We once had a God-fearing society. Then the pagans came in and threw God out of our culture, but thought they could keep all the good stuff. They were wrong. And one of those things that we lost was the ability to dispense justice through a jury system. Unfortunately, Pagan tribalism killed the jury system in America.

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com slash at politics by faith and subscribe over there. The story of the day, the Carmelo Anthony trial. All right, we're about halfway through the trial right now. Here's what happened. Get caught up, get in front of things here. Here's the basics. 

Austin Metcalf. He was white. It's an important part of the story. He was 17 years old at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. Carmelo Anthony is black. He's from a different high school in that area. 

They were both at this track meet and there were thunderstorms, so the meet was delayed. For some reason, the black student, was in the white student's tent, the school tent area at this meet, right? And in the trial yesterday, two days ago, we found out from a witness that the black student, the black athlete was told to leave at least 15 times. Like, get out of here. This is not your school. Your school's tent is over there. 

We don't know why he was there. We don't know the motive behind why this interaction ever even took place at all in the first place. At one point, Carmelo Anthony said, touch me and see what happens. Metcalf then pushed him. Anthony then pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest, then ran away. Carmelo Anthony told police I was protecting myself. 

We also know he was quote crying hysterically when he was arrested. He told police he put his hands on me. I told him not to. And then he asked the officer if what he did could be considered self -defense. Carmelo is charged with murder as an adult. He was 17 when this happened. This was last year. 

This happened last, I want to say April. There is security camera footage of this. No one in the public has seen it yet. The jury has. They've now seen it. All right. 

Pun to do with this story. I want to talk about the most upfront, obvious surface level part of the whole thing. And that is the skin color of the people involved and of the jury and of the outrage that you're going to hear when the verdict is ultimately given. This is a woman who is outside the courtroom. in support of Carmelo Anthony. If evidence does come out that Carmelo was not in fact fighting for his life when he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, do you think that the black community will accept that? 

If evidence shows that he did not, no, we're going to stand by ours regardless. They stand by theirs. We're going to stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first. I'm a black mother. Let me put that on there. 

I'm an African -American mother. So I have to put away my color first and step into the motherhood. Nobody wants to see their child slain. So I do want to send prayers to Officer Metcalf, their family. But at the end of the day, I got to think like, okay, what did you do to them or whatever to cause this to happen, the reaction? We got to start taking accountability for our kids. 

Because then again, if my kid, that's why it's a catch -22, if my kid was Carmelo and I feel like his back was up against the wall, I'm going to tell you something. up, better mine than yours. Better mine than yours. So either way it go, everybody loses. A black boy allegedly erred, and I say allegedly, heavy on the allegedly, allegedly erred at somebody. You see what I'm saying? 

So yeah, this is about race. Because if the shoe was on the other foot, they wouldn't give a damn. Who wouldn't give a damn? The, let me say this, let's say the community. So if Carmelo Anthony was the one stabbed and killed by Austin Metcalf. They wouldn't give a damn. 

George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose and country. You can't have a jury system like this. There's been studies on this, plenty of analyses on this. There was a study that looked at trials with black and white defendants. So black and white defendants and then black and white people on the jury. and who voted guilty. 

So what they found in this analysis was if the juror is white, so a white juror, white defendant, the white juror says guilty 39 % of the time. If the defendant is black, so white juror, black defendant, the white person says guilty 32 % of the time. So about the same, but actually less. of but we'll call it the same, 39%, 32%. Okay. 

Then they looked at black jurors, black juror. If the defendant was white, the black juror found that white guy guilty 73 % of the time. If the defendant is also black, so black juror, black defendant, they only found that black defendant guilty 24 % of the time. That is a massive difference. So again, when it was a white juror, it didn't really matter if it was a white defendant or a black defendant, 39, 32, whatever, it was about the same. But if there was a black juror, massive difference. 

What did she say? We protect our own or something like that? That's tribalism. You can't have a jury system like that. You really can't have a jury system in a multi -ethnic society because the ethnicities become tribal. Now, in this particular trial with Carmel Anthony, Austin Metcalf is the person who was murdered, with Carmel Anthony, there are no black jurors at all. 

