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How's everybody doing?

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Awesome. So far so good?

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Let's take a

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few minutes

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before

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we get going. I haven't done this,

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lately.

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To,

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anything

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on your mind, your heart? Any questions? Any

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theological things? Any,

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we'll even talk

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world stuff. I have a question for you.

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Anybody but Aiden? This is just good.

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When do you think you're going to make

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a Wednesday night service of going through,

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the the the

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with propositions.

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About initiatives. Yeah. What have you. So I

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mentioned I mentioned this just a little bit

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Sunday. I think,

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if you have one specifically you'd like to

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ask about, I can talk about it. But

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I've got them on my website and, the

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way that I,

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the way that I would, politically lean on

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them. And so you you can go there

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and see. I don't really give a lot

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of explanation. There's, like, 2 of them that

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I explain a little bit.

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but if you have one that is that

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is concerning to you or you want more

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information or maybe you've been to the website

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and you say, why did you vote this

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way?

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I can

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I can do that for you?

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the thing is sometimes a lot of those

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opposition, they're so Bowden issues? They're well, they're

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they're they're worded in such a way they're

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all attractive. And you think, wait a minute,

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there's a hidden agenda behind each of them.

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Yeah. Most of them are bad. Therefore,

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I I was hoping to that you would

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be able to go through them ever so

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quickly and let us know how you're going

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to vote

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even if, explanation is just,

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ever so brief. I I don't know, but

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it would be great if you could do

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that so we could take notes.

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I can give you

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I'll give you some of the, I think,

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the bigger ones.

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Let me, let me start with the obvious

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one.

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Number 79, that is

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to,

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codify

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abortion into the constitution

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to our state constitution.

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Right now, abortion is a statute in Colorado.

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and oh, by the way, even though,

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Kamala Harris said in the debate with Trump

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that there are no states that abortion is

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legal up to the day of birth or

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even after, she said that doesn't exist, blah

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blah blah, and all these people have been

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saying that.

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She lied. She knows this because she helped

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pass this,

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in California.

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And, in Colorado,

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our abortion laws go up

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to the day of the day,

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of birth,

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but then it is,

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intentionally

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innocuous after that

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That and there's other states that have very

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similar language.

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That if a baby is born,

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the,

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doctors

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slash mother

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in the decision, but,

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well, she is the decision. But they can

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say whether or not they think that this

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baby is

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viable, and the viable is not the medical

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term of viable.

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can leave the baby there

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on the table and let it, die.

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That is the way that Colorado law can

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be. It's not specifically stated that way, but

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it is written in such a way that

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that can happen.

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And then people are saying, yeah, but nobody

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does that.

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That is already happening. There are there are

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documented cases that you can go and find

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where people are allowing these babies to die.

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It's obviously not a lot, that are documented

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because they're keeping this quiet,

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but, there's already documents. So if there's documented

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there's a lot more out there that that's

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happening. And

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there are a handful of states, and Colorado

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one, that,

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up until the day of birth, you can

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you can kill the baby

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even potentially afterwards.

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So no one's 79? No one's 79. Because

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what happens is so I've run 2 pro

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life bills

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the last 2 years.

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2 each year.

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if this if 79 passes, what happens is

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for me to run a pro life bill,

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now I will be trying to I have

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to word it in such a way that

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I am changing the constitution

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because it will be codified in the constitution.

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This is not just a statute anymore.

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I so

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as a legislature

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as a legislator,

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our legislature

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cannot change the constitution.

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So the only thing that I could do

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would be able to bring something forward to

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the legislature

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that, presents this as a ballot initiative

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to go. And then it then it has

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to be,

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ballot initiative change the constitution. So so the

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threshold just becomes much, much more difficult.

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It it almost nullifies I mean, I'll still

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do it, but it almost nullifies

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any kind of pro life anything after that

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because your constitution

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says you can't change it. So even if

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even if somehow

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I could

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supernaturally,

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miraculously, by the hand of God, get it

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all the way through in onto the floor,

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We cannot vote something in

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as a statute that goes against the constitution.

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I mean, the Democrats can. They do it

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all the time. We are not allowed to

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because we're Republicans

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and because

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some of us actually go by the law.

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so 79 is real bad.

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The,

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the ranked choice voting, does any anybody

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does everybody know what ranked choice voting means?

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That's you.

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Ranked.

