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0:00 - 15:00. Proverbs 14:34. Righteous exalts a nation. If you have a problem with that, take it up with God. 15:00 - 31:00. Eight Senate Democrats vote to end the filibuster and end the longest federal government shutdown in American history. 31:00 - 48:00. SCOTUS refuses to hear Obergefell challenge. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call : 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Senate Votes to Put Congress on Path Toward Ending Government Shutdown Supreme Court won't reconsider landmark same-sex marriage ruling Democrats Call on Chuck Schumer to Resign Leadership Post for Shutdown Failures
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1:10Mac. Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the
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1:15Well, surprise! A week after the off-year elections, and oh, what's that? It's a bird.
1:24It's a plane. No. It's eight Democrats doing exactly what we
1:30knew they would do and as soon as they got past these elections, this is, it is despicable
1:37how predictable this stuff is becoming.
1:41It is despicable.
1:44Before we get into any of that at this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are
1:47making your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full
1:52time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
1:54And as you do so, I want to remind you to do it with intentionality, understanding the
2:00the primacy that God places on family. I cannot stress that enough. Much of what befalls us
2:10in our country is the product of the family being attacked being inundated. And in some instances,
2:22frankly, being neglected. And the reality is we will never out politic our way out judicial
2:30opinion our way. I mean, did you see today's go, this is announcement that they will not hear
2:36Kim Davis's challenge to the Obergefell decision. They've decided they would not hear that. Though it
2:43only takes four justices to agree to hear a case just to hear it. They apparently did not get for
2:49justices to agree to hear it, hear it, because there's work that must be done on a whole host of
2:57fronts, but the most pressing of those and my estimation is the family. It is where the brunt
3:09of the culture shaping takes place. It is where the hearts and minds of the American citizenry is
3:16established, our establish, I should say, and we must have furtive engagement in our homes and our
3:28families in addition to addressing the other areas of our society.
3:34So, as you are making your transition, I want to remind you, just as I do on a daily basis
3:39on this program, what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the
3:43White House.
3:44I mean, I don't even know if you've looked at a calendar yet, but it'll be 2026 and about
3:50hmm, about another government shutdown length.
3:57And as I've told you before, you are going to see Congress come to a screeching halt.
4:06Not much of anything will be accomplished legislatively.
4:11If for some reason, you know, the filibuster is allowed to continue as it is, and I don't
4:19want to be clear.
4:20I'm not saying that the filibuster needs to be nuked as that term is conventionally employed.
4:27But I think the Republicans will be prudent if they would consider what would need to be
4:31done in order to allow many of the things that President Trump has done, for example, at the
4:35executive level to be made permanent through legislation. But if that doesn't happen, we're
4:44going to see a repeat in the event that we have the predictable changes politically, which
4:53is why we have to make sure that we are fortifying our families at the ground level. To the word
5:01of God we go and I want to say something to that point, just to encourage you and to provide
5:09point to scriptural support to fortify us against ridiculous, baseless attacks on different fronts.
5:17To the word of God we go, Proverbs 14 verse 34, a very familiar passage of scripture.
5:28There is lots of conversation that is happening currently in a country about things like
5:33You know, nationalism, who's a nationalist, what's a nationalist, and all these other kinds of things.
5:39Oh, you want to be a, oh, you are a Christian nationalist.
5:42Okay, you have rhetoric.
5:45People say all kinds of things.
5:46What does God's word say?
5:47I'm so glad you asked, even though you didn't.
5:49I asked for you.
5:51Proverbs 1434.
5:54Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
6:09Read it again, righteousness, exults a nation, but sin is it as grace to any people.
6:17When the term Christian nationalists is thrown around, it's usually thrown around simply to get
6:22people who profess to be Christians to refuse to carry their faith into their lives and public
6:28engagement. It's a shutdown conversation. I've played on this show many times. How many times,
6:36For example, you've had, you know, Joseph Robin Edbide, you know, she who shot never be president,
6:42she who shot never be president, three mix. Bill Clinton and the saxophone, you name any number
6:47of donkey party politicians, they have man pull pits all over the country and there's never been
6:53a claim. Oh, that's Christian nationalism. The only time Christian nationalism is employed,
7:01It's done in an effort to get people who are Bible-believing Christians to
7:06mute themselves, to censor themselves and become shamed for
7:10desiring to have a nation that the Bible says would be exalted if we pursue righteousness.