Because in the jury selection process, which might be the most important part of the entire trial, one prospective juror said, I don't, this is a quote, I don't know if I feel right putting a brother in jail, even if he murdered someone like that woman said, what if it came out that he wasn't acting in self -defense? Well, nah, I still wouldn't put it. And then like someone who was actually, that's just some crazy woman outside the trial, but even someone who was selected for jury was like, nah, I can't put a, I can't put a brother in jail unless he admitted it. So it doesn't matter what One of the OJ jurors admitted on camera that letting OJ off was payback for Rodney King. It did not matter one bit what was ever said in that trial. However long that trial lasted, trial of the century, it didn't matter at all what happened. 

It was already done. One of the jurors on the trial, as he walked out, threw the black power fist over at OJ, the whitest black guy ever, threw the black power fist at him. What? There was another major study done. This was done by the American National Election Studies, University of Chicago at Stanford. supported by the National Science Foundation. 

It's like maximum credibility in the study. This was done before and after the 2020 presidential election. So they asked a bunch of different questions, like 100 different questions. One of those set of questions was, they called it a feelings thermometer. So the question was, how would you rate different ethnicities based on zero to 100? So 50 to 100 means you have a favorable and warm regard towards this group. 

Zero to 50 means you don't have a favorable view towards this group, and you don't care much for that group. These are the words that they use. And they would ask you to rate, so let's say you're white. They'd say, all right, well, how do you feel about black people? How do you feel about Asian people? How do you feel about Hispanic people? 

And then if you're any of those other races, they would say, well, how do you feel about white people? So they asked white people first, right? And they said, well, then not first, but I'll do my analysis first. They said white people, right? So hey, white people, how do you feel about white people? Actually, they would ask white people how they feel about white people. 

So white people, how do you feel about white people? And white people are like, OK, I'm going to go around 70. And then, hey, how do you feel about black people? How do you feel about Hispanic people? How do you feel about Asian people? It was all around 70. 

How white people felt about white people? 75%. How white people felt about black people? 73%. That two point difference in America we call systemic racism. Two points. 

But they also asked Hispanic people. Hey, Hispanic people, how do you feel about Hispanic people? 85 % love Hispanic people. Hispanic people think Hispanic people are the bee's knees. Love, love Hispanic people. All right, Hispanic people, how do you feel about white people? 

65%. Pretty big spread. 20 points. Again, white people, two points. Two point spread between white and black. Two. 

And zero between white and Asian white and Hispanic. Zero. The same, same, same. White and black, two points. But Hispanic, between Hispanics and white, 20 points. Then they asked Asians. 

Hey Asians, how do you feel about Asians? 82%. Love. Asians, how do you feel about white people? 68. Pretty big spread. 

And then they asked black people. Hey black people, how do you feel about black people? 85%. Love black people. All right black people, how do you feel about white people? 60%. 

25 point difference. Biggest spread at all. All these other three groups of people had huge spreads between, if I may, my own kind and white people. For black and white, 25 points spread. Meanwhile, white people, a two point spread between black and white people. And we call that systemic racism. 

And we're lectured about it all the time. Back to the justice system. Hey, black juror, did this black 17 year old murder this white kid? No. Oh, well, here's security camera footage of it. Don't matter. 

Now, if Carmelo Anthony is found guilty, there will be mass outrage from the left. Black Lives Matter, the whole thing. And then the video will be released finally to the public a year later. And it won't matter. One iota. to any of those people. 

Truth doesn't. So as I'm recording this right now, the prosecution has rested their case. The defense picks it up next. The prosecution, the state, Metcalf's team, can then give a rebuttal. And then the defense gives a rebuttal to the rebuttal. And then it's up to the jury. 

And it's got to be unanimous. We'll keep you up to date. But let's go to the Bible now. I want to talk about justice. How does the Bible define justice? Justice is giving people what they are due. 

Now, when it comes to heaven and hell, you do not want what you are due because you are due hell. That's where Jesus comes in. Justice. There's a lot of different elements of justice. Let me just pick one for the sake of our time here. Justice is impartial. 

Deuteronomy 1 .17 says, you shall not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man for the judgment is God's. Justice should be based, according to the Bible, based on the facts of the case. and the facts of the case alone. Now, partiality can go all sorts of ways, and you should go no way, only the way of the facts. 

The Bible says you can't judge against a person because they're poor or because they're rich, but you can't do it both ways, right? So someone may say, well, don't be mean against poor people. Well, you also can't go against rich people either just because they're rich, right? You can't judge a person guilty because they're black, but you also can't say they're innocent just because they're black. It had nothing to do with it. And you also can't judge someone guilty or innocent based off of a different case, like they did with OJ. 

