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March 24, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: RFK to BAN Big Pharma TV Ads + Big Soda BUSTED Paying Influencers!
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Folks, welcome to the show.
Thanks so much for being with us.
As always, my name is Paul Harrell, and we can't do the show without you watching every single day.
Happy Monday, everybody out there.
It was a good weekend.
A really good weekend.
I hope everybody out there had a good weekend.
I hope you had a blessed Lord's Day.
We've got a great show for you.
A lot to get to.
I mean, that's kind of the theme of all of our shows at this point because the news is, especially on a Monday, just incredible.
Everything that's going on.
Big Pharma.
Big Soda.
I want to talk about Big Hollywood.
It's like the beginning of Breitbart.com.
Remember? Big government.
Big Hollywood.
I'm pretty sure that they had a lot of the bigs.
Also, men are becoming more right-wing.
Have you seen this?
We'll talk about that.
According to one poll, young men, like 25 and under, are now more right-wing than a 75-year-old man, you know, according to polls.
Also, there's an old story kind of coming back that's on the interwebs about conquering America and the territories and how it's actually a good thing.
It's actually a good thing that this country was, the way it was founded in the colonialization of it, the colonizing of it, one civilization meeting another one, the superior civilization winning is actually a good thing.
We're going to talk about that as well.
There's a story about a woman I had never heard of who was kidnapped by Indian savages and escaped, no more than escaped, actually.
We're going to talk about that story a little later.
Also, Obama, President Obama being exposed for running a USAID scam, adding to the long list of evidence or reasons why shutting down 83% of USAID.
It was actually a really positive thing, obviously being hijacked by the intel oligarchy.
Also, on the word oligarchy, I have been using this now for a year.
I've been using this term oligarchy for a while now.
And I have to say, I'm just a little bit frustrated.
I'm just a little bit upset that the left now, as Donald Trump's in his second term, Elon Musk...
Trump is in charge of Doge and all these cuts are happening and now the left is trying to take this word.
They have taken it, as a matter of fact.
They're taking the word oligarchy and are applying it to Trump and his ilk.
And it's just so frustrating to me because I guess the real question is it's not a question of whether or not you're going to have an oligarchy.
It's what kind of oligarchy are you going to have.
That's the real question here.
And it's really just pathetic, actually.
And the messaging will work on a lot of NPCs, I guess.
That, you know, when Chuck Schumer is up there talking about an oligarchy, and they're putting it on podiums now.
I saw AOC in front of it.
They're like, yeah, we've got to fight this oligarchy.
And yet, from Chuck Schumer?
The head of the oligarchy, or the previous one?
Or, you know, the guy who said when Donald Trump was messing with the intel agencies that the intel agencies have six ways to Sunday to get back at you.
That guy, he's the guy talking about the dangers of an oligarchy.
It's just frustrating, that's all.
But yeah, Obama's in the news because of this intel, basically USAID, running money through the Cayman Islands to start a Cuban version of Twitter.
To eventually be able to create what's being called by some publications as rent-a-mobs, which is exactly what we've been saying for a while.
A lot of people have noticed that since the USAID money has dried up, there's no money to pay for the radical left protesters who really aren't there because of their principles.
They're actually there because they're being paid to be there.
But anyway, let's get to the top story.
This was huge to me as somebody who has followed this idea that Big Pharma loves to pay off media organizations.
RFK Jr. announcing, quote, I'm thrilled to announce that we're ending pharmaceutical ads in television.
America is corrupted by Big Pharma.
For years, they've pushed drugs like candy.
Silenced critics, lobbied the Congress and the White House, and cashed in on manufactured fear.
Big Pharma, through drug advertisements, are also a huge source of income for mainstream media, effectively controlling the media outlets.
Now, this is an objective fact, by the way.
You remember how right before, I mean, Tucker Carlson got fired for a lot of, you know, potentially a lot of reasons, but one of the last shows he did...
Was, you know, exposing the amount of money media takes from big pharma companies and how you can't criticize the vaccine or ask any critical questions of it or even be suspicious as to whether or not, you know, the vaccine is good or the COVID numbers and everything else.
Kennedy goes on to say, Soros and USAID aren't the only ones who use the mainstream media to perpetuate propaganda.
All these will end now.
This is certainly...
I think this is...
I'm almost certain this was talked about on the campaign trail.
This is certainly a great thing in an attempt to restore order.
in an attempt to take back these organizations that are basically captive by megacorporations.
And, of course, once you get to the megacorporations, there's really no line between them and the government anymore either.
This is a huge development that I think we need to talk about for a little bit because this didn't used to be the case.
The government, you know, before Bill Clinton...
Used to regulate the ads that you could put out advertising drugs.
I remember when I was growing up, somebody told me that, and this is not the only thing, but you don't really see billboards.
You know, with doctors advertising their services.
And you used to not see attorneys.
