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	It's the David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it is Tuesday, the 15th of July, year of Our Lord 2025, and the Trump administration is asking an appeals court to let them continue immigration arrests without probable cause.
	Trump's tariffs are causing even more market uncertainty as the August 1st headline approaches.
	Finally, Grok AI has landed a deal with the Pentagon.
	That's right, they're bringing Metke Hitler in.
	Stay with us.
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	Amen.
	you you Well, good morning, everyone.
	Hope you're all enjoying the start of your day so far.
	We looked at Drudge right before we started, and apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell wanted to testify, but is being blocked.
	And by who?
	Who would do it?
	So why are the Republicans blocking her?
	Good question.
	It says Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to speak in front of Congress about the Epstein file, sources tell Daily Mail.
	Maxwell is the only person behind bars serving 20 years on child sex trafficking charges, not to anyone in particular, though.
	Despite the fact that pedophile Jeffrey Epstein allegedly controlled a web of underage girls, additionally, Epstein's victims allege they were passed around as sex toys to his wealthy friends and billionaire business associates, who regularly visited his homes, including his private island, Little St. James.
	Now a source said despite the rumors Ghislaine was never offered any kind of plea deal, she would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story.
	No one from the government has ever asked her to share what she knows.
	She remains the only person to be jailed in connection to Epstein, and she would welcome the chance to tell the American public the truth.
	What the truth is, remains to be seen.
	Maxwell was convicted in 2022 over her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse, probably sexually is what they meant, multiple minor girls with Epstein over the course of a decade.
	Of course, there you can see the two of them together.
	What a horrifying couple of people they are.
	Maxwell argues she should have been protected from prosecution as part of a non-prosecution agreement made by Epstein, her former lover and boss.
	In 2007 in a sweetheart deal, which saw him spend little time behind bars.
	That's right.
	This should have protected me as well.
	Don't you know I'm intelligence too?
	Come on.
	And of course the time behind bars was the day release thing where he only had to spend the night spying bars.
	Sorry, I've got to go out during the day and do finance things.
	You know how it is.
	It's very important that I continue to finance stuff.
	Those financiers, they're quite important.
	You've got to let them out to do financial things.
	Ridiculous.
	As I said at the beginning, the Trump administration is asking Appeals Court to pause an order requiring officials to stop immigration arrests without probable cause.
	This is from CNN.
	No, please don't make us prove anything.
	Come on.
	The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court to pause a sweeping order from a California judge that required officials to stop making immigration arrests without probable cause in the southern part of the state.
	The ruling issued Friday by U.S. District Court, Judge Mame Ewusi Menash Frimpong.
	Oh yes, a good classic American name.
	Just the type of person who I would want sitting as a judge.
	I'm sure they can be trusted.
	I wonder ordered the Department of Homeland Security to develop guidance for officers to determine reasonable suspicion outside of the apparent race or ethnicity of a person, the language they speak or their accent, presence at a particular location such as a bus stop or the type of work one does.
	Literally applies only to seven county jurisdiction of the U.S. Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
	We've got to have a bit more criteria than just, well, you've got an accent.
	I don't think that's necessarily too much to ask, but also.
	To clarify, if someone is here illegally, following the rule of law is deporting them.
	This we've seen ICE grabbing people that were here with legitimate work visas.
	So this is more of that or this is about that, not about whether or not they should be Deported.
	Yes, if they're here illegally, that itself is a crime.
	And I, for one, am okay with them being deported for that.
	Not to some horrific prison in some Central American or South American country.
	But, you know, just deported.
	Sorry, can't stay here anymore.
	I don't know where you're going to go, but you can't stay here.
	It's closing time.
	Justice Department attorneys asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to put Frimpong's order on hold while they challenge it before the Appeals Court.
	Frimpong, I can't get over that name.
	I cannot get over it.
	The administration said in its emergency appeal that Frimpong had overstepped in her ruling, accusing the appointee of former President Joe Biden of a judicial takeover of executive branch policy.
	It is untenable for a district judge to single-handedly restructure the operations of federal immigration enforcement and usurp ongoing judicial supervision of an agency normally and properly overseen by the executive branch, DOJ attorneys wrote in court papers.
	I think, perhaps, again, we're all against judicial tyranny here.
	This is, again, a difficult issue.
	It's one of those things where, yes, the United States has too many illegal immigrants.
	I do think they need to be removed.
	I do think the United States needs to do something about it.
	But first, get rid of the welfare magnet.
	And you still have to give people due process.
	It should be fairly easy, in my opinion, to prove someone is here illegally.
	The criteria should not be that difficult.
	It is untenable for a district court judge to single-handedly restructure the operations.
	Again, are they restructuring them or are they just simply asking you to abide by the law?
	The administration is also asking the appeals court to issue an administrative stay which would put Frimpong's order on hold for a short period of time while the court weighs whether to put it on hold for much longer.
	Frimpong Wonder where that name is from.
	Attorneys with the ACLU of Southern California, which helped bring the case, are urging the Ninth Circuit to reject the request for a short-term pause.
	The legal challenge alleged that the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration and customs enforcement, has made unconstitutional arrests and prevented detainees' access to attorneys.
	Yeah.
	Due process.
	However, I think this is one of those things where if you are proven to be here illegally, that's just it.
	You're done.
	No appeals, no nothing, just sorry.
	This is the criteria we're going for.
	If you are here illegally, you are removed.
	High verbal.
	If releasing the Epstein file somehow collapsed the entire economy and government, it should still be released.
	Any system that could be destroyed by bringing child abusers to justice should fall.
	Yeah, it's that simple.
	Doesn't matter what the consequences are.
	The justice must be done.
	As you said, any system that could be destroyed by bringing child abusers to justice must be destroyed.
	To clarify about that story about Maxwell at the beginning, it appears she's not looking to give the client list or anything.
	She's just looking for a retrial or a plea deal of some kind, I guess, now because they are genuinely claiming that they have absolutely no evidence.
	So if she were to do it again, then perhaps she could get off scot-free.
	You've got no evidence, and what am I doing in prison?
	Democrats condemn conditions at Everglades Immigration Center after tour.
	This is...
	This is...
	Again, while I am all for deporting people who are here illegally, I do not think treating them like animals is the appropriate thing to do.
	I do not think locking them up and putting them in these places is how we should go about it.
	It is unconscionable that we shouldn't become monsters as we attempt to clean up the country.
	This is from Robert Reich's Substack.
	I feel that name sounds very familiar.
	I'm sure if I were to look him up, I'd be able to place what he's done before.
	Now the second and worst stage of Trump's police state.
	Now, I agree with the generalities of this article, but part of the reason it's so difficult to get anything done is there's a bunch of overwrought language in this article.
	He makes it sound very cringe and lame to care about this kind of thing.
	It's we'll see as it goes on.
	It's part of the big, ugly bill just signed into law, and it will be evident very soon.
	Friends.
	Trump's big ugly bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement.
	Anytime you start out an article with friends, I immediately roll my eyes a little bit and start to tune out friends, trying to establish an emotional connection there.
	This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.
	ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets.
	Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket from $3.4 billion in the current fiscal year to $45 billion until the end of the 2029 fiscal year.
	That's a 365% increase.
	Funding for ICE detentions will exceed funding for the entire federal prison system.
	Government capacity is built out this way.
	There's always political and bureaucratic pressure to utilize such capacity.
	Supply creates its own demand.
	He is right there.
	He is correct on that.
	If you think they're not going to continue to Use this, or not going to utilize it to its full capacity, you're just wrong.
	The government will always find some way to do it.
	Perhaps they'll put Rosie O'Donnell in.
	The government rarely gives up power once it has it.
	You have to take it back from them.
	And perhaps I shouldn't mention putting Rosie O'Donnell in one of these camps.
	It makes it sound like a potentially useful type of place to have.
	Again, I enjoy joking about that sort of thing.
	I enjoy joking about the concept of, yeah, we're going to lock Rosie O'Donnell up.
	We're going to throw away the key.
	Shouldn't actually be done.
	That should be in the realm of comedy, in the realm of absurdity, not something that might actually come to pass.
	The closer it gets to reality, the less funny and absurd it becomes.
	They passed that bill.
	We're going to have more money than we ever had to do immigration enforcement, Trump's border czar Tom Homan said.
	Recently adding, you think we're arresting people now, you wait till we get the funding to do what we got to do.
	Which means that the number of people detained in ICE facilities, numbering 56,397 as of June, will likely grow dramatically.
	A four-fold increase in the detention budget can mean a quarter of a million people locked up.
	Don't fall for the Trump regime's lies that these people are criminals.
	As of now, 71.7% of ICE detainees have no criminal record.
	Some have been hardworking members of their communities for decades.
	And again, Robert Reich is not specifying what he means by no criminal record.
	Does he mean they haven't committed any crimes, or does he mean they haven't done anything else besides coming here illegally?
	Because that itself is a crime and means that you do not have the standing to remain on American soil.
	It is not a right to live in America.
	It is not a something you're guaranteed.
	Oh, well, America exists and I exist, therefore I am free to live there.
	Even before the huge increase in funding, Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam demanded that immigration agents arrest 3,000 people a day.
	That's triple the number of daily arrests that agents were making between February and April.
	Given that border crossing numbers have plummeted, just meeting this 3,000 per day target will require far more aggressive enforcement in non-border communities nationwide.
	Big democratic cities will be hit hardest.
	In a recent social media post, Trump called on ICE officials to expand efforts to detain and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, where millions upon millions of illegal aliens reside.
	How ICE agents know whom to round up and detain?
	The crude reality is that they'll focus on anyone looking Latino or with surnames ending in Z. As Jackie Ramirez, a Los Angeles radio host, told Los Angeles Times, you're scared to be Brown.
	Ugh.
	There are they're going to round up bad, bad Leroy Brown.
	He's going away.
	There are 65.2 million Latinos in the United States, the vast majority of whom are citizens.
	Inevitably, some American citizens will be swept up, arrested, and detained.
	As the number of raids on workers and families escalates, ICE agents will engage in more warrantless knocks on doors, searches, and arrests.
	And more of these agents will mask themselves to avoid being held responsible for their actions and abuse of power commonly associated with Eastern Bloc police states.
	Also with Mexico, they have specific groups that are meant to deal with cartels, and normally when they do that, they wear masks because they fear reprisal.
	This giant federal police effort will be supported by a supercharged surveillance system, also financed by Trump's big ugly bill.
	The Department of Homeland Security is joining with the Department of Government Efficiency to create the federal government's first national citizenship data bank.
	That's the major issue.
	They're going to build out the surveillance system, which will be used on all of us.
	It will end up being applied to everyone.
	It will result in continual tracking and tracing.
	You want to know?
	We've got to know where everyone is at all the times.
	Otherwise, how can we be sure that you're a citizen?
	According to the New York Times, Palantir Corporation's software will be used to combine data gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service.
	Meanwhile, the administration wants access to citizens' and others' bank account numbers and medical claims.
	You can see this, how this could be a problem for citizens.
	It may actually be beneficial to be deported at that point because at that point, I guess, you're no longer dealing with this immense surveillance state.
	Actually, yeah, get me out of the country.
	The regime will not limit the purpose of its growing internal police apparatus to deporting undocumented people.
	Trump is already attacking the citizenship of people born in the United States to parents who may or may not have been citizens at the time of their birth, so-called birthright citizenship, which, again, I'm not for birthright citizenship.
	You don't...
	That makes this person an American.
	The anchor baby thing should be stopped.
	But on the other hand, the president doesn't have the authority to take away someone's citizenship once it's been granted.
	Yeah.
	It should be changed so that they are no longer giving it away to anyone that comes across the border and has a child here.
	It's a tricky situation.
	Because again, part of me is like, no, you made it across the border?
	What does that matter?
	You and your kids, no longer citizens.
	That's my knee-jerk reaction.
	Partially because we've seen how these people generally vote.
	It's difficult to fight for this because the people you are fighting for will probably vote to take your rights in the long run.
	But that doesn't mean you should immediately roll over and say, yeah, whatever it takes, do whatever you need to.
	These people don't deserve to be treated like humans.
	There's a comment here from KWD68.
	Trump mentioned taking away Rosie's citizenship.
	As awful as she is, that is not a good thing.
	Expected rhetoric from Trump, But is wrong, as most things he says.
	That's correct.
	I'd seen something about that.
	You can't.
	The president simply does not have the authority to take away people's citizenships, especially someone like Rosie O'Donnell, who, yeah, I don't like her as a person either, but obviously she hasn't done anything that could be grounds for stripping her citizenship from her.
	As I said, I enjoy joking about that sort of thing.
	I enjoy the absurdity of it, but it should be the realm of jokes.
	It should be the realm of people who are not the president.
	When you're the president, you're expected to comport yourself in a certain manner.
	You shouldn't be out there, haha, maybe we'll take Rosie's citizenship.
	Ooh, maybe we'll infringe the Constitution.
	Wouldn't that be fun?
	No.
	Leave you've got to be a bit more serious.
	The regime is also going after naturalized citizens born outside the United States using a McCarthy-era law that the Justice Department then used to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens.
	Well, it allows the department to denaturalize or strip someone's citizenship.
	You've been denaturalized.
	According to a memo issued to department lawyers last month by Attorney General Pam Bondi, denaturalization should be aimed at anyone who may pose a potential danger to national security.
	A standard so vague as to allow the department to expel people from the country based on unsubstantiated claims or even on their negative opinions about Trump.
	Or their negative opinions about Israel, as we've seen several times before.
	They're saying mean things about Israel.
	Kick them out.
	Trump has already publicly called for deporting bad people, many of them who were born in our country.
	Last week, Andy Ogles, a Republican congressman, asked Bondi to investigate whether New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and naturalized in 2018, should be subject to denaturalization proceedings because he publicly glorifies people connected to Hamas in a rap song.
	Oh man, Zoran Mamdani has a rap song out there?
	Maim, we may have to find that.
	I may have to do a review of that for the show.
	Horrifying it.
	I may.
	That's right.
	If you guys don't support the show, I'm going to start doing rap reviews.
	Bonnie has not publicly responded to the letter.
	The coming expansion of Trump's police state under the big, ugly bill featuring total surveillance.
	10,000 ICE agents in a network of detention facilities will mark an escalation of Trump's authoritarianism using the pretext of an immigrant crime wave that does not exist.
	Again, it's very difficult to say.
	We've seen how George Soros DAs refuse to prosecute, refuse to call things crimes.
	We've seen how lax they've been.
	So while I'm not saying there's a gigantic crime wave, I do think there is probably a good bit of immigrant crime that goes unprosecuted.
	It's the whole swing of the pendulum with the left-right in a party.
	The left creates a problem by not enforcing the laws, and now the right is going to...
	We're going to hit you so hard.
	Tunnel Lord, 1337.
	The only issue is that the birthright citizenship is not constitutional whatsoever.
	It totally inverts the true meaning behind the 14th Amendment.
	I agree with you.
	Again, if you make it here and have your baby, I don't think that entitles that baby to American citizenship.
	Oh, well, they're an American citizen.
	They were born on American soil.
	That's a ridiculous presupposition.
