Progressive Political Commentator (2:55)

I totally forgot about that because they do so much all the time. You forget about that. You're exactly right. It's. Oh, it's overwhelming to flood the zone that they do. Okay, next up, you guys, we have. This is just more than I can take. When the Christians who are the persecutors, when you live in a red Bible Belt state, these arrogant mega church Southern Baptist attendees, they think their shit doesn't stink. They think they're smarter than everybody, while at the same time claiming that the earth is 6,000 years old. This is dipshit arrogance galore. All right, so they have found the biggest arrogant dipshit on the planet. And they love to persecute people. And then when somebody calls them out, they claim, oh my gosh, we're being persecuted, Christians are being persecuted. And then of course, dipshit just falls along with this narrative. It makes me sick. Play it.

Donald Trump (3:54)

The first ever Department of Justice task force to eradicate anti Christian bias. And for those people that are a little bit naive or not well read. There is a tremendous anti Christian bias. We don't hear about it, we don't think about it. You hear about anti Semitic, but you don't hear about anti Christian. Now you have a strong anti Christian bias. But we're ending that rapidly. I will tell you, it's a whole. We're in a much different world today than we were one year ago.

Progressive Political Commentator (4:30)

Okay, I want to say something about this. All right, first of all, those that aren't well read, the people he's talking to literally think people use, literally believe that people used to be 900 years old. I mean, these are really stupid, willfully, willfully stupid people where you have bodies of evidence that they say, nope, we're not going to listen to these people. But I want to defend here quickly, because this doesn't get talked about at all. You always hear about the rise of antisemitism, which everybody opposes that. And I would say that the actions of Israel are making people more anti Semitic. In the embrace of far right leaders like him is where antisemitism incubates. And now he's talking about, you know, Christian, anti Christian bias, which. Guilty as charged. I totally have that from living in a Bible Belt state. It's very easy to get when you live around these lands. Where. What about the rise in racism? Right? Where's that? Why aren't we standing up for our sisters and brothers of color? What about the rise in anti immigration rhetoric? Because here's what they're doing to those people. They're locking them up and sending them to seacot. They're sending them To Alligator Alcatraz. They're fetish, fetishizing, fetishizing it on the White House, Instagram. The talk about inner cities and people from inner cities and some people are just born criminals and they can't be helped. What about the rise and just straight up racism? Is anybody going to address that? Because that's what I see above and beyond everything else. Because it's not just enough for them to be racist. They want to lock innocent people up and celebrate it and salivate over it. It just, it makes me sick how easy it is for so many white Americans to just fall into this when multiculturalism makes our country so cool. You can't stand up for the people that run the Mexican restaurant. You can't stand up for your gay hairdresser or your, you know, gay doctor. You can't stand up for black people. You can't even look at how much more difficult their experience has been being a black American around all these dipshit, arrogant white people. How difficult it is to find success and to live, especially in the Bible Belt a day or two without having racial slurs hurled at you. But you know, if you talk about it, then they say you're a race baiter, you're race hustler and all this stuff. I'm so sick of this. I'm so sick of it.

Co-host or Political Analyst (7:13)

Well, and let's not forget Christianity is patriarchal. It is misogyny, racist and racist, start to finish. The reason the Christians are all behind this is because they think they're special. We could never get deported because we're special. We're chosen. And it is disgusting and it is gross. And I believe based on just anecdotal evidence, people that have always gone to church see this movement and see the hypocrisy of what Christians are doing with the racism and the misogyny and the bigotry against gay people. And they are leaving religion and I hope that that will continue because they're like, I can't put my name behind a movement that treats other people like this. This goes against everything I was taught that Jesus stood for in the Bible. These people are absolutely going against everything they say they believe. And so I am hopeful in the, you know, after this is all through, God willing, haha, tongue in cheek, that people are going to be leaving Christianity because they're going to see how it primed the pump for somebody exactly like Donald Trump.

