B (36:02)

If you are sick and tired of your government being ransacked by Donald Trump and his minions, literally taking away health care from your neighbors, stealing food off of the table from seniors and children.

A (36:15)

And generally none of which is happening, by the way.

B (36:18)

Fact that our neighbors are are being disappeared. P.S. without due process, it is just called kidnapping. Then show up and use your voice, put your body on the line and use non violent direct action, which is one of the most important tools in our toolbox, to say I am not okay. I will not go silently into the night. I will join arms with my friends, with my neighbors, and with people who generally believe that folks should be able to afford their lives, should be treated with dignity and as human beings, then we need to see you there.

A (36:53)

Wow. Okay, cool. Tell me that doesn't inflame tensions and cause more of this crap to continue happening, to cause more loss of life to continue happening. They are participating in this themselves. We've also heard a lot the last couple of days from our friend Cam Higby, who is doing amazing work infiltrating some of these group chats that are organizing these protests on platforms like Signal that actual elected officials, members of the government are participating in these Signal chats and helping to organize these protests and the unrest that's turning into violence that we're seeing in places like Minneapolis. Go follow him on X if you haven't already. By the way, he's doing amazing work and we'll try to maybe have him on the show later this week to talk about this because this is shocking information, including to those of us who've been paying attention for a very long time. But now it's not just isolated to Minnesota Again, this narrative can't just stay isolated to Minnesota. The exact same way none of this could stay isolated to just one particular city in the wake of George Floyd because they had to turn this into a national scandal run around an election. Hmm. Interesting to make every city the Summer of love in summer 2020. Congressman Sri Thanadar, who is from Michigan, Interesting, interesting man took it upon himself this last week to tweet a few days ago a picture of a baby sleeping in a crib. Again, this is a United States Congressman, a member of the federal government who tweeted this picture of a beautiful baby sleeping in a crib saying this a baby was hospitalized after being tear gassed by ice. Something tells me like the five year old boy, probably not accurate. The family was not illegal and not even protesting, just driving home from their son's basketball game. This cannot be reformed. Time to abolish ice. Sitting member of the United States House of Representatives. Well, the Internet sleuths decided to do some digging and found some photos of people protesting in Minneapolis in a literal riot. Not just a protest. A riot where punches were being thrown, weapons were everywhere, violence was normalized. Somebody tweeted this. Lies. We are being lied to. Remember the stob story about the family with the baby getting tear gassed at the North Minneapolis riot last Wednesday? They said they were just passing through the area on the way home from their son's basketball game. Nope. Here they are on video at the riot nearly 45 minutes before the flashbang struck their car. These still images are from someone named Jonathan Mason's video. That night at around 8:30 8:45pm the tear gas call with the baby 911 call was dispatched at 9:22pm they left their children in the car at a riot and nearly killed their baby as a result. When they were fleeing law enforcement, abandoned their child, their baby as they were fleeing law enforcement to escape the responsibility and consequences of their own actions in participating in organized violence against the police. Again, what do you want ICE to do? Leave a baby to be suffocated by tear gas in a car that has been abandoned by their loser mother and father? Or do you want them to take the baby to the hospital to seek emergency medical treatment? Logical question worth asking, but one you're not even allowed to ask in the manufactured outrage cycle. Or you are the bad guy. So we watch this progression mainstream media to elected officials to maybe the most dangerous way these people elicit an emotional response in you of all the normie influencers as you guys are evaluating your goals for the New year and hopefully getting quality rest every night is among them. Finding the right mattress for you and your family doesn't have to be complicated. 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Again, that's helix sleep.com Isabel for 20% off every single thing on their website and make sure you enter our show name after checkout so that they know that we sent you from the Isabel Brown show last time. Helix sleep.com Isabel so again, once the mainstream media makes you appropriately freak out about this, and then elected officials create chaos surrounding all of it and prescribe different policy solutions related to whatever the manufactured outrage cycle is, then they activate the normie influencers, the non political people, the people who never talk about these issues at all. And this is arguably the most dangerous part of the equation and the cycle because these are not accredited journalism institutions that honestly people don't really trust anymore. We haven't for the last decade or so since the era of fake news has been exposed. They're not automatically polarizing figures like politicians are, where you start to tune them out immediately, thinking, okay, you have your own interest here vested in this issue because it's going to determine your ability to get reelected or whatever. These are just normal people. They're nurses, they're fashion influencers, they're mom influencers. And influencers, as we know from the marketing world, are far more effective than traditional advertising because you actually trust what these people have to say. You feel like you've been invited into their personal lives, their circle of friends, their inner circle of trust. And whatever they have to say, you assume is basically like your friend or family member saying this to you over a cup of coffee across the table. On this issue, I have seen more tears flown and I don't say that lightly. I don't say that as like a hyperbolic exaggeratory statement. I'm saying this because people are literally bawling their eyes out on the Internet than anything since the black square, anything since we must speak up as white people and apologize for our whiteness. Magnolia Farms, Chip and Joanna have the circle of white is evil conversations with a black man vibes. I have seen more tears stream spilled on the Internet over defund ice and the necessity to restore human dignity than any other issue in the past several years. And this is intense. People are misunderstanding the severity of this situation because this is fundamentally swinging the political pendulum for women across the political spectrum. Whether you like it or not, women are viscerally uncomfortable with what they are seeing because this is the only part of the narrative that they are hearing. Or with exception to maybe one person, Ali Beth Stuckey, who has done a phenomenal job over the past couple of days covering what's really happening in Minneapolis. The first post I ever saw from the normie influencers about all of this is from a labor and delivery nurse who I actually really enjoy her posts most of the time. Uh, she loves Talking about the celebration of new babies being born and women's health. We disagree on a whole host of issues, don't get me wrong, but she never really wades into politics. Very, very, very rarely does she ever talk about any of these things and has a massive TikTok following. Her name is Jen Hamilton. This post was the one that I initially saw of her actually crying on the Internet over the supposed detention and potential deportation of the five year old little boy.

