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Aug. 30, 2024 - Stew Peters Show

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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Christian Infighting After Trump's Abortion & IVF Comments

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	My name is Paul Harrell.
	Thank you so much for being with us.
	Thank you for watching.
	As always, we cannot do the program without you.
	You know the drill.
	Okay, so it happened again.
	It happened again.
	We start this Friday by saying that Christian X is, once again, it's been worked up into a tizzy because President Trump, once again, reiterated that His pro-choice position on abortion.
	Watch.
	You overturn Roe and you want abortion to be a state's rights issue.
	In Florida, the state that you are a resident of, there's an abortion related amendment on the ballot to overturn the six-week ban in Florida.
	How are you going to vote on that?
	Well, I think the sixth week is too short.
	It has to be more time.
	And I've told them that I want more weeks.
	So you'll vote in favor of the amendment?
	I'm voting that I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.
	Look, just so you understand, everybody wanted Roe v.
	Wade terminated for years, 52 years.
	I got it done.
	They wanted to go back to the States.
	Exceptions are very important for me, for Ronald Reagan, for others that have navigated this very, very interesting and difficult path.
	So, the news, of course, again, worked Christian X up into a frenzy over the night.
	And the news, I would say, I mean, it's certainly a stumble for the Trump campaign, who was having a very good week coming off the endorsement of Robert Kennedy Jr.
	RFK Jr., by the way, is also pro-choice.
	So, the two parties...
	The two main parties, they're both okay with abortion in some form, one more extreme than the other, but let's not gloss over the fact that murder is murder.
	I mean, how do you get any more extreme or less extreme when we're talking about the ending of a human life?
	Currently though, the Overton window on the topic of baby murder is that really one party wants abortions up until birth and the other party says, that's too late.
	That's barbaric.
	We want to allow women to kill their babies, but they need to make up their minds sooner.
	How soon?
	Six weeks?
	Trump says no.
	Trump says that's too soon.
	What about 20 weeks?
	How about this?
	What about 15 weeks, 2 days, and 12 hours?
	What if the government made that the law?
	From this moment forward, from the moment of conception, the woman has 15 weeks, 2 days, 12 hours, and 60 seconds to kill her baby.
	Otherwise, that's it.
	Time's up.
	You have to have it.
	Seems rather dumb, right?
	Rather arbitrary?
	That's because it is.
	Mortal man drawing arbitrary lines in the sand on when a God-created life gets to live or die.
	It's sick, it's twisted, it's evil, and it's something that's been happening since the fall of man.
	There is no way around this fact, though.
	And President Trump and Kamala Harris should repent of their sins against God on this issue and against the unborn.
	And that's my opinion.
	And I believe it strongly.
	I also understand at the same time that my opinion on this issue is not shared by everyone.
	And I know that since the end of Roe v.
	Wade...
	Did you know this?
	That since the end of Roe v.
	Wade, the abolitionist slash pro-life side of the aisle...
	has lost all seven statewide ballot initiatives that have taken place that have sought to either protect the right of the woman to murder their children or those amendments that have sought to end the so-called right to infanticide.
	Here's some statistics.
	In 2022, California passed Proposition 1.
	The Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment, they passed it 66% to 33%.
	Okay, so it's California.
	No big deal.
	No shocker there.
	In Kansas, the voters rejected an amendment that would have protected babies.
	The voters there rejected the No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative Power to Regulate Abortion Amendment 41% to 58%.
	In Kentucky, voters rejected an amendment that would again declare, quote, no right to an abortion in the Constitution.
	They rejected that 47% to 52%.
	In Michigan, voters enshrined the right to an abortion in their laws 56% to 43%.
	In Montana, pro-lifers tried to pass LR 131, the Medical Care Requirements for Born Alive Infants measure, which would have required medical care for babies, and that failed to 47% to 52%.
	In Vermont, voters passed an enshrined abortion into their constitution.
	76% to 23%.
	And last year...
	I'm sorry, no.
	This year.
	This year.
	No, no, no.
	It was last year.
	Sorry.
	So last year, Ohio, they also enshrined abortion into their state constitution.
	56% to 43%.
	So admittedly, for all of my talk...
	For all of my talk about the bright hope Christian red states have to protect kids, there is clearly a lot of work to be done on this issue at the state level now that it's back for the states.
	Again, that's not to say that I wouldn't support a national abortion ban.
	I would, but apparently that's not in the cards in the immediate future.
	Abortion, the fact of the matter is, abortion is not thought of as a shameful act by millions of Americans.
	And it should be thought of that, and that can change.
	We desperately need it to be considered evil, but many are just not there yet.