Oh, what was the payback for Rodney King? The Bible speaks to this a lot, actually. Leviticus 19 .15, you must not pervert justice. We're going to get back to that word in a second. You must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich. You are to judge your neighbor fairly. 

Deuteronomy 10 .17, by the way, neighbor, your neighbor, not race. Your neighbor, Deuteronomy 10, 17, the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God. Let's get back to that in a second as well. Showing no partiality and accepting no bribe. If I could pick one story as if the biblical God talking is not enough here. 1 Samuel 8, 3, this sentence here, his sons, speaking of Samuel and his sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice. 

" There's the word again, perverted justice. The Bible a lot, Exodus 23 says, you shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. Keep far from a false charge and do not kill the innocent or the righteous for I will not acquit the guilty. You shall not take a bribe for a bribe blinds the clear sided and subverts the cause of of the just. I want to get back to Samuel, Deuteronomy 16, 18 says, You shall appoint to yourself judges and officers in your towns, which the Lord your God has given you according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not distort justice. 

You shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe. There it is again, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. It's all throughout the Old Testament. So let's go back to Samuel. How terrible is it that Samuel's sons did not follow his way? They didn't follow dad's way. 

or their Heavenly Father. They turned aside. Turned aside is a verb that is translated 30 different ways in the Bible. Isn't that amazing? And it depends what noun you have next to it. So if you have the word tent next to this word, then it means to spread it, spread it out. 

If you have the word justice next to it, then it means to pervert it. Don't pervert justice. In the case I'm referring to, like what I'm talking about here, it's more denying it. Same thing, I guess, right? Now I'm not, well, I guess what's different is I'm also, I'm not saying the judge is taking bribes, but the jurors, They can't be motivated by anything other than the truth, whether it's taking a bribe, monetary bribe, or it's just deep seated racial resentment. The Bible has so many verses about taking bribes and just in general, lack of justice. 

It is clearly something that God hates. If we had, and this goes back to that scripture we shared of, you know, your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords. If we had a jury of our peers, a system that we created full of Bible believing Christians, who were afraid of the wrath of God for perverting justice, when they are given the solemn responsibility of dispensing justice, of finding someone guilty or innocent, if we had a jury of peers who all agreed, all felt that same way, and all knew that God was watching, then a jury system can work, then a jury system is fair, and a jury system is good. But with the tribalism we have in America today, what's keeping people honest? Who cares? This is what happens when you throw God out of our culture. 

We lost so much more. Pagans thought they could throw God out and keep all the other good things that came from a God -fearing country. We had all this good stuff that happened from a God -fearing, biblical -minded country and culture. All these amazing things. We took it all for granted. The godless pagans came in, threw out God, and thought they could keep all the good stuff. 

And one of the good things they thought they could keep was a jury system. Who thought we were going to lose that? It's gone. Truth doesn't matter. You throw God out of our culture, you lose everything. I pray in this case, and all cases, for God -fearing justice. 

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Have you ever heard of the Black Robe Regiment? I haven't either, but when you hear what the Black Robe Regiment meant to America 250 years ago compared to what we're working with today, it makes sense why we're not where we need to be.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day. Ecclesiastes says, not the new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day. Today, the Black Robe Regiment. 

You've heard of this? I've never heard of this group until, I'll be honest, this morning. This is the name that the British gave the American clergy, or I should say the clergy colonist clergy, the clergy in the colonies who preached the gospel from the pulpit firing brimstone for 150 years prior to the revolution, the black robe regiment. We talked to Seth Gruber on my recorded TV show. We're going to air that podcast or release that podcast here, I think on Friday. and he said it just in passing. 

John Adams said that the pulpits thundered and he specifically identified Christian pastors. as being among the characters most conspicuous, the most ardent, the most influential in the awakening and revival of American principles and feelings that led to the American Revolution. There was a British magazine that said if Christian ministers had not preached and prayed, there might have been no revolution as yet, or had it broken out, it might have been crushed. There's a British historian who said the ministers of the revolution were like their Puritan predecessors, bold and fearless in the cause of their country. And that also says everything we talk about in this show, it comes up often, I should say, not just our founding fathers, but our founding grandfathers. The founding grandfathers were the Puritan predecessors, and now we have the preachers during the revolution as well. 

This British magazine says, the British historian said, no class of men contributed more to carry forward the revolution and to achieve our independence than did the ministers. Ready for the story about Paul Revere? Paul Revere goes off for his ride. One if I land, two if I see. Where did he go? He went to the home of Reverend Clark in Lexington. 

