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Rick Green: Good to be back in studio. I hadn't been in studio for weeks

Welcome to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. Good to be back in studio, man. I had been in studio for weeks, been doing the show on the road or are just missing completely. And, man, it's just good to be back. So thanks for sticking with me on that phone number today. 888-589-8840. Gonna try to catch up on some of the things. I was able to bring you some, some great interviews over the last week or two. I get the privilege of talking to a lot of the folks that are on the. On the front lines of the culture war and winning and winning in so many areas. But then also in some of the tough areas, some of the folks that have been warning about some of the things that were coming. So, you know, try to keep you informed on all that and we'll try to stay up to date on, on those things.

It's election day in Texas, and most of our audience is not in Texas

Let me just run down a quick list for today. First of all, it's election day in Texas, and I realize, you know, most of our audience is not in Texas. I like to say there are only two kinds of people, Texans and those that want to be Texans. So for all of you that want to be. I'm kidding. All right. Texas doesn't have it all. We just have most of it.

The Senate was designed to represent the states before the 17th amendment

anyway, so we've got an important election, though, that is going to impact you no matter where you are in the United States. Because the Senate, the U.S. senate is such a strange beast. It is really, you know, such a better beast. Before the 17th amendment, the U.S. senate was designed literally to represent the states. And that doesn't mean represent the population of the states. That means Represent the states. Represent the institutions of the states. Now the Senate only cares about the institution of the Senate. Prior to the 17th amendment, your US senators were chosen by the state legislatures. So. So wherever you are, if you're in Massachusetts or you're listening today from, from the crazy state of Washington, which I just got back from, and the gender insanity in Seattle, the bathrooms in the airport. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I even posted a sign. Posted a picture. I took a picture of the sign where they're making men and women go into the same bathroom. The most awkward experience of my life. All these women just feeling so violated and making me feel like I'm doing the violating. and so I turned around and left and had to go to an entirely different terminal. And it's just insane, Absolutely insane what they're doing in Washington. But anyway, I digress. I'm just still a little salty about that one. I cannot believe the hundreds of comments on my Facebook page where I posted a picture of that sign essentially saying there's no difference in male and female, and everybody go to go. Go in here to the same bathroom and what that's doing to women. and that if you still vote Democrat as a woman after seeing that or experiencing that, you have no brain. If you still vote Democrat as a man after seeing that or experiencing that, you have no backbone or shall we say, constitutional cojones. Can I say that on the air? I don't know. But the point is, you're a moron if you still vote Democrat after experiencing that. I put This on Facebook. I cannot believe the comments. I cannot believe the true insanity that is taking place in our. In our country over. Over This issue. It is a Romans one situation where people have literally lost their minds trying to defend, This This absurdity. Anyway, I digress, because I'm salty about that one.

