In light of President Trump’s 2nd term, do we truly understand the time we are in now?

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11. 0:33Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here in American Family Radio.
13. 0:38I'm your host, Abraham Hamilton, the third joined by the corner contingent, right across
14. 0:43from me, my man, 100 grand, Mr. Bobby, Rosa.
15. 0:50But a little tang going on outside, playing umpire, the wiffleball battles, shenanigans going
16. 0:58on in the office.
17. 0:59in the screening room. We have produced extraordinaire, although from what I heard,
18. 1:04I thought he was a say, hey, kid, Willie Mays for a second there.
19. 1:08Slide into second, but a second might have slid into him a little bit. You know what I mean?
20. 1:14The real J. Mac is in the screening room where we're ready to rock and roll with today's edition
21. 1:18of the program at this very moment. Many of you, if not most of you, are making your way,
22. 1:24your transition from your part-time jobs where you generate in the income to your full-time jobs
23. 1:29where you cultivate an outcome and as you do so I want to remind you to do so with intentionality.
24. 1:36Understand in the primacy that God places on family in welcoming God's view to govern, guard,
25. 1:42and to guide your view and your engagement. The things swirling around us in our world
26. 1:52work feverishly to capture our attention, to capture our focus, to capture our devotion and
27. 1:57and our commitment to get us to give primacy and import
28. 2:02to everything but our families.
29. 2:04Too often, our families are left languishing
30. 2:09to really receive just the remnants of a day that's spent.
31. 2:16But I want to encourage you to reverse that.
32. 2:19Which is why I described our income generating functions,
33. 2:22whether we are entrepreneurs, employers, employees,
34. 2:25However, we may be to understand that that is our part time gig.
35. 2:30That is what we do part time.
36. 2:31Yes, we all have our responsibilities and obligations,
37. 2:34but we should not allow those things
38. 2:37to encroach upon the jurisdiction of our families.
39. 2:41If you're in the life stage where I am,
40. 2:42where you have young children in your home,
41. 2:44as they grow, as they grow in stature,
42. 2:47as they grow in maturity,
43. 2:49one of the things that God is reminding us of
44. 2:51by witnessing that is that you only have a small window with them.
45. 2:55We only have a small window.
46. 2:57So let us be intentional and invest in our families and invest in our homes.
47. 3:02And there is no question as to what can transpire in our nation and in our societies, if we will
48. 3:07welcome the Lord to transform us in our homes, which is why I remind you on a daily basis,
49. 3:13what goes on in your house, what is going on in your home.
50. 3:17It's more important what's going on in the White House.
51. 3:19We do not have the direct responsibility and ability to dictate matters in the White House,
52. 3:26but you have that direct responsibility and ability in your home.
53. 3:30It is shameful for us to know more about what's going on on Air Force One than we know what
54. 3:35might be on our teenagers' devices.
55. 3:39You know what I'm saying?
56. 3:41We got to reverse that, man.
57. 3:43We've got to reverse it.
58. 3:46In many ways, if you examine the way the government has expanded and gotten out of control, it
59. 3:52corresponds with contractions in the families.
60. 3:56In many ways, people, if you witness, for example, second-way feminism, you've ever been talking
61. 4:05about it before, you're going from saying, women is just as good as men.
62. 4:09I don't need a man.
63. 4:10I'm a woman.
64. 4:11Well, now I am a man.
65. 4:12If you look at it, a lot of people have forsaken husbands, so to speak, in exchange for the
66. 4:18government functioning in some of the roles that husbands offer.
67. 4:22And then we have this corresponding contraction of authentic biblical masculinity because our
68. 4:29society is overly feminized in so many ways.
69. 4:34And the major, the major undergirding problem with all of that is that we have a massive
70. 4:44epidemic in our nation of biblical illiteracy. And the consequences of that are
71. 4:52outsized. You really can't wrap your arms around just how broad-reaching the
72. 4:59consequences of biblical illiteracy are. It sets the stage for deception to be most
73. 5:05effective. But that is why we endeavor on this program to begin every show by
74. 5:10turning to God's holy word. The way we navigate our day is not by setting God's
75. 5:14word on a mantle, on a coffee table, by opening his word.
76. 5:18And as we read his word, we welcome the God of the Scriptures to read us.
77. 5:25Today we're going to begin in Deuteronomy chapter 34.
78. 5:28The chapter is 34, I'm sorry, 12 versus long.
79. 5:35I'm excited to be here.
80. 5:36We'll be broadcasting on the road this week and next week.
81. 5:41But so much is happening.
