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June 5, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Russell Moore Praises Bono, Slams Trump for Cutting Corrupt USAID
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Alright folks, welcome to the show.
Thanks so much for being with us.
This is the Meltdown Report.
My name is Paul Harreld.
As always, we can't do the program without you watching every single day.
I'm sorry, just making sure everything's going good.
Kind of a fluid situation here.
I was on earlier Mike Lauber's show, Derek Evans' show of the Insurrection.
We did that about two hours ago, and so it was a great time to be with him on Ex-America News.
We've got a great show for you today.
We're going to be talking more about the Russia-Ukraine situation.
Also going to talk about what happens when public figures consistently err in their words, specifically those in the Christian community, those who purport to be Christians.
We're going to talk about that as well.
Also, what does the big, beautiful bill actually do?
You know, there's this debate right now.
There appears to be, at least in the media, a Trump-Musk divorce that we're in the midst of witnessing and watching, which is a fascinating thing.
Obviously, people like Musk, people like Rand Paul, people like Massey, they are not fans of the bill.
The Congressional Budget Office, though, has recently come out and saying the Democrat-controlled Congressional Budget Office is now claiming that the tariffs are going to bring down the deficit.
Anyway, we're going to wait and see about all of that, but we're going to cover it today.
I'm going to tell you everything that I know, everything that I have found today.
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But we're going to start today with an interesting article by Russell Moore.
Obviously, Russell Moore, kind of the chief brigadier general of woke Christianity in America.
I have asked before, and I'll ask it again, has Russell Moore ever worked in the employment of the CIA or any sort of intel oligarch organization?
Because he seems to, I mean, he serves, we've talked about this before, he serves as one of these guys, one of these figures he hasn't passed.
He's been exposed.
I mean, most people, most Christians understand that they don't really trust Russell Moore at this point.
Serving to sanitize regime rhetoric.
We saw this on full display with a lot of different woke pastors during COVID.
Pacifying congregations, essentially getting them to sit on their hands to not actually do anything to keep Christians from being put in boxcars as we see things go from bad to worse, this sort of thing.
And so people are very familiar.
Russell Moore, he was, I guess, back during the...
Back in 2024, you had the Hollywood director, Rob Reiner.
Came out with this documentary about Christian nationalism and the dangers of Christian nationalism.
And, of course, Russell Moore was one of the experts who spoke to the dangers.
He and, I believe, David French as well from the New York Times.
But anyway, what's interesting is, before we get into any of this, there's a dust-up right now.
The View host, Sonny Hostin, we talked about this with Mike earlier.
Sonny Hostin is saying that because of USAID cuts, 300,000 people have died since then.
So there's this talking point out there that USAID was good.
There's this urge to ignore all of the fraud, the waste, the money laundering, the abuse that went on with this fund.
RFK Jr. famously said that USAID was created by John F. Kennedy, but then was hijacked by the military industrial complex, was hijacked by the intelligence agencies to effectively subvert other countries.
And of course, those instruments, those machines that they created have been since turned in against the American people themselves and against our own systems of governance.
It's very clear that USAID and non-governmental organizations are actually acting on behalf of governments or behalf of intelligence agencies to enact color revolutions across the world to push degeneracy.
One of the United States' chief exports has been the Rainbow.
You know, dangling carrots or money over countries if they will adopt gay marriage or if they will, you know, push this idea that, you know, homosexuality shouldn't just be permitted, but it's also ideal and a good thing to do.
This has been, in many regards, America's foreign policy just based on USAID and the projects they fund and what they push on other countries.
And that's all being exposed.
It has been exposed, but now it's being exposed.
We see the gargantuan amounts of money that have just been laundered and wasted.
As a matter of fact, so Bono recently went on the Joe Rogan experience, and he was lamenting, and he put out this 300,000 figure, and Joe Rogan rightfully pushed back against that.
Joe Rogan saying...
He even brought up the fact that in the last week or two of the Biden administration, they spent $90 billion just sending it everywhere.
Now, where were they sending it?
We don't know.
But I can tell you what they were doing is kind of a parachute, a bailout, trying to say, okay, we're not in power anymore, so we've got to fund all of these organizations, all of this stuff.
We're going to send all this money out so that we have all of these shell groups that are funded.
That can attempt to fund our resistance and our subversion and us trying to essentially get power back.
That's what it was all about.