7:18So I want you to know whenever someone has accused me of being a Christian nationalist, I don't care what they say.
7:27It doesn't bother me one ayota. I simply reply would you much rather we be you know a satanic globalist
7:36It's word salad that's used to cause people of conviction and people of of of
7:43Faith in the word of God more importantly the God of his word more particularly more accurate
7:49I should say the God of his word guys you shouldn't be ashamed of your desire to have a nation that is righteous
7:57By desiring a nation that is righteous, we're not saying that we want to do some things kind of like, oh, I don't know, just spitball in here, some Islamists who would want you to be compelled to embrace their religion or at least if you won't convert or die, we may keep you around by allowing you to pay the jizya tax.
8:20You know, we allow you to be a demi.
8:23Christians don't advocate for that.
8:27I don't advocate for that.
8:29But I do advocate for people who have been appealed to
8:33at the heart and mind level who willingly submit themselves
8:38to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
8:40Because guess what?
8:41When a nation is populated with Christ followers,
8:44it is a blessing for that nation.
8:47Because I am a citizen of the United States of America,
8:51because I believe what the word of God says
8:53in terms of things like, you know, pray for the peace of the land where I planted you.
8:57Because in your, in, in its shalom, pray for the shalom of the place where I planted you,
9:01because in its shalom, you shall find your own shalom, because I have children in Lord
9:06willing, it should the Lord tarry that I hope to have grandchildren, even great-grandchildren,
9:11and I would like for my great-grandchildren and my grandchildren to inherit a nation that's
9:15even better than the one that I've enjoyed. The primary way that they can enjoy that is not
9:20not gonna come from a booming stock market,
9:22is not gonna come from technological innovation.
9:24It comes from having a nation populated by people
9:28who can participate in this experiment in self-governance
9:31because they're indwelled by the Spirit of God
9:33that produces fruit in us by his spirit called self-control.
9:42Righteousness exalts a nation.
9:49Sin is a disgrace to any people, a reproach to any people.
9:53So don't allow this wicked culture to shame you
9:57away from desiring a righteous nation.
10:03I for one refuse.
10:05I refuse to go along.
10:07I'm not gonna play these games.
10:08I'm not going to, oh my goodness, I mean,
10:12oh, Jeff, Jeff, am I a Christian nationalist, Jeff?
10:16What did they say?
10:19What is a Christian nationalist?
10:20Most people can't even define it.
10:22What is a Christian nationalist?
10:24What do you mean when you say the term?
10:26That's one of the foundational things that you must do.
10:28Somebody says something, make sure the terms are defined.
10:32I've never identified myself as a Christian nationalist.
10:35I'm a Christian and I love my nation
10:37for most reason why I love my nation.
10:40It's because this is where God has planted me
10:43and I'm grateful for what he has done.
10:46I am grateful for what he has done.
10:50And so you have all kinds of biblical counsel
10:55including what I'm not limited to,
10:57the Apostle Paul being fully aware of his rights
10:59as a Roman citizen and how that aided him
11:02and being the apostle that God called him to be
11:05by gaining access all the way into Caesar's household
11:08for the gods of the people who claim there.
11:11Which is how we have the concluding salutations
11:14of Paul's Epistle to the Philippians when he's writing
11:18and he says, the saints of the Lord Jesus greet you,
11:22including those in Caesar's household.
11:30Because I love the Lord, I love his bride.
11:35And I hate it when people are bullied by our culture
11:39to move away, intimidated away from standing flat footed
11:42on the truth of God's word.
11:45The Lord in his word said righteousness exultination.
11:51It's in a scripto, it's in a scripto.
11:56That's a made up language, that's my made up language.
11:59It's in the scripture of righteousness exultination,
12:02but sin is a reproach to any people.
12:06One of the sad realities that we're facing
12:08is that people in, and Richard Dawkins said it plainly,
12:11you have people who want the trappings
12:13of what is produced in a culture
12:16and the civilization that is anchored in Christ,
12:20but they don't want to be apart, some of them,
12:22many of them don't want to be a part of being members
12:24of the eternal household of faith.
12:27You know, Richard Dawkins,
12:28and when he compares the reality of the increased,
12:32increase of Islamism in Europe,
12:37and he reflects no stylically on what England,
12:40for example, used to be, he concludes that much prefer.
