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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: What Has Conservatism CONSERVED? STOP Twisting Scripture
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Thank you.
They don't come from Congress.
They don't come from the Supreme Court.
They come from God.
Welcome to the Millstone Report.
Happy Friday to everybody out there.
My name is Paul Harrell.
Remember that clip?
Do you remember that?
That was MSNBC's Heidi Presbylla from all the way back in February of this year.
My, how the time has flown by.
So for me, that was an amazing moment for American Christians, I think, to behold that statement.
I mean, it was even better for those of us in the trenches fighting and arguing with other Christians over the controversial phrase, Christian nationalism.
I'm sure some of you would love or some would love to memory hole that moment because, I mean, for all of the infighting that's still going on today over that phrase, Christian nationalism, that one clip reminds everyone, regardless of what you think about the term, Christian nationalism, The left doesn't care about our distinctions, our squabbles.
They don't care about our nuance and the latest hip new way to parse our words carefully in a culture that increasingly hates Christians.
The left doesn't care about whether you call yourself a Christian nationalist or a Christian federalist, I've heard that one, or a plain old Christian.
No, for the left, this is about building a future where there are no Christians.
Our enemy hates God and those outside of Christ increasingly view American Christians as a nuisance at best and a cancer at worst.
You know, the kind of cancer that you want to round up and put in boxcars.
And ship off where you're out of sight, out of mind.
For the demonic left who only thinks about victory, which results in spiritually terraforming this world into darkness, Or corporally, too, by the way.
See, the World Economic Forum's plans to literally blot out the sun.
But for the left, it's very simple, you see.
If you believe in Jesus Christ and you vote with that in mind and a biblical worldview in mind, then according to them and what you just heard, you're a threat.
We're a threat.
God's holy moral standards applied to civic life are a threat to people who...
Don't love God and his statutes.
But unfortunately, there are still some Christians who don't know what time it is.
There are still some Christians who think the other side will give them parlay.
That's right.
We'll give them parlay.
We'll give them the ability to sit down in a civilized manner and share our grievances with one another.
The most glaring problem with this way of thinking, aside from the fact that, again, the cliche phrase, you don't know what time it is, But the most glaring problem with this is that form, that civilized dialogue with the other side, is a good fruit of an era that no longer exists.
It's a derivative of Christian culture.
A blessing of liberty, as David French would say, that has been eradicated from our national identity.
I'd like to get it back, sure.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
But just think about that.
In order to sit down with the other side, they have to want to sit down with us, and they don't.
In their minds, they have the moral high ground.
And Christians, according to them, are evil, regressive tyrants who want to control women's bodies and force innocent children into traditional gender stereotypes.
Of course, we do want to abolish abortion, and we do want to stop child abuse, grooming, and pedophilia.
But the question must be asked, we talk about they don't want to sit down with us, but why do we want to sit down with them?
Why do we, why do Christians, some Christians want to sit down with the other side when we so clearly are the ones with the moral high ground?
How delusional some of us are.
You think you can sit down and find common ground with someone who thinks grown men have the right to get naked in front of little girls in a locker room?
No thanks, I'll pass.
I'd rather take a different option.
There's a few of them, but one of them would be, I'd rather call my Christian state representative or call my Christian state senator and have them write a bill that goes through the committee process.
Two committees, two chambers is signed by an executive and it becomes law so that sick ideology is made illegal and anyone who breaks that law will be arrested and sent to jail or an insane asylum.
So, I mean, I think we're just at a bit of a cultural impasse, wouldn't you say?
We're going to talk a little bit about what people are doing because we're at a cultural impasse.
Some people are organizing and they're building new communities.
We'll talk about that later in the program.
So we are.
We're at a cultural impasse.
And it's important to admit that the strategies of the past which sought to conserve the old ways have failed.
I mean, we haven't conserved anything.
The moral rot of the country keeps getting worse.
For decades now, we have tried to convince the other side that we are the right ones.
And we've done that with our arguments, through argumentation.
This tactic was based on the idea, though, of being fair and fairness.
That the other side would afford to us the basic fairness that we're trying to afford to them.
The problem is, we all know, newsflash, they have not.
They change the rules as they go.
I mean, that's why the standard Fox News Hannity take really gets you nowhere.
You know, pointing to the other side and saying they're hypocrites.
It's been popularized by a meme recently I saw.
It's a tombstone that reads, quote, here lies conservatism.
Wow.
Imagine if the situation was reversed.
End quote.
I've seen another one actually where there's some white men who are about to be executed by a firing squad and the one guy says to the other one, can you imagine if we did this to the Democrats and then boom, lights out, dead.
The idea is that pointing out such hypocrisies accomplishes nothing because the other side doesn't care.
They have no standards.
They only want to win.
And some Christians are asleep to the simple fact that people who want to mutilate the genitals of children are not going to treat your arguments fairly or legitimately.
My goodness.
The last week has taught us anything.
Over the last week, Megan Basham's book, Shepherds for Sale, has been released.
