Someone made up a new euphemism, the "teen takeover"! Also known as a "riot". How do we stop these? Should we arrest the parents? The Trump Administration thinks so, and can do it in DC.

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Story of the day. Teen takeovers. What's really going on here? First of all, who came up with this term? Teen takeovers? What about that euphemism for a riot? 

It's a riot or looting. We had a gentleman call in today who was actually on his way to court. Why was he on his way to court? Because his business, like a trampoline park, was the victim of a teen takeover. And I guess online, and this guy said like a week's notice, they're like, everyone we're meeting here. And it was the, it was the guy's trampoline park. 

So the big day came and the manager wouldn't let any of these kids in. So there were so many hooligans out in the parking lot that the police came and they cited the manager. for causing a public disturbance. customer that they didn't go but also once word spreads that this is this kind of establishment who wants to have their you know seven -year -olds birthday party at this kind of place anymore we had another caller in New Jersey's a police officer there's a bunch of these teen takeovers on the beach on the shore in New Jersey he said I had to call out a hundred police officers to show up over time to take care of this teen takeover on the beach. So there was a lot of money. It was very dangerous. 

People getting stabbed, people getting shot. It's a riot. Teen takeover, just a little teen takeover, like a teen takeover, like you're going and like dancing. That's like the word teen takeover makes it seem like it's from an episode of Saved by the Bell. And Screech and AC are going to meet up and have a dance off as they take over the local, you know, whatever pinball arcade. No, these are riots. 

There's a video of a brawl of black youths at a Chipotle that's been going viral. You've seen plenty of these videos already. Nothing new about this one other than it's in D . C. And this is where Trump's law enforcement is in charge. D . 

C. is an incredible opportunity for MAGA to show the country how it can govern well on a local level, because the federal government runs or can, is now, running the city of DC. There's no way Republicans are gonna win the city council majority in Chicago. So MAGA's never gonna run Chicago. MAGA's never gonna become mayor of whatever, Oakland. So we're never gonna be able to run a city, and we haven't for 60 years, but we can run DC, and we are right now. 

Jeanine Pirro, she's the US attorney for DC, but she's also the DA. She's the local DA. in a weird quirk of governance. So this is a huge opportunity to govern well. Now in this situation, when it comes to crime, again, we've got like maybe like a hundred young people or so at this fight and the entire Chipotle is trashed, of course. Here's Jeanine Pirro. 

This was just a day or so, I believe, I think it was before this all happened. This is Jeanine Pirro here. And as we grapple with this problem, There is one area that hasn't been discussed. Parental involvement has been a noted gap in any discussion. And I am here to say, as the United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, that ends today. Starting today, my office will aggressively prosecute parents under D . 

C.'s curfew law and the specific statute that that we will use is a violation of DC Code 22 -811, and it involves contributing to the delinquency of a minor. This statute makes it unlawful for an adult to enable, facilitate, or permit a minor to engage in delinquent acts. The penalty is up to six months imprisonment. So if the evidence shows the parent knew or should have known, or permitted or failed to prevent participation, we're going to charge them. And if you drop your kid off and you fail to supervise them, or you let them skip school to join the chaos, you are going to face fines, court ordered classes and possible jail time. You okay with this? 

This law is already on the books. It is unlawful for an adult to invite, solicit, recruit, assist, support, cause, encourage, enable, induce, advise, incite, facilitate, permit, or allow. So I think that's all the words that are like that. They really did all the thesaurus on that one. So it's illegal to do any of those things for a minor to be truant from school, possess or consume alcohol or any controlled substance, run away from home to commit a criminal activity, to violate a court order, to violate any criminal order in DC, which is a penalty which constitutes a misdemeanor, and to join a criminal street gang. 

It's already the law. Bureau's not saying, hey, we should pass this law. It's already the law. And to prove that they're serious about this, the FBI is now offering $5 ,000 for information leading to any arrests about what happened in that Chipotle. So will people rat each other out? Will they snitch for 5K? 

It shows that the FBI is serious about this. So I had some hesitation about this idea, to be honest, although, like, My first instinct is like, yeah, you got to do it. Just, I think it's worth thinking through a little hesitation because what we're dealing with is our kids with no dads. So are we fine to have the government arrest mom or fine arrest or make her own classes or whatever? Now it's like, you got any other ideas? Yeah. 

