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March 13, 2025 - Stew Peters Show

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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: How to use political power with Jeff Younger

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thanks so much for being with us.
	Happy Thursday to everybody out there.
	As always, we can't do the program without you watching every single day, so we really do very much appreciate it.
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	We've got a special treat for you today.
	Joining us now, we have Jeff Younger is back with us.
	Jeff, it's always great to have you on the program.
	Thanks so much for being with us today.
	Great to be here.
	Thanks for having me.
	Yes, absolutely.
	I want to talk about a bunch of stuff.
	You and me are just going to kind of ping pong back and forth today and go over a plethora of new stories that we've got selected.
	But first, I wanted to give you the opportunity to tell the audience where you are in your fight to save your son.
	I know it has to do with court, so your son obviously was basically kidnapped by your ex-wife, taken to California, where he's being chemically castrated.
	So can you give us a brief update on where you are?
	So, from a legal case point of view, I am going up to the appellate courts.
	And what's happening is the corrupt judicial institutions in California are attempting to prevent me from filing an appeal.
	So they've denied me the court records, which I need for an appeal.
	The appellate court set a deadline of 15 days, and the clerks are trying to run that out by saying that, you know, various administrative forms haven't been filled in correctly.
	They've said, oh, you don't have the right information in the right box.
	You have improper punctuation, which makes it grammatically ambiguous and we don't know what you mean.
	Your attachments are in the wrong format and they keep sending them back.
	So I'm probably going to wind up seeking contempt and perhaps even criminal fraud charges against the clerks.
	It's fairly futile doing that, but at least it puts it on the record.
	I'm also trying very hard to pressure.
	The California judiciary with a recall effort on the judge that's done this to me and several other fathers.
	This judge is notorious for doing this to fathers.
	We're going to try to get him out of office and send a message to these judges.
	I'm also working with a broader coalition of people to do a recall on Gavin Newsom.
	We're working in the high desert areas in Southern California where there's white support for that.
	So we're trying to put pressure on the political class to protect my son.
	And that's kind of my focus now.
	I'm also working with the lobbyists in the Federal Congress because, one, I want to get a total ban on these things in the United States.
	And the second, what I want to do is Josh Hawley has a bill that he's introduced that allows children, child victims of these barbaric practices, to sue.
	And it has a 30-year statute of limitations, which terrifies lawyers.
	The problem is it doesn't let parents sue for children.
	And so I'm trying to pressure him to change his bill and allow parents to sue for children.
	The problem is a lot of these children, the suicide rates are 28 times the national average.
	A lot of them become incompetent, psychologically incompetent.
	They can't file lawsuits.
	suits, a lot of them kill themselves.
	So parents need to be able to sue for their children in order to create the conditions in which hospitals will conclude it's too risky to do these procedures and They can get sued out of business, and so they're not going to do them.
	It's already happened to Kaiser Permanente.
	They've determined that it's too risky already.
	Now we want to do it to all the children's hospitals.
	I commend you for your work, and I totally agree.
	Yeah, the parents need to have rights here as well.
	But is there still a website people can go if they want to donate to your legal crusade to stop this from ever happening again to another child?
	Yeah, you can go to savejames.org.
	I publish updates there, and I have links to all the websites.
	And, you know, if you can spare $5 or $10, it helps me with my appeals.
	I have to go all the way up to the California Supreme Court.
	In order to then go into federal court.
	So I'm looking at litigation costs that are going to probably exceed one and a half million dollars in the end.
	I've already spent one and a half million dollars.
	So we're looking at a three million dollar litigation effort.
	And remember that all the work I do, I always say save James, save thousands of children.
	The work that I do is about saving my son, but it's to create tracks, to create legal precedent, to create laws that protect other kids.
	Amen.
	Well, God bless you.
	I know this is, you know, it's a tragic situation, but you're really doing the work for a lot of other people that are going to be in this position at some point, especially if you don't stop it.
	So I want to talk about, let's talk about the news, okay?
	You have a very interesting tweet we're going to get to here in a minute or post or whatever they call it these days, but let's talk about lawfare.
	Several of these cases, we got some new cases within the last hour.
	We've got Eric Daughtery breaking.
	A judge has ordered the Trump administration to rehire tens of thousands of federal workers immediately.
	This is getting out of hand.
	Appeal immediately.
	This is a judge by the name of William Alsup, appointed by Bill Clinton.
	Then we go over to Yahoo.
	A U.S. judge says Trump cannot fire Democratic member of Federal Labor Board.
	Then we have this.
	Lawfare Judge Beryl Howell, Obama-appointed, Trump-hating.
	Judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing Trump's executive order, revoking Perkins Coey's security clearance, which of course had to do with the Russia collusion hoax where the intel oligarchs framed him for treason.
	Then we have Nick Sorter, who I believe was swatted last night, or his family was swatted last night.
	His dad almost murdered.
	Judge Tanya Chutkan has now ordered the doxing of Doge employees even after all the death threats received by Elon Musk and his personnel as well as the terror attacks on his Tesla showrooms.
	This is insane.
	And then we have this, another one, another court order.
	Federal judge now demands Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth write a retraction over his statement on transgender people not being allowed to serve in the military.
	It's just insane, Jeff.
	I'd love to get your reaction.
	What does Trump need to do at this point when we have these judges that are trying to essentially overturn the 2024 election?
	The answer to these questions is always the same.
	Use power.
	I just, I get, you know, I just get the impression that conservatives have not read the Federalist Papers.
	They don't understand, like, read Federalist Number 10. The Constitution is based on the idea that people will fight each other for power.
	So when we have people who are afraid to use power, it totally destroys the checks and balances.
	Look, Trump controls the law enforcement apparatus of the United States government.
	Trump doesn't need to go to the DOJ to file a legal case.
	He can do it himself.
	He's the chief prosecutor.
	He can simply order an investigation of all these judges and commence criminal proceedings against them.
	And believe me, there's a great book I read some years ago called Three Felonies a Day.
	And what it shows is that the average person in the course of their day commits at least three federal felonies every day.
	Because the laws are contradictory.
	By following one law, you automatically break another.
	So you can get these judges on criminal offenses.
	And Trump needs to be playing hardball with these judges.
	Look, let's talk about what this judge is doing.
	First of all, one of these judges is putting people at risk of actually being killed by publicly releasing their names.
	Doge employees.
	They're telling Pete Hegseth that he doesn't have free speech and that he actually has to retract A political statement that is political speech protected by the First Amendment.
	This is ridiculous.
	And so what we have to do is we have to use power.
	Trump has the law enforcement apparatus of the United States government.
	The DOJ should be instantly doing investigations into obstruction, into official corruption.
	And we all know that these judges are colluding behind the scenes.
	We know that there's chat messages.
	We know that they're in private groups.
	We know there's telephone calls.
	And we know the deep state records all of that.
	And the FBI can get it and can do parallel case construction on that.
	And it's time that we go after these judges and arrest them.
	They have the power.
	It's time to use it.
	If they don't use it, it destroys the check-in balances in the Constitution.
	Yeah.
	No, you're exactly right.
	But, you know, you bring up the Constitution.
	There's an allergy on some people on the right.
	Some people on the right have this allergy to using they'll say well that's what the left does but we don't want to do that we want to restore We want to restore limited government or the Constitution, and we're way past that because we haven't had that for a very long time.
	As you just said, case construction, that's what the left has been doing with the surveillance state for forever against us.
	Obviously, they spied on Trump's campaign.
	They framed him for treason.
	They did all of this.
	And so Trump needs to go after these people.
	I mean, if he really wants to leave a legacy, he's got to set right.
	All of this evil that everybody knows, that's why we want the Epstein files.
	That's why we want the JFK files and everything else.
	I'm very impatient on that.
	But this was your tweet, and I thought it was really interesting because it really furthers this discussion.
	A fundamentally false belief, you write, of conservatives and libertarians that there's a conservative or libertarian path back to limited government.
	You say, no.
	First, we must seize power by any means.
	This will often mean using or growing government power.
	Once you've seized power, And I think that's just a self-evident truth at this point, as evidenced by the judges that we just covered, and it's a lot worse than that.
	And you say conservatives and libertarians complain when our guys take power and use it.
	A conservative would never use that unconstitutional power as they fall on a fainting couch.
	But there is no path back to limited government that doesn't use power.
	We have to beat back our enemies.
	Who are quite willing to use power.
	We need power to defeat power.
	I agree with that.
	Generally, I agree with that.
	This is one of the weird issues that we have with our guys.
	Paul, this is one of the things that over the years has just really irritated me.
	People will say, well, you know, that's not a conservative way to behave in office or whatever.
	That's not the question to be asking right now.
	The question to be asking right now is, does it hurt our leftist opponents?
	If it hurts our leftist opponents, do it.
	If it mobilizes our guys, do it.
	How are you going to get rid of this giant behemoth of a government that operates independent of control of elected officials?
	How are you going to do that if you don't seize power?
