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#569 Biggest and Best Story of 2024: D.J. Trump is Re-elected Over the Deep State and More, with Thomas Hampson
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Can the turbulence of 2024 be seen as an era-defining moment in American and world history? Join us as Jack unpacks the re-election of Donald Trump with Tom Hampson—seasoned crime fighter, investigator, and journalist.
We navigate the maze of multiple indictments, attempts to keep Trump off the ballot, and the influential figures who played a part in his re-election like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan.
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I'm back with tom hampson, incredible crime fighter, crime investigator, journalist. Thomas, how are you good to see you I'm doing good.
Speaker 2:It's good to see you.
Speaker 1:We missed last week yes, we'll wind it down on on on 2024. So this, this is the day before. So new year's eve, tomorrow, do we get into 2025? It went fast, didn't it you? You were just saying you might want to repeat that about the, about the, the present wrapping oh yeah, I think I spent more time wrapping presents than I did celebrating christmas year.
Speaker 2:It just seemed like it went by so fast. Yeah, you get everything ready and then it's just gone in a in a blink of an eye.
Speaker 1:We had a big party Christmas day, but I was cooking, I was in the kitchen cooking and helping. It wasn't at my house, but I was helping cook and I was I'm a former chef, right, so I and it, so it kind of relaxes me and stuff, right. But before I knew it, everybody had eaten dinner and I'm still finishing stuff and getting stuff going in the kitchen and stuff and you get desserts out and et cetera, et cetera. And the same thing happened. It was everybody's starting to say goodbye to people and I realized I haven't talked to anybody, you know, or very few people, except when they were in line. You know, as I'm cutting prime rib, you know slicing it. So, yeah, it went fast and maybe I got myself, kept myself out of trouble. Tom, my wife wouldn't let me wear my Trump hat.
Speaker 2:You see it behind there. That's right yeah.
Speaker 1:And I have the Trump hat. You know we again. You know Trump isn't, isn't God, but I've got him hanging back there because I think God's using them, tom. So here's the biggest story for, for me, 2024. It's gotta be the election of Donald Trump. I really didn't think it was going to happen. It should happen. I figured that he's going to win the vote, but I thought the stealing and some nefarious evil was going to twist and distort it and take it out. But that has to be the biggest story of 2024. And what do you think about that?
Speaker 2:Anything bigger than that. I think it's the biggest story of the century so far. It's got to be the biggest story in my lifetime. I mean, he's only the second president in the history of the country that's been out of office and then back in office, then voted back in, and on top of that there were 16 states that tried to keep him off the ballot. He was indicted. They had 94 indictments against him. All of it completely made up. These are not legitimate kinds of indictments. These are charges that were created out of thin air with very little substance behind them, and he was even convicted on those charges up in New York, which is now you know that's in limbo right now. We're not sure exactly what's going to happen, but officially he hasn't even been convicted because the conviction doesn't go into effect until he's sentenced and that whole sentencing has been postponed indefinitely, Isn't?
Speaker 1:that crazy. So think about what that man has gone through. So he's no spring chicken, you know, nope. And he, you know, most people are retired by the time they get to his age, by 10 years already. And here's this guy who, to your point, has all of these you know, all these you know, and think it's the government, tom, and so here.
Speaker 1:Here's the next thing that I want to really bring up, you know.
Speaker 1:So I really think it's the hand of God, you know, if Trump would have lost this election or it would have been stolen from him again, and and when I say that I think it was actually the best thing, give him a four-year break, he really could look back on what he did the first four years, really understand the deep state, which I don't think he had any idea.
Speaker 1:In fact, as much as I used to talk about it, I don't think I had any idea just how bad this really was. And the good thing that's come out of this is that good and evil are standing up, and it's being identified, and the amount of bravery. So here here's the story. So so to me, god has a hand in this, you know. I mean, trump turns his head, the bullet hits, hits his ear, you know he survives this assassination attempt. He's coming back after four years with incredible people and, and he brings this, this group of people together that you can't make up right, elon musk and vivek kennedy comes back into the, you know, comes in to join them. You have all of these people standing up Tulsi.
