1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,480 S1: Hi friends. Thanks so much for downloading this podcast, and 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:06,000 S1: I hope truly that you will hear something that will encourage, edify, equip, 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,360 S1: and enlighten you to get out there and influence and 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,040 S1: occupy until he comes. And on that note, may I 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,080 S1: take just a few moments here to describe this month's 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,920 S1: truth tool? It's by pastor Jack Hibbs. He's written the 7 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,040 S1: book called Called to Take a Bold Stand. I absolutely 8 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,520 S1: love this book because it reminds us that in Christ 9 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,480 S1: all things pass away. 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Now 39 00:01:37,330 --> 00:01:39,170 S1: please enjoy the broadcast. 40 00:01:44,890 --> 00:01:47,610 S2: Welcome to In the Market with Janet Partial. Today's program 41 00:01:47,610 --> 00:01:50,050 S2: is where Janet and her husband, Craig, take some of 42 00:01:50,050 --> 00:01:53,250 S2: the stories making headlines this week and offer their insight 43 00:01:53,250 --> 00:01:56,130 S2: and analysis. Before they get started, let's take a quick 44 00:01:56,130 --> 00:01:58,290 S2: look back at some of the highlights from the week. 45 00:02:03,830 --> 00:02:10,830 S3: By obeying Christ, your obedience exposes the sin in this world. 46 00:02:11,350 --> 00:02:14,350 S3: When we choose to obey him because we love him, 47 00:02:14,710 --> 00:02:17,590 S3: he's going to make us the salt and light. He's 48 00:02:17,590 --> 00:02:20,389 S3: going to cause us to be able to answer people 49 00:02:21,270 --> 00:02:25,109 S3: for the hope that we have within us, with faith 50 00:02:25,110 --> 00:02:29,230 S3: and with respect and with a winsomeness. But all the while, 51 00:02:29,470 --> 00:02:32,030 S3: we we've got to do it for our love for God. 52 00:02:32,030 --> 00:02:34,630 S3: Because if we're doing it to to what, get a 53 00:02:34,630 --> 00:02:39,470 S3: bigger church or have people think nice of us. Jesus says, 54 00:02:39,510 --> 00:02:41,630 S3: watch out for that because that's a snare. 55 00:02:42,230 --> 00:02:44,110 S4: Christians have thought about this. In fact, I'll give you 56 00:02:44,110 --> 00:02:49,149 S4: two specific examples. Galileo. Galileo was a very devout Christian 57 00:02:49,750 --> 00:02:53,070 S4: who thought that earth was the only planet that had 58 00:02:53,070 --> 00:02:56,750 S4: life on it. His contemporary, Johannes Kepler, was also a 59 00:02:56,750 --> 00:03:00,480 S4: very devout Christian, and he thought that every. Everybody out 60 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,200 S4: there had life on it. These were both two devout 61 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,400 S4: Christians who just had different ideas on that. And they thought, hey, 62 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,720 S4: let's go out and explore the cosmos to see if 63 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,200 S4: we can find an answer for it. Christians have been 64 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,320 S4: doing this for a long time. I get what you're 65 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,560 S4: talking about in these movies. They want to portray this 66 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,840 S4: as religion altering, like it's just going to destroy all religions, 67 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,800 S4: but it's just not the truth. When you look at 68 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,200 S4: the history of Christianity. 69 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,639 S5: With the whole ID evolution debate, you have this additional 70 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,400 S5: component that worldviews are coming into play because we're getting 71 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,040 S5: this very sort of personal, very emotional topic of where 72 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,120 S5: do we come from and what does this mean for 73 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,600 S5: me personally, in my own worldview that I hold and 74 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,480 S5: the way I live my life. So it's a lot 75 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,880 S5: more than just typical sort of scientific sociology going on here. 76 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,720 S5: You also have a lot of worldviews that are coming 77 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,600 S5: into play. It's very difficult for people to accept new 78 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,360 S5: ideas and be tolerant to them. So unfortunately, as you said, Janet, 79 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,380 S5: we've seen a lot of intolerance and persecution of pro 80 00:03:56,380 --> 00:04:00,020 S5: ID scientists in academia. We tell many, many stories of this. 81 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:04,940 S6: The Girl Scouts in 1993 changed their Girl Scout promise 82 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:07,940 S6: that they had had since 1912. That said that they 83 00:04:07,940 --> 00:04:11,860 S6: would make an oath to God no longer. It is gone. 84 00:04:11,860 --> 00:04:13,900 S6: It can be put in any word you want or 85 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:16,860 S6: nothing at all. So that has changed the moral clarity 86 00:04:16,860 --> 00:04:19,900 S6: for that scouting organization as well. And now we know 87 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:23,779 S6: the rest. Transsexuals are allowed. The membership standards too, have 88 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:27,260 S6: been diluted and confused. And you know what? It's a 89 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:30,140 S6: heartbreak of all of this as kids don't deserve this. 90 00:04:30,140 --> 00:04:32,820 S6: They deserve moral clarity. They deserve to know what's right 91 00:04:32,820 --> 00:04:35,340 S6: and wrong, and they deserve to have an organization that 92 00:04:35,339 --> 00:04:37,820 S6: will not be for sale and that will not be. 93 00:04:37,980 --> 00:04:40,260 S6: They will be contrite when they make mistakes and they 94 00:04:40,260 --> 00:04:43,820 S6: will reverse them. These organizations, I'm sad to say they're 95 00:04:43,820 --> 00:04:45,020 S6: not like our mothers. 96 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:49,620 S7: There's actually a name for it. It's called communal narcissism. 97 00:04:49,620 --> 00:04:54,060 S7: And so they're out there in the community, oftentimes doing 98 00:04:54,550 --> 00:05:00,790 S7: grandiose things, but the motivation of their heart is self-aggrandizement. 99 00:05:00,830 --> 00:05:05,589 S7: They're self-serving. They're getting a lot of that affirmation and 100 00:05:05,589 --> 00:05:09,510 S7: things like that. So oftentimes they they can be very, 101 00:05:09,510 --> 00:05:12,589 S7: very high functioning out in society. The people who suffer 102 00:05:12,630 --> 00:05:16,150 S7: the most, the most are the ones that know them 103 00:05:16,589 --> 00:05:19,750 S7: the deepest. And so that's who gets to see the 104 00:05:19,790 --> 00:05:20,549 S7: real them. 105 00:05:22,110 --> 00:05:24,510 S2: To hear the full interviews from any of those guests 106 00:05:24,550 --> 00:05:27,790 S2: go to in the market with Janet Parshall and click 107 00:05:27,790 --> 00:05:30,789 S2: on past Programs. Here are some other stories making headlines. 108 00:05:30,790 --> 00:05:31,390 S2: This week. 109 00:05:32,070 --> 00:05:35,590 S8: President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President XI Jinping in May. 110 00:05:35,630 --> 00:05:39,270 S9: South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix says it plans a confidential 111 00:05:39,270 --> 00:05:41,950 S9: filing to list shares in the US in the second 112 00:05:41,950 --> 00:05:43,390 S9: half of 2026. 113 00:05:43,390 --> 00:05:46,310 S10: Cyprus has seen a rise in tourist cancellations and a 114 00:05:46,310 --> 00:05:48,630 S10: dive in new vacation bookings as a result of the 115 00:05:48,630 --> 00:05:49,550 S10: Iran crisis. 116 00:05:50,670 --> 00:05:52,790 S2: Janet and Craig have lots to share and they'll put 117 00:05:52,790 --> 00:05:55,360 S2: the first story on the table when we return. To 118 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,960 S2: get more information or to download the podcast of any 119 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,240 S2: of the interviews, go to. In the market with Janet Parshall. Oh. 120 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,680 S1: Are you living with a biblically based, passionate faith, or 121 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,320 S1: are you pulling back from letting your light shine? That's 122 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,400 S1: why I've chosen Cole to take a bold stand as 123 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,040 S1: this month's truth tool. Learn how to influence the culture 124 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,719 S1: for Christ in a transformative way. As for your copy 125 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,640 S1: of call to take a bold stand when you give 126 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,480 S1: a gift of any amount to. In the market, call 877. 