Absurd Truth: Transgender TSA Lawsuit

A TSA worker in Virginia sues to allow transgender officers to perform pat-downs in airports. Meanwhile, Dana Loesch reacts a video released by U.S. bishops condemning the President Trump's “inhumane” deportation raids by ICE for border security.

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Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida man.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
This is one bad dad, like bad, like bad bad.
A Florida man used his six year old daughter as
a robbery lookout than ditch hert to hide from police.
Apparently it was. It started as a trip to the
Gainesville Ace Hardware Cane Wooo, but then it took a
wild turn when thirty five year old Joshua Robert Spirit
allegedly turned a father daughter riting into a full blown

(01:54):
crime scene. Authorities say that Spirit's latest stunt landed in
behind bars facing charges. In the details jaw dropping, Get
to the details, you stupid reporter. So apparently, around four
pm just the other day at Ace, this Joshua Robert
Spirit and his six year old were spotted in the
tool section. Dad started slipping merchandise quote into his person

(02:14):
and into his daughter's bag while she was reportedly watching
for people. When a security guard noticed that they were
passing all points of sale without paying for about two
hundred dollars worth of goods. He tried to stop them,
spirit refused to comply, made a run for it and
apparently lift his daughter behind. And then it got worse.
Apparently the daughter got in the car. Finally, the guard

(02:35):
stepped up behind it, snapped a picture of the license plate,
and then he backed up and trapped the guard with
his vehicle while trying to make his getaway. Police confronted
him at his home. He tried to make a run
for it, leaving once again his kid behind. He jumped
over in eight foot wall, tried to hide under a
park card in nearby Walmart. That didn't work, so we
ran inside the store. Officers weren't playing. They tasted him
and took him into custody. He is facing lots of charges. Surprise, Wow,

(03:01):
the Florida man has found a creative way to rescue
the frozen iguanas that follow the trees and hit people
in the heads. Because that's happens, I mean, you got
Apparently you have to be careful with that. All my
Florida friends are saying this. It stuns them, poor little things,
although they're weird, and uh, he catches the slow moving
iguanas this Florida dude with a net and uh he

(03:21):
warms them up, gets them. I guess what a heat
rock I don't know. He finds them and tries to
protect them because they're cold, stunned that I would not
want to be an iguana. No, okay.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
A lot of the Maga women receive gender affirming.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Care, such as Littiller's breast documentation, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Why do you think they are so against gender affirming
care for trans people?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
You want to say it?

Speaker 5 (03:49):
So I have this thing where, like, you know, a
Maga woman when you see one, they all have a look, right.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
But.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
They like they live to be able to anyway, that's
a whole other issue. But yeah, it's they don't even
know because when that was brought up on the house
floor because there was a discussion about this.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
So I just feel like, if you're Jasmine Crockett and
you're talking about another woman's appearance, that that's maybe something
you shouldn't do. So let's do that. Okay, welcome back
to the show, top of this third hour. So I'll
just say it I mean, you're standing there looking like
a double wide surprise next to a man that actually
makes you look larger than he does in the middle.
I don't even know how in the world you can
reconcile that with your invectives towards women who simply vote Republican.

(04:29):
I'm not even going to say anything about that weed
that looks like you robbed a horse's ass, and you
have this, you know, stallion's tail that's like drooping down
your back, or these shredded spider legs that you put
on your eyelashes. Let's just stop. Don't talk about other
women's appearances when you leave yourself wide open like that. Okay,
so now that's out of my system. Uh. I don't

(04:51):
think that that's gender affirming. I think that women just
don't want to look old, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Everybody do what they got to do. Everybody always has
an opinion. People die their hey, you know, they do
all kinds of stuff. They get tattoos, I mean, shut up,
good grief. But she doesn't need it, and she's standed
next to a drag queen, like a ninety foot tall
drag queen. I don't know, maybe that's why they can't

(05:14):
define what women are, because they don't even know what
they look like. No more just saying, all right, so
we did not get that out of system. Speaking of
people that you know standing next to you, would you
let that guy pat you down? Kane at the.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Queen we saw on scream just no, no.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Come over here. Let me see if you're snuggling any weapons. No,
you don't know. Okay. The reason I bring this up
is because there's a lawsuit challenging TSA's ban on transgender
officers conducting pat downs. Okay, the Virginia This is La
Times Virginia Transportations A security officers accusing the US Department