And so the fact that you have somebody like Russell Moore, who in Christianity yesterday, who he's the editor of Christianity Today, I call it Christianity Yesterday, Russell Moore is now lamenting this as well, which is exactly, I'm sure, what the intel oligarchs and people at the CIA say.
Whether or not he has ever worked for them or not, I have no idea.
I just know that he writes, when he writes, he writes as if...
It centers around PEPFAR, which is an organization that the USAID has funded to help stop the spread of AIDS in Africa.
So he's got this piece, PEPFAR and the Uneasy Conscience of American Christianity.
entity.
So we should feel very guilty that under the Trump administration, USAID funding has been stopped.
It's been ended.
Totally ignoring the Well, I don't know about totally ignoring, but the money laundering is a huge deal here.
But before we get into this article, I think that we need to go back and...
This has been something he's written about since 2009.
Way back in 2009, Russell Moore published a piece on December 1st, 2009, titled, Jesus Has AIDS.
Now, I...
I saw somebody link to this over on X in response to that New Christianity Yesterday article.
And it was so funny to me because as I read the article, I said, okay, this is probably some clever, like, you know, this very provocative, terrible headline, by the way.
I would never write something like this saying that Jesus has AIDS, but he must not mean the actual AIDS.
He must not mean the actual autoimmune disorder.
So he wrote back in 09, Jesus has AIDS.
Just reading that in the type in front of you probably has some of you angry.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, we're talking about the lamb slain before the foundation of the world.
We're talking about the king of kings, the king of all the universe.
And you're saying he has AIDS?
The resurrected Christ sitting at the right hand of God?
Yeah, that should make all of us uneasy.
So, of course, he knows exactly what he's doing, but he says, let me help you see why that is, and in doing so, why caring for those with AIDS is part of the gospel mandate given to us in the Great Commission.
He goes on.
He says, yes, that's all true.
But, you know, my wife tells me if I'm ever, I learned this early on in marriage.
When you say that you're sorry, you've had an argument, you say you're sorry, you say, I'm sorry, but.
The but negates the apology.
So he says, yes, but what we're often likely to miss is that Jesus has identified himself with the suffering of this world, an identification that continues on through his church.
Yes, Jesus finishes his suffering at the cross, but he also speaks of himself being persecuted by Saul of Tarsus as Saul comes after his church in Damascus.
So you see the twisting here.
He knows that Jesus Christ does not have AIDS and yet has decided to create, back in 2009, this contorted view of Scripture.
This, in my opinion, is a form of spiritual abuse.
It's just factually inaccurate, and the whole article is silly.
So I wanted to highlight that, and if you read the rest of the article, it gets even worse, talking about how, yeah, Jesus doesn't have AIDS, but he keeps saying but.
So, Russell Moore cares a lot about AIDS.
So much so that he's willing to write an article like that.
So, recently, Joe Rogan went...
Listen.
Just a recent report.
It's not proven, but their surveillance enough suggests 300,000 people have already died from just this cutoff, this hard cut of USAID.
So there's food rotting in boats, in warehouses.
This will fuck you off.
You will not be happy.
No American will.
But there is, I think it's 50,000 tons of food that are stored in Djibouti, South Africa, Dubai, and wait for it, Houston, Texas.
And that is rotting.
Rather than going to Gaza.
Rather than going to Sudan.
Because the people who know the codes are for the warehouse are fired.
They're gone.
And so this...
I don't know.
I just...
What is that?
That's not America, is it?
Well, they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Right.
Right.
this is the problem.
The problem is...
Also, for sure, it was a money laundering operation.
For sure, there was no oversight.
sure billions of dollars are missing.
In fact, trillions that are unaccounted for that were sent off into various that
And I think that's the game here.
There was a fascinating documentary done by Netflix several years ago called Poverty, Inc., and it talked about how all of these non-government organizations that we now know are basically funded by you and me and the magic money machines that Elon Musk talked about, they don't want the poverty to go away because then the organizations themselves go away.
So the organizations themselves are, many of them, engaged in human trafficking.
Many of them engaged in subverting the will of people and other democracies.
And the fact is, this is an organization that you need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
100%.
Because there is so much unknowable about it.
And then there's a lot that we do know.
This money is going to actually work against the interests of the American people and people all across the world.
Not for a second do I believe that the money going to USIAD actually helped people more than it hurt people.
Not a second do I believe that.
Anyway, the video clip continues.
Don't even know where because there's no receipts.