Speaker 1:Gabbard, yeah, gabbard. So you have all these people. And then I start to hear guys like Tucker, carlson and Russell Brand and even Joe Rogan start to talk about good versus evil. I mean, everybody sees that something nefarious has happened. And you have all these brave people standing up Lone voices in the beginning, like dr peter mccullough, you know, warning us about the vaccine jabs and saying, hey, be careful, right, you know this, this isn't going to be good stuff, and so so, at the end of the day, I think, tom, that's another good thing for me, you know, is to say you know, good versus evil is pretty clear to see right now. What do you you think?
Speaker 2:Well, I think that's true and, like you and I actually worked in government. I had no idea that the government had become so corrupt and I had been in intelligence and the way the intelligence community manipulated information against you know, to thwart what Donald Trump was trying to do in his first election and even in the reelection. The 51 intelligence officers said these had all the earmarks of a foreign disinformation campaign. It was all untrue. Yeah, I forgot about that too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 51 intelligence officers right and all of those people still have clearances today security clearances and they should not the people that are using their position to give them a patina of respectability and knowledge in such a nefarious way. They should have their security clearance stripped.
Speaker 1:Well, that's why you know we have what? 21 more days, something like that, before Trump comes in with his team. And you know that's 21 days for mischief, right, because you know the deep state's going to try to do something, right, to hang on to power. And so here's the thing. You know Trump, and again, you know you think God would have gave up on us Just say, hey, you guys are gone, the world's gone. I just can't. Well, I could imagine but I don't want to think anymore about it what would have happened. I mean, we were going off a cliff.
Speaker 1:When you think about the unity that we just said, right, bringing all these diverse people together to to do some battle against all of this cut, cutting down the size of government, you know all of these trans things, the dei and the government. You know, one of the first things that Biden did was push through all of this stuff, the trans movement, more abortions, it's all human destruction, it's all human division, isn't it? So DEI, trans, all of these things coming in, they create division and somehow the Trump administration is bringing unity into all of these people that just want to stand up for the truth. And I think that's the major thing for me when I start to look back at the last four years, certainly, and certainly the last year. You know this.
Speaker 1:These evil systems, you know we call it progressivism, socialism, communism, marxism, modernism, globalism, butism, but they're all creating division. They're all there for power, the climate, the Vax mandates it all comes down to, and then the foundational part of this is this attack on marriage and children, with all these initiatives in the schools that you and I do. So you can't make it up, tom. It just attacks from all over, divides, destroys, and now we have a little bit of a chance, but I think the fight is just getting started in reality.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and it's not. The fight isn't going to be won by an administration. It's got to be won by the general public, by the people that have sacrificed their responsibility to people in government rather than carrying out their responsibilities on their own. We can't expect somebody else to fix things for us, and we're allowing too many people with the wrong ideas to be elected. We're actually voting for those people with the wrong ideas to be elected, and then we wonder why everything has gotten so bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, well, and it's so.
Speaker 1:So here's the byproduct of this that every single person, to your point, has to stand up and take a stand in their own little way.
Speaker 1:It's going to take millions and millions and millions of us, which is really what's happening, right, but we need a lot more people to stand up and start having the courage. First you got to have the conviction. You got to see good and evil and choose a side, so that's number one. Then you got to decide if you're going to be on the side of good, to become good yourself, and then you have to go out and stand up for this and we're not going to have you and I spoke about this, tom, you were so disappointed in church leaders over the last few years we've been talking about this that we realize that it's really up to the individual person to choose a side and, of course, you know, coming together in unity under God, just like our nation was founded on in the beginning and it all comes down to the battle of the individual human heart that says, yeah, I'm going to choose a side and make a difference. You know it comes down to local stuff, tom.
Speaker 1:So anybody out there listening today that thinks, oh, I can't do anything, I'm too small, you're exactly wrong, right.
Speaker 2:Well, because it all starts in schools and libraries. Yep starts in schools and libraries, and the elections that are least supported are those that are local school board and library elections. People they come out in dribbles, they don't come out in big numbers, and the people who are coming out are the people who are exactly the wrong people to be voting for the people in office, because they are voting for their, their own public interest. For example, the school boards most of the people voting for them are for the school board members or people that are in the in the school unions, yeah, and and talk about corruption.
Speaker 1:Right, you know, talk about corruption, you know, you know. Look at.
