nobody believes anything put out by the media or the government when it comes to the economic picture. | ||
| Yeah, no, that's exactly right. | ||
| And so in our history, I think you're well equipped to also weigh in on this socialism versus capitalism debate, right? | ||
| The young kids, when you're young, you know, there's some famous saying out there, I'll botch it all, I'm crazy. | ||
| But if you don't, you know, if you're young and you don't, you know, have a heart, there's something wrong with you. | ||
| And when you get old, you get a bigger brain. | ||
| And, you know, you realize that actually capitalism is better off for everybody in play, right? | ||
| Socialism makes these grand promises. | ||
| Karl Marx promised the brotherhood of mankind and has delivered bondage everywhere he's been put in place. | ||
| And then it always starts off as a gradual, you know, steps towards socialism, right? | ||
| Just let us do this. | ||
| Let us do this. | ||
| And so we put into place, you know, FDR and then Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society programs. | ||
| And it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. | ||
| And right now, our government is bigger than the Chinese government, right? | ||
| In both absolute terms and percentage terms, our percent, our government is 18% of GDP. | ||
| China's is only 14 percent, and China's a totalitarian surveillance communist state, and they have a smaller government than the U.S., so imagine what we can do when we get good at it, right? | ||
| I mean, it's just a scary day. | ||
| So give us a little sense of history. | ||
| How did the socialists win when the historical track record is so clear But I guess that's part of the problem with education. | ||
| The kids don't know this, and we don't equip them. | ||
| But what's your comments on that, Larry? | ||
| Well, you're absolutely right. | ||
| It begins with education, and I think the element in education that we miss the most is this idea that capitalism is selfish. | ||
| It is not. | ||
| Capitalism is inherently unselfish, and socialism is inherently selfish. | ||
| And the way you understand that is that capitalism is designed that you can only make money at After you serve your fellow man, I think this is a line from Thomas Sowell But you first have to offer something as almost a sacrifice to the market to see if you're serving other people and if they View it as important enough to them. | ||
| They will pay you for it and reward you for it Socialism acts as an insurance policy and says you must get paid up front in essence capitalism says give and it shall be given unto you socialism says take and it shall be given unto you." | ||
| And the way I would use this example with my students, and they always got it, | ||
| is imagine if I took you up in a helicopter, I dropped you in the Sahara Desert with a pick and shovel, | ||
| and for eight hours you dug a hole. | ||
| And at the end of that eight hours, you stuck your hand out and somebody put money in it. | ||
| Who would have been benefited by that hole? | ||
| And the students immediately got it. | ||
| Well, nobody. | ||
| You haven't done anything for anybody. | ||
| Nobody wanted the hole. | ||
| Nobody asked for it. | ||
| But if somebody pays you for it, You are the only one benefited by digging that hole. | ||
| So if we have something called a minimum wage law that requires that you get paid whether you help anybody else or not, that is pure selfishness. | ||
| Whereas with capitalism, it says you've got to help other people first before you get your reward. | ||
| Yeah, that's exactly right, too. | ||
| And I did my PhD in economics as well. | ||
| And they taught us back then that we're a social science. | ||
| We're not supposed to be involved in ethics in any way, shape or form, right? | ||
| Well, of course, that's Paul Krugman. | ||
| All he does is preach his ethics in the big state every day. | ||
| The Chamber of Commerce also, by the way, I forgot to add, they also said they want better messaging. | ||
| The messaging thing is exactly what we hear all the time out of James Carville and every Democrat mouthpiece. | ||
| This ain't getting the messaging. | ||
| We ought to get our messaging a little bit better. | ||
| And they never understand that it's not the messaging, it's the message that is what they are peddling that no one wants. | ||
| Their policies are bad, not the way they are describing their policies. | ||
| Yeah, well, and it's funny, they open with, we've got to get back to economic growth. | ||
| We're not growing right now. | ||
| And the CBO, right, the Congressional Budget Office has us growing at one and a half percent for the next 30 years. | ||
| So if you ask anybody, how's the economy doing? | ||
| That's the answer. | ||
| That's the real answer. | ||
| The rest of it's just noise, right? | ||
| The latest labor report or the latest that it doesn't matter. | ||
| If you're going to grow at one and a half percent for the next 30 years, that's bad. | ||
| And so they say, we need growth to get some good news. | ||
| And then they say, hey, you media people, you got to give us good stories because everything we're doing right now is bad. | ||
| I mean, you just really cannot make up this messaging mess I'm going to go back to history with you, Larry, and the biggest issue that the left used to take care of in a good way, the liberals, they cared about income distribution. | ||
| Now, not one word of it. | ||
| Now, the left is all out the trillionaire class, right out in Silicon Valley, the Magnificent Seven. | ||
| The top five firms of the Magnificent Seven took about 60% of all market returns, all the US S&P 500 returns this year. | ||