C (46:10)

Listen, you guys are monsters and I'm so tired. I'm so tired of people in my personal life telling me, don't take all the problems of the world, just quit talking about it and you'll feel better. You can't change anything.

A (46:27)

So what?

C (46:28)

Don't worry yourself about it. How can you not? How can you not? This five year old little boy was.

A (46:36)

Coming home from school.

C (46:40)

And they used him as bait to get his dad. I took him to the door, like while they hid and they took the father and the five year old boy to an ICE detention facility. They are here legally. The cruelty is the point. At what point do you, as someone who voted for this, say, I do not support what is happening right now. That is all that I want to hear from people who voted for this. I shouted from the rooftops a hundred miles away that this was going to start happening. They're not going to do that. He's not going to do that. I just want my eggs to be cheaper. No new wars. And now we're about to take over not one, but two countries. Your loyalty is overridden. Your integrity.

D (47:29)

Oof.

A (47:30)

We're going to stop it there because this goes on for several more minutes. But your loyalty overrides your integrity. If you voted for Donald Trump and and you are not immediately taking to social media in tears to scream about a human rights crisis related to ice. All I want to hear, first of all, why? Why do you need to hear labor and delivery nurse TikTok influencer. Why do you need to hear an apology from people who voted for Donald Trump? Why? Why do you need to see every other woman in your life start to cry on the Internet to prove they are a good person? To participate in performative moral outrage because it's the only way, especially as women today, to prove that you're the good guy manufactured outrage cycle. Your loyalty to Donald Trump is overriding your integrity. But you never saw any of these tears flow from this person or any of the other influencers. We're about to watch when Lake and Riley was brutally assaulted and murdered going for a run near her college campus. You never see these tears flow when babies, literal infant babies, are raped to death at the southern border. Not an exaggeration. That happens all the time. You never see this performative outrage and the tears start flowing for any other example of an illegal immigrant coming into our country to inflict violence and maximum damage upon women and children in this country ever. So where is loyalty actually impeding upon people's integrity? It's worth asking that question. She posted this video, it gets taken down from TikTok and even after everyone in her comment section is trying to politely correct her that no, this five year old boy was not detained by ice. No, he was not actually here legally. His father was not here legally. His father was here illegally, which is why ICE was going after him in the first place. No, none of these things are actually true. Like you are really upset and you're asking for an apology from people, but we're not going to apologize because I understand where your sympathy is coming from. But it's misdirected. She decided to dig in and double down on social media and not talk about babies being born or any of the like. Instead, she decides to post two days ago on TikTok, just a still image. Alex Preddy, RN was murdered. Ice, period out. Period now. Period. A labor and delivery nurse, the normie influencers, and someone who again, I generally really like her content. I think she does really important things to help women feel empowered going into childbirth. She regularly calls out the hyper medicalization of the birth experience in a really profound way that helps a lot of people. We disagree on a whole host of things, but you never see her crying about other human rights injustices. You only see her crying on the Internet and demanding that other people cry too. That other people apologize for their vote, that they abandoned their most deeply held held convictions and beliefs and values over whatever the hell the media is telling you to say. And I don't know this person. I don't know how they make their income. I don't know if they do make income from social media, but it's following a lot of the same scripted talking points we're seeing pretty much every other influencer say. Which begs the question, are. Are these people getting paid for these posts? I think it's important to ask. I think it's really important to ask because otherwise, if not out of toxic empathy and the manipulation of your feelings and emotions to think that you're being the good guy, which is totally possible. Don't get me wrong, I think the Vast majority of people posting about this do have good intentions. They've just had their empathy twisted and manipulated by people in power to be misdirected at the wrong thing. Many of them are getting paid. That's just true. That's the reality of the influencer world. And the media loves to call it out. They did just the other day. When right wing influencers are being paid for these things, by the way, I wish I would have known I could make thousands of dollars every single time I talk about a lot of these issues. I'm certainly not constantly being approached by all of these things. The Wall Street Journal just ran a huge piece on this the other day that the right wing influencer community is being paid. Wait till you find out about the money on the left because it is highly, highly more alluring and powerful than right wing money on the Internet. Just trust me for that one. It's not just labor and delivery nurses. The favorite voice of women everywhere, Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy interviewed Michelle Obama last week and nearly broke down in tears about how divided the country is. We feel so divided. And it was never like that under the Obama years of leadership. Listen to this. Our country does feel very divided today. That, that's a fact, right? The hate and disgust and vitriol. The divide is so big it almost feels unfixable. Can you, though, somehow explain, in your opinion, how you think we begin to repair not only what we have lost, but create a new future that is actually inclusive and equal and respectful of each other? Because right now it does not feel like we are close to that.

