10-20-25 - 6am - No Kings

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning rally and Dragon, Yes, the No King's Day protest work.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
We don't have a king, just President Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Ah right, dang, it's actually even better than that. It's
just a bunch of silliness. And as Trump said, was
Trump that said it was a nothing burger.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I think he was right.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
The rallies lasted for maybe about ninety minutes before everybody
just kind of left it once. It's like we showed
up on time, which was amazing for them, and then
they just left, and a.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Lot of observers were kind of.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Left breathless with the speed with which the crowd seemed
to vanish. Over on X I'm reading from one account
all the No King's protesters in Times Square, New York
seemed to have vanished at the exact same moment. The

(01:01):
eerie timing has people asking if the whole thing was
staged instead of spontaneous. Some are calling it astroturfing, a
fake protests made to look real. Whatever it was, the
exit was suspiciously well hursed.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Again over on X.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
That you know talking about it being staged instead of spontaneous, Well, yes,
if you listen to the program on Saturday, I went
through these two people Ezra.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I forget the names now, it doesn't make any difference.
But these two.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
People who are two former congressional staffers who are working
with a group called Indivisible, which just happens to get
some of its funding from some of the George Soros
Open Society foundations. So of course it was staged. Absolutely,
it was stage. All of these Soros in GEO funded

(02:05):
protests are completely stage. And the thing is those in
Geo's only pay the old white hippies. I you know,
if I just had shoulder lengked hair and some crocs
or some sandals and and maybe just a bathrobe or something,
I could have shown up too, kind of like Steve
Martin and the jerk just kind of show up and

(02:27):
just walk around for a while. And maybe that's why
they couldn't last too long, because it's just a bunch
of old hippies that, eh, let's go watch some reruns
of you know, All in the Family or something. So
once the two hours are up, it's time for those
subteragenarian and occagenearian you know, latter day dead heads to

(02:47):
kind of wander back home for their midday tapioca pudding
or something. It's just as predictable as clockwork, all of
which brings me, let's go back in time for a minute,
and then I want to well, I'm going to go
back in time for a couple of things. On the
Friday episode of The Five, Greg Gutfield Greg Greg Gutfield

(03:10):
is talking about their protests and.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Says mass hysteria around Trump.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
They have to preserve.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
It because it's all they've invested into. It says something
that no kings is happening while Trump is brokering peace.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Around the world. He's done like I don't know, seven
eight piece deals. It shows that that doesn't matter. It's
you know, it's a full blown emotional.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Vendetta has taken over their lives, doesn't matter what he does.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
So how is this possible? How can you have.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Good things happening around the world and people participating in
mass hysteria because it's easy and it's fun. Anger requires
no thought, no labor, no risk. Remember how Biden played
the rage card whenever he never did anything else.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Remember the rioting and looting after George Floyd.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
It was a replacement for thoughtful and the media decided
to redefine it as a struggle that whenever you know,
anybody did something violent, it had something to do with
some kind of struggle. Having the no Kings event after Trump,
you know, figures out Middle East piece.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
It's like holding a wedding.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
After the couple broke off the engagement the night before.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
We're still going to go through with the ceremony.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Anyway, we paid for the food, we already made the flyers.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
But the media indulges.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
This idea that passion equals effort, and they reward people
for their feelings and not and.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Not what they're actually doing.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
So it's a I thought that one line, it's kind
of a throwaway line, but I think it's actually pretty
brilliant because that sums up the left in just about everything, policy, substance.
Everything that the left does is all about everybody's feelings.
Just you know, as long as it makes us feel good,

(04:58):
does it really make any difference whether we comp anything
or not. Now translate that over into policy. I don't
know why, but on the way in they were they
were talking to Sean Duffy about the Transportation Secretary, and
they were talking to him about the air traffic controllers
and how this you know, when whatever payday was last

(05:19):
week sometime when when they got their checks, that was
the last full check that they will get. Most of
them worked fifty five sixty hours a week because we're
so short of air traffic controllers. And the Democrats apparently
over the weekend while the government was shut down, at