I don't know if I've ever really existed in that world.
I know you've got the injury attorneys.
But it used to kind of be considered unethical to advertise if you were an attorney.
Am I wrong about that?
There used to be certain things that were just taboo that are no longer the case.
One of those was, you know, advertising for drugs.
We've got this old Huffington Post article back from July of 2017, headlined, Six Ways Bill Clinton Helped to Create the Opioid Crisis.
Now, this is specifically focusing on Bill Clinton and him speaking, apparently, back in 2017.
He spoke at a U.S. conference of mayors in Miami about the growing opioid overdose crisis, where his hand in creating the crisis was largely ignored, of course.
So this is an article trying to...
You know, point out that he's a hypocrite.
But there's good information in here about how he opened the floodgates to essentially allowing big pharma to control the news that you see.
I don't know if you remember back in the day, you know, you had Jim Carrey at the time he was either married to or dating Jenny McCarthy, and they go on CNN to talk about how they think vaccines are causing autism.
And they didn't last very long.
They were mocked.
They were discredited.
Everybody got their marching orders.
And then we're just supposed to ignore the fact that when they cut to commercial break, they're going to see two, three, four, five ads about what drugs the audience needs to take.
If they have this problem or that problem, then, of course, you've got the long list of side effects.
Just kind of on a tertiary note, I would say if...
RFK succeeds and bans pharmaceutical ads from advertising drugs.
I don't know what SNL's going to do.
SNL, not funny really that much anyway, but one of the key, I guess, templates, if you will, for a sketch that they've done many, many times is doing a sketch about some drug.
They recently did it with What's-His-Face recently about a couple of beers.
Anyway. I'm not really concerned about that, but it just kind of goes to show you how ingrained the idea of advertising drugs to the public is in our culture when you've got SNL.
It's like a staple go-to thing to advertise, to mock the drug companies.
It's part of who we are now.
The long list of side effects, you know how funny that could be, right?
Possible side effects include death.
Anyway, I didn't realize this, but all the way back in 1983, Big Pharma aired its first direct-to-consumer television advertisement for a prescription drug in the U.S. To this day, only the United States and New Zealand allow Big Pharma to push drugs directly to the user.
By 1985, the FDA...
Had set a stringent set of rules regarding the Big Pharma ads.
Primarily, they couldn't express that a specific drug could treat a specific claim.
This mostly kept Big Pharma's TV drug pushers at bay.
That all changed in 1996 in Bill Clinton's first term.
That's when Big Pharma figured out the Ask Your Doctor loophole advertising and medicine without saying what it was or what it does.
1996 is also the year.
Purdue Pharmaceuticals starts making OxyContin, and as being an abuse and addiction resistant opioid, that can be taken safely more often than a recommended twice per day maximum.
But in 1997, at the start of Bill Clinton's second term, the FDA relaxed its rules to allow specific drug for specific ailment claims.
Clinton's oversight of the industry was so lax that Purdue was promoting OxyContin on giveaway swag like beach hats, coffee mugs, and fanny packs, a marketing scheme that didn't...
Okay, so again, it's a big deal that RFK Jr. is now saying we're not going to do this anymore.
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But the captured media aspect of this is what I think is going to be so valuable.
I think in the wake of everything we lived through over the last five and a half years with COVID, with the vaccines, with the censorship, the not being able to question anything, that we have to basically accept the words of doctors in white coats like they are some high priestly class that can't be questioned because they're scientists, right? They're the new clergy of our day.
I have seen, and I've said this many times, but when I covered Arkansas politics day to day and I was down at the Capitol in Little Rock watching everything unfold, you just couldn't imagine.
You couldn't imagine the sway these white coat priests have over your tax dollars.
It was insane to me, and I watched it over and over and over again in committee room after committee room, which is where the real sausage making is done.
I don't know what it wants to do.
Let's say, help hospitals in their uncompensated care, which is a complete scam because insurance is an organized crime, and the tail of the $100 aspirin.
But they march these doctors, these white coat priests, down to the end of these committee tables, and then they testify, and their testimony is considered...
Gold. It's considered gospel.
It's considered, you know, holy in a way.
Because they're doctors.
And they've been to medical school.
And the whole thing is a joke.
The whole thing is an absolute joke when you think about it.
And, you know, there are great doctors out there.
There's no question about it.
But so many doctors themselves have bought into their own hype.
And they actually embrace themselves as a priestly class.
They might not say it, but it's certainly subconscious with their attitudes.
And it's one of the reasons why this arrogance actually was used in a lot of ways against them, and it's why they...
Did everything Anthony Fauci said.
And if you had a loved one that went into the hospital and you said, and this happened to me personally, I don't want remdesivir.
I'd rather have ivermectin.
And you get this young doctor.
Well, personally, well, there's no evidence to suggest that ivermectin works.
And, of course, now fast forward and you've got Tennessee that's made it over the counter.
