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Sexual predators and comprehensive sex education both break down inhibitions. That's what they start with. They also gain trust with the child and then slowly start to get them towards sexual activity.

Anything goes. You are teaching children adult child sex, you're teaching transgender issues. And, you know, children are moldable.

And influenced by that. They said, okay, now we need you and your team to be able to explain what homosexuality is to a four-year-old student. To introduce this kind of material at that age, frankly, it's child abuse. You're going to teach our children that it's okay for any two children of any age, of any sex, to have sexual intercourse with each other as long as two components are present.

One's using a condom and they both give connection. Did I hear that correctly? It's not a neutral venue. There's no such thing. Okay, the schools are doing your job. They are discipling your children.

But they're not discipling them in the faith of Jesus Christ. It's only the exceptional child that even survives that system. Most do not survive.

Most have not survived. They believe that children are sexual from birth. They deserve and have the right to be sexually active and to seek sexual pleasure.

And if anyone is stopping them from that, then you are judging and oppressing them. Even kindergarten now, they're wanting to teach them more and more perverse information and acts and put that into the children's minds. And once that poison is in a child's mind, it doesn't leave.

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Seriously. If you'd like to hear more about that, we'll have an article up about that at chosengenerationradio.com this afternoon. So that was interesting. The FDA also has determined that the mono, let me see here, it's Regeneron and Eli Lilly's antibody drugs are no longer approved by the FDA because, well, you know, they don't do anything for you.

Of course, neither does the poke. But what the heck? Let's get that. So anyway, we talked about that.

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Transgenderism is is a stair step to pedophilia. It really is. The mind polluters talks about that.

That film, if you haven't had a chance to view that, I encourage you to do so. So, yeah, there's there's a lot of conversation to have at the end of the day. The bottom line is, thankfully, thankfully, our Heavenly Father is still in charge. God's still on the throne. And and and believe me, it's it's comforting to know in the midst of all this insanity that God is still in control.

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Call me eight three oh four four six thirty six twenty four eight three oh four four six thirty six twenty four. All right. My guest, our constitutional attorney expert, and I am so pleased that he is here because he do you want to share? You had some craziness happen this week.

Sure. David Stokas is with us. But you you were involved. I know. I mean, just like myself, you about a year ago, a little over a year ago, you died and came back to life. They lost you in a courtroom and and were able to revive you. God brought you back. Now you've been in a car accident. Talk about it.

Yes. Greg, it's great to be with you and your nurse and we just said you asked me how I was when you when you called me to get on the show. My answer was I'm alive to which I said, wait a minute. What does that mean? What? Why? Why are you saying that? Yeah.

Yeah. I'm alive with all the all the consequences that go with that. And the fact is, is that a couple of nights ago, I was in the car with my sister.

We're on the way to an event in a far north suburb of Chicago. I came to a stop at a busy intersection waiting to make a right turn on that and a fella in the cross street was going to make a left hand turn. And he started making his left hand turn and some another guy came from the opposite direction, slammed into him. And the other guy was already in motion. And I could then tell that that car was turned around and coming straight toward me.

Me personally, not just my car, but me personally. Right. And I glanced to my right and strangely enough, there was 12 degrees outside up here that night. But there was nevertheless a pedestrian on the street walking when I glanced to my right. So I had nothing. I had no choice but to just kind of brace myself and watch this car drive toward me.

It was really surreal. We were talking before about how everything seems to slow down and how it all tends to go in slow motion. Because I did have the I like I said, when I first saw it happen, I did have the opportunity to look to my right to see if I had any way to some way to avoid this. Right.

Yeah. To see if I had an opportunity to get out of the way. And because the because of that pedestrian, I had no opportunity to get out of the way. So I literally and my sister was sitting to my right and it was very strangely enough, it was almost a peaceful moment of almost kind of like resignation. It was really very curious because Jill says, I just wonder what she said. All you said was, oh, yeah, that was. And what do you say? Right.

What else? Yeah. It's like, oh, OK, well, yeah.

Either either either either God's going to bring me home right now or or or this is all going to work out and we're going to be OK. It's one or the other. So. Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah. It was there wasn't there was no yelling, no screaming, no. Right.

The expletives of any sort, just very simple. Oh, and then I looked at it and I watched I watched him drive right into the driver's side door. Wow. And but you're you're you're OK, you said. But your your your back is a little a little shooken up.

