35 Burst results for "G. Gonzalez"
AP News Radio
Streaking Dodgers shut out Padres 4-0 for 3-game sweep, 5th win in a row
"The Dodgers blank the Padres for nothing to sweep their weekend series, Mookie betts got the offense started with a two run Homer in the third inning. LA is won 5 straight in bet says things are starting to gel. Just as a long season and I think we're just playing ball. You know, we have a really good team and we're just showing it. Tony Gonzalez and four relievers combined on the three hit shutout, the team's third this season, Ryan weathers took the loss, San Diego scored just four runs the entire series, and have now lost 5 straight. Mark Myers, Los Angeles
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Arthur Aidala: Alvin Bragg's Case Against Donald Trump Is B.S.
"I really believe in our system. And I know I know that it is not the perfect system. I do not know of a better system on the planet of earth regarding criminal justice, but I know there are plenty of mistakes. I've seen them. I've been involved in them. There are innocent people who get convicted. There are guilty people who are set free. I mean, but this is not how the system is supposed to be used. This is such and I'll use the initials, BS case. Yep. And a prosecutor, unlike a defense attorney, you know, I don't have discretion as a defense attorney. So a guy comes into my office and, you know, he tells me he's guilty. I don't have discretion to go in and turn him in. Like, I'm not allowed to do that. I have to zealously represent my clients if I choose him as a client. No matter what. But a prosecutor has what's called a quasi judicial function. They have like a judge part of their job. Where they are decision makers and in their discretion, they are supposed to decide which cases to bulldoze full steam ahead and other cases to not prosecute at all. And the fact that they're going after not only that you have a rookie DA Alvin brick, okay? He was just so, you know, he was never an assistant district attorney. Unlike Eric Gonzalez in a Manhattan, unlike I'm sorry, Brooklyn, unlike darcel Clark in The Bronx, you know, they were ADA. So they know how the system works from the inside. He was a federal prosecutor, which is a very prestigious thing, but it's a very different thing. Right. He was a state attorney general. And the assistant attorney general, which is a form of being a prosecutor, but a very different thing. But he is a real rookie
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jay Ashcroft Discusses the Voter Registration Database Called ERIC
"Joining us now is Secretary of State from Missouri, J ashcroft, who is helping lead a effort of Missouri, Florida and West Virginia out of Eric, which is a very important story here. Secretary of State ashcroft welcome to the program. What is ER IC or Eric? And they say it's bipartisan, but what is the truth? Please explain. Thanks for having me. Eric was supposed to be an organization run by states that would share election data and use that to clean up their voter rolls and look for people that were trying to vote in multiple states or did vote in multiple states. I joined Eric with that goal in mind and about a year ago I realized that there were some things wrong with it. They weren't requiring states to share data that would help us find people that were voting in multiple states. They were requiring us to try to get people registered to vote that had already said they didn't want to be registered to vote. Instead of just cleaning up our voter rolls, they were restricting how we could use the data that we got from them inside our state to make the best use of the people's money. And of course, many states that surround Missouri, we have 8 states that surround us 5 of them weren't a part of Eric. So it really just didn't make sense for us to stay in it. And I think what really should be talked about is why wasn't Eric willing to focus on going after vote fraud, making sure that the roles were cleaned. Why weren't they willing to make those necessary changes?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Myth of Draconianism With Pedro Gonzalez
"Welcome to the show. Tell our tell our audience about the article you wrote in the argument that you want to present. Charlie, thanks so much for having me. So the title kind of says it all. The word draconian ism comes after an Athenian statesman slash tyrant named Draco. But I'm going to defend tyranny here for a moment. Draco is infamous because he, on the one hand, prescribed death for pretty much every type of offense in ancient Athens, but on the other hand, he introduced the first written legal code to the city. And you have to put Draco in the proper historical context. At the time, the laws in Athens were oral laws, and so they were subject to a lot of abuse and exploitation by capricious aristocrats, so Draco comes in and says, high and low, you break the law, you die. Here's a written legal code, so there is no confusion. And so that actually starts the wheels reform and later you get another statesman slash quasi tyrant named solon who comes along and he pretty much appeals the vast majority of Draco's legal code, but he keeps actually a homicide statute, Draco innovated in the sense that he made a distinguished between essentially manslaughter and deliberate homicide. But the point is, is that walls stolen has become a kind of by word for political wisdom and Draco's name became the root of unduly harsh punishment. You actually needed draconian ism to get to solid. In other words, you needed the sword to get political stability in order. And so my piece concludes with that, but it starts with the story of today and crime and punishment in the United States. And in a nutshell, despite what we've been told, we actually don't punish people harshly enough and specifically the right kind of people. We're told that the United States has way too many people in prison and the vast majority of people are in prison or they're there because they jaywalked. They got caught with like a doobie or something like that. Just this kind of ridiculous sentimental narrative of just mass injustice, right? Well, that's not actually true. I
Mark Levin
Mike Gonzalez: 'Diversity' Means Anything but White People
"We had Mike Gonzalez on life liberty and Levin the other week he was explaining this It's like diversity What do they mean by diversity They don't mean diversity by diversity They mean anything goes but the white dominant culture and white privilege So they don't mean diversity And they don't mean really quality with liberty when they talk about equity And when they use the word inclusion they mean exclusion How many times have I said when you look at the names on these departments in Washington the Department of Energy the real name should be the department against energy The Department of Education is the department against education and on and on and on most of these departments do the opposite of what they of what they claim to be They exist to put their private sector alternative or parallel out of business or to hamstring it With these kind of Rube Goldberg kind of regulations and rules and taxes and so forth Well it's the same with the language that the marxists use The people's republic of this side and the other When the people have no say whatsoever the people are enslaved to the state there is no free will There is no individual liberty There are no unalienable rights The only right you have is what the government decides you can do And that's not a lot They attack free speech Freedom of association The right to practice your faith So what do they mean when they say the People's Republic of China the peoples this or the peoples then They mean the opposite of
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Pete Buttigieg Finally Visited East Palestine
"Mayor Pete finally showed up today, I know they're so surprised you. It has not gone well. We've got a video clip that you're going to want to see. A reporter. Trying to interview him as he's walking with very grim faced. It's kind of a gray cloudy day. It looks like in east Palestinian. But gray and cloudy would describe the mood he must be in, finally being shamed into going to east Palestinian. And he's there, you know he dreads being there because he got kind of shamed into going. Sarah Gonzalez and Savannah Hernandez came up and when they saw mayor Pete, he's walking along with some looks like some state troopers and there's some officials there. And they're asking him, why did it take you three weeks to show up? Well, he won't talk to them. And then Buttigieg's press secretary says that asking questions like that on camera is aggressive. They can't reporters were aggressive during the Trump era,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pedro Gonzalez Weighs in on Nikki Haley's 2024 White House Bid
"Gears for a second, Nikki Haley is now running for the presidency. I just want to kind of queue you up here and then you can riff. Let's go to, we got so many Nikki Haley cuts. Let's just pick one that we have not yet played, cut 93, of course, I think the conservative movement is exhausted with identity politics. But maybe not, play cut 92. I have devoted my life to this fight, and I'm just getting started. For a strong America. For a proud America, I am running for president of the United States of America. Pedro she's running your thoughts. Nikki Haley is the dying gasp of the neoconservative establishment to take all of its discredited and awful ideas and basically jam them into a skin suit with a mouth and vocal cords known as Nikki Haley. I mean, it's terrible. She doesn't have an original idea in her head. It's just, you know, it's like she was incubated in a Petri dish beneath Karl rove's home, I really it's difficult to actually put into words how much contempt I have for people like her. Precisely because they claim to be sort of this next generation of leaders, but they're not. They're the dead consensus in the zombified form except wearing high heels. It's really, in some ways it's actually worse. I think I actually have less hatred for like the neocons of yesteryear because they were kind of reacting to some things and they're at least a little bit more intelligent. Again, Nikki Haley really does strike me as just a kind of robot that's been programmed to conduct this kind of suicide mission to save neoconservatism from oblivion, which I think hopefully that's where it's headed for.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Aren't the Radical Progressives Fighting for Eastern Ohio?