And if the last week has taught us anything, it's that even people who claim to be Christians, they will refuse to see the truth about leftist infiltration of churches, even when it's right in front of their faces with ample sourcing and receipts.
Our own side refuses to have a good faith discussion with us about shepherds for sale, but they think they can negotiate with the left and cajole them into abandoning their evil?
They won't talk to us in good faith about very real problems with evidence to back it up, but they will talk to non-Christians and oftentimes preach a watered-down version of the gospel to not offend the pagan culture.
Their bias is showing, and it's glaringly obvious that It seems to me their stubbornness is really, in my opinion, their stubbornness is really about protecting the space some in church institutions have carved out where the lies of the left are safe, protected, sacred in some cases.
A safe space for Marxist thought inside the church.
And if they admit Megan Basham is right, Then there's no room for leftist lies presented as fact, presented as good, presented as gospel-centered issues inside the church.
And that's why we're at this impasse we are right now.
Let's go to the screen.
I was telling you about the tombstone.
This is the reason why this was kind of on my mind today.
Happy Friday, by the way.
It's always great to be with you guys.
Neil Shenvey, a guy who has been critical of the book Shepherds for Sale for about a week now.
He's really getting ratioed left and right here.
He says the implication of this meme is that conservatives need to stop bleeding about bleating, for those of you listening.
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So for those of you who are listening, he didn't say bleeding, as in loss of blood.
He says bleating, B-L-E-A-T-I-N-G. So Neil Shenvey saying the implication of this meme, again, it's the tombstone.
Here lies conservatism.
Let me see here.
Wow.
Imagine if the situation was reversed.
That's all we do.
That seems to be all we do.
It's just complain.
Wow.
The other side are hypocrites.
Can you imagine if it were reversed and we did this to the Democrats?
And they just go on.
They don't care.
The whole live and let live.
We're going to let you do your thing.
We're going to do our thing.
The whole thing is...
It's all been a lot, right?
They don't...
First of all, live and let live is cultural neutrality, which is a myth.
Live and let live means we, as Christians, have to just accept parents have a right to abuse their kids via chemical castration drugs or abuse their kids by taking them to drag shows.
So I'm rejecting that, as we have many times on this program.
But even if it was a thing, they're not wanting to play by those rules.
They don't want to let Christians live and let live.
Which is why they've come up with the terms Christofascism and everything else.
Even if we have, you know, Christian people who vote and they vote for Christian state legislatures and then they, you know, they craft policies that the people want, they don't, no.
They literally want to strip the consent of the government every chance they can.
Anyway, the implication, he says, of this meme, Neil Shenvey, being critical of this, is that conservatives need to stop bleating about consistency and objective standards and impartiality and fairness.
I hope everyone can see the danger in this.
So, here's Neil, again, who's done nothing but try to criticize doing mental gymnastics, trying to criticize Megan Basham's book, Shepherds for Sale, for about a week now.
And he's been ratioed on this tweet where...
He clearly doesn't understand what this is about.
This is not about abandoning objective standards, impartiality, and fairness.
It's about admitting, obviously we want to do that with each other, we want to have that as best we can, but it's about admitting that the other side doesn't care about those things.
And the other side happens to have a massive amount of political power.
Okay, so these are two facts.
They don't care about fairness.
They don't care about objective standards.
They don't care about impartiality.
All those things are myths.
Again, neutrality, secular neutrality, having a pluralistic society in the public square, it's all a myth because they're pagans.
They don't believe in God.
So you're either going to be a Christian nation or a pagan nation.
This is what people are realizing.
They may not characterize it that way, but by their actions, people are realizing this.
So it's not about abandoning these things with our individual lives or how we deal with each other.
It's about admitting that the side that hates who we are Um, they don't care anything about that stuff.
The ends justifies the means.
And so what does that mean?
What does that practically mean?
Well, big-scale picture, it means that we need to use what little political power we have left and attain more of it and use it to create a government that would restrain the wicked and reward good.
So punish evil and reward good.
That's what I want.
But no, no, this is, you know, Neil Shenvey and others like him, they are committed to this idea of somehow the culture and society is going to be neutral.
That's just not theologically sound.
The question, if you know anything about the human condition, the question is never, well, why would they?
Why would they do such a thing?
It's why wouldn't they?
If you've got the power, why wouldn't they?
I mean, back when Edward Snowden had the big, when he released all of that NSA data, and we got all, I mean, just troves and troves and troves of it.
Matter of fact, when did that happen?
Did that happen in 2012 or 2013?
I remember there was an article, and I think it was Wired Magazine, about the Utah Data Collection Center.
And I'm pretty sure I covered it back on radio in 2012.
It was a fascinating article that everything, every input that comes from us on the internet is being collected and stored at the Utah Data Center.
It talked about the amount of water that they had to have.
You know, and they had to have the agreement with the state of Utah.
The amount of water they needed to cool all of the servers that are collecting, everything that's said, everything that's done, you know.
Matter of fact, I used to open my show saying broadcasting to an NSA server near you because that's what's happening right now, as a matter of fact.
