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#573 Trump and Elon Take on Evil, Trudeau Resigns, The Rape of British School Girls, And Kids Fight Back
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Join me and crime investigator and journalist Tom Hampson to discuss the 2025 impact of figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk to the evil policies of Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden and scrutinize the moral intricacies of modern governance...pressing issues such as immigration in Britain...drawing on the wisdom of Bishop Fulton Sheen and St. Paul to underscore our discussion.
Venture into the charged atmosphere of gender ideology in schools, where the battleground of transgender rights meets community and parental involvement. and witness the power of grassroots movements as students push back against school policies, igniting a larger conversation about the intersections of legality, morality, and activism.
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I'm with my good friend, tom Hampson. Crime investigator, crime journalist. Tom, you've been at it for a long time. How are you feeling about things right now? We got 2025 coming in. It's going to be exciting time, tom.
Speaker 2:I'm very hopeful as to what's coming up.
Speaker 1:It's the weirdest thing right now. Again, this is a great time, I think, to be alive. Bishop Fulton Sheen, our old bishop, would have said that. He said this is a great time to be alive when the forces of good and evil are at work. I'm thinking about Trudeau.
Speaker 1:We get to all this stuff right, trudeau stepping aside or talking about resigning. We're talking about Britain, amazing how it's coming out, all of these rapes, what they've been doing and putting all of these immigrants, especially these men Middle Eastern descent, into their small cities all over the country, and these young girls getting raped right, we've got the Biden administration going out and just causing one havoc after another. You can't get any darker than this guy. And so now we have these traditional, right you know, so-called religious people Biden Catholic, pelosi, catholic, so to you know, and just bringing horrific evil into the world. And then you have interesting guys Donald Trump, who's not known for being an overly religious man, right.
Speaker 1:Elon Musk I don't know where he even stands, and these guys are changing the world for better. So this is the dynamic going on right now. You've got guys like the Pope Pope Francis clearly, clearly supported Joe Biden over Trump in the 2016, the 2020, and this last election, and he knows full well what the Democratic platform stands for pro-abortion, same-sex, all these gender ideologies, one thing after another, open border policies, all these things right, which do what? They dilute the culture of a country, dilute the morals, the ethics, the foundation that a country stands on, and clearly is diluting Christianity in these countries. So at the end of the day, tom, it's buckle up right, buckle up.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, and but I think there's we have a great opportunity coming up here. I just I just filled up my my car with gas today and it was down in DuPage County. It's only 325 a gallon, but I expect that within a year it'll be at least a dollar dollar a gallon cheaper.
Speaker 1:I expect that within a year it'll be at least a dollar, dollar a gallon cheaper, yeah, yeah, well, and that makes a difference for for everybody and for everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that the main thing we have to remember here is that Donald Trump went out to a lot to get elected. You know we have talked about this in the past, but the average guy could not have done it. The average guy with that much to lose there's no way. And the other one is Elon Musk. Elon Musk had everything to lose, very little to gain by going in and stepping into this. He even said he goes. You know, if Donald Trump doesn't win, I'm I'm dead, he said you know I'm screwed basically.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm screwed, basically, and he's right. You know they would have just came down the full force of the government.
Speaker 2:All of these things, you couldn't get it any more nefarious than they were going. You know FBI. They've already started multiple investigations against against Musk.
Speaker 1:Unbelievable. And look what they did with Trump, right. So so all of these people, you know, you, you, you just can't make this stuff. So where does God go from here? You know, you know, you start to see guys like Justin Trudeau. Just little tyrant, this little. And when I watched Justin Trudeau, tom, especially through COVID, what he did to those truckers, I would watch his eyes and I swear to God, I saw evil. Just you could see evil in those eyes. He's just this little dictator, but just with an evil intent, you know, and just power hungry, just amazing power hungry. And so now he's resigning. I hear you know, yeah, he is.
Speaker 2:He's in an internal battle with his liberal party, and so he decided to resign, and he has no chance of winning. The conservative party has no chance.
Speaker 1:That's what I was going to say. He decided to. I think somebody decided for him right.
Speaker 2:He has no chance of winning. The conservatives have 20 points on him for the next election, so he's going to be gone one way or the other. But the other thing is he's a chip off the old block. I'm fairly certain that he's Castro's son, but he certainly acts like him. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, again it gets back down to this man of lawlessness. I want to read you something from I want to bring the Bible in here. This is two Corinthians. Now tell me if this doesn't sound like some of these people we're describing, right? So this is St Paul talking about this, and don't forget, st Paul was converted himself.