(05:51):
of Homeland Security of sexual sec sh u L sexual discrimination.
And it's a policy that bars officers from performing security
screening pat downs if they're transgender. And it enacted the

(06:13):
policy in February to comply with potus's EO about male
sex and the female effects and the internal documents explaining
the policy changes. The THEATA press got one and it
said that two former TSA workers, including one current. Two
former transgender officers will no longer engage in pat down duties,

(06:33):
which are conducted based on both the traveler and officers
biological sex transgender officers. See now this is I'm not
even going to read all of it. You get the idea.
This is when costplay goes beyond. You have no right
to force your self perception on someone else. If you're
a dude, I don't care if you think you're a woman.

(06:53):
Your costplay stops when it concerns you touching someone else.
And to say that, well, I am a man, but
I identify as a woman, so I want to touch all
the ladies at the TSA security. You don't get to
do that because now you're infringing up on their rights.
That's the whole point. This is why I'm like to accommodate.

(07:15):
This is madness because there is a downstream effect and
this is what we're looking at. So they're filing suit.
Our tax dollars are going to have to go fight this.
TSA used to assign work consistent with their gender identity,
and then they rescind to that to comply it. There
is no way in hell that I would let a

(07:36):
man pretending to be a woman pat me down. That's
sexual assault. It's sexual assault. I don't even like these
stupid Barbara security practices that our government came up with
anyway unwanted touching. I don't give a rats backside if
you're a TSA agent or not, I think all of
that stuff. If it is, I mean, you're forced into consent.

(07:56):
You don't get a choice. And so this was it
was a transgender officer at Dulls and the guy says
that he was not allowed to use the TSA facility
restrooms that align with his gender identity. I'm not saying
her because that's anti science, and he's Maddie says, solely
because he's transgender. TSA now prohibits the planet from conducting

(08:18):
core functions of his job, impeding his advancement to higher
level positions. That's your choice. You wanted to play pretend
at the workplace and pretend that you didn't have a
male copulatory organ This goes along with it. That is
your choice. That's the choice you made. You don't get
to you don't get to override other people's choices. You
don't get to force yourself on other individuals just because

(08:41):
you think that your decision to identify as a woman
is greater than the uncomfortability that a real woman would
face at having to be pat down by you, and
so now they're having a legal battle over this. You know.
The problem is is if we get a Democrat in
the White House after Trump, this is to be reversed
and we'll have dudes patting down women again. It's crazy.

(09:06):
The other one apparently was at Harry Reid International Airport
in Vegas, and the guy he's a this the guy
the other guy's at Dulles. This one, uh, is not
involved in the So it's like two separate cases. So
this case in Vegas is not involved in the Virginia case.

(09:27):
This guy or sorry, this chick wanted to be a
male and transitioned I don't know, and wanted to pat
down men. And then she said because she wants to
be a man. She said, it made me feel inadequate
at my job, not just because not because they can't
physically do it, because they put that on me. Now,
you put it on yourself. This isn't a real scientific thing.

(09:47):
It's a mental illness, and you put it on your
You're chose to bring this into the workplace. You don't
get to assert your reality over someone else's. You don't
get to make your perception someone else's reality. It's predatory.
That's a predatory thing. That's predatory behavior. Homeland Security pushback,

(10:09):
saying that it wasn't discriminatory, and Homeland Security spokesperson said,
does the AP want female travelers to be subjected to
pat downs by male officers? Hell no, absolutely not. And
here's the thing, transgender officers make up such a teeny
tiny percentage of TSA, this new policy is not going
to cause any delays. To the contrary, it does not,

(10:32):
at all, whatsoever inhibit the operation of airport security. And
that came from the security expert at the University of
Illinois Urbana Champagne, Professor Sheldon Jacobson. He literally helped design
pre check, so he's like, no, this doesn't affect it
at all. And I mean, if you're dedicated it to

(10:53):
your job, then don't make things that are outside of
your job a consequential, consequential issue within your job. Would
you want to be pat down by a woman who
wants to be a man?

