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Art. Today is Monday, May
eighth, twenty twenty three. Thank you

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so much for joining me. In
the words of Vladimir Lenin, there are

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decades when nothing happens, and then
there are weeks where decades happen. And

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last week was that type of week, not only when it comes to the

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amount of mass shootings in this country, in the United States of America and

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trigger warning. This first story is
extremely disturbing because of the descriptions of what

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happened in Texas. We have had
two mass shootings every day since the beginning

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of the month of May. In
this first week of May, we have

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had fourteen mass shootings including Maryland,
New Jersey, Missouri, California, Texas

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Allen, Texas, where eight individuals
were killed outside of a mall. And

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you've seen the images. I won't. Obviously, this is a podcast,

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so we don't have to worry about
seeing the images, but the descriptions that

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are coming up are rather disturbing.
Listened to the very first first responder who

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was a retired police officer and retired
military officer who tried to save as many

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lives as he could. Take a
listen in The first girl I walked up

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to was croutched down, covering her
head in the bushes. So I felt

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for a pause, pulled her head
to the side, and she had no

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face. But spain Hour says he
found a child that survived well, covered

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by his protective mother who died.
And so when I wrote the mother over,

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he came out and I asked him
where you're okay, and he said,

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you know, my mom has hurt. My mom's hurt. So rather

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than traumatizes him anymore, I put
him around the corner set him down.

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He was covered from head to toe
like somebody had poured blood on him.

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It's that awful image that spain Hour
and others who witnessed the horror will be

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haunted by for the rest of their
lives, because no one can see what

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they saw today and not be affected
by it. It's not a situation that

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I would wish upon anybody. JD. It's just unfathomable to see the carnage.

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It's tough when you see a family
that'sout shopping having fun, get wiped

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off the face of the earth because
somebody with a gun has some other topic.

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That took place Saturday in Allen,
Texas. Eight people were killed,

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including a five year old. The
culprit the shooter's name is Mauricio Garcia,

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who has ties with Neo Nazis.
But for conservatives, because his name sounds

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ethnic, Mauricio Garcia, they are
saying that he couldn't possibly be a white

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supremacist because he has a name that
sounds like he's Hispanic, and as we

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all know, Hispanics can't possibly be
white supremacist. Nick Quintez of America,

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first, he would like a word
Nick Quintez, who is eagerly trying to

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push a second Civil war. He
would like a word, Nick Quintez,

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who actually drives the time the kind
of stochastic terrorism that's necessary. Right here

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is a Hispanic fella who loves doing
the bidding of white supremacy. So let's

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not pretend as though American white supremacy
and American fascism is not diverse. We've

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seen plenty of people of color do
exactly what white supremacy needs done. And

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police have already identified that this man, Mauricio Garcia engage in neo Nazi content

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sharing it online. That's the evidence
so far. Now, this is just

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Saturday, that this happened. On
Sunday, a driver in Texas drove over

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and killed eight immigrants, migrants who
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Texas, killing them. We have
had so many mass shootings that we can't

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even keep track of the motivations of
every single shooter. Those that we do

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get the motivations of we see more
often than not. It's the rarest of

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occasion that a mass shooter is not
a far right wing ideologue. That is

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just a fact. But they are
moving and happening with such frequency and the

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intensity the violence of them. The
scale of the violence is increasing so much

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that we absolutely as a country must
identify this for what it is. This

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is an all out attack by far
right wing extremists across this country. If

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you place every one of their manifesto
side by side, if you place their

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social media engagement with white supremacist groups
and neo Nazis language and beliefs side by

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side, you will see that what
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lone wolves are in fact not alone
at all. This is a variation on

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the suicide bomber phenomenon. This is
a variation on it because the radicalization takes

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place on their own on the Internet, inside of their rooms, they sit

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in their basements, and they consume
this hate feel content truly and firmly believing

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everything that someone like Matt Walsh from
the Daily Wire says, something like Nick

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Fuintez says, something like Ben Shapiro
says, which, by the way,

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is yet another perfect example of how
someone could be of a particular ethnicity or

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religious belief and do the bidding of
white supremacy. Ben Shapiro, being the

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Jewish young man that he is,
always and regularly sides with the Nazis.