I don't know if it was a couple of months later or if it was a year later.
I think it might have been a year later to the day.
That's when the Edward Snowden files leaked.
It just revealed this massive surveillance state.
That was no longer something that you would see in a Hollywood movie and say, well, we would walk out of a Hollywood movie and we would say, well, the government probably has technology similar to that.
No, no, no, they do.
They've had it for a long time and it's much, much, much worse than we ever thought, right?
We literally have now the technology.
You've got people in positions of power who can violate your rights with this massive surveillance state and never be held accountable for it.
You can also compartmentalize who does what to where your rights are completely violated, but no one specific person is responsible for it.
And so it was a huge problem, but then you had these people saying, well, the government's not going to do that unless you're doing something wrong.
And it's like, are you crazy?
And this, again, was back in 2012-2013 when I'm like, Barack Obama's in the White House.
This is Barack Obama we're talking about here.
If you don't think he's going to use those systems to spy on political opponents or weaponize it against Americans, if you don't think that that's what's going on, you're crazy because the question is not why would he do such a thing, it's why wouldn't he?
Why wouldn't you do it?
You've got the power, why wouldn't you do it?
So you assume that that's how mankind is going to behave.
And of course, this was well before Donald Trump was framed for treason.
They spied on his campaign and everything else.
But I mean, they literally did the exact thing that you would expect people to do that have no standards.
Again, back to what Neil Shenvey is saying.
Objective standards, consistency, impartiality, fairness.
The reason why you should want actual Christians in government is because they are bound to...
To live a certain way.
Or they're at least supposed to.
Not that people don't make mistakes.
Surely they do.
But I talked about this yesterday.
The idea that, you know, there used to be the founders thought religious tests for office were perfectly fine.
It was consistent with The government that they set up, that may be news to some of you, but that's just the case.
And it's like, well, of course, why wouldn't you want somebody...
Who would want someone in a Christian society, who would want someone to be able to run for office and get elected if they don't believe in God?
You want somebody to have power over you and not believe that they're accountable when they die for their sins?
Yeah, I don't think so.
So anyway, this just kind of goes to what I was saying when I was talking about that there are Christians out there who just don't know what time it is.
This is what I'm talking about right here.
Objective standards, impartiality.
He got roasted in the comments.
I chimed in.
No wonder you can't understand Megan Basham's book.
But this guy named Elvis the Gator, which might be one of the greatest X-handles I've ever heard.
Elvis the Gator.
That's awesome.
That's an awesome name.
He says he understands it.
He's just a friend of the regime.
That's true.
He's been defending Pastor J.D. Greer.
We're going to get to him here in a moment, who's come under fire, come under attack.
Well, it's not really an attack.
It's just, Neil Shenby thinks it's an attack, no question.
But he's come under legitimate criticism for saying things, you know, recently they pulled the The talk where he admits that he's talking about women and abortion, and he admits that there's people that attend his church that work at abortion clinics.
Stephen Wolfe, the author of The Case for Christian Nationalism, he says, No, the implication is that the left doesn't care, and so the rhetoric is worthless.
Meaning, making this statement, Wow, imagine if the situation were reversed, and we did this to the Democrats.
Can you imagine how upset everybody would be?
Again, I'm not going to commit to you here today that I'll never say that and never make that comparison.
Because as somebody who gives kind of hot takes based on what happened, it's almost impossible.
But it's got to be more than that, right?
It's not just for outrage or clicks.
Or to get people riled up because we have to understand they don't care if they're hypocrites.
They don't consider themselves to be hypocrites because they don't really have standards at all.
Their moral goal, it's a war to them.
So they've dehumanized us.
We're subhuman.
So it doesn't matter.
Just get rid of them.
Any way possible.
As William Wolf said, just delete your account, buddy, on this tweet.
Just delete your account.
I saw that from somebody else as well.
Delete your account now.
It says, is there anything from your account that doesn't reek of cowardice?
Oh my gosh, Neil, that's not at all what this means.
It means that if you don't partner with those objective standards with a bit of conquest, then you are sure to be conquered upon by those with subjective standards.
Yeah, again, understanding what it is we're actually facing.
And my favorite quote, let's see if I can find it.
Is that it?
I think the real danger is losing to people who want to rape children and loot white people to fund foreign wars.
That's a great point.
Oh, there was a much better one than I had.
I don't think you get it.
This meme is a commentary about conservatives holding the left to a standard they never will accept.
Conservatives try to win through rhetoric, but the left cares about real politicking, force, and direct action.
Yeah.
I don't think that wasn't it either.
Anyway, maybe I'll find it when we go to break.
There was a really, really good comment about all of this.
But all of these are basically saying the same thing.
So the real question is, does Neil really not get it?
Or is there something else going on here?
I mentioned J.D. Greer, his buddy that he's trying to defend.
I had to pull this from earlier, but J.D. Greer's been under criticism for a long time, people posting his sermons and things like that.