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As in 1, 2, 3, 4, you rank

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So this is a very bad idea. We

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need to not we need to vote against

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that. What ranked choice voting does is it

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takes,

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whoever is running for whatever office. And and

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it's actually only the this is the silly

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stupid little part that nobody's paying attention to.

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It's only for the high higher state offices,

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so it doesn't affect all the other stuff.

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So you're gonna have all kinds of different

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you're gonna have some ballots, some parts of

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the ballot that are gonna be voting that

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are the the way that it used to

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be. And then as you go higher up

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the ballot, it's gonna be ranked choice voting.

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You talk about confusion. That's already a problem.

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It will not be able to be done

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properly.

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Any states

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all the states that have tried ranked choice

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voting before have all come back and said

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it was the stupidest thing we've ever done,

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and they've done away with it. K? But

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Colorado,

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we're smarter than everybody else, and so we're

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gonna do this. And what it does is

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it takes,

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it takes let's say that

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that,

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the the 4 of us. So Daniel, Cara,

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and,

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me and, Didi, we're gonna run for whatever

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office. Okay?

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let's say the 3 of them are Democrats,

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and I'm a Republican. Because

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let's call it like I see it. So

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so those 3 are the Democrats. I'm the

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Republican.

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Alright. In in fact, let's throw Allen as

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an independent.

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So 3 Democrats and independent Republican.

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And they've and you vote

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it depends on how it's set up.

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I think it would be the top 5

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in our state, but let's let's for numbers,

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let's say it's the top 3. Okay?

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So you vote, and you have to number.

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you have to number 1, 2, 3.

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K. Well, let's use 5 because that's the

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way it's gonna be. 1, 2, 3, 4,

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You're you're ranking

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all of the people.

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Doesn't matter what party. Doesn't matter what party

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you are. Doesn't matter what party they are.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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Then they take all of these ballots that

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are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and they

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see who has the most at the different

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going down the line. And then they take

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all of that,

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and they rank

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all of the ballots. Now if on your

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ballot, you only put,

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1, 2, 3, 4 because you just don't

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like Al. K. 1, 2, 3, 4.

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Your ballot gets kicked out.

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It does not get counted.

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In almost every place that ranked choice voting

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was tried,

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more than 2 thirds of all ballots

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were every single time were discarded

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because they didn't

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understand or go by the rules, which, by

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the way, is the intention of the people

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that wanna do ranked choice voting.

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Because the more confusion,

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the more the the kind of the insider

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mentality works. Right? Now, let's say 1 and

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are Daniel and Kara.

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1, 2, 3, Daniel, Kara and Dede. Okay?

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They're the Democrats.

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the people that get to the actual

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are all Democrats,

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no Republicans

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because of the ranking.

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And so what happens is you can completely

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throw out

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any,

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any grassroots person, any person that is that

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a strong conservative or whatever, or what'll happen

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is is they'll all get to the the

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Democrats do this well. The Republicans are horrible

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at working together.

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K?

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So the Democrats all say, well, we'll just

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flood the the ballots with all the Democrat

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names. 123. 123. 1, 2, 3. That means

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no matter how many votes

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the Republican or the Independent get, they cannot

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get into that top of the ranking. It's

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not gonna be possible.

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And so this is this is the that's

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a simplistic understanding, but that's the concept. And

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and the big deal is most of the

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ballots will be discarded.

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Because if you don't fill all 5 spaces

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out with a name, then you don't then

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your ballot doesn't count.

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Doesn't matter.

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If you like one person and you just

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wanna vote for the 1, your ballot's not

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gonna count. Doesn't matter. Yeah. It's also

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really even more complicated than that. There's multiple

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rounds of it. Yes. And so and it's

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almost impossible to audit.

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It's it's like you you can't come back

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later and audit these.

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Now,

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as I understand it, there's It'll actually be

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against the rules to come back and audit

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it later. It'll be written in there that

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you cannot come back later. Ours is doing

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that. Okay. I didn't get that one. I

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was under also understanding that that some of

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the states that have done this, and I

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don't know about ours, I'm asking.

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Some of the states that have done this,

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they're also changing how to get on the

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ballot,

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require,

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adding requirements like signatures, the things that require

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money Yeah. That

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that that that mean only candidates that have

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big money backing will actually make it ever

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to the ballots anyway. Is ours do that?

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Because some of them did that. Another another

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step in the process is this is an

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attack against,

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our basic caucus system and our assembly and

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caucus. Okay?

