1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Morning rally and Dragon, Yes, the No King's Day protest work. 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 2: We don't have a king, just President Donald Trump. 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 3: Ah, right, day, It's actually even better than that. It's 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 3: just a bunch of silliness. And as Trump said, was 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 3: Trump that said it was. 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 2: A nothing burger. I think he was right. 7 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 3: The rallies lasted for maybe about ninety minutes before everybody 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 3: just kind of left it once. It's like we showed 9 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 3: up on time, which was amazing for them, and then 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 3: they just left and a lot of observers were kind 11 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 3: of left breathless with the speed with which the crowd 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 3: seemed to vanish. Over on X I'm reading from one 13 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 3: account all the No King's protesters in Times Square, New 14 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 3: York seemed to have vanished at the exact same moment. 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 3: The eerie timing has people asking if the whole thing 16 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 3: was staged instead of spontaneous. Some are calling it astroturfing, 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 3: a fake protests made to look real. Whatever it was, 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 3: the exit was suspiciously well hursed. 19 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 2: Again over on X. 20 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 3: That you know talking about it being staged instead of spontaneous. Well, yes, 21 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 3: if you listen to the program on Saturday, I went 22 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 3: through these two people, Ezra I forget the names now, 23 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 3: it doesn't make any difference. But these two people who 24 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 3: are two former congressional staffers who are working with a 25 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 3: group called Indivisible, which just happens to get some of 26 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 3: its funding from some of the George Soros Open Society foundations. 27 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 3: So of course it was staged. Absolutely, it was stage. 28 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 3: All of these Soros in GEO funded protests are completely stage. 29 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 3: And the thing is those in Geo's only pay the 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 3: old white hippies. I you know, if I just had 31 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 3: shoulder lengked hair and some crocs or some sandals and 32 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 3: and maybe just a bathrobe or something, I could have 33 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 3: shown up too, kind of like Steve Martin and the 34 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: jerk just kind of show up and just walk around 35 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 3: for a while. And maybe that's why they couldn't last 36 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 3: too long, because it's just a bunch of old hippies that, eh, 37 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 3: let's go watch some reruns of you know, All in 38 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: the Family or something. So once the two hours are up, 39 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 3: it's time for those subteragenearian and occagenearing you know, latter 40 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 3: day dead ads to kind of wander back home for 41 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 3: their midday tapioca pudding or something. It's just as predictable 42 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 3: as clockwork, all of which brings me, let's go back 43 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 3: in time for a minute, and then I want to well, 44 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,679 Speaker 3: I want to go back in time for a couple 45 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 3: of things. On the Friday episode of The Five, Greg 46 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 3: Gutfield Greg Greg Guttfeld is talking about their protests and. 47 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 4: Says mass hysteria around Trump. They have to preserve it 48 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 4: because it's all they've invested into. It says something that 49 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 4: no kings is happening while Trump is brokering peace around 50 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 4: the world. 51 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 2: He's done like I don't know, seven eight piece deals. 52 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,399 Speaker 4: It shows that that doesn't matter. It's you know, it's 53 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 4: a full blown emotional vendetta has taken over their lives, 54 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 4: doesn't matter. 55 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 2: What he does. So how is this possible? How can 56 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: you have. 57 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 4: Good things happening around the world and people participating in 58 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 4: mass hysteria because it's easy and it's fun. Anger requires 59 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 4: no thought, no labor. 60 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: No risk. 61 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 4: Remember how Biden played the rage card whenever he never 62 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 4: did anything else. 63 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: Remember the rioting and looting after George Floyd. 64 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 4: It was a replacement for thoughtful action, and the media 65 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 4: decided to redefine it as a struggle that whenever you 66 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 4: know anybody did something violent, it had something to do 67 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 4: with some kind of struggle. Having the No King's event 68 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 4: after Trump, you know, figures out Middle East piece. It's 69 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 4: like holding a wedding after the couple broke off the 70 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 4: engagement the night before. We're still going to go through 71 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 4: with the ceremony. Anyway, we paid for the food, we 72 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 4: already made the flyers. But the media indulges this idea 73 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 4: that passion equals effort, and they reward people for their 74 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,119 Speaker 4: feelings and not and not what they're actually doing. 75 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 3: So it's a I thought that one line, it's kind 76 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 3: of a throwaway line, but I think it's actually pretty 77 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 3: brilliant because that sums up the left in just about everything, policy, substance. 