WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.040 Welcome to the three Stories version the Todd Herman Show. 2 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:08.160 Story number one Axios says Trump has killed race relations 3 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:12.279 in the United States. Story number two Elon versus President Trump, 4 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:19.039 a Christian response, And story number three The Good, the 5 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:22.960 Bad and the Ugly a pastoring. We'll talk about this 6 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:24.679 courtesy of God Almighty. 7 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:30.960 The Todd Herman Show is one disapproved by big Pharma 8 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:38.399 technocorrats in Tyrn, Cebrian where from the high mountains of 9 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:46.320 Free America, here's the Emerald City exime Todd Herman. 10 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:58.600 Today is the day the Lord has made, and these 11 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:01.479 are the times to which God has decided we shall live. 12 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:06.560 I know that there is the Elon and Trump thing, 13 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:09.519 and we'll get to that today. And I got to 14 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:11.480 tell you, I don't have a ton to say about it. 15 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.959 So I turned to God's word, because God has lots 16 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.239 to say about stuff like this, quarreling and arguing. I 17 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.159 do have a lot to say about race relations. And 18 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:27.239 there is a piece in Axios that's a headlined like 19 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:32.200 a pendulum. Pendulum, how America's racial reckoning unraveled. And guess 20 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:36.439 how it happened. It wasn't when Barack Hussein Obama, who 21 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:41.879 was trained under Sololynsky's writings, who considered Sololinsky his community 22 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:48.840 community organizing guru, went out to stoke racism. You know 23 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:51.280 he's a you gotta a weird sound of name. And 24 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:52.920 did you hear he's black? 25 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:54.719 Uh? 26 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:59.760 And Trayvon Martin looks like my son, and the police 27 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.719 act stupidly and hispanics. You need to punish your enemies. 28 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:09.120 Remember that. That wasn't it. It wasn't when he brought 29 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:12.439 Black Lives Matter Incorporated into the White House prior to 30 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.080 the launch of that attack around the death of Michael Brown, 31 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:18.960 after Michael Brown tried to unalive a police officer. That 32 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:25.039 wasn't it. It was not when the people who ran 33 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.400 Joe Biden took good words like diversity and equity and 34 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:34.639 inclusion and made them into bad policy, full on racist policy, 35 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:40.599 such as denying aid to white people and creating unemployment 36 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:44.280 programs and government aid programs specifically for black people, or 37 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:48.319 the blatant racism of Harvard University doing everything they could 38 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:52.080 to block Asian men from getting into the schools so 39 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.759 that they could get more black men in. That wasn't it. 40 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:58.960 It wasn't what Carol Swain had predicted when she wrote 41 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.599 her book about the new white supremacy. She's an academic. 42 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:05.840 Prior to that, she was a pretty a political academic. 43 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:08.479 She simply looked at the ctity, what's causing this? Why 44 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:12.039 is there a resurgence? What she determined was because of 45 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:18.240 the racism of DEI type programs. But no, it's obviously 46 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:22.680 not that it's Trump axios. This is part of the peace. 47 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.479 The America that marched for George Floyd five years ago 48 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.400 is gone very beneath a blackclash that has hardened for 49 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:33.319 now into a new political and cultural order. Why it matters. 50 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.280 Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police officer shocked the national conscience, 51 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:40.439 But what looked like historic momentum for racial justice has collapsed, 52 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:43.080 the eclipsed by a reactionary movement backed by the full 53 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.120 force of the US government. Still, activists aren't giving up. 54 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.599 They're recharging and refocusing their efforts, shifting from mass protests 55 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.719 to defending what remains, implanting the seeds of what's next. 56 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.599 The fight has moved from the streets to the margins, 57 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:58.439 in courtrooms and classrooms, in city council's. A quieter form 58 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.360 of resistance is taking shape out of the spotlight, but 59 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.319 no less determined, just pausing. There was at no time 60 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.560 a nation that marched for George Floyd. That never happened. 61 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.719 There were people who march for what they thought was 62 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:17.120 George Floyd, a nation that did not understand and still 63 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.800 to this day, does not understand that George Floyd, at 64 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:26.360 best participated in his death, at worst caused it. As 65 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.439 we now know, there was no collapse of the airway. 