| And then the basic stat is that 10% of the American people own 90% of the wealth, the stocks and bonds. | ||
| And so we have an economy made up of monopolies Back with Teddy Roosevelt and the trust busters or whatever, what comes to your mind when things get too big? | ||
| And this is global, right? | ||
| The same thing's happening in England with Brexit. | ||
| It's happening in France right now in the news. | ||
| It's happening in Brazil. | ||
| The people are getting sick of it. | ||
| And so what can you tell us? | ||
| What should we expect based on history as the next steps unfold? | ||
| Well, there's a fine line in using the Sherman Antitrust Act, but it's clear that now that we are constantly moving more toward the top 1% getting more and more money. | ||
| I think the last thing I saw was that 1% of the people get more money than the bottom 50% combined. | ||
| Right, that's right. | ||
| And so this is a dangerous situation. | ||
| You don't want to go overboard on antitrust. | ||
| And the way the antitrust laws are written is pretty nebulous. | ||
| They basically say, if we think you're in violation of the law, you're in violation of the law. | ||
| Nevertheless, at the end of the 1800s, Roosevelt came in when the Steel Trust, the Sugar Trust, many of the other trusts were controlling about 85% of the U.S. | ||
| market in their areas, and he applied strong antitrust laws that began to limit that and break up some of these companies. The one thing that Roosevelt missed, and this is | ||
| in my book, Dragonslayer, Six Presidents and Their War with the Swamp, the one thing he | ||
| missed was the media. Roosevelt did not break up the media, which is to his eternal discredit, | ||
| because that's another place today where we have a horrific monopoly, and it's | ||
| very hard to break into or to shatter that media monopoly as well. | ||
| Yeah, no, that's right. And one of the court decisions that didn't get much attention, | ||
| which I thought was huge, was the Murthy, I think it was prior called Missouri, Murthy | ||
| versus Missouri, but that was the freedom of speech test, and one of their Republican | ||
| appointed Trump justices. | ||
| Uh, I said they didn't have standing on that one. | ||
| But it not only coupled the idea of market power, right, the magnificent seven firms, but they were working in tandem with the government. | ||
| And the government was telling the firms to censor the American people on disfavored language. | ||
| Holy moly. | ||
| I mean, that goes straight up against the First Amendment. | ||
| In the history of economics and thought, what do you got on that one? | ||
| We have this issue, and really this is something for Mike Davis, but the issue of standing is a big, big problem. | ||
| And yes, it has been recognized really for about a hundred years, but before that it was not recognized much at all. | ||
| And so I don't know how we fix that, but it's clearly being used now by courts as a way to dodge any unpleasant decisions where they might have to really take a strong position politically. | ||
| They've used it to duck all the January 6th and election integrity challenges. | ||
| They've used it in many of the VAX challenges. | ||
| And as you said, just recently, they used it in the freedom of speech challenges. | ||
| on censorship and the media. | ||
| So there has to be a way, and I'm sure Mike and some of his cohorts can come up with a legal way to challenge this nonsense of standing. | ||
| You know, I believe that in any federal election, which would include senators and president, I have standing because my vote is being affected by fraud in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania or someplace else. | ||
| And so even if it's a Senate race there, I still have standing because it's a federal office. | ||
| I may not have standing for state races, but I certainly should have standing for federal races because it affects my vote. | ||
| And so we've got to get that under control. | ||
| Right. | ||
| We'll be back in the war room with more from Larry Schweikert and Edville Federer. | ||
| We're covering the Waterfront Ollie issues in the newspapers, but with a S.K. | ||
| Bannon historical slant. | ||
| He loves it. | ||
| And then he uses history to look around the corner and sees what's coming at us. | ||
| I'll tee Larry up with that. | ||
| Stay with The War Room. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| Back in the War Room, Dave Brat sitting in with Stephen K. | ||
| Bannon and our guest Larry Schweikert. | ||
| He's been tour de force across history, economics, now the Week in Review, right? | ||
| We're kind of doing a Week in Review. | ||
| The politics, the debate, the shuffle, the media going off in every direction. | ||
| Larry, anything you want to weigh in on this crazy Week in Review from the history books that might be pertinent to the way forward? | ||
| You know, we had these swirling waters where it looked like right after the debate, they were going to have a journalistic coup where they were going to be able to push Biden out. | ||
| And he and his family got together over the weekend and apparently have beaten that back for the time being. | ||
| I got to disagree with Mike Davis, though, about the role of Obama. | ||
| There's been some really good literature come out, a book called The Truce, for example. | ||
| And it pinpoints this woman Jayapal and Ron Klain and Anita Dunn as the three main people who've been shaping and pushing Biden forward. | ||
| Well, in the last weekend, those three, they weren't fired, but they were demoted. | ||
| And two other guys, a guy named Anthony Bernal and another guy, can't remember his name, have been kind of elevated to that role of having Biden's ear and one newspaper referred to it as Rasputin-esque. | ||