My home state of Arkansas has just passed a bill that's going to make it over the counter.
It's incredible.
And I think it's honestly, I've said this before, I think it's because doctors confuse themselves.
They think they're critical thinkers, but they're analytical thinkers.
Not all doctors, of course, but they're analytical thinkers.
And they're allowed to think within the goalposts of what Big Pharma, Anthony Fauci, the drug reps, and you analyze the problem, but don't go outside the goalposts.
Don't do anything that might make our products look unsafe.
Like, here's your options of drugs that you can give this person.
The idea that you might say, have you thought about changing your diet?
No, no, no, no, no.
That's not your job.
And so they are analyzing things.
They're not actually looking, many of them are not actually looking at things from a critical manner and looking at the profit motive and, you know, are you really looking at the patient like they're an individual worth saving or are we all cattle?
Are we all livestock at this point?
So this is a huge deal, very, very good step in the right direction.
But over the weekend, we had a very interesting phenomenon happen.
Over the weekend, my Twitter feed, my ex-feed, was kind of inundated, all of a sudden, with people upset that, and I believe this is also RFK, trying to look at SNAP benefits, or maybe it's the food stamps are actually out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
They're now trying to, let's just say the Trump administration is considering not allowing food stamps, let's call them EBT cards, but food stamps to be used to buy sugary sodas.
And out of nowhere, my feed was inundated with people talking about how, well, this is government overreach.
It would be government overreach if we were to limit what they could consume.
And lo and behold, what we found out later was...
There was an influencer campaign to pay conservative influencers, some of them, to basically put out the identical talking points on behalf of Big Soda, your Cokes, your Pepsis, your Dr. Peppers, which I'll be the first to tell you are delicious.
I'll also be the first to tell you there's nothing good in those drinks.
There's nothing good in those drinks.
I love a Dr. Pepper or a Coke.
Not really a Pepsi guy.
I'm really partial to the Diet Coke, although I know that those things are terrible for you.
I get it.
I know exactly what I'm paying for it.
What I'm putting in my body may taste good, but it's not good for you.
We all know that.
But there's a direct link between these two stories if you really think about it.
The hamster wheel of pharmaceutical drugs that they want you on.
They want lifetime customers.
Well, how exactly do you get there?
Well, if the government has totally lost control, not regulating big pharma at all, but the government is also giving out free food and allowing the sugary drinks that are just going to push people into the arms, a lifetime of unhealthy eating, a lifetime of just sugar, and not even the real sugar, but the high fructose corn syrup that's going to give people diabetes and a whole host of other ailments.
Making them lifetime customers.
Big Pharma, Big Soda are two peas in a pod, working together, and they have an incentive.
Both of them have an incentive to really keep Americans unhealthy.
I mean, you know, Big Soda wants continued customers, so they keep selling you the products.
If you get sick, we've got Big Pharma that'll keep them alive, or at least, you know, long enough to continue buying the Big Soda products.
I mean, that's what it is.
This is a hamster wheel.
Nick Sorter.
Influencible. The company cutting big checks to influencers on behalf of Big Soda over the last 48 hours.
Several large, supposedly MAGA-aligned influencers posted almost identical talking points fed to them convincing you make America healthy again.
Armaha was out of line for not wanting soda purchases with food stamps.
Some even slimely invoked President Trump as an emotional manipulation tactic, referring to his Diet Coke button.
Allegedly, he's got a button on his desk that he presses when he wants a Diet Coke.
Not a single one of them disclosed they were being paid for these posts, which led readers to believe a general soda ban was in the works.
Here's Clown World, which I featured many times on the program.
Probably still will, you know, if it comes up.
If there's something relevant.
We do, obviously, a lot of ex-posts on the show.
Clown World.
The government wants to block soda purchases for Americans on Snap.
Remember when NYC tried this and it completely backfired.
President Trump.
Well, hang on.
NYC had nothing to do with food stamps, right?
Was NYC banning soda on food stamps or NYC was banning the choice for everybody?
Like, they didn't want you to be able to get a big gulp.
They wanted to limit, like, 12 ounces of soda at a time or something like that.
I remember that, because I thought that was outrageous, right?
We don't want the government...
Okay, so there is a fine line here, right?
I don't want the government telling me whether or not I can have a donut or a piece of bacon.
I've seen the movie The Island, by the way.
Nobody wants that, but if you're going to take the government assistance, what happened...
My question, and I tweeted this, what happened to government cheese and a bag of rice?
Okay? Government cheese and a bag of rice.
Used to be a thing.
Boy, you've got to know, not only is Big Soda against this, you've got to know that grocery store owners, oh my gosh, grocery store owners, the little guy as well, all the way up to Walmart, they're certainly against this.
They say this is ridiculous government overreach.
Then you had Eric Daughtery, important.
We cannot allow Make America Healthy Again messaging to be used to force needy Americans into not buying certain things.
