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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: February 14, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | February 14, 2025

Well good
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Evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome back to nashville.
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I get a lot of emails about making this show one hour long.
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And i thank you for that, but i'm not sure that even 60
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Minutes would be enough to discuss
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All the change that's happening now.
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Donald trump certainly ran on make america great again,
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But i don't remember him saying anything
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About doing it all in the first month.
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Well, a lot of what i hear in the
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Traditional, more predictable media
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Sounds a lot like a loud anti-trump echo chamber.
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So what we're trying to provide here is information
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And analysis
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That you haven't heard before,
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Presented from a biblical worldview.
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It's news as in something in w not pushed
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In one direction or the other, and truthful to the core.
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In fact, this show taps into an action plan
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That i call watch, listen, think and act.
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It's about watching and listening
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To what's going on around us and what's being reported,
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And then thinking, considering how what we see and hear
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Measures up against what we're actually experiencing,
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And then acting, finding practical ways
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We can bring truth into the communities
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Where each of us live.
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Well, if you've watched the show before,
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You've likely seen the editor in chief of breitbart news.
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He's the author of some bestselling books,
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And he has a podcast, too,
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Which is conveniently branded with his name,
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The alex marlow podcast.
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Welcome back, alex.
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It's always nice to see you.
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Thank you for having me again.
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Well, so much has happened since we last met.
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I want to jump right in and hear your thoughts.
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Amid all the stories of migrants being rounded up and deported
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Quite effectively.
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Came this surprising headline.
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New york court considers law that would allow
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800,000 noncitizens to vote.
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So even as tom homan, kristi noem and pete hegseth
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Were doing their work, a lot of it in person,
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A judge is trying to determine if the law can be changed
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To allow 800,000 noncitizens to vote.
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I'd say it was hard to believe, but i'm prepared
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For nearly anything these days.
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What are your thoughts on what seems to be absurd to me?
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Yeah.
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So what we've watched over the last,
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I don't know, several
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Decades in this country is a war on the concept of citizenship.
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They would like to they on the left would like to blur
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The distinction, if not a race of distinction,
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Between what it means
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To be a citizen of this country and a mere resident.
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They don't want there to be any distinction
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Whatsoever, because once that happens,
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Then they could just import a permanent voter base
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That will allow for them
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To bridge the gap
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And perhaps create, even create a permanent majority.
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So they need to try this first at a local level,
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Because if you see the way
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The democrats are operating these days,
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There's sort of a regional metropolitan party
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That's really where they're at.
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They don't really have
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A lot of sway
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Outside of that,
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A little with some demographics in the suburbs.
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But not by much.
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But most of suburban and rural america
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Is firmly republican at this point.
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So they really their best bet is for these cities
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To try to be incubators for leftist thought and energy
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And energy is really important.
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If you notice, their national leadership
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Is a pretty much directionless, rudderless right now.
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They don't know what to say.
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They can't tell if they're impressed
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By what trump has been doing or if it's illegal.
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I should say impeach elon musk for his doge initiatives or.
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But that implies that he's legitimate.
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Maybe he wasn't legitimate to begin with.
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They don't really know what to do.
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They don't know which end is up.
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So what they end up doing is when they have strongholds
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Like they do in these major cities,
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They try some revolutionary policy, see if it holds,
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See if it can pass legal muster.
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They should offend all americans.
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These people are not citizens.
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Citizens should not vote in the united states.
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Period. paragraph.
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The fact that we have to have this discussion is simply
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In order to distract
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From all the positive stuff that we're doing.
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We have to have it. we have to stop it.
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But it just shows you that wherever there is a major city
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In this country, the left still poses
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A big threat in their efforts to try to fundamentally
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Transform this country.
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Well, this next one i find encouraging.
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The homeland security secretary, kristi noem, is looking into
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Using irs agents to track down people who are here illegally,
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Especially those who were involved
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In human trafficking networks.
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The irs has more than 80,000 employees.
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So instead of chasing down church groups and conservatives.
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The agents could track down drug
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And child trafficking payments and have those people arrested.
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Listen to how the president put it.
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You said that you envision sending the 80
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Something thousand irs agents hired under biden to the border.
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What role do you see them playing?
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Oh, see, i mean, i may do that or i may use different people,
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But we're going to send more and we're going to give
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The border patrol some help.
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Remember, biden wanted to hire
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20,000 more irs agents to chase down the american public.
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They had no interest in tracking drug dealers or the criminals
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Who were on the underground sex trafficking.
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Does that sound about right?
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Yeah,
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I think that number might have even been closer to 80,000.
