NXR Podcast - THE LIVESTREAM - Two Years Since October 7th: Is Peace Finally Happening?
Aired: 2025-10-06
Duration: 01:24:33


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[00:00:34]  It's October 7th.
[00:00:36]  It is officially the two year anniversary of October 7th, the attack on Israel.
[00:00:42]  And we have heard pretty much nothing but all the events between Iran and Israel and Hamas and all the different things that have been conspiring over the last two years in the Middle East.
[00:00:53]  Now, here's something that I think is vital that all of us know.
[00:00:57]  Hopefully, we probably all know it by now, but just in case there are a few people over the last two years who have been hiding under a rock, it is my great misfortune to inform you.
[00:01:08]  That all things political are ultimately engineered by politicians.
[00:01:15]  And that sadly includes even war.
[00:01:17]  So, when I think of the war and what is currently underway right now in Gaza and has been underway for the last two years, one important factor that everyone should be aware of is that, in my assessment, Bibi Netanyahu wants this war.
[00:01:35]  He very arguably was on his way out.
[00:01:39]  Israel is actually not a huge fan.
[00:01:42]  Of Netanyahu.
[00:01:44]  Even his own people have grown to despise him in many ways, not everyone, but many.
[00:01:50]  And even before the attack on October 7th in 2023, two years ago, he was not polling so well with his own people.
[00:02:00]  On the other hand, it is in the best interest of Donald J. Trump that this war ends.
[00:02:07]  He has a reputation in his first term and really for the last decade.
[00:02:13]  One of his biggest accomplishments is achieving peace, world peace, and especially in the Middle East.
[00:02:19]  And we have seen as this war has continued that Donald J. Trump's polling numbers have plummeted.
[00:02:26]  He is not as well liked as he was when he first was sworn into office back in January.
[00:02:33]  So Donald Trump very much is angry.
[00:02:36]  And we're seeing that kind of rhetoric and that sentiment from our president of the United States from time to time over these last two years, not just.
[00:02:44]  I'm mad at Hamas or I'm mad at Islamic terrorists.
[00:02:48]  But we've seen some of the rhetoric of they, as in both sides, don't know what the F they're doing.
[00:02:55]  That is a quote from Donald J. Trump.
[00:02:58]  And we're continuing to see that kind of rhetoric.
[00:03:01]  From what people are hearing on the ground, it seems as though Donald Trump is very, very done with Netanyahu.
[00:03:09]  And I think that that would be an incredibly, immensely positive development.
[00:03:14]  And that's something that we can hope for.
[00:03:15]  That's something that we can pray for.
[00:03:17]  And in many ways, the people of Israel themselves are done with Netanyahu.
[00:03:22]  But if this war ends, when this war ends, then it is going to be quite the challenge for Netanyahu to stay in office.
[00:03:32]  It seems as though this one particular politician has everything to gain by the war continuing and everything to lose if peace is actually achieved.
[00:03:43]  So there are a lot of developments that have transpired over the last week and through the weekend.
[00:03:48]  Peace seems to be a real possibility if certain individuals don't mess it up.
[00:03:54]  That's the episode that we're going to be talking about today, the anniversary, two year anniversary now of October 7th.
[00:04:00]  What's transpiring, the angle and possibilities for peace, and giving you guys a little bit of background about Netanyahu and why this might not be quite the saint that some people have called him to be.
[00:04:15]  Tune in now.
[00:04:25]  All right, we're back.
[00:04:27]  There are some people in the chat, and I thought it as you said it.
[00:04:29]  I was like, wait, but Joel, you're saying it's October 7th.
[00:04:31]  It's a two year anniversary.
[00:04:33]  But hang on.
[00:04:34]  And I thought about it.
[00:04:35]  I'm like, wait a minute.
[00:04:35]  Gosh darn it, he's right.
[00:04:37]  It's midnight.
[00:04:37]  It's the 7th in the Middle East.
[00:04:39]  Yeah.
[00:04:39]  So you were just thinking the locale of where it all occurred.
[00:04:42]  I'm ahead of my time.
[00:04:44]  Well, and it's not just where the war is transpiring and what time it is there, it's also where we're broadcasting from.
[00:04:51]  People will be like, it's not October 7th.
[00:04:53]  Joel doesn't know what he's talking about.
[00:04:54]  You don't know where I am.
[00:04:56]  You don't understand, you're not aware of this.
[00:04:58]  That could be anywhere.
[00:04:59]  The secret right response bunker in Antarctica, right?
[00:05:03]  The place that's walled off that nobody can go.
[00:05:07]  I'm not a flat earther.
[00:05:08]  I don't hate that position, but I'm not a flat earther.
[00:05:11]  However, the idea that Antarctica, you know, there's something up there that we're not allowed to see.
[00:05:16]  Well, one of the things up there that you're not allowed to see is Old St. Nicholas and Right Response Ministries, this base.
[00:05:23]  And it is actually October 7th where we are.
[00:05:25]  And some people are going to fact check me on that and be like, even in Antarctica, it's still not.
[00:05:30]  But I tried.
[00:05:30]  All right.
[00:05:31]  All right.
[00:05:31]  See you.
[00:05:32]  So I'm going to go ahead and we're going to rewind the clock about 100 years to set the stage for really this whole war.
[00:05:38]  So this has been the biggest war in the region since pretty much, I would say, 1948.
[00:05:42]  There were a couple of other times in the 60s and early 70s that a real war broke out in the Middle East.
[00:05:47]  And of course, it's called the Graveyard of Kings for a reason.
[00:05:50]  This is a place that has known war.
[00:05:52]  The sands have absorbed so much blood down through the millennia.
[00:05:57]  But this specific war is, of course, prefigured by a number of political developments that all led to this moment.
[00:06:02]  What we're witnessing isn't something.
[00:06:04]  My goodness, how could this be?
[00:06:06]  Or there's no precedent for it in history.
[00:06:08]  So we're witnessing kind of the continual next stage in an ongoing blood feud, and a blood feud that's happened because two people are claiming the right to the same land.
[00:06:16]  And when you have a blood feud, generally, historically, the way out of it has been ethnic cleansing.
[00:06:22]  So, well, why is this happening?
[00:06:24]  Well, it's because two people hate each other, and they are both claiming we own this land and this land is ours.
[00:06:29]  And I think there's something to be said for examining and coming from steel manning.
[00:06:34]  The position of even the side that you disagree with.
[00:06:37]  There's another great series.
[00:06:38]  It's going to be 20 hours.
[00:06:40]  Our show today will be about an hour and a half.
[00:06:42]  But Daryl Cooper, Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem.
[00:06:45]  It's about 20 hours long.
[00:06:46]  He goes through the whole history and does a good job of doing it from both sides.
[00:06:51]  Because the reason there's an Israeli state today is that the Jews, for over a millennia, they were getting their butts kicked all across Europe.
[00:06:58]  So there's about a millennia of different occurrences that they would get kicked out of different countries, kicked out of different cities, persecuted here.
[00:07:05]  And we have to be honest, a good amount of it was maybe they were kicked out for usury.
[00:07:09]  So they would give high interest loans to Christians.
[00:07:12]  Christians were not allowed in the first Christendom to charge usury to one another.
[00:07:16]  But Jews, they were allowed to charge outsiders usury.
[00:07:18]  And Christians kind of appreciated the loop.
[00:07:21]  So they would get loans from Jews and they would be high interest.
[00:07:23]  And then we kind of realized, like, well, we could actually just kick these people out and we wouldn't owe them anything.
[00:07:27]  We've got the money, we have the recipes, these people can go.
[00:07:31]  And so you have about a millennial.
[00:07:32]  We have the Mexican food recipes, we also have the recipe.
[00:07:36]  For usury, we know how to do it.
[00:07:37]  We can do our own usury thing.
[00:07:39]  We've got the bagel recipe, we've got the locks recipe, we've got the usury recipe.
[00:07:42]  Real quick, speaking of reasons of Jews getting kicked out, 109 different reasons, usury is one of them.
[00:07:48]  Also, if you've ever wondered why are there ridges on the sides of coins, right?
[00:07:53]  So, coin clipping was a thing, and there were many people who did it, but the Jews were infamous for the practice.
[00:08:00]  They coined the practice, and were fairly regular in doing that.
[00:08:09]  Other people joined them along the way.
[00:08:11]  But I was thinking, you know, I've heard a lot of talk about making a Charlie Kirk coin.
[00:08:16]  I've given this some thought, right?
[00:08:17]  I'm going to be careful with this, but I think it needs to be said.
[00:08:20]  Charlie Kirk loved him some Israel.
[00:08:22]  And we both appreciate Charlie Kirk.
[00:08:24]  We did a lot of episodes talking about the tragedy of his assassination and everything that took place.
[00:08:31]  I mean, honestly, I can't bring myself really to believe that it was Tyler Robinson, or at least that he wasn't helped.
[00:08:40]  Maybe he was a piece of the puzzle or Patsy, but I definitely don't think that he pulled it off alone.
[00:08:46]  The details just don't seem to line up.
[00:08:49]  But that said, that doesn't necessarily mean that Bibi Netanyahu himself was hiding in a building.
[00:08:55]  So I'm not necessarily going that far either.
[00:08:57]  But it is a bit fishy.
[00:08:59]  But what I was going to say is this Charlie Kirk loved him some Israel.
[00:09:03]  We appreciate him.
[00:09:05]  He did a lot of good things, but that's one thing that we would staunchly disagree with his infatuation for Israel.
[00:09:10]  And yes, I understand that towards the end of his life, he was starting to sour on some of his positions with Israel and starting to say some different things.
[00:09:18]  And it's, you know, it certainly is intriguing to think where that trajectory would have eventually ended up.
[00:09:25]  And who's to say?
[00:09:26]  I don't know.
[00:09:27]  And there are plenty of people who say that they do know, but nobody really has produced receipts.
[00:09:32]  They're like, well, I talked to Charlie personally and I have all these text messages.
[00:09:35]  Well, we've yet to see those.
[00:09:38]  And so, who's to say where he would have ended up?
[00:09:40]  But it is true that even in his public rhetoric over the last couple months of his life, he definitely was souring on Israel in terms of this war in Gaza and seemed to be souring on Netanyahu in particular.
[00:09:54]  But if there was a Charlie Kirk coin, In the spirit of Charlie Kirk, maybe not the last two months, Charlie Kirk, where he's starting to shift in his rhetoric on Israel, but Charlie Kirk, as we knew him, his decade long public life, being a massive, powerful advocate for Israel.
[00:10:12]  I think that the Charlie Kirk coin should have no ridges.
[00:10:16]  I just think that that would be a great way to just.
[00:10:18]  I think it's fitting.
[00:10:19]  He loved Israel.
[00:10:21]  He believed in those guys.
[00:10:23]  And so, in honor of Charlie Kirk, we're going to have one coin without ridges.
[00:10:28]  Get it out there, circulate it, and just see how long it lasts before that bad boy starts getting nickels and you're like, Wait a second, pieces.
[00:10:35]  Yep, and it would really prove a lot of things.
[00:10:37]  So, that's what coin clipping is for anyone.

