What The Hegel Is Happening?

[00:00:00] So, what are you in here for? For being black Seriously I am serious You wanna know what happened? I was walking out of a Barnes & Noble And a cop stops me Evidently, a black guy robbed a store in Newark I told him I haven't even been to Newark in months So he starts beating me with his gun Telling me to stop resisting arrest Holy shit, what'd you do? I kept saying I understand I'm under arrest Now please stop beating me

[00:00:30] I'm sorry, I don't understand how you can be so calm about all this Look at me I'm fat, black, can't dance And I have two gay fathers People have been messing with me my whole life I learned a long time ago That there's no sense getting all riled up Every time a bunch of idiots give you a hard time In the end The universe tends to unfold as it should Plus I have a really large penis That keeps me happy

[00:01:27] Greetings This is the Long in the Boot Podcast The podcast coming to you from the heel of the boot of Southwest Louisiana I am your host, G Long Sitting across the way in kind of a congested state Is Deb Hi all Yeah, there you go See there? There, I got it now And I'm glad we're back with you folks Yeah, yeah I'm glad the snowball didn't continue Yeah, it was a Sunday It was a Sunday Hey, if you'd like to get a hold of the Long in the Boot Podcast

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[00:02:26] Of the best podcast in Longville, Louisiana In Longville, Louisiana That's right There might be some competition out there Making tens of dollars We're beating them Fight, fight, fight Hard power Fight, fight, fight Yes Hard power Scotchy, scotch, scotch That is the language of the current administration Well, I don't know what we're going to talk about Nothing's been happening How are you doing, G? I was like, let's look You want to ease in? I don't know if you can ease in I don't know if you can either I think you just shove it in dry, baby You know what?

[00:02:55] I think just as our opening said Have no fear, babies The universe is going to work out as it should So don't stress either way Don't stress That's, well, this is what I Easy to say unless you lose your job I don't want to get into those realities But we know of at least two people that have lost their jobs Yes, yes In the last couple weeks Because of, you know The snowball The snowball, yeah Yeah, it's just barreling through

[00:03:24] He's a, yeah, he's Okay There we go And we're not here to tell you one is right and one is wrong Oh, no, I'm here to tell you that they've been doing this for a long time We all, we do know that Well, see, I've got people that would disagree I realize that Including the president They may not disagree that laws have been broken They might try to argue tiny little minutiae about the laws But I think really what they're trying to say is It don't matter The end justifies the means Well, Trump certainly said that He did say that

[00:03:53] He directly gave us a Napoleon quote, wasn't it? Well, as a matter of fact We got a quote Well, yes and no Because what Trump did was quote Rod Steiger Who played Napoleon in the movie Oh, how very Hollywood of us Well, he's a boomer He's an old boomer He's not even just a boomer I'm a boomer Yeah, we're boomers Technically, but so is Trump But we're the tail end And he's the other end He's the He's the ass end He's the front end Oh, I'm sorry Ass face

[00:04:22] I can't get this right We're the ass end We're the ass end He's the front end Right He's the head Oh, he's certainly a head Okay Of what? Hmm Anyway He quoted Rod Steiger Who misquoted Napoleon Who said He who saves his country Does not violate any law That's right We're not breaking the law Because we're saving the country So And that's relative To your position And by that rationale Then Mussolini

[00:04:52] Stalin Hitler None of them Broke any laws No They were saving their countries They did it all legally We've talked about that before So there you go Yeah, there you are And here we are What Napoleon By the way Just please So I can go ahead And say this Is Napoleon What he said was He never usurped the crown Because the people Put the crown on his head Well, if Trump had known The exact quote And there was a crown involved

[00:05:22] I'm sure he would have used that Well, and Because the people put it on him He has said that The people have given him a mandate And of course The other thing That Napoleon said Which was actually something That Louis XIV said Was I am the state And that's really where you Well, didn't Elizabeth Pretty much say something similar About her role As Queen of England No, she said she was married To England Yes, she was married And by definition The people Yes But married to

[00:05:51] And she believed She was serving the people And judging from Her actions Certainly more benevolent We're talking Elizabeth I By the way Yes Although Elizabeth II Certainly served her people As well That's true That's very true And maybe a little more Malevolent I mean benevolent Than the men you mentioned Yeah And so Now we've got the issue Of You know So can you be a Benevolent Dictator Well there certainly Have been benevolent

[00:06:20] Dictators in the past Yeah You can still have The one in Singapore Is a good example Although some people He's very recent But he's Look Look at Look at Singapore Under his leadership And you would say Well that's a very Successful country Now Do the people have Actual civil rights No They don't But they have jobs And they get fed and they do well But their society Is doing extremely well Yeah And from the point Where he took over The country To where they are now Right And you know That's

[00:06:51] Comparing the United States To other countries Is always a difficult thing Yeah No Because we're not Homogenous Like a lot of countries are We have a wide range Of different groups of people Yes But it's getting Less wide Well at least In view of the In view of the The immigration Exports Well immigration And also all the DEI stuff That's being Rolled back Yeah But that's not kicking people Well I guess And apparently That's Wednesday This Wednesday According to

[00:07:20] Elon Who I've got no Yeah I don't even know What to say about that idiot And people go He's not an idiot He's rich Yeah okay Whatever Yeah You know what He was afraid To take on Zuckerberg Can we talk about that For just one second Him and Zuckerberg Were going to fight Remember Oh that's right A physical He challenged him And then Zuckerberg Went sounds good Let's do it And then Musk Was like Oh but wait a minute Yeah I'm doughy Alright well Let's not I can't fight

