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Welcome to the program. We were talking about identity politics and a whole bunch of other stuff. I want to switch gears because this is kind of, I think, a result of. Identity politics is the Sydney Sweeney drama, which is continuing. Um One of my friends, and you know, she's a friend of the show, Bridget Fantasy.
Actually, she made this remark. And I can't believe I didn't think of this. Actually, I'm like shocked that I did not think of this sooner. Did you see the she because you guys, I don't know, I'm sure you saw the. Sidney Sweeney ad and all this other stuff and She wrote In a piece for The Spectator, she said, quote, for anyone under the age of 25, they've likely never seen it.
In their lifetime now, I'm going to write what I'm going to read what she wrote.
So She goes, for anyone under the age of 25, they've likely never seen it in their lifetime. As the giggling blonde with an amazing rack has been stamped out of existence, a creature shamed to the brink of extinction.
Now A well endowed female. who is not afraid of her feminine wiles, and she's not afraid to use her feminine wiles. Which is a real thing. I think men have their own masculine wiles, but that's a whole other Topic of discussion. That's a Um I I didn't think of this.
The younger generations didn't really grow up with that, did they? They didn't grow up with that. Pen up, is that the right word? Kane, would you call her a pin-up? Not like in the modern sense, but like in the old school school.
Not in the modern sense, but in the old school sense, I would. Yeah, absolutely.
So They're saying that anybody 25 and under didn't really have that. And so, for them it's brand new. And they're even Receptive, they're receptive to it because it's celebrating femininity and. being a female. And I don't disagree with that.
I just never thought about it in these terms. When I was when I was in elementary school, one of my cousins got really he got in big time trouble because he s one of his friends snuck him, and I don't even know what model it was. It was a Sports Illustrated thing that you guys remember Sports Illustrated. Right? And he had this like and it was in a huge poster.
It um It was maybe if you had a newspaper and you unfolded it. and just laid it out. as about as big as like a broadsheet. No pun intended. And he put it on the back of his door.
Because He didn't think my aunt uncle would would know that it was on the back of his door. Am I hit? saw it one day. she was putting Clothes away. She was putting his laundry away in the closet'cause he had to open the door and get in the closet.
But even then you would have a difficult time seeing it if the door was open, but I guess it was kind of half part like she moved it. I don't know what happened. But anyway, she ended up seeing it. Oh my gosh, it was a big deal. But everybody And she wasn't naked.
She was indecently dressed, but the model. But that was like a thing. That was a thing back in the day, right? It was a thing back in the day. And It's Weird to think that under 25s don't.
have that cultural touch point. And so that's one of the reasons. Why? Bridget's arguing. She's So popular because it is the return.
of what she says is real. real body positivity. Which I think is true. I think it's true. I don't want to be too late.
It does seem that way. I don't think that this was men that did this, by the way. I think it was other women.
Now correct me if you guys think I'm wrong. Kane, do you think you all out there think about it? Do you think that i other women did this to to like shame That Oh, yeah. Out of existence, or was it? I can't imagine men doing it.
No, Steve brought up a good point, too, because if you remember the Me Too movement, that sort of. Put water on the fire of that for everyone. It wasn't just. For these women, but I mean, for the men, but these women now had a reason to double down on shaming that sort of thing. Right.
Yeah, Kane made the point. He's like, they got OnlyFans and TikTok horse. That's all I've got. But, like, me too. Yeah, Steve said me too got rid of it for a decade because.
So here's the this. With our with our kids, whenever we watch an old eighties movie, there's things that we have to fast that we would have to fast forward through. And My youngest was watching Sat with me and was like, I want to watch a movie from your generation. And I'm like, because you know, baby Gen X, right? Like, oh boy.
It's very different. Very Because there were boobs everywhere, and Bridget notes that, and it was in every movie, every single 80s movie, and going up into the mid-90s, it was like that. And I don't know how I had to set him up for it. And I'm like, it's just FYI. I'm obviously going to skip through it.