Your US Senator used to be chosen by your state legislators

So whether you're listening from the insane city of Seattle or, Arkansas or, Montana or wherever you're listening from your senator, your US Senator used to be chosen by your state legislators. And the reason for that is because the state legislators were protecting the turf, the jurisdiction, the authority of the state from the feds. In other words, it was making sure that the feds didn't do something crazy like, oh, I don't know, start meddling in education. M. They'd never do that, would they? Or maybe they start getting, getting involved in, agriculture, which they have no business being involved in, or, you know, all these other things. So, you know, 400 agencies now that are unconstitutional, that exist At the Federal level. The, the Senate used to prevent that from happening because the Senate was beholden to the state legislature back home. So just, just put yourself in those shoes. Okay? Let's say you're. Let's say you're the U.S. senator from the state of Alaska. And let's say you're actually a patriot. You're not Murkowski. And you actually care about the Constitution, you actually care about your state enough to protect your state's ability to govern itself on most issues and only allow the federal government to govern you on the things that you've agreed through the Constitution it should govern you on. Well then as the senator from that state, your job would be that if a bill comes through Congress, maybe the House passes some crazy bill that creates some new agency that's going to tell Alaskans what to do or take over the property of Alaskans in some way or interfere in the business of Alaskans somehow. Well, if you're the US Senator from Alaska, you'd say, no, no, I'm going to protect the state of Alaska's ability to say yes or no to these things. And I'm going to protect the state legislators that make those decisions At the state level from the federal Congress taking over these things. That's my job as the US Senator from Alaska. I'm going to protect Alaska. And that used to be what would happen up until 1913 and then in 1930. Just, I don't want to get too far in the weeds on This but for, for a few years before that, some states were already, you know, messing with This by essentially having rubber stamp elections. In other words, they would, they would, they would have a, an election on the, on the ballot with popular vote for the US Senator. And then the legislature was, would appoint that person. And so it's already kind of in some states hurting the federalism system that we had and moving more towards pure democracy, which is really, really bad. The founders called that mobocracy or one of the greatest of evils, not what you want. But we were headed that way because of the nature of man wanting things they, shouldn't. And so anyway, let's just say that Alaska, now 1913, comes along, 17th Amendment, gets ratified into the Constitution, and now the people of Alaska vote for their US Senators directly instead of the legislature choosing the senator. And you may say, well, Rick, why would that matter? I mean, aren't they gonna still protect Alaskans? No, no they don't. Because now they know they can come home with millions and millions of dollars and get elected by the people of Alaska, regardless of whether or not they're actually protecting Alaska and protecting the legislature, protecting the state itself. Because they can cover up the things that they did with all the money that they use in campaigns and the name ID that they have. I mean, look, Murkowski could, could get elected pretty much doing whatever against the state of Alaska just because of her name ID and the money she ends up with to run in those, in those campaigns every time. And so now the US Senators, they no longer protect their state, they protect themselves. Now all they care about is protecting the institution of the Senate, quote, unquote. And so they, they, they go to the mattress protecting each other because they're fellow senators. This is why we call it that. You know, it's a multi party swamp in Washington D.C. so it's bad. It's really bad. And once in a while you get a chance to elect a US Senator that will actually be beholden to the Constitution and not be there for life. You know, not want to be in the Senate until they're dead, until they can't have to be wheeled off the stage, until they can't, you know, put two sentences together to where they're so old and decrepit their brain freezes up in the middle of press conferences. And I know that sounds rude to many of you out there, but shame on them. Shame on these people like McConnell and Biden and all the rest that stay in the Senate until they are no longer capable of casting votes. Feinstein. I mean, you just go down the list. They should have been gone a long time ago. Gone back home and enjoyed life with their families and in their state and let somebody else go represent anyway. They don't. Because all they care about is themselves. They are not patriots. They're politicians who, only care about themselves. But once in a while, you get a chance to vote for a patriot. Once in a while, people come along that are actually in it for the Constitution, for the future of the country, for posterity. Texas is blessed to have one senator like that that we've had for several years by the name of Ted Cruz. A true patriot, a guy that votes for the Constitution, votes for what's right, regardless of whether it's going to hurt him in the election. he's been fantastic. We have had for 24 years, Texas has been represented in the Senate by our other senator who has not represented Texas. He's represented himself and the institution of the Senate and done whatever it took behind the scenes to prevent patriots from Getting elected. That guy's name is Jon Cornyn. And he comes home with these. All This money literally has spent, it's well over 100 million, some are saying $150 million in This primary election in Texas, in a Republican