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Dec. 20, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Does National Debt REALLY Matter? Government Shut Down Looms
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Thank you.
I'll have some Paul Harrell program episodes.
I've got some things I'm going to be doing after Christmas, leading up to New Year's, so we're going to be recording some stuff, maybe even broadcasting live, the Paul Harrell program live, on a few channels.
I think National File will be one, my personal Twitter would be the other.
So stay tuned for that, but Merry Christmas to everybody out there.
The hustle and bustle is real.
The traffic is real, depending on where you live.
I mean, even in little old Arkansas, everybody's coming out of the woodwork trying to, well, I guess, right, buy local.
In the midst of what?
Did I hear something about the Amazon workers, some Amazon employees going on strike?
We've got a lot to get to.
We've got a government shutdown looming.
We're going to talk about the debt ceiling.
A listener reached out to me, or I guess last night, was disappointed with some of the comments that I made concerning the debt ceiling.
So I'm going to kind of expand my views a little bit coming up.
Colonel Douglas McGregor posting this on X. Breaking news.
Vladimir Putin says war has been declared on the Russian world.
That war has been declared on the Russian world.
Now, late last night we had...
Reports that Kamala Harris had canceled her plans and was rushing back to the White House.
We heard reports last night also that Joe Biden was going back to the White House.
The initial reaction, many were speculating that somehow Biden's going to resign or maybe something happened to Biden and they're going to appoint the first female president of the United States, which, by the way, if the first female president of the United States is appointed and not elected, That will be about right for the gynocracy.
That would be just about right.
Not elected.
First female president, pomp and circumstance, congratulations.
The first female president was president for 30 days, not an entire term, and she was appointed, not elected.
I don't think that's the glass ceiling shattering in any way, shape, or form.
I don't really think that's going to work out the way the feminists want them to.
And by the way, today feminism is really a phony construct, right?
In order to have feminism, you have to know what a man is.
You have to know what a woman is.
Anyway, I digress.
So we've got a lot to get to.
Interestingly enough, on the continuing resolution, on the CR, it was an omnibus.
It was 1,500 pages.
Then they, of course, last night, they voted on a new bill.
It was considered clean.
Now, if...
It was called a clean CR. Donald Trump supported it.
President Trump supported it.
Others didn't.
30-something Republicans did not, and it failed.
So now we've got a lot of people upset at people like Chip Roy or Nancy Mace and others.
And it really is a mixed bag.
It's interesting to see those people go against President Trump.
And, of course, one of the reasons they're doing this is because they are allegedly, allegedly they claim they're holding fast to conservative budgeting principles or fiscal conservative ideology.
And while that may be true in some instances, I do have to say, I wonder if this entire year has been a transition.
It's been a political realignment.
A new political coalition has been built, essentially, with people that don't agree on necessarily everything.
As a matter of fact, the only place that you can actually have a debate on different political issues is now within the construct of the Republican Party.
Even if you want to have the chance or the thought of actually having a debate, because for the most part, the Democrats are in total lockstep, total totalitarians, quite frankly.
A few headlines that we're going to go over, though, that I find very interesting, and then I'm going to get to my thoughts on something like the national debt, whether or not it's a manufactured crisis.
Here's the first headline that jumped out on me from yesterday that I saw this morning.
So Hakeem Jeffries shuts down raising the debt ceiling.
Okay, so for those of you who don't know, yesterday Donald Trump said Congress must get rid of or extend out to perhaps 2029, that'd be his entire term, the ridiculous debt ceiling, he said.
Without this, we should never make a deal.
Remember, the pressure is on whoever is president.
So Donald Trump's saying, I don't want a debt ceiling.
Now, If you would have, you know, and maybe that's a bad idea.
But I will tell you this, the broadcaster, the broadcaster to me, like in 2010, would have...
Flipped out.
What do you mean?
We're not going to be fiscally conservative?
We've got to have a debt ceiling.
That's what I would buy into because everybody, like a lot of the Koch brother affiliated groups, they were all talking about the debt, all talking about getting spending under control, and none of them meant it.
None of them ever meant a word of it.
None of them.
It was all lies.
And that's what I now know, right?
More on my thoughts on that here in a minute.
Because it's interesting to me, because if I put myself back in that 2010-2015 mindset, the Democrats...
Should be all for raising the debt ceiling and getting rid of the debt ceiling.
The Democrat Party, and this kind of goes to the whole point of these political realignment, and what it really just shows you is the whole thing, what they were all saying is the reason why they supported this particular issue.
