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Feb. 21, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Is the SIN of EMPATHY Real? Will Trump ABOLISH the IRS?
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In just a moment, question of the day for me, can empathy, something that you think of as a good thing, can empathy become a sin?
Or is empathy exploited?
Is that how it happens?
Empathy gets exploited in people and then using it as an excuse to advance wickedness or devilry or the woke agenda in this case?
That's the question that I'm going to ask today.
We've got a lot of stuff to talk about, though.
We've got the IRS, people talking about abolishing the IRS, Trump talking about abolishing the IRS, which is something that I honestly can't even believe.
I mean, if you just kind of went down a list of the average American and the oppression that the average business owner or the average W-2 employee...
I mean, you'll look at your pay stub, or you'll look at the quarterlies you have to file.
I mean, whatever it is, it's just oppressive.
It's oppressive.
The IRS, the federal government believes they have, as the way the law says, the federal government has a right to know how much money you make.
I mean, if you really think of it, a lot of people these days are really, more people than I had ever thought.
I mean, Years and years ago, 10-15 years ago, I'd get on the radio and I would talk about how property taxes don't make sense to me.
And just because you never actually own your own home, so you're always having to pay the government in order to live in your home, and that just doesn't seem morally right.
And I would tell this to people and you would just get back blank stares.
Just like, huh.
But I talked to people the other day, struck up a conversation, and people were like, yeah, you know, property taxes are not fair.
It's like it's a new thing.
It's like it doesn't make sense property taxes are immoral.
And now people are coming out and talking about the IRS being abolished.
It's just incredible.
It really just goes to show you that, I mean, even if you are saying things that are true to people, That doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to be convinced.
Because the Lord is in control, right?
People become convinced of certain things when they're supposed to be convinced of it, right?
So, I don't know.
I could talk about that all day.
So, there's a guy by the name of Joe Rigney.
Joe Rigney has a book out called The Sin of Empathy.
Provocative title.
But I wanted to spend a little time today on it.
There's a little controversy brewing over on X because Al Mohler, who is a prominent voice within the Southern Baptist Convention.
I think I just broke my pen.
He's a prominent voice within the Southern Baptist Convention.
And he recently interviewed Joe Rigney.
Who is affiliated with New St. Andrews College, affiliated with Canon Press, Doug Wilson, Moscow, Idaho.
And so this is, you could say, kind of a bridge-building moment between two different denominations, you could say.
A very ecumenical interview.
The book, The Sin of Empathy.
Al Mohler.
Kind of sending woke Southern Baptists into a frenzy a couple of days ago.
Says that he really enjoyed his conversation with Joe Rigney on thinking in public about his upcoming book, The Sin of Empathy, which releases tomorrow.
Our conversation will be published first thing on Wednesday.
Well, now it's Friday, so people had time to watch the podcast.
And I've got this one highlight we're going to go over, starting right here.
This is a little bit of what it sounds like.
like this is the point of the book with with the because you think well empathy is not a sin how could empathy become a sin this is the kind of about five minutes into the podcast uh and so the idea i think was that sympathy or pity which is you were usually used interchangeably um really there if you pity someone you're in the um i don't know if you want to say the dominant position that the helping position, they're in the pit, you're not.
And that kind of asymmetry I want to make an argument to extend that a bit.
I think the substitution of empathy for sympathy also has to do with one of the major distinguishing figures of liberal thought, leftist thought.
And that is from the concrete to the abstract.
And so I think the difference between sympathy and empathy is also the fact that sympathy means you feel for someone in a concrete situation of being in a pit.
Empathy means you care for everyone in the world who's ever been distressed by the idea of a pit.
It's a very different thing.
It allows for a moral abstraction of the relationship.
Yeah, and there's a kind of fusion of emotions.
I think, you know, when I started to think through the biblical language, there was an aha moment I had.
It was actually a student of mine who made the observation because people were really upset because I said sin of empathy.
And he said, you know, when we talk about, if we said the sin of anger or the sin of fear, everybody would know what you meant.
They would know that there's a good form and a bad form and that this can be sinful or maybe not.
And I realized, oh, actually, that's the right categories.
This is a passion.
And like all the passions, it needs to be governed.
And if it's not governed, it becomes destructive.
And so that was a key moment in my own thinking through it was realizing the passions rage.
And the reason empathy in particular I think is so dangerous is because it's about the sharing of passions.
