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Oct. 4, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: FEMA Undermines Appalachia Charities
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
Happy Friday to everybody out there.
Thank you so much for being with us.
My name is Paul Harrell, and this is the Millstone Report.
And as always, we can't do the program without you guys watching.
Every single day, you know the drill and how much you are appreciated.
Is the United States government at war with the people they're supposed to serve?
The people and positions of power across this nation, from dog catcher to the president, will tell us they're just doing their jobs.
Just doing their jobs.
This phrase has become the way to explain away rules and regulations that make absolutely no sense to the average person and often reveal a complete lack of common sense.
Bureaucrats in Washington love to pretend they know the intricacies of an issue, or in this case, a crisis, about lands, about topography, and people they actually know very little about.
In fact, nothing in some cases.
I'm just doing my job.
It's also a phrase to excuse any personal guilt a soldier or FEMA technocrat may feel as they explain to volunteers why they cannot help or why churches and private charities must stop distributing food and supplies.
I'm just doing my job.
It can be an excuse to actually harm Americans while claiming you are helping them.
It's inverted.
It's like claiming removing one's genitals is actually health care.
It's not, and it certainly looks like the United States government is at war with the people of Appalachia.
Allegations on X have erupted, claiming Kamala is slow-walking relief because Hurricane Helene devastated huge areas of mostly red Republican counties, and now North Carolina is in play electorally.
Kamala may win that state.
And if you look at this devastating footage that you can see everywhere, ask yourself, how are those people going to be expected to vote in 30 days?
And honestly, why would they care at this point?
I'm sure going to the polls is the last thing on some of their minds because their homeland has experienced nature's version of a nuclear bomb.
Or was it nature?
Hmm.
Some, on X, like the account Into Thin Air, think the hurricane was altered somehow, made stronger with geoengineering technology, which I actually find fascinating and a little ironic considering earlier this year, the Tennessee legislature passed legislation banning planes from dispersing chemicals over their skies.
The state of Tennessee passed a law banning geoengineering, or chemtrails, although the bill never actually used the phrase or the word chemtrails.
And now this.
So to my knowledge, the legislation they passed, though, said nothing about juicing hurricanes out of the middle of the ocean.
Who would have ever thought that a hurricane could cause this much damage as far inland as Tennessee?
Makes me think there isn't a landlocked state in the entire country that is safe from a disaster of this magnitude.
And yesterday, we discovered that FEMA, FEMA is all out of money.
As more tropical storm systems and Hurricane Kirk, which last night checked as a Category 4 hurricane, barrels towards the United States, yesterday Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas admitted that FEMA is fresh out of cash, doesn't have enough money to cover the rest of hurricane season.
He spent it all.
Blew all the money of FEMA's money.
Blew it all at the border.
Blew it all on illegal aliens that his administration has actually facilitated and encouraged to invade this country.
Which is also why there are now memes of helicopters showing up to rescue people in Appalachia stranded on rooftops only for those helicopters to be full of third world illegals getting dropped off to continue the invasion of this country.
So I ask you the question, is the U.S. government at war with the people?
It certainly feels like it.
Or are they just doing their jobs?
FEMA is tremendously prepared.
This is what we do.
This is what they do.
And the key here, Rebecca, is also to make sure that the communities who are potentially impacted are prepared as well.
And it's not just hurricanes and hurricanes.
Wildfires, also extreme heat, which certainly some parts of the United States are already experiencing.
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sounding the alarm on FEMA funding right after the devastation of Hurricane Helene.
Listen.
We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have.
We are expecting another hurricane hitting.
We do not have the funds.
FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.
This all comes as the Biden-Harris administration spent over a billion dollars from a FEMA program on services for migrants.
Attorney General of the great state of Florida has...
This is why.
I think one of the most popular terms over the last 24 hours or 18 hours has been treason.
Is that treason?
Is it treason?
Is it treason?
If they've turned on us, is it treason?
If you're literally using funds set aside for Americans and you're using it for people who are coming to this country, legally totally changing this country, many of them violent, many of them rapists.
Michael Yawn at the Daring Gap has been saying, hey, these people are not coming here to take your jobs.
They're coming here to take your home.
They're coming here to take your lives and the lives of your children.
I mean, this close to an election, I don't think we could have ever predicted a revealing of just how much they hate us than this situation.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Laid bare.
It's disgusting.
Elon Musk taking notice of this.