Again, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Again, it's a long line of problem It's a very consistent problem that we have in our entire country where it's not just religious institutions.
It seems to be every institution, whether it's corporations, whether it's government, whether it's religion, they're being led by people who demonstrably do not, I mean, self-evidently do not represent the vast majority of the group that they're supposed to represent.
And this would be one of those things.
This would be one of those examples.
Terry Green, we've quoted this Terry on the program before, her X account.
This is a perfect example of when a pastor goes outside the bounds of Scripture and says that God says something with a tone.
Here's J.D. Greer saying, God whispers about sexual sin and shouts about materialism.
Now, where did J.D. Greer get that from?
Well, you might have guessed it.
A woman, of course.
...egregious in God's eyes than homosexuality.
Jen Wilkin, who's one of our favorite Bible teachers here and who's actually leading our women's conference, she said we ought to whisper about what the Bible whispers about.
We ought to shout about what it shouts about.
And the Bible appears more to whisper when it comes to sexual sin compared to its shouts about materialism and religious pride.
Throughout Jesus' ministry in his life, we see him demonstrating great, just incredible sympathy for those caught in sexual sin and great animosity toward the religiously proud.
In fact, Jesus one time, not one time, ever said that it was difficult for the same sex attracted to go to heaven.
He did say it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle.
The rest of that verse, then for a wealthy man to enter the kingdom of God.
Do you see what he did there?
This is an example of watering down the biblical message to appease a culture that is told by every sporting team, NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, everybody, all of the professional sports say, being gay is okay and homosexuals are victims.
The government, being gay is okay, homosexuals are victims.
Republicans, Fox News, Paul Ryan, we want Bruce Jenner to dress up like a woman and deliver you the news as a legitimate perspective.
Log cabin Republicans, even, trying to get more and more gay people to vote Republican.
Literally, our entire society, every corporation...
Got to all be about the gays.
Being gay is good.
It's good for you.
You should be gay.
You should try it.
And if you've got a problem with it, then you're not...
The plight of the homosexual is identical to blacks coming out of slavery and the civil rights movement.
That is the message that is literally parroted everywhere all the time in the West.
And so J.D. Greer here preaches a sermon.
Again, he's mentioned in Megan Basham's book, Shepherds for Sale.
Um...
Preaches a sermon that says Jesus was very compassionate about people who were in sexual sin.
Never mind the fact that he forgave them of their sin and then told them to go and sin no more.
Leaving that part out and instead saying something that scripture clearly doesn't say.
Let's watch the clip again.
And then I'll have more.
The Bible appears...
She says the Bible appears to whisper more about sexual sin.
Never mind that Jesus said, if you have lust in your heart, you've already committed adultery.
Is that whispering?
Is that whispering about sexual sin?
Or is that actually saying, actually, no, like, man is corrupt to his core.
That's not if you just don't do the action you're not supposed to.
If your heart is If your heart wants to sin, you've already sinned.
You are already guilty.
How do you forgive that?
How does a God forgive that level of sinfulness?
The Son of God, God incarnate, had to die and be raised on the third day.
But this is just so insidious.
It's so sick to me.
The woman that he cites is a woman by the name of Jen Wilkin.
She says that Jen, he says that Jen Wilkin is one of their Bible teachers there.
He's at a church, the Summit Church in North Carolina is this church, Southern Baptist Church.
And Jen Wilkin, that name, because I have never, I've read about this, I've read this quote, but I actually haven't ever watched this clip.
And so when he said, when I was doing the show prep, he said, Jen Wilkin, I said, I know that name.
Where have I heard that name before?
And here on the Millstone Report, we gave a rhetorical millstone to Jen Wilkin a while ago because she preached on...
Again, women shouldn't preach.
They're...
Women should not have authority over men.
They should not be in the pulpit.
They should not be church officers.
But so she preached on her period.
No, no, I didn't say she preached period.
I said she preached on her menstrual cycle.
No, no, no.
Not while she was on.
But no, she literally preached a sermon about women having their periods.
Women's bodies every 28 days tell them a parable.
About the shedding of blood for the renewing of life.
You don't think that changes the way that we encounter the scriptures?
Men only bleed when something is wrong.
This is not the first time...
wasn't Kamala Harris's pastor?
Women's bodies every 28 days tell them a parable.
About the shedding of blood for the renewing of life.
You don't think that changes the way that we encounter the scriptures?
Men only bleed when something is wrong.
I gotta tell ya, that is It's pretty gross.
It really is.
I'm pretty sure we had another pastor on who was talking about Kamala Harris.
We had this on a few days ago, and he was preaching on the reason why people don't want a woman in the White House is because as primitive men, we didn't trust women because they had their periods.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I know.
It's strange.
It's strange.
We're going to take a break.
We're going to reset here.
Let's see if I can't find that clip.
This is the Millstone Report.
It's Friday.
We're going to play a little left-wing will here in the last half of the show as well.
Don't go anywhere.
We'll be back here in just a moment.
We'll be back here in just a moment.