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He won't come out and say it
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when you look at the total coalition
that is represented by conservatism, Matt Walsh

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and Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire tuck
across, and all of them being at

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the very top of the heap of
the propaganda mountain, those are the people

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who create the ideologies that motivate these
mass shooters. We see regularly how people

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like Ben Shapiro or Nick Quintez side
with individuals who, at the end of

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the day when they have gotten rid
of all of the other minorities that they

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hate, When these white supremacists and
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they will most certainly make their way
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But I guess these two people and
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all of the right wingers who take
a check to betray their ethnicity, or

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their race or their people, at
the end of the day, they will

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be put on the wall by the
same Nazis who are going out and doing

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these mass shootings and these mass murder
events. It's time for whatever authorities have

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not been compromised yet wherever they are. The FBI is as horrific as the

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FBI has been to the black community
throughout history. Right about now we need

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authorities that have not been compromised to
identify this whole listic threat that reaches all

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across this country that gives an appearance
that they're individual lone wolves, when in

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the actuality they are executing, they're
opening salvo of what they believe to be

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the Second Civil War. We have
had two an average of two mass shootings

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every day so far this month,
and if we look at the ideologies underneath

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them, If we look at the
ideologies of the mass shooters across this country's

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history, we will see that they
are working and walking in lockstep with one

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another, just taking turns as to
who is brave enough to stand up and

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go out quote unquote brave enough to
go out and commit mass murders of children

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and the elderly people buying groceries,
people shopping at the mall. See,

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these people are cowards. They won't
go into a gun zone. They won't

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go into a place where we are
already shooting at each other. They won't

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go into the South side of Chicago. They won't go into parts of Duval

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in Jacksonville, parts of Mississippi where
they got guns and they shoot back.

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No, they have to sneak up
on classrooms full of children. These cowards

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have to sneak up on grocery stores
of elderly women. They have to sneak

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into churches, Mother emmanuel A and
me. Because they are cowards. They're

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cowards with guns who are trying to
prove to themselves and prove to their white

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supremacist friends that they're actually brave.
And how do they prove it by killing

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children and killing people shopping at the
mall. So not only are they racist

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Neanderthals, they're cowards to boot.
As happens with these shootings, it almost

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immediately turns to the political conversation about
gun reforms. One state senator pointing the

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finger at you and the GOP there
in Texas saying there are loose and dangerous

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gun laws. I want to put
up a poll that we just had on

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possible gun reforms here in the US. This is just out from Fox News.

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When you ask people what they would
favor, background checks for guns,

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enforcing existing gun laws, legal age
to twenty one, requiring mental health checks,

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flagging people for danger to self,
all of those score at more than

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eighty percent. That's a Fox News
poll that was being read to Texas Governor

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Greg Abbott yesterday on Fox News,
who has nothing more to offer America or

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Texans than thoughts and prayers. And
I pray every day, But can I

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tell you that the Bible clearly says
that faith without works is dead. Keep

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and save your prayers. Your prayers
don't go above your ceiling when you refuse

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to do anything. Because they have
refused, Conservatives have absolutely refused to do

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absolutely anything to protect the lives of
children. And we knew this was a

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case after Sandy Hook, when Joe
the Plumber was able to get on national

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television and say very clearly to the
world that your dead children don't trump his

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Second Amendment rights, And is that
not the life that we've been living in?

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Greg Abbott had a reply, and
I'll play that momentarily, But it's

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just the frequency with which we have
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devolves into the basic arguments of gun
control, and the Conservatives who are in

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lockstep and worship at the feet of
the NRA absolutely refused to do anything about

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this. We've been covered I've been
covering mass shootings so long I can't even

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remember. I can't even remember a
time where we weren't having so many mass

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shootings that when I get done reporting
on one, I have to report on

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another. This literally happened Saturday while
Rebecca and I were doing Like It or

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Not, and we were doing it
live. We were discussing the shootings,

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the mass shootings that took place in
Atlanta too, that took place in Georgia

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just Thursday and Friday, and then
no sooner than we logged off the show,

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we get reports of this horrific mass
shooting in Texas. And then Sunday,

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while I was talking to the audience
about about the mass shooting in Texas,

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then we had a mass murder event
where someone drove over eight immigrants.