Some officials in D.C. are working on trying to prevent Americans on SNAP from using those benefits to purchase any soda.
Remember, when New York Democrats tried to prevent people from buying and consuming soda, it backfired big time.
President Trump literally has a Diet Coke button.
Let the people think and decide for themselves.
Ah, but we're obscuring the issue here.
We're talking about government.
We're talking about taking taxpayer money here.
Somebody named Lauren Lee exposed Big Maga accounts who took money from Big Food are frantically deleting their sponsored anti-Maha posts.
Now we know who took the bribes and who is actually committed to making America healthy again.
I'll be watching these influencers like a hawk from now on.
Wonder if they had to return their paychecks.
Shout out to Riley Gaines for being a real one.
Integrity speaks.
Riley Gaines just confirmed big soda companies tried to bribe her, according to American Values on X, to oppose Maha's SNAP reforms.
Let me see this.
Riley Gaines posting, they offered to pay me to post a big fat heck no.
Now look, I mean, I'm sure that this, you know, the idea of people wanting to utilize, you know, people with large social media out, you know, paying them to, this is obviously still going to go on and on and on.
But it's just, it's interesting how they thought this argument would work.
I mean, it's patently...
I mean, even if you were going to consider doing something like this, you've got to look at whether or not you can, are you even being intellectually consistent with some of your previous takes?
And the answer here is just clearly no.
I mean, it's such an easy argument to debunk.
It's like, I mean, we're talking about taxpayer money, or we're talking about giving people free food.
And also, we all can agree that sodas are not healthy for you.
So the idea that the government is going to allow this to make an increasingly unhealthy population, which increases the health care costs of other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
It's pretty much a no-brainer that if you step into that world of welfare, that there are restrictions on it, on what you can buy and what you can do.
In a way, when you take the government money, you sacrifice A little bit of autonomy.
If you want your autonomy, then you don't take the government money.
You want to buy soda, you don't take it.
It's really an easy argument to make.
Jenna Ellis, she posted back on March 21st, efforts to restrict SNAP purchases takes away the autonomy of the consumer to make their own decisions.
This is another example of government overreach, but also an example why people should strive to not be dependent on government at all.
Well, that last part is obviously true.
My question, does Big Pharma, I posted this, want Big Soda to make the masses their lifelong customers?
Bad diets full of sugar, in this case corn syrup, create sick people.
Who will be prescribed pharmaceuticals?
Maybe it's time to break the cycle, get off the megacorp hamster wheel, and get on a treadmill.
And I'm putting myself in that category, by the way, that last category, for sure.
Again, new, the shady PR firms, again, Nick Sorter, the shady PR firms working for Big Soda put out an emergency halt notice to influencers last night after we called them out.
They were hoping they would stop the bleeding.
They were wrong.
Several of us are working together on a thread right now.
It'll all be exposed.
Shipwreck saying we are people, see, why are people so pressed about removing soda from SNAP benefits?
In my opinion, soda is a want, not a need, and SNAP benefits are for those in need.
Not those in wants.
You need water to live.
You don't need soda.
Again, it's a simple argument, and I go back to government cheese and a bag of beans, a bag of rice, and that sort of thing.
Brian Cates.
I thought this was funny.
He writes, somewhere right now at a PR firm for a major soda company, the person who thought it'd be a fantastic idea to pay social media influencers to influence their followers to defend soda purchases with Snap is now trying to come up with a way to fix this utter freaking fiasco.
I do not envy that person.
Yeah, that's just funny to me.
That's really funny.
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Ah! Ah!
Yeah, that's a scary one.
But now we're going to talk about Big Hollywood.
See, we've talked about Big Pharma, Big Soda, Big Hollywood.
They just don't learn.
They just don't learn.
Samuel L. Jackson as Snow White.
For those of you that don't know, Snow White had an opening weekend.
Of course, this is a long line, a long train of remakes, which is actually kind of another topic in and of itself.
Why are we out of ideas?
Why are we out of ideas?
Lady Wisdom certainly has left our land.
It really, I think, comes down to that, by the way.
Maybe we'll talk about that here in a minute.
But just, like, there's nothing original because we've pushed God out of our society in so many ways.
And I think it's out of that.
I think it's out of the absence of that, where just nobody's creative anymore.
And all they can do is run off of the derivatives.
Of, you know, previous greats, right?
Like, where are the great stories?
Where are the great stories from people like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and others?
Well, those were Christians.
You know, you could point to Hollywood successes recently on the big screen like Dune, but if you actually go look and read those novels, like J.R.R.
Tolkien hated Dune, because it, like, I think the only reason Dune was really a success, and there's going to be people that are going to vehemently disagree with me on this, on the nerdosphere.
I'm a nerd myself, fellow nerd, but It's very nihilistic, and so it's no wonder that it resonates with the people of today.
And obviously, Dune was written a while ago.