D (53:13)

And don't you get a sense that people are not content in that more people are starting to be outspoken about it, you know, and a lot of people are like, I didn't sign up for this. That is us speaking. I don't think we're, we're happy in this state. And I think that's a good sign. I don't think that this young generation wants to go back, have less freedoms, less possibilities of who they can be in the world, who they can marry, who they can love, who's in and who's out. I just think we've come too far to go that far back. I have faith and I'm choosing to have faith for all our listeners. It's like now we've got to do the work to look inside and figure out the parts of this that are working and what is it. We have to really start having conversations about that. That's hard to do at a time when our Algorithms are feeding us what we want to hear. But now we know that, now we're aware. It's like, okay, you can't just get your information from your phone or your TikTok because it's feeding you yourself. And so if you want to learn something else, you may have to talk to people. We may have to start coming out of our phones and back into communities.

A (54:20)

We might have to talk to people, talk to people who we disagree with because young people don't want to live in a society where they're told who's in and who's out. Michelle Obama, was it not you 5 minutes ago that just told black women that they need to stop buying pieces of clothing that happened to be per or designed and distributed by white women? Was that not you, by the way, while you were wearing a thousand dollar skirt designed by a white woman? But I digress. Was it not the left that has gone out of their way to dehumanize people to the nth degree as much as humanly that you were an evil person if you wanted to go to church during COVID or refused an experimental vaccine? That if you wanted to support strong border policies in our country over the past decade, you were xenophobic and a white supremacist? Do you know the number of times that this family has tweeted about white supremacy despite having been the president and first lady of the United States? And Alex Cooper. Gee, I wonder. I wonder why the country feels so divided. I wonder why vitriol and hate are at the forefront of everyone's mind. I wish it wasn't that way, but you literally host a sex podcast that encourages all women to hate all men. You have had several episodes tell women it is empowering to cheat on their boyfriends, fiancees or husbands. That that's sexually liberating for women. Last election cycle, you sat down with Kamala Harris for what can only be described as a propaganda interview. For the fact that millions of women are going to literally die in a Trump America because we wouldn't have abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, literally contributing to the violent destruction of millions of babies every single year. Propagandizing the abortion industry. So I wish hatred and violence and vitriol wasn't a part of our society. But we love to talk about how everyone else needs to look in the mirror and we never take the time to do that ourselves. And again, it's not just labor and delivery nurses. It's not just sex. Podcasters, the fashion influencers and the lifestyle influencers are all repeating the same manufactured talking points about abolishing ice and defunding ice all over the Internet. This young woman named Kensington has millions of followers on social media and is represented by the United Talent Agency, one of the biggest talent agencies in the world. Who had this to say on TikTok this week? 17.6 thousand likes.

E (57:15)

My goal with my TikTok and my page and my content is and always has been just wanting to be a safe place, whether it's for me, whether it's for you guys, when everything seems really scary and up, you can come here and we can turn off our brains and hang out. With that being said, sometimes, a lot of the times recently actually it's feeling a bit dystopian to come on here and film my little videos when what's going on in the world is so beyond up. This isn't even me being political. This is me standing up for like basic human rights. There's people being murdered, there's people being ripped away from their lives, from their families, babies being ripped away from their families, baby lives. It's just kind of like word vomit to be honest. But just kind of wanted to spill my brain to you guys and also kind of let you know where I stand with everything and why if I'm not posting my regular content, which I'm sure so many people are worried about, why that's not happening. Way, way, way bigger things going on in the world and I'm very aware of it. Educating yourselves is really, really important on what's going on right now. And I've really prioritized educating myself and staying up to date on what's actually going on just to stay informed.

A (58:33)

It's important.

E (58:33)

It is really scary, but it is important to know what's going on because it's fucked.

