Mike Johnson Slammed with More Bad News at RNC, Trump Slams Erika Kirk?

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Upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for a 12-month plan required. $15 per month equivalent to taxes and fees extra. New customer offer for initial plan term only. Greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See chart. It's been one year since Charlie Kirk's assassination and not one Republican has spoken about something that could have prevented his death, and that is gun reform, gun control. Of course, none of them want to talk about that, but they want to propagandize and weaponize his shooting. And nobody that cares about him seems to want to talk about the problem, that this little MAGA kid from Utah, the alleged shooter, had access to guns. And in America, you can just take that onto a campus and shoot somebody. It's absolutely horrific, completely preventable death. And as I say that, I also say at the same time that Charlie Kirk espoused racism, homophobia, was really on the worst side of the political spectrum. It was not about inclusivity. He was all about exclusivity and further marginalizing the marginalized. But, of course, his. grieving widow, Erica, is at the Republican convention. Let's play the clip. Thank you very much, and thank you, Erica. And I think Erica's going to be here tomorrow, too. She's put up with something. Boy, oh, boy, what she's had to go through. And the most beautiful family. It's just terrible. But tough life, tough life. Can't let it happen. It just drips with empathy and sincerity, doesn't it? It's just like, it reminds me of when J.D. Vance sat down with Usha for the podcast. Hey, how you doing? I know, it's just, they try to do these real human things, and they're incapable of it. Trump is very incapable of that. And I just think it is such an indictment on the Republican, quote, pro-life party that nobody speaks about gun violence. And that is at the core of what killed Charlie Kirk. And he died talking about it. It's just. It's stunning to me. I will remind you, though, that that group of people, they all oppose homosexuality and Grindr is having an outage right now. So the fact that they live in this world of hypocrisy and refuse to acknowledge truth doesn't surprise me anymore at all. All right. And Trump's convention had a J.D. Vance, Erica Kirk-level turnout. Pop this up. For those of you listening and not watching, this is a video. This is a video from a journalist that was there. There are a lot of empty seats, a lot. And as satisfying as it is for us to see the empty seats, I want to remind you all of this. In the 2024 election, Trump's rallies, a lot of them had a lot of empty seats, and Kamala's were full. So this means absolutely nothing. We cannot look at the polls and go, oh, this poll has us. Oh, this poll has us. This betting market has us up. These pundits have us up. You know, Cook Political has moved this to here. And nobody showed up to the Republican National Convention. We've got this. We cannot think that way because they are going to lie, cheat, steal. From our other episode today, they're offering $5,000 to Americans if Republicans win. They're bribing. So don't look too much in to crowd sizes. Of course, it hurts Trump. But he lives around people. He lives around people. And so he's not going to lie. good candidates too that resonate unfortunately for us we put up polarizing candidates sometimes let's not do that this time people go vote vote democratic okay and then we have the uh the weakest man that has the most power that i've ever seen in my life and i'm talking about of course little moses mike on theme tonight grinder johnson um this guy's speaker of the house um this guy is um i believe in a state of religious psychosis to cover up for deep deep skeletons that's just my opinion and he goes on tv last night this big christian man who talks about his faith non-stop monitors his son's porn use marries his own daughter at a purity ball to take her virginity to keep safe until he then gives it to her husband for him to take because this guy is that nutty he goes on tv last night to lie about out the crowd size play the clip looks like a pretty good turnout for this event tonight the president's set to speak in just a little bit is that arena pretty much full yeah it's it's full i'm looking around i think every seat all the way to the rafters is full and there's a lot of people trying to get inside so this is the place to be um first ever as you noted first ever midterm convention for the republicans i think we're going to put on a good show here yeah you know what i love about this so there's the guy that actually supposed to be one of the guardrails here's a guy that if you look back to the nixon scandal um watergate the republicans are the ones that held the line they are the ones that said you're bringing our party down you're bringing our country down resign or we're going to impeach your ass little grinder there he is just like what are my orders what can i do for you today sir because he is a submissive obsequious ass kisser to his core that um this is a symptom when we have authoritarian religions authoritarian parents and then authoritarian governments and all of those three things are very connected a lot of people say how can americans support this how can americans support this a lot of these evangelical people were raised with very authoritarian parents iron ruled with an iron fist my way or the highway you will never disrespect me you cannot disagree with me if you disagree with me that's