| So at any rate, if you're Kamala Harris out there and you're even thinking about what might happen, there's some interesting things that history has to offer. | ||
| For example, if Biden steps down as the candidate But not as president. | ||
| They can name Harris, and she will need a vice presidential candidate on the ballot. | ||
| That is in the Constitution. | ||
| However, if Biden is removed as president, And Harris accedes to the presidency, she does not necessarily have to pick a vice presidential candidate. | ||
| John Tyler, in 1841, acceded to the presidency when William Henry Harrison died. | ||
| And over three years, Tyler didn't have a vice president. | ||
| There is nothing in the Constitution that says you have to have a vice president, only that one must be there in order to run for the electoral college. | ||
| And so if she thinks she's only going to be in from now until, say, January 20th, in order to protect her own position as president, she might very well not appoint a Veep. | ||
| And then the last thing to consider is that Mike Johnson has the last word over who that Veep candidate is. | ||
| Because both the House and the Senate must approve a vice presidential appointee who's appointed by a president. | ||
| And I doubt, even with his failings, that Mike Johnson is going to want to put in somebody like Newsom or Hillary, who might be a positive or a benefit to any kind of race or any kind of campaign. | ||
| He would probably just nix them or More likely, just drag it out until it was meaningless. | ||
| So there's a lot of stuff going on right now that is swirling. | ||
| And Biden insists he's not going to be pushed out, but he does say he needs more naps. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| Hey, give me that again on the speaker. | ||
| So not the entire house, but just the speaker. | ||
| No, the house has to vote. | ||
| Usually is that pro forma? | ||
| himself as the first black female vice president and then shouted ho ho ho at a 4th of July | ||
| celebration. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| Hey, give me that again on the speaker. | ||
| So not the entire house, but just the speaker. | ||
| No the house has to vote. | ||
| Usually it's that pro forma. | ||
| Usually that's just doesn't even come up. | ||
| But this time it could. | ||
| The House has to approve, in the case of a vice president who is seated to the presidency and appoints a VP, the House and Senate both have to approve that VP candidate. | ||
| And politically speaking, it would be in Mike Johnson's best interest and in the Republicans' best interest Very good. | ||
| allow them to appoint anybody who would be politically threatening. | ||
| I mean, they could pick some Joe Blow from Pigs Knuckle Arkansas and that's fine. | ||
| But they're not going to allow Gavin Newsom or Hillary Clinton or somebody like that to | ||
| come into the vice presidency if they could be a threat to this coming election. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| All right, Larry, I thank you so much for being on The War Room with us this Independence | ||
| weekend. | ||
| How do people get you? | ||
| What are your coordinates? | ||
| Yep, wildworldofhistory.com if you want. | ||
| I have a full curriculum in U.S. | ||
| and world history, including me teaching every single lesson from a patriot's history of the United States. | ||
| Or if you want more politics, go over to my political site, The Wild World of Politics, where I give political commentary three days a week. | ||
| And of course, the latest book, backed by Steve Bannon, which has his foreword, is A Patriot's History of Globalism, Its Rise Great. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Thank you so much, Larry. | ||
| Thanks for being with us. | ||
| Alright, in the War Room, we're going to flip over to one of my good friends. | ||
| He's been at Liberty University. | ||
| Bill Federer, he's dedicated his life to the pursuit of some of the key ideas that are in the war room regularly. | ||
| I try to weigh in on them. | ||
| The idea of God's providential work throughout all of human history, not just the West, Not just the United States, but through everything that happens. | ||
| And so you'll find no better mind and just a fun personality to help lead us through some of this. | ||
| Bill, why don't you give everybody just a very brief bio and then a sense of what your life work is about and tee us up with some of the key ideas you want to share today. | ||
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| Well, my first book is America's God and Country Encyclopedia Quotations, and it sold a half a million copies, and so I've written about 30 books since then. | ||
| My latest book is Silence Equals Consent, The Sin of Omission, Speak Now or Forever Lose Your Freedom. | ||
| The idea that if you're silent at a wedding ceremony, you're given your consent. | ||
| Well, if you're silent with all the evils going on in the community, you're given your consent. | ||
| And if you give consent, you're an accessory and you'll be judged. | ||
| But I did a book on socialism that I think the viewers will find interesting. | ||
| My website's AmericanMinute.com. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| Well, you just teased us with that. | ||
| Keep going on the socialism piece. | ||
| What's the relationship between God and the Bible and socialism? | ||
| Right, so the most common form of government in world history is Kings. | ||
| Nimrod, Pharaoh, Caesar, Kaiser, Sultans are and they keep getting bigger and bigger and a couple dynamics. | ||