[00:07:50] When I'm on ketamine Let's not reduce it Down to physical prowess Okay how about Musk admitting That he does ketamine All the time Yeah he's tripping When he was on Rogan Yeah He's tripping balls He's tripping on it Yeah And how many people Support him right now That would be like If it was just some guy It'd be like Oh he's just a drug addict But since it's Musk Yeah it's cool Hypocrites Hypocrites to the left of me Hypocrites to the right of me Let's try to step back And take a bit of a broader Look at All that's going on Because it's scary To a lot of people

[00:08:20] And yeah If you want to get down To the details And the individuals And talk about The people who are losing Their jobs And their health care benefits And their homes And their homes And all of that That's coming That's a lot And that's going to be terrible And the states that will be Most affected Are the people Who supported him That were very supportive Of Donald Trump Yes But I have seen That some have said They are willing to Take the pain For the better outcome Of our country

[00:08:49] Well what they assume Will be a better outcome Well they believe it Because we're talking about Trump's tariffs When we talk about pain Yeah That we're all going to be paying And the tariffs Have not kicked in yet And we have already Been feeling a pain Even before he got in office And I guess really That's the issue too Is that both sides Have allowed all of this That this corruption graft Overspending waste Hidden pork in bills Oh that's been going on For their little pet projects For decades For decades So And Congress

[00:09:19] Not doing its job Congress abandoning its role As the third equal partner In this government Have let it go With the separation of powers Because they've been doing These little back scratches On each other And if you let this go I'll let this go Hey I need a road From my beach house To town The only party Is the party of power And currently It's the Republicans Who have the power And they've all been Making money And they're going to Continue making money Because they don't Really care about any of us Yeah That's kind of

[00:09:48] My summation too But again So we'll step back And we'll kind of Try to make sense of it In the grand scheme And really We've talked about The pendulum swing Before And so we thought Our history part tonight Should be a little bit About that theory That idea About the patterns In history And what stage We're in now To kind of help Explain You know The chaos Because it is Chaos Yeah Oh it is definitely Chaos right now So do you want to Give a little background

[00:10:18] On Heigl Or you know I can Well I can tell you Who he is He was a 18th century German philosopher From Stuttgart In Germany George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel He was a He was an academic He was an academic He was a philosopher 1700s And he hung out With other philosophers You know Doing their thing Their thinking thing Their thinking thing Especially Especially They were They were Big movers and shakers In the ideas of

[00:10:48] Existentialism Yeah And so One of the things They studied Very heavily Was Greek philosophy And also Patterns They were looking For patterns In history Yeah To explain The chaos In their lifetime A lot of people Look at history Almost like a river Like it flows And you have to Look at these Flowing patterns To be able to Figure out How things Work And Hegel History Wasn't just A chronology It didn't just One thing After another After another

[00:11:18] But he noticed That there were Repeating patterns That seemed To also mirror The way human Beings act Yes Societies And so He developed This theory His dialectic theory Yes And it's called The pendulum The pendulum theory Which I've used I've talked about That many times Sure I've heard about it Since I was a kid My dad used to And I talked about it In class Many many times About how If you look at If you look at Society Our political society

[00:11:47] As a clock With moderates Being directly In the center At the bottom Of the pendulum Swing Then you have The left And the right And it swings Back and forth Over time But my Always in motion Right But never Banging into The side Of the clock No My problem Now is I feel like Each time The pendulum Swings It's actually Swinging harder In each direction And smashing Into the clock It's destroying The clock itself If you're on The side That pendulum

[00:12:16] Is on At that time You think Things are great Right And you desperately Try to keep it there And not let it Swing the other way Correct And sometimes That requires Violence And authoritarianism To stop it Because many would Say the liberals Have been At that other Extreme For a long time Well a lot of people Seem to think That Biden Did all this Yeah And that's just Goofy You're giving him A lot more credit You're giving him Way more credit Than that old fart Deserves And the fact is

[00:12:46] And by the way You also think Or you got people Who think that Well if you're a democrat Then you can't love America And you can't be a Christian And you can't Well we talked about Labels before So you have them In a box With these certain Labels in there And what's happened Is extremism Has pushed people Apart further and further And the people in the middle Be they somewhat liberal Or somewhat conservative There's no We have no voice Because the media Is not going to pick People in the middle They want They want the extremism They want the eyeballs

[00:13:16] Well and they've been Working towards their goals Towards their narratives For quite some time By so much information And then in the last decade Or so we've gotten So much more Misinformation Right And it may be The Russians It may be The Democrats It may be The liberals Whoever the hell's Doing it Whoever's in control Of the media Has been crafting Their narrative And we have this And we are victims Of it Yeah And we have this This entire Situation in our country Right now Where cognitive dissonance

[00:13:44] Is such a big problem Because everybody's Feeding into this Thing where Confirmation bias Has to happen And so nobody Is willing to Even entertain The other side's Viewpoint At all And then it just Becomes a meme War on your social media And then you've got All of the false Information that's Going out there So nobody wants To believe anything Right Our children don't Believe Helen Keller Lived I mean That's how silly And if you think That's a joke It's not a joke No There are students

[00:14:13] In our school today Who believe that Helen Keller Was completely made up That she never existed The sound None of that is real That was all just Created And now we have People Leaders Of our nation So-called leaders Who are saying Things like The The The Civil Rights Movement Was actually Communists Attempting to Subvert Our society Yeah I just saw Everything's a conspiracy I just saw Where Maybe it is