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Came no, No, I don't think. I mean I hate
being padded down no matter what.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
I think that's why we go through the damn machine
so we don't have to be patted down there for
a while.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I wasn't even given the option of that. They were
pulling me out of the line, like all the time
I got Every time I went through Sky Harbor, I
got pulled out of the line. And then one time
they detained me for two hours because they said they
wanted I think it was because one of the agents
actually hated me and my husband excuse me. When we
were going through. It was like, I think you're gonna
have a problem. Remember that, Yeah, you remember it because
I almost missed my flight. They had already did last

(11:39):
call for us to board and we had to run.
I had to run without my shoes to make it.
That was at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and that happened
in twenty fourteen, and I had to race without my
shoes on just to get to my gate. They held
me for approximately two hours and twelve minutes and they

(12:01):
did a swap and they're like, oh, it came back
in conclusive for like explosive red. I'm like, you know
how many times this is such so stupid, the false
positives on this. They did two pat downs and then
they tried to take me to a private room and
I was like, you're going to do it right here.
I am not going into a private room so you
can infringe upon my freedoms and sexually assault me anymore.
You're going to do it right here. It was crazy.

(12:25):
And one of them actually suggested, why don't you like,
you know, because I had a butt, I was wearing
button up pants and the woman was like, I did
you know, was like trying to get her hand and
she's like maybe. I'm like, I'm not unbuttoning my pants
so you can molest me. And at that point I
will get ignorant. It was. It was the most ridiculous
TSA experience, and they were so ungodly rude. It like

(12:50):
scarred me. And so I don't go to Phoenix. I
will not fly through that airport. I have not been back.
I will not go through that airport. And now DFW
their people are great, but I think this was one
or two agents that had it out for me because
they were looking at me and my husband was like,
I think you're going to have a problem, and I go,

(13:11):
what do you mean because we're putting our stuff on
the thing, and he goes, they're pointing you out, and
it was and they were really they were like you
need to come over here, ma'am. And it was just
very They were incredibly.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Slay the TSA under the Obama administration. Actually, I have
a general rule of just I don't want mentally ill
people patting me down.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, that's just it.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's not about sex.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't think that if you're mentally ill, you should
be working in a security job. Right, No, you're If
you have a mental illness, you should not be working
in a security job. This is if that makes you unhappy, tough.
There are a lot of things that I don't like,
but this is the reality in which we live, and

(13:52):
there are certain jobs jobs that require certain levels of
mental All together, I don't know how to put it now.
I will say, by the way, not every ts agent
is like that. There were some the I think DFW
have some of the best ones, and the American at
Saint Louis International are great, They're so great. There have

(14:17):
been there's some really nice there's some really nice TSA
folks out there. The two that were at Phoenix Sky
Harbor were really bad. But there's some really nice ones
out there, really nice ones that are actually like really
helpful with like our parents when they fly because our
parents have some mobility issues and they're just so sweet
with them. But long story short, you should be able

(14:38):
if you're a man or a woman and you're going
through TSA, you should be able to say, I really
don't want to be padded down by a member of
the opposite sex. That's really uncomfortable for me, and you
should have that right to say that that right. Why
is that right viewed by transgender activists as being second
class compared to their rights. That's the million dollar question.

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And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
All right, So first up, this uh terrifying looking robot
powered up and then immediately declared humanity as a resource
to be manipulated or eliminated. That sounds slightly terrifying. This
comes after Elon Musk said he's going to make a
million of those robots. Remember that? So yeah, this, by
the way, this story that's written over at MSN, Joe

(16:33):
Wilkins needs to be fired, dragged rhetorically behind a truck
and fired because he decided to bury the lead seven
grafts down in this story. I cannot stand people who
cannot write stories. He's like Oh, Aristotle was no angel.
Sure he's shut up. Just tell me about this stupid robot.
No one cares about your dumb musings from Jays School,
So moving on. I cannot stay. I mean, seriously, this

(16:55):
is real life I robot movie it is.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
It is foreclosure, serge twenty percent. And as Americans struggle
to pay their mortgages, and there's fears of a two
thousand and eight style crash, that's soaring. So you know what,
let's lower the criteria for getting giant loans and just
give them out like Marty Grock candy. We'll do that.
That'll be great, and then have fifty year mortgages so
no one ever actually owns anything and they end up
paying like bookoo interest, you know, just so we can

(17:21):
pretend that we're participating in ownership. Let's go ahead and
make that so much better because that worked really well
for us in two thousand and eight, so we should
probably do it again. Right, Oh it didn't. Why are
you such a why are you such a cuck? Golly
equipping a cupcane? Yeah, stocks not the worst day in