82. 5:42I'll talk a little bit about that in the second segment.
83. 5:44But in this chapter, the closing of the book of Deuteronomy, it describes Moses' death.
84. 5:55Now started verse 1 and chapter 34 of the book of Deuteronomy.
85. 5:57This is what the Lord's word says.
86. 5:58Now Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo to the top of Piska, which is opposite
87. 6:07Jericho.
88. 6:08And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, and all Nefthali in the land
89. 6:13of Yifraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, and the
90. 6:19Negev and the plain and the valley of Jericho to the city of palm trees as far as Zor.
91. 6:25Then the Lord said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
92. 6:31saying, I will give it to your descendants.
93. 6:34I will let you see, I will let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.
94. 6:40So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab according to the word of
95. 6:44the Lord.
96. 6:45And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Bethpear.
97. 6:50But no man knows his burial place to this day.
98. 6:53Although Moses was 120 years old when he died, his eye was not dim nor his vigor abated.
99. 7:03So the sons of Israel wept for Moses and the plains of Moab 30 days.
100. 7:08In the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
101. 7:12Now Joshua the son of none was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid hands
102. 7:16on him, and the sons of Israel listened to him, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
103. 7:26Verse 10, Since that time no prophet has arisen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face
104. 7:30to face.
105. 7:33For all the signs and wonders which the Lord had sent him to perform in the land of Egypt
106. 7:37against Pharaoh, all his servants and all his land, and for all the mighty power and for
107. 7:42all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
108. 7:49Now one of the things, several things, stand out from that text to me, several things.
109. 7:59But one of them, and I pray this is encouraging for all of our seasoned things who are listening
110. 8:07Now, the Scripture notes, first it seems that God is functioning as the eulogizer for Moses
111. 8:14here.
112. 8:16You know, God is the one doing so.
113. 8:18And then the Scripture says that the Lord is the one who buried Moses, and there's not
114. 8:23a person who's been able to find Moses' burial site.
115. 8:29The Scripture also notes that though Moses was 120 years old when he passed, his eyes were
116. 8:34not dimmed nor his vigor abated at that late stage of his life.
117. 8:40Clearly, that is the result of divine preservation.
118. 8:45God is protecting him in many ways.
119. 8:47But I just want to offer a notion that this is something
120. 8:52that we used to understand in our society,
121. 8:56that people aging wasn't always synonymous with having
122. 8:59the diminution of faculties consistently.
123. 9:03There's an over, and this is touching my own family.
124. 9:08that got things going on and at the appropriate time out I'll talk a little bit about that some
125. 9:13transitions that have gone on and I'll just say it this way I love having the opportunity to be on
126. 9:19the air with you guys here the times when I'm unavailable rest assured it's not because I don't
127. 9:26want to be here I won't go too far into it but one of them caring for my own parents things happen
128. 9:35unexpectedly, but I'll leave that there for the moment.
129. 9:39But there's this proliferation of cognitive decline
130. 9:42and diminished capacities.
131. 9:44And these are things that are overrunning.
132. 9:47And what we fail to realize is some instances,
133. 9:49a lot of the cognitive issues that we're seeing,
134. 9:53a lot of them are tailored to having
135. 9:55this horrible consumption of chemically modified things
136. 10:00that might be edible.
137. 10:01But I'm not sure we should describe everything
138. 10:03as edible as if it's food, having sugars and everything, and brain dehydration and all
139. 10:09these other kinds of things.
140. 10:11I would just encourage a bit of examination as to how in our own nation we age historically
141. 10:17versus how aging is happening now.
142. 10:20Because there are things that are happening that are not the natural product of aging in
143. 10:28our nation.
144. 10:29And I'll just leave there.
145. 10:30I'm not trying to go fool my how on anybody.
146. 10:34I'm just saying it's worth an examination and you see it on one end with our more seasoned
147. 10:40saints.
148. 10:41Would you see it on the other end with children, you know, prevalent obesity in children?
149. 10:46Eight-year-olds?
150. 10:47Nine-year-olds?
151. 10:48Like, what's going on there?
152. 10:54But the other thing, one to mention, and the Lord was intentional about highlighting the
153. 11:03fact that though Moses has passed away, the time had come for Joshua to ascend.
154. 11:11And I've been just chewing on this in my own heart and what prompted me bringing this to
155. 11:16the air today is I was just reflecting on the lives of Godly men, Christian leaders throughout
156. 11:25our country.
157. 11:26Some of them I've known personally, some who I have not known personally, but I've gleaned
158. 11:31from their wisdom and their witness from a distance.
