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	Using free speech to free minds.
	Soon.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday, the 22nd of May.
	Dear Lord, 2023.
	3.
	Today we're going to take a look at the rapidly escalating war, pushing us towards nuclear war.
	Of course, they would do it in Hiroshima, right?
	Are they trying to send us a message?
	Escalating that, desperate attempts, even as their war is failing in Ukraine.
	And they don't care about the bloodshed.
	But we're also going to take a look at the 14th Amendment.
	It truly is, oh and the debt ceiling, it truly is a reality TV show.
	And there's nothing that you need to worry about.
	Except for the politicians who are lying to everybody.
	We'll talk about the pistol brace as well as the fact that we finally have...
	People calling out the medical martial law at very high levels which is very important.
	We have to understand that this is not over.
	The legal foundation is there and has to be addressed.
	We'll be right back. I like this article from Zero Hedge.
	This year's Emmy for Outstanding Reality series goes to, and it shows a picture of Biden McCarthy.
	This is from Academy Securities, actually covered by Zero Hedge.
	And that's exactly what this is.
	This is a reality TV show.
	As I say, while highly unusual to give an award for a series that hasn't been finished, it just stood out as deserving of its recognition.
	Critics claim that it was manufactured, unbelievable, with one-dimensional characters constrained by an unbelievable script, but the audience loves it, don't they?
	And, of course, it's something for mainstream media to talk about.
	How can this move markets, he says, when 95% of the people believe that a default cannot happen?
	And even those who think that it could happen don't believe it is likely to happen.
	Yet markets moved on a series of headlines, including the ever-popular, The meeting ended abruptly in disagreement, followed then by their heading back to the table.
	Now, of course, you have a lot of people who will manipulate the markets with headlines like that.
	A lot of people got really wealthy manipulating markets.
	People like Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein doing insider trading.
	And of course, there's a good bit of that happening with us as well.
	But I also want to take a look at why this isn't going to happen and why the 14th Amendment is a non-starter.
	If words mean anything.
	If the Constitution has any authority.
	I think it's interesting that after trying his best and doing a pretty good job of destroying the First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fifth Amendment, the Eighth Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, pretty much all of the Bill of Rights.
	Biden is now expanding his administration to attack amendments to the Constitution outside of the Bill of Rights.
	He's going for number 14.
	And Breitbart had an AFP story.
	Now they post it up without any correction.
	Pretty amazing, the bias in this story from AFP. I'm surprised that they would do something like that.
	Speaking at a press conference just before leaving to return to Washington from the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Biden said Republicans' latest demands for spending cuts as a condition for raising the U.S. government's borrowing authority were, quote, frankly, unacceptable.
	Biden said he was looking into an obscure constitutional clause under the 14th Amendment, which states that the validity of public debt shall not be questioned.
	Is that questioning the debt?
	To do that? Mm-mm.
	No, I'll tell you why in just a moment.
	It doesn't even apply.
	Doesn't even apply. I think we have the authority.
	He said the question is, could it be done?
	Could it be invoked in time?
	Noting the likelihood of legal challenges.
	This is something that we've seen over and over again by the left.
	They come up with something like the Commerce Clause.
	They turn it upside down, inside out, pervert it for exactly the opposite use of what it was meant.
	But they say, look, it's got the word commerce in it.
	It's got the word commerce so we can use it for all things commerce.
	Just like, oh, it says something in the 14th Amendment about the public debt.
	Well, there's got to be some way that we can twist the rest of that to suit our purposes to do whatever we want to with a public debt.
	This is what is happening. You go back to the Commerce Clause.
	What was the Commerce Clause about?
	Commerce Clause was saying, we're not going to have internal trade barriers erected at the borders of various states.
	In other words, the United States is going to be a free trade zone.
	Instead, what they do, they then invert, pervert that, turn it upside down, inside out.
	And they say, well, we're going to, this gives us the authority.
	To ban drugs, even though that wasn't the opinion that people had when they decided they needed to ban alcohol.
	They had to pass a constitutional amendment.
	But they say, no, we'll do that in the name of controlling commerce.
	Commerce. Well, it's not about controlling commerce.
	The whole purpose of that clause was that government would not control commerce.
	The states would not control it.
	And so then the federal government says, we will control everything.
	And we saw that happening in the first bit with FDR when he started enacting price controls on farmers.
	And he had a farmer who said, I don't want to get into that program.
	He was adamant that he didn't want to be a part of that program.
	And he said, well, you have to.
	And he said, well, I'm growing my product, I forget what it was, corn or something, for internal use inside the state.
	I'm never shipping it across state lines.
	Oh, well, if you are doing anything in the state, that is affecting globally this.
	And so it affects globally all of our commerce, and we can regulate that.
	They've expanded that nonsense.
	That was nonsense. But they've expanded that to give them presumed authority to do the war on drugs.
	They're always doing that type of thing.
	So Biden says, I think we have the authority.
	He thinks he has the authority to do anything and everything that he wishes.
	That's why he rules like a dictator with executive orders more than anybody else has.
	And in much greater severity, not just the number of executive orders, but the impact of executive orders.
	The Treasury Department says the government could run out of money and default on its $31 trillion debt as early as June 1st.
	Biden had planned to travel from Japan to New Guinea and Australia, but he cut the trip short.
	Is he trying to save money?
	No. No.
	They don't care about cutting corners anywhere.
	This is all just about virtue signaling.
	And then again, like I said, Breitbart just lifted this story from AFP without any corrections.
	And AFP says, I looked at this and it's like, this is on Breitbart?
	I looked at it and it's like, oh, it's AFP's story.
	The debt ceiling raise is usually an uncontroversial annual procedure.
	But this year, the increasingly hard-right Republican Party has turned the threat of default into a powerful lever.
	The increasingly hard-right Republican Party.
	You know what is increasing?
	The deficit. Anybody want to think about how we got to $31 trillion so quickly with Trump and Biden?
	And how quickly is it going to be before we get to $40 trillion?
	And with rising interest rates, or even at the rate that they are now, as I reported last week, that's going to be 50% of what the government takes in in terms of revenue just to pay for the interest on that debt.
	It's not sustainable.
	And anybody who pretends that it is missed their math classes because they thought they were white supremacists or something.
	It's just basic math.
	This is not rocket science or calculus or anything like that.
	It's just basic math.
	It doesn't add up.
	More borrowing, says AFP, is required imminently by the U.S. government just to meet expenditures already agreed to in the current budget.
	Well, there's nothing in the 14th Amendment about the current budget being sacrosanct.
	And that's the key.
	So just cut those things that you've already agreed to if you don't have the money to pay for them.
	Better start learning how to deal with this right now because they're destroying the U.S. dollar's reserve status.
	And there isn't going to be any floating of this stuff once they cut the reserve status.
	They can't just continue to print money without consequences.
	So you need to start thinking about life after the petrodollar.
	Because that's where it's going to go.
	They said this will trigger an array of economic shockwaves worldwide, including, the White House says, a U.S. recession.
	We're already in a recession.
	But they're just looking at how they can blame this on the Republicans in Congress who don't want to spend money, who don't want to print money that they don't have, as the Federal Reserve has been doing.
	So soon it'll be 50% of the government's revenue just to pay the interest in just a couple of years.
	Yellen says the 14th Amendment cannot be appropriately used to raise the debt ceiling.
	Why does she say that yesterday on Meet the Press?
	Well, she said it because, you know, from a pragmatic standpoint, we just don't have the time to do it.
	We know that we're going to have legal challenges because we're stretching the Constitution beyond any reasonable interpretation.
	Stretching it so far, we're going to break it in multiple places.
	And so that's going to be challenged.
	And we've only got a couple of weeks to do this.
	So, she said, well, there hasn't been much discussion on the 14th Amendment.
	She's the Treasury Secretary now.
	He used to be Federal Reserve Chairman for a while.
	Biden said, I believe this morning that doesn't seem like something that could appropriately be used in these circumstances, given the legal uncertainty around it and given the tight time frame that we're on.
	She said, if the debt ceiling isn't raised, there would be hard choices to make about which bills will not be paid.
	Well, that's exactly right.
	It's not about repudiating the debt.
	It's about you spending more money.
	Which bills are you going to pay? And of course, we know what's going to happen.
	Any billionaires and multinational corporations will get paid before the people working in the military.
	The military industrial complex will get paid.
	Ukraine will get more weapons as they already found a way to do that.
	And the surveillance state will continue to get funded.
	They'll shut down things like the National Park because this isn't something that hasn't happened before.
	I've seen it happen before. I've seen that they go out and they take probably the only thing that anybody wants from the federal government because we're not getting any defense of our borders, which is what the federal government is supposed to be.
	They have set up tripwires to get us caught up in World War III. They have involved us in every single entanglement of every single war everywhere in the world.
	So we don't want that.
	You know, the parks are nice, so they close them first.
	That type of thing. And that's what they have done in the past.
	So why can't Biden use the 14th Amendment?
	This is from Rob Nadelson at the Epoch Times.
	He says some Senate Democrats are urging Biden to use the 14th Amendment, Elizabeth Warren especially, because she plays fast and loose with all the facts, including her own history.
	So she plays fast and loose with the Constitution and the history of the Constitution.
	She said if Kevin McCarthy is going to push the United States over a cliff, then it becomes the president's responsibility to find an alternative path.
	Well, Rob Nadelson says as a former law professor, senator for more than 10 years, and presuming that she can read, that's what I would say, Warren almost certainly knows that keeping the current debt ceiling doesn't cause default, right? It merely forces the government to run a balanced budget, something the government should be doing anyway.
	In other words, they don't have to...
	Spend this money, they can still service the debt.
	You know, they're not repudiating the public debt.
	It gives the president, the 14th Amendment, gives the president no power to use it to create more debt.
	See, it's really key to be able to read and think.
	It says you're not going to repudiate the public death.
	What was the purpose of that? Well, that was right after the Constitution.
	They were worried that there was going to be a, you know, you might have people from the southern states that were still angry about the northern aggression and said we're not going to pay those bills.
	So I said, well, 14th Amendment, it addressed things after the Civil War.
	So all we got, the slaves are free.
	So let's understand that they have full rights as citizens.
	And let's understand that, you know, this public debt that we ran up, Because, you know, they were printing fiat currency, the North was.
	It wasn't just the, you know, worthless Confederate paper money, but it was also the worthless greenbacks.
	You know, Lincoln had created a draft.
	He'd created an income tax.
	He was just printing money, all these different things.
	So they put through the 14th Amendment to make sure that wasn't going to be thrown out.
	The debt limit is a law restricting how the federal government may borrow.
	The current law says $34.4 trillion, and if Congress refuses to change the law, it will remain at $34.4 trillion.
	But that's not enough for these people.
	Yeah, the world is not enough for these people.
	Borrowing more than that is illegal, so the government will have to pay its debt obligations out of its current revenue.
	Could the federal government do that?
	Sure. Current revenue is about eight times what the current interest payments are.
	So right now it's about 12.5%.
	Going at the rate that they're going, however, and with interest rates rising, it'll just be a few years before it goes from 12.5% of their receipts to 50% of their receipts.
	We have reached earlier debt limits on many occasions, but there's been no default.
	Mostly what happens is a few federal facilities close.
	When that happened the last time, the feds closed Rocky Mountain National Park.
	See? But the Colorado state government took over the job and kept it open.
	We don't need the federal government to do things that we want to have happen.
	If we really want it, if we really need it, we can do it on our own.
	And that was the thing from Alexis Tocqueville when he came to America.
	He said, you know, in France, in socialist France, whenever we see a problem, we want the central government to do it.
	But here in America, when people see a problem, they address it at the local level, the community level.
	Not even at the state level were they taking care of it.
	Still, every time we approach a new debt limit, unscrupulous politicians and their media propagandists claim that we're at risk of default.
	This is so patently false, says Rob Nielsen, that we can only conclude that what concerns them isn't default, but it's something else.
	So what is that something else?
	Well, they don't want to have any limits on federal spending.
	And, as I said before, I'm convinced that that's going to be imposed on them one way or the other.
	Again, he says the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to ensure that Congress, even if dominated by members of the former Confederate states, would honor the Union's Civil War debt.
	And here's what it says, the pertinent thing, Sections 4, Section 5.
	Section 4, the validity of the public debt of the U.S., authorized by law, shall not be questioned.
	And number five, the Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.
	Well, nobody's questioning the debt that's there.
	They're questioning raising the debt limit, increasing the debt.
	He says, notice what the language says.
	The validity of the U.S. public debt shall not be questioned.
	This means that the federal government may not use any pretext for refusing to pay off debt instruments, such as savings bonds and treasury bills.
	The amendment grants Congress the power to pass laws to ensure that the debt obligations are met.
	But what does the language not say?
	It does not say that the government must borrow more to pay off existing debt.
	Congress may meet its obligations from its existing revenue.
	It also does not say that Congress must change legal limits on borrowing.
	And although it grants power to Congress, it grants none to the President who wants to use it.
	Again, you know, it would be Congress that would be initiating this, not the President.
	But Biden and Elizabeth Warren don't care.
	And the media assists them in a false narrative because that's what the media does.
	It's always about creating issues in terms of getting people panicked and fearful.
	Tune in tomorrow.
	Same bat time, same bat channel as we see the puppet shark gnawing at Batman and Robin hanging by a thin rope over the tank, right?
	That's what Biden and McCarthy are doing.
	And so you will tune in, same bat time, same bat channel, for the same bat nonsense.
	Four in five, sorry, four in ten people say the Congress should begin impeachment proceedings on Biden.
	Is that all? What's the matter with the other six people?
	Where are they? So, you know, a lot of them are going to be Democrats, but still.
	Survey found 42% likely voters Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against Biden, while 45% said lawmakers should not.
	So, slightly more said no.
	Republicans, it was 70%.
	Again, what's the matter with those other 30%?
	A third of the Republicans don't think Biden should be impeached?
	Maybe they think he should be jailed for political corruption.
	Tens of millions of dollars in shell corporations all over the world.
	40% of independents do not believe that Congress should begin impeaching, but 39% think they should.
	So it's pretty evenly divided in every one of these Democrats.
	You've got a large number of people who are undecided, especially amongst the independents.
	They seem to be always undecided.
	And that can be a good thing, right?
	We don't want to march in lockstep to this partisanship.
	53% across the board believe that it is at least somewhat likely that Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors that would justify Congress impeaching him.
	Actually, he did a lot of that even before he became president, but certainly since as well.
	38% said it is very likely.
	One-third of Democrats also believe that it is somewhat likely, as do 48% of independents.
	But, of course, we know that Congress is all talk and no action.
	Atrocious in every way.
	Biden is ripped for punishing folks with good credits.
	But will they stop what he wants to do?
	And I've talked about this, I think, two weeks ago.
	Again, talking about it.
	The fact that the Biden administration wants to penalize people who have a good credit rating.
	And I believe it's also, they charge you more, higher interest rate if you buy a house, if you have a good credit rating.
	And they would also charge you more if you have saved a higher percentage of the down payment.
	Again, not only is Biden contemptuous of balancing the federal budget, but he hates people who balance their own budget.
	These people just want to tear everything to the ground.
	It's absolutely amazing.