78 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 3: Everything that the left does is all about everybody's feelings. 79 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 3: Just you know, as long as it makes us feel good, 80 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 3: does it really make any difference whether we comp anything 81 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 3: or not. Now translate that over into policy. I don't 82 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 3: know why, but on the way in they were they 83 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 3: were talking to Sean Duffy about the Transportation secretary, and 84 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 3: they were talking to him about the air traffic controllers 85 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,799 Speaker 3: and how this you know, when whatever payday was last 86 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 3: week sometime when when they got their checks. That was 87 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 3: the last full check that they will get. Most of 88 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: them worked fifty five sixty hours a week because we're 89 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 3: so short of air traffic controllers. And the Democrats apparently 90 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 3: over the weekend while the government was shut down at 91 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 3: the DNC headquarters in DC Southeast had a rooftop party. 92 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: Now I don't care if you party or not, but 93 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 3: if you're the ones who are indeed responsible for the 94 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 3: shutdown and air traffic controllers not getting paid, and if 95 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 3: BAC right now military members aren't getting paid because Democrats 96 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 3: even killed that. And yet you don't have any sense 97 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 3: of appearances, You don't have any sense of you know, 98 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 3: while while people are trying to make sure that planes 99 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 3: don't just you know, fly into each other or taxi 100 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 3: into each other. Let let's go have some you know, wine, 101 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 3: beer and some really nice bourbon and tequila. Has some 102 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 3: really nice ordures and and all mill around on the 103 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 3: top on the rooftop plaza of the Democrat National Committee 104 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 3: headquarters in DC. That shows that you are not about 105 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 3: substance whatsoever. It's all about feelings, just feeling good, you know, just. 106 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 2: Going through the motions. 107 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 3: And then Duffy said, something. I forget what it was, 108 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 3: but Duffy said something about the you know, we were 109 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 3: trying to spend money to go back to the moon 110 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 3: and do this. And then that led you know, this 111 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 3: is how my brain works in the morning. That led 112 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 3: me to think, wait a minute. You know, I paid 113 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 3: bills over the weekend, including you know, because I just 114 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 3: pay bills, you know, twice a month just comes in. 115 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 3: I just paystuf. And I paid my credit cards off 116 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 3: like I do every two weeks. I just pay whatever 117 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 3: the balances and the credit cards. And of course I had, 118 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 3: you know, pretty high credit card bills because taking the 119 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 3: seventeen year old teenage girl to New York City is 120 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 3: it can be very expensive. But what if I hadn't 121 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 3: paid those off? What instead, like the federal government, I 122 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 3: just kept letting the credit card bills pile up and 123 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 3: pile up and pile up. Well, I paid my mind off. 124 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 3: But what do I have to show for it? I have? 125 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 3: I have some really good memories with my granddaughter. I 126 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 3: have tangent, she has a she has a new purse, 127 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 3: she has a lot of photographs. We have U Let's see, Oh, 128 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 3: I bought a jacket, I wore the jacket. Today, I've 129 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 3: got a jacket that I that I bought while I 130 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 3: was there. I have some actual, tangible things to show 131 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 3: for it, in addition to the intangible thing of a 132 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 3: trip that my granddaughter hopefully will remember. So when I, 133 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 3: you know, eventually turned into an old fart and I'm 134 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 3: you know, packed away in a nursing home somewhere, she'll 135 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 3: she'll come and see me and she'll remember those good times. 136 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 3: What do we have to show for the government credit card? 137 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 3: What do we have to show for that? Well, we 138 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 3: don't have anything to show for it. Now, you might argue, 139 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 3: you know, Sean Duffy was talking about going back to 140 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 3: the moon. Well back then, we you know, back back 141 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 3: in the sixties and when we finally made it to 142 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 3: the moon nineteen sixty. No, I guess we have that 143 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 3: to show for it. If we were incurring much and 144 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 3: I didn't. I haven't gone to look to see what 145 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 3: the national debt was at that time, but it was 146 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 3: minuscule compared to what it is today. 147 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 2: When we went into. 148 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 3: National into a huge national debt, where the debt was, 149 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 3: you know, one hundred percent of GDP or worse during 150 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 3: World War Two, what do we have to show for that. Well, 151 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 3: we had stopped the march of Nazism, we had stopped 152 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 3: the march of the Japanese Imperial Army. We had we had, 153 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 3: you know, kept the country, the world from falling into 154 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 3: you know, another period of dark ages. We actually had 155 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 3: some things to show for it. Today, I'm not sure 156 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 3: what we have to show for it. I want you 157 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 3: to think about it. Can you can you look around? 