Speaker 2:Chicago. Look at this Brandon Johnson. He's a. He's a product you know. Look at Chicago. Look at this Brandon Johnson. He's a product of the Chicago Public School Union.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and still he got voted in. And finally, finally, finally, we're starting to see the people in Chicago. Now we're in Chicago, or you know, we're in the western suburbs of Chicago, and we're starting to see, finally, people in the city itself starting to push back finally on it. And they're, they're, they're uniting under trump. Uh, you know, these people are walking into these, into these city council meetings with trump hats on and bawling out this guy. They're finally starting to see it, tom, I don't know what finally happened.
Speaker 2:You know what's going on for all these years they're parking all these illegal aliens in schools and police stations and they're using up resources and facilities that the people in the community said hey, this isn't right. These people aren't even Americans and yet you're spending all the money on them, spending billions of dollars on them, that we don't have that we don't have.
Speaker 2:They're spending billions of borrowed dollars, and so people are upset about that. They I wish they would be upset about some of the other things that are going on as well, like the, the whole transgender issue. Where they're promoting these things in in schools. Where they're, it is the economy, the, the economic issues.
Speaker 2:Illinois, for example, has an unfunded pension debt of $172 billion $172 billion, it's the biggest in the country by far, by far, and it's because the politicians are getting elected by promising public service workers big pensions, bigger and bigger pensions that are not being funded. So, basically, they're buying the votes of people who work for the government, and those are the people that are going out and voting in the local school board elections, in local elections, in addition to voting in big numbers in the statewide elections, in addition to voting in big numbers in the statewide elections, while so many regular private sector people are just saying nothing I can do, my vote doesn't count anyway, and they're staying at home rather than pushing back against this idea. Robbery, rape of the of the public funds.
Speaker 1:Well, here, yeah, and you know when people got to start waking up to this because I'm talking to people over the the christmas holidays and and and beyond this last week and reminding them you know why both people are working. You know they said we've been so busy this christmas season, you know, with both of us working all the time trying to get Christmas shopping done and et cetera, et cetera. And I said, well, why do both of you have to work? And they said, well, what do you mean? We got inflation, we got this, we're trying to buy the kids. I said no, no, no, no, no. I said one person in a household would be enough if it wasn't for one thing and they can't think of it Tom.
Speaker 1:It's high taxes, it's high taxes, 50% of our money. When you add up the feds, the state, the property taxes, the sales taxes, there's there's fees on everything, for you know, for every single thing I have, there's a government fee on it. You add those up and one person in a household is basically paying taxes and the other one's money is going to pay the bills and stuff like that. You know, god himself has this tithe 10% right, that's what God asked for, tithe 10%, and he said I'm going to give you back a hundredfold. The government has got us at 50% and gives us back squat. Tom gives us back squat.
Speaker 1:So what I'm very excited about going into 2025, and this is going to be a battle too is this doge and just eliminating departments and trying to get the small. What's the chance of success of that, tom, do you think right now because we've been trying to do this for a long time, even though I would, I will say clinton actually, when he was, when he was president, they actually were able to reduce some government agencies and stuff and actually get the get our fiscal uh house in order for a year or two.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know how. I don't really know what the chances of doge are to. I do think that I do think that they'll have some success legislatively getting rid of some departments, but their, their goal is to lose two trillion dollars off of the budget our 250th anniversary by 2026. And so I think if anybody can do it Musk and Ramaswamy can do it. At least they'll publicize what needs to be done. That's right, and then the public needs to take that and pressure their representatives to get it accomplished.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and to your earlier point, we need to start doing this at the local levels too.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:State levels and the local levels and start talking about these trans and DEI issues, because we're starting to see them come down. We're starting to see this veil the emperor has no clothes and we're starting to see it finally come down. This is probably the issue that matters most. When you hear Christians say no, we're not called to go out and talk politics, I said that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. If you don't bring your Christian values into the public square, this is what happens the evil grows and grows and grows and grows. I mean Tom. If we just become weak people I mean morons in many, many ways, just apathetic, weak.
Speaker 1:You know, some of the dumbest people I know you know go sit in those pews every week and and have no clue what's going on, right, I mean all these people that you know are continuing to wear their masks and continue to get jabs and continuing to pay all these taxes and continuing to allow pornography in the schools and and all this evil to go, and they think there's some pious person sitting in that pew and look it. I'm not there to judge their soul, but I can judge their action. And if they don't stand up and do good, you know, st James is very clear on this in the book of James. You know, if you know what's right and you don't do what's right, then you're culpable of sin. You're culpable of that evil that you didn't do.
