"Young Washington" was spectacular! Go see it as soon as possible, and no, I wasn't paid to say any of this! Bring everyone you know. No one could not love it. I was able to talk to the director of the movie and learn how important it was to them to be historically accurate. The movie also celebrates the truth that God protected George Washington and is intimately involved in the affairs of this nation. 

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So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day today. Go see the movie, Young Washington. It was spectacular. I erupted in applause at the end of the movie. I've never done that. I've never applauded when a plane lands. 

I've never clapped when a movie's over. but I jumped up and said, spectacular. And I wasn't alone. The whole theater loved it. It was incredible. I avoid historical movies because if they're not accurate, it annoys me. I see a thing on the screen and I wonder if it really happened. 

And then after the movie, I go home and I check and it didn't happen at all. It's like, oh, what a waste. I hate that. And it's not worth it because it messes with your brain about what really, and then you have to un -remember, un -see something like that's not, I don't know if it's the, it's the, trained historian in me. I was a history major in college after all. But it just offends me because a whole generation of people are going to get their information about history from this movie and then it never happened. You guys just made it up. 

So a film director has incredible power in reshaping a historical figure. I never saw the Napoleon movie by Ridley Scott. That's not how I'm not doing that. And I'm going to avoid the Odyssey by Christopher Nolan. As always, the book will be better. All that being said, I'm just trying to say to say that I'm a tough critic with history movies of all movies. 

I'm a huge movie fan anyway, but with the history movies, certainly this movie is unbelievable. I loved every second of it. And then when I went back and looked at the historical accuracy of the major events in the movie, they all really happened. I don't, no spoiler alerts. And today, if you're not, if you haven't seen it yet, I want you to see it. So I'm not going to give any spoilers here and I want you to have the full experience, but I'll tell you, Washington was really on that Island. 

That really happened. I talked to the director today of the movie. Um, we record an interview. We're going to air it tomorrow on. Sirius XM, but I asked him about the historical accuracy and how you'd handle that as a filmmaker and the responsibility of that. And he said, making a movie, he quoted some famous director. 

He said, making a movie is not a photograph. It's more of a portrait. And you do have to do some things, mostly compress some time and compress characters. So he said, um, in real life, there were three French generals in the story of this part of the French Indian war. They had to condense that into one guy. Uh, they had to move the timing of some things. 

So like that interaction with the Indian chief that actually happened 15 years after. the war. Actually, we'll tell that story in just a moment here. I'm OK with that. I think it's sort of like John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We've all seen that painting before. 

That never happened. All the signers were not there in one room signing it like that. It didn't happen. That's a depiction, a portrait that represents the meaning of the moment. And we're OK with looking at the John Trumbull painting accordingly. And I think we should be here, too. 

But well, let me say this. This is the best thing I learned during the interview with the director. If you revere the subject, then you can do this. So they're going to be true to the subject. And they made something that George would be proud of. They made something we can be proud of as patriots. 

I love to be, and I'm not going to give any spoilers, but I loved it because it showed his failures. It showed his pride. It showed his ambition, how it got the best of them and was really bad. Uh, it showed how he dealt with that. I'm trying to be very careful. My words are showed how he dealt with that. 

Uh, he took the lowest seat of the table. Love that Luke 14, 10 says when you are invited, go and sit at the lowest. place. At first he angled to get the best seat at the table. It didn't go well. And then he went back, took the lowest seat. 

This movie did a wonderful job of showing the story arc of young Washington. And failure is one of the main themes of the movie. His mom said, failure is a tutor sent by God. If you don't learn from it, you fail twice. If you do learn, you gained wisdom. So lots of little themes like that. 

The biggest lesson for me, I shouldn't even say lesson, because I've talked about that, I've been thinking a lot about this recently, and I maybe talked about it here too. The more I've been studying the Revolutionary War era and before that, it's just so how obvious God's hand is in the creation of America, because there's so many things that happened that were impossible. And George Washington is a major part of that. So in this movie, one of the themes is the obvious divine protection of George, and everyone knew it. In one battle, he wrote to his brother, quote, For I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side. 