The way Elon Musk described it, he said if any of this was done by a public company, the company would be delisted and the executives would be in prison.
But in the United States, this is standard when Biden left office When it was clear that Trump won in the 73 days they spent 93 billion dollars from the Department of Energy on on And there's no oversight, no receipts.
The whole thing is, there's a lot of fraud.
A lot of fraud.
So, Russell Moore from Christianity Today then writes this piece about that interaction with Bono.
We are so accustomed to seeing every public argument as a cage fight that it can be genuinely surprising to see a mind changing in the course of a conversation.
He says, on the Joe Rogan experience last week, songwriter Bono laid out for Rogan the very human results of the Trump administration's drastic spending cuts that will put an end to one government program that has actually worked, according to Russell Moore, that of saving people in Africa from dying with AIDS.
He says, Rogan seemed convinced, even concerned.
I don't know.
It seems like to me, and I didn't watch the whole podcast, maybe he did, but it seems to me Rogan was calling out the fact that there's a lot of fraud.
Now, here's the deal about Bono.
Bono has been a huge, huge recipient of USAID money.
These intentions are not exactly pure, and I'm not the only one to think that.
Alex Jones actually took to the Internet to absolutely slam Bono for his Joe Rogan appearance because Jones claims that Bono is actually a USAID thief, that he steals.
Most of the money he's gotten and gives very little to the charities you're supposed to go to.
Listen.
Bono tried to go on Joe Rogan's podcast and say that Elon Musk and Trump have killed 300,000 people cutting USA money.
Total lie.
He's the one, famously, that steals 99% of the charity money over $8 billion he's raised to feed starving Africans.
He is a master criminal and his lies have completely blown up in his face.
And I guarantee he flew into Austin to be on Joe's podcast last week with USAID money and stolen charity money.
Guaranteed there should be an investigation, but it shows that these criminals are desperate, and that's why they're crawling out from underneath their rocks.
The spotlight of truth is on these cockroaches.
So, I mean, it's just so funny to me.
You've got this, you know, you've got this Russell Moore from Christianity Today, and again, he exists.
He and others like him exist to sanitize.
Regime rhetoric sanitize the intel oligarchy.
I mean, certainly it happened during COVID.
It's happened many, many other times before.
And so, I don't know, man.
I just ask the question again.
It's just odd to me.
Has Russell Moore ever worked at the CIA?
Do you or have you ever worked for intelligence services of any kind?
Because this is the exact article that I would want.
Like if I was really disturbed that all the money that was funding all of my shell organizations was now drying up and I didn't have the money to foment color revolutions across the world or I didn't have the money to pay off people to steal elections anymore in different European countries, if I all of a sudden had all that dried up and I wanted to put some public pressure on there,
children have died.
I would definitely activate those assets.
By the way, we just found out that Mike Myers is affiliated with the CIA based on the Diddy trial.
Mike Myers, literally the guy they call the international man of mystery in his Austin Powers movies, telling us right there in front of our faces that, yeah.
You've got actors, you've got news anchors.
Who else?
Who else?
I mean, it would make, I'm telling you right now, Specifically, the state doesn't like the idea that there's anything higher than their authority, and so it would make sense.
It would make sense to infiltrate seminaries.
It would make sense to infiltrate religions and different denominations to make them tell their parishioners that what the government is doing is actually good.
And this is not a conspiracy theory at all.
Rick Warren from Saddleback Church, who was, by the way, removed from the SBC a couple of years ago because they were defending woman pastors, which is just not a biblical stance that you can actually take if you actually go read Timothy and Titus and that sort of thing.
Rick Warren all the way back in 2008.
So a year before Russell Moore wrote this article in 2009.
Rick Warren went to Davos and the World Economic Forum and he gave an interview where he complained that the World Economic Forum has a few things right.
They're activating business, they're activating government, and business and government are partnering, but they're failing to activate the third leg of the stool.
And he said that third leg is religion and pastors and how, from a globalist standpoint, They need to take advantage of the personal relationship and the trust that churchgoers have in their clergy, and they need to utilize the clergy to disseminate their messaging.
Now, that is me paraphrasing Rick Warren, but you can look it up yourself because he's essentially saying that exact thing.
And boy, on this side of the COVID tyranny, does that statement really ring true.
You be the judge.
Who are actually working for rogue intelligence services or loyal to them.