66 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:33.480 Derek Chauvin did not collapse the airway of George Floyd. Now, 67 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:36.920 I hated that video. That was one of the most 68 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.759 awful things I've ever watched in my life. I felt 69 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.279 just like many of the bystanders saying, do something, get 70 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:46.240 him off that hot payment pavement, pick him up, cool 71 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:51.439 him down, do something. And the jury has delivered a 72 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:55.800 response and Derek Chauvin is still in prison. But there 73 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.480 was never a time when the nation march for George Floyd, 74 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:01.600 and those people who did did not understand that George 75 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:04.639 Floyd was a very, very violent man. Now there are 76 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.879 statues of George Floyd, a man who famously held a 77 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:11.839 weapon to the belly of a pregnant woman. So that 78 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.279 wasn't it. It wasn't a nation, and it wasn't about 79 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:17.519 George Floyd. It was about the vision, which is what 80 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.959 DEI has been used for. It's been used as a cudgel. 81 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.360 It's been used to tell white people you are oppressors. 82 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.000 No matter what you do, you cannot be on racist. 83 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.000 You have to be anti racist, which means you have 84 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.639 to fashion in yourself some form of anti white sentiment. 85 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:37.959 I've been in media companies where we've had race based 86 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.079 struggle sessions and I was the one person who asked 87 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:45.600 during a meeting, Hey, what's black privilege? And the trainer 88 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.319 didn't like that at all. She said, well, there's no 89 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:49.360 such thing as black privilege. I said, no, I'm sorry. 90 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.279 If there's white privilege, there's black privilege. She didn't like that. 91 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:54.759 She also didn't like when I raised my hand and said, hey, 92 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.079 when's it my turn to present? What are you talking about? 93 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.240 This is my presentation? Well, equity, Well I'm a trained 94 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:03.399 presenter on this topic. Well, you know what, we don't 95 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:04.720 all start at the same place, so I should have 96 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:08.040 a chance to present. It all breaks down back to 97 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.720 the Axios piece that contends President Trump is the reason 98 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.519 that race relations, in their eyes, have gotten worse five 99 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.160 years later, the pendulum has swung hard in the opposite 100 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.959 direction DEI. On his first day in office, President Trump 101 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:25.000 ordered a government wide purge of DEI programs and offices, 102 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:29.920 the opening sovognist systemic efforts dismantle the racial justice agenda 103 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:34.639 that emerged in twenty twenty. This was not justice. Giving 104 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.519 people jobs based upon race is not racial justice. It 105 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:40.240 is the opposite of racial justice. It is racial injustice. 106 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:44.680 It is, in fact, racism. Civil rights. The Trump administration 107 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.600 has moved aggressively to unravel President Lynnon Johnson's civil rights legacy, 108 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:52.680 including by rearenting DOJ parties to focus on anti white racism, 109 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.600 which they put in quotes because of course it can't happen. 110 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:00.959 It was Johnson who said, in a disgusting way, put 111 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.839 together enough government programs, give black people enough government money's 112 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.199 break up black families, and you'll have black America eating 113 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:09.319 out of his hands. Only he didn't say the word black. 114 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:11.079 He used a word I don't use, and you probably 115 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:16.720 don't either. History. Trump ordered a federal view of Confederate 116 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:19.560 monuments toppled during the twenty twenty protests, targeting what he 117 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.639 called a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our nation's history. 118 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:26.600 What he called the Civil War was one of the 119 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:29.920 bloodiest wars in history, and part of the reason it 120 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.000 was fought, perhaps the main reason, was over the topic 121 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:39.560 of slavery. The Confederate monuments are history. Those were historical figures, 122 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:43.839 and when I see them, I hate them. I can't 123 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.839 stand driving by him. When I see him, it reminds 124 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:51.600 me of an uncomfortable past. I like that. I like 125 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:54.879 seeing a statue that brings that back, because a nation 126 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.800 that erases its history is erasing its future. If we 127 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.079 can't regard the things of the past and the mistakes, 128 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.199 then we are going to be more prone to remake 129 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:08.120 those mistakes. Police reform. Days before the anniversary of Floyd's murder, 130 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.120 the Justice Department scrapped proposed consent decrees for the Minneapolis 131 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.240 and Louisville police departments and drop nearly a dozen other 132 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:20.920 investigations into alleged police abuse. These consent decrees were used 133 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:24.519 to d police cities. If you want to see the 134 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:29.720 fruits of these consent decrees, look at Seattle, where it 135 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:32.960 is legal to vandalize a building, to break into a building, 136 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.759 to use drugs, to traffic people, and it is a 137 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:39.120 legitimate defense in court to come in and say I'm sad, 138 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.240 I have a depression issue, I have a drug issue. 