Anyway, Snow White totally bombs at the box office, becomes one of Disney's lowest-grossing live-action movies during opening weekend, even worse than Dumbo, another remake.
The film, according to Oil London, This is the viral clip that's been going on for The Snow White.
This is apparently the end of the movie.
And it's just...
It's just ridiculous.
It is cringe, and I haven't even seen it yet.
I am going to watch this film, though, because this seems like something would be a lot of fun to Mystery Science Theater.
Yeah, there it is.
You see the dwarves?
I was watching Nerd Roddick's coverage of the dwarves.
It might have been Critical Drinkers.
I was watching one of the reviewers saying that the 3D animated dwarves in this show are the stuff of nightmares, the essence of nightmares that would actually give, like, you know, that would give evil creatures nightmares.
Like, we would even disturb.
Oh, man, it's just, look at this, like, it's just so cringe.
Everybody is making fun.
Everybody is making fun.
I mean, everybody's just like, yeah, this movie is terrible, and this is one of the reasons why.
Now, according to Tony Lane, Disney's Snow White, Rachel Zegler, reportedly said harm should befall Trump and his voters.
So there's a series of takes.
Over the years that it's taken to develop this movie, Rachel Zegler...
Just continues to open her mouth, and they're saying that that's one of the big problems here.
No longer 1937.
She's not going to be saved by the prince.
She's not going to be dreaming about true love.
She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true.
The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so.
There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalked.
Weird. Weird.
So we didn't do that this time.
I was scared of the original cartoon.
I think I watched it once and then I never picked it up again.
I watched it for the first time in probably 16, 17 years.
The cartoon was made 85 years ago and therefore it's extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power.
And that's what it is.
Women in roles of power.
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It's all about power.
It's all about seeing women in roles that are not traditional or normal or right and good.
That's what all this is about.
It's about pushing an agenda.
I mean, it's about, like, I mean, think about it.
It's this long, you take these intellectual, what we are in, and I'm not the first person to say this, but I mean, we're basically in the era of intellectual property.
Piracy. But not the kind of piracy that, you know, you used to get on Napster or LimeWire.
Like, we've got these woke Hollywood people that go into some beloved intellectual property.
Look at what they did to Star Wars.
Look what they did to Indiana Joes.
Look what they've done to Disney classics.
Like, I mean, the perfect example, the biggest one, I mean, years ago, right?
You take the Sleeping Beauty, and they want to give the...
I don't even think it's inarguable, but arguably the most evil Disney villain of all time.
Some people say it is the witch or the queen in Snow White, but I think it's obviously Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.
And then they give her an origin story, and...
Because they want to apologize for the essence of evil.
She's not really evil.
Never mind that she's got literal demon horns coming out of her head.
There's got to be some reason.
Lo and behold, it was a man.
She had fallen in love with a man who just used her and stole her wings.
And so Maleficent became evil, so evil that she would curse a baby.
Because of a man.
Oh, it's all because of a man.
And so they've been doing this for a very long time, apologizing for evil.
And so these intellectual pirates, they come in, they get these beloved intellectual properties, and then they know that people are going to see them because they're going to come see, well, what's the next story that, you know, Indiana Jones is going to tell or whatever?
And then they load it full of all this woke nonsense to brainwash people, to tear down...
Traditional masculine archetypes that have affected our culture, our pop culture, have influenced us because they're pushing a demonic agenda, in my opinion.
An anti-human agenda.
So yeah, one of the reasons it bombed is because it's just fundamentally bad.
But the other reason is because of this.
Because of Rachel Zegler herself.
Weird, weird.
It's obviously not 1937.
Nerd-Rotic went on Piers Morgan to talk about this.
This is how it sounded.
We can start out with the creative bankruptcy of remaking another animated classic instead of making something new.
But yes, it's all Rachel Zegler and her behavior.
And if it was just one comment, it probably would have been forgotten by now.
But it was comment after comment, and it was pissing off everybody, pissing off old Disney fans.
Pissing off new Disney fans.
Pissing off Trump supporters.
Pissing off all of America.
And it became such a disaster that they had to shut her up, which was the smartest move they made.
But the onus is all on her and Disney's reaction to it.
And quite frankly, if she has said nothing, her movie, probably still forgettable, would have done a lot better.
So IMDB gives it a 2 out of 10. Rotten Tomatoes, a 44%.
Metacritic, 47%.
The Guardian calling it, quote, toe-curlingly terrible.
Rolling Stone, quote, the most controversial Disney adult nightmare ever.
Vanity Fair, good enough for TV.
By the way, just want to remind everybody that, like, they literally named a magazine after the City of Sin and Pilgrims for Progress.
I'm sorry, in Pilgrim's Progress.
They literally named Vanity Fair magazine after the city you don't want to be in.
Box office, $43 million, $3 million less than Dumbo, and again, they spent over $300 million on this disaster.