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So so, basically, if we go to ranked

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choice voting and and then you have,

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it's it's it's pay to play in my

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opinion. You have to have a certain amount

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of signatures to get onto your petitioning onto

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the ballot.

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Guys like me, grassroots guys will never be

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on the ballot again.

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It'll it'll be impossible for guys like me

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to get on the ballot. Because to get

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enough signatures, you're you one person can't do

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that. You get 5, 10 volunteers. You cannot

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get enough signatures to get onto a ballot.

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So what these people do is they pay

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companies

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to get the signatures for them.

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Right now, for El Paso County, this is

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happening regularly. Almost all of your Republicans on

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the ballots all across actually,

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almost all Republicans

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at

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legislator senate

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all across the state of Colorado, almost all

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of them have petitioned on.

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It cost about $25,000

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to petition on. I don't have $25,000.

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I will never you know you know how

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much money

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I had in the bank when I actually

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won,

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the caucus, which means I was gonna be

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the only Republican on the primary 2 years

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ago? That's how much money I had in

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the bank.

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$2. 0. Because I didn't have a bank

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account yet. So

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$1,

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brother.

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So here's the thing. I could I would

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never have been able to get on the

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ballot.

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I never will be able to get on

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the ballot. They go to this, I I

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can't run again.

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I can't afford to get on the ballot.

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It this is designed

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for wealthy insiders

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that have,

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backing,

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and conservative

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grassroots conservatives don't have backing.

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Advance Colorado is never gonna give me a

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penny. They're supposedly,

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conservatives.

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They're supposedly Republicans.

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The problem is is I believe,

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that abortion is a sin.

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Abortion is morally wrong and should never happen.

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So Advance Colorado, a Republican organization run by

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the Koch brothers, will never give me a

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penny.

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They are also now they say they're pro

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life, but they're not. They also say they're

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strongly for the second amendment. They are not

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for the second amendment. They will never give

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me a penny.

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They they gave

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3 different Republicans,

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2 years ago,

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$250,000

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a piece

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from for races that that are running somewhere

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around 10 to $15,000

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budgets.

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That's what it a that's what a a

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legislate,

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legislator

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campaign should cost. Let's say up to 20,000

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if you're one of the big spenders.

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They gave,

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a representative in Castle Rock $250,000.

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That's called dark money

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because you can't you know how you know

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the most somebody can give me?

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$450.

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Unless I can get it through a pack,

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which hides all the givers,

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and it's called dark money, and that's

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should be illegal,

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but they the Democrats changed the rules on

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this last year, voted in a law that

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says, instead of 4.50 per cycle, so in

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other words, $900

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a person, I can only get $450

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a person totally,

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during a campaign year. Because they wanted to

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make sure it was grassroots. The people that

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were running the bill were getting 2, 3,

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$400,000

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by dark money to run the bill, so

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that I can only get $450

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a person.

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And I mentioned this. Not as nice as

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I'm saying it here.

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Because why? It's corrupt. They're liars. The whole

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thing. So, guys, ranked choice voting is an

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attack. In fact, ranked choice voting, if somehow

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this went across the United States,

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it would tear down our republic. We would

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not have a republic anymore.

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It it can't exist under a ranked choice

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voting mentality.

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You don't have representatives anymore. You can call

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me a representative a representative, but we are

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not representing

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when under ranked choice voting mentality.

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You're not voting in representatives.

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You're voting in, wealthy people that are insiders

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that are getting paid to do the job,

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which a lot of them are anyway.

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But then there are some people like me

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that are not corrupt. They're not taking PAC

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money. If Advance Colorado came to me tomorrow

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and said, we wanna give you $200,000.

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I would say, no.

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I'm not taking in fact, I have done

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this,

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many different times where people try to send

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me money and or endorse me, and I

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say, nope. You don't endorse me.

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I'm not gonna take your endorsement. Well, we

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wanna give you you're not giving me money.

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You're not gonna endorse me because why?

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I am not that.

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This is how the system is rigged, and

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ranked choice voting,

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it it it makes it even more corrupt

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than it already is.

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Another big one is 80.

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80 is the one that is it is

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this one is the one that is the

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strongest bipartisan. It is being,

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promoted by, well, Advanced Colorado, being promoted by

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almost all of the Republicans.

