July 31, 2025 • 38 mins
What is killing western countries is not some external threat. What would the founding fathers think of our political parties? The short short version of the Israel Palestine conflict. Who actually has a claim to the land? Why doesn’t a conservative buy NBC or CNN?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is a Jesse Kelly Show, The Jesse Kelly Show,
Final hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful,
fantastic Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
And we have a huge hour for you because we're
gonna go through all your emails and they are endlessly
We're talking history of the Middle East region.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That'd be a big thing. We're gonna talk Thomas Jefferson
keere in a moment. We're gonna talk. You know what,
Let's talk about the invasion of Europe. Our invasion quit
this guy, says Jesse. With the invasion of Western Europe
from foreigners, invited by these Western leaders and threats by
these same leaders to recognize Palestine. Should the US invade
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and conquer Western Europe now before we evidently send our
next generations to do it, Well, that's a little heavy
well no, no, for okay, First of all, let's have
an honest discussion here. The United States military is incredible.
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It is our money. Our money has allowed us to
build a military that is several times larger than any
European country, more modern, larger, all those things. Conquest is
one of those things that dudes love to talk about,
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we love to read about, we love to read about
historical conquerors of all kinds, doesn't matter to pick your conqueror.
We're fascinated by it, fascinated by the battles, the reasons,
everything else. But conquest is also very very very difficult
to pull off successfully any lasting way. I'm not talking
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about a battle here, taking out a city here. Real
actual conquests very very difficult, and it's more terrible than
you can imagine. Whenever you're talking about conquest, you're talking
about dead women and children. The problem for so many countries,
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ours included. It's not as bad of a problem now
with Trump in there. But the problem for Western countries
is not external. Europe's problem is not whatever is happening
between Israel and Palestine in any given moment. Europe's problem
is not Russia Ukraine. That's not the problem. The problem
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is Western countries are mostly led by people who don't
love their country. They don't love the country they're leading.
They look at the country. We've done this before, but
there are three things almost every Western leader has in common.
Remember this. Burn this into your mind and it'll explain
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so much of why you see what you see. One
no love of country. We'll come back to that two.
No connection to normal people, how real people live. They
grew up in America here too, as essentially royalty. It's
all private schools and manicured college campuses. These are people
who've never worked with their hands. That they don't understand
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what it's like to not be able to pay the
bills one month and don't understand that. And let me,
let me, let me see if I can put this
last part a different way. I've always said they see
themselves as kings and queens. Maybe I should just reform
that and say they see themselves as rulers. They are
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ruling a country, not serving it, not protecting it. And
that's I think I'm gonna switch to that. They see
themselves as rulers the country. How leaders, good leaders see
their country is they have a duty to that country.
They have a responsibility to that country to serve it,
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to protect it, to protect its people. That's how a
good leader looks at his country. An evil leader thinks
his country is there to serve him and his interests
over a long enough period of time. A lot of
this comes from our education system, which is poisonous. A
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lot of this is spiritual. Over a long enough period
of time. What we lost was leaders who believed they
were there to serve and protect their country. This is
a huge, huge reason why Donald Trump's popularity is hard
to quant Why what is it? There are things about
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Donald Trump on their face that should make him unpopular?
Why is Donald Trump? Why has his popularity been so
impenetrable for people on the right, Whereas if another politician
had done or said some of the things donald Trump said,
it would sink them, or at least it would sink
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their popularity. But Trump can do it, and Trump can
get away with it. Trump, Uh, what's something he did? Reason?
Trump dropped an F bomb on camera. Now, look, I'm
not here again, I'm not a nun. It's not that
I was mortified or anything like that. But traditionally, given
the rights more evangelical base, dropping an F bomb on camera,
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that would really get some serious pushback for any politician,
any Republican for sure, who did something like that. You
probably didn't even remember he said it. You probably don't
even care. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he said it, toy. Oh, yes,
he said it twice. Chris. It wasn't a big deal,
didn't make a blip. Why does he get away with
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so many things others didn't. Donald Trump loves the country
and everyone can see it. He does, for any of
his flaws, for any of the ways, or even serious
policy matters that you may disagree with him on, or
I may disagree with him on. It's a breath of
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fresh air to have somebody constantly praising America. Now that's
actually sad when you think about it, because that should
be the bare minimum for every party, right and that
was forever in this country, whether Democrat or Republican. You
never trashed America, no matter what. Go look, do yourself
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a favorite. It may be boring unless you're one of
these nerds like me. I will do this, but spend
five minutes. I'm not asking you to spend an hour
because you'll get bored. Spend five minutes. Go to uh,
it'll be on YouTube, I'm sure. Go to YouTube and
look up a John F. Kennedy's speech. Maybe you don't
like Kennedy, that's fine, I don't care. Maybe you love Kennedy,
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I don't care. None of that matters. John F. Kennedy
was a Democrat. John F. Kennedy gave speech after speech
after speech talking about the greatness of this country that
wasn't unique. That's how American presidents talked about America. But
since this poisonous anti American, anti Western communism has worked
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its way through our political system and France's and England's
and everything else. Yeah, that's a good point, Chris, look
up the Space race speech. Since this poisonous anti americanism
has worked its way through the Democrat Party, it's now
built in that when a Democrat gets elected, they'll crap
on this place every chance they get, foreign, domestic, wherever
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they're giving a speech. You can't even get one sentence
out of a Democrat without them at least having to
put a qualifier in there. Even if they say something
like America's been great, even though we haven't always been
perfect and we've made a lot of mistakes. They can't
get one sentence out without having to let their animals know, hey,
I hate America like you do. It does suck. Love
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of country is a critical thing for leaders of a country,
and that is what is killing the West, and that
is what is killing Europe right now. It is killing it.
The people who lead you know, Starmer, all these people,
the people who lead the UK, anyone really in the
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EU most of these countries. It all comes down to
love of country. It's not just that they see themselves
as kings and queens. It comes down to love of country,
and they believe the country is there to serve them.