(17:42):
over a month. As tech selloff intensifies, I don't care
do I care? Am I supposed to say so?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
I mean, even the housing thing, this is all correction
stuff that we have to correct the market before we
can get things back.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
In cass it freaking find out within it. I agree,
it's completely exactly what it is. Yeah, so hedge funds
still don't be stocks while retail investors are keeping the
market alive. I'm very curious to see how all the
Christmas shopping and all of that goes this year, and
like what kind of revenues generated, because it's always a
big thing to watch. Retail has always been the market's backbone,
and it's been the most consistent, even like during the pandemic,

(18:16):
it was pretty consistent. Like it was. It was like
they there was a behavior that everyone just sort of adopted.
It's weird, So let's see if it holds as we
go into the crazy Christmas buying season. Door Retos and
Cheetos have debuted the NKO or sorry, NKD options. This

(18:39):
is dumb without artificial flavors or colors. It's a colorless product.
Torito's nacho cheese. I want chemically altered cheesy looking chips.
You know what if it gets me off this rock
faster than Yes, good got.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
But no they're still using seed oils though, so the.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Parents seed oil is that bad? I mean, isn't that
what peanut oil is?

Speaker 3 (19:00):
How seed oils are extracted from seeds is important.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Isn't that what like peanut oil is? If it's pressed
almond oil? Is it almond oil? Seed oil?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
If it's actually extracted using chemicals, it's not good. So
seed oils are not great.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Can you get them without the chemical?

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, you can get pressed boil, you know, but that's
the only good oil you're going to get.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Or maybe people don't need dorito's. I don't know. I
don't know. I really don't care what people want to
gorge themselves on. It's just weird to hear seed oils
are bad. By the way, cigarettes are still legal, you know.
I don't know. It's just I think you should be
able to kill yourself in whatever fashion you want to
slowly with food.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
What seed oils are legal? But it's just you have to,
you know, use your discernment, that's all.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
What people are too stupid for? That cane? What are
you talking about, colle Such a such a cock? Why
do you mean such a cock? Today? Can I say
that the Dorito's chips look stupid. The ones without all
this stuff on them, I don't think they look good.
The NKO or n k D when they have the
cool ranch and then the NKD cheetos. If I see

(20:07):
a weird looking cheetoh, I net net that thing better
look like it is an unnatural color of orange. It's
not getting near my belly. Not gonna happen. I you know,
when I eat things like that, I know it's gonna
be garbage. And I expect garbage, right, don't sit here
and try to booge it up after the fact. I
expect absolute nonsense chemicals, the whole nine yards. So I

(20:31):
don't know. By the way, coming up, I'm gonna show
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(21:58):
top I was going to say top of the bottom hour,
that doesn't make any sense. Bottom of this first hour.
This I did it when I was down in McCallan, Texas,
one of the because I've been to the border a
few times, and one of the times I was down there,
we were shown exactly what was happening at the southern border,

(22:24):
and there was a Catholic Charities there that was ran
by a very famous sister, famous because she seemed pretty
left laning. I gotta be honest with you, and they
I'm trying to think of like the best way to
put this. They facility helped to facilitate I don't know

(22:49):
how else. You could not see it any other way.
They helped to facilitate the pipeline of illegal immigration. And
I went there and I saw her that with my
own eyes, people who would cross the border illegally, Catholic
Charities would down there, would take a lot of them men,
They had bus tickets to send them further into the interior,

(23:10):
all kinds of stuff. And I remember at one point
I had suggested that perhaps you know, we stop, we
actually deport people who enter illegally, and stop with this
idea that we are obligated like, we get criticized worldwide

(23:30):
for being the world's police what were supposed to be
the world's welfare. Those two ideas don't coexist. And I
said something to this effect, and the lady who ran it,
Pimentel was her name, the sister who ran it, did
not like that. So we had a little back and forth,
and Ted Cruz actually had to intervene because we were

(23:51):
looking to see how bad it was and it was
really maligned. The GOP establishment were like, oh, you're down
there helping with the knew we were literally going and
seeing how bad it was, and it was bad. It
was pretty insane the amount of people who were coming
in illegally. And then they I mean, that's like a beacon.
Everyone went there because they knew they were gonna get
a free bus ticket and all this other stuff. How
was that not helping to make it a beacon? Right?