" In that battle, the British general was killed, 70 % of the men were killed, and almost all the officers. But he made it. There was an eyewitness there who said he escaped from harm on the battlefield that day. It was nothing short of miraculous. I expected every moment to see him fall. Now, before you say, oh, well, he's probably just hiding in the woods. 

His duty and situation exposed him to every danger. Nothing but the superintending care of Providence could have saved him from the fate of all around him. It's true for all of George Washington's life. The movie, it did like three places where it could have ended. And, um, usually when a movie, sometimes movie, you're like, I should have stopped now, but that keeps going. And you're like, Oh, I should have, this one was like, Oh, everyone was better than the last. 

And I'm glad it didn't end. Right. And again, I don't want to give anything away here, but I'll just tell you that the thing is the very last scene, uh, is real. Now that was condensed. This is the part that happened 15 years later. Um, I don't, I don't want to, let me, I'll just share this. 

I, this one, I don't want to give away at all. Cause this is one of my favorite surprise things, but I'm just going to say the word, I'm going to say the word indigo and color. Okay. That's, that's my second favorite part of the whole movie indigo and color. That's the last scene. I take it back. 

That's the last scene indigo and color. Um, but I just want to share this history so that when you see this. you'll know that oh this hopefully it's even more meaningful because like oh wow this really happened because in my brain i'm like did this really like it was incredible it's like did this really happen though so i didn't get the full meaning of it but now when you see the movie you'll know this really happened it's from a biography of george washington in the early 1800s so washington was in the ohio valley 1770 about 15 years after this giant failure from general washington failure but his survival. And they met this Indian chief. And the Indian chief said, I am a chief and the ruler over many tribes. 

My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes and to the far blue mountains. I've traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle. It was on the day when the white man's blood mixed with the streams of our forest that I first beheld this chief. I called my young young man and said, Mark, yawn, tall and daring warrior. He is not of the red coat tribe. He has an Indian's wisdom and his warriors fight as we do. 

Himself is alone, exposed quick. Let your aim be certain. And if he dies and then he dies. Right. So this Indian chief saying, Hey, Indian guys, look, look at that guy right there. This George Washington guy. 

He's not like the rest of the British soldiers. He's different. You can tell. So get your guns and we don't, we never miss. So so aim properly. You won't miss. 

Let your aim be certain. Our rifles were leveled rifles, which but for him knew not how to miss. But it was all in vain. A power mightier far than we shielded him from harm. He cannot die in battle. I am old and soon shall be gathered to the great council fire of my father's in the land of shades. 

But before I go, there's something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy. Listen, the great spirit protects that man and guides his destinies. He will become the chief of nations and a people yet unborn, and they will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire. I'm just telling you, that's what's in the history books. You'll see how the movie handles that. This is the part of the podcast where we talk about what's broken. 

I'll tell you what's broken. What's broken is that it's taken our entire lives for a movie to be made about George Washington. What's up with that? But I'm glad no one did because this one's so wonderful. And I want the people who made this one to be in charge of it for a long time. Another one's in the works already about George Washington during the Revolutionary War. 

And I don't know how they're going to handle that. How are they possibly going to put that into a movie? But hopefully they make a ton of these. What's broken is we've gone through decades now of making silly superhero movies when we could have been watching movies about George Washington and Daniel Boone and Teddy Roosevelt and Davy Crockett and the Alamo and all these incredible moments in our history. How about Lewis and Clark? Stories about the gold rush. 

There's tons of them, tons of ideas. But instead this weekend, the other option you had was the second live action remake of Moana, which by the way, is going to lose around $200 million. Disney is so out of ideas, they've destroyed all the brands they had. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, the Marvel movies. And to that, I say good riddance, good riddance. Now, maybe Hollywood can make stories that aren't cynical and that aren't silly, but stories that are meaningful and wholesome and inspirational and true. 