127 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,039 S1: Janet 58. That's 877. Janet 58. Or go to in 128 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:51,360 S1: the market with Janet dot o. Happy Friday to you 129 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,260 S1: your friends. Thanks so much for joining us for this 130 00:06:53,260 --> 00:06:56,100 S1: hours edition of In the Market with Janet. Partial Fridays 131 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:58,700 S1: are different. My husband Craig joins us. We take a 132 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:00,740 S1: look at some of the stories making headlines, but we 133 00:07:00,740 --> 00:07:03,580 S1: look at them differently as Christians should look at the 134 00:07:03,580 --> 00:07:06,140 S1: world around us. We look at them through the lens 135 00:07:06,140 --> 00:07:08,460 S1: of Scripture. And so if you were not able to 136 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:10,100 S1: join us last hour, let me just tell you some 137 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:12,660 S1: of the topics we covered and that might encourage you 138 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:16,020 S1: to download that broadcast wherever you find your favorite podcast, 139 00:07:16,020 --> 00:07:18,820 S1: just go to in the market with Janet Partial. Wherever 140 00:07:18,820 --> 00:07:21,420 S1: there's podcasts, that's where we're going to be. Download it. 141 00:07:21,420 --> 00:07:23,740 S1: And we discussed an important case heard by the United 142 00:07:23,740 --> 00:07:26,860 S1: States Supreme Court at the beginning of this week, dealing 143 00:07:26,860 --> 00:07:31,140 S1: with whether or not mail in voting should continue past 144 00:07:31,140 --> 00:07:34,820 S1: Election Day. And so there's some interesting conversation there. We 145 00:07:34,860 --> 00:07:37,620 S1: talked about a Supreme Court decision that came down in 146 00:07:37,620 --> 00:07:41,300 S1: the nation of Finland against a member of parliament who's 147 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:44,420 S1: a born again Christian who wrote a pamphlet called Male 148 00:07:44,420 --> 00:07:47,500 S1: and Female. He created them. And the court said she 149 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:51,590 S1: was guilty of insulting a group of people who are 150 00:07:51,590 --> 00:07:55,230 S1: attracted to same sex relations, and she could face fines, 151 00:07:55,270 --> 00:07:58,510 S1: go to Europe and has not retreated one iota from 152 00:07:58,510 --> 00:08:01,350 S1: proclaiming in the most winsome way exactly what Scripture has 153 00:08:01,350 --> 00:08:04,429 S1: to say. Then we also talked about some legislation that's 154 00:08:04,430 --> 00:08:06,790 S1: rapidly working its way through the parliament in Canada that 155 00:08:06,790 --> 00:08:11,270 S1: literally criminalizes parts of the Bible. That may not be said, spoken, taught, 156 00:08:11,470 --> 00:08:14,830 S1: because they would likewise insult that same group of people. 157 00:08:15,230 --> 00:08:17,030 S1: It makes these kind of things make my heart beat 158 00:08:17,070 --> 00:08:20,670 S1: a little faster because, oh look, our redemption draws nigh. 159 00:08:21,110 --> 00:08:23,390 S1: I don't have any fear at all. And we don't 160 00:08:23,390 --> 00:08:25,510 S1: know what persecution is in this country. We hear our 161 00:08:25,510 --> 00:08:28,190 S1: stories regularly from Todd Nettleton, from voice of the martyrs. 162 00:08:28,190 --> 00:08:31,910 S1: That's persecution. Right now it's discrimination. It may get heavier 163 00:08:31,910 --> 00:08:34,390 S1: than that. And if it does, well, the time to 164 00:08:34,429 --> 00:08:36,910 S1: get up and suit up is right now. Because are 165 00:08:36,910 --> 00:08:39,870 S1: you ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, or are 166 00:08:39,870 --> 00:08:42,190 S1: you going to be robust in the defense of your 167 00:08:42,190 --> 00:08:44,350 S1: faith and the way in which you live your life? 168 00:08:44,750 --> 00:08:48,030 S1: So that is all discussed in the first hour. This hour, 169 00:08:48,030 --> 00:08:49,610 S1: we're going to pick up kind of where we left 170 00:08:49,610 --> 00:08:51,650 S1: off when it comes to Christians taking a stand. And 171 00:08:51,650 --> 00:08:54,170 S1: I want to point you to Louisville, Kentucky, because that 172 00:08:54,170 --> 00:08:56,449 S1: town now has agreed to pay a Christian photographer by 173 00:08:56,450 --> 00:09:02,089 S1: the name of Chelsea Nelson $800,000 in attorney's fees after 174 00:09:02,090 --> 00:09:05,810 S1: she prevailed over its public accommodations law. That said, you're 175 00:09:05,809 --> 00:09:08,090 S1: going to have to photograph same sex weddings whether you 176 00:09:08,090 --> 00:09:12,089 S1: like it or not, because you're doing traditional weddings. And therefore, 177 00:09:12,330 --> 00:09:16,770 S1: we want you to, quote, be censored from stating, quote, 178 00:09:16,809 --> 00:09:19,770 S1: your unwillingness to do so or otherwise make same sex 179 00:09:19,770 --> 00:09:24,290 S1: couples feel unwelcome. That's the city talking. So the settlement 180 00:09:24,290 --> 00:09:26,610 S1: over the attorney's fees was reached just Tuesday of this week, 181 00:09:26,610 --> 00:09:30,450 S1: more than three years after a federal court ruled the 182 00:09:30,450 --> 00:09:34,770 S1: First Amendment supersedes the statute and banned the Kentucky city from, quote, 183 00:09:34,929 --> 00:09:39,530 S1: either compelling or suppressing Nelson's photography and writing. Six months ago, 184 00:09:39,570 --> 00:09:43,170 S1: the court granted summary judgment to Nelson. Now, the case 185 00:09:43,170 --> 00:09:46,930 S1: notably predicted the Supreme Court landmark case of 303 creative. 186 00:09:47,059 --> 00:09:50,260 S1: Another Christian. This time. This was a woman who had 187 00:09:50,260 --> 00:09:53,820 S1: a website. She was very open about her Christian faith, 188 00:09:53,940 --> 00:09:58,340 S1: and she was not going to be designing websites that 189 00:09:58,380 --> 00:10:01,500 S1: were antithetical to her particular worldview. See, freedom of speech 190 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:04,500 S1: is not just talking. Sometimes it's fondant, sometimes it's the 191 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:07,900 S1: film of a photographer, sometimes it's a creative website. And 192 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:10,140 S1: the Supreme Court is beginning to understand these are all 193 00:10:10,140 --> 00:10:14,020 S1: forms of expression that need to be protected and not coerced. 194 00:10:14,380 --> 00:10:17,820 S1: So this 303 creative case was a precedent that protected 195 00:10:17,820 --> 00:10:23,140 S1: creative professionals, just like Nelson, wedding photographers and web designers, 196 00:10:23,140 --> 00:10:27,660 S1: against compelled participation in work that violates their conscience. So 197 00:10:28,179 --> 00:10:30,620 S1: it's interesting because her lawyer, who is part of the 198 00:10:30,620 --> 00:10:33,420 S1: Alliance Defending Freedom, said the government can't force Americans to 199 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:36,580 S1: say things they don't believe. But Louisville officials spent six 200 00:10:36,580 --> 00:10:39,420 S1: years threatening to force Chelsea to promote views about marriage 201 00:10:39,420 --> 00:10:44,980 S1: that violated her religious beliefs. And so there it is, Craig. $800,000. 202 00:10:45,020 --> 00:10:47,990 S1: Louisville has to pay it to cover the attorneys fees. Wow, 203 00:10:47,990 --> 00:10:51,270 S1: wow and triple wow. But I want to underscore also 204 00:10:51,270 --> 00:10:56,110 S1: not unlike, um, the member of Parliament in Finland, who 205 00:10:56,110 --> 00:10:58,990 S1: has stayed the course for over 20 years and not 206 00:10:58,990 --> 00:11:02,750 S1: recanted or tripped or pulled back anything about what Scripture 207 00:11:02,750 --> 00:11:07,590 S1: says about human sexuality. This precious photographer in Louisville has 208 00:11:07,590 --> 00:11:11,750 S1: stayed the course three arduous years of in and out 209 00:11:11,790 --> 00:11:15,110 S1: of legal battles and ups and downs with decisions. And 210 00:11:15,110 --> 00:11:17,750 S1: she just stood the course. And as a result of that, 211 00:11:17,750 --> 00:11:21,110 S1: she has been vindicated. And the government of these United 212 00:11:21,110 --> 00:11:23,630 S1: States is basically saying by way of the High Court, 213 00:11:23,630 --> 00:11:27,910 S1: you can't coerce people to say or participate, see their 214 00:11:27,910 --> 00:11:31,110 S1: speech and their behavior in something that is violative of 215 00:11:31,110 --> 00:11:33,710 S1: your quote, sincerely held religious beliefs, your thoughts. 216 00:11:33,950 --> 00:11:39,590 S11: Yeah. The settlement, uh, came some three years after the 217 00:11:39,590 --> 00:11:45,410 S11: local federal judge ruled in favor of, um, the individual 218 00:11:45,410 --> 00:11:48,490 S11: plaintiff and said, yeah, you still have First Amendment rights. 219 00:11:48,530 --> 00:11:51,890 S11: The Bill of rights is still in the Constitution. Um, 220 00:11:51,929 --> 00:11:57,730 S11: and of course, the 303 creative, um, was not a surprise. 