=== The Coin Without Ridges (15:38) ===

[00:10:39]  Like, what does that mean?
[00:10:40]  It's literally shaving the edges of it.
[00:10:42]  So, you're able to, if I gave you a quarter, quarter is supposed to weigh how many grams, and back in the day, it was actually made out of silver, so it's precious metal.
[00:10:50]  And you're shaving, yeah, exactly.
[00:10:51]  Tiny little bits of it off, so you can melt it down, right?
[00:10:54]  And technically pay people less.
[00:10:55]  I that's it's honestly the most Jewish thing I've ever heard.
[00:10:58]  Like, yeah, it's you got to admire the hustle.
[00:11:00]  Like, I could go out, I could work a job, I could be productive, or I could sit here for six hours and I could clip and peel coins to make an extra profit.
[00:11:08]  Just a little shaving, little shaving, little shaving, or charge a little interest, little interest, little interest.
[00:11:12]  It's taking something, contributing nothing, right?
[00:11:16]  But taking something that somebody else built and thinking, hey, somebody built something.
[00:11:21]  How can I somehow benefit from what they built?
[00:11:24]  That's usury.
[00:11:25]  That's coin clipping.
[00:11:26]  That's a whole lot of different things that many people, again, have been involved in.
[00:11:30]  But historically speaking, Jews have been very involved in those practices.
[00:11:34]  So, for reasons like we just mentioned, some of them very valid, some of them very violent and unchristian, number of pogroms, number of anti Semitism programs across Europe, the rise of nationalism in Europe in the 1800s, a movement emerges called Zionism.
[00:11:47]  Now, most peoples, when they're, for example, taken captive, they're spread over the earth, most of them typically intermarry and they disappear.
[00:11:54]  The Jews are actually an incredible story kind of through the millennia that it was through kind of keeping money in house, through keeping marriage, intermarriage only within the clan, that they actually survived for over a thousand years as an Insular group.
[00:12:06]  Now, their continuity with the Jews of the Bible, with Abraham's seed, that's ambiguous at best.
[00:12:11]  I don't think anyone has a claim to say.
[00:12:13]  And we've kept our line, we've kept our records all the way from the time of Abraham.
[00:12:17]  Those were destroyed at the temple.
[00:12:19]  So you certainly have a group of people.
[00:12:20]  Real quick, that's vital.
[00:12:22]  The birth records were kept in the temple in AD 70 when Titus sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the temple so that the prophecies of Jesus in Matthew 24, the Olivet Discourse, were fulfilled word for word, not one stone left on another.
[00:12:38]  These stones of the temple were inlaid with gold.
[00:12:41]  And so the Romans actually took each stone apart and shaved off the gold.
[00:12:45]  So it's similar to, you know, it's like.
[00:12:48]  We can do it too.
[00:12:48]  Yeah, we can do it too, right?
[00:12:50]  So there's lots of, whether you're clipping silver with coins or shaving gold off of stones, these practices are ancient.
[00:12:57]  And there's quite a heritage there.
[00:12:59]  But in the temple, that's where the birth records were kept.
[00:13:02]  And so records began anew, but you have arguably close to about a 300 year gap.
[00:13:10]  Ashkenazi Jews emerge about 600 to 700 is the earliest as an insular self defined.
[00:13:15]  In that case, you have a 600 year gap.
[00:13:19]  But I've heard some guys argue that some sectors, some Jewish sectors, could date back to like the mid.
[00:13:27]  300s.
[00:13:27]  But my point is that even in that case, you still have this 300 year gap, or Ashkenazi, you have a 600 year gap.
[00:13:34]  And so the idea of like, well, we are the direct, you know, descendants, genetic descendants.
[00:13:41]  No, like it's look, you've rejected Christ, you've rejected the covenant.
[00:13:45]  There is no covenantal continuity whatsoever because the temple is destroyed.
[00:13:49]  You're not making sacrifices, you're not able to practice any of the old covenant practices of Judaism.
[00:13:55]  So covenantally, there's a disconnect.
[00:13:58]  Genetically, there's no way to prove it.
[00:14:00]  And And it matters because I think of the book of Ezra, which our church preached through not that long ago.
[00:14:06]  In the book of Ezra, when the Israelites finally are released from captivity in Babylon after just 70 years, this is just 70 years, so maybe arguably two generations, they had to prove their pedigree in order to go back with Ezra the priest and with Nehemiah and with these guys to go back to Israel to be a part of the restoration project, to rebuild Jerusalem, the walls, the temple, and all these things.
[00:14:32]  They had to actually prove their pedigree with documentation.
[00:14:36]  They actually had to have the documentation.
[00:14:37]  If they couldn't prove it, then they didn't get to be a part of it.
[00:14:41]  The ones that God selected to be a part of this rebuilding of Jerusalem project, after it had been dismantled for only 70 years in this case, still had to be genetically pure.
[00:14:55]  They had to be of this genetic line, lineage.
[00:14:59]  And so for me, it's like, Behold, I am the Lord.
[00:15:02]  I changeth not, so that you, the sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
[00:15:05]  He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
[00:15:07]  If God's standards are immutable, Unchanging, and he's the same God yesterday, today, and forever.
[00:15:12]  Why would he, for some reason, have lower standards now than he had then?
[00:15:19]  If 70 years, God looks at that and says, Look, you've been out of the land for 70 years, and those who are going to go back into the land as my people and be a part of this covenant promise, they actually have to be of this lineage, this line, and they have to prove it with written documentation and not just their own word, their own say so.
[00:15:39]  Why would all of a sudden now in the New Testament, Why would God say, oh, 600 year gap for Ashkenazi Jews?
[00:15:46]  Nobody can prove it with any documentation.
[00:15:48]  That's fine.
[00:15:50]  That's just, that's a different God.
[00:15:52]  That's a different standard.
[00:15:53]  That's a different mechanism.
[00:15:56]  So covenantally, there's no continuity.
[00:15:58]  Genetically, there's no way to prove continuity.
[00:16:01]  So, in what way are the people in Israel today God's chosen people?
[00:16:05]  And of course, the answer is in no discernible way whatsoever.
[00:16:09]  Right.
[00:16:10]  So, all that said, all that persecution, all the wandering around leads to a movement called.
[00:16:14]  Zionism in the 1800s, specifically most located in Britain.
[00:16:18]  Affluent Jews had the money and they had the means.
[00:16:20]  They began petitioning the British government for the right to have some land.
[00:16:24]  And so you think about different people dispersed in Britain and Germany and Italy, Russia.
[00:16:29]  There's a number of Jews there.
[00:16:30]  They were up to some nefarious things in the early 1900s.
[00:16:33]  But you had an international community.
[00:16:35]  I mean, Henry Ford, the international Jew, and they all said, Hey, to avoid the persecution we've been getting for hundreds of years at this point, to avoid keeping kicked out, to avoid all this persecution, we need our own land.
[00:16:47]  And it's interesting, early on, the They didn't settle on Palestine initially.
[00:16:50]  They didn't start going immediately to the British government.
[00:16:53]  Theodore Herzl was, he's the author of The Jewish State.
[00:16:56]  He was a big rhetorician for the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
[00:17:00]  Initially, at one point in 1903, the British government said, Would you guys like Uganda?
[00:17:04]  And they're kind of working out, like, could Jews kind of settle here in Uganda?
[00:17:07]  There were some places in South America that were proposed.
[00:17:10]  And eventually, what was settled upon was, Why not literally just take back the land that we claim to have descended from?
[00:17:17]  Jews could claim, like, well, hire's, Here's Jerusalem, and here's the cities that David captured, the ones that Joshua conquered in Canaan.
[00:17:26]  And they had some level of claim to, again, just taking the name themselves, lacking the covenantal, lacking the genealogy continuity, but still, they called themselves Jews.
[00:17:34]  They claimed a continuity of the practices and said, why not go for it all?
[00:17:38]  Why not ask?
[00:17:40]  Why not manipulate?
[00:17:41]  Why not give towards donations, support, migration?
[00:17:45]  Why not Palestine?
[00:17:47]  And the big moment that this comes out is where there really actually gets to be momentum behind it.
[00:17:52]  Is what's called the Balfour Declaration.
[00:17:53]  So Arthur Balfour is a British minister of foreign affairs, and he writes a letter to Walter Rothschild in 1917.
[00:18:00]  Again, it's called the Balfour Declaration, declaring that the British is going to actually support the settlement of Jews in Palestine as their permanent home.
[00:18:08]  This is from the letter.
[00:18:09]  It says His Majesty's government, that is the British government, views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood.
[00:18:23]  That nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
[00:18:34]  One obvious wrinkle in the plan was that there was a lot of people in Palestine already.
[00:18:38]  So you had British Jews that were lobbying the British government, lobbying elsewhere.
[00:18:42]  We would like our own homeland.
[00:18:44]  We would like to live in Palestine.
[00:18:45]  We want it all back.
[00:18:46]  We want Jerusalem.
[00:18:47]  We want this area.
[00:18:48]  It's ours.
[00:18:48]  Can you give it back to us?
[00:18:50]  Can we go there?
[00:18:50]  Can we settle?
[00:18:51]  Obviously, the big one can we be self governed?
[00:18:55]  Now, between 1917 and 1948, when the state of Israel was established, just a little event happened known as World War II.
[00:19:02]  And obviously, the Nuremberg trials in 1945, all that continues to lead to this point where internationally Jews are saying, We want a homeland.
[00:19:10]  We want to go somewhere and we would like this land.
[00:19:14]  The United Nations forms what's called Resolution 181.
[00:19:17]  Resolution 181 essentially proposed, it wasn't binding, it wasn't a decree.
[00:19:21]  The UN is newly formed at the time.
[00:19:23]  The UN proposes Resolution 181 that says, What about a two state solution?
[00:19:28]  So, you have the Arabs that are there, and Jews have actually begun to migrate.
[00:19:31]  Germany kicked a number of them out.
[00:19:33]  They went to Palestine.
[00:19:34]  Others had gotten word hey, we're going to establish a Jewish state.
[00:19:37]  So, they had immigrated to Israel.
[00:19:39]  And you obviously had the Arabs there, and they'd actually already been engaged in a civil war since 1947.
[00:19:44]  So, you have the two factions there.
[00:19:45]  They're starting to fight it out.
[00:19:46]  It's kind of this civil war back and forth.
[00:19:48]  And the UN proposes well, how about a two state solution wherein the Arabs govern this side, this part, the Jews have this part.
[00:19:56]  And Jerusalem actually would kind of be under international facilitated management.
[00:20:01]  You have their own governments here, their own governments here, and Jerusalem as a bit of a neutral middle site.
[00:20:05]  The Arabs did not like it.
[00:20:07]  The Jews were like, yes, give it to us.
[00:20:08]  And essentially, the month that Britain basically relinquished control of Palestine, Britain had control of Palestine from about 1920 to 1948.
[00:20:16]  If you guys remember, the British Empire at the beginning of the 1900s, it basically ruled the known world.
[00:20:21]  And so they had come to Palestine.
[00:20:22]  It's funny, they said it was deemed unfit for self governance.
[00:20:26]  That's what Britain had done in a lot of the world.
[00:20:27]  They came to India.
[00:20:28]  Yeah, we're going to go ahead and run things.
[00:20:30]  They came to Africa.
[00:20:32]  We're going to go ahead and run things.
[00:20:33]  And so they'd been running things in Palestine for about 25 years or so.
[00:20:37]  And so it came to the end of the war, and Britain's empire has shrunk by this time.
[00:20:40]  And essentially, they relinquished control in accordance with the Balfour Declaration.
[00:20:45]  The UN comes out.
[00:20:46]  Hey, under this declaration, we would like to see Jews kind of establish their own thing.
[00:20:50]  And Israel seizes that opportunity.
[00:20:51]  Ben Gurion was the name of the first Israeli president at the time.
[00:20:56]  They staked their flag and they declared themselves, we are going to be the Jewish state here in Palestine.
[00:21:01]  And it kicks off about a year long war with the Arabs that are there.
[00:21:04]  There's a big consolidation.
[00:21:05]  So the areas that the Jews claimed as theirs obviously kicked out and ethnically cleansed the Arabs that were there.
[00:21:11]  The Arabs fought back.
[00:21:12]  It lasted about a year until an armistice in 49.
[00:21:15]  And from that point on, for the last, we're in 2025, so you're looking at about 75 years, there's been constant conflict with the Muslims in that area.
[00:21:23]  Because again, a group of people dropped themselves in and said, This is going to be our land now without the genealogical continuity.
[00:21:32]  So these are not people that can prove, no, we literally lived here, we were carried off here.
[00:21:36]  We're directly descended from people who used to live here.
[00:21:39]  They don't have that.
[00:21:40]  They, of course, don't have a temple.
[00:21:41]  You have to realize modern Judaism, there's no temple.
[00:21:44]  Think of Yom Kippur with sacrifices.
[00:21:47]  Where did all Orthodox Jews go and have their sins laid on?
[00:21:51]  It was a goat.
[00:21:52]  Where did that happen?
[00:21:53]  Who did that?
[00:21:54]  What high priest?
[00:21:55]  Oh, they don't have any.
[00:21:56]  They don't have a priest.
[00:21:57]  They don't have a temple.
[00:21:57]  They don't have a connection.
[00:21:59]  And so this group of people plopped themselves down.
[00:22:01]  They settled there.
[00:22:02]  And I understand, for the record, the impulse.
[00:22:05]  We want our own nation.
[00:22:06]  We've been persecuted here.
[00:22:07]  We've been kicked out of here.
[00:22:08]  That one, you know, maybe a little bit our fault.
[00:22:10]  But in general, we just want a land to call our own.
[00:22:13]  Well, they got it.
[00:22:13]  And the last 75 years have basically been unending conflict.
[00:22:17]  There was just, the thing is, there was other land.
[00:22:21]  It did not have to be a land that was currently already inhabited.
[00:22:25]  Where it would just be a recipe for nonstop war.
[00:22:28]  The West is responsible, Great Britain in large part, but the United States, we immediately came out and recognized Israel as a state.
[00:22:35]  The West collectively is responsible for putting them there.
[00:22:39]  And we made a decision that I believe we shouldn't have.
[00:22:44]  And by putting them there, because we did it, we have had to basically prop them up ever since, whether it's just financial funding, billions and billions and trillions even of dollars, tax dollars going to Israel.
[00:22:59]  Having to mediate multiple wars, Donald Trump now having to come and try to mediate between Iran and get Hamas to come to the table and relinquish the hostages and all these different things.
[00:23:11]  It's been 75 years of hell.
[00:23:14]  It's been 75 years of nonstop conflict.
[00:23:17]  And there were other solutions.
[00:23:19]  Palestine was not the only place.
[00:23:20]  Madagascar, somebody threw that out there as an option.
[00:23:26]  It was swiftly turned down.
[00:23:27]  They believe Uganda wasn't like, let's do it, let's make it happen.
[00:23:31]  There were other options, but we put here in a place it's highly contested.
[00:23:35]  Assimilation.
[00:23:37]  Yes.
[00:23:37]  Assimilate to the people that you live with.
[00:23:39]  Right.
[00:23:40]  Like, hey, I live in Germany.
[00:23:41]  Hey, I live in Britain.
[00:23:42]  A lot of British Jews at the time were actually mad about Zionism because they were actually doing well.
[00:23:46]  They'd assimilated to British culture to some degree or another, hopefully converted.
[00:23:50]  And they were just, they were like, no, I call myself British.
[00:23:53]  And you're over here actually coming in.
[00:23:54]  You're trying to drive a wedge.
[00:23:56]  Right.
[00:23:56]  Well, there's British people and there's European people and there's Christian people.
[00:23:59]  I'm going to drive a wedge between, and there's the Jewish people, and we will always forever be.
[00:24:04]  This separate column.
[00:24:05]  Right.
[00:24:05]  That's the big thing that you can do, and I think it's biblical.
[00:24:08]  Our people got carried off.
[00:24:09]  We got carried off and judged.
[00:24:10]  We were conquered.
[00:24:11]  We rejected our Messiah.
[00:24:13]  So instead of keeping as an in group and enduring persecution for thousands of years and having to move and never really being able, like this is why they did usury.
[00:24:21]  They could never own land.
[00:24:23]  They couldn't have farms.
[00:24:25]  They were always in the margins.
[00:24:27]  They were always guests and very often unwanted guests.
[00:24:32]  But guests, because they didn't have their own land, they're always living somewhere else as sojourners.
[00:24:39]  And there would be certain laws against them because they weren't the native people.
[00:24:42]  So they wouldn't be allowed to own land or do this or do that.
[00:24:44]  So They had to set up shop and do usury and lending and other forms of ways of producing an income.
[00:24:54]  But one thing that they could have done all along over the last 2,000 years is exactly what you're saying.
[00:24:59]  I think that that's really insightful.
[00:25:00]  They could have assimilated and said, look, God judged us, and God, in his providence, destroyed our country.
[00:25:08]  He destroyed our nation because we rejected God's son.
[00:25:14]  And that was God's judgment.
[00:25:15]  On us, his judgment was just.
[00:25:17]  We're going to repent of our sins, believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and assimilate into one of these dozens of Christian countries where we've been welcomed and the problem would have been solved.
[00:25:29]  Absolutely.
[00:25:30]  Go ahead and take a look at this map here.
[00:25:31]  This is now kind of a map.
[00:25:32]  It's not perfect and doesn't highlight the distinction, the West Bank.
[00:25:36]  But when we talk about Gaza and we talk about the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, I think of the chant of leftist protesters on college campuses from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
[00:25:45]  And so you have the Jordan River there on your right side in the east.
[00:25:48]  All the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
[00:25:50]  And this was what was originally Palestine.
[00:25:52]  It was called by Britain Mandatory Palestine.
[00:25:54]  They just administered this whole area.
[00:25:56]  There was no Jewish state, there was no Arab state.
[00:25:58]  But as it is now, you have the Gaza Strip, which we'll get to in a minute, and then the West Bank.
[00:26:02]  And the West Bank, Israel took over, I think it was 2008, and they've been continually pushing out Gazans that live there.
[00:26:08]  So you had an area that was, again, mostly the Arabs, mostly the Gazans.
[00:26:11]  They've taken it over, they've administered it for a while.
[00:26:14]  But the big point of contention is the existence of the Islamic terrorist group.