| One is with every new military invention, it allows Kings to kill more people. | ||
| So instead of Cain killing Abel with a rock, they can kill with a bronze weapon, iron weapon, phalanx, spear, scimitar, sword, gunpowder. | ||
| The Mongols had a composite bow and then they keep getting bigger and then with technological advancements Kings can track more people. | ||
| So 2 BC, Augustus Caesar wanted a worldwide tracking system, a census. | ||
| If he could have had access to 5G and cell phones and facial recognition software, I bet he'd been tempted to use that. | ||
| They keep getting bigger, and they rule through fear. | ||
| That's the electricity that keeps these monarchs going. | ||
| Nimrod was the first one. | ||
| He wanted people to fear the government rather than fear God. | ||
| But by the time of America's founding, the King of England was the most powerful king that planted He was a globalist. | ||
| He was a one-world government guy with him at the top. | ||
| And America's founders decided they didn't like that, so they broke away and flipped it and made the people the king. | ||
| And so they got their idea from the New England pastors who got their idea from the Reformation, who got their idea from the Bible. | ||
| What part of the Bible? | ||
| That first 400 years out of Egypt before King Saul. | ||
| So we got two parts of the Old Testament, right? | ||
| So the kings of England look to the Bible, but they look to the King Saul and on, the divine right of kings, while the Calvinist Puritans and Baptists and Presbyterians and Quakers that founded the early colonies in America, they look to the pre-King Saul part of the Bible. | ||
| Why is this important? | ||
| Because Romans 13, the verse that says, let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, Romans 13 is understood differently in a monarchy versus a republic. | ||
| In a monarchy, subjects submit to the king. | ||
| In a republic, the citizens are the king. | ||
| The politicians are your servants. | ||
| You hire them, you fire them. | ||
| They are supposed to do what you tell them to do. | ||
| And so the pastors say, well, just submit to the government. | ||
| They need to pick up and go to China. | ||
| I mean, or Babylon, where they blow the trumpet, you bow to the statue, right? | ||
| They want to surrender. | ||
| But in America, we have a direct responsibility to God. | ||
| And that came from this pre-King Saul period of the Hebrew Republic. | ||
| That's why they taught Hebrew at Yale and Harvard. | ||
| Let me stop you right there, Bill. | ||
| We got about a minute and a half until the break. | ||
| But let me play the devil's advocate. | ||
| I get this a bunch. | ||
| I agree with everything you just said. | ||
| I think you're right on the money. | ||
| But a lot of people will say, yeah, but Jesus came and he's the son of God. | ||
| And he said, just turn the other cheek. | ||
| So they say we should just be a passive people, whereas the God of the Exodus was certainly not passive, nor were the acts of Israel under that God for the rest of the Hebrew text. | ||
| So what do you make of that juxtaposition, that Jesus came and we should all be passive? | ||
| Right, so Jesus did not pet lambs all day long. | ||
| His first sermon ended with them wanting to push him off a cliff. | ||
| Another sermon ends with him picking up stones to stone him. | ||
| Another sermon ends with people saying, this is a difficult thing, who can bear it? | ||
| And they stand up and walk out of church, right? | ||
| They walk with him no more. | ||
| He didn't run after him and say, oh, you misunderstood me. | ||
| No, he tells the twelve, you want to go too? | ||
| There's the door. | ||
| And of course, Peter said, where else can I go? | ||
| You're the only one with the words of eternal life. | ||
| Jesus is invited to somebody's house for dinner, and the Pharisee noticed Jesus did not wash his hands. | ||
| And Jesus said, you Pharisees are more concerned about the outside of the cup and not the inside. | ||
| You're like a sepulcher, pretty on the outside, inside full of dead men's bones. | ||
| And the lawyer says, well, Jesus, by saying that, you're insulting us lawyers. | ||
| He goes, let me tell you about you lawyers. | ||
| You heap burdens on people too heavy to carry. | ||
| Don't even lift a finger. | ||
| You hold the keys of knowledge. | ||
| You don't go in. | ||
| You don't let anybody else in. | ||
| And then the chapter ends, and you wonder if they ever got around to eating dinner. | ||
| I mean, this is our loving Jesus. | ||
| To the prideful, He was tough as nails. | ||
| To the humble, He was as loving as can be. | ||
| God resists the poverty, gives grace to the humble. | ||
| Yeah, we'll be back on that theme. | ||
| Jesus, I always remind some of our younger folks, was also in the Trinity at the Exodus. | ||
| It was the entire Godhead, which is unified in one person, God. | ||
| And so we'll get into that with Bill Federer. | ||
| This matters, right? | ||
| The church has become passive. | ||
| We're going to also cover why the revolutionaries and the Civil War and World War II versus Hitler Christians had no problem fighting. | ||
| It's just in the last 50 years, something fell apart, and it doesn't make any sense to me. | ||
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Back in the war room with Bill Federer, for all and more. | |
| War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. | ||
| Back in the War Room, Dave Brat sitting in with Stephen K. | ||
| Bann and our good friend Bill Federer who's already lighting it up. | ||
| We just finished introducing the idea That Jesus, although the author of love, most of the books, right? | ||