	Punish Americans with good credit scores.
	That is the next thing that they want to do.
	You know, because it's got to be some kind of white supremacist conspiracy against them, right?
	If you've got a good credit score.
	I don't know. It's got to be racist, I think.
	McCarthy slams Biden on the debt negotiations.
	Said Biden rather would be the first president to default than to cut radical left spending.
	See, this is why I say it's a phony thing.
	McCarthy's phony as well.
	It doesn't have to be a default.
	Why would you push the idea that there's going to be a default?
	And so he's feeding this fear narrative as well, for political purposes.
	McCarthy knows that there's no reason that they have to default.
	They can still pay what they have borrowed.
	They just won't be able to pay some of the new things that they wanted to buy.
	Yeah, that's the way it works, isn't it?
	Should work that way, shouldn't it?
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	And we've got another comment coming in here from Angus Mustang.
	I'll read that in just a moment.
	But anyway, McCarthy accused the president of preferring the U.S. default on its debts rather than cut federal spending.
	They're not going to default on debts.
	They default on their promises to spend more in some other areas.
	He said, President Biden doesn't think that there's a single dollar of savings to be found in the federal government's budget.
	Well, that's true. That's true.
	As a matter of fact, the Biden Pentagon just says they found another $3 billion.
	For Ukrainian weapons.
	So we're gonna send a whole bunch more to them.
	And it's an accounting trick.
	And I'll talk about what they came up with that.
	Biden's decision to take a foreign trip less than two weeks from a potential default may have harmed his reputation with the American public.
	They're trying very hard to turn this into a crisis.
	And they know it's not a crisis.
	And Biden, if he knows anything, I mean, he may not know what's going on.
	He may think it's a crisis. He's just doing what his handlers tell him to.
	But the Biden administration told this guy who can't find his way off of a stage.
	He said, you know, you got to go to Hiroshima.
	Because we've got to give some more weapons to Ukraine for Hiroshima Part 2.
	And so he and his administration have been pretending it's a crisis, but then they didn't go follow through with all of this on the crisis.
	So let's talk about this $3 billion that they found.
	Just three days after Politico reported that the latest authorization of the military aid to Ukraine was on pace to run out this summer, The Pentagon on Thursday declares that it had made an accounting error, and they had overvalued the weapons that they had sent by $3 billion.
	How convenient. You know, you go back and you look at 9-11 and the Pentagon.
	My personal story involved in all that.
	I have told this a couple of times.
	I'll say it again, because it just always amazes me.
	Karen and I went down to...
	One weekend, we drove down to a little tourist area that was south of where we lived in Texas.
	And we're going through the shops there.
	And this shop had a lot of mostly Christmas-type stuff.
	And it was the middle of summer. I wasn't really interested in anything.
	Most people were not interested in looking at stuff.
	Karen was. So I stood there and waited.
	And there were no other customers in the store.
	And the lady was bored out of her mind.
	And she starts monologuing with me about how she and her husband had retired from the Pentagon, the military.
	And they'd set this thing up, and he made these things and so forth and so on.
	And so she keeps going, and she starts telling me, you know, I was working with the Pentagon, and they had trillions of dollars that were unaccounted for.
	And we were finding it, and she said there were congressmen that were not running for re-election because they did not want to face an investigation, and we had people retiring from the military.
	She said it was huge.
	And she said, but I did get a chance to finish this because her husband had retired, and so she quit at that point in time so they could be together and go to Texas.
	And she said, but you know, the office where I was working was right where that plane landed in the Pentagon, and that ended that entire investigation.
	I'm like, whoa! She could not put two and two together!
	I said, where do you get your news?
	Ha! It's all the usual places, right?
	Fox News, where Tucker Carlson was saying, yeah, none of this 9-11 stuff is true.
	She got her news from Fox and places like that.
	Just amazing. Sometimes CNN, she said.
	She could not put those things together.
	And so now we've got $3 billion in an accounting error, not trillions of dollars, at the Pentagon.
	Just like that, the Pentagon says it's now free to hand over another $3 billion in weapons.
	Do you believe that? A plane that flew on the Pentagon?
	Do you believe that it...
	You look at the hole that's there, and you look at the report from that guy who was on the scene from, I think it was ABC News.
	So there's no debris here from a plane.
	It's really strange. And they never aired that again.
	But we grabbed it. Some people did.
	I didn't grab it. Didn't even have television at the time.
	I was listening to all this stuff and saying, that's really strange.
	Well, that's really strange.
	And then when I saw the pictures a few years later, it's like, oh, okay.
	My take on it was, okay, so the buildings in New York just fell in their own footprint.
	Like, wow. Wow.
	How in the world could that happen?
	And I saw the pictures.
	But I was concerned about the Patriot Act and how they're doing.
	So I looked at it, and I'm not looking at them.
	For years, I didn't see anything, honestly.
	And so I was concerned that the Patriot Act isn't going to solve this, just like, you know, the lockdown and all these other measures were not the appropriate response, even if it was a real bioengineered weapon deliberately released.
	That was a threat to us.
	Well, I knew the same thing about the Patriot Act.
	But anyway, getting back to this. The Pentagon now says, we have discovered inconsistencies in how we value the equipment that we have given to Ukraine.
	It's possible the $3 billion discrepancy could grow even larger, and I'm sure that it will.
	If Congress tries to restrain the spending, they will do it with accounting tricks.
	So what is the accounting trick that they claim?
	They said the Pentagon used replacement cost for these things, but they should have used the Pentagon's net book value, which would have been what the Pentagon had originally bought them for, Minus depreciation.
	Did you know that? Did you know that nuclear weapons depreciate?
	We gotta adjust the book value, the nuclear weapons, or the whatever, you know, the pleated uranium.
	Well, you know what they say, the second you fire it, it loses like 50% of its value at least.
	It loses the other 50% when it lands, right?
	There you go. That makes perfectly good sense.
	Thank you, Travis. Yeah.
	So, you understand, of course, why would they do it that way?
	Why would they use replacement costs?
	Well, because they're going to replace it.
	You know they're going to replace it.
	I've already talked about how they're trying to replace these things.
	And guess what? The replacement costs will be higher than what they paid for these things in the past.
	Why is that? Well, because the Federal Reserve has been printing money.
	Have you heard that? And it caused inflation.
	Of course, the price of everything else is going up.
	The price of missiles and munitions and weapons are going to go up as well.
	I mean, it's just all nonsense.
	And so the GOP immediately called them out on this.
	Well, no, actually, no, they didn't.
	You know what the GOP did?
	Instead of calling BS on all this stuff, they scolded them For not realizing this quote-unquote error sooner.
	You know, people like Mike McCall, these neocons.
	Mike McCall with the House Armed Services, he's the chair.
	I'm sorry, he's the foreign affairs chair, Mike McCall is.
	And the House Armed Services chair is Mike Rogers.
	And so these two neocons put out a statement saying these funds could have been used for extra supplies and weapons for the upcoming counter-offensive instead of rationing funds to last for the remainder of the fiscal year.
	We could have given them this $3 billion worth of stuff sooner.
	What's the matter with you people?
	You know, find some more of these things so we can send them even more weapons.
	The revelation of a $3 billion accounting error discovered two months ago and only today shared with Congress is extremely problematic.
	It's extremely unbelievable.
	Totally unbelievable. I had to get that guy, Wallace Shawn, or whatever his name is, from Francis Bright.
	Unbelievable. Yeah, that's what it is.
	But, again, the Republicans want this war even more badly than the Democrats, apparently.
	GOP's response to this, you should have given them the money sooner.
	Not, we're in the middle of a budget crisis here, and you guys are pushing the panic button, saying there's going to be a default, and yet you're going to send another $3 billion?
	What's the matter with you? No. Instead, they say, oh, great.
	Oh, we got extra $3 billion.
	We should have sent this money sooner.
	They reiterated previous calls were buying to make up for this precious lost time, quote-unquote, by starting to provide Ukraine with dual-purpose improved conventional munitions.
	Yeah. Thus far, the U.S. government has given Ukraine almost $37 billion in military aid over the course of the 15-month war.
	However, Dave DeCamp at Antiwar.com notes that when tallying military aid, direct budgetary aid, training, the cost of troops deployed to Eastern Europe, and other aid...
	The real tally exceeds $113 billion.
	But hey, that doesn't really matter.
	You know, a billion here and a billion there.
	It takes a long time before you're talking about real money.
	You've got to have thousands of billions before you get to a trillion.
	Or, put it the other way, you've got to have a million millions before you get to a trillion.
	And they don't really care about that.
	Because we've got $30 million in debt already that they don't even have the money for, and yet look at what is happening.
	Are tax revenues going down for them?
	No, they're going up. Do they index tax rates for inflation?
	No, they don't. They'll make periodically adjustments, they say, for inflation, but of course they're always lagging, just like what they pay people who are on Social Security because they were taxed throughout their working life.
	Well, occasionally we'll go back and we'll make an adjustment, which is always a tiny fraction of what the actual inflation was.
	And it is retroactive and it doesn't reflect the current situation.
	And it takes them a year to do that.
	And it's for all these reasons.
	It is absolutely insane what they're doing.
	Neither side is serious about ending the spending.
	And both sides are pushing the panic button over default.
	But the real concern is how they're pushing the war button.
	And so they said questions already abounded about what happened to the weapons once they're in the hands of the notoriously corrupt Ukrainian government, which everybody agrees is perhaps one of the most corrupt governments on earth.
	Bill Gates even said it.
	Corrupt Bill Gates.
	That's a kettle calling the pot black, right?
	American support for U.S. involvement softening.
	Congressional hawks We'll welcome the opportunity to give Ukraine another $3 billion without taking a vote.
	In April, the Brookings Institute took a poll, found that only 26% of Americans think that America's goal should be returning Ukraine to the status quo before the Russian invasion.
	Would it be worth it for them to lose a little bit of territory so they don't devastate yet another city and kill who knows how many people and poison the land with depleted uranium?
	Would peace be worth anything at all to these people?
	Well, not to people like McCall and Rogers, other GOP warmongers.
	And we talk about the corruption in Ukraine, the head of Ukraine's Supreme Court.
	Has just been arrested for large-scale corruption, a $2.7 million bribe, so that he could put his finger on the scales of justice for some corporation that was there.
	Yeah, God really hates dishonest judges like that.
	Called him out specifically several times, didn't he?
	Yet another large-scale corruption scandal has come out of Ukraine.
	They have documented that the head of the Supreme Court received a $2.7 million bribe.
	He's been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes.
	It was seized and arrayed on the top judge's home.
	Now, this would be like John Roberts, right?
	The Chief Justice of their Supreme Court.
	But again, $2.7 million, is that it?
	That's small potatoes compared to Biden, isn't it?
	We got Biden down for at least $10 million.
	Way more than that, frankly.
	At this time, the head of the Supreme Court has been detained and measures are being taken to check other individuals for involvement in criminal activity, said a statement.
	Reports in Ukrainian media suggest that additional judges may be raided, because we're talking about Ukraine here, right?
	We're talking about a Ukrainian administration that was put in place by a coup that was run by Obama and the CIA. Oh, I'm sure there's no corruption there, right?
	Eight years ago.
	Nine years ago now, I guess.
	Reports in Ukrainian media suggest that additional judges will be raided and arrested amid this probe.
	The case could just be the tip of the iceberg.
	Contacts involved an agreement regarding unlawful benefits in favor of high-ranking court officials for, quote, rendering the necessary decision, quote, unquote, in favor of the businessman.
	The past months have seen Ukraine, which consistently ranks among the most corrupt countries in the world, take public steps to root out its notorious corruption problem.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk about Hiroshima.
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	I can't tell. Yeah, Dr.
	Strangelove. And so, Zelensky arrives in Hiroshima to lobby G7 nations for more military aid.
	Were they trying to tell us something?
	Why would they go to Hiroshima at this point in time?
	I think they are trying to tell us something.
	Yeah, we'll meet again.
	Maybe not in their underground bunkers or something like that, that they've set up for themselves while they let the rest of us die.
	That's the plan. Continuity of government.
	Yeah, be one way for them to get rid of the excess population.
	As a matter of fact, that was one of the things Paul Ehrlich was famous for saying.
	He made several speeches where he said, well, you know, there's a lot of different ways that we could reduce a population.
	You know, there could be a plague.
	That'd be good. But the way, the best way that we can reduce the population the fastest is with a war.
	And of course, these people are all about depopulation, aren't they?
	So Zelensky arrived Saturday in Japan at Hiroshima for talks with leaders of the world's most powerful democracies.
	Yeah, let's do this Dr.
	Strangelove thing, shall we?
	Bolstering international support is a key priority as Ukraine prepares for what is seen as a major push To take back territory seized by Russia.
	Well, now they've got more to push back on because now they've lost a lot more territory over the weekend.
	As they were meeting, they lost yet another large area, which has been totally devastating.
	And admitting the defeat...
	The way Zelensky put it, the actor, the profane, rude, degenerate, comedian, quote-unquote, actor, said, Bakhmut is only in our hearts.
	Hours after Russia's defense ministry reported that forces of the Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, had seized the city in eastern Ukraine.
	Every time I see that, I wonder...
	Do they play the Ride of the Valkyrie like Apocalypse Now?
	Robert Duvall character.
	The Wagnerian Private Army.
	And it ain't over because the fat lady hasn't sung yet.
	She hasn't pushed the button yet either.
	Zelensky said the Russians had destroyed everything.
	He said you have to understand that there is nothing.
	Well, we understand that was the plan, actually.
	I've played it many times for you.
	Urestovich is a chief lieutenant.
	Zelensky and his regime took power in 2019 on a platform of peace.
	He said, we're going to stop this civil war that's been going on for the last five years.
	And I guess people thought that a degenerate comedian would actually do that.
	This isn't a guy who wants to have war, right?
	Well, yeah. He sent Arrestovich to peace talks.
	And Arrestovich came back and was interviewed by Ukrainian television.
	And they said, so what are the chances of peace?
	He said, none. None. He said, there isn't anything that can be done?
	No, it's going to get worse.
	He said in 2019.
	He said in three years, meaning 2022, there will be direct war between us and Russia.
	And she said, that's horrible.
	And he goes, and he said, and Ukraine will be havoced.
	This is the way he put it. In other words, completely destroyed, just like Bakhmut.
	Ukraine will exist only in our hearts, supposedly, right?
	But he said, no, no, he said, the good news is, he says it's not bad, it's good.
	Because then we get to get into NATO. See, I get my membership card, you know, all the free passes to go, all these different places and everything.
	My Swiss bank accounts, all that stuff.
	Well, you know, he was very unrestrained in what he had to say, which led to his being kicked out recently.
	When he admitted, frankly, that the Russians had not targeted a civilian structure, but it was a cruise missile that they shot down and then it veered off course and then crashed into the...
	Well, when he said that, they got rid of him.
	But he was a guy who just didn't have a filter.
	Yeah, just tell people what it is.
	But these people get to join the club while their own countrymen have nothing left.
	There's nothing. So I guess, you know, that part of the Great Reset has been accomplished in Bakhmut.
	The eight-month battle for Bakhmut has been the longest and probably the most bloody of the conflict in Ukraine.