12:44The cathedrals, I love the bells, I love the bells,
12:50I much prefer what the Christians produce.
13:00I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
13:03So I am not ashamed of his word, guys.
13:07Righteousness exalps a nation.
13:13Our nation would be best served
13:17by having increasing populace of Christ followers
13:24where the fruit of the spirit is produced.
13:27And you have lifelong learners
13:28who obey everything that Jesus taught us in his word.
13:34As the spirit of God, as the Lord promised us,
13:36would be that he would remind us of everything that Jesus taught.
13:41That exalts the nations.
13:43That exalts nations.
13:44I don't even need to get into, but I can.
13:48How many atheistic orphanages do you know that exist?
13:51How many atheists created hospitals?
13:55How many atheists have instances where to give to the point?
13:58I don't wanna say none exists, but I'm saying how many?
14:02Now think about how many.
14:04It's actually so ridiculous.
14:08He's even ridiculous even discuss it because when you apply the world you
14:12encourage to his logical extent.
14:18Without the truth of God's word, the only law is tooth and claw.
14:24So I stand on the side of the Lord in his word, righteousness exults a nation, and I will
14:30not be ashamed of proclaiming that and saying that to whomever the inquirer might be.
14:36Righteousness exults a nation.
14:38Our founders understood that, but a nation overrun in rebellion and sin and wickedness.
14:47It's a disgrace to any people.
14:50The phrases nation and people in Proverbs 1434 refer to the collective people groups
14:56and nations.
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17:05Shining light into the darkness.
17:07This is the Hamilton corner, an American family radio.
17:11Welcome back to the Hamilton corner, Abraham Hamilton, a third here.
17:15So last night, the U.S.
17:19Senate had a cloture vote in clotures, the procedural terminology that simply says
17:27that we are going to end the filibuster as is as it has been applied to this specific legislation.
17:36In this instance, it's concerning the continuing resolution that was passed by the House of Representatives
17:43that has been in the Senate and because it stalled in the Senate simply because the filibuster was applied to it,
17:51we have just been a part of the longest federal government shut down in American history.
17:56But 41 days, 42 days is the duration for this government shutdown.
18:05And so you had eight Democrats who made the decision to vote along with Republicans.
18:15Three of the Democrats actually had already been voting along with the Republicans, but
18:18they got the others to join them in voting to in the filibuster of the funding bill.
18:26I'll tell you who those senators are and I'll
18:30tell you what Democrat senators join the Republicans and
18:35Point out a couple things that they all have in common and then move a little bit further, so
18:41Illinois senator Dick Durbin
18:43Maine senator Angus King who is an independent, but he caucuses with the Democrats
18:49Nevada senator Catherine Cortez
18:51as Masto and Jackie Rosen, both senators for Nevada,
18:56New Hampshire senators, both of them,
18:58Maggie Hassan and Jean Shaheen,
19:01Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and Virginia's Tim Kane,
19:05all voted to end the filibuster
19:08and to move the procedural step forward
19:12to end this government shutdown.
19:15Now John Fetterman and Maggie Hassan
19:21had been voting with the Republicans all along before now. The others hadn't done so.
19:30But Dick Durbin, who would have been up for reelection in 2026, but he's already announced his retirement.
19:37So he's not running for reelection. New Hampshire Senator Jean Shaheen.
19:43Would have been up for reelection in 2026, but she also has announced her retirement. Angus King,
19:51King, not up for reelection.
19:55Catherine Cortez Masto, not up for reelection.
19:59Jackie Rope, not up for reelection.
20:05John Fetterman, he just got elected.
20:07He's not up for reelection.
20:09I then, Tim Caine, who I do not believe is up for reelection either.
20:15So what does that indicate?
20:17Guys, politics is disgusting.
20:28And you have lots of centers and we'll get to that.
20:30You have people coming out saying, oh, the Democrats caved and the Democrats coming out
20:34trashing can't believe they voted in.
20:37Guys, the way this works, these people getting in the room and say, okay, all right, we're
20:40going to end the filibuster.
20:41We let you guys make the votes because you're not up for reelection.
20:44So you won't have to deal with the wackos in our base in terms of fallback in this most
20:48immediate election.
20:49And then the rest of us, we're going to trash your decision to vote to reopen the government,
20:53but just know we're cool with it.