	Apparently, Trump believes that he made good on his promise to end Roe v.
	Wade, and he did.
	And now it's back to the states.
	The abortion debate that was getting started in 1973, before Roe tyranny.
	So, you know, leading up to 1973, there was an abortion debate before Roe tyranny.
	And now it's once again been ignited because of the reversal of Roe, and Trump believes that abortion is acceptable in some circumstances.
	An opinion that, apparently, many also share is evidenced by those seven statewide ballot initiatives where the pro-life or abolitionist movement has come up empty and posted a goose egg.
	And honestly, it's clear Trump has this position because he wants to win or he thinks that this position, that his opinion, is going to somehow win elections and, I don't know, win over the purple hairs?
	I don't know.
	Trump has shown that on abortion he is perfectly willing to flip-flop on the issue.
	Do you remember when he told Chris Matthews back in 2016 that women should be punished for having an abortion?
	Why?
	Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle?
	The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.
	For the woman?
	Yeah, there has to be some form.
	Now, that was incredible back when he said that.
	The GOP pro-life establishment actually freaked out.
	They're notorious for not wanting to criminalize abortion, just regulate it more than the bloodthirsty Democrats.
	So they got to Trump, and because of the promise of electoral wins, he has become, or he just is, he's malleable on the issue.
	You know, who's to say?
	Maybe he could be encouraged to go back the other direction.
	I don't know.
	The question, though, is will it work?
	Will it work?
	I don't know the answer to that.
	Pro-lifers who, unlike the GOP party bosses, who actually believe that life begins at conception and that abortion is murder, are or maybe were some of Trump's most ardent supporters.
	And during Trump's campaign for re-election, he keeps habitually, like about once a month, throwing us all under the bus, almost as if he's daring us not to vote for him.
	Almost as if he's daring us to stay home.
	And at least one person at the Trump campaign knows this.
	Shortly after Trump's comments about Florida's abortion amendment went viral on Christian X, Trump National Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt tried to walk back Trump's statement on Florida's Amendment 4.
	The Florida's Voice X account posted, quote, breaking.
	Trump National Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt says that the former president, quote, has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida.
	He simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short, end quote.
	Interesting.
	The Christian frenzy continued on X over the night.
	Because Trump's comments came after he made a controversial announcement.
	That in a second Trump administration, the government would pay for in vitro fertilization treatments, IVF. Watch.
	I'm announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for, or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for, all costs associated with IVF treatment, fertilization for women, IVF treatment.
	Because we want more babies, to put it very nicely.
	And for this same reason, we will also allow new parents to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes so that parents that have a beautiful baby We'll be able.
	So we're pro-family.
	Nobody's ever said that before.
	But the IVF treatments are expensive.
	It's very hard for many people to do it and to get it.
	But I've been in favor of IVF right from the beginning.
	Okay, so here we go again.
	That comment with the comment about Florida's Amendment 4.
	So amongst conservatives, IVF is frowned upon.
	I guess I should say amongst some conservatives...
	It's frowned upon.
	Again, a lot of people still don't really know what all IVF entails.
	But amongst some conservatives, it's frowned upon because it requires the taking of innocent life in order to get one of the human lives to come to term.
	Now, a couple of months ago, we showed you this and we demonstrated this to you because we watched this video from this website trying to bring awareness to the dangers or the immorality of IVF called Build a Baby.
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	So, by the way, that last part there where you saw the baby grafted onto the rat, that's actually a real thing that happened and was approved of by NIH and Francis Collins, grafting baby scalps, I believe, onto rats.
	I don't know if there's a direct correlation between where they get the material, the baby body parts to do that, if that comes from IVF or not.
	I don't know.
	But yeah, that illustrates that this is not just some morally ambiguous process.
	This is something that a lot of Christians have a lot of problems with.
	On the other hand, there's a lot of Christians that I think don't have a problem with this.
	Okay?
	But that video kind of sums up why there are people that believe, like I do, that IVF is wrong, even though I am sure there are lovely, beautiful Christian children who have been born as a result of it.
	Even so, the meltdown, the blackpilling.
	Some are having on Christian X because Trump once again made known for like the 10th time this election cycle that he's pro-choice is a little much.
	And most, not all, but most of the bomb throwers right now are actually itching for an excuse to vote for Kamala Harris.
	Think evangelicals for Harris.
	What a joke.
	But here's the truth.
	A lot of the bomb throwers, not all, but a lot of the bomb throwers right now, they've always been never Trumpers.
	Because something about decency in American politics or something like that.
	I don't know.
	Talk about unrealistic utopias.
	Talk about unrealistic utopias.
