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Trump is currently in the middle east to broker a deal between Israel and Gaza, will we actually see any progress from these peace talks, or is it simply to make his biggest donors happy?
Gerald Morgan Jr. of Louder with Crowder joins us tonight on THE RIFT!
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You gotta say, I asked about 80% of the people in the GOP.
About 80% they say, and I said this one question, I said, what country do you love more?
Israel or the United States?
And I gotta say, they, unlike Maryam, they all answered.
They said Israel, right?
Now, they didn't say it, they just did it.
Make Israel great again is sort of what we're talking about today.
And it's actually not a bad time to talk about Israel.
Israel actually agreed to a historic peace deal with Donald Trump that was spearheaded by Jared Kushner, the Palestinian Authority.
And Hamas also worked in conjunction with several Arab states to release the hostages, many of which looked well-fed and taken care of.
People mentioned today that no women were released.
It's because the women and the children, as well as senior citizens, were released in previous deals, except for what I believe were nine Israeli hostages that were killed by Israel during shellings.
Additionally, the Palestinian hostages were released, which we can get a little round of applause for that.
Nobody was thankful for that.
So it's good.
They're all good.
We have the Palestinians, the Israelis.
And like I mentioned, this is a good day.
If you're not excited about peace, then you are just probably a lefty, right?
Or you're just an Israel hater.
And if you are an Israel hater, that's okay, but it's not helpful to not be happy about what's going on.
And if you're an Israel lover, this is a very good day for you, too.
Can we get him some confetti of color, by the way?
When we have all white guests on, we like to give you some confetti of color.
See that?
COC, they abbreviate it.
You have a COC in the face.
It's kind of a way to start.
All right, so let's start with.
So I want to play a clip here for a second because, like I mentioned, today, I'm sure you're all aware of there was absolutely a historic peace deal that was put into place that I personally am happy to see happen.
Now, many people around the country noticed as some of the Jewish individuals were reunited with their children.
Here is a video that is not staged, from my understanding, and is legitimate of a father being reunited with his son who has been in captivity in Hamas territory for two years.
this out.
All right, Gerald, what's the start with a positive note here?
I mean, let's go.
I know that, you know, people, there's a lot of contentious stuff we're going to talk about because Trump's speech was contentious.
It was very odd.
A lot of things were said.
Very strange.
However, before we talk about Israel's golden era, our golden age, which he said is about to come into fruition, let's celebrate Frule Faza Peace Deal.
What are your thoughts on this?
I mean, this father's being reunited.
Palestinian parents are being reunited with their hostages.
And I mean, hey, I think this is a damn good celebration, a time to be happy to be an American and to do some good in the world.
Yeah, look, when there's conversation about the Middle East, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, all of those kinds of it's usually pretty sad conversations.
It's usually conversations about war, pogroms.
It's conversations about the Nakba, it's conversations about, you know, just terrible, terrible things throughout history.
Today's a good day.
Today's a day where at least hostages were reunited with their families on both sides.
You know, people that were maybe never even charged with crimes, I think, in Israel, or certainly never convicted in a lot of cases that were being held.
They obviously got a very good exchange rate, I guess 100 to 1, around 2,000 people coming out of Israel, around 20 people coming out of Gaza, kind of being returned to their families.
And that's something that should be celebrated by every single person involved, no matter what side you're on.
No matter if you've been out there screaming genocide or screaming Israel first, it doesn't matter.
Everybody should be pretty happy with this.
And I know that this is fragile.
I know that there are a lot of opportunities for this to fall through, for fighting to start all over again, for Israel to screw this up, for Hamas and Gazans to screw this up.
I have no kind of myopic view of this, but today is a good day for every one of those people that are involved and for both people groups in general right now.
I think the U.S. taxpayer would have said, thankfully, we're not spending another $15 billion this year on that war.
I think we don't need any more golden objects, maybe less patriot missile systems.
That we're giving to you.
But I mean, look, this is unprecedented.
And I know we're going to disagree probably or maybe an agree on Trump's speech.
But I think, Hennessy, it's like peace was reached.
And at least for the moment, while Israeli tanks still did fire on Palestinians during the ceasefire, it does appear the war is over, but I'm going to bite my lip because I don't.
I'll bite my tongue when it's like a month or two.
I'm going to bite my lip now and just hold on because it doesn't feel like this ever lasts.
Look, I'd like to see our president get applauded.
I'm happy about that.
I did say that the hotels in the area were all competing to see who was going to offer the room for Netanyahu and Trump.
You saw the way he's looking at him?
They all wanted to get the room for them because they were like, can you finish it here?
So I don't know what they did after in the back of the green room.
No disrespect.
It's 2025.
It's very popular to be gay in Israel.
So there's nothing wrong with that.
However, I just feel like sometimes we're going to see that our politicians care more about moving the needle for Israel and that they're able to do more to help Israel and quicker than they are here.
And I don't know if it's for any other reason that due to lobbying, the Unit Party does agree to allow to send money, arms, help aid to this country because there's universal bipartisan lobbying that it's easier to get things done for them than it is for us because the sides are so opposed here.
But when it comes to the Israel issue, they're so aligned.
Now, the left, the actual leftists are not pro-Israel, but the establishment DNC is less than it was, but it's still very much bought and sold for by a few different people, including AIPAC.
Jerry, what do you think about this with Trump ending this so quickly?
You know, we're unable to deport people at the numbers that we need to here in the United States.
Inflation is still out of control.
Housing market is untenable, but yet we're able to find money, weapons, and broker peace for Israel, even before we were able to do so for Ukraine, right?
So that's kind of crazy.
So I don't know what you think about that, but it is interesting.
So look, I mean, I think the premise has a couple of things that maybe I would disagree with.
I understand that we want to deport people.
We're doing, I think, a pretty good job of doing that.
I think as of last count, we're probably over 2 million people through self-deportation and also, yeah, fantastic news through self-deportation and also through kind of forced deportation.
Like, hey, you shouldn't have been here in the first place.
Those numbers are rookie numbers.
We got to pump those up.
I definitely agree with you guys on that.
But that's a pretty good start.
Making the border go from, you know, these giant numbers where we're going to be okay with 4,999 crossings illegally per day down to, hey, who knew we could actually just close the border and seal it up and have virtually zero illegal immigration into the country.
I think we've made a lot of progress there.
I understand that we want inflation to kind of curb.
We want prices to come down.
We want a lot of the things that we've talked about as conservatives to happen, but those things take some time.
And I think he's made a lot of progress there.
He's rebalancing trade throughout the world.
And I understand when it comes to Russia, Ukraine versus Israel and Gaza and Israel, pretty much anybody else in the Middle East, it seems like heaven and earth gets moved.
Well, I think it's probably a lot of the public pressure that gets put on it.
We're talking about it.
It's been one of the hottest conversations amongst people on our side on the left on everywhere in between.
And I think that puts a lot of pressure on politicians and it forces them to act.
I think he would love to be reaching peace with Putin and Zelensky.
I just don't think that there's really a scenario where either one of those guys wants to give up yet.
And I think there was an opportunity and he took it with Israel.
And I'm fine that he moved it.
But listen, Elijah, this is one of the areas that we will agree and disagree, probably not viciously or violently, but at least in some substance.
I will agree with you that I hate the optics of stuff like this.
It just looks bad.
It looks in some cases like the president is doing the bidding of a country that really economically, size-wise population contributions to the world is insignificant on the planet.
And that's okay.
That doesn't make me somebody who hates the Jews.
I'll probably offend both groups equally tonight.
And that's sometimes the goal.
But it is nice for them to at least say thank you for the $30 billion that we have spent since the beginning of this war and the $3 billion commitment we've made to them.
And I think somewhere around $300 billion we've given them since they were founded as a nation after we kind of said, yeah, y'all should just be a country.
And it's nice to see him like him.
I just don't want that relationship to be too cozy.
I want them to have a little bit of fear that Donald Trump is not going to do what they want.
Shouldn't that be what every single country we deal with has?
That fear that America is going to do what is right for Americans, regardless of the relationship that they have with you?
That should be how things are.
And some of the things in the speech, no, I know, I know, I know.
And I'm telling you this, and I say this respectfully.
A lot of people who thought I was nuts on this issue and have like sort of like, you know, since I first got in trouble from with Mark Levin and stuff back at Blaze for bringing some of this up about CPAC in 2021 being funded by Zionists and the problem with our party being operated by this foreign lobby group, you know, and even, you know, being called an anti-Semite, being blocked from, you know, my news max appearances or my Sky News contributorship because I didn't support the war.
Years later, people that thought that I was, you know, some vitriolic anti-Semite are like, wait a second.
Now they start rubbing their hands together.
It's not even me.
You're like, it's got these Christian people going like, hmm, maybe this guy's actually correct.
And it's not about being anti-Semitic.
It's not about hating Jews or anything like that.
Maybe that is weird, right?
Like, what is weird that this country has so much power?
That is strange, you know?
And then if it is strange, then it doesn't even make sense how, unless there was some very dark tactics that were being used, because it's impossible through military force, impossible through even financial ability.
There's got to be something.
And then when you realize that a lot of like the first war, when they had the war in Israel against the seven nations around them in the late 1940s upon their inaugural formation of the nation state of Israel that we call Judea or Israel, when they had that war, what happened?