	There's no way to do it.
	So this idea that we're going to scrutinize every action of an elected official by some principle.
	Principles have no power.
	You get your principles after you win, and you establish principles as the victor.
	But let's look at the Revolutionary War.
	You know, I've had a lot of people say, yeah, but if you take this power, people will never relinquish it.
	Well, the founders did.
	The founders fought a war.
	I mean, read about John Paul Jones and what he did to the British.
	We used every dirty trick in the book.
	Lies, cheats, stealing.
	We stole everything from the British.
	We tore them up with maximal power usage.
	And then after it was done, we got a constitutional government.
	You get your principles when you win.
	Right now, we're not winning.
	We have to seize power and control our opponents.
	What does it mean to win?
	I think people don't understand that either.
	Winning means that your enemies bend to your will and do what you tell them to do.
	The defeat phenomenon is when it's a psychological phenomenon.
	It's not a material phenomenon.
	Defeat is when the enemy says, I'll do your will because I can't fight anymore.
	And that's what we have to do to the left.
	We have to make them do our will.
	When we're in that position, we can establish our principles.
	It just, I mean, you know, makes an incredible amount of sense to me.
	What are your thoughts, though?
	Because, I mean, we've got this Republican coalition now, right?
	I mean, that's what we saw in 2024, this giant shifts.
	But the Republican Party very much is the only party, as I've said, where you actually have debate, where people argue.
	We're just a party of different factions, right?
	There are people within the Republican Party that heard what you just said and are clutching their pearls, fainting on the couch and everything else.
	So we have a lot of problems.
	Just in general, how do you think things are going in this second Trump administration?
	Obviously, it's not perfect.
	I think there's some good, there's some bad.
	Where do you fall down on that?
	Well, I mean, we have to admit that it's better than anything we've ever seen.
	I mean, I've been doing this since the mid-1980s.
	I've been involved in Republican politics, and I've never seen an administration in 45 days do what this administration is.
	I've never seen...
	And the entire time I've seen Republicans elected to the presidency, I've put it all together, everything they accomplished.
	They did not accomplish what Trump has accomplished in 45 days.
	What I'm hoping that it does is it rallies Republicans, in Congress in particular, to say, hey, actually, maybe we can do these things.
	Look, the people are actually getting behind Trump.
	They're not, like, upset with Trump for doing these things.
	Maybe we can do these things.
	And I think that this public spectacle aspect that Trump does, which a lot of people complain about, but there's an important psychological component to the way Trump approaches these public spectacles.
	Years ago, I read a RAND report on the guerrilla war in Algeria that France fought, and it had a huge impact on me.
	The basic premise and the basic conclusion of this monograph was that the reason the French won the Algerian war was because they tempted the enemy into public bloody battles, and it became clear to everybody that observed them that the French could always win.
	And people essentially side with the people they think are going to win.
	Right?
	So what Trump is doing is creating public spectacles that he wins.
	And people will gravitate to that.
	Even Democrats, instinctively and psychologically, that's why he got, you know, liberal men to vote for him.
	That's why he got all these Democrat young men to vote for him.
	They went with who they thought was going to be a winner.
	So, this is one of the big important aspects of what Trump has done in these 45 days, is he's done public, bloody battles with the left and won.
	And that will bring people to his side.
	And the people in Congress would do very well to see that the people went to his side.
	Yeah, I mean, you just look at the 2020, he made New Jersey.
	A swing state.
	I mean, we lost New Jersey, but I mean, my goodness, what's going on?
	All right, so let's talk about this.
	And so in other news, we have, I guess, a likely government shutdown.
	You had this big dust-up between Massey and Trump, which really just seems like such a distraction.
	But I mean, Trump wanted Massey to go along with the crowd.
	He wants more time, doesn't want to shut the government down, we're told.
	That's what the whole argument was.
	And now you've got the Democrats that are saying, hey, we're not going to support this.
	We're going to shut the government down.
	A few hot takes about that.
	Somebody named Daniel Baldwin says, like, I guess is arguing for some sort of 5D chess play here.
	Trump has completely boxed in Senate Democrats on the CR. They used to squeal about shutting down the government and how it was unimaginable.
	Now they can either pass the Trump-backed CR or bend a vote for the Schumer shutdown.
	And we also have this, Eric Erickson, who I don't agree with very often.
	Yes.
	He says a government shutdown will put Russ Vaught, Director of the Office Management of Budget, in charge.
	That is as close as America will ever come to having Ron Swanson in charge, and it's beautiful.
	So where do you fall on what's happened over the last five days?
	I think this is a classic Trumpian move.
	It's what I call political judo, right?
	He's using their strengths against them.
	Here's the thing.
	If you look at what Doge is doing, it's using Trump's discretionary power to cut the government, right?
	Look at the powers that the president gets during a shutdown.
	He gets to cut all non-essential federal employees.
	He gets to furlough them.
	He gets to continue with essential employees, military, border patrol, law enforcement.
	All that continues, and those are his big political wins.
	He can determine who is essential and who isn't.
	And this potentially will expose how bloated and unnecessary many of the federal agencies are.
	A shutdown would essentially unleash Doge with unlimited power to cut the government.
	And historically, if you look at previous shutdowns, You're going to get, you know, 800,000 to a million federal workers furloughed.
	And what do you think Doge is going to do with that?
	So there's a hilarious component to this, that if the Democrats actually provoke a shutdown, they're going to empower the Doge agenda beyond all belief, because the president will have essentially unlimited discretion to determine who's essential and who's not.
	Other presidential powers he gets during his shutdown, and recall this when it happened before under the Bushes, the president can prioritize funding for conservative policies.
	He can just say that defense and border security are where we're going to focus, and everything else, like the EPA, DEI initiatives, even the IRFs or the Department of Education, we're just not going to fund those anymore.
	It's not that they're going to reallocate the funds.
	We don't have the funds, so we're just not going to do it anymore.
	So it's really funny that Trump put them in this position to essentially give unlimited power to Doge and further his agenda.
	And if the Democrats do this, you can bet your bottom dollar Trump is going to make sure that Social Security goes through.
	Food stamp payments and housing assistance are going to go through.
	And Trump is going to look at these low-income voters and say, see, I prioritized you when the Democrats wanted to shut you down.
	I mean, this is really, I don't know that it's 4D chess, but it is a very smart political strategy by Trump.
	Yeah, I mean, it appears that way.
	I mean, that's what's so...
	It's just been a wild couple of days.
	And if you couple that scenario, like if they actually go through with a government shutdown, you've got the Commerce Secretary, Lutnick, which I think we've got a clip to play later in the show, that's going around.
	Now saying that Trump doesn't want to tax anybody that makes $150,000 or less.
	There are these reports about freezing the IRS for 90 days.
	And I saw that last week.
	I haven't really seen it again.
	But we do know that the reports of firing 45,000 of the 90,000 employees at the IRS, turning the IRS into the external revenue service.
	I mean, it's wild.
	I mean, it feels like a financial revolution.
	The idea that you would eliminate the IRS, that you would fund the government.
	And Lutnick even says, we're talking about Social Security taxes as well.
	So we're not just talking about the income tax here.
	We're talking about the taxes that come out of your paycheck for Social Security, that maybe the tariffs could replace that revenue as well.
	You're talking about, as I've said on the program, maybe one of the greatest transfers of liberty back to the people since the American Revolution if Trump actually...
	It reorganizes, revolutionizes how we fund the government.
	And remember, under a shutdown, he has almost unlimited discretion to do that.
	That's what's so amazing about it.
	But let's look at this no taxes under a $150K proposal.
	First of all, it would completely reshape the economy.
	And let's take a look at the political aspect, then we'll look at the economic aspect of it.
	From a political point of view, and you've heard me talk about this before, what I think is happening is that there are, I'm big on elite theory.
	You know, I think change happens because elites make change happen.
	And what we have, for the first time in my lifetime, I've never seen it before.
	We have rival elites that are seeking to topple the Wall Street financial elite that has run this country for the last, you know, 100 years.
	And it's a tech elite that was abused by the Wall Street elite.
	They literally tried to destroy their companies.
	And so they said, fine, we'll take over.
	And I think that's what's actually happening.
	It's a revolt of tech elites.
	So there's a power shift happening.
	Wall Street has historically been the dominant economic force.
	Financial elites have profited off of globalist policies, including offshoring, cheap foreign labor, currency manipulations.
	Our in-contact system, the way it works, favors the financial elites.
	But the tech elites have a completely different vision for the future.
	They rely on automation, AI, the construction of digital monopolies.
	Meaning that they're less dependent on cheap labor, they're less dependent on taxation, and less dependent and more focused on controlling information and broad economic policy.
	They have a completely different economic agenda that isn't based on taxing labor.
	And so eliminating taxes for the middle class directly threatens the entire economic model of Wall Street elites.
	With their idea of endless credit dependence that they want to put the middle class on.
	But it's going to empower the tech-driven entrepreneurship economy that these tech elites want to do.