	Let's actually go to the screen and let's check this out.
	We have Eric Kahn tweeting this.
	I thought this was pretty good.
	This was last night.
	Reformed Christian X right now.
	This is kind of what was going on.
	Again, the infighting, a lot of it.
	It certainly was happening.
	But, you know, you hear Donald Trump say, and I'm not defending IVF, okay?
	Let me just say I'm not defending IVF. But what I am going to say is, There's a reason, okay, there is a reason that Donald Trump and the people around him are coming out and talking about the importance of Americans having more babies.
	I mean, the policy itself is saying, look, insurance companies are going to be required to pay for your IVF if you want it, or the government is going to pay for your IVF if you want it.
	To me, it shows that somebody is in Trump's ear telling him that we, in fact, in this country and on this planet, for that matter, do not have an overpopulation problem.
	So what does the mainstream media tell you?
	What do all of the atheistic scientists tell you about the population of the earth?
	They tell you that the population of the Earth is out of control.
	We've got to slow it down.
	Think Georgia Guidestones.
	We've got to keep the planet 500 million people or below.
	This is very much a part of their satanic death cult, right?
	It's overpopulation, which gives them the excuse to put any kind of bioweapon they want out there, poison our food to reduce the population.
	There are those who...
	That's the reason that we're in the crisis that we're in right now.
	However...
	If you actually look into what other well-read or well-researched people say about this, they actually say the opposite, and we shouldn't be surprised by that at all because the mainstream media constantly parrots that we have an overpopulation crisis on Earth, and we know that the general rule to interpret media propaganda is just to believe the opposite.
	And 99% of the time, if you believe the opposite of what the mainstream media is telling you, you are actually correct.
	You may have to wait six months to prove it, but that tends to be the case.
	So if they're saying that overpopulation is a threat to the future of mankind, the opposite is actually or is probably true, that it's actually depopulation.
	The decline that we're actually facing right now, a situation where there's just not going to be enough people in the future to maintain the quality of life that we currently have, That really centers around globalization and the fact that, you know, individual nation states don't necessarily have to produce from within their own borders everything that the people need to survive.
	That's a big problem if all of a sudden globalization and global trade goes away.
	And we know that U.S. hegemony is actually declining because we know there's, you know, other financial powers and the rise of BRICS and everything else.
	So, the first that I learned about this is I was watching a strange podcast.
	It's not a strange podcast.
	It's actually very interesting a lot of the time called Mysterious Universe.
	I don't remember the name.
	I've only listened to a few episodes.
	But that's when I first heard about this book called The End of the World is Just the Beginning.
	And the reason I'm bringing this up because, again, this is no defensive IVF. This is more of a...
	Yes, the fact that Americans are not having children is a huge problem.
	Overpopulation is a myth.
	The depopulation of this country is going to come, and it's going to be very, very painful.
	And I think Donald Trump knows that.
	I think he's approaching it from the wrong direction, you know, supporting IVF. But in this book, it's a New York Times bestseller.
	It says, 2019 was the last great year for the world economy.
	For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper.
	Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days, even hours, of when you decided you wanted it.
	America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.
	Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy.
	The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets.
	Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers.
	American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms.
	Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.
	All of it was artificial, artificial.
	All this was temporary.
	All this is ending.
	And the end of the world is just the beginning.
	The author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zion maps out the next world, a world where countries and regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.
	The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think, which means everything about our interconnected world, from how we manufacture products to how we grow food to how we keep the lights on to how we shuttle stuff about, meaning trade, to how we pay for it all, is about to change.
	So this author here, Zion, rather than yelling fire with...
	Geo-economic theater.
	He narrates the accumulation of matchsticks.
	Okay, so there was that book.
	There's also a book, Sold Out, How the Broken Supply Chain, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy.
	This by a guy by the name of James Richards, talking about the supply chain crisis.
	The bottom line is that you see in all of these books...
	Is that we don't have enough people to keep this going.
	And honestly, the only person...
	So the only country, according to the analysis that I heard, the only country that has a chance is the United States.
	And that's only if millennials start to have children and start to have a lot more babies than they're actually having.
	I suspect...
	That Donald Trump knows this.
	I suspect that RFK knows this.
	And I feel like that's why they're now coming out with this IVF policy.
	Again, that conservative Christians that don't believe life is something to be tampered with in a petri dish if you've got to kill babies in order to get them to survive.
	To get one, you know, or two, you've got to get rid of, you know, three or four...
	You've got to create life to get rid of it or then freeze it and all that other stuff.
	It's not a moral thing to do, is my opinion about it.
	But if you do have a population declining...
	And you realize, like for example, Russia.