And I say that, though, but maybe that's wrong. Maybe I don't. Maybe I don't want to make a movies anyway. I don't want to make in our stuff. The good stuff, I should say. I don't trust them. 

I don't want people like that making young Washington. Hollywood can't reform. Everyone there hates you and they hate the things you stand for and the things you believe in. So many of them hate our country, hate the Bible. I don't want them anywhere near George Washington. I don't want them anywhere near our American story. 

I'm glad the people who are handling it now are the ones who are doing it. Let's go to the Bible. George Washington believed in providence. So do I. God is sovereign over all things. He knows everything. He will always move anything and can move anything. 

towards any end that glorifies him. His kingdom rules over all. And it's everything. It's everything we think is small, everything we think is a coincidence. Proverbs 16, 33 says, the lot is cast into the lap, but it's every decision is from the Lord. A lot back then was like a stone they would toss to try to make a decision about something. 

Nothing's left up to chance. God decides everything. And you can't get in God's way. No one can, nothing can. Not the British, not Mamdani or whatever political force you want to talk about. No one can get in his way. 

Isaiah 14, 24 says, the Lord of hosts has sworn saying, surely as I have thought, so it shall come to pass. And as I have purposed, so it shall stand. What are you going to do? You're going to stop him. Isaiah 46, 10 says, my counsel shall stand and I will do it all my pleasure. And I will do all, and I will do all my pleasure. 

Atheists. will say our founders were deists, right? This idea that, sure, maybe God exists, but he's like a watchmaker and he makes the watch and then he lets the watch go. And he has no role in the course of human affairs. That's not true. Our founders did not believe that. 

They believed that God had a hand in the existence, creation and existence of America. It was funny, even as I'm talking about this, because we've been raised and trained to think that our founders were atheists or deists, we don't Even I catch myself being like, oh man, you might be exaggerating a little bit. Maybe that's not entirely true. No, it's entirely true. Just look at George Washington's first inaugural address. You wonder why they don't teach American history in schools anymore? 

Because if you taught this address, you could not then teach kids that George Washington was an atheist or a deist or something. George Washington started off his first inaugural address as president the United States, 1789. He said it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that almighty being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations. Same paragraph. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. 

Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency, including in the life of George Washington himself. " This is how George Washington started the country. That's how he kicked it off in 1789. Before that, in 1776, Washington told Joseph Reed that if we win this war, then there's no question, no question that it was Almighty God who made it happen. He wrote to Thomas Nelson. In 1778, he said, the hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all of this that he must be worse than an infidel, the man who lacks faith and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations. 

It's like, it's so odd. Think about this letter. It's so obvious, George Washington saying it's so obvious that God is in control of all of this, that if you don't believe that you are an infidel. And you are more than wicked if you are not grateful to God for everything he's done. Amazing. I'll leave it just, I know I got off the Bible, but I'm back on George Washington, but he gave this address. 

It's a known address called Address to the Delaware Indian Chiefs, May 12th, 1778. And the leaders of the Indians, they brought three Indian kings. to be educated by the Americans. And George Washington said, you do well to wish to learn of our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. What if our popular culture was seeped in this history and this truth? 

Can we be? Of course we can. But we need to make movies like Young Washington a success so people are inspired because the stories are true. It's got to tell them. I'll end with a Bible verse, 1 Peter 3 15, but in your hearts, revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. 

Maybe it's easier for us to say, you know, we love America. We love George Washington. Why do you love George Washington? Ah, he was awesome. And that's maybe now you can tell a story after you watch the movie, you'll be like, well, it's one time when he was with his friend and they were on an island. That's great. 

But make sure it's even easier to talk about how much you love Jesus and to give an answer why. We can know the history of George Washington and the French and Indian War. It's great. It's wonderful. But we need to know the Bible even more. And we need to know God's word even more. 

And we need to be ready to prove how he's changed our lives. And we need to be ready to live every day differently so that we can glorify him. We may not go down in the history books like George Washington did. Maybe no one's going to make a movie about your life. But if you're a Christian, your name is going to be written in the book of life. It's even better. 