You know, and at some point, if you're an actual die-hard disciple of globalism and that line of thinking, a lot of times people will just act that way on their own.
But this is the sky is falling.
So the sky is falling.
300,000 people are dead, they say, because Donald Trump and Marco Rubio ended this USAID corruption and money laundering, which is essentially all it was from just a pure political standpoint.
That money is going to fund your enemies.
That money is going to fund people who are going to use that money to work against all of your goals.
Jim Acosta was recently at some event.
And I want you to understand the state of the liberal mind and how they are walking around thinking the sky is falling all the time.
Listen to this.
Pull out the phone.
Turn the light on.
Pull out the phone.
Turn the light on.
You guys too.
It may feel like we are surrounded in darkness right now.
There's no question about it.
It's been hard to get through.
We're only, what, a hundred and some odd days in.
But I think what you just heard here from these gentlemen up here, from Tara, from Aaron, from Miles, is that there's still a lot of light left in all of us.
And it would mean something to me if you carry that message with you as we leave this theater here tonight, that this is not a country that is being plunged into darkness.
This is a country that can find its way back to the light.
And I want to thank everybody for being here tonight.
I appreciate all of you so much.
This is just a tremendous outpouring of support and patriotism and love for country that, you know, it's going to, So for those of you listening to the audio-only version on Spotify or Apple, it's a dark auditorium, and he's got everybody, like, at a concert with their phone lights on, right?
We're not—I know it feels like this country is descending into darkness, but trust me, we're not.
We're going to come back total darkness.
Now, look, for as much as the—I mean, look, during the Joe Biden administration, I mean, I did several shows about how wicked the country is, how, you know, we are sliding down the slippery slope, all of these really, really terrible things.
But it occurs to me—I mean, when I went to bed at night, I wasn't ever— I know that the Lord is in control.
I know that he's sovereign over the events of men.
I know this.
I mean, I'm a Christian.
I believe in the gospel.
And many people on the left, if not all of them, they're not religious.
are not Christian.
And so they very much take this happened in Trump's first term.
They very much take their security from man-made institutions, not eternal institutions.
Look, I get it.
I understand that, but I do.
I tend to have some sympathy for people who think that this is like the end of the world.
That MAGA is in charge and that Donald Trump is in office and that they're deporting people, that they're allowing white Afrikaners to come here who are, you know, and Donald Trump's calling it a genocide.
All of these things, their worldviews are in complete conflict with what's going on, much like when Biden was in office, but there's a huge difference here where they think there is no hope.
And I guess Acosta's trying to give him some man-made hope with cell phone flashlights.
But it is a stark contrast, I think, because while Biden's administration was frustrating and it made me angry and everything else, it didn't affect my relationships with my family.
You've got a lot of leftists that won't even talk to their family because they voted for Donald Trump.
Pretty wild stuff.
What else do we have here?
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The big, beautiful bill, if you will.
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All right, so Stephen Miller is in the news.
Stephen Miller is Trump's spokesperson, and he says that I was on the campaign trail.
This is talking about the big, beautiful bill.
He says, I was on the campaign trail with Trump all across America.
He promised in every rally to pass tax cuts, fully secure the border, deport the illegals, dismantle the criminal gangs, unleash American energy, build the missile defense shield, reshore our manufacturing base, and enact no tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security.
To thunderous applause in speech after speech.
He then won in a landslide.
And he overcame ten years of lawfare, witch hunts, persecutions, and two near assassinations to deliver on this extraordinary agenda.
He says the House passed a bill to codify each and every one of these promises, which is why the House should be loudly and enthusiastically celebrated, he says, for keeping our sacred vows to the American people.
The libertarian candidate who ran on the RAND platform got one half of one percent of the national vote.
This isn't hard.
The only choice is to keep our promises to the American people.
So this is how the Trump administration is framing this in light of Elon Musk coming out and being against the big, beautiful bill and saying that the, It's not doing enough to address the deficit.
It's not doing enough.
It's filled with too much pork and that sort of thing, which is just the way Congress operates.
So there's this kind of debate back and forth.
Donald Trump recently put this on Truth Social today.
Shockingly, he says, the Democrat-controlled CBO, Congressional Budget Office, just announced that the tariffs will be reducing the deficit by at least $2.8 trillion.
Too bad this information couldn't have been released earlier.
It would have kept people from knowingly saying untruths.
I wonder if he's talking about Musk.
I wonder if he's talking about Rand Paul or Thomas Massey and the like.