And we all belong to Jerusalem above.
We all belong to Jerusalem above.
We all belong to Jerusalem above.
And we'll sail for Eden's shores.
But we'll be alright if the Lord ye be our strength.
We'll be alright if the Lord ye be our strength.
And the Lord, He is our strength.
And we all belong to Jerusalem, and we sail for Eden's shores.
We'll be sharpening the axe to cut down a daughter's own.
For the Lord, he's stronger forever.
And we all along We all belong to Jerusalem.
We all belong to Jerusalem.
And we sail for Eden's shore.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
It is Friday, so happy Friday to everybody out there watching and listening.
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Let's leave this one up here, because it's true.
What has conservatism actually conserved?
Last Friday we told you all about Shepherds for Sale, The Fallout, Megan Basham's book.
Obviously I'm really interested in this, so this is something that I feel like is very, very important because I really want to stop the woke leftist infiltration of churches and church institutions.
Because I also know that one of the reasons every Friday before we go into the weekend I urge you to...
You know, to go to church, to find a church that preaches the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The reason I do that is because I feel like that's what we need to do on Sunday.
At the same time, I know there's got to be somebody out here listening to me who doesn't do that because they're disgusted.
Maybe you're disgusted with the woke leftist infiltration of the church.
And while I don't think that's an excuse to abandon and give up and not find one, because there are great churches out there, there are churches that are worshiping the Lord in spirit and truth every single week, I know that this, the...
The woke, leftist infiltration of institutions and churches and essentially has made your average evangelical big evil leader has made that person now a left of center individual because they've adopted so many lies of the left.
A lot of that's because of George Soros' money.
And I want to stop it because I really do believe that it's a fight worth having.
Speaking of infiltration in George Soros' money, Megan Basham, again, the author of Shepherds for Sales, she went recently on Steve Bannon's show and was dropping a lot of truth.
I've got that video for you.
Let's watch that.
What Sally just teed up there is exactly what this book is about.
And it is about how left wing power brokers, including George Soros, eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, Bill Gates, the Clinton Foundation, have been working to co-opt and infiltrate evangelical ministries and churches in order to suppress that faith vote, have been working to co-opt and infiltrate evangelical ministries and churches in order to suppress that faith vote, in order to harness the power of
So for those who are Catholic or Jewish, what you need to know is that even if you're not evangelical Protestant, you need to care about what happens with the evangelical Protestants because they are 30% of the electorate.
They have rightly been called even by left leaning outlets like the Atlantic, America's most powerful voting bloc.
I just want to say, right now, if Stephen Wolf were hearing this clip, he would say, you mean the lone bulwark?
You mean the lone bulwark against the American society just cascading off of a cliff?
And they are also the GOP's most important voting base.
So without them, you lose the firewall to all manner of left-wing policies that would be incredibly destructive to For our country.
And so what we have seen these left wing foundations doing, and this is what I cover in my book, is you have seen Soros funding evangelical front groups to push things like open borders policies, to push things like anti-human climate change, cap and trade, carbon emission limits.
And all manner of policies like that.
And then also, what you're seeing these left-wing funded evangelical groups do, and I should say they're evangelical in name, but I do not believe in spirit.
They are working to suppress That all-important evangelical faith vote.
To give you just one example, just this week, one of the grantees of these left-wing foundations, Russell Moore, who is the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, Billy Graham's magazine founded in 1953.
They are out promoting an article that celebrates Kamala Harris's Sincere Christian faith and why so many faith leaders are so excited about her candidacy.
So you can see very clearly what they're doing.
They're also funding political Bible studies that they're getting into churches that groups like the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities are helping them to promote on Christian college campuses all over the country, including trusted conservative Christian college campuses like Azusa, And Biola, they teach that Christians should not necessarily vote on the issue of abortion, but they do have an obligation to vote to address alleged systemic racism.
So clearly, who do they want you to vote for?
And those initiatives are exclusively funded by hard left secular foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation, which also funds all manner of abortion initiatives and transgender initiatives performing.
They seek to protect the ability to perform transgender procedures on children by the Hewlett Foundation, the second largest funder of Planned Parenthood in the country.
So this is what my book does.
It is getting the word out about what they are doing.
So you can imagine, you can hear the shrieks.
Sure.
You understand why, because not only is her book fantastic, she's been making the rounds on podcasts all over the country, and shows like that, and she comes armed with the facts.
The stuff about Russell Moore is infuriating to me.
Former head of the ERLC, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which is the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy lobbying arm, And then he goes to, you know, he goes to Christianity Today, and Christianity Today has just been infiltrated and become a liberal rag.
That's what Christianity Today is.
And, you know, Russell Moore, you know, he appears in...
Well, what's the documentary?
Rob Reiner.
That's right.
Rob Reiner's film that's meant to trash Christian nationalists, or really all Christians, and to say that basically all of them...
He's like in the film with David French.
And it really makes me wonder...
We wonder why our politicians don't do what they were raised up to do.