158 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 3: We got we got crappy streets, we got crappy highways. 159 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 3: We've got apparently failing infrastructure. The the interwebs were down, 160 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 3: apparently overnight. I wasn't aware that I was id asleep, 161 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 3: but apparently if if you look over at Drudge, Drudge 162 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 3: tells us this morning that there was an internet mailtdown, 163 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 3: Amazon Cloud, Hits, airlines, major sites and you heard that, 164 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 3: you know, Wall Street Journal and banking sites and everything else. 165 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 3: We're down for a while. We have crappy infrastructure, so 166 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 3: we don't really have anything tangible to point to and say, oh, 167 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 3: look we have you know, something really nice over here 168 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 3: that we paid for. Maybe we ought to pay the 169 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 3: credit card bill. We don't have any of that. So 170 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 3: go back to Gutfeld for a second. What he's really 171 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 3: describing is Democrat policies. As long as it feels good, 172 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 3: we're for it. And if that means we go into 173 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 3: debt to feel good. It's like their stupid party on 174 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 3: the rooftop. Now, I'm sure they paid for it. I 175 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 3: don't know what the current finances are of the DNC. 176 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 3: I haven't looked, don't care. But if the DNC is 177 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 3: struggling to raise money and they're having a rooftop party, 178 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 3: you're a donor go all parallel to a taxpayer. If 179 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 3: you're a donor to the DNC and they're partying while 180 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 3: the government's shut down and air traffic control is going 181 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 3: to start slowing down even further and further and further 182 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 3: because it's a demanding job physically and mentally. And if 183 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 3: you're not getting paid for it, and now you're still 184 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 3: working fifty five sixty five hours a week, and now 185 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 3: you're going to try to do something else to try 186 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 3: to put some you know, food on the table, to 187 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 3: try to pay for some bills, then you know you 188 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 3: have the stress of going out and getting a bank 189 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 3: loan to cover it. You're not going to work fifty 190 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 3: five hours a week, So they'll be there'll be a 191 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 3: shortage of air traffic controllers, and when that happens, flights 192 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 3: will be delayed, flights will get canceled. That's not a 193 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 3: feel good policy. That's nothing can be happy about anymore 194 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 3: than parting on the rooftop of the DNC. Really, you're 195 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 3: doing that while people are going unpaid. I mean, and 196 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 3: I'm not talking about the bureaucrats. I'm telling the people 197 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 3: who really do stuff, who actually produce a product, or 198 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 3: actually provide a service that is necessary to the security 199 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:17,839 Speaker 3: and the well being of this country, like the US 200 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 3: military or air traffic controllers. 201 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 4: It's a perfect example again of an imaginary solution for 202 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 4: an imaginary problem. The trans bathrooms, the climate models, white 203 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 4: supremacy in the military, these were all imaginary problems that 204 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 4: then called for imaginary solution. 205 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 2: The problem is the. 206 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 4: Trans solution, and a lot of these protest solutions they're 207 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 4: not harmless, like you could have surgical or psychological division 208 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 4: in any of those if it's just some mindless little 209 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 4: thing where you're just standing out in front of fox 210 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 4: yelling like those little old ladies do. By the way, 211 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 4: I think, no, you can't spell no kings without no 212 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 4: kin a lot of these people. 213 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 2: Just don't have family. 214 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 3: Maybe true, that's just spot on. It's an imaginary solution 215 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 3: for an imaginary problem, exactly. So Donald Trump likes to 216 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 3: say that if he's really a king, he'd actually get 217 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 3: a lot more stuff done. 218 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 2: But he's not a king. 219 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 3: He's just our president who fully understands the scope of 220 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 3: the powers of the office of the presidency, what the 221 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 3: Constitution provides and allows him to do, and he's willing 222 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 3: finally to use those to our country's advantage. And then 223 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 3: the point about they just don't have family, probably probably, 224 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 3: you know, probably true. But it's more than that. Most 225 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 3: of them don't have any real religion. So they've spent 226 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 3: their entire adult lives just making up false religions to 227 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 3: cling to in order to give their otherwise kind of 228 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 3: pitiful existence some sort of meaning. So many of these 229 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 