	I mean, Russia has been trying to get more Russians for years.
	They have weekends where they encourage people, almost holidays, where they encourage people to stay in and procreate so they can have more Russian babies.
	I imagine that this is the...
	This is a pagan way of trying to address a very real problem.
	Let me say that again.
	The IVF thing, in my opinion, is a pagan way to try to address what is a very real problem.
	If you don't have borders, you don't have a country.
	Likewise, if you don't have people that are replacing at a population replacement rate, you don't have a country either, eventually.
	So, I think there's some, at least in their minds, some national security implications is what they're thinking.
	Like, America long-term, if we don't have babies, okay, so let's use the technology and get it done.
	And if that means we have it.
	If there's willing parents that don't have kids, we want them to have kids.
	Who cares what the conservative Christians think about IVF? I think that's certainly where we're at.
	Some more fallout from Christian X over all of this infighting.
	Joel Berry over at the Babylon Bee, I'm making sure, yeah, the managing editor Babylon Bee, pro-lifers have done, I'm sorry, pro-lifers have a ton of work to do, but that work can't be done with Kamala as president, putting pro-life protesters in prison, packing the courts, enshrining Roe v.
	Wade legislatively.
	It's a tragic decision, but still an easy one.
	I'll vote Trump with no regrets.
	Then we have Christian YouTuber Ruslan saying, Trump flip-flopping on abortion confirms who he is.
	Not sure why anyone is shocked.
	Glad he helped get Roe overturned, but his position of a six-week ban being too short isn't shocking to say the least.
	Look, I don't agree with this Ruslan guy very often, but I read that and not that I disagree with him all the time, but I read that and I was like, yeah, that's kind of where I'm at.
	He's continued to do this over and over again.
	Now, we can say that it's not politically smart.
	I read a Megan Basham tweet saying, this is just not...
	Why would you say something like this?
	This is not a politically smart thing to do.
	You've got to have, or at least that's the conventional wisdom, you have to have the pro-life voting block.
	And if you're going to win, if you're going to win a state like Florida as well, some people are saying...
	Oh, but hey, on a different note, this is connected.
	I had this thought.
	They're going to try to Georgia, Florida.
	That's what I'm seeing.
	I'm seeing some polls that make no sense, and this is before any of these comments that could affect them.
	They're going to try to...
	Ron DeSantis May very well be the next Brian Kemp.
	Just something to think about.
	Again, I hope I'm wrong, but something as I was reading the tea leaves, I was reading the headlines over the last 24 hours, and I saw what was happening in Florida.
	I've seen these polls that make no sense, and I'm thinking, okay, this is it.
	They want, you know, Brian Kemp may not be able to get away with what happened in Georgia a second time, but maybe Ron DeSantis can get away with With it, it's just my thought.
	I mean, primaries, people hold grudges in primaries, and I'm less thinking of Ron DeSantis, and I'm more thinking of his backers.
	I'm thinking of the Paul Ryans of the world, the people that backed DeSantis and got nowhere.
	And DeSantis is governor of Florida, so something to think about.
	More fallout here.
	A guy by the name of Shane Schetzel.
	He says that, he says, quote, I vehemently renounce and reject Donald Trump's stand on IVF treatment as it violates Catholic teaching.
	So this is a Catholic thing.
	So I'm a Protestant.
	Admittedly, most of my biblical takes, or how I try to interpret the news and events of the day from a biblical worldview, but it does admittedly come from a Protestant worldview.
	Um, So this is a Catholic, I guess a random Catholic person's take on the announcement.
	I think a lot of conservative Protestants and Catholics agree on this IVF issue.
	It says, I vehemently renounce and reject Donald Trump's stand on IVF treatment as it violates Catholic teaching and sacrifices babies to make babies.
	The ends never justify the means.
	Shane goes on and says, that said, I will still vote for Trump because of what Father Chad Ripperger said.
	Chad Ripperger.
	Let's see if I can, can I pump this in real quick?
	Let's see, here we go.
	Right now we've got, for example, candidates who are not perfect.
	One actually holds stuff that's really evil, another guy that holds stuff that's also evil but it's not as bad, etc.
	Discussion of this has been reiterated throughout the history of the church all the way up even through John Paul II had actually talked about it.
	But the basic principle is that in a situation like that, then your obligation is to vote for the lesser of two evils.
	And the reason being is because in the lesser of two evils, people say, well, you're voting for evil.
	No, you're actually not voting for evil.
	When you're voting for a lesser evil, you're not voting for the person's evil or for the evil that the thing is doing.
	What you're voting to is to preserve the good that would be lost if the other opponent got in who's more evil or if the legislation got passed and which was actually even worse.