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Senator Lindsey Graham passed away suddenly at the age of 71. What should we say about a politician's passing if we disagree with them on many issues? What can we learn from the life, and death, of prominent US Senators?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day and bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day can all be very overwhelming, cause a lot of anxiety, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here for the true story, the story of the day. Today, Senator Lindsey Graham has died. We have a video from just the day before he died. 

He was in Kiev in Ukraine. Now, Conspiracy theories are out there. People are quick to make up a story. Isn't that wild? The human brain, heart, something happens. What's the real story? 

Those are quick initial reactions. That's wild. But people's initial reaction was, oh, he was in Ukraine, and he's a big war hawk guy, supports arming Ukraine, so Russia probably doesn't care much for him, so maybe he was assassinated by Russia. I tend to believe the most obvious thing. like an Occam's razor approach to life. But I think the Occam's razor here is he's 71 and 71 year olds can have a heart attack. 

But maybe we'll find out more. The time will will come for that. President Trump said Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and senators I've ever known is dead. He was always working and was a true American patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed. So sad. 

The president went on a few of the new shows this last week and here to talk about Lindsey Graham. And, uh, you know, every reporter tried to throw in another question in there and he said, no, no, we're here only to talk about Lindsey Graham. I'm not answering any of the questions. Lindsey Graham became a Congressman in 1994, won the Senate in 2002. He was an air force jag before that. I feel bad saying much about Lindsey Graham, to be honest, because I only knew him as a caricature of the president. 

a caricature in the political realm. Like if politics was a TV show, he was a character in that show. And anything I could say about him is merely political. And that's not much of a ode. It's not much of a compliment to have someone die and then say, well, here were their political stances that they took on certain issues. That's all life is. 

That's all his life was. Gosh, I hope when I die, people say more than, well, He really thought we should reform H -1B visas, and he believed we needed to build a wall. Ah, yes. Really? Imagine that being on your tombstone. Mike Slater didn't really like the one big, beautiful bill, but I mean, there were some parts in it that he thought were okay. 

Yikes. I'm reading Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives right now. Probably one of the most important books ever written by this Greek historian, Plutarch. He wrote something like 48 short biographies, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Demosthenes, Cicero, guys like that. It was written in like the year 100. But what I enjoy so much about the book, and I think what's especially noteworthy about it is what he chose to write about it, what he didn't write about. 

This is in the introduction. He said, it must be born in mind that my design is not to write histories, but lives. And the most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men. Sometimes a matter of less moment, an expression or a jest. and forms as better of their character and inclinations than the most famous sieges, the greatest armaments, or the bloodiest battles whatsoever. So I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks and indications of the souls of men. 

And while I endeavor by these to portray their lives, may be free to leave more weighty matters and great, great tales to be treated by others. " I love that. So he says, listen, this biography is not a, on this date, then on this date, then on this date. This is more about their lives, their souls, maybe about the smaller things that have happened in their lives. but it's going to reveal their character. So in that spirit, because I could talk about Lindsey Graham's, you know, here's here on this date, he supported this political thing on others. 

Like I don't care, but I can say this about his character. Both of Lindsey Graham's parents died when he was 21 and 22. They died about a year apart from each other. Mom died from cancer. His dad had a heart attack. He was about 22 and his sister was 13. 

He adopted her. I never heard that before. That's that's commendable to step up like that for your sister. Of course, they remained incredibly close ever since. She told the New York Times back in 2015, Lindsey was always my parent. Lindsey Graham, by the way, was never married. 

He has no kids, but he taught his sister how to ride a bicycle. And they grew up together in like a single room behind their family -owned bar. They owned this bar and pool hall, and they lived in one room in the back. Everyone slept in one room. That was it. That was the room that they had. 

It's crazy. He was the first member of his family to go to college. and he was way across the board. And his sister said, I can remember the day my father passed away, standing in the living room of that room, absolutely scared to death. Lindsay wrapped his arms around me and promised me he would always be there for me and always take care of me. That will, well, I suppose you're defined before then. 