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It's like we simply cannot get through
reporting or discussing the trauma that just happened

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before. We are inundated with a
brand new trauma, and yet we have

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the capacity as human beings to absorb
it all and to normalize it and to

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move on and to turn the channel
because we've got other things to take our

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attention away from the reality that we
are under siege. And you can't do

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independent media or any form of journalism
and not cover mass shooting so frequently that

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it becomes almost just repetitive. Here's
here's my conversation with Rebecca Azora on Saturday

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about that exact thing. But this
mask this situation has just happened yesterday.

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This is another thing. Then,
just like with all the things I labeled,

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they want us to act like it
didn't happen yesterday or the other day.

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This is just a few days ago. Right before that, there was

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something else that happened. A young
boy was shot for pulling up to go

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get his kids, to get his
siblings, you know, and right before

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that. But we are just going
through a day to day like just another

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day, another shooting, another day, another shooting, then another day another

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shooting. They're like, it's not
the it's not the guns. It's the

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people. It's the law tiny,
it's Georgia, Florida, Texas. It's

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almost like they want to get as
loose as possible until we're all shooting each

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other up and they're still gonna say, it is not the guns, it's

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not the Like, what's like,
it's not the guns. Meanwhile, people

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are sending out postcards and threatening people
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America does not care about us losing
people. America doesn't really care about

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mental health. They don't care about
vets. They care about guns. Facts,

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that's it. They care about guns. Here's the response that Texas Governor

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Greg Abbott gave to the Fox News
host who was making it plain that even

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this Fox News poll that showed that
Fox News viewers alone with the rest of

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America, supports gun regulation in all
forms. At a clip of about eighty

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percent, which means it is the
most popular thing that you can do as

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a politician to end Act gun control, but of course they're not going to

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do so. Listen to Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas. Are

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there things that you would consider in
Texas or that you think Congress should consider

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at a federal level along those lines. Well, on the federal level,

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as you know, some laws were
passed last year to begin to address this.

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At the state level, Listen,
this is something that we've been grappling

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with over the past year, and
there are some potential easy solutions, such

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as passing laws that we're working on
right now to get guns of the hands

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of dangerous criminals, into increased penalties
for criminals who possess guns. But Shannon,

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we need to recognize a reality.
Well, we've seen across the United

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States over the past year or two, and that is an increased number of

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shootings in both red states and blue
states. Shannon, we've seen an increased

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number of shootings and states with easy
gun laws as well as states with very

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strict gun laws. I think that
the state in which the largest number of

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victims have occurred this year is in
California where they have very tough gun laws,

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where eleven people died. And so
one thing that we can observe very

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easily, and that is there has
been a dramatic increase in the amount of

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anger and violence that's taking place in
America. And what Texas is doing in

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a big time we are working to
address that anger and violence by going to

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its root cause, which is addressing
the mental health problems behind it. No

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no, no, no, no
no. See it's not the mental health

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problems that it is behind the anger. What's behind the anger is conservative politics.

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Because conservative politics, conservative commentary,
conservative media, they all depend on

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hate, they depend on rage.
They can't function without a scapegoat. And

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then when one of their people commit
violent acts of murder of war, then

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they blame mental health, simultaneously making
it easier for people with mental health issues

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to get weapons because it's not about
the mental health to them. They don't

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really care about someone suffering from mental
health issues. They want to sell as

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many guns as possible. This is
why they send out postcards every year at

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Christmas time of them saying how much
they love the little baby Jesus while their

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little five year old Kayleie McKenna is
holding an AAR fifteen in a Christmas postcard.

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The absurdity of it all. We
are living by the sword in this

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country, and we are dying by
the sword in this country. And underneath

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the routine mass shootings that we see
every day now twice a day, there

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at the Benjamin Dixon Show dot com. Welcome back, Yeah, welcome back.

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As I started off with this morning, this morning's episode, I took

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a quote from Vladimir Lenin that says
that there are decades where nothing happens,

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and then there are weeks where decades
happen. And I believe the first week

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of May twenty twenty three is one
of those types of weeks. We saw

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not only the coronation of the new
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Charles the Third. I was going
to pretend like I didn't know his name,

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but King Charles the Third, which
was a momentous occasion for monarchists.