	Okay, okay, so that's a take.
	So the idea would be, hey, I mean, yeah, the lesser of two evils concept is certainly...
	Hang on one second, let me...
	So the lesser of two evils thing is certainly always at play.
	I think as Christians, you certainly can't vote for the greater of two evils.
	That's my conviction, at least.
	He's saying, but should you vote for any evil of all?
	Well, if you know anything about human nature, well, we're, you know, there's no one.
	For all have fallen short of the glory of God, so we're all...
	We're all bad and capable of doing really, really bad stuff.
	But he's coming at it from a standpoint of like, no, but what about the preservation of good?
	So if you're voting for the lesser of the two evils, then you're voting for more.
	The theory is you're voting for more of the preservation of things that are good.
	And again, I will say this on Trump.
	He at one point said...
	In 2016, he said women should be punished for having abortions.
	And now he's where he is now.
	Trump is a malleable guy, I think, on a lot of issues.
	I really do.
	Who's to say he couldn't flip-flop back the other way?
	It's all about deals and coalitions with him.
	Okay, so here's Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.
	This is what he says.
	He says, Somebody responded, I found this interesting.
	Yeah, I found this.
	Did I respond to this?
	I did.
	Somebody named Milton says, My family is safe and provided for right now, but there won't be a future to inherit if we settle for this weak and tepid MAGA coalition who won't stand for anything meaningful.
	It's worthless.
	Andrew Torber says, You can remember that when Harris allows tens of millions of more feral savages into our country and your kids need to live among them.
	Milton says, this other guy, what's 20 to 30 more at this point?
	I couldn't believe he said that.
	What's 20 to 30 more at this point?
	Better an acute shock that galvanizes support for real solutions than decades of birthrate destruction.
	There's not going to be another chant.
	I'm sorry.
	I know it's like, look, and this is why I said the illegals are not coming to take your job.
	They are coming to take your lives.
	That's the difference.
	This idea of further galvanization.
	At this point, I don't see that there's another bite at the apple.
	Really, I don't.
	And again, we are talking about the lesser of two evils, but it's just kind of where I'm at.
	Former Trump administration official William Wolfe tweeting, don't like Trump's position on IVF. He says, ask your pastor, if you can, stand up in front of your church one Sunday and And call for the congregation to support a total ban on in vitro fertilization and see how that goes for you.
	Goodness gracious, evangelical political pundits try to recognize where even most Christians are on these things.
	William Wolfe is right.
	Whether we like it or not, most Christians are not there on things like IVF. And that doesn't mean that you compromise and don't tell them the truth.
	It just means...
	It just means that if people don't agree with you, they don't agree with you.
	I mean, what are you going to do?
	I mean, aside from amass political power and use it when you can, which is what the Alabama Supreme Court justice tried to do.
	Alabama Supreme Court chief justice in a concurring opinion when they overthrew and banned IVF for a short period of time that sent Republicans into a frenzy.
	Excuse me.
	He said that by allowing IVF, we invoke the potential wrath of God because we are murdering babies, essentially.
	And I'm paraphrasing.
	But we invoke the wrath of Almighty God against us if we continue this process.
	And so he did a good thing.
	And then, of course, Alabama Republicans didn't agree.
	Why did Alabama Republicans reverse the IVF decision?
	Because they knew their constituents were all people that go to, you know, doctors to get fertility treatments.
	And Trump knows this.
	William Wolfe again.
	He says, I'm telling people hard truths about the state of play on pro-life and IVF in America's most conservative Christian communities in our reddest states.
	And they're getting mad at me for it.
	Oh well.
	0 for 7 on ballot referendums against the abortion lobby since Roe.
	We covered that in the monologue just a second ago.
	Do we have that, where is it?
	Let me throw it back up on the screen here.
	It's right there.
	I mean, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
	These are the seven.
	2022 and 2023.
	Most of them were in 2022.
	This was a direct response from Roe versus Wade being overturned.
	And the people rejected it.
	Or they accepted it, depending on if a yes helped abortion or if a no helped abortion.
	0 for 7.
	Massive support, he goes on, massive support for IVF in most churches in America.
	Pro-Life Inc.
	is a compromising disaster.
	Now this is true.
	And abolitionists, he says, abolitionists have not successfully passed a single state-level piece of legislation.
	Is any of that false?
	It's not.
	I'm addressing my comments there because that's where change actually has to happen first.
	So William Wolfe is saying we've got to fix the pro-life movement, which is becoming the pro-choice movement.
	Abolitionists have got to get some victories.
	Well, how does that happen?