You know. Obviously Germany has some rocky parts in its history. Huh, Chris,
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that so there's some ugly German history out there. I
get that. But that's a cool country, isn't it. I've
been there. Beautiful. You take a little sail up a
German river where there are castles and mountains on the
side of it. It's sweet, a really cool. Yeah. Food's
pretty good. Yes, it is, Chris, very good, sweet country,
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cool traditions, some of them cool traditions. Merkel got elected
in Germany and promptly brought in as much of the
Islamic world as she possibly can. And now there are rapes,
murders and acts of terror all over Germany. You think
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that woman, that hag. You think she ever laid down
her head at night and stressed about what she was
doing to Germany. Not one time. Maybe she's stressed about
being held accountable for it. I doubt it. She never cared,
doesn't care. Now the destroyer of a great country. We
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can conquer Europe. All you want to answer your question,
Nothing can save the West until the West gets leaders
who love it. You don't even have to be geniuses,
you know, they don't have to be brave, they don't
have to just love the place. Loving the place is enough.
I think that's a Beatles song, Chris, what I don't know.
Not a huge Beatles fan. I'm a Hillsdale fan. That's something.
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Does the history of these countries fascinate you at all?
Tell you what? Here's something that may interest you. Western civilization?
What is it? How is it different than Eastern civilization?
Then other civilizations? If I may go, look up Hillsdale's
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free online course about Athens Ancient Greece. That's where so
much of this comes. Ancient Greece doesn't get the credit
it deserves for Hey, it wasn't America. I'm not saying
that for saying, hey, why a king? Why shouldn't the
people get to choose their leaders? Our founders thought ancient
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Greece was extremely important. Hillsdale will teach you about it
for free. Hillsdale dot edu slash Jesse is where you go.
They'll teach you about it for free no cost Hillsdale
dot edu. Slash Jesse. We'll be back. Feeling a little stocky,
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We'll have a good time like we always do. Let's
get back to all these emails, emails, Dear pink Flower.
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I'm a huge history nerd. Thomas Jefferson thought the Federalist
Party stance was not enough for small government. I wonder
what he would think about his Republican Party today. Just
a question from a dumb electrician in Virginia making more
money than most college grads. Ha. His name is Justin.
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I keep telling you boys about the trades anyway. Uh, Look,
I think the founding fathers would be equally mortified and
not surprised at what has happened to the country and
the size of our government today. And what I mean
(12:54):
by that is, Look, I'm gonna play something for you
and This is Scott, who I like very sharp, been
an excellent diplomat. This is Scott Bissent talking about the
thousand dollars Trump accounts.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
The one thousand dollars baby bonds that every American citizen,
every newborn is going to get. The Democrats hate this
program because it brings capitalism and markets to every American,
not just their constituents at the upper end. And over time,
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the compounding is going to be an incredible supplement to
self security, not a replacement.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It is a There's not a single Founding father who
wouldn't have pulled off his wig and screamed at the
sky if you told him there would be a Republican
one day talking about handing one thousand dollars of the
public treasury's money out to kids who were born. We
don't think about it now because we're so used to
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the well, they give out this, so we should give
out that, and they gave this, so we should give that.
But the founding fathers would be mortified that that is
the position of anyone in the United States of America.
Let me, let me dip my fingers into public treasury
and hand out some jed or cheese to the American
people mortified, but they wouldn't be surprised. Remember what Benjamin
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Franklin so famously said when a woman asked him, what
kind of government have you given us? After they got
done for him in the thing A republic, ma'am, if
you can keep it. The founding fathers knew, and they
were not perfect. You know, we honor them and we
should for what they gave us, for the life, they
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gave us, their work, their bravery, that's what gave us
the kind of country we have now. But they weren't perfect,
and they knew men were imperfect, and they knew. They
wrote about it. They knew over time freedom's erode, government
grows and freedom's erode. They knew that would be the case,
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and they warned repeatedly, repeatedly that if we lost our
moral way, then we would not remain free. Now, we
don't like discussing that because it sounds like you're moralizing
or judging people, or preaching to people or something like that.
But the truth is, they all talked about this, even Jefferson,
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who wasn't exactly a Bible believer. Jefferson, I mean, I'm
pretty sure he was an atheist. Do you think so, Chris.
From his writings, I know he references God a lot,
but I kind of feel like that was him tossing
a bone to the other founders. But even Jefferson talked
about the necessity of a free people being a moral people,
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because if they weren't, then freedoms would be abused and
the people would eventually need to be crawed by an
authority here on earth. They talked about it, Adams. That
was basically John Adams quote that this government is wholly
inadequate for anything other than a moral people. And we
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don't like talking about that because it makes us uncomfortable
because who is moral. I'm certainly not. I'm not. But
as a whole, as a people, we want to discuss capitalism.
We want to talk about taxes and spending and illegals
and things like that. But here's something for you. How
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many of America's problems, all of them, including illegal immigration
or whatever, how many of them would be solved if
we had half the number of broken homes we have now.
But that's such a large problem, and one that's out
of your hands, isn't it. It's out of my hands.
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I can't fix it. I can't fix myself, let alone
fix other people. I'm not looking down my nose at anybody.
But the truth is our founders would be mortified at
what has happened to our country, but they would not
be surprised. They knew that this is how it goes,
especially once you get rich as a country. And there's
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nothing wrong with getting rich. It's better than being poor
as a country. I mean, it's better than starving, scraping
for food, famine all the time. I like that our
poor people still eat in this country. That's a good thing,
that's awesome. I like that our poorest people have a
refrigerator in their house. I like that running water. That's good.
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But wealth like that as a country also, it breeds complacency.