primary to defeat another Republican, rather than that money going to defeat Democrats and make sure that we hold the Senate and potentially gain in the Senate of the House. No. Why? Because he cares about himself. He doesn't care about the country. He doesn't care about what's best for the state or the country or, or certainly for the people of Texas. So he's going to waste all of that money in order to hold onto his seat when he's already, I don't know, he's 70 something, he's late 70s, I don't know. And I understand you could say Trump's 80. Trump's still healthy and Trump's still a lion, and he still gets things done. Cornyn is furniture. And so Paxton, Ken Paxton is a patriot. That came one of those guys that you get once in a while you get to vote for. Not a perfect guy. He's a lot like Trump with all kinds of baggage, different things in his life, you know, but his record as a patriot is stellar and he cares about the state and the country and not, you know, well, we all care about ourselves. So I'm not gonna say he doesn't care about himself, but he puts those things first. He proved This When, In January? No, no, I'm sorry. in March, right after the primary and when we knew the runoff was going to be between Cornyn and Paxton, he said, I will get out of the race if it's the best thing for the state and the country. And, and the SAVE act is the most important piece of legislation. If Jon Cornyn will get that passed in the Senate, if he'll get rid of the zombie filibuster, which he was not getting rid of, he was protecting it, then I will get out of the race and hand it to Cornyn. He gets another six years and will have to be wheeled off the stage probably by the time it's time for him to finally leave. Well, Cornyn, Paxton throws down the gauntlet. Cornyn, of course, as usual, can't get it actually done. He just talks. And. And so the SAVE act didn't get passed. So Paxton stays in the race. Everybody recognizes he's the patriot and he's going to win today, potentially by double digit margins despite being outspent At least 10 to 1. I'm not kidding you. Over $100 million by corn and spent. And I think Paxton has spent maybe 10 million, might be 15. and anyway, so it's going to be a historic day. Patriots in Texas will have the opportunity to now have two Patriots representing us from Texas. It's going to be, it's going to be amazing. And I said This affects you in Alaska and, and Massachusetts and Arkansas and everywhere else, because the U.S. senate, it's only a hundred of them and many of you have really lousy senators. They're not protecting your state or the country, they're only protecting themselves and the quote unquote institution. And so if Texas can send two Patriots, that's really going to help you because it's such a close vote. I mean, think about it. We can't even get rid of This zombie filibuster in the Senate because apparently there are, we've got 53 Republican senators, but apparently there's At least four behind the scenes that will not support getting rid of the zombie filibuster. Which is, which is, it's unconstitutional anyway. In my book it's not. We should be majority rule, not minority rule. And the zombie filibuster allows 40 senators to direct the, choose, the direction of the Senate. So anyway, big, big day in Texas. big, big election for U.S. senate. We've got some other races in Texas as well, but they don't affect you in other states as much. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time on those. but that Paxton Cornyn race today, you should definitely be paying attention to that. And should that turn out tonight like we think it's going to 10 plus points margin for Ken Paxton, you should be celebrating because it's going to help save the country, not save the institution of the Senate, which I'm so sick and tired of these hoity toity entitled, spoiled living off of US Senators talking about, and glad to see that we can get some disruptors in there that will get us back to a constitutional system of federalism where the feds only do what they're supposed to do and they leave the rest to the states. Paxton will help make that happen. He's proven that as Attorney General for Texas in the lawsuits where he's gone after Obama and Biden and the rest in order to make sure that the Constitution is being upheld. So. Wow, I spent the entire first segment just on that. I did not intend to do that. I was gonna run down a bunch of headlines. We got A rand to talk about when we come back. we got another federal judge that, is trying to block a redistricting map out of Alabama. I don't think that's going to last. Look, these redistricting battles are being won on every front by the Republicans, which, speaks well to the potential of the midterms. Whereas, man, just a few months ago, we were all looking At a complete disaster in the midterms. It's very, very possible that the Republicans could pick up seats in the House and in the Senate, and that's no guarantee, of course. Man, we got a lifetime between now and November. And it's all about turnout, especially in our midterm election. the Iran situation will impact that greatly because that's going to impact the, you know, price, price of gas. And of course, economics is ultimately, At the end of the day, the huge factor in, in the elections, especially midterms, where the personalities At the top of the ballot aren't necessarily as strong. So anyway, we got a lot more to cover. When we come back, the phone number, by the way. 888-5898-845898-00840. When we come back in a second. though I'm gonna spend a little time on yesterday. Yesterday was Memorial Day, and, since Walker's, got you on Monday, I didn't get a chance to talk about it yesterday, so I'm going to be a day late on This but it is well worth it. And it's, it has a lot to do with the psyche in America right now, our lack of honoring those who sacrificed so much and what they sacrificed. More on that when we come back. You're listening to At the Core with Walker Wildmon, the Recreation.