| I mean, just go read them. | ||
| Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, etc. | ||
| Most of the stories, he's not just saying, hey, dudes, let's go out for Starbucks. | ||
| I love you. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's not this warm Subaru commercial of, you know, just fuzzy love. | ||
| But the love is best seen in the cross. | ||
| And that shows you the seriousness of the message we're talking about. | ||
| And so Bill Federer is here with us. | ||
| And these days, a lot of the young folks, some in the evangelical community, the Catholic communities, have kind of just sided with Brother Aristotle instead of Jesus and say, well, you just got to compromise and find a golden mean. | ||
| And there's no sense to get uptight about this stuff. | ||
| And we're letting the Republic and some of the key principles slip through our fingers at present. | ||
| And so Bill, how do you address this God of the Old Testament versus the God of the New Testament? | ||
| Is it two different gods? | ||
| What's gone wrong here in theology? | ||
| Yeah, well, I just can't help plugging my book again, because that's the whole topic of my book. | ||
| But Jesus said, Who do men say that I am? | ||
| And some say, Thou art John the Baptist, some Elijah, some Jeremiah. | ||
| And of course, Peter said, Thou art the Christ. | ||
| But if you think of it, who was John the Baptist? | ||
| He stood up to the corrupt government leader, King Herod. | ||
| Who was Elijah? | ||
| He stood up to the corrupt government leaders, Ahab and Jezebel. | ||
| Who was Jeremiah? | ||
| He stood up to the corrupt government leaders, King Jehoiakim and King Zedekiah. | ||
| And they're mistaking Jesus for this? | ||
| We have to understand that the verse that everybody knows in the Bible is what? | ||
| Leviticus 19.18, love your neighbor as yourself. | ||
| Do you know the verse right before it? | ||
| It says, confront your neighbor directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin. | ||
| One translation says, rebuke your neighbor directly so you will not incur their guilt upon you. | ||
| So here they are loving each other, and they're rebuking each other, right? | ||
| It says, better to hear the rebuke of the wise than the song of fools. | ||
| Rebuke a wise man and he will love thee. | ||
| New Testament, John 17, if your brother sinned, rebuke him, right? | ||
| Timothy says, reprove, rebuke. | ||
| Now, you can do it nicely. | ||
| It says, rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father. | ||
| But you're not being silent. | ||
| You're speaking up. | ||
| You know, there's a sin of commission and the sin of omission. | ||
| And so the idea of Moses and Aaron are called to the door of the tabernacle, numbers 20. | ||
| And God says, gather the assembly, thou and Aaron, speak to the rock, water will come out. | ||
| Well, they gathered the assembly and Moses lifts up his rod and hits the rock once, hits the rock twice, water It's like both. | ||
| We just read the chapter. | ||
| Aaron didn't do a thing. | ||
| He didn't say a thing. | ||
| It's like, yeah, that's it. | ||
| He heard God say, speak to the rock. | ||
| When Moses lifted up the rod the first time and hit the rock, probably took Aaron by surprise. | ||
| When Moses lifted up the rod the second time, Aaron did not protest. | ||
| He didn't say, whoa, Moses, hold it. | ||
| I was there. | ||
| I heard him say, speak. | ||
| No, he was silent. | ||
| And in that instant, he was guilty. | ||
| Moses's was a sin of commission. | ||
| Aaron's was a sin of omission. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Let me ask you about this, and then we'll move into Gnosticism a little bit. | ||
| witness or knew what happened. | ||
| 100 percent. | ||
| 100 percent. Let me ask you about this. Then we'll move into | ||
| Gnosticism a little bit. | ||
| Also, the presentation of the gospel in this modern period | ||
| appears to be what. | ||
| There's no turning around. | ||
| John the Baptist, the greatest of all men, came preaching the repentance, right? | ||
| of the gospel, people say, I believe, raise your hands, do whatever you will do, but there's no | ||
| repentance. There's no turning around. John the Baptist, the greatest of all men, came preaching | ||
| the repentance, right? The forgiveness of sins, but repentance. And is that tied into this | ||
| Are the preachers doing their job these days from the pulpit? | ||
| Why is it so easy for everybody to be a Christian, and yet we're not showing the fruits of the Spirit, especially in public? | ||
| We're becoming very weak, and we're not standing up for many Christian principles in public. | ||
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Right. | |
| So, in my book, I go through two centuries, 1600-1700. | ||
| 1600s, you have Calvinist Puritans, and they have a covenant form of government that they got from ancient Israel the first 400 years out of Egypt. | ||
| And everybody's involved in church stuff, and everybody's involved in civil stuff. | ||
| They had one building in each town called the Meeting House. | ||
| That's where the pastor would teach the Bible, and that's where they would do their civil government. | ||
| And it's great. | ||
| It worked. | ||
| And the word federal is Latin for covenant. | ||
| But in the 1700s, you had the new lights, because now Puritans are called old lights because they got a little dry and academic. | ||
| David Brainerd got expelled from Yale because he said his professor was as spiritual as a chair, right? | ||
| And so you had the new light said, no, it's more than a plan. | ||
| Even if the covenant plan is good, it's more than a plan. | ||