3: people haven't had any real meaning in their lives since 230 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 3: the Vietnam War in back in nineteen seventy four, nineteen 231 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 3: seventy five, that's half a century ago. Now, it's a 232 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 3: long time to exist as a human being without some 233 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 3: meaningful belief system. So what they've done in the meantime 234 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 3: is they've made up false religious exercises like climate change 235 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 3: or DEI or COVID shots George Floyd, and as he 236 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 3: points as gut Fail points out, the transgender madness, all 237 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 3: of which, every single one of which has inflicted incalculable 238 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 3: damage on society, and all of which the voters soundly 239 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 3: rejected last November and put Trump back into the presidency, 240 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 3: leaving them insane, insane with rage, and probably depressed somewhat. 241 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 3: So back to George Soros and Indivisible and all those groups, 242 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 3: all the NGOs that provided all the funding in the 243 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 3: organizational effort to get those protests to occur this past weekend, 244 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 3: Those NGOs and sorrows have given them a new religion, 245 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 3: a new outlive for their rage, a new source to 246 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 3: lend some shred of meaning in their sad towdrey lives. 247 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 3: Pretending that Trump is a king gives them motivation, if 248 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 3: only for a few hours on a beautiful Sunday, beautiful 249 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon, when people who have real lives were involved 250 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 3: in more productive pursuits. Besides that four hundred dollars they 251 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 3: got from sorrows. That buys a lot of pudding, though 252 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 3: not nearly as much as as it bought before Joe's 253 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 3: Auto pen took over the White House. 254 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 2: Then I looked at what was going on around in Colorado. 255 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 3: In Colorado, the Colorado Sun had a story about the 256 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 3: protest orse. The Colorado Sun's all excited about it, and 257 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 3: they had this in the story. They reported that hundreds, 258 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 3: including friends of mine that I saw on some of 259 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 3: the photographs, with can goods. So they brought can goods. 260 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 3: And guess what else they brought? They brought ballots. Why 261 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 3: would you bring a ballot to a no king rally 262 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 3: if you're opposing a king? I kind of assume the 263 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 3: kings exists, and kings aren't really well known historically for 264 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 3: holding elections unless the election is should we cut their 265 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 3: heads off? 266 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 2: Or not? Off with their heads or not? 267 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 3: All in favor, say a all opposed stand up, we'll 268 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 3: take We'll take your heads off too. So they showed 269 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 3: up with ballots, absolute ballots. Then we have the inevitable 270 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 3: street interviews, the man miss street interviews. 271 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 2: I am the Unity uniform. 272 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 5: Got my head out of my costume because I can't 273 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 5: breathe right now. But we're here doing a peaceful protest, 274 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 5: trying to get our democracy back, trying to get the 275 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 5: current White House impeached and all removed for crimes against 276 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 5: the United States and against our constitution. 277 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 3: Everybody, wait a minute, So she wants to use the constitution, 278 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 3: which establishes a constitutional republic, to impeach the people in 279 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 3: the White House, which is using the constitutional provisions, which 280 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:48,239 Speaker 3: is certainly anything other than establishing a king because of 281 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 3: crimes against the country. Then there are those man on 282 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 3: street intertect bits went when asked about you were bought, 283 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 3: would ask what you're doing here? 284 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 2: The answers pretty fascinating. Still's coming up next? Nobody loved. 285 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 6: Hey, Michael, it's hard when you don't get paid past 286 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 6: a certain amount of time. I mean, these protesters only 287 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 6: got paid for ninety minutes. They aren't going to give 288 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 6: them ninety one minutes. Good god, there's nobody to cover 289 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 6: their overtime. Oh and by the way, I think Trump 290 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 6: wouldn't tax it anyway. 291 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 7: But that's another story. 292 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 3: She breathlessly leaves a talk about while she's on the 293 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,919 Speaker 3: treadmill or she's just running late to work, and you know, 294 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 3: Caldera is going to beat her to death if she's 295 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 3: a minute late to work. So it's it's one or 296 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 3: the other. 297 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 2: I don't. 298 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 3: I don't know which it is, So back to the 299 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 3: No King because I I know it's over and done with, 300 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 3: but I want you realize one how stupid it is 301 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 3: and how it fits in with the idea that well, 302 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 3: this is their new religion because it is about feelings. 