You're being made, I suppose. But if a decision like that, that should define you in really honorable ways. It's great. You're 22. Lindsey Graham, he also said, there's a lot of so -called self -made people in this world. I'm not one of them. 

My family, my friends, neighbors, and my faith picked me up when I was down, believed in me when I had doubts. You made me the man I am today. I love that point. To what extent is anyone self -made really? So politically right now, the governor of South Carolina names his replacement until the next election. And there's a Republican as the governor of South Carolina. 

And he's a supporter of Lindsey Graham. They get along, of course, so they got along. So there'll be a good Republican there for now. His re -election was coming up in November. And there's going to be a primary in August to pick. Obviously, it was just going to be Lindsey Graham. 

But now, just a couple weeks here, they're going to have to have an election to figure out who that is going to be. The Democrat, there's a front -runner Democrat. Her name's like, Annie Andrews or Bonnie Andrews or something like that. I don't know what her chances are. You know, when you get a race like against Lindsey Graham, who wins 70 % of the vote, usually it's like a throwaway race. So I don't know if this is a real serious contender in the Democratic Party. 

If someone can swoop in real quick and grab the seat or keep the seat, probably what one It is worth noting how fragile political majorities are. It seems like there have been more deaths or resignations this year than ever. And I looked it up, and the best I could find is that in the past five years, just five years, there's been 10 sitting members of the House. Senator Graham was a senator. But there's been 10 members of the House who have died in office. 

And 12 bailed out. I'm not running for re -election. I mean, just like, I'm out now. We're done with this whole thing. That's amazing. So you can think you have a majority, and then a couple of people die, and a few more resign, and then it's gone. 

But that's politics. More importantly, This is true for life. You can be fine one day and you get a sudden illness and then you're not alive anymore. And then everyone in your life gets that phone call and say, what? I talked to him yesterday. He's fine. 

We used to do Radiothon for Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. And that was everyone's story. We'd have all these families come in and went to Rady. And that was their story. Every single one of them. Like, Oh, my son, he was eight years old and he was great. 

And then on the baseball field, one day he passed out on the field. And now he had cancer and that whole life has been different. Right? So you're fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. Then all of a sudden not. Lindsey Graham, Senator, Senator, Senator, all of a sudden, not. 

Now we're talking who's who's the replacement? What's the process for picking a new Senate? Like, so let's go to the Bible here. My first biblical point is for three, no one lives forever. We talked about this the other day. I know it sounds like a no slater. 

But do we do we know? Because if we really knew and we believed it, we would live differently. We would make different decisions. So yeah, I know Slater, no one lives forever. All right, well, how are you behaving differently knowing that? 

Because for almost all of us, myself included, as an outside observer, look at you and be like, oh, you think you're going to, you're acting like you're going to live forever. You're sure not. and you don't know when your day is, so no one's going to live forever. We talked about this just a couple episodes ago with the rich Silicon Valley tech guy whose goal, Brian Johnson, his goal is to live forever. Literally his life mission is don't die. And he spends millions of dollars a year on his health. 

And he just got diagnosed with an incurable stomach disease. And he's going to die, of course. So you can't live forever. Even if you're a senator, which is my second point, we tend to worship politicians, which is weird because we also don't like them. I don't understand how we can do both those things. We don't like politicians. 

We don't trust them. They can't get anything done or do anything right. They're generally not that skilled or talented at much of anything, probably. Some of them never had a real job. There's some guys now who've had a real job and they come and become a senator. Some of these guys have never had a real job ever. 

So they're not impressive. And then we worship them and we look up to them as if they're of a higher class than us. Like, ooh, a congressman is here. What? It doesn't make sense. So don't worship politicians, which leads To the most important third point, your life should not be defined by your political opinions. 

