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#272 - Tucker Carlson’s Easter Shock: Trump’s Iran Ultimatum & The Christian Conflation · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Today is April the 7th, and we are going to find out whether Donald Trump is
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  the extreme bluffer or if something catastrophic is going to happen later today.
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  He issued an ultimatum to Iran that they either open the Strait of Hormuz or
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  they are going to experience hell on earth today, and today is the deadline.
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  And actually, 20 minutes ago, before we are live right now, he just put out
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  a statement on Truth Social.
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  Donald Trump says, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight,
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  never to be brought back again.
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  I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
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  However, now that we have complete and total regime change, where different,
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  smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionary,
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  wonderful, can happen. Who knows?
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  We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and
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  complex history of the world, 47 years of extortion, corruption,
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  and death, we will finally end.
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  God bless the great people of Iran. So we're going to focus this morning on
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  what Tucker Carlson, his show that he did yesterday and his perspective on Donald
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  Trump, because I've went back and forth on this.
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  I don't know Tucker Carlson's motives. He says that he likes the man,
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  he loves the man, Donald Trump, but it feels like he has turned a complete about face on Donald Trump.
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  And we're going to look at what he said in his, the remarks that he is specifically
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  focused on was on Easter morning, Donald Trump issued the ultimatum.
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  And I'm not going to quote it here because Tucker is going to say it in this clip.
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  The Easter is a uniquely joyful and peaceful moment.
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  And yet that peace yesterday was shattered. That's not an overstatement.
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  It was shattered for many observant Christians by a statement that the president
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  of the United States put out at 8.03 a.m.
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  Eastern time on Easter morning that said this, and we're going to read it in
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  its entirety, not in outrage or self-righteousness, but honestly in horror. Quote.
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  Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran.
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  There'll be nothing like it, three exclamation points.
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  Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch, all caps.
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  Praise be to Allah, President Donald J.
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  Trump. Now, a lot of people reading that imagined, of course, this can't be real.
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  Did the president of the United States really just write that? And it is real.
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  It is maybe the most real thing this president has ever done,
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  and also the most revealing.
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  On every level, it is vile. On every level.
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  It begins with a promise to use the U.S.
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  Military, our military, to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country,
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  which is to say to commit a war crime, a moral crime against the people of the country.
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  So I know a lot of people are jumping on this, and when he brings up the praise
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  be to Allah, I have to point this out.
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  Just him saying that Christians in these Arabic, they speak Arabic over there.
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  That's their word for God.
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  That's what they call God. Christians say when they're talking about God, they say Allah.
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  That's just the word for God over there. And I know Donald Trump,
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  when he's using that, it's very provocative.
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  It's sarcasm. It's to make a point, a greater point.
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  Donald Trump is always going to say crazy stuff to get people riled up he's
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  not conventional and every time we think that we understand the man we don't
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  but what tucker tucker is bringing up is.
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  His disgust for Donald Trump, and it's coming through, and I don't know his motives.
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  I don't know. I think Donald Trump turned against him, and now he is whatever
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  Donald Trump says that Tucker is going to disagree with, and he's upset with.
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  And I think this is a very pivotal point in history, of U.S.
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  History, world history.
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  But where the conflation is happening is Tucker is constantly berating Donald
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  Trump and using Christian morals.
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  And this is where I think people are getting the disconnect of there's the personal
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  individual person that if you're a Christian and then there's government, there's nations.
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  And when the apostles were here and when Jesus was here, the last thing that
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  they did was try to tell Caesar how to not be Caesar and to be the moral police over Caesar.
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  They were out there to convert souls, to share the gospel, share the good news.
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  They weren't in a position of the king needs to be become Christian.
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  And I know I want Donald Trump to be Christian and he says he is,
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  but Donald Trump is going through things.
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  He's making decisions as, as a leader of the United States.
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  When you're put in that role, cause I'm always thinking about this.
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  Should I, like, if I was in that position, would I be like Truman?
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  And I would, I make the call to drop the atom bomb. Would I make the call?
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  Would I be able to, even if I was a pilot, be able to drop bombs on people where
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  it could hit civilians, people that are quote unquote innocent?
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  I don't know if I could. And it doesn't even matter if I know if I could.
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  I'm not in that position.
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  It doesn't matter. You're not there.
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  God hasn't put you there. The only people that are there, God has put Donald
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  Trump where he's at or any person that's in authority and they're making calls.
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  They're executing in some ways God's will. I mean, and always pretty much God's will.
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  They wouldn't be there if God hadn't put him there. And they're doing things
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  that we don't even understand.
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  We don't see what's behind the veil. We don't see what God is doing in the heavenly
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  realms, what God's will is. It's just before our eyes.