Yeah. My little my lower back feels like it's got some muscular muscular discomfort as a result of this incident. Because I think I kind of I tensed up and then it slammed me a little bit. Jill was a little in the upper area because apparently she saw what was going on. And after I said, oh, she looked over and saw what was going on, she got put her head down and docked and whatnot.

And so the impact adversely affected her. But of course, I'm so blessed. I've it's not a fancy car, but it's a heavy car. It's 2011 Cadillac. And so that's what I've written.

I've ridden in that car. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I guess I won't be able to do that again. You know what I think we're working on getting the car fixed. Oh, good.

Well, at the moment, we'll see. Right. Yeah.

But I feel that for any number of reasons, I need to use it today. And I was concerned after it happened that there might be some damage to the frame and things like that. Yeah. And now when I go over just a little bit above, I go, you know. Yeah.

So there's there's there's damage beyond the cosmetic damage. OK. Well, I'm glad I'm just I'm glad you're OK. And if you if you if we if we you know, speaking of unavoidable issues, there are there are a number of unavoidable issues that are that are before us as we as we converse today, predicated on decisions that are being made. One of those unavoidable decisions actually is is is is the issue of lawlessness. David, that is overflowing.

I was telling my audience in in the first segment as I was telling about some of the stuff we were going to perhaps talk about. But, you know, in California, Oregon and Washington, I'm pretty sure Oregon. I know California, Washington.

But yeah, no, and Oregon. They have legalized pot. And and so they're harvesting it. They have fields of marijuana that are being harvest. But the people that are actually doing the majority of the harvesting are are actually the cartels and the cartels are then taking and packaging that and shipping that dope out to the rest of the world. And it's just.

Go ahead. There's a couple of things going on with that, at the least, which is while they've legalized it, of course, the government is in terms of determining to legalize it, decided that they were going to tax it significantly and looked at it as a significant source of revenue. But all they wound up doing is making the street price well beyond the production price and made it very difficult to prosecute people for growing. So now the folks that are growing it are still selling it illegally because, you know, because it's cheaper to sell without the taxes. So they didn't achieve anything in the way they did that.

They should have let them. If they're going to do it, they let the market dictate. But the politicians don't understand economics.

And so this is this is causing a brand new problem. And the illegal people will still be showing it on the street, probably close by the dispensaries, because they can sell it cheaper than you can buy it in the dispensary. Right. You know, there's always economics at work. And of course, politicians just say, oh, well, there's there's this much traffic, then it will continue to be trafficked even if we tax it to high heaven.

No, that's not how it works. You raise the price of it. You create you just create the black market, but you create an even easier means by which for the black market to exist. And the other piece to this is and Brandon Darby and I had a pretty extensive conversation about this several years ago because, you know, the the growers down in South America and in Mexico were having to put fentanyl into the pot in order to make it possible. In order to make it potent enough to compete with the American marijuana that that was being harvested in just a couple of states when it was first made legal. Well, now that they have these large groves and they can actually harvest it there in America themselves, they're still sending fentanyl and opioids and heroin is a is a big thing that they're trafficking in now. But they're trafficking those in by themselves. And it's a lot easier, actually, as I understand it, for them to bring the pill forms in than it was for them to actually bring in blocks of marijuana laced with it. So so again, you know, the exact opposite of what they told us was going to happen. But but this speaks to a I think an even larger and broader situation, and that is we've created an amoral culture where there's no such thing as absolute truth. And and then introduced into that a a a lawless a lawless behavior where where, you know, attorney generals and state attorney generals and so forth don't prosecute criminals. Well, they not only don't prosecute criminals, of course, they're lawless themselves in terms of how they conduct their their business. Of course, the president, the guy that's sitting in the White House, he governs by press conference and the various governors that are issuing mandates.

I can't say this enough. There is no everybody says there is no mandate existing in American law. There's no such thing. And those people that are issuing these things. Ninety nine percent of the time are issuing them what we would call a legal firm.

Ultra Veras, that is outside their legal authority, which means what they're breaking the law. And so it's from top to bottom. It's it's crazy. Well, we're going to we're going to do what we can do about that in terms of making crime illegal. Here, here, here, here. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

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We'll look right into the camera and say hello. All right. Well, my guest is David Shostakos. He is our constitutional attorney. And so I was looking at the SCOTUS blog, several different. So there's a of course, the court's going to hear a challenge to affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

Are you are you have you had a chance to look at that at all? I'm not familiar with that case, but I am familiar with it, with the principles involved. And, you know, it's just that the idea it is basically discrimination based upon race.