I feel bad distilling Lindsey Graham to a set of political opinions. He was a human individual person and this was his life, right? Cause he didn't have a wife and kids. He could spend all this time working and he did. And he said how much he loved it. I think I read a thing from JD Vance talking about that. 

Lindsey Graham would talk to him, how much fun this was. He loved it. And that's great, but I just want to make sure we live our lives in a way that when people have something to say about our passing, it's not, well, he had this political opinion. Okay. I find that shallow and transient. I know it's transient, no matter how important it is here on earth. 

It's shallow when it comes to eternity. Proverbs 10, seven says the memory of the righteous is a blessing. But the name of the wicked will rot. Yikes. No, I'm not, I'm not talking about the wicked here. Surely that's not, I'm not saying Lindsey Graham's wicked. 

I'm talking more about the righteous. Like that's the one that matters. Who are the righteous? The Hebrew word here means someone who is righteous in conduct and character. So they're, they're righteous as in they're justified by God. I should say by Jesus, to God, because that means you believe in Jesus. 

I mean, that's the legacy worth living for. You die and someone says, man, he loved God with all of his heart, soul, mind, and strength. And he loved his neighbor as himself. That's what you want on your tombstone. That's what you want said at your funeral. We shouldn't be striving for eternal fame on earth. 

It won't happen. I know I just mentioned Plutarch's lives, people from thousands of years ago, but there's like 48 of them. All right. That's not going to be you or me. Also, how much of the people whose biographies he wrote, if they came back to life today and read it, they'd be like, that's not what happened. These are all more myth than anything else at this point. 

And like, some of the stories are like, and he was sailing down the sea and he a giant hand came and picked up the boat. It's all intertwined with myth already, even in Plutarch's life. That proves my point even more. Ecclesiastes 9 .5 says, For the living that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. We forget. 

We forget people. Maybe you can go, maybe you remember your grandpa. Great -grandpa? Maybe you know his name. Give me two. Give me two greats. 

Great -great -grandpa? Nothing. I got nothing. I don't know. That should be really comforting. Should be. 

It's kind of sad at first, but no, it's not, because God remembers his people. God knows his people. You will never forget you. Revelation 14, 12, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the spirit that they may rest from their labors and their works follow them. So we have this contrast here in revelation between the rest of the saints in eternity and the continual torment of the wicked. 

It's Revelation 14, 11, and the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever. And they have no rest day or night who worship the beast and his image. We don't want that. We want to die in the Lord. We want to die in the cause of God. It was Adam Clark in the 1800s. 

He said they die under the smile and approval of God, and they die to live and reign with God forever and ever. Psalm 34 says, blessed is the man who takes refuge in the Lord. Psalm 40, blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust. This is where we need to find our value. And any memory of us, however much it lasts on earth, any memory of us, Even as we die and after we die, even that should be bringing glory to God. YouTube . 

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Democrat Governor Tim Walz went out of his way to protect this child molesting illegal alien from deportation. Why would he do such a thing? How could anyone defend this? We need to be a society that is much more severe against this sin and the people who enable it.

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The story of the day today. Kids warning. Kids warning for today's episode. Alert. Alarm. Kids warning. 

This is not the episode for kids. You got kids listening now. Just give you a second. Turn it down. Press next. We have other episodes today. 

Kids warning. All right. Story of the day today. Pardoning an illegal alien. child rapist. Here's what happened. 

A man from Laos came to America illegally back in 1994. He was given some legal status of some sort after he came here illegally by the Clinton administration. For a four year period, he raped a 10 year old girl. It's from around the year 2000, around the year 2002 or so. He paid the girl $10 to keep quiet. When he was interviewed by police, he told the police quote, it's a cultural thing to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12. 

He also claimed that the victim was just as guilty as he was and should also be arrested. This caused him to lose his legal ish that he was convicted. So his conviction for this caused him to lose whatever legal status the Clinton administration gave him. So he's back to being an illegal alien again, but here's, here's one. He avoided jail time. This story is so awful. 