You feel something and then I feel something.
And whatever you feel, I need to feel.
And I get kind of sucked in and you lose a sense of boundaries, a sense of identity, a sense of what's good and what's bad because the feelings and the emotions are now in charge and running the show.
And I think as you see the late 20th century, early 21st century especially, the feelings were in charge.
Passions were running the show.
And which is why Friedman identified it as a problem.
The first person to bring up empathy in an institution is probably trying to steer you.
And then we saw this over the last 10 to 15 years in All Things Woke.
The common thread that I came to recognize in all of these different controversies, whether it was race or abuse, whether it was manhood, womanhood, or sexuality, the common thread underneath was the victim was always right, the alleged victim's always right, the proposed victim's always right.
And you can't question, challenge, or anything, because to do so would to be heartless, not empathetic.
So empathy became the steering wheel by which opportunistic people took advantage of Christian soft-heartedness.
There we go.
So that's kind of the gist of the podcast, the point he's trying to make.
Essentially, empathy being weaponized, using the softness of the Christian heart, I like the part where they talk about getting down in the pit with people, not actually helping them out.
But there's been just a little bit of pushback against this.
People don't like that Al Mohler.
Some people don't like that Al Mohler interviewed Joe Rigney about this book.
Some people are just really upset about the title, The Sin of Empathy.
Well, it's obviously meant to be provided, meant to get your attention.
But Megan Basham had a provocative title.
In her book last year, Shepard's for Sale, she's no stranger to people pearl-clutching.
Megan Basham, she says, it's interesting to me to see how much the attacks coming against Regney's book right now mirror the attacks that came against mine.
90% centered on the title.
Critics pretended not to realize that being for sale can both be literal and metaphorical.
She goes on, oh, also, some are just mad that influential people like Al Mohler want to invite Rigney onto their popular podcast to talk about his book because they believe they are smarter and have more respectable associations than Rigney.
Therefore, they should be the ones going on Mohler's podcast.
Never discount the sour grapes factor.
That could also be it.
But, I mean, you know, there's just a back and forth here on X, you know, talking about the title.
The real reason I'm covering this is because I think the practical application of this can be best characterized by a series of tweets that came out yesterday by Josh Dawes of the Great Awokening Podcast.
I think a few of these really hit home.
It really puts into perspective how we got here.
So the sin of empathy is why women so rarely hear the word no.
The sin of empathy is why women so rarely hear the word no.
He also wrote, the sin of empathy is why we let men compete against women.
Well, not anymore, although there are people ignoring those rules.
I think over in California, we've got some girls that are being forced to play basketball with a man.
The sin of empathy, he writes, is why wokeness took hold in every realm of society.
I don't disagree with that.
The sin of empathy, he writes, is why we shut down our churches for a year or more.
Love your neighbor.
Wear a mask.
Love your neighbor.
Get an experimental, quote, vaccine, end quote.
The sin of empathy, he writes, is why we let our cities burn.
During the summer of 2020, well, you know, I mean, the plight of the African-American in America has been tough, so we're just going to go ahead and do nothing when they assault a police building or a courthouse or burn businesses to the ground.
The sin of empathy, weirdly enough, is also why they went after...
Can't remember his name.
But anyway.
Maybe it'll come to me.
The sin of empathy is why we have a border crisis.
Right?
So the sin of empathy is why borders are immoral or border walls are immoral or racist.
Because America just has it so good.
So because of our prosperity, we must have done something wrong to achieve it.
Therefore, we're oppressing these third world countries.
The sin of empathy is why we tolerate transing kids.
The sin of empathy is why our society celebrates the depravity of a tiny minority.
We're talking about June, talking about Pride Month.
Weird, the sin of empathy makes you celebrate pride.
The sin of empathy is why abortion remains legal.
We're talking about the abortion pill, right?
Have empathy.
Don't let anybody have to suffer the natural consequences of their own actions.
The sin of empathy is why Europe is falling to Muslim conquest.
Again, the border.
And then lastly, the Senate of Empathy is why we allow surrogacy and IVF. Certainly the surrogacy when you're talking about two gay men that get to buy a baby or rent the womb of a mom.
People are like, oh yeah, we're going to rip the baby away from the mother, even if the mother's voluntarily doing it.
That's not good for the child.
The baby needs the mother.
It's insane.
Absolutely insane.