And to my mind, it's illegal. But I don't know what's the basics on this case. So let me see.

Let me let me click on the link and see what what we got going on. So the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to reconsider the role of race in college admissions in a brief order. The justices agreed to take up two cases, asking them to overrule their landmark 2003 decision. Grutter versus Bollinger, holding at the University of Michigan, could consider race as a part of its efforts to assemble a diverse student body. The decision to grant review in the two cases suggests the court's conservative majority is poised to do just that. The cases are students for fair admissions versus president and fellows of Harvard College and students for fair admissions versus University of North Carolina. Six years ago, a divided court upheld the University of Texas consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions process. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the fourth room majority in Fisher versus the University of Texas, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. So obviously the the the it says the composition of the courts changed significantly since then. So I know that'll be interesting. I know Ward Connerly was was directly involved in overturning affirmative action and having it repealed in California and a number of other states. And he will be joining us starting in February as a regular guest. Oh, excellent.

Excellent. Well, in principle, that I would suggest that that case 2003 case was wrongly decided. Basically, the Constitution should, in fact, be colorblind. The making decisions are called for diversity based on race has no real legal basis.

You know, it seems to me that if you're going to look for diversity, it should be based on economics, you know, because, you know, well, well established, successful kids from black families are not any more disadvantaged than successful kids from white families. You know, so it's where I would I would suspect that the court is probably the reason for taking it is hopefully to move, begin to move past these kinds of things and start to talk about character and an achievement and economic differences that give people who are, in fact, themselves personally, economically disadvantaged. And I think the court seems to be moving more towards and back towards, let's say, this back towards individual considerations as opposed to group considerations, which is more consistent with what the United States has always been.

And we certainly certainly hope that that's the direction they're going to go. And this will give them the opportunity to do that, you know, because, you know, the individual individuals have rights, right. Groups that don't have rights. The Ninth Amendment. Yep.

Yeah. Ninth Amendment. Well, and holding to that thought, holding to that thought is another case that the Supreme Court picked up, and that is they granted a petition filed by Axon Enterprises, which makes body cameras for law enforcement. The case arises out of the company's efforts to acquire a competitor when the Federal Trade Commission raised the prospect of bringing and subsequently did bring administrative proceedings because of antitrust concerns. Axon went to the federal district court.

Here's the key to this. The district court dismissed Axon's complaint, holding that Axon should first raise its constitutional challenges in the administrative proceedings themselves. So what Axon is now challenging and asking the justices to weigh in on is whether the district court has the power to review constitutional challenges to the FTC structure and whether the FTC structure itself violates the Constitution. And I know from my friend Michael Daugherty and his book, The Devil Inside the Beltway and the Battle that he has fought with the FTC, his contention is, is that this whole administrative state, which was created based on that Chevron decision, to a degree, is all unconstitutional because these courts, these administrative courts don't give constitutional consideration to those that enter into their courts. Your thoughts, David?

Yes. No, that's absolutely correct. A long time ago, there was something that had a very, very powerful effect on how the court viewed things, and it was something called the non delegation doctrine. In fact, I wrote about this as a law school student that essentially says the Congress cannot give to executive agencies lawmaking power or judicial power because the Constitution gives lawmaking power to the Congress and judicial power to the courts. And there is no there is no authority in the Constitution for the creation of these administrative courts, if you will, and nor the interpretation where these regulations have the full force and effect of law. And backing away from that Chevron decision, which is something altogether, is it looks like that's on the Gorsuch agenda. And hopefully that'll be something that we're going to be making headway in that regard, bringing the power back to where the Constitution says. So a lot of these things are about who decides. Right.

Well, and this is what, yeah, what, what, what keyed me in with this axon situation is, is the challenge to the legalities of the FTC's commissions and how they handle it. Are you getting up in the morning feeling like you and your bed had a bad night, still tired? Stop!

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And welcome back to Chosen Generation Radio where no topic is off limits and everything filtered through biblical glasses. Let me see, I've got to get over here to a different area. There. Oh, there we go. All right.

So you can see up in the let's see, it's going to be this way, upper left hand corner. Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, my co-host during this segment and the wonderful and and always incredibly enlightening. I don't know. Well, it is enlightening, but it's but it's more informative and enlightening.

Yes. I was just going to say it's it's it's got more punch than that. I want to welcome Claire Lopez to the program also. Claire, good to have you. Well, thank you. Thank you both. I'm blushing over here.