	And so this is a direct attack on the Wall Street elites from a big picture political standpoint.
	But let's look at it from an economic perspective.
	Let's look at it from, you know, if you went to college, don't ever get an economic degree.
	But if you did...
	You would study neoclassical economics.
	That's what they teach.
	Let's look at it from this perspective.
	Well, it would lower taxes, which would give higher disposable income, which would increase consumption and investment, which would lead to higher GDP growth.
	It would encourage work and productivity by reducing disincentives to earn.
	And all of that could be offset by cutting wasteful government spending instead of increasing deficits.
	What cons would a neoclassical...
	Well, government spending would need to shrink.
	And if the revenue isn't replaced, it could lead to deficits that trigger borrowing, which would have effects on bond rates and things like that.
	I think that's actually one of the reasons you see Trump intentionally shifting investors into the bond markets and out of equities.
	So from a supply side perspective, this should create an economic boom.
	What does modern monetary theory have to say about it?
	Well, it basically argues that the government doesn't need to tax revenue to fund spending.
	It can just print money to sustain demand.
	Removing taxes for 90% of Americans would create a huge boost in consumer spending, and it would fuel economic growth.
	And as long as inflation remains under control, the deficits don't matter, according to the modern monetary theory people.
	There are some cons.
	If deficits were to spiral too high without productive growth, you could get unmanageable inflation.
	Again, that's why I think the shift to the bond markets.
	Wealthy individuals and corporations would likely be taxed more, and that could lead to potential capital flight or economic restructuring.
	But I think the Trump tariffs also take care of that.
	So I think from the perspective of modern monetary theory, you have to say, this is a plus.
	This is still a good policy.
	What about Austrian economics?
	Of course, they're going to be in favor of cutting taxes.
	I mean, the idea that savings and investment would be encouraged at the individual level, reducing reliance on government intervention, all that's a plus for us.
	You don't even need to go into that.
	But the government is actually not run by any of those three schools of economics.
	It's run by the post-Keynesian economists.
	And what would they think of this?
	What would the Fed think of this?
	Well, first of all...
	Let's be real about this.
	This is a populist economic agenda.
	Trump is positioning himself as the champion of the working and middle class.
	It's breaking an establishment consensus that has been there since the establishment of the Fed prior to World War I, defying traditional Republican fiscal conservatism and Democrat tax and spend policy, both.
	It's going to force Democrats into a political trap.
	I mean, if they oppose it, Then they look anti-working middle class.
	They're going to lose even more male voters.
	And if they support it, they're going to validate Trump's populist economic vision.
	And they're going to lose a lot of their liberal voters.
	So it's really a catch-22 for them.
	It also, again, shows the shift of power from Wall Street to Main Street that Trump is trying to affect that will further the tech elite agenda over the Wall Street agenda.
	How would this look under post-Keynesian view?
	Well, first of all, we talked about it's going to supercharge middle-class spending.
	It'll force a political realignment because people with more money are going to be more politically active.
	Trump will be pro-worker and will force Democrats into an unsolvable dilemma.
	It's going to disrupt corporate power because it's going to reduce reliance on debt-based consumerism.
	Which this entire economy has been based on.
	And it's going to shift power down to working Americans into their savings account instead of into credit card companies.
	It's going to make big tech and finance pay more.
	That's true.
	But on the other hand, they get higher domestic consumption of their products to offset that.
	So it should have no effect in the long term.
	And it's going to reduce economic uncertainty.
	From the perspective of post-Keynesians, not necessarily from MMT or from Austrian school, because people with more disposable income encounter less financial stress.
	Right now, we know most households only have three months of income saved.
	If you take away those taxes, they're going to have a year of income saved.
	And it makes the whole economy more resilient.
	You see what I'm saying?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I'll also say from a social standpoint, and I talked about this the other day, kind of Tale of Two Cities, a growing middle class, the middle class tends to reject a lot of the mind control that goes out.
	Your poor said the poor want to emulate the rich.
	So if the rich are evil and want to trans kids, but the middle class always tends to reject the trends of the uber-rich that are not good.
	And so that's another reason why.
	It's like, honestly, the middle class is, there's just more room for liberty and freedom and independent thought.
	Absolutely.
	And I really can't stress enough, Paul, this shift from a finance-dominated economy to a production-driven one.
	And low taxes on the middle class, which is the labor pool for the whole country, let's be honest about it.
	It's not the lower classes.
	It's not the upper classes.
	The middle class represent the labor pool for the entire economy.
	What we have done in America with our Wall Street elites is they have financialized everything.
	Everything becomes a monetary debt instrument.
	And this changes the score there.
	It turns it into a savings-based economy.
	And that means it will become a production-driven economy, not a finance-driven economy.
	And that's a huge long-term change.
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	All right, so Jeff, here we are with the news, getting back into it.
	So initially this morning, I heard these headlines.
	Putin refuses ceasefire.
	Our friend Douglas McGregor, this war must end.
	But then we had this.
	Right before we came on the air, Russia agrees, according to this, Russia agrees with the temporary ceasefire in Ukraine after Trump sent Rubio and Witkoff to help broker it.
	This is the art of the deal.
	An action in countless lives will be saved.
	Putin thanked President Trump for his efforts, says he wants to speak with the first...
	We're not going to listen to this because it's translated or whatever.
	I will say that...
	Some people are saying this isn't necessarily...
	I mean, it's agreeing to the ceasefire, but it's also Russia.
	They have their clear demands, right?
	I mean, they're not going to give back the territory that they fought and died for.
	They don't want NATO in their country.
	They don't want peacekeepers left behind in their country.
	They don't want these things.
	We'll see where the negotiations go from here.
	What I'd like to know from you, Jeff, or just feel free to respond to that, because we're seeing these big financial movements in our own country domestically, but we're also seeing some huge geopolitical shifts as well.
	Kind of the foreshadowing was maybe the new Republican coalition.
	Now we have this, you know, we don't share the values with Europe.
	We don't share European values anymore.
	I mean, they're arresting people for praying outside of abortion clinics or social media posts.
	Where do you see all of this shaking out?
	And feel free to throw the Middle East in there, too, because that's also still a problem.
	We want the peace in Ukraine, but we also don't want Benjamin Netanyahu to drag President Trump into another war with Iran, which would also invoke the Russians, because the Russians support Iran as well.
	So we're not out of the woods yet, but this is certainly a good step.
	Yeah, so let's first, I guess, maybe address why did Putin agree to the ceasefire when everybody was predicting that they would never do that, and I was predicting that they would.
	I believe that when Trump cut off all intelligence and military aid, he cut that off for about two weeks.
	Remember that?
	Yes.
	He went to the Russians and said, there's a gap in their supply chain.
	There's a gap in their weapons supply chain.
	They won't be able to build up armaments during a temporary ceasefire because I didn't send them anything.
	And I'm not giving them the intelligence.
	So that's how he got Russia to agree to the ceasefire.
	That was the purpose of Trump not sending those warfighting materials to Ukraine.
	It was to create a gap in the logistics to prevent a buildup so Russia could say yes to a ceasefire because the Russian concern was that It would just allow Ukraine to build up their defensive capabilities in areas where they're under pressure.
	Well, they can't do that now because we just didn't give them the materials.
	But I thought that part of Ukraine getting on board was that they wanted the shipments to continue, the weapon shipments to continue.
	They do.
	That's how we got Ukraine on board.
	And it was the two-week gap that allowed Russia to say, well, there's a gap in their logistics.
	So we can agree to that short-term ceasefire.
	Because they have a gap in their logistics trains.
	And we don't have to worry about them stocking up artillery shells against us.
	I got you.
	So this was a really smart move.
	Whoever's advising Trump has a lot of experience dealing with these kinds of situations because he's just making all the right moves in advance.
	So I thought that was really brilliant.
	Everybody criticized Trump for not sending that war aid, but it was done specifically.
	To pressure the sides into a ceasefire.
	It allows Russia to say yes because there's a logistics gap for Ukraine.
	They can't build up power.
	And it makes Ukraine say yes because they can't fight without it.
	It's going to be very interesting to see if NATO... So I'm a little skeptical.
	I mean, I think it's...
	Obviously, everybody yesterday was like, well, the ball's in Putin's court.
	The ball's in Putin's court.
	Of course, it was just 10 days ago that Zelensky humiliated himself.
	By extension, all of NATO and all of Europe.
	So now it's all in Putin's court.
	So he comes out and he says, okay, yeah, we'll entertain the ceasefire.
	I'm just curious, will NATO finally accept the L? And it really all depends on Trump staying the course and really wanting to end it.
	I mean, Douglas McGregor has been clear on this.
	The only real...
	The only real acceptable outcome for the Russians is obviously they're going to keep the Donbass, and they don't want NATO membership for Ukraine, and they also want the CIA and any other Americans out of Ukraine.
	Just get them completely out.
	The question is, will NATO and the CIA take the L here?
	And I'm not so sure.