159. 11:35And I wonder if we recognize what God may be attempting to show us through this, like a
160. 11:41couple of people.
161. 11:42This one may not be as well known as some as others, but Bob Woodson passed away a couple
162. 11:47weeks ago at 89 years old.
163. 11:51Now, for those who are not aware, Bob Woodson is the founder of the Woodson Center and of
164. 12:02the 1776 Unites initiative, which was a repudiation of the New York Times's 1619 project.
165. 12:11A lot of the critical examination of the 1619 project came from Bob Woodson.
166. 12:17He was a Christian who had an immago day based understanding of civic engagement, which led
167. 12:29him to say, listen, we don't need to try to address poverty with government handouts.
168. 12:36We need to unleash the reality of God's design for mankind and allow people to flourish.
169. 12:42And one of the things about Bob Woodson, and this is a man who I did not know personally,
170. 12:47but I know lots of people who did know him personally.
171. 12:50And I gleaned from him from a bit of a distance, but that he was a man of integrity who walked
172. 12:56it like he talked it and did far more behind the scenes than people ever saw in terms of
173. 13:03his public engagement.
174. 13:05He did children's books and cartoons and he did amazing things and then he passed away.
175. 13:12I talked a bit on this program about Dr. Vody Bockham who passed away in September at 56
176. 13:18years old, which was just about two weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at 31 years
177. 13:24old September 2025. Then Dr. James Dobson passed away in 2025 at 89 years old.
178. 13:32Pastor John MacArthur 2025 passed away. Phil Robertson the founder of Duck Dynasty
179. 13:39from my home state in Louisiana passed away in May of 2025 at 79 years old.
180. 13:45Don Wildman, we talked, he passed away in 2023. Dr. Walter Williams who has
181. 13:52been a guest on this program. It was a bit further passed away in 2020. The
182. 13:58televangelist James Robeson passed away just a couple days ago. And I'm just, you're
183. 14:03looking at that so many, many other people who have passed away. And I'm
184. 14:07wondering if we're recognizing what God may be attempting to show us because
185. 14:11there are lots of giants who have made tremendous contributions for the faith
186. 14:18in our nation, but I'm wondering if we recognize when Moses passed away God had
187. 14:28a Joshua available. Do we truly have a generation of Joshua's who are ready to
188. 14:35step up because I'm concerned as I've been saying quite a bit lately that the
189. 14:40continued secularization of our nation has set the stage where many people so
190. 14:45many people are looking for political solutions to spiritual problems and I'm
191. 14:50I'm just gonna tell you that square peg is not going to satisfy the round hole.
192. 14:55A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
193. 15:05How tragic it is for believers that don't get around to reading the Bible.
194. 15:09In other words, they don't get around to spending time with Jesus,
195. 15:13listening to his counsel, his wisdom, his grace,
196. 15:16allowing him to touch their lives with his word.
197. 15:19Hebrews 4 verse 12,
198. 15:21for the word of God is living in active, sharper than any two-edged sword piercing to the division of soul and of spirit,
199. 15:28of joints and of marrow and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
200. 15:33Then Ephesians 6 verses 17 to 18, and take the Hamadah salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
201. 15:42praying always with all praying and supplication in the Spirit,
202. 15:46And watching there on two with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
203. 15:50A kingdom warrior is a disciple of Christ who skillfully puts the Word of God,
204. 15:55which is the sword of the Spirit to work every day.
205. 15:58Shiting light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
206. 16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
207. 16:16Just to continue the thought that I was providing before that I, you think about this and the
208. 16:28list of names that I provided, just that's not everybody.
209. 16:31These are just some of the people who have been impactful to me and who I either knew
210. 16:40personally or knew through people.
211. 16:44But looking at what's happening.
212. 16:49I mean, I think in a lot of ways that there's too many in our country who don't truly understand
213. 17:04from a spiritual standpoint how we even arrived at a second term with President Trump.
214. 17:12And I've explained this before on the radio that when President Trump was elected the
215. 17:21first time as a president and I did not rejoice. Not because of anything personal having to
216. 17:29do with President Trump. But because I believe I understood what was happening. My expression
217. 17:38of she should never be president developed because I knew from a policy standpoint what
218. 17:46she or she would never be president would do and how a lot of the things that she would
219. 17:51do would not have much, it had been very, very hard to come back from.
220. 17:55And so I recognize it as a reprieve.
221. 17:59So more than a rejoicing, it was an exhale.