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You know, interestingly, another representative sent me a

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a, email yesterday or text yesterday. It was

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Ken de Graf, and he said, hey. The,

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Colorado Chamber of Commerce just came out with

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their,

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endorsement list. They had endorsed all the Republicans

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except 4 of us.

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Guess which 4?

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The conservative 4. Stephanie, Brandy, Ken, myself.

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Which if they would have endorsed me, I'd

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have been like, did I answer something wrong?

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What where what happened?

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But,

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but,

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all the Republicans,

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except the 4 of us, are backing,

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out of initiative 80, amendment 80.

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And, basically, it is saying that we're gonna

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make sure that

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that children have school choice.

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K?

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That's not the right way to say it,

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is it, Carolyn? That's

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Well, no. And you're not backing.

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No. No. I'm not backing, but I'm saying

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that's what the amendment says.

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Basically, it's children will have school choice. A

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right to school choice. A right to school

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choice. There's a A right to equality education.

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That's what that's what Yeah.

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Yeah. Which which is a smokescreen because they're

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they're not planning on them going to charter

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schools and things like that. That's not the

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goal of this. It supposedly is, but it's

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not. But here's the thing.

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When did we start letting kids decide

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their own education and direction?

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They get to start with their own gender.

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That okay. Valid. Valid.

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Touche.

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So

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but but here's the thing is you you

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don't you don't you don't let a 9

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year old,

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have the right

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to a quality education? You say, well, of

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course, we do. We love kids. No. That

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takes away parental rights to decide

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that the,

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help best education for their children. Mark?

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Thanks. Well, it is same thing is happening

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with statutes that you guys are passing. They're

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giving

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children rights like the foster care

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system. The children have rights. Anytime you see

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rights being give given explicitly to children, it's

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in opposition to parental rights. Yep. And it's

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a way to erode it. And, you know,

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if what happens is that you pass the

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these things go into the state constitution

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or

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or in the in the statute and then

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it's up to the court to decide

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what these things mean. Like,

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it explicitly says in the statute well, say

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say in the statute that a child has

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a right to a quality education. Well, what

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does that mean? Who decides that? And who

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decides that?

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It's not defined. So the courts are gonna

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define it. What's a quality education?

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And then you have a a system of

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oppositional rights where the the parent

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the parents have the right to direct

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the education of the child, but child has

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the choice to an edge to a quality

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education.

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So what's gonna happen, and these people should

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see this a 100 miles away, there's already

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LGBT

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charter schools in other states.

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I can't imagine it won't be long before

557
00:19:48,429 --> 00:19:49,569
they're here in the state.

558
00:19:49,950 --> 00:19:51,789
So when a 12 year old girl and

559
00:19:51,789 --> 00:19:52,609
her cohort

560
00:19:53,390 --> 00:19:55,490
wants to go to this charter school

561
00:19:56,109 --> 00:19:58,450
and the parents say, no. You're not.

562
00:19:58,910 --> 00:20:00,750
Well, then what will happen is the courts

563
00:20:00,750 --> 00:20:01,569
will say,

564
00:20:01,954 --> 00:20:02,615
wait a

565
00:20:02,994 --> 00:20:05,555
second. You know, this right to direct the

566
00:20:05,555 --> 00:20:07,174
the education of the child

567
00:20:07,875 --> 00:20:10,295
is contingent on the on the parent

568
00:20:11,634 --> 00:20:14,134
operating in the best interest of the child.

569
00:20:14,830 --> 00:20:17,150
And they're gonna say this this is not

570
00:20:17,150 --> 00:20:19,549
in the best interest of the child. They're

571
00:20:19,549 --> 00:20:20,049
exhibiting

572
00:20:20,430 --> 00:20:21,809
animus towards LGBT,

573
00:20:22,190 --> 00:20:24,350
and they've lost their right to direct it.

574
00:20:24,350 --> 00:20:27,230
The education of the child. Because they're actually

575
00:20:27,230 --> 00:20:28,130
coming against

576
00:20:28,884 --> 00:20:31,384
the state except the definition of quality.