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Rick Green: Memorial Day used to be about remembering those who sacrificed

Welcome back to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's constitution coach. Thanks so much, for staying with me, man. I, I'm thinking back to speeches I gave 30 years ago on This subject. And, and I remember sensing back then the death of patriotism in our country. Maybe not, I mean, maybe not death. I shouldn't, I shouldn't exaggerate, but, man, it was waning and, and people were just. It was more apathy, apathy than it was distaste or even now a hatred of their own country. So it was a different sickness back then. It was more the good times leading to soft men. because we just had it easy. You know, we had it so good in our country that people didn't think about the price that had to be paid to have it This good. And so I would give these talks where I would go back through the history of the country, the sacrifices that had been made, you know, a little over 1.2 million that paid the ultimate price for us. In every generation, there were those who were willing to say, I'm willing to lay down my life for my brother, my friend, my countrymen. And we know there's no greater love. And so we would honor that and we would talk about, the sacrifices that had been made and why we shouldn't be spoiled and we shouldn't take our freedom for granted. We should recognize what had been done. But then At some point there was This switch that flipped in me where it wasn't just, and I hope This doesn't come, come across disrespectful. It wasn't just honoring the people that sacrificed. It was, it was, it was honoring them by having a better understanding of why they sacrificed of read, you know, getting devoted to what they sacrificed for. And, and I think what we did was in fact, there's a great video out just yesterday by my friend Jeremy Borein, that I encourage everybody to watch. If you're not following Jeremy on YouTube or X, go, go there. Look up Jeremy Boreing, B O R E I N G. The founder. He founded the Daily Wire. Phenomenal. guy comes to Patriot Academy all the time and talks to the kids. And, I love him and he is just spot on, on. He Started This new, show, and just doing, I think once a week, but the one yesterday, just incredible. And he hit on something that, that sort of helped me crystallize This difference. Okay. So it used to be I could kind of read the room and realize that most people were not being very patriotic because of just apathy. And so we would, we would point out the sacrifices it took for them to even have the ability to be apathetic, have the freedom to be apathetic. And it was always focused on the men and women that sacrificed. And I'd tell the stories of people. And then it became, okay, but something's missing here because it's only about the sacrifice and not what they sacrificed for. And then I came across This Lincoln, Gettysburg Address line. As short as the speech is, you'd think I would have known all these lines, but I didn't. It's, a three minute speech. But Lincoln At his Gettysburg Address said something that really locked it in place for me. He said that the way you honor those who pay the ultimate price is to have, quote, an increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. Now think about that for a second. He's saying we honor them. Absolutely. Memorial Day is all about remembering them and remembering their sacrifice. And literally taken a moment to say thank you. But then what Lincoln was saying, and of course Memorial Day didn't really start happening until after the Civil War. But what he was saying At the time was the real way to honor This is not just like I taught my kids, you see somebody in uniform, you go up, shake their hands, say thank you for your service, our family benefits, because you are willing to sacrifice time and life and years and all of, and ultimately maybe your whole, your entire life. And so that's good, but that's not enough. It's not enough to say thank you. It's not enough to stand and cheer and clap when we recognize veterans At events. The real way to thank them, I think Lincoln was spot on, is you honor them by having an increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. So that shifts a bit. We have to know and understand what they were fighting for. We have to know and understand what is the American value system for which these people fought and died. And the sinister, evil poison of the black pillars, the people that are black, pilling everybody by making them think that everything America's ever done was evil, that everything America ever did had some smoke filled room of power brokers that were benefiting from it. And they were using us and using the military and these, quote, forever wars and This and that, all This made up stuff. And they have convinced a significant number of our people that everything America ever did was for the wrong reasons. That these people that served and sacrificed and gave their lives for our country or gave years of their life and watched their brethren fall, whether in the war on radical Islamic terrorism or in Vietnam or Korea, that all of these people, that it was for nothing, that they were used by the military industrial complex. What do you think that does to them? What do you think that does to their psyche? What do you think that does to those who had to. Had to take life, that had to kill. They killed for their country? You basically taken just war theory, a righteous idea that you are an instrument for your country and that the government does not bear the sword in vain. This is a biblical idea. Just war theory is a biblical righteous idea that you go defend your nation and when you take another life or you do the things you have to do in war, that it's for a righteous cause and therefore you can have a clean conscience. And we stop teaching just war theory, which is part of why I think you have so much PTSD and so many of these problems, because we stop teaching the righteous holy cause of representing your nation in that way, of being violent for your nation. It's literally biblical. Go, go to Psalms where it talks about, he teaches my fingers to fight. He literally trains my fingers to fight. And so anyway, we've robbed those people, of the righteousness of the cause for which they fought. I, This is why I get so angry At the tinfoil Tuckers and the crazy Candaces out there and the Nazi twerp kid that's got the huge following now. I mean, all of these people that have undermined and poisoned the minds of Americans towards their nation, towards the cause of their nation. The causes for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, in which case now they've poisoned, the sacrifice. They've now taken away the reason that people died for our country and caused veterans to think they killed for no reason or that their friends were killed for. For no reason. And it is, it is so wrong. It is so wrong. It's lies. Now, that doesn't mean we're perfect. We are, as Jeremy says in his video, we are imperfect even in the way that we fought righteous causes. I mean, they're now making you think that Winston Churchill and Roosevelt were the bad guys and Hitler was the good guys. How warped can these people get? And the fact that people believe it is the crazy part, but that's because we don't know what we did. It's the Reagan quote from 40 years ago. He said, I'm, warning of an eradication of the American memory that will lead to an erosion of the American spirit. That's it. That's exactly what happened. We had an eradication of our memory. We forgot what we were fighting for and the victories that we had. People today think that Vietnam, Korea, desert, storm, the war on radical terrorism, all of it, that it was all lost, that they were all, that we didn't do anything any good, that it was all wasted because they don't know the actual history. They don't know what we won in those war wars. They don't know how much we set back communism or stalled the spread of communism. How many lives were actually saved in the long run from each of those wars. They don't know how close we or, how much victory we had that politicians then gave away. But doesn't change the fact that we accomplished those things and that the military veterans that served or that sacrificed did it for a good, good cause.