A (58:41)

This is f'd the caption of that video, by the way. This was posted 19 hours ago and has almost 20,000 likes. Is F ice. Babies are being murdered by the government, by federal law enforcement, says this influencer. And thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of women who follow her for her cute little outfit of the day. Videos by the millions. Believe her, there's 20,000 likes on this video in 19 hours. But you never see these influencers say it just hurts so bad and I need to educate myself and I need to stop posting my silly little videos on the Internet about the state funded and state sponsored slaughter of millions of children babies every year through Planned Parenthood. You never see these people stop their silly little videos on the Internet when by the thousands babies are slaughtered by human traffickers at the southern border ever. You never see these people talk about these things. Why is that worth asking the question before you respond to the outrage? So we've got nurses, we've got sex podcasters, we've got fashion and lifestyle influencers. How about old people? There are literally old people influencers, lifestyle old people influencers talking about this. That as a combat veteran. ICE is basically the exact same thing as isis. You can't make this stuff up, y'. All.

F (60:23)

Dave just said something to me that.

A (60:25)

Kind of threw me for a loop.

F (60:27)

I wasn't expecting that.

C (60:29)

And I asked if he would repeat it for y'.

A (60:31)

All. As a combat veteran, I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between ICE and isis. ISIS covered their face and publicly executed citizens. ICE is doing the same thing. ICE is operating as a government sanctioned terrorist organization.

F (60:53)

I don't ever really see you get upset. This kind of has me thrown, darling.

A (61:01)

It should concern us all through tears. It should concern us all that ISIS wore masks and executed citizens in the street. And that's exactly the same thing that ICE is doing. This account, by the way, has a million and a half followers on TikTok. And you think this isn't some sort of mechanism to incite more outrage and more violence? What could possibly be the conclusion of comparing federal law enforcement trying to remove violent terrorists from our society to a violent terrorist organization? What is the end result of that? These are normal people behaving this way. Arts and crafts influencers are even participating in this on social media. This is a slime influencer. She makes slime on TikTok arts and crafts. You can buy her slime at the link in her bio. Who made a Abolish ICE slime project 13 hours ago on the Internet. Watch this. Ah, it's hot pink. So aesthetically pleasing. We push the slime. We write on the slime. Abolish ice. Caption, defund ice. Call your members of Congress. So we're just doing Abolish ICE ASMR slime videos on the Internet now. Oh, yeah. We pull it apart. We squish it. We do. Like, what are we doing as a society, honestly? Because the abolished Slime ICE Defund ice. Slime will change society as we know it. And then there's the normies, the people who don't necessarily have massive followings. They're not TikTok influencers. They're not fashion influencers. They're not running a business. They're just normal people who are taking to TikTok saying that they genuinely believe they are going to be the next citizen indiscriminately picked out of the crowd by ICE to be executed in cold blood. So it's time that you and your family get your affairs in order. This is the level to which people are bought into the cycle of manufactured outrage.

F (63:19)

I had to have a very hard conversation with my spouse this morning in light of another murder by ICE agents of an American citizen who was exercising his constitutional rights to observe and to legally carry defense on himself. And neither of which I was basically like, hey, I think we need to make sure we're on the same page for what we do if and when this comes to our community. He knows that I've been working on some other things, but I was like, I just. I want to make sure that we're on the same page. And he asked me, he's like, are you. If they come here, are you gonna be out there? And I said, you know me. You know who you married, and you know I do not stay quiet when people in power abuse their power to harm others. You know that about me. You've seen it. You've seen me do that. And I don't think I could live with myself if I didn't. And he was quiet for a while, and then he just said, I. I don't want them to shoot you. And I said, I don't really want that either. I've got to do something good with this body I was born into in this one life, you know? So I just think people. Make sure you have your affairs in order. I'm gonna work on getting mine in.

C (65:12)

In order.

A (65:12)

Make sure you have your affairs in order. I'm going to work on getting mine in order because I cannot possibly not take to the streets to obstruct law enforcement to be a good person, to do something meaningful with this body God has given me. And my husband is terrified I'm going to be shot by the cops. And I don't want to get shot by the cops, but that's just the world we live in. And I have to be okay with that because I don't know, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota is telling me to put my life on the line, put my body on the line. For the record, it is very easy. Just as a general reminder in society, let's remove the emotion from it for a second. It is very easy. 99.99999999% of the time not to be shot by a member of law enforcement. Don't punch them, don't run them over with your car, don't pull a weapon on them. I mean normal human behavior. But the normies believe this now because they're trusted. Favorite influencers who post fashion videos or who educate them about labor and delivery, or who run slime arts and crafts businesses are telling them this is the reality and they trust those people more than they trust the mainstream media, more than they trust their elected politicians. That's what makes this so dangerous. The worst example of all, by far, is that the evangelical Christian community has become louder than I have ever seen them, certainly louder than I saw them during the Summer of Love for blm. And there are literally thousands of these videos from prominent Christian influencers, whether they're pastors or podcasters or in this case a comedian saying that Jesus himself would abolish ICE and that Jesus himself would respond in a particular way that you, as a good Christian, have to respond in kind in order to be a good person. Ali Beth Ducky has covered this at length on her podcast over the past few days and is doing a phenomenal job on her Instagram stories and on X. So please follow her over there as she tries to break this down on a deeper theological level than we have been. But I thought I would be remiss if I didn't include one of these clips because now the outrage is so much deeper than political activism, which is now ingraining its way into normal human behavior. This is theological now. This is a religious fanaticism that unless you go punch a cop in the face because you are called to do so as a good human being, you are a bad Christian and you are not following the teachings of Jesus Christ because as you know, Jesus would abolish ICE. This video was posted yesterday and already has 200,000 likes on Instagram.