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It was a lot of people and a huge budget.
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They really wanted to expand
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This, to try to target americans who already broke.
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We're most americans.
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We're not poor in this country.
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There's a lot of people who are broke.
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They're paying their minimum on their credit cards.
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They're very nervous about the future of the country.
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They don't think we're heading in the right direction.
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And we've got this government with all this levels of fraud
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And abuse that's been uncovered over the last few weeks.
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And then you find stuff like you've got fema
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Payments going to migrant hotels in new york city.
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You find that
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A relief that's designed
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For some of the families that lost their homes
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In los angeles, going to the homeless people.
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We're just allocating funds at a level
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That is entirely inappropriate, ought to be illegal.
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But with regard to these deportations,
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I'm an all the above type guy.
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Use the irs.
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Use the fbi.
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Use the department of education,
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Even though there shouldn't be one.
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Use bureau land management, i don't care.
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I use a bunch of celebrities.
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Go out there and send a message that america's closed.
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We're no longer going to be a hospital ball
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Towards illegal aliens.
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And all of a sudden, a lot of the country's problems.
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We're talking gangs, we're talking fentanyl,
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We're talking wages getting undercut.
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All this is going to start going away.
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So whatever approach they want to take, i'm all for it.
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This is the number one problem that's facing us.
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We've heard so many discouraging stories
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About where usaid was spending our hard earned income.
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This one is one of the most outrageous.
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$10 million for meals that went to al-qaeda
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Funded terrorist groups,
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And 75 million for diy programs in foreign countries.
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Elon musk says he's found very little at u.s.
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Aid that he believes americans will support.
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Stunning revelations, aren't they?
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Yeah. they're unbelievable.
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Actually, on my podcast today that i had.
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Senator joni ernst, who heads up the doj's
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Caucus in the senate.
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And if you want to know why they're moving so fast.
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She's been tracking these waste
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And abuse on a monthly basis forever.
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She's got a squeal report that she puts out.
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We publish it at breitbart,
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But we haven't had the motivation
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From the executive branch or from others in
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The legislature to actually deal with it.
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Finally, we do so,
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But that's why they know where all the waste is.
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They've been tracking it. rand paul does a good job as well.
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But santorum's better than anyone else,
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And so they know where everything is.
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They just got it.
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And once you start sharing with people
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That $20 million of our taxpayer money is going to a sesame
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Street program in iraq,
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Where we sent ukrainians to paris fashion week,
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We spent $15 million on contraceptives
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And condoms in taliban controlled afghanistan.
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Once the people realize that
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That's where some of our money's going,
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They start wondering the obvious question.
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Where's the rest of it going? because it's hard to see
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The evidence is going anywhere good.
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Well, here's a surprise.
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Cbs news did a poll on the president,
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And they found that 70% of the country
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Say that president trump is keeping his campaign promises.
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That's the same cbs news that trump recently sued
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For reconstructing
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The kamala harris 60 minutes interview
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When she was running against him.
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Do you think the cbs
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Brass considered not releasing the positive poll?
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Probably not, because it feels like that.
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There's such a there's so much scrutiny now.
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The establishment media has to rebrand to some degree.
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The good thing is,
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I don't know
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If the public is really wants it to,
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Because a lot of people just moved on.
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They're getting their news from places
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Like tbn, like breitbart,
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Like these podcasts that are so popular
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Now on online platforms like aks.
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They're not waiting for cbs news to tell them what the news is.
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But if cbs news wants to survive without becoming a huge
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Loss leader for whichever conglomerate owns it,
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Then they're going to have to try to balance out
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Some of their fake news with some real news.
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So this is a modest effort to do that.
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I'm glad they put it out.
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And it really should surprise no one.
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Trump is doing exactly what he said.
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And people like that in this country.
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Well, let's take a short break
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And let me suggest you jump in and write us an email.
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As you know, we read them all and respond to many.
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The address is comments at alan jackson.
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Now.com.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with the editor
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In chief of breitbart news, alex marlow.
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There was big news from the larger media world this week
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When both pbs and disney dropped their d-i programs.
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Pbs had to do it due to the president's executive order.
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But disney did so because of some investor pushback.
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Remember the disney owns abc news and espn,
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Both of which have been at odds
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With conservatives for many years in the campaign.
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Trump made it clear
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He was going to use some common sense
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If and when he got elected. do you remember this?
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I will also end the government policy
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Of trying to socially engineer race and gender
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Into every aspect of public and private life.
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We will forge a society
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That is colorblind and merit
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Based.