[00:14:42] The Maryland National Guard Has always Performed There's a Day where they Celebrate Frederick Douglass Okay And there's a parade Maryland National Guard Has always Participated In that parade Not anymore No we won't do that We're not letting them Participate in that parade Because that parade Celebrates a black man And that's DEI So these guys Can't be in it So again with the labels And that's very harmful Well that's just insane It is insane To equate To equate DEI With just being black With marching in a parade Yeah For a man who

[00:15:12] Was quite impressive Ostensibly was pretty impressive It was pretty impressive So the pendulum swing theory Right And you can see those patterns yourself Just looking at religion You can see it in religion Originally in ancient times Right We had nature As the divine Correct Then the pendulum swung The other way And we turned to the heavens For the divine And if you're Believing in nature Then we're just gonna burn you Or hang you There's something wrong with you You're a witch Witch And then eventually We come to this more harmonious Where today we understand

[00:15:42] That we can have both A love of nature And the divine from above And Hegel Hegel basically says That the pendulum swings There's three Three things That are going on Three levels And it's pretty simple It's the reaction To the event That he called the thesis The thesis Whatever the event is Well it's that If you think about it In the literary sense When you ask somebody To write a thesis Their thesis is their Claim Their statement Their belief Right

[00:16:11] So you start with Somebody's belief And that's a reaction To something Oh we had I don't know A shooting And somebody will give you Their ideas About why that shooting Happened And what needs to happen And then your reaction To that Yes Happens You say it Okay I believe this Then you have the Person who hears you say it And goes Bullshit Yeah And that's the antithesis Antithesis Yeah That's the opposite Reaction to the thesis Right And then they battle it out And well And they hopefully

[00:16:40] Have a discussion Hopefully they have a discussion Yes And then you get the synthesis Which is the solution To the initial problem Well because then Everything comes together Synthesis is taking What you know And what you learn And you're making An educated Hopefully your educated Judgment brings a balance And a harmony And it's both head And heart It's practical But it's also helpful We're not getting The helpful Because apparently The helpful is DEI Well the problem Just like You're too woke In politics Right now

[00:17:09] That's a good example The Democrats It's all feeling Yes And so they The radicals on the left Took us to this Really weird place Where mutilating a child Was okay Yes Yes And people on the other side Went my god That's insane Which it is It is It's crazy And we know It shouldn't be happening And in the name of equality We're gonna let that go And we're gonna let kids Mutilate themselves Now remember We won't let these kids

[00:17:38] Get a tattoo Yeah Before they're 16 But they can cut off Their junk When they're 9 With their parents permission Which is just nuts And then what's the parent In this And people will go Well then that's why We need a government To make it stop No What we need Is just a simple law Passed by Congress Which could have been done At any time But no Instead We want it for an issue We want to keep it As an issue To fight about it And that's the problem

[00:18:07] And they want us To fight about it That's why the narrative Keeps getting brought up Like that Because they want us To fight about it So the Just The problem is The media made it sound Like thousands of kids Were doing this And it turns out To be Very few Yeah It's a very Very small percentage But you wouldn't know that But the other side Thinks it's Bunches of kids This is happening to And it isn't We all need to Forest bathe People Just go in Forest bathe

[00:18:36] Breatharians You need to be a Breatharian Oh please Well no You need to be a Well we have two groups Within all of this You need to suntan Your butthole You'll feel so much better Hey When you put that Towards the sun It's nice Says you Down dog Okay Not me buddy No nobody needs that So within this Pendulum right now And we obviously Are in an extreme There's no question We're in the extreme And we're So we're in the Reaction phase We're in the first phase

[00:19:07] Yeah The antithesis phase Well I think they overlap Actually I think Hegel was Simplifying it Quite a bit He was But well we are Simplifying it Because we're trying To give a condensed Little concise Idea of what it is Without going into The minutia And I do like the fact That he's got three He's really big On three You need to have Three stages of evolution You've got to try Three times to get Your desired outcome It's a sacred number Yes As we were told By

[00:19:35] Well Schoolhouse Rock Who said Three is a magic It is a magic number Well within Within our pendulum Swings And besides the media As one entity Trying to create A narrative We also have Two others And the first one Came to me And I didn't know Anything about this Until recently Looking at some Musk stuff Musky Musky stuff Well I wanted to know Is he a Christian You know Does he identify As a Christian So when I started

[00:20:05] Looking into that I said The internet tells me That he is a Cultural Christian So then I wanted to know The history of that And that really goes All the way back To the beginning Of I don't know Jesus Well yes Let me finish up here Real quick with Hegel Okay do Hegel Because So Using Hegel looked at Several different Parts of the world And looked at their Wisdom Their writings And he He basically said In our ancient past

[00:20:34] And this is The Vedas of India Said this But Hegel Latched onto it That we Our needs were always met No matter what State we're in Ancient world The natural world Our needs were met Oh And so there were no needs There was no need of war Yes War didn't need to happen Because everybody had the resources They needed to get by It was an age of wisdom So In that time We can't find Arrowheads For instance Or spearheads

[00:21:03] Because they weren't fighting No artillery They were living in harmony With nature And those people Have vanished We don't have any record Of those people Because it was so long ago But as we began Moving towards the medieval era We began to get selfish Well did we Or were there just more people And they couldn't No we became selfish Because we decided That we needed to Serve ourselves first In the ancient tribal world They served the nature Everybody worked for The group

[00:21:32] Yes Right We put up fences And then we began To commit atrocities To one another Poking each other With sticks To be able to get Those resources That we desired As opposed to Working out a deal Yeah The border system And even going so far As to go And kill other people For believing The wrong things Not even something tangible Something that they thought Oh we have to kill them They're not like us They think differently So we're just going to Kill them and take their stuff