G (68:17)

Hi, I am a gay Christian person and I just thought it was really important to share something that I wrote today with you. I have never ever been a Republican, but I have loved God and Jesus my whole entire life. If you are someone who identifies as a Christian but supports ICE or the President, I want you to remember that Jesus was executed for challenging the system. His life and teachings directly threatened the religious, economic and political power structures of his time and he was murdered. If you are a follower of Christ, I strongly urge you to follow what the Bible actually says. When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as native born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. You can argue the context of any scripture, but you can't argue that God doesn't want us to love our neighbors. And our neighbors are being hunted and kidnapped and attacked daily. Our government is killing people and they are lying to us. The God that I worship is extremely angry about what is going on. I fully believe that. I believe he's extremely angry at our government. They are murdering people in front of us. We cannot stop talking about this. We have to abolish ice. I truly, truly believe that is exactly what Jesus would do.

A (69:55)

I truly believe that is exactly what Jesus would do. Through tears, obviously. And look, I get it. I totally get it. It is so, so easy to be outraged when the story that you are getting is that the government is just indiscriminately killing people in the streets and executing them in cold blood. As you heard in that video. Our government is killing people. Our government is hunting people, and we, the good Christians, are the one challenging the system. But what these people don't even realize is that they are the system. They are participating in the system. They are the useful idiots and political pawns utilized by the system to accomplish more control over you, our society, and your lives, and our faith. It is so easy to believe this stuff when every single trusted journalism outlet and your elected officials and your trusted influencers are repeating the exact same talking points, scripted word for word, over and over and over again. It further cements the narrative even further. And then you feel pressured because everyone around you is swirling with a louder microphone every five seconds. You feel pressured into saying something because you genuinely believe it is true and that in order to be good, you need to participate in that perceived societal truth. And as we segue out of this a little bit today, let me also reiterate. There are certain things happening in our society today that as a Christian, even though it might be politically, my side I'm uncomfortable with. And I think we need to be honest about, for example, denying priests bringing the Eucharist to ICE detention facilities to celebrate Mass. Ultimately, I have to care more about the salvation of people than the deportation of people. And I fully believe these people who are here illegally in our country need to be deported from our country. But Christianity reigns supreme over my nationality, and people deserve access to the Eucharist and the sacraments as the highest priority of human dignity. But let's just take a second here and remind ourselves that ideological consistency and moral consistency alike are wildly important. If your only performative outrage here is about the need to defund ICE or whatever the issue of the day has been during every election cycle for the past decade and you never speak out about other problems of human dignity, then you are part of the problem. You are the system. You are not challenging the system from an ideological perspective. All of a sudden people seem to care about the Second Amendment, like this influencer, TikTok Maddie, who I'm guessing is not wildly supportive of the Second Amendment generally, but now is the resident expert on TikTok about it with literally, I'm not exaggerating. A video posted two days ago, 640,000 likes caption rules for thee but not for me. The man that was just shot and executed in broad daylight, they are reporting he had a gun. Guess what? We live in America where you can legally have a gun. It is your God given right, according to the conservatives, to have a gun. Everyone actually should have a gun in America because if not, the government's gonna go crazy. Remember, Remember when you guys said that yesterday and the day before and the day before that and every single day since the birth of the Constitution, he can have a gun. The government doesn't get to shoot you because you have a gun. Because it is legally written into our Constitution that you can have a gun. Because it is legally written into our Constitution that you can have a gun. Interesting how now ideologically, all of a sudden the left cares about the second amendment. And similarly, CNN is running stories about social media censorship on a partisan political basis. All of a sudden, all of a sudden, the legacy media outlets seem to care about social media censorship and the government censoring certain things, which there's no evidence for, by the way. Allegedly there's this new conspiracy that all these influencers are trying to post anti ice videos to TikTok and their videos wouldn't post over the weekend. So naturally CNN runs this headline. TikTok users say they can't upload anti ICE videos. The company blames tech issues and they wrote down in their article. TikTok said in a statement that glitches on the app, which I experienced all weekend and I'm incredibly generally supportive of ICE and federal law enforcement, so it's not really an ideological thing, but whatever. TikTok said in a statement that glitches on the app were due to a power outage at a US data center. As a result, a spokesperson for TikTok told CNN it's taking longer for videos to be uploaded and recommended to other users. The tech issues are ongoing, TikTok said, and are unrelated to last week's news. But that doesn't stop the mainstream media and all of these left wingers from all of a sudden creating a conspiracy theory that the Trump administration is censoring you on social media. Did we ever once, ever, once, please, please, I beg of you, find me an example. Did we ever once see the mainstream media or left wing influencers