Well, what happened was there was a lot of rich businessmen and industry leaders who were Jewish who then supported the war and also kind of started, that's what a lot of the blackmails started, started threatening to shut down industries, to fire, like to cause layoffs.
They started pushing politicians in the states to support the war, right?
The United States to get involved.
So look, it's been happening is all I'm going to say.
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Gerald, I'm going to go straight to you on that.
That's what I mean.
Like you and I are having this conversation where maybe even at one point you thought I had gone off the deep end.
Maybe you still do think I've gone off the deep end.
No, I mean, the shallow end, you know, you're kind of swimming towards the deep end, but you're treading.
No, I'm just kidding.
No, I didn't think you went off the deep end, Elijah.
I think that a lot of people lean a little bit too far into topics like this and do cross the line into like, well, if all things being equal, it seems like you just don't like Jewish people in general.
I don't think that's you.
And I don't think that's people like Dave Smith or Tucker Carlson or anything like that.
I think they've made that very clear.
I think when people get called anti-Semitic, it's just like when conservatives got called racist.
They did it to shut us down and to shut the conversation down.
It's like, well, I'm not a racist.
But guess what?
You've called me that for about 10 years now.
No matter what I do.
So I don't care anymore if you're going to call me racist, right?
So people, I think, have leaned into that.
There are, by God, anti-Semitic and white supremacist people out there.
Trust me, I know it's fine.
I don't agree with those opinions, but that is not the majority of the people talking about these issues.
Let me go back to what you said about Israel and influence.
Yes, even before 1948, they were very good at influencing people and getting what they wanted.
So here's the problem that we're left with.
Are we mad that Israel's just effective at lobbying?
No, you can't be mad.
I would be lobbying if I was Jewish or if I was Russian or if I was Chinese, any other nation, I would be lobbying to make sure that my country, if we weren't in a dominant position and we didn't even have a nation state at the time, I'd be lobbying to try to get all kinds of protections because you have to understand what was going on.
It doesn't mean that it's okay, but it at least means that it is a reasonable thing for them to do.
They were being killed in pogroms all over Europe.
This had been happening all the time.
And they're not the only group that was targeted.
So let me let me be clear there.
There are other issues that were happening in Europe.
But if you're a people without a nation and you basically don't have any protection, your only protection is to really make sure that the people around you, the states that you're in, love you.
That's really hard.
They never succeeded fully at doing that.
So they started to control industry and they got very good at lobbying people around them through coercion and threats.
Now, here's the problem: Tucker said this in his monologue just the other day, and I agreed with it 100%.
I don't fault them for negotiating well or lobbying well for their interests.
I fault the politicians for listening.
When it's not in our interest, we don't do it.
That's it.
Very simple.
I don't think we should be funding Israel's defense, period.
I think APAC has to register under Farah or something like Farah.
There are people out there that just genuinely like, they do, they can.
It's actually beautifully done.
It's an art.
That's what we call it.
We're going to start calling artists.
They are polemists and they can find a way to blame Jews for everything, including I said something that some white nationalist didn't like yesterday.
And then they came up with this whole family tree that they researched that my great grandma's name was like Pauline Schoenberg and like this whole thing.
And I was like, guys, you know, you just didn't like my opinion.
I definitely think that a lot of people, I think, think that we have a bigger problem with downplaying bad Jews doing things.
I think we have a bigger issue with people downplaying that than people looking for that.
However, we've got to admit there really is just a lot of them that need to be held accountable that are hiding behind the anti-Semitic label that are avoiding criticism and that are operating in a racist capacity to where they think that we're cattle and they think they're superior.
And I want to play this clip.
We played at the beginning.
We got to talk about the fact that there's a lot of racism that's come from these people due to teachings of religious superiority that shouldn't, that's an American value.
Okay.
That's not an American value.
You're not better than me.
I'm not better than you.
You know, we need to, we need to understand if we're going to be in a meritocracy, then we've got to promote that and not say, well, white people can't associate with white people and white people can't be proud to be white and Christians can't think they're better than other people, but Jews can.
And I think that that's that hypocrisy paired with this, which is, I want to talk about his speech.
I want to go into Trump's speech here.
He said some crazy things.
And I want to get your take on this, Hennessy, when we come out of this.
His largest donor, Miriam Adelson, is worth more than $60 billion, he claims, and is the largest single donor to the Trump campaign, last Trump campaign.
Trump also famously said back in 2016 when Marco Rubio, was it 2016 or 2020?
Yeah, yeah, it was when he was calling out Mark Rubio for having a relationship with Mary Adelson and collecting the money and can't be trusted as much, pretty much.
It's problematic because he said that nobody visited the White House more to lobby him in the last year than Miriam Adelson.
So an American who doesn't love America more than Israel and also is the richest donor is lobbying Trump more than anyone.
And Trump likes it and seems to like, it's like she touched his pee-pee for the first time, you know?
He's got that little like the little giggle, you know, like where you're just like, ooh, your little stomach butterflies and you're, it's like, but buddy, you're talking about someone with foreign allegiance, foreign allegiance giving you money to influence you in your mind.
And you're talking about bashfully like it's cute.
I don't know what you make of that, but Kennessey, but it's crazy.
It's not a good look for sure to see him go up there and kind of like giggle immediately after.
You know, as you mentioned with Mark Rubio, he kind of called out, you know, the lining his pockets and how we cannot trust him.
And then what we have is we have the same kind of scenario where, you know, she's helped funding him as well.
Now, Trump, yes, Trump does have a lot of money.
I can't deny that.
And he does get it from multiple donors.
But, you know, as you mentioned, this is someone who's going to the White House continuously.
This is somebody who he's always in contact with.
And it's just causing a lot of concerns.
And we wonder if also, is that why we're putting Israel in front of America?
I mean, we're seeing it across college campuses with the silence of the speeches.
We're seeing us go into these wars when nobody wanted to go into war with Iran or these other countries, but we're being dragged left and right.
So it causes a lot of concern.
It's also another reason I think AIPAC, if you've seen AIPAC's actually rebranding themselves as well, which we'll play later, they have a whole new commercial how they're actually just Americans with America interests first.
But it's just really a concern in America because we have enough problems here.
You know, I'm not anti-Israel.
I'm not anti-Gaza.
I'm not anti-Any of that.
But what I am is I'm America first.
And this is what we need to focus on.
And with all this foreign influence, it's not giving any of us a good feeling.
I have become kind of anti-Israel, not in terms of because I'm against the people, but because the power structure of the Likud and the way that they avoided being unseated and they kind of, I believe they allowed this war to happen.
A country that's taking advantage of my government, I actually don't like.
And I don't want to conflate that with a discrimination against the people.
Like, I don't have a problem with the North Korean people, right?
But I'm not, but, but, but I, but I love Kim Jong-un.
Please, great master lord, don't kill me.
No, please do not nuke America.
No, but he, he, you know, I'm obviously not a fan of his government.
I'm not a fan of his authoritarianism.
And I would say in general, I'm not a fan of North Korea because I don't want to live there.
And I think that they, I think that they, that, again, I will say this, I don't hate blacks, but I did hate that Black Lives Matter created a system that if you didn't support them, then you were against black people.
When in reality, I was already against black people before Black Lives Matter was created.
And I'm totally joking.
I was never against black people.
I was never against them.
I just mean like, yeah, it was a gate.
Also, what makes me mad is that if you do try to criticize the powerful, corrupt Jews, they will just call you an anti-Semite.
And then the dumber, non-informed Jews buy into it and are like, yeah, you do hate us.
No, I mean, you end up in a no-win position, but I think that's why I'm so pissed off about the conversations online.
And obviously, Elijah, that's what I messaged you about.
I'm like, man, what the hell is going on?
This is so frustrating to me.
Because in one breath, I'm being responded to on X with $7,000, basically saying that I'm a paid Israeli shill.
And then the guy's like, hey, do you think just one question, yes or no?
Should we fund the air defense of Israel?
And I said no.
And he's like, oh, I guess you're not as bad as I thought.
I'm like, yeah, listen, you can have a nuanced position on this and understand that not every single situation is the even the government of Israel's fault.
And I think that's where I really come down right now.
And I think we're in a fight for our party between people who completely have unmasked themselves when it comes to Israel.
Like Ted Cruz's response to Tucker Carlson in the interview is like, if you bless Israel, you know, we will be blessed by God.
And I'm like, well, that's not exactly what it says.
And a lot of Christians get this wrong.
So I sat down with some people and I've done a couple of shows talking about that.
And I received some flag for it.
It's like, listen, I want to be biblically accurate, but I also want to make sure that we understand that this group of people is in some ways unique historically.
Not saying that they have a special position with God that we need to reverence or anything like that.
I'm not even going that direction.
I'm just saying I understand why they do what they do.
Don't agree with it, but I understand it.
And I think that is where we need to be.
We need to understand what is going on from both sides.
And that's one of the things Martyr Maid, what is his name?
Daryl, is it Cooper?
Does great historian.
I love listening to his stuff.
I think that's one of the things he does very well: he highlights what it was like and says, listen, there's a three-year-old girl that is Jewish, and there's a three-year-old girl that is Palestinian in this conflict.
Remember that when we're talking about this, remember that neither one of them, their parents don't want them to die, right?