Clearly, there's something that we don't know.
There's something that they know that we don't know.
Because now, the head of the Democrats in the House...
Is against raising the debt ceiling as if Hakeem Jeffries is all of a sudden some sort of 2012 version of Paul Ryan.
Seriously.
I guess my point is to just raise questions as to why do you think that is?
Obviously whatever reason he's giving you now is nonsense.
The Democrats are all for spending, right?
They're the party of spending.
They're the party of supposedly.
We're just going to spend, spend, spend.
We don't want a debt ceiling.
We don't want this.
But yet, all of a sudden, a Democrat is against raising the debt ceiling in the midst of these continuing resolution negotiations in December.
It's just odd to me that we have this...
I still don't believe that sometime in the 60s, Republicans and Democrats got together and just adopted the others' positions on everything, which is when the Republicans became racist and the Democrats no longer were.
I don't believe that that happened, but stuff like this convinces me that it may in fact be possible, although I reject the premise of the racism and everything else that they label.
They were trying to get out from under the Democrats were the party of slavery narrative.
Okay, so another headline.
CBS. After Trump-backed bill fails, Johnson says we've got a plan to avert a shutdown.
Okay, so we've got the government shutdown looming.
The Associated Press, a little bit ago, Trump wants debt ceiling in the budget deal.
If not, he says, let the government shutdown start now.
This was earlier today, hours before the start of the federal government shutdown.
President-elect Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his insistence that a debt ceiling increase be included in any deal, and if not, let the closure start now.
Trump, who has not yet even sworn in to the White House, issued the latest demand as House Speaker Mike Johnson arrived early.
So there is a thought out there that one of the reasons Trump practically wants the debt ceiling increased and, you know, push it out is to where, you know, you're taking the political tool away from the Dems.
And you are essentially, you know, he wants his tax cuts.
And so, you know, if he comes in with more tax cuts, they're going to, you know, say that the debt ceiling is a problem.
And they're saying it can limit his tax cuts.
That's the idea that they consider tax cuts contributing to the debt ceiling because the nonpartisan budget office is going to say, well, this is going to hurt our revenue.
Does that make sense?
And we're going to have to borrow more money.
That's the game that they're being played here.
Okay, here's another headline.
New York Times, Trump tossed a debt limit grenade into spending docks.
Here's why.
So, again, New York Times, leftist rag.
These people should love spending.
They should love going into more debt.
That's what they've loved for the past 20 years and more.
And now all of a sudden, Hakeem Jeffries and the New York Times...
Our fiscal conservatives.
And I know they're not saying that, but it's just odd to me.
NBC News.
Trump calls for abolishing the debt ceiling.
In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely would be the smartest thing it, Congress, could do.
I support that entirely.
Again, from my 2009-2010 thinking, you know, traditional normie, conservative talk radio brand, oh, this is absolutely horrible.
And yet Trump is calling it the smartest thing we can do.
The smartest thing we can do.
And, you know, the reason I don't outright condemn this, and I'll get into it more here in a minute, the reason I don't outright condemn this is because our government and our media and the financial, we are lied to constantly about the free market that we have right now.
We don't have a free market.
We don't have a free market.
Now...
If the national debt does in fact matter, and many of you out there believe that it does, and I do believe it matters to some extent, but my position is that the national debt is only going to matter when somebody somewhere needs a crisis to either blame on Trump or crash the system or hold on to...
They could do that right now, you understand?
They could have done that when we had $12 trillion in debt.
Because if you understood how much $12 trillion was back in 2010, you would understand there's really no difference.
And I'm not a math person.
I don't do math well.
But I have tried my best over the years to conceptualize just how much money we're talking about here.
And if you can conceptualize $12 trillion...
You quickly realize, what is the difference between owing $12 trillion or $34 trillion?
You might as well say, well, I owe a gazillion dollars.
You're not paying that money back, ladies and gentlemen.
You're not paying it back.
So the whole time, this entire time, the economic fundamentals on paper were bankrupt as a nation.
We're bankrupt.
We've been bankrupt.
The unfunded liabilities were bankrupt.
And yet, nothing has happened.
Because it's not time for it to happen yet.
That's my point.
My point is...
So the idea out there, which is a valid point, valid concern, that if we were to get rid of the debt ceiling, that would somehow hasten some collapse.
And there's a listener who has very real concerns about the World Economic Forum.
What do they say?