(05:42):
the DNC headquarters in DC Southeast had a rooftop party. Now,
I don't care if you party or not, but if
you're the ones who are indeed responsible for the shutdown
and air traffic controllers not getting paid, and if right
now military members aren't getting paid because Democrats even killed that,

(06:04):
and yet you don't have any sense of appearances, You
don't have any sense of you know, while while people
are trying to make sure that planes don't just you know,
fly into each other or taxi into each other, let's
go have some you know, wine, beer and some really

(06:25):
nice bourbon and tequila. Has some really nice ordures and
all mill around on the top on the rooftop plaza
of the Democrat National Committee headquarters in DC. That shows
that you are not about substance whatsoever. It's all about feelings,
just feeling good, you know, just going through the motions.

(06:46):
And then Duffy said something, I forget what it was.
But Duffy said something about the you know, we were
trying to spend money to go back to.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
The moon and do this.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
And then that led you know, this is how my
brain works in the morning. That led me to think,
wait a minute. You know, I paid bills over the weekend,
including you know, because I just paid bills, you know,
twice a month, just comes in. I just pay stuff.
And I paid my credit cards off like I do

(07:21):
every two weeks. I just pay whatever the balances and
the credit cards. And of course I had, you know,
pretty high credit card bills, because taking the seventeen year
old teenage girl to New York City is it can
be very expensive. But what if I hadn't paid those off?
What instead, like the federal government, I just kept letting

(07:42):
the credit card bills pile up and pile up and
pile up. Well, I paid my mind off. But what
do I have to show for it? I have? I
have some really good memories with my granddaughter. I have tangent,
she has a she has a new purse, she has

(08:04):
a lot of photographs.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
We have.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Uh let's see, Oh, I bought a jacket. I wore
the jacket today I've got a jacket that I that
I bought while I was there. I have some actual
tangible things to show for it, in addition to the
intangible thing of a trip that my granddaughter hopefully will remember.
So when I, you know, eventually turned into an old
fart and I'm you know, packed away in a nursing

(08:29):
home somewhere, she'll she'll come and see me and she'll
remember those good times. What do we have to show
for the government credit card? What do we have to
show for that? Well, we don't have anything to show
for it. Now, you might argue, you know, Sean Duffy

(08:51):
was talking about going back to the moon. Well back then,
we you know, back back in the sixties, and when
we finally made it to the moon in nineteen sixty. No,
I guess we have that to show for it. If
we were incurring much and I didn't. I haven't gone
to look to see what the national debt was at
that time, but it was minuscule compared to what it

(09:13):
is today.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
When we went into.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
National into a huge national debt, where the debt was,
you know, one hundred percent of GDP or worse during
World War Two?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
What do we have to show for that. Well, we had.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Stopped the march of Nazism, we had stopped the march
of the Japanese Imperial Army. We had we had, you know,
kept the country, the world from falling into you know,
another period of dark ages. We actually had some things
to show for it. Today, I'm not sure what we
have to show for it. I want you to think

(09:47):
about it. Can you can you look around? We got
we got crappy streets, we got crappy highways. We've got
apparently failing infrastructure. The the interwebs were down, apparently overnight.
I wasn't aware that I was. I'm asleep, but apparently
if you look over at Drudge, Drudge tells us this
morning that there was an internet mailtdown, Amazon Cloud, Hits, airlines,
major sites, and you heard that, you know, Wall Street

(10:11):
Journal and banking sites and everything else. We're down for
a while. We have crappy infrastructure, so we don't really
have anything tangible to point to and say, oh, look
we have you know, something really nice over here that
we paid for. Maybe we ought to pay the credit
card bill. We don't have any of that. So go
back to Gutfeld for a second. What he's really describing

(10:33):
is Democrat policies. As long as it feels good, we're
for it. And if that means we go into debt
to feel good. It's like there's stupid party on the rooftop. Now,
I'm sure they paid for it. I don't know what
the current finances are of the DNC of it't looked,
don't care. But if the DNC is struggling to raise