| You have to have an experience with Jesus. | ||
| And when you do, your life will change and you won't do worldly things anymore, like go to bars and brothels and get involved in government. | ||
| It's like, wait, what was that last thing? | ||
| Yeah, so we unpack this. | ||
| So you have Martin Luther starts the Reformation 1517, because he had a personal experience that just shall live by faith. | ||
| So personal, he was willing to stand up face to face to the most powerful guy in the world, the King of Spain, and say, unless you can prove me wrong from scripture, here I stand, so help me God. | ||
| He stood up to the corrupt government, right? | ||
| But some German princes said, this is my chance. | ||
| I've been wanting to break away from Rome, kingdom of mine. | ||
| I just decided you're all Lutherans. | ||
| And the people in the kingdom are like, OK, great, we're Lutheran. | ||
| What do we believe? | ||
| And so this revival movement starts called pietism. | ||
| This is being a Christian is more than doctrine, even if it's good doctrine. | ||
| You have to have an experience with Jesus. | ||
| And when you do, you're not going to do worldly things like bars and brothels and government. | ||
| And it turned into the German concept of the two kingdoms, the kingdom of the government, the kingdom of the church, the two don't touch. | ||
| There were even German princes that would donate money to the pietists so they would teach their people not to get involved in the prince's business. | ||
| It's like George Soros, Rockefeller's giving money to woke seminaries to teach Christians, don't get involved. | ||
| At the same time, they're giving money to their LGBTQ activists to get them involved. | ||
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Right. | |
| And so this idea, the Puritan said you can do two things. | ||
| You can be a spouse and you can be a parent. | ||
| You can be involved in church stuff. | ||
| You can be involved in state stuff. | ||
| The pietists are like, no, no, no. | ||
| State stuff is dirty. | ||
| If you're holy, you're going to be withdrawn. | ||
| So if all the holy people Withdraw from government. | ||
| Question, who's left to be involved in government? | ||
| But the unholy, and they're going to yield to their ambitions and become power-hungry, and that's what happens. | ||
| So after four centuries of this two-church teaching, Hitler seizes power in Germany. | ||
| And he puts Jews in train cars, and they're going right past the church, crying for help. | ||
| And the church's response was, well, that's the government doing that, and we're the church, and we can't get involved in government stuff because we're holy. | ||
| So let's just sing praise songs to Jesus louder. | ||
| It's like, can anybody see there's something wrong with this picture? | ||
| You know, I was in Colorado a couple months ago and a state rep, Scott Bottoms, introduced a bill for minimum punishment for those caught selling one to five-year-old children for sex. | ||
| As horrible as that is, every Democrat voted against it, against the minimum punishment. | ||
| And you're like, where's the church members? | ||
| Oh, we're so holy. | ||
| We don't want to get involved. | ||
| They're selling children. | ||
| Oh, we're so holy. | ||
| They're killing Jews. | ||
| Oh, we're so holy. | ||
| It's like, you know, I have a question. | ||
| Some people say, well, you know, I'm just going to wait for the rapture. | ||
| It's like, I have a question. | ||
| Who do you think you're going to meet when you're raptured? | ||
| Jesus? | ||
| Does Jesus love the little children? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You think he might wonder why you didn't do anything to protect them? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, we're in China where you don't vote. | ||
| We're in America where the citizen is the king. | ||
| The politicians are your servants. | ||
| And even if we can't turn it around, shouldn't we at least try? | ||
| And so there's the thought is maybe God is pushing the world to a decision-making moment on purpose, right? | ||
| The bride of Christ, every romance novel builds up to what? | ||
| A decision-making moment, a forsaking of all others and choosing the one. | ||
| And I think God is, He's pulling back the curtain, right? | ||
| Unlike The Wizard of Oz, you know, the little Toto, and you see this old man behind the microphone. | ||
| And it's like, for the first time in my life, here's Satan clubs on elementary school campuses. | ||
| And some people are so used to going along and being accepted. | ||
| Oh, I don't want people to say bad things about me. | ||
| I don't want somebody to leave the church. | ||
| there's people being bolder for Jesus on the other side. | ||
| And it's almost like God saying, okay, we're getting close to the end of this romance novel. | ||
| I need you to make your decision. God, devil choose. | ||
| And some people are so used to going along and being accepted. Oh, | ||
| I don't want people to say bad things about me. | ||
| I don't want somebody to leave the church. | ||
| I don't want them to post something negative that they'll go along with it. | ||
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Right? | |
| So you have people doing evil and people that are silent in the face of evil. | ||
| And that's the concept of my book. | ||
| It's called The Rule of Tacit Admission. | ||
| And so in a wedding ceremony, you're silent, you're giving consent. | ||
| If there's evils going on, you're silent, you're giving consent. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| There are some that say, you know, I was silent and I tolerated them, you know, doing this. | ||