Punish the kids. Okay. They go to juvenile detention. Great. I'm for that too. But what about the parents? 

Parents? There's no dad. Why is this a bad idea? Why will this not work? I know the media is going to find the most sympathetic looking mom in all of DC. The mom who's working two, three jobs trying to make ends meet. 

she's not able to be home at night because she's working that that second, third shift and the government's going to come in here and fine her a thousand dollars and knock her feet out from under her and she's going to be on more welfare now because she was trying so hard she was about to make it work and what little money she's got the government come in and took her away from her. My goodness you can see the left making sob stories out of all this. Listen the left is so good they when it came to illegal immigrants were deporting illegal aliens They made every illegal alien you could find the most sympathetic person. Even Kilmar. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The guy had a tattoo on his face. 

Human trafficker gangbanger Kilmar was a Maryland dad. So there was no problem making this all about mean old Republicans. So there's that to consider if you just want to give up on the idea and let the left win. Curious too if there's any, is there something in like the welfare law that says you can't commit a crime and still be on welfare? So I don't know. Maybe it's Hey mom, you're letting your kids do this, then we're gonna take your welfare next month as the punishment for your crime, right? 

So why don't you do what you can to get your kid to stop destroying Chipotle. We've talked before about holding parents accountable when it comes to school shootings. More parents are being charged with crimes regarding school shootings, but never for this behavior, breaking curfew, stuff like that. So pros and cons for sure. I'm curious if you're watching on YouTube, if you can leave your comment here. Should we arrest parents or should we charge the parents with a crime? 

for when their kids, let's be specific, trash a Chipotle. We had a few callers call in and say, it's not gonna change anything, so it's not worth doing. Their dad's already abandoned them, their mom's essentially abandoned them. It's not worth it. I'm like, all right. so but what are you proposing and i know like and i like my instinct is always to get to the root of a problem and i want to do that like we need to stop with all this broken family nonsense stop sleeping around we played a clip on the show this morning of a of a black guy in court and he had a shirt that said black excellence across the front big letters black excellence And the court goes, do you have any kids? 

The judge goes, do you have any kids? And he goes, yeah, I got four, five. What are their ages? Six, five, three, two, six months. Like the math didn't make sense. And he goes, where are they? 

He said, with their mothers. He said, how many mothers? Three. Five kids, three moms. And she said, that's not black excellence. Shame on you. 

There's no black excellence there at all. Wearing a shirt that says black excellence. It was a black woman judge. Called him out. It's good. We should be going after the dads, right? 

They're not far. They're around. And if you go after the mom, the mom will find the dad. He's the one who abandoned us. So that's the root of the problem, of course. The Washington Post has done this thing like, oh, there needs to be more late night hangout places, like rec centers for kids. 

The kids need to be in bed, all right? They need to be in bed. They need late night hangout places for one in the morning. They need to go to bed and they need jobs that they need to wake up early for so that they have reasons to live well. They need reasons to focus. Idle hands are the devil's workshop. 

That's not in the Bible. But second Corinthians three 11 is we hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy. They are busy bodies. Similar. Uh, so this is about, if you got nothing to do, then you meddle in other people's business, become a gossiper. 

Uh, Timothy says, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossipers and busybodies saying things they ought not to. So that's 1 Timothy 5 .13. So these are about words, like gossiping and stuff. But in the case we're talking about here, words and deeds. 

Bible says, you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you. This is Paul. On the contrary, we worked night and day laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. The kids who are doing all this, they are burdens on society. These kids need a job. 

They need work. They need something to do. They need a purpose and they need a family. They need parents who hold them accountable. They need dads who don't abandon them. They need guidance and direction and discipline. 

And they have none of it. And when parents don't parent, then the government's gotta parent. And that's not good. Let's go to the Bible. Proverbs 18, nine says, whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys. So what they mean is, so imagine two people, right? 

So you got one guy who's lazy and the other guy who's like a, like a robber who trashes Chipotle. He's this Bible verse says they're not literal brothers. They're of the same character. They're of the same kind, right? And the word destroy here in Hebrew means to ruin, to decay, to corrupt, to be rotted, and to be corrupt morally. So the lazy are in the same category as those who rob and pillage a community. 