(10:56):
money and they're having a rooftop party, you're a donor
draw a parallel to a taxpayer. If you're a donor
to the DNC and they're partying while the government's shut
down and air traffic control is going to start slowing
down even further and further and further because it's a

(11:17):
demanding job physically and mentally. And if you're not getting
paid for it, and now you're still working fifty five
sixty five hours a week, and now you're going to
try to do something else to try to put some
you know, food on the table, to try to pay
for some bills, then you know, or you have the
stress of going out and getting a bank loan to

(11:38):
cover it, you're not going to work fifty five hours
a week, and so they'll be there'll be a shortage
of air traffic controllers, and when that happens, flights will
be delayed, flights will get canceled. That's not a feeld
good policy. That's nothing can be happy about anymore than

(11:59):
parting on the rooftop of the DNC. Really, you're doing
that while people are going unpaid. I mean, and I'm
not talking about the bureaucrats. I'm telling the people who
really do stuff, who actually produce a product, or actually
provide a service that is necessary to the security and
the well being of this country, like the US military
or air traffic controllers.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
It's a perfect example again of an imaginary solution for
an imaginary problem. The trans bathrooms, the climate models, white
supremacy in the military, these were all imaginary problems that
then called for imaginary solution. The problem is the trans solution,
and a lot of these protest solutions they're not harmless,

(12:42):
like you could have surgical or psychological division in any
of those if it's just some mindless little thing where
you're just standing out in front of fox yelling like.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Those little old ladies do.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
By the way, I think, no, you can't spell no
kings without no kin. A lot of these people just
don't have family.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Maybe true, that's just spot on. It's an imaginary solution
for an imaginary problem, exactly. So Donald Trump likes to
say that he's really a king, he'd actually get a
lot more stuff done.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
But he's not a king.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
He's just our president who fully understands the scope of
the powers of the office of the presidency, what the
Constitution provides and allows him to do, and he's willing
finally to use those to our country's advantage. And then
the point about they just don't have family probably probably,
you know, probably true. But it's more than that. Most

(13:37):
of them don't have any real religion. So they've spent
their entire adult lives just making up false religions to
cling to in order to give their otherwise kind of
pitifil existence some sort of meaning. So many of these
people haven't had any real meaning in their lives since

(13:59):
the Vietnam War in back in nineteen seventy four, nineteen
seventy five, that's half a century ago. Now, it's a
long time to exist as a human being without some
meaningful belief system. So what they've done in the meantime
is they've made up false religious exercises like climate change
or DEI or COVID shots George Floyd, and as he

(14:22):
points as gut fail points out, the transgender madness, all.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Of which, every single one of which.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Has inflicted incalculable damage on society, and all of which
the voters soundly rejected last November and put Trump back
into the presidency, leaving them insane, insane with rage, and
probably depressed somewhat. So back to George Soros and Indivisible

(14:52):
and all those groups, all the NGOs that provided all
the funding in the organizational effort to get those protests
to occur this past weekend, Those NGOs and sorrows have
given them a new religion, a new outlive for their rage,
a new source to lend some shred of meaning in

(15:14):
their sad, tawdry lives. Pretending that Trump is a king
gives them motivation, if only for a few hours on
a beautiful Sunday, beautiful Saturday afternoon, when people who have
real lives were involved in more productive pursuits. Besides that

(15:35):
four hundred dollars they got from Sorrows. That buys a
lot of pudding, though not nearly as much as it
bought before Joe's Auto pen took over the White House.
Then I looked at what was going on around in Colorado.
In Colorado, the Colorado Sun had a story about the protest.
Of course, the Colorado soun's all excited about it, and

(15:58):
they had this in the story. They reported that hundreds,
including friends of mine that I saw on some of
the photographs with can goods. So they brought can goods.
And guess what else they brought? They brought ballots. Why
would you bring a ballot to a no king rally

(16:21):
if you're opposing a king? I kind of assume the
kings exists, and kings aren't really well known historically for
holding elections unless the election is should we cut their
heads off?

Speaker 7 (16:36):
Or not?