This is pretty funny.
Trung Phan, Disney exec, seen Snow White make $43 million opening weekend after spending $350 million plus on the film and compared to the original 1937 film making $3 billion on an inflation-adjusted basis.
The original 1937 film was an absolute masterpiece.
As evidenced here.
And they can't just make a live-action remake.
That people would want to see the same story, just told in a little bit different way visually, but not substance.
By the way, if you've ever seen the movie, I saw the movie.
I've seen this recently because I have a young child like the original Snow White.
And the animation of Dopey is one of the most based things ever.
Disney basically animated a dwarf with Down Syndrome.
And if you think I'm joking, you need to go and watch the 1937 edition of Snow White.
I'm dead serious.
They animated a Down Syndrome character into that film.
Which is something you just couldn't do today.
But they do have a Down Syndrome Barbie now.
That's right.
They have a Down Syndrome Barbie.
They have it.
It's on a shelf somewhere.
Somebody is buying a Down Syndrome Barbie.
They also have a Ken.
They have a wheelchair Ken.
I know that.
My daughter didn't want a wheelchair Ken.
She just wanted a Ken.
Like a normal Ken doll.
So we were looking.
When I say normal, I mean a white Ken doll.
Because there's different kinds of Ken dolls now.
And we go to look.
And we can't find one except the only white one acceptable had to have a disability.
That was the only white Ken.
He's just a regular Ken doll that comes with a wheelchair.
He's sitting in the wheelchair in the box though, but obviously he's not bound to the wheelchair.
But yeah, the original Snow White film...
Regarded as a masterpiece, Disney, the Disney, the pirates at Disney, they hijack it and they make it into something unwatchable.
Unwatchable. But on the subject of all of this, Megan Basham has a very interesting take on really what we're talking about here in this specific case.
It's just when wokeism, feminism is a huge part of that.
And we're seeing the rotten fruits of feminism in a lot of ways, as we've talked about in the program before, in the demonic devil in the details and the contract.
This was never really about empowering women.
It was about destroying the image of God, we as humans image bearers, because you can't fight the patriarchy if there are no men.
If you don't have a clear definition between what a woman is and what a man is, and now at the very end, it's just tricky how the forces of evil work.
I mean, it's predictable, but it's like, we gotcha.
There's no longer, like, the women's rights, the progress.
No, what does a woman have?
It doesn't matter anymore.
Men can go into women's sports according to the left.
It's just like a whole switcheroo, and so ultimately this is about making...
Man and women, erasing men and women, making us just one sort of weird androgynous.
And of course, it's all based on sex and being inventors of evil and trying to figure out how we can, how sick and twisted the human race can be made.
That we are responsible for and we're also obviously being enacted, you know, Satan being a roaring lion, you know, waiting to devour people.
But anyway, the Wall Street Journal with this headline, American women are giving up on marriage.
Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths.
I've seen the meme about how good was the propaganda where you gave up this, this being a woman with her husband and her kids at home being a family, and they gave that up for this, and it's a woman all by herself in a computer.
We're at a computer in a cubicle staring at the screen and we've convinced women that the cubicle life is actually better and empowering and where she's going to find her value, her worth, her work as a woman versus the other.
And it's really gut-wrenching when you think about it.
Megan Basham, writing about this Wall Street Journal story, says, quote, from new Wall Street Journal story on women giving up on marriage, quote, in 2024, 47% of American women ages 25 to 34 had a bachelor's degree.
According to Pew, compared with 37% of men, a bachelor's degree increases net lifetime earnings by an estimated $1 million, according to a 2024 report from Georgetown University, end quote.
She writes, when respectable evangelical intellectuals, cough, Neil Shenvey, tell you there's no reason to be concerned about gynocracy, cultural dominance of women, they're not just failing men, they're failing women too.
These trends are bad for everyone.
If your pastor's focus is on mirroring the culture by ensuring your church or ministry has a certain quota of women in leadership, Like, she says, J.D. Greer, run.
This man is not only worldly, he's actively contributing to trends that are making women unhappy.
Making women unhappy and putting themselves on a path of misery.
And of a life where they're not actually fulfilling the role that the Lord intended.
The role of...
Of helpmate, of mother, of nurturer, of all kinds of great things.
And then Stephen Wolf, the author of The Case for Christian Nationalism.
I thought this tweet was interesting.
Every Christian today practices public shaming, but most only practice it rightward.
The left is the object of kindness and moral witness, and shaming rightward is moral witness to the left.
He says, Christian ethics is precisely engineered for this dynamic.
All the moral rhetoric of gentle and lowly functions this way.
Third way operates this way as well.
Third way being like, well, there's a third way in politics, in Christian politics, like the right's bad and the left's bad.
If we say something bad about one, we have to say something bad.
Actually, if you say something...
Bad about the left.
You have to find something bad to say about the right.
