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I had three two one. Good
morning, good morning, good morning,

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and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time down to check in with Congressman

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Josh McKean, Oklahoma. How are
you doing, sir, I'm good man,

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well great, I tell you what. We've got another busy go around

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coming up here. As far as
the budget, I understand. I look

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forward on with the next day to
two days a conference meeting that is likely

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to happen to where the speaker is
going to, you know, have to

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answer some questions like I'm greatly concerned
about this deal way. It's been reported

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as a seventy billion dollars plus up
over that far a deal from last June,

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and that is not with what information
I have right now. I don't

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see how I can support that.
And I think most people you know,

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who see the financial woes, that
inflation is just the typically Iceberg showcasing that

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are underneath the water within ten years
in solvency of Medicurian SOID security, and

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the fact that I keep saying this
the last couple of months, one hundred

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percent of our entire twelve appropriation bills
money now the revenue to pay for those

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twelve apropriation bills is now one hundred
percent borrowed money. The only thing getting

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paid for an annual basis because of
our annual deficits that are massive is Medicare,

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medicais sold security, veteran benefits,
and a few other programs within the

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mandatory spending, which also includes food
stamps, those things locked away in mandatory

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where Congress you know, over years
has moved, you know, so much

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more in the mandatory where all we
can adjust is eligibility. Leaving the twelve

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appropriations, the discretionary spending where Conngresce
actually sets the dollar figures. Now the

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twelve appropriation bills, the discretionary spending
has been reduced to only borrowed money from

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our kids and our grandkids. So
the one point seven trillion dollars it was

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last year's spend for discretionary is one
hundred percent laid on the back of our

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kids and our grandkids to pay off. So how can we conscious continue to

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even contemplate a plus up? Y'all
Democrats have the Senate, y'all Democrats have

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the White House. We have got
to get serious leverage that the American people

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have given us. And you know, and there are a lot of Americans

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out there. You know, if
we went into a government shutdown would be

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you know missed. But Tom,
there's no other leverage right now to tell

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the Democrats we're serious and we have
to have the American people who understand the

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mass, who we're willing to go
in comfort to be able to solve our

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nation's problems that we keep punning year
after year. Well, what Gos gainst

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me is that we have a new
House speaker who said that we weren't going

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to do all that, and now
we're on the presupposed of doing all that.

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I I uh, look, Mike
Johnson is a conservative. This decision

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is not as it's being reported.
So I'm I'm hopeful that there's something that's

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not being reported. I've not had
a chance to talk to the speaker.

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I've not had a chance to talk
to the staff. It's gonna happen within

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twenty four to forty eight hours.
I'm disappointed what I'm hearing about this deal.

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Well, it doesn't sound very promising, that is for sure, and

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it sounds like you're beside yourself just
in disbelief. I am in disbelief.

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But what's being reported? So,
like I said, I want to get

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more information. I'm hopeful that there's
something that's not making the press that that

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you know, that's not that I'm
not aware of it, others aren't aware

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of But as of right now,
this is not good. Well, many

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of the members of Congress, both
House and Senator members have been down at

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the border visiting the border. How
much how much is getting accomplished with a

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change in geography and scenery. Well
that the the the border trip. What

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you would hope is people would come
back renewed to hey, you know,

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let's I'm you know, it's one
thing to have, you know, getting

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the troops paid for and paying for
salaries there, which is how Trump was

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able to move forward with the longest
government shut down in our nation's history in

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twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen over the
border last year for thirty five days,

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and most people don't even remember it
because there was a partial government shut down

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where they'd already brought forward funding levels
for the troops. So my ask is,

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why don't we put a funding level
out there to fund DoD and hand

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it to the Senate and walk away
and say until you shut this border down,

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We're done. Till you shut the
border down. We're not gonna have

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any more conversations about keeping the government
open because our national security is threatened.