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Off with their heads or not? All in favor, say
a all opposed stand up, we'll take you. We'll take
your heads off too. So they showed up with ballots,
absolute ballots. Then we have the inevitable street interviews, the

(16:59):
man miss street interviews.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
I am the Unity of uniform. Got my head out
of my costume because I can't breathe right now. But
where you're doing a peaceful protest trying to get our
democracy back, trying to get the current White House impeached
and all removed for crimes against the United States and
against our constitution.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Everybody, wait a minute, So she wants to use the constitution,
which establishes a constitutional republic, to impeach the people in
the White House, which is using the constitutional provisions, which

(17:43):
is certainly anything other than establishing a king because of
crimes against the country.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Then there are those man on street interview bits went.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Asked about you, We would ask what you're doing here?
The answers pretty fascinating. Still's coming up next?

Speaker 9 (18:06):
No love, Hey Michael, it's hard when you don't get
paid past a certain amount of time. I mean, these
protesters only got pay for ninety minutes. They aren't going
to give ninety one minutes. Good God, there's nobody to
cover their overtime. Oh and by the way, I think

(18:27):
Trump wouldn't tax it anyway.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
But that's another story.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
That she breathlessly leaves a talk about while she's on
the treadmill, or she's just running late to work, and
you know, Caldera is going to beat her to death
if she's a minute late to work. So it's it's
one or the other.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I don't. I don't know which it is, So back.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
To the No King because I I know it's over
and done with, but I want you realize one how
stupid it is and how it fits in with the
idea that well, this is their new religion because it
is about feelings. It's about I need some meaning in
my life. So where do I get it?

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Now?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know, it's it's pretty easy to do to go
out and do the man on the street interviews. Why
are you here?

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Oh? Yes, you turned the.

Speaker 10 (19:20):
Microphone Onmonstrators packed a quarter mile of sidewalk for the
No King's rally against President Trump.

Speaker 11 (19:26):
Randy B.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Hagey with members Station wmr A has more.

Speaker 9 (19:33):
Thought.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
The New Kings gathering was part of a seven month
streak of weekly protests against the Trump administration. Here's one
of the organizers, doctor Mark Pierce.

Speaker 10 (19:41):
The reason we are out here is to give a
message that we are not his subjects.

Speaker 7 (19:46):
Local resident Joan Griffin has been consistently protesting here.

Speaker 10 (19:50):
The fact that they are grabbing people who are even
American citizens off the street may be cutting off a
funding to universities and the like for research, and then
I'm very disturbed by what is the parent destruction of
the federal government.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
More than seventy percent of voters in the county cast
their ballot for President Donald Trump last year. For NPR News,
I'm Randy be Hagey in Woodstock, Virginia.

Speaker 11 (20:15):
And that's part of some twenty five hundred marches around
the country today.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
So let's see, we're gonna hold universities accountable for the
money that we give to them, make sure that they're not,
you know, providing that money to people here on a
foreign student visa. Who are you know, protesting and supporting
a a designated terrorist organization and they're they're destroying the

(20:41):
federal government. Some of the federal government could deserve to
be destroyed. It could be downsized quite a bit, which
is some of the terminal wood going through.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Or how about a unicorn.

Speaker 8 (20:53):
I am the unit of Unicorn. Got my head out
of my costume because I can't breathe right now.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
But we're here to do a peaceful.

Speaker 8 (21:00):
Protest trying to get our democracy back. We're trying to get.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
The current now that you know, we're trying to get
our democracy back. I'm so tired of democracy. Democracy is
mob rule. We don't have mob rule. And I know
this is a bugaboo of mine, but we are a
constitutional republic. We are not a democracy, and I don't

(21:27):
want a democracy back. I want us to stay a
constitutional republic. But she doesn't know, she's she's been educated
in government school. She doesn't know the difference, and it
becomes the buzz route buzzword. Well, she doesn't really realize
is that a democracy inevitably leans leads to a king,

(21:48):
a dictator, a tyrant, somebody, because mob rule inevitably causes
people to demand I need some order in my life.
I need some I need some safety. I need somebody
to protect me from all the crazies out there who
were just in the mob deciding everything's going to be decided.