Who knows?
We can kind of go back and forth here.
Let's go to Speaker Mike Johnson.
He retweeted Russ Vought, who's from the Office of Management and Budget, says, OMB just reviewed the new CBO score on the one big beautiful bill.
It confirms what we knew about the bill at the House Passage.
The bill reduces deficits by $1.4 trillion over 10 years when you adjust for the CBO's one big gimmick, not using a realistic current policy baseline.
It includes $1.7 trillion in mandatory savings, the most in history.
If you care about deficits and debt, this bill dramatically improves.
So, that's Russ Vought.
Now, I generally, I'm a fan of Russ Vought, number one, because I know he's a Christian, and so I think more Christians in government will generally, should, reveal more honesty in government, which is what we want.
Some people are asking Grok about it, but Mike Johnson seems to agree with this.
He says, Russ is right.
Our one big, beautiful bill will reduce the deficit while delivering on the mandate given to us by the American people.
Let's get it done.
And so then you also have, again, this back and forth between Rand, Paul, and the rest and the like.
But what I will say here is...
Now, Charles Haywood is a friend of the program.
We've had him on a few times.
Haywood's take is this.
He says, I don't care about wasteful or excessive government spending.
Okay.
He says, that ship sailed long ago.
He says, I want spending and actions embedded in spending bills that helps my friends and hurts my enemies and their plans.
He says everything else is irrelevant.
Now, this is a very, very cutthroat way of looking at it, but I also think there's some truth there.
There's some realism there.
Look, I did a whole segment yesterday about this, about owing $12 trillion versus owing $37 trillion.
And maybe I'm wrong about that, but to me it just...
They have now spent almost $40 and nothing bad has happened to them.
Obviously, it's not morally right to spend more than you make.
But what Haywood is saying here is, look, that ship has sailed.
That's who Washington is.
They've got magic money machines.
They've got the printing press where they can just print, digitize as much currency as they want or destroy as much currency as they want, which, by the way, the Fed can do.
He does have a point.
The system is what the system is right now, and so I can certainly understand the practical aspect of it of saying, look, what if we just get policies enacted that winnow our enemies?
Now, does the bill do that?
They're going to say it does.
Do I trust Congress?
No.
But it is something to consider.
We can pray.
That whatever they do will be for the good of the people and not for our corruption.
And at the same time, we'll see.
Because you never know.
But I think this sentiment, I think I'm most aligned with this sentiment.
This is why when I was trying to cover the back and forth yesterday between Musk and Trump and all this other stuff, it's just I've been around for so long, I feel like, covering the fact that they don't No one cares about the debt.
No one cares about the deficit.
I mean, you might as well owe a gazillion dollars, like $12 trillion to $40 trillion.
You can't pay it back when you really look about how much it is.
I don't think.
I think it's insane.
I think the financial crisis is going to happen when people want it to happen to preserve their own power.
But that's just me.
That's why so many people want war as well.
It's a precarious situation for sure.
No doubt.
All right, now, moving on.
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Jim Ferguson reports on Jack Posobiec says that the U.S. intel hid the Ukrainian drone strike from President Trump.
He said this on Steve Bannon's War Room.
Listen.
The report that I can report back on all of this is that there are elements of the U.S. intelligence community that absolutely knew about this Operation Spiderweb.
And hit it from the President of the United States and the White House upper echelons of the national security leadership.
And particularly, there are a lot of questions surrounding, as you've mentioned, Senator Lindsey Graham, but also former CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who is currently right now in Odessa, Ukraine.
Okay, so we've got We've got a government that's not monolithic, and if that's right, we also have a government that Donald Trump is not in complete control of.
So the question is, what are they going to do to get complete control of the intel apparatus?
Yesterday, Donald Trump said that he finished speaking with Vladimir Putin, said that Russia's going to retaliate against Ukraine.
But then he said this.
He said that he and Vladimir Putin spoke about Iran.
And the fact that time is running out on Iran's decision pertaining to a nuclear weapons deal, which must be quickly made.
I stated to President Putin that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and on this I believe we were in agreement.
President Putin suggested that he will participate in the discussions with Iran and that he could perhaps be helpful in getting this brought to a rapid conclusion.
Trigger Mark Levin and Nikki Haley into a complete meltdown.
Nikki Haley writing, Russia has been receiving drones and ballistic missiles from Iran to use in its kidnapping of Ukraine.