=== Before and After Gaza (05:14) ===

[00:26:18]  Hamas down in the southern western corner.
[00:26:20]  If you're not looking here on the map, Gaza Strip is a tiny place.
[00:26:23]  It's only got a couple cities, a couple towns with Gaza there in the north.
[00:26:27]  It's not huge.
[00:26:28]  So it's this small little alcove that still remains Palestinian.
[00:26:32]  And politically and militarily, it's administered by an Islamic terrorist group known as Hamas, which is an abbreviation from the Arabic.
[00:26:39]  And they've existed there since about 1987.
[00:26:42]  They're probably an offshoot of the Islamic Brotherhood.
[00:26:46]  And there's no sugarcoating it or kind of half doing.
[00:26:50]  You know, 50 50.
[00:26:52]  They've been a pain in Israel's butt for a long time.
[00:26:54]  Tunnel attack and rocket attacks have been the biggest one because, as you can see, they're right there.
[00:27:01]  They're backed up to the sea.
[00:27:02]  They've got Egypt down there.
[00:27:03]  Egypt does not want them.
[00:27:04]  So, Egypt's not there like, oh, our beloved brothers, we would love to help you.
[00:27:09]  Egypt doesn't want them.
[00:27:11]  Israel doesn't want them to exist at all.
[00:27:13]  You've got the sea over on that side.
[00:27:15]  And so, that's where all of this contention comes to rest.
[00:27:18]  What do we do with the Gaza Strip?
[00:27:20]  The Gaza Strip, before the war at least, Was incredibly populated.
[00:27:24]  It had the density greater than New York City, just squeezed in.
[00:27:29]  And this is not skyscraper city.
[00:27:31]  So you think of New York City, well, you have skyscrapers and condos.
[00:27:33]  I mean, literally just towering above the land.
[00:27:37]  Not really in Gaza.
[00:27:38]  I mean, these are not brilliant, high achieving, high GDP output.
[00:27:43]  They're native Palestinians, Arabs, mostly Muslims, that have lived there for probably a couple thousand years.
[00:27:49]  And they're a nomadic people.
[00:27:51]  They're just, they live there.
[00:27:52]  And Islam has basically, again, through Hamas, Worked its way in.
[00:27:56]  It's their political system, it's their military system.
[00:27:58]  They have control of that area.
[00:28:00]  Let's go ahead and show some pictures of how Gaza has changed in the last two years.
[00:28:05]  And I think we'll go to our first commercial break.
[00:28:07]  And so we've got two of them.
[00:28:08]  The first one is going to be a drone flyover.
[00:28:11]  So we'll go ahead and start with this one.
[00:28:50]  Absolutely decimated.
[00:28:51]  When I asked Joel earlier, he said, I get that.
[00:28:53]  But to be fair, did Gaza look like that before?
[00:28:55]  Which is a valid question.
[00:28:56]  I'm going to show actually another.
[00:28:58]  This is a second one.
[00:28:59]  This is a before and an after of Gaza from two years ago.
[00:29:02]  So summer 2023, before the October 7th attack, and then Gaza as of September of this year.
[00:29:29]  It looks like, reminds me of before and after pictures of LA, like a 2019 and then a 2021.
[00:29:37]  Oh, yeah.
[00:29:38]  After the riots.
[00:29:39]  I feel like there are some American cities, some parts of Portland, some parts of Chicago, South Chicago.
[00:29:45]  Wait, from the 70s and 80s or from COVID?
[00:29:49]  From basically before the Summer of Love, George Floyd, and then after.
[00:29:53]  Especially Indianapolis.
[00:29:55]  Undoubtedly.
[00:29:56]  That is horrific.
[00:29:57]  That's absolutely horrific.
[00:29:59]  Gaza has been completely devastated.
[00:30:02]  And again, you're talking about a place.
[00:30:04]  Before the war, that had the density, the population density, greater than New York City.
[00:30:09]  Right.
[00:30:10]  More than anywhere else in the U.S. More people live per square mile.
[00:30:13]  And again, not high performing, high achieving, high GDP, productive people, but just kind of like the Middle East.
[00:30:20]  They're Muslims and they were packed in tight, and it has been pretty much leveled.
[00:30:24]  This map will actually end with this before our segment break.
[00:30:27]  This is a map right now of Gaza.
[00:30:28]  And so you have on the very outside, the IDF has complete control now of the Gaza Strip on the outside.
[00:30:34]  So you only have a couple gates.
[00:30:35]  Imagine if you left.
[00:30:37]  Getting in to see family members, to go back, to get maybe things that you would have there.
[00:30:41]  Very hard to do.
[00:30:41]  There's only a select number of access points to Gaza.
[00:30:44]  This is also one of the ways to control journalists, right?
[00:30:46]  So a journalist cannot just come up from Egypt and get in there and see what's going on.
[00:30:51]  Everything around the perimeter is completely controlled by the IDF.
[00:30:54]  The red zone right there, so if you're watching, I would say about 30, 40% of it is covered in a red zone.
[00:31:00]  This is the place where the city, the land, totally decimated.
[00:31:03]  We're talking complete ruin.
[00:31:04]  Nobody's still kind of living there, has been completely ruined.
[00:31:08]  And yellow is where, again, you've got a lot of bombardment, you've got a lot of damage, but those are some places where people are still managing to live.
[00:31:14]  So, a lot of people that would have been in blue, been in red prior to the war, they've been forced into the yellow area, understandably, starvation, understandably, a lot of difficulty.
[00:31:25]  Hamas somewhere in there as prisoners, obviously.
[00:31:28]  And that's where Israel's been conducting strikes for essentially the last two years.
[00:31:31]  Yeah.