That's this third-wayism.
But Stephen Wolf says the whole system of witnesses crafted to be kind to the left by denigrating the right, right?
So they hug to the left.
They punch to the right.
He's exactly right there.
But I say all of that to say this.
The tide is turning.
At the beginning of the year or the end of last year, we had the pulse that there are now more young men going back to church than women.
More men are in church than women, which is a huge, huge deal.
Now, we have this.
We have a new survey out that says, let's see here.
20-year-old white men are now more right wing than 75-year-old white men.
People are saying this is a huge deal.
Let's see.
Some people are asking for the source.
So the source of this is from a Democrat pollster.
He did an interview with the New York Times, and they went through all the data.
A Democrat pollster finding out that 20-year-old white men are now more right-wing than 75-year-old white men.
I just think about that for a second.
Now, you can also look up the data, and I don't have it in front of me, but it was on a poll about how many women with college degrees hate Trump.
And I don't remember what the exact data was, but it was a lot, a majority.
So if you're a woman and you've got a degree, chances are you're not going to like Trump.
And so then that begs the question, like, you've got these households across America that have been told...
That they've got to send their kids to college, that they've got to send their daughters to college, and they have slaved away, they have saved, or maybe they go into debt, and they're literally sending them into the mouth of the beast, where they're going to be trained to actually despise the very things that can order society and make, at the very least, the third world barbarian horde invasion stop.
Which is a whole other argument, by the way.
There's a whole other issue that we could get into here when it comes to college in general, but I will briefly just say this.
This phrase that...
Megan Basham quotes from the Wall Street Journal, $1 million.
A bachelor's degree increases your net lifetime earnings by an estimated $1 million.
This is the same statistic that was told to me from the 8th grade until you graduate high school.
And the whole thing is absolutely garbage.
Right. It's an absolute garbage statistic, but the reason it's a garbage statistic is because it's used to convince children in the 8th grade that if they don't go to college, they will be utter failures.
And I have a different take on student loan forgiveness based on this.
This makes people mad when I say it.
And I don't necessarily know what the answer is.
I'm not necessarily being for a mass student loan forgiveness.
I'm not necessarily for that.
But what I am saying is this.
Guidance counselors are literally paid...
And they're only, at local schools, and their only metric of success is what percentage of a graduating class goes to college.
And that's all they care about.
And they're pushing people in to colleges that have no actual real customer base because the federal government comes along behind them and guarantees the loan, regardless of whether or not.
Okay, so you have minor children signing their lives away in debt, and they have been propagandized since the eighth grade or even before that, that they will be total losers living out of a dumpster like Oscar the Great.
It's psychological programming, and we have taken advantage of children.
Now, I know there are parents right behind them saying, yes, you need to go to college, because they've been propagandized to it as well.
But I can't tell you how many seminars or lectures or whatever you sat through as a kid that your taxpayer dollars, your state and federal taxpayer dollars, going to your public schools to tell students they will be, essentially, they're going to be living out of a dumpster if they don't go to college.
And so the only way to do that is to sign on the dotted line as a 17-year-old kid and take on all of this debt that you have no idea.
How that's really going to affect your life after you get a four-year degree in philosophy or underwater basket weaving or whatever.
To me, it's different.
There is a legitimate argument to say that some of these people are victims, even if they are leftists who now want their loans forgiven all of a sudden.
I just think the Republicans...
Need to think through what you're actually telling the students.
And you've got a captive audience.
It's a taxpayer, government-funded school.
They're not only disseminating woke, rainbow, LGBTQ stuff, they're also giving people just unsound economic advice.
Because they want workers.
They don't want individuals tinkering in their garage.
And the freedom that you can have as an 18-year-old becoming some tradesman is only going to produce right-wing voters, by the way.
And that's only going to produce families that have a father who has an income that can allow their wife to stay at home and raise their kids.
The whole thing is pretty sick when you think about it.
I did not plan to get off on this tangent, by the way.
But it's the truth.
A useful diagram here by Jeff Younger where you have authoritarian versus libertarian on one line.
And then the intersecting line in the middle is the economic left and the economic right.
So in the upper left quadrant, we have something that says, calls good things evil.
And that's more authoritarian.
In the other direction, on the economic right and in the upper right quadrant, will send evil back to hell from whence it came.
Versus if you go all the way down to the libertarian and go to the left, they can't even define what evil is.
If you go to the libertarian right, they have no ability to deal with the evil.
This is...
And this type of thinking has definitely resonated with those 20-year-olds who are now more right-wing than a 75-year-old.
And it's extremely helpful at this point in time.
Jeff Younger himself, when he was on the program two weeks ago, in response to a video we played of Stephen Wolf, talking about the fundamental issue here is the left cannot define, they can't define evil because they don't like the black and white.
Consequences of that.
But consequently, they can't define what a good life is.
Because everything is okay.