Speaker 1:St Paul was out persecuting Christians. I heard again that Biden today and this could have been a clip from a couple of days ago. But the danger to our country are what? White supremacists? So we have the New Orleans thing, right, the murder down there. We've got all this stuff going on and these rapes of these young girls I'll get to in a minute. In Britain, we've got Trudeau clamping down on everybody and yet it's the white supremacists that are are the danger to our democracy, and donald trump is the danger to our democracy, and you can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 1:And so why right? Why do the lies come right? And so this is saint paul, who again is after. Christians in the beginning know he's going to throw them in prison. So God is going to use who he uses, and right now he's using Trump and he's using Elon Musk, and I think we all better stand up and start paying attention, because you know, if the end isn't coming, something special is coming right now, and so this is just the beginning of chapter 4 in 2 Corinthians.
Speaker 1:Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God, and even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing In their case. The God of this world, who's Satan has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel, the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God. And it goes on, and I suggest everybody read that. It's really interesting. And he gets into then in 2 Thessalonians, to this man of lawlessness that's going to come in. And you see it, it was just lawlessness. In Britain they actually put these immigrants who have no respect for women at all, were raping all these young girls for a generation now and then arresting the families as they were protesting the parents of these girls as they were protesting.
Speaker 1:You know it's amazing lawlessness that was going on.
Speaker 2:Well, throughout the world there's a lack of focus on going after the real bad guys. I just looked up how many people the FBI arrested for the January 6th riots that they investigated and arrested. They tracked down and arrested 1,450 people and in order to do that they had to look at 45,000 hours of tapes. They got records from banks credit card records, cell phone records to find out who was where when. Imagine the manpower that it takes to do something like that. So there's 1,450 people that they arrested just in that one protest that became a riot that degenerated into a riot. There was no insurrection there, it was a ridiculous charge.
Speaker 2:Now compare that with I have written about this organization called BoyLovernet that had 70,000 members that are a network of pedophiles from all over the world that got cracked several years ago Now.
Speaker 2:Of those 70,000, globally the police departments all over the world made cases against only 184 people, and now every one of these people has committed serious felonies just by looking at the videos and at the images and participating in the trading of kids that were going on on that website. And yet the entire world police departments only arrested and convicted 184 people, and we went after some protesters and arrested 1,450 here in this country. Imagine the amount of time that was used in that. That could have been used going after real people. Maybe this guy who killed 14, 15 people down in New Orleans could have been stopped had they been allocating their resources in another way. So this is the difficulty that we have. We have people in government who are spending their time doing the wrong things I just wrote an article about even at the local school boards, where these people are not doing their job. Even in local school boards, they're doing things that they want to do rather than doing things that serve the public.
Speaker 1:When we lose our sense of morality, the sense of objective truth, what's out there, our reason becomes very unreasonable. It's amazing that St John talks about that threefold concupiscence the concupiscence of the eyes, the flesh and pride of life are really under the thumb of Satan. And it's so true, Tom. It's amazing. It's amazing what can happen. So here in Britain now, talk about this now.
Speaker 1:So these young girls, these are young British girls in these towns, again, these small towns, small British towns all over and Britain's not huge, right, it's an island, it's not that big they were raped, trafficked, sexually tortured. This is already possibly the most heinous crime ever committed by a government against its own people. The short version is that over a 24-year period, the British government helped relocate tens of thousands of brutish Pakistani men into unprepared British small towns. The government financed these animals with public benefits, created a two-tier legal system to protect them, where Pakistanis were not punished for crimes, including very serious ones, whereas British citizens were promptly jailed for daring to criticize the system. So this is the same thing you just said, Tom, the same thing that you just described now, just in a little different thing, and I'll just go on a little bit more and get your opinion on this?
Speaker 1:It was always a race war and it wasn't started by white people. These white supremacists again right Right With the preferential legal treatment, the Pakistanis developed extremely high and lawless self-images and despised the native British whites. By their own admission, the result was for decades, in at least 50 small British towns, organized gangs of Pakistani men groomed, raped, trafficked and sexually tortured tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of white English girls as young as 11 years old. Now this is really coming out. I mean, it's been there all this time.
Speaker 2:Finally, you know who's-? Well, there was even a report that was done on it in 2014.