Speaker 1:Well, one of the things that I you know, I wrote that article this last week that involved the public sector people, and I just want to give an example of what the problem is here and local problem is here and local, and this is good, because right, because I wanted to touch on again on the local issues and that that that you and I were fighting these local issues because this is where we can make a change, isn't it?
Speaker 2:right, and here's here's any. Here's what happened in the indian prairie school district. There's a guy down there, steven sabovic, who's now madison sabovic, that I looked into, but two years ago.
Speaker 1:For people that don't know, this is Naperville, which is another western suburb of Chicago, right.
Speaker 2:Right, and two years ago he was making $94,000 a year. Last year it went up to $99,000. And this year it went up to $109,000. Now this guy he's a teacher, an elementary school teacher and also a librarian in the local school district, in the local school, in that Owen Elementary School. But here, so you've got somebody whose salary went up.
Speaker 2:What is that? $15,000 over a two-year period of time, during the time when we were going through all this inflation. What is that $15,000 over a two-year period of time, during the time when we were going through all this inflation? And the estimate is from the time that Biden came into office until now. The estimate is that it's costing the average family $12,000 a year more for the same stuff that it cost them when Biden came into office.
Speaker 2:So now this guy Sabovic and it's consistent across the board for Indian Prairie School employees. They have all stayed ahead of inflation while the rest of this country has not inflation, while the rest of this country has not. So here we have public sector employees that are staying ahead of inflation, and I'm sure that the benefits have gone up even more. They're staying ahead of inflation, while the people in the private sector are not. This is because the people in government are beholding to public sector workers rather than to the general public. They're not treating everybody fairly, and so, unless the general public starts getting people in there who will look at this from a fiscally responsible perspective, we're going to collapse as a country. We can't keep. How much longer can we have $172 billion unfunded pension debt in the state of Illinois? How much longer can that last?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this is just one. This is just one thing, right. The only reason that they're staying above water right now is because the federal government gave them all this, this printed paper money out of thin air, right, and and they took all that money and and they kept the budget going right now. Brandon johnson was not able to push through a 300 million dollar property tax increase this year because so many people came out against it. So right, god only knows what he's going to do now. But but let's go a little bit further again.
Speaker 2:And thing is that all this stuff, all this stuff about budget and money and things, so it's so boring. Most people don't want to look at it, but it really is fundamental to our, to our health, our if we don't have fiscal health in the country, we don't have health at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Well, let's go a little further on that issue real quick, you know, and let's not take too much time, but talk about this person that you just brought up and the issue with them and what we're doing, because this is really, I think, a microcosm of what we're talking about when evil comes into governments, when evil comes into school boards and teachers unions and they start to push these ideologies on people that are totally Orwellian. So this is the same person that was a male before and now. Where are we at with this person? And what is that school telling our kids and our parents to do the school?
Speaker 2:isn't telling anybody anything. The school actually is telling their own employees what they should tell to the parents and basically what they're doing is they're so describe this for people that don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, for 18 years, steve Sabovic worked for the Owen Elementary School in Indian Prairie School District, and this last year he decided that he was a woman, so he quote transitioned into Madison Sabovic. So now even his license is under his educator license is under the name of Madison Sabovic and he's employed under the name of Madison Sabovic. The school district, by law, can't terminate him because there's, you know, for two reasons First, there's a state law that prohibits discrimination against somebody who's a transgender and secondly, probably more importantly, is that there's a Supreme Court ruling that says that employers can't discriminate against somebody who's transgender, based on Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Can't discriminate on race, religion, national origin, color or sex, and so they have to keep them employed. And the other problem with it is that in 2013, you couldn't terminate the person because of a mental illness, because in 2013, transgender gender dysphoria was declassified as a mental illness, but it's still considered a medical disorder, so that they can still get medical insurance for the condition, but it's no longer considered a mental illness. So you could not terminate the person for mental illness or put them on leave for mental illness or whatever.
Speaker 2:And that's because we've got this Gordian knot of laws. That has been created that allows people to put themselves in a position of being a protected class. If I came out tomorrow, if I was working in a school district, and I came out tomorrow and said that I'm really a woman, all of a sudden I become a protected class. Right now, being a white male, I'm not protected for anything, but if I say that I'm a woman, I become now a protected class.