[00:22:02] And even went so far Through the medieval era As you were saying Into a point where We would burn women Who tried to heal children That's true nature Who tried to heal women Yeah You just pray Just pray And then we began To find peaceful solutions And being able to Get away from that And then we The pendulum swung again Yes And things were starting To mellow out Things were getting A little better And then we get into Another era of violence

[00:22:31] You know With moving Hagel pointed at The French Revolution Protestants and Catholics Or Well Hagel pointed At the French Revolution Which started out With the most noble Of ideas Yes We are going to have An equal society Everybody's going to be equal We're all going to work together For the common good But the nobles Didn't like that Well the nobles were gone We whacked them first Okay So in fact In the desire To achieve an equal society The first thing we decided Was we have to cut off the head Yes

[00:23:01] Right Well this is This is what dictatorships Do all the time You take over And the first thing you do Is you whack the heads Of all the people Who might disagree with you Yes Not that that could happen today Stop the problem before So you don't have to You don't have to debate You don't have to compromise There is no debate And it's not illegal Because you're doing it For the good Yes For the good of the people Of everybody And so there's no debate And if you try to debate Well then you're an enemy Then you're an enemy You're not loyal And how do you know You're an enemy of the people

[00:23:31] Because you're debating With the person Who's making all this change happen And he's doing it For the good of the people So how can we So you must hate the people There you go You're not a good person So there you go There you are And so This is where we find ourselves We see the pattern Continuing Just as Hegel said Yes Yes And And Baby You would just argue That Well he says That's human nature That that's just the way The universe is And it's going to continue And eventually

[00:24:00] You'll find an equilibrium Until the next Until the next Reaction happens Exactly For instance So there's no stopping it So stop fighting it Right Well a nice simple example Is Currently The president Is spending his time Between the White House And Mar-a-Lago Yes And he wants the White House To be more like Mar-a-Lago Oh In what sense Oh well At Mar-a-Lago

[00:24:29] He's got a big giant patio Where his garden would be And he's come up with a great idea Which is to pave over the Rose Garden The Rose Garden that was created by Jacqueline Kennedy Famous Famous Rose Garden World famous Beautiful Yes Gorgeous We don't have Versailles gardens But we But we do have We have the Rose Garden We do have the Rose Garden Right out there And Trump doesn't really like it What he would like is a nice cement patio

[00:24:56] So he's not all about forest breathing Forest breathing Yeah Not even grass breathing He has asked designers To draft options for how to remake the surface of the Rose Garden So it would be easier He's debating whether it should be limestone Oh my God Or possibly a hardwood floor Outside Outside For dancing Oh He says the roses can stay On the outside edge We can still have some of the Growth

[00:25:26] Oh my God Okay Is this just some Of his weaving Is this just his way of Distracting us Is he saying random bullshit again No no This is actually true He's also replacing a lot of things That have been there for Well Forever With gold vases He's really into gold He likes Gold They usually are attracted to shiny things So If we do this Then when the next guy gets elected Because it's not actually his house

[00:25:55] Oh it is now It's not really his house It belongs to the people And if he does this And then the next person comes in In four, eight, sixteen years Whatever And they have to jackhammer all that up And put down roses Grass Nature We've been to parties like this before Let me explain Mr. Trump has made it clear to associates That he wants to recreate the patio experience From Mar-a-Lago

[00:26:25] His members only club and home in Palm Beach When he is at Mar-a-Lago Mr. Trump spends hours of his evenings On his patio with club members He often holds an iPad Controlling the playlist And blasting Pavarotti and James Brown At ear splitting volumes Oh my god So he's that guy Who like keeps changing the music Before the song finishes Right? He's a complex man He's like a He's like a bad DJ He's very complex Oh he's complex

[00:26:55] Oh help help You're oppressing me And so there you go End of Yeah Yeah Okay Well You know me I'm far against Turning anything into concrete I'd have Gravel is about as far as I want to go I don't really We don't have a concrete driveway We have a gravel driveway I think Why stop Glass Just make it glass There you go Obsidian Ooh Black glass Not black

[00:27:25] Yeah No I think that's Not the right color And black roses Yeah Okay Alright Wherever Do you want to talk about Cultural Christians? Elon Musk says he's a cultural Christian Do you want to inform our people What that is? They may already know They may not have heard the term I may be late to the game Well I had not Like I said Oh you didn't know about it? I did not know I know Christian nationalism Because you've been talking about that For a couple years now And that has At least That has exploded But we knew it would

[00:27:53] Because the nationalism Well because people don't understand Well it's grassroots And again And they've been And it's a misunderstanding of history And it's Yeah well I did I read all that And I tried to read both sides I tried to read the pro Christian national side And the people You know the NPR people Who are like Ah devil people And Yeah So I could get a good consensus Well I think Christian nationalists Some people will identify themselves As Christian nationalists Without really realizing They're not A lot of people I see They want

[00:28:23] They want the United States To be a Quote unquote Christian nation But they're not understanding What Christian nationalists Really want Really believe Which is Complete control It's this thing Called dominionism I've talked about it On this very podcast The seven mountain mandate Which says That you have to Infiltrate And take over The seven areas Of movement Necessary to Change society

[00:28:52] So you have to Get in And basically Take over The family Religion Education Media Entertainment Business And government And By doing that You can then Begin to take over The world And their quote And it's all justified By one quote In Isaiah 2-2 Now it shall Come to pass In the latter Days That the mountain Of the Lord's House Shall be Established On top Of the mountains