At some point in time, you stop being hungry, you
stop striving. You got the air conditioning, you got running water,
you got some craft Mac. Time to have some Mac
andweenies for dinner. Life's good. You got a full belly,
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hard to keep striving. Let's move on. Someone wants to
talk about the Holy Land, the history of it. You
that'll be ugly, so you know we'll do that. I'm
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I love your show, me too. I especially love you
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explain history so well. It would be wonderful if you
could explain why both the Jews and the Palestinians lay
claim to the Holy Land. I specifically need to know
how long the Palestinians have been there. I have a
friend who insists that land originally belonged to Palestine and
the Jews have no claim to the land. She says, sorry, Chris,
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would you take the time to do a quick overview
of the history and that part of the world. Says
I can, says I can read. Her name or name
is Nanette. Okay, so maybe do this as briefly as
I possibly can. Let's rewind all the way because she
did go on to say, if you could go all
the way back to Abraham and say, look, I can't.
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That's too much for even a three hour show. But
I'll do this the best I can. All Right, God,
calls Abraham mount and he says, hey, there's something else
for you. Go forth, let's fast forward. We're doing a
lot of fast forwarding here, believe me, a lot of
fast forwarding. The Israelites find themselves in captivity in under
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the Egyptian Empire, which was one of the longest lasting
big boy empires in history. For some reason, they don't
get any love. I don't I actually don't know why
they don't get any love. Chris says, they're too small.
I don't know. Maybe it's because of where they are now. Anyway,
long lasting empire. The Israelites find themselves in captivity underneath
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the Egyptians. Obviously, people know the story of Moses. God
calls Moses, go get my people out of there. Moses
goes to Pharaoh. Pharaoh doesn't listen. God does a bunch
of horrible crap the egypt and finally Pharaoh is like,
please leave Moses. Israelites take off across the Red Sea,
so on and so forth. Now the Israelites, they're heading
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towards the Promised Land. Why is it called the Promised
Land because God promised it to them. They're heading to
the Promised Land. But remember there are no unconquered lands
except for crappy lands. If you would like to take
a piece of ground and you don't want to take
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it from somebody, you're going to have to go to
the worst places on earth that nobody wants. The Israelites
didn't show up to this extremely fertile, wonderful piece of
ground and find empty space. Hey, vacancy, come on in.
They saw others, and they proceeded to conquer the others.
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With a little bit of help from the Lord creator
of the universe, which doesn't hurt when he's on your side,
they take it. Okay, Israel establishes an empire. I don't
know if I should call it an empire. A kingdom
is what it turned out to be, a kingdom very
similar to the you see today, not exactly that is
not exact, but it's the same area. They established this kingdom. Eventually,
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they fall out of favor with God. Kingdom is broken
up into Judah versus the rest of Israel. Okay, I'm
really trying to fast forward through a lot of this stuff.
They're eventually pillaged by the Assyrians the Babylonians. They lose
God's protection and they start getting attacked and broken up
and attacked and broken up. But do keep something in mind.
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During all this, the slavery, the conquest, the Assyrians, the Babylonians,
the everything else, there are still people there and today
they would be Jewish people today who believe, well, actually
I would probably wump a lot of Christians in with
that too, who believe that this is the land God
promised the Israelites. It's still the promised land. They are
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connected to it now because they have member. It's a
monotheistic religion Judaism. There is only one God, it is Jahweh.
Because it's a monotheistic religion. Rome eventually comes knocking. This
is a long long time afterwards. It was actually Pompy Magnus,
who we've brought up several times. Rome eventually comes knocking. Hey,
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I like this place. I think we'll take it. Rome did.
But Rome had a very Rome had an interesting way
of conquest, and it was not always the same. Sometimes
they'll come in and just genocide the whole freaking place.
That is not how they really preferred to do business. No, no, no,
no no. You guys say that's fine, it's all good.
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You stay. We're gonna need you to pay some taxes,
and we're gonna need you. You know, you're gonna bow
before the throne. But you could say, hey, go to synagogue.
Sounds good. The Jews were famously a nightmare for the
Romans under this system. A lot of this comes back
to the monotheistic religion. It comes back to their connection
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to the land. They started having rebellions. And when I
say rebellions, I don't mean a hundred people got up
at the after the Sabbath and started making some noise.
They would raise armies, twenty thirty thousand man armies, and
they fought, and they actually beat the Romans on occasion,
but it was still the Roman Empire and they just
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did not have the manpower. They didn't have, but they
were not going to win. Finally, the Romans have the
Jews have another one, the Israelites have another one, and
the Romans have freaking had enough of it. They cast
them to the winds. Pause for a second. I know
you're probably asking you about Palestine, which remember that word
is in the Bible. It's in the Old Testament, Go
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of Zephy and it's in the Bible. Okay, they were
a people around there too, they were eight people there too.
The Romans take the Jews and they say it, you
have to leave all of you. That's known as the diaspora,
the Jewish diaspora. They scattered them to the How did
so many Jews end up in Russia all over Europe?
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Places like that? The Romans said get out. They ended
up going and settling in other places. Now, once they
were gone, the Roman Empire comms goes on and so forth.
The Palestinian people are still around. They're still there. Eventually,
this is years and years and years later. We're talking
to you the nineteen hundreds. By this point in time,
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the Jews have not lost their connection, the sputual connection
to the land. They decide they want to come back.
They begin trying to reconquer this area from the Palestinians.
Later on, now they're reconquering it in different ways, and
a lot of ways. They're just moving in. They're buying
up real estates one of the best ways to move in.
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They are shipping in arms. There are clashes. They're also
lobbying political leaders, including in America, all over the world.
Back up this effort, Back up this effort, Back up
our effort. We're trying to we deserve a home, we
deserve our holy land back. They are reconquering the area
post w W two. I mean really this was all
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going on during World War One and things like that,
but post WWW two, this gets way more official. Okay,
that's yours. Now. The problem is everybody has a claim
to it because everyone's been there. Remember there were people
there before the Israelites got there. Could they start to
conquering all of them? The right of conquest is a thing,
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whether you like it or not. The conflict you see now,
by the way, your friend who said the Palestinians have
a right to it, you who say the Israelites have
a right to it, You know who has a right
to it the one who took it, because it's been
taken before. And that's the way every plot of land is.