	Well, let's, you know, I like to analyze this using perspective.
	So let's look at the Russian point of view.
	First of all, Ukraine's neutrality was agreed upon in 1991. People forget this, that Ukraine negotiated its independence from Russia.
	And there's an agreement in 1991 when the Soviet-era Russian Federation Ukraine gave Ukraine independence.
	Ukraine agreed that it would be completely neutral.
	And you can look at the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which reaffirmed Ukraine's sovereignty, and it did not grant NATO membership, but only granted security assurances.
	So all this stuff that Zelensky says is completely false.
	Ukraine's original constitution explicitly stated that it must be neutral and non-aligned.
	In military blocks.
	And this was because that was part of their arrangement when they negotiated independence in 1991. And what happened was NATO pushed Ukraine to violate this neutrality.
	And that's what ultimately provoked Russian intervention.
	So first of all, NATO membership isn't even legal under Ukraine's constitution.
	Now, my view is that NATO's cornered.
	They're either going to have to accept that Russia's terms, which are the Donbass Crimea, total neutrality for Ukraine, and that means military and intelligence and economic neutrality.
	It's not just, you know, no war.
	It means total neutrality like Switzerland.
	These demands are not going to be negotiable, and I believe Russia has prepared to fight a war for the next 10 years, if necessary.
	Wow.
	So if you look at what's happened with what Russia's done with its logistics systems and its factories, it has built relationships with India, China, North Korea, Kazakhstan, places where they can get almost everything they need.
	They have production facilities in China and Russia that can produce indefinitely.
	I mean, the Russian ability, for example, to produce artillery shells, you're talking they can make a quarter of a million artillery shells a month.
	Okay, so they can do this forever.
	The second thing is that you've got Russian-speaking populations in Crimea and the Donbass, and they're not going to go back.
	There's no prospect that those people will ever accept that.
	So the bottom line is we're going to have to accept the Russian terms, and our job is going to be to get Ukraine to accept reality, and we'll probably wind up with a frozen conflict.
	So, you know, there'll be a demilitarized zone, probably a wall, and a neutral Ukraine.
	Ukraine will be a dysfunctional rump state for the foreseeable future.
	Now, what about Europe?
	Europe's concern has been longstanding.
	It doesn't want Germany to form an alliance with Russia.
	Which was the Nord Stream pipeline.
	I mean, that's why we had the Nord Stream pipeline.
	Basically, we're going to take this temptation for Germany completely off the table and commit an act of war against Germany.
	Yes.
	And a lot of people don't realize that that was why the Nord Stream bombing happened, is the rest of Europe is simply not going to tolerate Germany becoming the ascendant power in Europe.
	France, Great Britain, even though Britain's not in the EU proper, it's still active in continental politics.
	Italy is not going to allow it.
	So it's just not going to happen.
	So this ties in with the Middle East.
	So you may recall some of our previous discussions where I talked about the real issue in Syria.
	It had nothing to do with the evil dictator Bashar al-Assad.
	We don't care about evil dictators.
	If they keep the international order, we don't really care.
	What was really going on there is we wanted to put a pipeline from the Qatar oil fields up through the Iraqi oil fields, through Syria, into Turkey, under the Bosphorus Strait, into Greece, and then up into southern Germany to provide Germany with an alternative source of energy.
	to a Russian energy alliance.
	Syria is the only country that said no to that because they said it would be subject to terrorism and they couldn't defend the pipeline.
	That's probably not true.
	Probably the Russians influenced the Syrians to say no to the pipeline because the Russians obviously wanted to supply that energy through Nord Stream.
	So that's the energy politics that are at play.
	So if you look at what's happened with the toppling of Bashar al-Assad, In Syria, Al-Qaeda is now in control and is genocidally eliminating all the Christian communities in Syria right now.
	However, it was just announced three days ago, the pipeline project is now underway.
	We have U.S. forces still control one-third of Syria.
	A lot of Americans don't know that, that we have U.S. forces controlling one-third of Syria.
	And we have engineer battalions there, and they're already constructing the pipeline.
	To go from the Qatar and Iraqi oil fields through Syria into Turkey.
	Germany will then have an alternative energy source that doesn't depend on Russia.
	That will take a lot of pressure off of Germany.
	And it's going to change the dynamic.
	It's going to essentially make it easier for NATO to assent to a peace in the Ukraine as long as there's no energy alliance between Germany and Russia.
	That's the big geopolitical picture.
	On how the Middle East and the Ukraine war fit together.
	They're actually the same war.
	Yeah, you're exactly right.
	And that's why we've got to end them all.
	We've got to have world peace.
	All right, moving on in other news.
	We played this yesterday.
	Republican Congressman Keith Self, Texas, correctly calls Congressman McBride a man.
	I'm going to pipe this in here and listen to this.
	I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
	Mr. Thank you, Madam Chair.
	Ranking Member Keating, also wonderful.
	Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again, please?
	Yes, it's a, it's a, we have set the standard on the floor of the House, and I'm simply.
	What is that standard, Mr. Chairman?
	Would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly elected representative from the United States of America, please?
	I will.
	The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
	Mr. Chairman, you are out of order.
	Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?
	I mean, I've come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent.
	We will continue this hearing.
	You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.
	This hearing is adjourned.
	Alright, so that was fantastic.
	Listen here, mister.
	But here's some of the reaction Megan Basham points out.
	So you've got Tommy Lahren.
	Who says that that exchange was mean?
	Listen.
	There is a representative who is transgender.
	Sarah McBride was purposely referred to as Mr., and it's getting a lot of traction.
	I feel like it's mean-spirited to do it just to be mean.
	Now, that doesn't mean that I want transgender people in women's sports or women's spaces, because that has an actual, physical, tangible...
	Tommy Lahren here taking us to the longhouse because it's mean.
	A friend of the program, Charles Haywood, writes, When politics is reduced to questions of who is being mean and a desire to avoid being mean, we see the hyper-feminization rules the roost.
	Mean is not a political term.
	It's a girl's whiny complaint about reality.
	Carl Schmitt would vomit.
	What are your thoughts on how feminism rules the roost still, the gynocracy still, even on the so-called conservative right, is still alive and well?
	Listen, I think the feminism on the right is worse than it is on the left.
	That's been my experience in fighting the transgender issue.
	Notice that Tommy Lauren said she has a problem with transgender people in women's spaces.
	But she doesn't have a problem with transgender people in men's spaces.
	She doesn't have a problem with women who think they're men coming into a men's locker room.
	Or I once had a feminist say, well, why do you care if your boys have to wrestle a girl in sports?
	Girls don't have any advantage over boys.
	And I said, well, I don't want to train my son to pin a woman down on the ground and hit her.
	I don't want to do that.
	It's weird that it's always women's spaces.
	It's just...
	Hyper-feminization of politics.
	But I will say, just echoing Heywood, Carl Schmitt understood that politics is about distinguishing friend from enemy.
	And it doesn't mean, he didn't mean people that are on your side politically in some consensus or people who oppose you in policies.
	What Schmitt meant is people that you have to destroy.
	Your enemies are people you have to destroy their political power forever.
	Existential enemies.
	Right?
	It's not about avoiding mean words.
	It's about defeating your existential enemies.
	How are you going to do that when democracy is so hyper-feminized?
	One of the things we forget about democracy, 53% of this country are female.
	They're the stronger sex when it comes to voting.
	They can elect anybody they want.
	And so this hyper-feminization is going to absolutely kill us.
	Because we're constantly being held back.
	And the same thing happens in the churches, by the way.
	We've talked about this on previous shows.
	Well, and this is why this is a perfect segue to how Christians are expected to behave in public life versus what they should do.
	Michael Cassidy.
	All glory to God and innumerable thanks to everyone who has supported me with love, prayer, friendship, legal fund donations, and so much more.
	A great day indeed.
	His attorney, Davis Yountz, also a friend of the program.
	Huge win for our client, Michael Cassidy in the Navy.
	By a vote of 2-1, a Navy board found that tearing down the satanic idol, the Baphomet statue, in the Iowa State Capitol was not an extremist act of violation of Navy policy and retained him in the United States.
	This is a huge win, and probably a big part of it is because Donald Trump was elected.
	But this kind of goes to another point.
	What is being heralded, Jeff Younger, over on Christian X, as one of Stephen Wolf's, the author of The Case for Christian Nationalism, one of his best shows, The Lone Bulwark.
	I think it's going to add even more context to this discussion and this lower third, how to use political power.
	And I've got a few cuts here.
	So this was Stephen Wolf in his episode back on March the 12th yesterday.
	Foundational social dogma.
	In modern liberalism, you are free to be whatever you want.
	So they say you can express yourself however you want, but...
	You must abide by this foundational dogma.
	And this is what it is.
	Each is entitled to a strong moral opinion.
	You can have very strong moral opinions if you want.
	And you can decide upon the meaning of your own existence.
	But those opinions must remain personal.
	Not a matter of public policy.
	That is the thick conceptions of the good.