=== Ruined Land and Red Zones (02:09) ===

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=== Netanyahu's Unpopular Stance (09:36) ===

[00:33:42]  So on Friday, we were live when it happened.
[00:33:44]  Hamas agreed tentatively to a peace deal.
[00:33:47]  Now, just as a reminder of October 7th, take a look at this that's on the screen here.
[00:33:51]  This was Operation Al Aqwasa, flood against Israel.
[00:33:56]  These are where the attacks happened.
[00:33:57]  So remember, I showed you the Gaza Strip, it's in the southwest corner of modern day Palestine.
[00:34:02]  And they basically struck out at Israel in their very near proximity.
[00:34:06]  So, this is a very small amount of Israel.
[00:34:08]  They didn't strike Tel Aviv.
[00:34:09]  They didn't strike Jerusalem, for example.
[00:34:11]  And it was about 1,200 people total that died on October 7th.
[00:34:15]  We're coming up on the two year anniversary of, and again, all the devastation, everything that's happened to Gaza.
[00:34:20]  It's been in the wake of it.
[00:34:21]  Israel took that as a blank check to basically level about half of the Gaza Strip, with the other half currently in progress.
[00:34:28]  Now, as you said in the Okold Open, Trump is a peacemaker and he touted this a lot.
[00:34:33]  During his first administration, he's correct.
[00:34:35]  There were no new major wars, right?
[00:34:37]  He, uh, Biden took over, I think it was February 2021.
[00:34:41]  Uh, not all that long after he left office, uh, the Ukrainian Russian war broke out, which is still going on.
[00:34:47]  Hundreds of thousands of people have died.
[00:34:49]  October 7th, 2023, so just two years after him leaving office, you had the biggest breakout of uh, of conflict in the Palestine area basically 75 years.
[00:34:59]  So Trump's come in and he's been doing his best to try to stop both of them.
[00:35:02]  And to be honest, we have to be honest, we're nine months in, he's not been successful yet.
[00:35:06]  The Russia Ukrainian war is still going on.
[00:35:09]  And the Israel Hamas war is still going on.
[00:35:11]  So I think Trump here is desperate for a win.
[00:35:15]  This is comical.
[00:35:16]  If you can see the screen, you can see the word that he says.
[00:35:19]  But when Trump called up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this was on Friday, to tell him, hey, this deal that we put out forward to Hamas, they've accepted parts of it, they want others.
[00:35:29]  Netanyahu initially said, I don't know why you're celebrating.
[00:35:32]  Why are you celebrating this?
[00:35:33]  We don't want this.
[00:35:33]  We wanted much more.
[00:35:35]  And that's funny.
[00:35:36]  Trump came out and he said, this is what you'll see on your screen, the headline.
[00:35:39]  Trump to Netanyahu on Gaza, you're always so blanking negative.
[00:35:44]  So true.
[00:35:45]  So true.
[00:35:46]  Because Trump wants peace.
[00:35:48]  Netanyahu, on the other hand, as you alluded to, he's pretty unpopular.
[00:35:52]  This is from January 2024, a Reuters poll that said only 15% of Israelis want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay in office after the war on Hamas in Gaza ends.
[00:36:02]  15% want him to stay in office, though many more still support his strategy of crushing the militants in the Palestinian enclave.
[00:36:09]  According to a poll published on Tuesday, I recognize this is about a year and a half ago, but it highlights he was unpopular then.
[00:36:16]  You're seeing here at the UN calls for sanctions greeted him at the UN.
[00:36:21]  So he went to the UN.
[00:36:22]  A number of people walked out when he spoke.
[00:36:24]  There's calls for sanctions.
[00:36:25]  I just saw tens of thousands of people in Amsterdam rallied for an anti Israeli protest, essentially saying, take the deal, get peace, and let's stop having war in Gaza that is causing all of this humanitarian suffering.
[00:36:39]  And so Benjamin Netanyahu is unpopular.
[00:36:42]  He's facing a lot of international pressure.
[00:36:44]  And practically speaking, he's actually under three distinct trials, and that's not counting the international court as well.
[00:36:51]  So there's an international compliance court that has called on him to answer for the crimes.
[00:36:55]  We call it crimes against humanity during the war in Gaza.
[00:36:58]  But there's also three internal Israeli investigations for basically bribery, favors, the typical political things.
[00:37:05]  Now, here's a great thing that happens during a war all the people that don't like you take the second shelf.
[00:37:11]  We think of.
[00:37:13]  Why am I blanking?
[00:37:14]  Ukrainian President Zelensky.
[00:37:15]  Zelensky.
[00:37:15]  He suspended elections while the war's going on.
[00:37:18]  Yep.
[00:37:18]  How convenient.
[00:37:19]  He wanted to stay in power.
[00:37:21]  Guys, for your safety, we're not going to have an election where I could be potentially ousted.
[00:37:26]  And in the same way for Netanyahu, one of these investigations, the prosecution, they stated their case.
[00:37:32]  They rested in 2024.
[00:37:34]  He was giving his side of it too.
[00:37:35]  And then the trial experienced multiple delays, most recently in June 2025, when the court granted a temporary postponement, citing diplomatic and national security measures during the conflict with Iran.
[00:37:48]  So even just this summer, when Israel attacked Iran, we all remember that.
[00:37:53]  Well, how convenient that also delayed the court cases that are going against him, right?
[00:37:58]  So, politically unpopular, he's under judicial review, facing a lot of pressure at home and internationally.
[00:38:04]  The whole world is kind of calling on him, like, dude, give it a rest.
[00:38:10]  Yeah, anything on your end?
[00:38:11]  No, I just think that we're naive if we don't recognize that.
[00:38:16]  Um, it's like, oh, this is you know, historic, you know, age old conflicts.
[00:38:20]  Like, yeah, that's true.
[00:38:21]  Um, there's that element, and that's real, and it's undeniable, but there's also Present day political warfare that is a massive cause to a lot of the conflict.
[00:38:34]  Trump wants it to end.
[00:38:35]  It's in his best interest that it ends.
[00:38:37]  And I think, really, I think objectively, it's the world's best interest that this conflict ends.
[00:38:44]  Whereas in the case of Netanyahu, for him, the moment that there's finally peace and resolution, his political career is probably over.
[00:38:55]  And so he has no incentive to end the war.
[00:38:58]  Yep.
[00:38:59]  So, the tenets of the deal that Hamas has tentatively agreed to, a big one is the returning of hostages.
[00:39:03]  They have a number of hostages, and they've agreed to return them.
[00:39:06]  But more permanently, it establishes a kind of temporary makeshift governance.
[00:39:10]  And a big part of it is the disarmament.
[00:39:12]  So, they're asking Hamas to disarm, that the Gaza region would be disarmed.
[00:39:17]  However, it would remain politically distinct.
[00:39:19]  And as of now, Trump went to Egypt, I think, where the negotiations were being held.
[00:39:23]  He's sounding optimistic.
[00:39:24]  This is actually just from 10 minutes ago.
[00:39:25]  We're going to play a clip of Trump kind of talking about the process of the peace talks as they've been happening.
[00:39:30]  Great.
[00:39:40]  Is that true?
[00:39:41]  No, it's not true.
[00:39:42]  He's been very positive.
[00:39:44]  He's been very positive on the deal.
[00:39:45]  Everybody is.
[00:39:46]  I think every nation is.
[00:39:47]  We have just about every nation working on this deal and trying to get it done.
[00:39:51]  Something that you could say 3,000 years if you look at it in certain ways, or you could say centuries, but this is a deal that incredibly everyone just came together.
[00:40:02]  They all came together.
[00:40:03]  No, Israel's been great.
[00:40:04]  They've all been good, Caleb.
[00:40:06]  And in the negotiations, do you have any red lines in terms of Hamas?
[00:40:12]  Disarming and whatnot?
[00:40:13]  No, I have red lines.
[00:40:13]  If certain things aren't met, we're not going to do it.
[00:40:16]  But I think we're doing very well.
[00:40:17]  And I think Hamas has been agreeing to things that are very important.
[00:40:25]  There you go.
[00:40:26]  Mandatory little love for Israel there.
[00:40:28]  Israel's been great.
[00:40:29]  It was funny.
[00:40:29]  There was, I think it was during the summer, it sounded like they were falling out.
[00:40:32]  Yeah.
[00:40:33]  The prime minister of Israel.
[00:40:34]  Yep.
[00:40:34]  Curse phone calls, calls not being answered.
[00:40:38]  They found a way to make up, though.
[00:40:40]  There are millions of evangelicals.
[00:40:42]  Depending on this relationship, we need to kiss and make up.
[00:40:45]  We need to make it happen.
[00:40:46]  But basically, he's saying, look, the world at this point wants this.
[00:40:49]  This is not just a small, tiny faction.
[00:40:52]  This is what James Lindsay was trying to say.
[00:40:53]  There's a small, tiny faction of protesters that are against Israel.
[00:40:57]  No, the whole world is saying, we're seeing the pictures, we're seeing the videos, we're seeing what's being done.
[00:41:02]  The whole UN walked out.
[00:41:03]  You got them yet?
[00:41:04]  Yeah.
[00:41:04]  Right.
[00:41:05]  Yep.
[00:41:06]  So it'll be interesting.
[00:41:07]  We may, for the first time, this would be in two years, basically not have, for the moment, Conflict in the Middle East.
[00:41:14]  However, again, this comes during a time when Israel's popularity has never been lower.
[00:41:19]  You can see it.
[00:41:20]  I can see it.
[00:41:20]  It's not astroturfed.
[00:41:22]  This is a decades long decline.
[00:41:24]  And if anything, it's been declining steadily, but not off of a cliff, kind of as the older generation passes away.
[00:41:31]  But in the last two years since the start of the war, we're talking about a massive drop in popularity.
[00:41:37]  So they're coming out of this war, not as popular as ever, not with more support in the U.S., but with a lot less support.
[00:41:44]  And interestingly, I'm interested how this can play in the midterms.
[00:41:47]  If support for Israel in their war against Hamas wasn't a factor, will that allow anti Israel representatives, anti Israel senators to have a better chance because the campaign won't be about that?
[00:41:59]  The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, loves him some Israel.
[00:42:03]  And he said privately, I think it was to AIPAC.
[00:42:06]  Oh, it was to Mike, huh?
[00:42:07]  Mike Huckabee, Mike Johnson.
[00:42:09]  Mike Johnson, Mike, Mike, Mike.
[00:42:10]  You still want to be like Mike?
[00:42:12]  I don't.
[00:42:13]  I don't.
[00:42:14]  He said privately, I think it was to AIPAC.
[00:42:15]  He's like, I'm going to do my best to make sure there's not a representative.
[00:42:18]  That makes it through the primary process that gets elected in the House of Representatives, that's anti Israel.
[00:42:23]  So, even here in the US, there's a recognition this anti Israel coalition is growing.
[00:42:28]  People want to be done with them, people don't want to support Marjorie.
[00:42:31]  We don't play our cards on it.
[00:42:32]  Marjorie's an example.
[00:42:33]  She's kind of a rising star.
[00:42:35]  Just, you know, it pains me for it to be her.
[00:42:39]  I mean, you and I both, we would rather, you know, I'm sure she's a sweet lady.
[00:42:43]  We'd rather her just stay at home.
[00:42:45]  We'd like to see, you know, Christian men in office and not women.
[00:42:49]  But I will say that she has taken a stand on this issue.
[00:42:54]  And yeah, some of the usual suspects, some of your neocons and things like that, and I say some, like 90% of them, hate her, absolutely hate her.
[00:43:02]  But in terms of grassroots, like American citizens, the people themselves, she's a star.
[00:43:08]  They really, really, really like her.
[00:43:10]  Matt Gaetz as well is a big one.
[00:43:12]  They like him a lot.
[00:43:13]  And not just because, literally, on that issue, that's his only thing, but they're like, he's solid here.
[00:43:17]  He's great here.