Lazy people are a danger to themselves and others. And we see the fruit of all this brokenness. It's so sad. Now, yes, there are deep root issues we need to take care of here. As we say in the show all the time, there's thousands, Henry David Thoreau said, there's thousands hacking at the branches of evil to everyone who strikes the root. My nature is always to go to the root. 

We got to change this culture as quickly as possible. It's hard to change culture. It's possible, but it's hard, but there's different levels, right? So you have, you have your conscience, your family, church, and then government. When the conscience, this is what controls behavior. When the conscience is seared, when the family doesn't exist, And when no one goes to church, all we're left with is the government. 

And when the government does nothing, when they don't arrest or charge or punish anyone, then it's over. That's it. That's the last line of defense other than vigilantism, I guess. Right. So what's the government to do? I know we need deeper solutions, of course, but right here on this last level, on this government level, what do you do? 

Do you support this effort from Jeanine Pirro to give some accountability to the situation? Accountability. Our culture hates that because we've abandoned God. Of course, Romans 14, 12 says, so then each of us will give an account of himself to God. I'm talking about accountability. That's sure, it's true then, but there's also gotta be some accountability while still here on earth. 

Leave a comment in the YouTube page here. I'm curious what you think. Should we arrest or charge parents for the crimes of their kids with teen takeovers? YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. Spread the word.

The Senators are back from their much-needed vacation. They work so hard that they needed a good two weeks off. Is the sarcasm thick enough? Why are Republican Senators the worst? They can't pass obvious legislation like the SAVE Act or even pass a funding bill. It's because they haven't followed Jesus' message in Mathew 5:38

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is 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, but Ecclesiastes says it's not the new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. The true story today is Republican senators are the worst. They're just, there's, I know, I'm sorry. 

I mean, uh, uh, the news of the day is reconciliation bills and DHS ICE funding and the SAVE Act and filibuster. The story of the day is these Republican senators are just Awful. I know it's not much of a news flash, perhaps, but I would just like to, it's a little commiserating here about how absolutely frustrating these people are. They pretend like they're on your side. They hide, they hide behind the fact they're like, Oh, we really want to do this conservative thing that we said we want to do. And you elected us for, but we need seven Democrats. 

And then we say, well, there's actually a way where you don't need seven Democrats. Can't do it that way. Nah, I'm against, I'm against that, but oh man, just, oh, I'm with you. You're like, definitely not with us. The analogy I used to say was if there's a mountain, right? You need 60 votes to pass a bill. 

There's this big mountain. Oh, we got to cross that mountain. We're not going to be able to do it. I'm like, okay. Um, but there's also this Valley. You can just walk right through this Valley right here to pass the SAVE Act too. 

Nah, I'm not going to do that. Because this mountain is so hard to climb. We can't get seven Democrats. Yeah, you don't need seven Democrats. Just do this thing. Just get rid of the filibuster. 

No, I can't do that. Guys, see how demoralizing this is? The reason this is on my mind is because we talked to Senator Rick Scott from Florida. He's one of the 

good guys. 

But, gosh, it's so annoying. Someone called in and said, because the word frustrated isn't quite it. And someone called in and said, Slater, I think you're looking for disenfranchised. And that's part of it, sure. But I'm trying to find more of an emotional state. And my emotional state is one of seething disdain. 

I'm full of disdain. Let me look up Webster's Dictionary here. Got to use Webster's Dictionary 1828 . 

com. 

Dane. 

That's a good word. 

To think unworthy. 

That's right. I think these senators are unworthy of the positions they hold. To deem worthless, for sure. They're worthless. To consider to be unworthy of notice, care, regard, esteem. Unworthy of one's character. 

To scorn. To condemn. The man of elevated mind disdains a mean action. Yeah, that's right. He disdains a society of worthless men. He disdains to corrupt the innocent or insult the weak. 

Yeah. I'm full of disdain. They can't get anything done. And they like it that way. There was a CNN story we shared a couple weeks ago, I don't know if we played it here, of a woman who was planning on seeking asylum. She was in the process of seeking asylum using the CBP One app. 

And then Trump canceled all appointments made for asylum hearings made through the app. So CNN did the story on this woman. who's she's from i think guatemala and she's still in mexico she was on her way to america now she's in mexico and the the funny part of the story she's like i'm gonna wait until trump's gone to apply for asylum and you're like well that's not what asylum is you can't like if you're fine here which clearly you are she owns like a little restaurant that you can't just And she said the question was, why did you leave Guatemala? She's like, there's no jobs. Like, well, that's not asylum. 