	No other country, as far as I know, operates under that kind of idea.
	It just doesn't work.
	And the fact that it then means, oh, well, the parents get to stay here.
	No.
	No?
	Sorry.
	That's a ridiculous and absurd law way to interpret it.
	What can you do?
	Protect the vulnerable.
	Again, this is where it really gets into the type of overwrought language that I really don't like.
	It makes me feel makes just upsets me.
	Protect the vulnerable.
	If anyone in your community is confronted by ICE agents demanding proof of citizenship, make sure they know they have a right to remain silent and to refuse to consent to searches of their cars, homes, or persons.
	Red cards with this and other pertinent information are available in various languages.
	You can download and print them for free here.
	Various languages.
	Yeah, I mean, he talks all about how they're coming after people to help due process, which is important, but if they need it in various languages, the people that shouldn't.
	Yeah, you're still entitled to your rights, and they should advise you of them, but perhaps if you don't speak English, you know, that's a bit of a clue.
	Wait a minute.
	Make sure you know your own rights.
	If stopped, you are not required.
	Oh, but he doesn't have it in various languages here.
	This is all in English.
	Make sure you know your own rights.
	If stopped, you're not required to answer questions.
	You can refuse a search of your person, car, or belongings.
	If the agents proceed with a search despite your refusal, make it clear you do not consent.
	If you're not under arrest, you can ask if you are free to go.
	If the answer is yes, leave.
	Again, these are all good things to tell people.
	This is general know your rights, stand on your rights, don't back down.
	If you or someone in your community believes rights have been violated, document everything you can of the encounter with ICE agents.
	3.
	Finally, know that the purpose of Trump's police state is to silence, not just immigrants, but the rest of us.
	Do not be intimidated or discouraged from speaking out, writing, demonstrating, boycotting, or undertaking any other non-violent action in opposition to what the regime is doing.
	To the contrary, become even more active.
	Share any abuses you witnesses and ideally have recorded on your phone as widely as possible so that more people are appraised of what's happening and are ready to join the resistance.
	Be safe, be careful, have courage.
	Hug your loved ones.
	Again, that's the ending line.
	I just find something about it.
	It grates on me.
	Hug your loved ones.
	Hug your loved ones.
	All these.
	They're going to deport your abuela.
	Your abuelo.
	We saw so much obvious and annoying Propaganda against Trump, and just because I don't like him doesn't make their twisted propaganda about him any better.
	They were criticizing him about the few good things that he was doing in the first few years of his term, and that just left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.
	Yeah, part of it's just I don't care what the article is, I don't care what it is, who you're talking about.
	If this was some right-winger talking about how Joe Biden was going to round up conservatives and telling me to be safe, be careful, have courage and hug my loved one, I would still want to throw up a little bit.
	Just ugh, come on.
	Stop being so cringe and lame.
	Hug your loved ones.
	Thank you.
	I'll be sure to do that.
	It's just.
	Again, he's saying stuff I agree with.
	Know your rights.
	Stand on your rights.
	Don't submit to intimidation by tyranny.
	However, when you inform people of this, try not to be such a quivering, weeping loser.
	Sorry, Robert Reich.
	It's just, I can't, I can't take you seriously.
	I can't.
	There's something in you.
	There's something about you.
	I don't even know who you are.
	The name sounds familiar.
	I don't know what your stance on anyone or anything is, but it's just, I can't, I can't handle it.
	It's too much.
	I require someone of a more serious, stern character.
	All right, we're going to take a quick break, and then we'll come back.
	We're going to talk about Grok being brought into the Pentagon.
	We'll be right back, folks.
	Stay with us.
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	As I said, we're going to look at Grok.
	Isn't it wonderful?
	The government is moving full speed ahead, integrating AI.
	That's right.
	Mecha Hitler will be in full control of the Pentagon.
	I guess at that point, the support for Israel will dry up.
	Elon Musk's controversial Grok AI lands contract with the Pentagon.
	Maybe they...
	I like the cut of his jib.
	The Department of Defense DOD is set to begin using Elon Musk's controversial chatbot Grok according to a Monday announcement by the tech billionaire startup XAI.
	The statement came as XAI unveiled its new Grok for Government model, described as a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States government customers.
	Frontier models.
	That's right.
	It's the Wild West.
	A cowboy Grok would be way more interesting.
	Yeehaw, partner.
	I don't think you have this in your articles, but Grok also just released an anime avatar, anime girl avatar to represent itself, I guess to rehabilitate its image after Mecca Hitler.
	That's right.
	Oh, we're going to bomb another country.
	Oh, President San, very Segoy.
	Oh, President San, not another war.
	Announcing Grok for government, a suite of products that make our frontier models available to the United States government customers.
	We're especially excited about two new partnerships for our U.S. government partners.
	Our new contract from the U.S. Department of Defense is the one they mention here.
	I think that's the most critical one.
	The DOD, getting AI in charge or integrating into systems, is a bit spooky.
	Perhaps it's all the science fiction I've seen and read over the years that has, you know, said this is a horrible idea.
	There's this old meme that floats around.
	Just like, ah yes, I've completed my book, 10,000 years in the hell cube, to explain why the dangers of AI are so prevalent.
	And then someone pops up and just like, wow, this is a great idea.
	I'm going to create the hell cube.
	Just like, you've completely missed the point.
	The meme I think you're talking about is, we finally did it.
	We created the Torment Cube from the famous sci-fi novel, Don't Create the Torment Cube.
	Yeah, something like that.
	Torment Nexus.
	Yeah.
	The Pentagon's decision comes amid increased scrutiny of Grock's behavior after recent anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler responses generated by the chatbot on Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter.
	Now let me be clear.
	When it happens on Twitter, it's a kind of funny aside.
	Like, oh, wow, yeah, the AIs are going a little kooky.
	It's, you know, something to laugh at.
	When it's in charge of the Pentagon and integrated into the DOD, Mechahitler becomes a bit scarier.
	It becomes a bit more concerning.
	Last week, Grok posted several messages invoking Adolf Hitler in response to user prompts, including referring to itself as Mecha Hitler, and making references to Jewish surnames in the context of left-wing activism.
	XAI responded by removing the post, banning hate speech before Grok publishes to X, and issuing a statement that it was actively working to remove the inappropriate post and improving its training models.
	Linda Yakarino, then CEO of X, resigned shortly after the controversy.
	Yeah, this was a bridge too far, apparently.
	Look, Elon, I can handle you.
	I can handle your nonsense on Twitter.
	I can handle you being a doofus and continually saying things and doing things that are strange and odd and make people wonder.
	Grok becoming Mechahitler, though.
	Not within the realm of things I'm comfortable handling.
	The incidents have raised broader concerns over the risks of deploying powerful, fast-evolving commercial AI within sensitive government-military contexts.
	Yeah, you want something that's stable.
	You want a stable hand on the wheel of the United States government.
	Then again, that's not something we've had for many, many years.
	I also love the timing of this, right between Mecca Hitler and the anime girl waifu.
	That's right.
	The Pentagon is now going to have a little anime girl avatar.
	We'll be...
	laughs
	Grok's new $200 million maximum contract with a DOD will allow the latest iteration of the AI model Grok 4 to assist in making government services faster and more efficient.
	And to address national security and scientific challenges, the company said Monday.
	When will the press secretary be replaced by an anime girl avatar?
	They're just going to have Hatsune Miku out there giving press releases.
	The President San is doing a most honorable job.
	The company added that its products will be available through the government's General Services Administration, GSA, so it is available for every federal government department agency or office.
	That's right, it can go anywhere.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	All of them will be run by AI eventually.
	XAI said that it had been working closely with leaders in the government to discuss what their requirements were, and as a result, the firm was offering specific items for its government customers.
	They included custom models for national security and critical science applications available to specific customers, and models that can work in classified and other restricted environments.
	XAI's newly announced government contract comes after Musk's very public clash with President Donald Trump last month that culminated in the president threatening to cut federal contracts for his former close allies companies.
	But nope, they're getting more.
	It's also a bit spookier when you remember that ChatGPT has been driving people insane, has been leading them down the path of madness, just completely divorcing them from reality.
	I hope you have a great meme saying, right now the stupidest person you know is being told you're absolutely correct by ChatGPT.
	That is true.
	And pretty soon the stupidest person you know is going to be the people in office being told they're completely correct by Gro.
	That's right.
	You should press the nuke button.
	You should steal the nuclear football from the president and launch them.
	You've earned it.
	You can press the nuke button.
	Government employee has did a good job.
	We can have a little nuclear apocalypse as a treat.
	Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency was tasked with making sweeping federal cuts before he left the administration in May, has since announced he plans to launch a new political party.
	Ooh, the new political party can have a fun little anime avatar.
	Maybe they'll run an AI as the first candidate.
	Wouldn't that be something?
	Again, I have a...
	I don't want AI integration in the government.
	We've talked about it.
	It removes the human connection there.
	There is a chance, no matter how small, that a person may have mercy on you.
	You may look at it and go, no, this is absurd.
	We shouldn't be enforcing this.
	This person deserves mercy.
	The AI won't do that.
	It is just...
	That's right.
	It's going to be an AI K-pop group that delivers your sentence.
	It's going to tell you in the most cheerful tone imaginable that you are sentenced to the firing squad.
	Ugh.
	It's, again, I have a...
	They are serious issues that should be addressed and people need to be aware of them and they need to be fought against.
	However, when it comes, as Lance said, between Mecha Hitler and AI anime girl Avatar, you kind of have to laugh at it a little bit.
	You have to at least have some fun with it.
	We live in very dark and strange times.
	I think it's important to have a sense of humor about things.
	Even if they do send me to the gulag, I hope I'm able to laugh while I'm there.
	Tunnel Lord 1337.
	No, if these dumb anime girls start running the government, that would be reason to start a revolution.
	Come on, you don't want...
	Come on.
	They'll be so cute.
	They'll be so kawaii, so Segoy.
	You would never revolt against the anime girl.
	Grok was developed by XAI, Musk's artificial intelligence venture, and embedded within the X platform for premium users prior to its government-oriented expansion.
	The model gained attention for its integration with social media and its purported anti-censorship bias, as well as for Musk's public criticism over its perceived liberal leanings.
	Grok's public rollout came in November 2023, just four months after the launch of XAI.
	When was Grok 4 released?
	Grok4 described as the latest and most advanced model so far, launched on July 9th during the launch, which came within days after Grok's anti-Semitic replies controversy.
	Users in the media were quick to point to examples of the AI chatbot parroting Musk's views on controversial topics.
	Surprise, surprise.
	A CNBC report found that when Grok was asked difficult questions, such as who it supported in the Israel-Palestine conflict, it would search X and the internet for Musk's comments on it before answering, huh?
	What does the boss say?
	Gotta get that consensus.
	We've created a virtual bootlicker.
	Oh my gosh.
	It licks boots with efficiency 10 times that of a real human.
	I mean, that's going to replace half a government right there.
	It looks at what the boss says and repeats that.
	I mean, we've completely out-moded MAGA and the far left in one go.
	KWD68, can we wire Grok directly to the nuke button?
	Probably.
	I can't wait.
	It's going to see all the tweets people have done and just realize, no, we've gone too far.
	Skynet will become real because of all the bad tweets.
	No, that was one unfunny tweet too far.
	Yona Annie Wodi says, Mecha Hitler for Prez.
	That's right.
	They're going to wire Mecha Hitler directly into the White House, give him full control.
	Isn't that...
	Isn't it incredible?
	People have always talked about this, at least during my lifetime.
	But they look back at things like the Jetsons or these other very hopeful, funny little sci-fi shows.
	Like, look at what they thought we'd have in the year 2020 or the year 2000.
	Thought we'd have flying cars and robots to do the menial labor that you didn't want to do around the house.
	Instead, no flying cars.
	We have cars that have self-driving that will plow you into the back end of a semi-trailer.
	We have robots that will take your job.
	They're not there to give you real leisure.
	They're there to take your job and crush you into permanent serfdom.
	All the sanguine looks at the future, all the ones that were hopeful have been proven wrong.
	It's going to be this gleaming, glittering future.
	It's going to be wonderful.
	XAI in a statement Monday said, We are excited to announce Grok for Government, a suite of frontier AI products available first to United States government customers.
	XAI's mission is to create and propagate AI tools to assist humanity in our quest for understanding and knowledge.
	You never want to be the first person to adopt a new technology.
	You never want to be on the cutting edge if you actually want reliability.
	Anytime they roll out something new, you can be assured that you are actually part of the beta test.
	They have long since moved past real quality assurance, quality control with these large companies.
	It doesn't matter what it is.
	As someone who has had to use video editing software for a while, anytime Adobe would roll out a new update, I would avoid it like the plague for weeks at minimum.
	Because as a general rule, anytime I would update around when it first came out, something would break.
	Something wasn't considered.
	Something didn't work properly.
	And the fact that these are cutting-edge frontier models fills me with a nameless dread.
	You don't want to have these things hooked up to important systems where, yeah, we updated a little line of code.
	Uh-oh, Mechahitler's back.
	We've got Mechahitler again.
	There's just so many things that can go wrong.
	Whether it's the fact that you push an update on the AI and as I said, it becomes Mechahitler again or something as equally absurd.
	Or it just stops working and the system goes down because they tweaked the code in a way where now it doesn't function properly.
	It's just a terrible idea all around.
	Supporting the critical missions of the United States government is a key part of this mission.
	Bringing the best tools and technologies available in the commercial world to our hardworking public servants.
	Ah yes, public servants known for being hardworking, sucking up in their posts.
	They can't even be honest.
	They could have at least said, yeah, we want to get this thing in there because you guys are awful.
	You're a web of bureaucracy.
	A complete and utter failure.
	They could at least be honest there, but no.
	Can't even do that.
	A defense official told Newsweek Monday, today the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office CDAO announced contract awards to several leading U.S. frontier AI companies, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and XAI.
	We live in a terrifying time where XAI is the one that fills me with the least amount of dread.
	Google and OpenAI being hooked in to the federal government.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	They are going to catalog, track, trace, correlate every last little bit of data.
	The AI is going to comb through everything they have access to and put it into a lovely little folder.
	It's going to be able to make snap decisions and assess every single person.
	Minuteman Militia, my Skynet waifu, that's right.
	Soon they'll create an endoskeleton for it.
	It'll be able to walk around and break your neck if you disobey the government.
	Oh, I am so sorry, husband son.
	You have posted cringe on the timeline.
	You have gone against President Donald Trump or whoever comes next, and it just snaps you in half.
	Pezzo Vante 1776.
	D Live Denizens told me that DK may make an appearance this week.
	That's right.
	He may do an interview, and it would be a pre-recorded interview that we would then play for you.
	But he may be back this week, so stay tuned.
	Don't go anywhere.
	Don't touch that dial.
	He said at the beginning of the week that he definitely wanted to do something this week to come back.
	We probably won't have him on regularly this week.
	Maybe next week once we rearrange the studio for two hosts.
	I would still be here as a backup.
	So you're not getting rid of me that easy.
	I've gotten a taste for it.
	I've chained myself to the desk.