It was just a thing. And you had, and she even notes: you had Maxim Magazine, and women were on the cover of Maxim Magazine. And then I remember in college starting to hear from the feminists that, oh, this is. This is objectifying women. And I'm like, is it objectifying women if women are wanting to do it because the objectification, they want that?
Is that still? I mean, aren't they making a choice still? Like, this is their choice that they're making. Aren't they making a choice? And this is their choice.
And just because it's not your choice, how is that, if you're a feminist, how is that the bad choice? I never understood that. I mean, for crying out loud, that's when you still have like the playmate stuff that was happening. And on. And she notes too on Comedy Central, you had the man show, and Jimmy Kimmel.
Was the second banana, and he was still just, he was actually stupider now, dumber now than he was then. But they had chicks jumping on. Trampoline.
So, I mean, it was just all, it started going away towards the late 90s. And I would say even going into. The early odds. And then now it's like, no, everybody's got to look like. What's it?
Ellen Page, Elliot Page? Everybody's got to look like Elliot Page now. City Sweetie comes around, she's like, nope. I'm a girl. And I got big boobs.
That's what I'm doing. It's kinda hard at hard if you're like, you know, built a certain way to downplay that. Just saying.
So Everyone thinks that she's right wing. But we don't actually have any Proof that she is. Have you noticed that too?
So I think it's a combination of two things. I think that feminism is mad at her. Because, and remember, all of these, apparently, some of these athletes are mad because they're like, she's sexualizing sports, they said. Remember, again, what did I say? Sports Illustrated.
But I think two things are happening. The first is that she's a woman who got off the feminist reservation. and the femmes are mad about it. The Fembots are are super pops out about it. They're mad because she's not following the rules of feminism.
If not everyone can be pretty, no one can. That's really, I mean, let's be honest, it's a bunch of fanically, let's be real. Number one. Um The other part of this is It's not only upending all of that, but you Also are making it difficult for them. To keep on with this men and women sports things when you are giving clear, visible definitions of what a woman is.
I just don't want to hear from a single one of these people that did not speak up with Sophie Cunningham or Caitlin Clark or Inez Cantor Freedom or any who did not stand up and protect women's sports. I do not want to hear it from a single one of these crones about Sidney Sweeney sexualizing sports. They've already sexualized sports. All of these women have already sexualized sports. They started sexualizing it when they told women that they didn't matter and that anyone can join their league.
They started sexualizing sports when they started telling athletes, female athletes who were objecting to men competing with them, well, maybe you should get better. Why don't you get better? They already sexualized it. They've already sexualized it.
So I don't know where this is coming from, where they're like, I don't get it. I mean It's I I I don't know. I feel like This Is A person who is Representing sort of the manifestation of what people, normies, want to get back to. Right? There's something nostalgic from the people who are over 25 who remember.
these c kind of cultural touch points, there's a bit of nostalgia there. And for the people who don't have that cultural touch point. It seems like it's a return to normalcy. And There's nothing wrong. She makes this very good point.
She says, people with broad appeal are back. That's true. I mean, Sidney Sweeney, she's funny, she's pretty. And It's like we're allowed to be women and allowed to be funny and allowed to have fun again. That's kind of what it seems like.
But I am just. I'm just so tired of all these people that Because they're still railing, they're still raging about her. This is day two now, actually, day three, and they're still raging about her. I I guess they want uh remember that one website that we were talking about, Jezebel, named literally after a woman who was yeeted out of a window and she cracked her head open and dogs ate her remains because she was a giant W? Or, yeah, that one.
I guess they want all women to be like that. I don't know. I mean, it's a fascinating thing. You're really seeing who likes women and who doesn't with this reaction. Relief Factor is a way to get relief from everyday aches and pains driven by inflammation.
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So, Tucker Carlson apparently had on a guest who is an absolute Hamas apologist, and he denied a lot of the stuff. He refuses to acknowledge stuff that happened on October 7th. He claimed on his show. That there's no evidence that Hamas committed any rape or sexual violence, and that it's totally made up. I'm going to tell you something.