139 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:47.080 Where illegal immigrants will not be charged with dois because 140 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:50.519 they can then be targeted for removal by the FEDS. 141 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:54.720 These consent decrees were depolicing decrees and they should have 142 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:59.240 been canceled. Refugee policy. This is axious again pretending that 143 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:01.919 race relationship have suffered because of Donald John Trump in 144 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.360 the office refugee policy. The administration has effectively ended most 145 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:09.480 refugee programs except for one tailored to white South African farmers, 146 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.879 justified by Trump's false claim of white genocide. You know 147 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.320 that false claim that he then went on to prove 148 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.840 when he had the President of South Africa in the 149 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.360 Oval office and all the media was there, that false claim. 150 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:27.320 He's canceled refugee programs because like DEI, refugee programs were 151 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:30.799 being abused. They were being abused to bring in people 152 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:34.639 who weren't refugees. You are not a refugee. If you 153 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:37.759 come to America from Somolia and say you're scared for 154 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:40.720 your life, so you come here, you get all the 155 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:42.879 lars yes of being a refugee. You get to twenty 156 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:44.679 two hundred bucks a month, You get to ten thousand 157 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:47.559 dollars walking around money that some states give five thousand 158 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:51.679 some tates, and then you go to vacation in Somolia. 159 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:56.639 You never were a refugee. Mark Rubio makes this case 160 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:59.559 with Cuban so called refugees. They come here fear for 161 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.000 the life, and then they go vacation in Cuba. You 162 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:06.559 are not a refugee. Furthermore, USAID had used that program 163 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:10.320 to import people into our country who hate our values. 164 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.039 That is not a good idea because you import people, 165 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.879 you import their ideas and what they're going to do 166 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.720 with those ideas. And look what we've seen. We've seen 167 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:24.360 people with those ideas go and enact bizarre, horrible forms 168 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:27.879 of violence against our citizens and against visitors to our country. 169 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:33.440 Speaking of the Jewish diplomats, Jake Tapper is not a 170 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:36.080 guy who you can turn to to have honest analysis 171 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:40.639 of news. But Jake Tapper lets slip something about and 172 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:43.039 it's obvious that he's a liberal. He says he doesn't 173 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.720 vote for either party, he can't stand either party. I 174 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:49.200 personally don't buy it. But he lets slip something in 175 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:52.120 relation to race relations in America. That had to do 176 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:53.039 with his son. 177 00:10:54.240 --> 00:11:00.200 A left leaning podcast that He'll Remain nameless. And we 178 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:02.240 were talking about my kids, because I think they were 179 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.759 both people without kids. And they asked me about my son, 180 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:08.679 and I said he was you know, he's a football 181 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:12.360 player and he wants to be a policeman. And their 182 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.120 joke was about my fifteen year old son, Oh, how 183 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.039 does he feel about minorities? Like the idea that he 184 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:19.559 wants to be a policeman, therefore he's racist my son, 185 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:21.600 And like you know, that was the big laugh. And 186 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.120 then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff, 187 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:28.000 and I thought to myself, this is why you are 188 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:36.679 losing elections. Like my football playing son, who has no 189 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:41.600 political views. He's fifteen. He thinks about World War two 190 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:47.320 and gaming and playing linebacker. That's his world. 191 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.759 He just gave it away. Now it's joke material on 192 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:54.919 the left. It's anybody who wants to be a cop 193 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:57.639 is someone who wants to go around unliving black people. 