| And then I stretched the rubber band and tolerated something else. | ||
| But I can't go with hysterectomy on little eight-year-old girls because they went through a tomboy phase. | ||
| I can't go with castrating a little boy because he played with his sister's dolls. | ||
| And you cut the rubber band and it snaps back. | ||
| And I think God is intentionally pushing the world to this decision-making. | ||
| And if church members can be silent, While they're mutilating little innocent children? | ||
| I mean, too much ago, Sharon Grove, a state senator in California, introduces a bill to make purchasing a child for sex a felony rather than a misdemeanor where they get two days in jail. | ||
| And the Democrats voted against making it a felony. | ||
| And the Democrat state senator, Susan Eggman, gets on the floor and she says, I work with women. | ||
| I'm a social worker. | ||
| And they've been abused and raped as little children and their whole life is scarred. | ||
| And you're more concerned about a guy that's going to get out and do it again in two days? | ||
| She goes, I'm done. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so Bill, let me let me pivot to this idea also. | ||
| I mean, God created us with minds, the rabbinic tradition going way back. | ||
| Then God integrates reason into, you know, the Western tradition. | ||
| And what's happened to our confidence in human reason? | ||
| It's one of the great gifts God gives us, right? | ||
| He made us free to think as well. | ||
| And the church doesn't, I mean, maybe it's just because we lack courage, that we know how to think, but we're not willing to act on it. | ||
| What has gone off the rails, Bill? | ||
| Yeah, and then the irony of people thinking that they're holy by letting ungodliness reign. | ||
| And to me, it's like this mystery. | ||
| How can you sit back and say, okay, well, while you're enjoying your relationship with Jesus, they're teaching kids there is no God. | ||
| And if He does exist, He is messed up putting men and women's bodies, and you have to have operations to fix it. | ||
| He's either confused, powerless, or worse, sadistic. | ||
| And if that behavior is not sin, what behavior? | ||
| Well, the little library books that show the kids, try this kind of sex, try that kind of sex. | ||
| If sex outside of marriage is not sin, arguably there are no sins. | ||
| And if there's no sins, you do not need a Savior to save you from your sins. | ||
| So while they're enjoying their personal relationship with Jesus, they're letting the gospel of Antichrist be taught to their kids. | ||
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Right. | |
| And so the answer is, the most important thing, yes, is to bring people to Christ. | ||
| But the second most important thing is to preserve the freedom to do the most important thing. | ||
| If you really think... We've got one more minute to go, Bill. | ||
| On that point right there you just made, this country was conceived to protect every minority, right? | ||
| There's minority rights embedded. | ||
| But that doesn't mean minority rule. | ||
| How in the world, right, and I've had dinner with people on the other side of the aisle for me on these issues and even they agree. | ||
| Yeah, when it comes to sexualization of kids, you're right, the majority should rule and we shouldn't be doing any of this. | ||
| What can we do to correct this in about 30 seconds and then give us your coordinates on how to get you? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Well, I read through every charter of every colony, and each one was started by a different Christian denomination. | ||
| Virginia was Anglican, Massachusetts was Puritan, Maryland was Catholic, Rhode Island was Baptist, and they didn't get along. | ||
| And then when the revolution started, they had to work together against the king. | ||
| And then I read through every state constitution. | ||
| Nine of the 13 state constitutions required officeholders to be Protestant, Christian. | ||
| Three had to be a plain Christian. | ||
| And then there's the Irish potato famine. | ||
| Millions of Irish Catholics came over. | ||
| They're tolerated. | ||
| Then there's the persecution of Jews in Bavaria. | ||
| They came over. | ||
| And so the Christians began to expand tolerance, and eventually they tolerated the atheists and the Satanists and everybody else. | ||
| And now everybody tolerated except the Christians that founded the country. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| Outstanding. | ||
| Bill Federer, we're going to have you on many more times. | ||
| You're not going to find a better presentation right there. | ||
| So I refer you to all the books he mentioned. | ||
| Hit rewind on the clip. | ||
| Bill, if they have to go to one place to get you, where do they go? | ||
| It would be AmericanMinute.com, AmericanMinute.com. | ||
| And my latest book is Silence Equals Consent, The Sin of Omission. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Everybody out there, I don't care what religion you're following, follow Bill Federer, get his books. | ||
| This is one of the most pressing messages we have to hear. | ||
| Sins of omission. | ||
| God did not call you to silence. | ||
| God called you to live out the full image of being created in the image of God with all that goes with it. | ||
| So Bill, thank you so much for being with us on The War Room. | ||
| Everybody stay tuned for the closing block. | ||
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Hang in there with The War Room right back with Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Dave Brat in the War Room with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Keep praying for Steve and we've got kind of a week in review series going here and nobody better to tie it all together than A man who needs no introduction on the war room, Mike Lindell. | ||