That's where John Hancock and Samuel Adams were. Everyone talks, at least when you go to Boston, you go to Leicester, they talk about how Paul Revere went to go see John Hancock and Sam Adams, but whose house were they at? They were with Reverend Clark. Clark and Hancock and Adams, I should say, Hancock and Adams turned to Clark and asked if the people were ready to fight. And the Reverend Clark's response was, I have trained them for this very hour. So they all went to the town green and Let me quote here from Joel Headley. 

He says, there they found their pastor, Reverend Clark, who arrived before them. The roll was called and 150 answered to their names. The church, the pastor, and his congregation stand together in the dim light awaiting the Redcoats, the seven colonists who died on the Lexington Green, all members of his church. I'll give you another one. Part of the black regiment, the black robe regiment. Reverend Nepthali Daggett. 

You ever heard that name? Feel like I would have heard that name if I wouldn't forget it. Reverend Nepthali Daggett. He was the president of Yale University in 1776. That's my mater. the name Naphtali Daggett. 

When the British attacked New Haven, he fought back. He was on the top of this hill firing shots down on the British. The British captured him and bayoneted him to death. And was it just him in New Haven? Reverend James Caldwell did the same thing in New Jersey, and the British burned his church. His family was murdered. 

The British soldiers, they abused, killed, tortured, imprisoned clergymen across the country, and they suffered harsher treatment, more severe penalties. The British targeted the ministers, also their churches. There were 19 church buildings in New York City. 10 were destroyed by the British. From the very beginning, the British knew they had to take down the church in America. republished in 1772. 

Again, it's been called The Textbook of Our Founding Fathers. I'll share that in just a minute, but I just want to share the Black Robe Regiment and who these guys were and what they preached and how hard they fought physically and spiritually for the revolution. And I want to compare that just for the sake of comparison to James Tallarico. James Tallarico, when he was a state assemblyman in Texas, he's now running for Senate in Texas. This is the best Christian that the Democrats could find in Texas to run for the Democratic Party. Listen to this guy. 

The house and gallery will please rise for an invocation which will be offered by the Honorable James Tallarico of Williamson County. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let us pray. Holy mystery, you have so many names. The Torah calls you creator. The Quran calls you peace. 

The Gita calls you destroyer. The Dharma calls you truth. And the first epistle of John calls you perhaps the most beautiful name of all, love. You are the strange love uniting all things. The love that drew elements together after that big bang. The love that drew life itself from those primordial oceans. 

the love that drew us all to this exact moment, the love we were born of, the love we exist in, and the love we will one day return to. In my faith, you expressed yourself through a barefoot rabbi who embodied your perfect love, a crucified carpenter who gave only two commandments, love God and love neighbor, because there is no love of God without love of neighbor. Help us love not just in word, but in action. Help us honor not just the name of Jesus, but the way, of Jesus. Help us free the oppressed, feed the hungry, house the homeless, heal the sick, release the prisoner, welcome the stranger, forgive the enemy, and above all, protect your creation. The word of God is love. 

Let us not be hearers of your word, but doers of your word in our families, in our communities, and in this chamber. Not just with prayers, but with policies. Not just personal love, but political love. Because democracy is not just a constitution. Democracy is a covenant. Holy mystery, open our minds, open our hearts, open our hands so that we may build a new world in the shell of the old, a world that is more just, more free. 

more whole, and more in love with you. In all your many names, we pray. Amen. Every time I hear that, I hear something new, more blasphemy. Did he say release the prisoner? That's not what the Bible says. 

The Bible does not say we need to release the prisoners. Let's compare that with the opening prayer of the Constitutional Convention in 1774, which was led by just the local guy. It wasn't like the most renowned pastor in Philadelphia. It was like, hey, let's find a guy to do it. Oh, Lord, our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers of earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the kingdoms, empires, and governments. Look down in mercy, we beseech thee. 

On these are American states who have fled to you from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on you. Oh, how we have fallen from Reverend Duchesne to Tallarico. I mentioned a second ago this pamphlet that was published in 1710. It was by Reverend Wise. So there was a proposal in 1705 to centralize the power of churches across New England. And Reverend Wise was very much against this concentration of authority. 

So he wrote this pamphlet called The Church's Quarrel Espoused, 1710. It was republished in 1772 and became alive again because the topic wasn't as relevant anymore specifically because it was published dealing with something that happened 70 years earlier. But the themes, were then reapplied to the revolution itself with government. So where the pamphlet was about against a concentration of church authority in New England, the colonists took the same themes and applied them politically. They were against a political consolidation of power in England against the colonies. 