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  But this is where the conflation happens, that we just think that as Christians,
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  we need to impose our values upon our leaders. And it's great if they have those values. Values.
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  But that to be our ultimate extreme end, it's really missing the point.
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  On this next clip, I can kind of agree with Donald.
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  I can agree with Tucker because he is about Paula White and what she said about Donald Trump.
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  Comparing him to Jesus was over the top.
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  And you should not do that. But let's take a look at this clip.
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  And Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. It's not true.
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  It almost cost you your life. You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused.
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  It's a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us, but it didn't end
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  there for him, and it didn't end there for you.
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  It's hard to believe that's real. That is so vile. It's such a sacrilege.
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  Standing in front of American flags in the White House with some kind of beta
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  evangelical leader nodding along, as you liken the president of the United States
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  to Jesus, the Christian Messiah,
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  God in human form, how could you say something like that?
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  How could the rest of us sit by and not protest when she said something like
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  that? How could any Christian watch that and not feel revulsion?
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  Well, because people didn't pay attention or they didn't think about it.
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  Oh, it's just the praise that Trump demands.
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  Fine. I think about in the Bible, King Nebuchadnezzar, he was a man that he slaughtered Jews.
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  He slaughtered a lot of people. He conquered nations. He was the pinnacle of
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  power in his time in history. But God got to him.
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  God made him a child of his, brought down his pride so that he became a follower
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  of the true God that we see. We see his testimony in the book of Daniel.
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  We see Nebuchadnezzar, that king, his testimony of how God brought him to humiliation
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  so that he cried out to the true and living God.
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  So all I'm saying is, I think it is disgusting what Paula White says,
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  like making those comparisons.
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  It's hard for me to say that some other Christian is doing something terrible
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  because we all have our unique roles and personalities, and maybe God's calling
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  us to something that we don't necessarily agree with, but maybe God's behind it.
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  Her saying that to me, it does rub me wrong. I don't think we should be comparing
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  any person to God who is Jesus Christ. I don't think we should do that.
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  She's making an analogy to like drive home the point of what President Trump has went through.
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  It does rub me the wrong way as well. So I get that is kind of repulsive to me.
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  But maybe the struggle that Donald Trump is going through is his own pride.
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  Maybe that is something that he could struggle through and God needs to bring him down low.
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  Maybe her like putting that in front of him is in God is watching.
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  Are you going to accept that praise? Are you going to in humility say no?
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  We don't know Donald Trump's heart.
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  I don't know his heart. We don't know anyone's heart. And we don't know what
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  God is doing behind the scenes behind anyone.
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  So where where this goes, because this is going to we're going to find out that
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  after today, we could be in a completely different world. If God, if,
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  That's not a Freudian slip. If Donald Trump, I mean, that is just even saying
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  that, like there will be a man in the future that will accept praise as God.
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  So Donald Trump, I don't, God only knows who the Antichrist is.
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  I don't think it's him, but I know some people do.
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  But if God decides to allow Donald Trump to do something next level tonight
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  of ramping up, of dropping a bomb,
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  of just decimating their entire infrastructure over there in Iran,
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  behind it, ultimately, anything, I mean, you can't get away from the fact.
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  The worst atrocities in the world, whether you look at it as an atrocity or
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  as something that just needs to be done, everything happens,
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  especially at the power level that these world leaders have.
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  At third level, God is behind it all, pulling the strings, not necessarily in
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  pulling the strings, his will is being played out in world affairs.
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  So if that goes to that level where that happens and we, it's not for me really
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  to decide, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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  I don't think I, at the personal individual level, I think we should all be
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  trying to reach people's souls and try to let them know that there is a way
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  that you don't have to go to hell and it's not through Islam.
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  And it's like, this is the struggle that I have. Like if people are born into
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  this ideology where it's not just like peaceful Islam or being a Muslim,
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  but they're born into this radicalized worldview, death to America,
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  death to Israel, death to all Jews, death to everyone, except if you're a Muslim.
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  It's like, what do you do with that? Because I know I've lived with a lot of
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  people that are peaceful Muslims, that are good people, a lot better people
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  than me. And that's the point.
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  The way you get to heaven, the way you get to be with God is not based on what
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  you even do at all. It's not.
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  It's based on whether you're forgiven or not. And if you're forgiven,
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  then you will, your life will change.
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  So I could say, I know there are a lot of people that are a lot better than
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  a lot of good Christians, but it's just, are you connected with Jesus Christ or not?
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  Muslims are not connected with them.
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  They're denying him, but that doesn't give them cause to they need to die.
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  But what do we do with people that they, they're going to be,
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  they're going to not only want to strap bombs to them and be suicide bombers
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  and blow up as many people as they want as they can so that they can get to
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  paradise and have virgins in heaven.