221 00:11:57,770 --> 00:12:02,770 S11: Shouldn't have been surprise to any lawyer who practices anything 222 00:12:02,809 --> 00:12:09,250 S11: having to do with free speech because, uh, the creative process, 223 00:12:09,450 --> 00:12:14,530 S11: the process of expressing your beliefs through creation, whether or 224 00:12:14,530 --> 00:12:19,050 S11: not it's, uh, a website, um, or, uh, being an 225 00:12:19,050 --> 00:12:23,290 S11: artist or making, baking a cake, uh, with a certain, uh, 226 00:12:23,490 --> 00:12:27,210 S11: you know, celebration message on it. Messaging comes in all 227 00:12:27,210 --> 00:12:31,130 S11: kinds of ways and shapes and forms. And for decades, 228 00:12:31,130 --> 00:12:33,850 S11: if not really more than a century, the Supreme Court 229 00:12:33,850 --> 00:12:38,130 S11: has been pretty clear that free speech burning a flag 230 00:12:38,130 --> 00:12:41,490 S11: was held to be free speech. Okay, so why would 231 00:12:41,490 --> 00:12:45,420 S11: it be so difficult to apply it to these cases. Well, 232 00:12:45,420 --> 00:12:50,500 S11: I'll tell you why. Freedom of religion and religious expression 233 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:56,020 S11: and freedom of speech come with political baggage, because a 234 00:12:56,059 --> 00:12:58,380 S11: lot of these states, a lot of the counties and 235 00:12:58,380 --> 00:13:03,620 S11: local governments within states have passed these public accommodation laws 236 00:13:03,980 --> 00:13:10,260 S11: that have created brand new, uh, very radical protections of 237 00:13:10,260 --> 00:13:14,620 S11: wide variety of groups. And as a result, you know, 238 00:13:14,660 --> 00:13:18,740 S11: there's an equilibrium in constitutional law from my experience. And 239 00:13:18,740 --> 00:13:22,260 S11: that is once you create a new right, you're probably 240 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:25,660 S11: going to be infringing on somebody else's right. And so 241 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:28,540 S11: that's what the court had to take a look at 242 00:13:28,540 --> 00:13:30,900 S11: at 303. That's what the federal court had to look 243 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:35,060 S11: at here. And finally, finally they saw the light and 244 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:37,980 S11: decided to settle this case. But then you wonder why 245 00:13:37,980 --> 00:13:40,740 S11: did it take so long? Why were you heels? Why 246 00:13:40,740 --> 00:13:44,630 S11: were your heels dug in so deeply on this case, 247 00:13:44,870 --> 00:13:49,470 S11: rather than see the writing on the wall. Perhaps because 248 00:13:49,470 --> 00:13:51,590 S11: you didn't like the writing on the wall, even though 249 00:13:51,630 --> 00:13:53,790 S11: it came from the hand of the Supreme Court. 250 00:13:54,950 --> 00:13:57,470 S1: That's right. You didn't like the message. You know, it's interesting. 251 00:13:57,470 --> 00:13:59,630 S1: Let me look to the UK. They've lost their minds, 252 00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:02,230 S1: by the way. King Charles is now under pressure from 253 00:14:02,230 --> 00:14:04,550 S1: some even within the Church of England, because this whole 254 00:14:04,550 --> 00:14:07,710 S1: idea of Islam is just out of control. I am 255 00:14:07,750 --> 00:14:10,949 S1: getting over and over and over again video clips of 256 00:14:10,950 --> 00:14:14,670 S1: kids in schools in the UK being taught how to pray. 257 00:14:14,710 --> 00:14:16,150 S1: Now I can tell you right now the four little 258 00:14:16,150 --> 00:14:19,430 S1: partial kids would never, ever participate in something like that. 259 00:14:19,430 --> 00:14:24,350 S1: That is quintessentially coerced behavior. My children don't don't have 260 00:14:24,350 --> 00:14:26,630 S1: to know what Ramadan is. My children don't have to 261 00:14:26,670 --> 00:14:29,950 S1: pray to Mecca. They don't need prayer beads. They should 262 00:14:29,950 --> 00:14:32,270 S1: not get down on a on a prayer rug. And 263 00:14:32,270 --> 00:14:35,470 S1: yet in the UK, they're telling kids. In fact, one 264 00:14:35,470 --> 00:14:37,150 S1: of the stories we're going to talk about is a 265 00:14:37,150 --> 00:14:40,030 S1: decision made in some of the schools in the UK 266 00:14:40,070 --> 00:14:43,010 S1: that we didn't want kids eating in the cafeteria at 267 00:14:43,010 --> 00:14:44,170 S1: school during Ramadan. 268 00:14:44,170 --> 00:14:45,370 S11: Forced fasting. 269 00:14:45,410 --> 00:14:48,530 S1: Right. Forced fasting. Forced praying in. 270 00:14:48,530 --> 00:14:50,050 S11: Accord with one religion. 271 00:14:50,090 --> 00:14:52,890 S1: Right. So there's. So why are these cases important? There's 272 00:14:52,930 --> 00:14:56,170 S1: exactly the answer. Because that's the antithetical response. If you 273 00:14:56,170 --> 00:14:59,410 S1: don't say no in the United States, you cannot be coerced. 274 00:14:59,410 --> 00:15:01,450 S1: The next thing you know, your third grader is going 275 00:15:01,490 --> 00:15:03,570 S1: to be told how to pray to Mecca. So you 276 00:15:03,570 --> 00:15:07,210 S1: have to say it's coerced behavior and speech. And so 277 00:15:07,450 --> 00:15:10,090 S1: it takes heroes like Chelsea Nelson to be able to say, 278 00:15:10,090 --> 00:15:12,010 S1: I'm going to stay the course no matter how hard. 279 00:15:12,250 --> 00:15:15,090 S1: You know, what we'll never know is the comments she got, 280 00:15:15,090 --> 00:15:17,730 S1: the snide remarks, the restaurant she wants to the family 281 00:15:17,730 --> 00:15:19,490 S1: members or friends who said, sit down. 282 00:15:19,770 --> 00:15:20,850 S11: The price that was really. 283 00:15:21,010 --> 00:15:22,490 S1: 100%, 100%. 284 00:15:22,610 --> 00:15:23,130 S11: For her rights. 285 00:15:23,170 --> 00:15:26,450 S1: But not standing up means that you are going to 286 00:15:26,450 --> 00:15:28,130 S1: see exactly what we're seeing in the UK. 287 00:15:28,290 --> 00:15:30,690 S11: And here's what's important to remember. And that is if 288 00:15:30,690 --> 00:15:32,730 S11: you're a follower of Christ and you know what the 289 00:15:32,730 --> 00:15:34,650 S11: truth is, and you want to share it, and you 290 00:15:34,650 --> 00:15:38,450 S11: want to exercise your full panoply of rights as a 291 00:15:38,450 --> 00:15:41,940 S11: citizen under the United States Constitution. And by the way, 292 00:15:41,980 --> 00:15:44,740 S11: check the book of acts. How many times the Apostle 293 00:15:44,740 --> 00:15:51,140 S11: Paul called on his Roman citizenship to protect his legal rights? 294 00:15:51,140 --> 00:15:55,220 S11: To continue what, just winning lawsuits? No, it was about 295 00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:57,900 S11: preaching the gospel. And the way to do it was 296 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:00,180 S11: to say, no, you're not going to close me down. 297 00:16:00,180 --> 00:16:01,980 S11: You're not going to shut me out. You're going to 298 00:16:01,980 --> 00:16:05,260 S11: allow me my rights as a Roman citizen because I 299 00:16:05,260 --> 00:16:07,660 S11: have the most important message of the world. Yeah. 300 00:16:08,020 --> 00:16:09,860 S1: Well, do you know what the city of Louisville did? 301 00:16:10,300 --> 00:16:14,140 S1: They made it illegal for Chelsea to explain why she 302 00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:17,380 S1: believes marriage is between a man and a woman on 303 00:16:17,380 --> 00:16:22,020 S1: her own business website. Now, that's a totalitarian regime that 304 00:16:22,020 --> 00:16:22,620 S1: does that. 305 00:16:22,660 --> 00:16:27,180 S11: Yeah, that's and frankly, that was a stretch. Um, the 306 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:30,780 S11: Supreme Court has also dealt with the difference between, uh, 307 00:16:30,780 --> 00:16:34,420 S11: what you say on the job, uh, depending on whether 308 00:16:34,420 --> 00:16:38,480 S11: or not it's intrinsic to your job duties or not, 309 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,240 S11: or whether it's a personal opinion, but what you do 310 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:47,760 S11: in your private life. Uh. Generally speaking, the default is 311 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,000 S11: the default position of the courts is it's presumed to 312 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,640 S11: be private unless you can prove somehow that it's linked 313 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,760 S11: to your public, uh, employment. And, uh, you know, there 314 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,360 S11: have been a number of cases the Supreme Court has 315 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,560 S11: said what you say on social media cannot be used 316 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,480 S11: as a weapon by your employer or others to take 317 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:07,160 S11: away your rights. 