222. 18:04I was invited to an event at the inauguration and I respectfully declined that invitation
223. 18:10in 2017 because I said very plainly, I just said I don't believe God has called me to be
224. 18:22a sycophant of a person, but to remain in a position to be able to call balls and strikes,
225. 18:29because as prestigious and as important and as significant as the U.S. presidency is, I mean,
226. 18:39it absolutely is the most powerful position in the world, frankly. Leaders need godly encouragement,
227. 18:48And that encouragement is not all glad-handing.
228. 18:54You know, it's not yes-manding.
229. 18:55It's, that encouragement is calling balls and strikes.
230. 18:59When you do well, encourage that.
231. 19:01When you don't do well to say, hey, this is bad,
232. 19:03this is wrong and this is why.
233. 19:05And so I didn't want to be kind of roped in
234. 19:11into a position and I believe it was from the Lord
235. 19:14at that stage.
236. 19:14Now there are other people who, and to be clear,
237. 19:18I was not invited into an official capacity as an advisor, a spiritual advisor,
238. 19:21nothing like that. No, nothing like that.
239. 19:23It was just an invitation to like a party, like a celebration event. That's all.
240. 19:30And then we had the shenanigans of 2020.
241. 19:35And by God's grace, he spared us from she should never be president of the remix.
242. 19:39And I mean that when I, when I say spared us, this is not personal.
243. 19:45I don't, I don't have a personal beef with Kackling Camilla,
244. 19:49But frankly, she would have been the disaster for our country and would have exacerbated
245. 19:56a lot of the horrors that were initiated under Mr. Ice Cream Man.
246. 20:04I mean, you got this stuff happening now and politics is so disgusting at times.
247. 20:10You have Jill Biden saying, now she was so afraid her husband suffered a stroke during
248. 20:13the debate.
249. 20:14Yet you were going around the country saying, but yet he's fit to be president.
250. 20:26But getting back to what I'm saying here now with President Trump's election, the second
251. 20:34term to his second term, I'm gravely concerned that too much of the church is kind of falling
252. 20:43asleep or remained asleep and not recognize that, yo, this has to be, if we're going to
253. 20:53have the type of course correction we need in our nation, this has to be set in a stage
254. 20:57what will come next because this is a limited time.
255. 21:00This is a limited time.
256. 21:07And I'm not sure we have a sufficient understanding of what's needed to be pressed forward in this
257. 21:13window of time, this window of opportunity that we have on the policy front.
258. 21:22And one of the things is like, for example, no matter how you slice it.
259. 21:29And I know ultimately President Trump is his own man.
260. 21:31There's been lots of banter back and forth about what is there, are there negotiations?
261. 21:36Are there agreements?
262. 21:37are the negotiations, are the agreements.
263. 21:38And I said long before, many of you guys remember,
264. 21:41how can you negotiate with people who use
265. 21:47Takia as a tactic?
266. 21:49Like how can you do that?
267. 21:53And I am certainly not in favor of just bludgeoning people,
268. 21:59but you have to understand the ideology
269. 22:01of the people that you're dealing with.
270. 22:02Every day that the Iranian murderous zealots
271. 22:08murderous zealots are breathing.
272. 22:12They view it as victory.
273. 22:14Do you understand that?
274. 22:16Am I making sense, Bobby?
275. 22:18They view every day that they're breathing,
276. 22:21and they are in their minds,
277. 22:23staring down the Great Satan.
278. 22:25They view it as a modicum of victory.
279. 22:28Now, I know none of this makes sense to us
280. 22:30in our understanding from a Western perspective,
281. 22:33but you have to understand their ideology.
282. 22:35So when you understand that,
283. 22:37that every day that they are persisting and they exist and they're able to kind of
284. 22:45embroil the U.S. with they view as the great Satan in a quagmire because a quagmire for us,
285. 22:50not military, they know that we know that they know that we know we could blow them away immediately.
286. 22:57So then from their perspective, they could just blow us away. Why don't they? See, they view the fact
287. 23:03that the US has not blown them away completely as favor from their demonic deity.
288. 23:13Do you understand what I'm saying? So this is some free advice. I know that there are people in the
289. 23:21White House who listen, so I hope you're listening now. Whatever you want to accomplish, the time is
290. 23:29over in my estimation to rely on negotiating continually. Because what they are going to do
291. 23:34is going to try to rope a dope you.
292. 23:37They are wicked, but they're not stupid.
293. 23:42They understand the political landscape in the United States of America.
294. 23:44They understand that President Trump is facing midterm elections with not him personally,
295. 23:50but the party that supports him is facing midterm elections.