	Zelensky's comments came as Biden announced $375 million more in aid for Ukraine.
	Where's he getting this money?
	At the same time, he's got this charade going on about defaulting on the debt and all the rest of the stuff.
	But here's another $375 million.
	More ammunition, more artillery, more vehicles, and I think maybe that's not even the $3 billion that they magically found somewhere in the accounting trick.
	The city was known for its sparkling wine production in underground caves, its broad tree-lined avenues, its lush parks, and its stately downtown with imposing late 19th century mansions.
	All of this is now reduced to smoldering wasteland.
	But it had made it a popular tourist destination.
	Don't think for a minute that this can't happen to us.
	The Russians and the Chinese that we're picking fights with incessantly have the capacity to bring war to America's homeland that we've not seen.
	In many, many generations.
	So, when you look at how the AP portrays the Obama coup, they said, when a separatist rebellion engulfed eastern Ukraine in 2014, a separatist rebellion, Weeks after Moscow's illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, the rebels quickly won control of the city, only to lose it a few months later.
	I said from the very beginning, I said, look, Crimea was part of Russia longer than America's been America.
	And you had the head of British defense said, we've beaten the Russians in Crimea once before and we'll beat them again.
	Well, What were they doing fighting Russians in Crimea and the Crimean War?
	Well, it's because that was Russian territory.
	And so these are people who said we would prefer to stay with Russia.
	I always support the right of self-governance of any people.
	I think we're right in the American Revolution.
	I think the South was right to say we're going to have, regardless of what you think the issue was, even if you think the issue was slavery, they had the right to secede.
	Just as I've said, I disagree with what Andrew Jackson did to the Cherokee in North Carolina.
	It was horrible. But the Supreme Court even agreed that he could do it.
	And then when they saw the results of the policy, they changed their mind within one year.
	And then Andrew Jackson said, well, you've issued your opinion.
	Let's see you enforce it.
	In other words, he had the power, unfortunately, to do what he did.
	And might does not make right.
	But we created this country based on the idea of self-determination.
	And so I agree with the right of secession.
	We're going to talk about this more when we get to a story here on Oregon in a moment.
	What is happening in Oregon?
	I think people should have the right of self-governance and they should be able to create a government of their own.
	And of course we have seen that secession does not have to be accompanied by war.
	It usually is because people in power want to hang on to that.
	The only place where that has not been the case is As in the Scandinavian countries, they have broken apart and come together in various combinations, those five countries, many times over several centuries and never had a war over it.
	And you had Czechoslovakia peacefully split instead of having a war like Yugoslavia.
	But anyway, after Russia switched its focus to Donbass following a botched attempt to seize Kiev early in February 2022 invasion, Moscow's troops tried to take Bakhmut in August but were pushed back.
	Mercenaries from Wagner spearheaded the Russian offensive.
	Pergozin, the leader, tried to use the battle for the city to expand his clout amid the tensions with the top Russian military leaders whom he harshly criticized.
	He said, we fought not only with Ukrainian armed forces and Bakhmut, but we also had to fight the Russian bureaucracy, which threw sand in the wheels, he said.
	Probably meaning in the gears, right?
	Which is what you would expect a bureaucracy to do.
	And it's why they're getting results from a private mercenary organization.
	Biden, however, has agreed, and Hiroshima, to step this up.
	To Strange Love level, he's going to green light the transference of F-16s to Ukraine.
	Of course, we knew that was going to happen.
	For months, Britain was saying, well, we're going to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s, and then we'll think about whether or not we really want to give them the F-16s.
	Well, they couldn't say that they were going to give the F-16s because when the U.S. sells weapons, there's always a string attached saying we have to approve the transfer of this stuff.
	And so now Biden is saying we're going to approve the transfer of this stuff.
	So they can do it openly.
	Western leaders are developing a plan to develop American-made fighter jets to Kiev.
	The U.S. will allow its European partners to transfer F-16s to Kiev.
	According to the Washington Post, earlier this week, the U.K. and Netherlands began forming a coalition to send the F-16s to Ukraine.
	The Netherlands. They want to starve the people there, shut down the farms, and confiscate them.
	They're on the verge of a civil war because a lot of the farmers there said, we're not going to peacefully just walk away from our lives and let you take everything from us.
	And so they would love to have a bigger war.
	That's why I said this third turning, fourth turning rather.
	And I say third because I'm thinking of three different aspects.
	You've had three fourth turnings in America before.
	The Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II and the Great Depression.
	As Strauss and Howe always pointed out, they're always accompanied by economic unrest.
	By the overturning of all the corrupt institutions, because it only takes, you know, 70 years and the institutions are hopelessly corrupt.
	But usually when you overturn those institutions, the people in power want to have a war.
	Try to make sure they come out on top.
	And so I said, I think that this is going to be around the world.
	We're going to see civil wars in most countries.
	We're going to see a world war as well this time.
	And maybe it'll be a revolutionary war to one degree or the other, where there's going to be a Bolshevik revolution or an American revolution remains to be seen.
	So the White House informed its allies that it would not block their plans to provide Kiev with F-16s.
	And when Washington sells F-16s, the buyer must agree that the U.S. government can block the planes from being transferred to a third country.
	That's why they're playing this cat-and-mouse game today.
	In the UK, where Rishi Rich, a little rich kid who's the PM there now, said, well, you know, just start training people.
	We're not giving them any plans. We'll have to think about that.
	I'm not really sure if we're going to do that or not.
	They had to get the U.S. permission.
	The plan would include training on fourth-generation fighter aircraft, including the F-16s, to further strengthen and improve the capabilities of the Ukrainian Air Force.
	Officials have previously estimated Ukrainian pilots could learn how to fly the F-16 in as little as six to nine months.
	Be about the time they deployed, then.
	Zelensky has pledged not to use the weapons to attack Russian territory.
	Scout's honor. Yeah, you believe anything that little liar says?
	However, that pledge does not extend to the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014.
	So, Moscow has said in these previous declarations that these areas and Donbass and other places, they said this is now Russian territory.
	And so if Zelensky uses these weapons to attack that territory, Russia's already said that's an attack on us.
	They might as well attack Russia.
	And we have already had documents released.
	They were included in Discord leaks, the ones that that guy, that young kid put up with his gaming group.
	It showed that Zelensky was plotting to attack Russia anyway.
	Notwithstanding his many promises.
	So if he were to attack Crimea, Russia has said that is now going to be considered to be an attack on us.
	But he wasn't going to just stop there.
	He was planning, as we see from these discord documents, he was planning to attack Russia anyway.
	So we got six to nine months.
	Is that what it is? Before this thing escalates to a new level.
	There you want to get this done before the election.
	Maybe if they get a war started, there won't be an election.
	Wouldn't that be convenient for Biden administration?
	Zelensky has demanded F-16s.
	Biden appears to have changed his mind in the run-up to the G7 summit in Hiroshima.
	The Guardian reported that Washington's sudden reversal shocked some allies.
	Quote, things are moving really fast in Japan, faster even than we dared hope, said one European diplomat.
	See, I would have said faster than we had feared.
	But these people hope for war.
	They hope for it.
	It marks another significant escalation of Western support for Kyiv.
	When London began training Ukrainian pilots on fighter jets back in February, the Kremlin issued a stern warning.
	They said Russia will find a way to respond to unfriendly steps taken by the British side.
	The next round of escalation, said Russia in February, will cause bloodshed for the European continent and the entire world.
	Yeah. So, they have a summit in Hiroshima.
	And when they go to Hiroshima, it's not enough to push for war with Russia.
	They're also focusing on China.
	The G7 leaders respond to China's economic bullying at the Hiroshima summit, and they warn of, quote, consequences for China.
	They're bullying people economically?
	I mean, we would never do anything like that, right?
	We would never use our reserve currency status to bully people economically to create sanctions and do all the rest of this stuff.
	No, we're doing that, and that's why we're losing our reserve currency status very rapidly.
	Leaders outlined actions to counter Beijing's economic coercion, quote-unquote, economic coercion.
	And non-market practices.
	Well, they've never had market practices.
	They were always just fine with that.
	That was a way they would make more money.
	The China price, based on slave labor, based on intellectual property theft, based on currency manipulation.
	It was never about markets.
	And, of course, you want to talk about economic coercion?
	Talk about Biden's economic coercion.
	Not just the sanctions abroad, but his domestic economic coercion.
	Of no jab, no job.
	That type of stuff. Against the military.
	Against people who worked for him in the federal government.
	And using his multinational corporate partners.
	You know, this private-public partnership for global governance.
	To use all those dictates on us.
	So the G7 countries...
	The U.S., the U.K., Japan, Canada, Germany, France, and Italy.
	They announced on May 20th their plan to address the disturbing rise, they said, in incidents of economic coercion, but not with the United States.
	Only with China. It's not to say that China is blameless in it.
	And it's not to say, well, the Me Tooism, right?
	Well, this Me Tooism, well, China does it.
	You know, so we could do it too.
	Or you're going to blame China because you do it?
	No. It's just the hypocrisy of these people.
	The utter hypocrisy.
	Listen to this. G7 leader's statement.
	We'll work together to ensure that attempts to weaponize economic dependencies by forcing G7 members and our partners, including small economies, to comply and conform will fail and face consequences.
	We express serious concern over economic coercion and call on all countries to refrain from its use.
	And you understand the economic coercion isn't just what they did with COVID, and it isn't just what they're doing with Ukraine internationally.
	All of these countries, the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany, France, Italy, they are all desperately coercing us on the green agenda.
	Every bit of the green agenda is about coercion.
	We're going to tell you what you can eat.
	We're going to tell you what you can drive. We're going to tell you where you can live.
	We're going to tell you that you can't have roads.
	You can't have buildings even.
	And we're going to tear down the existing buildings.
	And we're going to tear down your society.
	Shut up if you don't like it.
	And they're going to run this on us economically.
	How is it being run in the US? Strictly by economic coercion.
	They're not really out there pushing edicts like they do in the UK. No, they're rewarding and punishing people.
	They're coming up with regulations and fines and things like that to take away our cars by default.
	That's what these people are doing.
	Unbelievable hypocrisy. But what they want is war with China.
	They want to finish Russia before they go to war with China.
	But they want a world war.
	Looks like they're going to get it.
	We'll be right back. You're
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	Let's talk a little bit about the election.
	This is something that is unfolding in Oregon.
	And I saw this and I was going to report on it.
	I didn't realize that this had been going on now for three weeks.
	I saw that Republicans had walked out of the Oregon State Legislature so that they would not have a quorum and could not pass any laws.
	I saw they walked out and I saw that it was reported it was over new abortion and gun control laws.
	It turns out it's also some new stuff about child mutilation that they call gender-affirming health care.
	This is one of the most disgusting euphemisms I've ever seen these people come up with.
	And everything that they talk about, they always come up with a euphemism.
	It's how they control it.
	You're against health care for kids?
	Gender-affirming health care?
	Oh, what's the matter with you?
	And what's the matter with you, you pedophiles?
	And we'll get to that.
	We'll get to that in a moment here.
	But I want to talk a little bit about the elections and the fact that some politicians put principle over their so-called careers.
	You know, I just don't, I can't warm up to people who see politics as a career.
	You've got a lot of state legislators who, you know, Tennessee and in Texas, they have short legislative terms.
	These people have a real life.
	They don't make that much money out of being a legislator.
	They can just afford to do that and that only.
	And so they typically have a real life and they live in the communities with people.
	And that's the way they ought to be. That's why I have a lot more confidence in state government than I do in the federal government.
	These people who get elected to Congress, they can live off of that.
	They stay there all the time.
	And they get a big salary that they can live off of.
	And as a matter of fact, as James Bovard pointed out, they just gave themselves a secret raise of $34,000, $35,000.
	Didn't tell anybody about it.
	Yeah. Republicans as well as Democrats.
	But when we look at the state legislatures, these people are, again, connected more to us, more to the community.
	And so you have these politicians who, because they have stayed away from the legislature, if you stay away 10 days or more, Then, even if you get re-elected, they have a state law in Oregon that you cannot be recognized and become a member of the legislature.
	So that's going to create a real issue.
	Because what these people are doing is real popular with their constituents.
	And so, but these people are putting it out there and saying, well, I don't care if I get re-elected or not.
	I'm not going to allow these laws to go through.
	Now, the way the Associated Press spends this, They said, is this the end of an era?
	A GOP walkout shows political chasm where the, quote, the Oregon way, quote, unquote, once meant bipartisan trust.
	Well, I think it is the end of an error, E-R-R-O-R. And I think the Republicans realize what this error has been.
	It has been an error of compromise on principles.
	Well, okay, we can, a death by a thousand cuts.
	And now they get to the point where these people have rapidly escalated their demands.
	And they don't want to go along with this anymore.
	But the Associated Press puts it all on the Republicans.
	They say Oregon has long been seen as a quirky state whose main city was satirized in a TV comedy where rugged country folk and urban hipsters could get along and political differences could be settled over a pint or two of craft beer.
	But with a Republican walkout in the Democrat-controlled Oregon Senate in its third week, Oregonians these days are wistfully recalling The quote, Oregon Way, unquote.
	When politicians of different stripes forged agreements for the common good.
	Famous examples include establishing the nation's first recycling program, ensuring public beach access for the entire coastline, and limiting urban sprawl, and a pioneering land use program.
	Well, there you go.
	It seems like those are things that conservatives and Democrats would agree with.
	Recycling programs?
	Limiting urban sprawl in a pioneering land use.
	No, that sounds like GOP caved to Democrats, doesn't it, to you?
	A quarter of a century ago, former Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Smith and current Democrat Senator Ron Wyden championed legislation together in Congress and even jointly appeared at town halls across the state.
	There were quote-unquote moderate Republicans in the legislature who represented suburban Portland.
	Well, maybe they were moderate by Portland standards.
	I've got to say one of the most...
	It's Marxist, woke, racist, LGB things I have ever seen in my life.
	Do you remember when we were in Portland and we went to see this historical building?
	And it was a hotel or something.
	Do you remember that, Travis? And went in there and my jaw dropped when I saw that.
	And what was that, five, six years ago?
	At least five or six.
	Probably more at this point. Longer than that, because we didn't take trips really once I started my show with InfoWars.
	Yeah. So it's been at least seven, I would say.
	Yeah. Yeah, we walked in, and I mean, it's all the stuff that you see.
	You see it all the time now, but the first time I had seen it, and it was a big meeting in Portland, and they had this one room, and we stopped by and listened to that.
	It's like, whoa. And...
	And it was full.
	I mean, it was a big deal.
	So, anyway. Yeah, that was our experience in Portland.
	A quarter of a century ago, they would all get together with the Portland Way.
	They had moderate Republicans and so forth.
	Now, there are no Democrats in rural districts, and there's no more moderate Republicans.
	Well, maybe it's all that land use and urban planning and all that kind of stuff.
	Maybe that set these people apart from each other.
	Maybe the The Democrats have decided they want to get rid of the farms and things like that.
	I remember when we loved Oregon, the countryside.
	Didn't like Portland, but we loved Oregon.
	We were driving around there.
	We'd stop at farms and get fresh blueberries and fresh, I think it's peaches they had at the time.