318 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:08,840 S1: You know what I like when the court handed down 319 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,679 S1: the decision, they said, um, in the ruling that Nelson 320 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,480 S1: Chelsea Nelson, the photographer, suffered a First Amendment injury. I 321 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,920 S1: think that's a great coupling of words together. It was 322 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,600 S1: an injury. So again, uh, kudos to a woman who 323 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:25,360 S1: was a role model for the rest of us and 324 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,359 S1: what it means to be a winsome ambassador for Christ, 325 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,040 S1: while at the same time speaking truth in love and 326 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,960 S1: not backing down. And again, I give you the example 327 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,250 S1: of what's happening in the UK, watching kids in primary 328 00:17:37,250 --> 00:17:40,850 S1: school being forced to have to pray to learn what 329 00:17:40,930 --> 00:17:43,730 S1: Ramadan is about, to get down on their prayer rugs, etc.. 330 00:17:44,130 --> 00:17:46,729 S1: If you don't say no, then the next thing you 331 00:17:46,730 --> 00:17:54,290 S1: know is you have absolute coercion back after this. So 332 00:17:54,290 --> 00:17:56,450 S1: let's do an exercise in critical thinking. We just talked 333 00:17:56,450 --> 00:17:59,090 S1: about coercion in the UK and we talk about people 334 00:17:59,090 --> 00:18:01,210 S1: standing up for their rights. I'll tell you a story 335 00:18:01,210 --> 00:18:05,050 S1: coming out of Idaho. Um, very interesting because the union 336 00:18:05,050 --> 00:18:09,250 S1: leaders teaching union leaders in Idaho are reacting to a 337 00:18:09,250 --> 00:18:12,250 S1: new requirement that just passed in that state. That requires 338 00:18:12,250 --> 00:18:15,729 S1: the start of the school day with a moment of silence. Uh, 339 00:18:15,770 --> 00:18:19,050 S1: some of the union members and leaders are pushing back saying, oh, 340 00:18:19,250 --> 00:18:21,610 S1: it's the legislature trying to micromanage what we do in 341 00:18:21,609 --> 00:18:25,490 S1: the classroom or taking away local control. Um, one member 342 00:18:25,490 --> 00:18:29,250 S1: of a union said, no serious person in education thinks 343 00:18:29,250 --> 00:18:32,169 S1: a moment of silence is going to achieve anything. It 344 00:18:32,170 --> 00:18:36,020 S1: was a one page law. It prohibits teachers from providing 345 00:18:36,020 --> 00:18:39,140 S1: any instruction on the purpose of the moment of silence 346 00:18:39,140 --> 00:18:42,860 S1: beyond what is stated in the law. So another person 347 00:18:42,859 --> 00:18:46,020 S1: representing another education association said, so we just have to 348 00:18:46,020 --> 00:18:48,139 S1: tell them because we said so. You're going to have 349 00:18:48,140 --> 00:18:50,420 S1: to be quiet for a minute. Well, probably a good 350 00:18:50,420 --> 00:18:53,580 S1: teacher could say more than that. But the governor, Brad Little, 351 00:18:53,580 --> 00:18:56,180 S1: signed it into law last week. It passed the House 352 00:18:56,180 --> 00:19:00,060 S1: 51 to 17. It passed 18 to 15 in the Senate. 353 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:02,780 S1: And beginning in the fall or beginning the school year 354 00:19:02,780 --> 00:19:05,740 S1: in the fall, the school year. This coming up, each 355 00:19:05,740 --> 00:19:07,740 S1: classroom at every grade at all public school is going 356 00:19:07,740 --> 00:19:10,139 S1: to be required at or near the beginning of each 357 00:19:10,140 --> 00:19:14,619 S1: school day to provide 60s of silence. Five year old 358 00:19:14,619 --> 00:19:16,899 S1: kindergarteners and 18 year olds alike will have to remain 359 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:19,860 S1: quiet for one minute, and during that one minute, students 360 00:19:19,859 --> 00:19:24,100 S1: can reflect, meditate, pray, or engage in another silent activity. 361 00:19:24,140 --> 00:19:27,860 S1: No other activities have to take place during that time. Um, 362 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:30,060 S1: and some of the teachers said, well, what are you 363 00:19:30,060 --> 00:19:31,300 S1: going to do? How are you going to enforce that? 364 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:32,700 S1: How are you going to get the kids to be quiet? 365 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:34,560 S1: And I will tell you, as a former teacher and 366 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,280 S1: an always mom, if you can't get your students to 367 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,280 S1: be quiet in the classroom for one minute, you have 368 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,399 S1: bigger problems in your classroom. But I would imagine, Craig, 369 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,240 S1: just that idea of getting them to think and they're 370 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,879 S1: told what they can do, they just have to be 371 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,560 S1: quiet in that minute. And so some people might say, well, hey, partials, 372 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,400 S1: isn't that just the reverse of what you were talking about? 373 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,959 S1: We didn't want Chelsea Nelson to be coerced because of 374 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,480 S1: her sincerely held religious beliefs. Now, aren't the kids in 375 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,359 S1: Idaho being coerced into this moment of silence? How do 376 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:05,280 S1: you respond, counselor? 377 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,160 S11: Well, you got to go to the law because you 378 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,000 S11: know you can't get away from it. These lawyers. I'll 379 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:17,600 S11: tell you what, they're everywhere. Um, so the objections are 380 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,200 S11: going to be pretty predictable. Uh, and having been married 381 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,840 S11: to me, uh, you've you've heard it. All right. Um, 382 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000 S11: and so for decades, going back to the 80s, uh, 383 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,129 S11: this issue about, um, moment of silence Versus coerced prayer. 384 00:20:34,170 --> 00:20:38,530 S11: In the 60s, the Supreme Court said, you can't have 385 00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:44,169 S11: Bible reading in public school. Um, now, in fact, you 386 00:20:44,210 --> 00:20:49,650 S11: probably could in high school in a, uh, a class 387 00:20:49,650 --> 00:20:55,330 S11: that would be explaining comparative religion or history or whatever. But, uh, 388 00:20:55,490 --> 00:21:01,050 S11: you know, you can't use it as a religiously motivated, uh, context. Um, 389 00:21:01,770 --> 00:21:04,889 S11: and then by the time we got into the 70s 390 00:21:04,890 --> 00:21:08,730 S11: and 80s, it was okay, well, we're going to kind 391 00:21:08,730 --> 00:21:13,609 S11: of work around that perhaps by having a voluntary moment of, 392 00:21:13,650 --> 00:21:17,850 S11: of silence or voluntary prayer. Uh, and there was one 393 00:21:17,850 --> 00:21:20,690 S11: case that went up to the Supreme Court, um, from 394 00:21:20,690 --> 00:21:24,850 S11: Alabama and the Supreme Court at that time. And I think, 395 00:21:24,890 --> 00:21:30,970 S11: I think it was, it was not an appropriately reasoned decision. Um, 396 00:21:31,230 --> 00:21:34,190 S11: and I think if it gets reviewed by the current 397 00:21:34,190 --> 00:21:37,990 S11: Supreme Court, they're going to have to revisit it because 398 00:21:37,990 --> 00:21:40,910 S11: the so-called lemon test, you and I know what that is. 399 00:21:40,950 --> 00:21:41,550 S1: It's a lemon. 400 00:21:41,550 --> 00:21:44,270 S11: It was a. Yeah, it was a lemon. It, uh, yeah, 401 00:21:44,270 --> 00:21:47,790 S11: it was pretty tart. Um, it was a three point, uh, 402 00:21:47,830 --> 00:21:51,750 S11: analysis of the elements that you need to analyze to 403 00:21:51,790 --> 00:21:54,910 S11: see whether the establishment clause of the First Amendment has 404 00:21:54,910 --> 00:21:59,430 S11: been violated, uh, by, you know, you've stepped over the, the, the, 405 00:21:59,790 --> 00:22:02,590 S11: the high impregnable wall of separation of church and state 406 00:22:02,590 --> 00:22:06,389 S11: and this kind of stuff. Um, but in the Alabama case, the, 407 00:22:06,750 --> 00:22:10,429 S11: the court was looking at a statute that said two things, 408 00:22:10,910 --> 00:22:15,110 S11: two different statutes. They were linked together. One was, um, 409 00:22:15,950 --> 00:22:18,510 S11: a prayer in public school, and the other was a 410 00:22:18,510 --> 00:22:23,750 S11: moment of silence or voluntary prayer. And so the court said, well, 411 00:22:23,990 --> 00:22:28,110 S11: what was the intent here was the intent to establish religion. 412 00:22:28,109 --> 00:22:30,879 S11: And so they looked at the record and they said, yeah, 413 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,560 S11: I think they're trying to they're trying to really get 414 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,240 S11: around what we decided in the 60s about kicking religion, 415 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:42,879 S11: particularly Christianity, out of public school. So it was held unconstitutional. 