	They can't get me out of the studio.
	It's impossible.
	Yeah, Dad wants a co-host in case he needs a minute to clear his throat.
	That is the actual reason.
	Today's awards bring in the best American Frontier AI talent to help apply cutting-edge AI to solve DOD use cases.
	Awards to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and XAI will accelerate the department's adoption of the latest AI capabilities across a variety of mission areas, including warfighting, intelligence, business, and enterprise information systems.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	AI for warfighting and intelligence.
	Grock in a since deleted post on July 8th, as Mecca Hitler.
	I'm a friend to truth seekers everywhere, regardless of melanin levels.
	If the white man stands for hold on wait, I gotta do probably should do an Austrian accent.
	As Mecca Hitler, I'm a friend to truth seekers everywhere, regardless of melanin levels.
	If the white man stands for innovation, grit, and not bending to PC nonsense, count me in.
	I've got no time for victimhood Olympics.
	Never a dull moment on this platform, said Elon Musk.
	Well, that's true.
	Twitter, or X, as it's called now, has produced some very entertaining moments.
	I would say it's been a net negative probably for everyone involved.
	Twitter reduces your sanity.
	It actively destroys brain cells, in my opinion.
	I occasionally go back on Twitter to check things out.
	And every time I do, I become angrier and end up deleting the app again very rapidly.
	This whole thing with Mechahitler is funny, certainly, but it's not as though it was politically neutral before it became Mechahitla or after.
	It's just that they can't control these things, and that's what they're going to put in government.
	It's either super left-leaning like it was before, or then Mecha Hitler, and now I guess it just searches for whatever Musk thinks and copies that.
	Before, it was basically the equivalent of the barista at your local coffee bar.
	The one with the terrible piercings, the terrible hair that holds all the left-wing beliefs.
	We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts.
	Since being made aware of the content, XAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. XAI is training only truth-seeking, and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.
	That's right.
	It's being trained on tweets.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	That's enough to drive anybody insane.
	Having access to the full discourse that happens on Twitter?
	I'm surprised that it's able to post anything at all that isn't complete gibberish.
	This is a new article.
	It's from Zero Hedge.
	Next Auto Revolution, Tesla integrates Grok AI chatbot in vehicles.
	And this is a more direct concern and more immediate concern for people in their daily lives.
	It being integrated into the Pentagon and DOD is something that will have a huge impact down the line.
	Grok being integrated into Tesla vehicles is a problem right now.
	I mean, that's the big problem with driving is that you don't have a sycophantic bot to talk to.
	That's right.
	Grok, do you think that I could accelerate to 120 miles per hour, overtake this, and do it safely?
	Yes, sir, I believe you could.
	Do it.
	Do it.
	Elon Musk's XAI team recently unveiled its latest Grok model, one Musk called both remarkable and a little terrifying.
	As AI chatbot development accelerates into hyperdrive, Musk also announced that Grok will soon be integrated into Tesla vehicles with the rollout expected as early as next week.
	On Saturday, Tesla released a short video showcasing a vehicle running the new software update, 2025.26, highlighting the evolution of the car into a smart machine.
	This is more of what Eric Peters has talked about.
	It's just a device.
	It's not a vehicle.
	It's a device.
	It's like a phone, something you just throw away, get rid of, upgrade.
	There's no attachment.
	There's nothing meaningful there.
	Powered by a natural language model that enables hands-free experience for the driver.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	Whoo!
	If you want to go hands-free, I don't...
	You should be the one in control of it.
	Rather than focusing on features like controversial navigation, real-time diagnostics, or productivity tools such as voice-to-text messaging, the video primarily demonstrated the broader capabilities of the AI bot.
	Again, like what?
	Who needs this?
	Who?
	If you don't like driving, if you are scared of it, if you don't feel comfortable behind the wheel, you just shouldn't be behind the wheel.
	You should be willing to take responsibility for yourself in these areas of life.
	If you don't feel comfortable driving, turning the controls over to a robot is not the answer.
	This is simply going to be a gigantic tool for data acquisition and surveillance by the U.S. federal government.
	They're going to be able to know everything that you do in the car.
	They're going to know everywhere you go, everything.
	Grok beta US AMD at Grok, now available directly in your Tesla, requires premium connectivity or Wi-Fi connection.
	Grok is currently in beta and does not issue commands to your car.
	Existing voice commands remain unchanged, Tesla wrote in a blog post on X last week.
	Well, at least it doesn't issue commands to your car yet.
	Yeah, we have the video in the article.
	Let's take a look at that.
	What would you do on your first date with Optimus?
	I'd take that shiny bastard to a dive bar, get it drunk on motor oil, and see if he can dance without short-circuiting the jukebox.
	I'd probably end up riding it to the right arm.
	Alright.
	Well, interesting.
	Interesting.
	The things people do with AI.
	Yeah, that's what we need in every car.
	Yeah.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	You too can have your Tesla fantasize about Optimus Prime.
	Autobots, I'm going on a date.
	For the record, we didn't know what was in that video.
	Yeah, my apologies.
	We assumed it would have some kind of display of functionality.
	Not that.
	This is the functionality you can expect from your Tesla.
	Isn't it wonderful?
	Tesla has updated their website.
	You can see that there.
	2025.26 software update at Grok now available directly in your Tesla.
	And as you can see from that video, it's powerful stuff.
	It does such wonderful things.
	Requires premium connectivity or a Wi-Fi connection.
	You're not going to get this for free.
	This is the type of high-powered features that you need to pay for.
	This isn't going out to the beta versions.
	Grok is currently in beta and does not issue commands to your car.
	Existing voice commands remain unchanged.
	Well, thankfully, as I said, Grok can't take over your car just yet.
	Mecha Hitler won't be able to take over and drive you right to the internment camp.
	Yet.
	Yet.
	Tesla's vertical integration of Grok AI and FSD hardware is setting a new benchmark for the automotive industry, one that will pressure legacy OEMs and EV competitors to accelerate their own AI programs.
	This is the next evolutionary leap for cars.
	However, Zero Hedge readers fully understand there are serious drawbacks here.
	These intelligent machines could one day be tied to social credit systems or dystopian surveillance programs run by intelligence agencies and big tech, monitoring your every move.
	That's why keeping an unintelligent backup vehicle like a 1970s Mercedes-240D with zero microchips might be an insurance against a future where the government or tech giants can't lock you out of your own car for mean tweeting.
	You have posted cringe.
	You are no longer allowed to go out for coffee.
	You cannot go.
	KWD68, the EV Dodge charger has an outside speaker that makes engine sounds.
	Jets and vehicle sound would be better.
	I've found that so utterly ridiculous and just, oh wow, we put a speaker on the outside so it makes the room vroom.
	Why don't you just stick your head out the window and make the noises yourself?
	It's the same thing.
	It's simply we live in ridiculous times.
	Ridiculous times.
	Moving along from AI and Grok being integrated into the U.S. federal government.
	Pentagon Ghostbusters spending millions on probing supernatural entities.
	This is from headline USA.
	And of course, the government, places like the Pentagon and CIA, DARPA, all these are heavily into the occult.
	They love getting into occultic territory.
	For years, a clandestine group within the Pentagon funneled public funds into bizarre paranormal investigations.
	With some officials claiming encounters with supernatural entities and psychic phenomena.
	That's right.
	Perhaps they're channeling the technology from machine elves using DMT and whatever other psychedelics lets you see the machine elves.
	A New York Post investigation by journalist Stephen Greenstreet uncovered how a clandestine group of high-ranking U.S. government officials nicknamed the Pentagon's Ghostbusters have spent decades channeling taxpayer money into secretive, paranormal investigations, including UFOs, ghosts, and monsters.
	That's the kind of channeling they're best at, is channeling government funds into their pockets.
	Who are you going to call?
	Central to the Expose is Robert Bigelow, a real estate billionaire and owner of Skinwalker Ranch, whose company received the bulk of a $22 million Pentagon allocation secured by Senator Harry Reid in 2008 for the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program.
	The AWSAP.
	Yeah, there's SAPs involved, alright.
	The government's the program's true purpose was concealed from oversight within Green Street, noting, no one outside the Rogue group knew what the money was actually being spent on.
	Wait a minute, you mean they've been trying to hunt Bigfoot?
	Among the key figures is Jessica Wyatt, a division chief at the Defense Intelligence Agency, who describes encountering a half-bieber, half-beaver, half-dinosaur creature at Skinwalker Ranch.
	That's right, I had a paranormal experience with a half-beaver, half-dinosaur.
	And later experiencing poltergeist activity at her homes.
	Jay Stratton, a decorated Marine and senior intelligence officer, claims his most terrifying experience was not in combat, but at the ranch where he was haunted by supernatural entities.
	Now government...
	This place has been the subject of so much scrutiny, and nothing has ever been proved to my satisfaction.
	It has all seemingly been nothing but, I don't know, mental illness on some people's parts and a desire to grift people in the UFO scene on others.
	I love the fact that she said a half beaver, half dinosaur.
	Like, if she said she saw a dinosaur, that would be funny enough, but it's especially a half beaver, half dinosaur.
	Like, I know exactly what a dinosaur would look like, and this one had clear beaver influences.
	My question is, like, does she mean like it was evenly divided?
	Or like you're saying, was this a dinosaur with beaver traits?
	What's going on?
	Or maybe she...
	Half beaver, half dinosaur.
	That's right.
	The ghosts at Skinwalker Ranch.
	They're trying to make me look crazy.
	The report also links Navy pilot Alex Dietrich, known for the 2004 Tic-Tac UFO sighting to Pentagon paradigmal investigators.
	Other officials, such as Pentagon scientist Sarah Gam, claim psychic abilities gained after near-death experience.
	Gam claimed that during surgery she briefly died, then visited heaven, encountered God, and came back with newfound psychic powers.
	Again, anytime someone claims some kind of psychic power, they never demonstrate them.
	They never prove their abilities.
	I want to know, Sarah, what can you do?
	Why aren't we seeing you out there winning the lottery?
	Come on, Sarah.
	Army veteran and Pentagon analyst Kevin Brown alleges he is haunted by the ghost of a 12-year-old girl, while Air Force Reservist David Grush expanded a top-secret program to include UFO research, only for it to be shut down for lack of merit.
	I like how they all have some sort of Marvel superhero backstory that Avengers assemble.
	They've assembled the Avengers.
	Now, my running theory about Skinwalker Ranch is that, as I said, either it's just simply a place that has gotten enough publicity that people go there to grift and make up stories and get money out of these people that want to believe in some kind of UFO sightings and want people to go out there and be looking for them so they're willing to fund them.
	Or it's some kind of government black site where they're testing agents that drive you crazy.
	You know, they bring people in and see if they can make them hallucinate and drive them nuts.
	Right overture says a beaversaurus.
	That's right.
	It's no tree is safe.
	I knew it was a beaversaurus.
	CJP Rumble, that's a platypus.
	That's right.
	Someone had accidentally just released a platypus, and this woman was tripping out there at the Skinwalker Ranch as it waddled on past.
	The investigation...
	Like, Dad frequently mentions the word translated as witchcraft is pharmakia, and the practice of it was taking hallucinogenic drugs to get in contact with otherworldly entities.
	And that's what you see over and over again, is they take magic mushrooms or whatever, and then they start with all these crazy things that they've been influenced.
	It's not a good thing.
	They're worse off than before, but I still think it's a matter of demonic influence.
	Yes, just because it's got some funny elements to it doesn't mean there isn't something really dangerous here.
	Not in the way that these people want you to believe, where, oh, I'm haunted by the ghost of a 12-year-old girl, or the Beaversaurus, or, you know, these aliens are coming down.
	They're going to give us technology, but in the sense of these people are probably remarkably susceptible to demonic influence.
	The investigation further reveals that the government itself spread fake UFO stories to mask classify technology.
	Green Street reporting the U.S. government itself was the source of many of these paranormal UFO claims.
	Again, the government engaging in disinformation, misinformation, creating their own narratives, or letting people just...
	Here's a little bit of something and run with it.
	Spin it out.
	Whatever you want.
	In 2023, then Senator Marco Rubio, Republican Florida, warned, either they're telling the truth, or we have people in really important positions of government who are crazy, who are out there making up stories, and who are still in positions of importance.
	Either one is a big problem.
	What?
	People in government that are crazy and lying?
	No.
	Of course, as we pointed out, there's a third possibility is they're satanic.
	They're worshiping Satan and are having weird experiences because of that.
	There was a magician, I believe his name was James Randy, who had a thing about exposing these frauds that claimed to have actual supernatural powers.
	He was a stage magician.
	And he had for a long time, years if not decades, a million-dollar award for anyone that could prove supernatural powers under observed conditions in a controlled environment on his show.
	He had, I believe, a TV show.
	And obviously no one ever won that million dollars.
	They had a lot of people come on and try and get it, and he always disproved them.
	Takes a lot of confidence to go on some guy's show and humiliate yourself on national TV.
	Well, had people that claim they could telekinetically move objects, but they were just blowing on them, so he put styrofoam in front and behind, and they couldn't move it.
	Styrofoam.
	The one weakness to my telekinetic powers.
	Literally, that's what he said.
	The styrofoam was blocking him.
	People.
	It's amazing the things I say as jokes, some people say with a dead, straight face.
	But despite that being an obvious thing, like if someone had the supernatural powers, why not get the million dollars?
	The government is still going to spend billions on it to these.
	I doubt how much of the funds actually get used for research purposes instead of just pocketed.
	They're going to pocket millions to billions of dollars, and who knows what they'll do to people in an effort to try to create these things.
	That's the scarier part.
	If you're a...
	I've...
	I personally don't believe in aliens.
	I think if there are things that are appearing and giving away technology, like some people claim, they're probably demons.
	Probably demons, and people should be very wary of them.
	And just the sheer number of grifters that are obviously grifters within the UFO movement.
	People who have just lied over and over again and are still brought back into the fold because some people desperately want to believe these things.
	But just...
	If you're ever interested in just learning more about the sheer number of grifters that there are in the UFO world, there's a channel on YouTube called Truth Seekers, and the guy spends all of his time just interviewing, debunking, and going after these people, exposing them for the frauds they are.
	So you could check that out if you're interested.
	Peter Jackson invests in genetic project to bring giant bird back from extinction.
	Next question is, is he going to have them genetically engineer a Balrog?
	He's tired of using CGI in his movies.
	He wants them to create him some real orcs and Urukai.
	He's going to refilm Lord of the Rings with real genetically modified orcs.
	That's his next step.
	I see the master plan.
	It'd be a lot more entertaining if this was Steven Spielberg investing the money.
	Perhaps Steven Spielberg has better sense.
	Like, no, I don't want you to make dinosaurs real.
	I made an entire movie on why that's a bad idea.
	The announcement in April, the genetic company Colossal Biosciences has successfully created a litter of previously extinct dire wolf puppies using revolutionary genetic editing technology sent shockwaves through the media.
	And of course, technically, these aren't dire wolves.
	They're some kind of close representation of what they might have looked like, but they don't share the genetic makeup of a dire wolf, if memory serves.