They want to live life and go to school and not fear that they're going to get blown up by the other side.
So just remember that when we're talking about this, and I think that's helpful.
And I think we have lost some of that plot.
People have just been completely willing to throw Israel under the bus for every single incident that happens in the world.
Listen, I, and I, I have to, I have to say, one of them is that they dragged us into this war with Iran.
President Donald Trump came off the escalator and gave a speech about Iran when he was running in 2016.
Okay.
So this isn't like a new thing for him.
It's not like Israel made a phone call.
Now, I also know that Israel has wanted to go to war with Iran and have the United States take care of them for a very long time.
But it doesn't mean that this time was because of Israel.
This time was that because Donald Trump already held that belief.
So maybe Israel got to him earlier.
I don't know.
But truth really does matter when we talk about the USS Liberty, when we talk about JFK, when we talk about 9-11, truth matters.
And there's a lot of conspiracies out there.
And people aren't willing to dig in and find out what is actually true.
They just kind of run with it like anti-Semite when they don't like you, or, you know, they just call me a goy when they don't like me or $7,000 post guy.
What's really strange to me, though, Gerald, is like, I feel like, so I know you're asking me because you had some items you want to ship to the studio.
And you were, while you were saying all these things, like, oh, it's don't always blame Israel and stuff.
The package came with your name on it.
I think you, you got, they actually, I think that email I noticed, you actually sent our address to the home office.
And so I noticed that every time you've been saying something good, about $7,000 has been showing up with your name on it.
And it's a, well, who's, who's, who's a Mr. Kinesett?
We're going to bring someone on a second for a little segment that I want you on for, Gerald.
Um, that, um, you know, kind of is noticing what we're noticing.
And here on ref, we always like to feature people that are new voices, people that are not necessarily famous, which, of course, is why we're on our own show, you know.
I always say that's like, we like people who are not famous and, you know, not always the brightest.
That's why people watch me.
But there's a young man who's very bright, and he had attended this turning point conference that is going around.
And we're finding that the young people are thinking a little more like how I think.
And so our audience is very young on this show.
It's about average age is about 18 to 30 years old.
Versus most political shows, the average audience is like 40 or 50 plus, right?
So we have a very interesting demo.
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All right, so I want to play a clip here.
I don't think we'll play the whole thing.
Check this out.
You know, Gerald, I'm saying like there's these speeches that are going on, and they have these QA's at the end, reminding people we're on a tour ourselves.
And so people know, we took a more of a critical of Israel position on our speech.
And we had people QA us that were defending Israel and calling us vitriolic anti-Semites and telling us we needed to do it.
They were crying, you know, which was crazy.
So, you know, everyone, no one's immune from criticism.
A young man stood up, and I'm making sure you see my screen.
This is the same person.
Correct, I have the right video.
Okay, correct.
All right.
Go ahead and roll this.
unidentified
One question I have for you, Glenn, is a lot of young American and conservatives are starting to notice that Israel has an overwhelming lobby over the United States government, and we have unconditionally supported them.
We have fought their wars in the Middle East.
Bibi and Nyahu came to our Congress in the 90s, told us a list of countries that we need to take out.
Some were Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc.
Through those wars, we have lost trillions of dollars.
We have lost American servicemen.
And most, the worst part I think about it is the fact that millions of refugees are coming to the Western world through America and Europe are degrading our cities, destroying our Western values.
This is yeah, well, then he goes on about something like Muslims and rapes and stuff.
It's very odd.
Now, I think Gerald and I are probably on very strict NDAs with these media to which to which our criticisms are probably have to be very fair and not disparaging.
And I also want to always credit Glenn Beck as a very nice guy.
I by no means mean to degrade him as a person.
And, you know, we're not saying anything rude about his character or anything.
However, bro Glenn gets asked one question about the Israel lobby and then makes everyone stop.
And then when a guy says, is it Israel first or America first?
He said, I am an American first, which is not the answer.
Yeah, I mean, well, first of all, welcome to the show for the first time.
Sorry about the tech issue here.
It was the Jews.
They actually messed up our wiring.
But yeah, no, you know, not everything is their fault.
And I don't think you came across that way.
I want to ask you a couple things about what you meant, right?
What you think Glenn meant as a young man and what you think about those people.
Before we do that, Gerald poised a question here: what makes us think that Glenn Beck probably likes Israel more than America and he loves America.
I'm not doubting that.
Mark Levin loves America, but like Ben Shapiro and people, it seems that one of the main reasons they love our country is because of our support for Israel.
And if we didn't support Israel, then maybe they wouldn't love our country.
You would only think, what's the evidence of that?
Well, it's somebody who would like to revoke their citizenship and leave this country and maybe join that country instead.
So I want to read a letter that I wrote that I am sending to the state of Israel to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the honorable officials at the State of Israel.
In this moment, I have chosen to ask you for citizenship in the state of Israel.
You probably don't know a lot about me, but I used to work with Glenn.
He was one of my old colleagues.
I used to, you know, be on his show a lot and help co-host certain episodes.
And he's been on this show a lot.
So I've got nothing but respect for the guy.
But did you know that Glenn was this pro-Israel when you went up there?
Talk to me about what was going through your head when you confronted him.
Why did you do that?
Or what did you know that instigated that?
unidentified
Well, I didn't know that much about Glenn Beck.
I just knew that he was a neoconservative commentator.
Honestly, I wish Charlie would have been there.
I'd asked him the same exact question.
It's a tragedy what happened to Charlie.
Glenn, I really just didn't know that much about him.
I didn't even, I wasn't even going to go to the event originally.
I made a last-minute decision about an hour before.
I was at the gym and I was like, I guess I might go ask him a question.
I thought it'd be interesting to get his take on it because it's a very uncomfortable question for these guys, you know, because they support Israel so much.
They don't like talking about it.
And it's kind of a hard question for them to answer.
Well, Joel Berry, let me see if I can pull it up here.
Commented about you and he responded, just like Glenn seemed like very unable to respond and felt pressed.
Joel Berry, who's one of the people who helps run the Babylon B, if you're familiar with that, ended up.
Yeah, check this out.
So he took your clip here of you talking to Glenn and said this.
Charlie used to slap these groip-tard questions down with grace, armed with facts.
Anyone doing these TPUSA events needs to be prepared to answer these poor, brainwashed young fools.
There's a full court press to destroy Charlie's legacy.
So he made some accusations towards you.
The director here at the Babylon B said, you are groipt-tarded.
Okay.
So I want to say this.
Just like that, people say it's okay to be gay.
It's okay to be a Groyper.
It's okay.
It's okay to like Nick Fuentes.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Okay.
You're allowed.
You're allowed to, right?
It's like, you know, it's like, is the Groyper in the room with us here today?
You know, people get so afraid.
And he also said that you are a poor, brainwashed young fool, okay?
A brainwashed young fool and also accused you of trying to destroy Charlie's legacy.
You know, what do you think about that?
unidentified
I think, if anything, I was continuing Charlie's direction.
Charlie was starting to notice about the Israel lobby.
Matter of fact, he was talking about two days before with Ben Shapiro and Ben Shapiro gave him a little bit of a weird look.
I don't know if you guys saw that clip.
I think it's the complete opposite of brainwashed.
I think the brainwashed ones are the one that Israel's our greatest ally, even though Israel's, you know, blowing up churches in Gaza, southern Lebanon, blew up the USS Liberty.
You know, basically going against America-first policy.
It's, you know, Israel-first policy.
So I think I'm the opposite of brainwashed.
I think he's brainwashed.
I think anyone that kind of, you know, still supports Israel in this day and age, brainwashed.
And I think my generation is really seeing the facts.
They see all of it and they're opening an eye to the real truth.
Gerald, I want to hear your opinion on this because what I said here is, because I also want to give you some like, cause, because obviously, you know, I'd be considered, I guess I'm like semi-establishment.
Obviously, Gerald be considered establishment.
I don't want the young generation to think that we're all like, we're all, that we're all, that we're all just like lost on this stuff.
Because sometimes people like Glenn, people think we all think like that, right?
I'm just saying.
It's like, oh, well, you're, we're all Ben Shapiro, but we're not, right?
And so I said, you know, you act like we didn't watch Charlie's show the last few weeks before he was murdered.
This is why I said to Joel, I got your back here.
I said, you act like we didn't.
That's exactly what you said.
I said, it's crazy gaslighting.
I saw his PBD appearance.
These kids aren't retarded.
So just so you know, I'm defending you guys out there.
They're disenfranchised by out-of-touch establishment millionaires like yourself and the speakers, right?
Out of touch.
They're out of touch, like you mentioned.
But Gerald, I want to get your opinion because he made a statement that a lot of young men think and young white men that, you know, especially that exercise, right?
They're always called incels and fat and brown and this and that.
When this is not, this is not a fat brown kid.
And unless I'm missing something.
No, our intern is that.
I'm saying, no, it's true, but it's true.
It's true.
I remember, by the way, I was like going to hire our intern.
He's like, dude, I like am like, love the white race on the phone.
He said all this things.
He's like, I love the white race.
I just love this country.
I want to continue.
And he's like, you want to be an intern?
He's like, yeah, he comes in.
He's like, Mexican.
And I was like, what the hell?
Dude, that's crazy.
Nothing wrong with it, by the way.