And it's full of amazing quotes like, churches and governing our own government, not needing a king. And it's up to us. Furnish your churches with ruling elders. He said, take charge yourself for yourself, for your community, for your church, for your own governments. I want to jump over to the Bible again, but again, just to drive that point home, started off as this church document, which was then republished in 1772. Again, written by this reverend, Reverend Wise, and thought of again in a more secular way for the revolution itself. 

The Black Robe Brigade was incredibly powerful or influential, I should say. Let's wrap up with a Bible story here. I'm reading about all this. I'm learning about this Black Robe Brigade that I've never heard before. And somewhere along my reading, I came across, or I'm reminded of, Luke 16, the parable in Luke 16, the dishonest steward. This is a potentially tricky one. 

At first glance, you read it and you're like, I don't get it. Why? Why is Jesus praising? I don't, it's hard to understand the motivations of this, but here's what happened. Luke 16 verse one. So this is Jesus talking. 

He tells a story. There was a certain rich man who had a steward and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods or even embezzling the money. So he called him and said to him, what is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship for you can no longer be steward. He was going to get fired. Then 

Then the steward said within himself, what shall I do? For my master has taken away my stewardship away from me. I'm going to lose my job. I cannot dig. I'm ashamed to beg. There's nothing else I can do. I'm going to get fired. 

What do I do? I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. Who? So he called on every one of his master's debtors to him. and said to the first, how much do you owe my master? And he said, 100 measures of oil. 

So he said to him, take your bill and sit down quickly and write 50. So you don't owe Hunter anymore, you now owe 50. Then he said to the other, and how much do you owe? So he said, 100 measures of wheat. And he said to him, take your bill and write 80. So now you owe less. 

So the master, right, so he went to all these guys and say, you think you owe this much? Well, congratulations, you owe now half as much. So he kept doing this. The master then commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. What? He stole from him more. 

But here's what Jesus said of this parable. For the sons of the world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light. Well, that's confusing. So the, the, the master is going to fire this manager of the money and the manager then steals more from him. He went to all the people who owed money and gave him a deal. Why did he do this? 

Well, he knew he was going to get fired. And he knew that when he got fired, he was going to need some friends. But why would the master praise that? The master praised it not because he was doing the right thing, but because he was shrewd. We've done this before. You ever come across someone or maybe one of your kids doing something wrong or sneaky, or they do something at school that they're not supposed to, they break the rules somehow. 

but they're clever about it. Here's kind of a silly example. Grace at school, the math question, one of the questions was like, and how did you solve this problem? It was a word problem and in the end it was like, how'd you solve it? And she said, I used my brain or something. And you're like, that's not the right answer. 

But also you're like, no, pretty good, pretty clever. That's good. So if ever someone does something wrong, but they're clever about it, you're like, nah, well played. Well played. You admire the ingenuity of their thievery. You don't approve of their conduct, but you admire their shrewdness. 

The illustration here that Jesus was using is that we, the sons of light, need to be as shrewd for good as the sons of evil are for the world. David Guzik, he said, if we pursued the kingdom of God with the same vigor and zeal that the children of this world pursue profits and pleasure, we would live in an entirely different world. The sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light. And we shouldn't be like that anymore. We need to be more shrewd ourselves. We need to have more zeal, more passion. 

Alexander McLaren, a Bible scholar in the early 1900s, he said, go to the men of the world, thou Christian, and do not let it be said. that the devil's scholars are more studious and earnest than Christ's disciples. " Gosh, I love that quote so much. Go to the men of this world, Christian, and do not let it be said that the devil's scholars are more studious and earnest than Christ's disciples. The pastors of the revolution and prior who set the foundation of this country, the spiritual and cultural foundations of this country, which we still benefit from today, they were zealous and they were brave and they were skilled and they were studious and they were spiritual and they were impressive men. 

We today, sons of the light, should be too. And we do it the same way they did, prepare every day, read the word, pray to God. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith just wanted to present to you something new to me, the Black Robe Brigade. youtube . com slash at politics by faith spread the word

California is voting in its primary. Can the two Republicans come out on top of the governor's race and make the Democrats' plan for power backfire? And can Spencer Pratt make the top 2 in the mayor race and continue his campaign until November? Either way, he has the perfect attitude, which we all need to have in everything we do in our lives.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. Thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day. Can Spencer Pratt pull it out in the LA mayor's race? 