When Uh we were over When we went to Israel and we were at the City of David and we went and we were at the Church of Annunciation and to all of these amazing places, we also. Uh went down south. A town called Srot, and then we were at the site of the Nova festival. There is a lot of stuff. And by the way, Tucker agreed with the point that he made.
There I All I'll say is this, there's a lot of video and photos. A lot of video footage. that have not been made public. For the purpose of protecting the dignity. of survivors and the victims.
And at the Nova Festival, particularly. There's video footage. That's all I'm going to say. And We know That there is, and it exists, and we've seen it. There's stuff that stuff that I actually did not want to see.
Um, certain things that I just wouldn't watch. Because there is a It's not a museum, but it's a weighted document. what happened on October 7th. The vast majority of the footage is literally from Hamas themselves. They wore body cameras like cops would wear body cameras.
And when they would Um, how do I put this delicately?
So at the Nova Festival, when Hamas was paragliding over, they weren't originally, they didn't know about the Nova Festival, the Nova Festival in the Reim Forest. They were gliding over it because there were 35 spots they attacked. on October 7th and the reinforest Was not one that they had originally planned. They just saw that there was something happening and they began radioing to each other. getting people to come back to attack.
that festival. And there was footage. There's footage because they all wore body camera footage. Not only did they wear body camera footage, but a lot of the survivors. had their phones out as well.
So a lot of the phones, a lot of the video footage was recovered by other survivors, by IDF, and then also Hamas had footage that they uploaded to the internet, guys. There's footage that was uploaded to the internet, footage that was on devices that the IDF never got their hands on. And It's Bad. Guys, it's so bad. It is, there's certain things that you elect not to see.
you know what's happening, you elect not to see because you just can't unsee it. They tied women to trees. And there would be like eight or nine men who would brutally rape one woman. And then they would also mutilate her while they did it. Um There are instances of women that had their breasts cut off.
That was not a one-off, by the way. It wasn't just one woman, or two, or three, or four, or five, or six, or seven, either. A lot more. Um They were literally tying women to trees in these terrorists were taking their turns going to different trees. They would find if she had a husband or brother or.
a boyfriend and they were forced to watch. In some of these other villages. There were men who were raped in front of their wives and children. Oh, yeah. Don't ask how we know that.
It wasn't just women that were raped. They were trying to dehumanize the men and rob them. Uh and horrifically, psychologically traumatize their families. There is so much that for the dignity of the victims, has not been made public. And it's It's one of those difficult things because You have a country that is desperately trying to make the case for its self-defense.
And yet it will literally forego that. Forego. Pretty horrible video. and pretty horrible photographs. In order to protect the dignity of the victims.
First. It's a very difficult thing. I don't know that I would necessarily do that. Because I think when you're in a war you are in a war. And you have to do everything you can to win.
But at the same time, I also do understand, especially those who survived through it. And there were few. You want to protect their dignity. It's a very real thing. And It's That's all I can say.
There were certain things that I did not watch, I did not view. Um There is so much footage though. And again This guy that was on Tucker Carlson's show. And Tucker gave him again a platform and was agreeing with everything that he said. The reason we know about this stuff is because the Hamas group that he loves so much, they literally.
recorded it themselves and they posted it. On Line. There were families, for instance, one of the bomb shelters. that people ran to after the Raheem Festival, after the Nova attack. One of the men was kidnapped from there by Hamas and taken into Gaza.
and they had other footage. that popped up on Facebook. Where a family member was like, oh my gosh, that's. My brother. Saw him.
and they knew that he was still at least alive. for that period. It is Beyond All doubt. That this Absolutely. unarguably happened.
And to entertain, and this guy's got a lot of baggage. I don't even care enough about. I mean, I cannot believe that somebody would give this guy a platform. This guy's a nut. And try to cast.
not only doubt on what happened, That was documented even by the terrorists that did it. But to cast aspersions on the character? of the people. Who said it happened and had it happen to their loved ones, their loved ones, and had it happen to them? is one of the most evil things I can possibly imagine.