Every single thing about this story is crazy. He avoided jail time. He was convicted and went to trial. But because the video family didn't allow her to cooperate or they didn't cooperate and i don't know what this is i don't know if this is cultures protecting their own or whatever i'm assuming like maybe this girl also was from laos right so maybe there's um like uh i don't even know what religion they are maybe it'd be like if muslims would be like a sharia law thing or something where the woman has no say the girl has no say in court or something i don't know what cultural thing is happening there but the family didn't cooperate. And this is in my analysis, New York Times, New York Times says Mr. Vang had received a lenient sentence, 30 years probation, which is like in part because the victim in the case, who was then 12, was experiencing pressure from her family not to cooperate. 

So that's not me, that's New York Times analysis. So we have a child rapist walking on the streets of Minnesota, illegal alien, illegal, convicted, child abuse, first degree sexual abuse. He should have been killed or castrated right there in a sane legal system. Instead, he's walking around Minnesota as an illegal alien child rapist. Now, an immigration judge issued a final order of removal for this guy in 2006. He's back to being an illegal alien, right? 

So we're ready to deport him. We're ready to deport him. We're willing to deport him. Again, final order of removal, 2006. You heard that right. It's 20 years ago. 

I know 2006 kind of sounds like this year or last year. It was 20 years ago. We're going to deport him. What did the governor of Minnesota do? What should he have done? What would you have done if you were the governor of Minnesota? 

You would, of course, hand him over to the feds or allow the feds to come in and get him and remove him because why would you want a child rapist in your city? So he could have been helpful to the city. Like, hey, we're going to use our local police. We'll help you. What do you need? Where do you need to go? 

We'll help you get there. Whatever. Be helpful to get the child molester off the streets. He could have been neutral. Just gotten out of the way. We're not going to help you, but do what you got to do. 

But no, he went out of his way to make it hard. Tim Walz, out of nowhere, pardoned this illegal alien child rapist for the crime of child rape. Pardoned. I would like to know how Tim Walz knew that this guy was going to be deported. Because again, the final order of deportation was back in 2006. So how did he know that ICE was coming after him at all? 

How did he know that, right? Because the pardon comes out of nowhere. It's a crime from 2006. Why pardon now? Why pardon at all? So how did Walls even know that ICE was looking for him? 

But why did he pardon him? Because the reason he's now an illegal alien again is because of the crime. If you pardon him for the crime, then now he's not illegal anymore. He goes back to whatever legal status he had with the Clinton administration. and then can't be deported. That's amazing. 

42 year old guy from Laos, worse than a loser, like a total, like a force for wickedness and evil and destruction and abuse. And the governor of Minnesota decided to go out of his way and pardon him to protect him from deportation. That is an incredible story. Now that was a story as I shared it a couple of days ago on SiriusXM. The update of the story, why I'm sharing it here as well, is that Marco Rubio got wind about it. took it from the Department of Homeland Security, this issue, and made it a State Department issue and now he's gone. 

Marco Rubio said just weeks ago, foreign child rapist was freed to once again endanger America's children after receiving a pardon from Tim Walz. This guy admitted to committing heinous crimes against a 10 -year -old girl in Minnesota. He attempted to pay his victim for her silence, dismissed his acts of abuse as a minor thing. Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators shielded from deportation by their own elected officials could endanger them or their children. What an insane time this is. 

Tim Walz, by the way, in the pardon letter referred to this guy as a citizen of the United States. He is not a citizen. Marco Rubio said Americans should never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to be here in the first place. And this administration will always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals. Crazy. Okay, we talked about this last week or came up earlier in the week I should say on Sirius XM because we did a segment on Thomas Jefferson and Monticello and just learning about our history and the importance of learning about our history. 

And one of the reasons why it's important to know our history is because a story like this, it's bad enough, it's heinous, it's not enough, it's awful enough. It's even worse when you know our history and where we came from and how difficult it was to create this country in the first place. When you know who we came from, when you learn more about our founding fathers and the men and women of the revolution. When you have a deeper understanding of our past and their deep sense of justice, then things like this are intolerable. It's like a different level. It's like you hear about it first time and it's heinous and it's awful and terrible, but then it's like this next level of intolerable. 