	A lot of fresh produce. It was great.
	It was great not to have to eat fast food, you know, McDonald's and all the rest of the stuff really.
	I tried to avoid McDonald's, but still, you never know what you're going to get.
	If you avoid the fast food places and you go to the restaurants, you still don't know what you're going to get.
	But it's nice to be able to get food right off of the farm and drive around there and see the beautiful countryside.
	The gridlock in the state capitol in Salem comes as Oregon grapples with homelessness.
	Mental health issues and a fetid open-air drug market in Portland and gun violence in the state's main city where some businesses are fleeing, including outdoor gear retailer REI. Well, it sounds to me like the Democrat policies have come home to roost.
	And when you describe all of this stuff, maybe the gridlock is because of the homelessness and the mental health issues and the open-air drug markets that are characteristic of Democrat-run cities.
	And people are saying in Oregon, yeah, we don't want the rest of this place to turn into Portland, and we don't want to be governed by the people who would create something like what Portland has become.
	We're in it for the long haul, said Republican Senator Daniel Bonham.
	Oregon is in a leadership crisis, he said, of the GOP boycott.
	Republicans have walked out in 2019, 2020, and 2021.
	This is evidently something that's new because it has gone on for so long.
	AP says neither side seems willing to give an inch over a bill on abortion rights and transgender health care and another measure on guns.
	So the question is, as they're trying to make the Associated Press, the whole spin of this article is to try to show just how radical and intolerant Republicans have become.
	And yet what has changed?
	And what is proposed to change?
	The Republicans aren't proposing a radical agenda.
	They're walking out in opposition to a new radical agenda.
	It is the Democrats who have failed to abide by the previous compromises.
	It's the Democrats who continue to move the goalpost on all of these issues.
	On abortion. On child mutilation.
	On gun control. They continue to move the goal posts.
	And then the Associated Press covers for them, saying, look at these radical Republicans.
	Can you imagine? They should just always go along with whatever we want to do.
	Well, now they see that Portland is melting down.
	They see the fruit of these bad decisions that they should not have gone along with in the first place.
	After 10 or more unexcused absences, a lawmaker cannot take office in the legislature even if the Secretary of State's election division allows them on the ballot and they win.
	And so they said the system that is already shaken by the resignation of the Secretary of State Fagan this month for secretly moonlighting as a highly paid consultant to a marijuana business Republican lawmakers appointed Fagan's actions as a sign of corruption among Democrat politicians.
	No, really? Fagan is just a woman, I think.
	Shimmy of Fagan. But she is just reviewing the situation, right?
	It's like Oliver. Fagan is reviewing the situation.
	There's no real corruption here.
	Nothing to worry about.
	And there's no reason for you guys not to allow us to mutilate children, to kill children, and to take your guns.
	Republicans accuse Democrats of ignoring a long-forgotten 1979 law that says summaries of bills need to be written at an 8th grade level.
	A law resurrected this month by the GOP. They didn't resurrect it.
	It was on the books. AP has become propaganda.
	It's not the Associated Press.
	It's the Associated Propagandists.
	And you know which side they're associated with if you read any of their articles.
	Unbelievably biased. The boycotters also say they won't return unless, and they put the word extreme in quotes.
	Yeah. Extreme bills, like the ones on abortion, gender-affirming care, and gun safety are scrapped.
	You see how they do that? Associated Press.
	If you're opposed to murdering babies, you're extreme.
	If you're opposed to what they call gender-affirming care, mutilating young children, minors, you're extreme.
	And if you don't want to give up your guns, you're extreme.
	So the Democrat Senate President, Wagner, another Wagner.
	He probably pronounces it Wagner, American way.
	It said, the House Bill 2002 on abortion, gender-affirming care, and all this is non-negotiable.
	Republicans object to a provision that would allow doctors to provide an abortion to anyone regardless of age and bar them in certain cases from disclosing that to parents.
	So it would allow them, but it would bar them?
	This is what's radical, you see.
	This is what's non-negotiable.
	No, no, no. You're going to do abortion to kids of any age.
	You know, you've got a child who does happen.
	Kids who are even under 10 get pregnant.
	We don't want to tell the parents.
	And we don't want to tell the police.
	Let's just do the abortion.
	And we'll make the money.
	That's long been Planned Parenthood's...
	But now they're going to honor this in law.
	Always in the past, Planned Parenthood did it.
	And you could argue that there was some legal jeopardy in it if somebody was going to actually try to enforce the laws on the books, but now they're going to take that away.
	And all of this is non-negotiable.
	Killing kids, mutilating kids, that's non-negotiable for the Democrats.
	But it's the Republicans who are radical.
	It's the Republicans who have new ideas and are extreme.
	And it's the Republicans who are tearing up this good government where people would get together and agree.
	The question is, do principles matter to these people?
	Does the law matter to them?
	Or do they just get to do whatever they want because they say that they got the most number of votes, whether they did or not?
	Trust them. They're experts.
	Trust them. There is no way that an election could be rigged, right?
	But you have to understand, when we're talking about the election, I wanted to talk about this first.
	Before we get to the presidential politics, because the state stuff is far more important than the presidential politics.
	The presidential politics, we don't even have anybody that I would trust.
	We have some people who have said some good things.
	We have some people who have done some good things.
	And then we have Trump, who has betrayed everything that he said.
	Trump is no different from these people.
	He is simply the flip side of the same coin that Biden is on.
	But this is a republic.
	This is not a democracy.
	And these politicians need to be subject to the law, even if it is something as simple as you've got to write the bills so that an eighth grader can understand it.
	And I guess with the government running the educational system, that standard has continued to decline, especially in liberal-run areas.
	All right, so let's talk about the...
	The Republican parade that's going to start this week.
	We should get the baby elephant walk from...
	Anyway.
	Tim Scott has dropped $6 million.
	And a hint that he's running for president.
	I think that's more than a hint.
	As a matter of fact, it's a lot of money, especially at this stage, for most of these people.
	By the way, I don't see him as anybody who's got any conservative credentials.
	I think he's in the vice presidential sweepstakes just like Nikki Haley.
	And I would fully expect that these people, especially Nikki Haley, has already indicated that she's going to come after DeSantis.
	These people want to, you know, not offend Trump.
	They are positioning themselves to be his vice presidential pick.
	So anyway, he will launch a TV ad campaign with a $5.5 million ad buy.
	It will begin on Wednesday this week.
	He spent $5.5 million on ads in Iowa and New Hampshire.
	Scott is a senator from South Carolina, of course.
	The younger senator, the junior senator to Lindsey Graham.
	Well, they can really pick them in South Carolina, can't they?
	Scott's ad buy marks the largest of the 2024 GOP candidates thus far.
	Costing more than what some might raise during their campaign's entirety, according to a senior Scott official.
	They're bragging about that. You know, some of these people aren't going to get $6 million in their entire campaign before they drop out.
	We're going to drop that in our very first ad.
	Bye. And they said he's going to enter the field with $22 million in cash on hand.
	And we'll make a major announcement in North Charleston today.
	And we'll head to Iowa and New Hampshire in the following days.
	I guess he's not too worried about all this default stuff either, right?
	I don't care. I'll see you later.
	I'm heading out on a presidential campaign trail.
	Scott's campaign exploratory committee announcement video touched on his Judeo-Christian values as well as issues that he might run on in 2024 like parental rights and education, solving the border crisis, tackling crime, and protecting the right to life.
	And I haven't seen any credibility on any of these issues.
	That's one of the reasons why it's usually difficult for a senator to win.
	A governor like DeSantis Can get involved in all these issues, and he has.
	And he's not perfect.
	He's been late. He's been limited on his responses to many of these problems.
	But he's done far more than any of the other governors have.
	So, you know, there's that. Is he half full or half empty?
	Well, it's up to you. But the bottom line, as a governor, he can deliver on these issues.
	The senator can't really do anything about this.
	So it's going to be difficult for Scott to have any credentials on these issues.
	But it looks like the social conservatives in the MAGA cult don't really care about the fact that Trump is a socialist liberal on all of these things, calling anybody who pushes back against them sanctimonious, right? So to double down on all this, DeSantis, Mocked the Biden administration over the Navy's drag queen recruiter.
	He said their recruiting is in the toilet.
	Well, so are their morals, frankly, in their position.
	He said under Biden, the military has, quote, lost its way, unquote, by using a drag queen to help in recruiting efforts.
	He said when I see them focusing on things like drag queens for recruiting, this really has lost its way.
	And is it any wonder that recruiting is in the toilet right now?
	He said, so I think you need to restore a sense of mission.
	And it's all about being able to fight and win wars.
	And when you have that sense of mission and nothing is going to detract you from it, morale goes through the roof.
	Because people like to feel like they are part of something that matters.
	And what he was responding to, and you've seen the pictures, they featured this guy who dresses up like a woman and their profile for Pride Month in 2020.
	And, you know, so, again, he is, in spite of the positions that he's taken, And in spite of pushing back against the corporation that conservatives all say they hate because of the way they're grooming kids, Disney, pushing out CRT Marxism, the angry proud family, trying to groom our kids and all the rest of the stuff, and then demanding that they are entitled to special corporate privileges.
	And I think that DeSantis, whether he wins or not in court, I think he's got a very strong case to say, and that's the case that he's been making.
	Since when does a corporation like Disney get some kind of special privileges?
	As he said, Universal doesn't have that.
	SeaWorld doesn't have that.
	Disney doesn't think that their park should compete on a level playing base with the other ones.
	No, they don't, and they're pretty upfront about that.
	And so were the establishment billionaire donors of the GOP. They don't like DeSantis' position on abortion, on CRT, on the grooming in the schools and the rest of this stuff.
	And the Republican voters don't like that either.
	And yet the Republican voters are increasingly moving towards Trump, who doesn't have a problem with any of those things.
	He not only doesn't push back against them, but he has celebrations.
	For the LGBT movement in Mar-a-Lago.
	I've talked about it.
	LifeSite News has talked about it.
	Yeah, going back a couple of years, what he's doing.
	And of course, in 2020, he had Melania cutting a commercial bragging about how much he had done for LGBT, how he had embraced same-sex mirage and all the rest of this stuff.
	He is a New York liberal.
	He's a New York liberal who supports gun control.
	He's a New York liberal who doesn't care about the Constitution, and yet the conservative base loves this guy.
	Survey shows that...
	Survey shows? It's like family feud.
	DeSantis' favorability is slipping.
	Trump remains the most favorable candidate, even though...
	His base disagrees with him on gun control by executive order.
	His base disagrees with him with the population control vaccines that he continued to cheer.
	His base disagreed with him on lockdown and on the trillions of dollars that he spent, record level that he spent.
	His base disagreed with him on the lockdowns that he was financing with these bad governors.
	And now he is obviously not pro-life.
	He's pushing back against the pro-life people.
	And yet, Trump remains the most favorable GOP contender, as 78% view him favorably compared with 20% who do not.
	And I think that this is all by design.
	I think that the Democrats very cleverly are coming after Trump with trumped-up charges.
	To turn him into a martyr in the eyes of the MAGA people.
	They want to make sure that he gets the nomination because they know that he cannot win the general election.
	You know, Neil Gorsuch has now spoken out against the lockdowns in a statement made on May 18th in a case concerning Title 42.
	Neil Gorsuch breaks the painful silence on the topic of lockdowns and mandates, says the Daily Skeptic.
	And he presents the truth with startling clarity, so much so that even this UK organization reprinted the bulk of it.
	He said, since March 2020, this is Neil Gorsuch.
	Yeah, remember when they still had the executive order there?
	I did the daily countdown.
	But the reality is, is that the legal structure that's there, I could continue to do the countdown if I wanted to, because the legal structure has not really been removed.
	It has changed in the Supreme Court as Darth Vader Ginsburg was term limited out by God and replaced.
	But the Supreme Court, including Roberts, was all about allowing these lockdowns and had ruled that way at the beginning of Trump's lockdowns.
	I called it medical martial law and I stand by that.
	It is medical martial law still.
	Because we have not ripped out the usurpation that these people have presumed to put into state law, the usurpation that they have established by example and by precedent.
	We have not rooted that out.
	And so I was glad to see that Neil Gorsuch addressed this.
	He said, since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.
	Exactly. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale.
	Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes.
	That's right. But Trump paid them to do it.
	And he continued paying them to do it.
	And he does get to that eventually as well in his comments.
	I'm not going to get into all of them right now.
	But I just wanted to point that out as we look at the Amazing Trump derangement syndrome within MAGA. There's a guy who, the biggest peacetime infringement of civil liberties in the Constitution ever, he presided over that.
	He produced it, he funded it, just as he funded the vaccine.
	So, an ex-Trump White House lawyer, the one that I like that quote that he had about Trump being a deeply offended narcissist and capable of acting except out of his own perceived self-interest or revenge.
	Ty Cobb says he believes the feds are coming fast for Donald Trump.
	Cobb, a former U.S. assistant attorney and member of the Trump legal team, from July 2017 through to May of 2018, But the problem is this is only going to cause his popularity to soar.
	The Democrats know that, and that's why they're doing this.
	And so whether or not this is legitimate is beside the point, you see.
	And we have seen, how many times have we seen our government forego prosecuting somebody over crimes, certainly because of partisanship, but also because they understand what the implications are going to be if the person is found guilty.
	I talked earlier about how they allowed So many of these congressional figures, Pentagon figures who were skimming money out of the Pentagon prior to 9-11, they let them walk.
	Why? They didn't want to have a big scandal because they knew what it would do to the government.
	These people know what this is going to do to the government.
	They know that if they can get Trump in as a nominee, that win or lose, it's going to move us towards a civil war.
	Because one side or the other is not going to accept the results.
	And they know that if they can come up with case after case after case with this guy, whether or not he is guilty of this stuff or not, I certainly believe the allegations that he and Rudy were selling pardons for $2 million.
	But whether or not, if he's convicted, Whether or not he's guilty of any of this stuff, it's only going to continue to move the needle in his favor because they know that they can beat him.
	They know that he will lose the general election, and they know that that can push everything towards a civil war.
	Michael Goodwin put it this way, writing for the New York Post.
	He said, Republicans are damned if they do and damned if they don't in Trump's 2024 candidacy.
	And, you know, it's going to be, they're going to lose in the Senate and the House as well.
	Again. Because Trump.
	Again. He said, nearly all candidates for president start with the same two challenges.
	First, you've got to win the nomination. Then you've got to unite your party to have a shot at winning the general election.
	Then there are those unlucky candidates in this year's Republican field who face a third challenge.
	By the end of this week, there'll be at least seven contestants in a race to see who gets to go head-to-head with Trump.
	But there's another obstacle for whoever the lucky survivor is.
	If he or she manages to defeat Trump for the nomination, there's a good chance that Trump will take many of his supporters and run as a third-party candidate or tell them to stay home, dooming the GOP nominee to defeat and the general.
	See? Is this guy a fifth column or not?
	And I said that about the 2020 election.
	I said, he's getting all this money and he got $250 million.
	He split almost all of it with the RNC and they spent very little of it on any actual legal investigation or challenges.
	And, of course, they did absolutely nothing to change these new rules about mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting and all the rest of this stuff that had been imposed by Trump, the Trump administration, over the lockdown, the new lockdown election rules.