I'll throw this up on the screen.
This is the same clip we just watched.
That's what I just played for you.
Mayorkas now says that FEMA doesn't have enough funding to last through hurricane season.
Again, that is the last I checked.
If we go over here, we have...
National Hurricane Center is now tracking three systems in the tropics.
Latest info, possible impacts on Florida.
National Hurricane Center is tracking three tropical disturbances, including two that could affect Florida over the weekend or early next week.
Hurricane Kirk is a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mile-an-hour winds.
Large swells from Kirk could bring life-threatening surf and rip currents to the east coast of the United States by Sunday.
There's another weather system that could affect Florida in the disturbance forecasters have been watching all week.
Low pressure in the Caribbean Sea that has now moved into the Gulf of Mexico.
A tropical or subtropical depression or storm could form, and who knows what happens from there?
Who knows what happens from there?
So over the last week, I've tried to articulate this, what I'm about to say, and I've tried to articulate it I've been trying to
articulate what exactly is going on, and I haven't done a very good job on it, at least compared to Compared to Brett Weinstein.
So this is what he writes on X. And I found that this encompasses...
This is what I've been trying to tell you.
This is what I've been trying to express.
And I haven't done a very good job of it.
So I apologize.
But I found somebody who has.
He writes, how many of our governmental institutions do we need to witness performing the inverse?
I said that in the monologue, how this is inverted.
When things are inverted, it's actually satanic.
I think you can call it that many times, and it applies perfectly.
How many of our government institutions do we need to witness performing the inverse of their intended function before we understand that we are under attack?
FEMA actually makes disasters worse.
He says FEMA inflames disasters.
The Department of Defense, DOD, issues stand-down orders to the most capable and well-equipped Americans as fellow citizens needlessly die in the mountains.
Our military is supposed to be there to protect us.
In this case it's inverted and they're told to stand down and actually their inaction causes the deaths of Americans.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized poison shots and bans medicine.
The FDA authorizes poison Not just the shot.
He didn't say shots.
I said the shots.
Authorizes poison.
Just think about the pharmaceutical drugs that go to treat the symptoms.
They make us lifelong consumers of Big Pharma.
They're totally corrupted and they're captured by Big Pharma.
And then they'll ban actual medicine, which I know for a fact that this is going on.
with drugs that are out there that can benefit the human body and make great strides in medicine get kiboshed by the federal government.
They will ban actual medicine.
The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, causes diseases to spread and distributes misinformation.
And then those of us who call it out, we get called.
They tell us that we're distributing misinformation when we're just reporting what our own eyes see and our own experiences.
Homeland Security facilitates an invasion.
Think about that.
Homeland Security, they're supposed to secure the homeland, but they are facilitating an invasion of this country at the southern border?
It's the inverse.
It's inverted of what they say.
It is evil.
Federal Bureau of Investigation is supposed to investigate crimes.
They're supposed to be the chief law enforcement, federal law enforcement agency in the country.
What does the FBI do?
What does the FBI turn into?
Well, they frame Donald Trump for treason.
Weinstein writes that FBI instigates insurrection and hides the evidence.
This is talking about January 6th.
The federal agent provocateurs.
This narrative they created out of whole cloth to try to squash populism and end America first altogether.
And there's still...
Holding on to this narrative, as we saw in the debate on Tuesday.
Again, these are our institutions.
All of them are doing the opposite of what they claim their mission statement is.
What about the NIH, the National Institute for Health?
Weinstein says, literally creates infectious human pathogens that destroy health.
Talking about Anthony Fauci.
Talking about funding gain-of-function research.
It's the National Institutes of Health, but they are busy making bioweapons.
They're busy making bioweapons.
He goes on and he says, it's a struggle to find even a single counter example of this pattern.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's a struggle to find.
Is there a single government?
Let's just take the federal government.
That's what he's dealing with here.
Is there a single federal government agency that is actually accomplishing, that is not doing the opposite of what they say, right?
The Affordable Care Act, not an affordable care.
It didn't make health care more affordable, right?
Likewise, any of their bills to secure the border are actually not going to secure the border.
I've covered this many, many times in my career when we're covering legislation and bills.
They always try to put a rose-colored title on it.
The very agencies themselves, though, are based on deception.
It is a struggle to find even a single counterexample of this pattern.
He goes on, to be clear, I am not saying the people who staff these agencies are traitors.