Speaker 8 (22:06):
No White House impeached and all removed for crimes against
the United.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
States and against our constitution.

Speaker 8 (22:15):
Everybody here is being peaceful.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
So everybody here is being peaceful.

Speaker 8 (22:22):
I just want it out there for anybody that's out here.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
We do have free water and a cooler.

Speaker 8 (22:29):
I brought some water for everybody in case they get
thirsty New York. If somehow pepper spray happens to hit them,
we have a way to watch it.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Out, so.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, if you're just walking down the street and
you know, because Ice has just been known to just
kind of drive down the street and you know, take
water guns that are full of pepper spray and just
you know, shoot people at pepper spray.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Anyway, this is my little, uh catch up for today.
So hopefully I'll be doing more of these protests, or
hopefully we won't have to.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Hi, I see you, writer, butte okay, thanks, which she
thinks she really wants.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
More.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Hopefully we'll be out here doing more protests or hopefully
we won't need to. Well, of course she wants to
do more protests because that gets back to the meaning
in their life. But why are they protesting? I wish
I could show you the visual of this kid. I didn't.
I didn't save the ex account that it came from.

(23:33):
But he looks like he's maybe in his early twenties,
bushy blonde, you know, kind of front fazzled hair, and
just has that kind of glazed look in his eyes
as if I'm well, well.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
Just listen, trumps a bitch?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, why is that?

Speaker 11 (23:52):
I don't know, He's just we don't like him, that's
the word around here.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Any any particular reason why you don't like him.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
No clue at all.

Speaker 6 (23:58):
I'm just going with everybody else saying.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
I'm just going along with everybody else, saying I really
don't know why I'm here and I'm picking up they're
giving me some cash, and I don't know. They just
tell me that Trump's a bad man. I'm surprised if
that interview went any further. If do you know who
Donald Trump is?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
I don't know who he is. I don't know, I
don't know what he is.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
I firmly believe that this is their Trump arrangements syndrome
is part of their religion. The protests opposing Trump, cries
for democracy, transgenderism, all of the things that you know,

(24:48):
free Palestine, all of this stuff. I think it's become
their religion, and it's become the religion because well, we
have all of these things that have supplanted religion.

Speaker 11 (25:03):
University of Notre Dame sociology professor Christian Smith has spent
his career studying religion in the US. He has a
new book titled Why Religion Went Obsolete The Demise of
Traditional Faith in America. Smith says that word obsolete doesn't
necessarily mean religion is useless or lost. It's more about
how religion is viewed across generations.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
By obsolete, I mean to focus more on a cultural realm,
the cultural status of religion, not just you know, how
many people go to church or pray, but sort of
traditional religion's role in the larger culture.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
And so the idea is just what we mean by obsolete.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
You know, traditional religion has just for most people been
replaced or supplanted by other things that have come along.
The image I use in the book is what PCs
and laptops did to electric typewriters. People can still do
use obsolete things. I have college students that use lector typewriters,

(26:03):
and I have CDs. But it's not that it's extinct,
and it's not that the obsolete thing is worse than
what we're placed it.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
A lot of times the obsolete thing.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
Is better, but just it's not as much you've referred
to or practiced or easy to pull off than the
thing that people are most into at any given time.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I think that the lack of the lack of actively
engaged in religion. I think the idea that what we're
going to do is we're going to have government take care.
Remember my argument about we expect the government to be
the compassionate person for us, so that we don't have

(26:44):
to deal with those poor people, We don't have to
deal with hungry kids, we don't have to deal with
all of that because that gives us the responsibility. All
we do is just fill out our tax returns every year,
and you know, everybody hopes they get a big refund back,
and they don't really think about the money that goes
to the federal government, which is not enough to pay

(27:04):
for everything. But the federal government's going to pay for
you know, starving kids and kids that can't afford it,
you know, or you know baby mamas that got twelve kids.
They're going to pay for all of that. And so
I don't have to worry with that. Government has become
the substitute for religion.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
So let's get to the crux of the matter.