"We've seen in Ohio situations like this typically Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren would be out front. For example, Bernie Sanders would make special trips out to north and South Dakota to try to block dapple the Dakota access pipeline. Elizabeth Warren, I remember I'm sure we could get video or images of it. She used to fly to Seattle for the wage strikes, if I remember correctly, Bernie Sanders flew down to a labor dispute. I think it was either Toyota or Amazon. Do you remember this? It was they were trying to unionize and Bernie Sanders parachuted in. The point being is Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders seem to just kind of be on constant tour going from one labor fight to anti corporate demonstration to the other. However, when eastern Ohio, the muscular class middle class Midwest, mostly white area, is legitimately attacked, or let's be even more neutral. Harmed. By either negligence or just corruption and there is an environmental component to it, which is one of the sacred gods of the modern American left, there's silence and there's almost disinterest. Why? That's a great question. And I don't have an easy answer. I mean, I think that's you hit on something. And I think that unfortunately this is just the reality is that east Palestinian is a largely white working class town. These are just not people that we, by we, I mean, the American political establishment really cares about. They're just not people that capture headlines. And it's really interesting because, you know, in recent days and in the last week or so, there's been an army of reporters that are coming through and sort of getting the story and kind of trying to make this about basically everything except for the town itself. It's really interesting.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pedro Gonzalez Shares the Latest Out of East Palestine, Ohio
"What did you learn visiting east palestin Ohio? I went to east Palestinian with a lot of questions that I hoped to get answered and I left actually with just more questions because that's the reality on the ground for people who live there. East Palestinian is a village of about 5000 people and they are essentially in the dark about what's happening literally in their own backyard. They do not trust the conflicting reports that are coming out of various environmental and health agencies, precisely because they are conflicting. It seems like there is always a statement that is contradicted within a day or so and they obviously have no faith in the railroad company Norfolk Southern and actually doing a good job overseeing its own the cleanup of its own mess. That is where pretty much all of the anger is directed right now. There's also a lot of frustration with governor Mike dewine, especially because the wine was really proactive as we know with COVID. He blocked people in their homes and he was very, very aggressive when it came to him. But on this, dewine has been noticeably kind of AWOL. Or at least his approach to handling this really severe crisis for a small town that's been economically depressed for a long time is really, really different to his approach to COVID in a bad way. I mean, and again, this is a quintessential middle American small town. I spoke to a family that has lived there, their entire lives. They met in high school actually and the only time that the husband had left this town was to serve in the military. They both work at a factory that at a ceramics factory with kilns that are over a hundred years old and they have, they live there because it's home, not because obviously it's a thriving and prosperous town, but because east Palestine is home to these people. And right now they feel abandoned and isolated.
AP News Radio
Michigan State gunman was loner who felt 'slighted in some way,' legally purchased two 9mm handguns: police
"Police say the gunman who opened fire at Michigan state university Monday, killing three students, was heavily armed and apparently holding some grudges. Police have revealed more details about 43 year old Anthony mccray, described as a loner who shot and killed himself when approached by officers, hours after the shooting. McRae did not verbalize anything to the officers. Michigan state police lieutenant Rene Gonzalez says when they searched his body they found a bus ticket to handguns to empty gun magazines and plenty more ammunition. 8 loaded magazines of 9 millimeter ammunition along with a pencil sized pouch containing 50 rounds. Campus, deputy police chief Chris rosman says the guns were legally purchased. But they were not registered. Police aren't giving a definitive motive, but say notes and mccray's pocket listed businesses, including places he had been asked to leave. Possibly a
The Charlie Kirk Show
Lindsey Graham's Hidden Agenda With Pedro Gonzalez
"Us now is Pedro Gonzalez, check out his substack contra, I'm a subscriber to it and I learn a lot. Pedro, welcome to program. I really want to talk about Lindsey Graham with you. I thought you had some of the best commentary on that. I'm a Trump supporter in 2024. And I am disturbed and bothered at Lindsey Graham's proximity to Donald Trump. Let's play cut 47 and then I want you to react to play cut 47. I am for Trump, not because of the flaws of anybody else. I'm for Donald Trump because I know what I'm going to get. We need somebody that on day one can get this country back on track that can secure our border and bring order out of chaos. Somebody the Russians and the Chinese fear. Somebody that can take the fight to the terrorist. They Abraham accords the result of Donald Trump in pressing the Arabs and Israelis. He is the best solution to the problems we face, not because of the flaws of others, but because what I know he can do. Does he believe that Pedro your reaction? I don't know, because Lindsay has built his career online to people and probably lying to himself. But I think the bottom line is exactly what you said at the outset that it's not a good sign that Lindsey Graham is in such close proximity to Trump. And the idea that Trump needs Lindsey Graham's support in order to win South Carolina that argument just seems to not make sense at all. And if that's true, that actually means that Trump has bigger problems than people, I guess, are aware of, right? If Lindsey Graham is critical to your success, that's not a good sign for your campaign. So really, there's no rational reason for the right to make excuses for Lindsey Graham's proximity to Trump. And I think that Graham is among the most pernicious in the GOP precisely for the reasons that I outlined the other night on Tucker Carlson, but I can actually go a little bit more in depth here because I have more time. But again, people look at people look at Graham and they see this kind of goofy character who's ultimately harmless, but he's not
The Charlie Kirk Show
AOC Gets Heated on the House Floor
"Got very upset. AOC is speaking on the House floor about the ingrate, Elon Omar, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, was really fired up that Elon Omar is no longer on the foreign affairs committee. AOC is celebrating black history month by pretending to be black, play cut 94. Don't tell me that this is about an condemnation of anti semitic remarks when you have a member of the Republican caucus who have talked about Jewish space lasers and an entire amount of tropes and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body. This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America. Don't tell me because I didn't get a single. Time is expired. Thank you. And she's jumping around, the extra rhetorical blackface, okay? It's called code switching is what it is to try to talk like a black person. I think it's really insulting, honestly, an incredibly racist and bigoted, and they never get called out on it ever.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Rep. Jim Jordan Shares His Top Priorities
"The top of the agenda for you here in the House judiciary committee? I mean, you're off to a fast start. What are the top priorities for both oversight, but also making sure that we hold the Biden administration accountable? Well, the first priority is the border with why we had our first hearing immediately after that hearing that you just referenced there where we organized. We held a hearing on the border situation. And I think there are three fundamental questions. How did it happen? Why does it matter? How do we fix it? How it happened, we all know that. This is intentional, what the Biden administration has done because on day one, Joe Biden said, we are going to stop building the wall. We're not going to we're going to get rid of remain in Mexico to people seeking asylum. And we're not going to deport anyone. And then you get this flux influx of people, this unbelievable number, never seen in the history of our country, record numbers, month after month after month, 5 million 2 years. So that's how it happened. Why it matters is what we really tried to get across in our hearing on Wednesday where we had a father who lost a son to fentanyl. We had a deputy sheriff, excuse me, a county sheriff who talked about in his 38 years in law enforcement. Two years ago, he said was the best, the border situation has ever been. Today, it's the worst. I mean, it literally what he said. And he said, it's the worst because all the people coming across, but the crime, the cost of communities, the cost of schools, the cost of local hospitals, the cost of the entire country. The cost to our system, and then the focus on processing these individuals, what to Biden administration is doing. And then you can't catch the fentanyl and everything else in the smuggling and all the bad things that are happening coming across in outside the ports of entry. So that was why it matters and then of course what we're going to do in the committee is fix it by passing legislation that will immigration enforcement legislation that will change the policy back to the policy, frankly, we had under president Trump. That's what we're going to do. Joe Biden may not sign those bills, but our job is to pass them and show the country what actually works. So that'll be a huge focus. And then, of course, as you mentioned, the oversight because we do believe that our government now has been turned against the people and in many ways is targeting the very people it's supposed to represent and that we have a double standard of justice in the country.