[00:29:23] This is it This is their Whole Reason for being We go back To the original Protestants The Puritans Who came in And said They have a City on a hill They're going to Make everybody Like us In a 2024 poll 41% of American Christians said They believe in The seven mountains Mandate Yes But the problem Is that our Country And this is where Everybody falls apart They think That this country Was founded To Perpetuate Christianity That is not

[00:29:53] The case And by not Studying history You can make That claim And knowing That you had Different groups And there Were many Different groups They weren't all Puritans No That's what the Puritans wanted To do There were Several There were Several groups Several groups But they believe That if they Can fulfill The seven mountains Mandate Then they can Establish the Kingdom of God And bring about End times Which Okay Which is a Very

[00:30:21] Terrifying Twisted reading Of all of it Yes And It's In a way It's very cult Like It is And then Do you want To And it's Pretty terrifying They are They are Generally supportive Of President Donald Trump His Woman there Paula White Who's his Spiritual Advisor She now has An office In the White House He gave it To her All you have To do Is listen to Her And look At her And understand Go research It yourself She's not You don't Have to

[00:30:51] Listen to Us Her Words Look at Her And what She talks About And you'll See that it's not very Christian Which brings us back to cultural Christianity Well yeah I was going to go before we continue with that idea of the Christian Nationals because it's a very strong and very powerful lobbying group essentially They're in power The first time I heard of cultural Christianity was Richard Dawkins which is a really interesting Thing because he is an avowed atheist

[00:31:18] Yes and Jordan Peterson was too and now he's not he's just a flat out Christian and now he's identified Yes but Dawkins did say that he now says he's a cultural Christian just like Eli But he doesn't believe in God No because it's not about Jesus It has nothing to do with believing in God or Jesus

[00:31:36] And Musk did say this last time he said this was in July of 2024 when he was with Jordan Peterson in fact said I am a cultural Christian and so for you in the audience who don't know what a cultural Christian is they they don't necessarily believe in Christian traditions and morals but not the Christian doctrine he believes in the teachings of Jesus being good and wise but he doesn't you know believe in well that he doesn't believe in the mystical part

[00:32:06] Right and and so Elon Musk first of all let's not forget he was an avowed atheist Yes Okay Musk Musk and Dawkins too for that matter Yes He now calls himself a cultural Christian this does not take away from the fact that he doesn't believe in God Yes That's the part that people don't understand He does believe that this Christianity though can help society it's going to increase birth rates

[00:32:35] and happiness He believes that Christianity will make him money Well it is making him money Yeah it sure is It's making them all money And so Even though they're finding money Now Yeah Let's not take away from the fact that there's wasting graft that they are uncovering And not showing us any proof of Rapid rating And you know what he's doing a fine job of promoting birth rate in this country already Himself

[00:33:06] He's peopling the world with little musks You know who have weird names Anyway Cultural Christian Cultural Christian For a long time we've had Jews and Catholics are a good example Who basically are cultural They don't Yes it's not about If somebody says I'm a Jew It doesn't necessarily mean they go and practice the faith They don't go to synagogue or whatever Lots of Americans do Christian-y stuff like And I love this

[00:33:34] The example is decorate Christmas trees That has nothing to do with Christianity No But anyway Or better yet Getting eggs on Easter Oh they Yeah No no no These are traditions that are rooted in Christianity But the key is It's the culture surrounding It's the culture It's the idea of Christianity It's the tradition Because tradition and rituals and routines help people But what I've discovered is many people who identify as cultural Christians more and more They don't believe in God

[00:34:03] They don't believe in Jesus They don't believe in any of that nonsense They believe what they want to believe Whereas if you even want to be slightly historian about it You pretty much have to believe in Jesus The person That he lived Exactly So you called it You said nonsense You can't really call it Well I meant nonsense as just a group of things Oh okay But it's been around since Christianity itself Correct In fact cultural Christians were the norm in the early church

[00:34:33] Early Christians had all the same cultural pressures that Christians face today Well they couldn't say they were Christians out loud No Yeah That was the problem So really you know it's just it's part of the culture of life And going back to Dawkins Dawkins wrote a book called The God Delusion So I mean this is how much he doesn't believe in God And then he still identifies himself as a cultural Christian Well because it fits the narrative It gets him what he needs

[00:35:01] He once said he was one of the four horsemen trying to bring about an atheist revolution Is it not possible in fact that cultural Christians like Musk and Dawkins Are actually attempting to destroy Christianity from within That's what I think The art of war or the art of religion Yes And I think that they are after Christians to try to basically subvert their religion And which is already happening anyway

[00:35:31] Yeah and water it down Yes And then take it to the extreme of the Christian nationals Correct The figures like Musk and Dawkins I think have realized that societal norms The societal norms of the United States Are such that they have to say something In order to weasel their way in Well that So Musk knows that Christians are supporting Trump Evangelical Christians are supporting Trump So how can he wiggle his way into that group?