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I'm more of the opinion of my
friend Owen Jones from the UK. This

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is what he said about the monarchy. Oh, I know, this is

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a day of celebration for the monarchy, and for monarchy is full of pomp

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and ceremony, and that's understating it. Amongst the regalia include the Sovereign's orb,

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the sovereign's ring, the jewels orb
of offering, and golden spurs,

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as well as the crown obviously,
which will be placed on the king's head

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by the Archbishop of Canterbury. So
we can all pretend that a monarch has

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been personally appointed by God to reign
over us, rather than just being randomly

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borne into a particular family. Now, the BBC and other broadcasters are furiously

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manufacturing consent, trying to claim that
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a wash for jubilation, that a
people is united, enthralled with the monarchy,

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besotted with their new king. It
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And because the correlation is being used
as a pr exercise for this outdated and

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frankly completely preposterous institution, it is
important to be direct about the truth,

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no matter how much it might upset
a few people. Now I abviolusly agree

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with him, But then you see
all of the friends and family who are

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just like so obsessed, and they
just enjoyed it, and they watched every

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second of it, and they watched
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Etc. It's really kind of amazing
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fall madly in love with kings and
queens in the royal whenever it is displayed

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on television with such pomp and circumstance. That was last week as well.

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Last week we also saw the murder
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hands of Daniel Penney, the former
marine who was protected by the police as

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well as the media in the same
fashion that police officers are protected when they

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killed anyone, particularly black people.
Daniel Penney, I want to take a

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pause and think my comrade on Twitter
scarlet Red at scarlet Red, they were

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the individuals who actually found out this
guy's name, because well, he was

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being protected by the media, who
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He was being protected by the police. He was even protected by New

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York City Mayor Eric Adams. And
the reason this is so momentous at this

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particular moment, it's because we've crossed
a rubicon. Last week. We crossed

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the rubicon where now we have Christian
conservatives feverishly advocating for the murder of these

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individuals, of homeless people, like
they have to find a way to justify

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the killing of this black man by
this white former marine, and they have

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now crossed over into completely rejecting Matthew
twenty five, where Jesus said that when

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I was hungry, you fed me. Not this batch of evangelical Christians,

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these white Christians, No, no, no, no, They are now

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violently advocating for this type of behavior, justifying it. And so we have

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crossed the threshold where there's no need
for conservative Christians to even pretend as though

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they are loving Christians when they are
actively allowing their racism to just completely obliterate

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any remnant of doing anything that Jesus
actually told them to do. We crossed

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that rubicon this week as well.
In addition to all of the mass shootings

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that we've sold that happened last week, In addition to the extremely significant convictions

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that the Department of Justice was able
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insurrectionists, the conviction of the Proud
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groups, this is a flat Last
week was a flashpoint for American history as

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well as global history and the enemies
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of us who are doing our best
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The enemies of good faith. They
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so much, with so many tragedies, so many historical moments happening week after

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week, compounded by the violence,
compounded by the hate. They really count

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on us just throwing in the town. Not today. Yeah, if we

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brought in our lens out to two
weeks, just two weeks. In the

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last two weeks, the state of
Texas has passed legislation that is requiring the

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Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms
across the state. Clearly unconstitutional, but

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I'm sure they're counting on the Conservative
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They're counting on that Conservative Supreme Court
to allow it. Well, here's

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a response from that. I think
was a brilliant response from Representative James Tollarico,

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who was a Democrat from Austin,
Texas. Listened to him as he

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explains not only the unconstitutionality of this, but as a Christian and I agree

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with this, it is deeply Unchristian
to force people to live according to your

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religious beliefs. I mean, the
entire point of Christianity is to willingly involuntarily

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except our beliefs listen to this brilliant
extent. This bill, to me is

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not only unconstitutional, it's not only
un American. I think it is also

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deeply Unchristian. And I say that
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I believe it is exclusionary, and
I believe it is arrogant. And those

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three things, in my reading of
the Gospel, are diametrically opposed to the