AP News Radio
On this week's AP Religion Roundup, Pope Francis makes a historic trips to Africa, and psychedelic churches are pushing the boundaries of law and religion.
"On this week's AP religion roundup. Pope Francis makes a historic trip to Africa and psychedelic churches are pushing the boundaries of law and religion. Pope Francis made a plea for peace in South Sudan as he began a mission Friday to the world's youngest country. Francis cited years of war and clashes on the eve of his arrival that killed 27. The overwhelmingly Christian South Sudan gained independence from the majority Muslim sedan in 2011, along with Civil War, flooding and other calamities have displaced more than 2 million people there. The Pope's visit to South Sudan follows his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A highlight of his Congo visit was a rally in Kinshasa, where Francis led 65,000 young people in a rousing denunciation of political corruption. Recent demand for a psychedelic tea called ayahuasca has led to the formation of hundreds of what many calls psychedelic churches across the U.S.. Growing numbers of people are flocking to churches like this one in Utah. And it's been used ceremonially. It's been used socially. It's been used as medicine. Doctor Selena sumaya is a researcher at Columbia University. She says the drug has been used in the Amazon basin for thousands of years. Federally, ayahuasca is still considered a schedule one substance, meaning that it has medicinal purpose, meaning that it is largely illegal. Church organizers argue a 2006 Supreme Court ruling protects them from prosecution. I had so much gratitude. Adherence like Lorenzo Gonzalez argue ayahuasca brings them closer to God. I can't wait for today's experience because I got all that evilness out of me and I want to see what joy I'm going to get next. It's popularity has increased in the west in part due to celebrities sharing their experiences with the substance. I'm Walter ratliff.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biden Doc Distraction With Peter Schweizer
"Research is fabulous. It's impressive. It's thoughtful and you really did a lot of work on it. Obviously. And work that other people did not do. So I'm just going to kind of allow you to riff and to walk our audience through it. What do you think is going on with this Biden document scandal saga and how, if at all, does it connect with the Biden crime syndicates for in deals? Great question, Charlie. I mean, to me, the Biden document scandal is sort of the typical bureaucratic approach by which is basically avoiding the bigger scandal and going off on this little sort of technicality. So what do I mean? We have now known for quite some time. It's not been disputed. It's clear in corporate records, financial records from China and Hong Kong elsewhere. That the Biden family got some $31 million from four Chinese businessmen beginning when Joe Biden was vice president of the United States. And those four Chinese businessmen who gave these tens of millions of dollars to the bidens all have links to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. So one of them who Hunter Biden and the laptop calls the super chairman, his name is che Feng at the same time he was pouring money into the coffers of the Biden family was business partners with the vice minister of state security with responsible for foreign espionage. I could go through the other three businessmen as well, but they have similar types of ties. Visiting massive issue in acid problem that the mainstream media has largely ignored, frankly, completely ignored. The Biden family does not dispute does not want to discuss it. And now you have the document scandal erupt and the issue is really over the handling of classified material.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Is the Media Covering Up Atlanta's Shocking Pedophile Abuse Ring?
"Go back to the Atlanta story, we'd be a cath wall from town hall on. This is extraordinary stuff and you have the courage to kind of go through all this. Why is it that the media, not just ignores this, but they're actively producing cover for this. Worse than it is. Because I think we have sacred people in our society, people that are basically beyond reproach, people whose lifestyles are not just beyond criticism, but in fact, we have to glorify them, right? It's kind of like we're all supposed to be subject to these kind of struggle sessions. If we break party line on this and in this case, it's specifically people who fall under the LGBTQ rainbow. And that story that took place in the Atlanta area suburbs and this story that took place from Philadelphia to Hawaii, there was a third accomplice in New York and we could talk more about the tactics they used because part of the reason I wrote this is to actually inform parents on what to look out for because of how these people operated online. But everyone involved in both of these stories, their gay men, which is very obviously this is like a group that you're not allowed to criticize in society today, right? And worst of all, in the town hall story, and in my story, there's adopted children involved. The Philadelphia teacher, when the FBI executed a search warrant at his home in roxborough Philadelphia, which is considered, by the way, one of the safest, most family, friendly neighborhoods in Philadelphia. It's very quaint, very, you know, it's the perfect kind of place. I think that the motto is a place with roots, you know, just like the kind of the perfect place to raise kids. Well, not really. Or at least in this case. But anyways, when the FBI showed up at his door, they found that he lives alone with a 6 month old girl. And it's not clear. Local reporters have tried to figure out whether or not it's his biological daughter, but they know that he's not married and that he lives alone with her.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pedro Gonzalez Describes the Terrifying World of Online Grooming
"I want to encourage you to support and check out Pedro Gonzalez's substack. It's called contra contra substack dot com. Pedro is special and he is unafraid and he talks about issues that are so critical right now. And you guys got to support him at contra substack dot com and he writes about things that really people are afraid of talking about. We're going to get right into that Pedro. Welcome back. Happy Friday. Charlie. Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate that intro. Of course, all right Pedro, let's get into this story you have here on your substack. Groomers online. Tell us about it. Yeah. Well, it will sound eerily reminiscent to another story that was recently published in town hall about a couple of game men who were also outspoken LGBT rights activists who sodomized their adoptive children and produced child pornography. I mean, really, really heinous stuff, right? And so I had actually covered a story that's kind of similar, but admittedly not nearly as bad. It's bad, but not that bad. Last year, while it was still developing. And so basically, the FBI uncovered a network of a network of mostly gay men who are producing and distributing child pornography online using apps like telegram and kick. There's a whole aspect of online anonymity enabling this stuff, but the most disturbing element of the story is that several of the people that are involved in this that were in communication were teachers. So it actually started with a teacher in Philadelphia. Working at a private school. So don't think that this is a public school thing. This was a prestigious private school in Philadelphia. This teacher had worked there for nearly two decades, and Dropbox notified an organization that's in charge of kind of fielding complaints related to this sort of thing, which are then forwarded to law enforcement. So Dropbox flagged a file that had been uploaded that depicted two underaged boys engaging in sexual acts.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Passes House
"The Republican House passed the born alive abortion survivors protection act, which very simply says that if a infant survives on abortion is born alive, it needs to be taken to a hospital and cared for. Now, remarkably, only one Democrat voted for this voted for the protection of born alive infants, one other Democrat recent Gonzalez of Texas voted present. But every other Democrat voted against protecting live born babies, let's remember, they were no longer in the womb. It's no longer my body, my choice. They're outside your body and they're alive. Now, what I find is interesting is that when you listen to the rhetoric of the Democrats in opposing this bill, it's not even so much that they're championing infanticide. In fact, it's the opposite. They're conceding. I don't think they know that they are, but they're conceding the pro life case. So even it shows the pro life case is so strong that even when Democrats go against it, they end up conceding it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"g. gonzalez" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"A terrific article written by the brilliant Pedro Gonzalez, the meaning of Juneteenth. I want to read one paragraph here that I found to just be phenomenal. Juneteenth in truth marks the dead of the old American nation, and the birth of a new one. Plowing, clawing out from the chest of the republic and a nightmarish vision that would make Ridley Scott squirm. The new holiday emerged from the mists of June with feeble opposition from Republicans who spent months railing by the evils of anti white critic race theory and The New York Times 1619 project only to turn around an inaugurated national holiday, an honor and validate the basic narrative underline those things with us right now as Pedro Gonzalez. So let me play devil's advocate. I totally agree with the article my open was all about this, but let me just play devil's advocate is in Juneteenth about the good news about Emancipation. Why should we fight on this? Shouldn't we just kind of turn the page and just say it's okay? Why is it important to articulate the meaning of Juneteenth you're on opinion of it? What's your thoughts here? Charlie, thanks for having me back. So Juneteenth as a regional thing as a minor regional event had meaning real meaning for a particular group of people in Texas and reference to a particular time in a particular place. But by taking Juneteenth out of its historical and regional context and nationalizing it, all it has been reduced to is just another element in this national Tapestry of shame alongside things like the 1619 Project, which serve only to remind us of how America's evil, how we must always begging for forgiveness, groveling, hitting our past and ourselves. So in other words, the original meaning, the good meaning that meant something to these people in Texas who have been quietly observing it for all this time, is now
Latino Rebels Radio
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The Eric Metaxas Show
"g. gonzalez" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Say, yes. And you know what? We got to wrap up the weekend by asking people one more time this weekend for food for the poor to donate. Here's a fun fact. We need your help. This is something that I guess I'll just put it out there. Many people can give $88. So if you can't do that, you give what you can, but I'm going to ask people, if you can give $88 to food for the poor, because of what's going on in the Ukraine right now, people have taken their eyes off the ball with regard to the starving folks in Honduras and Guatemala. Food for the poor is always there helping them. They are actually starving children are malnourished, dying of malnutrition. Again, hard for us to believe in our neck of the Woods that this is happening, but it's happening. And I want to ask you, folks, please help us in working with food for the poor. Please go today and just give $88 or whatever you can give. You can also give monthly if you prefer and some people can give a lot more than that. But we want to encourage if you can. To give $88, it feeds one kid for a year. That is how far food for the food for the poor is able to stretch our dollars. So you have to go to metaxas talk dot com that's our radio website, metaxas, talk, dot com, metaxas, talk dot com, click on the banner, and you can give however you like, but we're asking everybody to participate, it's urgent because giving is way down, they depend on food for the poor and food for the poor, depends on us, which is to say, depends on you, our radio listener. So I want to encourage you also here's a phone number if you want to go to the phone right now and I'm asking you, please do it because they need our help. 8 four four 8 6 three hope. 8 four four 8 6 three hope. We're going to a weekend. We really need your help. Yeah. One last thing..