20:55because we've had the impact we want to have,
20:57because you notice we had massive Democrat turnout
21:01in these off-year elections,
21:03and many people didn't expect the Democrat party
21:05to perform that well,
21:06and now we can get back to what we got to do,
21:08because here's the thing guys, the funding bill,
21:11to reopen the government,
21:12you want to know how long it lasts?
21:15January, 2026.
21:18So this is a bill to open the government for a few months,
21:21for a few months.
21:22And let's talk Turkey about some of the things that were,
21:26What do they get out of the shutdown?
21:29What do they get out of it, Bobby?
21:30Oh yeah, the macho man is here.
21:32And we have to make sure you know, brother,
21:34what we got out of this shutdown.
21:38So, the top line, Democrats,
21:48show them what they want, Bob, another vote.
21:53So the Republicans have agreed to vote later on
21:58in December on whether or not Obamacare subsidies would be
22:04made permanent, the enhanced subsidies.
22:07I told you guys repeatedly that the main issue
22:11is the Obamacare subsidies.
22:17And they keep saying this, I mean,
22:18I saw the Islamianist in New York City,
22:20all as you were saying,
22:21I can't believe the Democrats voted
22:23to increase health insurance premiums.
22:25Like, you guys like to talk to us like we're stupid,
22:31but it's the Democrats who passed Obamacare
22:34in the first place. It's the Democrats who passed the subsidies in the first place.
22:39It has never been affordable. They continue to if you want to know what a Democrat bill does,
22:44always know it does the opposite of what they name it. Right. Affordable care act. Not affordable.
22:52Never was the inflation reduction act. Oh no record high inflation. No reduction of inflation
22:57at all. And that that that it is just absurd. It is absolutely absurd. So the Democrats are the ones
23:06that passed Obamacare all by them loans the Republicans didn't vote for it the Democrats are themselves
23:12the ones who added enhanced covid era premiums meaning when i say enhanced it's more they increase
23:20the subsidy they increase the amount of money that the government is going to pay and when you
23:24ever get government is paying it means that the taxpayers are going to pay so they increased the
23:28amount of money that the taxpayers would would would pay for individual people's health insurance
23:33coverage under Obamacare. And they did that without any Republican support. And they made
23:38the enhanced subsidies, meaning the increase amounts of money that taxpayers would pay.
23:44They made them temporary. They literally made them, they made them temporary. Republicans had
23:51no say so. They didn't participate in their vote. They made them temporary. So when they say,
23:56Republicans are voting to increase your health insurance premiums, that is just a flat lie.
24:01That is, that's just a flat lie. And you got some Democrats blaming Trump,
24:05like what a Trump Trump had nothing to do with Obamacare.
24:08And this is also why and I told you it's why the Republicans should have repealed Obamacare
24:16when they had the chance.
24:17But no, we want we want to slow dance with John McCain and we have the skinny repeal and
24:23all this other kind of stuff.
24:25And I told you when they said when we zeroed out the tax penalty, I said, okay, thank you,
24:29but that does nothing for the actual core function of the law, which is why we're here.
24:36So let me leave that on the side for now.
24:39So they have in this deal, brokered a deal to vote in December on whether or not the expanded
24:48Obamacare subsidies would be made permanent.
24:50But guess what?
24:51In December, Republicans will still have a majority in the Senate.
24:53So it's going to fail.
24:54And here's another guess what?
24:56John Thune offered that to them three weeks ago, four weeks ago.
25:00If that's what they wanted, literally House Speaker Johnson said it, Senate Majority Leader
25:05John Thune said it.
25:06And we'll give you a vote on this once the government is reopened.
25:10So that's literally what they've agreed to.
25:12Here's the other things they agreed to.
25:15And these would be the things none of this is substantive, by the way, which leads us to,
25:19well, what's the conclusion?
25:20Now get to that in a moment.
25:22The other thing that was agreed to, the next thing I should say that was agreed to in this
25:27temporary funding measure to reopen the government, a reversal of shutdown reduction in force notices.
25:35So one of the things that President Trump did through the office of management and budget
25:39during the government shutdown was to trim the size of various government agencies by terminating
25:45federal employees.
25:46Well, the Democrats didn't like that.
25:48Gee, I wonder why.
25:50Why would the Democrats want to continue to have bloated federal agencies?
25:56I wonder why.
26:01I wonder why.
26:02You know, just, I don't know, just take it out loud here.
26:05But even that is a reversal of shutdown reduction and force notices that were issued after October
26:111st.