	Well, if most churches in America think there's nothing wrong with IVF, that's a problem.
	I mean, abortion has now been taken back to the states, and so now that's where the battleground is until you get the political will to actually do something like a federal abortion ban.
	Excuse me.
	So what some people are pointing out, by the way, that the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe, and essentially what it said was there is no right to abortion in the Constitution...
	Somebody was saying it affirms that that would mean a national abortion ban would be somehow unconstitutional.
	That's not what that means, because Congress can still pass a law making something illegal across the land.
	But it went back to the states, really by default.
	If there's no right to an abortion in the Constitution, then it goes back to the states by default, hence the Tenth Amendment.
	Rush Limbaugh's brother, David Limbaugh, President Trump, who I wholeheartedly support, needs some ardent pro-lifers in his campaign advisory inner circle.
	Unforced errors are worse than run-of-the-mill errors.
	Appeasement strategies that alienate more supporters than impress non-supporters are just plain disappointing.
	Megan Basham saying, yes, I'm a simple girl.
	She says, I think burning out your base to appeal to a subset of voters you're not going to get is a bad strategy.
	Meaning...
	Does this position really get voted?
	Now, does it take the ammunition away from the Democrats and the media in a debate stage?
	Yeah, perhaps.
	But they're still telling...
	I mean, Donald Trump has denounced Project 2025, unfortunately.
	And they still say he's all about Project 2025.
	So he can denounce that he's pro-choice.
	He can say he's pro-choice all day long.
	And the Democrats still say he wants a federal abortion ban.
	Huh.
	Nate Fisher of New Founding, which is doing some great work, Nate Fisher, looking for, you know, a bright Christian future.
	But he says this.
	Are you serious about stopping abortion?
	He says the best way to turn people against something is to make it shameful, embarrassing, low status.
	This has repeatedly been used to turn opinion against practices, drunk driving, racist language, not recycling, et cetera.
	Recycling is a big scam, I think.
	Before winning the power to impose legal penalties or to ensure that such penalties maintain support and could be ratcheted up, even the right has had wins of this sort against overt displays of diversity, equity, and inclusion rhetoric and gained the power to impose some legal bans.
	He goes on.
	These efforts should be particularly focused on middle and upper middle class suburban women, the sort who are very concerned about holding respectable opinions and currently serve as the major impediment to abortion bans.
	Actual tactics to achieve this can vary, but it should be easy to assess whether abortion is viewed as shameful in a particular community.
	Contrast with failed slogans like choose life, this reinforces the left's framing that abortion is a valid choice to, begin with.
	Did anti-racism campaigners ever implore people to choose not to use the N-word?
	Of course not.
	They pushed the message that the very thought was shameful.
	Will the pro-life lobby embrace these tactics?
	Interesting.
	It just really goes to show how much work we have left to do.
	Andrew Torba, again, Christians need to get tough.
	Okay, so there was a, there's been another controversy.
	Well, it's crazy.
	Late last night, the controversy over on Christian Twitter, on Christian X, was, you know, the IVF thing, Trump's abortion comments on the Florida Amendment.
	But like right before that, and I never got to cover it.
	I guess I'll cover it now.
	There's been infighting among Christians on whether the Crusades were good or not.
	And A.D. Robles put it best, where he's like, there were some good things about the Crusades, and there were some bad things about the Crusades.
	There you go.
	Like, that's the answer.
	But there's some people, a James White, a respected theologian, is coming out and attacking those Christians who are saying, actually, the Crusades were a response to Muslim aggression, and they were a good thing.
	There's been a lot of infighting over that.
	Torba has been a part of that.
	He says, Christians need to get tough.
	We have hordes of feral savages.
	Okay, so this also came about because New St.
	Andrews College, which is a Christian college, they put out an ad, a recruitment ad, that showed Johnny Cash using his middle finger.
	You know that famous photo of Johnny Cash?
	And anyway, it made a lot of Christians pearl clutch.
	I can't believe they would do that!
	and so that's the that's this so it all kind of it's been a big week everything is kind of morphed together where you can't really tell where one issue ends and the other begins okay so Christians need to get tough we've hordes of feral savages with the most brutal criminals on the planet flooding our country We
	love you as brothers in the faith.
	But you need to accept that you are no longer steering the ship anymore.
	We're ripping the steering wheel from your hands in love because you're driving us off a cliff.
	So that's, man, I'm telling you, just a lot of infighting, not just over Trump's abortion comments, but it's just been a lot building this week.
	And it's kind of all came to a head yesterday.
	And again, some of these Christians on Twitter have always hated Trump.