disrespect so that that sets the psychological soil for these people to fall prey to authoritarian leaders because it's comfortable for them it's comfortable um uh being submissive to insanity it's it's it's it's something that's familiar to them and this is how crazy these people are i'm going to play you all this next clip and i have been whistleblowing on this forever america has a crazy christian problem it has an absolute crazy christian problem look at charlie kirk's funeral that was some batshit crazy stuff and listen to tim scott here we know who god is we're talking about jesus i said the king of kings and the lord of lords the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end that's our god that is just so crazy and what's what troubles me so much about this is as a secular person that had to grow up around all these bible thumpers in oklahoma this was fringe to bible belt states this is a republican convention on the global stage and he's sitting there doing that mega church pastor snake oil salesman grift and it hits hard because nobody calls this out these religious crooks that run and operate all of these mega churches have incubated this hatred and this grift and they have primed the public not only for an authoritarian leader but also an authoritarian grifter because all of these mega church pastors and these mega churches are for grifting they don't pay taxes there's no accountability these mega church pastors make billions billions of dollars and the congregation goes and shows up because they have been emotionally blackmailed and spiritually spiritually blackmailed and primed by the pastors to say if you give us money then wealth will trickle down this is why it dovetails so perfectly with republican thinking and the democrats have to get serious about calling out this crazy christian problem because the biggest determinant to find out if somebody votes is church attendance and the republicans know this they own it they injected themselves into this movement and now you have people within this movement that say empathy is toxic yeah and so and i'm sorry to go off on this but this is something that is just so alarming to see it become mainstream because i have seen these crazy christians my whole my whole childhood my whole adult life and now they are governing us and this is a cult this is a crazy christian cult i would just add having grown up in evangelical christian circles into adulthood they for example my family there were people that sat there and watched that and were like praise jesus like this is the best thing we've ever seen so they are willing to excuse the infidelity the uh abuse of people they they kind of like it they are willing to go along with all this because on top of everything which that you said which is 100 true and you've always said since i've known you 25 years the cruelty and the racism is the point that's that you've always said that but in addition to that the way i grew up was not only you have to be a republican but if you're a democrat you're evil god will not have favor for you and it's just it's such a mind in these bible belt states because the evangelical christian movement is the majority of the population i shouldn't say majority is a large percentage of the population and it's certainly a majority of the voting shit well and let's be fair here too there's not a lot of critical thinking that's going on at this convention is that fair to say and i want to borrow this phrase that i used in the last episode but there's this scene in true detective where matthew mcconaughey looks over at woody harrell and they're in some church harrelson sorry and they're at some church getting ready to interview a witness on a crime that's occurred and they're doing a lot of religious they're doing all the talking snake talking you know all the stuff and and matthew mcconaughey looks over at him and says i think it's fair to say no one in here is going to be splitting adam anytime soon and then so i barred that phrase earlier uh but it's in my point in that is that these leaders use religion to exploit people who are uneducated they're ignorant and that's the point and i don't mean ignorant or uneducated in a derogatory way but these people are uneducated they're uneducated they're uneducated people are not critical thinkers and so they use religion knowing that they're going to exploit these people for money or for their vote or for their belief in something and that to me is the travesty and so how do we connect with those people and let them know that how do we connect with i think the democratic party has got to start messaging if these if these things work then why are the bible belt states the bottom ten states yeah why are the states that are majority evangelical angie which oklahoma is majority evangelical and i don't know the stats on louisiana mississippi alabama if we go down why are they all bottom ten states because all of this is a lie and they are using something that people in rural oklahoma have nothing other than their church as a means of socializing and a means of connection and they're using something that people in rural oklahoma have nothing other than their church as a means of socializing and a means of connection and it's a really diabolical manipulative thing that the republican party has done has injected themselves into these spaces and pumps it's just absolutely i've known this but hearing you say that you know being a democrat is is demonic and bad and evil on all of these things that they are not scared the republicans are not scared of lying to