26:13So those people won't lose their jobs.
26:17But that reduction and force notice, if you want to call it, for now, it only lasts for
26:24the duration of the CR.
26:25So it only lasts until January.
26:28So even that, like, what are we talking about?
26:31They won't do the reduction and force notices only started because of the shutdown.
26:35These particular ones.
26:37So anyway, so that's another Nothing Burger.
26:39Then you have funding for specific federal departments.
26:44Department of Magic Agriculture, the FDA,
26:47the Department of Veterans Affairs,
26:49various military construction projects,
26:50and the continued operation of Congress.
26:53Guys, that's it.
26:56That's it.
26:58That's it.
27:01That is the norm under the CR, literally it's nothing.
27:05So then, so why did the Democrats do all of this, guys?
27:08I hate to tell you this.
27:10I hate it because I don't hate to tell you.
27:12I hate that this is true.
27:15I played the audio for you a couple of weeks ago.
27:17The Democrat party concluded that this was
27:19the only leverage point they had.
27:21They wanted to utilize this leverage point.
27:23Of course, if they could get Republicans to cave,
27:25they'll take the expense and hand subsidies
27:28because they want to keep that Obama cash
27:29slash fund available for those huge insurance companies
27:32with all those billionaires that they say they hate so much,
27:35except for the ones that fund their organizations
27:38and initiatives.
27:39It was a political play.
27:44That's it.
27:46Their political calculus was we have to show our rabid base, this Democrat elected officials,
27:52that we are willing to fight Trump.
27:54So here is a point where we can fight Trump.
27:56We can try to get something that we wanted because they try to get a lot of stuff in the
28:00one big beautiful building they lost in.
28:03Didn't work then.
28:04Said we'll try to get some of this stuff.
28:10at a minimum, we could get support for our electorate during these off-year elections,
28:16because in the areas where the votes and things took place and we can talk about the local election
28:21irregularities and all these other things that have happened, but that's literally what it
28:25is. This is why I was like, why do Republicans continue to play this game with these people?
28:37Why? Why? Here's a brief clip talking about and really showing the moment when the Senate
28:46voted yesterday to end the filibuster over the continued resolution to reopen the government.
28:53It's clip number two, clip two, go.
28:56The motion upon reconsideration is agreed to.
28:59Sunday night Senate votes signaling the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is one
29:04step closer to being over.
29:06Today, the Senate voted to start reopening the government.
29:10After weeks, without progress, the breakthrough came after a group of eight Senate Democrats reached
29:14to deal with Senate GOP leaders and the White House.
29:17I joined this group to make sure that we could get important protections for federal employees.
29:22They agreed to vote to reopen the government, provided there be a future vote on extending
29:26Affordable Care Act subsidies, the major sticking point between the two parties right now.
29:32The deal would include a brief stopgap measure to fund the government until January, and
29:36fund SNAP and other benefits for the entire fiscal year.
29:40legislation also reverses mass firings of federal workers during the government
29:44shutdown. After another Senate vote to pass the bill, it will move on to the house
29:48for yet another vote. And don't mistake it. The enhanced Obamacare subsidies that
29:59they were pining for also includes making sure that you had health insurance coverage for
30:03illegal aliens. That's just a fact that's in the bill. So you have Tim Kaine, I joined this
30:08group to make sure that we can gain protections for federal workers.
30:13You are lying.
30:16You are lying.
30:17And so following this, you have a fallout amongst the Democrat party of people.
30:22Chuck Schumer no longer needs to be the leader of the Democrats.
30:26He's no longer sufficient to lead at this moment.
30:29Listen to this.
30:30It's a clip number boom for clip four.
30:34Go.
30:38It's time for him to be replaced.
30:40He is not meeting the moment.
30:42He's out of touch with where the party's base is.
30:46Are you hearing this from other lawmakers?
30:47I mean, what are you hearing about Senator Schumer's future?
30:51Well, Lindsey, what's notable here is,
30:53Congressman Kana is not the only person saying this.
30:55I was just seen on social media.
30:57California Democratic Congressman Mike Levin
30:59expressed a similar approach and similar concern
31:02about Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, over in the Senate.