That you're going to own nothing and love it.
You're going to own nothing and be happy as they pump us full of drugs and get us to play virtual reality video games or whatever they're going to do with the people.
I've got a show that I'm working on with somebody who's been to some of these big high-tech agricultural conferences where they're literally planning on replacing farmers with robots, replacing farmers with drones.
And that's why Bill Gates is buying up so much of the farmland.
There are very real concerns here, there's no doubt.
But I came to the belief about five years ago, when it comes to the debt, clearly...
If you've got $12 trillion in debt and now we've got $36 trillion in debt, literally their mentality, at least just on paper, is, well, nothing bad's happened.
$12 trillion in debt, nothing bad's happened.
Might as well spend $50 trillion.
I don't think that's their actual mentality, but what I'm telling you is we don't know.
They are playing with a full deck, and we, the American people, are not playing with a full deck.
How many people actually understand the financial system that we are in?
I would love a number.
How many people actually fully understand it?
I'm talking about intricacies, the intricacies of it all.
And it can't be much.
You always heard America's controlled by 300 corporations or less or whatever it is.
It's much less than that now.
But is it 300 people?
Is it 200 people?
Is it 1,000 people?
And I will tell you this, on this, the smaller group of people that actually understand what's going on, the opportunities for corruption are infinite.
They infinitely increase.
So you may be asking, like, why am I going through all this?
Well, a listener reached out to me last night on X and said they were very disappointed in me.
I don't know who this person is, but they go by Shark Diet.
I didn't know if that was, is that an actual diet, like a keto diet or like a carnivore diet?
Anyway, maybe I'm reading too much into it.
But first of all, I want to say, whoever this person is, thank you for watching the Milsom Report.
Thank you for giving me the time of day.
I wake up every day and I just think to myself, a lot of times I think, why would anybody even bother, if I'm being really honest with you?
So...
I am very grateful that I have any of the opportunities that I do.
Well, I apologize.
I know you can't please everybody, but I'm one of those guys, when I disappoint somebody, man, I hate it.
I don't want to disappoint somebody.
So I took some time to respond, and so this is just kind of my take on it.
And I got some of my details wrong here about every December.
So right now we're doing the continuing resolution to keep the government open.
The debt ceiling doesn't happen every December, as I said and he pointed out.
But this is something that's now been kind of tacked on.
But I do think the national debt is a construct that will only matter when a planned economic collapse is implemented.
So it's only going to matter when somebody or someone or some group wants it to matter.
I've watched people talk about the debt since 2010. It was used as a political issue to get the Tea Party in power, but nothing was ever done about it.
Clearly, if $12 trillion doesn't matter, then $35 plus doesn't matter either.
I think you may have misunderstood my point.
$1 trillion by itself is a massive amount of money.
By my count, $1 trillion, just one, is $27 million a day for 100 years.
And at the end of that 100 years, you still have a little bit of money left over.
That's $1 trillion.
We owe $34 trillion.
I've tried to tell you guys before, the only way I can accurately conceptualize this, and when you conceptualize this in your head, you will realize just how nonsensical this is and how we have been lied to.
But the only way I can conceptualize it is to envision piles of cash on a field.
So on a plane and piles of money.
And then to think that one pile of money represents $1 trillion.
So one pile of money represents $27 million a day for 100 years.
That is one pile.
And then to look across the plane to see 35 more of them.
Let alone 12. 12?
Let alone 35. I keep using 12 because that's when I came into radio.
And it was, there are 12 trillion dollars!
We owe 12 trillion dollars!
And...
And it was all nonsense.
And so when I hear these conservatives today or these Republicans today talk about fiscal responsibility, it's the same nonsense that I've heard for 20 years or however long.
It's 2024, 2009. I've heard it for a long time now, and I don't buy the rhetoric anymore.
I don't buy it.
I know Senator Rand Paul, for instance.
This is one of his big issues.
He's always talking about it.
Always talking about the debt.
Always will work it in.
Nobody listens to him, of course.
But...
Clearly, there are people that know things that we just don't know.
And when you understand just how gargantuan that thing is, the amount of money is, to me, then something like the debt ceiling is really just a psyop and a political tool to get, well, in this case, to get a bunch of pet port projects to negotiate, to act like there's something there.
And again, tomorrow there could be a giant financial collapse and everything I say, all of this speculation has proven totally wrong and all of these principled conservatives, these same principled conservatives, some of them who were backing the imprisonment of Steve Bannon because of the J6 committee.