[00:35:59] Well he needs to make sure that we all understand that DEI is the enemy Well he just is good at sensing the culture And identifying what we need Well because they're smart And think about Christians They actually understand Christians would have thought the worst of him before But now that he's identified himself as a cultural Christian And he's got all that money He kind of believes what we believe No he doesn't He's a drug using I can't emphasize this enough He's a Ketamine

[00:36:28] That affects your brain It changes your brain chemistry And he uses it all the time He said he does His own words What Christian 20 years ago would have went Oh I want that guy in my group I'd be tripping on that No they'd be trying to get him to stop Yeah If anything To save him To save him Okay so I think a cultural Christian like Musk today says You know I think this religion might be a big thing So maybe we need to latch on to that And I like western civilization

[00:36:57] And that seems to be part of this whole thing You're going to get so much trouble I just don't want to do the hard parts Like believing in the divinity of Jesus How can I Or reading the dogma and understand Or reading the bible Or reading the bible I don't think he's ever read the bible Well we know Donald sells them But he's never read them Because he doesn't read He's Again his own His own words Donald said he does not read And he can pay somebody to read to him I guess And I think There's a guy who wrote a book Years ago It's been

[00:37:26] You got to read it though More than 10 years ago But it's called The Flea Market Jesus Oh wow And he was talking about vendors Who capitalize on religion To make money Oh yeah And most people That capitalize on Jesus To make money Actually believe Do believe Yes And he said But we gradually Slowly but surely We begin Going away from that And now people are Saying they're religious And in their minds They know they're not Because they don't buy into it

[00:37:56] Well they use it for networking They use it for networking They use it to make money Profitability Well that's not new That's been around Since the beginning But this is the thing That gets me The fastest growing Religious category For the last 12 years When asked Were the nuns These are people Who just go I don't really believe Anything at all Well okay But if you're talking now Let's go to Christian nationals Wait Let me finish Oh okay Among that number though

[00:38:24] The number of atheists Who now say They are cultural Christians Is growing So They see something in it That they can identify with And so then they can Then they don't have to say Oh I'm an atheist And he believes And I'll use Dawkins As the last part of this Dawkins who is again An atheist An avowed atheist Says Well I appreciate the hymns And I like the cathedrals I like to live in a Christian country Although I don't believe A single word of the faith

[00:38:53] I'm really uncomfortable With the rise of Islam And I I see Christianity As the defender Against The rise of Islam I mean I'm on team Christian Oh All right And J. Edgar Hoover Was a Was a perfect Example of this as well He believed In the importance Of Christianity In the fight for America But didn't believe A word of it Before the Just for the Societal control Yes Yeah So there you go Because if If your society

[00:39:23] Is a good Christian society Then people aren't Going to commit crimes And they're not Going to do terrible things And they're all Going to live a good life Because that never Happened in very Very Christian Societies in the past No People with good values Don't do bad things Okay Yeah So for a few years Now we have been Talking about Christian nationalism You're the first person That you know Mentioned it to me A couple years ago And we've been Talking about How they've been Kind of grassrooting Themselves into Local and state

[00:39:53] Government offices And eventually Now it has grown And exploded The numbers Of people Who identify And have the Christian nationalist Beliefs And there are Five questions They ask to Identify these groups On a map Christian nationalism Forms a horseshoe It starts in the Midwest and then Goes down into The deep south And then moves up Through the Appalachian mountains So there are Five states who Have at least Forty five percent Of residents Who identify

[00:40:23] As either Adherents Meaning they Believe all five Of the tenets Of Christian nationalism Or they are Sympathizers of it North Dakota Is 50 percent Mississippi 50 percent Alabama 47 West Virginia 47 And Louisiana Coming up the Rear As at 46 percent So they all Hold Christian National beliefs And if I can Find the five Questions they

[00:40:52] Asked I did I think I did Oh no here they Are okay So this is how They determined This and this Study was done Last year By a site Called prri.org And they are Forming an American values Atlas They're trying to Put together Just what we Believe Oh yeah Yeah Okay so they Asked these Five questions And you either Completely agree Mostly agree Mostly disagree Or completely disagree So the first one Is the U.S.

[00:41:22] Government should Declare America A Christian Nation Okay U.S. Laws should Be based on Christian values Our laws Based on Christian values The U.S. If the U.S. Moves away From Christian Foundations We cannot be A country Anymore Being Christian Is an important Part of being Truly American And God Has called Christians To exercise Dominion Over all Areas Of American Society There you go So 10% Well they would Believe that They believe in God Because God's

[00:41:52] Over everything So you can't That's a question That has a Guaranteed answer Yes I think They're all Kind of leading Questions They are But So 10% Of Americans Overwhelmingly That they were Asked 22,000 people Were asked 10% Overwhelmingly Agreed With all The statements 20% Said they Agree With most Of the Statements Right Yeah And then We had The skeptics That was 37% They disagree With most Of the Statements

[00:42:22] But there Are a Couple That they're Like Yeah All right And then 30% Reject all Of them So a Third So we're Still back To that Same Percentage Of society Right 30% Have these Views And then Two thirds Are in The extreme Right now I guess It feels Like two thirds Are the Extreme There you Go And then 30% Out here Going Hey We're the Middle People I guess I don't know Where we Are As far As the Middle of The road People who Just want To be Able

[00:42:51] To afford Their Eggs Yeah Well we'd Like to be Able to Afford Eggs I'd like To be Able to Continue To be Able to Buy Devices Or have In fact I had Considered Getting you An egg For Valentine's Day Oh You don't Do that Though No I Don't Believe Valentine's Day No you Don't Believe It's A money Grab It is So you Know what They didn't Mention capitalism In any of This Which I Which I Find interesting Because Well we're Not actually Using capitalism Right now Because if You start Capitalism Really True

[00:43:21] Capitalism A true Market economy Requires free Trade From everyone Other countries Shouldn't Have Tariffs So nobody Charge any Tariffs at All across The world Across the World That would Be true Pure Capitalism Antithesis Then of What we're Doing Now Yes That is Now some Of it I Understand I mean I I tend to Agree that If europe Is going to Put tariffs On our Cars Then we Should put Tariffs Exact Match For match The best The best Result