296. 23:53And they are of the mind that if they can just hold out, understand what I'm saying, if
297. 23:57they can hold out through the midterm elections and they would anticipate a changing of the
298. 24:04majority is in our Congress because these people understand how our politics works.
299. 24:12They are going to try to continue to rope a dope the United States of America to get
300. 24:16through the midterm elections in hopes that the midterms are turning away that will have
301. 24:22President President Trump further embroiled in domestic quagmire.
302. 24:25Guys, I'm telling you that this is how they think.
303. 24:30So they're going to continue to say they're going to do the hokey-pokey negotiations.
304. 24:34Oh, yes, we're negotiating.
305. 24:35Oh, no, we're not.
306. 24:37Oh, yes, we're negotiating.
307. 24:39No, no, we're not. Oh, we might we have a framework for a deal. Oh, we no longer have a framework for a deal.
308. 24:45All the while they also know President Trump said that we were going to be there a couple weeks.
309. 24:51And how the continuation of our presence there also bolsters the political difficulty. So the free advice is this.
310. 25:00Whatever you believe is what should be accomplished there for the benefit of the United States of America and our objectives, you must do it.
311. 25:13Regardless of what they're saying that
312. 25:19You have to do it the only thing that these murderous zealous Shiites understand is
313. 25:31Exercises of force that's it because it continues to try to
314. 25:43You cannot use diplomacy with people who don't have regard for diplomacy do you do do you understand?
315. 25:49They have no regard for diplomacy
316. 25:51mercy.
317. 25:58Merle's making a good point.
318. 25:59She says, I think Trump knows their song and dance.
319. 26:00He just starts saying what he's doing.
320. 26:02That's perfectly fine.
321. 26:04That's perfectly fine.
322. 26:05But here's the problem with that though.
323. 26:07Domestically.
324. 26:08That's the problem.
325. 26:09Like, I'm not saying you even need to say what you're doing.
326. 26:13I'm saying there has to be some level of communication to the United States of American
327. 26:18citizens here because the longer it continues, the more you can anticipate a winnowing of
328. 26:28support.
329. 26:29That's just a reality.
330. 26:31Now, if you've made that calculus and you've concluded that, well, that is a risk you're
331. 26:35willing to shoulder.
332. 26:37Okay.
333. 26:38Okay.
334. 26:41My suggestion will be simply whatever you got, whatever it is that you identify, then must
335. 26:51be done, then we have to do it.
336. 27:00I also will say, and I hope people realize.
337. 27:10And maybe many of you already realize this, but the term Iran is really an interpolation
338. 27:19of Aryan into Farsi because a nation is mentioned throughout the scripture as Persia and as the
339. 27:28descendants of Elam.
340. 27:29And you search the scripture you'll find that God has a plan unsurprisingly for Elam, for
341. 27:38Persia.
342. 27:41But it ain't dealing with these murderous clerics.
343. 27:45There's a distinction between clearly the zealous, murderous Islamic regime and the Persian people,
344. 27:54of course.
345. 27:56But we've witnessed instances over the years of how the Persian people are tired of the
346. 28:02mullahs.
347. 28:05But the free advice I want to offer is, whatever it is, that is the United States of America's
348. 28:13objectives there, we have to just do it.
349. 28:17You cannot rely on negotiating with people who have no regard for diplomacy.
350. 28:20You can.
351. 28:22is why you have this consistent back and forth and back and forth and back and forth
352. 28:26and back and forth. All right. I believe that where it is. I thought I didn't even mention
353. 28:35this. This is the week. This week will be in Richmond, Virginia. We'll be there. We'll
354. 28:40broadcast a show live from Richmond on Thursday and Friday. This week will be at the H.A.V.
355. 28:49convention. It is a very, very large convention at the convention center downtown there in
356. 28:54Richmond, Virginia, looking forward to having an amazing and amazing time there,
357. 28:59and encouraging God's people. Then the very next week we will be in Pennsylvania.
358. 29:04Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, broadcasting from there as well. If you're in the area
359. 29:08well in the come to the area, I'd love to see you at one or both if you're
360. 29:13interested. I will be providing different presentations at both places and I'm
361. 29:19looking forward to that. After we finish those events I'll give you some more
362. 29:24information about events coming up later this year because we'll still be on the road
363. 29:30that's remainder of this year. There's lots of work that is to be done but I pray
364. 29:36that it is done to the glory of God. Alright I'm gonna go here next. So today
365. 29:44all in some places around the country, do I have that? Some of the states around
366. 29:52country, six or seven states, we have primary elections going on right now in the country.
367. 30:00And one of those places, one of those states is the state of California.