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  Not only that, but they are putting into their minds of their own children that
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  you need to do the exact same thing. What do we do with that?
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  When is it time for our government leaders to put a stop to that, to not let it.
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  Infect the rest of the world, infect other minds, and just take with the sword
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  and spread that ideology?
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  When is it time? When is enough enough? I'm not saying because I'm not in that
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  position that Donald Trump is in or that any of our leaders are in,
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  but they're there and they're making the call.
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  And really behind it is it's God.
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  God is making the decision. He's made the decision. we're just seeing it played
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  out it it can be it can feel like tough to accept that it really can but at
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  the end of the day like tucker is his disgust with donald trump putting that out there.
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  No one would get this like that's how you got to get people's attention i i
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  just see it donald trump is just he wants to say the craziest thing possible
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  and to him it might even be crazy he's just a deal maker and he's trying to
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  make things happen that he wants.
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  And he's doing it through coercion,
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  pressure, leverage on all these other people, these other nations.
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  And I get the whole Israel angle because if I went into that,
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  like if someone, and I know most people right now don't support Israel,
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  most people are not standing with the Jews and with the Israel nation.
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  And it's like us doing what we are doing in the United States.
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  I'm not going to sit back and say, we're doing it for America.
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  If I wasn't, if I didn't stand with Israel, I would probably be pissed too.
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  Honestly, I would be in disagreement, you know, tearing my hair out if I had hair.
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  But from my point of view and from a lot of Christian Zionists,
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  it's not that we think Israel is doing the right thing always,
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  but we understand that the only lasting world power is going to be Israel.
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  And to align as closely as possible with them, even though they get us into a whole lot of mess.
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  That we are suffering and our own people are suffering. It comes to that.
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  But really in this world, we haven't seen that. We haven't seen American soldiers dying.
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  We just rescued our two pilots that got shot down over there this past weekend.
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  So we haven't seen those levels. But overall, the good of our own nation and everybody,
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  Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Dave Smith, everybody out there,
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  they're going to say the exact opposite because they want to disconnect as completely
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  as possible from Israel.
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  They don't want us to be close to them. They don't want to see them as our greatest
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  ally. This is not popular.
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  This is lasting and honestly, a real nuance and perspective that is going to
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  carry us through as the United States to actually survive because Israel survives.
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  Other nations are not going to survive.
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  Other nations are going to crumble and fall. And if we turn our back on Israel,
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  if we do, which we will, and I'm saying this because I can see the writing on
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  the wall, because people in the administration are there now,
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  are not going to be there forever. And I know what's coming down the line that
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  people that support Israel, they're going to be old news and they're going to
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  probably have to go into the byways, the highways or whatever.
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  But I don't care. I care more about standing for truth than standing for what is going to be popular.
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  I don't care about what's popular.
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  God's eye in his hand is going to be with Israel. The United States has been
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  here for 250 years and I'm very thankful.
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  We are probably the greatest nation that's ever been, you know,
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  next probably would be Israel.
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  You know, they haven't full, like the blessing has not been fully unleashed upon them.
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  That will happen when the Jews accept the Messiah.
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  Once the Jews embrace Jesus and it's, it's universal for Israel and the Jews, that will happen.
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  We're not going to, nothing is going to compare to the blessing that they're
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  going to receive and that they will be the dominant power.
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  But I know we're going to go through tribulation and struggle before we get there.
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  Tucker Carlson, his mindset, where he's at on this, this is really decision time.
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  I mean, decision in our own hearts, our outlook as individuals,
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  this is where we're at. Where are we going to stand?
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  But really, that is just for our own peace of mind.
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  Are we going to be at peace and understanding that, you know,
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  whatever happens, that we're okay with it because God's in control? Or are we going.
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  Just fall to oblivion in our own souls and this, this hatred,
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  which is going to turn out for our not well, not our wellbeing.
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  And I just think what Tucker, what Tucker's doing, he's emblematic of like this,
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  this moment in history of turning on Donald Trump when Donald Trump,
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  he's, he's probably doing it for his own purposes, but maybe that God will bring
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  him to his knees to not to be prideful about this, to not accept the praise
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  of being compared to Jesus.
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  I just think they, Donald Trump has been given the call. What is he,
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  what is he going to make? And we're going to see it all played out tonight, today.
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  I don't think it's going to happen. I don't think he's going to be dropping bombs, but I don't know.
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  I, in the sense of like completely obliterating their infrastructure,
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  I don't necessarily see that, but I am not good at making predictions.
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  All right, we'll leave it at that. Let me know what you think.
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  Drop a comment and have a good day.