	They did nothing to change any of that for the runoff in Georgia, and they lost both of those Senate seats on January the 5th.
	And then you still had the MAGA people on January the 6th showing up.
	To do what?
	What was the plan? What were they supposed to do?
	Were they supposed to take over the floor of the House or the Senate or whatever?
	What was the plan? I still don't know what they...
	They all said, well, we didn't plan for that to happen.
	Well, what did you plan for? What was the purpose of stop this deal?
	Right? What was the purpose of that?
	And of course, you know, he's going to do it again this time.
	He cost Republicans the election in midterms in 2018, but that frequently happens as the president, who is the incumbent, usually his party retrenches back.
	But they lost it then, as usual.
	But there was a big red wave because of economics, and yet still because of Trump, or maybe it's because of the new rules that he helped establish.
	They lost in 2020 as well.
	And lost in 2020, lost in 2022, I should say.
	And now 2024.
	So he says, everything, says Michael Goodwin, everything in 2023 is still about Trump.
	And just as it was then, it's damned if you do, damned if you don't for Republicans and for people in my situation like this.
	This is why I see people like Alex.
	He's on, he's off, he's on, he's like a daisy.
	He loves me, he loves Trump, he loves Trump not.
	He loves Trump, he loves Trump not, depending on what's going on.
	He's trying to, what do I do, you know?
	What does the audience want me to say?
	I'll say it. Just tell me.
	Now, you don't want to oppose Trump if you want to have an audience.
	Even with Trump being indicted in New York, losing a federal civil trial on sexual assault, and defamation, and facing three more criminal probes and other civil cases, the parameters of this race are about the same as they were a year ago.
	His supporters don't care.
	And this is the other damning thing about the MAGA people.
	They don't care any more than Bill Clinton's base cared about what he was doing.
	Raping, brutally, violently, sexually assaulting women.
	All of the corruption that he was involved in, domestic and international as well.
	They didn't care about any of that stuff.
	And of course, Trump's base doesn't care about any of that stuff either.
	If anything, the odds of Trump becoming the nominee for the third time have improved.
	Trump's gains have come despite or perhaps because of relentless attacks by Democrats.
	You see, everybody knows this.
	Everybody knows this.
	The more they contort the law to try to bankrupt him and lock him up, The larger his support becomes.
	Do you think the Democrats don't know that?
	Of course they do. That's the point of all this stuff.
	Still, even with the doddering, corrupt Joe Biden as the Democrats' nominee, Michael Goodwin at New York Post says, I believe the GOP has no more than a 10% chance of capturing the White House, regardless of whether Trump or another Republican is on the ballot.
	And a losing presidential candidate generally spells doom for party congressional candidates in swing states and districts.
	You know, you think about the fact that Trump is going to be at the top of the ballot.
	He's going to go around and he's going to want to have events with the people who are running for Senate or running for Congress.
	And if they say, I don't want to have anything to do, well, then, now the MAGA base hates these people.
	Right? And Trump will attack them.
	But if they embrace him, then the independents and the Democrats hate that candidate.
	It's a no-win situation. At this point, says Michael Goodwin, I assume Democrats will control all power in Washington as of January of 2025.
	So be prepared for that.
	Be prepared for them to turn over the House that they're narrowly hanging on to.
	Narrow, narrow majority.
	They will not take the Senate.
	They will probably not take the presidency.
	Does that scare you? Does that concern you?
	It shouldn't. Our hope is not in Washington.
	We are not looking for a savior in Washington.
	We're not looking for Washington, the federal government, to solve any problems.
	The federal government is the problem, Republican and Democrat.
	We need to start making these solutions at the local level.
	We need to set up parallel structures to get away from the Federal Reserve.
	That's why we talk about the state banking systems and things like that.
	That's why we talk about Having gold and silver.
	Whatever you can do on a personal, local, and even state level to get away from Washington, that's what you need to be focused on, not on the presidential politics.
	And that's why we talk about the presidential politics.
	Because everybody's going to talk about that, try to get you focused on it, just like they try to get you focused on the ceiling, the debt ceiling.
	Oh, look, what's going to happen if we default?
	And who's responsible for the default?
	And it's going to be the end of the world if we default.
	Oh, no. They won't.
	And even if they did, it wouldn't be a big deal.
	He said, of course, DeSantis looks like the strongest alternative to Trump in a speech he gave Friday in New Hampshire reflected the basis of his appeal, his record of cutting taxes, creating jobs, expanding school choice, taking on the culture issues pushed by the far left, demonstrate his conservative bona fides and his political skill.
	And that's the key thing.
	He's taken the culture war, they like to call it, I think it's a spiritual war, He's taking the spiritual war issues far more seriously and effectively than anybody else has.
	He said, Sam said, if you look at what we have been able to accomplish, there's something in there for anybody in terms of the issues that we tackled.
	But of course, Trump replies, not by saying, I've got a better idea, I've got a better policy than this, and I can do this better than him.
	No, he just labels him as the sanctimonious.
	As Michael Goodwin said, That's been going on for months.
	He says it's silly, but you ask what?
	It works. It works.
	It works with Trump's silly base.
	He says, I don't think Ron DeSantis said Trump is a conservative.
	I'm sorry, not Trump. This is Chris Christie.
	Chris Christie, who's going to be throwing his hat in the ring, says, I don't think DeSantis is a conservative.
	I've reported this before. Based on his actions towards what?
	Disney! Disney!
	Ha, ha, ha! See, a real conservative does crony capitalism, right?
	That's the Chris Christie brand of conservatism.
	We don't offend a big corporation.
	And of course, Nikki Haley said, oh, come to South Carolina.
	Yeah, we'd love to sacrifice our children on the altar of Moloch at a Disney World, you know?
	Haley says, welcome DeSantis and the race.
	With a dig, quote, we've been waiting for you.
	Evil witch she is.
	Again, she's part of the VP sweepstakes.
	And as part of that, you can expect Nikki Haley to attack DeSantis, not Trump.
	She is betting as well as everybody else that Trump is going to win.
	Thomas Massey.
	The only congressman that I have any respect for in Washington.
	The real successor to Ron Paul.
	Said DeSantis is more likely to double down than to pivot as he enters the presidential race.
	Thomas Massey had been in Congress less than a year when a colleague approached him with a controversial plan.
	DeSantis of Florida was also a freshman, urging Republican lawmakers on the House floor to rail against a proposed Internet sales tax that had the strong support of retail giants and only muted GOP opposition.
	DeSantis' effort drew fierce pushback.
	Lawmakers were surprised to receive calls from irate lobbyists before the floor debate even ended, demanding that they back off.
	You see, the big internet companies, big retailers, especially the big retailers, wanted this internet sales tax from the federal government.
	Of course, we do have a sales tax at the state levels, but they wanted it at the federal level as well.
	Yet DeSantis did not waver, a demonstration, Massey says, of how DeSantis responds to critics when his plans come under fire.
	Massey said, I just thought, make sure he's right before you follow him, because he's not going to back down, and it could be controversial.
	And so, as all these people tried to make a big deal out of this Walt Disney Corporation feud, and it's all over Friday and Saturday, it was all over the Drudge Report.
	Disney was, I think, going to spend a billion dollars, or maybe it was two billion dollars, or whatever.
	But... They were going to get a half a billion, more than a half a billion dollars worth of government subsidies from the state of Florida.
	And they were kicking in.
	That's why I said it was a little over a billion dollars, I believe, because it was going to be something like 800 plus million from Disney and 500 plus million from Florida taxpayers.
	I hate that kind of stuff.
	You ought to hate it, too, if you call yourself a conservative.
	I've talked about... I've spoken against that for sports stadiums.
	Why would a...
	Why would a...
	Why would Disney be any different with that, right?
	We give billions of dollars to the billionaires who own these sports teams, and they pay these millionaires, multimillionaires, all this money to play a child's game.
	And the taxpayers have to foot the bill.
	Oh, but it's good for economic activity.
	Well, so is the economic activity of small businesses and independent businesses, and yet they are taxed and burdened with that as well.
	I don't like crony capitalism, and I think he's in a much stronger position than the liberals believe, the mainstream media believes.
	But a pivot according to longtime DeSantis watchers like Massey isn't going to come anytime soon.
	Instead, the Florida Republican plans to double down on his past positions.
	Say, allies and insiders.
	Confident that recent history proves that he and his political operation are better attuned to the values and the desires of the average Republican voter than their critics and doubters.
	And I believe that he is.
	However, that doesn't matter.
	Because this is all about personality.
	This is all about Trump's personality.
	This is another episode of The Apprentice.
	It isn't about anything.
	They don't have any principles anymore.
	They have an idol that they follow.
	Weathering attacks on the Beltway chattering class to deliver on campaign promises may be a concept that is alien to stale establishment Republicans, said a spokesperson for DeSantis' political team.
	But DeSantis has a long record of tuning out critics and doing what he said he would do.
	And this includes some of the things that he's done that are wrong as well.
	Look, nobody is perfect on any of these things.
	It is a mixed bag. My take on DeSantis, though, is that he appears to be...
	He does what he appears to do, what he appears to be, I should say.
	So you know what you're choosing, whether you like it or not.
	And that is different from most of the other politicians.
	In his speeches around the country, he often says he receives advice to govern as a moderate in Florida.
	But he said his decisions were that usually they have very narrow margins.
	But he said his decisions were politically vindicated in the election in 2022, where he did not govern as a moderate, who's just slightly different than the Democrats.
	But he governed from conservative principles.
	So you have this crazy thing happening with the NAACP. Issuing a travel advisory...
	To people against visiting Florida.
	To black people, I guess. By the way, they still have not taken colored people out of their name.
	I don't know why they're not harangued over that, because they harangue other people for using that term.
	Not that there's anything wrong with any of it, but I just...
	Anyway, they said DeSantis is hostile.
	Hostile to black people? He hasn't done anything hostile to black people.
	No. He's hostile to LGBT people.
	Therefore, he's hostile to civil rights, and we're about civil rights.
	You see the equation?
	It's just like it is with the ADL. They have a political agenda.
	They have a leftist Marxist political agenda.
	And that's what they care about. They don't care about their stated agenda of fighting anti-Semitism or fighting racism.
	No, it's all about the politics.
	And his sustained, blatant, relentless, systemic attacks on civil rights, and he clarifies that to meaning LGBT. That's what they're talking about.
	So, with that happening, on the Biden side, The Biden administration is very concerned about the fact that people have been winning in the Supreme Court in terms of prayers in schools and that type of thing.
	Because the Supreme Court understands the difference between establishment and the free exercise of religion.
	A new plan from the Biden administration to update guidance regarding prayer in public schools means a crackdown on that activity.
	In fact, a lawyer for the ADF Which has fought multiple court cases regarding student speech in schools.
	That's the Alliance Defending Freedom, the ADF. They said this suggests that schools have to purge religious messages from any student's speech if the school in any way controls the student's speech.
	So if you let them speak, you're controlling their speech.
	You should be controlling their speech.
	All speech is by permission.
	And so, in this kind of authoritarian society where you have to get permission from the government to speak because it's no longer a right but a privilege, you also have to get a permission from them to speak about religious issues because, again, the exercise of religious freedom is not a right.
	It's now a privilege.
	But, again, the exercise individuals exercising their religious beliefs is not the establishment of a religion.
	What did the establishment mean?
	It meant that you did have established state religions in every single state when they put the Constitutional Bill of Rights together.
	And they wanted to make sure, because they were all different religions, Congregationalists, Baptists, Catholic, you name it, they wanted to make sure that one of those was not going to be picked and used to shut down whatever the state religion was.
	And so they said that the federal government would not establish religion.
	What did that look like? That meant that in some states you were required to attend that state church.
	If it was a Congregationalist church, you had to attend it, and you had to give them money.
	In some of the states, they were more liberal, and you did not have to attend, but you still had to pay money to that established state church.
	And that continued in Massachusetts.
	And one other, I think it was in Connecticut, but Massachusetts continued the longest after the Bill of Rights was put in.
	Massachusetts, up into the 1840s, still had an established state church.
	So it doesn't do anything about the state establishing a church.
	And so, clearly, somebody freely exercising their religion in school is not establishment either.
	But the reality is, and this is something that we have established, Is that Biden, like any authoritarian dictator, hates any God.
	Hates every God.
	Hates every religion.
	Because he sees himself as God.
	So when we come back, we're going to take a look at the LGBT. I think we've got a new acronym for them, which I'll defend when I come back.
	The Luciferian Grooming Bigoted Trannies.
	We'll be right back. You're
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	He had some injuries, ribs, and what was, there was something, was there something else besides ribs?
	He said that his ankles are really swollen and hurting as well.
	All right. So keep harps in your prayers.
	Appreciate that. And Australia.
	So I said, we'll talk about LGBTs.
	Which is really now Luciferian grooming bigoted trannies.
	And I'm not the only one saying that.
	You've got gays against groomers.
	You've got a conservative commentator who is homosexual saying the same thing.
	So the queers have taken over from the homosexuals.
	I'll talk about that in a moment. But let's focus first on the Luciferian aspect of it.
	Target, as part of Pride Month...
	I've got a partner who boasts about Satanism.
	Quote, Satan respects pronouns.
	Ab Pralin, a brand that's out of the UK, headed by a self-proclaimed gay transgender man known as Eric, has had a collaboration in the works with Target for roughly a year.
	The collection includes a sweatshirt that reads, quote, Cure transphobia, not trans people.
	He's got a tote bag that reads, Too queer for here.
	And a messenger pack that reads, We belong everywhere.
	Oh, there you go. Sounds really clever, doesn't it?
	That's just a bunch of propaganda.
	Among Ab Pralin's other apparel are images of pentagrams, horned skulls, and references to devils.
	One previous design said, Satan respects pronouns, and it was featured on t-shirts and pins.
	These items have been known to be sold at London's Satanic Flea Market during December, which the brand promoted on its social media.
	He said, being called a demon is something I can cope with, and the idea of a trans demon is pretty damn cool.
	Most of my work focuses on gothic or dark and satanic imagery, juxtaposed with bright colors and LGBT plus positive images.
	You know, rainbows and stuff, you know.
	Since when do we let the rainbow be captured by darkness?
	I don't know. Anyway, the bottom line is, whether you believe this or not, he believes it.
	The designer claims that the brand was approached by Target for collaboration while also acknowledging that the designs have already made transphobes infuriated with me, he says.
	And, of course, we'll get to this in a moment, but, you know, Target also has the...
	Swimwear for young boys tucking swimwear to hide the fact that they're boys and things like that.
	I mean, it's just for Pride Month.
	Target is always in the lead with this stuff.
	Always. But before we get to that...
	Remember when mom and I went to Target?
	This has to be almost two decades ago.
	There was some guy who had long hair, he was balding on top, really gross goblin features, and he's in a sundress.
	This was 20 years ago when Target was on this.
	He was working their customer service desk.
	Yeah, the place where he's going to have the most interaction with customers.
	Yeah, I remember Karen talking about that.
	She was absolutely freaked out about it.
	At the time, you know, we needed to save money, and we had a friend say, she was telling a friend, I'm not ever going back there again if that's what they're going to do.