I mean, the founders called these acts against us. the British, the intolerable acts, right? We need more things in this country to be intolerable. Tolerance has been the name of the game for decades, and it's gotten to not a laughable level. It's now a heinous, hideous, wicked level of tolerance. Gosh, I just saw a video the other day of R . 

C. Sproul. He was talking about how there's this perversion, this is an older video, about how there's this perversion that's working its way in the church where church leaders will tell people that God loves you unconditionally. It's like, oh, where's that? That's not in the Bible. God loves you unconditionally. 

Of course, that tells the unrepentant person that I don't have to do anything. I don't have to change in any way. God loves me no matter what I do. Guys, unconditional love. No, no, no, no. If anything, it's unconditional wrath. 

And the only way the wrath is allevied is because of Jesus. He paid the consequence for it instead of you. Tolerance. But you can see this, this idea of unconditional love turns into this idea of tolerance, no matter what, and tolerance to the end for anything. No, no, no. We need things to be intolerable again. 

And when you know where you came from, your zeal increases, your passion increases, your care and concern, your love increases, and you become less numb to it all, which is what the left wants you to be. They want you to be numb to the evil around us. That's what Satan wants too. But we can't be, we need to be more sensitive to evil. We need to be more passionate against it. Let's go to the Bible. 

We could talk about the age of consent, right? This guy's like, Oh, and my, where I come from now, the Bible doesn't have an age. Quran certainly doesn't, but it is a lot. There's a lot in there about who you should have sex with your wife. So this male from Laos can talk about in his culture. It's okay to have sex. 

with people, with eight -year -old girls. You're sick. But how about you find yourself a wife? The Bible says marriage is man and a woman, not a girl, becoming one flesh. We are told to honor God with our bodies and also with our wife's body. We're called to protect little ones. 

A millstone around this pervert's neck is too nice of a punishment. We're supposed to protect little ones, not use them for our own sexual gratification. My God, this is disgusting. The Bible is also clear about The state being allowed to punish crime, which the state of Minnesota did not do here. Romans 13 three, always worth a review. I know we bring this one up a lot, but rulers hold no terror to those who do right. 

But for those who do wrong, do you want to be free from one fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. For the one in authority is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid. For rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God's servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment to the evildoer. 

Not in Minnesota, they did not bring punishment to the evildoer. They failed. 1 Peter 2 .3 says, Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be the emperor or supreme, or to governors sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. Again, the government did not punish those who do evil. This pervert used this child. Children are a gift. 

They're a gift. Psalm 127 .3 says, Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward. This is in that beautiful section about building a home. Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchmen stay awake in vain. 

" There's a beautiful scripture which we should bring up again about God's sovereignty and control over all things, but the reason that it goes to house and then is what good is building a house if you can't make it a home with family in it? The family is the most important building block of a society, which is why, among other reasons, why do we need to keep child molesters away from everyone always to the nth degree. And we hear, this is a bit of a sidebar, but we hear parents today, maybe online, you'll hear parents complain about kids. They're kids. They're a pain, they're annoying, they're a burden, they're a bother. 

I can't wait for summer to be over so kids can go back to school, get them out of my hair. No, no, no. Kids are a heritage from the Lord. They're a gift, not a burden. One is profoundly full of sin to use children for their own sexual pleasure, and they deserve horrific punishment. What we're called to do, we're called in Psalm 82, 4, rescue the weak and the needy, deliver them from the hand of the wicked. 

We don't have enough hatred of the child abusers. We don't. The punishment for child abuse in this country does not reflect the severity of the sin. And the fact that A Democratic governor in Minnesota would not only allow this person back on the streets, but then prevent him from being deported, all because of his TDS. That is sick behavior. Thank goodness we have an administration today that would not let him get away with it. 

I'd love to see some accountability for walls now and all the child abuse, child abuse enablers that we have in our country.