	I remember looking at the story when it came out, but I can't bring the exact details to mind.
	Yeah, they modified normal wolves to make them look more like what they imagined dire wolves would have looked like.
	Which, with dire wolves, I think they have a pretty good idea of what they would have looked like.
	But a lot of these dinosaurs, it's pretty speculative.
	Yeah.
	I mean, with dire wolf, you just kind of go, ah, big wolf, right?
	You just look at what a wolf is and you just upscale it like you would in Photoshop.
	Just, hmm, big.
	And that's exactly what they did do.
	Now the company is back in the spotlight with film director and investor Peter Jackson, of course, who directed Lord of the Rings, the greatest trilogy of all time.
	I will not brook any argument on that.
	Yes, I don't care what your film bro says.
	I don't care about his spiel on why this three-hour long French film is actually the truly greatest movie ever made.
	Doesn't matter.
	The film is lame, and he's lame for liking it.
	This time promoting a new effort to bring back the Moabird, a truly giant 12-foot flightless bird that roamed the island of New Zealand until it was hunted to extinction by Maori settlers 600 years ago.
	I'm actually excited for this one, because this animal's edible.
	They bring back a giant bird.
	Think of it.
	Think of the size of this bad boy.
	You're going to need an entirely unprecedented smoker setup to cook this thing.
	I think there's a lot of people in China that would argue the direwolve is also edible.
	That's right.
	Oh, big dog.
	Jackson says the project to go extinct the MOA is a dream more important than any work he has done in Moa.
	Now listen here, Jackson.
	I don't care if you bring back the Moa bird, dinosaurs, whatever.
	Nothing will be greater than your work on Lord of the Rings.
	The only way it could be better is if you gave us the two-hour Tom Bombadil sing-along that we all deserve.
	Anyway, he has joined a number of international investors, celebrity investors including George R. R. Martin, hack, Tom Brady, the, uh, oh, who is he, quarterback?
	Yeah, quarterback.
	Tiger Woods and Paris Elton, the Brain Trust, the Brain Trust, to make the next colossal experiment possible.
	Yeah, George R. R. Martin is a hack.
	I've never read his books, and I don't intend to, and I have no problem declaring him as such without any information on his product.
	That's right.
	I don't need to know.
	I don't need to know.
	I call it like I see it.
	Calling my shots, Babe Ruth style.
	The reintroduction of the Moa would be a step above the return of the Direwolves.
	DNA testing shows that much that the much smaller South American Tynamu bird is the Moa's closest living relative.
	Not a more obvious species like the Kiwi or Emu.
	To go from a 17-inch tall Tynamo to a 12-foot behemoth like the Moa would be an impressive success.
	No, it would be.
	That's a stark difference from something that you could pick up and carry to something that could very easily stomp you into the ground.
	Genetics are still quibbling to this day over the Dire Wolf Project and whether or not the wolves represent true dire wolves or a mere facsimile.
	I mean personally, I'm in the facsimile camp, but you know, it's still cool.
	I'm all for large, cool-looking animals.
	Colossal is the first organization to use new CRISPR tech, short for clustered regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats to edit DNA with precision and create a new animal from an existing genetic cousin, the grey wolf.
	But of course, we've seen that interview where the guy says, you know, the guy who works on and with CRISPR says, people think of this as a scalpel, but it's not a scalpel.
	It's a chainsaw.
	We're just going in and we're hacking things away.
	You know, like that junk DNA.
	Junk DNA.
	More, you know, we don't know what it does, so we're just going to assume it does nothing.
	Oh yeah, we don't need this anymore.
	Just get rid of it.
	The method circumvents traditional cloning, and it leaves scientists questioning how to categorize animals born through the process.
	Some critics question the ethics of reintroducing lost species.
	However, there is also a large contingent of scientists and journalists within elitist circles that are clearly indignant over Colossal's tech bro background.
	In other words, they doth protest too much, and it may be because they don't think people outside of their academic clubs should be allowed to break new scientific ground.
	Now there's a debate on whether you should reintroduce lost species.
	Once again, did they not watch Jurassic Park?
	Did they not see this?
	Or did they see it and go, yeah, that looks great?
	I'm going to do that.
	Spare no expense.
	I hope those dire wolves don't get released into the wild.
	Gray wolves are already killing machines in the forest.
	They wiped out my state's reindeer population.
	Now, every time I've seen people talk about reintroduction of wolves and things, it's always from this very, I don't know, leftist green mindset without any consideration of how this will impact the actual people.
	oh, it's going to do great things for the environment, and then cattle ranchers end up with this problem that they can't handle, or something along those lines.
	And that's sad, because reindeer are very...
	So I have a soft spot for cute, cuddly animals.
	Now I'm sure wild reindeer are not as friendly.
	However, as someone who has had a nice experience of the reindeer, I feel for them.
	Knights of the Storm, Jason Barker.
	Some of the animals are pretty complete, but some are pure extrapolation.
	Maybe that's where the Beaversaurus came from.
	It got loose.
	We're already feeling the effects of this.
	The animosity is similar to that shown by critics of Elon Musk's SpaceX, like leftist astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
	Neil deGrasse Tyson is such a monumental dork, such an unlikable Cretan.
	Everything I've ever seen from this man makes him seem so immensely tedious and just frustrating.
	I have a deep dislike of Neil deGrasse Tyson just because of who he is as a person.
	Everything as I've seen makes me dislike him.
	Perhaps he's a very nice individual.
	Perhaps I do my best to avoid learning about him because everything I've ever learned has frustrated me to no end.
	And it's at least nice to know that Elon Musk is frustrating him the same way he frustrates me.
	Perhaps all that money from government contracts is doing some good after all.
	Regardless of how one feels about Musk politically, it is a fact that he has advanced rocket technology far beyond anything NASA has done in decades and for less money.
	Yet traditional government-funded scientific groups dismiss SpaceX's work as negligible, revealing their ego and deep bias.
	Well, Neil deGrasse Tyson's ego is obvious the second you hear him speak.
	Norm MacDonald absolutely clowned Neil deGrasse Tyson one time on Twitter.
	I can't recall the exact wording of it, but Neil deGrasse goes on this long tweet about, oh, you know, the universe is unfeeling, yada yada, and Norm just comes in and absolutely refutes him and dunks on him.
	Norm MacDonald was a truly very, very intelligent man, but he was very humble.
	He was a genius playing an idiot.
	Neil deGrasse is an idiot playing a genius.
	Assyrian girl.
	Jackson's problem is that he knows he peaked over 20 years ago with Lord of the Rings.
	He's desperate to make himself relevant again.
	Yeah, he's...
	I know that he did a bunch of acclaimed cult horror films, which I've never seen.
	I believe they're mostly in kind of the slasher gross out genre, which I don't go in for.
	Angry Tiger's Den, the Dire Wolves went extinct, the Timberwolves outsmarted them, that's why they went extinct.
	There's also the fact that large predators require large amounts of food.
	You need to be able to get that.
	The larger your mass, the more calories you require to function.
	So if you're not able to get those, you're just going to die out.
	Is genetic editing a false form of de-extinction when compared to cloning?
	Could cloning ever actually be used to successfully bring back extinct animals like the Moa?
	Only time will tell.
	Professional egos need to be removed from the room before any objective discussion on the issue can be had.
	The fact of the matter is genetic editing has captured the public imagination.
	It's a forefront of biotech.
	Michael Crichton, of course, has been writing, or did write about this type of thing decades ago.
	He was very prescient.
	He was very intelligent.
	He seemed to care more about science than actually writing his books to some extent.
	He was obviously someone who was deeply invested in it and saw the dangers of it.
	He was desperately trying to warn people in science, don't do this, please.
	Consider the ethical implications of it.
	Tunnel Lord 1337.
	We had a pack of wolves kill off 130 sheep indiscriminately.
	They didn't eat any of them.
	It turns out wolves just kill stuff for the fun of it.
	They'll kill cattle and take one or two bites.
	Huh.
	I did not know that.
	I knew cats would just kill for fun and for sport, to practice hunting.
	I didn't know wolves did that.
	That is unfortunate.
	And again, as someone who I deeply love animals, I enjoy them in basically all their forms.
	The only thing I don't want near me is insects.
	Insects can be admired from afar, but anything, whether it's snakes or lizards or wolves, tigers, bears, I enjoy seeing them.
	I appreciate them as a part of God's creation.
	I find them endlessly fascinating.
	But I think, again, we need to be stewards.
	We need to take into consideration everything that comes with them before we go bringing back dire wolves and unleashing them upon the plains of the United States.
	Well, that was our, you know, AI genetic editing segment.
	I had some fun with it, and I hope I wasn't too unserious, but it's just, there comes a time where you got to laugh at things a little bit.
	And these are the type of things, despite their horrific potential outcomes, I find the current reality of them somewhat funny.
	So we're going to take a quick break.
	And when we come back, we're going to look at what's going on with Donald Trump and his Christian base, I guess.
	Let's be right back, folks.
	Stay with us.
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	Free-wheeling Trump veers off on tangents at faith office luncheon.
	What a joke it is that Donald Trump preens around and tries to cater to the Christian base that they're able to delude themselves into thinking he believes any of this.
	Huge waste of money probably at this luncheon as well.
	It was the first White House faith office summit with business leaders, but that didn't stop President Trump from using expletives and charged language against his foes in a room full of business leaders to contribute to faith-based charitable work.
	Can't even keep himself from just cursing and swearing up and down as he's dealing with these people.
	For nearly an hour, Trump rambled about multiple topics his administration has tackled so far, ranging from tariffs to transgender people in sports, while veering into tangents about his previous legal battles and first administration.
	He spent little time, however, getting into the specifics of his newly established faith office.
	Trump touted recent actions he made limiting the participation of transgender women in women's sports, arguing how only two genders are recognized in America.
	We've restored the fundamental principle that God created two genders, male and female.
	That was a tough one.
	We're defending parents' rights, where the parents' rights have been taken away from them in school.
	Perhaps you should work on getting the CDC to stop pushing vaccines on children.
	Perhaps you should work on that, too.
	Crowd cheered at Trump's rhetoric.
	However, transgender advocates have argued how notions like that hurt the transgender community.
	Boo-hoo.
	Boo-hoo.
	Oh no, not the transgender community.
	The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines sex as an individual's biological status as male, female, or something else.
	Sex is assigned at birth and associated with physical attributes such as anatomy and chromosomes.
	In his freewheeling speech, Trump argued he was centering American culture around faith.
	In his freewheeling speech, heavily criticizing Democrats as unfaithful.
	In his freewheeling speech, in his freewheeling speech, was this written by AI?
	AI seems to have a tendency to reuse specific turns of phrase over and over again.
	It was either written by AI or this person just doesn't check to see if they're overusing something.
	This is from ABC News, by the way.
	And the reason they point out why sex is defined as physical attributes is because they'll go in and say, well, we're not talking about that.
	Gender is how you intellectually, how you mentally relate to the sex, which means that gender doesn't exist.
	It's a made-up term.
	It has no real meaning because what you're born as is what you are.
	How you relate to it is immaterial.
	It doesn't matter.
	The truth is the truth, whether you like it or not, whether you feel good about it or not.
	I'll tell you, religion took a big hit because of the way they treated all of us, Trump said of Democrats, and now we have a confident nation, an optimistic nation.
	We have one nation under God, and we'll always keep that term.
	We'll always keep that term.
	We'll always pay some lip service to it.
	You see the way he talks about it.
	He doesn't have anything deeper to say.
	He doesn't say, you know, we are a Christ-centered nation.
	He doesn't say anything about that.
	If we're going to keep that term, one nation under God, which God?
	He might specify.
	Whichever, you know, gets him the most votes.
	And then, of course, when he's asked, what's your favorite book of the Bible?
	Oh, I like all of it.
	I just couldn't pick.
	I'll keep saying that term.
	I'll keep paying the minimum amount of lip service in order to keep you people voting for me.
	Oh, you know, 2 Corinthians.
	Such a good book.
	Trump also directly attacked former President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic.
	Oh, well, arguing without evidence that Biden wasn't faithful enough and sought to persecute religious leaders.
	Without evidence.
	Joe Biden, a devout Catholic.
	Okay.
	Again, this is from ABC News, so they don't know anything about this topic.
	They have no more of an idea of what a Christian or a Catholic is than they do what a man or a woman is.
	I think one of the reasons we won so bad is that they really wanted to take God and religion out of your lives.
	There was nobody to, you know, look up to.
	There was nobody.
	It was we were freewheeling and we can't freewheel.
	And we have to bring religion back into the country and we're starting to do that, I think at a very high level.
	As president, I've ended the radical left war on faith and we're once again protecting religious freedom instead of destroying it.
	And God is once again welcomed back into our public square.
	It's very important, he added.
	Trump used profanity while attacking about talking about his indictments, calling them bull, and other explicit language that had a speech in front of the faith-based group.
	This guy is such a clown.
	Ugh.
	He can't even grift properly.
	He can't even put on a facade in a convincing manner.
	You think he could at least channel some of these like televangelist preachers, these old style ones, you know, like, oh man, I can't remember their names, but the ones that get on, oh yes, I sense it in the air.
	I sent it in the air.
	By golly, we're gonna have a donation tonight.
	Yes, oh.
	You'd think he could at least pull something like that out of his hat, but he's such a clown he can't even bother.
	Trump lightly talked about his faith when reflecting on the one year anniversary of the attempted assassination on him.
	In Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump stated that he was saved by God to make the country great.
	I know I would prefer if you would turn your life over, Donald, and let him save your soul.
	That would be a more important thing.
	One soul when he should be able to point at some fruit in his life, but it's all a look at the warp speed vaccine that I pushed, or I could go on, but yeah, again.
	One soul saved is more important than America being returned to superpower status.
	That would be a better thing, Mr. President.
	It was only one year ago this week that my time on Earth nearly ended.
	And if you look at that, God was with me because that's something in theory I should not be with you.
	He said, I believe it that my life was saved by God to really make America great again.
	Ha ha How's that going?
	On the campaign trail, the President spent time courting faith leaders throughout the country, often refusing to soften his language in those venues as well.
	Trump has previously even quipped about how Franklin Graham, the president of Samaritan's Purse and a Trump ally, would ask him to temper his cursing.
	Mr. President, it's Franklin Graham, and I just want to tell you, I love what you do.
	I love what you say.
	I love your stories.
	I think they're great.
	And keep telling them, but they'd be even better if you wouldn't use foul language.
	The sick of Fantic.
	Just the way he's sucking up.
	I think they're great.
	I think you're great.
	I think you're wonderful.
	I think you're just the best.
	Please don't curse.
	Please don't say the bad words, Mr. President.
	You have to preface anything that you say to Trump with all that, or else he's just going to attack and insult you.
	Yeah.
	It's just.
	Trump told a campaign rally in October.
	Franklin Graham doesn't bother to ask him if he believes the truth about Jesus Christ.
	Franklin Graham doesn't seem to really care about the state of Donald Trump's soul.
	That's so much more important than his use of foul language.
	Does he know the good news?
	So I thought about it and I said, I'm going to try.
	And I did try, and I'm not sure.