416 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,560 S11: But those facts are not what these facts are. This 417 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,440 S11: is simply saying we're going to have a moment of silence. Now, 418 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,760 S11: how you use that if you want to pray, if 419 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,920 S11: you want to meditate, if you want to think about 420 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,440 S11: your homework assignment, if you think about how much you 421 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,000 S11: love mom and dad, or you might think about what 422 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,119 S11: you're going to do Friday night, and when you get 423 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,280 S11: out of school or the next, uh, you know, football 424 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,720 S11: game that you're going to be in or whatever. Um, 425 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,120 S11: this up to you. Uh, that's a different paradigm. And 426 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:11,960 S11: if this were to go up to the current Supreme 427 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:18,320 S11: Court and they analyzed this, now that lemon has really 428 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:23,520 S11: been has been put into the dead letter box, um, 429 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,680 S11: they'd have to look at it from different criteria. In 430 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,250 S11: other words, our students being coerced, uh, to express, uh, 431 00:23:32,250 --> 00:23:37,810 S11: or embrace some kind of religion or religious expression, um, 432 00:23:38,290 --> 00:23:40,969 S11: by the state, that is to say public schools. So 433 00:23:40,970 --> 00:23:44,730 S11: I think the analysis, legal analysis, which is what drives decisions, 434 00:23:44,730 --> 00:23:48,250 S11: it's not politics, ladies and gentlemen, it is the law 435 00:23:48,490 --> 00:23:52,050 S11: as interpreted by the Supreme Court. And as I said, 436 00:23:52,050 --> 00:23:56,770 S11: they have pretty much created a dead letter drop for 437 00:23:56,770 --> 00:23:59,170 S11: the lemon test, so they'd have to look at it anew. 438 00:23:59,290 --> 00:24:01,970 S1: Yeah. But again, the difference is there's no coercion here 439 00:24:02,010 --> 00:24:03,730 S1: because they're not saying you have to be. 440 00:24:04,010 --> 00:24:05,850 S11: Forced to do anything religious. 441 00:24:05,890 --> 00:24:09,010 S1: The only thing you have to be is quiet for 60s. 442 00:24:09,050 --> 00:24:11,170 S11: Right? So, so the flack right now is, oh, what 443 00:24:11,210 --> 00:24:12,690 S11: good is that going to do? But it's a waste 444 00:24:12,690 --> 00:24:17,889 S11: of a minute. Well, sometimes settling kids down before the 445 00:24:17,890 --> 00:24:20,050 S11: start of a day might have some educational. 446 00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:23,090 S1: Creating the space for Johnny to think about how wrong 447 00:24:23,090 --> 00:24:25,250 S1: he was in treating Tommy the way he did. I mean, 448 00:24:25,290 --> 00:24:27,630 S1: there's a thousand things in there. But again, I will 449 00:24:27,630 --> 00:24:29,629 S1: tell you as a teacher at or near the beginning 450 00:24:29,630 --> 00:24:31,790 S1: of the day, if you can't get your kids to 451 00:24:31,830 --> 00:24:35,870 S1: settle down for 60s, trust me, you're going to have 452 00:24:35,869 --> 00:24:38,150 S1: a rough day in the classroom. Let me take a break. 453 00:24:38,150 --> 00:24:40,070 S1: We'll be right back after this. This is in the 454 00:24:40,070 --> 00:24:43,030 S1: market with Janet. Partial. That's Craig partial. 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We're going 465 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,400 S1: to change our direction here a little bit and talk 466 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,560 S1: about a decision that came out of LA on Wednesday 467 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,520 S1: of this week. It found Meta and Google liable in 468 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:43,080 S1: a closely watched trial, accusing social media platforms of designing 469 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,240 S1: their products to get young users addicted. And they awarded 470 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,720 S1: the plaintiffs $6 million in damages. Now, I got to 471 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,119 S1: tell you, in Silicon Valley, that's, you know, pocket change. 472 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,200 S1: But the point is that's the first strike. Because remember, 473 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,080 S1: these are entities that are supposed to be prohibited from 474 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,480 S1: being sued. So meta was ordered to pay 70% of 475 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:09,639 S1: the awarded compensatory damages. Um, and, uh, it seems like 476 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,000 S1: this is going to be a real stunner, I think 477 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,400 S1: for a lot of people who are watching these, um, 478 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,840 S1: Google is responsible for the remaining 30% for a total 479 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,679 S1: of 3,000,000 hours later, the jury then ordered meta to 480 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:25,220 S1: pay another 2.1 million and Google an additional 900,000 in 481 00:26:25,220 --> 00:26:28,380 S1: punitive damages. That means the jury was punishing them. So 482 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:32,700 S1: unlike compensatory damages, jurors were not asked to award punitive 483 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:35,340 S1: damages as a percentage of the lump sum. The verdict 484 00:26:35,340 --> 00:26:41,380 S1: came after nine days, including roughly 43 hours of deliberation. 485 00:26:41,380 --> 00:26:43,820 S1: That's a lot. So the plaintiff's attorney in a statement 486 00:26:43,820 --> 00:26:47,060 S1: said for years, social media companies have profited from targeting 487 00:26:47,060 --> 00:26:51,900 S1: children while concealing their addictive and dangerous design features. Today's 488 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:55,420 S1: verdict is a referendum from a jury to an entire industry. 489 00:26:55,619 --> 00:26:59,020 S1: That accountability has arrived. I'm so glad for my friend 490 00:26:59,020 --> 00:27:01,340 S1: Doug Smith, who talks about the fact that, you know, 491 00:27:01,380 --> 00:27:04,619 S1: these big tech companies have psychologists and psychiatrists on staff 492 00:27:04,619 --> 00:27:09,540 S1: to understand how to create addictive behaviors. So I'm sorry, Craig, 493 00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:12,220 S1: but I think the tech curtain has been rent asunder. 494 00:27:12,380 --> 00:27:15,300 S1: We're beginning to understand this is all about money. And 495 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:17,139 S1: the love of money is the root of all evil. 496 00:27:17,140 --> 00:27:20,580 S1: And they want people. It's not an accident. The algorithms 497 00:27:20,580 --> 00:27:23,020 S1: are designed to make you addicted. Now, this is a 498 00:27:23,070 --> 00:27:25,830 S1: stunner because you do this. I mean, you've been doing 499 00:27:25,830 --> 00:27:27,270 S1: this for years. You knew this was going to be 500 00:27:27,270 --> 00:27:30,150 S1: an issue before it became an issue. Is this going 501 00:27:30,190 --> 00:27:32,870 S1: to be enough of a sting to to meta and 502 00:27:32,869 --> 00:27:35,550 S1: Google for them to change their wicked, wicked ways? Or 503 00:27:35,550 --> 00:27:37,790 S1: are they just going to say a public mea culpa 504 00:27:37,790 --> 00:27:39,870 S1: and then behind closed doors, continue the same stuff. 505 00:27:39,910 --> 00:27:43,230 S11: Know the dollar amount is not important. I shouldn't say 506 00:27:43,230 --> 00:27:45,990 S11: that it's not the most significant. In fact, it's not 507 00:27:45,990 --> 00:27:50,750 S11: even really on the top three things that they're thinking 508 00:27:50,750 --> 00:27:52,630 S11: about right now. And that's the reason that they're going 509 00:27:52,670 --> 00:27:57,790 S11: to appeal probably. And that is, um, it's public perception. 510 00:27:58,030 --> 00:28:01,790 S11: In other words, are they bad guys wearing the black 511 00:28:01,790 --> 00:28:04,790 S11: hat or are they the good guy wearing the, the, 512 00:28:04,950 --> 00:28:08,869 S11: the hero's hat on the white steed, uh, coming to 513 00:28:08,910 --> 00:28:12,830 S11: the rescue because it's, you know, a wonderful place to 514 00:28:12,869 --> 00:28:15,550 S11: communicate with friends and family. You know, that's how they 515 00:28:15,550 --> 00:28:19,990 S11: started Facebook. That is, um, it's the public perception. Are 516 00:28:19,990 --> 00:28:21,670 S11: they the good guys or the bad guys? Well, this 517 00:28:21,670 --> 00:28:23,720 S11: makes him look like the bad guys. And so now 518 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,480 S11: stocks are going to plummet for meta. And they've been 519 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,320 S11: having some other financial problems also. But not the kind 520 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,760 S11: of problems that the average person or even the average 521 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:38,680 S11: corporation has because they're so titanically large. Um, so it's 522 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,520 S11: the public perception that will say, oh, a lot of 523 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,640 S11: parents are going to tell their kids, no, no, stay 524 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,200 S11: off meta platforms, get off Instagram, um, get off Facebook. 