call out social media censorship about COVID about the Hunter Biden laptop story, about the vaccines, about abortion, about any of the politically partisan issues over the last several years as it pertains to conservatives being censored? No. So spare me the ideological inconsistencies here. You guys don't actually care about a lot of these issues that you are posting about. I wish that you did. This is a great opportunity for us to say, hey, maybe you should care about this in the future. But the truth is you don't really care about the politics behind these things that are happening in the mainstream media right now. And worse, you actually don't have the moral consistency in what you claim you are fighting for in reviving actual human dignity. Again, I wish that we did. I wish we could sit down and have an honest conversation about human dignity and maybe where our federal law enforcement could be doing a better job. Like I just said, bringing the Eucharist to Catholics in ICE detention centers. That's something I'm very passionate about actually and have not been secretive about. But the truth is you're not really interested in having that conversation because you don't really care about human dignity, especially as it pertains to immigration. If you are crying about how evil and horrible the ICE officers have been on social media and you cried about the detention of a five year old, did you cry about over the past several years about the Hundreds of thousands, 300,000 plus children that went missing under the Biden administration that we lost track of and likely were trafficked to human trafficking organizations and buyers at the highest bid? Did you cry about that? Did you cry over the 65,000 plus phone calls for help to the helpline set up by the Biden administration, the that went unanswered that were exposed at a congressional hearing a few months ago? If you are crying about the idea of children being separated from their families, did you cry when a Texas father lost custody of his son when mom wanted to trans the kid over the past few years and he lost contact with his own child and now is having to fight the court system to protect the innocence of his son? If you are outraged that someone was killed by a police officer in a situation that could have been preventable? Did you cry? Were you outraged when Lake and Riley and other victims of violence from illegal immigrants which could have been prevented were assaulted, raped or killed? Did you cry over Molly Tibbets on her college campus? Did that spur any sort of emotional reaction to you whatsoever when you are crying about so called political persecution and feeling like you have to fight the system? Did you cry when Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood for trying to have open dialogue and honoring the First Amendment to the Constitution on a college campus or for defending the gospel when you claim that you care so much about Christian values and Christianity? The sheer lack of moral consistency here is astounding to me because these people claim they care about innocent babies, that children are being killed by the government, but you will never once see them called to defund Planned Parenthood where our tax dollars are going towards the death and destruction of the mutilation and having limbs ripped limb from limb from babies bodies every single day at Planned Parenthood. These people claim to believe all women and cry over believing all women, but they do not bat an eye when women are raped every single day at the southern border. And I've had many conversations with Tom Homan about this when we see literal infant babies raped to death by the cartels and violent gang organizations at the southern border. These people claim to care about gun violence, but they don't care that illegal immigration fuels the largest smuggling operation of illegal firearms into our country than anything else in the universe. They don't care firearms that will probably go on to fuel gun violence. They claim to care about shootings, but there were 4242 shootings in Chicago last weekend. Is there a single social media post out there, any social media post out there about the 42 shootings that happened last weekend in Chicago? Again, I get is so easy to have your empathy twisted and and manipulated and corroded by those with ulterior motives trying to use you as a useful idiot and a political pawn to accomplish their political end goal of more power and more control over your life and manipulating our society. But does it not seem to bother anyone else that this seems to be a unique problem under Donald Trump during election cycles that we never see with anybody else? I tweeted this the other day and I think it's important to bring up again that there is indeed a Charlie Kirk tweet for everything. On July 1, 2018, Charlie tweeted these illegal immigrant protests are much more about hating Trump than actually helping children. God, I wish Charlie was here to help guide us through some of this this week. But he was, he's right. He was right in 2018. And he's right again because it is the same cycle of manufactured outrage over and over and over again. If you look at the actual numbers of weekly deportations, by the way, my producer Dean pulled this for you guys because I could not even begin to wrap my head around this until I looked at a chart of it. When you look at the weekly deportation flights operated by ICE under the Biden administration and now under Donald Trump, it's relatively pretty steady. There's a slight uptick under Trump now in the latter half of the year, the last six months of the year. Look at the comparison of the weekly deportation flights and then the levels of coordinated unrest, the immigration related demonstrations by week, and tell me this isn't about Donald Trump. Tell me this isn't funded by left wing billionaires trying to accomplish a political means to an end. Tell me they are not relying on the fact that you will be a useful idiot in order to spur some societal change here. See, we also seem to totally forget that the Obama administration prioritized what we would now call in the mainstream media, mass deportations, to the tune of literally awarding Tom Homan, who is our current border czar, the evil guy being sent to Minneapolis this week, a presidential medal for his actions. Let's not Forget that in 2014, 2014, 12 years ago, I did my waiting 12 years of it in Azkaban. 