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Alex, do you yet know if disney actually shut their dei
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Efforts down or just hid them deep inside the big company?
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Yeah, that's one thing that is a big risk here
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Is that you just change people's titles
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And all of a sudden their head dei
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Officer is just the vice president of communications now
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Or something, and they're still there
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With the same bad ideas that are offensive to all of us.
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But this is still a win.
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And i don't want to be too cruel
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And critical of people who are doing the right thing.
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And disney is a real leftist company.
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Bob iger, who runs disney, is a committed leftist.
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He's not like a
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Lot of these ceos
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We see who are pure capitalists and are just
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Trying to make money for their corporations.
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And in recent years,
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Going woke has actually made you money in america,
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Which is sad to say, but it is true.
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Going woke was not making you broke was making very rich.
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Well, that's change now.
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Now it appears that going woke will make you go broke.
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And this is a huge admission
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That disney is acknowledging this fact,
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And that they're going to start raising it back
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Because a lot of their consumers are actually conservatives.
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The people, the families. you have to have children.
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You have families.
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If you're going to consume
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Disney products for the most part,
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I guess there are those weird
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Disney adults out there someplace else.
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But most of them are families, and so it makes sense
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For them as a company to start raising some of this stuff in.
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I could go to a laundry list of some of their absurd
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Woke things they've done in recent years.
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Make sense for them to stop? i'm very pleased about it.
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We're going to have to be vigilant
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To make sure they follow through,
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But this is very welcome, especially for people
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Like like me who have a lot of young kids.
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And with regards to pbs and npr as well.
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We've been talking as a conservative movement
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About defunding these
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These publications or these outlets for years.
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Donald trump is finally doing something about it.
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It is so welcome and so overdue.
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Most of the media that was bending the truth
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For kamala harris
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And joe biden is still doing much the same thing.
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They're publishing outright lies
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And disinformation, including partial truths,
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Rather than the real truth about the world
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They're supposed to be reporting on.
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My question is,
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Is it
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The only instinct
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They have to operate on bashing trump,
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Or do they actually believe what they're saying?
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Because on some level,
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They have to know it's not the full truth?
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Yeah.
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Pastor, you know, i'm a student of these things,
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So i try to keep an eye.
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I read between the lines or some of these newsrooms and
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Whatever reporting is available on these newsrooms,
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And you learn things like the new york times
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Basically structured their entire newsroom
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Around the russian collusion hoax.
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That was the basis
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Of their editorial day to day, and they won pulitzers for it.
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They sold a lot of subscriptions,
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And it turned out that all of it was fake,
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But they didn't care that it was fake.
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It was good business for them.
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And they're a publicly traded company.
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They've got a board that has a representation
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From ceos and cfos and founders
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Of some of the biggest companies in the world,
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And that's what was guiding those decisions.
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And then when the russian collusion hoax fizzled,
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They moved to race because there were
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All those race riots that were going on in 2020.
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And it was the coronavirus was not good for business
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Because you could put advertising on it,
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So you couldn't use that.
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So the fabricated all these race hoaxes
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Because it was good for business.
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These are businesses.
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And they thought bashing trump was good for business.
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Will it continue to be good for business?
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I hope not, but just know that that's
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Where they're coming from.
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They're willing to lie, cheat and steal
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So long as it makes them money.
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And lying about trump has been their best business for the last
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8 or 10 years.
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Well, before we go, i want to run an idea by you.
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What do you think of having reporters from all
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The biggest liberal outlets?
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The new york times, the washington post, msnbc, and cnn
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All stationed in the heartland of america for a year at a time,
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Not at the fancy hotels, but in homes and apartments
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Co-mingled with the rest of america
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And near the most popular diner in town.
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So they can actually listen to what people think
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And believe about their country.
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What do you think?
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So i would never impose
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All of these elite journalists on the heartland of america.
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I love the heartland too much.
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I would never tell you guys to absorb
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All those horrible left wing journalists.
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So i can't go along with this plan.
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But if i was a journalist, i would voluntarily
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Go and spend more time middle of america,
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Talk to people, middle of america.
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They're so consistently surprised
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At what is normative viewpoints in this country, like simple
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Stuff like, we don't want men beating up on women in sports.
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It's so obvious that we feel that way
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That we think a border is a good thing,
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That we think taxes are too high.
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These are not radical opinions. these are normal opinions.
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And you could learn that if you spent some time
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With any of the people who you're trying
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To sell your newspapers to, but they won't do that.
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And the only people who benefit from that,
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Though, are the people in the heartland
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Who do have to deal with the insufferable journalists.