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"g. gonzalez" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Enough. Do you have another thing that you want to bring up? Yeah, you know, people love, they write in and say, hey, love the music that you play on the show. A lot of it's a 70s music, but we also have music from your favorites, of course. Frank Sinatra, and one of the, one of the songs I heard recently, because I listened to the show every day too, to make sure there are no mistakes in it, but there's the line that comes out where he, Frank is singing, make like a mister milk toast, and you'll get shut out. Now does anybody know the name of that song? Okay. Now, there's a couple of things. First of all, that song, I mean, you're asking that question, but nobody can answer because we don't have a live audience. So I will answer that this song is blow your horn or come blow your horn, come blow your horn. It's a Sinatra film. Yeah. And he's kind of telling people to kind of, you know, blow your own horn, don't be like a mister milk toast. People don't use that term anymore. But to be a caspar milquetoast, it was kind of a funny name. I don't know if I don't even remember where it came from, but it was like in the funny papers or something or from some book there was a figure named Casper milquetoast and milquetoast is something really bland and whatever. But you had someplace else you wanted to take this. Yeah, well, you know, it was in the movie. There's a movie called come below your horn. And it's from the screenplay written by Neil Simon. Now Neil Simon was a big deal in my agent and your age, some of the kids will have quite like the odd couple, of course, was written by Neil Simon. Norman Lear wrote the screenplay for the movie, but with Frank Sinatra in the movie. I love this was Jill St. John. Now Jill St. John probably, there were most from the James Bond movie diamonds are forever. Kind of a sexy sultry while she's a redhead in that movie, but Jill St. John and Lee J. Cobb plays Sinatra's dad. And he's only a few at a time. Why don't we drag this into the next segment? We have a final segment coming up folks. Don't go away. We'll be right back. We will have line you. Crazy. You live your life in the songs you hear on The Rock and roll. Folks were back. We're doing a short version of fun facts Friday Albin. You're bringing the fun fact and some of them really are facts. Actually, all of them today are facts. So you were talking about, I mean, I'm getting confused, but I know that's not your intention. Well, you're telling me that part of the music we use on this program, the bumper music, is a song called come blow your horn or blow your horn by Frank Sinatra. That's right. Which he was in a film called play your horn. You said Neil Simon wrote the screenplay or was it Norman Lear? No, well, normally I wrote the screenplay to the Neil Simon play. You mentioned caspar milquetoast and that's correct. He was one of those cartoon characters, kind of a meek and mild cartoon character. There was an album that came out too that contained come below your horn and on that album was Chicago that toddle in town. Another big Sinatra hit besides, and that was written in 1922, but of course it was covered by Sinatra and made more famous. And this was during the early 60s since not just kind of cool capital records phase. 1963, the early 60s, like you said. Okay, and caspar milquetoast, yeah, it was a cartoon strip in the, I guess in the early 50s and again, milquetoast, it's sort of funny how language changes, but to be a milquetoast was really to be a bland kind of shy, fearful guy. In other words, a man who's not very manly, right, to be sort of a kind of not a feminine, but to be kind of fearful or something like that. And Casper milk tells us, I think they said he was, you know, his motto was walk softly and get hit with a big stick. You know, he was like, so that's where the term milquetoast comes from. And it's woven into the lyrics of the song, blow your horn by Frank Sinatra, which, gosh, I wonder who wrote that song. We don't know. And by the way, yeah, the guy lacks gravitas. You might.
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"g. gonzalez" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Eric. Folks, since today's Friday, Alvin and I thought we would do something we haven't done in a while. It's called fun facts Friday. Alvin, are you ready to do a little fun fact? Yeah, come on and have some fun just for the fun of it. Just for the fun of it. Who can forget that theme song? Yeah. Except I did. Yeah. But we need to resurrect that theme song from the grave. Yes, yes, we do it head Morocco's and it had slide whistles and everything but maracas, maracas. That would be the country. But listen, you are mister fun facts Friday and I just want to say that you mentioned to me earlier that this week is perm. I didn't know that. The Jewish holiday of purim where we talk about Esther and mordecai and Heyman and that whole story. So did you want to do a fun fact Friday based on the Jewish holiday of purim? Yeah, just a real quick one because we do have Jewish listeners out there and people who are interested and Anna and I go to the church that Jonathan Khan preaches at in Wayne New Jersey. And so he had kind of like a fun quiz. His church's Beth Israel in Wayne New Jersey. He had a fun quiz right before his sermon about poor him, which began Wednesday evening of this week. And he had a quiz and he asked everybody in the congregation. He had some kind of fun questions. And then his bonus question at the end was that he gave us four words and he said, how do these four words relate to ester who's the kind of the hero of the story? And so I thought I'd throw out the four words to you, mister metaxas and see if you had an answer to this. Okay. Okay, so here are the four words. And people you can play at home, the four words are this. Asteroid, astronaut, astronomy, and asterisk, how do they relate to ester? Okay, well, first of all, I want to say people should read the book of Esther, it's in the Bible. And I referenced it in my book as atheism dead, which if you're watching on video, it's right behind me here. But it's a beautiful, beautiful story. And it's about, you know, the hoary old idea of wanting to kill all the Jews. If they are God's chosen people wanting to kill them is really a way of saying I want to kill God, I want to hurt God. So it's important that everybody be familiar with the book of Esther. But to answer your question, how are these words astronaut asterisk asteroid and astronomy related to the book of Esther? Well, to ester herself. Okay. First of all, I would, I would think that it's that the word ester and aster is an etymological relationship or no. I think you're getting, I think that's the Greek word star is a steady, okay? So astronaut is somebody who travels to the stars, an asterisk is a little punctuation mark or a typographical thing that looks like a star and asteroid is a small star like object and astronomy is the study of the stars. So I mean, those are all related because of the Greek word, asterisk, or the Greek word for star, but I don't know how that relates to Esther. Well, Esther, her name means star. Ah ha. Will we solve that problem pretty quickly then? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's the star of forum. Isn't that great? But what I don't understand is if the story of Esther is it's in the Hebrew Bible and it's obviously, you know, some centuries before Christ. How did the ancient Hebrew people get that Greek word or was that, I mean, now I'm really confused. Yeah, well, I think, you know how they gave the Israel the Jewish people they would give them their own names. They wouldn't give the, you know, I think this was the xerxes. Yeah, xerxes was the king back then. And she had to go to xerxes and plead for the, for the Hebrew people. Well, the problem is sometimes they refer to him as Suarez, which was this, the actual name, but xerxes is the Greek version of it. Yeah, and I think that's what it is. Her name is not the Jewish version of her name. I think her name means star like in their language. I'm throwing that one out there. I want to look this up. I'm going to look this up right now. I just looked it up, Alvin. Okay. I just looked it up in that blink of time through editing. I looked it up. And it seems that the Persian word and the Greek word, I didn't get the clarity on this, but it seems that the Persian word for star is like the Greek word. So maybe the Greeks got it from the Persians, the Persians got it from the Greeks. They also wonder if it's related to ishtar. I don't think it is. And I think we need also to say that the Jewish name for Esther is not Esther, it's hadassah. So a lot of people are familiar with the woman's name hadassah. But anyway, okay, so I think we've confused people enough..