Speaker 1:That's right, there was a Rothman report that on it in 2014.
Speaker 2:That's right. There was a Rotherham report. That's how long?
Speaker 1:And it's still going on, yeah, and nobody did anything there either.
Speaker 2:But they're still not doing anything about it because they're concerned about being considered racist by. They're afraid to go after these people, because they're afraid to be targeted or accused of being racist by who? By who? Well, I don't know, I guess by the people, by the Pakistanis who are raping these people.
Speaker 1:Because the average person that's getting raped is not going to be calling them that. All we want is justice, right, but again, it shows you this person of lawlessness. When you allow these things to happen in your own country, bring it upon your people violence that's when you allow these things to happen in your own country, bring it upon your people and then and and then have the guts, have the, have the debt and, it's amazing, I'll take a father. I get so upset I can hardly speak. You take the father now of some of these girls. Some of these fathers have been put in prison for for going after these guys. Now, don't forget, they took away their guns, right, they took their way. Then then their freedom of speech to even talk about these things, and when they posted these things to social media, tom, they were arrested and put in prison. There are guys in prison right now we're talking about January 6th. There's guys in Britain in prison for defending their own children against rape.
Speaker 2:Well, it's happening over here. Look what happened to Daniel Penny in New.
Speaker 1:York, there you go.
Speaker 2:Here's a guy who's protecting himself and the rest of the people on the subway and he's just raked over the coals for doing that. Because this guy happened, because the perpetrator happened to die, not because of anything Daniel Penny did. It was because the guy was on drugs and he had a physical condition that caused him to die. It wasn't that Daniel Penny killed him, and yet he's and this is happening. What was the guy up in Wisconsin that shot those two people? Oh, the young guy. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about him.
Speaker 2:He was a young guy that went up there and he was raked over the coals. He did nothing wrong. He even had video evidence showing these people were chasing him and one of the guys actually pointed a gun at him that he shot. And it's just incredible that our government doesn't allow us to protect ourselves even when we're under attack.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Well, again, this is what happens when there's this man of lawlessness, when you let evil go in and at the end, Tom, this is the average citizen's fault. And this is really what I'd like to bring up and I know you agree with this is that this is a time for all of us to stand up and say okay, this is a gut check time. If Trump can put it all on the line, if Elon can put it on the line, I guarantee you I have a lot less to lose than than them as far as wealth goes. But they had the guts to put it on the line and they changed the world. Now, if the rest of us don't stand up, it doesn't matter. You know it's going to slide back down again, because it really takes people to stand up by the millions here in this country to change anything.
Speaker 1:I I was. My wife asked me this morning Tom, she goes. Can you imagine what would happen if we were waiting in two weeks for Kamala Harris to be sworn into the highest office in the world? You know, Unthinkable.
Speaker 1:So when you say we have hope for 2025. I mean, yeah, there's an it's incredible hope, but but this is clearly something going on and clearly that somebody has to stand up, and and that means all of us well, I have to.
Speaker 2:This is the. This is the thing people need to understand. Just because he's going into the government doesn't mean things are going to change. When Trump became president in 2016 or 2017, in the schools, the Obama administration had already started this movement toward allowing transgenders to be in the opposite sex bathrooms In other words, a guy who thinks he's a girl. They started forcing schools to allow them to be in the locker rooms of the girls' schools. There wasn't any law that said it. It was done by a series of letters that were sent out and it was all under the table. So schools all over the country started adopting these policies to conform to this gender ideology in the schools before there was any law to back it up.
Speaker 2:When Trump came in, he reversed all that stuff, but that didn't stop the schools from continuing on that path of allowing girls in the boys' locker room.
Speaker 2:No longer did the Department of Education push them to do it. In fact, they said they rescinded that letter, but schools continued on that, promoting the gender ideology in the schools. And now, when the Biden administration went in now it all became formalized and they even changed Title VII to make it mandate all this stuff to be going on Title VII to make it mandate all this stuff to be going on. So if Trump goes in and reverses all of this stuff, we still need to take control of the schools to get this all turned around, and without that they're not going to be able to do it from the top down. We have to still get it from the bottom up. The schools are firmly in control of the liberals, of the leftists, because they are backed by the teachers' unions, and the reason that the teachers' unions can get all these people into the positions that they're in is because they're the only ones that are voting. The regular people are not going out there to vote the right people into office.