	That is the comprehensive ideas of what is good and what is bad must be separated from politics.
	So liberalism, at least in appearance, in theory, restricts and suppresses what is the classical praise-blame function of society, or at least it appears to do that.
	The classical praise-blame function of society, meaning, you know, think the good kind of cancel culture, I guess is how I would describe that.
	Now, before we get to you, Jeff, I want to get to the next cut, which is the one that has really been making the rounds.
	Let's listen to this.
	Modern liberalism, social dogma.
	So since prevailing social dogma offers confidence to its enforcers, that is, you're confident in it because you've been socialized into it, many Christians act in confidence only when they enforce that social dogma.
	They need to infuse that social dogma into their faith, and then they think they're acting in faith when they're really acting with the confidence supplied by the social dogma.
	They are actually weak in themselves.
	And so they borrow confidence from modern liberalism.
	They delude themselves into thinking they're enforcing basic Christian orthopraxy.
	But I suspect that for many, their confidence in Christianity actually depends on the syncretizing of Christianity with the social dogma.
	And then they get the confidence, they get a confidence found outside of the faith.
	That then shores up their faith because they actually have a weak faith in itself, but they need the social dogma and they need to Christianize it.
	And then borrowing from the confidence of society, they are confident in their faith.
	I think you can see why people are saying this was one of his best shows.
	He's got a show called The Lone Bullwark.
	Anyway, we're running out of time here, but Jeff Younger, feel free.
	Take it away.
	So really quick, look.
	He's the Socrates of the Christian nationalist movement.
	He's the Plato of the Christian nationalist movement.
	Let me be, for a moment, let me be the xenophon, you know, the simple guy who breaks it down.
	Under liberalism, there is no general agreement on what the good life is.
	And that's the fundamental weakness of liberalism and why it cannot unify a country.
	And so nationalism is the only force that can unify a country because it produces agreement on what the good life is.
	Now, what he's complaining about here is that if you absorb this liberal social dogma, what happens is you don't ask this question.
	You don't ask, is this true?
	What you ask is, what will people think of me if I believe this is true?
	And it's on the basis of that that you start holding opinions, rather than with what is true.
	Nationalism tells you that you should ask the question, what is true?
	And liberalism tells you, you have to, and de Tocqueville talks all about this, about how democracy in America produces a uniformity of opinion and a kind of oppression of opinion.
	Through this social consensus process that is ruthlessly enforced in small communities.
	And so he's saying, look, this doesn't work with Christianity.
	Now, I'm going to maybe get a little controversial here, but I'm going to offer the critique that Orthodox Christianity offers of congregationalism.
	And it's that essentially congregationalism is the adoption of liberal political structures for the governance of churches.
	And I think that's why you have so many churches in America that adopt this liberal, non-nationalist mindset, because they have adopted liberal governance, ecclesiological, not theological, but governance structures for their churches, which produces what Tocqueville called this oppressive social consensus within the churches.
	And I think something we have to start thinking about is the ecclesiology of our churches as much as we do the theology of our churches.
	Jeff Younger, it has been an absolute pleasure to have you on the program for this hour.
	Your insight is really second to none.
	It was awesome.
	And I want to remind everybody to go to SaveJames.org to contribute to your legal fund as you fight this transgender nightmare that has been put on your life and the life of your children.
	Thank you so much for being here.
	We really do appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	It's been a pleasure, as always.
	Yeah, absolutely.
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	Well, we've had some changes going on in the last month or so since Trump has taken the Oval Office round two and he's jump started off to a pretty aggressive start.
	A lot of great things happening.
	A lot of not sure what's going on.
	Things are happening.
	But we can talk about some of the cool things that are going on and then some and potential changes happening over in the next couple of years.
	With our country.
	And I wanted to start with the Black Lives Matter Plaza being dismantled this week in Washington, D.C. Obviously, while Biden was in office, he and Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C., the woke mayor of D.C., installed this huge Black Lives Matter installation right in the streets of D.C., and they called it Black Lives Matter Plaza.
	Just to remind everybody that Black Lives Matter...
	And George Floyd needs to be elevated.
	So this week, Trump ordered that this plaza be dismantled, and they have been going to work at it all week, dismantling this Black Lives Matter plaza, which I think is a great start, just like him, you know, signing an executive order that states that there are only two genders in the United States, which should be...
	Common sense, but there's only two genders.
	Stop with these lies.
	Potentially, then, we're going to go that route with Black Lives Matter.
	All lives matter, not just black lives.
	And here to weigh in on this and more is one of our favorite guests, Bryson Gray, a Christian conservative rapper that you all know, his hit songs.
	And he truly is Christian and conservative and embodies those facets.
	So we're here to talk and delve a little bit deeper in that.
	Welcome back to Shots Fired, Bryson.
	How's it going?
	Thank you so much for having me on.
	It's going well.
	How about with you?
	It's going great.
	Thank you.
	Great to see you.
	Me too.
	Your thoughts on, like, what was the era of, like, what did Black Lives Matter represent and, you know, the lie that it perpetuated in our country?
	And then what do you think this dismantling of Black Lives Matter plaza, what it could potentially mean moving forward?
	As somebody that has had multiple real-life run-ins with Black Lives Matter, Honestly, they just represent LGBT, to be quite frank.
	Is there another arm of the LGBT agenda, mafia?
	Yeah, because you have a lot of black supremacist movements that are out there, but this wasn't one of them, because if you've ever ran into them in person, it's like 50% white, 50% black, some Asians mixed in there.
	If you've ever had an altercation with them in real life, it's just a bunch of people claiming it's about black lives, but really it's about, you know, LGBT was founded by three lesbians to begin with.
	But this Trump dismantling the thing is amazing because I know somebody when I was in D.C. during a few events for Trump, I know somebody that got jumped by Black Lives Matter, like physically assaulted by Black Lives Matter.
	Because he walked through the plaza with a MAGA hat on.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah, I'm not even joking.
	So, yeah, this definitely is a good thing for it to be dismantled.
	Black Lives Matter is a scam anyway.
	Even mainstream degenerate music artists are now admitting it was a scam.
	They took everybody's money, bought mansions, they moved out of the neighborhoods they claimed they were fighting for, into the neighborhoods they claimed they were fighting against.
	So, in reality, Black Lives Matter just represents hypocrisy and victimhood, in my opinion.
	Yeah, and didn't we also, you know, this was a popular talking point a couple years ago, but I think a lot of people forgot that on the Black Lives Matter website even, it said, you know, they're a Marxist organization, and one of their goals was to dismantle the traditional nuclear family unit through, you know, via Marxism and via different ways like pushing the LBGTQ mafia on us to dismantle the family unit and remove.
	The father stopped revering the father in homes and create broken homes.
	So a lot of people forget that that's a big point of it.
	And what better way to do that, too, but to push victimhood on Black people and tell them it's so hard, you can't get up in life, everyone's to blame except for you.
	That is the opposite of empowering to any person.
	But, of course, to a Black child growing up with that rhetoric being pushed down his throat.
	And it's sort of like the...
	The last straw that you have to break, if that makes any sense.
	Meaning, if you look statistically, black people are statistically still the most homophobic group of people.
	Right.
	True.
	But it is shifting.
	It's shifting for basic reasons, and Black Lives Matter is a part of that reason.
	Even if you look at the celebrities they're pushing, if you look at everything that's happening right now, it's all to normalize homosexuality in the black community.
	And I think the plan is working swell.
	Satan has a great chess move there.
	He's not going to win in the end, but I think that plan is working.
	So yeah, that's what Black Lives Matter represents, is to push the generacy, more victimhood.
	And here's my thing, I get it.
	The victimhood starts with the truth, that truth just doesn't expand as far as people want it to expand.
	Black people were literally oppressed in the United States of America at one point in time, but my generation wasn't.
	You see what I'm saying?
	But it gives a good boogeyman.
	You know what I'm saying?
	And everybody.
	Everybody of every race.
	Humans have a natural thing.
	Most humans have a natural thing to where they would rather blame somebody else and take responsibilities for what they're doing.
	And once again, I think that's another thing Black Lives Matter represents.
	It's scam people didn't play victim.
	Definitely.
	Well, and speaking of scams, I've really been inspired by your Twitter, or X, I still call it Twitter, but Twitter posts lately.
	You've been really sounding off and calling out the truth in bold ways, where a lot of what I call con-inc-type influencers that call themselves conservatives are not doing.
	And I loved it.
	And one of the posts that you had that we can talk about is thinking I want followers that claim to be Christian while supporting homosexuals that support Trump is crazy.
	I want you to unfollow me.
	You're demonic.
	So that's really interesting because, again, I think we were talking about this like conservatives have created such this big tent.
	Where they're letting anybody in.
	And under Trump 1.0, lots of gays came out and trans came out as conservative.
	And lots of people saying they're conservative, and they became kind of icons in the Trump and the MAGA world.
	But are they really, though?