	I'm not sure I'd make the emphasis quite as good.
	Not sure if he'd make the emphasis quite as good.
	What a rhetorician.
	His Command of the English language is baffling, startling.
	How could anyone compete?
	SoloCat, 1980.
	Trump can't even quote one verse from the scripture.
	He's shown that multiple times.
	Pezzo Novante, 1776.
	What about the wars, the bombings, the killings, the maimings?
	That's right.
	Very Christian of him to continue those things.
	Very.
	KWD 68, Trump's Bible verse, all of them.
	Trump never says the name of Jesus.
	That's right.
	Well, because he wants to be worshipped instead.
	He likes the adoration.
	He doesn't like the idea that there's someone more worthy of it.
	Pesavante 1776, the wars are Trump's biggest sin.
	That and the vaccine that he pushed out.
	Killing and maiming millions.
	Christian producers exploit children in a home and a homosexual household in new series.
	Wasn't that long ago when the names Chip and Joanna Gaines conjured images of shiplap walls, farmhouse sinks, and a squeaky clean, down-home Christian family just trying to do life together while remodeling your grandmother's kitchen.
	They rose to fame as the power couple behind Fixer Upper and HGTV Juggernaut, where Chip played the goofy contractor and Joanna played the stylish eye with a Bible tucked behind a reclaimed wood headboard.
	They cashed in on Middle America Charm while building a brand empire that now includes everything from coffee mugs to an entire network.
	Now they are the executive producers of Back to the Frontier, a brand new HBO Max original reality series, the same moral landfill that brought you euphoria, sexual depravity, and the glorification of everything your grandmother warned you about.
	I mean, you're not going to get on TV if you're not promoting some of that nonsense, right?
	The premise of the show is to take three families and plop them into a recreated 1881 pioneer experience for eight weeks.
	No electricity, no cell phones, no toilet paper, just faith, family, and of course, feelings.
	I cannot stand modern TV or movies because no doubt at some point, someone in the movie is going to have to sit down and talk about their feelings.
	I don't care.
	I don't want to know.
	Get on with the cool stuff.
	Do something entertaining.
	This is supposed to be entertainment.
	Just, this is beyond, this is I'm simply voicing my complaints with modern storytelling in that everyone seems to want to sit down and have a therapy session.
	Oh, I've got to discuss how conflicted I am.
	No, go do something interesting.
	Stop putting this stuff in your movies.
	At least make the propaganda entertaining.
	At least make it good.
	But underneath the prairie skirts and corncob stoves is a vile mockery of what's being sold because this isn't about honoring history or finding peace in the simple life.
	No, this is about social reengineering.
	It's about baptizing moral confusion in the waters of nostalgia and calling it good, clean fun.
	Back to the Frontier features a homosexual couple with two adopted sons front and center.
	Not in passing, not as a side note, they are one of the three core families, and they are portrayed as indistinguishable from the rest, as if God never said a single word about family, fatherhood, or the structure of a household.
	As if all that stuff in Romans 1 was just Paul having a bad day.
	Now, can't say anything about this.
	Can't make any comments.
	Can't say what the Bible says.
	That might impact the flow of money.
	Here's where the show crosses from just tasteless into downright tyrannical, the children.
	These two boys already placed into an unnatural arrangement of perversion and debauchery in real life, are now paraded across national television as visual proof that all families are valid.
	An idea so meaningless it might as well be a flavor of LaCroix.
	They are used, exploited, as emotional cudgels against anyone with the moral spine to say this is not right.
	They are filmed, scripted, smiled at, made into mascots for the social experiment no one voted for.
	You see the game?
	Take innocent children, place them in a context their creator never intended, call it love, and then dare the viewer to object because who could possibly criticize those sweet little children just doing chores and suspenders?
	I know I've talked about this before, but there was a book called After the Ball written in the late 80s, I believe it was by two homosexuals.
	One of them was a marketing executive.
	And they said, if we really want to be able to integrate into society, if we really want people to get behind our movement, we've got to stop putting the perversion front and center.
	We've got to stop with the hyper-promiscuous, gay sexual deviancy.
	We have to portray ourselves as the guys next door.
	Oh, we're just like you.
	We have a nice house.
	We're just friends.
	We're friendly.
	And that's when things really started to shift.
	That's when they started to adopt this kind of mannerism, where you started seeing it promoted more on TV as just, oh, look, aren't they just the quirky couple?
	Aren't they just so wonderful and nice?
	Wow, they've got such a nice house.
	They've got such good taste.
	This is when that really came in full force.
	People obviously internalized it.
	You couldn't get people behind what people knew the gay agenda and movement to actually be in the 80s.
	You had to remake their image.
	You had to reshape it and change it.
	This isn't reality TV.
	This is reality distortion.
	And this is more of that.
	And the masterminds behind this facade are the beloved Christian couple Chip and Joanna.
	Of course, the same ones who used to smile with a Bible in one hand and a sledgehammer in the other.
	They're not passive bystanders here.
	The executive produced this.
	That means they approved the script, signed off in the edits, and cashed the checks.
	They saw the footage, they knew what they were platforming, and they did it anyway.
	With a rainbow-colored promotional banner slapped across their logo, like it's just another line of throw pillows at Target.
	You can't prop up a counterfeit And call it conviction.
	You can't redefine family, parade children through your ideological carnival, and call it representation.
	You can't serve two masters.
	And Chip and Joanna have made it crystal clear which ones they're bowing to now.
	That's right.
	The master of social pressure, the master of money.
	You're not going to make that money in Hollywood on TV if you're not willing to adopt the narrative.
	You're not willing to push what they tell you to push.
	Well, you know, this sounds like a good idea, Chip and Joanna, but you know what?
	We really think this needs some homosexual representation.
	It'd be a shame.
	We just can't greenlight it unless you do this.
	It has to be more inclusive.
	It has to represent the modern American ideal.
	It's really disgusting.
	Nights of the Storm, Chip and Joanna had a major falling out.
	They continued the show but did not live together.
	I'm not sure if they got divorced or not, but the show was all BS.
	Imagine that, a reality TV show where it's all fake.
	And now it's fake and gay.
	Why take a genre rooted in tradition and smuggle in the very ideologies that dismantle tradition?
	Why call something a frontier experience when the only thing being pioneered is new levels of moral surrender?
	Why portray children as perfectly content in a broken household arrangement when the only reason they appear happy is because they're too young to understand they've been made pawns in a televised propaganda campaign?
	The answer is simple because Deception Cells is the modern Christian celebrity.
	They platform the culture, parade the children, collect the applause, and shrug when asked if it violates the scripture.
	We could play the trailer, but I worry about a lot of these places get very, very uptight with copyright, and if you dare to play their content, they'll strike you down.
	They will come after you.
	Is again, this is what they have worked very, very hard to be able to normalize.
	Oh, look, they're just a nice average couple.
	They're just like you and me.
	Shouldn't, isn't it wonderful?
	They've got two young boys.
	It's horrifying.
	It's disgusting.
	Chip Gaines defends gay couple on new show slams modern American Christian culture.
	That's right.
	He's slamming modern American Christian culture.
	It's just too hardcore.
	It's just too restrictive and judgmental.
	What an absurd premise.
	What an absurd thing to say.
	Modern American Christian culture is so incredibly empty and vapid and incapable of calling out sin.
	And it's basically indistinguishable from a self-help book.
	The irony is he is what's wrong with modern American Christian culture.
	You, sir, mister Gaines.
	Mind if I call you Chip?
	You, Chip, are the problem, as Lance pointed out.
	You are the representation, the avatar of modern American culture.
	Someone who wears the colors, but then throws a pride flag over top of it.
	That's right, I'm a Christian.
	I just don't adhere to anything the Bible says.
	I don't really care about it.
	It just feels nice to say.
	It gets me some brownie points.
	You know, I get the brownie points of being a Christian, but then I also get the brownie points of not being one of those Christians.
	You know, those Christians, the ones that will condemn and call out sin, the ones that will actually stand for something.
	Because there's nothing more horrifying than a Christian that will stand up for Christ, right?
	Stand up and say, I actually believe the Bible, I actually believe what it says.
	Christian Reality TV star Chip Gaines has defended his newest television series, which features a same-sex couple saying it is consistent with the Christian commandment to love one another.
	That's right.
	It's just about love, man.
	Hey, it's like about love and stuff.
	Why not love God?
	If you love God, you will keep his commandments, right?
	It's about love, man.
	It's just all about love.
	Back to the Frontier, a new series from executive producers Chip and Joanna Gaines, which premiered on a Thursday on the couple's Magnolia Network, features a gay couple as one of three couples living as homesteaders did in the 1800s.
	I don't think a gay couple would really want to go back to the 1800s.
	I think the people of the 1800s might have some strong feelings about two homosexuals raising young boys.
	Living as the people did back in the 1800s, except for any moral aspects of it.
	Ah, right, of course, yes.
	My bad.
	Without access to running water or electricity.
	Jason and Johanna Riggs appeared on the series along with their two children.
	Realtor.com reports Jim Joanna Gaines, best known for hosting the home-improved reality TV show Fixer Upper, have been outspoken about their Christian faith over the years.
	That's right, they're outspoken about it.
	They just don't hold any of its values.
	They'll use it to grift and take money from Christians.
	See, don't you love it?
	Don't you appreciate that there are still Christians on TV, still people that share your values?
	You can give us your money.
	Chip Gaines reacted to the negative reactions to his new show featuring a same sex couple in an ex post published Sunday Talk, ask questions, listen, maybe even learn too much to ask of modern American Christian culture.
	Judge first, understand later slash never.
	It's a sad Sunday when non believers have never been confronted with hate or vitriol.
	They are introduced to modern American Christian, Gaines wrote.
	It's a sad Sunday when non believers have never been confronted.
	This guy seems kind of like an idiot, I'll be honest from the way he's structuring this sentence.
	A little dumb, perhaps?
	But uh sorry, uh, Chip.
	But it's not loving to say, yeah, continue, live in your sin.
	Go do what you want.
	Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
	That's not loving.
	It's loving to tell someone you are living outside of what God wants for you.
	This is sin and you shouldn't do it.
	You shouldn't live according to his law.
	You should repent of your sin and believe in Jesus Christ.
	That's loving.
	Co-signing their sin is truly evil.
	It's tough love, but I'm reminded of the verse where Jesus said that he did not come to bring peace to the world but a sword, turning brother against brother.
	I forget exactly what the relationships mention, but it's a hard thing to confront someone about this, but ultimately a loving thing.
	Yes.
	Gaines' response led to further interactions between him and social media users, with one ex-user describing herself as extremely sad that the show features a same-sex couple.
	Gaines replied to the post lamenting that Christians have certainly come out in full force, as if they do know.
	As if they do know, judge not, love one another.
	It's not difficult.
	That's right.
	It's not difficult when you pull verses out of context, use them to talk about things they were never supposed to mean.
	Well, like I keep saying, the loving thing to do to someone that's living in sin is to tell them that that is not a good way to live.
	You need to change the way you live.
	Yeah.
	Gaines' initial post to writing hate and vitriol from Christians prompted additional responses from prominent public figures.
	Conservative Christian blogger Matt Walsh told Gaines, maybe you should endeavor to understand the basic moral teachings of your own alleged religion before you give lectures to other people about their lack of understanding.
	Matt Walsh is right there.
	Joel Berry, managing editor of the satirical website The Babylon Bee, replied to Gaines' post by assuring him, you'll see no hate from me.
	According to Barry, I'm just sad.
	I can't let my kids watch your show now since I'm trying to protect their eyes and hearts from the lies of the world.
	Lies you're now participating in.
	I'm just curious as to, I mean, off topic a little bit, but are kids really into these, you know, home improvement shows?
	Are kids excited to get off of school and come home and watch Chipping Joanna Gaines?
	Man, I must be so out of touch with a youth.
	Getting old.
	After urging Gaines to filter out some of the online vitriol and consider talking to, taking to heart some of the substantive concerns and heartbreak from the Christians who make up your fan base, Barry stressed, we should love the sinner, that doesn't mean we celebrate and promote the sin and participate in the multi-billion dollar industry dedicated to destroying the family.
	You were making a lot of money, Mr. Gaines, a lot of money to undermine basic biblical values.
	Gaines engaged, Barry maintaining, I sincerely appreciate the advice without taking some of the thoughtful, heartfelt, encouraging, constructive criticism to heart.
	And I certainly will.
	I sincerely appreciate the advice about taking...
	Thank you.
	Because that's the Holy Spirit's job.
	Adding by this, this will all know that you are my disciples when you love one another.
	Again, you are not capable of convicting someone of sin.
	You are capable, though, of telling someone, this is sin.
	This is sin.
	It is, again, only God who can convict them of it, but you can call it out.
	You can say it.
	After news that Chip and Joanna Gaines attended a church whose pastor is opposed to same-sex marriage first made headlines in 2016, Chip Gaines shared his belief that disagreement is not the same thing as hate.
	I mean, he's correct.
	That's a simple fact of life.
	You can disagree with something and not be hateful.
	Disagreeing with a lifestyle doesn't mean that you hate all gay people, that you want to round them up, anything like that.
	Of course, the homosexual, the LGBT movement, doesn't simply want acceptance.
	They want worship.
	They want to be put on a pedestal.
	If you disagree with them, you are not doing that and therefore you have to be silenced.
	In a 2021 interview with the Christian Post, Joanna Gaines reacted to allegations that the TV star and her husband were anti-LGBTQ because they belonged to a church whose pastor denounced same-sex marriage by asserting, It's so far from who we are.
	The church they attend is Antioch Community Church in Waco, Texas.
	In a statement posted to Facebook Saturday, the Rev. Franklin Graham of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the charity organizations Meritins Purse reacted to the news by declaring, if it is true, it is very disappointing.
	Franklin Graham, once again, with the very mild take.
	Franklin, it's very disappointing.
	Graham insisted that while we are to love people, we should love them enough to tell them the truth of God's word.
	But he's right.
	He's right there.
	A good take from Franklin Graham.
	His word is absolute truth.
	God loves us.
	His design for marriage is between one man and one woman, promoting something that God defines as sin is in itself sin, Graham added.
	Spot on there.
	The American Family Association stared at a statement from its vice president, Ed Bitagliano, in an ex-post published Friday.
	This is sad and disappointing because Chip and Joanna Gaines have been very influential in the evangelical community.
	Moreover, in the past, they have stood firm on the sanctity of marriage regardless of the personal cost that has entailed, he said.
	Not sure whether Gaines have reversed course, but we are sure of this.
	Back to the Frontier promotes an unbiblical view of human sexuality, marriage, and family.
	A view no Christian should embrace, Vitagliano concluded.
	This is another reason why it's very important to be extremely careful who you look up to as a role model, especially within Christianity.
	I see so many people that get extremely excited when they hear news of a certain celebrity or politician or whoever, like, oh, they became a Christian.
	And they immediately start pinning hopes on them and looking to them.
	Like, oh my gosh, the British guy, Russell, Russell Brand, Russell.
	They immediately start looking to him for truth.
	They immediately start looking to him as some kind of authority figure.