577
00:20:32,804 --> 00:20:34,105
If the state says

578
00:20:34,644 --> 00:20:37,144
that this school teaching this whatever

579
00:20:37,845 --> 00:20:38,345
ideology

580
00:20:38,644 --> 00:20:39,464
is quality,

581
00:20:40,484 --> 00:20:42,884
then the school that teaches against it, like

582
00:20:42,884 --> 00:20:45,119
a charter school or something that is a

583
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,859
Christian charter school, they're not providing quality education

584
00:20:48,079 --> 00:20:50,400
because they're not giving what the state defines

585
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,720
as what quality is. And what'll happen long

586
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,799
term, that's the short term, is the way

587
00:20:54,799 --> 00:20:57,119
Marx describing this. The long term is all

588
00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:58,980
children will go to to these

589
00:20:59,595 --> 00:21:00,575
state controlled

590
00:21:01,275 --> 00:21:03,515
environments, which were already there at some level,

591
00:21:03,515 --> 00:21:05,214
but the state controlled environments

592
00:21:05,674 --> 00:21:08,154
that says that is quality. And if and

593
00:21:08,154 --> 00:21:09,755
if your and if you as the parent

594
00:21:09,755 --> 00:21:11,755
don't send your child there, you're abusing your

595
00:21:11,755 --> 00:21:12,255
child.

596
00:21:12,710 --> 00:21:14,890
This is child abuse and then social services

597
00:21:15,109 --> 00:21:16,869
has another layer to be able to step

598
00:21:16,869 --> 00:21:19,029
in on these kind of things. Barry? What's

599
00:21:19,029 --> 00:21:20,890
the percentage of, Colorado

600
00:21:21,910 --> 00:21:22,730
in homeschools?

601
00:21:24,950 --> 00:21:25,450
Carolyn?

602
00:21:33,575 --> 00:21:35,414
Well, that's part of the goal. The goal

603
00:21:35,414 --> 00:21:36,454
is to tear down,

604
00:21:37,255 --> 00:21:39,335
homeschool. And the governor really made a big

605
00:21:39,335 --> 00:21:41,335
deal about how he's for charter schools, charter

606
00:21:41,335 --> 00:21:43,115
schools. First, he's a liar.

607
00:21:44,559 --> 00:21:47,759
Hopefully, reporters are listening. I said the governor

608
00:21:47,759 --> 00:21:48,579
is a liar.

609
00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:52,159
And and then the next thing is is

610
00:21:52,159 --> 00:21:54,639
he wants eventually to have charter schools, but

611
00:21:54,639 --> 00:21:56,399
he wants to design what the charter schools

612
00:21:56,399 --> 00:21:58,065
look like, which is what Mark is talking

613
00:21:58,065 --> 00:22:00,224
about that other states are doing. So he's

614
00:22:00,224 --> 00:22:02,065
in favor of charter schools when he gets

615
00:22:02,065 --> 00:22:04,884
to define them from the socialist agenda.

616
00:22:05,265 --> 00:22:07,605
What's that? He started to charter schools.

617
00:22:07,984 --> 00:22:09,984
He he's he's got his hands in this

618
00:22:09,984 --> 00:22:13,250
already. He does not like Christian charter schools,

619
00:22:13,309 --> 00:22:15,230
and he's made that very clear. He wants

620
00:22:15,230 --> 00:22:15,970
his kind.

621
00:22:16,589 --> 00:22:17,950
And he wants to shut down all the

622
00:22:17,950 --> 00:22:20,289
others. And the teachers' unions are

623
00:22:20,589 --> 00:22:24,349
are already on paper signed and confessed that

624
00:22:24,349 --> 00:22:25,890
they are a Marxist organization.

625
00:22:26,644 --> 00:22:28,004
There's a lot of research you can do

626
00:22:28,004 --> 00:22:29,065
on that very quickly,

627
00:22:29,365 --> 00:22:31,204
that they have signed stuff that says that

628
00:22:31,204 --> 00:22:33,044
they do not believe in capitalism, that that

629
00:22:33,044 --> 00:22:36,244
is a an agreed an egregious attack against

630
00:22:36,244 --> 00:22:37,865
children, all this kind of stuff.

631
00:22:38,404 --> 00:22:40,759
And, and so the the next step of

632
00:22:40,759 --> 00:22:42,700
this is the public schools are gonna

633
00:22:43,559 --> 00:22:45,400
just become a worse version of what they

634
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,420
are. The good thing right now is

635
00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:48,299
the,

636
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,319
parents are pulling their kids out of public

637
00:22:51,319 --> 00:22:52,700
schools at an astonishing

638
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:53,500
rate,

639
00:22:53,875 --> 00:22:54,694
which is good.

640
00:22:55,474 --> 00:22:57,335
We need to continue that trend.