The problem the Israelites run into now is the problem
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many countries have run into are self included. They didn't
take all of it. You tried, Now, there were reasons.
Remember the Western nations were hesitant. Hey, you can't just
kick out all the Palestinians. So they were getting outside pressure.
There's a lot of reasons to it. What have we
talked about before half conquest doesn't work, We're gonna take
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Israel and you guys can just have this little place
called Palestine. Well, how's that worked out? It doesn't now
what was it. I think it was today. I think
it was a couple hours ago. Hamas just said Nope,
no more cease fire. It's on again without end. Either
take it or don't, because this stuff continues until you
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take it. That was as fast as I can possibly
blow through that, All right, Chris, that's got to be
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on a wonderful, fantastic Thursday. Remember, I will be back
on Monday. On Monday, I'll be back, So you're gonna
have to do without me until then. So we don't
have very much time here. Let's get through as many
asked doctor Jesse questions as we possibly can. Hey, Jesse,
why doesn't some rich person purchase for the American people
(30:29):
a conservative network channel so they can know the truth
about things. That's what will save the country. It's hysterically
funny because nobody would vote for Democrats if they knew
why doesn't somebody buy NBC or MSNBC or CBS as
they can have free access to the truth. We love
listening to you on the radio, but with your talent,
(30:49):
you should be on TV. I'm on TV. I'm on
the first TV. I'm on the I have a television
show on the first TV every single night at nine o'clock.
Right after this show's done, I do the first TV.
But set it out aside. We have now, we have
opportunities that we never had before. We just did. I
(31:14):
was actually watching I think it was on Netflix. I
was watching a Vietnam documentary they have called Turning Point.
I am not recommending it. I actually stopped after about
the third or fourth episode. Oh, Chris. It had Dan
Rather and all kinds of dirty commy gobble cook in there.
There was some interesting political angles to it and things
(31:37):
like that, but I just didn't care for it. I've
watched a lot of documentaries. It was not one for me,
so I dropped it anyway. Anyway. But one of the
interesting things they were talking about Walter Cronkite, who was
before my time. If you're older, you remember him. I
do not. I don't want to act like I used
to watch Walter Cronkite. I didn't obviously know who he is,
famous newsman back then. Well, Walter Kite went over to Vietnam.
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This was a big deal. They made a big deal
of it during the show. He went over to Vietnam,
and then he came home and instead of just presenting
the news, he actually editorialized, whereas previously they at least
they made it look like he hadn't been doing that.
The network didn't want him to. Nope, just give the facts.
This is what's happening. That's happening. Kay. He comes back
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and craps on the war, comes back, says we're not winning.
I forget exactly how he put it. He essentially goes
and says, I'm not sure we can win now. Picture
this the president when he said that was LBJ Lynda B. Johnson.
LBJ was rocked by the fact that Walter Cronkite got
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up on the news and trashed it. In fact, LBJ
said he cost us Middle America. One anchor. Think about
the power of that. One news anchor, not an elected politician.
One news anchor gets up craps on the war, and
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it seriously swayed America's public opinion of the war. Why
there weren't options if you wanted to know what was
going on in the world. There's no podcasts. Yes, there
were radio shows, of course, but you have radio and
there weren't that many of those. There weren't many radio shows,
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certainly not many national ones. There weren't radio shows, There
were no podcasts. There's no twenty five channels, one hundred channels,
three hundred channels on the dial, you got two three.
If you want to know what's going on in the world,
and you didn't pick up the newspaper that day, you're
watching Walter Kankite. Every buddy in the country funneled into
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one human being's mind, one human beings what he sees,
what he hears. He possessed so much power he torpedoed
the war. Now I realized that there was a lot
more than Walter Conkite, but that was a huge, huge
moment for the country. Well, tell me the news anchor
who can do that today? On any side, by the way,
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any side, pick your side, left, right, middle, wherever, there's nobody,
not a single person who's the most powerful, who's the
most powerful news person on any side out there? Right now?
Maybe Tucker Carlson probably, I would guess a hugely powerful voice.
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Tucker Carlson can't steal Middle America if he came out tonight,
and he wouldn't. But if he came out tonight and
just savage Trump, Trump's a big stupid idiot. Everyone should
hate Trump. Trump sucks Trump. This Trump that, I don't
think it would even hurt his approval ratings because people
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now have options. They can go learn who they want
to learn from, they can listen to what they want
to listen to, they can watch what they want to watch.
We don't need somebody to purchase ABC, NBCCBS. They're rotting,
they're dying on the vine, and the only people still
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supporting them they're dying too. I'm going to read something
to you. This is from Pew Research. This is the
demographics right now. Eighteen to twenty nine year old men.
They're Republican by forty four points. Eighteen to twenty nine
year old women, all thought of as being lefties. They're
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Republican by fourteen points. Thirty to forty nine year old men,
Republican by fifteen forty nine year old women, Democrat by
three right back to being read fifty to sixty four
year old men Republican by three, fifty to sixty four
year old women Republican by one. But then we get
to sixty five plus sixty five plus men Democrats by six,
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sixty five plus women Democrats by two. Obviously it's not
all encompassing. Please don't email me. I not like that
the time. What I'm saying the only people still consuming ABC, NBC,
CBS for their nightly news are sixty five plus years old. Surprise, surprise,
those are the dirtiest most committed Commies in the United
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States of America. Why why is there such a disparity
between sixty five plus and virtually every other demographic. The
other demographic has already changed the channel. We are winning,
you know that, right. It's going to take time and
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it's gonna take effort. We didn't get her overnight, we
won't get it back overnight. We are winning this thing
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And we have a huge hour for you because we're
gonna go through all your emails and they are endlessly
We're talking history of the Middle East region.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That'd be a big thing. We're gonna talk Thomas Jefferson
keere in a moment. We're gonna talk. You know what,
Let's talk about the invasion of Europe. Our invasion quit
this guy, says Jesse. With the invasion of Western Europe
from foreigners, invited by these Western leaders and threats by
these same leaders to recognize Palestine. Should the US invade
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and conquer Western Europe now before we evidently send our
next generations to do it, Well, that's a little heavy
well no, no, for okay, First of all, let's have
an honest discussion here. The United States military is incredible.
