The Big Picture with Jack Atherton 5/6/2026

The War, economy and much more with Jack

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Seven six, Happy Wednesday listener, lunch Snow's Lakeside tavernook to
see you there. And as I have been starting out
and bringing up from time to time, before we get
the Jack addid in pause for a moment, please extend
your prayers and positive thoughts for Joe Strecker who struggled
with a medical emergency yesterday. He's not here today, praying
for his swift recovery. Got to get him back in

(00:32):
the executive producer booth, although Danny Gleeson is doing a
great job covering for Joe Strecker, But prayers for Joe
Strecker and welcome back. It's time for the big Picture
with Jack Adverton. It's a pleasure to have you back
on the show as it is every week, Jack Adid,
and welcome back Brian.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
All fans of your show, and I'm chief among them,
are praying for a super producer Joe, and we hope
he's going to be back soon. But most of all
we brave he is going to stay healthy. Well, let's
smile so that we can lighten things up a little.
In one of the funniest movies of all time, mel

(01:07):
Brooks's original version of the producers with Zera Michelle and
Gene Wilder. Yeah, you remember hippie Adolf Adolf Hitler played
by Dick Sewn as a hippie things. This one on
one is two two and two is Paul. I'm feeling
so bad because we're losing the war until the FIRA

(01:30):
calls for his Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Gerbels and asks, Joey,
why didn't you just tell the people? I told them
we invaded England, and happy do Joey? We won? Of course,
Hitler's propaganda could not convince the German people for long,
not with Allied bombs reducing Berlin to rubble and sending

(01:52):
to Ferra and his underground bunker mates just like the
propaganda minister to suicide. They both committed suicide. Mel Brooks
Hitler mirrors what's going on right now with Iron. The
Democrat media is gleefully telling Americans that the Mullahs and
the Revolutionary God are winning. Secretary of War has set

(02:16):
responded in biblical terms, accusing safe news reporters of being pharisees.
But the history of line goes back way before the
New Testament. The very first lie was sold to the
very first woman, not by Adam. He did not go
on a dating app and claim I'm six foot two

(02:36):
and everyone mistakes me for Brad Pitt. Now, the first
lie was sold by the serpent. God ordered Adam, you
must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, for when you eat from it, you
will certainly die. But the crafty serpent is sure to
Eve you won't die. Girl. God doesn't want you to

(02:58):
eat that scrumptious fruit, because if you do, you'll be
like God. Well, the upshot was that God condemned serpents
thereafter to crawl on the earth and be the lowliest
of all animals, and Adam and Eve did eventually die
after they were expelled from Eden. As Archie Bunker quoted, God,

(03:19):
get your clothes on and get the hell out of here.
On the other end of the spectrum, Brian, one of
my favorite philosophers, believed ethical conduct depends on telling the truth.
Immanuel Kant condemned lying even when you have good intentions,
because lyon deprives other people of their humanity. They cannot

(03:40):
make good choices if they don't have truthful information. The
trouble as God does not always step in the way
he did the Garden of Eden. Liars often get away
with their lives. This comes up in history's first book
about politics, Plato's Republic, tells about a Greek shepherd named
guide Jees who discovers a magic ring. This ring makes

(04:04):
him invisible, letting Guijes get away with murder. He kills
the king to deuces the queen and the people he
rules have no way of judging his true worth, which
brings us back to the Nazis, not mel Brooks, the
real Nazis. In chapter ten of his book Mine Kam
or My Struggle, Adolf Hitler advocates the big lie, the

(04:28):
idea that the bigger the lie, the more people will
believe it, because they figure nobody would dare tell a
lie that preposterous. Hitler was a great big liar, and
so was Gebels, because the propaganda minister also ran the
newspapers in Germany, radio and even their movie industry, almost

(04:49):
like today's serpents mainstream media. When it comes to line,
as Carly Simon would sing, nobody does it better than
democrats beside just one golden Oldie, because it shows how
government colludes with the media today. Democrats in twenty sixteen,
claimed that a videotape showed Donald Trump with Russian hookers

(05:12):
at a Moscow hotel. You know, a hooker and got
a cover of the kid's ears for this. They heard
it endlessly on Democrat media that videotape supposedly showed the
hookers urinating on the bed that Barak and Michelle Obama
had previously slept in, because we were told Trump wanted

(05:34):
to show how much he despised the Obamas. That line
went as viral as COVID nineteen Golden Shawer means, rained
down everywhere on social media. Stephen Colbert did a skit
where he bounced on the hotel bed. The so called
p tape became a pillar of the wider Russia Russia,
Russia scandal, which was a total or maybe I should

(05:58):
say totel terry in hoax. As even Special counsel Robert
Muller finally admitted a lie in a fake dossier paid
for by Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen presidential campaign, but half
the country believed her big lie, and now political line
has grown to pandemic proportions from leftist media to tax

(06:22):
exempt activists like the Southern Poverty Law Center paid three
million bucks at least to the KKK and other hate
groups to make conservatives look like haters. It's the opposite
of Guigi's turning invisible. The left pay's villains to go
public and incite violence, including three assassination attentpts on Donald Trump,