religious people to curry their vote and democrats cannot be scared of criticizing the grift the racket the lies the uh christian signaling the abject hypocrisy within this movement democrats need to call it out it pisses me off that every day something a day goes by and i don't hear a democrat talking about repeating over and over and over again mike johnson the speaker of the house is the biggest religious hypocrite on the planet he's talking about jesus and he's talking about god but meanwhile he he defends pedophiles he wants to make sick people sicker and go and they need to repeat it over and over and over and over and over again and um so we'll just do that here Until the Democrats start doing that. And then, of course, there's a moment of prayer held for Trump at the convention. Too late. And I'm really sorry that we have to play this, but here it is. We pray for our president, Donald J. Trump, with thanksgiving in our hearts. Give him strength and wisdom and protection to continue leading our great nation. I've heard enough. I want to know. I want that guy. I want that guy's Google search. History. His Pornhub history. I want to know when the, I want the, I want all of it. Because you know that guy that's standing there praying for Donald Trump. And I don't know his name, but I can tell you that that guy has a laundry list of skeletons. Yeah. That would make Matt Schlapp blush. That's what I think, Pumps. You know, I see clips like this. And we see a lot of this stuff back home, too. And I think to myself, it astonishes me that I live close to with a lot of these people that think like this. And I'm just so different than that. Like, I just, it's hard for me to understand it. But here's one thing I do know growing up in a small rural town is that people that are religious, that live according to, in their mind, according to the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ, they will die on that hill. They will ignore any set of facts. They will ignore truth if it means having to, if it means having to dishonor your religion in any way. Like, their belief system and their religion is supreme to anything else in their life. And if you attack that, they will look the other way. They will not, they will not abandon that belief system. It's true. They won't because they have been taught that abandoning it or questioning it is sin. And I think, Pumps, you can speak to this in the final thoughts. But what do we have going on there? Is that your dog? Tilly, she's mad at you. She wants to come in here. Sorry. I thought you might be ripping one there, Pumps. Is that a demon? Was that a demon? It sounded like a demon coming to get you for all. It's coming now. Okay. But I do think that my friends that I knew, and you used to be one of these people, when I would question, you know, when you would tell me that you thought that people used to live to be 900 years old, and I would question that. You immediately dismissed it and even, like, kind of shamed me for questioning it. And you learned that, like, oh, I can't, you can't question that. That's just the way it is. The Bible says it. That's absolute. That even questioning the faith, that's a whole part. That's a whole part of the manipulation of it. And it goes to the point that indoctrination, not only with the crazy shit, like the beliefs and all that, but if you don't have faith, you have to have faith and questioning what's being done and questioning the facts in the Bible and questioning your preacher, that means you're not having faith. And that's a sin. So God will judge you. Your faith is not strong enough. So it's a twofold master fuckover. If you don't, if you question, then you don't have faith. Imagine. And if you don't have faith, you're going to hell. Imagine if you had a friend or a boyfriend, like what you just pictured, the relationship with God. If you question him and you don't have faith in him, then he's going to punish you eternally. Imagine if it was a boyfriend, a husband, or a friend, and you went to a therapist and you said, so I have this boyfriend. And I keep asking him questions like, you know, why do you have Grindr on your phone? And he said, you cannot question me. You have to have faith in me. If you don't have faith in me, I'm going to put you in a fire pit. The therapist would say, you need to call 911. You are in an unsafe, dangerous space. It's just, it's crazy that, that for me as a person who was never indoctrinated, that more people have not caught on to what, what a toxic situation that is. That's just my opinion. Like in no other planet, could you be in some relationship where somebody is threatening you with eternal damnation all the time and micromanaging every single thought you have? I mean, it's just, God, it's so abusive. It's just wild. Thank God you got out of that, Poms. I mean, that's just a fucking miserable, miserable way to live. A lot of this stuff that was indoctrinated in, in kids, like when you're young. For Birch, I think it's child abuse. Well, it is, but I mean, I think Poms would say. I would say that was part of her story too. I don't want to speak for you, Poms. Oh, 100%. Absolutely correct. You see, you see, and I grew up in a small town. And when you grow up like that, you're looking for goodness. Like there's not a lot of activities to occupy your time in rural Oklahoma. And so you're looking for goodness and you get stuck up in this thing that the church represents goodness. And, and, and so it's a long, complicated story. All right. That's all we have. 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