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Well, it's marlo.
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Thank you for your time again today.
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Stay in touch and we'll see you again soon.
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You got a pastor. thank you.
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When we come back, some thoughts of my own on where
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To find hope within this noise.
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To find hope within this noise.
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Well, a lot of change is happening.
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There's a lot of competing voices,
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And some of them are very loud and influential.
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It seems the most predictable constant
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Is that those who oppose president trump
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Will be loud and unrelenting in their opposition.
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Recent headlines have portrayed trump as a threat to democracy,
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That he's putting the u.s.
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On the brink of a dictatorship, and that democracy has died.
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Well, the persistence, the volume
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And the broad
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Cooperation of legacy media may make it difficult to interpret
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What is truly happening.
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These loud voices have proven a willingness to tell any lie,
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To fabricate the most remarkable accusations,
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And then brazenly repeat what they know to be totally false.
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It's a confusing time.
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It's often uncomfortable.
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It can be disorienting.
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You're trying to sort out
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What's appropriate and what's inappropriate.
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Should i believe this? what's the right action to take?
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Well, when jesus was on the
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Earth, the circumstances had some similarities.
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There were loud, competing voices in his time as well.
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Listen to what jesus said to the religious leaders
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In jerusalem. it's in luke chapter 12.
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He said,
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You know how to interpret
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The appearance of the earth in the sky.
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How is it that you don't know
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How to interpret or analyze the present time?
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He was saying to them that you know
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How to anticipate weather patterns,
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But you don't know
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How to understand or analyze the times in which you live.
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Now jesus performed many miracles.
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He fulfilled many biblical prophecies
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That religious leaders had spent their entire lives studying.
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If they couldn't recognize
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That the messiah
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Was in the midst of them doing mighty things,
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It's clear that jesus expectation is that
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His audience would not just be biblically literate,
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But that they would understand the world in which they lived.
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In the light of the teaching of scripture.
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Now, i'm not suggesting that our president
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Is a messiah by any stretch of the means.
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That office has already been filled.
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But i do believe that jesus expects
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That we would look at our times and understand them in
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Light of what god is doing in the earth.
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We can't just hide inside our churches
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And have bible studies.
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It's vital in this season of change
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Where there's competing voices
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That we as christ followers watch, listen, think and act.
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God's moving in the earth.
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Let's engage and be a part of it.
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We'll do that.
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There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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I promise when i come back, we'll read some of your emails.
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I promise when i come back, we'll read some of your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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We always look forward to reading them.
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Christopher scribe on email.
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I'm hearing in the news of how many billions of our tax
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Dollars are funding foolish causes in addition
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To terrorist countries.
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The implications point
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To the likelihood that members of congress
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Are getting kickbacks on that money.
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If this is true
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With this kind of practice to be classified
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As quid pro quo, and could it be considered
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Grounds for a congressional hearing?
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Well, i'm not sure on the details of that.
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I think it could be classified as stealing and irresponsibility
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And a betrayal of the american people.
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And your trust as an elected official.
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Congressional hearings.
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I'm a little bit weary with them.
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They seem to be focused on sound bites for whoever
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Their select audience are, and not much meaningful change.
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I think elections are our best opportunity
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To change the behaviors of those in washington.
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If we all change our hearts in middle america,
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We'll have a different class of leaders in washington, d.c.,
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Joe haigh commented on youtube.
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He said china is definitely bluffing about their ai ability.
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Have you ever tried to assemble a product from china
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Using the instructions they provide?
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I have joe and i have some leftover parts.
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I'll be happy to contribute them to your project.
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If you would like, just send an address,
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Joe, by email.
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Pastor, i love your truthful, god filled joe.
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I find it ironic that we have a constitutional crisis,
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That musk and trump are saving taxpayers money.
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The biggest complainers are the worst offenders.
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However, it was not a constitutional
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Crisis when the prior administration
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Defied the supreme court and paid tuition loans.
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Used law fair and closed the nation due
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To illegal gain of function research, spied on u.s.
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Citizens, housed illegals, and preemptive pardons.
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The list can go on and on.
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God bless you.
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The list could go on and on, but we'll run out of time.
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It's beyond absurd, and it's time for those of us
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That live in this nation to wake up and pay attention,
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And use the privilege of voting to make a difference.
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Don't spend your time being angry
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At the politicians in washington.
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Let's spend our time and energy cooperating with god
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In our lives, saying yes to him, helping our families do that.
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That'll make our homes better,
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Our cities and communities better. and ultimately,
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I believe it will even change washington, d.c..
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You can always go to youtube.
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