[00:43:51] Would be Zero On both Everybody Would benefit More from That But we Also have To realize That all These people Who have Made so Much money In their Stocks For companies That have Moved Their Manufacturing Overseas Made their Money because These companies Cut their Labor And that Is how They made Their money So they're Being hypocritical Again when They're saying Now we Need to Bring manufacturing Back to America What now

[00:44:21] That you've Made your Millions of Dollars You want To bring The manufacturing Back I see That's the Facts People would Not have Made nearly As much Money If they Hadn't Moved Labor Offshore And that Happened In the 70s It did We used To be One of The biggest Textile Manufacturers In the World All those All those Plants Gone All that Cotton Louisiana Used to Have a Bunch Of Textile Companies None Of Them Are In Operation Today Not One They All Went Overseas

[00:44:51] And I'm Sure the Owners And the Stockholders In those Companies Made a Fortune At the Cost Of What And then They And then They Moved On to Their Next Industry And They Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of For For Life

[00:45:21] Congress Pay Six hundred And twenty Five Dollars A year For For For Unlimited Health Insurance For Life And If They They're Out Of Office If They Have A Disease That Needs To Be Treated Even After They They They They're They're

[00:45:51] They're Just Giving It Away Republicans In Congress Right Now Are Either Boot Lickers Or They're Cowards It's One Or The Other There's No In Between Anybody Can The Republicans will be screaming bloody murder. That's all you need to know. They're hypocrites.

[00:46:20] And I've been saying this about Congress for years. Both sides. They're not doing their job. There is no two-party system in this country. There is one party. It is the party of power and the party of elitism. And currently, they are completely taking over the government. It is a coup from the inside to put the people's voice away. We will not have a voice in the future. In the guise of using the people as the winners in all of this. We're saving you.

[00:46:48] The narrative is that we're helping you. We're saving you. Nothing I do is illegal as long as I'm saving you. Hegseth got to Europe and said exactly what this is. This is power. He said it. And it's in little ways, too. For instance, Border Patrol agents have been told they no longer need to use the body cameras. Why would that be? Yeah. Why would it? Does it cost? You may be against immigration. They already have them. It's not costing any money to use them.

[00:47:15] It seems to me that the only reason you would turn them off would be so we can't see what they're doing. Well, all right. So we could go on and on, but there's no reason because our people are living the same life we're living. Absolutely. They already have their views. They're on one side of the pendulum or the other. Sure. Or they're in the middle screaming because we're trying to be normal. I will say that something interesting has happened. I have been saying the same things for years. Yes.

[00:47:43] And nobody said a word until now. And now the things I am saying, which have not changed, what's changed is the situation. Well, the people in charge have changed. Yes. And now I'm an enemy. Yeah. Now you're the enemy. Now I'm crazy. Well, after the podcast today, you may very well get a knock on the door, sir. Maybe it will. You know what? They do keep drawing parallels to World War II and Adolf Hitler. They do. It is hard not to. It's really hard not to.

[00:48:11] And I would encourage anyone to go read. And in particular, there was a reporter for CBS in the 1930s and 40s named William Scherer. Who was it? Or Scherer. I think it's Scherer. I say Scherer. Who actually was witness to the rise. Well, not only the rise, but the pre-rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Getting everything in place. And I'm not comparing Trump to Hitler in any way, shape, or form. But Scherer kept a journal.

[00:48:40] But I sure am seeing some parallels. Oh, strong. And one of the things that really bothers me is the parallels of people wanting to destroy the republic. Not necessarily putting one man in charge, but just destroying the levers of power. For instance, closing all these agencies that Musk is doing right now. A man unelected, by the way. Destroying entire sections of our government.

[00:49:08] When Congress could have gone through USAID, for instance, line by line. And taken out the pork. And removed all of the pork. But they didn't. They didn't because it benefited them at the time. And that's my issue. And now it benefits this group to take it out. And it benefits Democrats to have something to complain about. So that's all I see. I see the same old thing happening again. Only this time, the party in power is the Republicans. And the party that's not is Democrats. And soon, it'll flip.

[00:49:38] And when it flips, all of this stuff that's going on right now, Republicans will start screaming, How dare they do that? And the Democrats will go, Well, you did it too. You're assuming there'll still be a system in place to flip. Oh, no. They'll keep doing that because that's how you keep America unfocused on the real problem. You keep us at each other's throats. Oh, absolutely. Over Democrat and Republican versus us and them. It's a cultural and economic war. Oh, yeah. Against us. It's the elites. And they are taking their war out against the people.

[00:50:07] Yes. And right now, if you have a job and you're making money, you don't see it. But how many people... You see it when you go to the damn grocery store, when you get your car insurance. But how many people who are losing their job, 100,000 already from the federal government, how many of those people were actually doing work we needed? For instance, in Louisiana now, the folks that were responsible, the wildlife folks, they've canceled all public interaction. Fake news. So all of... It's not fake news. They announced it themselves. No, I know.

[00:50:38] So all field trips, for instance, that brought kids from the city out to the bayous and the country to see nature and all. Canceled. Done. They don't need that. They've been running a public service campaign on TV and now that kids from the city going out to the country. Well, they don't need that. It's a feel-good thing. Kids need to know that. They need to know where their food comes from. Not going to do it. Nope. Mm-mm. No. And because they closed the entire thing down as opposed to carefully going through...

[00:51:08] This is not an audit. Yeah. Basically, they needed to bring a scalpel to this and what they've brought is a baseball bat. Yes. And that's the problem. And everybody who's thrilled that they're taking a baseball bat to these large segments of the government are going to be really upset when it affects them. That's the problem. And that's what they're depending on. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. As long as we don't affect everybody all at once, we'll be able to get away with it.