Right now, the CBP one app was created in 2020 to streamline trucking cargo going across the border. It was made to make crossing the border for cargo more efficient. But the Biden administration took the CBP one app and they turned it into something totally different for people where they could claim asylum anywhere in the world. That's not what it was intended to be, of course. So. That's what Biden did. 

And there are 50 ,000 people a month for two years who use this to claim asylum and made it across our borders. 50 ,000 a month for two months straight. So Trump wins and he says, we're not doing that anymore. We're canceling all of it. There are 900 ,000 claims for asylum and Trump canceled them all. Well, a federal judge, Alison Burroughs, says you can't do that. 

Trump can't do that. So one point of frustration is you can have a president, Biden, who says, we're going to completely recreate this app to let in a million aliens, million foreigners legally. And the president can do that. And Allison says, that's great. But then the next president comes in and says, you can't do that anymore. We're not doing that. 

Oh, Allison is against it. 

Allison thinks it's terrible. Okay. Well, well, what? So that's frustrating. But what could solve this very quickly is if the legislative branch passed a bill, but they don't ever, they could pass a bill. about all this defining citizenship and defining birthright citizenship. 

They could define all these things properly and pass these, but they just don't. And what's broken about this scenario is we have a legislative branch that doesn't get anything done. They can't even pass the budget, which is the fundamental thing to do, right? We have a judicial branch full of Alisons who are going way beyond their scope and authority. All we're left with is the executive branch. 

So if we ever want anything to get done, it's going to have to happen through a more powerful executive branch, which I don't care for ideally, but it's obviously the direction we're going. And I put most of the blame on Congress for being pathetic. So someone called into the show today and said, Slater, the reason why Congress people, senators, especially are like this is because, and then the members of the unit party is because they just want to stay there and get rich and be comfortable. And that's true. Of course, it's a cushy job. If you're a narcissist who likes that sort of thing, it's not terrible to me, but if you're wired for that, then this is like a great job. 

In the past, you were reluctant to take this position before the 17th amendment, the directional direct election of senators, the state houses. voted for senators to go to DC and represent the state legislature. That's what the senators were. And when we got rid of that process and went to direct election of senators, it jacked up the whole system because the senator's allegiance is now focused on DC. It used to be on their own state assemblies. That's who they were beholden to because that's who put them in office. 

That's who voted for them. It was the state legislatures. And the people voted for the state legislatures, but the state legislators voted on the senators to go represent them. Now they don't have that. So now the senators are there to represent DC. They're there to represent the national government. 

And And that's not what it is. The gravitational pull is now to D . C. and all the lobbying and all the fame and power and comfort that comes from D . C. 

is now centralized there where it used to be centered. The gravitational pull used to be on their own state. So it's all messed up. All right. So let's go to the Bible. So picked up this book yesterday sitting on my desk. 

It's an amazing book. You have to go get it immediately. 

I'm going to call it Required Reading. 

Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by Dr. Martin Lloyd -Jones. It's wonderful. And I picked it up yesterday. It's been a long time since I read it, so I got to read it all over again. So good. So good. 

I picked it up yesterday because, you know, yesterday's episode we did about the spat between the president and the pope. By the way, After I recorded the episode, I read the tweet from the Pope about embracing the Muslims in Algeria. You're like, oh man, yikes. We'll see how it goes. Maybe we'll do another episode on that. But I would have put that in yesterday's episode if I saw it before. 

So we did the episode yesterday on the Pope and the President, and the Pope's criticizing the President for not choosing peace. 

Whatever, ridiculous. 

And I thought, you know what, I want to go see what Dr. Martin Luther King says about turn the other cheek. That's Matthew 538, Sermon on the Mount. So grab the book. So Martin Luther goes through every line of the Sermon on the Mount and breaks it all down. It's brilliant. So let me quote here. 