368. 30:05Now, I know what people say, and I know what people think, but just on Sunday, two days
369. 30:13before primary election day, local law enforcement officials found ballot boxes with burned out
370. 30:25Mail in ballots. You heard me right. Burned out mail in that ballots just two days before
371. 30:31primary election day. Listen to and watch clip number three, clip three, go. Vote by mail ballots.
372. 30:38We're found burned inside a ballot box in Los Angeles just two days before the California primaries.
373. 30:44Election officials discovered the damaged ballots and they filed a report with the police department.
374. 30:50They say a separate voting center was also vandalized. Investigators are looking into both
375. 30:54incidents and are working to identify any voters who have been affected.
376. 31:00I wouldn't. I wonder, you know, uh, two days before primary election day.
377. 31:06What, what are you, what are you fine? And this is in Los Angeles, um,
378. 31:11burned out, mail in ballots. That wouldn't be any more of that, you know,
379. 31:18not widespread voting chicanery with, with, with it, with it,
380. 31:22with it, not, not widespread. I'm sure I'm sure that, oh yeah, by the way,
381. 31:27that was also the local voting facility that was vandalized.
382. 31:32But I'm sure that's not widespread.
383. 31:34Do you think that's widespread?
384. 31:35Bobby.
385. 31:36Two days.
386. 31:40It gets a coincidence.
387. 31:41That's two days before the primary elections.
388. 31:49And they find a ballot box with burned up mail-in ballots.
389. 31:57I wonder if any of those burned up mail-in ballots had,
390. 32:00you know, I don't know.
391. 32:02a box checked for Spencer Pratt to be the next mayor
392. 32:05of Los Angeles.
393. 32:06I wonder.
394. 32:09Oh, and the mail-in ballot thing.
395. 32:13I guess the Save America Act really,
396. 32:15we don't really need that because it's not widespread,
397. 32:21you see.
398. 32:24And we may have some fraud, some irregularities,
399. 32:28but it's not widespread.
400. 32:31Well, shouldn't we want to determine how wide it spreads?
401. 32:35And it's mighty funny to me that though it's not widespread,
402. 32:40it seems to kind of happen all the time.
403. 32:48Primary Election Day is today.
404. 32:50What can we learn from California?
405. 32:52I wonder, what can we learn?
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443. 35:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner.
444. 35:19Do you expect to get any answers from the burned-out ballots in Los Angeles?
445. 35:27Just, and again, this is one of those laughing to keep on crime moments where, you know, I
446. 35:33get raked over the colds by people who say, oh, look at their Abraham again, talk about
447. 35:38this election fraud.
448. 35:39I'm like, what would you call it?
449. 35:41What do you call it when you can anticipate like clockwork, things like, I don't know
450. 35:45two days before the primary burnout ballots.
451. 35:48And I know it's not in the entirety of the country.
452. 35:52But once again, schemes, fraudulent irregularities do not have to be widespread to be effective.
453. 36:07To be effective, they don't have to be widespread.
454. 36:09That's why the whole election fraud is not widespread.
455. 36:13really is irrelevant to the conversation.
456. 36:17But it's a question that should not solely be,
457. 36:19is it wise?
458. 36:20The question should be, huh, to what end?
459. 36:25To what end?
460. 36:30Since we're in California,
461. 36:31you might as well stay there a little longer.
462. 36:35So this is something that's interesting to me.
463. 36:40So some of you may remember,
464. 36:42or maybe aware of,
465. 36:43some of you may not be aware of this,
466. 36:45but in 2020 with the combination of the
467. 36:50schmovit responses and the status in regressive states primarily, but really all across the country
468. 36:58following the Minnesota riots related to George Floyd. There were many universities
469. 37:05around the country who dispatched with requiring standardized test scores as a part of their
470. 37:13application criteria. Many schools all around the country,
471. 37:21jettison that requirement, one of them that's on the top of my mind is MIT,
472. 37:26who actually re-inst- shortly after put it back in place and now we still need to
473. 37:30standardize test scores. But an explosive report
474. 37:36has now been published that includes over nine hundred
475. 37:43members of the university of california systems faculty
476. 37:48uh... university california to have their you know collegiate system
477. 37:52uh... you calbert lee u c's and a goal you see a little bit goes on and on
478. 37:56uh...