We've got all these people thinking all these horrible things about America

And so we did. We've got all these people thinking all these horrible things about America and now they hate their own country. And I'm just here to tell you it's lies. If you're a veteran listening today, don't believe that nonsense. Don't let that into your psyche or your heart. You served a righteous country for righteous causes. Yes, politicians messed it up. Yes, evil things get done. Yes, they're. Because it's human beings. I mean, we could say the same thing about any nation in history, any actions of any country. But you cannot tell me that America's causes have been evil when America has always fought for liberty, not for tyranny. We have always fought in order to free people, not to enslave them. We have always fought to give other people a chance to enjoy the freedom that we have. We have. We have never enslaved the people that we ended up defeating in war. We have never even caused them to pay for the damage that they did. Instead, we've done what no people on the face of the planet.

In 1945, America could have conquered the entire planet

You want the ultimate test? You. Here's the ultimate test. You want to know whether or not America is good or evil, Whether or not America is a nation worth fighting for and dying for. In 1945, America could have conquered the entire planet. We could have had control of the entire world, unlike any nation has ever been able to do in history. We could have made every nation on Earth bow to our will. We had the bomb. No one else. And for the first time in the history of mankind, let This sink in. I don't usually talk slow, but let me say This slow. For the first time in the history of mankind, a group of people, a nation, held a technological advantage in war and did not use it for conquest. We're the only people in the history of mankind to do that. We are the only people given that ultimate test where we could have made everyone bow to us. Once Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened and the world saw it, we could have had total submission. We could have had all the resources of the entire planet. Everybody could have been our slaves. We could have forced everybody to be like us, live like us, all of that. And what did we do? Instead of conquering the entire world, instead of using the technological advantage to conquer like everyone in history ever did, we took our own blood, sweat and tears, our own money. And we went and rebuilt the nations who attacked us. We went and took our own money. Think about This Our own blood, sweat and tears, our own money. We went and rebuilt the nations that had attacked us. And then we went. I mean, look At the Berlin Air, airlift, where we did the air drops, you know, every. I mean, what was it? A plane was taken off every seven minutes. The whole story is just remarkable. So now we're even taking our own money, blood, sweat, tears and treasure and all of those things to now help people survive against the very people who had been our allies just a moment before. Right. I mean, just throughout our whole history. It's unbelievable what we've done. But that moment in time was the ultimate test. And look At how much the world benefited. Look At what happened to Japan. Look At the economic powerhouse it became. And to be fair, a blessing to the world through technological advantages or advances. Sorry. Through, just good, free enterprise competition with cars and everything else. Where it had been a death culture before. And we send over dimming and the rest. And we export the values of the American way of life. A free enterprise of freedom of all of these things. And look At what happened. And frankly, in some ways, Japan is doing a better job of upholding those things than America is today. look At what we did with Germany. Look At what we've done in nations all over the world. We have done everything we can to help other people be free, and we've paid for it. So I'm just sick and tired of these black pill, anti American, poisonous. There's a conspiracy under Every. I mean, there's a boogeyman everywhere with these people. They are. They are the worst At planting these doubts. And. Oh, I'm just asking questions. But, no, they're not. Jeremy said This in his video yesterday, too. They're not. They're asking specific questions to lead you to a conclusion that that is false. To plant false things within you in the same way that Satan did in the garden. Just asking questions of Eve. It's the exact same playbook, authored by the exact same person or thing. so anyway, America's story is amazing. And America's story is amazing because men and women have been willing to lay down their life for the value system that makes America's story amazing. And we honor them by increasing our devotion to that value system. Not spitting on that value system, not lying about that value system, not lying about the people who sacrificed for that value system or even the people that made the decisions in those wars. All these lies about Roosevelt knew about Pearl harbor, these lies that George W. Bush knew there were no weapons of mass destruction. These are all lies designed to make you doubt your country, designed to make you have no faith in the institutions or the Constitution or the value system upon which This nation was built. And it's time for a renaissance of patriotism, of realistic patriotism. I'm not talking about Pollyanna. Just wave the flag because it feels good, you know, patriotism just because it happens to be the country you live in. I'm talking about informed patriotism. That's what Reagan called for 40 years ago. That's what I've called for for 30 years. Informed patriotism. Where you wave the flag because you understand why that flag is worthy of being waved. You wave the flag because you understand why the people that died defending that flag, what they died for. That's a patriotism you can be proud of. That's a patriotism that will give you chills when the national anthem is played. Because it's informed. It's rational, it's logical. You know for a fact your nation has done more good for the world, has been more of a blessing and. And been more of a. Of a benevolent nation than any nation in the history of mankind. That we have sent our own to die so that others could be free. That our people die for our nation first. Yes, we're America first, but it doesn't mean we're America only. We are a good people. Of course we have a sin nature. And of course there's corruption, and of course there's abuses, and all of those things. But when our value system remains a biblical value system, that, that where we understand the Ten Commandments, then we understand just war theory. When we teach the biblical concept of not bearing the sword in vain, when you teach those things and your people understand those things, then you can stand up and fight for This or you can honor those who are standing up, and fighting for This and feel good about actually knowing This is the right thing to do. Man, we need that so bad in our country. Let's use Memorial Day, let's use This week to remind ourselves, let's honor those who paid such an incredible price for us to be free.