Nothing wrong with it.
I'm messing with him, but it's true.
What do you think about this?
Like the idea that he thinks that there's like being and supporting Israel in 2025 means you're out of touch.
But some people say that's extreme.
But then Joel Berry's saying, if you just want to ask a question about Israel, you're retarded.
You're mocking a dead, a great dead friend of ours.
And you basically, you are, what do you say here?
You're brainwashed.
You're poor, brainwashed person.
Are they both being extreme?
Is Jebby a little too extreme, like a reactionary to the people like Joel who are crazy?
I just have more gray in my beard for some unknown, ungodly reason.
It looks like a Hitler stash almost 32 hit hard, man.
Yeah, it really did.
No, look, I think, Jeb, like, I think you're entirely reasonable in questioning these things.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
So, my question for you said it was Joel Berry who said that.
My question for Joel would be: well, what exactly are you saying that they should be prepared to swat down?
Is it the Israel influence on our politicians?
Well, no, that's pretty obvious.
Is it that sometimes it appears, and I'll say it like that for a reason.
Sometimes it appears like our politicians are owned, meaning they only do what is right in Israel's eyes before Americans' eyes.
Maybe there's some wiggle room there to have a conversation.
But one of the things that I really do think matters is the claims about the clean break memo, the USS Liberty, 9-11, JFK, all that stuff.
I think it matters to get that stuff right.
And I think if that's what he's referring to, then listen, I think at the very least, and I've done a lot of research into this, the USS Liberty case is not open and closed at all, even amongst the sailors on the ship, right?
So I think it is understandable if maybe they get lost in that and go, not meaning you, Deb, but I mean the people coming and criticizing maybe a point of view that you might hold on USS Liberty.
I think it's fine to say it's it's possible or likely.
I don't think under any circumstances, you can say 100% that the USS Liberty was Israel attacking us and then extrapolate 58-ish years later that we shouldn't be in some ways allied with them.
And no, they're not the greatest ally.
It's probably Japan, maybe England.
I don't even know exactly what we get out of Israel, other than maybe some intelligence.
But I think the facts of these things matter.
And that's where people get lost.
And anyway, Joel may just be focusing on that.
I have no idea, but his question was entirely reasonable.
I disagree because I don't think they allow people to critically think.
And I've worked for those organizations and they don't, they don't, they don't allow their, if you, if you're there, they will, they pressure you to not say what you actually think publicly and they threaten your job.
I just, I just, I just will put it very, very lightly.
I just lost my strongest, one of my strongest and biggest, biggest business relationships just because powerful Jewish people were pressuring the person to let me go.
And they just didn't want, they were tired of it.
And they were sending dossiers.
And like, dude, this is, this is one of the Jewish journalists like printed out a notebook of everything I've said on Twitter.
And there's been six months of trying to get me fired and ruin our relationships and stuff.
And it eventually, you know, it eventually did work.
I'm saying my point was my point was that there's pressure.
Yeah, there was pressure.
Like, I've experienced the fact that, like, I'm not joking.
When I came out and I said that I believed that Israel, when I came very public with my beliefs back in 2023, I was already open from a 2020, 2021 on.
But when I came out publicly and said, look, evidence shows, I said what Charlie said on PBD years later, right?
Charlie said the same thing years later, that I believe Israel allowed the attack to happen and that it was corrupt and that, you know, they killed a lot of their own people.
It looked like the Apache helicopters were probably involved in the attack, that there was delayed response.
It reminded me of January 6th.
I wrote this whole thing, reminded me of January 6th and a setup and an inside job.
There isn't some of the biggest news organizations.
I got messages from people like, you are never going to work with us again.
Like, I didn't know you were flagrant anti-Semite.
One, one of the biggest newspaper organizations that's online legitimately had everybody unfollow me.
They said you can't follow me if you work there.
I stopped.
I had my invitation to contribute at Newsmax canceled.
And it was all over a tweet about disagreeing that the war, like, that's to me why I'm like so passionate about it.
Because like, for me, I've lost theoretically millions of dollars by being honest about this issue.
And so I paid a tough price.
I do think Charlie paid with his life.
I'll leave it at that.
I think Charlie, I think Charlie barked down the wrong, up the wrong tree.
And I don't think Tyler Robinson acted alone, nor is there any evidence of that from the FBI.
But I won't say anything else other than that.
I just think that Charlie also was asking the wrong questions for legal reasons because, yeah, because we got legally threatened for investigating that too, by somebody connected to Joel Berry.
So, you know, I'm just going to say, you know, it's like, to me, it's not.
I don't want to just assume because the person disagrees with me, it's because they're a Jew or controlled by Jews.
I think that's a bad place to start.
Now, that could be true, but it's a bad place to start.
It may be my argument.
My argument might suck.
I'm going to always approach it from the fact that, okay, maybe I didn't make my case good.
Maybe I didn't listen to what they were talking about.
And then I will go down that road.
I think that's what we do.
And listen, just to go back to what Jeb said, you can talk about the USS Liberty.
Plenty of people do.
Lots of people do.
You're not gatekept on that.
You can talk about all these things right now.
And I think that's fantastic.
And Elijah, I don't know what the content of your post was or the date, but I think there's a lot of questions that are still unanswered about how Israel, an incredibly secure state, if you want to look at a map of people in the globe that have great security because they have enemies on all sides, it seems.
It's Israel.
How did that happen?
I think that's an incredibly reasonable question to ask.
I understand how people may get offended by that initially.
They shouldn't, but I understand kind of where that comes from.
So I don't think you should be canceled for that.
I don't think that you shouldn't be allowed to ask those questions.
I don't know.
I think you and I can think critically through these things and go, listen, USS Liberty within about two hours.
It's really about one hour, but I'll give you two.
Israel was running to the United States to tell them what happened.
You've got soldiers, sailors on the boat saying, of course, that this was absolutely friendly.
They knew we were friendly and they tried to sink us anyway.
And you've got other people to testify that that's not true.
They think it was just a case of mistaken identity.
My point is not to argue that I'm right and you're wrong.
My point is to argue that there is evidence on both sides.
And people are running out there as though this is taboo, that this is one of those things that you can't talk about.
And of course, the Jews did it.
I'm like, well, show me the evidence of that because I haven't seen it.
I've looked into it heavily.
There is evidence that makes me lean that way.
And then there's evidence that makes me lean the other way.
Why do we have to run to the extremes?
No, no, no.
Charlie, on the other hand, that's a totally different story.
I'm talking about the USS Liberty because it keeps coming up over and over and over again.
And by the way, Jeff, I want to get your take on this because before I let you go here, is that I think what you did was very brave.
I think what you did was, it's hard, right?
You did what you're supposed to do in a political debate.
You punched up, right?
So like that's, that's what you want.
You came and you took someone richer, more, more well-read.
You know, I'm not going to insult your intelligence.
I don't know if he's smarter than you, but you know, has more life experience than you.
And you went in a scary place where the odds are against you and you asked some tough questions.
And I don't think he did a good job answering you.
I think that there was a deflection.
I think that he looked visibly upset because it was like the, oh, no, not this one.
And it was like a kind of a, that's anything but this moment.
And I think, you know, I mean, he works with Mark Levin and stuff.
I think we know the way you want to be a citizen of Israel.
I think that you did a fantastic job sort of exposing how fragile the establishment is and how dishonest it's been about this conversation.
I don't think that everybody's dishonest.
And I think maybe what you're, what you're, what you're looking at, what you're seeing, and something that Gerald's pointing out, to clarify my point, I didn't say it's like just because you work for a Jewish organization, you can't be honest.
I'm saying, but the organizations will pressure you.
There's incentive to not be honest about this topic when you do work for an organization like that.
They make it you known every time.
And I know people have worked there that do work there that have the exact same, you know, tell me about it.
That, you know, they're not, they do have a slant towards trying to defend Israel and push Israel and that it is well known to the company not to mess with that.
And for the longest time, the person in charge of hiring and fire, the person that was around, one of the top people was also Jewish, several of them.
And there was a lot of pressure on people.
I knew the girl, by the way, too.
And she screwed over Elon Musk.
So we'll leave it at that because I don't want to mention names.
But yeah, it's true.
So these are not great.
You know, if you're going to do that to Elon Musk, what do you do to the people in your company kind of thing, right?
You know that a lot of these people are not operating well.
Jeb, I want to close with this with you.
You know, what is your motivation?
Why did you ask?
What do you want to happen, right?
Israel is obviously very much in line with us.
Israel is very much around.
And there's really no point to make suggestions.
In my opinion, Gen Z messes up on this.
It's just like, we got to just get rid of Israel.
It's like, that's not a helpful.
That's not a realistic option here, right?
It might be what you want, but it's like, you know why the girls that you think are hot on photos versus the girls that you actually get in real life, they're usually not as hot in real life because you take what you can get.
You got to work within reason, right?
So, you know, not every girl's an Instagram model, but you can get, you can get us, you know, you make out the girl.
We'll just leave it at that, nice and innocent.
You'll take what you can get sometimes.
So with the Israel stuff, what do you want to see?
What is it that you wanted to get out of that?
And what do you want people to know?
What are we supposed to do about Israel?
What's the answer?
unidentified
Well, I think there's a lot of intelligent men.