I mean, I don't know, man.
I just don't buy it.
I don't buy it.
So to finish my tweet, Well, I guess I want to push back.
So I'm not just saying this like, oh, well, because it's Trump, we can get rid of the debt ceiling.
That's not the reason why.
It's a much longer track record of me covering the news every single day for a very long time, and this issue always comes up, and nobody is actually ever serious about it.
And to me, it's only used as a political tool during election years to get people into power.
It's just the way I see it.
Now, maybe that's a level of cynicism that's wrong, and maybe I'm wrong.
But I at least wanted this listener to know that I think I'm probably putting more thought into it than I originally got credit for.
That doesn't mean that I'm right, though.
That doesn't mean that I'm right.
It's just my opinion.
So I said, once I realized how gargantuan $1 trillion was, I realized that the national debt only matters when someone wants it to.
It's a manufactured crisis in a glass case.
So if the debt only matters when someone wants a crisis to hold on to or amass new political power, we shouldn't be surprised when the issue is used for small mini-crises every December.
Of course, it's not every December, so I got that part wrong.
So corrupt politicians can use fear and cram in their pet port projects.
If the debt ceiling were eliminated, these little political psychological operations would no longer have their desired effect, good or bad, that was the point I was trying to make.
Sorry to disappoint.
And they write back some points of fact.
Debt ceiling negotiations are not in December, but in spring slash summer.
The December negotiations are over the overall budget expiring, and in debt ceiling negotiations, spending is always reduced, not increased to offset the raise.
We will lose those cuts.
Thank you for your reply.
Have a lot invested in your show.
The proper context is that the World Economic Forum goal of you will own nothing while they own everything.
In order for this to happen, the current system must collapse.
Trump is leading the way by exploding our debt most ever by one.
Again, that very well could be the case.
But my point would be, we should have been bankrupt in 2012. We should have been bankrupt in 2010. Any sort of, well, now we've spent even more.
I'm just telling you, in my estimation, when you actually look at how much money we actually owe, what's the difference between 12 and 36?
If you owe 12, you're not paying it back.
If you owe 36, you're not paying it back, right?
We might as well just be making up numbers.
So if you take that into account, and then you consider the fact that what that practically means is that our money is just monopoly money.
Well, then you realize that the entire system is just totally fraudulent.
The entire thing, ever since we got off the gold standard for sure, is meaningless.
And yet, with our military and our dollar, we have used these two things against anybody across the globe that doesn't want to fall in line.
Just my two cents, but I appreciate it, Shark Diet.
I really do.
I absolutely do.
More on this.
You've got somebody like Justin Amash who came in and said any Republican who wants to raise the debt ceiling before January 20th has zero interest in reigning in federal spending.
The debt ceiling is an asset to a president who wants to get government under control.
Only if you want to grow government would you want to give away this leverage.
Again, I think that is correct based on 2010 ideas, but things are happening right now.
I'm just going to sit back and watch and report on it because I think the traditional...
Way of thinking when it comes to this kind of stuff is different.
Sorry, I just got a text message, so you'll have to forgive me.
What else do we have?
Okay, so here's some Democrats kind of losing their mind over this.
Jamie Raskin.
We had many weeks of negotiation with the Republicans.
We arrived at a bipartisan legislative compromise.
The Senate Democrats, the Senate Republicans, the House Democrats, the House Republicans, everybody agreed, and then it was blown up by Elon Musk.
Who apparently has become the fourth branch of government.
And that's just an intolerable way of proceeding under representative democracy.
So the Democrats are going to try to figure out how we can salvage the public good out of the wreckage that has just been foist upon us.
But do you think that there's a scenario where you might regret rejecting a clean debt ceiling in Greece?
I mean, that's what they've added to this.
We're going to discuss this in our caucus and we'll figure out what to do.
It's just horrific that they have thrust us into this kind of chaos already and they haven't even taken over yet.
Some Republicans are saying they've done their part now that what comes next is up to you and if this doesn't get passed and the government shuts down, the Democrats are going to own this.
Yeah, they did their part by entering into a legislative compromise with us, which we negotiated over a several-month period.
We arrived at the compromise, and that's what we've all been behind, and that's what we expect to go forward.
So who is our leader, Hakeem Jeffries, supposed to negotiate with?
Is it Mike Johnson?
Is he the Speaker of the House?
Or is it Donald Trump?
Or is it Elon Musk?
Or is it somebody else?