Progressive Political Commentator (8:20)

I don't know about that. I'm reading some results about Jen, some polling about Gen Z running to religion. And so I'M seeing contradictory charts than that. And that, that's very, very troubling for me, especially the glamorizing of the tradwife stuff and the streamlining of all of this. And Donald Trump has been the example for a decade of people in their youth. And so I, I hope you're right, because all I see is religion damaging people. But I see the people that are the biggest proponents of Jesus doing the exact opposite of what that central character of the Bible preached about, especially in the Bible Belt. You guys, I know that there's some Methodists or Episcopalians or Christian, like people that follow us that actually do that, but not in the Bible Belt. You do not see these religious people ever fighting for the marginalized. In fact, you see them actively salivating to oppress the marginalized and to be racist. And I want to thank our sponsor for supporting the show today. This is Delete Me, you guys. I signed up for this because you cannot imagine, you know how when you go to places and you give your phone number, your email, you're filling out applications. Well, a lot of this stuff ends up on the Internet, your private information. And so it seems daunting as a layman, like, how do I get on the Internet and remove information about myself? So you can sign up for Delete Me and they go through and they do the work for you. In fact, New York Times wirecutter has named Delete Me their top pick for data removal services.

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Donald Trump (10:53)

That's what we're doing. We're in a golden age. We're at the very beginning of a golden age. So much progress has been made in the last eight months. Progress like nobody's ever seen before. They're writing about it. They're actually Saying it. They've never seen anything like what's happened in the last eight months.

Progressive Political Commentator (11:12)

I mean, you know, this is. He has about 10 things, 10 greatest hits that he just recycles through, you know, windmills, Hannibal Lecter, the likes of which anybody's ever seen. We used to be a dead country, now we're a hot country. And doesn't matter if he's at the, you know, Creation Museum or, you know, in front of the Heritage foundation or at the US Open. I guarantee you in that box at the US Open, it was the top 10 greatest hits bullshit, actually. I guarantee you was telling everybody was a good tennis player. But anyway, another problem, you guys, is these right wing influencers continue to get mainstreamed. What used to be fringe is now mainstream. Talking points on Fox, which millions of people watch. It's still the top rated, quote unquote news show. And here's Charlie Kirk, who should be an absolute fringe person. And they are platforming him as a thought leader. And here's the type of shit that he says to all of the white, angry, racist people that watch Fox News all the time. And this all kind of ties together. Trump voters, young men, they want family, children and legacy young women who voted for Kamala Harris, they want careerism, consumerism and loneliness. That is a dramatic divide that is going to play out in our politics for the years to come. Okay, so, you know, here he is talking to a woman that has a career who is unmarried. And my fundamental problem, you guys, is MAGA is a movement that is fringe that is now mainstream and it's becoming more and more and more mainstream. And you see more and more people capitulating to this because once you capitulate to one thing and you lose some of your conviction, the rest of it falls so quickly. And so, you know, it's almost like a Jenga puzzle. It just, it just completely tumbles. And I see it, and I know you all do too, people in my personal life. And then you see it in, you know, the news, which can you imagine that we used to live in a country where the Republican Party told Richard Nixon, you need to resign, we won't support you.

Co-host or Political Analyst (13:27)

No, that seems to impeach you.

Progressive Political Commentator (13:29)

And that this, this is where we are right now, Charlie, Kurt, going to college campuses, hanging low hanging fruit to men and talking about men having family values. When Donald Trump just said in another clip that, you know, it's okay. Basically the insinuation there was if a husband roughs up the wife, that shouldn't be a call to the police.

Co-host or Political Analyst (13:51)

Well, that's because the man is the supreme ruler of the family and head of the household. And women shouldn't have the right to vote. That's what's now circul. Ask Pete Hexeth about it.

Progressive Political Commentator (14:01)

They're mainstreaming this. This very fringe stuff, and it's really terrifying. All right, that's all we have. We'll be back later with more news.