I think there's a lot of young men out there that study, you know, history, philosophy, politics, such as myself, that work out, go to the gym, kind of keep quiet.
And I think my goal is to have plenty of young men that me like infiltrate the government as time goes on because the boomers control our government now.
So once my generation gets into power, I hope that we distance ourselves from Israel, distance ourselves from globalist policies and look towards more of an American first policy that America was founded on, how our country was originally made.
Not globalist, not interventionist, not meddling in these foreign wars and these foreign nations.
Looking after, you know, our family, I mean, like looking after Europe, not getting in foreign wars.
I just hope that there's plenty of young men like me that get out there and talk about this, aren't scared to talk about it, not scared of the establishment.
Ever since I was like, in 2016, when I saw Trump, I was like, you know, before Trump got kind of infiltrated by the deep state, I was, I've always been interested in politics, always want to do this.
I'll connect you with my new chief of staff and he'll look and see if there's maybe some, it's not paid right now or anything, but maybe some internship stuff remote you could do to kind of get plugged in and see how we can just connect and respectfully try to try to get you and help you to get connected in this industry if you want to.
Maybe play some video games and then go ask some questions about what's going on with your thought leaders or people that are influencing people in power.
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All right.
Hennessy, joining in on this, there's been some crazy stuff that happened.
And a lot of people ask, yeah, why did you not support the war?
Well, because I knew that we were going to pay for it.
Okay, like, Gerald, we have to make clear on this.
First of all, I just want to say this.
I think that a lot of people like Stephen and yourself are in a tough place with this topic because, like myself, we've all worked in the establishment and therefore we know a lot of Jewish people.
Okay.
I think you guys have been a little more recluse than other people, but if you work in the media establishment, you meet a lot of Jewish people.
And most of those people are just normal, like normal individuals, like your average banker and Harry Potter kind of thing.
You know what I mean?
So it's like, it's like how they say, right?
It's like, well, they might be of a different race and of a different, well, I mean, like, you know, they might be different, but in the end, you know, they're just living their life.
You know, they're just lawyers and whatever.
They're not really out to do anything, right?
You know, she made the bankers after these people.
You know, so the point is, is like, you know, and I got pressed, you know, at our last speech by this woman who was crying about how she'd never heard such hate towards Jews.
And it was funny because my old Jewish producer was there and my Jew, one of the Jewish guys that works for me was sitting there.
And they're like, dude, we're literally Jews and we love Elijah and there's literally no anti-Semitism in his heart.
Now, if they keep acting this way, there may be a different story a year from now.
Nothing.
No, no, but no, no, but it doesn't matter.
I'm coming to Christ.
I am, I know everyone's so concerned whether I convert to Orthodox or Catholicism.
What I need to do is I need to just be changing my heart.
I need God to change my heart because everybody has sins.
And one of the sins that people often have is bitterness, resentment, right?
These are very dark sins that poison your heart and it exhausts the people around you, just so you know.
But bitterness, resentment, and jealousy.
And there's a lot of confusion because a lot of people think that people are hateful towards Jews.
That's the phrase.
You hate Jews.
That's what I get told.
You hate Jews or you're just what?
Jealous.
You're just jealous of their wealth.
And you know what?
I'll say this.
There probably are some people out there that are sinning with the way that they think about the Jewish people.
They are.
And a lot of these people are not Christians.
They're like Hellenists.
They're pagans.
And they don't care about sinning, right?
So I understand that there are some people.
I just don't think that's a lot of people.
Like, I think it's really that maybe that's like 3 or 4%.
And 96% of the rest of the people, like, it's okay as a Christian, I want to say, to be critical of Israel and be critical of a false religion.
You know, and that's sort of my take.
I told this to my dad, I go, Dad, they think Jesus is burning in shit manure and come.
And Ben Shapiro, who's not dumb, he's not some crazy rabbi that, you know, they, you know, they say, well, we can cherry pick crazy lesbian pastors.
Ben Shapiro is your typical run-of-the-mill Orthodox Jew.
You know, he says that he thinks Jesus was a rebel rouser.
He thinks he thinks bad things about our God.
Okay.
He said this on multiple times, including on Joe Rogan, I believe, is where he said it famously in front of a large audience.
Blasphemed our God.
And now we're not Muslims.
We're not going to kill him.
We're not going to behead him.
We're not going to do anything.
But I would say you should have a righteous indignation, not hatred towards the person.
You should pray for their salvation.
Not a murderous heart, not resentment towards Ben, even though he tried to get my audience killed by telling them all to take that injection and then called us all dopes for not doing it.
Just to remind you, if you're new to the show, that was to me, Ben Shapiro called an idiot, and you, he called an idiot.
So this rant is going somewhere.
And I want to get your take on this.
I don't think it's wrong as a Christian to take this perspective.
I'm keeping it before the Lord because I don't want to hate anyone.
I don't want to be resentful, but I got to take this seriously.
When you ask, would you support the war if we weren't paying for it?
Would I support a nation whose central religion is blasphemous to me?
Like even Muslims still believe God was a holy man.
Jesus was a holy man.
He was a prophet.
It is a false religion because he's not deified, right?
He's not the son of God.
So that's not, I don't, I don't support Islam, but at least we still have a respect for Jesus.
They have some respect.
Even an agnostic who believes Jesus was a hippie that supports lesbians or whatever and liked to smoke weed.
Like, you know, they have this picture of Jesus.
At least they still think Jesus was a good man.
They'll be like, I think he was a great man.
His teachings were great.
He just wasn't God.
But this group of people hates Jesus Christ.
And this is my last statement on this.
My Jewish friends will admit to me, including Mark Loebliner, who says, Jew as it comes.
He loves money.
Okay.
He always jokes with me.
I saw his bank account.
It's stacked.
And I'm like, why do you have so much money in there?
He's like, because I'm Jewish.
We like to see it.
And I'm like, hey, he's a funny guy.
He's just, he's just messing around.
But, but, no, you know, he's your typical Jew.
He's wealthy.
He's a businessman.
He's, you know, like, he just knows what he's doing.
But I love him.
He's a great human being.
And he told me, he goes, you know, he's converting to Christianity right now.
He told me he's like, he's ethnically Jewish.
Now he's no longer religiously, but he's ethnically.
He goes, you know, what's weird about the Jews that I meet is like, it's not just that they don't, that's just a different religion and they don't know God or we disagree.
It's like they like hate Jesus and they're like opposed.
Like even the atheist Jews, because you meet an atheist, they're just like, I don't know.
God is whatever.
But the atheist Jews, it seems like it's more like they hate Jesus Christ and they're like intentionally opposing Christ.
And this is a conversation no one's having on the right is Judeo-Christian values.
So you can't have Judeo-Christian because you can't have Jesus is nothing and then Jesus is God.
Those do not mix.
And so we really need to push off this coupling, in my opinion, more than just politics, the decoupling of the faiths and stop being sacrilegious.
I've never been mad about this, but now that I'm coming to Jesus and I've not been a practicing Christian, you know, for years.
And so I'm not coming to say I'm super religious and I'm going to be one of these Catholic people who's like, become Catholic because Nick Fuentes is Catholic.
That's fine.
If you're one of those people, that's fine.
I'm like, hey, I need to be a better dad, a better husband.
I need to be a better friend.
I have crazy, you know, family and stuff.
I need Jesus Christ to change my life.
And now I'm realizing, man, who do I not want to partner with?
People who hate God.
Who hates God?
The people who say they do.
Who are those people?
Not all the people that hate God are Jewish, but those that say that they are of the Father, but they reject the Son, they are not.
I do, not in terms of damnation, but the Bible is pretty clear about you're judged according to the knowledge of which you have.
So, so if somebody, it's like if somebody has a misunderstanding about Jesus, but they revere him, but they don't understand his power, they're closer to me than somebody who wants to just destroy the, they not only this, they mock my God, right?
So, to me, on a social level, it is more serious because then that kind of person, like, and yes, Muslims do kill Christians, but I would rather I live in a Jewish city, I'd rather live around Jews.
So, like, talk about safety-wise than Muslims.
That's 100% true.
I'm not pro-Islam.
I'm not a Hamas guy, I'm not a leftist, I don't like Islam, I'm not pro-Islam, whatever.
Okay, however, is Muslims aren't trying to say they're Christians, right?
There's only two religions trying to couple themselves to Christianity that I know of that are that are pretty serious that are not Christianity-that's Mormonism and Judaism.
But Mormons are still the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they still respect the hell out of Jesus.
I just think that they have, you know, so I'm saying to me, it is serious because if you were against Jesus and you hated him and you thought he was like, he basically was, was, was a terrible person, then you would want to what?
Probably oppose all the things that Jesus stands for.
And that is what, why we have a lot of people who are behind pornography and feminism and things.
They want to destroy the Christian fabric of culture.
So, yeah, they're more threatening to me because, like, Muslims, we just, I don't know why we're bringing them in.
We can just keep them from being imported.
But these people, they work like nomads and they infiltrate institutions and then they set up.
So do secular humanists, so which that secular humanists would do the same thing.
They would set up pornography.
They would try to destroy the institutions that led to where we are today.
The reason that I ask you that, Elijah, is that according to scripture, no, there is no difference.
There is no difference.
You are separated from God, period done.
There is no separated by a mile or separated by a thousand miles.
It's just separated from God.