Let's redevote ourselves to the cause for which they gave the last devotion

But let's do it by understanding and redevoting ourselves to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. It's a cause worth dying for, and it's a cause worth living for. It's a cause worth fighting for because it's a biblical cause. Let's teach these things to our kids and grandkids, and This week's a perfect, perfect opportunity to do that. Going to take a break. Then when we come back, we'll get to your phone calls and, to some more of the headlines. Man, I'm proud to be an American. I hope you are, too. Stay with us. You're listening to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green.

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Rick Green: To think that Donald Trump is controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu is ridiculous

Welcome back to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. We just, in the last segment, talking about yesterday, Memorial Day, and, and just kind of making the whole week, a chance to honor them. So yesterday we paused At 3:00'. Clock. We, you know, talked about, in fact last night, if you. Yesterday so many good ceremonies that took place across the country that you could watch, you can go back and watch some of the, even the music, man, when they, when they played, I think it was the Marine Core. I can't remember who was, who was doing it, but they played the Band of Brothers theme At that, thing. Oh, wow, man, tears, I'm m telling you. So, so good. anyway, yesterday, the actual Memorial Day, but, but I guess what I would say is This week, make it, make it a, make it a week of, of not just remembering them, but increasing that devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion for. Look, so looking for things This week, today, if you're in Texas, voting is a way to do that. but This week, getting educated about what made the nation great. What is it that we have been fighting for? why was the Union worth holding together? why were we willing to go around the world and make sure that, the evil of Nazism did not conquer the entire planet, which it could have eventually or the rest of the planet except us? Like, why would we not just be isolated and say, well, each their own, everybody, good luck. What's the philosophy behind us being willing to go around the world and fight? Why are we involved in the Middle East? Why do we do the things that we do? And if you think about what America, has done in the last hundred years, we have freed the world, saved the world from Nazism, communism, despotism. We have, we have done things that have, are just, it's, mind boggling when you really recognize that our might has been used for good. And I hate even having to do the whole caveat thing. But of course I can point to things we did that weren't good. Of course I can point to things that were evil. Yes, our government's done bad things. Yes, the CIA has done bad things. And yes, absolutely, the more we put money into these NGOs and things that have no accountability, then the nature of man's really going to take hold. You need sunlight and you need checks and balances to make sure that that power and that might, when you are exercising it for good as best you can, it doesn't get off track. And, but, but I just think it's so childish of us to take an anecdotal, you know, This bad thing happened over here or they lied to us about whatever, pick the story in history, right? And so because they lied to us about that, whoever they is. Whoever they are. Whoever they, Whoever they are, it's because I think of they as a single, singular, like fake blob of the swamp. So, yeah, I went with is. It is. But it's, it's a they in people's minds. They think there's This you know, smoke, filled room somewhere and a handful of people are making decisions for everyone. And yes, there's lots of smoke filled rooms. There's lots of powerful people that are trying to use their power to benefit themselves. And so, you know, but to think that they have total control over our system, it's almost as being as dumb as a box of rocks. To be dumb enough to think that Donald Trump is controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu. I mean, it's the silliest argument that people make. the absurdities that people throw out out of their anti Israel bias, they create these goofy theories that on their face. I mean, anybody that's ever followed Donald Trump and thinks that he could be controlled by any foreign leader or nation or whatever, you have not been paying attention, for the last 10 years. But people buy into This nonsense and we tend to have. There's something in our nature that loves a good conspiracy theory. you know, it's. I don't know what it is. I don't know why we're drawn to that. but these grifters out there, they prey on that. And so they have the secret knowledge of This thing that happened that, that, that nobody else knows. And so they've got a lock on it. It's just, it's, it's all baloney. It's all. I mean, I watched these, these grifters, these click bait, selfish grifters after Charlie Kirk's assassination make up stories that were so absurd on their face. I mean, they were saying the microphone on his shirt was the gun somehow and shot him. And the Israelis, I mean, the dumbest things you've ever heard. And millions of people watched it and shared it. And the clickbait was it. So there's something in our nature that is drawn to the. It's. I think part of it is we, we. If it's true, then it Means I can't do anything about it. And, and so the responsibilities off my back, right? Like, I don't know if that makes sense. But what I'm saying is like if, if you, if you hear these conspiracy theories and, and the conspiracy theory turns out to be true, they typically, it typically means that the elections don't matter. They're going to be stolen anyway. Or the elections don't matter because the Republicans and Democrats are the same, which is absurd too, though you definitely have bad people in both parties and all of that. But the elections don't matter because, it's ah, you know, they're all part of the world, you know, economic forum or whatever. And so we start buying into that and when we buy into that, we go, well, then there's nothing I can do about it. So I'm just going to, you know, grab my guns and canned food, go hide out At the ranch and you know, ignore everything that's going on. Which means we abdicate our authority that God has given us in This country. We the people are in charge. But if we the people can be disheartened enough, if we the people can be lied to enough to actually think we're not in charge, that they don't answer to us ultimately, that there are no good patriots that end up running for Senate like Ken Paxton, and you can get somebody in there that is really going to defend that, we start thinking, well, then we'll never going to change the Senate, we're never going to change the swamp, that there's no, there's no way to win, that it's impossible. And then what do we do? We check out and then it's easier for the people that want to control you, to control you, whether they're, you know, just a party hack that, that just loves being able to write the rules for everybody else or, or you know, whatever it is. They're money, they're money driven. Most of them are money driven. So they might be, you know, doing it for clicks. They might be doing it because they have a big company that's going to sell you a jab and use the government to, whatever the reasons. Of course people want power. Of course there's attempts to control. All of that's true. But, but it doesn't mean they have control unless we give it to them. It doesn't mean they can win and shut down all the things we care about and make the elections irrelevant unless we give it to them. Unless we give up and say, fine, what, what ultimately stops any of these things that you are hearing as conspiracy theories from actually becoming true is you. It's me. we're the fly in the ointment. Which is why they want to silence us by. By depressing us, by making us think there's nothing we can do to make a difference. It's why they want to ultimately. And This is. This is a foreign, op on our people through all of the social media and everything else. But ultimately, they. They want our people to be so disillusioned that we don't have enough people that are willing to volunteer to fight for the country. That's how you lose a country, is once you don't have enough of your young men willing to stand up and say, hear my Lord, send me.