[00:51:32] It's incrementalism, which is something, by the way, that one Adolf Schickelgruber, better known as Hitler, was really, really good at. And it wasn't even him. It was the party. Two things. One, people are saying, well, why can't they stop Trump? Well, he's got too many things going on. Courts are going to react. He always leads. Yes. Because courts can't do anything until something happens. And then the antithesis has to occur. But I will say this, and I looked this up to make sure it was true, and it is true.

[00:52:01] There is something called vexatious litigant. Do you know what a vexatious litigant is? Well, it's confusing. No. It is a way for them to actually stop Trump. Judges can do this. Often there's a guy in prison, and he's trying to get out of prison, so he just files lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit. Just boggle him with paperwork. And pretty soon, a judge goes, you are a vexatious litigant, and throws everything away. Then you have to consider them. Well, then that's a fresh restart.

[00:52:31] And that's what judges actually can do in this case. All these challenges that Trump has filed against these judges, and also threatening them with all manner of things, he wants to fire them, which is, again, a violation of the law. But you have to enforce those violations. Exactly. And that's the problem. Yeah, nobody's going to enforce. We're destroying the bedrock of our Constitution.

[00:52:55] And again, if we don't have a Constitution, if we don't have separation of powers, and we don't have that, then we don't have a Constitution. If we don't have a Constitution, we don't have the rule of law, we have a monarchy. Well, and if we get rid of the FDIC, then your bank account is not covered by insurance. Not to mention that Musk and his little minions are just rooting around in all of our personal information. Yep. I don't like that at all. And think about how easy it would be, then, to apply pressure to anybody who disagrees with

[00:53:24] the Republicans. Any judge. Well, Your Honor, look at this message you sent here. Look at that text. Oh, that's humiliating. That's embarrassing. That one's illegal. So, yeah. Sure. You're going to do sure? Because I'm going to wrap it up. We're at the Great Reset. We are. They said it during COVID. We're working on the Great Reset. Well, apparently, globally, we got, because we hadn't even talked about global issues. Oh, I know. This isn't even what's happening globally. It's not global yet. Although it will be. We're throwing everybody into chaos.

[00:53:54] Europe realizes it now. Oh, fuck yeah. But you know what? The last time we withdrew and became an isolationist nation, which is where we're headed, World War has resulted. Well, I know. That's why I posted that YouTube video. Nobody watched it. So, a couple quotes from Shera to wrap it up here. What's the year? We're talking 1930-ish. This one would be, actually, this one is after the war. Okay. And then the other one that I'm going to do is before the war. Okay. Well, I'm going to say no.

[00:54:25] No, say goodbye afterwards. Okay. So, he said, after everything, the book that he wrote, by the way, is called The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany. Anyway, he said, no class, group, or party could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the republic. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. And that's what we've got. A lot of different voices, but nobody's really saying anything.

[00:54:55] That goes for you, Congress. And finally, Shera was interviewed and somebody said, well, but that could never happen here, right? And this is in 1969. Okay. And Shera was much older, of course, at that point. Wiser. He said he was watching, and this is when he was watching Nixon coming to power. Okay. And, of course, we all know how that went. Nixon tried to seize too much. Yeah. He got his pee-pee slapped.

[00:55:20] He said, you know, it does seem as if things are changing in America. And then he said this, perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically by popular vote. So there you go. Read it. I'm telling you folks, it's a great book. Rise and fall of the Third Reich. Interesting eye-opening. And it shows you the pattern. And it shows how they dismantled a republic and did it in 53 days. That's all it took. Yeah.

[00:55:50] There you go. Well, I almost feel like my ending is bittersweet. Your joy? Well, I will say that I don't care who you support. I still love you. I love you, too. Not you. I was talking to them. Those people. Oh, shush. I love you, too. Hmm. That's debatable now. I'm going to make you some jamble-ah, baby. Oh, that's true. All right. Well, cooking is true love. Your joy is portable. Things tend to unfold as they should. They always do. I live by that.

[00:56:19] Find your balance, and the universe will unfold as it should. You just got to bring your joy with you. It's portable. And everybody have a great week, and we'll see you in two.

[00:57:02] Record button. And I think, let me see. Are you talking in a normal voice? Am I talking in a normal voice? Yeah, we do. Like a non-congested voice? Not exactly, but I'm working on it. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's try to keep this at 45 minutes. That would be nice. Sure. Yeah, we'll try. We'll try. There's no guarantee. Well, I think we're kind of narrowed and limited now today in that we finally got a three-prong approach. Well, I don't know if it's three prongs.

[00:57:30] It's mostly just one prong split into three. Well, you start with the pendulum. You move to the cultural Christian, and then you move to the... I don't really have anything on the cultural Christian thing. Well, I think we needed to bring that up because I think it all ties in together, and that's Musk. I mean, Musk identifies as a cultural Christian. He got on Joe Rogan, apparently, and while I didn't listen to that podcast, that was something I read about.

[00:57:59] And since he just had his 13th child, apparently... Oh, I'm sorry. Wait. Allegedly had his 13th. No, no. He did. Well, I don't know that he's acknowledged it. He had it. Or she did. She had it. And I hope she got it like in a test tube. Well, apparently, seven women? Four, seven? I don't know how many women are birthing his...

[00:58:25] He's got a handmaid's tail basket of women, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Okay. All right. So... And clearly, the mothers have no control because she... The last ex's mother was adamant that she did not want her child being used for politics. Well, she... And yet... And yet it's going to happen. And yet he's been the talk of the world. All right. Mm-hmm. Here we go.