You're rejecting Jesus as Messiah.
And that's exactly what the Jews did.
And so when people say Judeo-Christian values, I think that's probably a clumsy way for most people, at least people growing up around me.
I'm not going to speak for everybody of referencing the values of the Old Testament and the values of the New Testament, right?
So there's Judeo-values.
Like Jesus was a very observant Jew, okay?
There's no getting around that.
Like he just, he just was.
And so there are values that came from kind of quote-unquote Judaism.
And it didn't really ever switch.
It is one faith.
It is one story.
Jesus is the center of that story from beginning to end.
But whether you're an atheist, somebody who is a peace-loving beatnik, or somebody in Islam, or somebody who's Hindu, or a Jew who thinks Jesus is burning in hell, you're just as lost.
It doesn't really get you anywhere.
Now, on a human level, I understand that.
I wish that they didn't think that way about Christ, obviously, right?
That doesn't sit well with me.
But then what am I supposed to do with that, according to scripture?
Well, according to scripture, I'm supposed to pray for my enemies.
I'm supposed to love those people who persecute me.
I'm specifically commanded because Paul gave us some really good clarification here that I'm supposed to live a life that makes the Jews jealous of the salvation that I have and makes them want to come to Christ.
That's the command.
A lot of us like talking about Galatians chapter three at the very end, where it's talking about neither Jew nor Greek, free nor slave, all are one in Christ Jesus.
The true children of Abraham are those that receive and accept Jesus Christ as Messiah.
But we don't like turning our Bibles over to Romans 11.
When it talks about what we are supposed to do as the adopted sons, when the air comes back in, do you think God is going to just kick the air back out?
How does the air come back in?
They look at you and go, wow, we're missing out.
And I don't know that we've done a great job as Christians.
And I'm not putting you in this category, Elijah.
I know you said you're walking through what it means to believe and to have faith.
I think Christians have done a very bad job at communicating what salvation, faith, belief in God, belief in Jesus, what that life really is like.
And I think that's a part of the problem in this broader conversation.
Because I do see a lot of people saying, well, the Jews think this.
I'm like, okay, I don't like that.
Fantastic.
Does it matter if it's that or Islam thinking that Jesus was just a good teacher?
He was a prophet.
They don't revere him in any way that's meaningful at all.
They demean him and say, you're lying when you say you're God.
You didn't die on the cross for our sins.
You actually just swooned and you were taken off of the cross.
That doesn't help anybody get closer to God.
It's just a slightly less offensive human way of looking at something.
And I understand why, but it doesn't really help us out at the end of the day.
So we got to get past the how does this make me feel argument and go, what does the Bible say that I have to do with this?
Because those feelings are real, but it's not always reliable.
And I have to go back to scripture and look at it and say, okay, I'm supposed to live in a way that makes these guys jealous of what I have.
Well, but that's my point about this religion coupling.
And the reason why it's starting to offend me, I'll admit this.
Look, I really, I'm frustrated that I care about this topic because there's so many bad faith actors.
And I think we both can agree that there's so many bad faith actors out there that take the concerns of someone like myself who genuinely is concerned about government intrusion, who's genuinely concerned about religious coupling and thinks that it's a political tool.
I think that the Christians have been co-opted by the lobby, by rich businessmen.
I think they have co-opted evangelical Christianity so much so that it has almost become a false religion.
And I mean this respectfully, assuming that almost evangelicals are almost always much better people than me.
Now, there's this thing that I do, people get really confused.
I always say I'm a degenerate, and they think it means that I'm out doing all this horrible stuff every day.
I'm not saying I'm a degenerate because I, you know, I'm going to sex clubs or something like that.
I'm saying, like, sometimes I just do the wrong thing intentionally, and I realize that like I have the will to do evil.
Like, people always try to act like sin, like, you know, brother, sometimes I fail.
It's like, no, sometimes I just intentionally do this.
Sometimes I'll just go to a club and get absolutely hammered like a normal club of friends and just blackout or something at a club.
That's sin.
That's not right.
I'm saying, and I did that willingly.
No one's like, oh, no, no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a 21-year-old girl at a frat party pretending like someone forced me to drink.
You know, oh, what is this?
You know, so like, it's degenerate behavior, right?
But I think that humans don't look at themselves as bad as they should in a way.
So Andrew Wilson and I sat down and talked about this.
And I said, listen, I have a passion for this.
This was after Ted Cruz gave the horrendous answer on Tucker.
And I said, listen, there are a lot of Christians out there who believe that that is true, that for some reason they're tied to eschatology through dispensationalism and other things.
And they feel like they have to.
And they've been co-opted.
But let me just back up just a second, right?
We do need to clean that up.
That's a given.
When you say that they are doing these things, let me just reframe this.
It is Satan that is acting in the world and he will take whatever vessel he can get, whether it's people that were supposed to be God's chosen people, or if it's people who don't even believe in God at all and believe in 330 million gods in the Indian religions or somebody just wanting to be happy, go lucky and not think about anything in the world and completely reject anything that says religion, man, right?
He will take whatever vessel he has and he will work with that vessel to undermine everything that God is trying to do.
So it really is necessary to go, okay, if we are one in Christ, there's nothing that separates us anymore.
We're in Christ.
Seems like everybody else on the other side is one in Satan when they reject Jesus Christ.
I don't need to start picking and choosing the hierarchy of who's worse off over there because my response is supposed to be directed by God.
I am supposed to love those people.
I am supposed to want those people to come to salvation, to come to the knowledge of Christ.
And I know that God doesn't take pleasure in the death of the wicked.
I mean, scripture tells me that.
So I understand your passion for it, but I also think we need to be careful about how we talk about it so that we don't try to say, well, this people group is worse and they're doing more damage.
It's like, it's not a people group thing, man.
Satan will use anybody he can, including crazy pastors in Protestant churches saying stuff that is just not true about material wealth and prosperity.
And you can be happy, healthy, and wealthy your entire life.
And that's exactly how God wants you to be.
And if you're not experiencing that, it's because you're not giving enough.
It's not, you're not serving enough.
You're not praying enough.
You're not speaking in tongues enough.
You're not doing enough of the things that God wants.
That's also not true.
I think there's a lot that needs to be done to clean up the Protestant church, but we do need to look at how we should respond to Israel and make sure it's a biblical response, not just what feels right.
Because you know who was really pissed off at Israel?
Jesus.
He was really pissed off at people who were entrusted with the prophets and killed them and spilled their blood.
He was really pissed off at people who were supposed to be the educated leaders and strong men and faithful shepherds that led people astray, that honored God with their mouth, but their heart was nowhere near him.
That's who he came to overthrow.
And that is who he is going to come back and overthrow again.
And it may not be specifically Jews at that time, though I'm sure there'll be a part of that.
It will be every system set up against God on this planet.
Jews, Muslims, and Mormons.
I know that's going to get me a lot of flag too.
There's your second clip.
Those guys are going to come after me as well.
Anybody who is apart from Jesus Christ is going to be overthrown and they will have to bow the knee and they will have to confess that Jesus is Lord, just like everybody else.
So our response just needs to be to pray for people.
Our response needs to be to love people, to make people jealous of the faith that we have because of how we live our lives.
And listen, Elijah, but for the grace of God, I am a degenerate every single day.
Everybody listening right now and watching this, so are you.
There is no one good.
None.
Your best deeds are nothing to God.
It cannot completely fill this gap in any way, shape, or form.
That's great to understand because then you start to depend on God and go, okay, well, if I can't do it, then I really need some help from somebody who can.
And God said that all I had to do was believe in Jesus, know that I'm a sinner, believe in Jesus, confess with my mouth, and believe in my heart, and I will be saved.
Now, we can get into the Orthodox and Catholic stuff too, on top of that.
Totally fine, but we can all agree on the basics.
That's where we have to start, man.
And that can manifest in being really frustrated with a group of people that even Jesus Christ was really frustrated with as well.
It's actually kind of true because then I am too, because we're both sitting in the side chair watching Israel fuck our country.
So, you know, it is a little bit of a cucking.
I will be completely honest about that.
But no, this conversation is happening.
I think what I want to say, I want your opinion, Henny, is I feel like one of the bad parts about why people are become Catholic as a political tool.
It is political to become Catholic and Orthodox now.
It's a political statement of saying, I will not be controlled by Israel.
And that is really what it is.
It's like there's, they're like, I don't know why so many young people are now interested in converting to Orthodox.
I think we went from 400,000 to 6 million exactly.
One less in about 20 years.
So that's a huge conversion jump.
Catholics, it's the most young people in decades.
I think since Vatican II, I read that have been in the 50s that have been joining Catholicism.
And it's because you're like, I just want to get back to faith.
I don't want to, I don't want this Israel stuff is so annoying to me and it's so detrimental.
I can't afford a home.
I can't do anything because of BlackRock and State Street.
That's Larry Fink.
You know, we have all these Muslims and problems in the West because of the wars in Libya and Syria going around because of Netanyahu.
We're in Ukraine fighting Russia because of Zelensky.
And you just everywhere you go, you know, and then we have problems with cartels and we're dealing with the same kind of person that's running Mexico and nothing makes sense.
And you're like, so you're like, let me just go to God where there's, there's peace.
And then they're like, we're taking a donation today.
I'm not joking at it.