	And should we be glorifying them and lifting them up in the Trump movement?
	So you're calling that out.
	Tell us a little bit more about that.
	Well, honestly, now...
	I view it as synonymous with the Trump movement because Trump does it himself, unfortunately.
	And I've been calling out this since 2020. I actually have songs, when I used to make more MAGA rap, I have songs calling out this, saying if we keep allowing this, this was going to happen.
	And people were mad at me back then for saying this was going to happen because in 2020...
	It wasn't like it was now.
	You could still say something that was viewed as homophobic and MAGA would love it.
	It'd be beautiful.
	You could say biblically sound things and everybody would love it.
	But now the Big Ten has spread so far that you can't do that anymore.
	Now you get hate from the MAGA movement if you say anything against any of these people.
	Like Robert White, who people know as Blair White.
	Robert White.
	Was that his original name?
	Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, that's his real name.
	Scott Pressler, that's their favorite.
	Don't say nothing about Scott Pressler.
	Bro, it is crazy.
	Richard Grinnell, one of Trump's right-hand men.
	Richard Grinnell literally said being gay makes him a better Christian in an interview with one of the other favorite homosexuals, which is Dave Rubin.
	When you notice this trend, these people are not only some of the most untouchable people in the MAGA movement, but they're some of the most prominent people in Trump's administration.
	And this started a while ago because people were so obsessed, and this is my problem now, and it was my problem even then, and it's why I'm in this position now, is idolatry isn't really...
	Just a word.
	You don't have to say I idolize something.
	Idolatry is an action.
	And I started seeing MAGA just throw biblical Christians to the side because they felt like they could no longer support Trump even though their values are still the same but they will uplift homosexuals on the basis of them supporting Trump.
	That means Trump is higher on your list than God.
	Because you're throwing this person away.
	They still follow God.
	They just said they can no longer support Trump, but they're not Democrats either.
	This person is just a degenerate, and they threw on that MAGA hat, and all of a sudden, they're the most popular person in the movement because they support Trump.
	Look what that person did for Trump.
	Scott Pressler, he did the swing stage.
	That's why he gets so much respect, because of votes.
	Elon Musk, he helped Trump win, you know, but when it comes to people that believe in biblical values, that's not as high up on their list.
	So, that's why we're in this position.
	That's why the Big Ten is what the Big Ten is, is because conservatism has never been cool, and it's still not cool, not true biblical, not true...
	Definitional conservatism.
	But it's never been cool.
	And now it's more cool to like Trump, even in the culture.
	So people are just attaching themselves to anything that supports Trump.
	And that's pretty much their...
	I mean, to be frank, that's pretty much the golden calf for a lot of people, which is why we have a bunch of homosexuals running the movement.
	Exactly.
	You know, it's funny that you say that, because just this week, there was a picture that was released by this guy named Josh Seder, who pretends he's conservative, another gay guy masquerading around.
	And what he does, he's like this stupid attention whore that he dresses up in drag and posts pictures of himself doing stupid tweets and kind of mocking things, but he claims he's conservative.
	So there's pictures of him and Scott Pressler in bed.
	He's got his shirt off and everything, and there's multiple pictures of him and Scott Pressler in the bathroom and stuff.
	He posts these pictures and then tags Scott, and then Scott Pressler writes back and says, hey, you posted these pictures without my approval, against my consent.
	You're blocked.
	I can't believe you would do that.
	And there's this little catfight going on between these two dudes.
	Now, everyone jumps to Scott Pressler's defense, and I wrote a simple tweet back saying, Okay, but why are we posting pictures or why do we have pictures of the two of you guys shirtless in bed?
	And all the MAGAs came after me for that.
	How could you say that to Scott Pressler?
	We know he's gay.
	What's the big deal?
	What's the big deal?
	He's gay.
	You know, don't embarrass him for that.
	I'm like, I don't know.
	I mean, it's just, it's hard to believe that if you're truly a conservative and you follow God, that you could be gay.
	That you could, and also like flamboyantly gay.
	It just feels like a masquerade to me because you know that marriage and love is between a man and a woman.
	And I believe that gayness is like sort of being possessed by the devil in a way.
	And I do think you can pray to have that sexual attraction healed or righted.
	And I just don't know if they're...
	I don't know, but I just don't...
	I don't think that that's a true, someone who's truly a good poster card for the conservative movement is somebody who's gay, like you said.
	Well, conservative by definition, anybody can look this up anywhere.
	It literally means to advocate for traditional values.
	And in this country, the only time the definition of conservative can change is dependent on whatever those traditional values are in your country.
	Unfortunately for homosexuals in this country, that traditional values just inherently involves opposing.
	Homosexuality.
	Literally, socially, conservatism was created to oppose homosexuality.
	Conservatism was created in this country.
	Anybody can look this up.
	It was created to oppose homosexuality and abortion.
	So, by definition, claiming you are an active, flaming homosexual and posting pictures with shirts off.
	Disgusting.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if you saw that.
	Yeah.
	And I saw you rebuked, too.
	There's an article saying, yes, I'm gay, and I have a relationship with God.
	I don't need to repent.
	Cope and seethe.
	I can be gay and have a great relationship with God.
	And you wrote, actually, you have a relationship with Satan, and you're going to hell since you reject repentance.
	Yeah.
	I mean, how can you call yourself a Christian and conservative when you're saying that?
	Well, they're bolder now.
	The homosexuals are bold.
	Everything's a slippery slope.
	Christians was always right about a slippery slope.
	We continue to be.
	But they first take the word conservatism.
	That was the first step.
	And they successfully did that, calling themselves conservative gays or whatever you want to call them.
	Then the next step is to take Christianity.
	Look what Heidi said.
	Her name is Heidi.
	She literally said...
	Yes, I'm gay.
	I have a relationship with God.
	And no, I don't need to repent.
	The arrogance of saying something, the sheer arrogance of something that is clearly stated as sin in the Bible, and you're saying, no, we don't care.
	I don't need to repent.
	I have a relationship with God outside of that.
	It's just alarming.
	And then she spent the last 25 hours on Twitter bullying people who...
	Protests of that notion or oppose it.
	So they are getting very arrogant and cocky in their demonic activity.
	But that's due to a lot of conservatives accepting it and promoting it.
	And then they're supporting, even right now, there are people that aren't gay that are supporting Heidi's side versus the Christian side.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And then one more thing, you know, I wanted to address, too.
	You asked Grok these interesting questions that's pinned to your Twitter.
	You said, Grok, please answer yes or no to these three questions.
	Did Jesus' disciples observe the Sabbath?
	Did Jesus' disciples observe Passover?
	Did Jesus' disciples eat biblically clean food?
	And then you said, is there evidence that the disciples ate biblically unclean food in the Bible?
	So tell me a little bit about your thread right there and what inspired you to post that.
	A lot of Christians have been using Grok as an ego booster or whatever theology they hold because Grok has a natural mainstream Christian bias.
	Which is why if you ask him what's the qualities of Jesus, he'll say love, compassion, things like that.
	Here's the thing.
	It's an AI. It's an algorithm.
	If you force Grok to stick to the Bible, we'll get a completely different view and outlook on What's the truth is?
	And, you know, I'm a Torah observant Christian, and that's clearly controversial for everybody.
	Everybody on all sides.
	You know, Orthodox Jews don't believe in Jesus.
	I do.
	And mainstream Christians don't believe in keeping God's commandments.
	I do.
	So I'm in the middle of just controversial.
	But here go the thing.
	People can disagree.
	But what nobody can do is claim that...
	This faith isn't the same exact way the apostles carried out their faith.
	This is just an objective reality.
	And when people start realizing this fact, they say, well, they were Jews.
	And they were also believers in Jesus.
	So, call it, make it, twist it, whatever you want.
	Use the word Jew if you deem necessary, but the original Christians, which are the literal 11 disciples out of 12, because we know who Judas was, the 11 disciples, and then came Paul, but the 11 disciples that Jesus taught during his ministry, they observed Passover, they kept Sabbath, they ate biblically clean food.
	And that's not to say I'm disrespecting people that don't do that.
	You can do Easter.
	Do as you wish.
	When you do Easter, it's best if you keep your mouth shut about people that observe Passover or people that keep Sabbath rather than going to church on Sunday.
	Because the reason people keep their mouths shut is because there's no example in the Bible of doing the things you're doing.
	There's no example of anybody in the Bible celebrating something called Easter.
	It just doesn't exist, even after Jesus died and rose again.
	If you will read the entire conversation with me and Grok, I may sort of specify after Jesus died and rose again also.
	There is no example of anybody in the Bible not observing Sabbath as a rest day that God hollowed out in Genesis 2. So, I mean, there is no example of...
	Any of these things being done.
	Not saying you can't celebrate it if you want.
	Hanukkah is not a commanded holiday in the Old Testament, but I still celebrate Hanukkah.
	But what I'm saying is when people say I'm a Judaizer, or I'm a heretic, or I'm not a Christian, or I'm rejecting Jesus' sacrifice because I observed these things, that would literally be saying that every disciple of Jesus rejected his sacrifice.