=== Generational Support Drops (10:22) ===

[00:43:18]  And also, he gets the times.
[00:43:21]  Because, yeah, people are, they're done with Israel.
[00:43:23]  And more than just being done with Israel, it's not just about that.
[00:43:27]  It's not just that people are over Israel, but it's not what they've stopped.
[00:43:31]  It's what they're starting.
[00:43:32]  And what they're starting is people are really starting to say, wait a second, why aren't we America first?
[00:43:38]  Why don't we prioritize our country first?
[00:43:41]  And I think as the boomers, I mean, you look at like some of the statistics that I've seen just in the last week of like where wealth currently is being held among the populace of the United States.
[00:43:52]  It's like 60, I think it's 67%, 70% of our wealth is boomers, one generation.
[00:44:00]  And then you get to like Gen Z and they have, you know, like they empty their pockets and there's like a cigarette butt, you know, and a stick of bubble gum, you know, and maybe a button that came off of their shirt.
[00:44:11]  And that's it.
[00:44:12]  That's, I mean, that's like their life savings.
[00:44:15]  And, you know, they're younger, but it's not just like, oh, well, they're young and they'll have a lot of money later.
[00:44:19]  No, like boomers, in terms of real wealth, when they were the age of Gen Z, they had a whole lot more wealth than Gen Z.
[00:44:27]  And if it was just, you know, if it was just kind of like tiered up based off of age and how many years you had lived and how much time you had to accumulate wealth, well, then you would expect that, you know, Gen X would be, you know, somewhere close to boomers.
[00:44:40]  Nowhere even close.
[00:44:41]  It's, I think it's like, what I was looking at is basically all the people who have, All the millionaires in the United States, everybody who has more than a million dollars, it might have been $3 million.
[00:44:51]  It was something I saw this morning, but it was 67% of those who had either 1 million or 3 million plus, whatever the statistic was.
[00:45:01]  67% were boomers.
[00:45:02]  I believe it was only 15% Gen X.
[00:45:05]  And then it was like 18%, something like that, 19% millennials, and then like, you know, 5% or 6% or 7% for Gen Z.
[00:45:14]  So you're talking like all these other three other generations, Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z. All of them collectively, maybe, maybe collectively, having about half the wealth of one generation boomers.
[00:45:27]  And so, my point is aside from Israel, Israel is just one of the most blatant, obvious examples of our own leaders, our own politicians being treasonous and actually caring about another nation more than our own.
[00:45:39]  But it's not just that.
[00:45:40]  If everybody was buying houses and everybody was building wealth and things were good at home and we didn't have career criminals who have been charged 14 times and then let out again and stabbing white women on a train.
[00:45:53]  Um, then you know, then it's so my point is it's a culmination of many different variables.
[00:45:59]  It's that, um, the kids are not all right, right?
[00:46:02]  The kids are not all right, and and people feel that the kids feel that some parents don't care, but other parents do, and they feel that and feel a sense of sympathy and concern for their children.
[00:46:13]  How are our children going to be able to have a life that we've had and provide for our grandchildren the kind of life that we've had, or anything even remotely close to it?
[00:46:22]  So, and then and then you look at so you look at economics, you look at uh crime.
[00:46:26]  That's massive.
[00:46:27]  You look at immigration, how we're being flooded by all these foreign peoples, that we're losing our country right before our very eyes.
[00:46:34]  And then you look at this punk in the Middle East who just keeps picking fights with everybody and then also says, Money, please, money, please.
[00:46:45]  Comes in and tells us that their event was worse than our 9 11.
[00:46:48]  Yeah, you know, literally, more people died.
[00:46:51]  Stood in front of what was it, Congress or House of Reps or something like that.
[00:46:54]  But he stood before American politicians and literally said, I think he said 20 times.
[00:47:00]  Was the number?
[00:47:01]  He said, what happened on October 7th to Israel was 20 times worse than September 11th.
[00:47:08]  And the point that he was trying to make, to steel man the argument, which is very charitable on my part, I might add, because it's such a terrible thing to say.
[00:47:17]  It really merits no defense.
[00:47:20]  But what he was trying to do was he was looking at here's the overall population of Israel, and here's the overall population of America, and here's what percentage of Israelis died on October 7th.
[00:47:32]  And then saying the percentage of those who died, you know, the 3,500 or so that it was with September 11th in America.
[00:47:41]  And so he's saying, in terms of percentages, well, it was, you know, the percentage of Israel's total population that died on October 7th was 20 times greater than the percentage that died on September 11th of America's overall population.
[00:47:55]  Still, the point is to come into our country and to belittle and minimize our tragedies, to say, your American tragedy.
[00:48:04]  That Israel was actually responsible for it.
[00:48:06]  No, no, no.
[00:48:07]  That we did, no.
[00:48:09]  To come in to say, your tragedy is nothing.
[00:48:15]  And ours is the one that really matters.
[00:48:17]  Meanwhile, it's not just that we had a tragedy, but we're living in a tragedy, right?
[00:48:22]  25 year olds, they cannot afford to get married and to have children.
[00:48:27]  They're not getting married.
[00:48:28]  So it's not just they can't afford it, they're also not doing it.
[00:48:30]  Like, percentage of men, I think, own a home and married by 30.
[00:48:34]  So, what percentage of your men and your population have achieved these markers by 30?
[00:48:37]  It's like a fifth of what the prior generation was.
[00:48:41]  They can't afford it and they're not doing it.
[00:48:43]  Which is crazy.
[00:48:43]  They're not going out.
[00:48:44]  They're not getting married.
[00:48:45]  They don't have jobs.
[00:48:46]  To your point, all of these things, it kind of feels like, and this is what we've been talking about.
[00:48:50]  I think of the fourth turning episode we did a couple weeks ago.
[00:48:53]  All of these things are kind of coming together.
[00:48:56]  There was no groundswell against Israel in the 90s.
[00:48:58]  No.
[00:48:58]  You guys have to understand their support, this drop in support after October 7th, this has been generations in the making.
[00:49:06]  That's right.
[00:49:06]  Yeah.
[00:49:06]  So it's like things, when things happen, they happen all at once.
[00:49:10]  Right.
[00:49:11]  Like when it rains, it pours.
[00:49:12]  So, it has been in the making for decades.
[00:49:16]  But then all of a sudden, the ramifications, the effects are coming to light.
[00:49:22]  But it really has been not just the last two years, boom, popularity for Israel has plummeted.
[00:49:29]  But that was building, that sentiment was building for a long time.
[00:49:33]  But what I was going to say when you brought up the 90s, part of the reason why this wasn't the case in the 90s, it wasn't just because, oh, in the 90s, Israel was great.
[00:49:40]  Israel has never been great, never been great, right?
[00:49:43]  You can't do a campaign, right?
[00:49:44]  Like nobody could run on a campaign in Israel, you know.
[00:49:47]  Miga, make Israel great again.
[00:49:48]  Well, what do you mean?
[00:49:50]  Like, America actually, America used to be great, you know, and so that actually makes sense.
[00:49:54]  Israel has never been great.
[00:49:56]  And so it's not like in the 90s, Israel was wonderful, and that's why, you know, American sentiment for Israel was so high.
[00:50:03]  No, it was more so a number of factors, but one would be media was sharply controlled in the 90s, right?
[00:50:11]  You have, you know, a few channels on TV, you don't have, you know, YouTube and all this, you know.
[00:50:17]  didn't know what was going on.
[00:50:18]  So there was a massive lack of information and a ton of propaganda coming out of Israel and flooding, you know, our politicians, our media, and all these kinds of things.
[00:50:27]  Number two, Americans, this is my big point, Americans were doing relatively well in the 90s.
[00:50:32]  Yeah.
[00:50:33]  And here's the deal when you're doing well, you kind of, you know, people can get away with things, right?
[00:50:41]  You'll let some things slide, right?
[00:50:42]  If you're doing well and you've got your two weeks of vacation and the kids are doing well and, And you're able to save money for them to go to college and you own your home.
[00:50:51]  Did you buy a fridge that lasts 30 years?
[00:50:53]  Right.
[00:50:53]  Yeah.
[00:50:54]  With no ads on it either, unlike the new Samsung fridges.
[00:50:57]  Dude, babe, wake up, new capitalism just dropped.
[00:51:00]  I saw your post.
[00:51:01]  That was funny.
[00:51:02]  But yeah, so when you're doing well, then yeah, you don't really, okay, we're sending some tax dollars to Israel and you're not really investigating, looking into it because you're like, I'm doing fine.
[00:51:13]  I don't really care because I'm happy.
[00:51:16]  But things are not great right now.
[00:51:19]  And so, when you can't afford basic living necessities and you have multiple generations in your country that can't afford those, and they're all well aware that prior generations could, that things actually were great.
[00:51:33]  And now, all of a sudden, it's your life and your opportunity, and you're of age to get married and buy a home.
[00:51:41]  And the things that were there for your mom and dad aren't there for you.
[00:51:45]  And it's very clear.
[00:51:48]  And there's economic tightening and restraints, and you're barely getting by.
[00:51:53]  And then you find out because now there's a flood of independent media.
[00:51:58]  And so, like, decentralized.
[00:52:00]  Yeah.
[00:52:00]  And so you can see, you know, facts that, you know, Walter Cronkite would have never shared with you back in the day.
[00:52:06]  Well, I miss the days of Walter Cronkite.
[00:52:08]  He just gave us the news.
[00:52:09]  No, he just gave you one streamlined version of propaganda.
[00:52:14]  Right.
[00:52:15]  And now, you know, it's pick your poison.
[00:52:18]  There's all, So now that you can actually see, well, this person's saying we're giving how many billions of dollars to Israel and this many billions to Ukraine and this.
[00:52:26]  And my politicians are going out to do that.
[00:52:29]  And USAID, we were paying millions of dollars to teach transgenderism to kids in Pakistan.
[00:52:35]  And you look at all that and you can't afford a home.
[00:52:39]  Then all of a sudden, and they're glassing Gaza and committing genocide.
[00:52:46]  And you know about it and you're hearing about it.
[00:52:49]  Then, yeah, I mean, what do you think is going to happen?
[00:52:51]  People are going to be like, Yeah, you know what?
[00:52:53]  This relationship's not working out.
[00:52:54]  We're done with Israel.
[00:52:56]  And think about every American has been told well, the thing that makes America great is that we don't have a king.
[00:53:00]  We're run by the people, get to vote representatives.
[00:53:03]  So you have theoretically this avenue.
[00:53:05]  My life is terrible.
[00:53:06]  Homes are unaffordable.
[00:53:07]  The economy is awful.
[00:53:08]  You theoretically have this avenue, which is to appeal to your politicians who represent you.
[00:53:12]  But again, the ire and the angst is well, these people represent us.
[00:53:16]  And so, in the wake of Charlie Kirk, Republicans who control the presidency and who control the Senate and control the House, they're putting forward legislation and they're crafting and they're working on rooting out leftist terrorism.
[00:53:27]  Oh, we're getting commemorative coins.
[00:53:29]  Oh, I can't afford a home.
[00:53:31]  And so, some type of this or that, or getting people out as far as immigration, which looks to be deportations.
[00:53:37]  They seem to be on the rise, but practically for years they haven't been.