And that brings us to, like, the lowest moment of the Trump presidency.
We're about to talk about some amazing things that are happening.
Some amazing things that may happen, like the abolition of the IRS. But speaking of abolition of abortion, this is a key problem.
And it was the lowest moment for me of the Trump presidency.
As much as I love a lot of the other stuff that's going on, I don't love that Trump signed an executive order expanding IVF because I'm pro-life.
Now, this is going to...
Upset maybe some people, but Ben Zeisloft, who is an outspoken abolitionist on this issue, he says that if you publicly oppose IVF, you will quickly hear from various commenters who announce, often in a very emotionally charged manner, I don't know, empathy, maybe that's being led by the emotion that Rigney was talking about, that their children or grandchildren were conceived via IVF. And he writes, though, that the answer is very simple.
The babies born after conception via IVF are infinitely precious and made in the image of God, but so were all of the other babies murdered or abandoned in the process or frozen.
So just because some people are born through sinful circumstances does not mean that they are less valuable, but that does not mean we should encourage more births through such circumstances.
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It says choice42.com, and this is one of the reasons why I am against IVF, and I think the Republican position on this is wrong, and it's very discouraging when we're talking about the death of children in order to create.
You know, from a humanistic standpoint, if you are looking at just X's and O's and you're just looking at numbers and you're just thinking, hey, Americans need to have more babies, then yeah, the ends justify the means.
But if you look at it from a heavenly perspective, I think a biblical perspective, you must come to a different conclusion.
That's just my opinion.
And I think it's the right one.
I think it's the right one.
All right, so we're going to move on now, because the stuff that's going on, aside from this unfortunate, terrible situation here, we do have the IRS. As I mentioned, we were going to talk about this.
So a couple of days ago, we've kind of gotten word for this for a while.
You hear about the tariffs, the new economic policy, this may actually happen, the tariffs.
Will the tariff revenue actually be able to offset the revenue generation that you get from the IRS? Well, Derek Evans is saying that, hey, look, it's really a possibility here.
They're seeking to abolish the IRS. We have this Jesse Waters clip.
Let's go to this first.
And then we've got one from yesterday.
So he's going to cut a trillion, and then we're going to get rid of all these tax scams.
For those of you listening on Apple or Spotify, this is Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Okay, on Jesse Waters' show.
So he's going to cut a trillion, and then we're going to get rid of all these tax scams that hammer against America, and we're going to raise a trillion dollars of revenue.
And our objective under Donald Trump is to balance this budget, and I'm telling you, you watch it, we're going to do it.
If you get savings from these doge cuts, are you going to give any of this back to the American people?
We keep hearing about these doge dividends.
Well, think about it.
Donald Trump announces the external revenue service, and his goal is very simple.
To abolish, his goal is to abolish the internal revenue service and let all the outsiders pay.
I mean, this is someone who is focused on America.
If that actually happens, you're talking about the greatest transfer of freedom from the government, liberty from the government, back to the people in American history.
I mean, maybe since the American Revolution.
The greatest shrinkage of government authority in our everyday lives since the revolution.
It would be incredible.
If Donald Trump abolishes the IRS, he will go down as the greatest president of modern times for sure.
Maybe the greatest president since George Washington.
And that's just because you'll have an immediate relief in the people.
The people will be free.
They will feel their freedom immediately, not gradually, not over time.
I saw Derek Evans talking about how, like, if this really happens the way we're talking about, all of these things.
Cash Patel now, if he actually goes after these people, if we actually see the Epstein list, if we actually see the corruption faced, who's actually been governing us, claiming they have the moral high ground where they've been caught doing terrible things.
Your kids, your grandkids are going to ask you, what was it like living through this time?
That's possibly where we're at right now, on the precipice.
Now, he mentioned these Doge dividend checks.
They're proposing, and this has been confirmed several different places, $5,000, given all the taxpayers, right?
Just giving them the savings back, a percentage of the $500 billion or trillion for every $500 billion or for every trillion.
I can't remember the exact formula.
Some people are out there saying, I would just rather you abolish the IRS. Don't give me my $5,000.
I would submit to you, be optimistic.
We can do both.
Couldn't we do both?
I certainly think so.
And then you've got a lot of these economic...
And look, I certainly used to be one of them.
You have these economic principles like it's some sort of religious dogma that you have to stick to because people are going to say, well, what about inflation?