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"Well, so they pull them out on a Friday by Monday, they get a call from CPS, saying someone has filed a report alleging child abuse. By Tuesday, they're talking to a CPS agent at their house conducting the safety check. By Thursday, a second report is filed against them. And so the family suspects that someone at the school, faculty member, staff member, counselor or teacher, because the identity of the person who follows these reports in taxes is protected so they can only speculate. But what they figure is that someone alleged that they were abusing their daughter to prevent them from pulling her out of the school. Yeah, abusing her by not letting her pretend to be a boy at home. I mean, this is hard to hear, but keep going. Yeah. But fortunately, the daughter, although she was kind of alienated because, you know, there's a lot of confusion involved in this. She's still loves her parents. And so when her parents came to her and said, this is what's happening. Someone has filed two reports against us claiming that we're abusing you that we're locking you in the house that we're isolating you from your friends and we're denying you medical care and the daughter was just that the father told me that the daughter was just like shocked by it and she and she told him who she thinks it could be. And again, all this is in my article and this story has a happy ending. They did finally get the kids out of the district. Their homeschooling now and the reports were so egregious. And so disconnected from reality, based on CPS's investigation, that the parents told me, and I obviously review the documents they had available, CPS closed the case and said, we found no evidence of child abuse. And the parents said that a caseworker actually told them that these reports look like classic retaliatory reports against parents for some reason. And so this story has a happy ending, but there are a lot of other stories that might not have happy endings. And the turning point, the father told me was when he sat his daughter down and said, look, these people at the school that claimed to understand you better than we do. They're willing to separate you from your parents and your brother. They're willing to break our family up to get their way. And he said that at that point was when she was just like, okay, you know, I'm going to tell you everything and tell you who I think this could be, the last thing, because again, I think it's important that in this case, there is a silver lining. They're working through things. They're all going to family counseling and they're kind of healing, but again, this is terrifying stuff. I had to win the family's trust, even talk to me about this because they're terrified of what could happen to them. And this is in Texas. Well, again, this is horrifying stuff. This is classic cultural Marxism. I mean, we have really seen it come into our homes and into our families. This is the sort of thing that, you know, you would think that this is what goes on in the Soviet Union. This is what goes on in communist countries where kids in school are told to report on their parents. Yes. In America, that is something that never could happen. We are as far from that as could ever be imagined and suddenly now we've taken our eye off the ball and these things have come to us and we're fighting this battle now. We'll be back final segment talking to Pedro Gonzalez. You can find him at chronicles magazine dot org. Folks, this is important, get involved. When you get the blues. A leader should shine more he never gets low down, but he's got the dirtiest job in town. Bending low at the people's feet on the Wendy corner of a dirty street, but I ask him honey shine my shoes how to keep them getting the blues. He grand as he raised his little head he published you shine ragged. Folks, if you listen to his program, of course, you've heard me talk at infinitum about my pillow and my friend Mike lindell. Well, Mike is just announced that you will receive one of his books in the book is next level insane. It is called, what are the odds from crack addict to CEO? It's his story. You will receive it absolutely free with any purchase using the promo code.
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"And a great example of this is actually hang on. We're going to go to break. I'll let you finish that sentence when we come back. Don't go away. Wherever you go. Whatever you do in case you haven't been paying attention, the Biden administration has caused a financial crisis and they have no clue how to fix it. Oil prices have skyrocketed and when oil prices go up, the cost of transportation and shipping spikes leaving the prices of goods to rise. And when we're already seeing record inflation, that's the last thing we need. Our economy is in trouble and you need to take steps to protect yourself. If all your money is tied up in stocks, bonds and traditional markets, you are vulnerable. Gold is one of the best ways to protect your retirement. No matter what happens, you own your gold. It is real. It is physical. It's always been valuable since the dawn of time. Legacy precious metals is the company I trust for investing in gold. They can help you roll your retirement account into a gold backed IRA where you still own the physical gold. They can also ship gold and precious metals safely and securely to your house called legacy at 8 6 6 5 two 8 1903 or visit them online at legacy p.m. investments dot com. Folks, I'm talking to Pedro Gonzalez, he writes for chronicles magazine chronicles magazine dot org, you were just making a point Pedro I want to let you finish that. So it's good when Republicans react to the base and like I said in this case, parents, you have Republicans in some cases reacting to the demands of parents, which is good, but the problem is that when you don't get follow through, and so operation load star is a great example of this Abbott decided that he was going to build the wall in Texas on his own because his opponents like Don huffines and Allen west suggested that if elected, they would do that. And I mean, it's documented that Abbott never thought about this or talked about it until his opponent said they would do that. But the problem was that it was so like it was so political. It was so theatrical that when Abbott did it, it was totally haphazard and in some ways it backfired. Like in some ways, operation lone star actually made the problem of illegal immigration worse in Texas. And so what I'm getting at with these parent movements is that I hope that that's not the case. I hope that when Republicans react to parents that it's actually, it's actually going to yield some good. And so I actually interviewed a family in Texas that's basically for two years their daughter was living an alternative life. I actually wrote about this for chronicles magazine. It's in the new issue, it should be online today, I think. But from out from beyond our paywall, but basically for two years for a freshman software, every time the parents dropped this curl off at school, she became a boy. And the school's policy was to hide it from the parents. And the parents knew something was wrong for those two years because the girl had totally retreated from family life. She just stopped interacting with her family. And the parents couldn't figure out what was going on because she didn't want to tell them. And the family, they were trying to be understanding, but this girl had just totally climbed into her shell. And during a meeting with the school counselor, guidance counselor, the parents noticed that something was wrong that the girl had a kind of rapport with the counselor that was really intimate. They were finishing each other's sentences. And again, this is happening at the same time that she doesn't really want to talk to her parents anymore. And so after that, they sit down and they say, please, what's going on? There's something you're not telling us. And then she says, well, at school is the only place that I can be a boy. And what the family figured out was that this school in Texas and the family spoke to me on the condition of anonymity because they're terrified and I'll tell you why, but at the school in Texas, they basically encourage this girl in her gender dysphoria to become a boy. And when the family found out, they said, okay, we're homeschooling, so they did everything right. They filed the proper paperwork. They even sign up for the Texas home playing association, and they told the school, this is their last day, you know, we're getting our kids out of the district. The route of least resistance, right?.