If they can deflate our American spirit, we're done

I will die for my nation if I have to. I am that Toby Key song. Oh, I get chills every time I think about an American soldier, that song. And in that, in that, in that, that. That line that he says where I don't want to. I don't want to have to die, but I'm willing. I can't remember exactly how he says it, but if that's what's asked of me, I will. Oh, I mean, when. When you no longer have enough young men willing to do that, you're done. You will be overrun as a country. You will be conquered. And so if they can deflate our American spirit, as Reagan said, the erosion of the American memory, that leads to, Or the eradication of the American memory, that leads to an erosion of the American spirit. So if they can get that erosion of the American spirit, we're done as a nation. And they are well on their way to doing that. By making you think, if you're a military veteran, that you fought for nothing. By making you think if your dad or your grandfather was a military veteran and they died for the country or spent. You know, let me get real personal here. Let's say you're a kid that's. That's still bitter because your dad had to spend, you know, three or four or five years in the Middle east or wherever for our country. And now you are bitter against the nation because you think that your dad wasn't there for you and was do and was not there for you for nothing. You see how that lie would cause a person to then no longer look love their country. And now that kid's not going to carry on the tradition. He's not going to serve. That's how they win. And the only thing, the flying, the ointment that prevents that from happening is you and me, because we speak truth and we say to that kid, your dad sacrificed for the entire nation. He helped save liberty. He literally helped save the Republic and made it possible for you to even be able to choose what you want to do with your life, to be able to choose your spouse, to choose your career, to choose where in the country you want to live or anywhere else in the world. All of that freedom is because of your dad being gone for three or four years in his 20s. Best years of his life. Yeah, he missed a few Little League games, or he might have, been gone for a graduation or whatever it was, but he was laying down his life. He may not have died for the country, but he lived and he laid down his life so that we could all be free. And. And I owe your dad a debt of gratitude. That's why not on Memorial Day, but on Veterans Day, we'll be honoring your dad. Unless he did actually die for the country, then we honored him yesterday. But my point is that they. They poison what should be something that gives you chills, makes you want to cry. I'm tearing up just thinking about. Because it's not just the military veterans that sacrifice. We've always said This It's the families that sacrifice. It's the spouse that has to run the house without them and miss the. I mean, all of that gets devalued and made like it's worthless because of these lying, bitter, selfish, clickbait grifters. And it's time for us to shame them. It's time for, you know, honestly, I mean, I'm all about freedom, but I think these turkeys ought to move to China. I think we ought to encourage them to go live in Cuba and. And some other place where they can experience what the world is like when our men don't go die for our country, when our young men and women aren't willing to go spend those prime 20, those years in their 20s, putting their life on the line for us. It's sickening that the very people that just a few years ago were saying what I'm saying right now, and now they've completely changed their tune. They've either been paid off or lost a battle with a demon is what Tucker says happened. Says he wrestled with a demon as it seems like he lost it. I don't know. For whatever reason, they've completely switched their tune. And the price is heavy for the nation because they are leading millions of people astray. And so it's up to us. It's up to you and me to just wage war with truth. The battle is rhetoric right now. The battle is really a war of ideas in our country, and frankly, a war for the true history, for how the history books are going to be written and what we're going to teach our