Iran and Russia are partners.
It is ludicrous to think we would allow Putin to be chief negotiator between the U.S. and Iran and on the Iran deal in exchange for the U.S. helping Russia with Ukraine.
That is a backhanded slap to all of our allies.
Nikki Haley obviously having a meltdown and once again proving why she should be nowhere near the Trump administration.
But based on the fact that Nikki Haley was rejected for the Trump administration, I look for her to appear in Ukraine along with Pompeo and Graham very, very soon.
What about you?
Concerned citizen pointing out that Putin is furious and is going to strike again.
Obviously.
Patrick Webb claiming that Senator Lindsey Graham could face a Logan Act investigation.
I won't hold my breath on that because, you know, essentially he goes there and then they nearly start World War III, and who knows?
Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo's visit to Ukraine, you know, could be like the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand.
Seriously, you never know what could happen from all of this.
And that brings me to Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson writes and slams Mark Levin for essentially attempting to drag the U.S. into a war that would result in dead Americans.
Tucker Carlson says that Mark Levin was at the White House today lobbying for war with Iran.
To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war.
He's demanding that American troops do it.
Tucker says, we need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons.
He and like-minded ideologues in Washington are now arguing.
They're just weeks away.
He goes on, if this sounds familiar, it's because the same people who have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s, let's see, the same people have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s.
It's a lie.
In fact, there is zero credible intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb or has plans to.
None, he writes.
Anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or dishonest.
If the US government knew Iran was weeks away from possessing a nuclear weapon, we'd be at war already.
Iran knows this, which is why they aren't building one.
Iran also knows it's unwise to give up its weapons program entirely.
Muammar Gaddafi tried and wound up sodomized with a bayonet.
This is true.
As soon as Gaddafi disarmed, NATO killed him.
Iran's leaders saw that happen.
They learned the obvious lesson.
So why is Mark Levin once again hyperventilating about weapons of mass destruction?
To distract you from the real goal, which is regime change.
Young Americans heading back to the Middle East to topple yet another government.
Virtually no one will say this out loud.
America's record of overthrowing foreign leaders is so embarrassingly counterproductive that regime change has now become a synonym for disaster.
Officially, no one supports it, so instead of telling the truth about their motives, they manufacture hysteria.
A country like Iran can never have the bomb.
They'll nuke Los Angeles.
We have to act now, which, by the way, that claim also should make all of us have our heads on a swivel for a potential false flag that's not done by people.
Okay, so keep that in mind.
And by the way, we just mentioned Rob Reiner earlier in the show when talking about Russell Moore.
Rob Reiner, you know, the Hollywood director.
One of his best films is The Princess Bride.
Go watch that movie again.
The whole movie, the whole premise that starts the plot off is the king or the prince trying to start a false flag to go to war under false pretenses.
Just something to think about.
He goes on.
They don't really mean this, and you can tell they don't by what they omit.
At least two of Iran's neighbors, both Islamic nations, already have nuclear weapons.
That fact should scare the hell out of Mark Levin, yet for some reason he never mentions it.
How come?
Because it's not the weapons he hates, it's the ideology of the Iranian government, which is why he's lobbying to overthrow it.
He goes on.
It goes without saying that there are very true Trump voters who support a regime change war in Iran.
Donald Trump has argued loudly against reckless lunacy like this.
Trump ran for president as a peace candidate.
That's what made him different from conventional Republicans.
It's why he won.
A war with Iran would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters.
It would end his presidency.
And that may explain why so many of Trump's enemies are advocating for it.
You know, like Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham.
Mike Pompeo.
And then there's the question of the war itself.
Iran may not have nukes, but it has a fearsome arsenal of ballistic missiles, many of which are aimed at U.S. military installations in the Gulf as well as at our allies and at critical energy infrastructure.
The first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans.
It could also collapse our economy as surging oil prices trigger unmanageable inflation.
Consider the effects of $30 gasoline.
By the second week of the war, it could be even worse.
Iran isn't Iraq or Libya or even North Korea.
While it's often described as a rogue state, Iran has powerful allies.
It's now part of a global bloc called BRICS, which represents the majority of the world's landmass, population, economy and military power.
Iran has extensive military ties with Russia.
It sells the overwhelming majority of its oil exports to China.
Iran isn't alone.
An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war we'd lose, Tucker claims.
He goes on.
None of these are far-fetched predictions.