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This is no longer talking point.
Something can happen within the next six months,

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a terrorism activity that could rival what
happened in New York City could happen

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when you're letting anywhere from five hundred
to seven hundred and fifty people on the

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Special Interest Alien watch list from Syria
and Iran. Those are just those that

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we've encountered. And that's different.
That's in a different watch listen than to

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the terrorist watch list, where we
know we've had you know, between last

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year and this year, approximately three
hundred people that have come across on the

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terrorist watch list that have been encountered, and we don't know out of the

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one point seven million people that have
are known god aways, meaning we just

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know that there's footprints showing they came
across the border. We don't know who

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they were, we don't know what's
in this country. And and so there's

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no time to not play hardball with
this administration and with the Senate, you

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know, under the Democrat control.
I'm frustrated the American people. I have

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to be frustrated if they understand the
math of our spin problems, and they

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understand the true status of our national
security that is letly undermine right now because

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in this open border. Now I'm
on Homeland Security. This week, we're

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going to start hearings on what we
hope by the end of the months will

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be out of the committee I set
on Homeland Security and impeachment vote that will

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will come out of our committee go
to the House floor. I don't want

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to overpromise, under deliver. You
know, that doesn't mean that the Senate,

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led by Democrats, will do anything
with it. But whatever you tolerate,

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you empower. And if Congress House
representative handed the majority by the American

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people, we've got to start producing
results and say we can't control the Senate,

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but we can control what we do. You know, I'm hearing from

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from you one side of the story, but the other side of the story

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escapes me, and I just don't
understand, perhaps maybe the mindset, how

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people in the same country can see
two different worlds in a completely different lens.

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When it seems very apparent that there
are things that could be improved upon,

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like our financial situation and like our
border. Is it is it something

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I don't understand. Yeah, I
don't understand it either, Tom. It's

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a it is a chasm that can't
be jumped across. Understand how anybody thinks

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that we don't need to shut down
the spend and shut down the border.

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I don't understand it. Were living
on borrowed money, borrowed time. It

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is insanity. So but the reality
is, these people are reflection of people.

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These people get in office because people
vote to them, and so we've

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gotta have It's why, you know, people say, well, why are

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you gonna always talk about biblical morality
because it's been eroded and eroded and eroded

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generation upon generation. The philosophy the
Iraham Lincoln said, philosophy and school room,

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and one generation will be the governing
philosophy in the next. And we've

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seen this cultural rot. It started
small and started with you know when oh,

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adultery no big deal in the seventies, sixties and seventies, you know,

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embracing the homosexuality movement of the nineties. Now we're in the transgender movement.

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And there is a there is a
scripture that says in Isaiah, woe

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to the nation, woe to the
nation that calls evil good and good evil.

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It's those students bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter, light for

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dark. It matters what we call
is right and right standard. And it's

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because we don't see these other things
under through the lenses that our founders talked

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about. Benjamin Rush, Benjamin rush
founding father, said without virtue, you

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will have no liberty. And he
goes on to say that liberty is the

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object and life of all republics.
The reason why we're losing this country is

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we started calling that which was evil
right. So our financial situation, it's

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the downstream impurity of the urination upstream
started happening in us, in our lack

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of virtue. That's quite a visual
painting for you know, that's a guy

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who grew up ranching, cowboying for
a living. Uh. Where the cattle

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are crossing up stream, you don't
drink downstream. That's what we're doing in

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this country. Yikes. Oh wow. On another note, any good news

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happening in Washington? Do you understand
what I'm saying? I absolutely do.

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What we're what we're what we're doing
is we can't see reality. Our eyes

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are dim to truth and this other
stuff. You look and go, what's

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how can how can this develop to
where we don't pay as we go?

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Where we where we you know,
are allowing transgender reassignment surgeries. We recruit

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people in our military and then they're
not deployable because we're doing elective surgeries with

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a taxpayer of moneys, and we
got to have other people feel their spot

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because they're not deployable for months to
year. It's insanity. Line upon line,

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precepts upon free said, a little
here, a little here is how

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we got here. Indeed, there's
been a big problem on the college campuses

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large cities, not so much in
the small towns anti Semitism. I didn't

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think I would ever in my day
see this take place to the extent where

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it has as of late. I
read a history book and it talks about

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an evil time where anti Semitism was
kind of popular in a certain country and

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a world war had to be fought
in order to end it. What has

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happened? Here? Have we thrown
away our history? Sanity, insanity,

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colleges of embracing this? You know, there's a study I handed over to

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Virginia Foxy, chairs the Education Committee. We had a group that came before

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our Homeland Security Committee who talked about
out of on average, the average college

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and then don't think about the regional
colleges, think of your larger institutions.