Some people are...
I think...
Did Rand Paul even suggest that...
Elon Musk.
Did I read that?
Should be the Speaker of the House.
And then here we have this.
This is Representative Rosa DeLauro.
She's a Democrat.
She has a meltdown over Elon Musk.
Read on a bill.
And you know what?
They got scared.
Because President Musk told them.
President Musk said, don't do it.
Don't do it.
Shut the government down.
Imagine.
What does he know about what people go through is when the government shuts down.
I tweeted earlier that the Smurfs better watch out.
I always thought Gargamel was a made-up character.
Serious.
I think Gargamel lives.
I think this is an actual...
I think Gargamel either...
I mean, this is Gargamel.
Gargamel was based on Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro.
The purple hair is pretty good.
Yeah.
I think...
I thought I had a tweet.
Let's see.
Where did it go?
I thought I had a tweet about it.
Let's see if I can find it.
Yeah, there it is.
Look out, Smurfs.
Gargamel is real.
I thought he was a made-up character.
Come on.
Come on, look at...
Come on, it's pretty close.
Does he know about what people go through is when the government shuts down.
Are his employees furloughed?
Hell no.
Is he furloughed?
No.
And when you shut the government down, people don't get paid.
Looks like she caught some Smurfs and used them to dye her hair.
That's what it looks like to me.
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Let's go ahead and do it.
It's time for my favorite segment of the program, your favorite segment of the program.
I'm already against women clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
And let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed.
I believe in the non-binary God.
And now it's time for I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
Alright, so for this week's, or this broadcast, I'm already against women clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
We're going to turn to somebody by the name of Christina Java.
I've never heard of Christina Java.
Sounds like a made-up name, but, you know, in the celebrity pastor world, I guess that's apropos these days.
And once again, we turn to the great Twitter account, always great to follow Protestia for this.
Protestia highlights Christina Java.
She's got a speaking voice and a preaching voice.
Did you know this?
She has a speaking voice and a preaching voice.
It'd be kind of like having a broadcaster's voice and then just like a regular person's voice.
And it's not hard to see which is which.
So for this edition of I'm Already Against Women Clergy, you don't have to convince me.
I present to you, courtesy of Protestia, Christina Java.
Okay everyone, major announcement.
I am starting a free telegram group where I will be posting Bible verses, where you can DM me and I will pray with you.
So, if you wanna get delivered, you gotta talk to yourself.
You gotta be willing to walk down the road and talk to yourself.
You gotta be willing to get in the car and preach to yourself.
And I don't care if you have no road to preach, no briefcase to preach, no credentials to preach.
When you're going through hell in high water, you gotta talk to yourself.
The Bible said that the sick, bleeding, hemorrhaging, hurting woman began to say to herself, so you see, it's what you say to yourself that gets you delivered.
If you say you won't make it, then you won't make it.
If you say you won't get healed, then you won't get healed.
And if you say I'm broke, well, and honey, You're gonna stay broke.
Oh, but I came to serve no death to the devil.
The Bible said the power of life and death is in your tongue.
Flap somebody and say you gotta preach to yourself.
I feel like shouting in here.
Open your mouth and tell the devil, I'm coming out of this.
I'm coming out.
I'm too close not to come out.
This is my moment.
This is my time!
This is my hour!
And no devil in hell is gonna stop me!
No demon's gonna hinder me!
No witchcraft is gonna manipulate me!
Because I'm coming out!
I always thought Hillary Clinton was the worst at changing her accent because she was around black churches.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I've come too far.
Remember that.
We all remember that.
Suddenly, though, suddenly we have a new contender.
This has been I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
One of my favorite segments.
We've got a great rest of the show to get to.
And so we're going to start right here.
Just a really interesting situation going on.
Jack Posobiec...
Engaging Nancy Mace, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, for voting against that bill that Trump backed, which now we're in the midst of a potential government shutdown.
It's looming.
And so Nancy Mace responds to the attacks from, or really just a statement of political fact by Jack Posobiec.
Nancy May says two words for Jack Paso.
Would not.
Now, for those of you who maybe don't have your, you know, maybe you're not hip with the lingo right now of, I don't know, I guess the sexual innuendo window, the sexual innuendo lingo, would means that you would, if you get my drift.
Would not means no, no means no.
Hodgson say, Jack asked Nancy some tough questions and she came back with telling everybody that she won't have sex with him.
WTF, she turned into AOC. Of course, we got Jack's wife laying in here, calling her a Honda Civic.