641
00:22:57,954 --> 00:23:00,775
These kind of bills, though, will make it,

642
00:23:01,474 --> 00:23:03,174
very difficult to do that.

643
00:23:04,115 --> 00:23:05,575
You have to go to the

644
00:23:05,875 --> 00:23:06,855
quality education

645
00:23:07,234 --> 00:23:07,734
schools.

646
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:10,940
I think those are the big ones.

647
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,220
I was asked about the, police funding one.

648
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,440
I'm actually in favor of the police funding

649
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,840
one. The question that I always get with

650
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,059
that is, isn't that pretty corrupt, and won't

651
00:23:22,279 --> 00:23:23,340
most of the dollars,

652
00:23:24,234 --> 00:23:26,494
go to corrupt police organizations?

653
00:23:27,115 --> 00:23:28,095
Yes. They will.

654
00:23:29,835 --> 00:23:30,734
I know that.

655
00:23:31,194 --> 00:23:33,275
But there will be funding that will go

656
00:23:33,275 --> 00:23:34,575
to some good police

657
00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:35,375
departments.

658
00:23:35,835 --> 00:23:37,355
There will be funding that will go to

659
00:23:37,355 --> 00:23:38,015
some legitimate

660
00:23:39,369 --> 00:23:41,289
situations. Some of this really is gonna be

661
00:23:41,289 --> 00:23:42,589
heavily pushed into,

662
00:23:45,690 --> 00:23:48,490
police academy, building police academy, so those kind

663
00:23:48,490 --> 00:23:49,069
of things.

664
00:23:49,529 --> 00:23:50,029
But

665
00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:52,730
here's the thing is I I'm not defund

666
00:23:52,730 --> 00:23:54,974
the police. I I know that our police

667
00:23:54,974 --> 00:23:57,055
departments are becoming more corrupt all the time.

668
00:23:57,055 --> 00:23:58,734
I get that. But not all of them.

669
00:23:58,734 --> 00:24:01,375
This is Denver and and Boulder and stuff

670
00:24:01,375 --> 00:24:03,535
like that. We we know that there's some

671
00:24:03,535 --> 00:24:05,375
of that going on in Colorado Springs. But

672
00:24:05,375 --> 00:24:07,694
guys, we we're one of the areas where

673
00:24:07,694 --> 00:24:09,394
we have a a good police department.

674
00:24:09,889 --> 00:24:11,750
Overall, there's there's problems.

675
00:24:12,369 --> 00:24:13,190
But overall,

676
00:24:13,649 --> 00:24:15,490
the way that you fix that is you

677
00:24:15,490 --> 00:24:16,789
vote in the right mayor.

678
00:24:17,809 --> 00:24:19,190
And they begin to,

679
00:24:20,369 --> 00:24:22,690
they begin to reform that and fix that.

680
00:24:22,690 --> 00:24:24,450
It takes time, but they begin to do

681
00:24:24,450 --> 00:24:26,195
that. When we vote in a mayor like

682
00:24:26,195 --> 00:24:29,015
we have presently, you're gonna have corrupt everything.

683
00:24:29,875 --> 00:24:30,375
Okay?

684
00:24:30,755 --> 00:24:31,255
Daniel?

685
00:24:32,115 --> 00:24:34,295
The amendment g, does that one

686
00:24:35,075 --> 00:24:36,295
just defend,

687
00:24:36,755 --> 00:24:39,555
expand the definition of who a disabled veteran

688
00:24:39,555 --> 00:24:41,730
is with the property tax?

689
00:24:43,150 --> 00:24:45,569
No. So there so this already exist,

690
00:24:46,750 --> 00:24:47,809
at some level.

691
00:24:48,990 --> 00:24:51,309
You as a veteran get a property tax

692
00:24:51,309 --> 00:24:51,809
break.