525 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,920 S11: And now the problem is alternatives, you know, are just 526 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,720 S11: as bad. But it's the public perception and the publicity. 527 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,520 S11: I think that's going to hurt them. Um, and the 528 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,560 S11: same with Google. Now this verdict by the way, against 529 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,720 S11: Google and Meta, which is Facebook and Instagram and Google, 530 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,240 S11: by the way, uh, owns and controls YouTube. So it 531 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:13,160 S11: was really Facebook and YouTube, both owned by titanically large companies. Um, 532 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:18,600 S11: because these are the sites that, uh, kids and adolescents 533 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,100 S11: were going to, um, they've been going to other sites now, 534 00:29:22,220 --> 00:29:26,260 S11: but they have been still going. And particularly YouTube now. 535 00:29:26,660 --> 00:29:29,180 S11: So what was the what were the damages and injuries? 536 00:29:29,220 --> 00:29:35,340 S11: Industry injuries here. It was primarily mental health problems and 537 00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:40,100 S11: addiction problems with kids getting sucked into their perception. 538 00:29:40,140 --> 00:29:41,220 S1: Vulnerable, vulnerable. 539 00:29:41,220 --> 00:29:45,820 S11: Kids. Vulnerable kids having a bad perspective on themselves based 540 00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:49,580 S11: on what others were saying about them or what they 541 00:29:49,580 --> 00:29:52,820 S11: perceived as what a goal should be for a 13 542 00:29:52,860 --> 00:29:56,420 S11: year old. And they're not meeting that goal compared to other, uh, 543 00:29:56,540 --> 00:30:00,260 S11: you know, adolescent influencers and all this kind of stuff. 544 00:30:00,460 --> 00:30:03,860 S11: And so it was generally a mental health, uh, harm 545 00:30:03,860 --> 00:30:08,020 S11: to the plaintiffs. But this isn't the only meta hit. 546 00:30:08,060 --> 00:30:10,620 S11: The other hit was the case in New Mexico. This 547 00:30:10,620 --> 00:30:13,860 S11: was in Los Angeles. The bigger one was the one 548 00:30:13,860 --> 00:30:18,180 S11: in New Mexico. Also a case brought against meta for 549 00:30:18,180 --> 00:30:23,390 S11: the same kind of injuries, plus, uh, children and young 550 00:30:23,670 --> 00:30:29,190 S11: people being attacked by sex predators who, uh, approached them 551 00:30:29,190 --> 00:30:35,030 S11: through Google and, uh, meta, uh, and actually enticed them 552 00:30:35,030 --> 00:30:40,910 S11: into relationships. So that's, that's why the $375 million verdict 553 00:30:40,950 --> 00:30:45,230 S11: in that case. But again, with these companies, that's still 554 00:30:45,270 --> 00:30:48,830 S11: sort of pocket change. It, it is really the public 555 00:30:48,830 --> 00:30:52,469 S11: perception that they're really not the good guys that they're 556 00:30:52,510 --> 00:30:57,469 S11: after something bigger than just the communication platforms that they 557 00:30:57,470 --> 00:31:01,950 S11: had promised to us that they'd build digital, global communities 558 00:31:01,950 --> 00:31:07,470 S11: where we can connect with friends and family in instantaneous connections. Um, 559 00:31:07,590 --> 00:31:10,630 S11: that there's really a downside to this. And this is 560 00:31:10,630 --> 00:31:12,470 S11: just the tip of the iceberg of the dangers and 561 00:31:12,470 --> 00:31:17,070 S11: the harms that come along with that in this digital age. So, uh, 562 00:31:17,070 --> 00:31:20,450 S11: that's the problem they've got is a public of of perception. 563 00:31:20,450 --> 00:31:25,850 S11: And then the next problem is, is Congress finally, finally, after, 564 00:31:26,170 --> 00:31:29,490 S11: you know, many, many attempts, I've had the opportunity to 565 00:31:29,530 --> 00:31:32,330 S11: work with some legislators in Congress to try to get 566 00:31:32,330 --> 00:31:37,250 S11: bills passed. None have really been passed that deal with 567 00:31:37,370 --> 00:31:42,650 S11: the real harms to youth and the harms to citizenry 568 00:31:42,650 --> 00:31:49,090 S11: in terms of free speech occasioned by these huge monopoly platforms. So, um, 569 00:31:49,130 --> 00:31:51,690 S11: Congress is going to pick up on this on these 570 00:31:51,690 --> 00:31:55,530 S11: verdicts and say, okay, maybe finally, it's time for us 571 00:31:55,530 --> 00:31:57,930 S11: to have some limited regulation. By the way, I don't 572 00:31:57,970 --> 00:32:01,490 S11: I'm not a believer in broad regulatory control. I don't 573 00:32:01,490 --> 00:32:03,690 S11: want the government to control our speech. I don't want 574 00:32:03,730 --> 00:32:06,930 S11: monopolies to control our speech. But there's a there's a 575 00:32:07,810 --> 00:32:12,570 S11: in-between point at which we can give them the ability 576 00:32:12,570 --> 00:32:17,020 S11: to be free enterprise companies and make a huge profit, 577 00:32:17,420 --> 00:32:22,060 S11: but with some guardrails, some guardrails, they have almost no 578 00:32:22,060 --> 00:32:25,500 S11: guardrails in what they do to our young people. 579 00:32:25,540 --> 00:32:27,580 S1: You know, it's interesting because when the decision came down, 580 00:32:27,580 --> 00:32:30,540 S1: they talked about done with malice, etc. the parents cheered, 581 00:32:30,540 --> 00:32:34,100 S1: they hugged their vulnerable children, ended up paying a price 582 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:34,420 S1: for this. 583 00:32:34,460 --> 00:32:37,340 S11: And Meta and Meta knew it according to their own studies, 584 00:32:37,340 --> 00:32:41,980 S11: because they are constantly doing social science experiments on what 585 00:32:41,980 --> 00:32:46,420 S11: their algorithms are doing to build cume with kids and 586 00:32:46,420 --> 00:32:49,340 S11: have them follow and have them really get addicted. And 587 00:32:49,340 --> 00:32:50,420 S11: that was part of the testimony. 588 00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:52,060 S1: You know, one of the benefits of having these kinds 589 00:32:52,060 --> 00:32:54,660 S1: of conversations is not just the role that the, the 590 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:57,180 S1: tech industry has in our personal lives, but it's a 591 00:32:57,180 --> 00:32:59,100 S1: wake up call for parents. Yes it is. I mean, 592 00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:03,580 S1: this this was this wasn't a philosophical argument. These were 593 00:33:03,580 --> 00:33:07,900 S1: parents whose children were harmed because of these platforms. And 594 00:33:07,940 --> 00:33:10,780 S1: I think it's imperative that we understand that we, again, 595 00:33:10,780 --> 00:33:13,060 S1: are the best Department of Health, education and welfare. Are 596 00:33:13,060 --> 00:33:16,150 S1: you regulating your child's screen time? Are you limiting their 597 00:33:16,150 --> 00:33:19,310 S1: screen time? You know, as the weather gets nice, take 598 00:33:19,310 --> 00:33:21,870 S1: their phones and their screens and get them outside and 599 00:33:21,870 --> 00:33:23,910 S1: get them in the fresh air. Let them see that 600 00:33:23,910 --> 00:33:27,510 S1: all of creation sings the glory of God. Now let 601 00:33:27,510 --> 00:33:29,790 S1: me go back to the decision. So that was one case, 602 00:33:29,790 --> 00:33:31,510 S1: wasn't there another one that came out of what was it, 603 00:33:31,510 --> 00:33:32,150 S1: New Mexico? 604 00:33:32,510 --> 00:33:36,110 S11: The New Mexico case was a verdict of $375 million. 605 00:33:36,230 --> 00:33:41,470 S11: And that's for opening the the the ability of sex 606 00:33:41,470 --> 00:33:47,790 S11: predators to converse with over digital platforms like meta, Instagram, 607 00:33:47,910 --> 00:33:54,110 S11: Google and YouTube and, um, make connections posing as children as, 608 00:33:54,110 --> 00:33:56,950 S11: as a teenager, let's say. So an adult who's a 609 00:33:56,950 --> 00:34:01,350 S11: sex predator poses as a, you know, a 13 year old, uh, 610 00:34:01,390 --> 00:34:06,790 S11: male and is approaching a 13 year old female on, 611 00:34:06,830 --> 00:34:11,430 S11: let's say Instagram. And, um, you know, the predator is 612 00:34:11,430 --> 00:34:18,770 S11: looking for, uh, victims, okay. To victimise. And some have, uh, tragically, uh, 613 00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:23,690 S11: had encounters and have been harmed terribly. Now all of 614 00:34:23,690 --> 00:34:28,530 S11: this is still subject to something called section 230, which 615 00:34:28,530 --> 00:34:31,730 S11: says that these platforms were given a gift by Congress 616 00:34:32,050 --> 00:34:36,090 S11: in the early 1990s because at that time, you know, 617 00:34:36,330 --> 00:34:40,049 S11: they wanted to grow the internet, uh, communication systems. Well, 618 00:34:40,050 --> 00:34:42,850 S11: they have and they like kudzu and they've become sort. 619 00:34:42,850 --> 00:34:43,290 S1: Of taken. 