303 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 3: It's about I need some meaning in my life. So 304 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 3: where do I get it? 305 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 2: Now? 306 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 3: You know, it's it's pretty easy to do to go 307 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,880 Speaker 3: out and do the man on the street interviews. Why 308 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 3: are you here? 309 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, you turned the microphone on. 310 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 8: Demonstrators packed a quarter mile of sidewalk for the No 311 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 8: King's rally against President Trump. 312 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 7: Frandy B. 313 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 8: Hagey with members station WMR A has Morey thought the 314 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 8: New Kings gathering was part of a seven month streak 315 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 8: of weekly protests against the Trump administration. Here's one of 316 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 8: the organizers, doctor Mark Pierce. 317 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 9: The reason we are out here is to give a 318 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,679 Speaker 9: message that we are not his subjects. 319 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 8: Local resident Joan Griffin has been consistently protesting here, the. 320 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 9: Fact that they are grabbing people who are even American 321 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 9: citizens off the street, the cutting off a funding to 322 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 9: universities and the like for research, and then I'm very 323 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 9: disturbed by what is the parent destruction of the federal government. 324 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 8: More than seventy percent of voters in the county cast 325 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 8: their ballot for President Donald Trump last year. For NPR News, 326 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 8: I'm Randy be Haagey in Woodstock, Virginia, and. 327 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 7: That's part of some twenty five hundred marches around the 328 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 7: country today. 329 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 3: So let's see, we're gonna hold universities accountable for the 330 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 3: money that we give to them, make sure that they're not, 331 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 3: you know, providing that money to people here on a 332 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 3: foreign student visa. Who are you know, protesting and supporting 333 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 3: a a designated terrorist organization and they're they're destroying the 334 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 3: federal government. Some of the federal government could deserve to 335 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 3: be destroyed. It could be downsized quite a bit, which 336 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 3: is from the terminal wood going through. 337 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 2: Or how about a unicorn. I am the unit of Unicorn. 338 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 5: Got my head out of my costume because I can't 339 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 5: breathe right now. But we're here doing a peaceful protest, 340 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 5: trying to get our democracy back. You're trying to get. 341 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 3: The current now that you know we're trying to get 342 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 3: our democracy back. I'm so tired of democracy. Democracy is 343 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 3: mob rule. We don't have mob rule. And I know 344 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 3: this is a bugaboo of mine, but we are a 345 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 3: constitutional republic. We are not a democracy, and I don't 346 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 3: want a democracy back. I want us to stay a 347 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 3: constitutional republic. But she doesn't know, she's she's been educated 348 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 3: in government school. She doesn't know the difference, and it 349 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 3: becomes the buzz route buzzword. Well, she doesn't really realize 350 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 3: is that a democracy inevitably leans leads to a king, 351 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 3: a dictator, a tyrant, somebody, because mob rule inevitably causes 352 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 3: people to demand I need some order in my life. 353 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 3: I need some I need some safety. I need somebody 354 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 3: to protect me from all the crazies out there who 355 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 3: were just in the mob deciding everything's going to be decided. 356 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 5: No White House impeached and all removed for crimes against 357 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 5: the United States and against our constitution. Everybody here is 358 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 5: being peaceful. 359 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 8: So everybody here is being peaceful. 360 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 5: I just want it out there for anybody that's out here. 361 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 2: We do have free water and a cooler. 362 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 5: I brought some water for everybody in case they get 363 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 5: thirsty New York, if somehow pepper spray happens to hit them, 364 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 5: we have more to walk it out. 365 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 3: So you know, if you're just walking down the street 366 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 3: and you know, because Ice has just been known to 367 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 3: just kind of drive down the street and you know, 368 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 3: take water guns that are full of pepper spray and 369 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 3: just you know, shoot people with pepper spray. 370 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 5: Anyway, this is my little, uh catch up for today. 371 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 5: So hopefully I'll be doing more of these protests, or 372 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 5: hopefully we won't have to. Hi, I see you water butte. 373 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, which she thinks she really wants more. 374 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 3: Hopefully we'll be out here doing more protests or hopefully 375 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 3: we won't need to. Well, of course she wants to 376 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 3: do more protests because that gets back to the meaning 377 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 3: in their life. But why are they protesting? I wish 378 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 3: I could show you the visual of this kid. I didn't. 379 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 3: I didn't save the ex account that it came from. 380 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 3: But he looks like he's maybe in his early twenties, 381 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 3: bushy blonde, you know, kind of front fazzled hair, and 382 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 3: just has that kind of glazed look in his eyes 383 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 3: as if I'm well, well. 384 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 2: Just listen, trumps a bitch. Yeah, why is that? 385 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 7: I don't know, He's just we don't like him, that's 386 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 7: the word around here. 387 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 2: Any any particular reason why you don't like him, No 388 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 2: clue at all. 389 00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 10: I'm just going with everybody else saying. 