(24:14):
So the reason I bring this up is because of
this video that I saw this morning, which came out,
and this the Pope has like said stuff. Pope Leo
has said some stuff about this before. I don't know
what video they're watching or what they think they're reacting to,
but he urged us Catholic bishops, and they did. They

(24:37):
delivered a rebuke of the sitting of Trump. They said
it was the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in
church history, condemning trump dance raids as inhumane and dehumanizing
in a two sixteen to five vote. And this they
had a video that they put out. They said that
there was a climate of fear amongst families, amongst immigrant families.

(25:02):
Keep in mind that they don't differentiate between immigrant or
illegal immigrant, none of that. They said parents were afraid
to take children to school or even attend church, et cetera.
How dare you horrible entitled Americans? How dare you expect
other people to be smart enough to follow your laws?
That's the intimation that I get. And the last time

(25:26):
that they did this, they had a twenty thirteen video
where they criticized Obama's policy on contraceptive coverage. And that's it.
But this even goes further. Now, notice none of these
Catholic bishops had anything to say about the policies that
were creating this deluge at the southern border. But oh
my gosh, when we're finally enforcing the law, they come
out they're bleeding hearts. I think we have some video

(25:51):
of one of the messaging just so you can get
an idea. But yes, they said it was inhumane, et ceteraism.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
As pastors, we the bishops of the United States, are
bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion
in our Lord Jesus Christ. And we are disturbed when
we see among our people a climate of fear and
anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and
the vivilification of immigrants. We are concerned about the conditions
in detention centers and the lack of access to pastoral care.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
We lament that some immigrants in the United States have
arbitrarily lost their legal status. We are troubled by threats
against the scanctity of houses of worship.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Have any of these well said bishops gone to any
of these countries to encourage reform in the countries where
these people are leaving out of curiosity? Is that something? Look,
I'm going to tell you all the people out there
that sit here and go on and on about Israel,
they are fine to take lessons, They're fine to take
orders from Are you going to be America first or not,

(27:03):
because laws aren't made in Rome, They're made in Washington,
d C. By people we elect. So I mean this
is I posted about this and the comments were amazing.
I got a couple of very interesting emails in some
common One of the comments I got someone was from
RGV and they said their families experienced loss of loved

(27:23):
ones at the hands of illegal aliens and coyotes, meaning
the people from the cartels who are bringing them across.
They've had properties destroyed, cars stolen, they have bailouts here
every day.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
And they said, you know these people, their opinions don't
matter because they don't live here. I got a couple
of emails as well from people I've been down there
and I've seen it. I mean, I've met ranchers that
are there on the border who are victimized by what
illegal immigration does. They haven't Where are these old, well
fed bishops out there sitting here going stop victimizing the
legal immigrant community, Stop victimizing the people who live at

(27:56):
the southern border. Stop doing any of this, don't. I mean,
you want to talk about trying to influence US law,
give disees or what is Caesar and give to God.
What is God's You follow the laws of the land.
This isn't These aren't extraordinary laws to follow. You don't
enter a country illegally. That's not an extraordinary request. I

(28:16):
would be arrested if I tried to enter the Vatican illegally.
I've been to the Vatican. I had to go through
one way. I had to submit all of my belongings
for an X ray machine. I had to go and
get a wand pat down. I had to do all
of that to enter into just the foyer of the Vatican.

(28:37):
So I really don't want to see these individuals look
down from their high horses in Rome and try to
lecture other people about their laws, especially in areas in
which a they don't live and b they've not visited.
I don't see them reducing any of the security there.
I don't see any of that. And you're only allowed

(28:58):
to go in the area in which you're ticket purchases access.
If you want to have a discussion later about money
changing tables, we can do that. So, no, we don't
make laws in Rome, as beautiful of a city as
it is. We make laws here in the United States
and Washington, DC. And I'm not going to take any

(29:20):
kind of condemnation or condescension from any of these so
called religious leaders who were silent on everything else. Where
were they during the trans fight? Well? Where were they?
Where were they when just at the deluge, when you
had these policies that were encouraging thousands of people to
cross the border a day illegally. Where were they? Then