Speaker 1:So, tom, bottom line, this is why these departments got to go and we got to start to really get the government smaller. We've gotten to the point where it's total insanity. We look to the government for all these things. They've got laws on top of laws. I used to be in business for most of my life. I was an entrepreneur, studying different businesses. I got out because of all these government regulations. Every time I turned around, there was a new agency being developed that would come in, walk through our businesses. We had a number of restaurants, too, as part of what we did, and so they'd come in with rule after rule after rule and just taxes on top of taxes on top of taxes, to the point where we had to start paring back health insurance and stuff for our employees. We started to be. We couldn't pay them as much as we would like because we were paying out so much and all of these fees again. You know. So here's what happens.
Speaker 1:You know there's a, an article in in the in. You know, hinsdale college puts out a, a monthly newsletter, and this in november. It was called Drain the Swamp. I want to just read you just a little part of that, tom. And it said it's really talking about, you know, reducing the size of all these bureaucracies. And it said this is the issue that matters most. The worst evil stem from it. The strongest resistance guards its entrenchment. All these companies, the s&p 500 companies, the big corporations, the banks, etc. All start working with the state. They're all in bed together, working with for the military industrial complex, the, the big pharma companies, all of these things that we're talking about, with the vaccines and the dei programs and trans stuff. Everybody's in everybody's pockets and they all protect one another.
Speaker 1:It says here it's not only the 23 million people who work in the administrative state, many of them fine people, and this is only the federal government. It's the universities who inspire and guide it while enjoying its different encroachments. It's the corporations that regulates, protects and subsidizes. It's the press that keeps its secrets and tells its fibs. It's the educational bureaucracy that outnumbers the teachers. Now with whom it interferes, it is half the American economy now it occupies. It is the regulations that it gushes forth, the prosecutions it wages we just talked about that the verdicts it renders. People are getting arrested for praying outside of abortion clinics. Now, right.
Speaker 2:There's a woman, a 70-some-year-old ill health woman, who's in federal prison for doing that. Now, what kind of system does that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and talk about wasteful money. Just the DEI program alone. The Department of Education, the government, which we should not have at the Department of Education, right, think about the money we could save there. And nobody would even notice it, tom. They spent over $1 billion promoting just DEI in America's schools, promoting just DEI in America's schools. $489 million for race-based hiring, $343 million for DEI programming, $170 million for DEI mental health initiatives Because you're creating mental health.
Speaker 1:Now you've got to go fix them. You put the trans stuff in now you've got gotta go fix them. You put the trans stuff in now you gotta go fix it. Trans is impossible, right, it's impossible for a man to become a woman. Yet we're spending all this money and time all the way from the top. Don't forget, one of the first things that joe biden did is brought in richard levine, who became rachel levine, and put him in charge of health and human services for the whole country and and he declared that gender-affirming care is the standard and is the generally widely accepted treatment standard for people who consider themselves transgender.
Speaker 1:Which is a what A lie A lie, it's a total lie.
Speaker 1:We all know it's a lie and you know the figures are over 90% for most of the studies I look at. Over 90% of young people who are confused and who wouldn't be in this toxic culture that they're growing up in the school. I'm surprised it's not even more kids. But of the ones that are confused about their sexuality, over 90% of them will come to accept their bodies the way they are if we just don't do anything except walk with them, journey with them and over time you know you're. You go from puberty to adolescence. You come out of this and with a with 90 plus success rate of doing nothing, we're going to push trans-affirming care. It's the most obvious thing in the world, right?
Speaker 2:Well, it's An evil thing to do. To affirm somebody when you know that it's not the right thing is is evil. You're pushing somebody down the wrong path. Why would you do that? What is the? What is the?
Speaker 1:interest. That's the question. Why would you do that? So so so for our audience, tom, we we answer that question. Why would you do that? It's for money, yeah, money power, sex, all of those things right.
Speaker 2:One of the reasons that we don't have a pushback from the churches too, I think, is because the churches have been bought off by the government. Just that one issue. Remember I wrote that article on the 323,000 children who were missing, that were unaccompanied minors, that came across the border. The government was paying, and has been paying, over a billion dollars a year just to move those kids from the border to their temporary or permanent placement, just to move them. $42,500 per child to move them, and yet they lost three quarters of them. They don't know where three quarters of them are.
