Episode 111

Bible Verses and Bombs: Unmasking the Real Agenda of the Republican Party

Summary:

Amid escalating global tensions, this episode delves into the stark realities of nuclear warfare, contrasting historical events with modern tensions. Tulsi Gabbard shares her chilling experience in Hiroshima, highlighting the catastrophic potential of today's nuclear arsenal. The discussion then shifts to political debates, featuring exchanges between Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz on biblical justifications for political stances. Dan McClellan debunks common evangelical prophecies about the end times, offering a critical look at the ideologies driving current geopolitical discourse. Engage with this incisive critique of political, religious, and social dynamics shaping contemporary America.

Chapters:

0:00

The Danger of Nuclear War and Political Ignorance

3:30

Tucker Carlson Challenges Ted Cruz's Biblical Justification for Israel Support

5:34

Challenging Biblical Prophecies and Their Impact on Society

9:02

Divisions and Foreign Influences in the Republican Party

10:51

Religious Motivations and Political Manipulation in Modern America


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The Red Hat turnips are giggling and laughing and acting like they've actually accomplished something, thinking that this is a video game, having no concept of what an actual nuclear event would look like. In fact, they're so lazy. They haven't even heard some of the things that have come from their own party, from people within this administration about the dire risks that are faced by a nuclear war

heard, the haunting sadness [:

This is an experience that will stay with me forever. Yet this one bomb that caused so much destruction on Hiroshima was tiny compared to today's nuclear bombs. The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of just 15 kilotons of TNT, whereas today's nuclear warheads range in size from a hundred kilotons to over one megaton a single.

Nuclear weapon today could kill millions in just minutes. Just one of these nuclear bombs would vaporize everything. At its core, this is the reality of what's at stake, what we are facing now, because as we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite and war mongers are carelessly fomenting, fear and tensions between nuclear powers.

We must reject this past to nuclear war and work toward a world where. No one has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.

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We've been so desensitized that we forget the humanity of people all around the world. This is why the Republican Party constantly labels people as murderers, killers, rapists, terrorists, because it lulls you into a sense of imagining all of these people as in humans, and that makes it easier for.

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Now, as you see voices coming out to the forefront, debating what's going on within Republican circles. You have to ask yourself the question, does this signal a rift within the party?

Take a look at this from Tucker Carlson.

Ted Cruz: Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. And from my perspective, I wanna be on the blessing side of things of the go.

Tucker Carlson: Those who bless the government of Israel,

Ted Cruz: those who bless Israel, is what it says. It doesn't say the government of it says the nation of Israel.

So that's in the Bible. I, as a Christian, I believe that.

Tucker Carlson: Where is that?

Ted Cruz: I can find it to you. I don't have the scripture off the tip of my. You pull out the phone and use the word

Tucker Carlson: it's in Genesis.

t know where in the Bible it [:

I'm confused. What does that even mean,

Ted Cruz: Tucker? I'm a Christian. I want to know what you're talking about. Okay. Where does my support for Israel come from? Number one, because biblically, we are commanded to support Israel.

Tucker Carlson: But number two, hold on. No, hold on. You're a senator and now you're throwing out theology.

And I'm a Christian. I am allowed to weigh in on this. We are commanded as Christians to support the government of Israel. We are commanded to support Israel. And we're told, what does that mean? Israel? We're told those who bless Israel will be blessed. But what, hold on, define Israel. This is important. Are you kidding?

I this is a majority Christian country. Define Israel. Could do you not know what Israel is? I, that would be the country you've asked 49 questions about. So that's what Genesis ref, that's what God is talking about, the nation of Israel. Yes. And he's So is that the current borders, the current leadership?

He's talking about the political entity called Israel. He's talking about the nation of Israel. He had nations exists and he's discussing a nation. A nation was the people of Israel is the nation. They're the descendants the Abraham's referring to in Genesis. Is that the same as the country run by Benjamin Netanyahu right now?

Yes.

Cruz having a debate on the [:

And Ted Cruz is a perfect example of what a uneducated ill-informed maga. Political mouthpiece looks like he is wrong on the historical context, and he's also wrong on the biblical context. Take a listen to this from Dan McClellan.

that is labeled a prophecy, [:

Much less anything that's going to happen in the future. The data. Point unilaterally to the conclusion that the things that are labeled prophecies in the Bible are things written by people in certain times and circumstances to certain groups with certain rhetorical goals that were focused on their own time period or the near future.

These were things that people hoped or feared would happen in their own day or in the near future, or these were warnings that were being leveraged in order to try to influence. Behavior on the parts of their audiences in their own time or in the near future. The book of Ezekiel is about the sixth century, BCE.

t today, and the more people [:

The more we do harm to our ability to thrive, the more we do harm to minoritized, marginalized, oppressed, and otherwise vulnerable groups. The more we do harm to the mental and the emotional and the physical health of young people, the more we do harm to our own future. Only because I. Of our raging and belligerent dogmatism and refusal to think critically about these things.

pond to environmental and to [:

Our own refusal to think critically about our dogmas. We need to grow the hell up and do better so that we don't bring about an apocalypse. 'cause it will have nothing to do with the second coming of Jesus. It will have only to do with our own self-destruction. And I don't wanna see that happen, and I hope nobody else wants to see that happen.

Dr. Jim 2.0: what you heard from Dan McClellan is a perfect illustration of how far off base most of the evangelical crowd is when it comes to their pining. For the end times and these actions that they keep advocating for, which will lead to a nuclear catastrophe, these are people who sit in pulpits and listen to preachers who are telling them that anybody brown is evil and should not be trusted.

That is the core ethos that [:

But the reality of it is that what you are witnessing with these debates is not any sort of fundamental shift within the Republican Party or even a rift within the Republican party. What you're seeing. Two factions of the Republican Party that are wholly owned subsidiaries of two completely different foreign interests.

The Tucker Carlsons and the Marjorie Taylor Greens are wholly owned Russian assets and the Ted Cruzs and other evangelicals are in varying ways, assets of Benjamin Netanyahu. That is what we're seeing. This is not a principle debate. This is an argument about who gets to own all of the spoils of whatever conflict this regime decides to get into.

when you dig in to the [:

Let's be clear about this. The Republican party is a Messianic death cult. We might as well call them vanilla ISIS or Al-Qaeda. That is the Ted Cruz wing of the Republican Party,

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And what that means is all the true Christians, the white, Republican, rich Christians are gonna be saved by their magic sky Daddy. By Caucasian space, Jesus, and all of the other lower classes, including the Jewish people, are gonna be wiped out and damned to hell. That is the motivating drive of the Republican party, you see these motivations come through in their efforts to implement and permanently implement every single element of Project 2025.

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All the while ignoring that they were being manipulated by the billionaire class that has stolen from them. For the last half century or more. That is why we are where we are. And in their hate of anything that comes with a brown face, a black face, or anyone that isn't a white Christian male.

They found their avatar in Donald Trump who was going to bring them divine retribution. That is why we are where we are. We are here because these stupidest people were able to mobilize. Elect somebody to be the vessel for their retribution.

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