| Thanks for being with us, Mike. | ||
| Crazy week in the news, the huge debate with a colossal Trump victory. | ||
| Then the press goes into a tailspin against Biden. | ||
| And then a day later, they come back and circle the wagons to defend Biden. | ||
| And now half of them are peeling off to take out Biden. | ||
| I can't keep it straight. | ||
| So explain to us what in the world is going on up there. | ||
| Well, I'll tell you, I wasn't surprised that all the media came out against Biden after that. | ||
| I think it was very much planned. | ||
| I thought it was planned. | ||
| And they thought that our great, real President Donald Trump would look bad. | ||
| And they thought that, you know, hey, if Biden looks bad, we're going to, well, he's going to be able to pull him out. | ||
| And it was funny, after the debate, they were all attacking him. | ||
| and this kind of surprise turnaround here. | ||
| But I'm gonna tell everybody right now, this is all, they're very worried because, | ||
| you know, they're gonna try and cheat again in this next election, we all know that, | ||
| you know, with the voting machines and everything else, but they have to have a narrative that, you know, | ||
| that even like with polling, oh, this could happen, this could happen. | ||
| Right now we know it's basically impossible that our real president would lose. | ||
| That's why I've been out there too, Dave, for the last three years trying to secure | ||
| our election platforms. | ||
| And we've got it all laid out there. | ||
| If you go to lyndaleplan.com, everybody, we're working in every county in the United States, | ||
| every single one. | ||
| Thousands of people throughout the country, and we've got a great plan to secure elections, as much as we can be. | ||
| And I believe, like our great real president says, too big to rig. | ||
| We've got to secure election platforms and do this. | ||
| We don't know what their plan is, if they're going to put someone else in besides Biden, put someone else in as their VP. | ||
| But whatever it is, they're going to try and convince us. | ||
| Yes, that this could happen. | ||
| Biden could win when we all know it's basically a mathematical impossibility without any cheating. | ||
| And so I'm really encouraged by everything that's going on, actually. | ||
| I think it backfired on him. | ||
| It showed our great real president showed everybody, especially when he said the Hispanics and blacks were the illegals are stealing their jobs. | ||
| They're taking their jobs and people out there paying them cash. | ||
| So it's I think it's a great thing. | ||
| And they are. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| Hey, I got a question for you. | ||
| I went to high school up there by you in Minnesota, and I was raised in Michigan. | ||
| Bunch of just fine people, you know, love sports and family and hanging out at the lake in the summer and doing whatever. | ||
| And Minnesota was same. | ||
| Iowa, super nice people. | ||
| Overwhelmingly Christian when I grew up. | ||
| Just wholesome people. | ||
| But they're kind of Minnesota nice. | ||
| And they're very passive. | ||
| And they let people run over them, right? | ||
| And it's verging into Christians becoming so weak that we're becoming stupid in terms of trying to love our neighbor and doing the right things to set up and give the next generation a shot. | ||
| What's gone wrong in Christianity? | ||
| What's your message to the Minnesota nice people to like grow a backbone? | ||
| Well, I really believe that the last couple of years here has opened their eyes. | ||
| I really believe that, Dave. | ||
| We go through, they're never going to be able to force a China virus 2.0 on us. | ||
| We're not going to be eating out in Snowbanks again like we were on the first time around. | ||
| And I mean, all these things they put on, you know, you can't have more than eight people in your house at Thanksgiving and 12 at Christmas, things like this. | ||
| I believe it's, I believe it is getting people's eyes open and they, and A nation that turned its back on God. | ||
| When I spoke at the Rose Garden a few years ago, God's given us grace during this time | ||
| and you better take advantage of it and everybody better get involved. | ||
| That's all I say. | ||
| Yeah, well, you know, make sure you sell your pillows because I can go off on this stuff | ||
| But this idea that God's had grace on us, and I agree with that, but there's no evidence, right? | ||
| The evidence is that religiosity and patriotism have gone down in the last five years. | ||
| So just in closing, Give us some hope and then sell us some pillows, man. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Well, the hope is, everybody, this is opening people's eyes. | ||
| We're in the greatest revival for Jesus Christ in history. | ||
| People don't look to God when things are going good. | ||
| It's usually when things are going bad. | ||
| And so I'm, you know, this is the greatest time to be alive. | ||
| People are pouring into this bucket of common sense, which is our, which is Donald Trump's bucket. | ||
| You talk politics, and they're also pouring into the bucket of Jesus Christ from everywhere. | ||
| This is uniting of the people. | ||
| And if you can't get out there and preach the word of God right now, you're in the wrong business. | ||
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All right. | |
| God bless you, Mike. | ||
| Thanks for being on. | ||
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