=== Securing Your Legacy in Gold (04:24) ===

[00:53:40]  But oh, so you're going to do this?
[00:53:42]  And, like, well, best I can do for you, champ, is I can take another trip to Israel on your dime.
[00:53:47]  I mean, Senator Rick Scott from Florida literally flies the Israeli flag outside of his office.
[00:53:52]  So, to your point, and it's like, well, I have one recourse the law and the state, which can be a force for good, it can be a force for evil, it can be despotic, it can be wicked.
[00:54:01]  But theoretically, it could be this avenue that good people represent you, take your interests.
[00:54:06]  But what they've done and what people are mad at, and why they're mad kind of at both parties, they've taken them, they've done jack with it.
[00:54:12]  They're like, you've done nothing for me.
[00:54:14]  And a big thing they have done is they have served Israel.
[00:54:18]  And so it's like, you get it's almost like they're cheating on someone.
[00:54:21]  You stop going over there and having affection for this other woman that's taking all your time, all your money, all your love.
[00:54:29]  Come back here and help us.
[00:54:31]  Right.
[00:54:32]  Yep.
[00:54:32]  So people are done.
[00:54:34]  They're done.
[00:54:35]  Great.
[00:54:35]  Well, I think we've got a number of super chats.
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=== Free Market Supply and Demand (13:00) ===