194 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.559 That wasn't President Trump. And by the way, this piece 195 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.639 and Axios we've been talking about where they contend that 196 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.799 President Trump has broken race relations. You've been hearing most 197 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.840 of the piece. Three people wrote it. They put three 198 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.080 people on this piece, and these are the facts that 199 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:22.120 can deliver facts absence of you know, fact, race relations 200 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.879 have been poisoned to the degree that people can pretend 201 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:29.120 to be a race Rachel Doleozol and get away with it. 202 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:31.919 But people who are of mixed race don't get what 203 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:35.440 is in fact a form of black privilege, as you'll 204 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:36.440 hear in this clip this. 205 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.159 So I got into a heated argument with the woman 206 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.120 the other day that told me that I'm not allowed 207 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.919 to say the word ninja. If you know what I mean. 208 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:48.159 Yes, she means the N word, and incidentally, she's a 209 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:49.120 mixed race woman. 210 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:51.879 I don't usually come on here and give story times. 211 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:53.879 It's really not my thing, but I just felt like 212 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.320 this would be a real teachable moment. So I'm out 213 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:01.600 a function my best friend had a barbecue, chilling, cooling, vibing, 214 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.440 conversing with people how I know to converse, and out 215 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:09.639 of nowhere, this girl says to me, excuse me, what 216 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:12.919 are you like? Where are you from? So I explained 217 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.559 to her that I'm white and black. Now the room 218 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.919 is silent, and she's like, and you think you're allowed 219 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:20.879 to say ninja. 220 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.399 See this has gotten to this point, this thought policing 221 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:29.240 and this race policing, that there is now a new 222 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:33.879 litanus test for whether or not you're black. And Joe 223 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:38.240 Biden introduced that litmus test. If you didn't vote for me, 224 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.240 then you ain't black. Now that woman could in fact 225 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:45.399 go out and identify more firmly as black if she 226 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:49.440 became more radicalized. And this is the Nancy Pelosi version 227 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:53.639 of this. It gives us Jasmine Crockett, who's not an 228 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:57.080 ebonic speaker, but suddenly became one when she walked into 229 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:00.559 the halls of Congress. And I'm firmly convinced it was 230 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:03.919 Nancy Pelosi saying, look, we love you, the camera loves you. 231 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:06.759 You're quick on your feet, You're not here to accomplish 232 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.360 anything legislatively. You're smart, you went to one hundred thousand 233 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.320 dollar per year private school. But if you could be, 234 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:15.960 you know, more black, it was not President Trump who 235 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:22.240 broke race relations. Story number two, the dust up and 236 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:28.120 the probable divorce between Elon Musk and President Trump. And 237 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:31.559 I'm going to disclose something to you. Sometimes a job 238 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:33.919 I do, well, it's a blessing, and it's a job 239 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:36.000 most people don't get to do, and it's unique, and 240 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.120 I get to speak God's word into things. Sometimes it's 241 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.519 a struggle because I would be frank with you, I 242 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.240 cannot build up some big, fake head of steam to 243 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:48.080 talk about Trump versus Elon. I'm sad about it. I'm 244 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.320 sad because we were this close to a win. I'm 245 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.679 sad because I can see both guys points on this. 246 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.279 I'm sad because Elon Musk, a guy who goes around 247 00:14:56.279 --> 00:15:00.080 fathering children every other week and doesn't bother to actual 248 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.600 be a father, is accusing President Trump of being in 249 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.279 the Epstein files. And I would suggest if President Trump 250 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:11.000 was in the Epstein files, the Democrat Party who tried 251 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:15.879 to take him out, as it were, through legal systems 252 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:19.080 and a coup attempt, and am I judgment, Oh gosh, 253 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:22.759 let's put some lazy, poorly trained secret Service agents on 254 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.919 his protection detail. Do you think they wouldn't have taken 255 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:30.120 that selectively out and used that instead of the Russia hoax? 256 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.679 Do you you don't think they would have leaked the 257 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.519 portion of the Epstein files with President Trump in it 258 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:40.200 if it existed. And on the topic of Elon, in 259 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:45.080 his view, the guy sacrificed nearly his entire company. He 260 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:47.679 was willing to see his facilities burned down. He was 261 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:51.799 willing to see his stock destroyed, to go and use 262 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:58.240 tech tools to uncover massive structural fraud in the federal government. 