538. You have heard that it was said, this is Jesus. You have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you, 

and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. " Okay, so let's break this down. So eye for an eye, right? Jesus said you've heard it say eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Almost everyone misinterprets that, certainly pagans who hate Christians and hate Christianity and hate the Bible. And what they do is they say that Eye for an eye, tooth for tooth is bad because you people want to seek revenge, right? Like Gandhi, there's no evidence that Gandhi ever said it, but everyone quotes Gandhi as saying, oh, an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. But the point of eye for an eye was not so that we go seek revenge. It was to limit the revenge that is instinctual in humans and to enact a system of proportional justice. Meaning if someone pokes you in the eye, you can't kill them. That would be disproportionate. Justice has to be proportional. We see this principle in our constitution. No cruel, unusual punishments, no excessive bail, no excessive fines imposed. I believe it's the eighth amendment. So eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, like nothing beyond that. So it's not, it's not a call for revenge. It's a limit to revenge or, uh, I would call it portional justice. But then Jesus says, but I say to you. do not resist the one who is evil, but if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." Now, Martyn Lloyd -Jones brilliantly goes into this whole thing about how this is for individuals, not for the state, not for the government, not for the military. It's not about the death penalty. 

It's not about pacifism. This is about the individual. it's a key point this is but the individual christian and their reaction to injustice done to them now once you realize that this leads to a very important question that i guarantee you i shouldn't guarantee you i bet you asked yourself without even noticing this is what happened to me i asked myself this question but it was like really deep down and i could barely hear its voice until martin lloyd jones pulled it out of me i was like oh yeah i was wondering that actually i did but it was i didn't even here let me see if it Let me see if this happened to you. So I'm gonna read that section again, Matthew 5, 38. You've heard it said, you've heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth. But I say to you, do not resist the one who is evil. 

But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, give to him your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who begs from you and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. So my question is, why are all these seemingly unrelated things all jammed together like this? Like we always, everyone stops at, you know, turn the other cheek, but he keeps going. 

This is the middle of a thought, which by the way, is in the middle of a sermon, which matches the same theme that I want to make clear in just a second as well. But, but it seems like he has all these totally unrelated things all jammed together. Like it's like Jesus had a bunch of things to say and he forgot he was running out of time or like the end of a sermon. He's like, I can tell people are getting a little, a little antsy here. Let me just, let me just throw everything in here at once. A bunch of random things. 

What is turning the other cheek have to do with giving away your cloak and having to do with going two miles when you don't want to go. two mile, you don't want to go any mile, right? What do those have to do with each other? Here's what ties it all together. It's about the emptying of the self. If you are truly a Christian, you must become dead. 

to self. Meaning if something bad happens to you, if there's an injustice done against you, your first human instinct, of course, is to attack, attack back, seek revenge. That is all fueled by the self. Similarly, your personal possessions, your cloak, it's about the self. If someone says, hey, let's go this way one mile, that's your self. Like they're trying to take you from where you want to be and where you want to go. 

And Jesus says, we'll go to go even further. But we don't want to do that because we want to be about the self. Because that's our natural state is to glorify the self and to protect ourselves. And when someone asks you for something, our instinct is to be like, no, that's mine. Why would I, why would I impoverish myself? It's all about self. 

So what Jesus is saying here is that if you want to be a disciple of mine, you have to become dead to yourself. If you want to be my disciple, you have to deny yourself. Everything about it, everything about you, all the rights to self, and you have to take up the cross and follow me. So we can bring it to the Pope. Again, it's not, it's not about this verse right here. It's not about pacifism. 

If you want to read about pacifism, go read Romans. If you want to hear about what Jesus thought about the Roman soldiers or whatever, there's other verses, other scriptures you can go to about that issue. This scripture, turning the other cheek, it's not about pacifism. It's not about the military. It's not about war. It's about dying to self. 

Now, why does our, back to the main topic here, why is our Senate so awful? Because they're all about the self. It's all about their power, their money, their prestige, their greed, their cloak, their power. Injustice is there, going where they want to go. It's all about me, me, me. Our founders set up the system, the constitution as justice. 

Adams said, for a moral and religious people. And in a Christian country, the only people who would become senators would be moral and religious people who are not about the self. So they would do the right thing. With moral and religious people, lobbyists would come knocking, job offers would come knocking, corruption deals would come knocking. In Swalwell's case, women would come, whatever. But the senator would already be dead to self. 

So all of these efforts would be useless. So if you want to have a Senate and a Congress that functions again, and beyond just DC, if you want to have anything in our society that's broken, you want to have it work again. We need to be a moral and religious people. And what does that mean exactly? You have to die to self. YouTube . 

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