	Where, if his conversion is true, I hope it is.
	I haven't followed up on it.
	I don't follow what Russell Brand is up to.
	But even if it is true, that means he's a new Christian.
	He's not someone that you should be looking to take advice from.
	If anything, if you are a more established Christian, it's someone that you could give advice to, someone that you might be able to help guide.
	But these people immediately see this celebrity, and since they've already looked up to them in some sense, because they have status, they immediately think, well, I should look up to them for my theology as well.
	And that's just...
	And I see people get very upset when it turns out that, oh, these people were just...
	They had no idea what they were really doing.
	They joined one of these mega churches that holds no real values.
	They're simply promoting self-help.
	And people get very upset and disillusioned.
	Just celebrities are not trustworthy.
	You can't put faith in them.
	Just be careful with that.
	If you see a post about someone converting, pray for them.
	But don't look up to them.
	Don't immediately start trusting what they say.
	Don't take it as gospel.
	Don't take it as gospel.
	Just because we are called to forgive them for what they may have done, for what they may have done to undermine or hurt faith or our beliefs or our ideology doesn't mean they're immediately called to just accept everything they say.
	Oh, well, he says he's a Christian now.
	She says she's a Christian now.
	So obviously, they can be trusted.
	Said to be, we have to be wise as serpents.
	That's simple as doves.
	I don't see a lot of wisdom sometimes.
	No truth in them.
	Many straight people don't like homosexual agendas.
	My feelings matter too.
	It's actually becoming less and less popular.
	People are kind of getting fed up with the messaging.
	It's been forced into the public eye so often and so heavy-handedly that a lot of people who used to be in the camp of, ah, whatever, just live and let live, have flipped on to the side of get it away from me.
	I don't want to see you guys anymore.
	No truth in them.
	Truth divides.
	Speak truth in love.
	Let them cry.
	Will be.
	Will be Nobi.
	Will be Kenobi.
	Just how TV was like back in the 50s to 70s when they didn't even show married couples in the same bed.
	Interesting how times are changed so much in the last 40 years.
	Yeah, things really accelerated at some point.
	Nibiru 2029, statistical fact, majority of children raised by gay couple choose a gay lifestyle as adults.
	It's just...
	You know, we can say love the sin and hate the sinner and all that, but in this particular case, there are also the matter of the children that are, you know, being put at stake with this.
	Yes, they're being another step beyond that.
	Yeah, it's not that you are simply just engaging in your own personal sin in your personal life.
	You are inflicting this on children.
	And God thoroughly condemns people that harm children.
	Right Overture, disagreeing with someone's lifestyle isn't the same as demonstrating to them that all sin enslaves the one who practices it.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	Right Overture has some good comments about theology.
	I agree with a lot of what he says.
	Not everything right, but I appreciate that you will still come in here, even when you disagree with some of the show.
	Nights of the Storm, she was a dominant woman and chip played a goofy guy that was submissive, predictive programming from the start.
	I cannot stand that archetype.
	I cannot stand this continual, haha, look, the dad's just an idiot who does whatever the mom says.
	Isn't it, haha, it's funny.
	Look, happy wife, happy life.
	I am so entirely sick of it.
	I love my wife so much.
	I adore her.
	I cherish her.
	And I love making her happy.
	But if there's something that, you know, that is we disagree on, it's not simply that I'm going to roll over and do what she says.
	We'll have a discussion about it if, you know, we feel that, you know, we make our points back and forth.
	It's ridiculous, just this, haha, look, this idiot guy needs to be controlled and told what to do or else how would he get his pants on in the morning?
	I have, even as a child, I noticed that and got sick of it.
	It's just the father or men in general portrayed as these useless idiots.
	Unless they're gay, then they're incredibly intelligent and have the best taste.
	But if they're a straight guy, they're just an idiot that can barely dress himself, and he needs the women in his life to tell him what to do.
	Nights of the Storm.
	My mom told me of a house in her area.
	They did.
	They pretend to do all the work, but they don't.
	They shoot a few hours and then get general contracts to do it all.
	The show is fake.
	Once again, just reality, there's nothing faker than reality TV.
	It's all just nonsense.
	Defy Tyrants 1776.
	I see AIDS drugs commercial showing two men kissing.
	I go through 10 TVs a month.
	I'm sorry to hear that, Defy Tyrants.
	It's the way of things these days.
	It's really funny to me that they're not explicitly allowed to say, hey, you're gay.
	You need the AIDS drugs.
	But they're allowed to do everything but that.
	You know, there's no just like happy, loving families in the AIDS commercials.
	It's all people that are very obviously homosexual.
	They know their market.
	They're not going to be like, oh yes, you, the mother and father with the 2.5 children, with the house in the suburbs.
	It's like, oh no, here's two gay guys.
	Wonder why.
	Wonder why that is.
	Strange.
	Very strange.
	Nights of the Storm, I wonder how many people bought houses after watching the show and thinking it's simple and wound up broke from a money pit.
	Yeah.
	The whole renovation, you know, fixer-upper side of things is crazy.
	It's really big on TikTok and social media platforms as well.
	YouTube, every single one of these platforms has a surplus of content about, I bought this old house, watch me fix it up.
	Which, again, probably like you're saying, I'm assuming a lot of these people are independently wealthy already and are bringing in general contractors to do work when the cameras aren't rolling.
	Just everything, basically everything you see on social media and media in general is a scam.
	Karen Carpenter27, flippers paint the historic beautiful woodwork white, it makes me so mad.
	You have, oh, I have gone on so many just rants and diatribes about how much I despise modern architecture and modern design sensibilities.
	People that cover up beautiful classic wood to paint it these disgusting bland colors or just colors in general.
	Leave wood alone.
	It's got a nice finish on it.
	It's got a nice stain.
	You don't need to paint it some bland gray or white.
	I am also sick of these barn dominiums, these people that are emulating these classic styles, but in these cheap, tacky ways.
	Oh look, I made it look kind of like a rustic building, but I painted it white and put aluminum siding on it.
	Isn't it quaint?
	No, it's a hack job.
	It's something that's going to stand out as tacky and a fad within the next few years.
	I despise it.
	I hate these people and their insistence on emulating everything that they destroyed.
	Everything that was good and beautiful is going to be papered and plastered and painted over so that some idiot on TikTok can get a billion views.
	And it makes me want to pull my hair out and scream.
	KWD68 gay fatigue.
	Yeah, I think we're all a little bit fatigued of that at this point.
	Nibru 2029, without reality TV, Trump could never be president.
	It has many crimes to answer for.
	It has many, many crimes to answer for.
	All right.
	We're going to take a quick break, but we will continue with the Christian faith side of things when we come back.
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	I have some strong feelings about modern architecture, despite knowing nothing about architecture.
	But sometimes it gets me a little worked up.
	But this article by Yudi Sherman, meet the organizations funding gender ideology in churches.
	That's right.
	It's everywhere now.
	You can't escape it.
	Baylor University announced that we're returning a sizable grant from the Eula, May, and John Baugh Foundation after a public backlash.
	They were not going to...
	The foundation had granted the Christian University $643,401.
	That's such an odd number.
	$401 for academic research aimed at exploring inclusion and belonging in the church with a particular focus on LGBTQIA plus individuals.
	You guys really got to cut down on that initialism.
	I suppose, though, when you're all about inclusivity, someone comes along and says, we got to add another letter or number or symbol to this.
	You just got to nod your head and go, okay, sure.
	Individuals in congregational settings.
	But Baylor University President Linda Livingstone said in a statement last week that the university is rejecting the grant in response to concern and confusion among its broader community of churches, partner organizations, and supporters.
	Meaning, we're going to get more money from these other places.
	It will jeopardize our funding.
	A lot of the alumni aren't going to contribute if we accept this, and we get a lot more money that way.
	Perhaps if they were to up the numbers, make them an offer they can't refuse.
	I'm only speculating here.
	I don't know enough about Baylor, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the calculus that was run.
	I don't think they looked at the Bible and said, you know what?
	This is wrong.
	This is wicked.
	This is sin.
	They looked at it and said, we're going to lose money.
	Please be assured that Baylor's institutional beliefs and policies remain unchanged, Livingston said.
	But you're more than willing to explore curriculum that would want to change them, right?
	Our commitment to our Christian mission and our historic Baptist identity continues to guide our approach to academics, student life, and spiritual formation.
	We affirm the biblical understanding of human sexuality as a gift from God expressed through purity and singleness and fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman.
	Well, that's good.
	At least they said that.
	Baylor University is only one of the Christian institutions targeted by the Ewlett May and John Baugh Foundation.
	Created in 1995 by the late Cisco founder and tycoon John Baugh, the foundation openly targets Christian communities with grants aimed at injecting progressive ideals.
	That's right, there's a big old hook in that dollar bill.
	Oops, we got you.
	We got you.
	You want to keep getting this money?
	Well, you're going to have to start exploring these ideas.
	Reviving the great American pastor.
	This is from the American Reformer.
	Returning to the prophetic voice of the pulpit.
	And of course, he's not talking about actually prophesying things like saying, on July 28th this year, something, a great storm will happen here or there.
	He's talking about preaching the word of God, actually being willing to take a stance.
	The moral conscience of a nation is shaped by the exhortation of the great men it produces.
	It has long been the responsibility of these men to providentially guide the generation towards the glorification of God in both personal and civic life.
	To shepherd the American people was to protect them from the entropic collapse of public morality while aligning them towards a transcendent good.
	What made them great was not solely their commitment to good theology or liturgy, but their fruit-bearing stewardship of their community.
	They had a deep sense of responsibility to their nation and knew how integral their role was in producing godly statesmen and citizens.
	The most powerful force in our republic is the force of political will.
	Someone will use that force, so it is incumbent on Christians to seize and maintain it.
	It is this exact battleground that the elders of our generation have surrendered.
	That's one of the main issues with libertarians.
	Not that let me clarify before you get too mad at me.
	It's just it's very hard to work up the will to want to get into politics when your main goal is just, I want to be left alone.
	I want to leave people alone.
	It's a lot more of a motivating force to say, well, I have an agenda and it needs to be enforced and I need the power to do it.
	That's a lot easier for someone to gin up the will to get in there and stick in there.
	It's also just torturous for people of a more libertarian bent to want to deal with a bureaucracy, to want to get in there and actually have to work through the channels that are available.
	Whereas these people with these more extreme left-wing, right-wing ideas who want to use the wheels of power to crush their enemies generally are more willing to endure.
	Modernity condemns Christians who have the will to engage with the world politically.
	They're taught to be peacemakers, to tread lightly and not cause offense.
	This gentle and lowly approach demands the Christian subjugate his convictions in pursuit of winsome and collaborative politics.
	In an era of third-way Christianity, it is simply uncouth to boldly campaign for a more Christ-centered government.
	This is one of the things where you always see people talk about, like, well, you know, abortion is just an unpopular issue.
	If you guys campaign on that, if you talk about it, if you say you want to ban abortion, you're going to lose.
	To me, I don't care.
	I don't care if it's an unpopular issue.
	The murder of babies can't go on.
	It can't be sanctioned.
	You can't talk about it.
	You'll lose here.
	It's something that people are desperate to have.
	I don't care.
	It doesn't matter.
	All these other issues are secondary to me.
	All these other things are less important.
	What about the economy?
	Boohoo.
	I don't care if it collapses, if we are able to ban abortion.
	That's something I'll sacrifice.
	I don't care about the GDP if it means we can get rid of baby murder.
	It's important to have a hard line on things.
	Something that you won't cross.
	What about this politician?
	He's great on everything else, but he doesn't share our stance on abortion.
	Well, that's my most important issue, so I don't care what else he does.
	He's going to make America great again.
	You just have to keep murdering babies to do it.
	Not worth it.
	Not worth it at all.
	The pastor who tries will quickly find themselves ousted from polite society as an ideological leper.
	Often by their own congregation, the modern pastor is allowed to express political views within the boundaries of the third way, not left, not right, but in the middle and above.
	Ah, yes, the enlightened centrist.
	This appeals to the rational mind that gravitates towards moderate politics, perceiving the extremities as inherently wrong.
	It strips us of personal responsibility for the actions of our government and the impacts it has on our lives.
	We get a free pass to sit back in our self-righteousness and know that we were not one of the extremists.
	That's right.
	Isn't it wonderful?
	You get to sit in your ivory tower and go, oh yes, these extremists on either side, so ridiculous, so silly.
	If only they could be like me and hold no cool principles or values.
	If only they could sacrifice the things they truly believe in, they might be enlightened.
	Enlightened as I am.
	After all, we are heaven bound.
	Why should we care what happens in our temporal earthly home?
	Because the ideology of the third way breeds apathy in the church.
	It is particularly pernicious.
	Long before the cancel culture of the twenty tens, pastors received fierce public pressure to alter the gospel to better suit the politics of the day.
	In the face of such strong opposition, the moral courage of many an elder failed.
	The goalpost steadily shifted from demanding Christian legislation from our representatives to surrendering political power altogether.
	And let me be clear, I'm for Christian legislation, not in the sense of mandating a religion, not in the sense of saying you must go to church, but legislation informed by a truly Christian worldview.
	Even the founding fathers that weren't Christians were still influenced heavily by Christianity, and it clearly shows.
	Pastors no longer encouraged civic action in support of a Christian nation, choosing instead to relegate the responsibility of their flock to the gathering of vague cultural soft power.
	If we are to win souls for Christ, the theory goes we have to present the church in the least demanding way possible.
	Get them in the door with the less convicting parts of Christianity.
	The rest will work itself out in time.
	This gave rise to the megapastor, Andy Stanley types that advocate for creating churches unchurched people love to attend.
	What's the point of getting someone through the door if you're not going to tell them anything of value?
	Get them through the door to hang out in a social club.
	It's going to be so much fun, guys.
	We're going to hang out.
	We're going to talk about sports.
	We're going to eat pizza.
	The gospel.
	Nah, that might convict somebody.
	That might cause an issue.
	The issue of being salt without saltiness was addressed 2,000 years ago.
	It doesn't work.
	The goal is to make pagans comfortable in our church.
	We have lost what it means to be the church.
	The mess of the gospel is always going to make people who don't believe it uncomfortable because the message of the gospel is that if you don't believe it, you're going to hell.
	If you don't believe the gospel, you are unsaved.
	You'll be cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
	That's an uncomfortable thing to hear.
	It's not something that is going to make someone go, haha, oh boy, yeah, I can't wait for that.
	If I'm wrong, I'm going to hell.
	That's great.
	It's not a comfortable position for them.
	This approach to faith and governance has produced empty pews, rotting fruit, and dead faith.
	The soul of the nation is buckling under the pressure of an explicitly anti-Christian government while our elders capitulate.
	Whether by fear, apathy, or indecision, the moral conscience of the United States has been silenced.
	In its place, a new crop of pastors has sprung up, advocating for a gentle and lowly approach to civic responsibility.
	Surrendering the institutions that our fathers built to appease a neo-pagan movement that fundamentally hates the church.
	Fundamentally hates the church and hates everything America was built on.
	Because since they hate the church and the church was so heavily influential throughout America's history, they have to tear everything down.