Inflation, you give everybody the $5,000, everyone's inflation.
That may be true.
Because I know a lot of COVID. The reckless spending that happened for decades and decades and decades didn't contribute at all to the current inflation, but the COVID checks did all of a sudden, right?
I don't know.
I'm skeptical about that.
Again, I think this whole, as we'll talk about here in a minute, I think a lot of the whole economic situation is all controlled anyway, like we control the thermostat in our homes by people who are...
Much more powerful than the average politician, but that's just me.
I think you can do both, but these people that are like...
Let's say that it does cause inflation.
At some point, though, there is a redress of grievances.
There is the ability or the responsibility of politicians to at least attempt to make the American people whole.
when we are out here in the economy, slaving away, trying to make ends meet, trying to keep a roof over our families' heads, and we've got the federal government in D.C.
enriching itself, enriching these progressive, leftist, Marxist, communist organizations to work against us, to manage the decline, to enable us to be invaded by third world barbarians.
At some point, it's like...
I don't really care if it were to cause more inflation like some people are saying.
At this point, I'm just like, give us our money back, man.
Give us years and years and years of our money back.
Give it to us.
Because you took it from us and you gave it away to people that hate us.
That's me, anyway.
That's kind of where I'm at.
And I just feel like we're in such a moment of political realignment and political things are shifting so rapidly.
And people are going to say, well, what about economic principle?
Look, the adherents or the politicians that ran on those economic principles or conservative principles or free market or whatever you want to call it, where did that get us?
I mean, it got us a lot of excuses as to why you can't follow those things.
While they're preaching sound economic fundamentals, or we don't need to give you a $5,000 check because of inflation, and yet they're literally spending like drunken sailors.
Maybe we don't need to do any of that, but I'm just telling you, man, the American people, from a populist standpoint, have had it, man.
And I'm right there with them because Again, we can talk about all of these things the way it should be, and you've got Republicans that have run for decades on these issues, but then they come back to us with excuses as to why they can't implement, why they can't pass a simple budget bill, why they have to keep going with the continuing resolution stuff, right?
And now we know why.
Because it's a slush fund to USAD, which is outrageous, and yet it's less than 1% of the budget, and we're finding all of this fraud, all of this corruption.
Well, while the American people, you know, get a tax bill, actually we don't get a tax bill from the IRS, we're responsible for calculating how much we owe the IRS, and then if we're wrong, we get audited or we get, you know, taken to court or anything.
I mean, it's just the whole thing is meant to oppress.
We have a government that hates the people, that has acted outside of the people.
They've acted like they've hated us for a long time.
And I'm just saying, man, it would be nice if we have a government that loves the people.
Or makes steps that make that more closer to a reality.
Then yesterday, we have the National Economic Council Director, Ken Hassett.
So, Caroline Levitt.
So yesterday was 30 days in office.
Yesterday was one month of Donald Trump being in office.
So they had a big press conference about it.
Caroline Levitt did.
And they had a bunch of people there.
Stephen Miller was there.
We're going to get to that here in a minute.
But we also heard this, again, about the IRS. Listen to this.
President Trump has spoken about replacing income tax with tariff revenue, especially with all this waste fraud and abuse that we're seeing cut.
Is that a possibility?
Absolutely.
And in fact, if you think about the China tariff revenue that we're estimating is coming in from the 10% that we just added, plus the de minimis thing, that it's between $500 billion and $1 trillion over 10 years is our estimate.
And that's something that is outside of the reductions that markets are seeing through the negotiations up on the Hill.
And so we expect that the tariff revenue is actually going to make it much easier for Republicans to pass a bill.
And that was the president's plan all along.
Okay, once again.
really good news.
I mean, the question on my mind is...
Are we going to have to file our taxes on April 15th?
Serious question.
Maybe I'm being way too optimistic.
Again, this is certainly not...
I mean, I don't know, man.
It's not a black pill episode.
I mean, again, I hate the evil that is child sacrifice and IVF. I do.
Can't stand it.
Then there are these other things that are good.
It's good to not oppress the people.
That's a good thing when the government doesn't oppress the people and allows the people to flourish, allows the people to thrive.
Trump brings up the gold in Fort Knox once again.
Okay, so clandestine.
So there's this talk about the gold in Fort Knox.
And I'm going to do something.
I'm actually going on this one.
You know, all my life I've heard about Fort Knox.