Speaker 1:This isn't brain surgery, is it no?
Speaker 1:Show up to your school board meetings. If you've got kids in the school, just show up to the school board meetings. That's the least you can do. And if you can't make every one, if they're twice a month and you can't make every one, you know find another couple or two and go once a month for an hour and a half, two hours and and start getting start to see what's going on in there. If, to your point, tom, if they don't stand up against us, how can a father I mean, if I have two daughters, you know, along with my son, but I have two daughters when they were in school, if I would have heard that they're letting men into those washrooms, I would have been there. I would have ran out here in this freezing weather without my shoes and my coat. Honest to goodness.
Speaker 2:Right, you know you wouldn't. You wouldn't because your kids had come home and say, no, they're just, there's girls in the. Because they're, they are defining these guys as girls.
Speaker 1:Oh Tom you know I, I knew what a girl was and I knew I had I had a pretty good understanding and I'll tell you what I.
Speaker 1:I would have went there and I would have went. I stood up for my kids when they were getting bullied when they were young. I didn't stand for that kind of crap and I and I said, hey, tell your old man, I want to talk to him. You know, and you know what you have to do those kinds of things because bullies are always the same. They're going to push this Now, when Bullies are always the same, they're going to push this Now when they have evil coming in. You've got to stand up. So here's somebody that actually did stand up. So this is a trans sports conflict we're talking about here.
Speaker 1:So Ryan Starling and Dan Slavin, whose daughters go to Martin Luther King School in Riverside, california, have sued the district alleging Title IX, sex discrimination. Side. California have sued the district alleging title nine, sex discrimination. The dad's lawsuit alleged that after taylor starling, which is one of the daughters, lost her spot on the varsity cross-country team to a boy dressing as a girl, the district's title nine coordinator told her frankly that's a cisgender girl and she doesn't have the same rights as a transgender boy it has. So it's pretty cut and dried. The court has to decide now if a male athlete is in fact male. The allegations describe a clear-cut violation of title nine. Right, the only way the district can win is if the court decides the male athlete is is not in fact male, but is rather female, for no better reason than that's how he feels today.
Speaker 1:Now, tom, in a normal world, right, that's not trying to queer and trans us all you know, with lies and illusions or an abuse of language. Look, I have a philosophical background, right, a philosophy and a theology major. And so, at the end of the day, philosophy is saying you know what is the truth? That's really what it is, and it always looks for the abuse of language. It says you can't twist and distort the language, because when you do, there is no truth anymore and something's going wrong, there's an evil that's happening, and so, anyways, the good news about this is that, in November, taylor and Caitlin Slavin got disciplined for wearing spicy T-shirts to school the spicy T-shirts they call them, with this message Save Girls Sports.
Speaker 1:Really, really a tough message, right? Save Girls Sports. Well, the lawsuit says school officials told the girls their slogan was like a Nazi swastika Save Girls Sports, like a Nazi swastika. Well, what happened next was unexpected, miraculous. And here's what's happening, tom and I see this in high schools, I see it around me and I'm seeing it across the country. The kids themselves are standing up. So what happened? A few other girls started wearing the same t-shirts, and then more girls, and more girls and more girls. After more than 400 students started to wear those t-shirts, the school backed down and gave up right yeah same thing.
Speaker 1:One more, just real quick. So there's a boy I I believe it was in texas, a school in texas. I can't believe this stuff happens in texas too, but that's where you got to really be careful with this. He was flying an american flag on his pickup truck. The school told him he couldn't. He could not fly an american flag in the united states of america. And he said you know f? You and he started and he continued to fly it. Now he's in trouble. He's getting thrown out of the school. Boys in by the hundreds started to fly their american flags to school. You look out in the parking lot with all these cars, tom, it was the most beautiful thing you've seen in the world. It was full of american flags waving. School had to back down was it going to do?
Speaker 2:well, I am. It's an. I am Spartacus moment.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, and that's what I'm saying. If the kids right are picking up on this and these are the younger kids, not your college-educated people protesting, for they know God knows only what, for they have no idea, right, but these are kids that are coming from decent families and stuff and are standing up. Well, here's the.
Speaker 2:I hate to throw a wrench into the works here on this. We also have a US Supreme Court that just ruled in Bostock versus Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited the discrimination on the basis of sex and sex includes transgenders. In the language. In the language they determined that transgender.