I'm sure most are well-intentioned.
I'm saying something has apparently gained control of our system and turned it against us.
Most of the people in these institutions are just following orders because...
They're too young to understand where that leads.
This is not the pattern we would expect if the problem was simply one of corruption.
Once is a mistake, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action, as they say in military circles.
I know this is not a government agency, but the Baltimore Bridge keeps on.
Are we forgetting that this...
We're having...
Across this country, we've got...
Over the last three and a half years, you've got food processing plants catching on fire.
You had the chemical plant explode right after the hurricane hit in Georgia.
Poisoning people with, you know, aerosolized chlorine gas.
Is that what they used in World War I? What else?
The Baltimore Bridge this year just, you know, collapses and completely decimates like a shipping corridor that is vital for that section of the country.
And now you've got two interstates going in, you know, from Tennessee into North Carolina that you can't access.
And so now, I mean, how do people actually get into North Carolina from Tennessee?
you're now adding 150 miles in order to get there.
He says we're talking about dozens of institutions Dozens of institutions at every level of governance, including international, hundreds of separate instances, a pattern occurring now across the West.
What's that pattern?
Enemy action.
He says, and it isn't just a government problem.
In fact, it would be impossible in 2024 for the government.
Think about this.
This is where we don't have disdain.
We don't have enough disdain for the media.
It's not just a government problem.
In fact, it would be impossible in 2024 for the government to cryptically turn on the citizens in a democratic republic without the press.
The Academy and social media platforms marching in lockstep.
The censors.
There is a strong argument to be made that cancel culture and vaccine mandates were needed to cleanse the institutions of would-be resistors.
So the question is, what?
Now, what are the people of Appalachia going to do now?
FEMA, according to reports, is now coming in and they are telling churches that they may not distribute food.
National Files Twitter posted this.
FEMA is at war with Appalachia.
National File posting a video of Glenn Beck in his show from, I'm assuming this is yesterday.
Listen.
Right.
Good.
That's good, right?
Good.
Welcome, FEMA. He said, except they're confiscating the food.
And I said, excuse me?
What?
Four separate people, none of them will allow me to use their names because they're afraid of blowback from the federal government, and then they will not be able to help anybody.
Four people yesterday had government officials walk in To churches, to schools, whoever is distributing food.
This is all privately collected food.
And FEMA is walking in and saying, you can't distribute this food anymore.
We're taking it and we'll be distributing it.
And they said, well, excuse me, this is private food.
We know where this needs to be distributed better than you do.
We're taking the food.
If you would like FEMA to be in your community and help, you will give us the food.
Wow.
And they're threatening them in the way of...
Get out.
That's what I say.
Get out.
That's what I say.
Right.
No, you're not getting the food.
Forget it.
All of them told me, Glenn, they're coming in in force and we are not screwing with the federal government.
Right.
I mean, that is...
Jeez.
That's...
That's really bad.
I'm going to talk to these people today in person.
I wonder if there's anybody in Appalachia that is willing to screw with the federal government.
That's my first.
At what point do people have enough?
I mean, you're talking about your fellow Your fellow statesmen, your fellow countrymen, they need help, and they're telling churches that you can't help.
There's got to be so many people out there that are just going against what the federal government wants them to do.
The federal government, FEMA, they've turned into bullies.
They've turned into bullies.
They don't know what they're doing.
They don't know how to actually rescue these people.
And I don't, you know, it really doesn't even matter.
I mean, we should have a conversation about, is this intentional?
I mean, do they really just want people to die?
That is a conversation to be had, but it doesn't really matter because the fact is that their actions are going to lead to the deaths of people.
So what are the people of Tennessee and North Carolina going to do about it?
As I told you yesterday on the program, civilian helicopters, civilian helicopter pilots, they have, you know, been flooding the area.
And thanks to the viral video, and I'm really glad that this actually went viral.
By the way, that's a great political cartoon right there with a helicopter dropping off the migrants on the rooftop.
Let's see, Dwight, where is this...
Okay, right.
So, Jonathan Howard.
Yesterday, we played for you the viral video.
I wanted to try to make it go more viral because I thought this was an excellent post.
Jonathan Howard saying that you guys...
This is an update.
You guys made Jonathan's post go viral.
It blew up everything.
Title X BS was resolved.
More helicopters on the way.
You had people waiting for orders.
You had military...