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It is our money. Our money has allowed us to
build a military that is several times larger than any
European country, more modern, larger, all those things. Conquest is
one of those things that dudes love to talk about,
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we love to read about, we love to read about
historical conquerors of all kinds, doesn't matter to pick your conqueror.
We're fascinated by it, fascinated by the battles, the reasons,
everything else. But conquest is also very very very difficult
to pull off successfully any lasting way. I'm not talking
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about a battle here, taking out a city here. Real
actual conquests very very difficult, and it's more terrible than
you can imagine. Whenever you're talking about conquest, you're talking
about dead women and children. The problem for so many countries,
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ours included. It's not as bad of a problem now
with Trump in there. But the problem for Western countries
is not external. Europe's problem is not whatever is happening
between Israel and Palestine in any given moment. Europe's problem
is not Russia Ukraine. That's not the problem. The problem
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is Western countries are mostly led by people who don't
love their country. They don't love the country they're leading.
They look at the country. We've done this before, but
there are three things almost every Western leader has in common.
Remember this. Burn this into your mind and it'll explain
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so much of why you see what you see. One
no love of country. We'll come back to that two.
No connection to normal people, how real people live. They
grew up in America here too, as essentially royalty. It's
all private schools and manicured college campuses. These are people
who've never worked with their hands. That they don't understand
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what it's like to not be able to pay the
bills one month and don't understand that. And let me,
let me, let me see if I can put this
last part a different way. I've always said they see
themselves as kings and queens. Maybe I should just reform
that and say they see themselves as rulers. They are
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ruling a country, not serving it, not protecting it. And
that's I think I'm gonna switch to that. They see
themselves as rulers the country. How leaders, good leaders see
their country is they have a duty to that country.
They have a responsibility to that country to serve it,
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to protect it, to protect its people. That's how a
good leader looks at his country. An evil leader thinks
his country is there to serve him and his interests
over a long enough period of time. A lot of
this comes from our education system, which is poisonous. A
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lot of this is spiritual. Over a long enough period
of time. What we lost was leaders who believed they
were there to serve and protect their country. This is
a huge, huge reason why Donald Trump's popularity is hard
to quant Why what is it? There are things about
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Donald Trump on their face that should make him unpopular?
Why is Donald Trump? Why has his popularity been so
impenetrable for people on the right, Whereas if another politician
had done or said some of the things donald Trump said,
it would sink them, or at least it would sink
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their popularity. But Trump can do it, and Trump can
get away with it. Trump, Uh, what's something he did? Reason?
Trump dropped an F bomb on camera. Now, look, I'm
not here again, I'm not a nun. It's not that
I was mortified or anything like that. But traditionally, given
the rights more evangelical base, dropping an F bomb on camera,
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that would really get some serious pushback for any politician,
any Republican for sure, who did something like that. You
probably didn't even remember he said it. You probably don't
even care. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he said it, toy. Oh, yes,
he said it twice. Chris. It wasn't a big deal,
didn't make a blip. Why does he get away with
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so many things others didn't. Donald Trump loves the country
and everyone can see it. He does, for any of
his flaws, for any of the ways, or even serious
policy matters that you may disagree with him on, or
I may disagree with him on. It's a breath of
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fresh air to have somebody constantly praising America. Now that's
actually sad when you think about it, because that should
be the bare minimum for every party, right and that
was forever in this country, whether Democrat or Republican. You
never trashed America, no matter what. Go look, do yourself
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a favorite. It may be boring unless you're one of
these nerds like me. I will do this, but spend
five minutes. I'm not asking you to spend an hour
because you'll get bored. Spend five minutes. Go to uh,
it'll be on YouTube, I'm sure. Go to YouTube and
look up a John F. Kennedy's speech. Maybe you don't
like Kennedy, that's fine, I don't care. Maybe you love Kennedy,
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I don't care. None of that matters. John F. Kennedy
was a Democrat. John F. Kennedy gave speech after speech
after speech talking about the greatness of this country that
wasn't unique. That's how American presidents talked about America. But
since this poisonous anti American, anti Western communism has worked
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its way through our political system and France's and England's
and everything else. Yeah, that's a good point, Chris, look
up the Space race speech. Since this poisonous anti americanism
has worked its way through the Democrat Party, it's now
built in that when a Democrat gets elected, they'll crap
on this place every chance they get, foreign, domestic, wherever
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they're giving a speech. You can't even get one sentence
out of a Democrat without them at least having to
put a qualifier in there. Even if they say something
like America's been great, even though we haven't always been
perfect and we've made a lot of mistakes. They can't
get one sentence out without having to let their animals know, hey,
I hate America like you do. It does suck. Love
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of country is a critical thing for leaders of a country,
and that is what is killing the West, and that
is what is killing Europe right now. It is killing it.
The people who lead you know, Starmer, all these people,
the people who lead the UK, anyone really in the
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EU most of these countries. It all comes down to
love of country. It's not just that they see themselves
as kings and queens. It comes down to love of country,
and they believe the country is there to serve them.
You know. Obviously Germany has some rocky parts in its history. Huh, Chris,
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that so there's some ugly German history out there. I
get that. But that's a cool country, isn't it. I've
been there. Beautiful. You take a little sail up a
German river where there are castles and mountains on the
side of it. It's sweet, a really cool. Yeah. Food's
pretty good. Yes, it is, Chris, very good, sweet country,
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cool traditions, some of them cool traditions. Merkel got elected
in Germany and promptly brought in as much of the
Islamic world as she possibly can. And now there are rapes,
murders and acts of terror all over Germany. You think
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that woman, that hag. You think she ever laid down
her head at night and stressed about what she was
doing to Germany. Not one time. Maybe she's stressed about
being held accountable for it. I doubt it. She never cared,
doesn't care. Now the destroyer of a great country. We
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can conquer Europe. All you want to answer your question,
Nothing can save the West until the West gets leaders
who love it. You don't even have to be geniuses,
you know, they don't have to be brave, they don't
have to just love the place. Loving the place is enough.