Most of them comport with the Pentagon's own estimates.
Many Americans would die during a war with Iran.
People like Mark Levin don't seem to care about this.
It's not relevant to them.
Instead, they insist that Iran give up all uranium enrichment regardless of its purpose.
They know perfectly well that Iran will never accept that demand.
They'll fight first.
And of course, that's the whole point of pushing for it.
to box the Trump administration into a regime change war with Iran.
The one thing...
They denounce anyone who advocates for a deal as a traitor and a bigot.
They tell us with a straight face that Long Island native Steve Witkoff is a secret tool of Islamic monarchies.
They'll say or do whatever it takes.
They have no limits.
They are scary people.
Pray that Donald Trump ignores them.
So in the paragraph previous, again, that was Tucker Carl's...
The talk about peace.
I think I'm just going to kind of combine this with my own theory about Ukraine.
That's why they don't want peace in Ukraine.
If we have peace with Russia, we start trading with Russia, it makes it even harder to go to war with Iran.
I think there's a calculated effort by the warmongers that they know.
If there is peace between Ukraine and Russia, then there's a much greater likelihood they can go to war with Iran.
If they make diplomatic efforts and they secure peace between Russia and Ukraine, and we open up our trade routes with Russia as the stated goal of the Trump administration, you can't go to war with a proxy of Russia like Iran.
It'll torpedo everything.
So we have the military-industrial complex.
We have people that just want more bloodshed.
They want more war.
They want the minerals in Russia.
They want more money for the military-industrial complex to make more bombs.
It is pretty scary.
Pretty scary times.
It's crazy, though.
You never hear that in the mainstream media, though, do you?
You never actually hear what would happen to U.S. military personnel.
If Israel attacked Iran and we were behind it, or if we attacked Iran directly, you never hear that there'd be missiles fired immediately that are pointed at U.S. military installations and there would be dead American soldiers like that.
And then guess what?
We would get dragged into a war because you've killed our soldiers.
You've killed 1,000, 2,000 of our soldiers.
We're really on a knife's edge when it comes to this.
And I'm hoping that Donald Trump talks more with...
Honestly, Donald Trump needs to...
I don't know.
Has she said anything about this attack in Ukraine?
Why was it hidden from the President of the United States, allegedly?
Why did this happen?
There's a lot more questions that we've got to get answers to.
Let's see.
We're going to skip this Kareem Jean-Pierre story, and we're going to go towards...
Let's go to this theologian.
We've been trying to talk about this for three days, and I keep skipping over it.
N.T. Wright.
So there's a British theologian named N.T. Wright.
He's made headlines this week because he came out as a Christian in support of abortion.
The GP in that case, a devout Christian GP, said we're going to do the tests and if she has been exposed to rubella, if there's a threat of serious defamation or whatever, then we will recommend termination.
And I remember my heart in my mouth when I heard that and thinking, do I really agree with that?
But at the time it was absolutely In fact, there are many, many cases.
So we've heard that before, the mental health.
We've heard that from the Georgia state representative saying that you should be able to, according to her Jewish faith, that her rabbi teaches her that you can have an abortion if you are Mentally, for your mental health.
And so it's very crazy that you have this guy, N.T. Wright, who I don't know a lot about, but apparently he's had quite a few mishaps here lately, coming out essentially saying, yeah, abortion is allowable.
Okay.
So that was the first, and Protestia has the story here.
Where's the headline?
Let me just show you the headline here.
N.T. Wright says abortion is okay in cases of rape and incest.
The best thing you can do is as soon as possible to terminate the pregnancy.
This has been making the rounds on Christian circles on X, and people are obviously outraged by it.
But then Steve Dace talks about this other thing that N.T. Wright said.
He says, After yesterday's moral heresy in favor of infanticide, N.T. Wright has now moved on to actual heresy.
At this point, he should just be pronounced N.T. wrong.
These are not things you just suddenly get wrong at his age.
Rather, they are signs you have either fallen away or you're just a false teacher.
N.T. Wright talks about how...
So, Tom, do you need to believe in a physical bodily resurrection, as you've argued in resurrection of the Son of God, in order to be a Christian?
Thanks, Mike, and thank you to Craig for this question.
And like all quotations taken out of context, in order to understand it, you have to go back into the context.
Let's see.
And I think that the context came originally from a book which I wrote, ooh, 25 years ago with my late lamented friend.
Okay, so they actually puts his quotations in there.