Speaker 2:The people who were moving those kids mostly are religious organizations, lutheran Social Services, catholic Charities all these different groups are getting. They are making millions, hundreds of millions of dollars off of this. There's one group, world Relief, that makes most of their money off of the federal government. They don't get donations for most of their work it's from the federal government, grants from the federal government. We have to stop this. That's one area that Doge can work on. He says, no, these guys aren't getting any money. I don't think any church should take money from the federal government because it basically divides their loyalty. Yeah, yeah, because then the government says you've got to support us in this or we're going to cut you off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know it's interesting. I had a conversation with a relative about you know why they? They would vote socialists right, why they're socialists. Now, this is a guy that's a CPA, a well-educated guy, no spring chicken anymore. He's in his seventies and he told, he told my wife it's. Uh, he wouldn't tell me but he told my wife it's because the government takes care of the poor and these migrants and everything Right. And I said what a joke. I couldn't wait to find this guy Right. And I said look at if you see a poor person. So two things, buddy. First of all, it takes your responsibility away. You're supposed to be going out and helping the poor.
Speaker 1:I said it doesn't do nothing for your soul or my soul, right? So now we just abdicate this to the government. If I give a poor guy a dollar, he has a dollar.
Speaker 1:If the government takes my dollar, that guy gets three or four or five pennies by the time they set up their organizations and they're look, they gotta have, they gotta set up new buildings and bring in new departments and get new pension plans and join a new union and whatever they're gonna do right. And then we start to twist and distort all this stuff to protect their money and just like well, they don't do a good job with it. Look at the, look at this don't do a good job with it.
Speaker 2:Look at this. Don't do a good job with it. Look at the minors. Look at the minors. There's like 420,000 minors that were unaccompanied minors that came across the border during a five-year period of time. Three-quarters of them are missing.
Speaker 1:They don't know where they are Well, and you and I know that a lot of these kids are getting sex traffic. You know, so you know when you start to think about.
Speaker 2:Even the ones that they know about, are probably getting sex traffic.
Speaker 1:Many of them, it's not just because they know where they are doesn't mean they're not being abused. A child, right, a young child and and so many of these young people that we're talking to have been sexually abused right Right now. We know 60 million adults walking around in the United States only today were sexually abused as children One in four girls, one in six boys, and the number is going up. And so this has been going on and the government's feeding this and the churches are in on the action right now. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:Well, look our public schools, in our public schools. We've known for decades that 10% of kids that graduate from public schools have been victims of educator sexual misconduct sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade. 10%, and what has the government done about it? Nothing. They passed laws, they made it illegal to do it and then they made it illegal to not do something about it, but the problem continues to go up. Just a couple of years ago, there was another study that looked into the original one and found that the percentage has gone up to 11.7%. So it's gone from 10% now to 11.7%. So kids are being victimized in our public schools in greater levels today by adults in the school system. Now why do we stand for this? Well, we stand for it because people aren't doing anything about it. The general public isn't doing anything because they figure there's nothing they can do, and the government isn't doing anything about it because why should they?
Speaker 1:Well, it's not only. Why should they Tom? They're in on the action Again. The Biden administration has been pushing this, these grooming and gender ideologies, all the way, from the top, all the way through. And you know, let's not forget the LBGT. So the T is the trans thing. We just said that's impossible. And why would you push that? The Q is queering. I mean, does everybody realize what queering is, Queering is? This is this category where you just take everything that's normal in society, normal about our sexuality, and you twist and determine. You know, twist and distort it. We're now weird to be human, right? You know, normal is to be weird. Watch for that word. You know, if you think that you may be weird, take a deep breath and thank God that you're weird, because when they call me weird, you know, you know that that's normal.
Speaker 1:Chloe Cole, who you and I have spoke about you know she's a detransitioner. She's really spoken up and done some wonderful work. You know really getting attacked in the beginning. Here's a young girl that thinks she's supposed to be a boy. It gets her breasts actually cut off as a young girl and she's supposed to be a boy. It gets her breasts actually cut off as a young girl, and she said this statement just recently.