263 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:03.919 Massive structural fraud meaning a system set up to encourage, 264 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:10.960 to steward and to hide corruption. On the topic of 265 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.720 Elon and his assertion that President Trump is in the 266 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.759 Epstein files, David shown I had been a lawyer for 267 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:20.120 Jeffrey Epstein. He wrote, I was hired to lead Jeffrey 268 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:23.759 Epstein's defense as as criminal lawyer nine days before he 269 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:28.799 was unalived. He sought my advice for months before that 270 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.799 I can say authoritatively and equivocally and definitely he had 271 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.120 no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him, 272 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:39.519 and he's of the opinion that Jeffrey died. But he 273 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:42.840 didn't say the words that a lot of people think happened. 274 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:46.919 Although now we hear Don Bengino saying, damn Magio saying 275 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:52.039 it didn't happen. So what is a Christian response to this, Well, 276 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:53.679 one of them is to look at what was actually 277 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.639 going on behind the rules. Are the walls of Congress 278 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.399 Anna Paulina Luna back concession. The rules commit in House 279 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:02.759 leadership has decided to not bring anything to the floor 280 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.319 to codify Trump's EOS or doge no code off I votes. 281 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.880 Guess what, no votes. Half the reason the GOP even 282 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.319 took the majority is because of Trump and Elon. Then 283 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.240 now you guys are too scared to codify. They are 284 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:19.480 too scared, And there's a pragmatism to this, and the 285 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:25.839 pragmatism is that the establishment is waiting out Trump, that 286 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.599 they don't really want things to change. So how do 287 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.839 you respond to this as a Christian? Because that's my 288 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.480 concern on this. President Trump is a Christian. He talks 289 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.160 about Jesus, he prays to Jesus. I believe in the 290 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.759 developmental process of his faith. We refer to that as 291 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:43.720 being a baby Christian, and it is not an insult. 292 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:47.119 Everyone starts somewhere. Elon Musk has talked about Jesus, but 293 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.000 he doesn't know the Lord and he's not a Christian, 294 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.359 so we can't expect Christian behavior out of them. But 295 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.400 we can use Christian teaching for instruction to see where 296 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:57.440 this is going off track and maybe why. I'll explain 297 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:00.279 that in the second, as we cleanse our minds for 298 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.880 just seconds. We have all sorts of choices in this world. 299 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.039 We can quarrel or not quarrel. We can fight with 300 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.559 people like Elon. We can fight with brothers and sisters, 301 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.680 or we cannot. You also have a choice on how 302 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:14.680 you clean your body in your hands. We all know 303 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.559 that great, big companies very commonly do not have our 304 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:20.279 best interests at heart. They do not agree with our positions. 305 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.240 They're doing things like making their products with slave labor 306 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.480 in China. That is not the case with a single 307 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:31.119 soap company, Alan's Artisan Soaps. The soaps are made in America. 308 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:34.039 They're all natural, they're made with no chemicals, and they're 309 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.680 as gentle as soap can be. And it's called Alan 310 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:41.519 Soaps because the reason it exists is to employ people 311 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:44.359 like Alan, who's thirteen. He's been through eighteen operations. He's 312 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.920 effectively nonverbal. Ian now joins him. Working there is Alan's brother, 313 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.039 also affected by autism. Amy is now working there. Amy 314 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.480 got autism late in life, late onset autism. Imagine how 315 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.200 frustrating so the soap is world class, made by a 316 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.519 family of three generations of soap making expertise and made 317 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.599 in America to Alan Soaps dot Com slash Todd use 318 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:04.759 promo code Todd to get temper sent off all their products. 319 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:09.200 Alan Soaps dot Com slash Todd. In James, in the Bible, 320 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:13.640 we read what causes quarrels and causes fights among you? 321 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:16.759 Is it not this that your passions are at war 322 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.359 within you? You desire and you do not have, So you 323 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:24.079 end lives you covet and cannot obtain. So you fight 324 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:27.400 in qrarel you do not have because you do not ask. 325 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:29.880 And in that they mean you do not have because 326 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:31.519 you do not ask the Lord to fill you with 327 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:34.440 that which would fulfill. We can look at Elon and 328 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.440 we can look at President Trump, and both their hearts 329 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:40.160 wants something. I think both met are patriots. I think 330 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:45.480 President Trump deeply, deeply wants to heal this country, particularly financially. 