Calling herself.
This is all just so silly.
But I will say this.
This is an interesting...
There's a whole Yellowstone lamentation going on right now for this Kevin Costner series that finally ended.
This series was a huge hit among conservatives.
Probably more boomer cons.
I think I watched Season 1 or Season 2, and then we kind of gave up after that.
I wanted to know what all the hype was about.
But the series finale went woke.
The series finale, for those of you that don't know, Yellowstone's about this giant patch of land in Montana.
It's owned by this family that was taken from the Native Americans.
And the Native Americans want it back.
And they've wanted it back for generation upon generation upon generation.
And the whole show is about protecting the Yellowstone, protecting the land, protecting the ancestors of the white man.
And at the very end, they say, ah, you know what?
We'll give it to the Indians.
That's the show.
That's it.
That's the show.
And people are pretty upset about it.
But you know who predicted this?
Randy Quaid.
Hollywood actor Randy Quaid said back in August of 2022...
He said, Well, he certainly was right, but here's the truth.
The show never actually promoted conservative values in the first place.
Just like modern-day country music doesn't support Or advance actual conservative values.
That family that was portrayed on that show was a complete mess.
They were not overtly Christian, although I think they claimed to be Catholic, but they certainly weren't practicing.
And the whole family was just a total degenerate mess.
And I know that people are going to say, well, that's what makes for good TV.
But I guess the whole premise of, oh, yeah, this is conservative.
Well, if you really actually look at the characters, they're actually really horrible, awful human beings.
And so, you know, at least that's who they're portraying, the characters.
Not to mention what their off-the-camera lifestyles are like.
Somebody named Nate Schloman writes, This is from Dana Lash saying that the last episode of Yellowstone was great.
So Dana Lash is a fan here.
Dana Lash likes this.
Last episode of Yellowstone is great for the people who actually watched it.
The tribal elders and the Duttons realized they were on the same side all along.
Nate Schloman saying this is a boomer take.
And then we've got, here we go, mostly peaceful jawbone enthusiasts.
I'm a huge fan of Rhett Koppel saying, again, it was the younger right wing that picked up on the subliminal messaging of Yellowstone making this meme the gold standard in mocking boomer cons.
This is a boomer con meme that people have been using for a while now.
The bait and switch at the end didn't fool them.
They were never drawn in, mocking it from the get-go.
Corporate entertainment and the media is not going to produce right-wing content.
It is going to produce a right-wing aesthetic with left-wing content every single time.
This is why boomer cons love all the left-wing heroes, civil rights era icons, for example, but view their own heroes, like Francisco Franco, as one-dimensional villains.
They have been catechized by the left and don't even know it.
Well, without getting into conversation about Franco...
Certainly this is true, that every single time we get right-wing aesthetic with left-wing content, because you've got to look who is in control of the writing.
That is certainly a truth.
I'll give you an update on the satanic statue over in New Hampshire.
It was knocked down.
It was resurrected.
And then 48 hours later, it was once again dismembered.
So they put it up again, and it was beheaded within 48 hours.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
So this is going to continue.
And, you know, there really is no shame.
People should be absolutely ashamed.
Absolutely ashamed that this is the state of things.
This is the blessings of liberty.
Can that be reversed?
Could cancel culture be reversed?
Well, Dr. Stephen Wolfe, the author for The Case of Christian Nationalism, a few weeks ago went on a very interesting podcast called Abounding Grace Radio, where they were talking about Christian nationalism, but one of the parts of the podcast that really stood out to me was this one.
Their progeny became...
Or what we became now.
And they simply could not predict that there'd be waves of Roman Catholic and other immigration that would end up kind of basically changing the character of the United States.
So, yeah, I think the distinction between law and society, and this is one of my points, is that you can have a society that is strongly oriented to some good that is not enshrined in law.
So, we do things like this all the time.
I like to bring up racism on this, which makes everyone awkward.
You are perfectly free in terms of the law to say anything you want in terms of race.
But if you say something with race that angers all of society, you lose your job, you never get a job again, you're done, you're through, your kids will be tarnished, everything.
So there's a social power that suppresses that thing, and Christians are very willing to join in when someone says something racist to exact the social costs involved with that.
They're very willing to participate in that power.
What I'm saying is, why not do that to the atheist?
Why not do that to someone who is trying to publicly tarnish the name of Christ?
Why not do that to someone who is practicing gross impieties?
Why not do that as well?