31:04Now, leaders Schumer is probably not very concerned
31:07about two California House Democrats
31:10Talking about him and his political future
31:12But what this does show is how much how wild off the base is about Senate Democrats and how the
31:18Senate Democratic caucus is handling this shutdown and how Chuck Schumer has been leading Democrats so far guys
31:27That that is all much to do about nothing. I hate to tell you again. I don't hate to tell you
31:33I hate that this is true, but I have to tell you
31:36these people are
31:38are so slippery that you're going to have all of this.
31:42This is offering band-aids and cry-ins for their base.
31:47Oh, joke, humor.
31:49He's not really to meet the moment.
31:51Guys, they literally accomplished nothing
31:53substantive to do this shutdown,
31:55except putting on the appearance that they're fighting Trump.
32:03And they also gambled on the historical reality
32:06that Republicans in the past have tended to fold when...
32:09Shut down. Who? Who? Who? Shut down? Who? No. No. I don't want to shut down.
32:16In this time, Republicans had the backbone provided by President Trump.
32:22They're like, no, we just won't, we're not going to do it.
32:24And they had the wherewithal to say publicly what they would say privately in terms of saying
32:28that listen, this is the exact same CRY all past just a few months ago.
32:33Now where I have, I, or for the Republican Party is this,
32:37Why hadn't the Republican part have been planning to return to regular order concerning
32:42appropriations bills?
32:44Why didn't we have the individual appropriations bill?
32:46One, somebody say, well, look, in his realities, he had these slim majorities in the House
32:52and the Senate.
32:53They would create more opportunities for them to do this.
32:56This is why you should walk and chew gum at the same time.
33:00You should demonstrate your capacity and desire to return to regular order.
33:03at the same time point out the fact that the Democrats
33:06had impedement to it.
33:07And it is because that they're refusing
33:09to return the regular order, that we go,
33:11we do this CR for now in hopes of getting back to that.
33:14But that takes too much like being willing to lead.
33:20So while I'm grateful that the government is reopening,
33:23I'm certainly grateful for the people
33:24that have been going without paychecks
33:25and things for their families.
33:27The continued resolution has in it,
33:29and it always hasn't had in it the back pay
33:32for the federal employees that didn't get their payment,
33:34that is going to happen.
33:36There's nothing extra special that has to happen
33:38for that to transpire.
33:40But this has been nothing but bare knuckles politics.
33:44Bare knuckles politics.
33:46And though they may not have gotten all that they wanted
33:48to don't keep talking about,
33:50it contributed to turnout across the country
33:52in the off-year elections that just took place last week.
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36:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton's third here
36:19These people are not they're not gonna do anything with Chuck Schumer to Chuck Schumer's ready to go
36:25That's that's the reality no different than fancy Nancy
36:29You know she's in her 80s before she decides to step off the platform as a Democrat leader in the house
36:34representatives and then, oh, well, you know, oh, yeah, I'm retiring.
36:37You know, it's political theater.
36:41It's political theater.
36:42It really, really is.
36:44But don't mistake what I'm saying, Ms. Khashou what I'm saying, just because it is political
36:49theater doesn't mean that it is harmless.
36:51It's not benign political theater.
36:53No, not at all.
36:55It has significant impact.
37:00And one of the one of, I would argue, one of the, one of the designed intents of this political
37:07theater is really to demoralize the American voter, you know, to get us to the place where
37:13it's like, oh, I don't care, we don't need to pay attention.
37:15And, you know, it's all going to turn out this way anyway.
37:21And to, to lull us into a sense of complacency to make us feel and think that we can't impact
37:27or affect anything.
37:28But that simply is not true, but we must be vigilant and diligent
37:33Because a swamp then becomes swampy overnight guys. It didn't happen overnight. It didn't happen overnight
37:42Alright, I told you guys this was coming up
37:44When the Supreme Court would consider whether or not to hear Kim Davis's appeal of her civil case
37:51Well, we now know what the answer is this morning the US Supreme Court issued their
37:58refusal to accept Kim Davis's case
38:01with no reasoning. They simply said we are not going to hear the case.
38:09It only requires four Supreme Court justices to agree to hear a case for the court
38:15then to grant certiorari and add the case to their docket. But in this instance,
38:19they rejected Kim Davis's case. Listen to and watch clip number three,
38:23clip three, go.
38:24All right, we've got this breaking news for you.
38:26the Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized
38:32same-sex marriage on the federal level.
38:34Now, you're looking at Kim Davis.
38:36The appeal was based on something she filed.
38:40She's the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses after the
38:432015 Supreme Court ruling.