I think that's a Beatles song, Chris, what I don't know.
Not a huge Beatles fan. I'm a Hillsdale fan. That's something.
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Does the history of these countries fascinate you at all?
Tell you what? Here's something that may interest you. Western civilization?
What is it? How is it different than Eastern civilization?
Then other civilizations? If I may go, look up Hillsdale's
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free online course about Athens Ancient Greece. That's where so
much of this comes. Ancient Greece doesn't get the credit
it deserves for Hey, it wasn't America. I'm not saying
that for saying, hey, why a king? Why shouldn't the
people get to choose their leaders? Our founders thought ancient
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Greece was extremely important. Hillsdale will teach you about it
for free. Hillsdale dot edu slash Jesse is where you go.
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get back to all these emails, emails, Dear pink Flower.
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I'm a huge history nerd. Thomas Jefferson thought the Federalist
Party stance was not enough for small government. I wonder
what he would think about his Republican Party today. Just
a question from a dumb electrician in Virginia making more
money than most college grads. Ha. His name is Justin.
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I keep telling you boys about the trades anyway. Uh, Look,
I think the founding fathers would be equally mortified and
not surprised at what has happened to the country and
the size of our government today. And what I mean
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by that is, Look, I'm gonna play something for you
and This is Scott, who I like very sharp, been
an excellent diplomat. This is Scott Bissent talking about the
thousand dollars Trump accounts.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
The one thousand dollars baby bonds that every American citizen,
every newborn is going to get. The Democrats hate this
program because it brings capitalism and markets to every American,
not just their constituents at the upper end. And over time,
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the compounding is going to be an incredible supplement to
self security, not a replacement.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It is a There's not a single Founding father who
wouldn't have pulled off his wig and screamed at the
sky if you told him there would be a Republican
one day talking about handing one thousand dollars of the
public treasury's money out to kids who were born. We
don't think about it now because we're so used to
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the well, they give out this, so we should give
out that, and they gave this, so we should give that.
But the founding fathers would be mortified that that is
the position of anyone in the United States of America.
Let me, let me dip my fingers into public treasury
and hand out some jed or cheese to the American
people mortified, but they wouldn't be surprised. Remember what Benjamin
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Franklin so famously said when a woman asked him, what
kind of government have you given us? After they got
done for him in the thing A republic, ma'am, if
you can keep it. The founding fathers knew, and they
were not perfect. You know, we honor them and we
should for what they gave us, for the life, they
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gave us, their work, their bravery, that's what gave us
the kind of country we have now. But they weren't perfect,
and they knew men were imperfect, and they knew. They
wrote about it. They knew over time freedom's erode, government
grows and freedom's erode. They knew that would be the case,
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and they warned repeatedly, repeatedly that if we lost our
moral way, then we would not remain free. Now, we
don't like discussing that because it sounds like you're moralizing
or judging people, or preaching to people or something like that.
But the truth is, they all talked about this, even Jefferson,
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who wasn't exactly a Bible believer. Jefferson, I mean, I'm
pretty sure he was an atheist. Do you think so, Chris.
From his writings, I know he references God a lot,
but I kind of feel like that was him tossing
a bone to the other founders. But even Jefferson talked
about the necessity of a free people being a moral people,
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because if they weren't, then freedoms would be abused and
the people would eventually need to be crawed by an
authority here on earth. They talked about it, Adams. That
was basically John Adams quote that this government is wholly
inadequate for anything other than a moral people. And we
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don't like talking about that because it makes us uncomfortable
because who is moral. I'm certainly not. I'm not. But
as a whole, as a people, we want to discuss capitalism.
We want to talk about taxes and spending and illegals
and things like that. But here's something for you. How
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many of America's problems, all of them, including illegal immigration
or whatever, how many of them would be solved if
we had half the number of broken homes we have now.
But that's such a large problem, and one that's out
of your hands, isn't it. It's out of my hands.
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I can't fix it. I can't fix myself, let alone
fix other people. I'm not looking down my nose at anybody.
But the truth is our founders would be mortified at
what has happened to our country, but they would not
be surprised. They knew that this is how it goes,
especially once you get rich as a country. And there's
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nothing wrong with getting rich. It's better than being poor
as a country. I mean, it's better than starving, scraping
for food, famine all the time. I like that our
poor people still eat in this country. That's a good thing,
that's awesome. I like that our poorest people have a
refrigerator in their house. I like that running water. That's good.
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But wealth like that as a country also, it breeds complacency.
At some point in time, you stop being hungry, you
stop striving. You got the air conditioning, you got running water,
you got some craft Mac. Time to have some Mac
andweenies for dinner. Life's good. You got a full belly,
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hard to keep striving. Let's move on. Someone wants to
talk about the Holy Land, the history of it. You
that'll be ugly, so you know we'll do that. I'm
sure that'll bring in some more emails. Before we do that,
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I love your show, me too. I especially love you
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explain history so well. It would be wonderful if you
could explain why both the Jews and the Palestinians lay
claim to the Holy Land. I specifically need to know
how long the Palestinians have been there. I have a
friend who insists that land originally belonged to Palestine and
the Jews have no claim to the land. She says, sorry, Chris,
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would you take the time to do a quick overview
of the history and that part of the world. Says
I can, says I can read. Her name or name
is Nanette. Okay, so maybe do this as briefly as
I possibly can. Let's rewind all the way because she
did go on to say, if you could go all
the way back to Abraham and say, look, I can't.