	And they're just doing this to try to pile on those Christians who voted for Trump as the lesser of two evils in 2016 and plan to do it again with a clear conscience.
	And in the meantime, RFK is talking about seed oils.
	RFK is talking about seed oils on Fox News.
	Let's play this clip, shall we?
	Why should people be worried about these kind of products?
	Seed oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients that we have in foods.
	And seed oils, the reason they're in the foods is because they're heavily subsidized.
	They're very, very cheap, but they are associated with all kinds of very, very serious illnesses, including body-wide inflammation, which affects all of our health.
	It's one of the worst things you can eat, and it's almost impossible to avoid.
	If you eat any processed foods, you're going to be eating seed oil.
	Right, and it's interesting, the government subsidizes it.
	Why would the government want to subsidize something that's going to make people sick, and then in the end we all end up paying for that in terms of healthcare costs, which are skyrocketing?
	Yeah, because that is a direct result of corruption.
	About 75% of FDA's budget comes from regulated industry, and that means food processors and pharmaceutical industry, all of them, profit from a sick population.
	You know, a big item that, and by the way, it's getting very expensive, are cereals.
	Why is the food coloring in particular bad?
	Food coloring, you see here, yellow food coloring, that is a petroleum product.
	It's associated with really, you know, with With depression, it's associated with autoimmune injuries and ADHD. And red dye also is very bad.
	In Europe, the same companies are producing the same products, but they're using natural coloring.
	But here they can get away with it.
	Almost a thousand chemicals that are in our food that are either outright banned in Europe or actively discouraged.
	So you wouldn't be able to buy this kind of stuff in Europe.
	You ask about why it's so cheap, why it's so ubiquitous.
	It's because we subsidize the worst foods.
	We subsidize it with about 70% of our food stamp program is to process foods, which are all poison.
	Right.
	One of the things that's interesting is you'll see on labels, natural flavors, which is this catch-off phrase that I guess was lobbied for, but the ingredients in natural flavors are not really natural.
	No.
	In our country, natural flavors are chemical products.
	So you can't trust what's on the ingredient label, and the reason for that, again, is government corruption.
	It's that the agency, the USDA, the FDA, have been captured by the industries they're supposed to regulate, and they all have an interest in subsidies and then in mass poisoning the American public.
	I want to talk about pesticides, and then let's talk to the...
	It's pretty incredible.
	This is supposed to be a conspiracy theory.
	I just want to reiterate this idea that our food is poisoned and toxic by corporations and that the government's corrupt and complicit and it's killing Americans and it's making us run into the arms of Big Pharma.
	This is all supposed to be a conspiracy theory and yet it's on Fox News.
	I wonder how many boomer minds were just blown by this.
	And then, of course, as he's talking about seed oils and the danger of seed oils, yesterday we told you that Time Magazine decides to run this.
	What if ultra-processed foods aren't as bad as you think?
	All of this done, Time Magazine, all of this being done to counter RFK's messaging.
	Big Pharma, Big Food, The intel agency oligarchs running the show are very concerned about the truth of this issue getting out.
	And I won't be surprised if YouTube starts to ban...
	They don't want you to talk about vaccines.
	They don't want you to talk about...
	I won't be surprised if they start banning people talking about how ultra-processed food is making you unhealthy.
	Speaking of unhealthy...
	I had this website sent to me, and I have to tell you, I think it's...
	I think we're going to start checking in with this website at least once a week.
	Maybe even once a show, but I would say for sure once a week.
	Maybe every Friday from now on, we're going to show you about this website.
	Now, forgive the crass...
	I mean, you know, it is what it is.
	A jackass is a donkey.
	It's an animal.
	There's a website called HeyJackass.com and you'd think that this is just some sort of juvenile college humor type website.
	But no, it's not.
	It's Illustrating Chicago Values.
	This is what it says.
	It says Illustrating Chicago Values.
	And on this website, and go check it out, you can go to HeyJackass.com.
	I didn't think I would say that this morning.
	This website was sent to me, but more people need to go to it because...
	Right now, for example, it's just going over the Chicago murder statistics.
	August to date in Chicago, there's been 46 people shot and killed.
	46.
	There's been 248 shot and wounded for a total of 294 total homicides of that 51.
	Okay?
	The week in progress.
	So from August 25th to August 31st, tomorrow's the end of the week.
	Happy Friday, by the way.
	Week in progress.
	There's been five shot and killed.
	There's been 33 shot and wounded for a total of 38, seven homicides.
	Year to date, year to date in Chicago, 362 have been shot and killed.
	1,718 have been shot and wounded for a total of 2,080.
	Total homicides of that number, 412.
	They even have a graph It's called the 30-day stupidity trend.