So, you have Tucker Carlson, who not only endorsed. Abdul El Said and Islamist. Who is Had a house apparently bought for him in Qatar. Whether he bought it or not, back channel. There are a lot of people who are saying, who are claiming that they bought it for him.
I don't know. I mean, maybe. But Then to deny this? That's That doesn't sound like somebody who's pro-West and pro-American and anti-terrorism, that sounds like Ma'am Donnie. He sounds like Zoramdani.
He sounds like Abdul Al Said. He sounds like Hassan Piker. And that's because that's who he is now. And maybe that's who he always was. But I'll tell you this.
I we've talked about it before. If this had happened in the United States, you know, we lost.
well over 2,000 people. At 9-11. The equivalent per capita attack. That Would mirror October 7th. To replicate that in the United States, we would have lost over 40.
thousand. people.
So that gives you an idea. Of the level of severity, the level of destruction. The level of terror. And it's documented.
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You know, it's. I saw this because this had to do with that photo with UT. I have a piece that's going to be up. Actually, here shortly over at Substack that dives into this a little bit and gets into. Just kind of the lay of the land.
And I can't believe we're, I mean, we're still talking about this because Democrats desperately need a deflection, and the GOP gave them one. and all the infighting and all the doubling down has just made it worse. And I get aggravated because you can't talk about anything on the healthscape that is social media.
Social media is mental AIDS. Let's be very clear. It's mental. AIDS. You could sit here and call it a mind virus and everything else, but Honestly, it's mental aids.
That's what it is. And I'm pulling up this tweet. This Story is still going because now. You have the press. which I told you they were going to do this.
They're now reaching out to these students and Uh they're getting into Uh the Students backfiring. Oh, the students speak up. UT Austin students fire back. And I mean, you knew they would. It's just an unforced error.
It's an absolute, and here's the thing that really angers me: it's a stupid, unforced error that just robbed us of a real opportunity to actually talk about what the issue is here. Although Cornyn did give me, John Cornyn did give me a little bit of an opportunity. Yesterday. Yesterday evening I saw this. this post that he had made.
Where he said he had retweeted it and said, Oh, Beau French doubles down on racist posts made after UT win against Ohio State.
Now, The focus on identity politics is obscuring the real argument. Because what's the real argument? What is the real argument here? It's about immigration and lawlessness, correct? I mean it's about Just national sovereignty.
It's all of these things. That's what it's about. And the focus On identity politics over this is obscuring the actual real argument. Cornyn and all of these other Politicians out there have such a mixed record on immigration. I mean In fact, by every available measure, what I did last night is I went, I was at Numbers USA, I was at Fair, I was at all of the immigration.
Everything that we've used over the years to track our politicians and where they stand. On Not just immigration as a whole, but restrictions on entry, restrictions on H-1Bs, student visas, the whole nine yards. And the only reason that John Cornyn doesn't receive an F? An F grade by all of these available measures from all of these organizations is because of certain votes. That he has on border enforcement, and I'm gonna come back to that in a minute.
Because it's not an out, it's not an out for him. I'm coming back to that in a minute.
So, for really quickly, let's just run through the hits. Cornyn supported dreamers. You guys know what the dreamers are, right? Can I just explain this very quickly so we're all on the same page as to what dreamers are? Dreamers are the kids, well, not kids, they were brought over as minors, as legitimate kids, not 20-year-olds pretending to be 16, but as legitimate kids.
They were brought over as kids by adults. And then The then you had DACA, the deferred action childhood arrival. The DACA Act was protecting Um these children Who people who came over as children protecting them from deportation, there was a moratorium on deportation for a certain period. And of course, you know, the impetus is always: well, so long as you're doing the work to become a citizen of these United States, right? As long as you're like going through that process.