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That's too much for even a three hour show. But
I'll do this the best I can. All Right, God,
calls Abraham mount and he says, hey, there's something else
for you. Go forth, let's fast forward. We're doing a
lot of fast forwarding here, believe me, a lot of
fast forwarding. The Israelites find themselves in captivity in under
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the Egyptian Empire, which was one of the longest lasting
big boy empires in history. For some reason, they don't
get any love. I don't I actually don't know why
they don't get any love. Chris says, they're too small.
I don't know. Maybe it's because of where they are now. Anyway,
long lasting empire. The Israelites find themselves in captivity underneath
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the Egyptians. Obviously, people know the story of Moses. God
calls Moses, go get my people out of there. Moses
goes to Pharaoh. Pharaoh doesn't listen. God does a bunch
of horrible crap the egypt and finally Pharaoh is like,
please leave Moses. Israelites take off across the Red Sea,
so on and so forth. Now the Israelites, they're heading
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towards the Promised Land. Why is it called the Promised
Land because God promised it to them. They're heading to
the Promised Land. But remember there are no unconquered lands
except for crappy lands. If you would like to take
a piece of ground and you don't want to take
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it from somebody, you're going to have to go to
the worst places on earth that nobody wants. The Israelites
didn't show up to this extremely fertile, wonderful piece of
ground and find empty space. Hey, vacancy, come on in.
They saw others, and they proceeded to conquer the others.
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With a little bit of help from the Lord creator
of the universe, which doesn't hurt when he's on your side,
they take it. Okay, Israel establishes an empire. I don't
know if I should call it an empire. A kingdom
is what it turned out to be, a kingdom very
similar to the you see today, not exactly that is
not exact, but it's the same area. They established this kingdom. Eventually,
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they fall out of favor with God. Kingdom is broken
up into Judah versus the rest of Israel. Okay, I'm
really trying to fast forward through a lot of this stuff.
They're eventually pillaged by the Assyrians the Babylonians. They lose
God's protection and they start getting attacked and broken up
and attacked and broken up. But do keep something in mind.
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During all this, the slavery, the conquest, the Assyrians, the Babylonians,
the everything else, there are still people there and today
they would be Jewish people today who believe, well, actually
I would probably wump a lot of Christians in with
that too, who believe that this is the land God
promised the Israelites. It's still the promised land. They are
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connected to it now because they have member. It's a
monotheistic religion Judaism. There is only one God, it is Jahweh.
Because it's a monotheistic religion. Rome eventually comes knocking. This
is a long long time afterwards. It was actually Pompy Magnus,
who we've brought up several times. Rome eventually comes knocking. Hey,
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I like this place. I think we'll take it. Rome did.
But Rome had a very Rome had an interesting way
of conquest, and it was not always the same. Sometimes
they'll come in and just genocide the whole freaking place.
That is not how they really preferred to do business. No, no, no,
no no. You guys say that's fine, it's all good.
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You stay. We're gonna need you to pay some taxes,
and we're gonna need you. You know, you're gonna bow
before the throne. But you could say, hey, go to synagogue.
Sounds good. The Jews were famously a nightmare for the
Romans under this system. A lot of this comes back
to the monotheistic religion. It comes back to their connection
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to the land. They started having rebellions. And when I
say rebellions, I don't mean a hundred people got up
at the after the Sabbath and started making some noise.
They would raise armies, twenty thirty thousand man armies, and
they fought, and they actually beat the Romans on occasion,
but it was still the Roman Empire and they just
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did not have the manpower. They didn't have, but they
were not going to win. Finally, the Romans have the
Jews have another one, the Israelites have another one, and
the Romans have freaking had enough of it. They cast
them to the winds. Pause for a second. I know
you're probably asking you about Palestine, which remember that word
is in the Bible. It's in the Old Testament, Go
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of Zephy and it's in the Bible. Okay, they were
a people around there too, they were eight people there too.
The Romans take the Jews and they say it, you
have to leave all of you. That's known as the diaspora,
the Jewish diaspora. They scattered them to the How did
so many Jews end up in Russia all over Europe?
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Places like that? The Romans said get out. They ended
up going and settling in other places. Now, once they
were gone, the Roman Empire comms goes on and so forth.
The Palestinian people are still around. They're still there. Eventually,
this is years and years and years later. We're talking
to you the nineteen hundreds. By this point in time,
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the Jews have not lost their connection, the sputual connection
to the land. They decide they want to come back.
They begin trying to reconquer this area from the Palestinians.
Later on, now they're reconquering it in different ways, and
a lot of ways. They're just moving in. They're buying
up real estates one of the best ways to move in.
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They are shipping in arms. There are clashes. They're also
lobbying political leaders, including in America, all over the world.
Back up this effort, Back up this effort, Back up
our effort. We're trying to we deserve a home, we
deserve our holy land back. They are reconquering the area
post w W two. I mean really this was all
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going on during World War One and things like that,
but post WWW two, this gets way more official. Okay,
that's yours. Now. The problem is everybody has a claim
to it because everyone's been there. Remember there were people
there before the Israelites got there. Could they start to
conquering all of them? The right of conquest is a thing,
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whether you like it or not. The conflict you see now,
by the way, your friend who said the Palestinians have
a right to it, you who say the Israelites have
a right to it, You know who has a right
to it the one who took it, because it's been
taken before. And that's the way every plot of land is.
The problem the Israelites run into now is the problem
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many countries have run into are self included. They didn't
take all of it. You tried, Now, there were reasons.
Remember the Western nations were hesitant. Hey, you can't just
kick out all the Palestinians. So they were getting outside pressure.
There's a lot of reasons to it. What have we
talked about before half conquest doesn't work, We're gonna take
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Israel and you guys can just have this little place
called Palestine. Well, how's that worked out? It doesn't now
what was it. I think it was today. I think
it was a couple hours ago. Hamas just said Nope,
no more cease fire. It's on again without end. Either
take it or don't, because this stuff continues until you
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take it. That was as fast as I can possibly
blow through that, All right, Chris, that's got to be
some kind of a record, And believe me, I skipped
a lot of It's a very fascinating thing if you'd
like to learn about it. You know what else is
fascinating is relief factor. I don't know how they do that.