	Friend said, oh, you need to go, you need to save some money.
	They have some great deal. I'm not going to go there to shop.
	And that's what we need to do. A lot of people are talking about the fact, why are we, with this tucking swimwear and stuff like that, they're pushing out for the kids?
	Why is everybody going to boycott beer, but you're not going to boycott Target for this kind of stuff, for coming after the kids?
	Anyway, Andrew Sullivan says, we're in a new era, and the erasure of gay men and lesbians is intensifying.
	You see? It's a civil war.
	For the longest time, you had the T's fighting the L's.
	You know, the trannies fighting the lesbians.
	Now they're also fighting the G's.
	I don't know. They're going to come for the B's.
	Which side of the B's is going to join?
	I don't know. Killer B's.
	But his title is Queers vs.
	Homosexuals. Now, Andrew Sullivan is a conservative writer, and not socially conservative, but, you know, from that perspective, I guess, in some way.
	The question is, you know, what is he trying to preserve?
	But here's what he has to say from his perspective.
	He said it was a most speedily successful civil rights story and memory, from his perspective.
	Including us in existing institutions did not need to change anything in heterosexual life.
	Live and let live.
	Inequality and dignity was the idea.
	You see? And that's how this has all changed.
	You know, that was the way that it was sold.
	That's why so many people accepted it.
	And again, it was about adults at the time.
	You know, now everything has changed.
	And he talks about this.
	He may not have any discernment about what is happening here spiritually, but he does have discernment about what is going on in the political minds of the people that are part of LGBT, and that's why it's important to hear what he has to say.
	I think he has a very important insight into the mindset of these people and what they're trying to get at.
	I've said for the longest time, oh, so all this time we were told that there's a gay gene and so forth, And I never believed that that was deterministic.
	I thought it was a choice.
	Nevertheless, I said, notice what is happening now with the trans.
	You know, the trans are saying that there is no fixed biology, and that's what he addresses here.
	And so, it's not just this live and let live.
	What changed about that is really the kids.
	And he doesn't really necessarily address that.
	But anyway, he goes on to say, America discovered what I discovered the first time I went into a gay bar.
	These people were not the stereotypes I was told about.
	They were not some strange alien tribe.
	Well, they are now. They are now, and the stereotypes existed for a reason.
	And now we see these pedophile stereotypes that are exploding.
	Yeah, I'm not sure what gay people he's met, but most of the gay people I've met my entire life have been just stereotypes and nothing but that.
	Yeah, yeah. But, you know, it is something that has always been Uh, you know, been there.
	I had, uh, when I was a young child, uh, my dad, uh, was, uh, not one to openly talk about such things.
	And, uh, he just left it vaguely saying, um, if, uh, you're in the restroom by yourself and some guy comes up, don't engage him, run away.
	Why dad? Just do what I said and don't ask any questions.
	Okay. But now they want to put the people not just in the same-sex bathrooms, they want to put them in the women's bathrooms as well.
	Now, these stereotypes existed for a reason, and perhaps Andrew Sullivan was deceived across the board, just like many other people.
	It was not simply about what consenting adults want to do.
	That's not the agenda here.
	Why? Because this whole thing is being driven from a spiritual perspective.
	And so he may not have understood what his role was in it.
	And I've played clips from somebody who identified themselves as a conservative drag queen.
	He said, moms, get your kids away from this.
	This is a horrendous culture for kids.
	Lots of sex, lots of drugs.
	This is like a stripper culture.
	They have no business around kids.
	I've played for you, I think it was Gays Against Groomers, a woman who said, I'm a lesbian, I work so hard for this, and if I'd seen what this is going to become in terms of targeting kids, target, yeah, target.
	If I'd seen what it's going to become in terms of targeting kids, I would have never done any of this stuff, and I don't want to have anything to do with it.
	And so you've got a lot of people like Andrew Sullivan and these other people who are pulling back from this because they're not pedophiles.
	But you ought to understand that this was the thrust of this.
	This is the satanic direction that it was going.
	And from the transgender pedophilia, the next step is the transhumanism.
	That's the next step. You can see that progression already.
	Andrew Sullivan says, if you read mainstream media, you'll be told that this war is back.
	Because the GOP has, for cynical reasons, become an even more unhinged hate machine.
	Targeting the freedom and dignity of queer people, as one New York columnist put it today.
	He said, but when you examine the other issues at stake, public schools teaching the concepts of queer and gender theory to kindergartners on up, Or sex changes for children before puberty.
	Or the housing of biological males with women in prisons and rape shelters.
	And biological males competing with women in sports.
	You realize that we are far beyond what the gay rights movement once stood for.
	You see? He may have been, you know, genuinely believing this stuff.
	I think he was. But he was deceived because he doesn't have any spiritual discernment about this.
	You could have seen where this is headed.
	And now many of them see it and they're trying to pull back from it.
	He says these initiatives from the far left are new.
	That's right. Yeah, they want to make this about, oh, look at the Republicans.
	They're back to their old tricks.
	And every time they talk about how they're being attacked, the issues that they focus on are how they are attacking children.
	So, he said, these initiatives from the far left are new.
	It is the capture, he said, of the gay rights movement by queer social justice activists.
	You know, somebody like this.
	This is actually a Nebraska state senator.
	Democrat, of course. Yeah. I think we get the idea.
	She just goes on.
	This goes on for more than a minute.
	I won't subject you any more of that, but I know you've had a good laugh at that.
	Just understand, these people don't have an argument to make.
	To be fair, that's probably the most cogent and intelligent thing that woman has ever said.
	They're the type of people who just show up and say, racist, racist, racist.
	What? What about it?
	What are you talking about?
	No, not going to explain any of that stuff.
	So, he said the core belief, and here's the key, this is the core part of this article, I think.
	To give you an insight into the mind of these people that are now lesbians and gays are saying, ooh, we don't want to have anything to do with these queers and trannies, right?
	He said the core belief of critical queer theorists is that homosexuality is not a part of human nature because there is no such thing as human nature.
	You see, when I said before that, you know, there was all this talk back in the day when we were talking about adults, They were saying, well, there's a gay gene.
	Well, the queers and the radical critical queer theorists are saying there is no biology.
	There is no biology.
	Why do they think there is?
	Well, he says they think that there is no such thing as human nature because there is no such thing as, it's not a part of human nature because there's no such thing as human nature.
	They think that everything is socially constructed, even the body.
	And because heterosexuality is the overwhelming norm, The homosexuality, the exception, and because society is nothing but a complex of oppression, homosexuals are defined by their rejection of heteronormity.
	You see? They've got to rebel against everything.
	They believe that everything is, and this is why I've said for the longest time, this is all rooted in postmodernism.
	What is postmodernism?
	Postmodernism says that there is no absolute truth.
	Except that that is the absolute truth for the postmodernists, and they don't see the contradiction there.
	We have an absolute truth, and that is that there is no absolute truth.
	Modernism really goes back to higher criticism of the Bible and of society in the 1800s.
	And it was when people would debate.
	You know, they would talk about, well, you know, is there a God?
	And has he spoken through the Bible?
	And this and that, you know, and the evolution versus creation and all these different things.
	So they would argue. They would debate.
	That was modernism. Then they got to postmodernism.
	They said, I don't care. Because there is no such thing as truth.
	You know, like Pilate, what is truth?
	I don't know. And so these people don't believe that there is any such thing as truth.
	And as he said, they don't believe that there is any such thing as human nature.
	They believe that everything is a social construct.
	Everything is fluid. They're not grounded in any reality.
	They're not grounded in any moral principles, any cultural norms.
	As a matter of fact, they despise all cultural norms because they see any and all cultural norms as a means of oppression.
	And so they set themselves in defiance to everything.
	And you see this, this is one of the reasons why you see the LGBT and the Green Movement and the Marxist Movement, they're all aligned in the sense that they want to tear down everything that is established.
	But this is their idea from the critical queer theorists.
	Because heterosexuality is the norm.
	Homosexuality is the exception.
	Therefore, heterosexuality must be oppression.
	And this is why they can justify the racist things that they do.
	They say, well, because there's more white people than there are black people.
	The white people are obviously all racist.
	Even if they harbor no ill will to somebody else, they're racist simply because they're the majority.
	And no matter how much I hate white people, I can't be racist because I'm in the minority.
	That's their mindset. So it's important to understand what their mindset is.
	It's totally nonsense.
	But it's important to understand where these people are coming from.
	That's what I think Andrew Sullivan does as a service there.
	He says, to be queer is to be dedicated to subversion.
	See? That's why I say it's the Luciferian thing.
	Grooming, bigoted trannies.
	That's what they've become.
	They've taken over the LGBT. That's what it is now.
	Luciferian, bigoted, grooming, bigoted trannies.
	So to be queer is to be dedicated to subversion, to mock conventions, to deconstruct language, to dismantle the human body.
	And he doesn't write this.
	But I would say dismantling the human body even means mutilating it, right?
	Even for kids, especially for kids.
	And to defy nature, and above all, to liberate humankind from the prison of gender.
	Do you see how Luciferian this is?
	Some gays are queers, he said, but most aren't.
	And queers now run what was once the gay rights movement.
	And they have taken it over and run it into the ground.
	And so that brings us to parental rights.
	And we're going to talk about that when we come back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	And now, The David Nutt Show.
	A pastor has a brutal five-word comeback after a school board stops him from reading a disgusting book, the story from Western Journal.
	A North Carolina pastor gave the perfect response when members of an Asheville school board tried to stop him from reading the sexually explicit text in one of the LGBT books that the board has refused to take off from the curriculum.
	And the minister said he wanted to read out loud from a book called It's Perfectly Normal.
	It's not perfectly normal, by the way.
	Spoiler alert. Which can be found on school bookshelves.
	And it says it's for ages 10 and up.
	This pastor is John...
	Aman Chukwu. I don't really know how to pronounce his name, so I'm not sure.
	But anyway, he read several of the sexually explicit materials in the book, but he only got seconds into his reading before the members of the school board tried to stop him from voicing the explicit material.
	I want to play this for you.
	Because you're not a school board, you don't need to hear this.
	I agree with him reading this to the school board.
	But we don't find it necessary to show you what is in the book or let you hear it.
	If you're curious, I'm sure you'll be able to find it somewhere.
	But it was something, and we've seen this happen over and over again, but this pastor does it really well.
	Many times they've shut down people who are reading from these books and say, what's the problem?
	What's the problem? You've got this there for kids.
	Why don't you want me to read this to you?
	I'm an adult. You're an adult. You don't want me to read this to you?
	Here's what he had. What happened?
	Sir, I'm sorry. Was it something I said?
	If you don't want to hear it in a school board meeting, why should children be able to check it out of the school system?
	We have perverts that are perverting our kids.
	And you all sit back smug in your chairs, but you don't want me to read it.
	Why? Does it bother you?
	Yes or no? You can't answer that question.
	You want to know why? Because politically speaking, you can't say that is wrong.
	And you don't want me to read the filth because it exposes the truth.
	How dare you tell me to stop reading it?
	If you don't want to hear it, why should the children have to see it?
	Pastor, your time is up.
	Thank you. That makes two of us.
	That makes two of us.
	Yeah, we should have some righteous indignation about this stuff.
	He is absolutely right.
	And in addition to that, he had an interview, and he said, this book is used as a tool to create what I call mental rape in the hearts and the minds of the children.
	We are robbing kids of their innocence in America.
	As we allow...
	Diversity, inclusion, and equity to dominate our schools.
	And so many of our librarians are bringing this kind of material into the public school system because they believe children need to see themselves on the shelf.
	No, you are creating a role model for them.
	You are grooming them. That's what this is.
	He says, I don't believe that this is perfectly normal.
	That's the title of the book, right?
	I believe that this is perfectly perverted and it needs to stop, he said.
	He said, if a parent wants to talk about these things and be explicit with their children and show them pornographic images, I don't advise that.
	I don't think it's something that they should do.
	But that should be something that takes place at home.
	But when we rob our kids of their innocence, we're leading, in a sense, down a slippery slope.
	Well, that's why I disagree with him.
	I don't think that we look the other way if parents are sexually abusing their kids.
	He just said it's mental rape.
	Let's stick with that.
	If it's mental rape, it's mental rape if it's being done by the parents.
	I don't want to get government overly involved in what happens at home.
	But we don't need to normalize this either.
	Anyway, the key thing to understand is that sexual grooming and showing pornographic images can only be done by teachers.
	That's the important thing. They got a free pass to do this to kids that they only slightly know.
	He says you can't let your guard down for a second.
	He says there are sexually evil and corrupt and deviant, perverted people who believe that this is okay.
	No, I don't think they believe it's okay.
	I think they know it's wrong.
	I think they know it's wrong and they don't care.
	I think they know it's wrong and they want to wallow in it.
	I think they know that it's wrong and that gives them a special kick, you see.
	That's what happens with a perversion.
	You know, that's the excitement, the forbidden fruit aspect of it.
	They know that it's wrong, what they're doing.
	And that's why we should give them no quarter.
	Let's not have any more of this.
	Well, they meant well. Or they just don't understand.
	No, they do understand what they're doing.
	They do understand.
	They bring in these gender theory and queer books and the parents don't know that it's there, he said.
	He slammed the school districts for forcing parents to go through a 10-step process in order to remove some books like this.
	So he says, you can't let your guard down for a second.
	No, and what you do is you don't give your kids over to these institutions for a second.
	He said, what's going on in the schools is sinister, it's criminal, and it is child abuse.
	It is grooming. It is Luciferian, grooming, bigoted trannies.
	And at the Biden White House, they love that.
	You have the White House Press Secretary, Corrine Jean-Pierre, this week, I spoke before a LGBT media event.
	And again, how many times are they going to say this?
	Kids don't belong to you.
	They belong to all of us. It takes a village to raise a child.
	We had Melissa Harris Perry about a decade ago.
	A public service announcement that was being run by MSNBC all the time.
	We've got to get over this idea that your children belong to the parents.
	They belong to all of us.
	You know, the village owns them.
	Well, anything that is owned by the village is something that nobody owns.
	And so she said, as she was speaking, this LGBT group, she said, the children of America belong to all of us in the course of defending surgical and chemical, quote, gender transitioning of children, she was talking about.
	Articulating a view of state prerogatives versus parental rights.
	That fuels much of what the Biden administration's stance is on the issue.
	And of course, that is what this is all about.
	But she said, these are kids.
	These are our kids.
	They belong to all of us.
	Similar statements, says LifeSite News, have been made by, of course, Biden and Lala Harris and many other Democrats, as I said, Melissa Harris-Perry, Hillary Clinton, for example.
	Here's what one teacher said in terms of parental rights.
	And Jenna, you said you feel that this is a targeted attack.
	What do you mean when you say that?
	That same school board member is currently going around right now trying to, well, along with, you know, the whole, what DeSantis is doing, trying to get rid of all basically diversity elements out of schools completely.
	Like, they're trying to strip individuality and diversity to fit one common agenda.
	And it's ruining everything.
	It's not what America stands for.
	I think let's let our viewers listen to what that parent said that complained about you doing this in a recent school board meeting.
	Here it is. It is not a teacher's job to impose their beliefs upon a child.