But so many of them didn't. I mean, who was it? Jose Vargas, who was the reporter who was deferred action, he was a dreamer, deferred action childhood arrival. And he went through, I don't know, like 18 years of going to school, applying to college, getting a job, but not at one point during that whole process did he apply to become an actual American citizen and make his status legal, even though he would have been shielded from deportation throughout that process because of the law under Obama. That's my point.
So Cornyn supported DREAMers. He pushed for permanent status for DACA recipients. He fought zealously for H-1Bs. 2011, he had a lot of legislation that he was signing his name to. He called for expanding the visa cap.
He fought for EB five visas. He worked with Democrats to pass numerous watered-down immigration bills that created what we now know as the asylum processing centers. He called the Biden illegal immigration search. Do you remember this fight? Because this was one of the bones that I picked with him.
He refused to call it a surge when everybody was coming over the border under Biden. He refused to call it a surge. Instead, he labeled it a, quote, humanitarian public safety and public health crisis. The big issue though. Is that Cornyn has consistently consistently And incorrectly framed this entire issue as immigration, as a Problem of management and compassion rather than an issue of sovereignty and law and order, that it actually is.
Now, here's what I said. Remember, when I first started discussing this with you, I said, oh, well, his votes on border enforcement. Save him from having enough.
Okay, here's the clarification on that. any move. that this man has made to the right of immigration is a move that he made after After His watered-down Democrat light support. For enforcement, started reducing his support in the polls. And it was after he had passed.
As a co-sponsor or fought for numerous legislative vehicles that expanded runaway immigration. And Made it worse, made the whole problem worse. But you know what it serves? Corn and butter? It serves him better.
and it serves other establishment better. for them to centralize the argument? around this thirty thousand Foot idiotic commentary, which I'm not defending because I don't have to. I don't a I don't owe nobody nothin'. But it's better for them, it serves their purposes better to center this.
all around that kind of you know that comment And How that Pretend that it's all that all of the reaction that everything is about race while avoiding the entire debate, which is what? What is the entire debate? It's this whether or not Unfettered immigration and the accompanying refusal of assimilation all over the United States is best for the country's shared identity, which is forged in that animating spirit of liberty. When You have Lawmakers. Who act?
to irrevocably alter. A sovereign country. through limitless immigration. What do you think the result's going to be? When people have finally had enough.
We have these kinds of policies to thank for the wannabe Sharia court down the highway from where we are right now, where Kane and Juan and I are. Down the highway in Irving, Texas is the Wannabe Sharia Court. Down the highway, in Dallas County. is where you had two honor killings. From a guy who came in thanks to policies like John Cornyn's.
He came in, his daughters were too westernized, so he killed them. And guess what? His community defended them. I mean, it's because of policies like this. That we now have a developer shopping for land to build a mosque in my county.
Because of policies like that. Cornyn's policies. Helped fashion an environment. Where people question absolutely everything now, and they have a right to do so.
however sensibly or stupidly they do it. And Cornyn wants to hide behind one asinine remark. as a way to Excuse his decades of abuse. By the way, this is a remark similar to one that he has literally made. He literally said, quote, Dallas looks like New Delhi.
Oh yeah, that's a real thing. And he went on, it was. He and apparently That's not an issue for him. Yes, he actually said that. He was slammed.
He deleted it, by the way. He knew it was bad, and he deleted it. He shared this podcast. In which Uh there was this uh They call them scholars, but really, are they? Where this guy was talking about the superpower that is waiting in India.
Not the U.S. or China.
Well, I disagree that it's in any way, again, this is quasi-multipolarity. I disagree that it's a competitor to the United States, but to China, yes. India has now taken over China in terms of population. And they're trying to expand more. China is looking at India with a wary eye.
But he had posted this opinion piece. And it said, Welcome to the Indian Century. And he was saying that, yeah, Dallas is looking like New Delhi, et cetera. I mean, he had to end up deleting his post.
So, I mean, he said something similar. But that's irrelevant to my point. I don't want to get off track topic here. That's irrelevant to my point. Because the point Is that These are his policies.