Last time I went to a Protestant church, I got a second donation for Israel.
I don't know where it was going.
I guess to like the gay clubs or something like that.
It's like, you know, I don't know where the money's going.
It's so weird, but I think that it's beyond the weirdness.
When I talk to my family about this, you talk to people, you're never going to change their mind.
No, no, I've had arguments with a few different churches.
Actually, I had a pastor one time that I was arguing with because he was telling me that, you know, we have to support the war in Israel because, you know, they're the chosen people in his belief.
And, and, you know, then we got into the whole discussion.
Well, you know, we're supposed to love each other.
We're supposed to pray for each other, you know, and he's like, no, I agree with that totally.
And I was like, okay, but what about the people in Gaza?
You know, we shouldn't be choosing a side of which country that we should be hoping is being destroyed just so another can come up.
And yes, I do believe, you know, as you were saying, you know, we want to have them to aspire to see the love of Christ so that, you know, the Jewish community can grow closer to God.
That's definitely what we should do.
What we shouldn't be doing is putting them on a pedestal, seeing that they're the chosen ones above all, and that sending all this money for these endless wars.
You know, the relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important thing.
And I think when we go to these churches, we see all this manipulation.
We even see a lot of these churches, we see how it's being infiltrated with the transgenderism.
You know, we have a few clips that we have later on about that and just how the message is being skewed and telling us that, you know, we have to just follow blindly and just believe in all this.
But I think, as you said, that's why we're sick and tired of it.
That's why a lot of people are heading.
I'm not Catholic, but you have a lot of people heading more towards the Catholic religion.
It's just we're tired of seeing it all around.
And then, even on top of it, not even we're getting this in the churches, we're also seeing in news and media.
And yes, there are some things that come out that aren't true.
And there are things that come out that are true.
And sometimes it's hard to cipher between them, but we do know that we do have a problem.
And the problem is we're being forced into a lot of these scenarios.
We have, you know, the porn industry, unfortunately, there's a lot.
And I'm not saying that, you know, all Jews, of course, but we have being run.
I know you were mentioning that.
Yeah, you have, you know, the movie industries, the music industry.
There's a lot of different places where this kind of these messages are coming out, which are more towards anti-God than being, you know, love for God.
So I think, you know, that's, that's the real big thing is that, you know, people are just sick and tired of it.
And as far as you were mentioning about being a degenerate, you know, we all have faults.
It's just Gerald was saying, you know, we're all sinners, but the goal is to aspire to get as close to Jesus Christ as we can.
There was only one person who came to this earth who, you know, was perfect and will never be there ever.
But our goal is to draw closer to him each and every day to build that relationship.
And, you know, Gerald, I want to, I want to flip here a little bit to talking about faith because you, you've been a Christian for a very long time, I think, right?
One thing that I've noticed that I have not done successfully in my career, if that's what you want to call it, calling my career career is an offense to people with careers.
With this, with this, with this together, with us together here, I have realized one thing, that all this talk about church, this and that, it doesn't matter if you're not walking in a holy life, right?
If you're not walking in a way that's holy, all the spiritual stuff that, you know, the peace that God wants to bring, life is chaotic.
We need peace.
Peace comes from obedience.
It is a natural recourse of knowing that God's in control.
But when you say, well, God's in control of the situation, the question is, is he?
I mean, ultimately, yes, theoretically, yes, but really, are you in charge of it?
You know, if you're, you guys went through some tough times at Louder with Crowder and some of the same people, man, women are crazy is all I'll say.
And some of the same ones, some of the same ones were working with some people.
I'm going to leave it very vague.
And some texts released from quartering.
And those are the same people who tried to destroy my life.
We're working to destroy Steven's life.
And one of the same people who try to destroy James O'Keefe's life and get him kicked out of his own organization is one of the people who's worked really hard to destroy my life.
You see a lot of these really evil and bad people, this industry, just really evil and maniacal and bad people.
And it's a very scary place for the world.
And it's not just this industry.
Everyone in the world has got a lot of trials and tribulations.
And we need what?
To be a good husband, to be a good father, to be a good boss.
You need to have internal peace.
And I've been lacking that.
You know, and everyone knows it's like, you know, your kids are, you know, you wish you could spend more time with your kids, but, you know, you have to balance the wife.
You got to balance the kids.
You got to balance the job.
You know, I work and I run a company.
So it's like, you know, you do two things.
You're an employee of someone, but then you also run your own company.
And then you've got to go to the gym.
And then you've also got to, you know, do the bills.
And then you've got to, you know, you've got to expand and try to get a house for the wife.
And then you've got to get cars, yada, yada.
I can keep going.
It is so overwhelming this life.
And living in a developed first world comes with its own frustrations.
You know, with more money comes more responsibility and it comes more headache.
You know, sometimes I just wish I didn't have any cars, you know, and I just had like a small house.
I just didn't have to have the stress to have an income.
And so, so in all of this, I want to remind everyone, I'm speaking to myself too.
I have learned this week spiritually that none of this matters, that we've been talking about none of this, none of this matters if ultimately you're just not walking right with God.
And it's like, what do you mean by that?
Dude, you know what you, you know what I mean by that?
A lot of us are in denial about what it's, what it means to follow God.
You know why?
Because we don't want to give up the things that make our life comfortable.
We don't want to give up those things.
So I want to ask you, Gerald, because it's hard.
It's hard to follow God.
I think it's hard, man.
I'm looking at this like, this is going to be tough, bro.
This is not going to be easy.
This is the way that I like to live.
And I'm not going to be able to live like this very much longer.
Probably shouldn't even tonight live like this.
Shouldn't today.
But I'm like, this is tough.
How did you, did you ever have a season of your life where you really fell, you don't have to give the details, but really fell into a pattern of like dark sin or you had something in your life.
Maybe you have something now and you overcame it.
I want to hear a little bit of your story of how you sort of like went from being a professing Christian to really living it out.
So you never, and somebody's going to pick me apart theologically on this.
That's fine.
I can dive deeper.
But just at a surface level, you have to realize that this is who you are.
And I think I had my most real moments with God.
And this is after I started prioritizing reading scripture and prioritizing prayer.
I was going to church.
I was in community.
I'd gone to ministry school.
I'm not like college level ministry school.
So I don't want to overstate it, but something just below kind of a college level.
And I started to get really, really interested in studying what the scriptures actually said.
And so, like, this faith of mine, it's the most important decision that you'll ever make.
It's either the absolute imperative decision on the positive side.
And so, I need to follow Christ, otherwise, I'm going to completely miss out on the life that he has for me, not just heaven and hell, but the life that Christ has for me here, or it's completely inconsequential and I don't need to waste any time on it.
And so, I was like, Well, listen, I believe, but what does that really mean?
And I have to dive into this.
But I had to be very honest with God about who I was because I was struggling with sexual sin, not homosexuality or anything like that.
I was just struggling with, like, I want to wait till marriage, but I'm having a hard time doing that.
And pornography and all this other stuff that's out there is just, it's really, really difficult as a guy to deal with.
And finally, I had to get to the point where I was quoting scripture every time I felt tempted.
And I had just a handful of scriptures that I would constantly go to to make sure that I, every single time those thoughts came up, I did stuff like that.
And that's not works.
That's just me saying, I need to lean more on God in these situations.
And then I think the real breakthrough, Elijah, came when I, you know, really had a conversation with God about this is who I am.
I don't want to think I'm the one-night stand guy or the guy that's watching pornography and then going to church the next morning or trying to witness and talk about my faith and the goodness of God, but then struggling with lust and sin throughout it.
I don't want to think that I'm that guy.
I'm just having a hard time.
No, things really changed for me when I said that's exactly who I am.
And I just had an honest conversation with God and I said, listen, I am these things.
Can you please help me not be these things?
And that rebalanced the situation for me.
It didn't end the battle, but it made me start thinking of it the right way.
And I'm not just some good guy who's having a struggle.
I am that guy.
And but for the grace of God, I would be exactly that guy today doing all of the different things that we talk about on our show that we're like, that's terrible for Western culture.
Or how could they possibly do that to their families?
Or why in the world would you go out and destroy your bodies in this way?
Like, I'd be doing that stuff.
And I think if we lie to ourselves and sugarcoat the problem, then we're not doing ourselves any kind of favor at all.
But you also need to know what God says.
What does his word say?
And if that's in a Catholic church or an Orthodox church or a Protestant church, one of the good ones, because there are some, then that's fantastic.
But get a Bible, start reading, start praying, do it now.
Find a church.
Start going.
Start discerning where God wants you to be and what God wants you to do.
And also remind yourself that if Paul said, I know what is right and I don't do it and I sinned and I know that it's sin, please, God, free me from this body of death.
That's all who spoke with Jesus, who went and had probably the greatest missionary career of anybody ever.
I don't even think it's arguable.
And said, I still am trapped by this stuff.
Then know that you're going to struggle.
But know that God said, Christ said, listen, in this world, you will have trouble, but take heart.
I have overcome the world.
That's great.
If it's words on a page, it doesn't mean anything to you.
If you start to make that a part of who you are, listen, I'm going to, it's going to be hard, but I'm going to wake up every single morning and I'm going to get on my knees or pray on the way to work and read my Bible before I go in so I can read a chapter a day and I'm going to learn what God is saying and start filling my mind and my heart with that.