So what's going on? The primary in California is tomorrow. There's the governor's race. By the way, tomorrow is Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026, depending on when you're watching this right now. So as I'm recording this, it will be on tomorrow. There's a governor's race too in California, which I haven't been following as closely, but I will note this before we go on to Spencer Pratt specifically. 

The governor is fascinating because about, I think it was like 10 years ago or so, the California Democrats moved the primary to a jungle primary where there's no political parties. It's not like the Democrats vote in the Democratic primary and the Republicans vote in the Republican primary. Everyone's together, and the top two, no matter what party they're from, move on. Now in California, it's always been, in every statewide race, it's been two Democrats move on, except for maybe tomorrow in the governor's race. There is a scenario where maybe two Republicans move on as the top two candidates, mostly because all the Democratic candidates are terrible, awful, so inept in every way, and so unlikable, like Katie Porter, but also there's a ton of them. So they all are maybe going to split the vote and have the two Republicans maybe come out on top at the end. 

There's a slight possibility. I don't get my hopes up too much. But Gavin Newsom did say there's a break the glass scenario, like break the glass in case of emergency scenario in case two Republicans win. I hope we find out what that is so we can call out the left for being just a bunch of wild hypocrites about democracy and all this. But I just so hope it comes back and haunts them. They did this to keep Democratic Party power. 

And now it may backfire on them with this governor's race. I hope it does. The other race we're watching in California is the Spencer -Perry race. .A. A. mayor's race. 

Same thing. Top two move on to the runoff. The runoff is in November. So all Spencer Pratt has to do is get second place. If I'm a betting man, it probably Karen Bass, the incumbent, getting first and then hopefully Pratt second and then the city councilwoman from India third. I don't think anyone's going to get over 50 percent. 

Which would just be, you win outright if you get over 50%. If you get under 50%, the top two move on. If Spencer Pratt pulls out a victory over Cara Bass, even if it's like 34 % to 31%, it's not like that. Incredible. Absolutely incredible. Incredible. 

And even first or second, even, even if we get second, then we just, we get a few more months of the Spencer Pratt campaign. and a few more months of people making these videos about how terrible Los Angeles is and about how obvious their failures are. Karen Bass and all the Democratic Party. His campaign is so perfect. It's so brilliant because he has narrowed it down. His messaging is spot on and his target audience is spot on. 

He is targeting Democrat moms and animal lovers. Democrat, otherwise Democrat, like your default Democrat women and animal lovers. This is the demographic, I don't know about the animal lovers part, but the default woman demographic is the one that Trump does the worst at, but it might be the one that Spencer Pratt does the best at. Now on the animal lovers part, I told my wife the other day that this is who Spencer Pratt is targeting, animal lovers. She's like, what? What do you mean? 

Why? I said, well, drug addicts in LA, they take dogs, stray dogs, and they inject them with their drugs to see if there's a lethal dose of fentanyl in them or not, among other horrors of animal abuse on the streets. And my wife was rightfully horrified. And it turns out Spencer Pratt did one of his nine minute videos about dogs. This is the third nine minute videos he's made. 

There's something about a specific issue. There's something about nine minute interviews or nine minute videos. He makes them nine minutes. Don't quite know the reason for that one, but there's one about dogs and how he does so great because he'll make his case clear his day. Then he'll do a quick cut of a local news story. backing up everything he's saying because this is one of the benefits of the democrats craziness from their perspective is it's so crazy no one believes it and you tell regular people who don't normally pay attention to politics like oh this is what the democrat party believes in they said nah that can't be right like no i i promise you this is what they say this is what they fight for this is what they're doing like nah that can't be true but when spencer pratt says it and then puts a local news story highlighting all the animal abuse specifically um you can't deny it it'll be interesting too there's some story here, and maybe now's not the time, but that the thing that gets solving homelessness, like treating homelessness seriously and the way it needs to be treated, the thing that gets it over the finish line is not the human souls that are on Skid Row, but the dogs who are suffering on Skid Row. 

There's something to be said about that. But in this video, he makes a seven point plan on how we need to reform the dog shelters and all this stuff. And it's just great because who's going to be against that? But the losers in power for all these decades, they've let everything get this bad and they have no intentions of ever fixing anything. And it's also great to watch this, the Spencer Pratt campaign, because when celebrities come out and speak bad against Spencer Pratt, it's just, it's so perfect. The other day on the radio show, we talked about Drew Carey. 