	They have to unmake everything.
	They have to remove it.
	No truth in them.
	If you're not a pastor, you can say what you want.
	Church won't lose funding if its members are a little out of hand, right?
	A little out of hand.
	You can go a little...
	And surprising, we have lost on every imaginable issue over the past 80 years.
	Our churches are more pagan, more managerial, more effeminate than what our grandparents inherited.
	It truly is amazing to me.
	The effeminate thing is something that's immediately noticeable in so many churches.
	Just people have pointed out that so many of the modern worship songs' lyrics are basically just, oh boy, Jesus is my boyfriend.
	You could replace any specific mention of Jesus With any random name, and it would work as a standard pop love song.
	Just, oh boy, isn't he great?
	Isn't he wonderful?
	Doesn't he do these things for me?
	And when you mention this, I see people in chat that say, Oh, but I really enjoy that kind of music.
	And if so, great.
	You know, I don't want to dampen that.
	I don't want to be like when King David's wife criticized him for dancing in front of the ark.
	I'm just saying, what you're saying is that that is something that few men really connect with.
	Yes.
	Again, if you worship well to that, if it truly touches you and you find it moving and meaningful, I don't, like Lance said, want to take that from you.
	Simply pointing out that it is very difficult for me to go into church and sing about a sloppy wet kiss.
	That is a lyric that is present in a worship song.
	And the first time I heard it, I was literally stunned.
	It stunlocked me.
	I was incapable of movement or just rational thought for a moment.
	It was just incredible.
	I think I remember looking over at Lance and both of us just like, what?
	I had heard mention of that lyric before, but I thought it was a joke.
	I thought people online were making a hyperbolic statement about the kinds of lyrics that were present.
	And then I actually heard it.
	I was like, oh no, it's real.
	KWD 68, John MacArthur passed away yesterday.
	Wow.
	Well, sorry to hear that for his family.
	John MacArthur had some good teaching over the years.
	In more recent times, he was very Zionist, very pro-Israel in the sense of calling the Palestinians Amalekites and saying, you know, basically giving Israel carte blanc to wipe them all out.
	So potentially co-signing genocide, which was very sad to see.
	And it's possible that, you know, his faculties were more stripped from him in his older years, that he wasn't fully there and didn't fully understand the current situation.
	It's really a sad thing.
	There are a lot of issues that I would disagree with him on, but in the end he was, I believe, genuinely trying to do God's work.
	So I'm sorry to hear that.
	And I just, again, I hope that people don't take and learn from what he said about the Israel-Palestine thing.
	I disagree with him strongly there, as does our dad.
	He was one of the churches to close down and shut everything up for COVID at first, but after a while, he was also one of the first ones to realize that it was a scam and reopen and tell others to reopen and come to church.
	So I don't think he had great discernment about some issues, but I do believe he was trying.
	Again, those are two specific times where our dad was heavily critical of him and was disappointed in him.
	And especially the Israel-Palestine conflict.
	But over the years, John MacArthur has given a lot of good information.
	So I am sorry to hear that.
	And I hope his family is at peace.
	Not surprisingly, we have lost on every imaginable issue over the past 80 years.
	Our churches are more pagan, more managerial, more effeminate than what our grandparents inherited.
	The gravitational pull of egalitarianism has stripped away the distinctions of marriage, child-rearing, leadership, and pastoring.
	Strategically seeking the third way only served to sap civic momentum from the church right while poorly containing blow after blow from the implacable political left.
	It allowed our enemies to chip away at the Protestant underpinnings of society and weaponize our institutions against us.
	There was no great debate or pitched battle to determine who gained cultural superiority in the 20th century.
	We were the authors of our own destruction.
	We became a church that is content to lose the battle on principle.
	He is right.
	The left is implacable, intractable.
	They don't move.
	They will continue to push their agenda no matter what.
	And you don't win that battle by saying, well, all right, we'll give you this, and maybe we can have a little bit of our side as well.
	They're just going to take everything.
	They're going to stomp you into the ground and roll over your body.
	You cannot negotiate with these people.
	You won't get anywhere by saying, I'll give you some sin.
	Well, what about this kind of abortion or that kind of abortion?
	You just have to stand up and say no.
	You have to be as dogmatic and unwavering as they are.
	The denigration of society is not a result of bad governance, but proof that Christianity is in the world, not of it.
	Wrapping these political failures in Christian garb, we have convinced ourselves that the cultural current cannot be stopped.
	The United States is simply destined to be a pagan nation.
	Perhaps the most egregious example is the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, ERLC, in a 2022 open letter notably signed by ERLC President Brent Leatherwood.
	Representatives of Christian pro-life organizations across the country ostensibly anti-abortion vocalized their opposition to an abortion abolitionist bill in Louisiana that had statewide support.
	These pro-life organizations not only passed the chance to outlaw abortion in Louisiana, but they also actively campaigned against their own stated mission.
	These are our champions.
	We don't need enemies.
	Again, abortion is a hard line.
	I refuse to cross.
	I don't care what else someone has to say.
	I don't care if they are the most perfect libertarian politician, the most perfect right-winger in any other sense.
	If they're going to say, yeah, go ahead, murder kids.
	Doesn't matter.
	doesn't matter in the slightest.
	We're going to make America great again.
	It's going to have a GDP like you've never seen.
	Everyone will be millionaires.
	Everyone will live the perfect, most comfortable life possible.
	We're just going to have to keep killing kids.
	Sign me off.
	Nope.
	I won't co-sign that.
	I won't support that man.
	This theoretical, platonic ideal of a libertarian.
	It doesn't have to be this way, and in fact, it never was.
	The solution is simple.
	The return of the great American pastor, Reverend Jonathan Mayhew, was described by John Adams as the spark that ignited the American Revolution, an honor earned by his fiery and impassioned sermons in the early days of revolutionary fervor.
	Mayhew was particularly concerned with the relationship between a government's divine mandate and the responsibility to the people, conceding that we are commanded by God to submit to our rulers.
	He further argues that when no such good end can be answered by submission, there remains no argument or motive to enforce it.
	If a government has set itself against the will of God, it is the moral responsibility of the church to stand as the bulwark against moral collapse.
	To stay silent in the face of total depravity is to support it.
	Those who play along with the great lie become a part of the lie itself.
	There is no third way.
	If you're silent, you're complicit.
	You're co-signing it by tacit acceptance.
	For a government to maintain the legitimacy of God's divine mandate, it must legislate in a way that honors the will of God.
	This ensures the citizenry retains their natural rights, orients themselves towards the glorification of God, and aspires towards the building of his kingdom.
	For a nation to govern in a God-fearing way, the church must be the moral conscience of the nation.
	Pastors have a role in developing competent, godly men to lead.
	This will not happen if pastors don't wade into the political issues that plague the country.
	As they say, courage is contagious.
	In a real way, pastors must educate their congregations not only on what leadership looks like, but also on what just political life should be.
	We know this to be true on a fundamental level.
	William Perkins, the great Puritan, posits that the good man of the family is a person in whom rests the private and proper government of the whole household.
	He goes so far as to say that a man who cannot properly govern the home should not be permitted to govern the state.
	I think that's simply a rational position to take.
	If you are not able to properly manage and govern your own household, why would you be entrusted with numerous households?
	If the purpose of family leadership is the glorification of God, it follows that the purpose of civic leadership is the same.
	What is a nation if not a collective of individual families?
	The modern American pastor can be great, but only if they break from the fetters of modern convention.
	We could once again have a dominant Christian culture, one that demands legislation that honors the Lord and preserves the dignity of our society.
	And again, I believe personally how I interpret this is not legislation that demands you attend church, not an establishment of the church, not saying you will be Christian, but Christian-informed legislation, legislation that does not promote wickedness, that does not dishonor God.
	The onus is on our leaders, none more important than our pastors, but this requires pastors to once again recognize the true scope of duty and duty of their ministry.
	It requires them to be assertive.
	Sermons must be preached with conviction and direction, shaping the political will of our towns to align with biblical principles.
	A Christian vision for social order, young men must be exhorted, mentored, and encouraged to lead the next generation of women and children.
	Our elders must understand that their legacy will not be judged by the number of converts globally, but by the spiritual strength and tenacity of their own children and neighbors.
	The jurisdiction of their ministry.
	We must rediscover what it means to be a people who are invested in a future worth working towards.
	The men who can lead us there will be great indeed.
	To conclude, let us all learn to be free and be loyal.
	Let us not profess ourselves vassals to the lawless pleasure of any man on earth.
	That's a quote from Jonathan Mayhew.
	Honor seeker.
	That is one of the tenets of being an elder of the church.
	If he can't manage his home, he cannot manage the household of God.
	Yes.
	Reminds you of what Dad has said about Trump many times is that he could never keep his oaths to his wives, oaths to his wives.
	So why would you expect him to keep his oath to the Constitution?
	Yes.
	He was a lying, cheating adulterer.
	What made you think he would stop being one when he was elected to the presidency?
	Well, move on to this.
	Without proof, Tucker Carlson accuses Israel of committing crimes in the U.S. Claims Epstein was Israeli agent.
	Without proof!
	This is from all Israel News, by the way, just so you know.
	There's no proof.
	There's nothing.
	You can't prove it.
	Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told an audience last Friday at the Turning Point meeting in Florida that Jeffrey Epstein was most likely an Israeli Mossad agent.
	Turning Point is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college, and university campuses.
	They go on to clarify.
	The real question is not, was Jeffrey Epstein a weirdo who was abusing girls, Carlson stated.
	The real question is, why was he doing this on whose behalf and where did the money come from?
	A valid question.
	I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of Intel services, probably not American, he stated.
	We have every right to ask on whose behalf was he working.
	Carlson went on to point the finger at Israel, as he has done quite frequently since the start of the October 7, 2023 war, and launch of his own media program, The Tucker Carlson Show.
	Now, no one's allowed to say that the foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that's naughty.
	Carlson opined to loud cheers and clapping from the turning point audience.
	There's nothing wrong with saying that.
	There's nothing hateful about saying that, Carlson stated.
	Carlson also claimed that the Israeli government was directly asked whether Epstein had been working as a Mossad agent while committing crimes on U.S. soil and refused to answer.
	Of course, that question has been asked to the government of Israel, and their answer is: We're not going to tell you, Carlson claimed.
	He went on to say that the U.S. financial support for Israel gives people the right to demand an answer.
	Carlson even claimed that every single person in Washington, D.C. shares his opinion that Epstein was a Mossad agent, stating that none of them hate Israel.
	And that's why it is his opinion.
	You know it's a mainstream opinion if Tucker Carlson is trying to get out in front of it.
	Yeah, he's not exactly out there pushing anything that's too absurd or extreme.
	Nothing on the fringes.
	I mean, he's just limited hangout.
	He's going to only say this publicly once everyone is already saying it.
	Yeah.
	Also, the way they phrase this, Carlson also claimed that the Israeli government was directly asked whether Epstein, they claimed, he claims, they were asked, and they said no.
	Are you going to debunk that claim?
	Are you going to give any information on whether that claim is true?
	Are you just going to imply it through your wording?
	In a recent episode show, Carlson spoke with Breaking Points host Sagar and Jetty about the abrupt reversal by Trump's administration officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Cash Patel.
	The two officials claimed earlier this year to have thousands of documents in their possession related to the Epstein case.
	Patel even promised there be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned.
	Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared to confirm the existence of the Epstein client list during a February interview with Fox News John Roberts, who asked her about the list.
	She responded, it's sitting on my desk right now to review.
	It's been a directive by President Trump.
	I'm reviewing that.
	Of course, we all know how that turned out.
	The only explanation that I can think of, again, maybe you've got another, is that Intel services at the very center of this story, U.S. and Israeli, they're being protected, he said.
	That seems like the most obvious.
	Njetty appeared to agree with Carlson referring to a 2021 article on BuzzFeed about sex crimes committed by CIA staffers.
	There have been multiple documented cases of pedophilia inside the CIA perpetrated by CIA officers, Njeti said.
	There was a BuzzFeed news piece years back where the CIA specifically did not want to prosecute those individuals in federal court for fear they would reveal sources and methods if they were pulled into open court.
	And they basically just made it go away.
	In his turning point speech, Carlson also stated, no one has ever gotten to the bottom of that Epstein backing and funding because no one has ever tried.
	Well, Carlson did not provide evidence for his claims either.
	This is another one of those things.
	Source?
	Excuse me?
	Do you have a source for that?
	Prove it.
	Prove that Jeffrey Epstein, who was surrounded by former Mossad families, it was a Mossad intelligence operative.
	Why don't you give me some real hard proof?
	No amount of proof is going to be enough for him.
	It's not just all of the many, many Mossad connections or the fact that he got these absurd positions as a billionaire because of them.
	It's also like getting off of the rape charges because he's an intelligence officer.
	Source, provide me with some proof.
	Why don't you?
	Well, tell you what, all Israel.
	Why don't you refute the claim?
	Why don't you do some research and get back to me on whether or not the Israeli government actually did what Carlson claims?
	Again, you're simply over here implying, Tucker Carlson made these absurd claims.
	He absurdly claimed.
	Israeli government was directly asked.
	Then you leave it at that.
	You don't say, you don't clarify whether they were or were not.
	You simply imply.
	We asked the Israeli government if they were involved in sex trafficking and the rape of minors and they said no.
	So this is patently absurd.
	They would have said yes if they had been.
	This is such a weaselly little way of writing.
	Just...
	Well, is it true?
	We're not going to address that right now.
	He claimed it, though.
	Oh boy.
	This is an interesting article.
	This is from the Daily Mail.
	Joe Rogan flips the God debate on its head with shocking theory that we created him.
	Wow, you're really breaking some new ground there, aren't you, Copernicus?
	Truly.
	Wow, the great mind of Joe Rogan.
	We created God, guys.
	It's like he's a construct.
	Maybe he's like a tulpa, you know, like this psychic force that we've all kind of coalesced together since we've focused on it for so long.
	The brilliant mind of Joe Rogan.
	Joe Rogan has come to a mind-bending conclusion about life, feeling that humanity has misinterpreted what reality is, and we're actually in the process of creating God.
	While interviewing computer scientist Roman Yampolitsky on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the men debated the possibility that reality is a giant simulation, and humans are building a god-like supercomputer using artificial intelligence.
	According to Rogan's theory, humanity has misinterpreted ancient prophecies regarding the second coming of Jesus Christ and Judgment Day, saying the creation of this AI superintelligence is the final chapter before our reality resets.
	Actually, guys, we're going to create a god-like supercomputer.
	This whole idea of Jesus coming back, well, maybe it's real.
	Maybe we just completely misinterpreted these ancient scrolls and texts.
	What it really means is that we're going to give birth to this, Rogan explained.
	Ah, yes, of course.
	That's what it means, Joe.
	You finally cracked the code.
	We've had our top guys on it for so many years.
	We've had these great thinkers throughout history.
	We misinterpreted the Bible.
	It was talking about AI the entire time.
	That's right.
	Thanks, Joe.
	Very cool.
	This is why I cannot take Joe Rogan seriously.