You had military helicopters, the soldiers there saying, hey, we're waiting on our orders.
We're just sitting here.
We're grounded.
And so apparently that got cleared up.
If Jonathan hadn't gone viral, hundreds of thousands of people would have died.
This man is a hero.
So he's made another video giving an update here.
Thank you for all the support and sharing that video.
It did exactly what it was intended to do and that was to go viral.
And it went so viral that 1230 at night last night I actually had congressmen texting me offering their support and trying to clarify issues that we had been running into out here.
So thank you all for that.
That would not have been possible without all of you sharing that video.
It also brought us a lot of helicopter support from the private sector on the civilian side.
I've had so many civilians reach out to me offering their helicopters and they're actively flying up here right now.
So we're going to put those helicopters to work and go save lives.
On the military side, the government side, they're on their way from what I'm being told, which is great.
When they get here, we're going to put them to work.
To give you a real world Idea of what's happening here and restrictions that we have with weather.
We usually can't go fly till about 9.30, 10 o'clock in the morning just because of fog and pilots can't go fly.
Right now it's beautiful, it's sunny, and we should be out flying right now, but me and Charlie are sitting here on the ground.
Waiting for our helicopters to get back, but we won't be able to go out probably until later this afternoon because Joe Biden is flying in and they put up a temporary flight restriction in this entire area.
So what we decided to do was put our search and rescue teams on the helos right now before the TFR goes in effect, fly up to the mountains, drop them off so they can go rescue people.
And then our helicopters have to go even further north to another airport to get approval with a squat code.
They have to go there in person.
They won't give it to us over the phone.
That way they can fly in a TFR. And they're not going to have enough time to come back here, get us and then go do a mission because from about 12 to 4 or so, the TFR goes into effect and there will be no active rescue missions going on at all.
That's right.
Zero flying whatsoever.
So that's why we decided to put our boys, as many boys as we could, up on the mountain to start doing search and recovery because of that reason.
So the TFR is supposed to be lifted sometime around 4 p.m.
But you know how the government is.
It'll probably go all day.
So let's say it does end at 4 o'clock and we can actually lift off at 4 o'clock.
At best, we're probably going to go do two rescue missions before it gets dark and that's it.
When we should be doing rescue missions all day because it's so sunny and nice out and we have good weather.
But because of politics, we can't go do our job right now because somebody wants to come here and shake hands and kiss babies and take video that he actually pretends like he cares and probably offer everybody $300, $500 because of the hurricane damage.
So that is unfortunately the real world politics of what is going here in North Carolina.
Again, Jonathan Howard there.
Yeah, he's exactly right.
That is the real world politics.
And we have this.
We're going to pipe this audio in.
This is Joe Biden.
Doesn't even know where he's at.
Reporter, what do the states in the storm zone need after what you saw today?
Meaning, the no-fly zone that was established, taking vital resources away from people that actually need it.
Also, Joe Biden can, you know, can get down there.
And, you know, this is what he said.
What do the states in the storm zone need, Mr.
President?
What do the states in the storm zone, what do they need after what you saw today?
Oh, in the storm zone?
Yes, sir.
I'm wondering what storm you're talking about.
They're getting everything they need.
They're very happy.
They're getting everything they need and they're very happy.
What states in the storm zone, what do they need after what you saw today?
Oh, the storm zone.
I was wondering what storm you're talking about.
Oh, yeah, they have everything they need.
They're very happy.
They're very happy.
It's like salt being rubbed in the wound.
And I'm sure that's the way the people...
I can't imagine how the people of Appalachia felt or are feeling right now.
I really can't.
I don't have this clip, but there was a...
Kamala Harris supporter who was, you know, he's a very effeminate man, I'm assuming part of the rainbow crowd, but he was crying and weeping and just devastated that his homeland had been destroyed and kept asking, where's the government?
Where's the government?
I don't understand.
And yeah, so for lefties who are involved in this, who actually have put way more confidence in that the government is actually there to help them, this is a Very much a red pill moment for them, recognizing that the government is not, in fact, there to help you.
They say that they're there to help you, but they're in fact not there to help you.
We're going to take a quick break and we're going to continue with this coverage.
We're going to keep asking the question, is FEMA at war with Appalachia?
I have a few more clips, a few more videos to share.
We also have to talk about what Lindsey Graham did on Sean Hannity's show last night on Fox News.
You won't be surprised.