Speaker 1:Who was they now? Who was the genius behind this one? Yeah, but who was the genius that wrote that? Do you know?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure which one it was, but it was a 7-2 decision.
Speaker 1:It was a 7-2 decision, so do you know what the wording was in there, tom?
Speaker 2:I don't have the exact. I do have the case.
Speaker 1:I can't believe that.
Speaker 2:they said it's 170 pages long, but it's.
Speaker 1:You'll have to read that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I read it, but it's all this convoluted stuff. Basically, it says that a transgender person deals with sexuality and that means the person's sex. So if somebody thinks that they're, if some guy thinks he's a girl, you cannot discriminate against that person.
Speaker 1:It still doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2:No, it doesn't make any sense to me. But what that speaks to is that Title VII has to be amended by statute to say that to define what sex, what male and female are, and say that so that that would wipe that that determination out that you can still discriminate against people based on their orientation and their and their you know identity or whatever it is tom.
Speaker 1:I think it gets back to standing up and saying you know what that. That was asinine to do that to whoever put that ruling in. Again, I don't know the exact wording on that, but for me to say something like that that a man could go into my daughter's locker room and shower with her, take his clothes off in front of my 13 or 14-year-old daughter.
Speaker 1:Well, this was actually applied to employment, yeah, but I'm just saying in general, right applied to employment, yeah, but I'm just saying in general. You know, right, if you were going to say that to me and then start, you know how they do case law, tom, it was applied here, so it's going to go right down the thing. That's right. We have to say no and our kids have to say no and and at the end of the day, you know where are all these women, tom, these feminists?
Speaker 2:well, that's what I'd like to know too well, you know where's a lot of them. There's a lot of them that are on the side of the transgenders. But the reason that that Bostock versus Clayton County is important is because you can't discriminate against them on the basis of their transgender status. We just had that. The teacher in Indian Prairie School District that came out, as you know. Now he's a woman, says he's a woman. Well, he happens to be a librarian, but what if he was a gym teacher? So now he's going to be a gym teacher in the girls' class or is he going to be a gym teacher in the boys' class? Either one of them seems to be a problem to me.
Speaker 1:It has to come down to truth, you know, is he a man or is he a woman? And you and I spoke about this before. This is not a laughing matter. When you take young kids that are being formed grade school kids, middle school kids and then now tell them that a woman can be a man and a man can be a woman. When a man is dressing up like a woman, we all know he's a man and now the school tells you that you have to call this person miss or whatever, it gets the gown to abuse of truth. Again Back to my philosophical statement that it's an abuse of the language. And when you distort language, when you call something something that's not true and you can distort it, then the language becomes meaningless. And that's what you hear all the time from all this. You know these are individual human beings. Obviously some kind of a mental disorder with this person right.
Speaker 1:You know I feel sorry for them. I mean, at the end of the day I'm not trying to pick on that person. This never comes down to a personal issue with me, because I know so many of these people have been sexually abused, hurt themselves, confused themselves. Somebody hurt those people and now they're trying to figure out their life. But still, as a society, as a culture, as rule of law, we have to be based on the truth. I mean, you know, some clear minds have to come together and say no, we can't perpetuate and push these lies down on kids and families and take away my kids because I won't allow them to be chemically castrated. You know what I mean. So at some point the rule of law has to be based on truth and objective truth and morality, the best we can as human beings.
Speaker 2:Well, I completely agree with you, and the thing is that the election of Donald Trump and the Trump administration is not going to change most of that. Most of that is this has become so deeply ingrained, the lies have become so entrenched in our culture that we have a justice of the supreme court that refuses to define what a woman is and she's a woman. So we have a woman that refused to define what she is is it's, and you wonder that.
Speaker 1:So that's what I'm saying. At the end of the day, you get enough of those people right as judges, and you better be prepared to stand up.
Speaker 2:Well, we have a lot of them in there as judges now. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, here's how darkened we can get. So an abortion-inspired would-be Kavanaugh assassin. So we heard about this already, but it's going to be coming up in the court system soon would-be Brent Kavanaugh, who is on the Supreme Court that we're talking about the Supreme Court now assassin. So a guy tried to take his life. Nicholas Roski recently told law enforcement that the 2022 leak of a draft opinion in the case that overturned Roe v Wade inspired him to make an attempt on the justice's life. Roe v Wade inspired him to make an attempt on the justice's life. So two points I want to make here. First of all, that Roe v Wade was overturned and hopefully what we're talking to here with Title VII will be overturned too. But now Nicholas Roski, because of this, said this this is how darkened we can get, tom. This is again when we don't give ourselves over to truth.