kids and our grandkids. And there's not a person listening in the sound of my voice right now that cannot influence This debate, that cannot be involved in This battle. You have a voice and you have people that listen to you. You have the ability to speak truth to two people or 2,000 or 2 million. And so get out there and do it. Look for ways to share good news with people about our country. One of my favorite things about holidays, and I think This is why God told us, remember the former days. You know, I think it's why there's, there's so many times in the Bible where they recount all the incredible things God did. I think it's why we have holidays. But one of the things I love about that is right now with, you know, because technology can be good or bad. Here's some of the good with social media I love during the, whether it's Memorial Day, July 4th, forth, any of these, any of these patriotic days, the stories online, I mean, if you just go scroll and just stop long enough to hear some of the stories of the sacrifice or watch some of the videos, it'll, it'll revive your love of country, it'll revive your, your patriotism. And so I guess what I'm asking you to do is be a force multiplier, go look for those stories and then share them. It's part of how we win This fight against the black pill crowd is by continuing to give the good news, continuing to speak that truth, and pour the good stuff in. I always come back to my simple country boy logic. Garbage in, garbage out. Good stuff in, good stuff out. If we can help put some of the good stuff in, we can overcome the garbage that these black pillars are putting into the minds of our people. And it's not just the kids, it's the minds of our people. It's people of all ages. In fact, I think what I, I feel the most sympathetic, to are the people my age, in their 50s or 60s or even older, that are veterans that have, that have had the onslaught of This black pill junk for the last 10 years and have really questioned why they sacrificed and why they, you know, had to watch their brothers die and the things that they went through and At Our age and At the point we are in life, you think a lot about purpose and you think a lot about legacy. And you think about why you. What you've done with the last 50 years and what you've. What you've invested your time and your life in and your. And your dreams and all of those things, how you've raised your kids. I mean, all of that. And so the fact that these black pillars put doubt in the minds of the heroes of our country, that they somehow made our heroes and our patriots think less of their sacrifice or that sacrifice of their brothers in arms, shame on them. Shame on those black pillars. And to those who have served, to those who have sacrificed, I say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you. And may God give you peace. May he give you a pride for what you did.

To those who actually died for our nation, I thank you

That's a healthy Biblical. Thinking soberly, not thinking higher, but also not thinking lower, thinking soberly of yourself and what you've done for our country, what you've done for my children, my grandchildren, my posterity. I thank you. And to those who actually died for our nation, I thank you and I thank your families for the sacrifice that was made for the kids that had to grow up without a dad, for those who lost a loved one. You gave so that we could be free. And I'm thankful for it. And, I'm telling you right now, I'm going to have an increased devotion to the cause for which that sacrifice was made by your loved one and by you, what you had to give up for it as well. And we're going to multiply This liberty. We're going to have a revival and a renaissance of patriotism and liberty in This country. And it's you and me. We're the ones that are going to do it. We're the fly in the ointment for the Marxists and the leftists and the black pillars. Let's go save This country. Let's rebuild liberty. Let's make the 250th count This year. Look for some ways you can be a part of it. Join [email protected] and. And let's make the 250th the best it can possibly be. God bless you and thanks for listening. You've been listening to At the Core with Walker, Wildmon and River.

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