12 years ago, the ACLU wrote an article about how the Obama administration was deporting people without due process. They said in 2014, the Obama administration has prioritized speed over fairness in the removal system, sacrificing individualized due process in the pursuit of record removal numbers. And you didn't see these demonstrations happening in the street or people crying on the Internet with their performative outrage. In 2016, POLITICO ran the headline Obama Administration Kicks Off Family Deportation Raids. And you never saw people crying on the Internet or elected officials telling you to go put your body on the line in front of an ICE officer over family separation. Then 10 years ago, in 2016, instead, in 2015, you saw Obama literally award Tom Homan. I have a picture of this for you. The Presidential Medal of Distinguished Service for his work at ice. This picture is everywhere right now and it should be because this guy is now called evil, a Nazi, the leader of the Gestapo. Tell me this has nothing to do with Donald Trump and election cycles and making you a useful idiot. What's really obvious and scary to me though, and where I want to end our episode today is the fact that this repeat, manufactured outrage cycle is actually leading to real radicalization of people to normalize legitimate, tangible violence. The irony is the people who are crying on the Internet this week about an end to violence, about defunding and abolishing ICE so that we can restore human dignity and end violence, are spreading such dangerous misinformation and propaganda that they are actually radicalizing people into real acts of violence against the innocent. Charlie Kirk style acts of violence in taking people's lives and ruining their existences, their reputations, and causing as much physical harm as humanly possible. These two things may seem unrelated as you've seen them on the Internet, but they are exactly the same root problem that we are normalizing propaganda to radicalize people into violence. You may have seen some of these clips of healthcare workers. Alex Preddy was also a healthcare worker going viral over the past several days of people saying that as a nurse or as an anesthesiologist or as an OB gyn, I would cause pain on my patients if I knew they were an ICE officer or they were a member of the Trump administration or they happened to just remotely be maga. This is a national trend. Not isolated to Minneapolis, but all over the country where these people are being exposed in the last few days because they have been radicalized into normalizing violence as health care workers, as doctors who took the Hippocratic oath to do no harm because they believe they are a good guy. They believe they are a martyr. They believe they are furthering the cause of social justice if they cause and inflict harm upon people that they disagree with. Here's a health worker at Virginia Commonwealth University. Funny enough, the place that I was first attacked by by antifa, where I lost my antifa virginity. Ridiculously insane college campus here in the D.C. area, a couple hours from D.C. a VCU health worker says, Melinda, that she would encourage other healthcare workers to inject ICE agents with a temporary paralysis drug and spray poison on them with the intent on inflicting as much damage as possible. Listen to this. I thought of something good. I think it's something weird. Sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers grab some syringes with needles on the end, have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever, whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe. That will probably be a deterrent to these people. Scare tactic, sabotage tactic. Fill your syringes with needles on the end. Health care practitioners with succinylcholine, which is a temporary paralysis drug and inject ICE agents with it. Eric, a registered nurse in Florida says that he would refuse to give anesthesia to any Republican undergoing surgery. This is at the University of Miami Health System where I was a patient when I was pregnant with my daughter when we lived in Miami before we moved here to D.C. and he believes this is his right. This is his inerrant right and is an ethical thing to do as a nurse. He put on Facebook I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for maga. This is in Florida. It is my right. It is my ethical oath and I stand behind my education. I own all of my businesses and I can refuse anyone. Or how about a labor and delivery nurse in Boca Raton named Lexi Lawler who is going incredibly viral this week wearing her Rainbow Trump Sucks T shirt saying that as a labor and delivery nurse she wishes for Caroline Levitt, who is currently pregnant with her second child. I hope you effing rip from bow to stern, meaning a fourth degree tear in childbirth and that you never normally again you C word. Listen to this. As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Caroline Levitt a 4th degree tear. I hope that you rip from bow to stern and never normally again you a labor and delivery nurse when women are in the most vulnerable position they will ever be in in their entire lives, when you feel like literally everything is out of your control and you are entirely reliant upon the nurses that are taking care of you. Luckily we had amazing L and D nurses and OB gyns alike in my delivery experience. But what's really scary is this isn't even like a hypothetical. My friend Gillian Anderson, Die Hard MAGA apparently had this nurse. Lexi Lawler was her labor and delivery nurse and she tweeted this. I had this nurse on top of the traumatic birthing experience she gave me. After I delivered, she made a bunch of racist comments about how some people of a certain kind need to be having abortions. I actually had hired a doula for my third pregnancy to entirely avoid nurses at the hospital after that experience. Two years later, she's attacking my friend and her new pregnancy and good riddance lady. She's now been disbarred from her medical license, if I recall correctly. Or they're working on that in Florida. She's certainly been fired from her job. So this isn't even a hypothetical. This is like actually how these people, medical professionals, are treating