Yeah, I was wondering because your picture was changing colors, so I was thinking that there must be something going on. Oh, man. Well, hey, great to have both of you with me.

Thanks so much for being here. We certainly have a great deal to discuss in our segment today because there's a lot going on in the world. I was talking with a friend of mine earlier this week and he was saying, well, let me see. So, you know, he was, you know, reading and he's a former analyst, actually, intelligence analyst. So he would take the language stuff that I would gather or guys like me and other intel, put it together into a report and then go into the general's office and say, hey, here's what you need to be paying attention to.

And here's probably what you need to do about it. So anyway, he was getting some of his background stuff and he was saying, gee, so China attacks Taiwan, Russia attacks the Ukraine and North Korea attacks South Korea. And they do it all simultaneously while sending subsonic missiles into the United States.

Not a problem. Anyway, there's just silence. Well, that's almost the worst case scenario, but the worst case scenario includes Iran attacking Saudi oil fields and taking all that assault on the Saudi oil fields and on Israel. And you end up at that point, you get your fourth, your fourth front in the war. And yes, if if China decides that they want that they are that this is the time to strike, you know, they will and they will do what you just described and the and we will face and our people will face a choice as to whether to launch a nuclear strike against China and Russia and everybody else.

And effectively, you know, end life as we know it. So that's China's choice. I don't think China will do that.

But it's a but they certainly are. They certainly are capable if they think they can get away with doing a anything but attack the United States part of it and taking Taiwan simultaneously when the Ukraine is being taken and the Baltics are being taken by Russia. And you have Iran launching war against Israel and Saudi Arabia and and North Korea attacking South Korea.

Those all four of those things happening simultaneously have one effect. Then launching missiles on the United States has causes a different effect. And I think they're not going to they're going to believe that Joe Biden will be too weak to be able to respond effectively, but he won't have any choice if missiles are landing on Washington, D.C. Claire. Yeah, I think I think we need to take a very big deep breath here.

I'll go along with that. Our our our pretty bleak. And the fact of the matter is that the United States is in a very weak position now, not only with leadership at the top, the White House, the Biden administration, but certainly also our military, which is no longer capable, technologically speaking, is no longer capable of keeping up with China and Russia.

Hypersonic missiles that you mentioned, Pastor, one of those areas. There are a few reasons why Xi Jinping may hold off going against Taiwan. One, of course, is the Olympics, which begin, I think, next week. And they want to put on a good face for that. The second reason is that later this year, I think it's November, if I remember right, of this year, 2022, Xi Jinping is seeking an unprecedented third term as the party secretary general to CCP.

And he also probably wants to keep things at a low simmer, you know, until he manages to pull that off, if he does, if he can't. And then we can we can go over to Ukraine and Russia, if you like. But I wanted to point out a couple of really good pieces that I've read, watched over the last couple of days. One is an excellent op-ed from General Mike Flynn at the Western Journal about the crisis on the border of Ukraine with Russia. And the second is another very excellent interview. And that is with Peter Fry and Robert Reilly at the Westminster Institute.

You can find that either by going to the Westminster Institute website or it's also it's on YouTube. But Peter is brilliant. And this is about an hour long interview.

So it's a long one, but well worth listening to. He'll be with me on the 9th of February. Peter Fry will be will be back with us on the 9th of February. He's a regular guest here. Yeah.

So he'll be he'll be on actually he'll be on right before you on on the ninth. Excellent. Yeah. And towards what Claire is saying, the one of the challenges that Xi has in China is his political leader believes that he pushed too hard during Trump and caused and set back their ability to take over the world by five years. And so so the the charge against him internally in China is that he's he's not patient enough.

He's too he's he's too ambitious, outwardly ambitious. And I know once again, it may sound weird, but if you think Joe Biden's be stronger in a year, you're I don't I don't think anybody in the world does. And I don't believe that Joe Biden will be stronger in two years or three years. So given that there's no actual reason to take precipitous action when you can, in fact, accomplish your objectives without any of those things.

For instance, I don't believe that the that the Ukraine thing is real and I just don't believe it. And I don't believe it because it's not in it's not in Putin's interests, but pressing Biden and Biden desperately needs to get off 33 percent. And so having a crisis allows Biden to sit there and do something that makes it seem like he saved the world from annihilation. And what he'll end up doing is quietly, quietly just assure Putin that we're not going NATO is not going to move to Ukraine, that he'll probably give away missiles in Poland.