I have friends.
So he wrote, I have friends who I am quite sure are Christians who do not believe in the bodily resurrection.
Okay, so he goes on to defend this.
I think that the context came originally from a book which I wrote 25 years ago with my late lamented friend Marcus Borg, an American theologian and writer who he and I studied at the same time in Oxford.
We didn't actually know each other then but we had the same teacher and when we did meet we had a lot in common and we became good friends and I'm still in touch with his widow and so on.
Maggie and I stayed with them and they with us.
I got to know Mark quite well.
Now, Mark had come from a very fundamentalist Lutheran background where you had to believe this and this and this and this and this and he'd found it all completely deadening and didn't do anything for him and so on and then he gave it all up but then in early middle life Through a series of extraordinary spiritual experiences, he came back into faith, and Jesus became enormously important to him, and his prayer life took off again.
But because he had been kind of bullied as a young person by a kind of dogmatic who got to believe this, that, and the other, he had got into the position where Anything like bodily resurrection, that was simply unspiritual.
He was basically some kind of a Christian Platonist, and there have been many, many Christian Platonists who just don't think that the body matters that much.
You know, if you remove the supernatural, if you try to separate, this is a classic, classic tactic.
America went through it in the 20s.
People obsessed with getting a cultural seat at the table.
So they try to separate supernatural Jesus from historical Jesus.
But the problem is, when you try to do that, you eliminate the historical Jesus, because the historical Jesus is supernatural.
And we see this once again.
And it's pretty sad, but birds of a feather flock together.
I apologize for this next clip, but here is the song Genesis, written by N.T. Wright, who we just heard, and the former head of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins.
Genesis.
Earth and heaven in a cosmic kiss.
Evolution must have been like this.
Oh, I believe in Genesis.
DNA.
Shaping creatures from the dust and clay.
Double helix in the Milky Way.
Oh Genesis, met DNA, how he made it all 14 billion years ago.
With the grace and love for his spoke and it was so.
Genesis means DNA, he says.
They talk about evolution in this.
So they desperately are wanting to allegorize the book of Genesis.
And I could actually go on and talk about that for days.
I believe in a literal six-day creation, just so those of you, if you don't know.
I'll end here with this.
Drake Isabel writing a piece over at Christ Overall called When Public Figures Error With Words.
And in this he talks about when to just not trust people anymore.
Does the error coincide with the spirit of the age?
What you just saw is an error coinciding with the spirit of the age.
He says, relying on the theological triage model by itself creates the potential danger of automatically considering any individual who signs off on first-tier doctrines like the Trinity, the hypostatic union, the resurrection of Jesus, the imago dei, and salvation by grace alone as a co-laborer ministering in good faith regardless of how many other significant issues they get wrong.
However, this line of thinking ignores the reality that we live within a culture that is directly hostile towards Christian teaching at specific points, issues of gender, sexuality, for example.
Faithful Christians will inevitably find themselves face-to-face with spiritually destructive ideas that directly contradict the teachings of Christ, and they must be able to respond accordingly.
Scripture makes clear that followers of Jesus should expect hostility from the world.
Therefore, while we should love even the unbelievers who persecute us and seek to win them to the gospel, we must also be careful not to yearn for the world's approval, instead striving to be in the world yet not unloved.
Because of this dynamic, the areas in which a public figure falls short of biblical teaching, as you've just seen, folks.
can reveal something about the authenticity or strength of their witness.
To put the matter frankly, if a professing believer is only willing to publicly affirm historic Christian teaching in ways that don't cost him much social credit while tending to err or make mistakes in directions that the wider Christian culture would approve of, then I have good reason to suspect that he is unduly driven by a desire for the world's approval.
In most cases, a Christian public figure is not going to be blacklisted for affirming the doctrine For taking firm but unpopular stances on issues like abortion.
N.T. Wright, egalitarianism, homosexual rights, transgender rights, and reparations, and I would add the creation story.
A Christian teacher-slash-leader's affirmation of the former doctrines would be largely undermined by compromise or unbiblical stances taken on the latter.
Such stances or missteps erode trust in their commitment and submission to the authority of God's Word over against the pressures of the world.
Great article by Drake Isabel about when public figures, especially in Christianity, consistently air.
How are they making their mistakes?
Are they making their mistakes?
Are they saying things that are wrong, that are not getting the disapproval of the culture?
And if so, that's a huge red flag.
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