Everything except being a Christian who votes, by the way.
Because everything is okay to the left.
Live and let live.
We can't actually make pronouncements about what is good and acceptable, which is, again, why I've got to get the t-shirts made.
Somebody was saying the other day that we have to make these t-shirts.
Just real simple, maybe a black t-shirt with white lettering that just says, banning things is good, dot, dot, dot, sometimes.
Okay, and now we're kind of towards the end, but people are tired of the woke history.
So Matt Walsh has been taking some heat on Twitter from leftists because he talked about the colonization of America being a good thing.
Let me just play just a portion of it.
Is our civilization one that we should be proud of, even in spite of its history of conquest?
No. Not in spite of that history.
I'm proud of it in large part because of that history.
It is one of the great triumphs of all time that our forefathers had to first conquer an ocean.
In order to then land on a giant mass of uncharted wilderness filled with untold dangers and wild beasts, and yes, primitive warring tribes, many of whom practiced human sacrifice and cannibalism, and who, if they captured you, would torture you for fun and rape your wife and children before killing you, maybe eating your internal organs and taking your family as their property.
And yet, in the face of those unimaginable horrors, our forefathers and ancestors conquered this entire hemisphere.
And settled it and single-handedly dragged it out of the Stone Age.
So he says, that's a good thing.
And I completely agree with him.
And coincidentally, there is a narrative out there, a historical narrative that I've never heard of.
People are looking into it and we're talking about an old story, an old colonial story.
The gruesome story of somebody named Hannah Dustin.
Have you ever heard of Hannah Dustin?
I hadn't until this morning.
Hannah Dustin says here, on a small island north of Concord, this is a Smithsonian Magazine article written by Barbara Cutter.
On a small island north of Concord, New Hampshire, stands a 25-foot stall granite statue of Hannah Dustin, an English colonist taken captive by Native Americans in 1697 during King William's War.
It was erected in 1874.
The statue bears close resemblance to contemporary depictions of Columbia, the popular goddess of liberty, and female allegorical symbol of the nation, except for what she holds in her hand.
In one, a tomahawk.
In the other, a fistful of scalps.
You see it there.
Let's see.
Let's see if we can't...
Where's it going to take us?
There we go.
Those are a fistful of scalps in that statue.
We've got a tomahawk in one and a fistful of scalps in the other.
Though she's all but forgotten today, Hannah Dustin was probably the first American woman to be memorialized in a public monument.
And this statue is one of three built in her honor between 1861 and 1879.
The mystery of why Americans came to see patriotic heroism in Dustin's extreme, even gruesome violence, and why she became popular more than 100 years later after her death, helps explain how the United States sees itself in world conflicts today.
Born in 1657, Hannah Emerson Dustin lived in Massachusetts, Haverville, Massachusetts, at a time when disputes among English colonists, the French in Canada, and various Native American nations resulted in a series of wars in the region.
King Philip's War, for example, decimated southern New England Indians, nations which lost between 60 and 80 percent of their population, as well as their political independence.
Many were sold into slavery, and by the late 1680s and the start of King William's War, fragments of those southern tribes had joined the Abenaki.
and northern New England Indian nations allied with the French to fight to continue an expansion of English colonists to the north and west.
Native men conducted raids on frontier English settlers, burning property, killing or injuring some colonists and taking others captive, either to ransom them back to their families or to adopt them as replacements for their own lost family members.
Actually, according to one account, they took her baby and bashed it into a tree, killing it.
The group traveled for about two weeks and then left Dustin and Neff with a Native American family, two men, three women, and seven children, and another English captive, a boy who had been abducted a year and a half earlier from Worchester, Massachusetts, 14-year-old Samuel Lenardson.
May have been adopted by the family.
He certainly had their trust.
At Dustin's request, he asked one of the men the proper way to kill someone with a tomahawk, and she was promptly shown how.
One night, when the Indian family was sleeping, Dustin, Neff, and Leonardson, who were not guarded or locked up, armed themselves with tomahawks and killed and scalped ten of the Indians, including six children.
They wounded an older woman who escaped.
A small boy managed to run away.
Dustin and her fellow captives then left in a canoe, taking themselves and the scalps down the Merrimack River to Massachusetts, where they presented them to the General Assembly of Massachusetts and received a reward of 50 pounds.
Again, for some reason, this story has gone viral and people are talking about it.
And I think it kind of goes right in line with some of Matt Walsh's comments recently about the brutality of that era.
And also just how it's insane to try to put 21st century ethics on the people back then.
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Unfortunately, that is all the time that I have for this edition of the Millstone Report.
We're going to have a great show for you tomorrow.
I'll cover that Obama-USAID scandal because I didn't get to it.
But we are out of time for the hour, and unless I'm providentially hindered, I will see you tomorrow.
We'll talk about the USAID, and there was a few other things that I wanted to talk about as well, and we're going to have even more news.
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