That's where the gold is kept, right?
I heard Fort Knox.
But, you know, we're getting a little bit shaky.
We're getting the yips on this stuff.
Like, I want to find out.
So we're going to open up the doors.
I'm going to see if we have gold there.
We want to find out.
Did anybody steal the gold in Fort Knox?
It's a pretty amazing place.
Well, I saw the Sean Connery gold finger.
That plot failed.
Actually, we're going to open the doors.
We're going to inspect Fort Knox.
We want to make sure that we actually have...
You know, 400 tons of gold or whatever the hell it is.
All right, so he's going to go into Fort Knox.
We're going to find out.
By the way, speaking of James Bond, Amazon now has the rights to James Bond.
The long producers of it are relinquishing to Amazon.
And so people are anticipating that there's going to be some black lesbian woman be cast as James Bond.
Jeff Bezos asked on X, who do you want to be, James Bond?
And everybody said Henry Cavill because he's a white British guy.
And that's who James Bond is.
Just so we're clear, James Bond is a white British man.
Are they going to cast Henry Cavill?
I just don't think...
You talk about a vibe shift if Bezos and them actually cast a white British man to be James Bond.
I don't know about the plot.
The plot may be just as woke as the last movie they did where they emasculated James Bond and killed him.
Spoiler alert.
Anyway, speaking of goals, we've got L over on X who has done some research and has decided to find...
So back in the day, Ron Paul, Congressman Ron Paul, was questioning the Federal Reserve.
A few short questions, and then we'll finish up.
One thing is, on a follow-up on what Mr. Jones says, is the confidence is very low.
But when you speak of independence, and I understand your terms, and I disagree with the need for that, but I understand it.
But what people hear when you say independence, they hear secrecy.
You know, you're going to keep it from us.
And like the point I made at the beginning, the SEC is to pressure companies to reveal information where the Federal Reserve does the opposite.
They want, no, we can't tell anything because it might disturb the markets.
But I do have one question.
During the crisis or any time that you're aware of, has the Federal Reserve or Treasury participated in any gold swaps arrangements?
We don't.
The Federal Reserve does not own any gold at all.
We have not owned gold since 1934. So we have not engaged in any gold swaps.
But it appears on your balance sheet that you hold gold.
What appears on our balance sheet is gold certificates.
Before 1934, we did, the Federal Reserve did own gold.
We turned that over by law to the Treasury and received in return for that gold certificate.
If the Treasury entered into, because under the Exchange Stabilization Fund, I would assume they probably have the legal authority to do it, they wouldn't be able to do it then because you have the securities for essentially all the gold?
No, we have no interest in the gold that is owned by the Treasury.
We have simply an accounting document that is called gold certificates that represents the value at a statutory rate that we gave to the Treasury in 1930. And still measured at $42 an ounce, which makes no sense whatsoever.
But, you know, so that was the Fed admitting back in the day, That the Treasury supposedly has the gold.
Boy, I don't trust that at all.
It'd be interesting if Donald Trump walks...
What happens if Donald Trump opens Fort Knox and there is no gold?
Seriously, what would that do economically to this country?
It's a really good question.
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What we are experiencing right now is Richard Nixon's long-overdue revenge.
Richard Nixon, of course, was framed by the intel oligarchs.
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Richard Nixon resigned and did not.
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This kind of goes into line with also, you know, Trump.
He mentioned something about being king.
Is that what he said?
Phil Vischer took issue with it.
C.J. Engel, though, says Trump belongs in a long tradition of this sort of thing in America.
Jackson-sonism is back.
King Andrew I, Born to Command.
This is an old piece referencing Andrew Jackson.
Phil Vischer, who is the woke creator of VeggieTales.
And I don't believe we've had the episode made yet where the tomato and the cucumber push their beds together like Bert and Ernie did on Sesame Street.
But if Phil Vischer still has creative control over VeggieTales, I would assume that...
That might be a possibility someday.
Who knows, right?
Gotta have empathy for the Rainbow Enclave.
Phil Vischer and white supremacists also belong on a long tradition of that sort of thing in America, he says.
C.J. Engel is saying, look, man, you're missing the point.
The point is, a popular president who absorbs the mandate of the people against the entrenched bureaucracy goes back deep into the early 19th, and it goes through FDR and other heroes of the progressive paragon.
It's by now the American way.