[00:58:04]  We've got a question from Austin.
[00:58:06]  I'm pretty sure because we've seen him pop up in the chat from time to time.
[00:58:09]  And, uh, pretty, you know, he's a heckler.
[00:58:12]  He's a troll, uh, to say the least.
[00:58:15]  Uh, but he's got a question here that, um, he thinks probably is a gotcha question, but, uh, it's actually just, um, a layup.
[00:58:22]  So I appreciate, uh, when the trolls, you know, just, uh, put out some red meat, you know, a layup, a little, you know, tee it up for you nicely, something that's really easy.
[00:58:29]  So he thinks this is a really, uh, Really insightful question.
[00:58:33]  Yeah, he thought he cooked.
[00:58:34]  So let's go ahead and answer it because it'll be simple.
[00:58:36]  He said, What do you suggest the government do to lower home prices?
[00:58:40]  Give specifics.
[00:58:41]  It's a free market.
[00:58:42]  It is a free market, not as free as you think, but it is somewhat of a free market.
[00:58:47]  That's true.
[00:58:47]  And so let me teach you a little something about the free market.
[00:58:51]  One principle in the free market is supply and demand.
[00:58:55]  Supply and demand.
[00:58:56]  And one thing that you can do in order to lower demand.
[00:59:02]  And therefore, principles, prices, is by ultimately having a greater supply.
[00:59:07]  If something is prevalent, right, if there's an abundance, a surplus of something, then the price goes down.
[00:59:15]  If something is rare, then the price goes up, the demand goes up.
[00:59:20]  So, one thing that you could do in these United States of America with a population of approximately 330 million people is you could go ahead and just slice off a third of the total population and send them out of the country.
[00:59:33]  100 million people need to go back.
[00:59:36]  100 million people need to go back.
[00:59:38]  They are not Americans.
[00:59:39]  They are paperwork Americans at best.
[00:59:41]  Many of them are illegal.
[00:59:43]  They're not even paperwork Americans, but some of them are, they have some form of documentation, but they are H 1B visas.
[00:59:51]  They're not actually citizens.
[00:59:53]  And there are even a few citizens that also need to go back.
[00:59:56]  Ilhan Omar, she would be at the top of my list.
[00:59:59]  She is a United States citizen, but she is not an American.
[01:00:03]  And that's by her own admission.
[01:00:05]  That's not just by my.
[01:00:06]  You know, Heritage American Standard, Ilhan Omar would be the first to tell you and has said it publicly several times that her ultimate allegiance is to Somalia, right?
[01:00:17]  That's where her allegiance lies.
[01:00:18]  So if you take non Americans who do not belong in this country, and there's approximately 100 million of them, and get rid of them to where all of a sudden a third of the houses in our country are now empty, what happens in a free market with supply and demand to the principles, the prices?
[01:00:37]  What happens is that they go down.
[01:00:40]  They go down significantly, significantly, because now you have the dwelling places to ultimately host 330 million people, but now there's only 220 million people who need those houses.
[01:00:53]  And so, in order to compete, when you're trying to sell your property, you have to take the price down because there are less buyers and there's more supply than there actually is demand.
[01:01:04]  That's one simple solution that would take, probably, I would say, on average, a $500,000 house.
[01:01:11]  And cut it down to about $320, $350.
[01:01:14]  Yeah.
[01:01:16]  And we saw, we had for 24 hours something that kind of looked like this plan the H 1B visa fee.
[01:01:21]  So there was a moment there for 24 hours where the Department of Immigration said, hey, as far as H 1B visas go, this is a skilled laborer position.
[01:01:29]  So theoretically, it's jobs that are above, they get $60K, and their jobs supposedly Americans can't do.
[01:01:35]  There was going to be a fee attached.
[01:01:36]  So, all right, you've got a skill.
[01:01:37]  We can literally fill this with no American.
[01:01:39]  They can't do the job.
[01:01:40]  You've got a skill to offer us.
[01:01:42]  You also need to pay $100,000.
[01:01:44]  That would have leveled, flattened H 1B visa immigration.
[01:01:49]  And it would have affected principals like Andrew Isker.
[01:01:52]  And not immediately, but over the next couple of years.
[01:01:54]  Over the next couple of years.
[01:01:55]  Andrew Isker, I sent you a screenshot.
[01:01:57]  He texted me.
[01:01:58]  I thought it was funny.
[01:02:00]  And I was rooting for him to be right.
[01:02:02]  But he was thinking about our area.
[01:02:04]  He's been out here and visited a couple of times.
[01:02:06]  And he knows that we are heavy with our Indian population here in the Austin area.
[01:02:14]  Oh, my goodness.
[01:02:15]  I mean, it is insane.
[01:02:16]  And Dallas is worse, apparently.
[01:02:18]  So it's bad year.
[01:02:18]  Did you see the Frisco Costco video?
[01:02:21]  I did not have the displeasure.
[01:02:23]  Dude, somebody posted a video of Costco in Frisco, which I guess that would be California, but I think there's a Frisco in Texas too.
[01:02:32]  Yeah, okay.
[01:02:33]  And it was literally like, and they had like, you know, in the B roll, you know, the audio, they had like some Indian music playing.
[01:02:42]  And it was literally like this one white guy just going around filming.
[01:02:46]  Not a single non Indian in sight.
[01:02:48]  I mean, just it had to have been, you know, a few hundred Indians and no one but Indians.
[01:02:54]  And so, anyways, Andrew Whisker, he texted me when Trump said the H 1B visa thing when, you know, of course, in typical Trump fashion, it was, you know, the bark was bigger than the bite.
[01:03:04]  We'll see what actually happens.
[01:03:06]  But initially, you know, it was $100,000 annual, an annual fee, $100,000 per each one H 1B visa worker was going to have to be paid by them or by the company.
[01:03:17]  And that ultimately would mean that a ton of them would go back.
[01:03:21]  And certainly no more would come.
[01:03:22]  At one point, it was going to look like annually.
[01:03:24]  So every single year, you would have had to make enough to pay, maintain, keep it up.
[01:03:29]  Yep, which would mean a number of things.
[01:03:31]  One, it would mean that Americans would now be able to get those jobs.
[01:03:34]  And two, to afford a home.
[01:03:36]  Right, to afford a home.
[01:03:37]  So you would have Americans paid more.
[01:03:40]  You would also have less people, which means homes cost less.
[01:03:44]  And in our area, we, yeah, like, you know, for our area, you know, prices spiked all over the country.
[01:03:51]  And our area, especially in 2020.
[01:03:53]  21 in the first half of 2022, and then boom, they began to plummet.
[01:03:58]  But there were lots of other places in the country where prices spiked and then they kind of trickled down a little bit, but then kind of hit a bottom and hit a support level and stayed there.
[01:04:10]  I think of the guys in Ogden.
[01:04:11]  Yeah.
[01:04:12]  Well, here's the deal places on the coast, right?
[01:04:14]  They're landlocked.
[01:04:16]  You have the ocean, Ogden, same kind of concept.
[01:04:20]  You have mountains, you can't just build everywhere.
[01:04:23]  But places like Texas, they were just buying up farms, it's just flat.
[01:04:26]  Right, as far as the eye can see.
[01:04:27]  So they're just buying up land, buying up farms.
[01:04:30]  You're not landlocked by anything.
[01:04:31]  There's no mountains.
[01:04:32]  There's no ocean.
[01:04:33]  There's no nothing.
[01:04:33]  It's Texas.
[01:04:34]  That's just what it is.
[01:04:36]  And so they just built out.
[01:04:37]  They just put in toll roads and then just bought up farms and then just the default factory setting new builds.
[01:04:47]  Just slapped 2,000 homes.
[01:04:48]  Just boom, here's a home, and threw them up in a matter of just a few short months.
[01:04:54]  A farm became a subdivision.
[01:04:56]  You know, in six months, and they didn't just do one or two of them, they did it by the hundreds and I'm not hundreds of homes, I'm not saying hundreds of homes, hundreds of subdivisions, and uh, and so it's again supply and demand.
[01:05:09]  So, um, all of a sudden, the supply actually outpaced the demand at first, like they couldn't build them fast enough because everyone was moving to Texas.
[01:05:17]  It was you know 2020, everybody's getting out of California and New York, and all these well, and also Biden gets into office.
[01:05:23]  Maybe you're about to say that.
[01:05:24]  Yep, tons of immigration, exactly.
[01:05:27]  So, you had a ton of people flooding in from the southern border because of Biden taking office.
[01:05:31]  And a ton of people also escaping their blue states and wanting to move to more red states like Texas.
[01:05:36]  And Austin became a really big destination in 2020, 2021.
[01:05:40]  And so there's a huge demand, not enough supply, but because they weren't landlocked, they just made that supply.
[01:05:48]  Whereas other places like Ogden, mountains, or like San Diego, ocean, and mountains for that matter, and desert, most of California, Southern California is desert, they could only build so much.
[01:06:01]  And so those places spiked and then kind of stayed high.
[01:06:03]  They came down a little bit, but they kind of stayed high.
[01:06:05]  For us, like my home went up by, I think it was 40%.
[01:06:11]  I bought it mid 2020 and we closed in June or July of 2020.
[01:06:19]  And our home, this is not an exaggeration, our home by October, I think it was October, November of 2021.
[01:06:28]  So this is like, it was literally about 16 months.
[01:06:32]  In 16 months, our home on Zillow had gone up 40%.
[01:06:36]  40%.
[01:06:38]  And then today it has gone back down to where it's now from the price that we bought it at, it's up about, I think it's up 20%.
[01:06:49]  So it went up 40% and then back down, and now it's up 20%.
[01:06:53]  But that's because there was this massive demand because of all the immigration from the southern border and then all the people exiting blue states and moving to this area in 2020, 2021.
[01:07:04]  And low interest rates, third factor.
[01:07:06]  And low interest rates, you're right.
[01:07:08]  And then interest rates went up.
[01:07:10]  People are self deporting and some actually being deported.
[01:07:13]  And some people who moved here from blue states, it's been four or five years at this point.
[01:07:18]  So some people are like, all right, Trump's in office, things are more normal now.
[01:07:23]  And there's huge bugs in Texas and it's always hot and humid.
[01:07:27]  So I'm going to go back to where I came from.
[01:07:29]  And so because now there's less demand, that's part of it.
[01:07:35]  And interest rates went up and all these kinds of things.
[01:07:38]  And there's a ton of supply.
[01:07:41]  And so prices have.
[01:07:42]  Come down, and it's the same thing.
[01:07:44]  So, that question is not difficult to answer.
[01:07:48]  What do you do to make homes affordable in the United States?
[01:07:51]  Well, in one foul swoop, you can kill two birds with one stone.
[01:07:55]  In one foul swoop, you can raise the wages of Americans by getting rid of non Americans, paperwork Americans, and you can also increase the supply of housing for Americans by getting rid of paperwork non Americans.
[01:08:10]  Simply by doing that, everyone would make more.
[01:08:13]  And things would cost less.
[01:08:15]  Make more, cost less.
[01:08:16]  You could fix virtually every single problem by simply 100 million people go back.
[01:08:23]  The only problem at that point, really remaining, would be crime.
[01:08:26]  And with crime, all you have to do is replace crooked judges, have just judges, and actually punish criminals.
[01:08:34]  And we would live in a paradise.
[01:08:36]  It'd be amazing.
[01:08:37]  Benjamin Franklin, long ago, one of the things he said is so great about America, he said it's just not as full.
[01:08:43]  Like, think about Britain at the time.
[01:08:45]  Like, people have lived there for a long time.
[01:08:48]  America is huge and vast.
[01:08:49]  And when you look back at old videos, honestly, that's one of the things you notice about it.
[01:08:53]  It's not parking lots full of cars and lines to wait.
[01:08:56]  That's a new thing and it drastically impacts quality of life.
[01:08:59]  One of the things that had made America so good was it was relatively empty until 2020, 2021, 2023.
[01:09:06]  We imported by the tens of millions, tens of millions of people, especially to these population centers your Austin, your Dallas, your San Diego, your LA.
[01:09:15]  We imported a lot of people.
[01:09:16]  And the four years got a lot worse.
[01:09:18]  Yeah.
[01:09:18]  The four years of the Auto Pen administration.
[01:09:21]  A lot of guys have projected that it was close to 40 million, including legal and illegal aliens, and also factoring in for getaways.
[01:09:31]  The total number was around 40 million people.
[01:09:34]  Think about that 40 million people, that's over 10%.
[01:09:37]  At the time, we would have been about 300 million population, and we took in over 10%, like 12% of our total population in four years.
[01:09:48]  And then we're like, hey, there's economic problems and crime has gone up.
[01:09:52]  And what's going on?
[01:09:53]  What could it possibly be?
[01:09:56]  I think we know.
[01:09:56]  I've got an idea.
[01:09:57]  All right, super chats.
[01:09:59]  Dapper Dan, great brother, longtime supporter, $4.99.
[01:10:02]  Thanks, Dan.
[01:10:03]  He said, stop funding Israel and reallocate the money to ICE.
[01:10:06]  Amen.
[01:10:06]  Yes, and amen.
[01:10:07]  And hey, if you are a patriot and probably a single man, so you have a little bit more ability, ICE is hiring.
[01:10:13]  So they want our guys, and it needs to be our guys.
[01:10:16]  You need to go out there, you need to fill out an application and say, Stephen Miller, I'm your guy.
[01:10:20]  You need to get out there, you need to save America.
[01:10:23]  That's more, again, for single men, if you're looking for kind of a career change.
[01:10:26]  Or maybe if you're in the different deport areas with like centers, I think San Antonio is one of them in Texas, for example.
[01:10:31]  But totally consider that as a validation.
[01:10:33]  Also, like maybe you're not going to do it full time, but you know, just a little pastoral advice here, right?
[01:10:38]  You want to do the Lord's work.
[01:10:39]  You want to, you know, push for the crown rights of King Jesus, be an American patriot, love your brothers and sisters in Christ, love your fellow heritage Americans.
[01:10:49]  Maybe you don't, you know, sign up for ICE full time.
[01:10:51]  But if you're a business owner, like construction, for instance, or maybe it's a restaurant, you can be, you know, as a business owner, you know, making money with your enterprise and also calling ICE.