Speaker 1:My plan, said Nicholas Roski, the potential assassin, was to kill Mr Kavanaugh and then to kill myself, he disturbingly told police, according to an interview transcript. When I saw that leaked draft, it made me upset and then it wanted me to. I don't know. I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him and then myself. The leaked opinion indicated that the court intended to overturn Roe, making abortion a state issue rather than a federal one. Roski's murderous response shows that the activist left has abandoned belief that abortion should be merely safe, legal and rare. They now celebrate and promote it. This is what happens, tom. It's amazing what happens, but if we don't stand up, if nobody stands up for the innocent, for the most vulnerable, who will right? And now I'm going to get judged. This life is very short, tom.
Speaker 2:I'm much more worried about eternity, because that's going to last a lot longer than this one well, and that that's something that, if you fight the these issues in the court, we're never going to overturn the, the problems of of truth, because truth starts in our culture.
Speaker 1:Truth starts with you and me.
Speaker 2:The court can't impose that on the rest of the culture. The Bostock decision they weren't making the decision based on what's true. They were making the decision based on what the law said.
Speaker 1:Why don't you talk about that for people that don't know what the Bostock?
Speaker 2:Well, that was the Bostock versus Clayton County, the title seven, where they they ruled that you can't discriminate on on the basis what the title seven says you can't discriminate based on national origin, sex, race, religion and something else. I can't remember what it is.
Speaker 1:So to your point, though it's the culture that changes everything, because we're all products of the culture. These judges are products of the culture too and they can be intimidated. I'm surprised they overturned Roe v Wade, because I think that took a tremendous amount of courage, don't you think? Oh yeah, it did. I mean, one of them almost got assassinated. Actually, a couple of them almost got assassinated.
Speaker 2:Well, the interesting thing about that, as I mentioned earlier, that there are 1,450 people arrested for the stupid demonstration at the Capitol. They still haven't arrested anybody for leaking that decision, right?
Speaker 1:No, there's not that many people that could have leaked it, no, and again, I think we have to stop trying to rationalize or even think through this. My wife will ask me that a lot. Well, what about this, Jack? What about that? And at the end there is no reason, Tom. No, this is a spiritual battle.
Speaker 1:Here's Paul. I love Paul in Romans 1, right, the power of the gospel, he says. I'm not ashamed of the gospel. It's the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek, For in his righteousness God is revealed through faith. As it is written, he through faith is righteous, shall live Now, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who, by their wickedness, suppress the truth. For what is known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them Ever since the creation of the world. His invisible nature, namely his eternal power and deity, have been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a woman, I'm a woman. You know all these things right. Namely, his eternal power and deity have been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a woman, I'm a woman. You know all these things right. You can see them in nature. He said so.
Speaker 1:They are without excuse, for although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him. But they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened, Claiming listen to Listen to everything that we were just saying here to impurity, dishonoring their bodies even among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped the creature rather than the creator. Let me just read one more part of this. For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for the unnatural. The men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men, receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And it goes on and on and on. And you know it doesn't only pick on sexual things. It talks about slanders, murders, deceit, gossips, haters, drunkards. I mean you know all these things are just pick, pick your poison, my friend.
Speaker 2:You know well, you know, I've seen this and I've seen this from the time I was a little kid. When I was a little kid, yes, there was we would, we would disappear. I'd be eight years old and we would disappear during the day. We wouldn't come back, we wouldn't have to be back home until the street lights came on and nobody was afraid, nobody was worried about that different time if a parent allowed that today, they'd be arrested for child abuse or child neglect or something.
Speaker 2:Children respected adults. That that doesn't happen anymore. I can't tell you how many kids have said f? You to me about one thing or another. You know, just just so disrespectful. You can't tell you how many kids have said F? You to me about one thing or another. You know, just so disrespectful.
Speaker 1:You've got to arrest those kids, Tom Put them in jail for one night.
Speaker 2:The parents ought to be arrested. Well they are.