Phil Vischer, if the people want to alter the Constitution, there's a process for that.
This ain't it.
They're doing a Constitution juke on us because the Constitution is working so well.
And Engel points that out.
Phil, you need to understand that the originalist argument, weaponized against conservatives, no longer works.
And we've got to, this is exactly right.
The originalist argument, because, I mean, we preach the originalist argument, and when I say we, I just mean collectively those on the right-wing media, talk radio, the originalist argument, the originalist argument, but it doesn't...
All that was happening and the government was literally full of criminals.
The Constitution only matters when people like Phil Vischer or Nancy Pelosi want to cite it to make it matter.
Adam Schiff, now that Cash Patel has confirmed, we're in a constitutional crisis.
So it only matters, but it doesn't mean anything unless they want it to mean something.
When an actual originalist wants it to mean something, oh, jurisprudence is way beyond that.
We get answers like that.
So he's saying that trying to own conservatives by weaponizing the originalist argument against conservatives, he says it no longer works in a world where progressives have operated under the preeminence of the executive theory since the New Deal.
We're done with that.
We're playing by new rules laid down by the progressives in the 20th century.
It's their poison.
So yeah, this is the state of things, and people don't like it.
People don't like that the executive branch has grown and grown and grown and the Constitution means less and less and less and less.
But now you have somebody in the executive who's going to use the power that has been amassed and has actually even been tested in the courts, but it's using it to undo it all.
Or a great deal of it.
And now people think they're losing their country.
It's unbelievably ridiculous.
Here's Stephen Miller from that press conference taking the press to task over the idea that the executive branch doesn't have the power that it clearly does.
It is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country.
It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works.
So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
A president is elected by the whole American people.
He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right?
Judges are appointed.
Members of Congress are elected at the district or state level.
Just one man.
And the Constitution, Article 2, has a clause known as the Vesting Clause.
And it says, the executive power shall be vested in a president.
Singular.
The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president.
That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government.
The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for.
So Americans vote for radical FBI reform, and FBI agents say they don't want to change.
Or Americans vote for radical reform under energy policies, but EPA bureaucrats say they don't want to change.
Or Americans vote to end DEI, racist DEI policies, and lawyers in the Department of Justice say they don't want to change.
What President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people.
Yeah, throwing the old democracy dies in the darkness.
Kind of throwing that back in their faces.
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All right, so let's see.
What time is it?
All right, so we've got to keep going here.
Cash Patel.
Cash Patel has been confirmed.
And CPAC is going on.
So while CPAC is going on, Pam Bondi...
By the way, some real ugly dust-up about Matt Schlapp not wanting J6ers, according to reports, in there.
Some of them have got in, some of them haven't.
It's just really...
CPAC is a limited hangout.
It's a home for rhinos.
They look at Trump supporters and MAGA people as others.
They just do.
But anyway, here is...
Here's Pam Bondi at CPAC talking about Cash Patel and the Epstein client list.
The Scaring Bad Guy is something Cash has talked about a lot, and you have when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and the people who are predators in this country.
They've been given a pass, and a lot of Americans think these guys have got to pass for a long time and maybe even are still being protected right now.
Where are we at with the Jeffrey Epstein list, the documents?
And Cash has made a lot of public statements about this.
Where are we at?
I was briefed on that yesterday.
I can't talk about that publicly, but, you know, President Trump has given a very strong directive, and that's going to be fine.
Now, hang on a second.
I mean, this is a big deal.
She seems – and I'm just – I'm not a body language expert – She clearly said, I can't talk about it, but I've seen it.
And just based on her body language, she looks like she's seen some dirt, man.
Like, she looks like the way she reacts to this.
Looks like she really has seen it and she knows what's about to come.
And Cash has made a lot of public statements about this.
Where are we at?
I was briefed on that yesterday.
I can't talk about that publicly.
But President Trump has given a very strong directive and that's going to be followed.
Wow.
Okay.
A lot of documents.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
So people can expect actual movement on this.
Not just empty promises.
Donald Trump doesn't make empty promises.
That's like the dam holding back just like a tidal wave about to flood a town.
Incredible.
Oh, by the way, I put this in here.
I put this in the show just because I wanted you guys to know.
Douglas McGregor, Colonel Douglas McGregor, reminded me of something in this tweet.
Now, he said yesterday, or today, this was this morning.