(06:46):
egged on by hatemongers like Jimmy Kimmel, Brian You know,
George Orwell's nineteen eighty four is not just about surveillance,
although that's bad enough, It's also about the kind of
lives that Hitler and Stalin institutionalized. Big Brother's Ministry of
Truth spreads propaganda, but even worse, it destroys history, what

(07:10):
we talk about every week. It destroys history by dumping
old newspapers and books down what's called a memory hole.
By Orwell, true history disappears, just the way American students
are now being taught safe history, including the New York
Times sixteen nineteen projects, which claims America from its founding

(07:32):
at its core, was a slave state. This lie is
an attempt to define Black Americans, women, sexual minorities, and
others today not as individuals with opportunities, not as Americans,
but as victims eternally dependent on big state socialism. Folks,
today's Democrat Socialist Party is by definition a lie, a

(07:57):
big lie, because most people living under socialism are pessants.
Only the elites thrive. So the best way to celebrate
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America's independence is
to spread the truth, which, luckily for us, what you
and Joe do every morning. What are you saying?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well, I appreciate the kind words there at the tail end.
I try my best to do that. Sometimes I feel
personally I fail epically. But as you point out, history
proves your point on socialism, and we bring this up constantly.
Every time it's been tried, it is a result in
failure in the form of misery of the people, collective misery,

(08:37):
I guess, since everyone's sharing and share alike in the
misery that socialism brings around, and that makes things good
or equal. No, you have a demonstrably opposite proof that
our system of government freedom, coupled with free markets and
capitalism is far superior for generating wealth for all people.
That is demonstrable, demonstrated by history for those who take

(08:58):
the moment in time to study it. Go back to
your Adam and Eve point. Maybe it was Adam's failure
by listening to Eve rather than listening to God. Maybe
there's something to learn there about relationships with He. I
believe he failed in some way by listening to her
and not listening exactly to the commandment of God, which
is don't touch it. Lies work collectively on us when

(09:20):
we fail to get the information, when we ignore politics.
How can you get away within such an obvious lie
if by doing a little bit of research, which is
easy to do in this information age, and you can
learn for yourself that maybe it is not true, or
in fact, it could be an outright life. So that
seems to be our failure. And I recognize that when
information is controlled allah or Well, you're only going to

(09:43):
get one view and I think we're farther away from
that one viewpoint than we ever have been because of
all of the information that we find ourselves capable of
reading and learning. So maybe there's a lesson here for
us out here. And I talk about low information voters
all the time, going back to campaign ads and lies

(10:03):
which are in campaign ads, that money that pays for
the campaign ads would be thrown down the toilet, effectively
if we all could see through the lies in the
campaign ads. But because we don't paying attention to politics
generally speaking, that stuff can have some significant effect on
the outcome of an election. Well because you learn what

(10:24):
you learn simply because you listen to a thirty second
spot on TV.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
You're right. I believe most people accept lives because of
peer pressure, which we're going to be talking about as
a topic soon, but for now. When you live in
a healthy society, one where faith, family, free markets, and
personal responsibility are values, peer pressure builds virtue. But in

(10:51):
a decay, decadive society, one with a pop culture that
traps people and arrested adolescents, virtue is replaced by mindless conformity.
To get the most clicks, you sink to the lowest
common denominator because it can't be a lie if everyone
you know believes it. One other thing that we talk

(11:12):
about constantly, Brian is Iran. And look what's going on
now is I've been saying for more than a month
while Democrat propagandists lie when they say Iran is winning
this war. Donald Trump could yet lose the peace. We
pray he won't, but it's possible. Iran boasted to Steve
would cough back in February. They don't deny it that

(11:34):
they had enough highly enriched uranium to build eleven nuclear
bombs in a matter of weeks. That was like a
mugger holding a gun to your head. You have to
grab the gun, and our military did that brilliantly. But
Trump then felves and apparently still feels he can treat
the surviving Mullahs and Revolutionary Guard the way he treated

(11:56):
Delsi Rodriguez in venezuelaans that Maduro's vice president is not
a religious fanatic. Yeah, she's willing to do our bidding,
and I bet she'll hold free elections sooner rather than later.
By sharp contrast, Iran's dead enders will not keep any
deal the Trump negotiates. As we've said, they're like cockroaches.

(12:19):
They're survivors. So while yes, we have won the war militarily,
America may yet lose the peace if we don't stop
losing time and the midterms negotiating a worthless peace deal
and instead demand unconditional surrender. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I really am glad you brought up the point about religion,
because that turns the conflict into something completely different. And
I always like to suggest my listening audience, many of
whom are people of profound faith, would you turn your
back on your religion? I mean, under really any circumstance,
or would you fight to the end in the name
of your religion and your God? So that horse of

(12:59):
a different colum or when you're talking about just sort
of like being ed to a political philosophy versus being
weed to God and religion, that transforms the whole nature
of the conflict. I love talking about it, And go ahead.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
There's plenty to eat other than that apples.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, Well, God.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Is magnificent in his blessings. You just lead a decent life,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh the world would be such a better place. And
you know what, Communism as a concept wouldn't exist if
they're the politicians, the liars, the crazies that want to
control us, couldn't capitalize and win based upon covetousness, envy
and greed, which is really all what it's all about.
Going back to religion.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yep, all right, Joe, stay strong.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Amen,