Speaker 1:And here's the danger again and this gets back to our point If the average person doesn't rise up and bring the goodness and love and truth into the culture right, yeah, into the way we raise our kids, and then into the culture to make beautiful art and music and even the, the jobs that we do right, to bring the truth into it, then this won't change to your point. This is why this is so pivotal. Right now, 2025, we have a chance in this country to stand up for what's true, good and beautiful and do the right thing. But if we don't to your point, tom if we don't do it and don't take that seriously, it'll all come down. And it's on us, it's not on Trump, it's not on Musk, it's not on Biden, it's not on Pelosi. We know who's crooked and who's not crooked. It's very, very clear right now. But I can be crooked too If I voted for Joe Biden or I listened to Pope Francis about who I should vote for. Right, that's on me. That's on me.
Speaker 1:See, we have to discern even our faith, that those Jesus was very, very clear on that. He went after the Sadducees and the Pharisees. You know, he was on them all the time the religious leaders of his day right, and I think that we just have to be open to each other and if somebody stands for the truth, we have to be there together. We have to work together on this thing. We're seeing people come into the faith you know, christians, catholics and become stronger in the faith over this time. At the same time, of course, we're seeing people to your point that are going the other way, but we're dividing ourselves and hopefully there's more people standing up for the truth in this country and hopefully it catches fire around the world you know, Otherwise we're going to destroy ourselves here.
Speaker 2:You know, Donald Trump and his administration can do nothing about the predator teachers that we've got in our schools Nothing. And we've known for decades that 10% of them are, or 10% of the kids in our schools are, victims of educator sexual misconduct sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade. We've done nothing about it. We've known about it for all these years. We've done nothing about it. That's because we've turned over our school boards to people who don't care about those things. They claim to care about them, but if they did, they would do something about them, and they're not. They claim to care about them, but if they did, they would do something about imposing a values that are that, that highlight the truth, that don't, that don't succumb to these false ideologies that everybody is seems to be embracing these days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so so you're making a great point because we can look at all this national election and we should, and we should pay attention, but to your point it's local, local, local.
Speaker 1:Local is what changes the culture. It certainly changes the individual human heart. It's going to change my family. It's going to change my relationship with my neighbors. It's going to change so I can affect locally. We flipped in my area, we flipped the local school boards. And because it doesn't? You made an earlier point which I think is important for people to know Most of these things are midterm elections. They don't all happen in November, right. They'll happen right around Easter time because they know people are going on spring break. They'll stick the school board elections in there because they know that the teachers' unions will give them money and support and get the vote out. All it takes, tom, is a couple thousand votes in a community. We can change the school boards and we've done it. We've shown that we can do that. Just go knock on a few doors with a couple hundred people and we do it all the time. And it's important and just speaking the truth, telling them who's on what side of your kids.
Speaker 2:We have to get the churches involved too. I just ordered this book, pre-ordered, a book called. I don't know if it's going to be any good, but it's the Stockholm Syndrome Christianity. It says what if American culture isn't collapsing because of crusading secularists? What if it's failing because leading Christians identify more with secular elites than their fellow believers? Those are the provocative questions posed by the Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, which exposes how influential Christian leaders are siding with their anti-Christian cultural captors on everything from biblical authority and science to sex, race and religious liberty. And that's what's happening. The church is not standing up for the Christian, for the biblical worldview. They're going along with what our culture is. Multiple denominations, multiple Christian denominations have fallen to the gender ideology, and this is a travesty.
Speaker 1:Christian denominations have fallen to the gender ideology no that's not true, and this is a travesty.
Speaker 1:But this gets back to the what can we do, tom? Yeah, bishop Fulton Sheen again I get back to him. He said it's up to the laity, it's up to the laity to make sure your pastors act like pastors, your bishops act like bishops, your priests act like priests, your religious act like religious. And he said it's up to you Stand up and speak the truth. And he was speaking about this in the 40s and 50s and 60s. You know, and so you know we have to be able to what we're talking about right now, Tom. We have to not be afraid to expose this. You know, as a Catholic, I'm very respectful of bishops, of the Pope, and yet I've spoken about the Pope here because I have to, because I'm not saying anything that's not public, I'm not making up anything, not a conspiracy theorist. He was very public on coming down on Trump and supporting all of these globalist initiatives, and I think people have to be aware of that.
Speaker 2:Well, even Islam. He said nice things about Islam, which is just incredible to me, because Islam has. Their principles are to destroy every other religion. Everybody is to submit to Islam or they die.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we talked about the rape earlier in Britain. This has happened. Sweden now has the second highest rape as a percentage of people in the world. And you go. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2:That's because they're raping people who aren't Islam. They are not. That was my point, and so that's perfectly okay, no, it's not a crime. There's nothing wrong with it, and so that's perfectly okay. That's not a crime against them. No, it's not a crime. There's nothing wrong with it. No, and so when?