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"Well, go ahead, pull them together. Yeah. Well, I think because I'm on the right. I, for whatever that term is still useful for some Republican, or I vote Republican anyway, the GOP is actually a perfect example of an institution that doesn't really serve the needs of its base. And in the case of Ukraine, the GOP is inching us closer and closer towards intervention. They're using euphemistic language like, well, no fly zone. Like you said, it sounds neutral. It's not. Obviously, that is not consistent with the American interest. And in the same sense with things like critical race theory and LGBT ideology, this stuff is it's on the one hand, it's proliferated everywhere, not just in blue states, like you can find it in Texas. And I think what's really interesting is the only reason that you're seeing real pushback meaningful pushback against this stuff is actually not because of great political representation, but it's because of parents. It's because of normal Americans who are going to school board meetings and getting rid of these people and challenging them and basically taking back control of their lives and their communities, which is actually separate and sometimes against the interests of the Republican Party. And so I give you an example of this if you'd like me to get into it in Texas. Please, yeah. So I reported a while ago about these books that were depicting graphic sexual behavior, I think one was called genderqueer. And these books were showing up books like genderqueer were showing up in public schools in Texas, not just in high schools, but also middle schools. And so I made a bunch of phone calls to talk to parents where these books were popping up and asking them, you know, tell me what you're going through. What has it been like pushing back on school districts? Are you getting support from Republicans? And in Texas, again, not in Austin, by the way. And the most consistent answer I got was a Republicans helping you when I asked that question was, no. Or they'll take our calls or they'll shake our hands at fundraisers. They'll go on Fox News, but then when they come home to Texas and we're dealing with a school board that's trying to silence us because of we're pushing back on what is basically child abuse. We will not hear from our representatives. They think they think that we're like dirty rubes, you know, where people that will offend their donors were these kind of out of control rebellious types that's, again, you're happy to shake the hand at the fundraiser and take their votes, but that's it. And this is, again, in Texas, it's not California, it's not, you know, because too often you hear that. Well, it's Austin. Austin's not real Texas. It's happening everywhere. Well, this is dramatic stuff. This is dramatic, dramatic stuff. But people are waking up. I mean, the idea that parents are waking up and realizing that, yes, they've been lied to. You basically entrust your kids to people. There's nothing more sacred than that. I mean, the schools are supposed to be operating in local parentis. And then you discover that, you know, not only are they not teaching your kids what you'd like them to teach your kids, but they are very actively and aggressively training your kids away from what you would want your kids to learn the ideas, it's really dramatic. The good thing is that parents are waking up to this. Yeah. Yeah, and when the Republican Party does change, like you're seeing a kind of shift in Texas because I think Greg Abbott, he's politically clever and so he'll kind of go where the wind is blowing. But if that wind is blowing, it's not because Republicans are doing something. It's because these parents are acting in certain way and some Republicans are smart enough to know if I want to stay in office. I have to actually, you know, at least throw these people throw them a bone or something. And I think Abbott is smart enough to do that, but the problem is is that if he's, if he's a cynic, which I think he is, because then what happens is that you don't actually get follow through..
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"Do not forget two things. Eric metaxas dot com. Please go there. Please sign up for the newsletter. I can't tell you why. Actually, I can tell you why in the newsletter. So sign up for the newsletter, Eric metaxas, dot com, also don't forget. We're doing a campaign with food for the poor. We need everyone to participate. If you haven't yet participated, please do so. Go to metaxas talk dot com. This is very important. We really need your help. I have the joy of speaking with Pedro Gonzalez, who comes highly recommended by our dear friend John mirac. I can think of no greater praise than the idea that you've been praised by John Muir, a Pedro, you write for chronicles, magazine, chronicles, magazine dot org. You've written a lot of articles. Let's finish up a little bit on the Ukraine thing. And then get into the issue of parents fighting against CRT and their schools. But let's continue anything else. You want to say about the Ukraine Russia dynamic? No, apart from the fact that, like I said, to your audience, to anyone who's willing to listen is put your hands over your ears when you hear the siren songs of war again. And remember what the actual price Americans and people around the world have paid for things like Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember that I think a good way to think about this or a vivid way to think about this is the I think there was the third Rambo movie concluded with a still frame of the mujahideen fighters and it said this film is dedicated to the brave fighters of mujahideen, who we had armed in training against the Soviets. Fast forward, we withdraw from Afghanistan in a really hasty haphazard way and the United States government launches a drone strike that wipes out a family of ten, I think 7, including 7 children somewhere around that. Just this tragic tragedy, right? And before the dust even settles, what does general Mark melly say about it? It was a righteous strike. Those same people are now telling you that you have to listen to them and basically go back into Iraq except like I said before, this time with nuclear weapons. And you should listen to your gut when it's telling you that there's something wrong here. Well, look, the headline, to me, correct me if I'm wrong, is that the more we see and hear, the more we know that there are people in the leadership class in the United States in the military in The Pentagon, who do not represent the best interests of the American people. We the people who are the government have allowed these people to take control of the levers of power to take control of these narratives. But I think that the more we hear, the clear it becomes that they're manipulating us. And I just want to say, I think this is hard. If you're a cynical person by nature and many people are, they're already there. But I have to say most good people would like to think that the people in the military, the people in our government generally speaking are telling us the truth are representing the founders vision of this great country. That is not the case. And so it's very hard right now when you see figures like general milley and others, you kind of, I don't know how to put it, but it's like there's a reckoning that is happening in the United States where you would have granted the CDC or people like that. Some level of authority and now you say, no, we have been lied to. It has led to horrors beyond imagining and now we need to do something about it. So the first thing, of course, is to acknowledge that these people are not representing our interests. And we have to resist, basically. Yeah, that's right. We'll put. That was a true or false question. True or false. So you give me true. I'm sorry. I thought that was a rhetorical question, because yes, they're not. No, no, no. I'm just teasing you, but honestly, I just want to say that it's hard for a lot of us to think that we've been lied to through the decades. That they're still good people out there, but that the good people have to wake up, we have to wake up, and we have to push back against figures like this, who exist in both parties, and we have to look, John Z mirac, I remember one of the rare voices way back in 2002, giving me his perspective on the Iraq War. He was the only person I was hearing this from. And at the time, it didn't make sense to me. Unfortunately, now I understand where he was coming from. Yeah. You know, I think I just revealed my cynicism, by the way, of the U.S. government. But I think it's you're right. It's difficult because we've been for so long like to believe that you have to basically you have to agree with everything and institution like The Pentagon says, otherwise you're not a good American. But it's important to actually separate the American polity the American interest from these institutions that no longer actually serve the American interest, although we would like to imagine that they do. And in the past, they in fact did, but no longer, I think that that is a difficult task, but that's the duty of every American to take that risk to speak out against figures of authority like Mark milley or Fauci. I mean, setting aside the war stuff, we just lived through the horrors of what happens when we all go along with things like these lockdowns and what else so all of this is related, including the stuff that we're going to get into with CRT and transgenderism, all these things are related..