390 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 3: I'm just going along with everybody else, saying, I really 391 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 3: don't know why I'm here and I'm picking up I 392 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 3: don't say they're giving me some cash and I don't know. 393 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 3: They just tell me that Trump's a bad man. I'm 394 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 3: surprised if that interview went any further. If do you 395 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 3: know who Donald Trump is? 396 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 2: I don't know who he is. I don't know. I 397 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:25,679 Speaker 2: don't know who he is. 398 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 3: I firmly believe that this is their Trump arrangements syndrome 399 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 3: is part of their religion. The protests opposing Trump, cries 400 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 3: for democracy, transgenderism, all of the things that you know, 401 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 3: the free Palestine, all of this stuff. 402 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,120 Speaker 2: I think it's become. 403 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 3: Their religion, and it's become their religion because well, we 404 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 3: have all of these things that have supplanted religion. 405 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 7: The University of Notre Dame sociology professor Christian Smith has 406 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 7: spent his career studying religion in the US. He has 407 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 7: a new book titled Why Religion Went Obsolete The Demise 408 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 7: of Traditional Faith in America. Smith says that word obsolete 409 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 7: doesn't necessarily mean religion is useless or lost. It's more 410 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 7: about how religion is viewed across generations. 411 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 10: By obsolete, I mean to focus more on a cultural realm, 412 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 10: the cultural status of religion, not just you know, how 413 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 10: many people go to church or pray, but sort of 414 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 10: traditional religion's role in the larger culture. And so the 415 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,879 Speaker 10: idea is just what we mean by obsolete. You know, 416 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 10: traditional religion has just for most people been replaced or 417 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 10: supplanted by other things that have come along. The image 418 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 10: I use in the book is what PCs and laptops 419 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 10: did to electric typewriters. People can still do use obsolete things. 420 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 10: I have college students that use elector typewriters, and I 421 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 10: have CDs. But it's not that it's extinct, and it's 422 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,360 Speaker 10: not that the obsolete thing is worse than what we're 423 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 10: placed it. A lot of times the obsolete thing is better, 424 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 10: but just it's not as much you referred to or 425 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 10: practiced or easy to pull off than the thing that 426 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,640 Speaker 10: people are most into at any given time. 427 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 3: I think that the lack of the lack of actively 428 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 3: engaged in religion. I think the idea that what we're 429 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 3: going to do is we're going to have government take care. 430 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 3: Remember my argument about we expect the government to be 431 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: the compassionate person for us, so that we don't have 432 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 3: to deal with those poor people, We don't have to 433 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 3: deal with hungry kids, we don't have to deal with 434 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,239 Speaker 3: all of that because that gives us the responsibility. All 435 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 3: we do is just fill out of our tax returns 436 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 3: every year, and you know, everybody hopes they get a 437 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 3: big refund back, and they don't really think about the 438 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 3: money that goes to the federal government, which is not 439 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 3: enough to pay for everything. But the federal government's going 440 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 3: to pay for you know, starving kids and kids that 441 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 3: can't afford it, you know, or you know baby mamas 442 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,479 Speaker 3: that got twelve kids. They're going to pay for all 443 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 3: of that, And so I don't have to worry with that. 444 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 3: Government has become the substitute for religion. So let's get 445 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 3: to the crux of the matter. 446 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 7: Why are people turning away from traditional religion? 447 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 2: What did you find? 448 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 10: Yeah, so my argument is that the causes of this 449 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 10: are not recent, that they're complex. There are many I 450 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 10: use the image of a converging of perfect storms. There's 451 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 10: a lot of technological factors, economic factors, and so you know, 452 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 10: religion has a smaller pool of a market, so to speak, 453 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 10: to draw people from. 454 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 3: The government's taken over the market. The government and technology 455 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 3: have taken over the market. I find myself doing it sometimes, 456 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 3: I freely admit it. I'll start doom scrolling Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, 457 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 3: simply because well TV's boring. There's some things on my 458 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 3: desk I want to go do that I don't really 459 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 3: want to go do, so I'm procrastinating and so oh, 460 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 3: this is just a mindless thing to do, which really 461 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 3: has no redeeming benefit whatsoever, other unless I'm doing it, 462 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 3: of course for show prep, so I can bring things 463 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 3: like this to you. 464 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 10: It's not a matter, for the most part, sort of 465 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 10: an atheist or scientific rationalist rejection of religion. It's just 466 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 10: a sort of a doesn't fit, doesn't work, I. 467 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 2: Don't need it. 468 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 7: Well, you say that nineteen ninety one was a crucial 469 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 7: turning point. Why is that you're so crucial for starters? 