I don't know how relief factor is able to do
what it does. It's not a drug. It is drug free.
(29:01):
It's a supplement you take every day. Stake it with breakfast.
That's what I do. And what happens is the pain,
the nagging, chronic, ongoing, debilitating pain. I don't care where
it is on your body. Every day you wake up
and you will find it's getting turned down a little
bit more and a little bit more what's happening is
(29:22):
the relief factor. It's supporting your body's natural response to
the inflammation, and the pain is getting turned down in
your life. And one day you wake up and your
back doesn't hurt anymore, your head, your foot. What would
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I've got on an emoi sid on me says, Yes, Kelly,
you're listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the
Jesse Kelly Show. Final segment of The Jesse Kelly Show
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on a wonderful, fantastic Thursday. Remember, I will be back
on Monday. On Monday, I'll be back, So you're gonna
have to do without me until then. So we don't
have very much time here. Let's get through as many
asked doctor Jesse questions as we possibly can. Hey, Jesse,
why doesn't some rich person purchase for the American people
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a conservative network channel so they can know the truth
about things. That's what will save the country. It's hysterically
funny because nobody would vote for Democrats if they knew
why doesn't somebody buy NBC or MSNBC or CBS as
they can have free access to the truth. We love
listening to you on the radio, but with your talent,
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you should be on TV. I'm on TV. I'm on
the first TV. I'm on the I have a television
show on the first TV every single night at nine o'clock.
Right after this show's done, I do the first TV.
But set it out aside. We have now, we have
opportunities that we never had before. We just did. I
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was actually watching I think it was on Netflix. I
was watching a Vietnam documentary they have called Turning Point.
I am not recommending it. I actually stopped after about
the third or fourth episode. Oh, Chris. It had Dan
Rather and all kinds of dirty commy gobble cook in there.
There was some interesting political angles to it and things
(31:37):
like that, but I just didn't care for it. I've
watched a lot of documentaries. It was not one for me,
so I dropped it anyway. Anyway. But one of the
interesting things they were talking about Walter Cronkite, who was
before my time. If you're older, you remember him. I
do not. I don't want to act like I used
to watch Walter Cronkite. I didn't obviously know who he is,
famous newsman back then. Well, Walter Kite went over to Vietnam.
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This was a big deal. They made a big deal
of it during the show. He went over to Vietnam,
and then he came home and instead of just presenting
the news, he actually editorialized, whereas previously they at least
they made it look like he hadn't been doing that.
The network didn't want him to. Nope, just give the facts.
This is what's happening. That's happening. Kay. He comes back
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and craps on the war, comes back, says we're not winning.
I forget exactly how he put it. He essentially goes
and says, I'm not sure we can win now. Picture
this the president when he said that was LBJ Lynda B. Johnson.
LBJ was rocked by the fact that Walter Cronkite got
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up on the news and trashed it. In fact, LBJ
said he cost us Middle America. One anchor. Think about
the power of that. One news anchor, not an elected politician.
One news anchor gets up craps on the war, and
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it seriously swayed America's public opinion of the war. Why
there weren't options if you wanted to know what was
going on in the world. There's no podcasts. Yes, there
were radio shows, of course, but you have radio and
there weren't that many of those. There weren't many radio shows,
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certainly not many national ones. There weren't radio shows, There
were no podcasts. There's no twenty five channels, one hundred channels,
three hundred channels on the dial, you got two three.
If you want to know what's going on in the world,
and you didn't pick up the newspaper that day, you're
watching Walter Kankite. Every buddy in the country funneled into
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one human being's mind, one human beings what he sees,
what he hears. He possessed so much power he torpedoed
the war. Now I realized that there was a lot
more than Walter Conkite, but that was a huge, huge
moment for the country. Well, tell me the news anchor
who can do that today? On any side, by the way,
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any side, pick your side, left, right, middle, wherever, there's nobody,
not a single person who's the most powerful, who's the
most powerful news person on any side out there? Right now?
Maybe Tucker Carlson probably, I would guess a hugely powerful voice.
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Tucker Carlson can't steal Middle America if he came out tonight,
and he wouldn't. But if he came out tonight and
just savage Trump, Trump's a big stupid idiot. Everyone should
hate Trump. Trump sucks Trump. This Trump that, I don't
think it would even hurt his approval ratings because people
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now have options. They can go learn who they want
to learn from, they can listen to what they want
to listen to, they can watch what they want to watch.
We don't need somebody to purchase ABC, NBCCBS. They're rotting,
they're dying on the vine, and the only people still
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supporting them they're dying too. I'm going to read something
to you. This is from Pew Research. This is the
demographics right now. Eighteen to twenty nine year old men.
They're Republican by forty four points. Eighteen to twenty nine
year old women, all thought of as being lefties. They're
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Republican by fourteen points. Thirty to forty nine year old men,
Republican by fifteen forty nine year old women, Democrat by
three right back to being read fifty to sixty four
year old men Republican by three, fifty to sixty four
year old women Republican by one. But then we get
to sixty five plus sixty five plus men Democrats by six,
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sixty five plus women Democrats by two. Obviously it's not
all encompassing. Please don't email me. I not like that
the time. What I'm saying the only people still consuming ABC, NBC,
CBS for their nightly news are sixty five plus years old. Surprise, surprise,
those are the dirtiest most committed Commies in the United
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States of America. Why why is there such a disparity
between sixty five plus and virtually every other demographic. The
other demographic has already changed the channel. We are winning,
you know that, right. It's going to take time and
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it's gonna take effort. We didn't get her overnight, we
won't get it back overnight. We are winning this thing
in part and large part because people have options and
they're taking advantage of those options. Now, I want you
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