Drew Carey saying, oh, how can you vote for that loser, Spencer Pratt and blah, blah, blah, drop the F bomb. You're like, Drew, you live in a 12 ,000 square foot house, $34 million mansion overlooking Los Angeles from a very great distance. And from that distance, Los Angeles looks very nice. You can't see all the grime on the street from Drew Carey's infinity pool in the sky. There's some other actress, Hannah something or other, she was on the red carpet talking about how terrible Spencer Pratt is. And Spencer Pratt wrote back, this is great. 

This is so, this woman is, this actress literally on a red carpet, surrounded by armed security, completely insulated from the horrors on our streets that regular people and their kids have to suffer through every single day. He said, like, I'm glad she doesn't have to suffer through this, but the rest of us want change. It's great. I hope Spencer Pratt gets in the top two and every celebrity, one a day, comes out against Spencer Pratt and just makes the dichotomy between normal people and the elite even clearer. So what's broken in this story? Well, a lot. 

I don't know, what do I pick, right? I just mean LA, like what's broken about LA? MacArthur Park, we'll do that. MacArthur Park used to be really nice. in Los Angeles. Used to be this beautiful area. 

For comparison's sake, let me give a shout out to a city. We were in Boston. We just got back from Boston, family trip to Boston, did all the freedom tour and all this stuff. It was great. The Boston Central Park, they call it the public gardens. Beautiful, wonderful. 

We did the make way for duckling swan boat thing on their little lake thing they have as a five bucks and you ride around on this swan raft for 15 minutes and peddled by this old lady. It's been there since 1877 and it was lovely and beautiful. All these weeping willows on the side of the river and it was safe, safe and there are no homeless bums everywhere. Safe and clean. It's really wonderful. 

So kudos to Boston for keeping this clean. MacArthur Park used to be a lovely park like that and now it's a total third world cesspool. You may remember MacArthur Park because there's a Home Depot down the street where ICE did a couple raids, and ICE also did a raid on the park, through the park, and the left freaked out because of the optics of the militarized raid on MacArthur Park. Meanwhile, the U . S. attorney from California said that just the other day, this mob, not mob, gang leader, whose nickname is Diablo, is the 18th Street gang, convicted murderer, also a Los Angeles peace ambassador. 

Chicago has a bunch of cities have programs like the Chicago most notably, because there's this has hired so many criminals who are still criminals to be peace ambassadors. But LA has this program to the city paid this guy $58 ,000 to be a peace ambassador just last year. So the city they pay this NGO millions and millions of dollars. And the NGO then hires all these former criminals, former criminals, and they're still criminals. This guy was convicted in 2002 of first -degree murder, sentenced to 50 years to life. He was released after just 24 years, went right back to the gang, and got paid by LA taxpayers. 

Can you fathom? That's a perfect example of what I'm talking about. You tell that to a normal person, be like, oh, do you know this gang member guy murdered someone, supposed to serve life in prison, served 24 years, now the city pays him. $58 ,000 a year and he's still in the gang and still a criminal. What are you talking about? You're making that up. 

We're not. He was just arrested by the feds. Okay. So that's one example of many of how bad things are in LA. If people want to see it or not, here's the video I want to play them. Uh, two videos in particular, one, one, I'll just tell you, he was talking about his lawyer, um, his lawyer who's suing the city about the failures of the fire that burned his house down. 

And he asked the lawyer, he said, he said, how are you fighting? How are you saying so calm when you're fighting? all these losers in city hall. And the lawyer said, Spencer, I just tell the truth. And Spencer said, Ooh, yeah, I'll try that. I want to do that. 

I'm just going to tell the truth. And that's what he's done. This entire campaign just says, tells us what he knows and tells the truth. And it's so clear and refreshing. You can feel it when he talks and every interview I've ever seen. Now this is the one I want to play. 

Um, I, I'm not suggesting we follow the theology of Spencer and Heidi Pratt. I know nothing about Heidi's church. beliefs or anything like that. But here's one thing that Spencer said that is true and good and an attitude that we should all have because it is indeed biblical. Here's Spencer Pratt. Thankfully, I married an angel who was very connected with Jesus and has brought me to the light. 