Why not use that power that we already use in society to suppress those things that would be bad?
And the end of it would be to normalize Christianity in society such that it is something that people readily accept and through that can be encouraged to have true faith.
So...
Very well said.
Very well said.
And I think you know why every chance I get I try to put some of what Dr. Stephen Wolf says out there because I think it's such a refreshing take.
Speaking of atheists, let's talk about atheist James Lindsay, shall we?
National File doing kind of an in-depth, the 19 red flags of James Lindsay, who really is trying to make this term woke right stick.
But just like Gretchen and Mean Girls, you're not going to make fetch happen.
National File writes, I like James Lindsay.
I've listened to a vast majority of his academic stuff.
Sadly, many of James' cohort use the term woke right to diminish Christian nationalism and its influence on public policy.
Let's explore some of James' precepts.
Red flag number one.
James is an atheist, yet he openly deems himself an arbiter of what a Christian may be.
Red flag number two, James casts Christian nationalist as pro-fascist.
First, it's not a splinter tactic in the line with Hegel's dialect.
Second, multinational corporate...
Is that cynicalism?
Oligarch-funded protection of literal.
Red flag number three, James alleges CCP Russian influence.
He thinks this whole thing is some sort of op.
Red flag number four, James seems to think the election was just entirely fairly run affair based on the outcome, despite the fact that the states with the most issues, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, didn't fix anything in terms of the election administration.
Red flag number five, James then tries to extrapolate a politically-based rationale for rejecting Christian nationalism rather than a principles-based argument.
The thing he derides, seizing power, is the thing he aims for.
This is a comprehensive list.
It goes on again, 19, but I'm running out of time here today.
So I've also got to mention what Jeremy Carl has written about James Lindsay.
He writes in the American mind, the specter of the woke right.
Liberal critics of actual conservatism need to cool it.
He writes, a specter is haunting the contemporary right.
This particular ghost goes by the name woke right, a term pushed by admitted non-conservative James Lindsay and subsequently adopted by others such as Constantine Christen.
Part of the term's attractiveness is its amorphousness.
It clearly can mean many things to many people from targeting alleged racism or anti-Semitism on the right to simply referring to a person on the right whom classical liberals, hereafter liberals, dislike.
To the extent that the term has any coherence, it's a critique of the right-wing so-called use of identity politics.
There's an aspect of the woke right accusation that is inherently parasitic.
With the right having successfully stigmatized wokeness, most voters now realize it's insane and dangerous.
Liberals are now attempting to apply that term to the right, claiming that its critique of the left has gone too far.
Politics, especially in a two-party winner-take-all system, is about alliances.
I don't bear any personal ill will for Lindsay or Kissin'.
or the rest of the folks throwing around woke right and related epithets.
Despite my disagreement with both their tactics and ideology, I recognize that effective political alliances often involve groups that do not agree on fundamentals.
They have been at times useful allies against the hard left, and I expect they might be so again.
But they are not driving the bus, and they are not conservatives, unlike the insufferable critics at outlets like The Bulwark and The Dispatch.
Most woke right accusers, when pressed, don't even claim to be conservative.
Ultimately, he says, much of the woke right critique is fundamentally grounded in liberal notions of the value of an open society, a concept first formulated by Karl Popper and further popularized by George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
Liberals like atheist James Lindsay implicitly embrace the words of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who recently said of immigrants who moved to Canada that this is your country more than it is for others because we take it for granted.
To have any other definition would be essentially woke.
Lindsey and his allies are quick to point to a few extremists who actually embrace the woke right label, but none of these are prominent mainstream leaders.
Lindsay, who seems to be the prognator of the woke right, the woke right label, defines an enemy by way of controversial German political philosopher Carl Schmitt as someone who wants to end your way of life.
He claims this accurately represents the views of the woke right with respect to America.
And what is this American way of life that Lindsay exalts?
The American way of life is one predicated on the freedom of the individual person to pursue his own happiness on terms set voluntarily by him with the communities he chooses for himself.
Conservatives, of course, recognize this as part of the American vision, and certainly part that's embraced by libertarians, but deny that this is the totality of the American vision.
Lindsay is angry that the woke right wants to override the concept of individual sovereignty in favor of group sovereignty in the name of the greater good, or to sacrifice some of who you are for who they say you are, who they say you have to be, ethically, morally, and ethnically.
Indeed, the desirability of sacrificing some of who you are has always been what it means to live in a community with others.