And but nobody will even know that those are part of the deal. He'll be able to say, oh, we we probably Joe Biden brought us back to the brink. And that's and it's cynical to think that way. But, you know, anybody who's read about the Cuban missile crisis knows beyond what the headlines are, knows that Kennedy was in deep trouble politically. The party, the party was in deep trouble politically in 62. And magically, he discovered missiles on Cuba that didn't keep up for at least five, six months.

And it's a if not a year. And there's a and so Kennedy then discovered them two weeks before the election. And, you know, crisis precipitates.

He wins. The Democrats lose like five seats as opposed to 45 seats. So there's lots of things out there that political manipulations that occur. Maybe I'm saying, you know, why?

Yeah, I think you're honest. If I could say one quick thing and then clearly absolutely want to get your your expert commentary on it. And that is I just am curious to remember that President Trump was impeached over his communications with Ukraine and over the whole Ukraine situation. And here we have Joe Biden, who we know was knee deep in the Ukraine situation as the vice president under Obama and then his son Hunter making all those dollars.

I saw you and and Robert Romano and and and Kathy on on YouTube the other day. Rick, you know, I don't know why nobody's bringing up all of the background stuff relative to Joe Biden's involvement in Ukraine to begin with. That's really a big part of creating all of these smoke and mirror issues. Go ahead, Claire. Yeah, I was going to say, Rick, that you're not being cynical at all.

I agree with you. I think there are lessons from the Cuban missile crisis as well. And one of those is that when the Soviet Union placed nuclear weapons on that island, 90, 90 miles off the coast of Florida, that did precipitate a near nuclear exchange crisis. Now we have Putin who is looking at a NATO moving ever further eastward in their view. OK, remember their view. They've been invaded. Russia has been invaded from the Mongols to Napoleon to Hitler over their over their open land borders repeatedly. This is their this is their view.

This is this is how they look at the world. And he see he Putin sees NATO encroaching ever further eastward. We went ballistic when Soviet Union put missiles 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

Putin is looking at NATO missiles on the exact border. And then the other thing is the last thing I'll say here is that when when the United States is out there, you know, barking mad about withdrawing our personnel from embassies in Ukraine and, you know, sending troops to neighboring troops to neighboring NATO countries, the statement from Ukraine, from the president, below the missile institute. Let's get into that and we come back. We got to jump to a break.

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Lots and lots of good stuff coming at you on the program tomorrow. Claire Lopez is our guest today right here, right now. Former CIA operative, operator, operator. There we go. I got it right.

And Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, is my co-host. We were talking in the break and we're talking about. Greg, if she's an operator, I'm going to have you say.

Hey, who can I send you? OK, OK, one ringy dingy, two ringy dingy. No, I got it. OK. All right. All right. All right.

All right. I'm I'm I'm I'm busted. What can I tell you?

Currently, currently Lopez Liberty, LLC, and a senior advisory board member at the Near East Center for Strategic Engagement. There you go. I don't even know if I can say all those words. You had a question you wanted to ask. Oh, yeah. Now, so but we were talking about, you know, in the break about the buildup of the troops. You were beginning to talk to us about Putin and and a potential concern relative to his border. But something, you know, that was said in the break was this has been a situation that's been in existence for quite some time. And there may be some other things that are not in the headlines that we need to be paying attention to.

Yeah. So the the crisis over Ukraine goes back quite a few years. We don't have time for all of the history, but take it back to 2014. Let's say when the breakaway region of the Donbas, the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of the Donbas bordering Russia, you know, began a separatist movement. And and that was the year also that Crimea went back to Russia. Historically, it's always been part of Russia, wanted to be part of Russia referendum.

Ninety five percent plus voted to be with Russia. But the buildup of the troops currently on Ukraine's border, either to the north from Belarus or on the east from Russia, goes back to about, you know, April or something about a year ago, 2021. And so, you know, as as the Biden administration and mainstream media seems to be working itself up into a lather, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, issued a statement saying that nothing's changed. The exact same number of troops or thereabouts remains where they've been for a year.

There hasn't been anything, you know, no new developments. I think what is happening is that Putin wants to bully and threaten the West and NATO, the United States, into giving him what he always wanted, which is the sliver of the Donbas, not a full on invasion of Ukraine. And so he'll he'll threaten and pressure and Biden will, you know, you know, the administration, you know, going to send troops, we're going to send this, we're going to send that. And in the end, you know, Putin, they'll say, OK, you've got the Donbas, you've got it. You know, it's that that's already sliced off. And Putin will say, OK, and and then we'll all say, oh, you know, crisis averted.