=== Abortion as State Law (07:25) ===

[01:11:04]  Right.
[01:11:05]  Like, hey, I do construction, you know, in the greater Austin area.
[01:11:07]  I'm a Christian.
[01:11:08]  It's a Christian construction, you know, company.
[01:11:11]  And I'm looking around the job site.
[01:11:14]  Turns out we've got a lot of people who speak nothing but Espanol.
[01:11:18]  It's just a friendly phone call to ICE.
[01:11:20]  Turn in your own employees.
[01:11:22]  The Lord would smile upon it.
[01:11:25]  It's an honorable endeavor.
[01:11:27]  Feel free to do that.
[01:11:28]  I think after Chipotle today, we have a call to make as well.
[01:11:31]  Yeah.
[01:11:32]  So whether you're out and about, you just, you'd be looking.
[01:11:34]  You'd be on the speed dial.
[01:11:37]  Something's not right over here.
[01:11:38]  Yeah, something's not right over here.
[01:11:39]  There's a few too many sombreros over in this side of town, so we're going to get into it.
[01:11:45]  Not recognizing the music.
[01:11:46]  Yep.
[01:11:47]  All right.
[01:11:47]  This dude rocks.
[01:11:48]  He gave us 50 bucks.
[01:11:49]  Thank you.
[01:11:50]  We appreciate that.
[01:11:51]  Very generous, very kind.
[01:11:53]  He says, Why is there hostility from abolitionist rising?
[01:11:57]  That's an abolitionist group seeking to end abortion.
[01:12:00]  And T. Russell Hunter, he's the head of that group, to Christians that voted for Trump.
[01:12:05]  That's his question.
[01:12:06]  Is there a biblical case?
[01:12:07]  For voting for leaders that advocate for abortion.
[01:12:11]  I wish to be consistent and not show partiality or permit evil.
[01:12:16]  God bless.
[01:12:17]  It's a great question.
[01:12:18]  Follow up, too.
[01:12:18]  Oh, he's got a follow up.
[01:12:19]  All right, here we go.
[01:12:21]  He said, to clarify, I support abolitionist risings ministry and I love their work.
[01:12:26]  I wish for brothers to band together and defeat abortion despite disagreements.
[01:12:31]  Amen.
[01:12:32]  Yeah, we want to see abortion completely abolished.
[01:12:35]  I do think that is best we can.
[01:12:37]  We need to be willing to link arms.
[01:12:39]  And to partner with those who are genuine brothers in Christ to seek the abolition of abortion.
[01:12:46]  In terms of the tactics, that's ultimately what you're getting at.
[01:12:49]  There is certainly an immense debate.
[01:12:52]  But what you're getting at with your initial question is even more particular than that.
[01:12:57]  It's one thing to say, in terms of actually abolishing abortion, we want just laws.
[01:13:02]  We don't just want to mitigate abortion, say, well, you can murder babies so long as the hallway from the abortion murder mill is this wide and not this narrow.
[01:13:13]  Or you can abort babies on Wednesdays and Thursdays, but not on Mondays and not on Tuesdays.
[01:13:18]  I understand.
[01:13:19]  I understand saying, hey, these are not just laws.
[01:13:21]  This is a law that God would detest.
[01:13:23]  And so a Christian cannot put these laws forward.
[01:13:26]  That would be the argument.
[01:13:27]  But what you're getting at is beyond that.
[01:13:29]  And we talked about that during Trump's campaign during the election cycle.
[01:13:35]  It's one thing to say that the tactics for abolishing abortion should be just according to God's law in terms of the bills themselves, right?
[01:13:44]  There's certainly an argument to be made for that.
[01:13:47]  But it's another thing to say, hey, you have two options for not at a local level, but a federal presidential election.
[01:13:56]  And it's going to be one of these two individuals.
[01:13:58]  You're going to have Kamala Harris and 40 million more immigrants who will vote blue.
[01:14:04]  And we will never win an election ever again.
[01:14:07]  And they will abort babies forever.
[01:14:11]  Or Donald J. Trump, who is not standing for life like he should, not even close.
[01:14:16]  We'll be the first to admit that.
[01:14:18]  But say, hey, I'm going to pick him.
[01:14:20]  He's terrible on life.
[01:14:21]  She's terrible on life.
[01:14:24]  And the sanctity of the unborn is a massive, massive issue that Christians have to care about.
[01:14:33]  But they're both terrible on life.
[01:14:36]  And then one who's terrible on life wants to welcome 40 million more voters to vote for abortion, and the other one doesn't.
[01:14:45]  That's ultimately what it came down to.
[01:14:47]  And so some people voted for Trump to stop, not stop abortion.
[01:14:53]  They knew that Trump was not going to do that.
[01:14:55]  But to stop immigration so that we would have a fighting chance with other things like abortion.
[01:15:01]  I was one of those individuals.
[01:15:02]  Others, like abolitionist rising, strongly, vehemently disagreed.
[01:15:07]  And here we are, we still disagree.
[01:15:08]  And I think that disagreement does stem from tactics.
[01:15:11]  So, abolitionist rising, and I think T. Russell Hunter, they would say the only measure that you can take, any half measure, any partial progress would be dishonoring to God.
[01:15:19]  We're talking about murder.
[01:15:21]  Like you said, we don't allow murder to happen on Wednesdays.
[01:15:25]  Abolition, the equal protection, so the baby receives the same rights to protection under the law as any other person if they were murdered in cold blood.
[01:15:33]  So they would say there's nothing and there's everything.
[01:15:36]  And the only acceptable means to go about this is to push for everything, never settling short, never settling for anything less.
[01:15:44]  And we would disagree, I think, and say that, like with Trump, there's going to be, like, he removed federal funding.
[01:15:52]  I think it's the stay in Mexico provision, like, removed that.
[01:15:55]  Well, that helps restrict access.
[01:15:56]  Texas practically, there was some legislation passed in a special session relating to the pill, I believe, and then practically a heartbeat law.
[01:16:04]  Abortion practically, aside from cases where the pill gets in and one's done in back alley, is done in Texas.
[01:16:09]  Now we still have more to go.
[01:16:11]  Children, unborn infants, deserve equal protection under the law.
[01:16:15]  So there's still progress to be made here in Texas.
[01:16:17]  But also practically, I think we objectively have to say there are babies that are born today in Texas that because of laws passed here in this state, not nationally, but at the state level, they would not be alive if they had been conceived.
[01:16:31]  Three, four years prior.
[01:16:32]  I think objectively we have to say that.
[01:16:33]  And so some of these different measures will still say, no, you cannot murder a baby just because it's seven weeks old, not eight weeks old.
[01:16:41]  But practically, having achieved that victory, having banned the pill, now we're going to keep pushing for full and equal protection.
[01:16:47]  Whereas Abolish Rising, T. Russell Hunter, they would say anything less than this would be a sin.
[01:16:53]  And we would just respectfully disagree.
[01:16:55]  Like slavery was abolished in England gradually.
[01:16:57]  It took about 50 years.
[01:16:58]  There was no war, unlike here in America.
[01:17:01]  So there were 600,000.
[01:17:03]  True heritage Americans, men that died there.
[01:17:06]  They did it with no war.
[01:17:07]  They did it gradually.
[01:17:08]  First, it was kind of the Britain formal, where it still existed in the colonies, and then like different traces of it.
[01:17:14]  But like it was abolished over 60 years gradually.
[01:17:17]  And I understand there were abolitionist groups in the same way that pushed for the total abolition.
[01:17:21]  More than Wilberforce.
[01:17:22]  But still, it worked its way through the sentiment of the people.
[01:17:26]  Like this is a very pro life generation, the term's not great, but pro life generation, because they can see it.
[01:17:30]  All right.
[01:17:31]  There's activists on campuses.
[01:17:32]  They'll go around, hey, do you know this is what happens in abortion?
[01:17:35]  That involves a vacuum, that involves chemicals, that involves forceps.
[01:17:38]  And you'll see girls who were pro choice before go, oh my goodness, that's terrible.
[01:17:42]  So I think in time, you push the ball forward here.
[01:17:45]  You push the ball forward here.
[01:17:46]  You keep pressing here.
[01:17:47]  You have whole states.
[01:17:49]  Hopefully, Dusty Deavers in Oklahoma.
[01:17:51]  Oklahoma, complete, total protection for infants.
[01:17:54]  Yeah, it's going to be state by state.
[01:17:55]  Yep.
[01:17:56]  It will be incremental.
[01:17:56]  That's how you win.
[01:17:58]  And if nothing else, it will be incremental in terms of it will be state by state.
[01:18:02]  It's not going to be just a one size fits all, the entire country.
[01:18:06]  It's going to, you know, it's been returned to state rights.
[01:18:10]  And each state is now responsible for abolishing abortion.
[01:18:14]  And if you're making the argument and saying, well, in terms of the bills that are presented, that these bills need to be just bills according to the law of God, I understand.
[01:18:23]  But you have to recognize that as citizens, just the overall populace, we're not voting on bills.

=== State Rights and Inheritance (03:22) ===

[01:18:29]  We're voting on elected officials.
[01:18:32]  And then they ultimately are the ones who are going to either pass bills or not.
[01:18:37]  And so we're voting for politicians, and you will have, you're going to have a state rep, you're going to have, A mayor, you're going to have a city council, you're going to have, you know, all these different positions.
[01:18:49]  You're going to have a president.
[01:18:50]  These positions are going to be filled.
[01:18:52]  And so when it comes to voting for people, we don't get to, the populace doesn't vote for bills, we vote for people.
[01:18:59]  So when it comes to voting for elected officials, to use your vote to vote for the best candidate possible that's actually viable and available, the best viable, available candidate who will do the least harm, the least evil, I think is a defensible position.
[01:19:17]  Those who say you can vote.
[01:19:21]  Only for someone who would be qualified to be an elder in your Reformed Baptist church.
[01:19:28]  That's an argument.
[01:19:29]  That's a position.
[01:19:30]  It exists.
[01:19:32]  It is.
[01:19:33]  Those are words, right?
[01:19:34]  Those are words.
[01:19:36]  But we think that that's not the best route.
[01:19:40]  Okay.
[01:19:41]  Granddad Farms, he gave us $10.
[01:19:43]  Thanks, Granddad.
[01:19:43]  We appreciate it.
[01:19:44]  He said, GA Kings, good afternoon.
[01:19:46]  Thank you for your ministry to young nationalist men.
[01:19:49]  You are very welcome.
[01:19:51]  Not enough ministries to young nationalist men, but we want to be one of them.
[01:19:54]  Then we've got JD Peabody, and he gave us a fist pump, a cross, and a crown and $10.
[01:20:03]  And we appreciate it.
[01:20:04]  So I feel like I'm going to interpret that as punching libs in the face and then searing a cross onto their forehead and then putting a crown on your own head.
[01:20:16]  I think that's what he had in mind.
[01:20:17]  I think that's a safe interpretation.
[01:20:19]  He also said, hey, here's $10.
[01:20:20]  And so we appreciate that.
[01:20:22]  And then lastly, Wes, you want to go with the last one?
[01:20:24]  Mostly peaceful merch gave two dollars.
[01:20:26]  Follow up to what we just said about ICE.
[01:20:28]  He said, apply Romans 13 IRL, join ICE today.
[01:20:32]  He's right, you can be the deacon that wields the sword commissioned by the government to kick people out of this.
[01:20:38]  That's right, out of these United States.
[01:20:39]  You can't be a vigilante, but you literally can join ICE and be God's appointed avenger, right?
[01:20:45]  Right, who seeks to carry out God's vengeance on the evildoer.
[01:20:49]  Immigration is evil, um, at least at the level that we have it today, and uh, and those who are.
[01:20:57]  Flooding our country.
[01:20:58]  It's not theirs.
[01:20:59]  They are flooding our country like a swarm of locusts and eating up the inheritance that your fathers, by their blood, sweat, and tears, laid up for you.
[01:21:10]  It is a breach of a rebellion against the fifth commandment to honor your father and mother.
[01:21:14]  If you are a heritage American and you can track your ancestry back even just three generations, you have some degree of heritage here in America.
[01:21:23]  Your fathers, they literally sacrificed for you.
[01:21:27]  And what they did for you and for your children, their children's children, Is being devoured by those who it does not belong to.
[01:21:36]  And so to join the proper mechanism through ICE and to become, in that sense, God's appointed deacon to carry out vengeance on the evildoer who is devouring the inheritance of the children, that is a righteous thing.

=== Live Stream Schedule (02:40) ===

[01:21:52]  You can join ICE today and make Jesus smile as you, with a gun, pack foreigners into the back of a van to be.
[01:22:02]  Kicked out of the country.
[01:22:03]  That is a godly, glorious endeavor.
[01:22:06]  You'll get to go to Portland or Chicago and also get to throw libs to the ground, too.
[01:22:11]  I've seen some of his videos.
[01:22:13]  Purple hair, that is also a God glorifying endeavor.
[01:22:17]  You're sending them out, you're sending them to jail.
[01:22:18]  These are people who hate you.
[01:22:19]  They hate the country.
[01:22:20]  They're trying to destroy it.
[01:22:23]  These are criminals.
[01:22:25]  It's treason.
[01:22:26]  These are traitors.
[01:22:27]  They're traitors to America.
[01:22:29]  And it's time to clean up our country.
[01:22:32]  Amen.
[01:22:33]  All right.
[01:22:33]  Well, thank you guys so much for tuning in.
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[01:24:00]  Lastly, if you'd like to support this ministry, you can do so by giving a charitable gift that is, in fact, tax deductible.
[01:24:08]  So you will get a tax write off for your charitable gifts, and you can do so by going to our website, rightresponseministries.com forward slash donate.
[01:24:18]  Rightresponseministries.com forward slash donate.
[01:24:21]  And you can give a tax deductible charitable gift today, and we greatly appreciate it.
[01:24:26]  Appreciate it means a lot.
[01:24:27]  Thanks for tuning in, and we will see you, Lord willing, on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Central Time.
[01:24:32]  God bless.