There's nothing surprising about what he did, but it's absolutely...
You talk about rubbing salt in a wound.
What we're about to show you certainly takes the cake.
We're going to go, but we'll be back here in just a moment.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks so much for being with us.
This is the Millstone Report.
Once again, we can't do the program without you.
We're going to continue our coverage.
We're asking the question, is FEMA at war with Appalachia?
This is another viral video.
This is the beauty of the Internet.
We can actually just go and get these first-hand accounts.
These are people that the news would never interview because they don't want the truth to get out.
This lady overheard the four FEMA executives of the airport and listen to what is really going on.
Take a listen to this.
Picked up a flight of pediatric medical supplies that were brought in and are going to North Asheville.
We were sitting in the private portion of the airport and we got to overhear an awful lot.
The army pilots, the navy pilots, hospital representatives, there was a lot of chatter.
While we were there, a private jet landed and four FEMA representatives got off.
Four.
Four people off of a private jet.
Come to find out, and you're not going to hear this, so let me tell you.
Come to find out, Mission Hospital was told, a private hospital, that they are going to go ahead and be the morgue center for body recovery.
All of the Army Chinook helicopters you're seeing flying overhead, they are doing body recovery.
FEMA said and and you can take this as a direct quote said that they are too tied up at the border to send any more representatives yeah at the border so anyhow I guess border control trumps whatever's going on here so they told Mission Hospital they are not sending refrigerated trucks so that they can stack
the bodies up and We also overheard that whatever fatality numbers you are hearing, and this is a quote, go ahead and add a couple of zeros.
So FEMA's too busy with the border.
A private hospital and the Army are going to take over body recovery and private individuals with their private helicopters and their private planes are the ones who are flying in supplies.
I was at Hangar 10.
I was picking up supplies.
There was a stack for the Cajun Navy.
There was a stack that looked like it was ASPCA. These are all being sent by private individuals.
FEMA is doing nothing.
Go ahead and share that.
So earlier in the week, just to kind of put that into perspective, earlier in the week they were saying there's 100 confirmed dead.
So if you add a couple of zeros on that, you're at 10,000.
Now if you're at 1,000 dead and you add a couple of zeros, well we know that now we're at 100,000, which would be unbelievable.
But the point of that video is once again showing all of us that our government hates us.
They hate the people that live here.
They hate the Americans who've lived here for generations.
And they want to focus on the southern border.
But not actually securing or stopping it, but facilitating it.
Running a proxy war against the people that live here via the Mexican drug cartels.
Absolutely disgusting.
Here's Congressman Corey Mills.
This is what he had to say about this, and he actually brought up the fact that Biden, his visit, shut down rescue operations because they had to have a no-fly zone.
Hey everyone, Congressman Corey Mills, Florida 7th District.
Wanted to give you the Day 3 wrap-up.
Today we were able to get to a lot of the outer areas.
As a Florida man, one of the places that we went to recently was called Pensacola, North Carolina.
Very remote area, talked to their fire chief there, Mr.
Harrison.
He unfortunately reported that they had four fatalities, two more that is unaccounted for that washed down the river, and he believes that they're going to be recovering bodies for the next couple months due to the amount of landslide that was in the area.
We were able to get to Burnsville, do a couple of health and welfare checks, get into Asheville, do more of our actual supply distribution.
Proud to say that at this point, over the last three days, That we have transported almost 13,000 pounds of food.
So, we brought in about 5 tons of food and we've actually transferred probably another 1,500 out of the Asheville Distribution Center into other areas that was more impactful.
Unfortunately, one of the things that occurred today that slowed down our progress is that President Biden decided to go ahead and do a fly-in today, but then he also put a TFR 30-mile TFR around the actual impacted area, which means that no helicopters and no planes have any access or any capability to fly.
So for four hours, they were grounded, search and rescue was grounded, distribution of food and supplies was grounded.
And so this, in my opinion, was irresponsible.
If FEMA is going to not show up and the federal government is going to delay up to a week to be here, at least don't stop the operations by the civilians and organizations like Mercury One, like Universal Air, like Sentinel Foundation and others who are at Samaritan's Purse, who are trying to do the right things in lieu of federal government assistance.
Yeah, I mean, FEMA isn't going to show up until they show up and say, hey, churches, quit distributing food.
Again, according to reports.
So, Lindsey Graham went on Fox News last night.