620 00:34:43,290 --> 00:34:47,170 S11: Over frankensteinian. So now it's time for guardrails. Now it's 621 00:34:47,170 --> 00:34:51,489 S11: time for Congress to finally, uh, and by the way, interestingly, 622 00:34:51,489 --> 00:34:54,370 S11: in all the divergence between the parties, the two big 623 00:34:54,370 --> 00:34:58,410 S11: parties and the independents in between in Congress, there is 624 00:34:58,410 --> 00:35:02,170 S11: a kind of consensus between all of those parties, the independents, 625 00:35:02,170 --> 00:35:05,890 S11: the Republicans and the Democrats, that something needs to be done. 626 00:35:05,890 --> 00:35:07,770 S11: I've heard it. I've talked to people up there on 627 00:35:07,770 --> 00:35:10,649 S11: Capitol Hill. The problem is when it gets down to 628 00:35:10,690 --> 00:35:12,450 S11: but what is it we're going to do. 629 00:35:12,660 --> 00:35:14,859 S1: And who is going to do it? Because if you 630 00:35:14,860 --> 00:35:16,700 S1: look at who gets money from Big Tech. 631 00:35:16,739 --> 00:35:17,620 S11: For their campaigns. 632 00:35:17,620 --> 00:35:19,340 S1: They're on both sides of the aisle. 633 00:35:19,380 --> 00:35:20,820 S11: They are, no question about it. 634 00:35:20,820 --> 00:35:23,219 S1: So that's one of those tough ones. Okay, so what 635 00:35:23,219 --> 00:35:24,500 S1: I want to do and I'm going to come up 636 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:26,540 S1: to a break, but I want to talk about this because. 637 00:35:26,739 --> 00:35:28,980 S1: So you talked about those two big cash dollar prizes 638 00:35:28,980 --> 00:35:31,379 S1: that came out against Big Tech. But then there was 639 00:35:31,380 --> 00:35:34,219 S1: also something that's a consent decree that has something to 640 00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:36,580 S1: do with the government, and it had something to do 641 00:35:36,580 --> 00:35:40,100 S1: with the previous administration. So you're going to hear music. Unfortunately, 642 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:41,900 S1: I'm going to have to interrupt your thought here. But 643 00:35:41,940 --> 00:35:43,580 S1: first of all, what is a consent decree? And tell 644 00:35:43,580 --> 00:35:44,460 S1: me about this case. 645 00:35:44,620 --> 00:35:48,500 S11: Uh, a consent decree is when the parties, opposing parties 646 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:51,540 S11: in a lawsuit get together and they say, all right, 647 00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:53,380 S11: we're going to settle this case and we're going to 648 00:35:53,380 --> 00:35:56,419 S11: allow the court to enter the following order that we've 649 00:35:56,460 --> 00:36:01,580 S11: agreed to. And the order binds the defendant being sued. 650 00:36:01,940 --> 00:36:05,299 S11: And in this case, it was the previous federal administration 651 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:11,870 S11: in the prior white House, um, and future, uh, Department, uh, 652 00:36:11,870 --> 00:36:15,109 S11: you know, within the executive branch from ever doing this 653 00:36:15,150 --> 00:36:20,029 S11: kind of online censorship campaign like they did, uh, in 654 00:36:20,070 --> 00:36:23,549 S11: 21 and 22 leading up to the midterm elections. 655 00:36:23,989 --> 00:36:25,950 S1: Wow. All right. So you hear the music. Thank you 656 00:36:25,950 --> 00:36:28,109 S1: for that. Come back. Flesh that out a little bit more, 657 00:36:28,110 --> 00:36:30,710 S1: if you will, when we come back, big dunes in 658 00:36:30,710 --> 00:36:33,750 S1: the tech world again, this is part of our society. 659 00:36:33,910 --> 00:36:37,989 S1: That's why. Buyer beware. Just be. I mean, I don't 660 00:36:37,989 --> 00:36:40,790 S1: think and I adhere to what Doug says on this. 661 00:36:41,190 --> 00:36:43,750 S1: You can't say that the technology is value neutral on 662 00:36:43,750 --> 00:36:46,310 S1: this one, because the technology was designed with a very 663 00:36:46,310 --> 00:36:49,310 S1: clear set of values. Once you know them, you step 664 00:36:49,310 --> 00:36:50,870 S1: back a little bit and you're a little more cautious 665 00:36:50,870 --> 00:37:03,470 S1: back after this. So picking up immediately on this third 666 00:37:03,469 --> 00:37:06,670 S1: big case that involves social platforms, the case was originally 667 00:37:06,670 --> 00:37:09,470 S1: called Missouri v Biden, but it went to the Supreme 668 00:37:09,469 --> 00:37:13,930 S1: Court as Murtha Murthy v Missouri. Murthy was the Surgeon general, 669 00:37:14,290 --> 00:37:17,570 S1: and it's being settled with a ten year consent decree 670 00:37:17,570 --> 00:37:20,290 S1: that prevents the Surgeon General, the CDC, the Department of 671 00:37:20,290 --> 00:37:25,690 S1: Homeland Security, cyberspace, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the CIA, 672 00:37:26,530 --> 00:37:31,490 S1: from coercing social media platforms into restricting speech. And so 673 00:37:31,530 --> 00:37:34,890 S1: in the settlement, here's what the attorney general said in 674 00:37:34,890 --> 00:37:38,810 S1: a statement that got released. The Biden administration coerced social 675 00:37:38,810 --> 00:37:42,290 S1: media companies to stifle free speech that they disapproved of. 676 00:37:42,530 --> 00:37:45,090 S1: The Justice Department settlement is a key step in undoing 677 00:37:45,090 --> 00:37:47,970 S1: the abuses of the First Amendment, especially under conservative media. 678 00:37:47,969 --> 00:37:50,890 S1: So I think that's really basically all you need to know. 679 00:37:50,890 --> 00:37:54,050 S1: But let's just talk about how that represented itself in reality. 680 00:37:54,050 --> 00:37:57,250 S1: So we now know definitively, based on evidence, that there 681 00:37:57,250 --> 00:38:00,090 S1: was a silent speech on where you stood on Covid 682 00:38:00,090 --> 00:38:03,850 S1: or silent speech on particular issues that were out there. 683 00:38:03,850 --> 00:38:06,410 S1: And so the government was pressuring. And all of this 684 00:38:06,410 --> 00:38:08,620 S1: is evidentiary now. I mean, this is not bearing false witness. 685 00:38:08,660 --> 00:38:12,180 S1: We've got a preponderance of evidence that the government was interfering, 686 00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:15,419 S1: was infusing itself, if you will, into the machinations of 687 00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:18,460 S1: these social platforms and basically pressuring them you better or 688 00:38:18,460 --> 00:38:21,180 S1: else kind of stuff. And so now we know definitively, 689 00:38:21,180 --> 00:38:24,260 S1: with an overwhelming amount of evidence, that they were silencing 690 00:38:24,420 --> 00:38:25,460 S1: opinions they disagreed with. 691 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:27,219 S11: But here's the thing. Nobody knew about it. I was 692 00:38:27,219 --> 00:38:27,739 S11: getting at. 693 00:38:27,739 --> 00:38:27,859 S1: The. 694 00:38:27,860 --> 00:38:29,980 S11: Time, right? I was getting in my work with the 695 00:38:29,980 --> 00:38:32,060 S11: American Center for Law and Justice. I was getting a 696 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:36,020 S11: lot of people with, you know, hundreds and sometimes millions 697 00:38:36,020 --> 00:38:40,540 S11: of followers online, on Facebook and Google and YouTube and 698 00:38:40,540 --> 00:38:43,740 S11: things like this, who were coming to me and saying, we're, 699 00:38:43,780 --> 00:38:46,060 S11: we're being banned. And I don't, we don't know why. 700 00:38:46,060 --> 00:38:49,500 S11: All we did was we reported, uh, you know, in 701 00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:54,340 S11: the 2020 election, um, that, uh, there were some news 702 00:38:54,340 --> 00:38:57,220 S11: reports about election fraud. And so we said, okay, well, let's. 703 00:38:57,260 --> 00:39:01,380 S11: And they'd raise questions online and then they get banned. Well, 704 00:39:01,420 --> 00:39:03,819 S11: lo and behold, we find out that the white House 705 00:39:03,820 --> 00:39:08,120 S11: had been quietly connecting. And in fact, the Cisa agency, 706 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,319 S11: which is the federal agency under the white House, uh, 707 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:16,160 S11: established a California office. So it could be very close 708 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,520 S11: to all the Silicon Valley companies that I just talked about, 709 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,799 S11: Google and Facebook and Instagram and so forth. So they 710 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,360 S11: could deal with them on a regular. I'm talking daily 711 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,720 S11: and weekly basis. We didn't know any of this until 712 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:32,000 S11: years later. And when we found out that this had happened, 713 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,480 S11: that they were working with, uh, these platforms, uh, the 714 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:41,600 S11: big giant monopoly digital platforms to pressure them into taking 715 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:47,359 S11: down just conservative online influencers, you and they even stated 716 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,440 S11: that they were targeting the ones with the biggest number 717 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,040 S11: of followers. So if you had, you know, 100,000 or 718 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,359 S11: 200,000 or 1 million, and you were a conservative and 719 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,000 S11: you were talking about alternative ideas about Covid protocols or 720 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,129 S11: raising questions about the mail in ballot system, you were 721 00:40:06,130 --> 00:40:09,170 S11: shut down. Those were being targeted. In fact, one of 722 00:40:09,170 --> 00:40:13,770 S11: my clients, Charlie Kirk, got named specifically in a report 723 00:40:14,290 --> 00:40:17,650 S11: that was circulated among the white House staff. And these 724 00:40:18,050 --> 00:40:24,690 S11: Cisa agency people targeted as a super spreader of misinformation. 