479. 37:58over nine hundred faculty
480. 38:01have published an explosive
481. 38:03uh... letter
482. 38:05And the letter follows a study that was conducted by UC California San Diego from 2020 to 2025,
483. 38:15where the University of California San Diego found that there was a 30-fold increase in the
484. 38:21number of students who had math skills that were below the high school levels that were
485. 38:27necessary in order to study in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
486. 38:36what they found and I would just give you a little bit of it that I'm going to cut to
487. 38:42a clip is that for the time period since 2020 through 2025, UC California, San Diego, University
488. 38:54of California, San Diego found that 42% of students who admitted into the math program
489. 39:05were unable to do middle school math.
490. 39:09And this is specifically students
491. 39:12who had taken calculus or pre-calculus in high school.
492. 39:16Another 44% had taken a statistics class.
493. 39:23But according to the University of San Diego,
494. 39:25UCal San Diego report that they were,
495. 39:28they now are teaching remedial math classes.
496. 39:31And for consecutive years, 20 to 30% of UC Berkeley's
497. 39:36first semester calculus students who would participate in mathematical
498. 39:44diagnostic testing displayed severe preparation deficits.
499. 39:51What the study showed is that from 2020 to 2025 that the percentage of students who are
500. 39:56enrolling for math disciplines, majors, minors, and math courses that they required a significant
501. 40:05portion required remedial math training.
502. 40:11In the quantity of students that needed remedial math
503. 40:13increased 30 fold specifically in the five years
504. 40:19since they've removed the standardized testing requirement
505. 40:23for college admission.
506. 40:24Listen to and watch a brief clip from California
507. 40:28on this exact point.
508. 40:29It's clip number four, clip four, go.
509. 40:32The admissions, they pick up really smart kids,
510. 40:35but they are unprepared for college.
511. 40:39And it's my personal tragedy.
512. 40:41That's the sentiment from UCLA mathematics professor
513. 40:43Dr. Oleg Glizer, one of nearly 800 UC professors
514. 40:47signing an open letter calling on the Board of Regents
515. 40:50to bring back standardized testing for students
516. 40:52applying to science, technology, engineering,
517. 40:55and math programs.
518. 40:56Those test requirements, the SAT and ACT,
519. 40:59were eliminated by the Board of Regents in 2020
520. 41:02over concerns about equity and bias.
521. 41:04The point is you have to place people who want to learn and can learn in the situation where
522. 41:11I can give them what they need to learn.
523. 41:14The faculty letter points to a striking UC San Diego report, finding the number of incoming
524. 41:18students with math skills below high school level increased nearly 30 fold in just five
525. 41:23years.
526. 41:2470% of those students tested below middle school level.
527. 41:30So in light of this, the letter from the 900 plus faculty in California, they're saying
528. 41:35We need to re-institute the SAT or ACT requirement just on the math side.
529. 41:41We need to go back to requiring an ACT,
530. 41:46math scores on an ACT on an SAT as we are admitting these students because it's impacting everybody.
531. 41:53You have students who are coming to the colleges who are unprepared.
532. 42:00And so there's a widening gap just in these five years guys.
533. 42:07from 2020 to 2025.
534. 42:10There's a widening gap between the students who are prepared
535. 42:14and those who are not prepared for these classes.
536. 42:18Now here's the thing, and you know how it goes,
537. 42:21and there is a reality that there are students
538. 42:27who are brilliant, who are just not good test takers.
539. 42:33Then you also have a reality that you have some people
540. 42:35who are good test takers, who are not necessarily good students,
541. 42:39but the entire premise of the discarding of the standardized testing
542. 42:45was based on
543. 42:46the the perception
544. 42:48that these tests are
545. 42:51biased racially
546. 42:57but what's interesting
547. 43:00is that there's a comparison of the status between
548. 43:05the status of how many students including minority students
549. 43:09are admitted into into schools who perform well upon being admitted into
550. 43:13school
551. 43:14in the pre and the prior regime where the standardized tests were required and in the
552. 43:19regime with the data with the last five years from 2020 to 2025.
553. 43:24And it shows and this is a part of the report.
554. 43:29It says quote of the students for whom the SAT score was decisive in guaranteeing admission
555. 43:35because what happens that this the schools reported that there were instances where you
556. 43:41had students who had low GPAs, but they had high test scores, specifically in mathematics.
557. 43:51And these were minority students who had high test scores in mathematics, including black
558. 43:55students, Hispanic students, Asian students, that had higher admission and performance abilities
559. 44:08that were reflected by the test scores.
560. 44:10So getting back to the report, it says, quote, up the students for whom the SAT score was
561. 44:13decisive in guaranteeing them admission to the University of California system that you had
562. 44:22thousands of minorities who are admitted because of the test scores.
563. 44:27Now how often do you have that as a part of the conversation?