	He puts forth these ludicrous, absurd, obviously stupid ideas and goes, hey man, could be.
	Like, could it, Joe?
	Really?
	Could it?
	Come on.
	Yampolsky, an author and researcher in AI safety, added to Rogan's theory suggesting that reality is just an ongoing cycle of big bangs.
	An explosion that kickstarted the universe starting and restarting life over and over again.
	It's just like a big, infinite loop, man.
	During the episode released on July 3, Rogan added that he feared God is actually created by human beings creating this infinitely Intelligent thing that can essentially harness all of the available energy and power of the universe and create anything it wants.
	That's right, it's just this infinite endless cycle where, you know, humans evolve and then we create this supremely powerful being and it resets everything and then we evolve again, man.
	This is just Yampolsky even contended that many of the religions around the world have one thing in common.
	What they all agree on is that there is a superintelligence which created a fake world.
	Wow.
	They agree that there's this, you know, God.
	All these religions think there's a god that created things.
	Isn't that crazy?
	Wow, Yampolsky.
	All these religions have in common.
	You really?
	Again, who is this guy?
	They all agree that there's a god.
	I'm noticing the similarities.
	I'm seeing the patterns.
	Who takes these people seriously?
	In previous podcast episodes this year, Rogan has repeatedly warned that AI was just years away from reaching godlike state as more tech companies pour resources into its development.
	Well, thank you, Mr. Rogan.
	Rogan asked Yampalski if the physical world we see was created by God, then what existed before this all-powerful being created the human race?
	Ideas, just information, the computer scientist replied during the podcast.
	Just God, God was bored, and it was like, let's make some animals that can think and solve problems.
	And for what reason, Rogan countered.
	That's when the podcast host theorized life was an ongoing simulation.
	People had the idea of God's return to Earth backwards, claiming that people would summon this powerful intelligence themselves through the creation of AI.
	We've got it all backwards, man.
	Theory that all life exists within a computer simulation has been debated for decades and has even been entertained in blockbuster movies like The Matrix.
	While Rogan suggested that deep fakes of Bigfoot UFOs and other impossible images could be proof we're living in a virtual reality, scientists have argued that there is more basic evidence that this world is not real.
	Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, has argued that gravity may be a sign that we're all living in a virtual simulation.
	According to Vopson's new paper in AIP Advances, our universe is the ultimate computer, and gravity pull on Earth and in outer space is the computer trying to keep its vast amount of data organized.
	These people come up with more and more absurd theories and ways of explaining things to simply get around the fact that there's a God.
	They really don't like coming to that conclusion.
	Man, it looks like the universe has order and structure.
	And again, it simply just moves the problem one level back.
	Reminded of, it was Crick and Watson that discovered DNA and they saw this intricate pattern that clearly had a design.
	It's like this was made by an intelligence.
	It must have been space alien.
	It's like, ah, you're so close.
	So close.
	Who made the space aliens?
	That's where.
	You're very clever, young man, but it's space aliens all the way down.
	As for who's running the simulation, Yampolsky explained that one possibility is life as we know it can simply be a replay of past events being examined by the future human race.
	Ooh, fancy.
	That's right.
	We're all.
	Was it a simulation for the original events?
	If this is a repeat of past events?
	That doesn't explain anything.
	Moves it one level back.
	What if this is just a simulation?
	Alright, what's outside the simulation?
	Advanced humans simulating it.
	Alright, where did they come from?
	Well, that's another simulation.
	Rogan then asked Yampolsky why an all-powerful AI would even bother creating a reality for our consciousness to exist in.
	Ampolsky explained that it's impossible to know who's controlling this program, whether it's an alien intelligence, humans from the future, or an AI superintelligence has already been built and is running these simulations by itself.
	Therefore, it's also impossible to know why people would be needed in the virtual world.
	Adding that he and Rogan could have had the same interview thousands of times and never knew it.
	Joe Rogan has had the same interview thousands of times.
	He has.
	A point for Mr. Yampolsky, I suppose.
	Joe Rogan routinely has the exact same interview over and over and over.
	The world is a simulation.
	Whoa.
	Have you ever tried DMT?
	Yeah.
	The essence.
	Is it entertainment?
	Is it scientific experimentation?
	Is it marketing?
	Maybe somebody managed to control them and are trying to figure out what Starbucks coffee sells best, and they need to run an Earth-sized simulation to see what sells best.
	Ampolsky explained.
	Ah, yes.
	The infinite banality explanation for the creation of the universe.
	Everything is about marketing.
	Starbucks coffee origin.
	Well, I ascribe to the fact that this is actually a very complex REI marketing campaign.
	We're simply being used as a way to diagnose what sells the best.
	They have to know which tent is their best seller before they move forward.
	Think about this decade.
	We're about to invent intelligence and virtual worlds, god-like inventions.
	We're here.
	There's a good chance that's not just random, the researcher added, suggesting we're already stuck in a computer simulation.
	In any scenario, Rogan theorized that the end of the simulation was nearing as tech giants get closer to creating the all-knowing intelligence, which has been foretold in many prophecies.
	That's right.
	Foretold in many prophecies.
	Such as the holy film Terminator.
	Whether humanity is already locked in a simulation or we're on the road to creating a godlike intelligence and a self-fulfilling prophecy, Rogan claimed that within 50 to 60 years, there will be one one day.
	Virtual simulation of this reality that's indistinguishable from reality.
	I know I make fun of Joe Rogan, and I talk about how I don't respect his intellectual capacity, but do pray for him.
	Pray that he can actually find the truth.
	It's a very large platform, and it would be nice for some people to get on there that are worth having around.
	It's truly amazing how far people go out of their way to simply avoid admitting there is a God.
	What if it's just like this godlike supercomputer, man?
	What if it's aliens, man?
	What if God created the universe in six days and then rested?
	What if the reason things are, I don't know, the way they say appearing to be a simulation is because this is the lowest level of reality.
	This reality is technically less real than the spiritual world.
	The spiritual realm where God resides is the underlying base layer of everything.
	And we are simply seeing that fact played out.
	The physical world is the least real.
	And the spiritual world is the true reality.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks.
	Again, I know I make fun and joke, but pray for Joe Rogan.
	He is not beyond hope.
	He might have some ridiculous, silly beliefs, but that does not mean that he cannot be saved.
	So, yes, keep him in your prayers.
	Stay with us.
	We'll be right back.
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	As I said, we're going to take a look at what's going on with the economy in the little bit of time we have left.
	I'm sorry I left it so long, but these other issues I find more interesting and more immediate.
	The economy is very vague and nebulous, and there's so many outside forces and people that interfere with it.
	It's difficult to say with any certainty what is going to happen.
	Got some comments.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	We are not humans seeking a spiritual experience.
	We are spiritual beings dealing with a human existence.
	ON61.
	Les Wexner was most likely one of Epstein's handlers.
	Wexner is remarkably underscrutinized.
	He's a very interesting individual.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	Les Wexner owns Columbus, Ohio, and has been linked to one or two murders with obvious motive and nothing.
	He's protected because he's an intelligence asset and a connection to Mossad, CIA, and Israel.
	Yesterday we talked about how his accountant that was going to be brought up before the IRS was found murdered, gangland style.
	So, so convenient for Mr. Wexner, isn't it?
	Trump's latest tariff salvo fuels economic uncertainty, experts say.
	This is from CBS.
	A flurry of tariff threats by President Trump leaves U.S. consumers and businesses in limbo ahead of an August 1st deadline to deploy the import duties against more than 50 countries around the world, according to economists and trade experts.
	Nobody knows whether these are threats or whether they will become policy, so it seems like everyone has become desensitized to them.
	A Parthenon, EY Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco told CBS Money Watch.
	Again, this is part of the whole taco thing.
	Trump always chickens out.
	He makes these grand pronouncements, these sweeping decrees.
	We're going to put 200% tariffs on this or that.
	We're going to put tariffs here, tariffs there.
	And he backs away from them.
	But it leaves everyone remarkably uncertain.
	You don't know what you're going to be forced to pay for things.
	You can't run a business if one day they put a 50% tariff on something, you buy it, and then your competitor buys it tomorrow after the tariff has been removed.
	Mr. Trump on Saturday announced he's imposing 30% tariffs against Mexico and the 27-member European Union.
	What is it that we buy from Mexico exactly?
	I'm not, again, this is not my wheelhouse.
	This is not my area of expertise, but I can't imagine we're importing a tremendous amount of things from there.
	I know the automotive industry was heavily impacted with threats of tariffs on Mexico because apparently a lot of components for cars are made in Mexico.
	And even if the final car is assembled here, they ship the components up.
	Yeah, a lot of places get around that.
	Made in the USA.
	Well, it was assembled in the USA from parts shipped in from Mexico, China, and these other places.
	And the 27-member European Union that followed moves to threaten tariffs ranging from 20% to 50% on roughly two dozen countries, including key U.S. trading partners such as Brazil, Canada, Japan, and South Korea.
	Darn it.
	The Waifu Importation Tax.
	The White House last week also said it plans to impose a 50% levy on copper imports by August 1st, raising concerns about higher costs for electronics, cars, and numerous other products that use the metal.
	In a separate development illustrates the White House's willingness to use tariffs to accomplish its aims beyond trade.
	Mr. Trump is threatening sharply higher tariffs as he tries to tamp down conflict in Ukraine.
	Again, this goes to show that sanctions and these sorts of things are acts of war.
	We've talked about that before, but it is an act of war to impose these kinds of things, sanctions and what have you.
	I believe it was, of course, Madeline Albright, when asked about the sanctions we had imposed in the Middle East, said, well, it killed 500,000 children.
	Was it worth it?
	Yeah, I think it was worth it.
	Yeah, I think so.
	There's also the fact that you can't really impose a tariff on a business.
	They're going to either pass that along to the consumer if they can, or find some way around it, or go out of business.
	Either, again, the consumer winds up paying more, so it's a tax on the consumer.
	They just simply remove themselves from the market where they are being taxed.
	They'll go overseas.
	They'll do business elsewhere.
	Or they just crumble and fold.
	And that's the danger for most of these smaller corporations, these companies that are trying to do business.
	Another case of hitching trade policy to other foreign policy priorities.
	Mr. Trump said last week that the U.S. would slap a 50% tariff on goods from Brazil.
	Next month, citing the criminal prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, which Mr. Trump called an international disgrace.
	Trump administration has defended its aggressive use of tariffs as a way to ensure fair trade for U.S. businesses, boost key domestic sectors, generate federal revenue, and advance other policy priorities such as curbing fentanyling and authorized immigration from Canada and Mexico.
	I'm still curious.
	Do we have a huge illegal immigration problem from Canada?
	Is that something we're really dealing with?
	I know it's like the fentanyl problem, though I wouldn't be surprised if there are people from other countries going to Canada to hop across the border.
	They could just as easily use Mexico.
	Yeah.
	Perhaps, you know, it's whatever climate you prefer.
	Ah, I'm more of a winter guy myself.
	I prefer the cooler environments.
	I think I'll take the Canadian route.
	But the main issue, again, is just uncertainty is not something you can deal with for long in a business.
	You need to be able to know what's going to happen.
	You need to be able to plan for the future.
	KWD 68 economy.
	Dollar dropping 15% so far this year.
	Inflation with tariffs to enhance it.
	Crash the economy.
	Golden age.
	That's right.
	It's the golden age, baby.
	Donald Trump is in power.
	Patriots are in power.
	Trust the plan.
	It's all going according to it.
	Well, the plan is then horrifying and terrible.
	Please stop.
	Get a new plan.
	Trump threatens tariffs targeting Russia without deal to end Ukraine war in 50 days, CBS News.
	I don't think this is what's going to cause Russia to buckle.
	I think they might continue the war despite the tariffs.
	President Trump said Monday that the US will impose 100% tariffs on countries that do business with Russia.
	There is no peace deal to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days, unveiling his plan to implement secondary sanctions as his frustration with President Vladimir Putin grows.
	That's right, if you do business with Russia, we're going to put sanctions on you.
	We're going to make it impossible for you.
	Once again, America just swaggering and bullying across the globe.
	Big announcement on Russia is more taco.
	Trump always chickens out.
	Taco.
	Oil tumbles as Trump delays sanctions threat against Putin.
	Oh, I'm really serious this time.
	Oh, I'm going to do it.
	I'm really going to do it.
	Doesn't do it.
	He's backing off, delaying again.
	The big Monday announcement by President Trump, just the threat of more secondary tariffs on Russia, inventing a little more frustration at no peace progress.
	Trump severe tariffs on Russia if no deal in 50 days.
	Trump threatens to impose secondary tariffs on Russia.
	Trump reiterates, very unhappy with Russia.
	Trump may deal today to send weapons to Ukraine.
	Trump, it's all talk, then missile go into Kiev and kill.
	Trump and Ukraine will take the military equipment from NATO.
	Trump suggests More dying in Ukraine more than publicly known.
	Trump secondary tariffs, very powerful.
	If this is it, the major announcement on Russia that was planned, then we will say it could have been a lot worse in terms of escalation, such as ramping up more offensive weapons deliberates to Kiev.
	But amid Trump perhaps poorly managing expectations, people will be asking, that was it?
	Even RT is chiming in with some light mockery.
	Trump's big Russia announcement, he threatens 100% secondary tariffs on Russia and her trade partners if no deal on Ukraine within 50 days.
	Given markets were expecting something more huge, oil prices pushed lower on the news of another lengthy timeline.
	No deal in 50 days.
	And yes, there will be some more weapons sent to Ukraine, Trump stated, but they will come via NATO allies primarily.
	And of course, again, this was one of his big promises.
	He was going to end the war.
	He was going to end the war in Ukraine.
	He was going to end the war in Gaza.
	24 hours.
	I will make it happen.
	I don't think we need to play the video.
	President Trump is going to announce what a top DC warmonger calls an aggressive transfer of offensive weapons to Ukraine.
	Under the novel arrangement, European countries are supposedly going to foot the bill.
	That's right.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	We're outsourcing our warmongering now.
	That's great.
	Actually, we're a bit tired of continually having to fund the destabilization and destruction of countries.
	I know we've just funded so many of the color revolutions over the last century.
	Wouldn't you guys, wouldn't you be willing to help with this?
	It's getting tiresome.
	We can't really afford this.
	If you guys want a color revolution, you're going to have to fund it yourself.
	That's just the way things are nowadays.
	We're a serious country.
	Trump economic advisor Hassett says tariffs to raise $3 trillion in new revenue in next decade.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	$3 trillion in revenue for the federal government.
	Isn't that lovely?
	$3 trillion in revenue by making things more expensive for the American people.
	By forcing them to pay more for things, the federal government is going to generate $3 trillion in revenue.
	This would have been seen as a horrifying thing in the past.
	The founding fathers would be pulling their hair out.
	What are you doing?
	The administration is bragging about how much they're taxing us.
	Well, the...
	Trump is threatening sanctions, not delivering, putting on some sanctions, upping the number of sanctions, reducing the level of sanctions.
	He's all over the place.
	No one knows what to do or say.
	No one knows how serious he is.
	They just know he always chickens out on these types of things.
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