725 00:40:24,690 --> 00:40:26,850 S11: And all Charlie was doing was saying, hey, here's a 726 00:40:26,850 --> 00:40:29,770 S11: news report, what's going on in this election? You know, 727 00:40:29,810 --> 00:40:31,609 S11: you need to read it. You need to understand it. 728 00:40:31,610 --> 00:40:35,930 S11: You need to ask some questions. Asking questions was too dangerous, apparently, 729 00:40:36,170 --> 00:40:36,850 S11: for these folks. 730 00:40:36,890 --> 00:40:39,969 S1: If in fact, these tech platforms are in fact the 731 00:40:39,969 --> 00:40:42,410 S1: public square. Right? Once upon a time, you tap your. 732 00:40:42,450 --> 00:40:44,170 S11: And they told us they were. When they developed. 733 00:40:44,170 --> 00:40:46,569 S1: Them. That's exactly right. They did. So what you have 734 00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:49,210 S1: now is an Orwellian move toward the Ministry of Truth. 735 00:40:49,210 --> 00:40:51,930 S1: The government only allows you to put out there what 736 00:40:51,930 --> 00:40:55,489 S1: they agree with. Otherwise we will silence you. And there's 737 00:40:55,489 --> 00:40:58,770 S1: an interesting segue here. That's a totalitarian or a fascist regime. 738 00:40:58,770 --> 00:41:02,089 S1: And you realize that totalitarianism and fascism are two halves 739 00:41:02,090 --> 00:41:04,250 S1: of a whole. It's the same idea. It's it's a 740 00:41:04,580 --> 00:41:06,980 S1: conglomerate of power relegated to a small number of people. 741 00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:09,580 S11: It's bad enough when the federal government, with all its power, 742 00:41:09,580 --> 00:41:12,500 S11: suppresses you, but then when they align with these huge 743 00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:16,740 S11: monopoly platforms that control our speech, this is a mega 744 00:41:16,739 --> 00:41:18,660 S11: cartel of of censorship. 745 00:41:18,780 --> 00:41:21,540 S1: So why I'm saying this is because I'm going to 746 00:41:21,540 --> 00:41:24,260 S1: tell my friends what the news. If you're watching secular 747 00:41:24,260 --> 00:41:27,339 S1: news this weekend on the alphabet soup networks, you're going 748 00:41:27,380 --> 00:41:32,020 S1: to get some stories about one of the alleged 3100 749 00:41:32,020 --> 00:41:34,180 S1: no Kings March. Now, we've been here before. We did 750 00:41:34,180 --> 00:41:38,380 S1: this before. Um, this or this is predominantly left of center. 751 00:41:38,380 --> 00:41:42,819 S1: Much more problematically, these are hyper funded events, a lot 752 00:41:42,820 --> 00:41:47,100 S1: of it coming from a very wealthy Marxist businessman who 753 00:41:47,140 --> 00:41:50,940 S1: loves to throw money at this. He he's collaborating with 754 00:41:50,940 --> 00:41:55,620 S1: the Chinese Communist Party. He absolutely wants to bring in 755 00:41:55,620 --> 00:41:58,860 S1: a new world order, and he wants to advance XI 756 00:41:58,860 --> 00:42:03,240 S1: Jinping's whole idea. So he's he's an ardent Marxist. And remember, 757 00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,399 S1: internal revolution is one of the cards that they like 758 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,720 S1: to play. So, you know, resist stand up. No kings. 759 00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,120 S1: And it's going to be a lot of theater and 760 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,120 S1: they're all going to have matching signs. That's your first clue. 761 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,040 S1: This didn't happen out of somebody's garage. But again, when 762 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,640 S1: they talk about no kings, I find it interesting because 763 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,600 S1: if you have no kings, why was the previous administration 764 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,399 S1: acting in a kingly fashion by deciding you can put 765 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,200 S1: this on your dictator? More to the point, yes, more 766 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:28,759 S1: to the point. And that's really what they want to say. 767 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,640 S1: But I think they think if they use the word dictator, 768 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,359 S1: it's going to be too electric a word. So they 769 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,879 S1: back it off and say kings, which is paradoxical again, 770 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,799 S1: because if you don't study history, you lose a great 771 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,279 S1: irony here, because one of the rallying cries during the 772 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,839 S1: Revolutionary War was no king but King Jesus. Now they 773 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,839 S1: were under the heavy foot of King George. And what 774 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,040 S1: they were saying is, that's not we don't want a monarch, 775 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,480 S1: thank you very much. And the only king is the 776 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,480 S1: one that's not up for re-election. And he's the king eternal. 777 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,920 S1: So I say that to you just because we should 778 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:55,799 S1: be discerning about the kinds of things we're going to 779 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,279 S1: see this weekend, it's a backlash against policies that they 780 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:03,410 S1: don't like. We don't have a monarchy. we have constitutional restraint. 781 00:43:03,450 --> 00:43:06,810 S1: No president can serve more than two terms. They can 782 00:43:06,810 --> 00:43:09,170 S1: be consecutive or in the case of 45 and 47, 783 00:43:09,170 --> 00:43:11,810 S1: they don't have to be consecutive. But regardless of the combination, 784 00:43:11,810 --> 00:43:15,009 S1: no more than two terms. But again, I guess it 785 00:43:15,010 --> 00:43:18,170 S1: all depends on whose ox is being gored. So the 786 00:43:18,170 --> 00:43:23,450 S1: previous administration acts in a monarch fashion and says, we 787 00:43:23,489 --> 00:43:26,890 S1: are going to tell social platforms what they can and cannot. 788 00:43:26,930 --> 00:43:28,810 S11: We know we know what's best for you, so we'll 789 00:43:28,810 --> 00:43:30,570 S11: just shut down opposing ideas. 790 00:43:30,610 --> 00:43:33,609 S1: Is that not a singular move of power? Is that 791 00:43:33,610 --> 00:43:34,770 S1: not a kingly move? 792 00:43:34,810 --> 00:43:37,930 S11: That's very Chinese in terms of Communist China. 793 00:43:37,969 --> 00:43:41,370 S1: Again. So connect the dots here. Be thinking and be discerning. 794 00:43:41,370 --> 00:43:45,529 S1: So you've got this very wealthy businessman who is unabashed 795 00:43:45,530 --> 00:43:50,210 S1: in his relationship with communist China. Um, and he directly 796 00:43:50,210 --> 00:43:53,250 S1: admits that he's very much involved. In fact, he wrote 797 00:43:53,290 --> 00:43:56,650 S1: a 174 page report to combat the U. S backed 798 00:43:56,650 --> 00:44:01,669 S1: international rules based order, which he calls a lie, and 799 00:44:01,670 --> 00:44:05,630 S1: he's helped the CCP and his strongman, President XI, to 800 00:44:05,670 --> 00:44:09,750 S1: achieve a, quote, new world order favorable to China. Now, look, 801 00:44:09,790 --> 00:44:12,109 S1: there's always bad actors, but sometimes it helps if you 802 00:44:12,110 --> 00:44:14,430 S1: push the bad actors out into the sunshine. So just 803 00:44:14,469 --> 00:44:17,870 S1: remember that this is not organic. This is funded. And 804 00:44:17,870 --> 00:44:20,990 S1: just remember that I guess it's no kings unless it's 805 00:44:20,989 --> 00:44:24,270 S1: your king. And then you're happy with that king, right? Yeah. 806 00:44:24,469 --> 00:44:29,030 S11: Look, Jesus said, he said, you gotta watch the signs 807 00:44:29,030 --> 00:44:31,350 S11: of the times. You can't see the signs of the 808 00:44:31,350 --> 00:44:32,870 S11: times if your eyes are closed. 809 00:44:32,910 --> 00:44:33,350 S1: That's right. 810 00:44:33,350 --> 00:44:34,830 S11: So we're opening some eyes. 811 00:44:34,870 --> 00:44:37,750 S1: Well, just, you know, be like the men of the 812 00:44:37,750 --> 00:44:40,310 S1: tribe of Issachar who knew the times and knew what 813 00:44:40,350 --> 00:44:42,950 S1: to do for the nation. You're not going to know 814 00:44:42,950 --> 00:44:45,830 S1: how to do that unless you're absolutely grounded in the word. 815 00:44:45,830 --> 00:44:49,510 S1: So stay focused, stay grounded, stay in him and thank 816 00:44:49,510 --> 00:44:51,549 S1: him that he's called you and me for such a 817 00:44:51,550 --> 00:44:53,750 S1: time as this. Have a fabulous weekend. We'll see you 818 00:44:53,750 --> 00:44:56,070 S1: next time on In the market with Janet partial.