And he's gotten what he wanted all along in the first place. Right. Let me jump in. Let me jump in and say this, too, though, that that I think is interesting and something that we should probably be discussing. Remember that Xi and Putin have been having meetings and conversations. And now you've got the CCP really having a significant influence within NATO.

And so you've got to wonder, you know, with with regards to what you just said, Claire, which I which obviously, as Rick was about to say, is is is so on point and a very astute observation, is the CCP, the puppet master who is manipulating the situation to help Russia? Russia and China are transactional partners temporarily for the moment. Russia's interests are westward. They're not to the east. China wants to gobble up Siberia. And they may well do it eventually for its natural resources. Russia's interests are west.

Right. China is the threat. Well, no, I know I'm not I'm not arguing that the CCP isn't the threat.

But but, you know, I and here's something else. Let me throw this out, just as we're talking about CCP real quick in these moments. You know, Russia realized or learned and the whole fall of the wall, in my opinion, as a former Russian linguist, that is that that that was all make believe so that they could suck American economy in because they knew that a nuclear war or a nuclear strike or a war of any sort. They weren't going to that wasn't going to win the day they had to win from the inside. That being said, I think the CCP may be coming to the same conclusion. I don't think they want a nuclear war. That's not it's not in their best interest to have a nuclear war in my thoughts. You know, no, it's not it's not in their interest, but but they will obtain whatever they can to bluster and fully impress the gray zone, if you will. Hybrid warfare that includes cyber, by the way, which is a very real threat.

But, you know, they don't want a conflagration either any more than Putin does. Well, yeah, that's a if you're winning the way it's going now. Yeah. Why would you change what's happening now?

I mean, it's a. And so what? So so who are the who wins in this scenario? By having the focus of the war of the West on Ukraine, China wins because the focus of the West before the Olympics isn't on the deplorable conditions in China.

And how are our manufacturers are actually keeping the slave state in place? So they don't want that scrutiny. They were getting it.

Now they're not getting it. They're going to get their Olympics and get show the best base forward. But they're not going to have the run up of that and basically becoming people becoming a poor basically really irritated about what's going on and pressure put in corporations to get out of China.

So that's that's who. So China wins by our focus on Ukraine. Biden wins by focus on Ukraine because he'll come out.

The heroes stop the nuclear war when no nuclear war was ever going to happen. Presumably, you know, the Greens are going to come out, OK, because the north stream pipeline is still going to be operational and the and it'll be part of the deal. The Germans are saying, well, we're going to look at whether to open this or not based on your behavior. Putin backed off.

Nord Stream goes online. The the imported terminal for liquefied natural gas in the United States is shut down, which it was announced this past weekend. And so, you know, so our natural gas industry gets shut out and Russia gets what they want. Germany gets what they want.

And the only people who don't get anything is the United States, because what we get is Joe Biden being, you know, getting his up five points. Yeah. I mean, looking ahead, the real danger is the leverage that that Putin and Russia are acquiring over Europe. In particular, we can see it already happening in Germany than the others. They get upwards of 40 percent of all their energy needs from Russia. That's a huge amount of leverage.

Yeah. And we can see already with Germany's policies acquiescing, you know, falling under under the pressure from Putin and from Russia to to do what they want. That is the long term danger. Well, let's not forget. Let's not forget the genocide games and what's happening there. And as you said, Rick, this takes the attention off of that because our athletes have already been threatened that they're not to say anything about whatever they might see over there. That seems to be out of place. And there's a media blackout that's already taking place.

So as you said, they're going to do what they're going to do. Thank you very much. Claire Lopez has been our guest. Rick Manning has been my co-host.

I'll be back tomorrow. God bless you. At the end of the day, when I stand before my God, I do not want him to ask me, what did you do with the world that I sent my son to die for and redeem? How did you fight the good fight to share the good news and keep evil in check?

How did you shine your light and be a beacon of truth in the darkness? Did you shrink back in fear when they demanded you change my message? Did you call evil good and good evil? Did you forsake my love for that of another, lying with the adulterer and setting up a new idol in your life? Have you defiled yourself through compromise and tolerance of that which I call an abomination? Have you innocent blood on your hands for the children murdered on your watch and the young ones perverted in their way by evil men, seeking their own comfort and reviling me?

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