	Literally, everybody bring up Acts 10. To make it seem like food, you can eat whatever you want now, which is just, I mean, that's just evidence that they didn't read Acts 10. But outside of the context being about Gentiles, even in the vision, what did Peter say?
	I have never eaten anything unclean.
	And this was after the resurrection.
	So, again, all I'm saying is everybody want to use Ai to think they're...
	Their sect of Christianity is true.
	If you really make AI biblical and force him to keep it biblical and ask Grok or any AI, because I did it on YouTube with Chad GPT, the same conversation, and we got the same results back.
	When you get and ask these AIs which sect of Christianity between Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Torah-observant Christians, which one aligns most With how the disciples carried out their faith, the answer is going to be the same no matter what AI you use, and it's going to be toward observant Christians.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, I agree.
	Everyone's trying to distort the truth and everything, you know, using the AI to boost their own truth.
	Like, oh, see, I can, you know, kind of sway it to has confirmation bias.
	Yeah, easy.
	If you say is Catholicism the one true church, It is all A. I would say, yeah.
	But if you say that Peter actually found the Catholic Church or is that church history rather than biblical, it'd be like, yeah, it's not biblical.
	You just start asking follow-up questions to make it more precise because it's going to boost your ego if that's all you want to do.
	But if you make it biblical, it won't do that.
	Yeah, very true.
	Good point.
	Okay, well, really great conversations here.
	Last thing I'll throw at you, too, before we wrap up, is this sort of this attack, this attempted annihilation, really, of Trump towards Thomas Massey over this last week.
	He's trying to primary him.
	He's trying to oust him.
	He's calling him out, saying he's a traitor.
	I don't believe that at all.
	I think this is a big misstep from Trump.
	And I think Thomas Massey has been really kind of like the lone true conservative.
	But what's your reaction on this attack and an attempt of ousting from Trump to Thomas Massey this week?
	Well, this just proves people pit people over values.
	Yeah.
	Think about what the argument is over.
	Trump is trying to, if I'm not mistaken, Trump is trying to, correct me if I'm being inaccurate, Trump is trying to extend a Biden spending bill.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	And Doge has already exposed all of this waste, fraud, and abuse in this betting.
	So it's like, what?
	I wonder, before this happened, if these same MAGA people backing Trump on this, if they supported the original Biden spending bill, I guarantee they called it ruining the economy because I was there to watch them do it.
	So now that Trump is extending this spending bill, you have a conservative like...
	No.
	This is wasteful.
	Why are we extending something Biden put in place for our economy?
	This doesn't make any sense.
	And Matthew's saying no, and he's getting attacked.
	The person that's taking the obvious really conservative position.
	I'm talking about, like, this is just obvious.
	Yeah, like, true conservative.
	And he's the only one that's been, like, conservative through and through.
	Called out the vaccine.
	Called out COVID and the COVID spending.
	He's been the only one that's truly that's not bought and paid for and upholding true conservative values and trying to, you know, pull Trump's feet to the fire with that.
	And then Trump wants to oust him.
	I think that's pretty telling.
	And yet everyone's then jumping on Trump's side again.
	And, you know, it's just like, what?
	Yeah, you're right.
	It's like upholding the person, glorifying and worshiping the person over what you say your values are.
	Oh, Trump tomorrow can say something.
	He can actually agree with whatever he wanted to agree with from the Biden administration, and the people that's going to agree with everything he has to say, they're going to update their...
	They're like robots.
	They're going to update their card to make sure they're supporting this position, even though it contradicts what they said two weeks ago.
	Yeah, NPCs on the right.
	Yeah, NPCs.
	That's a problem, and it's going to be the problem, and that's why I couldn't deal with it no more.
	I can't be around it.
	We used to call liberals the exact same thing.
	We used to say liberals don't have true values.
	They just follow whatever Democrats say, and then here we are.
	So, yeah.
	It's sad.
	It's sad.
	People have to wake up.
	There's NPCs on the right, too.
	There's brainwashing happening on the right.
	We have to stop glorifying and worshiping the idol of the right, which right now is Trump.
	So, Bryson Gray, always great to have you on.
	Thanks so much.
	Tell everybody, again, where they can follow you and download your awesome latest singles.
	You can download my music.
	I'm Bryson Gray everywhere.
	YouTube, Pandora, everywhere.
	And also, thank you so much for having me on and for bringing me back on anytime you want.
	Awesome.
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	Thanks, Bryson.
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	All right, well, I don't know about you guys, but over here in Texas, this feels like the first really warm day of the spring.
	And before, there was a big cold front and another cold front, and it was cloudy and dreary, a lot of rain, and it was very freezing, too.
	But now it feels, now that daylight savings time happened and the days are longer and it's sunnier outside, I'm finally starting to think about swimsuit season.
	Summer and looking and feeling my best.
	Because it's not just about looking your best, remember, it's also about feeling your best.
	And, you know, every time, you know, winter kind of subsides, there's that thought of looking your best.
	But during those months where it's winter, it feels like we're all just kind of hibernating, not really caring so much how we look, wearing our sweatpants, and we don't notice if we gain weight too much, nor do we care, because it's cold outside.
	We're not wearing swimsuits anytime soon.
	But again, now that it's daylight savings time, spring forward.
	The days are longer.
	The days are sunnier.
	I think it's time to really talk about how do we look and feel our best for spring and summer.
	So who better to talk about this than our great friend and doctor, naturopathic doctor, Dr. Mark Sherwood of Sherwood.tv joining us to talk about some of the do's and don'ts of trimming the fat, looking our best, getting in good shape.
	Exercising and all of that jazz.
	So, welcome.
	Without further ado, how's it going today, Dr. Sherwood?
	It's going well.
	It's becoming bikini weather, isn't it?
	Yeah, becoming bikini.
	Exactly.
	So, okay.
	So, I'll be real with you.
	During the wintertime, I typically scale back on working out.
	I scale back on, you know, really...
	Focusing so much on looking my best.
	And usually my pants feel a little bit tighter come March.
	So when someone's kind of peeled back a little bit, like the average American, what would you say are some tips we can start there with how to, like, spring forward back into the exercise routine or kind of get things jump-started?
	Well, certainly, you know, I think most people...
	This time of year, I think most people realize that it's time to kind of get in shape for the shapely season, right?
	So we tend to start off too hot.
	In other words, we tend to start off too aggressive, and it leads to injuries.
	For example, if we start off too much and we're not working out any, and we say we're going to work out starting tomorrow.
	Every day, twice a day.
	Well, that's not even realistic.
	But it also can be quite negative because if you don't have good results or you get injured, that can set you back, right?
	So I tell people, you know, we talk about nutrition a lot, but with the movement part, find time to move every day within your day.
	You get 1,440 minutes a day.
	That's what you get.
	That's what I get.
	Nobody gets paid anymore.
	When you get paid that amount of minutes, you have to spend some of those minutes moving.
	And I remind people, movement is life.
	Lack of movement is rigor mortis.
	So certainly stay moving.
	And you don't have to go that hard, believe it or not.
	Okay, so because I'm thinking, I need to get back in shape.
	So I'm going to hit the gym four times this week.
	And, you know, 30 minutes of cardio.
	And then X this many, many minutes of weight training.
	But then what happens after a week or two, I start feeling burnt out and then it starts slowing down.
	So do you see in your practice a lot of people starting too hot and then they burn out really quickly?
	Yes.
	I like to set them what I call failure-proof goals.
	For example, let's look at your situation.
	Let's say you weren't going to the gym at all.
	Let's say there's a big zero there or even a one time a week.
	I know that's not right, but you get my point.
	Yeah, I do more than that.
	I'm not painting in the corner here, right?
	But the idea, let's say you're going one time a week.
	I would say the next month, I want you to increase that to twice a week.
	And if you say, well, I want to go more, and I'd say, fine, you can, but your goal is two times per week.
	And if you're not training with weights at all, I would say your goal is one time per week to train with weights.
	Then somebody would say, well, do I need to go hard with my cardio for 30 minutes?
	I've been doing nothing.
	Well, I would back that off again to almost make it failure-proof by saying, you know what?
	You might want to do 30. Let's start with 10. 10 minutes when you're there.
	And if you get more of that on you, that's bonus, but make sure you fulfill your goals.
	And if you start those goals that are really...
	Failure-proof, you'll build success, you'll build habit success, you build a culture of success within yourself, and you really get into a better habit pattern that way that's more consistent.
	That's good.
	Yeah, I mean, I think we've talked about this in other areas of your life, too.
	Small wins.
	Equals big wins because you get the confidence that I can do it.
	So you want to increase that and get more, you know, see more results.
	When you set the bar too high, sometimes then you see failure, and that's very demotivating.
	Yes, you have to see both short-term and long-term.
	That's the point.
	You know, we all want to have a long-term, and this is long-term goals.