	As you can see, the graph we have in the blue, this is the shot and wounded.
	83.1% have been shot and wounded.
	Shot and killed is in the red.
	That would be a 16.9% have been shot and killed.
	And then we have a blue homicide.
	So you've got the pie graph here and the line graph broken down from 8.1 to 8.29%.
	These are the statistics in Chicago.
	This website is, the graphics are top-notch.
	Here we have another one.
	We have a person is shot every, this is basically like, you know, X many days since an accident at some, you know, OSHA-run factory.
	A person in Chicago is shot every 2 hours and 47 minutes.
	A person is murdered in Chicago every 14 hours and 3 minutes.
	And all of these things are subject to change based on the statistics that come in.
	Let's see, do we have any more?
	Oh yeah, here we go.
	We even have a breakdown of where, what parts of the body these people have been shot in.
	This is posted on January 10th.
	Let's see, what is this?
	This is through 829, okay?
	So since, so through 829, let's see, we have, let's see, what's the red?
	Okay, so we've got the red are the fatal, and the blue is the wounded.
	So we've got 174 headshots.
	Of that 174 headshots in the city of Chicago, 128 of them have been fatal.
	We've got 319 arm shots, and out of the 319, five of those have been fatal.
	A lot of times you don't see that movie.
	You get shot in the arm, you think, I'll be fine.
	The torso.
	We've got 453 people have been wounded in the torso in Chicago.
	Out of those 453, 168 have died.
	Lower body, 727 have died.
	Unknown portions, 5757 have died.
	Again, this is Chicago.
	Again, and the website, if you want to check it out, is heyjackass.com, illustrating Chicago values.
	We may check in with this once a week from now on, just to kind of let you guys know.
	They even have...
	They even have a map where all of the murders take place.
	Like, they break down, like, where in the parts of Chicago are the worst places to live.
	So, yeah, definitely check that out.
	You know, in the meantime, while everybody has been, you know, very worried on Twitter, I guess they've been fighting on Twitter.
	We have...
	So while all that was going on, You've got, let's see here.
	You've got Kamala Harris finally doing an interview.
	Okay, she's finally doing an interview and Dana Bash unexpectedly actually asked Kamala Harris a good question.
	Of course, this interview has been panned.
	It's been shown to be like one of the worst interviews of all time.
	She's been hiding out and she finally comes out and she says this.
	Take a listen.
	You talked about, you call it the opportunity economy.
	You are well aware that right now many Americans are struggling.
	There's a crisis of affordability.
	One of your campaign themes is we're not going back.
	But I wonder what you say to voters who do want to go back when it comes to the economy specifically because their groceries were less expensive, housing was more affordable when Donald Trump was president.
	Well, let's start with the fact that when Joe Biden and I came in office during the height of a pandemic, we saw over 10 million jobs were lost.
	I mean, literally, we were all tracking the numbers.
	Hundreds of people a day were dying because of COVID. The economy had crashed.
	In large part, all of that because of mismanagement by Donald Trump of that crisis.
	When we came in, our highest priority was to do what we could to rescue America.
	And today, We know that we have inflation at under 3%.
	A lot of our policies have led to the reality that America recovered faster than any wealthy nation around the world.
	But you are right.
	Prices, in particular for groceries, are still too high.
	The American people know it.
	I know it.
	Which is why my agenda includes what we need to do to bring down the price of groceries.
	For example, dealing with an issue like price gouging.
	What we need to do to extend the child tax credit to help young families be able to take care of their children in their most formative years.
	What we need to do to bring down the cost of housing My proposal includes what would be a tax credit of $25,000 for first-time home buyers so they can just have enough to put a down payment on a home, which is part of the American dream and their aspiration, but do it in a way that allows them to actually get on the path to achieving that goal and that dream.
	So Kamala Harris is, I mean, the interview was bad.
	I had several more clips that we could have played.
	You know, she's obviously not qualified.
	I mean, that doesn't instill any confidence in me at all.
	But actually, you know, Dadabash actually asking a half-decent question of, hey, what would you say to people that want to go back to when America was great?
	Or when the economy was great, relatively speaking, to where it is now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Unbelievable.
	Folks, this is the time of the program, because it's Friday, where I encourage you to go to church on Sunday.
	If you are not going to church, I would encourage you to find a church that preaches about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ His ability to save sinners at a church that gathers on the Lord's Day to worship Him because He is indeed worthy of that worship.
	That is my exhortation to all of you out there.
	And those of you who do go to church, I hope you have a great weekend and a blessed Lord's Day.
	Unless I'm providentially hindered, we're going to see you back here Monday.

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