That'll start changing your life.
And that's what people need to do.
And no matter what the politics are, because listen, there isn't going to be an America in heaven.
I love this country and I think it's the greatest country on earth and it should serve its citizens first and foremost above anybody else.
But the real game, I'm a monarchist and that's because Christ is the head of this church.
He is king and I serve him first and foremost among anybody else.
And that's what we really need to be talking about.
We need a resurgence of believers in this country that love God and love others well.
And I think that that's sort of the I think, I think what's insane to me is I want and I want this show.
It's not going to become a preachy show.
But there's one area that I've, I've really failed in.
You know, Stephen has the same issue.
Sometimes when you put yourself out in the spotlight, when you're a father, if you're watching this, if you're like a father, a lot of, you know, your kids will blame you for their problems, right?
Like, or like, you know, and maybe it's partly true.
But at a certain point, you get old and you're realizing, yeah, yeah, some things my parents did are to blame, but actually I'm kind of screwed up because I've screwed up my own life.
You know what I mean?
Like a lot of my own choices have screwed me up.
And there's a lot of people who blame their parents and they, you know, blame the government.
And, you know, I mean, it's like how black people blame the system.
And I think humans have a tendency to blame other people for why their lives are the way they are.
And I get a lot of people, you know, blaming my political party, right?
They blame my president, right?
I'm just saying, like from who I voted for to my political party.
Like, and it's, it's really cope, you know, people being like, you know, this is cope.
And I've had my entire life.
I've so many staff that have left and stuff that blame me.
It's like, you know, I'm unhappy because of you.
And I remember I had, I had someone say that.
It's like, she worked two days a week and was making like $100,000.
I was like, you literally have the easiest fucking life in the entire world.
Okay.
So I shouldn't be cursing if I'm trying to be a Christian.
But anyway, you know, you're the easiest life in the world.
It's like, it's like, oh, well, you know, I've just been like drinking and partying for so many years that it's just like, I can't change, right?
Like, God can't save me.
Like, I'm not, I'm unsavable.
Like, you know, my heart's too hard.
Or like, yeah, the world's too tough that I've, this is, this is the one I had.
This is, this is a crazy cope that I was, that I've been having recently.
And that's what God's breaking.
My, my cope for why I couldn't follow God and why I can't was like following God is weakness because I can't like turn the other cheek and like be vulnerable.
And like, I need to harden up and just be like, take on the world and these evangelicals, they just want you to worship Israel.
I've got to resist them and I've got to do what I've got to do.
And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy.
Like sometimes we're not like as obviously just blaming our boss or like, you know, whatever, because we have a weed addiction.
We're like, we're blaming things for why we cannot obey God and why we cannot follow God.
And I was doing that and I, and I'm sinning, right?
It is wrong.
And you know what?
My life is messy, you know?
I do, quote unquote, you'd say party more than I, more than I should, right?
It really shouldn't be at all.
I do things that I shouldn't do.
I still do suffer with lust in my heart and things like that.
We do have a habit of go ahead and pointing fingers maybe at other people saying, you know, oh, it's because of you that my life's this way or that's a certain way.
We even shake our fists in the air when we're mad at God as well.
You know, like, God, why did this happen?
But meanwhile, we're making all the bad choices that are actually bringing us there and we're pointing our fingers at God.
That's why I like what Gerald was saying is that, you know, we have to acknowledge our sin.
We have to go ahead and be totally transparent, you know, like naked in front of God to show everything that we've been doing and how we are willing to change and make sure that we lay it all at his feet.
Because one of the most important things right now is that relationship with him.
And it isn't easy.
You know, it's not one of those things when you walk with God, it's like, okay, all of a sudden life is better.
I mean, we've seen even the disciples went through some of the hardest times.
And the devil doesn't have a habit of, you know, a criminal doesn't come in and rob an empty house.
It's the same thing with the devil.
You're going to face trials and tribulations.
But if anything, that's only going to make you stronger.
You know, as you said that you felt that it made you weaker, it's no, you're going to become stronger because one, you're going to become a stronger person because you're going to be denying all the sin, all the temptation, and you're also going to become stronger in faith, which is the most important part.
So I think if anything, when you build that relationship with God, it's only going to make you, you know, a much better person.
My regret was that the amount of things in my life, man, like right now I need patience with people.
And that's like my main thing.
So I hired a chief of staff to handle people for me.
But one of the main things is like, I realize that, you know, I wonder how good my company, my life could have looked if I had been following God all these years, you know?
And it's probably not how it looks now.
There's a verse that, and I want to end with you and a question.
A verse, Proverbs 19, 3 states, a person's own foolishness ruins their life, but they then become angry at God for the consequences, right?
So there's a few different versions of that.
You guys have gone through a lot of, like, we don't talk about people's personal drama.
And unfortunately, for yourself, for Steven, people aired your, people, people did air your guys's lives, your private lives out in the public.
They released his personal, intimate text messages with females and stuff.
When people take your life, which is always a little bit messy, there's problems going on.
They amplify it.
They do it to inflict pain.
But at the same time, going through something like what you guys went through and saying, you know, I still haven't really, I've said publicly before, but I think I was lying.
I said I've forgiven everyone who's wronged me.
I haven't in my heart forgiven everyone who's wronged me.
I am like Bukele.
God may forgive them, but we don't have to.
I know we've been through similar things.
And you guys went through all that.
Can you just as like a final thought before, you don't have to stay with us for the locals, by the way.
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And we're going to be talking about a couple things, Henny and I over there with Mendoza.
But I wanted to ask you this, and I'm going to ask you one air.
Going through something so fiery, going through such a difficult trial, I mean, like, dude, look, I'm in front of Candace, and I don't like what she did.
I don't like what a lot of people did, and I'm not going to drag, I'm not going to say anything.
I don't like what they did, but right, you're smiling and you're doing, and you're doing well.
And I think a lot of people out there are struggling.
I'm going through a really people can tell it, man.
They can tell I'm going through a tough season of life with a lot of people.
I'm like really having a rough go at life right now, and I'm very transparent about that.
I mean, I think you said, you know, if I, if I had just made better decisions or if I had been following God more closely, what would my company look like now?
Listen, man, it may look like non-existent.
Like, God uses these challenges in our lives to kind of bring us where He wants us.
And I don't know that that always means that things are going to improve and go up and to the right, you know, on the graph in life.
Sometimes that means you're going to have struggles.
Sometimes that means that you're going to be in difficulty.
But I think we're called to kind of, you know, grow wherever we're planted.
If God's going to let me go through some struggles in my life, and I have definitely been through some struggles, but not any the likes of which I've seen around me with different people that I know and some of the struggles that they've had, God is absolutely 100% blessed me and my family, and I'm eternally grateful for that.
But my prayer is that my faith in him is not dependent on the production from him in this regard.
I don't look at success in life and go, well, therefore, I trust in God.
I think it's incredibly important, Elijah, to be able to forgive, fully forgive people for the things that they do, even if that means they hurt you and your career trajectory.
That was no more case where that was true than with Stephen.
And it had a gigantic effect on us, on him personally, first and foremost, his kids.
It's something that's out in the public now.
And it is something that was really difficult as a staff to go through, especially when we knew the truth and had the receipts and just couldn't speak about it at the same time.
We are supposed to trust in God no matter the situation.
And when He gives us something like that, a trial, we need to take advantage of the opportunity to draw closer to God and do the work.
Like we have a responsibility to go out and do the things that we think are right, but we have to do it the way that God wants us to do it.
And so we have to forgive.
And forgiving is not saying that you weren't wrong.
There were some situations specifically that irritated me and got me to a point where I was mad and I wanted somebody's head.
And I had to call them about six months in and just say, listen, this isn't over, but I forgive you for everything that you did and said about us that wasn't true and everything else.
And I said, listen, I just, I forgive you.
I don't have anything against you.
Like it's frustrating what you did, but I have to forgive you because if I don't, I'm just going to carry this and it's going to be bad for me.
So if people are going through a tough time, I mean, that is unfortunately life.
Sin does lead to that.
Not just your sin.
I'm not saying you sinned and that's why, but sin in general in this world that we live in.
And God wants to see us dive into Him because He knows He can help us through it.
He gives us perspective so that, like, again, Paul said, whether I'm, you know, comfortable, happy, well-fed, rich, I can give glory to God.
Or if I'm in chains in a prison, I'm going to preach to the Romans tied to me because they can't get away.
That's the kind of life that we're supposed to live as Christians.
And it's not easy, man.
But the more that you start leaning into God, the more you start depending on Him, especially in difficult situations where you don't blame anybody else, but you literally draw a circle around yourself and fix everything in the circle.
That's when you start making progress.
The more you blame, the more you have that victim mentality that we often talk about with other groups of our population here in the United States, the further you are away from truth and growing and getting more capable of walking with God through difficult times.
So just be honest.
Don't blame God.
Don't blame anybody else.
Draw a circle around yourself, fix everything inside of it and start praying and start reading your Bible and start trusting in God more.
If you guys aren't doing stuff like that, still, you're welcome back anytime as well.
We really appreciated you being on here and giving us so much of your night and your time, considering you have so many people that are depending on you.
So thank you from the Rift team.
It was greatly appreciated for talking about tough topics.
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