38:46She wanted a lower court's ruling overturned that is currently requiring her to pay $360,000
38:53damages and attorney fees to a couple who was denied a marriage license.
38:58Now, the end of that clip is misleading because these homosexual men weren't denied marriage
39:07licenses absolutely.
39:12Kim Davis refused to sign their marriage licenses.
39:14They got marriage licenses.
39:17They got the licenses.
39:18So to say that they didn't get the license, they did get marriage licenses.
39:21They just didn't get one, get ones with Kim Davis
39:24a signature on it.
39:25And they sought literally to force her
39:27to add her signature to their licenses.
39:31Now, there are lots of things.
39:35I don't have a printed opinion, but I am wondering.
39:41I'm quite curious to know where Justice Neil Gorsuch
39:43came down on this.
39:44I'm quite curious to know where Amy Coney Barrett
39:47came down on this.
39:48I'm pretty sure I have an idea of what Justice Katanji Brown, I don't know what a woman is,
39:55Jackson said and Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, pretty sure I know what she said.
40:06I'd like to know what Brett Kavanaugh had to say.
40:11Now you do have the reality that this was a case where the Obergefell issue was brought
40:18attendant to the civil judgment and that could have weighed more than likely did weigh in on the
40:23justice's decisions. But I want to say that I simply want to remind you there were many people
40:30who never thought they would ever see Roe versus Wade overturned. And in order to get to the place
40:37where Roe was overturned, it required diligence and faithfulness over time. I hope and pray that it
40:44It won't take as long to see our national position concerning marriage to reflect God's
40:55heart for the institution.
40:57But I would remind you the issue concerning Obergefell is not only Obergefell.
41:03So as it pertains to abortion in order for the issue to be returned to the states, the
41:09only thing that had to be addressed was the Supreme Court's case, the Supreme Court's decisions
41:13in Roe versus Wade and in Planned Parenthood versus Casey.
41:18Roe had an attendecased Dovie Bolton as well,
41:20but as Casey was overturned,
41:22it ended up addressing Dovie Bolton as well.
41:24So, but in this instance,
41:26and a lot of people don't remember this,
41:29but the issue now is not only a burgafell,
41:32remember the Respect for Marriage Act,
41:36that Joe Biden signed into law.
41:39The Respect for Marriage Act is a congressional statute
41:44that was passed by the Congress
41:48to establish a recognition of a perversion
41:53of God's institution called same-sex marriage.
41:56So the fight here is going to be different
42:01than any legal challenge that would rest solely in the courts
42:04because now the issue is not only a burgofell
42:09but the respect for marriage con-congressionally
42:12in act at legislation as well.
42:14So that is something that we all would need to be
42:18might will need to be mindful of going forward.
42:25Because there was never any federal legislation
42:27concerning abortion that had ever been passed.
42:33We're not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.
42:36We certainly are not.
42:40Then we have this.
42:42And I really think this is something
42:44that President Trump is considering.
42:49Because he understands the landscape.
42:53With the calendar turning, we're approaching 2026.
42:56I told you guys this before.
42:59Many of these people are going to begin their focus solely on campaigning for reelection.
43:05I'm talking about in Congress and in the U.S. and in particular.
43:08So the prospect of accomplishing various things legislatively, it's waning.
43:18It's waning.
43:19Now, I know there were conversations about this before, but President Trump announced today
43:25the consideration of providing, using tariff revenue to provide $2,000 payments to Americans.
43:35He posted this on true social initially and then it's been covered in news outlets all
43:41around the country thereafter.
43:43What he said, $2,000 payments to American citizens except for the wealthy.
43:50and
43:52was funny to be at this point he
43:54post social media post like he talks
43:58we'll have payments many payments except for the wealthy
44:03I honestly think he's aware
44:11that something is going to need to be done to encourage with some kind of tangible domestic
44:15policy
44:17because I'm grateful for his
44:21I mean it's just apparent night and day shutting down the border
44:25But they talked about mass deportations and mass self deportations while there have been deportations. I don't know if I will call them mass, you know
44:36concerning the illegal immigration and you have the reality that
44:39It's not easy if you have overnight and infusion
44:43You know, I know conservative estimates of something like, you know, seven million to eight million people in just four years, but
44:49the practical reality of seeing numbers from from
44:52from immigration and customs enforcement and things and say it's probably goes to the
44:5620 million people.