Speaker 1:Generation Z, which she is part of, is facing an unprecedented identity crisis. We're a generation drifting through space no morality, no reason for existence, no frame of reference in which to orient ourselves. The answer for us is staring us straight in our faces. The answer is God. The answer is God. So here's a young girl that's coming out of this and doing her best, but, like she said, her voice has been permanently changed. Parts of her body have been permanently changed. She, of course, lost her breasts. She doesn't know if she's going to be able to have babies. She knows she won't be able to breastfeed. After all of this, though, she's coming through and she realizes again this battle between good and evil.
Speaker 1:And as we start to wind down here today, tom, it comes know, an acceptance of morality, acceptance of truth, and if you don't, if you don't take a stand on this kind of stuff, you're going to lose your immortal soul. Tom, you know I tick tock. You know I was talking to somebody just recently about this and I said you know, dude, you're going to die. Do you know you're going to die? And uh, you know he just paused. He did not want to hear that and I said well, just wait long enough, have some patience, you're going to prove me right. Right, there's a, there's a six foot hole in the ground, chisel poised. They put your name and the date on it in just a little while.
Speaker 1:So in the meantime, dude, let's all stand up. Let's, you know, let's stand up for what's true, good and beautiful, especially the beauty of love, the beauty of children, the beauty of marriage. And we have to stand up because you start to look at the government, the government is actually the evil. Now We've become evil and, like I just stated, from Drain the Swamp, it's not that every single person in the government, of course, is evil, but but the organization, the institution, has become evil. And and in order to pick up their paychecks, in order to have their great pensions, they all got to be quiet. They, they know what's going on. A lot of these people know what's going on today, but they don't say anything well, yeah, evil.
Speaker 2:what? Who was it that talked about the banality of evil? That it isn't the slasher type character in the movies, it's just the mundane, everyday neglecting the duties that you're supposed to carry out. Evil is not doing the will of God. Anything that's not in the will of God, that is, anything that's not in the will of God, is evil. And how much in government conforms to the will of God today is not a heck of a lot.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. So when you start to hear people pushing back against the Trump administration and all this mass propaganda that you know is going to continue to come, even though independent media is making bigger and bigger strides here, know that this evil was being pushed by the United States all over the world, the governments that were taken down, and still is.
Speaker 2:They're still promoting the transgender thing. They're still promoting the idea that a man can become a woman. This is just absolutely so directly contrary to the bible that I don't know how anybody cannot see that there's a problem with that tom.
Speaker 1:We have lbgtq flags, you know, flying all over the world all over the world and our on our embassies. We are pushing abortion, we're pushing pornography. America is all the way through. You know, all of these things we've been doing for many, many years. We've been pushing these vaccines on different people. That's another thing. You know, with Robert Kennedy coming in, people have to realize he's not anti-vax, he wants safe vaccines. He wants actual trials to be done. Does that, is that go against anybody's common sense? I don't think it should, tom, do you?
Speaker 2:no, I, I, I like what they're talking about. He said they want more studies that are done, that are, that are independent, of course, if you look at the vaccines they don't even do studies on on the vaccines for well, if they do study. If they do studies, they're by the by're, by the agency itself, by the company itself, and they're just not trustworthy.
Speaker 1:I don't know if people realize the FDA doesn't do the studies. They let the companies do the studies and then they look at those studies.
Speaker 2:Sometimes they don't even look at them.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. And once the vaccine companies could not be sued anymore. Once they go on a schedule, so you have to get vaccinated. So now they don't have to market it. Think about if I'm a pharmaceutical company. I know I can't get sued. So what kind of tests am I going to do? Am I going to do real thorough tests? No, let's just get another one out there. I get it through the government agencies, I get it on the schedule that all kids have to take them and so I don't have to market it anymore. Right, I make so much stinking money on this thing. It's, it's amazing, you know, and here we are, uh, promoting these government agencies, thinking that, and you know, nothing's going to go wrong. And it's just one little thing. Uh, tom, you know I was looking at a quote from John Paul, the second talk about.
Speaker 1:You know, when I was thinking about all these pronouns that these kids are pushing with these SEL programs in these schools and stuff, and I'm no longer a person. I want to take away your name. Your're a pronoun now Even I take your sexual identity away. You know, people have to realize that this is satanic. You know, satan himself doesn't have his own clay, he can only twist and distort what God created. He's not the creator. He can only take what's created and twist and distort it.