Lindsey Graham went on Sean Hannity's show.
And while there are literally images on the screen of the devastation, there's video on the screen of entire buildings and homes and structures floating away, being rushed away.
Lindsey Graham says, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, let me just, I'll play it for you first.
And you tell me if this isn't salt and a wound.
Yeah, I don't know.
You know, I've been going all over South Carolina like most people who haven't slept much.
But look what's going on in Israel.
Our friends in Israel are surrounded by people that want to kill them, destroy them, a second holocaust in the making, and Biden says be proportional.
What is the proportional response to people who want to kill you and your family?
They're running out of ammunition in Israel.
We have to help our friends to keep the war over there from coming here.
Okay, aside from that 2003 talking point, what an embarrassment.
What an embarrassment.
I mean, this is incredible.
You have, again, images of the hurricane.
You have images of these buildings being swept away.
And Lindsey Graham's response is essentially, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been across South Carolina, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But what about Israel?
People don't want to hear about that right now.
People don't want to hear about that right now, Lindsey.
Think about this.
He says this in the wake of the story.
Where's the New York Post's story?
I don't see.
I had it.
Let's see here.
Let me see if I can.
In the wake of the New York Post, feds say there's no money left to respond to hurricanes after FEMA used $640 million this year on migrants.
We have, obviously, the billions and billions of dollars we've already sent Israel and the billions and billions of dollars we've already sent Ukraine.
And the federal government says, hey, we're going to be able to give each victim of the hurricane $740.
Give me a break.
What an embarrassment.
But, you know, you say, you know, and Lindsey Graham says here, listen to this again.
Yeah.
You know, I've been going all over South Carolina.
Most people haven't slept much.
But look what's going on in Israel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't pay attention to the devastation there.
We've got to focus on bombing Iran's oil fields.
We've got to focus on getting these Appalachian white boys overseas to die in the Middle East again.
We've got to focus on that.
We've got to focus on taking these...
That's what we've got to focus on.
That's why Stephen Wolf, the author of The Case of Christian Nationalism, responded to that by saying, love your country as much as Lindsey Graham loves Israel.
And then the first comment is, that's impossible.
That's impossible.
People are tone deaf, man.
This is the definition of America lasts forever.
Fight them over there so they don't come over here.
By the way, I will tell you that I do think there's likelihood for...
I do think that there are going to be potential terrorist attacks here in America because why not, right?
They're going to need something.
They're going to need something to get us involved in another Middle Eastern war.
So, yeah, I mean, that was just absolutely tone deaf, absolutely embarrassing with what's actually going on here to the people who live here versus, no, we need to get involved in more foreign entanglements, more foreign entanglements, more war.
When, again, it's like the equivalent of a nuclear bomb has gone off in, you know, West Tennessee and East North Carolina.
I'm sorry, East Tennessee and West North Carolina.
Unbelievable.
And then we've got people like this.
Okay, so just briefly shifting gears here, when William Wolfe, the former Trump administration official, so Cato Institute has decided to respond to one of J.D. Vance's claims that all of this unchecked immigration, all of this treasonous facilitation, all of this treasonous facilitation, right, the traitors have facilitated the invasion of this country at the southern border.
So J.D. Vance comes out and says that all of this immigration is keeping housing prices high, And that's why Americans are having trouble, you know, getting houses.
And so the Cato Institute decides to say, J.D. Vance is correct, immigration increases housing prices, and that's okay.
That's okay.
So they want this.
William Wolfe responding by saying, when Trump wins, we're going to make Cato register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Pretty good.
Pretty good stuff.
That's a good take, for sure.
Also, speaking of Lindsey Graham warmongers, we have Donald Trump.
So Liz Cheney decides to endorse Kamala Harris, and Trump decides to call her a stupid war hawk.
He calls her a stupid war hawk.
Kamala Harris is out on the campaign trail today with Liz Cheney.
Your thoughts on that?
Well, Liz Cheney lost for Congress.
She was terrible.
Liz Cheney is a stupid war hawk.
All she wants to do is shoot missiles at people.
I really think it hurts.
I think, frankly, if Kamala...
I think they hurt each other.
I think they're so bad, both of them.
Kamala Harris is out on...
Yeah.
So, a stupid war hawk.
Just like...
Again, speaking of stupid war hawks.
You can thank Donald Trump and Elon Musk for that.
You know, I've been going all over South Carolina.