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"g. gonzalez" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Is. I am still myself puzzled about why the media and others are portraying Ukraine as this bastion of democracy that is worth sending Americans to die for. It's just, it doesn't add up, I guess. At least, at least it doesn't add up. There's been a lot of talk about how the right or conservatives project fantasies onto Russia about what Russia is a kind of and I think the most common one you hear is that people on the right think that Russia is a bastion of Christianity in the last the last part of civilized Europe truly civilized Europe, right? Now, I don't believe that there are some people that do, but you hear this a lot. This is a drum beat that has been pounded continuously since its whole conflict started. And it's used to somehow make the anti interventionists look delusional or pro Putin or something like that. But I think the opposite is actually or I should say the inverse is actually truer that, like you said, there are people that will call them liberal interventionists who project all sorts of fantasies onto Ukraine that it's a bastion of democracy that this is a battle over nationalism that zelensky is some kind of Paragon of freedom and liberty and, you know, he's an anti corruption crusader. What is true is that there are Ukrainians who are deeply sympathize with who are fighting for their homeland. But that is separate from the actual Ukrainian government itself, which is deeply corrupt. It's as corrupt as all of the previous Ukrainian governments that were supposedly more corrupt. It's the same. It hasn't really changed at all. And to say that this, to frame it as a battle, as is this conflict between good and evil, it is, it actually totally misses what's at stake here and say that the Russian army miraculously collapses tomorrow. We've only actually dealt with the symptoms. We haven't actually addressed what got us to this point. The western liberal interventionist elites that made this collision course inevitable well, that is the question and that's something that I've been talking about. We know that if Trump were president, this wouldn't be happening, that he projected a kind of strength that kept figures like Putin and the Chinese communists in check to some extent under Biden, the opposite is true. We'll be right back talking to Pedro Gonzalez. You can find him at chronicles magazine dot org. Sometimes you can't do that. Hey folks, I've got to tell you a secret about relief factor that the father son owners Pete and Seth talbott have never made a big deal about, but I think it is a big deal. I really do. They sell the three week quick start pack for just 1995 to anyone struggling from pain like neck shoulder back hip or knee pain, 1995, about a dollar a day. But what they haven't broadcasted much is that every time they sell a three week quick start, they lose money. In fact, they don't even break even until about four to 5 months after if you keep ordering it. Friends, that's huge. People don't keep ordering relief factor month after month. If it doesn't work. So yes, Pete and Seth are literally on a mission to help as many people as possible deal with their pain. They really do put their money where their mouths are. So if you're in pain from exercise or even just getting older or to the three week quick start for 1995, let's see if we can get you at a pain too. Go to relief factor dot com. Relief factor dot com or call 805 108 three 8 four 805 108 three 8 four relief factor dot com. I use it. It works. Hey folks, if you could make money off of abortion or pornography, would you do it? I hope the answer is no. But I want to tell you, Robert Netflix, the founder of inspire insight dot com, he was the president of his local pro life pregnancy center. When he discovered that he owned investments in three companies manufacturing abortion drugs, well, God helped him to see that he was making money from abortion pornography LGBT activism and the list goes on. And that's why he created inspire insight dot com, inspire insight dot com, gives you instant access to biblical values data on over 23,000 stocks mutual funds and ETFs. So you can invest to the glory of God. You need to go to inspire insight dot com today and screen your four-o-one-ks, IRAs and other investment accounts. I did and I was shocked. Now I'm able to clean out the junk and invest in companies actually doing good things. Go to inspire insight, dot com today and register for free. That's inspire insight dot com, go there. Volkswagen back is here for taxis show. Do.
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"g. gonzalez" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"By the way, what's the website for chronicles in case people want to check that out right now? Chronicles magazine dot org. Chronicles magazine dot org. Why don't we start with the Ukrainian Russian situation? There's been so much confusion on that, so much propaganda, so let's start there. What do you have to say on that issue? That's a very wide open question. What I have to say is that we need to remember the American interest and we need to remember the mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan and all of the tragedy those things entailed for everyone involved Americans, Afghans and Iraqis and everyone else because it seems like we are not remembering those things by we I mean our leaders and they are doing everything they can to morally black male and emotionally manipulate us into another war this time a war between countries that have nuclear weapons. It is, it is not less than arresting to think about why we go to war, what happens when we go to war. It's one thing to go to a war with Iraq. But yeah, when you're going to war with Russia, which has nuclear weapons, the situation has changed, it's the same with China. It's been a long time. I think since we in the United States have grappled with the question of nuclear war. I mean, it's the kind of thing that we talked about a lot in the 1950s. A little bit into the 60s, we remember the famous Barry Goldwater or the ad against Barry Goldwater saying that, you know, he's a bellicose individual. If you don't elect Lyndon Johnson, we're going to have a mushroom cloud. It'll be the end of the world. Stanley Kubrick makes doctor strangelove. There was something in that time, maybe because nuclear weapons were fairly new, but we seem to have forgotten about the specter of nuclear war and suddenly what you're saying and what others are saying is that it's actually real. It's actually on the table. It ought to give us pause. Yeah. That's right. But it's not getting his pods. Instead, we're using the language of people that live in bubbles, war games, chances, percentage. That's how we're discussing nuclear war. You have experts. Many of these people have never fired a shot in anger. I've never been to war, and my very simple philosophy is that I don't support wars that I wouldn't fight in. And you have these people who wouldn't fight in any war, and they're saying that, well, you know, we have to make the gamble that doing these things like establishing flies on, which I think this is a really insanely irresponsible thing that the media is doing and that pollsters are doing. They're calling Americans, they're asking Americans, do you support enough lazo? And Americans who don't know anything about what that entails, they'll say yes, what it entails is shooting down Russian aircraft. I mean, this is what John has said this and it's almost funny because we're living in a world where people use these anodyne happy sounding terms like no fly zone. Isn't that great? No flies on. It sounds neutral. There's nothing neutral about it. If somebody, if a Russian plane enters the no fly zone, we are obliged to blast them out of the sky and potentially launch a nuclear war. So it's kind of amazing that the same media that was calling Trump bellicose that called that have called any other Republican president bellicose, saber rattling cowboy, maniac. Suddenly, grandpa in The White House is more bellicose than any of them. Yeah, and so you have these people that write for the Atlantic or that are part of the Atlantic council. And that's the language they're doing. Using is that we have to take the risk of nuclear war in order to save democracy in Ukraine. And so they're willing to gamble with millions of lives. And some people have pushed back on me when I say that, you know, it's actually billions of lives. I don't even want to imagine that. But I mean, that's ultimately what these people are doing. They're telling you that we're willing to risk. Although they've been wrong about so many other things, just a long decades long record of being wrong about important things that have catastrophic consequences are now telling you, trust us. We're going to make this is this gamble is worth it. And anyone who doesn't do anyone who disagrees with us on this is on patriotic is a Kremlin stooge or just is afraid. You're a coward for not wanting to gamble with all of these innocent lives. Well, it's interesting. I think Americans have learned the harsh lessons, you know, whether it's Vietnam or the Iraq War or Afghanistan. I think people are much more realistic about maybe more jaundiced about the idea of sending our kids to die and so yeah, when you hear people speaking about this cavalierly, you really wonder why that is..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"g. gonzalez" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"With us is Pedro Gonzalez from chronicles magazine very smart. Smart guy we spent a whole week together at the clermont institute. That was a fun week Pedro. It's been a long time. We wanted to do this. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. Thanks for having me on, Charlie. So Pedro, you've been speaking out lately about a lot of different things. I want to start with kind of the war on American men and the importance of talking about masculinity and how that ties into several different kind of unfolding crises in front of us. Why does America need strong men? And more importantly, why should the conservative movement talk about it? We need strong men because we'll look around you. Look, I think I can summarize my view of on the one hand the necessity of strong men and on the other hand, the absolute importance of it. Forget necessity. I don't think that word actually sums it up. When you have things like educators pushing critical race theory and radical gender ideology on kids when you have educators pushing things like transgenderism on our kids. And experimental vaccines on our kids behind our backs. I don't want civility. I don't want endless blathering about the free market of ideas. I want methodological barbarism because for me, being a man means defending the family, not talking about the importance of the family endlessly, but actually doing something about it. And I think that the conservative intellectual movement has really failed to go beyond that stage, simply talking about masculinity and trying to denude it and make it something that is civil and harmless. We need the kind of Middle America that shows up in school board meetings and gets thrown out because they call out the superintendent or the people in the school board for the right reason and they don't like to
Here's The Thing