This is what his policies have created. I don't like identity politics, and I'm going to talk about why here coming up because it's Marxist. Trunery. It's lazy analysis that presents itself as intelligent theory. I have been writing about identity politics and critical race theory since 2012.
We're going to come back to that because that's the danger here. But here's the thing: Americans have every right to ask what situation politicians put them into. They have every right to ask each other to what extent we've also enabled it with the investment of our vote. Americans have the right when they're born in this country and have lived here for 20 years and they follow the laws and they pay their government theft, I mean their taxes, and they vote to uphold the Republic to call themselves Americans because there is no what an American looks like. It's how pro-freedom are you?
How have you assimilated? Assimilation is just as important as entry restrictions. You cannot have sustainable immigration without assimilation. Period. And Americans also have the right to demand a reduction in immigration and to only admit those people who affirm our pro-freedom, pro-West American culture.
The goal of immigration is what? For people to actually become Americans when they become citizens, to assimilate to our culture. not bring your minarets and your prayer rugs in the streets and all of this other stuff to the United States. Not bring your Sharia court, not bring whatever barbaric ideology from your third world hellhole with you. I'm not sugaring the pill to make it easier for the weak to eat it.
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So I have a piece that's coming up. Here like in the next fifteen minutes on Substack. that gets into some of what we've been talking about. And the reason that I know some of you are like, I am, you know, I don't know if I want to. This is, we just got to focus on midterms.
We can't look at what's happening in the Republican Party. I'm here to tell you that midterms is going to depend on what happens in the Republican Party. That's true. This is all true. Democrats, they're making I've never seen Democrats make it easier.
Democrats have made it so easy. I mean, this, like, for instance, cut 10. Let's just play, I'm so sorry, Juan. We're going to get this out of the way. Cut 10.
I wasn't going to play this, now I am. Pete Booty Juice. I mean, they cannot make it any easier if they tried. Just watch. Let me ask you today, do you think America is ready for a gay president?
I wouldn't have run for president in the first place if I didn't believe that. Of course. And look, my experience in South Bend, Indiana, getting re-elected with 80% of the vote after coming out, and my experience right now traveling the country shows me that what's really on people's minds isn't about you, your identity. Let me ask you today. Mm.
What I find hysterical about this, South Bend, Indiana. I mean, that's kind of a small town. It was pretty blue, but it's a small town. And the reason he left Indiana is because you can't. He can't ascend to any higher office than that.
In Indiana. That's it for him, for big old blue booty juice. That's it. That's as much as you get, right? You can't ascend any higher than that.
So we had to go elsewhere. What does it matter? Gosh, this is so stupid. Really? Identity politics.
It's identity politics.
Well, we haven't had a gay yet. I actually think we have. We had Obama. You can get mad. It's okay.
I'm sl only 50% joking. I'm being 100% serious, but I'm 50% joking.
So I I cannot stand identity politics. I can't stand identity politics. What is identity politics? If you're wondering. You remember all the discussion we had about critical race theory, right?
Okay, so critical race theory, which was literally something that started infecting college campuses. Back in the 60s, and I wrote a lot about this. And back in 2012, when we first started writing about it, there was this video. I was at Breitbart at the time. Andrew Breitbart was still alive.
There was this video out there showing this college professor named Derek Bell, who was one of the first. Academic adherence to critical race theory. And The Obama campaign. Had always downplayed the accusations that they were involved in these Marxist. Tactics, right?
And Then this video came out and it showed Barack Obama hugging Derek Bell and Derek Bell was a mentor to Barack Obama. This was something like late 60s going into the 70s, and it was It's I mean, it's literally a Marxist. Movement that grew out of the Frankfurt School. And it sought to replace using the economy as the. divisive tool and instead placing replacing that with Identity markers, for the lack of a better way to say it, right?