331 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:49.039 And I think Elon Musk is truly, truly terrified that 332 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:52.759 the country's going bankrupt. And they're both right. They're both right, 333 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:57.680 and they're both wrong. Choosing this quarrel in public is 334 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:03.200 exactly what Satan would want. A moment of precipice where 335 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.680 a nation uniquely blessed with resources had an opportunity to 336 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:12.960 at least begin to etch away at thieving, because a 337 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:16.319 nation that has encoded you shall steal and be rewarded 338 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:21.960 cannot be fully rewarded by God. Story number three, The Good, 339 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:26.680 the Bad, and the Ugly of pastoring. If we wouldn't 340 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.160 get in trouble licensing style. Back in the day, Alex 341 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:33.160 who's produces this program, we used to do a feature 342 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:34.839 called just a Few More Things, and then we do 343 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:37.559 a sub feature that just a Few More Things, where 344 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:39.079 we had clips that were the good, the bad, and 345 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:41.640 the ugly. We use that great Clint Eastwood movie music. 346 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:47.119 And everybody can make mistakes. Pastors can make mistakes, and 347 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:50.240 mistakes are some of the greatest opportunities in the world 348 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:57.079 to build relationships. Mistakes and errors and being wrong and 349 00:20:57.160 --> 00:21:00.200 treating people wrongly are some of the greatest ways to 350 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:05.279 make relationships. Now, there's a difference between mistakes. There's a 351 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:09.359 difference between making mistake and apologizing having made a mistake 352 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:16.759 and sort of apologizing and then building your personality as 353 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:24.559 a pastor around something that is uniquely not pastoral. That's 354 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.680 how we get the goods, the bad, and the ugly. 355 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:32.039 This is a pastor named John L. Hamadu of church 356 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.119 eleven thirty two, and he's delivering an apology. This is 357 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.000 an important moment. This is a great moment. Apologies are 358 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.880 great times where you can build faithful friendships and relationships 359 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:47.480 and let Christ face show through your own. 360 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:49.279 Two things that I said, I would say, you know, 361 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:51.799 tell a story about how he was lifeless, had no 362 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:54.519 heartbeat for over eight minutes. He was just like laying 363 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:56.519 there and I'm praying, and I'm praying. 364 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:57.640 I'm praying, and this is what I said. 365 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:01.359 I said, I'm not praying weak pansy prayers like oh God, 366 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:04.960 please be with us. I'm praying bold prayers like God 367 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:06.799 raise him from the deaths. I said that, and then 368 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.359 I would say and then I felt the presence of 369 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.240 God come into the room. And when the presence of 370 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:16.279 God comes, death has to leave, Darkness has to leave. Literally. 371 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:19.319 June twenty eighth, I'm preaching that a way of it. 372 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:24.000 June twenty ninth, I'm in a hospital room again and 373 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:26.599 Kaylee is eight months pregnant with our third son, Cole, 374 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:33.400 and there's no morph beat, and readuce her. She gives 375 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.839 birth and literally I'm holding my son, praying God, please 376 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:41.559 be with me. And I'm feeling the overwhelming sense of 377 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:42.599 the presence of God. 378 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:45.119 So I used to preach, when. 379 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:47.599 You know, when the presence of God comes, death leaves here, 380 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:50.359 I am holding both. I used to say, I wasn't 381 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.160 praying pansy prayers like God here, I am. God, Please 382 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:54.920 be with me. And I feel like I need to 383 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:57.839 apologize to a bunch of teenagers because I have made 384 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:02.319 people feel like if you had enough faith, if you 385 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:05.400 prayed a little harder, if you were just a little 386 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:08.920 bit more intellectually convinced, things would have been different. And 387 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:11.759 sometimes it rains. 388 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:17.960 Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is I'm 389 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:22.200 not going to do that for you. And I question 390 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:25.680 after a season like that that I've learned to ask, 391 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:28.960 is what am I to learn from this? Because God 392 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:31.759 is always acting for a good What am I to 393 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:35.359 learn from this? At youth group a couple months ago, 394 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:40.079 a new kid came in. He's a bigger kid, and 395 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:43.799 it's kind of a rambunctious night, and I got a 396 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:46.640 little bit frustrated, and I'd not met this kid before, 397 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.640 and I got snarky with him and said something about, hey, 398 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:52.119 when you're done interrupting me, I'll start interrupting. I'll stop 399 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:54.640 interrupting you, and then I can get back to doing 400 00:23:54.640 --> 00:24:02.519 my job. So stop. And I saw his and it 401 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:05.880