You know, I was always not so bright in the light on the Lord's path here. And thankfully, my wife has always just been so connected with Jesus and God and been like, Spencer, if this is God's plan, then it will be. And if not, then it won't. And come home and help me with the kids. So it's been very empowering to just pray and just be on this path and just say, God, if you want me to save these animals, save these humans and protect my city, just keep putting me in the place where I can do that. And if it's not God's plan, it won't happen and I won't have 

that pressure and that burden on my heart that I now feel because I am so close to being able to do it. And if that's not the plan, I won't feel that anymore. So that will be a blessing also. But going into the debate, I was very nervous because, again, I've never been a politician. I've never done a debate and I've never argued with two lying demons live on TV. in a political setting. 

Technically, maybe in my past reality TV career, we could say that happened before. But, and I just said, God, if you want this for me, please just have me destroy them live on TV. And I walked off that stage and this young high school kid came right up to me and he said, thank you, sir, for being the only one that told the truth up there on the stage. And for me, when I set out on this mission, it was just to get the truth at the highest platform I could. That's all I ever thought I was going to be able to do. Obviously, I know what needs to be done. 

But if it was only to expose the lies and the corruption of our beautiful city, I would have been fine if that was God's plan. But it seems like God has me going all the way in five days if everyone just turns in their ballots right now and votes. Love that attitude. That's really the beginning part, in particular, is one of my favorite political clips I've ever played. The way he says it, it's so genuine too. If you win, great. 

If you don't, then great. Come home and help me with the kids. But that's, that's, that's the perfect attitude to have. If it's God's plan that you win, then great. You'll be the mayor of LA. If not, then great. 

You come home, help me come. I'll be with your family. Great. It's all great. Either way. Great. 

This is the worldview that our founders had later. He went on and talked about the burden of running. There's another clip. He says like, this isn't fun. I don't like doing this. Our founding fathers didn't want the burden. 

They didn't want the burden. They just wanted to go home and be on their farm. But if it's God's plan, the word they would use is providence. They use providence a lot. If God wants us to win this revolution, then great. I got a quote here from John Adams. 

This one, I mean, this is so on the nose. He said, if it is the will of heaven, today we would say God's plan, but same thing, will of heaven, that the two countries, England and America, should be sundered forever. It may be the will of heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting and distress yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have this good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies, and vices, which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroy us. The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. 

" So that's John Adams saying, if we win, great. If we win this war, great. If we don't, great. then it'll be horrible, like the calamities imposed on this country, but at least we'll be better people in the end. John Adams trying to find the bright side, like, if we win, awesome. If we lose, well, like, okay. 

That's the will of God. Ben Franklin said in the beginning of this contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard. and they were graciously answered. All of us who are engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. I have lived so a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. 

And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? Or is it possible that a mayor can become mayor, an outsider can become mayor of Los Angeles without his aid? no no it is not George Washington said it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God to obey his will and to be grateful for his benefits and humbly to implore his protection and favor this connection between God and and and the political outcome our founding fathers always believed in and never questioned, George Washington said, while we were justly encouraged by the good providence of heaven from his many signal instances of his favor to us, we ought not to forget that it is an inalienable right bestowed upon us by heaven to which we are bound and which we are bound to transmit to our posterity. So we have a role in this, of course. So to go to the Bible. And to prove this point as well, gosh, there's so many Proverbs three, five, trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding and all your ways submit to him and he will make your paths straight. 

Psalm 25, four says, show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths, guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God, my savior and my hope is in you all day long. God, what is your plan? I think it's maybe this, I'm going to go try. I'm going to try to win. And if I win, then that's great. And if not, then, oh, okay. 

Like, I trust your plan too. Proverbs 19, 21, may all the plans, excuse me, many are the plans in a person's heart. I love this. I want to be mayor, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. To go back to John Adams theme, right? Uh, yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. 

Let those who suffer according to God's will. and trust their souls to a faithful creator while doing good. That's 1 Peter 4. So even if you suffer, you can still do good. And finally, on the theme also of just tell the truth, just do the right thing. 

James 4 .13, come now, you who say today or tomorrow, we will go into such and such a town and, and spend time there and trade and make a profit, right? So people are like, oh, today, tomorrow, we're gonna do this future, our future planet, right? Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this and that. 

That is, as it is, you boast in your arrogance, all such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it for him, it is a sin. So again, I don't know what tomorrow, that's Spencer Pratt's attitude. He's like, I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring, but I'm just going to do the right thing. We'll see every day, do the right thing. I think this will happen. 

I want this to happen, but I don't know. We'll see. Is Spencer Pratt going to become the mayor of Los Angeles? I don't know. But in the meantime, do the right thing. We'll see what God wants. 

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