	You want to have that beach body for the entire year.
	I mean, that's a straight-up long-term goal, and that would be a good goal because that would mean, in effect, you don't have to worry about getting it back every spring, right?
	Yeah.
	Abs are built in the kitchen and while you're walking to and from the kitchen.
	In other words, it's like with a fork, doing fork curls with salads.
	And then when you're out walking around the house all the time and moving more, you know?
	And so I always tell people to have the goal long-term to become excess fat gain resistant.
	And short-term, you know, if you're not there, it's okay.
	We'll work to get to that point.
	So we have to have the short-term goals leading to a clear long-term outcome.
	And if you don't, you're always going to be doing this repeat thing every year.
	Yeah, it's torture kind of doing this repeat thing every year and yo-yoing back and forth.
	And speaking of yo-yoing, I was reading an article today about things you should not do after 5 p.m.
	if you're trying to lose weight.
	And I have lately committed some of these sins based on just, you know, being a busy woman and mom.
	But one is, you know, binge eating after 5 p.m.
	And what I do is sometimes I'm just, I'm really busy during the day, so I don't eat as much, and I'm just, you know, I'm kind of skipping meals even sometimes, and I'm going, going, going.
	And then finally, after five or six, I feel like I can relax and take a breath, and that's when I eat.
	And then sometimes I keep munching throughout the night or even late into the night.
	And that's, I guess you would probably say that that's a no-no for burning fat, right?
	That would be a big capital N, capital O, capital N, capital O repeated over and over and over again.
	Ultimately, when you get the body in the evening time, we should be secreting melatonin to begin to tone down and get ready for bed.
	But when we eat a whole bunch, we start secreting this other opposite hormone called cortisol.
	And we end up going to bed with a full stomach and perhaps even higher blood sugar, which can disturb sleep and inhibit fat loss.
	So we have this contraindication of that.
	So after 5 or 6 o'clock, I always tell people, Tone it down.
	If you want to have a snack, make sure the snack is something in the area of like fat or something like that because fat cannot convert to blood sugar.
	So maybe if you want to have like a small handful of nuts or maybe a spoonful of maybe nut butter unsweetened, of course, that might be okay.
	Or a bite of a kingdom candy bar is fine.
	You're not going to hurt yourself with that.
	But ultimately, after five o'clock, that's really good to do that.
	I think after five o'clock, what I do like to see people do is take a walk.
	You know, instead of getting sedentary, I like to see them move because that can speed up the digestion process if they did have a less than optimal size of meal in the evening.
	But if you start structuring the whole day like this, you want to think about breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen, and dinner like a pauper, and have this sort of reverse.
	Pyramid structure going upwards versus like this, you know, where we eat the typical largest meal at night.
	Very interesting.
	So probably not good to do like a big steak or a lot of like ground beef or something after like 8 p.m.
	or 7. It is a little bit concerning because it can absolutely disturb your sleep.
	Now, I get it.
	The carnivore diet today is very, very popular.
	A lot of people do that.
	In all reality, if I could get someone to eat a salad later on at night, you know, with maybe a little bit of protein, that would be a great thing because that would keep the glycemic load down and keep the digestion issues in a really premium.
	So that's what I would do.
	Now, there's people probably that can do that without any problems.
	But as a whole, I would say there's a better way to do it.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Those are good tips.
	And now, the difference between, like, if you're trying to lose fat, Versus, you know, just tone up or gain muscle.
	Would that be a difference in how you're working out, how you're exercising, or how you're, you know, what your diet plan is?
	I have an interesting perspective on that.
	I tell people do the same, do both of those at one time.
	You know, we had this mentality that says, let me cut down and then build up.
	Don't do that.
	You want to build muscle and lose fat on a continual basis.
	I mean, like 24-7, 365. Remember that muscle is more metabolic.
	It will move the metabolic meter a little bit faster and fat tissue won't.
	So the more muscle you can maintain, good saying here, the more muscle you can maintain, the less fat percentage you can attain.
	As a whole.
	So that's just a good rhythm.
	And so when you're doing training, what I recommend working out wise, you want to do three days a week of weight training minimum every week for the rest of your days.
	And then you want to do every day, do some kind of cardiovascular training.
	Don't take a day off of cardiovascular training.
	I know people say, well, I'm going to rest.
	Well, that doesn't mean you just lay around.
	You can rest by walking on the beach behind you.
	That's a restful day, I think, right?
	Okay, so it could be pushing my kid in a stroller for a mile or so.
	It doesn't have to be necessarily, I have to go to the actual gym, as long as it is cardio and, you know, I'm moving my body for a continuous period of time.
	Yes, you can push Mavic around.
	You could push that stroller with one hand if you needed to.
	You could get wrist weights.
	Put some wrist weights on your wrist.
	You could put some dumbbell wrist weights or ankle weights on your ankles.
	There's a lot of things you could do in really the activities of life.
	Make them productive.
	Just be creative.
	There's nothing that says you can't be creative.
	I can see you walking Maverick and doing leg lifts.
	Maybe even pushing with a stroller and maybe trying to do a lunge while you're doing a stroller push.
	I mean, these are things that are like...
	Creative, but they'd be very effective.
	And then I think with activity, people have a myth about thinking they need to get the heart rate way up high.
	Simply not true.
	Okay.
	There's something called the anaerobic threshold, and keep this in mind.
	180 minus your age, so in your case it would be 180 minus 29, right?
	So we know that's true, right?
	Exactly, right?
	And so in that example, it would be 151. So that would be considered your anaerobic threshold.
	Okay.
	And so in that case, above that number with your heart rate would be you're more in the anaerobic without oxygen.
	Below that number, you'd be more with oxygen.
	That's common sense, right?
	Right.
	Get this, folks.
	It takes oxygen to break down fat.
	If you get up too high, you won't be breaking down fat.
	You'll be burning basically glucose.
	So to get into the fat stores with activity, you have to keep the heart rate at a premium below your anaerobic threshold while keeping aware that occasionally you might bounce it above that to work the heart muscle.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Cool.
	That's a good tip, too, because, again.
	There's so many myths out there, but a lot of people, that is definitely one.
	You know, I need to get my heart rate as much as possible, as high as possible.
	That is a dangerous myth, too.
	And here's why.
	Because if you get the heart rate up, the body keys into that, and it does something strange or probably normal.
	It says, hmm, I don't think I'm doing Zumba.
	I think I'm running from an animal that's trying to eat me.
	And that's the way the body interprets that.
	And so that means cortisol comes up.
	Blood pressure comes up, respiration goes up, perspiration goes up, tension goes up, digestion goes down, and fat can be retained.
	Awesome.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Cool.
	Very cool.
	Any last tips for somebody who's getting back into the exercise scene and ready to try to get their best beach body by, let's say, by June?
	So we've got a couple months for that.
	Any final words for them?
	Yeah, every day you want to do something that accentuates more and better movement.
	I've given you some guidelines for the week, so move every day.
	Eat well every day.
	Drink well every day.
	Make sure you're hydrating up.
	I've got my hydrant.
	And that's important because the more you get out and sweat, the more you lose electrolytes.
	And if you become dehydrated, you will not lose weight.
	So make sure that you find creative ways to drink up.
	You want to also work on sleep.
	We talked about how not to eat late and do some light activity late.
	That will promote better sleep.
	And then, really important, stay unstressed.
	The world is too full of mess, man.
	Stay unstressed, have a balance there, and don't be connected around all the time negative people because that will also not assist you in losing weight.
	Remember, you become like the five people you hang out with the most.
	So telling, yes.
	That's such an important thing to remember.
	You become like the five people you hang out with the most.
	Amazing.
	It's also very important to why you should have God.
	Your relationship with God, with Jesus as the number one in your life so you can become more like Him.
	He should be your number one.
	And then the four other people you surround yourself with should be positive influences.
	They should be inspiring.
	They should be healthy in every way.
	And too often people really discount that, who their influences are in their life.
	So thanks for reminding me.
	Yeah, it's interesting too.
	If you want to have a role model, Find the role models that are actually doing it, that you know, that you can connect with, and then ask them.
	They'll tell you the truth.
	They'll tell you the secrets.
	It's not a secret at all.
	People are going to find out it's just basic little habits.
	And you're right, Deanna.
	It's really mimicking.
	It's really being.
	It's being a disciple of Jesus himself because he gave us a living example to follow.
	Yeah.
	Awesome.
	Always enlightening and inspiring.
	Thanks so much, Dr. Sherwood.
	It's great.
	So we're going to get into our best beach bodies, but inside and out.
	You know, healthy on the inside, healthy on the outside.
	So we look our best and feel our best.
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	All right.
	Thank you so much.
	And, of course, where can they find you on Twitter?
	Yeah, on Twitter, X. It's Mark Sherwood 4E. Forever.
	Forever.
	That's what it means.
	Exactly.
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	So you knew that.
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	Awesome.
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	We'll be right back right after these messages.
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	We'll see you next week.
	Sounds great.
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