Like we send them to Washington and they try and they try and then after a little while they come back to us and they're different.
You've seen it.
I've seen it.
They come back with excuses, right?
And I'm just going to say this.
We know that Washington, D.C. runs on blackmail.
We know that it does.
That's all I'll say.
Because people are scratching their heads.
People are scratching their heads.
Like, how did this happen?
How did somebody go?
I have talked to people who used to sit under Russell Moore when he used to teach seminary classes.
And they talked about how he was a good teacher.
He was a good Bible teacher.
How do you go from that to being the editor of a magazine that's celebrating the faith of Kamala Harris?
That's where there's no fruit there.
But what do we do about it?
That's the question.
What do we do about it?
There are people who are sick of the nonsense.
They're sick of the...
You know, every four years, look, and don't be wrong, I think this is an important election, and I hope, you know, I certainly hope that this idea of this too-big-to-rig strategy can actually work.
I'm skeptical.
I think, you know, they're going to try to steal the election again.
I get it.
But this idea that every four years we've got to get so worked up and it's just this pendulum back and forth.
And I totally agree.
Yes, the country is on the precipice of just being completely destroyed.
I get it.
But there are people that are just sick of the rollercoaster.
They're like, okay, what can I do practically?
Whether there is some sort of coming collapse and we need to rebuild from the ashes, what do I need to do for me and my family to try to make a difference, try to do something else where I don't let these people and their boneheaded decisions and their anti-Christian bias affect me and my family, or at least I can mitigate what they're trying to do as easily as possible.
Josh Abitoy over at the Federalist Has a great piece out, and I wanted to share it with you today.
20 million Americans want to move.
Here's how they could change the country.
Now, for those of you who don't know who Josh Abitoy is, let's go ahead and skip down to his bio here.
Josh Abadoy is the executive director of American Reformer.
It's a great publication.
He is also a managing director at New Founding.
New Founding is a great organization.
They're out there looking.
They're a venture firm.
They're looking for Christian projects.
So he writes, America is in the middle of a rural land grab.
Just last year it was revealed that Bill Gates had acquired almost 270,000 acres of American farmland.
Chinese companies and investors reportedly own 380,000 acres.
It's estimated that investment firms own 1.6 million acres.
Millionaires and billionaires are swarming to buy up rural land as stories about food insecurity, potential social breakdown increase, also following the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Laptop workers are dispersing across flyover country, disrupting rural real estate markets in a way Peter Thiel compares to the railroad.
Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the rural action before it's too late.
A deep yearning for a sense of agency and sovereignty situated within a natural human way of living is rising in response to the nagging feeling that such a life may not be attainable for future generations.
That is what is driving the farmsteading trend, Atta Boy writes.
Or Abitoy, excuse me.
There's a massive market demand for real estate projects that connect with this emerging segment, but be forewarned.
Earlier this year, I announced leading a joint venture with New Founding and the Appalachian real estate developer Ridge Runner to start what you might call a charter community.
Developments explicitly anchored in the traditional American way of life.
Appealing to innate aspirations for leaving a legacy for family, building thick faith-based communities, and having a shot at a more self-determined future.
So when I think of this, the first thing that I think of, just pausing on the article for a minute, is essentially it's a movement that is only going to be compared to...
It's inevitably going to be looked at like Amish.
Not that these people are going to reject technology.
I do think eventually we're going to get to a moment with AI or nanotechnology, everything else, where we're going to have to...
We're going to reject it.
I know I am.
Because of the transhumanist threat.
And people are going to look at us like we're Amish.
The way we maybe look at the Amish today.
It's just a thought.
And I don't think it's a bad thing.
I don't really care.
I don't really care what labels they throw at us.
There are people that are clearly...
There are some that do know what time it is in the cliches.
There are people that just don't know what it is.
And to the people who don't know what time it is, those of us who do look like crazy people to them.
Whatever.
Like, I'm still going to go about my business planning for the future.
Whatever that looks like.
So...
This is a fascinating project.
So he says, we started, they announced this project, the media loses their minds.
He says, we started by buying small town holdings in rural Appalachia, commercial buildings, houses, and raw land.
We revitalized them.
And very intentionally marketing them to people who I call pioneer Americans, those dissatisfied with the standard issue modern lifestyle and looking for a new frontier.
Partnering with the leading natives of these regions who stewarded their deep folkways against the onrush of globalism, they can build communities that provide a hopeful alternative lifestyle in 21st century America.
The mere announcement of our vision sparked hysterical meltdowns on the left.
Ridge Runner's most modest seven-figure investments became international news as The Guardian breathlessly slandered us as seeking to build a, quote, white nationalist haven before quickly revising that to Christian nationalist haven, given the lack of any basis for the original claim.
We had MSN followed up with an equally...
An equally hysterical story.
We also made the regime-aligned news aggregator drudge report.
Last month, he says, the New York Times profiled the project in a more balanced piece that made the Sunday edition's front page.
In the aftermath, Nashville politicians panicked about how Nashville is being targeted by these zealots.