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An average about fifty people that work
in diversity equity inclusion taxpayer funded. Now

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in ours, they did a study. This group, I forget their name,

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it's alluding me in this moment.
I turned the study over to Virginia

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Fox to using their Education Committe.
I actually told the speaker about it.

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Also in a meeting, we had
a group that said that they did an

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assessment of eight hundred emails from these
on average, fifty DEI officials that worked

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at these college campuses all across the
country. They wanted to analyze their social

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media when they're not at work.
What they found was a super majority ninety

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plus percent of everything. They were
saying, these people not doing it at

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work, but oft time anti Israel, anti Israel. So that tells you

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who's in these diversity equity inclusion groups. They are espousing from the river to

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the sea type ideology. Abraham Lincoln
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in one generation will be the governing
philosophy in the next. We're seeing in

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college campuses being reflected the people in
Congress and the alls of Congress who are

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chanting the same type of mind.
Scary times. Scary times. Look as

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a friend said to me, as
Thomas Massey said to me in a group

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setting we were having a podcast couple
of weeks ago. He said, man,

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I used to blame these officials,
he said, Now I'm getting a

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place from blaming the people who elect
them. We have to have a cultural

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moral revival in this country. Yeah, whether you're a teacher, whether you're

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a college administration, whether you're a
college professor, you know, whether you

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you just got the kids that you're
raising in your home, stay at home

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mom, that most valuable position.
How are we raising our kids like the

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form of government starts in the home. Now, I'm challenging every every families.

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Are you doing Bible studies? Are
you teaching your kids what moral virtue

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how to look like in this country? Because that's the smallest form and those

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children grow up and they're the leaders
of our country. Dads, are we

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leaving our homes we're teaching our kids
right from wrong? Are we standing up

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and saying get off social media?
Who are getting your virtue off of that,

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and let me tell you what's right
and what's wrong. All of us

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have a responsibility. All we get
so complex in society when we say the

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thing has become unmanageable, it's unmanageable
because we're not watching over our functions individually.

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So take your post, moms and
dads in your home, Take your

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post in the sphere of influence that
you have. I read a scripture in

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Ezekiel three and thirty three that basically
says, if the watchmen see destruction coming

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and they don't cry. They're talking
about the times when there were watchmen who

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stood on these walls and they had
these cities they were protecting against foreign invaders.

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And it says, if you see
destruction coming, you don't cry out,

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the blood's on your head. Wow. What are we doing to cry

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out in our culture? What are
we doing to cry out to our kids?

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What are we doing to make sure
that we're Johnny on the spot to

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make sure that we're being the moms
and dads that our kids deserve, grandparents

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that are kids deserve. Deuteronomy six
talks about when you walk down the road,

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when you put it over the door
frames of your home, talk to

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your kids about righteousness, about the
Lord. We're losing our country because of

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the lack of virtue. Benjamin rush
Side of the Declaration of Independence said,

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without virtue, there's no liberty,
and liberty is the object and life of

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all republics. That's what John Adams, second President the United States said.

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He said that our constitution was made
only for a moral and religious people.

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It's holy inadequate to the government of
any other. The reason why liberty works

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in tandem with moral virtue is because
it gives people self governance, opportunities to

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regulate their own behavior, and it
keeps the government out of their life to

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the large part. But what's happened
is is our virtue has gotten smaller.

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Governments invaded that space and said,
well, we'll tell you what's right.

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My goodness, Josh, our time
is just about up. How can folks

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get a hold of you if they
have a question or if they have a

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suggestion, uh keen house dot gov, b r E c H E E

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dot gov. They can call our
Claremore office. Also nine one eight two

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They can call our DC office at two

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got our website, send me an
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everybody's gonna agree with me, but
I know I'm called to cry out and

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to blow the trumpet on what I
see. There's destruction coming to our nation

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that there's gotten all other countries that
have did devoid the virtue. It's coming

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to us if we don't stand up
and start taking our influence and using it

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to the inst degree. Josh,
thank you very much and really appreciate you

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checking in with this here. I'm
K one, the one you trust