Speaker 11 (27:21):
Why are people turning away from traditional religion?

Speaker 2 (27:24):
What did you find?

Speaker 6 (27:25):
Yeah, so my argument is that the causes of this
are not recent, that they're complex. There are many I
use the image of a converging of perfect storms. There's
a lot of technological factors, economic factors, and so you know,
religion has a smaller pool of a market, so to speak,
to draw people from the.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Government's taken over the market. The government and technology have
taken over the market. I find myself doing it sometimes
I freely admit it. I'll start doom scrolling Instagram, Facebook, Book,
Twitter simply because well, TV's boring. There are some things
on my desk I want to go do that I
don't really want to go do, so I'm procrastinating and

(28:09):
so oh, this is just a mindless thing to do,
which really has no redeeming benefit whatsoever, other unless I'm
doing it, of course for show prep, so I can
bring things like this to you.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
It's not a matter, for the most part, sort of
an atheist or scientific rationalist rejection of religion. It's just
a sort of a doesn't fit, doesn't work, I don't
need it.

Speaker 11 (28:32):
Well, you say that nineteen ninety one was a crucial
turning point. Why is that you're so crucial for starters?

Speaker 6 (28:38):
That was the year when the number of Americans in
national surveys who said they were not religious started to rise.
Prior to then, every survey about six or seven percent
of Americans said they were not religious. Nineteen ninety one
was the first uptick, and it's been growing ever since
for three decades. The end of the Cold War happened
in nineteen ninety one, and that was really consequential for

(28:59):
America's self image in the world, It's mission and place
in the world. We used to be during the Cold War,
even if people weren't religious, as a nation, we conceived
of ourselves as the God fearing, a religious liberty nation
fighting against the atheist commonness. And after the end of
the Cold War, it wasn't clear like that evaporated, and
it wasn't clear who we were, what our place in

(29:21):
the world was. And economy was changing, and so the
American dream was starting to become less and less available.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
And Trump's here, now think about that, let's just take
them a face value.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Ninety one.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
They start to lose interest in religion and the role
of the United States becomes kind of muffled, not really
sure what we're supposed to be doing. Trump comes along
and he re established mem Trump was going to destroy
our standing in the world. What Trump was doing is
re establishing our standing in the world. And those who

(29:55):
have been subject to the opiate of government as religion
a now just succumbing to it.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
We actually do have a new King's Day. It's on
July fourth, and it's called Independence Day. Funny how if
Trump was truly a king, you wouldn't be protesting. Also,
if he was a king, then he could keep the
government open, right, No one could make him close the government.

(30:28):
These people are idiots.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
They're idiots, and this is their religion.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
There was a growing sort of dissatisfaction with the standard
American way of life and declining trust in political leaders.
Lots of other cultural things happened. In nineteen ninety one,
James Hunter published this book Culture Wars, putting a name
on the polarization that's happened ever since.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Music changed.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
The era of nineteen eighties big hair bands was liquidated
by grunge and other movements. It's not that everything changed
in nineteen ninety one, but that that was a pivot
ear and over the next two decades, all all of
these profound changes in culture sort of worked their way
out the culture.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
The point being, the culture became the religion. The culture
became the forefront, it became the leader, the leading edge,
so that became the religion. And government was behind most
of those cultural changes. And so that is why you

(31:37):
have today people like that numb nut that goes out
And by the way, that was Jeff Hunted. I forgot
that had that on X yesterday about the kid, you
know Trump's abdual. I have no idea why I'm here.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
And you can find that at Michael says go here
dot com.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, because I want you to see the kid, because
that's that's who's out protest. So, no, King's Day is
coming gone. We're back to a normal day. And guess what.
We still face a lot of threats internationally that could
come crashing down on us at any moment. We have
a national debt that is out of control. We have

(32:15):
a government debt is absolutely dysfunctional. And maybe a king
would be fights right now, a king that would just
kind of slap everybody together and get things back in order.