Like most people, I haven't slept much.
But look what's going on in Israel.
Our friends have...
Oh, my goodness.
Back to this.
Just real quick.
This tweet by Brett Weinstein, to me...
It encompasses what I've been trying to say.
How many of our governmental institutions do we need to witness performing the inverse of their intended function before we understand that we're under attack?
Lindsey Graham.
FEMA inflames disasters.
DOD issues stand-down orders.
FDA authorizes poison and bans medicine.
CDC causes diseases to spread and distribute misinformation.
Homeland Security facilitates invasion.
FBI instigates insurrection and hides evidence.
NIH literally creates infectious human pathogens that destroy health.
It's a struggle to find even a single counterexample to this pattern.
And the United States Senate, or people like United States Senator Lindsey Graham, who talk about, well, our kids are kids.
He doesn't even have kids.
On that basis alone, you shouldn't even trust what the man says.
Missing a vital life experience.
Standing up, trying to draw our attention to what's going on, to wars in other countries, instead of what's going on right here.
Oh yeah, I've gone to South Carolina.
I'm tired.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
Moving on to more important things.
We need to bomb Iran's oil fields.
It's pathetic.
It really is.
It's pathetic.
Alright, so, moving on briefly, I've got a few things.
A few things, transitioning here to Democrat operative, resident, quote, conservative, end quote, of the New York Times, David French.
David French, David French is trying to downplay the idea that they may one day put Christians in boxcars.
Let me say it again.
David French trying to downplay the idea that they want to put Christians in boxcars.
He writes on X, it's been 14 years since there has been a significant religious liberty loss at the Supreme Court.
He says religious liberty is secure in the United States.
The American Christian community is the most free, the most powerful Christian community in the world.
Yes, there are some individual injustices which are dealt with in the courts, but American Christians are not persecuted in any meaningful way or by any meaningful historical standard.
But here's the deal on that.
Although we don't have a Nero using Christians as torches to light his night parties yet, there's actually a completely different metric.
They do this all the time.
The David French's of the world, they're comparing apples to oranges.
America was a Christian nation, and so this is why I think the definitions of persecution are different for us.
It's different.
Okay?
Christianity conquers Rome and de-paganizes it.
Okay?
Christianity de-paganizes what was already a pagan society.
America was a Christian society that is currently being paganized.
For the first time, now you can say that it's being re-paganized from a standpoint of looking at the world or looking at maybe Western civilization.
You could say it's being re-paganized in that respect, but from a specific perspective.
American context, it's being paganized for the first time.
And there are telltale signs of things that lead to marginalizing Christians so you can eventually put them in boxcars and make them the bane and the cause of every proclaimed evil, even though Christians are actually great for society.
Christian judges are great.
Christian legislators are great.
You want Christians to govern you.
Trust me, you do.
It's the pagan judges, like the judge up in Colorado that just sentenced Tina Peters to nine years in jail because he doesn't want her speaking out about election fraud.
And by the way, we need to do an entire show on that, and maybe we will next week.
But pray for Tina Peters as she's been sentenced to nine years in jail for exposing election fraud in the state of Colorado.
Let me just let you listen to David French.
Many of you have never heard him, but this is who passes for a Christian over at the New York Times.
Watch.
Are Christians really persecuted in the United States of America?
Is religious liberty truly under threat?
The answer might surprise you.
Millions of my fellow evangelicals believe we are persecuted, or they believe we're one election away from a crackdown.
They feel like their religious liberty is slipping away.
This sense of dread and despair is inflaming the culture wars and causing good people to feel unnecessary fear.
But there's good news.
By any reasonable definition, American Christians are not persecuted, and the legal protections for religious liberty are stronger than at any time in American history.
People of all faiths or no faith at all enjoy an immense amount of protection from government interference.
Signed, your affectionate uncle Screwtape.
That doesn't mean there aren't challenges or injustices.
But it remains the case that the American Christian community is arguably the freest Christian community in the world.
Are Christians really persecuted?
So, yeah, I mean, you know what?
All of you out there have an intuition about that man, and you just need to trust your intuition.
Joel Berry, yes, David, we know your kind of Christianity is totally safe.
Now, this is a great point here.
Joel Berry from the Babylon Bee saying, your Christianity may be fine, your Christianity may be safe.
See, it's David French that doesn't have to worry because his Christianity is one that the culture accepts.