Speaker 1:people say there's no difference between Christianity and some of these other faiths.
Speaker 2:You better dig in a little deeper.
Speaker 2:Yes, Because I don't know, even in these, broken pastors aren't telling us to rape little children, non-christian right, I mean, they might be doing it, though some of these guys. You know as sad as that is, isn't it, tom? You know, this is just. It just is so upsetting to me that this stuff is going on and that there is an ignorance, a general ignorance in the culture about these things that they, they I don't know if it's, they don't care about it, but but certainly they don't know about it, tom.
Speaker 1:I just read two small passages right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They both clearly define what is the truth. We're trying to get to the truth. They defined all these sexual issues that these pastors are caving to. I mean, you know, I always laugh when my Protestant brothers and sisters say sola scripta, you know, or faith alone or the Bible alone, and then they don't read the Bible. Right oh yeah, and I'm not down on them because I just down Catholics the whole time. Right, these fake mock Catholics.
Speaker 2:It's not about that the Catholics aren't free of this either, because Barna did a study and said that even among people who attend church regularly, only 17% of them hold a biblical worldview.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, tom, I sit in the pew and I get into conversations about hey, we got to make sure we get out the vote before this last election here. And they said Kamala, all the way. And I said what are you talking about? Kamala, all the way, these are people that go to again to a Catholic church who are going to vote pro-board. And when I pointed that out to them those are things, they'll figure those things out I said they already figured those things out.
Speaker 1:Are you kidding me? But anyways, the point is, tom, we have to pray for enlightenment. You have to be reading scripture every day, you have to be praying every day and you have to decide that this problem is my problem, right, at least in my little tiny world. I can't solve the world's problems. You were never asked to do that. Just pick up your cross, follow me and do the best thing you can. The last thing, tom, on our way out here. I mean, did you see Joe Biden awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to Hillary Clinton? I think he added George Soros to that list.
Speaker 1:And who else?
Speaker 2:Well, bono. Bono's an Irishman. It was Bill Nye, the science guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bill Nye, who denies science? Right, you can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 2:He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and he claims to be an expert in climate science. Well, what does he know about it? And transgender stuff, tom Right. He's now an expert in trans and also COVID.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's an expert in everything you know. Make a few dollars these guys. Look at all I can say Tom, he's no spring chicken either.
Speaker 2:He gave the award to a what Messi, or whatever his name. Is that soccer player? That's not even an American Been here for a year.
Speaker 1:If you don't see Satan mocking us right in front of our faces and you know what we should laugh.
Speaker 2:We should laugh at him. Well, George Soros is the prince of darkness. He's destroying the country.
Speaker 1:No doubt and this is what I'm saying he's not hiding. You know, I'm the most pro-board president. I'm for trans-affirming care, which is putting little kids on puberty blockers. I don't do anything against any of the evil that I see around me, but I'm going to go after people because they decide that they don't want pornography in school, so I'm going to go after parents. I'm going to send the FBI after parents that attend school board meetings. Remember the guy they arrested because his daughter was literally raped by a transgender young guy in the school.
Speaker 2:Yes, four sheriff's deputies dragged him to the ground was literally raped by a transgender young guy in the school. Yes, they arrested him. Four sheriff's deputies dragged him to the ground.
Speaker 1:It's on video, Just go look it up. Yeah, you know you can't make this stuff up, Tom Well here's the thing.
Speaker 2:This is the thing. This is our closing statement. By the way, the basic issue for Christians is if you have people that deny maleness and femaleness, you cannot possibly vote for them. The very first chapter of the Bible says God created them male and female. How can you vote for someone that denies that reality?
Speaker 1:No, maybe you could send a note to the Supreme Court on that one, and they could take a look at.
Speaker 2:Title VII again, will you? You know, it's not that they're looking at just the letter of the law. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I get all that. Let's just use our common sense and call a spade a spade and a penis a penis, and we're okay Then we're okay right. Can we just speak the truth and quit abusing the language?
Speaker 2:Tom, good to see you brother, Good to see you.
Speaker 1:Hey, thanks everyone. Thanks for joining us. Talk to you again soon. Bye-bye.