"g. gonzalez" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"Hello w. i. s. p. dot com mattress warehouse. Knows that buying a mattress can be tough with so many choices. Where do you start introducing bed match a patented diagnostic system. That determines your pressure points and recommends the mattresses that are best for your individual sleep needs and it's found only at mattress warehouse. Come try that match at a mattress warehouse near you. Visit sleep happens dot com for locations and get free next day delivery on select purchases warehouse. Pepe dot com. I'm alec baldwin and this is here's the thing california assembly woman lorena gonzalez speaks her mind in a tweet from may twenty twenty. She had some choice words for elon. Musk after she found out he was moving. His tesla plant from california to texas. Look i my mouth gets me in trouble. I if i said otherwise i say exactly what i think of what i mean. But you have to look in context elon. Musk has made a crapload of money. Off of california taxpayers. And if people don't understand why it's because everything he makes is subsidized by taxpayers. So the tesla's that flew off the market. Those all had taxpayer rebates on one hundred thousand dollar cars. People who didn't need the rebates. Were giving them because we want to encourage electric vehicles. His solar panels and solar storage had been highly subsidized by the state california. So taxpayers have helped make him a billionaire in california. We have really supported elon. Musk and coming from the labor movement. He hasn't really been too good on worker issues so he's been slapped down by the he's he's anti-worker he's had really some big safety problems in his facility. So i've always been a little irked like here. We are giving you taxpayer dollars. And you can't even abide by the law when it comes to union organizing that upsets me well during the pandemic he decided forget it. I don't like these orders. I'm to open up my factory. In fremont it doesn't matter what the county public health officers saying. And you're talking about an area where we had tons of latinos dying from cova. We have the spread. It was at roaring at the time so he brings back his workers and he says if anyone stop some he's gonna take his jobs texas. I mean at some point. Look every elected official in california should be saying. I won't say it here but go go away on this voyage llamas or is a point where whereas elected officials in. This kills me. It doesn't matter who it is. Who is getting things from us right. Leadership is also being able to make those tough decisions and say hey alright we like your product. We like what you're doing for the environment but by the way we've got rules and we're gonna it doesn't matter who you are you're gonna stick by the rules to it. Irks me that so many of our roles in in california in this nation we apply them disproportionately communities like mine and not to billionaires like elon. Musk and i think we have to be stronger about that. He has a lot of fans on twitter. And i got a lot of comes with the territory it does. I'm assuming that california similar to new york where the covert has driven some measurable amount of businesses out of the state correct. It's a high tech state. New york is really struck. I've got friends of mine. Who i mean people that i never dreamed. I mean in the ebb and flow of the fiscal health of new york. Now when the city most needs the money they're gonna have the lowest income tax revenue. They're raising taxes on everybody. It's really really painful. But a very very measurable and healthy number of people from my optics. I never dreamed they would leave new york as their home they might keep a little pieta tare there but who new york was their home new york city where their home and they were willing maybe not happy but willing to pay the taxes because new york was they're gone. They sold their homes. You moved to florida moved through. They moved than they figured. While i'm going to move. I'm going to go all the way i'm gonna move to a no tax state so many people who you take they'd rather die than live in florida. They're going to florida the same problem in california believing well. I think that's a story line. I think if you look at the numbers that doesn't quite add up. And i don't know exactly what's happening in new york but i will say california had its best budget year ever because we have created more billionaires during this pandemic than ever before and so unfortunately what we're facing in california. There's a lot of talk about the exodus. But it's not quite as real as people like to say when you look at the actual numbers and in fact our income tax revenues are out of control there so healthy because of the very rich that we have good for you but income inequality has become a real threat so as we continue to build billionaires in california in silicon valley continues to create new billionaires. We've got to figure out how we take care of people who just work for a living right. The people who service the tourism industry the people who serve people fast food the the folks who really are struggling to get by like always say the people who inspired me. The reason i am in politics is because you have folks who are on their feet working forty sixty hours a week. Multiple jobs specially immigrant communities like mine in the facts that they cannot afford housing or to put a little money away for retirement or send. Their kid to college is is something we've got to address. So yeah i got. It moved to a no tax state. Go ahead and get what you pay for. Look i don't wanna be in florida. Where building codes are in in in their approach to climate is so bad that that we have a mascot catastrophe happening. I'll pay my property taxes. I just i wanna make sure that we have an equitable society for everybody. Not just those at the top. I wanna live in the state that has good building codes. God it's just devastating. Just a brief question. Why secretary of state have you announced. You don't want to say that. On the air i did announce within. We had a little bit. I actually. it's on hold. Because i announced a few years ago early there have. There's never been a latina in statewide office. And so it is only demographic in california that has never achieved a statewide office so we announced we raise money and then our secretary state. Alex padilla was appointed by the governor to be a us. Senator and the governor appointed dr shirley weber an african american icon to the position of secretary state. So mike clans are little on hold until she finishes up now. It won't be an open seat in twenty twenty two. I had hoped. But the reason i am interested in secretary of state and i've done a lot of work on voting. In fact i authored the bill to to have automatic registration and we are now at eight percent registered voters. I think the more people who vote the more we open up democracy and and in california in the world you have elected officials who reflect real people. You have people who remember what it's like to have a mom who worked sixty hours a week. You elect people who remember what it's like to talk to the workers at the bus stop on the way to school. you know. remember what it's like to have a who immigrated here in whose papers don't quite match things the way they should so when you have a broader electorate you having more diverse elected officials. And then you have better policy. So that's that's why. I want to be secretary state eventually and continue to push the idea of having as many people participate in elections as possible. Thank you for the update. You're going to go.
Malicious Life
"g. gonzalez" Discussed on Malicious Life
"On march twenty fifth. Two thousand ten albert gonzalez stood for his sentencing from the new york times quote gonzalez. Who pleaded guilty to all. Charges set almost motionless as far as i saw. He didn't once look back at the gallery in the federal courtroom in boston where his mother said stoically while his father whipped into a handkerchief as gonzalez sister counseled him nor did he glance at his old colleagues from the secret service who also set in the gallery. Gonzalez just leaned forward and peered straight ahead at the judge is though the set of his head was unmistakable staring intensely at a computer he spoke just once a few sentences at the end. I blame nobody but myself. He said i'm guilty of not only exploiting computer networks but exploiting personal relationships particularly one that i had with certain government agency. Who believed in me. This agency not only believed in me but gave me second start in life and i completely threw that away so eventually albert was tried and convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Twenty us with good behavior. He's expected to get out. Twenty twenty-five christopher scott was sentenced to seven years in prison. Stephen watt who wasn't directly involved in the crimes also got two years in prison. Petric pulled his feminine from poverty by cashing out. credit cards. Got five years and then there was the final member of the crew jonathan jinx. The only one who'd seem that inside of a prison cell before he knew that with everyone else in custody it was only a matter of time before somebody ratted him out and the feds would come again.
Malicious Life
"g. gonzalez" Discussed on Malicious Life
"Few agents were sitting in an office looking at a computer screen and other agent was called in. She headed into the office and the shoulder. That email address they'd pull up for twenty sixteen seven nine nine nine six from the new york times quote and they looked at me. They've got pin agents looking at me three minutes past by i was sitting there like a dull person and then i was like oh my god it turned out it was connected to the email address. Dunton soup nazi at if net. Are you.
Malicious Life
"g. gonzalez" Discussed on Malicious Life
"Sabah. Reasons militias life. i'm rambling. This is the third and final part of our mini series on albert gonzalez. The hacker who while working as an informant and double agent for the secret service was hacking into the networks of some of the largest tweet till chains in the us literally hundreds of millions of credit and debit cards. What would it take for you to do. Really bad things to steal from others. Cheat on your spouse lie and deceive people who trust you in two thousand ten a reporter for the new york. Times visited the wyatt. Detention center in central falls rhode island. He sat down across from him was twenty eight year old a bit pale bloodshot eyes behind wire frame glasses. His baggy khaki jumpsuit hid. Just how thin. He'd gotten since his days as secret service informant. The reporter started his recorder and albert gonzalez began to reflect on. Why time and again. He chose to do such bad things the things that lended him where he was today quote. I've been asking myself. Why did i do it. I i did it for monetary reasons. The services salary wasn't enough. And i needed the money but then i'd already creative the snowball and head to keep doing it. I wanted to quit but couldn't in the opening episode in this series. We wondered what could have moderated albert to make such bad decisions saying for jonathan james. It must have been pathological some kind of obsession quote. I remember so many times having arguments with my mother when she tried to take he computer power cord.
Malicious Life
"g. gonzalez" Discussed on Malicious Life
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