So it was people like Kimberly Crenshaw, Derek Bell, others, and Barack Obama was absolutely a student of this. And so critical race theory. It's The way that they put it is, they say, well, it's a legal framework that was designed to address racial inequalities, but that's actually not what it really was. It really was. away to a tactic device to go after E.
pleuribus. Unum out of many One, because I think the Marxists at some point in the 70s realized that consistent, like using all of these tactics, these economic tactics to do it, it's not having the same impact as it were if you were going after identitarian things, things like sex and race and. Uh all kinds of other stuff.
So This This identity issue, using that to divide people instead of class instead of economy, that's been incredibly successful for Marxists. It's been hugely successful for them. And They've, I mean, you've seen just how much it's grown since the early 70s, right?
So using identity politics and trying to make divisions Uh within every group, right? Within um you know, even golly, the the gay and lesbian group, you got trans gay, lesbian, queer, all of the all of the little we call it the alphabet army, all of that is like an identity marker. It's all part of identity politics to to Put yourself in these little segregated groups, so silo yourself off in these little segregated groups.
So you have, you know, not just women versus men, but this is where you have, well, this is this person's trans and they're also a person of color and they're this. And it's like every single box you can check is supposed to. It's like your your C V. Every box that you check is supposed to give you another layer of power because you are victimized more than this other individual. Oh, you have more things that you have to deal with than this person, so that makes you more special than this person.
That's kind of how it's approached. And I don't like identity politics because it's lazy Marxism. And lazy, dumb. analysis that tries to masquerade as some sort of Intellectual consideration and it's not. Identity politics is also absolutely antithetical to the gospel.
One of my last books that came out right as COVID started. Grace Cancelled literally has two chapters about this. And scripture is loaded with lessons on identity politics. But I feel like a lot of people don't get it. Like your only identity that matters is supposed to be kingdom identity.
Identity politics is even being weaponized in Christian spaces. I want to throw this tweet up from someone I don't really have any respect for and I don't think is an intellectual. And I really do think that they're like a secret agent that's meant to divide. This dude who writes, God hates godless multicultural globalism. I mean, what a word Zalad.
He created the nations. He destroyed and scattered the Tower of Babel asunder. Like, what a bad line. And greatly punished those who attempted to mix and mash together. Uh Tell me that you've never read the Bible and you don't understand.
Old Testament without telling me you've never read the Bible and you don't understand Old Testament, because the lesson of that was about pride and it wasn't about multiculturalism. I saw that and I. was I mean, I had secondhand embarrassment. I had second-hand embarrassment. It missed the entire point.
point. of the Tower of Babel. It missed the entire point of it. Because the text If you read scripture, if you read the story of the Tower of Babel, and this is in Genesis, the. First off, in Genesis 9, God tells humanity, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, right?
And then they talk about in Genesis 11. Uh the Uh Tower of Babel. The whole point of the story was focusing on pride. Like they were were Focused inward and not focused on God. It was about self.
Uh deification. It was about pride and self-deification, and disobedience, by the way, to God's direct command. The nations did not even yet exist to be mixed and mashed together. I have no idea what he's talking about. What an absolute demonstration of ignorance on Scripture.
At that point, humanity was a single unified group. It inverts the whole story because he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's cherry-picking scripture because he's using lazy Marxist identity politics. And this argument, by the way, came up in this whole thing with Texas. The stated motivation for the people building the Tower of Babel was, do you guys remember, and I quote, let us make a name for ourselves.
Pride. Pride Genesis 11:4. Pride. They're going to build a tower with its top that reaches into the heavens. It was literally physical manifestation of hubris.
An attempt. to reach the divine. by their own hand and not his. And In doing this, What the builders of the tower were doing was establishing an autonomy apart from God. That was the whole point of this story.
God judged their purpose. Pride. Chicago was not judging their ethnic or linguistic makeup. He was judging their pride. Their sin was pride, and you couldn't mix and match the nation.
I mean, this inverts the story in a ridiculous way. He's literally saying that the Tower of Babel was about trying to achieve multiculturalism when, in fact, you didn't even have separate nations that existed. It was all homogenous at that point, anyway. And it wasn't until after the scattering that then you did create all of the different nations. How do you not know this and call yourself a Christian, and you're out there trying to shepherd people a false ideology?