Well, you know, it's interesting.
There's a lot of people looking into Nashville and the circles, the theological circles, the big Eva folks that tend to run that area.
Interesting.
Some people proposing.
I know A.D. Robles proposed a deep dive on some of these Nashville cats, if you will.
By the way, we're in talks with A.D. Robles to get him on the show.
He's traveling at the moment, but yeah, he has expressed interest in coming on.
Needless to say, the left's perfectly happy for Gates, BlackRock, and foreign investors to gobble up the American heartland, and these massive market moves go almost unnoticed.
In fact, the left hopes that when the dust settles, responsible, i.e.
World Economic Forum approved actors will dominate and thus bring social progress to most backward countries.
Handmaidens of the managerial state like McKinsey and Brookings watch these trends clearly and give very particular guidance about how this rural revitalization project should proceed.
They see a unique opportunity to terraform all their least favorite parts of American society away.
Thus, they welcome big box development that brings the crushing homogeneity of global capitalism to hidden gems across the country.
The left makes an extraordinary ultimatum.
I'm sorry, the left makes an extortionary ultimatum to heartland America.
Do it under our terms or you cannot have economic revitalization.
That sounds like carpetbagging to me.
They tell us that our small Appalachian towns, which have suffered from economic distress and brain drain for 70 years, will never progress unless they become little Ashevilles replete with pride festivals, homeless encampments, and marijuana shops.
But if channeled well, emerging cultural dynamics can prove the left wrong, you've probably heard of the Big Short, the trend where Americans are increasingly moving Now, the reason I'm telling you this is because I've been telling you about Christian red states for a very long time.
And I've been telling you that as long as we don't get some Supreme Court decision that Johnny sweeps the legs out from under us and where we are not able to legislate the morality that we want to legislate, like protecting kids, as long as they don't do what they did with Roe and some sort of transgender equivalent to that, I think at the Christian red state level, there's going to be a lot of opportunity to create the type of communities and counties, cities, states that we want.
And this is only going to be bolstered by people that are moving in, that are sick and are fleeing the leftists.
And they know they're fleeing the leftists.
They're not just like economic migrants.
They know that they're already conservatives and they're leaving.
So he says, the big short reinvigorates federalism.
Although America remains divided at the federal level, states have a higher degree of internal political consensus.
That means that states can take advantage or decisive action while the federal government remains gridlocked.
This means there will be spaces where the left is not politically and culturally hegemonic, where there can be control groups that provide comparisons to the left's increasingly insane social experimentation.
You know, like removing the genitals of little kids.
He goes on, there's something more tectonic than the big short at work.
Many conservative Americans want to reconnect with and transmit to the next generation a genuine American way of life.
Think of the mythic Americans who define so much of our national identity.
the frontiersman, the longhunter, the yeoman farmer, the circuit rider, the ridge runner, the gold miner, and the railroad titan.
Figures like these built our nation, driven to undertake great adventures and risks for the chance of making a legacy for themselves and their families.
A small but growing and disproportionately impressive number of Americans is listening to this siren call.
Call them frontier Americans.
Frontiers.
Frontier Americans are more religious, specifically Christian, than the average American.
They're more likely to be married and to have children.
There's significantly higher agency in their choices.
They are much more likely to send their children to Christian schools or homeschool.
They are much more likely to own businesses or, if they work remotely, have side hustles or hobby farms.
Frontier Americans come from a wide array of income brackets but share an inherent burning desire for self-determination in their commercial and civic life.
Yes, frontier Americans reliably despise the stifling wokeness, urban crime, pronoun brigades, lockdown, insanity, high taxes, and many other conditions common in modern default America, but that isn't what drives their wanderlust.
The frontier American is not so much running from as he is running to the promise of adventure and a better life.
The frontier American is a first mover.
he understands that the strongest must go into the wilderness first and clear out the underbrush to make it possible for others to follow put down roots and form natural human civic life where culture arises organically as a result of a group of people with roughly shared beliefs and a way of life sharing a place over time this is a great article again in the federalist um this is This is one of the solutions, one of the many solutions.
The people are sick of it.
They're tired of having their emotions manipulated, all of the psyops back and forth, back and forth.
Every four years, it's, you know, who's going to take control?
When in the meantime, if we're really honest about it, while, you know, I mean, the glaring problems are all still there.
They're all still there.
Before we go, I've got a few more things to cover.
But the first thing I want to do is say, if you want to laugh and you want to support the work I'm doing here at Millstone Report, consider picking up a copy of Left Wing Will and the Red Pill.
It is the game that laughs at the left's expense.
This is Will.
You've heard me talk about him before.
But it is that time, I guess, because it is Friday.
So we're going to play a little bit of the game here today.
Let's see.
I'm going to get a random stash of red cards here.
400 cards in the deck.
That's funny.
And we'll get a blue card.
Let's see here.
What do we got?
Oh, I like this one.
This was a COVID card.
So it says here, while on a ventilator in the hospital, Will phoned each member of his acting class and between short breaths explained how blank would be way worse than if he wasn't vaccinated.