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teachings of Jesus. A religion that
has to force people to put up a

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poster to prove its legitimacy is a
dead religion. And it's not one that

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I want to be a part of. It's not one that I think I

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am a part. You know that
in scripture it says faith without works is

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what is dead. My concern is, instead of bringing a bill that will

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feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, we're instead mandating

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that people put up a poster.
A very great wrong was done in our

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classrooms with that nineteen eighty decision,
because that's that they were this document was

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in classrooms prior to that. In
fact, I think that this bill actually

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rights a wrong that was done all
those years ago, based on what has

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now been considered a failed decision by
the Supreme Court. So I contend that

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we're writing a wrong not causing one. Is I just worry this is what

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gives us religious people a bad name, that instead of living out the way

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of Jesus, we're instead imposing our
beliefs and other people. Instead of leading

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by example, we're leading by mandates. And so I'm very offended by this

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legislation. I know you and I
have worked together, and I'm not casting

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aspersions on you, and I would
love to work with you, but as

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it is currently written, I find
this to be a deeply offensive bill.

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Thank you, Miss Truth. Don't
worry, I will cast aspersions on her

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for you. Anyone who is on
this side of Christianity, they have devolved

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their faith into nothing more than a
bludgeoning tool of control, something that they

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can use to hit across the head
of people who they disagree with, people

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who don't follow their every word.
They use it as a weapon, and

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they are, in fact the very
reason so many people left the faith don't

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want anything to do with Christianity,
don't want anything to do with Jesus,

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because the representatives of Jesus on this
earth are more interested in forcing you to

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recite the Ten Commandments when in fact
they don't even know them themselves. They

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got to find that clip of an
advocate for this bill, who was it,

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John Stewart maybe, who asked them
to recite the ten Commandments, and

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he cann't get through three of them. Not only can they not recite it,

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they don't live these standards. They
don't live up to the Ten Commandments

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in any measure. And those who
even get close to living up to those

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ten Commandments, they still understand that
they're using this as a way to gain

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political power. I don't care how
devote you are, devoted you are,

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or how devout you are a Christian, trying to force other people to live

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according to your faith is Unamerican,
unconstitutional, and it is Unchristian because we

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are not told to force people.
But then that didn't stop them from committing

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the Crusades, right, that has
never stopped Christians, particularly white Christians,

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from using their religion as a tool
of control. It's never stopped them versus

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using their faith as a way to
not only make society better. But could

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you look in the mirror and try
to make yourself better? Because when we

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look at the baggage of all of
these religious institutions. When we look at

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all of the baggage of the Catholic
Church, the Southern Baptist Church, the

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Mormon Church, all of these religious
institutions who have a backlog of hurting people.

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They're using their religion to harm others
instead of even correcting themselves. So

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really, what good is it are
we saying we just want people to become

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Christian because you want to create this
massive Christian army that you can control power

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with. That's what they're saying.
Because if one last thing, and I'm

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I'm not going to preach to you
guys this morning, but because everything is

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kind of revolving in this moment in
American politics around religiosity and faith and who

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loves God and who's a real all
that kind of stuff, just let me

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share this with you. The one
last thing that the Bible says that is

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very important for this conversation says that
you will know a tree by the fruit

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it bears. You will know who
a person really is by what they do.

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And I don't care who calls themselves
a Christian when you see them out

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there engaging in the most bitriolic hate
feel bigotry, ostracizing groups, oppressing groups,

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outright lying. The amount of lying
that goes on out of the mouths

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of white evangelicals, particularly in the
political spaces people who claim to love Jesus,

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they are engaged in the highest level
of gas lighting, propaganda and lying.

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So if we look at the fruits
that these monsters are bearing, they're

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nothing like christ and it is more
accurate to refer to them as white nationalist

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Christian devils because of the work that
they're actively doing to harm the least of

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these, the impoverished, the homeless, the unhoused, the mentally ill,

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the sick. They do everything they
can to exploit and harm these groups.

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So, Okay, they're Christians,
because I'm not going to engage in a

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no true Scotsman polasy, but I
will say they're Christians who bowed first at

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the feet of hatred and bigotry before
they would do anything that Jesus actually told

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