Speaker 1:And then John Paul comes in and he's looking at the solemnity of the birth of Jesus. What we just celebrated, right, and he said, if we celebrate with such solemnity the birth of Jesus, it's to bear witness that every human being is somebody, unique and unrepeatable, somebody thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by its own name. It is as it was with the first man, adam. It is as it was with the new Adam, born of the Virgin Mary in the cave at Bethlehem. You shall call his name Jesus, and from that name all of us have our own, of course, unique and unrepeatable identity. We all have our own names. We're all coming to this world, either male or female, and we're persons loved by God.
Speaker 1:If we get away from that and I never realized, tom, how important our identities are in God, until you kind of accept it after a while if you're a Christian Right, and you become a Christian Right and you become a little comfortable with that, and so you look around at all this stolen identity that we're talking about with the governments and different things and you don't realize what a treasure that is right To have this identity as a beloved child of God. And like Chloe Cole said, chloe Cole said that when you take that identity away, you no longer know who you are and the confusion reigns. And when you have evil people trying to make money off of sterilizing you, planned Parenthood is big right. I mean, they're making more money now on these puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and stuff than they are on actually killing children in abortions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the identity that all Christians are supposed to have is a child of God, brother of Christ and temple of the Holy Spirit. That's our identity and that's the fundamental core of what we are. We aren't, you know, to identify yourself as as homosexual, heterosexual, transsexual, bisexual. These are, these are pathetic identities. Yeah, they're so tiny and they're they're meaningless.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So when people want to slap a label on on young people today, just you, just walk away from that label for a little while, take a little break, take a deep breath, walk into a quiet chapel someplace and just get down on your knees and open up your heart. You'll reduce your anxiety. There's no reason for you to wear a label. Because the problem we have when we accept the labels we start to live out of a label.
Speaker 1:I remember Tom, my youngest daughter picked up the social contagion called anorexia and three times we had her in the hospital where her heart was actually stopping. That's how bad it got. She would not get rid of that label. It's amazing how you start to live out that label. It became who she was and after a while, tom, it was such an identity with her that, if she would throw that off, she didn't know who she was anymore. You have to have, then, a place to go with power, and the only power is God.
Speaker 1:She went to psychiatrist after psychiatrist, to treatment after treatment, one thing after another, for 20 years, tom, it didn't make any difference, and the only thing that makes a difference then when you finally get on your knees and you get rid of your pride and all these labels and you become humble and you say, hey, I really don't know how to solve any of this. And finally we start to get rid of that label of pride. That's the first one to get rid of. Become humble, open your heart up to Jesus Christ and realize the power. Right, that's going into 2025,. Tom, that's my advice, and stay local. Run for school board, library board, county board, city, whatever it takes or support the right people for those positions.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of things that people can do locally Like I'm too old, I couldn't handle running for office, but I want to support people that have the right ideas to be in office, and I think everybody needs to do that. They at least have to find out who the who the people are that they're voting for. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And if you and if you, and, to your point, if you don't do anything else, just go to school board meetings. Right, I just go. You know I again, and I've got grandkids in these schools, so I go and it's amazing you can keep. You know you voice your opinion just here and there. You know people start they're more careful how they vote on issues when they know there's people in that audience every. This is twice a month, twice a month sitting there and talking to them and they get to know that you know those issues and they've told me that they said you know, we know that you're in there and we know that you have a couple of people that you know those issues. And they've told me that. They said we know that you're in there and we know that you have a couple people that you come with sometimes and you know the issues. And so we read the reports, we look at them a little bit instead of just signing off on these things, and so it makes a difference.
Speaker 1:Just show up, just show up. All right, thomas, any last words as we go into 2025?
Speaker 2:Maybe don't drink and drive. Huh. Yeah, I'm very hopeful for 2025. I think there's a lot of good things that could happen because of the new administration, but I think the most important thing is that the new administration is going to open up opportunities, more opportunities for the general public to get engaged and to become and to make a difference, to change things. But nothing's going to change unless people actually step up and start doing the work themselves. They can't continue to rely on other people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, We've seen what happens when we do that.
Speaker 2:Hey, god bless you.
Speaker 1:Tom, good to be with you, good to be with everybody. Thanks for joining us. Talk to you again, probably in 2025. Yeah, be with everybody. Thanks for joining us. Talk to you again in probably in 2025. Yeah.