(29:42):
there was no rebuke. They're all patting themselves on the
back because they got the headline that ooh, it's the
strongest rebuke that we've ever had of a sitting president.
Oh go you. I mean, where was the concern when
it began with bad policy? And now they want to
emotionally abuse people and suggest that somehow they are inhumane

(30:10):
by forcing laws that any other nation has. Have they
made these videos about Ireland's laws? Have they made these
videos about Italy's immigration laws? You know, when they had
Matteo Salvini and they were going to try to arrest
him for kidnapping because he wouldn't let a boatload of
North Africans illegally disembark. No, there wasn't any there. It's

(30:34):
just going after the United States, always, going after US law.
Always if you're going to be American first. You're not
going to take your dictation from Rome. And this is
infuriating to see because they've seen it happen over and
over again. And it was very interesting when I was
down there at Catholic Charities at our GV and I

(30:55):
was discussing this, you know, very briefly with the nun
that was there, who was very aggressive, and you could
tell she did not like the conservative members of the
little group that were there, who were kind of looking
around like, oh my gosh, it's worse than anybody could
have ever imagined, which immediately indicated to me that this
said this was less about surfce maybe and more about

(31:18):
making a political stand. But I'm not going to pretend
I understand the recesses of someone's heart, particularly the heart
of organizations that receive millions of dollars of taxpayer funding
and then help people elude the law. You know, if
you or I were to break the law in such
a fashion, goodness, what would our penalty be? And I'm

(31:42):
curious where are all of these the people who say, oh,
is real first, you're not America first? Where are they
for this? They're awfully silent about this. Huh? No condemnation
for a religious entity that's headquartered in Rome trying to
tell you how to run your laws. Huh, very interesting
if you want to have a discussion about double standards.

(32:03):
So no, I don't think we're going to take lessons.
They have some problems of their own. I know they
done paint out to abuse victims. I mean, how far
do you want to go with us? I bristle when
I see people try to, in a manner uncharacteristic of
a good shepherd, try to emotionally blackmail you into aiding

(32:27):
and abetting lawlessness, because they're trying to use their authority
as church leaders to make you think you're bad simply
for wanting to uphold the laws of your land, the
land that you pay taxes for, the land whose defense
you fund. It should be rejected outright. So no, I'm

(32:52):
just not gonna And I know there are a lot
of Catholics out there that agree. They're like, yes, there's
no way they should be doing this. This is enough.
Don't see them going down to Venezuela lecturing Maduro. Don't
see them going to Shinebaum in Mexico. Don't see that. Goodness. Now,

(33:15):
that's when you know I have a headline too about
religion and the waning of faith, or not faith, but
the rel waning of basically organized religion. The Washington Times
had an interesting piece or they discuss half in the
US now say it's not important. Do you want to
know why half of the people in the United States
think it's not important because they get dual messages like this,

(33:39):
follow the law, but don't follow the law. Follow the law,
butt your bad if you follow the law. Gallup released
its World poll and it showcase that America is shedding religion.
There's a seventeen percentage point drop in US religion religiosity
over the past decade. It's the largest that Gallup has
recorded in any country over a ten year periods two

(34:00):
thousand and seven. I mean, and particularly I like how
the article notes as well that that's kind of one
of the core that is a core belief of American exceptionalism,
the idea that individual rights and liberties are enshrined under
the dominion of the divine. They're under God's rule, not
under man's rule, meaning they are safeguarded. These are God given.
That's why we say God given rights, God given liberties.

(34:22):
And then if you have a country that stops believing
in God, then what happens to the dominion that protects
those rights. Do you see why Carl Marx Marxism, all
these tyrants, you see where they hate religion so much,
because that is the thing that safeguard your rights from them.
You know, are God given rights. These are things that

(34:42):
were given to you by God, not by man. This
man cannot pervert or pollute them. And tyrants seek to
erase that. They want to rip that veil down. They
don't want there to be any kind of your rights
to be in the dominion of that only God. They
think they should be able, they should be able to

(35:04):
change your rights, to pollute your rights, to pervert your rights,
to abridge your rights. And I write a bridge is
a right denied. So there has been and they're winning.
And it doesn't help when you have church leaders who
follow the same ideology make videos like the ones that
we just played. They're part of the problem. You either

(35:25):
recognize the laws of the land or you don't. And
I would go so far as to say good shepherds
recognize good law. Bad ones don't. And even the devil
can quote scripture.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
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