anyone who is remotely conservative in vulnerable medical situations in the hospital. When we buy into the manufactured outrage cycle perpetrated by the mainstream media, by our elected officials, and by normie influencers. We normalize propaganda that is encouraging the manifestation of legitimate physical violence. Do not allow yourself to participate blindly in the cycle over and over and over and over again, like frankly, way too many of you guys have. The last thing I'll say is this. We'll find out more about what's really going on in Minneapolis in the next few days. There's a deep investigation going on. I don't know if the shooting of Alex Preddy was justified. I have no idea. I'm going to leave it to the investigation to tell us. I can tell you the footage made me really uncomfortable and I understand why people are so upset over this and you should be upset about the loss of life, period. Because all of us do have human dignity and, and we all were created in the image of God. But when it pertains to the larger 30,000 foot view of the manufactured outrage cycle, I want to remind you that omniscience is reserved for God alone. I've seen way too many times the immediate need, and I find it in myself. I'm actually having to hold myself back more often than not. The immediate need to jump in and post something about exactly your foregone conclusion and what is right and what is wrong. And 0.2 seconds after every single tragedy, crisis, war, et cetera, in the last few years, that is harming our psychological ability to discern reality with every passing day. We as human beings were not created intentionally by God, equipped to handle knowing everything about everyone 100% of the time. We just weren't. We were not created with the capacity to have a deep emotional investment in every single crisis, every death, every war. And when we try to have a deep emotional investment in every single thing we break, we snap psychologically and emotionally. It's not hard to understand why. It's because we are not supposed to be omnipresent everywhere all at once. Only God is. We cannot physically be everywhere all at once. But these things and the Internet are causing us to think that we are. Similarly, we aren't meant to be omniscient either. We aren't supposed to know everything all at once, all the time. Only God is. But these things again are causing us, and social media and the Internet at large are causing us, deceiving us to think that we are. That we are supposed to know that everything that's going on on the entire face of the planet, every five seconds of every single day, it's breaking us. It's snapping our humanity. Maybe our parents were right and it really is the damn phones. I don't know. But it is so, so clear to me that we as a generation have to make a dramatic change in how humanity perceives the world and in particular cases perceives a crisis if we are to survive as a society beyond the next five minutes. So as this information is being thrown spewn propagandized in front of you all the time, the answer to how we are supposed to respond as Christians and as functional adults is to take a breath before you feel the need to post. Did you feel the need to pray? I say this all the time. Prayer is often treated in our instant gratification society as the last line of defense, when in reality it should be the first line of offense. If we want to restore a common shared human dignity in society for everyone from the unborn to illegal immigrants and everything in between, it starts with our common nexus being created in the image of God. It starts with God. So are we running to God at the same speed that we are running to post? Running to Instagram, to TikTok, to X? Gut check? I sure as hell am not. I'm caught up in the manufactured outrage cycle just as often as everybody else. But we as a generation, in the midst of our spiritual revival, as the generation for the first time in modern history that's going to church more often than our grandparents, we have a chance to change the future. We don't have to keep repeating the same rinse and repeat cycle every election term of BLM and the Women's march and abortion and George Floyd and the Summer of Love protests and the vaccines and Covid and Gaza and support Hamas and now abolish ice, where six months later we look back and go, I probably shouldn't have posted that, probably shouldn't have said that. Maybe I should have waited for more stuff to come out this week. I hope that we all have the moral clarity to say my immediate emotional reaction is probably spurred on by propaganda more than it is reality. Do I feel the need to run to my knees and pray? Pray just as much as I feel the need to run to my phone and post. And when we can start answering that question, that's when we finally can restore some human dignity. In the process, we have some really exciting stuff going on for the rest of the week. To wrap up today's episode, I am headed to the Treasury Department tomorrow to join the Trump administration for the launch of their Trump accounts for babies born during these couple of years, which is Very, very exciting. And I can't wait to show you guys a little bit of the behind the scenes of what that all looks like. I'm told there is a very exciting guest lineup for all of that at the Treasury Department tomorrow. We are attending a movie premiere this week, which I'm super excited to talk more about toward the latter half of the week and so much more. But just know that I am praying for every single one of you, and I would humbly like to request that you guys continue to pray for me as we put out a show every single day. Because it's dawning on me that we often probably participate in the manufactured outrage cycle too. And my biggest responsibility in the entire world is not just to change your mind on who should be the president or what your opinion on legislation should be, or what's going on in current events and the news. The only thing that I could ever hope to accomplish with the platform that God has given me is, is to bring wisdom from the Holy Spirit to our generation and to try to bring as many people to heaven as humanly possible. I'm tired of reacting to everything all the time, and I know you guys are too. So let's stop blindly reacting and instead start building something more beautiful together.