	Religious, sexual orientation, gender identity, any of the above.
	But allowing movies such as this assist teachers in opening a door, and please hear me, they assist teachers in opening a door for conversations that have no place in our classrooms.
	We had played that for the viewers in the introduction, but I just want to give you a chance to respond.
	Yeah, so what she's missing and what these parents are missing is they're not in the school system.
	That just shows me that she's ignorant and has not come and volunteered at all.
	Because these conversations, these doors, they're open.
	These students have one-to-one devices.
	The amount of things that they're able to pull up that we have to shut down.
	These conversations, these doors that she's talking about that's telling me I'm stripping her rights as a parent, those rights are gone when your child's in the public school system because there are students talking about these things.
	It's where they get 90% of their socialization for the day.
	And we can't shut down every conversation every child has.
	Okay, so when your kid is in the public school system, you don't have any parental rights, and you don't know what's going on.
	That's what she said, and she's right about that.
	We've heard that over and over again.
	When you take your kid and drop them off at school, said the judge in one of these cases that I followed, you have abandoned your child to the state, and we will operate in place of the parents.
	And loco parentis is the Latin term for that.
	And, of course, the socialization, which everybody was so big on when we homeschooled our kids decades ago, how are they going to be socialized?
	I said they'll be socialized...
	With adults and people of all ages, they won't be rigidly segregated, but I don't want my kids being raised by their peers.
	They don't know what to tell them.
	That's exactly what she's saying.
	She says, well, this tells me that the mom has never been in school because it's the peers that are instilling these values in them.
	All she was doing was just showing people a Disney movie that featured homosexual characters to push the grooming aspect.
	Diz gay. Diz gay.
	Movies. So, the mother objected to that.
	She said, I'm just showing them a Disney movie.
	It's a lot worse what's happening with their cell phones that parents give them without restriction.
	And what, even if you don't give your kid a cell phone, the other kids who have cell phones and no restrictions from their parents are going to be raising and pushing your kid in the other direction.
	You think you ought to be homeschooling your kids?
	Seriously. This is a serious job.
	God has given you a child and put you in a responsible position for this, and you will answer for that.
	We all will. To what we have done with our kids.
	And it's not going to be sufficient to stand before God and say, well, I wanted them to do the right thing, but it was that school that did it to them.
	Or their classmates that did it to them.
	Well, why did you put them in the school?
	Why did you let the classmates raise them?
	Studies find that more than 80% of children experiencing gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence.
	Gender dysphoria was never a thing.
	We never had gender dysphoria.
	Didn't happen in my generation, my parents' generation, the generation that came after me, or my kids' generation either.
	That full reassignment surgery often fails to resolve gender-confused individuals' heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide and may even exacerbate, just like a pharmaceutical drug.
	Here, take this drug for X. And then you hear the adverse effects, and oh, it increases the incidence of X in many cases.
	And then all these other things that happen as well.
	So... To confuse these kids who are confused because of their peers or whatever, to confuse them even more.
	It heightens the tendency for them to engage in self-harm and suicide, may even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root cause of their mental strife.
	The issue is grimly illustrated in the story of Yaely Martinez, a 19-year-old to whom gender transitioning was touted as a possible cure for her depression in high school, supported by a high school counselor who withheld what she was going through from her mother.
	The troubled girl killed herself after trying to live as a man for three years.
	We're seeing these stories over and over again.
	And yet it is not just in America.
	Even in China, they're now talking about the last generation.
	Young Chinese people who are vowing not to have children.
	You understand that this is coming at people in many different ways.
	And what the Chinese are now experiencing is the wave of lies that we've been dealing with here in America for at least 50 years.
	It was the line that was always used by Planned Parenthood.
	It just costs too much to have a kid.
	And that's what they're parroting now.
	It costs too much to give kids a decent life.
	And they even say, well, I don't want them raised in a communist Chinese school, so I'd have to send them to a good school in the West, and I just don't have the money to do that.
	It's got a little bit of a variation on it from what we're told now.
	I just can't afford it.
	Says a 26-year-old researcher who swears that she will never have children.
	The Chinese government announced that the country has now entered an era of negative population growth.
	Where they're not having enough people, kids per capita, to maintain the current population since the 1990s.
	Couldn't they just say the population's declining?
	Negative population growth?
	That's just such a backwards way of phrasing that.
	That's stupid. Sorry, I had to comment on that.
	It's coming from academia, right?
	Yeah. It sounds very scientific.
	The only people that can make something this stupid is academia.
	You have to be real smart to make something this stupid.
	Yeah, yeah. Negative population growth.
	It's negative growth. Yeah, there you go.
	Since the 1990s, their total fertility rate has declined below the replacement level of 2.1.
	In 2021, it was 1.15.
	A year before that, it was 1.3, so it's still dropping.
	The Guardian, leftist organization, is writing this, saying the last generation, and they're happy about that because, you know, they don't like people.
	The Guardian says a solution to this would be more welfare.
	For years, studies have found the rising cost of bringing up children and the lack of welfare provisions to be the main reasons behind China's low fertility rate.
	No. No. They're much wealthier now than they were when they had explosive growth.
	That's not it at all.
	It is a spiritual sickness.
	The way that they sell this, right?
	Greed, lust, the love of money, all of this.
	And then, of course, there's the other aspects of physical sterilization via the food, via the vaccines and medications and other things like that that are environmental causes.
	So there's physical aspects of it.
	There's psychological aspects of it.
	There's spiritual aspects of this.
	Again, they have not yet in China run into the lust aspect of it, the LGBT aspect of it.
	But they say, well, I don't want to have kids because I want a homosexual relationship.
	They're just dealing right now with the greed and the love of money aspect of this.
	But all of these things are involved in As we see this rolling out globally.
	And so that brings us back to Target.
	Selling what they call tuck-friendly children's bathing suits.
	I pointed out how they've got a designer.
	They're having their Pride Month, and they've got all these special pronouns and things like that that they're pushing on the kids.
	The sign's all over Target.
	And Target is selling a tuck-friendly bathing suit as part of its massive pride collection as they are marketing this to children.
	The far left uses the artificial designation of Pride Month to further their radical gender theology.
	And I call it an ideology.
	It is a theology. And who do they see as God?
	Themselves. Each and every one of them are God.
	They stand above God.
	So it's a radical gender theology.
	The Pride section, routinely placed towards the front of the department stores, features items that are not just for adults but children as well.
	And this year, Target is rolling out a tuck-friendly bathing suit designed to help biological men tuck their genitals away to look more feminine and pushing this to kids.
	And so I like what some of the comments on the internet are saying.
	One person says, Target has a new pride collection.
	What this corporation is doing is far worse than anything that Bud Light did.
	They're targeting children and selling chest binders and tuck-friendly bathing suits for children.
	The nation can come together for beer but not for children, said another person.
	No, we cannot boycott all stores that encourage and promote or celebrate this stuff.
	Or rather, now we can.
	And that should be a very easy thing to do.
	Like I said before, you know, Travis was talking about it for 20 years.
	We boycotted Target.
	Because we knew they were at the very forefront of this.
	And it wasn't just what they were doing in that one particular store.
	We were validated with that as we saw them then doing away with any gender-based labeling of toys.
	They were pushing men into women's restrooms before it became cool for the Democrats to try to do that from Washington.
	And then there's this story from Vigilant Citizen.
	Why is Miriam Khan's art that depicts child abuse, why is that being shown in museums in France and in a very prestigious contemporary art center in Paris?
	And then when people complained about this, As a matter of fact, several organizations, one of them, six major associations, one of them, lawyers for childhood, sought to have these paintings removed on the grounds that the French law forbids the exhibition of pornographic representations of minors.
	And that's what it does. But the courts ruled against the association, and the French president defended this so-called artwork.
	But, of course, his wife is a pedophile.
	She was after him when he was a minor, and she was quite a bit older than he is.
	That's why, as I've said before, I think it was so odd that there's a big profile case in France because somebody had accused Macron's wife of being a tranny.
	But I said, why do they care about that?
	She's obviously a pedophile.
	They don't make any bones about that.
	They don't have any problems with that whatsoever.
	And so he defended this pornographic image publicly displayed, including children.
	He said, attacking a work of art is attacking our values.
	See? That's what he values.
	These are their core values.
	How many times do they have to tell us that?
	Pedophilia is a core value for them.
	Certainly is a core value in the Macron family home.
	The only time these people say free speech, said the Vigilant Citizen, is to defend pedophilic movies such as Cuties, or to say free speech if they want school library books that have pornographic material, or if they've got art that literally depicts a pedophile raping a child.
	Well, that's not a surprise, right?
	Because the only time they talk about choice is when they want to kill a baby.
	Or when they want children to be mutilated.
	That's when they talk about choice.
	The only time they talk about free speech is when they want to push pornography on kids.
	That's not banning books.
	It's banning mental rape and pornography of kids.
	Here's the dark truth about this situation.
	Paintings by Miriam Kahn depict the occult elite's obsession with control, torture, and the systematic abuse of children.
	Her style of painting is eerily similar to artists.
	Such as Kim Noble, who was a victim of monarch mind control associated with MKUltra, right?
	Also depicts horrific abuse in a distinctive style that is childish, yet deeply disturbing.
	Miriam Kahn is a Swiss painter who describes herself as a feminist.
	Her paintings are said to incorporate feminism, child-endangering themes, and female rituals featuring violence and shocking representation of sexual organs.
	That's how she describes her own work.
	Going through her body of work is like entering the mind of a sick, sadistic person who takes pleasure in watching other people suffer.
	It is difficult to pinpoint the exact message behind these paintings.
	However, there are some clear recurrent themes that are horrific.
	And that is the reality of where we find ourselves now in our society.
	In Ontario, Students stay home en masse on a day when the Ontario schools are going to be flying their pride flags.
	Why would you send your child back to a school like this is what I don't understand.
	Over 400 students, including about a third of the student body, at an elementary school in London, Ontario, were absent as the school raised pride flags to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.
	Many of the students were from Muslim families.
	In response, the president of the school district's teachers' union, Craig Smith, encouraged the school board to engage in, quote, courageous conversations, unquote, with the Muslim community.
	So they wouldn't take this kind of easy approach, I think, with Christians.
	But they still think that they've got an N to the Muslim families.
	Why? Well, because, you know, you're in the minority, so therefore, going back to what Andrew Sullivan was saying, you know, because they're in the minority, they should all be united against whatever the majority opinion is, and they need to deconstruct that oppression, because the majority is always oppressive.
	And there is no absolute truth, no absolute values.
	It's all just an arbitrary social construct that they need to set themselves in opposition to and overthrow.
	So the president of the umbrella group, Oxford County Pride, said she was left speechless, quote-unquote, by the idea of parents keeping children home to avoid the LGBT celebration.
	I guess it's the parents' choice, but it is very unfortunate.
	Of course, she would be very excited if the parents had chosen to abort these kids or to mutilate these kids.
	Oh, that would be a good choice.
	In a time where the same group, the Muslims, have been quite marginalized, you would think that minorities and marginalized groups would unite and support each other.
	See, that's where this is coming from.
	Everybody must join together to overthrow and destroy the culture that is here.
	The culture is based on Christian values.
	That's the one thing that they can all agree upon and unite against.
	We're going to be right back.
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	Save the world? But we owe the world.
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	Come on. These people, I tell you, well, anyway.
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	Thank you. A 30-ton shipment of explosive chemicals has just disappeared between California and Wyoming.
	Nothing to see here, right?
	Just move along. And they're explaining this away.
	You know, Goatree sent me some texts about this.
	He goes, look at this.
	Railroads again. A 30-ton shipment of ammonium nitrate, which can be used both as a fertilizer and as a component in explosives, has gone missing.
	During a rail shipment between Wyoming and California, 60,000 pounds just disappeared.
	Has anyone seen Timothy McVeigh recently?
	Exactly. Now, that's what they use for the Oklahoma City bombing, right?
	For the Oklahoma City false flag.
	And I say it was a false flag because of what Hoppy Heidelberg did.
	I could do an entire program on that.
	Hoppy Heidelberg was a citizen there who was part of the grand jury.
	He started asking questions.
	Well, this could not have just been done by one or two people, right?
	Couldn't have been done just by McVeigh and Nichols.
	There had to be other people involved.
	You had, going back to the New American that I talked about, the John Burt Society, they had a retired brigadier general whose specialty was demolition.
	And he said, if you look at the blast pattern there at the Oklahoma City building, he said, it's not a point explosion, right?
	If it was one truck that blew up, it would have had a very different thing.
	But he said the entire, going all the way across the front of the building, it was taken out in a linear fashion, going across, not in a radial point explosion.
	So he said, that tells you that whatever else happened, we know that this was multiple explosives that were planted all across the front of the building.
	And it was a very large building.
	So between that type of stuff and everything, it was very suspicious.
	And now this is very suspicious.
	That same ammonium nitrate, 60,000 pounds of it, left April 12th from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
	It was found to be empty two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert.
	Huh.
	They said ammonium nitrates commonly used as a fertilizer.
	It's also an ingredient in high explosives.
	It was used as the homemade bomb detonated in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma.
	Now, according to the company that was putting this through, a company called Dino Nobel, kind of like, sounds like dynamite and the Nobel Prize, the guy who invented dynamite.
	Dino Nobel, the ammonium, transferred in pellet form And a covered hopper car, similar to those used to ship coal, must have just fallen from the car on the way to the rail sightings.
	They lose 60,000 pounds of this stuff all the time.
	I don't know how these people even stay in business, frankly.
	I don't know the value of 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate or 60,000 pounds of anything.
	They said the rail car was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale.
	Now, that's really...
	It evaporated, right?
	It was sealed, still sealed, and yet there's nothing in it.
	This is a Hardy Boys mystery.
	Yeah, Colin Chippen, and what was the guy's name?
	Skippen, whatever, you know?
	The initial assessment is a leak through the bottom gate on the rail car that may have developed in transit.
	So I guess this happens all the time, right?
	Goat Tree was laughing about it.
	He said, I guess there's a lot of well-fertilized scrub brushes along the way in the desert.
	It should be pretty easy to follow that trail of breadcrumbs back to the origin if they want to look at it.
	But, you know, they still apparently have not inspected the car.
	This is still a theory because a rail car is being transported back to Wyoming for inspection.
	Well, they ought to be able to see all of the 60,000 pounds of stuff that fell out of it along the way, don't you think?
	Meanwhile, a representative for the Federal Railroad Administration says the investigation points to an improperly closed hopper car gate.
	Or it could point to an upcoming false flag attack.
	We'll have to wait and see. Drug dealer released by Obama charged with attempted murder.
	A convicted crack dealer, Alton Mills, who had his life sentence commuted by Barack Obama in 2016, was arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder on Tuesday.
	He had been sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1994 on federal crack cocaine conspiracy charges, having acted as a street-level courier in a drug deal.
	And of course, at the time, they don't mention this in the article, but it was Biden's three strikes and you're out, mandatory minimum sentencing that was there.
	But as my guest last week pointed out, many times these lesser charges are something they knew somebody was involved in something, so they take it now.
	But again, I don't support the drug war in any way, shape, or form.
	It's led to all kinds of abuse and corruption.