Remember all those people that got vaccinated and then they got COVID and ended up in the hospital anyway?
So you would fill in the blank there, right?
So let's see.
Let's just do it.
Some of these cards, our disclaimers kind of cover this.
Some of the cards aren't going to fit quite as well.
So we'll do this one.
While on a ventilator in the hospital, Will phoned each member of his acting class and in between short breaths explained how past presidents worshipping an owl statue at the Bohemian Grove would be way worse if he wasn't vaccinated.
Evolution would be way worse if I wasn't vaccinated.
Jet fuel melting steel beams would be way worse.
White privilege.
That might be the one.
White privilege would be way worse if I wasn't vaccinated.
Also, what about this one?
The New World Order Pizza Company.
Huh.
Be way worse.
Alright, another blue card.
So you would basically go out, you know, the person who's turned to this would pick the funniest card that the people in the group would submit.
And then you get points based on who is the funniest.
Let's see.
Whenever he's lonely, Will turns on the BBC and in his best British accent pretends to be a distinguished guest being interviewed about...
What do we got?
Being interviewed about a comic book villain based on the real life of Chuck Schumer.
Let's see.
Yet another lawsuit over Don Lemon's crotch sweat.
It's a true story.
You can look that one up.
Hang on, let me say, let me reset here.
Let's see, what else do we got?
So whenever he's lonely, Will turns on the BBC and in his best British accent pretends to be a distinguished guest being interviewed about Will's friendly Republican Iraqi bodybuilding neighbor.
Let's see, what else do we got?
Um...
Boris Johnson's Moped.
Ah, here we go.
This would be the one I would pick.
Whenever he's lonely, Will turns on the BBC and in his best British accent pretends to be a distinguished guest being interviewed about Ellen's Epstein Island TV set.
There we go.
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All right, real quick before we go, wrapping things up on this Friday, new information coming out about the shooter and the attempted assassination of President-in-exile Donald Trump into thin air, which I think is a great follow, says that there's now this new video where a suspect apparently is escaping around the water tower.
If you see this, let's see, we'll pipe this in real quick.
Take a look at this.
So we got this body cam put in.
Someone escapes right after the shot's fired, okay?
So you have that.
And then another guy that I follow...
And again, this is all...
Look, if the Secret Service were honest with us, we wouldn't have to do any of this.
But they're not going to be honest with us.
So a guy that I follow about this stuff...
And again, I don't know if this is true, but this is just what sleuths on the internet are reporting.
John Cullen is saying that it is official.
They're claiming that Trump's ear was hit at 6-11-33...
Allegedly.
It says that this shot was taken at 6-11-32 according to body cam.
They're claiming that this is a muzzle flash.
On one of these videos, there's so many videos after coming out that they're saying that this was a muzzle flash within the building.
Now again, this is just what people are digging on this.
And the reason they're digging on this is because there are cameras everywhere and the official narrative is not true.
I can promise you that.
Whatever the official narrative is, it's not true.
And it's not true because of ignorance or incompetence.
It's not true because it's a cover-up.
And it was supposed to be a cover-up.
The story was supposed to look sloppy because they wanted it to trigger a civil war because Trump was supposed to be dead.
That's the truth as I understand it.
And then, in the meantime, lastly, we've got Kamala Harris is being caught.
Her surrogates are being caught posting AI-generated photos of rallies.
So Harry Sisson put up this tweet saying, hope, dedication, patriotism.
That's the Kamala Harris campaign.
And then this picture that's supposed to be a Kamala rally, I guess, of her riding in a plane.
The only issue is this picture is AI. This is not real.
And you can really see it with the phones.
Like, they're all recording something different.
None of it's the same.
And here's another close-up of just all the phones.
Doing their own thing.
Also, this person's thumb is oddly shaped.
So, okay, so here's the thing.
This is kind of a whole other discussion that we need to have at some point.
But, like, because of AI and the technology, and we're to the point where...
Right now, we can believe our eyes.
Like, you know, you can detect AI. There's going to come a time where you really can't believe your own eyes on this stuff.
And...
When that happens, I have literally no idea how...
So much of it's already theater anyway, but when the AI gets to such a point, and it's probably already there in many cases that we don't know, but...
I guess AI could very well pave the way for just complete anarchy when people cannot believe their eyes.
And maybe that certainly would be a tyrant's dream.
People don't believe anything anymore, so then they don't care and I can just do whatever I want and move forward with our plans to enslave humanity.
But that's not our prayer.
Our prayer is that this Tower of Babel 2.0...
Would be stopped.
This construction of this massive globalist super state would be stopped.
Similar to what happened to the Tower of Babel in the book of Genesis.
And with that, thank you for watching.
It's been a great week of broadcasting.
It's my pleasure to be with you.
Please, if you don't go to church, go to church.
Find a church that preaches the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And we will see you, unless I am providentially hindered, going to see you back here on Monday.
Have a great weekend.
Have a great Lord's Day.
God bless.
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