He says that we're headed into stormy waters financially.
That's going to be very tough on the president because the Americans frequently blame whoever happens to be in power at the time for everything.
Most of that is not his fault.
I don't know if that's connected to there not being any gold bars at Fort Knox.
I'm not sure.
But what I will tell you is, as I said earlier, and I've said this many times on the show, Trump has clearly defeated the intel oligarchs.
I mean, fight, fight, fight, right?
I mean, you know, he took a bullet.
He then won the election and everything else.
The last card, one of the last cards that I think they have is a planned economic stock market financial collapse.
I just think this is...
I'm of the belief that the economy is controlled.
I think the Fed still can pull a lot of strings and they would love nothing more than a total economic collapse to blame on the president.
The people are starting to get a breath of fresh air.
They'd love nothing more than to crush the American people.
And they have already created the crisis.
$34, $36 trillion in debt.
They've already created the crisis, even though it's monopoly money.
But it will matter when somebody wants it to matter.
They've created a crisis.
It's in a glass case.
And I think this is a potential.
And we said this before the election, if he won.
We thought this was a potential during the Biden administration to even postpone the elections.
Anyway, just something to think about.
There's plenty of opportunities for false flags out there.
In the meantime, we've got good news.
Speaking of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services has laid out a new guidance for gender definitions.
So, pretty interesting, right?
Pretty easy.
Sex is a person's immutable biological classification.
It's either male or female.
You've got two options.
Female is a person of the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing eggs.
Male is a person of sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing sperm.
This is an effort to crawl back up the slippery slope, and this is a good thing.
Excited about that.
We're going to skip over the DEI. Oh, yeah.
Here's the next James Bond.
Sorry.
Here's the next James Bond.
The name is Bond.
James Bond.
My pronouns are he, him.
My pronouns are they.
So James Bond, shocker, Amazon, MGM, Gaines, creative control over the 007 franchise as producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson step back.
So now everybody, everybody, the next James Bond.
They're going to go with a dwarf for the next James Bond.
But no, a lot of people want or...
Greta Thunberg as the next James Bond.
Anyway, so there's a lot of jokes out there to be made.
Henry Cavill is the obvious choice, but they never know.
A black lesbian in a wheelchair.
I don't know.
Amazon's going to try to do their best.
Oh, my goodness.
I needed that.
I needed a laugh today.
All right, so let's get to it.
This was huge.
This was a big deal.
I want to commend the vice president for accurately presenting the gospel.
You talk about being blessed to have J.D. Vance as vice president, just totally overperforming in so many areas, in my opinion.
William Wolfe says that J.D. Vance at CPAC today defended masculinity in young men, attacked androgyny, preached the resurrection of Christ, praised the importance of family and the need to protect the unborn, upheld the goodness of the American nation for the American people against globalism and mass migration, and casually mocked CNN. Here's J.D. Vance talking about wanting to raise his children in America and wanting to raise them as Christians.
I think the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, it's not just a set of good moral principles, though it is that.
I think the fundamental tenet of our faith is that the Son of God became man, he died, and he raised himself from the dead.
That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, and I think so much flows from that.
And I think one lesson that flows from that is that we shouldn't fear death.
Of course, death is a very bad thing, but there are much more terrible things than just losing one's life.
This is a great point.
If you're a Christian, if you are found in Christ, to die is to gain.
But if you're a pagan or a Satanist or, I don't know, take somebody like an Anthony Fauci, a man that is terrified of death, I can promise you, that man is terrified of dying.
That fear, if you're, if this is why having Christians in government is so much better for the people, regardless of what your religion is or your, you know, it's so much better for the people because you're not going to use this unrealistic fear of death to enact a tyranny across the globe.
But yeah, what he's saying is true.
But if you're not, I mean, I guess what you're doing, I want to, you know, I mean, everybody wants to stay alive on this side of, This side of heaven as long as you can, or this side of reality as long as you can, but the Bible's very clear.
For Christians, to die is to gain.
To die is to be with Christ.
And it's amazing that the Vice President of the United States, a heartbeat away from the President, is so overtly presenting what Christians believe.
Importantly, you could lose one soul.
And I think whether it's fighting for the unborn...
We're fighting for peace and security for our citizens.
I want us to be the kind of society where my kids can grow up to be virtuous young people, can be good young Christians, of course, because that's what I'm trying to raise them to be.