	From people like Joe Biden, along with 94 other nonviolent federal prisoners, Mills' sentence was commuted in 2016.
	He had spent 22 years in prison.
	He entered the system at age 23.
	They got him out, and he has now killed people as a result of that.
	New York mayor has got a plan to stop shoplifting.
	Oh, this is really good.
	As a matter of fact, this is what the plan looks like, and people are having a lot of fun with this.
	It's going to crack down on shoplifting in New York City.
	Give first-time offenders intervention programs instead of prosecution.
	Intervention programs, yeah.
	I know that you really didn't want to steal this stuff, and I feel guilty because they're just not giving you enough.
	Enough welfare, enough opportunities, enough of this or enough of that, right?
	Then they're going to have de-escalation training for retail employees.
	Don't get in the way of these people.
	Just let them steal stuff.
	Third one, establish neighborhood retail watch groups to share theft information.
	Share it with who? Tell the New York Police Department about it?
	Or the district attorney, the Soros district attorney?
	What are they going to do about it?
	Nothing. They don't care.
	You know, the police catch them.
	The district attorney is going to release them.
	What's the point? Finally, Install kiosks and stores to connect the would-be thieves with social service programs.
	You see, they don't understand what human nature is.
	They think this is all happening because these people have been victimized by the system.
	They don't think there should be any punishment and no restitution.
	And so Adams is getting a lot of mockery and criticism.
	The Democrat mayor's plan laid out in bullet point format I just showed you.
	Included providing de-escalation training for retail employees and kiosks in the stores.
	And people were laughing about it.
	Communications advisor for Ted Cruz, in terms of installing kiosks and stores to connect these with social services programs.
	Well, Cruz's communications advisor said these kiosks will be the first thing stolen.
	Yeah. I don't think anybody's got any use for kiosks, though.
	But it certainly isn't going to make any difference.
	Notice the very first part of this Democrat mayor's response to soaring shoplifting losses in New York City is to lessen the punishment for first-time shoplifters.
	You might as well provide first-time shoplifters with bags they can use to carry the stolen merchandise out.
	Yeah, that's about right. Yeah.
	A reporter, Jonas Campbell, said, why don't they put a time-out corner in the store as well?
	Maybe that's what the kiosk is all about.
	So, meanwhile, we talk about things being stolen.
	Do you realize your identity is being stolen by the bank?
	Know your customer? You know, Bank of America.
	Well, maybe we should know what our bank is, right?
	They know you pretty well.
	Do you know your bank? Bank of America gave FBI access to January the 6th bank records without the customer's knowledge.
	And so whistleblowers have testified that the FBI had become enveloped in politicization, and among the abuses, they said, was that Bank of America had transferred information to the FBI on any transactions that took place in or around Washington, D.C. on January the 6th, 2021.
	Customers were not informed of this data transfer.
	And of course, you know, when you look at what is happening all the time on social media, That is the big issue there as well.
	And that's one of the reasons why they passed CISPA, which they call CISA, was to give legal protection to the companies that are going to act as the deputized state, these multinational corporations that are the STASI. The eyes and the ears of the deep state.
	Bank of America, with no directive from the FBI, data mined its customer base.
	They targeted transactions made in Washington or in nearby counties in Maryland and Virginia.
	Some investigators asked the whistleblower, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill, who made the allegations, they asked Hill, they said, it's anyone who used a Bank of America, either a debit or credit card, to conduct a transaction?
	Right, said Hill.
	Any transaction.
	To buy a hot dog.
	Doesn't matter. Hill then confirmed that those who had purchased a gun at some point at any time were bumped to the top of the list given to the FBI. I remember this story.
	I talked about this several months ago, but now, you know, we have these hearings and it's being made publicly available again and we should all be reminded of this.
	The list was provided without any legal process to the FBI? Hill said, correct.
	So it's my understanding that the FBI, an amateur assessment based on law, is that if a citizen sees a crime in commission, see something, say something.
	Taken to the level that Bank of America can do it, right?
	If you see a crime in commission, there's nothing wrong with injecting that and opening up a case.
	But anyway, he said there is no legal process to ask for the information, so they acted entirely on their own accord.
	Do you really believe that? We really believe that these too-big-to-fail banks who have been given preferential treatment, and you understand, Bank of America was there at the very beginning when they began the consolidation where we wound up with a half-dozen banks that were too-big-to-fail.
	The very first one of those was during the Clinton administration.
	Erskine Bowles, from North Carolina, had a high-ranking position.
	I forget what his position was.
	I don't know if he was chief of staff at the Clinton White House, but it was a very high position like that if it wasn't it.
	Erskine Bowles had been in North Carolina.
	I knew of him there.
	And Nations Bank was headquartered in North Carolina, in Charlotte.
	Bank of America was a California bank.
	As we point out many times when I talk to Gerald Salenti, you know, they took down the restrictions for banks going across state lines.
	And so then after they took that down, the next step was for this California bank, the North Carolina bank, to say, we want to merge.
	And people said, if you do that, you're going to set off a wave of mergers, and you're going to wind up with just a half dozen banks that will be monopolistic, an oligarchy.
	But they approved it, again, because of the North Carolina connections inside the Clinton White House, and within 10 years, you not only had a handful of banks, but they'd also come up with their derivatives schemes, created the big collapse that had happened, and all that only took 10 years.
	So, House Republicans were on it.
	Don't worry, they're going to protect everybody on this.
	They had some very strong words about this in their committee hearings, which is all you can expect the Republicans to do about anything.
	They're not going to pass any laws to restrain any corporations or any bureaucracy.
	No. They're part of this kabuki theater that is happening with the default debt and all this other stuff on the ceiling.
	They called this testimony highly alarming.
	And they said it is highly concerning.
	But you can bet your bottom dollar they're not going to do a thing.
	They're going to talk. They're going to grandstand for the cameras.
	Jim Jordan is the best one at this right now.
	Trey Gowdy has already done his apprenticeship so he can move on to Fox News.
	And Jim Jordan is working on the same thing.
	Oh, he can really give these people a great tongue-lashing, but the Republicans won't do a thing about any of this stuff.
	Meanwhile, in New Jersey, we have the governor there, Murphy, saying, we will defy the Supreme Court to, quote, save lives if they rule against the abortion pill.
	Now, when you stop and think about this, what has happened with the abortion pill?
	We've had the abortion pill for decades, right?
	What has changed with it?
	Well, it used to be that you had to have a prescription, and you used to have to have a prescription after an examination.
	And that was to protect the life of the mother, not the life of the baby.
	The purpose is to kill the baby.
	But it was to protect the life of the mother.
	That's why they required a physical examination, to make sure that the baby wasn't large enough that it would present a health problem for the mother.
	Killing the baby, if it was too large, it would be difficult for them to cause all kinds of health complications.
	They just swept all this stuff away.
	So when you see this happening here, this is not about saving lives.
	This is about creating a health situation for pregnant women that is far, far more dangerous than anything that was ever there.
	And when I talk about this mefepristone, I prefer to call it mephistopheles.
	Because it is satanic.
	Actually, look up the meaning of Mephistopheles.
	It means destroyer.
	That's what this is about.
	Destroyer, also liar sometimes.
	Destroyer, liar. That's what it means.
	These people are lying in order to destroy women.
	They can get with their abortion pill, with their Mephistopheles.
	They can not only kill a baby, but perhaps kill a mother as well at the same time.
	So he went on with MSNBC, Katie Tour.
	She asked him, is there anything you can do as governor if Mephistopheles gets struck down by the Supreme Court?
	Murphy says, oh my lord.
	Which lord would that be?
	What lord does he serve?
	Right? He said, I listened to your reporters talk about some of the positions these judges in New Orleans are taking.
	We've gone to the CEOs of both Walgreens and CVS to make sure we have unencumbered access.
	We have considered a bulk acquisition.
	We have clearly joined in legal action as an amicus matter.
	Everything is on the table.
	And please, God, it doesn't come to that.
	But we will continue to fight it like heck.
	Does that please God?
	Who is his Lord?
	And does his move to give an abortion pill to women who have not had a physical exam, don't know the condition or the size of the baby, put their life in jeopardy?
	Is that something that pleases God?
	To kill the mother as well as the baby?
	So then Katie Tour said, so if you get a bulk odor of Mephistopheles, would you then be prescribing it in defiance of the Supreme Court?
	And he says, well, that's to be determined, but when I say everything is on the table, everything is on the abortion table, isn't it?
	A double entendre, I guess.
	By the way, he says, at six weeks, my wife and I don't think that we knew we were pregnant in any of our four kids at six weeks.
	So, why is he saying that?
	Is he sad that he missed the opportunity to kill those four kids?
	That was certainly, I think, the situation with Karen.
	I think she didn't know that she was pregnant.
	We adopted Travis, and she was throwing up all the time whenever she tried to change his diapers.
	She didn't know what was going on.
	But I think it was probably six weeks that that happened.
	The two of them are pretty close in age together.
	But let me just finish up this section here.
	I've got some more that I want to talk about with gun control coming up here.
	But, you know, over the weekend, we had Pastor Tim Keller who died, and I don't really know Tim Keller.
	Or any of his books.
	So I'm not going to, you know, don't write me about his theology at this point.
	It doesn't matter. He stands before God at this point.
	He had some good things to say.
	He had some good quotes that I thought here.
	Again, you know, he was, he had a very large church in Manhattan, 5,000 people.
	Joe Scarborough went to his church, so I guess he wasn't too hard on people.
	Not too demanding on people, but he did have some very encouraging things to say, I thought, that I thought were interesting in these quotes.
	One of them, he said, if we think that we're not all that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
	Change comes by seeing a need for a Savior and getting one.
	Well, that's just a rephrase of what the Apostle Paul said.
	The law was a teacher. Ten Commandments is a teacher to show you your position before God.
	Because if you don't know your true position before God, you don't know that as a preacher who is far more successful than any of our contemporary preachers, Jonathan Edwards, you know, he talked about sinners in the hand of an angry God and he said, your foot is standing on the precipice and it's about to slip.
	And at some point, you're going to descend into that.
	You better understand what awaits you and see yourself in the eyes of God.
	But anyway, he went on to say, when people say, I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself, that's something we hear a lot from people about abortion, right?
	People who regret that decision that they've had.
	That's why I wanted to pull this up, because I think we all need to understand that That if God forgives you, if you understand what this is, and you're repentant of that sin, you've asked God to forgive you, and you say you can't forgive yourself, this is what he had to say.
	I thought it was good. He says, that means that they have failed an idol themselves, right?
	They have failed an idol whose approval is more important than God's.
	That's one way to look at it. And finally, this.
	When he talks about faith and about doubts that people may have, I think it's very important for us to, and I've said this many times, I've said, you know, if you don't believe that there's a God, and if you don't believe that God has spoken, test it.
	There's many, many, many times that people have set out, smart people, intellectual people, investigators, homicide detectives, legal experts, decided they were going to disprove this because perhaps somebody in their family had become a Christian.
	They hated that stuff. They were going to disprove it to them.
	They wound up proving it to themselves.
	And so if it's true, we don't have to run from it.
	That's why we don't have to run from the abortion stuff.
	We have to show it.
	Because it is true what is happening to kids.
	And the truth can withstand scrutiny.
	And the truth becomes stronger when you do scrutinize it.
	So he says, a faith without some doubts is like a human body without any antibodies in it.
	People who blithely go through life too busy or too indifferent to ask hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of a tragedy.
	Many people, everything is fine until something tragic happens in their life and then they don't understand why and they, in anger, turn from God's.
	So, they'll be left defenseless against either the experience of a tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic.
	A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she's failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
	Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts, not only their own, but their friends' doubts and their neighbors' doubts.
	It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
	Only if you struggle long and hard with objections to your faith will you be able to provide the grounds for your beliefs to skeptics, including yourself.
	Grounds for this that are plausible rather than ridiculous or even offensive.
	And finally, he says the Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me.
	Yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
	And so he did understand what the gospel is.
	And again, don't write me letters about his theology.
	I think it's important as we talk about society and other things, and I've said this many times, you know, we've got these statues that are put up to people.
	We don't put them up to engage in idolatry.
	We put them up to honor some great achievement that they had done.
	And that's the way civilization advances.
	And that's the way Christianity will advance.
	If we look at the important things that somebody says, without going through their life with a fine-tooth comb and saying, yeah, but he did this and he did that and he said this and I disagree with him on that.
	Let's find, especially at a time when somebody has just passed away, we look at the good things in their life.
	And that's what the statues in our society is about.
	Civilization grows when you look at the good stuff in somebody's life.
	And certainly you don't have to be blind or, you know, Pollyanna-ish about the other aspects.
	I mean, you take a look at Jefferson, you look at the hypocrisy about slavery and things like that.
	Explaining it away, really, in a kind of paternalism.
	And we see that kind of paternalism with many liberals today.
	So we don't have to excuse his slavery.
	But we can take a look at his Declaration of Independence.
	We can look at the original Declaration of Independence where he talks about slavery and other issues.
	So there's blind spots.
	There's failings in everybody's life.
	And with the civilization, we move forward by elevating what is right.
	And not completely forgetting what is wrong, but not trying to find something wrong about each and every person or each and everything so that we can tear it down.
	There was a, in the UK, some person, I'm sorry, Italy, somebody came out and said, we need to start tearing down these classic buildings to protect the environment.
	Well, that had already gone through in the UK. People had already said the obvious.
	Well, if you go through a wrecking crew and you tear this thing down, even if you don't build another building in its place, you know, you're They're creating, I guess they said, you're going to release all kinds of unicorn farts into the atmosphere.
	But it's not really about the gas.
	It's not about the green gas lighting.
	These people simply want to tear things down because they want to tear down our society.
	And so it gets to the point where you've got a beautiful classic building.
	Oh, let's tear it down.
	In the same way that they want to tear down classical music.
	And this is happening as well in some of the liberals.
	And I had to laugh when I saw that because when I was in college, WSF, where I went to school at University of South Florida, We're good to go.
	And that's the way they rope people in and then move the goalposts, isn't it?
	Well, we don't have time today to talk about the pistol brace or about the medical martial law.
	I'm going to get to that tomorrow.
	I just want to point out, for those of you who listen to Sons of Liberty on GCN, I'll be hosting that today for Bradley Dean.
	And also today I will be on with Lionel's wife has now got a radio show, and so I'm going to be on with her for a short period of time this afternoon as well.
	So it's going to be a busy day for me, but tomorrow when we come back we're going to talk about the pistol brace issue because that is ramping up to be a major...
	Confiscation and legal jeopardy for millions of people.
	Even the ATF thinks that it's somewhere between 3 and 5 million people.
	And for this little piece of plastic, they're going to charge people with a felony.
	Isn't Biden awful?
	Yeah, but you know what?
	Trump had a pistol brace in the works as well.
	And they stopped it in December of 2020.
	The gun groups were livid with him.
	After he banned bump stocks with executive order, he was planning to do the same thing.
	He was in the process of doing it, the pistol braces.
	And then in the middle of all of this election protesting and everything, I guess he decided he didn't need to completely alienate the gun owners until his second term.
	Thank you for joining us.
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	Yeah, good job.
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