He works for the New York Times.
He's voting for Kamala Harris as a Christian.
Joshua Hames, thanks David French for opening my eyes to the truth.
Those pro-lifers in Nashville facing a decade in prison for peacefully protesting the murder of innocent little babies deserve to be thrown in prison.
I see it now.
Unbelievable.
Joseph Backholm says, It's been 14 years since there's been a significant religious liberty loss at SCOTUS. Had Trump lost, this would not be true, and everyone knows it.
Religious liberty still exists because of work done by those you professionally ridicule, but to say there is no threat is dishonest.
Nate Fisher from New Founding.
Amazing how he can even say this with a straight face.
And then Andrew Isker actually says this in response to David French's attempt to get Christians who sit in pews to sit on their hands and not organize and protect their children's posterity by using what little rights we have left as Christians in this republic.
He says, I am leaving Tim Wall's estate because he passed a law that gives them the authority to take my children away if they ever get sucked into the transgender contagion.
I have no religious liberty to say that my son is a male.
This is after he kept our churches closed for the better part of a year, while his churches, abortion clinics, were kept open.
Christians have religious liberty in Minnesota so long as our beliefs pose no threat to the regime.
So I guess you could say that David French's Christian faith is totally safe here in Minnesota.
That's exactly right.
And then, of course, reference this again.
Pray for Tina Peters.
She is 70 years old.
A federal judge just sentenced her, the Republican County Clerk Tina Peters, to nine years in prison for accessing a Dominion voting machine in an attempt to audit a vote.
Listen to the hatred and disdain of the judge's voice.
He sounds like an MSNBC pundit.
He calls her speech a danger to the community and the reason she needs to be locked up.
She's a Gold Star mom.
She lost her son.
Look, it's a death sentence.
They want her to die in prison.
And I would have covered this story today.
I started to listen to the judge.
In prepping for the show today, I'm just going to be real.
I started to listen to the judge, and I got halfway through, and I was so angry.
I had to stop.
So that's why we didn't cover this news today in more detail.
In other news, to hand out some rhetorical millstones, this is Protestia.
Woke impastor laments the fact that public drag shows are banned in her state after Republicans passed extreme laws.
So here's a here's a Pastrix who is talking about how she welcomes drag shows from the pulpit of her quote church end quote.
But I want to share with you just a little bit about how I see drag.
Drag is more than pure entertainment.
Certainly, it's entertaining.
And it's more than just dressing up for the sake of dressing up, especially when we are celebrating drag in church.
Drag is an act of liberation and the ultimate act of self-expression.
Drag is both a community and a movement.
Drag is a community of solidarity and sometimes a community of protection, a movement for survival.
Drag is counter-cultural.
No, actually not.
Christianity is now countercultural.
Millstone for this pastorics.
I mean, I already believe women shouldn't be pastors.
You didn't have to convince me.
This, clearly, it would be better.
The kids in the audience that are being led on a path to hell by this fake shepherd.
Millstone for this impastor.
I also want to give a shout out to Protestia again because Protestia actually, according to a tweet earlier, the main person that runs this account was in the hospital.
So Protestia writing, thank you to everyone who's been praying for me the last few days.
It's been a difficult and challenging, but I'm on the mend and you're all fantastic and gifts from God.
Here's a small token of my appreciation.
I missed this story.
It fell through the cracks.
Folks, if you're going...
Let me just play this for you.
This is a guy dressed up at church in a full cow costume, utters exposed and all.
I pray that you would eliminate all distractions in the room.
I pray that these students would focus in, that they would be hungry to hear your word.
This man is literally waddling on a stage, praying that he would eliminate all distractions from the room.
I pray that he would eliminate all distractions in the room.
I pray that these students would focus in, that they would be hungry to hear your word.
Yeah, I mean, you know, that's obviously a youth group.
You've got to have a gimmick.
But you don't actually have to have a gimmick.
And that's all the time we have.
So this is the time on Friday, Happy Friday, where I remind you that if you're not going to a church on Sunday, go to a church.
Find a church that doesn't dress up like cows.
Find a church that preaches the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and his ability to save sinners.
And for those of you who do go to church, I hope you have a blessed Lord's Day.
It's always great, and it starts the week out well.
The Lord calls us to worship, so go worship the one true God.
And unless I'm providentially hindered, I'll see you guys on Monday.
Have a great weekend.
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