This practice has a rich tradition in American life going all the way back to the pilgrims who were anything but libertarians.
When America has been at its greatest, citizens have always sacrificed some element of personal freedom for a communal and national identity.
The alternative of a purely economic community of autonomous agents has been tried and found wanting as a platform for human flourishing.
Finding the right balance between freedom and community, between individual self-expression and national and historic identity, made America great.
Lindsay claims the so-called woke right, with its more communal aims, wants to take America back to a romanticized past that never existed, which of course is nonsense.
But most of us on the right, most of the right, including those of us old enough to remember what life was like back in the 1980s, can confirm that while past eras were far from perfect, we shared a far better American culture.
That was because we were unified around a culture, an ethos, and an identity to a much greater degree than today.
This is an excellent piece by Jeremy Corll, and it would be great reading.
This is the last show that we're going to do of Millstone Report this year.
This is a great piece to talk about.
It also goes to talk about how they're very upset that white people are now actually accepting the fact that they have a culture themselves, that that's another part of the problem here.
Really good holiday reading if you want to read something.
And in the midst of all of this, I would also say, as we wind things down and we are about to celebrate Christmas, we're about to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, there are people this Christmas that need our prayers.
The people of North Carolina need our prayers.
Their homes have been destroyed.
The family of Tina Peters.
And these are prayers as Tina Peters is in jail over Christmas.
She actually did get some good news.
Looks like she's going to be resentenced.
But pray for the family of Tina Peters.
Pray for the family of Lake and Riley.
The Georgia girl that wrote a letter to her future husband that she'll never get to deliver to him because of the illegal invader that killed her.
And on that, that brings me to my last piece.
A man by the name of a friend of mine by the name of Ryan Beezy has a substack called Mid the Pines.
You should check it out.
The Necessity of Capital Punishment.
He writes, Magistrates must not seek to be more compassionate or more just than God by abolishing capital punishment.
To do so is to assault the crown rights of King Jesus as king over the nations.
He says, And enabled her slaying.
A grand jury indicted her killer a few weeks later, and last month the illegal alien was convicted on all charges and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but justice has not been served.
Lake and Riley's family, along with millions of my fellow Georgians, will now be forced to pay, feed, clothe, house her illegal alien killer until the day of his death.
Lake and Riley's family, along with millions of other Georgians, will be responsible for her murderer's medical care and recreational activities until the day he dies.
The failure of the magistrate to minister.
The events leading up to the murder of Lake and Riley represent a litany of failures by civil magistrates to do their God-ordained duty.
Her murderer entered the country illegally, yet received taxpayer-funded accommodations in New York City.
While in New York, her murderer was charged with various crimes, including injuring a child, but was not jailed in New York.
In Georgia, her murderer was caught stealing items from Walmart, but he was released shortly thereafter.
Only after he murdered a 22-year-old Georgian could the government employees finally be troubled to detain this illegal alien for any length of time.
But by then, it was too late.
And by the time her murderer was brought to trial, the prosecutor's office refused to seek capital punishment in the case because of how other illegal alien criminals might be made to feel about it.
Seriously, that's what she said.
The prosecutor pledged to take into account collateral consequences to undocumented defendants.
From beginning to end, Lakin Riley's murder displayed utter contempt for the law of this republic, and the magistrates from New York City to Washington, D.C. to Athens, Georgia, have likewise shown utter contempt both for the laws of God and God's mandate to civil magistrates, his servants.
This is a case in which justice, natural law, scripture and common sense all demand the execution of the murderer.
And because the civil magistrates charged with upholding justice have failed to do so, the people of Georgia must now bear the cost of maintaining her murderer for the rest of his life.
Pray for the family of Lake and Riley.
This is a lengthy article, you should check it out, about the scriptural backing and the responsibility the civil magistrate has to bear the sword against evildoers and to not capitulate.
I want to thank everybody out there watching the program.
We can't do it without you.
And I want to once again say Merry Christmas to everybody out there.
And I want to once again say,
That's all the time that we have for this edition of the Millstone Report.
Merry Christmas to everybody out there.
I'm probably going to be broadcasting a little bit on my personal Twitter file over on at RealPaulHerald as well as national file between now and the new year.
So follow me on x at RealPaulHerald for all updates.
Merry Christmas to everybody out there.
God bless each and every one of you.
I hope you have a very Merry Christmas weekend.
And you celebrate the real reason for the season, and that is the birth of Jesus Christ.
God bless.
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