564. 44:31You don't really often have that as a part of the conversation because, and this is what
565. 44:35Thomas Sol would describe as when you have a narrative that rivals what is true.
566. 44:44The narrative did not allow for the discourse to include how many students who specifically
567. 44:51were minorities were admitted into the universities because of their standardized test scores.
568. 44:57You were not allowed to have that conversation because the focus was solely placed on the
569. 45:02narrative of the perpetual grievance industrial complex.
570. 45:07So now we have schools like MIT and the University of California faculty members cited MIT as
571. 45:13as an example, they say, now I was a bad idea for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
572. 45:19to no longer look at standardized test scores in the math area to help them in assessing
573. 45:25who should be admitted.
574. 45:26It certainly should not be exclusively responsive as who is or who is not admitted, but to immediately
575. 45:32conclude that the test in and of itself, the tests in and of themselves are inherently of
576. 45:38such a bias component that we jettisoned across the board, well we're now learning, and it's
577. 45:46interesting that this is coming out of California guys. That's why I'm pointing this out. You might
578. 45:51expect to see something like this come from like Texas or Florida, but did you expect to
579. 45:56see this coming from California where you have over 900 faculty that says, you know what,
580. 46:00about those standardized tests, as it concerns science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,
581. 46:09It turns out that those tests actually helped us a bit.
582. 46:14It helped us to identify students who are more likely than not, who are closer towards
583. 46:23being prepared to build from a high school level foundation of mathematics to grow into
584. 46:29the college disciplines.
585. 46:32But not having that test to be included has resulted in us having to adjust our curricular
586. 46:42offerings to where we're spending far more time on remedial investments than we are on
587. 46:47building what we're seeking to build for collegiate disciplinary mastery.
588. 46:59It agrees me, man.
589. 47:01It agrees me that this happens because what ends up occurring, and this is the consistent
590. 47:08evidence or the consistent result of Marxist intervention because when it seeks to make
591. 47:15everybody equal, they didn't tell you equal in what direction.
592. 47:19Communism makes the majority populous equally poor.
593. 47:23You have equality in poverty.
594. 47:28You're not equally increasing quality of life,
595. 47:32increasing things.
596. 47:34And it just, when we don't employ the Lord's word, man,
597. 47:42we are the ones who lose out.
598. 47:45Just because people are pushing some kind of new fangled
599. 47:47idea or policy, it doesn't make it good.
600. 47:50It doesn't make it good.
601. 47:52We have to examine everything in light of the white hot
602. 47:58scrutiny of God's holy word with the spirit of God leading in that query.
603. 48:07Because you have situations like this and as this has happened, it's been five years,
604. 48:12what's been the consequences of that?
605. 48:13How many students have had their collegiate life delayed by this where the time they should
606. 48:20have been able to be building toward whatever career or entrepreneur pursuit they were building
607. 48:24towards and now have to go and do remedial courses?
608. 48:28How many seats in the schools acceptance and admission that could have gone to more qualified
609. 48:39students end up not going to more qualified students?
610. 48:42It is infuriating to me when people assert that ethnicity determines your capacity to
611. 48:56function.
612. 48:58Like the University of Washington years ago, they said that, well, we're no longer requiring
613. 49:03uh... grammatical correctness in the english department because
614. 49:08you know articulation of the english language in proper
615. 49:11proper articulation of the english language you know what that's racist
616. 49:18i like this one of the dumbest things i've ever heard of my life
617. 49:21indeed do you think you're helping these young people
618. 49:24to be to grow to a success
619. 49:27but saying you know what when you turn in your papers
620. 49:29you you you don't have to
621. 49:31punctuation
622. 49:32Ah, who cares?
623. 49:34Spelling, ah, you know, grammar, ah, yeah.
624. 49:38Is that putting the student on a footing for success?
625. 49:43Or is that putting them closer to the position
626. 49:46where they have to be dependent upon someone else?
627. 49:55Oh, man, Lord, help us to understand
628. 49:58the times that we're living in.
629. 50:01And while I'm saying all of that,
630. 50:03I'm not saying that to cause you to be downtrodden
631. 50:05in the least bit, because we must never forget
632. 50:08that God is ordained us for such a time as this.
633. 50:12He has determined the boundaries of our habitation
634. 50:15and the times in which we would live.
635. 50:18And so he has planted us here for this time.
636. 50:21Let's be about our Father's business.
637. 50:24Darkness is not an affirmative force.
638. 50:27It merely reoccupies the space that is vacated by the light.
639. 50:31Let's be the hands and feet of Jesus
640. 50:33and light up the darkness.
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