470 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 10: That was the year when the number of Americans in 471 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 10: national surveys who said they were not religious started to rise. 472 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 10: Prior to then, every survey about sex or seven percent 473 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 10: of Americans said they were not religious nineteen ninety one 474 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 10: was the first uptick, and it's been growing ever since 475 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 10: for three decades. The end of the Cold War happened 476 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 10: in nineteen ninety one, and that was really consequential for 477 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 10: America's self image in the world, It's mission and place 478 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 10: in the world. We used to be during the Cold War, 479 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 10: even if people weren't religious, as a nation, we conceived 480 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 10: of ourselves as the God fearing, a religious liberty nation 481 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 10: fighting against the atheist commonness. And after the end of 482 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 10: the Cold War, it wasn't clear like that evaporated, and 483 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 10: it wasn't clear who we were, what our place in 484 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 10: the world was. And economy was changing, and so the 485 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 10: American dream was starting to become less and less available. 486 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 3: And Trump's here, now think about that, let's just take 487 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 3: them a face value ninety one. They start to lose 488 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 3: interest in religion and the role of the United States 489 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 3: becomes kind of muffled, not really sure what we're supposed 490 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 3: to be doing. Trump comes along and he re established 491 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 3: member Trump was going to destroy our standing in the world. 492 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 3: What Trump was doing is re establishing our standing in 493 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 3: the world. And those who have been subject to the 494 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 3: opiate of government as religion are now now just succumbing 495 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 3: to it. 496 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: We actually do have a new King's Day. It's on 497 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: July fourth, and it's called Independence Day. Funny how if 498 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: Trump was truly a king, you wouldn't be protesting. Also, 499 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: if he was a king, then he could keep the 500 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: government open, right, No one could make him close the government. 501 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: These people are idiots. 502 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 2: They're idiots, and this is their religion. 503 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 10: There was a growing sort of dissatisfaction with the standard 504 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 10: American way of life and declining trust in political leaders. 505 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 10: Lots of other cultural things happened. 506 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety. 507 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 10: One, James Hunter published this book, Culture Wars, putting a 508 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 10: name on the polarization that's happened ever since. 509 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 2: Music changed. 510 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 10: The era of nineteen eighties big hair bands was liquidated 511 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 10: by grunge and other movements. It's not that everything changed 512 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 10: in nineteen ninety one, but that that was a pivot 513 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 10: ear and over the next two decades, all all of 514 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 10: these profound changes in culture sort of worked their way 515 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 10: out the culture. 516 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 3: The point being the culture became the religion. The culture 517 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 3: became the forefront, It became the leader, the leading edge, 518 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 3: So that became the religion, and government was behind most 519 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 3: of those cultural changes, and so that is why you 520 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 3: have today people like that numb nut that goes out 521 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 3: And by the way, that was Jeff Hunt. I forgot 522 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 3: that had that on X yesterday about the kid, you know, 523 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 3: Trump's avidual. 524 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 2: I have no idea why I'm here, and you can 525 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 2: find that at Michael says go here dot com. 526 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, because I want you to see the kid, because 527 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 3: that's that's who's out protesting. So, no, King's Day is 528 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 3: coming gone. We're back to a normal day. And guess what. 529 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 3: We still face a lot of threats internationally that could 530 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 3: come crashing down on us at any moment. We have 531 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 3: a national debt that is out of control. We have 532 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 3: a government that is absolutely dysfunctional, and maybe a king 533 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 3: would be fights right now, that king that would just 534 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 3: kind of slap everybody together and get things back in order.