44:58They showed them on a time.
45:01You can't address that overnight.
45:03You can't do that overnight.
45:06But you have an America-first agenda where you have lots of, there's some things that have
45:12happened that have been good domestically, but largely it's been through executive action.
45:18much of the sum more prominent successes with administration has come internationally.
45:28But you have young people in our country and you have others who are saying, you know,
45:31how is the America First Agenda fairing? You know, which is why I encouraged a long time ago
45:41that the primary pitch should have been from President Trump, not only would he
45:46sought to accomplish in this turn, but also putting America in position for what she will be
45:51once he is no longer in the White House.
45:53You know, I know some people trying to say Trump is talking about 2028, like, dude, he's
45:57trolling.
45:58He said numerous times and numerous interviews he knows he's not running and doing, you can't
46:02run the Constitution that allowed him to run an additional term.
46:06So then the question is, what is being put in place to preserve and continue an America
46:13first agenda once President Trump is no longer in office?
46:21I don't think there's been much conversation, certainly had a much conversation about that
46:24publicly.
46:28But I think at the appropriate time, and I'm not saying now is the time for that to start
46:31discussing that publicly, but I do think it's something that he should begin discussing publicly
46:36as this term winds down. But in order to do that, there's going to have to be significant momentum
46:46because American people say, yes, America first, we want more of that. And then the questions just
46:56about me. That would be wise. I think President Trump loves the country enough to recognize why
47:05that will be important. You know, you have the reality and this is just a statistical fact.
47:14Out of the recent presidents, you know, Bill Clinton, you know, the Bush's, you know, Obama,
47:26all these folks became more wealthy when they became, after they were presidents.
47:30President Trump has lost money being president. He's the only one.
47:34You don't do that unless you love the country, you know, but I think it's important to discuss
47:46what we need to transpire to give clarity to the vision, to provide, you know, tangible
47:53measurables, what it means to be in cast that vision on forward, but it's going to require
47:59momentum.
48:00So that's why I think he's kind of spitballing this idea with the $2,000 payoffs or payments
48:08So I whatever you want to call them.
48:12And that's true.
48:13As Sister Murrow said, that's the most important question,
48:16especially since the Islamists are currently doing
48:18everything they can to continue their caliphate.
48:23Oh boy.
48:25Oh boy, you definitely want to tune into the shows this week.
48:27We got some stuff planned this week.
48:32That's absolutely true.
48:33That's absolutely true.
48:35But here's something else I want to add to the conversation.
48:39Because when we think about, as I began the program
48:41of Proverbs 14, righteous and exults a nation,
48:44unfortunate thing is that many people limit that concept to whatever it is that the government does,
48:52but that concept should not be limited to what the government does. We have the opportunity to contribute
49:01to our nation embracing righteousness that would exalt our nation. And I remarked before on Alexis
49:11de Tocqueville's two-volume work on democracy in America, you know, when he toured America following
49:20our revolution and actually came to America after the French Revolution. In the early 1800s,
49:26about the 1820s and 30s and so on, when the On Democracy was published. And the fruit of
49:35the revolution, the American Revolution and the French Revolution, were very different,
49:41very different, very different. And he wanted to see why was America's Revolution so successful
49:48and the fruit of it so much better and different from what they experienced in France, experienced
49:53in France. And he said he sought for it in our banking institutions and didn't find it
50:00there sought for it. You know, in the halls of government didn't find it there. And he
50:04said, this is what he wrote. You know, it looked us up for yourself. It was not until I entered
50:09America's churches. And this is what he remarked, finding her pulpits, a flamed in righteousness.
50:16That's what the talk field said that I found the source of America's greatness. And he concluded,
50:22America is great because she is good.
50:26But the moment America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.
50:33There is a portion of the exaltation that our nation requires, that our nation needs, that can only come from the citizens in our nation, and in fact more specifically, it can only come from the Christ followers in our nation.
50:49We have a role to play in cultivating the type of people
50:59that are fit for self-governance.
51:06There's a reason why the Lord called His church
51:07the pillar and ground of truth.
51:13The God that we serve is just as powerful today
51:16as He's always been.
51:19But the question is, will we respond to our moment?
51:23That's the question, that's the question.
51:25America is great because she is good.
51:29And when she ceases to be good,
51:31She will cease to be great.
51:33Y'all have a wonderful evening.
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