How? I mean, the whole story explains the origin of different languages. and nations. At the very beginning, humanity was entirely homogeneous. You cannot mix what is already homogeneous.
You cannot mix a singular ingredient. Cain, you went to Bible school. Tell the people. Cain can name, if you challenge Cain like that, he can name every book in the Bible. Ugh.
Well, I looked this up just to confirm it because in the book of Revelations it talks about a future heaven. God talks about a future heaven filled with a great multitude of individuals from every tribe, every language, every people. This is. antithetical to what Pasovic put out. I well, I mean, yeah, that's rev uh Revelation 7, where they talk about all the nation from all the tribes and the languages, etc.
I mean The reason that God confused language was because people were sca w he was scattering a prideful people. Framing the Tower of Babel story as some sort of evidence that God hates multiculturalism is blasphemy. Because the curse was By the way, it was reversed at Pentecost in Acts 2, but also the whole point. was pride. It was a people's pride.
It was a people trying to do what God does in their lives and doing it without God, and also disobeying a direct command from God. Which irony of ironies is what that individual did by posting that blasphemy and trying to purposefully mislead people. Proving that even the devil can quote scripture. We got more on the way as we move, our partners that bring you the program. It is our friends over at Alliance defending freedom.
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Alright, so first up, uh There's local disaster in Amarillo where the city was left without safe water amidst. Extreme drought. The drought is actually real because. I think it's rained once here and Three months right now. It's pretty serious.
So, the city of Childress, which is near San Antonio, they've raised. A state of disaster Friday, last Friday. The municipality issued this on September 11th saying that the city has suffered widespread threat to life and property, etc. We do need some rain. Like, I don't want like twisters and all of that, but a little bit of rain would be great.
Ooh. Giant megalith structure spotted on the ocean floor is now sparking. Alien base theories. A mysterious structure. It's near Papua New Guinea.
People say it must be an alien base. Its self-described UFO researcher, some dude, identified the enormous rectangular-shaped anomaly. Suggesting that it's 10 miles long and 4 miles wide, he better not be wrong, because that would be a major error. He said he discovered while exploring the global ocean floor maps produced by the Seabed 2030 project.
Okay, so. If that's anything like Google Maps, I don't know if that's necessarily the best way to spot. Although, I will say, didn't somebody spot the wreckage that they think is Amelia Earhart's plane because they were looking at the Google Maps? Yeah. I mean, and then I went and looked at it immediately.
And I was like, where I've got to see, I've got to see.
So. The And I went and looked at this map and I was like, I I don't know if I see what this guy sees, but he insists that that's exactly what it is. And this is all about mapping the ocean floor.
So, uh I mean Could be. Maybe it's a 10-mile wide long thing, though. That's a huge. Huge structure, but he says.
Now here's what he adds to it. He says aliens are living there right now. He goes, it looks clean and taken care of. I mean, it's underwater.
So I don't. I don't know. Are you a disbeliever, Kane? Is it Atlantis?
Well, it's near Papua New Guinea, so I don't think that that's where Atlantis would be. I don't know. I don't know where it would be. I don't know. We were having a debate in my house last night as to whether or not Atlantis was even real.
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All right, today in Stupidity King. All right.
Well, it's a Senate candidate in Texas James Tallerico cut 12-1. Apparently, not only does he just enjoy trans kids, but he has a favorite drag queen, too. Listen to this. This is Tylerito.
So nice to meet you. Tired. Bruce Him. I was there when you defended the drags. What was your favorite drag queen in Texas?
Oh my gosh, Cobby Alyssa Edwards. Alyssa Edwards, I love Monkey Mays. Thank you so much. Like, how is everything? How do you know?
Like, oh, yeah, here's my favorite drag queen. Like, who knows that? I can't even tell you my favorite cereal. That does it for us today, folks. We'll be back with you tomorrow.
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