And that's what our public policy is trying to do.
Creating the space where moms and dads can raise their children in their faith to become good young people who believe the things that I do.
That is what I'm trying to create, is the space for you, of course, to raise your children as you see fit, but the space for me to raise my kids to be the kind of young people that I think they ought to be.
Which means you must eliminate Christian bias, the anti-Christian bias that has been promoted for so long.
We have to get off the path that was eventually going to see Christians so marginalized that they're put into train cars.
And the other thing that I take from it, Mercedes, is if you look at the long history of the Christian faith, we've been around for about 2,000 years now, give or take a few years, and there have been really dark times in the history of the Christian faith.
There have been really good times in the history of the Christian faith.
And I just try to remind myself that we put our faith in God above.
We put our faith in the grace of God.
And we try the best to do His will, and we don't worry so much about whether we're going to have earthly rewards.
We worry about whether we're doing right by God Almighty above.
That's what I try to do, and that's how I try to run my life.
That's who we are most accountable to.
I don't know.
I don't know what to say.
You know, for all of the talk about wanting more Christians in government and needing more Christians in government to be a Christian vice president, a Christian dog catcher, a Christian quorum court member, a Christian legislator, to say essentially we're taking the character of God, what he deems as good, what he deems as evil, and we're going to make our policy based on those things.
That's exactly what we want.
We need even more of it out there.
The fact that it's happened so quickly is amazing.
It's amazing.
Is it perfect?
No.
No.
Here is Vance talking about masculinity.
And I think, you know, you asked me, my message to young men is, I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress Every masculine urge.
You should try to cast aside your family.
You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place.
And I think that my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends or because you're competitive.
Because you like to tell a joke.
Don't you know?
Don't you know that one right there?
What kind of joke?
What kind of joke, J.D. Vance?
Oh, my goodness.
We're out of time.
This was interesting, though.
Donald Trump, they have this black history celebration or whatever.
And apparently, I guess the...
Let's see.
Tiger Woods joins Trump for Black History event.
So Donald Trump decides to recognize the head of Pfizer, who is also in the room.
We also have the head of Pfizer here.
So I want to thank him.
One of the great, great people.
One of the great businessmen.
Thank you, Albert.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
The vibe shift is real.
Pfizer gets booed.
Oh, and by the way, for all of those people out there that think that Trump supporters or people that are fans of what Trump is doing agree with him all the time and are robots, I mean, there you go.
There's still plenty of Trump supporters that still were disappointed and are totally against the vaccine ever being created in the first place.
Not to mention, obviously, the mandates and everything else.
But we also have this news at the very end.
Man, I still had a lot more to get to, but, you know, I'm out of time.
Trump administration throws out protections from deportation for roughly half a million Haitians.
They're going back, folks.
Here's the Associated Press, which, by the way, used to get...
Didn't they get money from AID? Oh, there we go!
Here we go.
This is how you know that the Associated Press...
It's really hurting for money.
That USAID funding is not coming in, which is why now, after perusing Associated Press articles for years and years and years, I'm so glad this happened live on the air, I'm now prompted on the website, a free press equals strong democracy.
At the Associated Press, we've been bringing the world factual news and information for more than 175 years.
Our journalism informs and empowers, so they want me to donate.
Donate.
If you believe in the importance of a free and fair press, please consider supporting.
I'm now being asked to donate to the Associated Press.
No thank you.
That USAID money, man.
That was really...
That was something special for them.
Anyway, so that's really great news.
We got more deportations on the way.
We don't have near enough.
We don't have near enough.
We didn't get to talk about this either.
Andrew Torba all over the coming androids.
This proto-clone, the world's first bipedal, muscular, skeletal android.
Really creepy stuff coming down the pike.
Marco Rubio ticked off at Zelensky as well as Trump.
We didn't get to our other segments as well.
But that's all the time that we have for this edition of the Millstone Report.
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And this Friday, happy Friday.
That's where I tell you to go to church.
Out of all of this, everything we talked about, I think what's most important is if you're a believer in Jesus and you're not going to church, I want to encourage you to go to church.
Find a church that preaches the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Find one that worships him collectively in spirit and in truth.
On the Lord's Day.
For those of you that do go to church, thank you for watching.
God bless you.
God bless everybody.
And have a blessed Lord's Day.
Unless I'm providentially hindered, I'll see you back here on Monday.
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