693
00:24:55,195 --> 00:24:56,154
It it it doesn't

694
00:24:56,955 --> 00:24:59,195
broad broad is not a bad term. What

695
00:24:59,195 --> 00:25:00,955
it does we saw 2 bills come up

696
00:25:00,955 --> 00:25:01,515
in in,

697
00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:05,035
in a session this last year. 1 1

698
00:25:05,035 --> 00:25:06,634
the year before, but 2 big ones that

699
00:25:06,634 --> 00:25:08,609
came up this last time where the what

700
00:25:08,609 --> 00:25:10,690
they're trying to do. So so the bigger

701
00:25:10,690 --> 00:25:12,210
issues that you have let me let me

702
00:25:12,210 --> 00:25:14,849
broaden out past property tax. The bigger issues

703
00:25:14,849 --> 00:25:15,990
you have within the veterans,

704
00:25:18,529 --> 00:25:20,150
the whole veterans culture

705
00:25:20,585 --> 00:25:22,505
is when you get out into rural places,

706
00:25:22,505 --> 00:25:25,224
you don't have the veterans do not have

707
00:25:25,224 --> 00:25:25,545
the,

708
00:25:26,505 --> 00:25:28,045
access to to,

709
00:25:28,505 --> 00:25:31,065
all the same things that you have in

710
00:25:31,065 --> 00:25:33,144
one of the veteran meccas of the United

711
00:25:33,144 --> 00:25:35,085
States, Colorado Springs. Okay?

712
00:25:35,549 --> 00:25:37,090
You can literally get down,

713
00:25:37,789 --> 00:25:38,769
to past Pueblo,

714
00:25:39,070 --> 00:25:40,750
and veterans have to drive 2 or 3

715
00:25:40,750 --> 00:25:42,750
hours sometimes. And we've we've sat and listened

716
00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:44,990
to stories of them having to drive 5,

717
00:25:44,990 --> 00:25:47,250
6 hours just to get some veteran assistant.

718
00:25:47,390 --> 00:25:49,250
Well, that means they're not really being served,

719
00:25:49,309 --> 00:25:50,610
which is part of the deal.

720
00:25:50,944 --> 00:25:52,704
What they tried to do is they tried

721
00:25:52,704 --> 00:25:53,845
to broaden the definition

722
00:25:54,144 --> 00:25:54,644
out

723
00:25:55,184 --> 00:25:56,085
to include

724
00:25:56,865 --> 00:25:59,424
special this was specifically a bill this last

725
00:25:59,424 --> 00:25:59,924
year.

726
00:26:00,464 --> 00:26:00,964
Special

727
00:26:01,744 --> 00:26:02,244
veterans,

728
00:26:03,664 --> 00:26:04,884
priority toward,

729
00:26:06,470 --> 00:26:06,970
LGBT

730
00:26:07,830 --> 00:26:08,330
veterans.

731
00:26:08,710 --> 00:26:09,210
Specifically

732
00:26:09,590 --> 00:26:10,890
transgender veterans.

733
00:26:11,830 --> 00:26:12,330
Extra,

734
00:26:13,190 --> 00:26:14,630
assistance. So if you like, you know, you

735
00:26:14,630 --> 00:26:16,950
got a $100 and everybody there's a 100

736
00:26:16,950 --> 00:26:18,865
people and they're all getting a dollar. What

737
00:26:18,865 --> 00:26:21,025
happens now is all of the veterans that

738
00:26:21,025 --> 00:26:22,325
are not transgender

739
00:26:22,784 --> 00:26:25,105
are gonna get a nickel, a nickel, a

740
00:26:25,105 --> 00:26:27,345
nickel, and then these these transgender people are

741
00:26:27,345 --> 00:26:28,724
gonna get $20 each.

742
00:26:29,025 --> 00:26:30,865
That's the concept. It's not the numbers, but

743
00:26:30,865 --> 00:26:31,765
that's the concept.

744
00:26:32,220 --> 00:26:33,819
So they've been trying to work on this

745
00:26:33,819 --> 00:26:35,660
whole veterans thing for a while trying to

746
00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:38,000
do that. And then also, they tried to,

747
00:26:39,019 --> 00:26:40,859
had a bill that was put up this

748
00:26:40,859 --> 00:26:41,359
last

749
00:26:41,660 --> 00:26:43,759
session. And the lady that put it up

750
00:26:45,115 --> 00:26:46,974
voted against it because

751
00:26:47,674 --> 00:26:48,174
so

752
00:26:48,954 --> 00:26:50,474
it was her bill, but she felt like

753
00:26:50,474 --> 00:26:52,634
that we weren't including transgenders enough. Because what

754
00:26:52,634 --> 00:26:55,055
she was doing is saying that first priority

755
00:26:55,434 --> 00:26:56,494
should be to women.

756
00:26:57,269 --> 00:26:58,170
Women veterans.

757
00:26:58,869 --> 00:27:00,090
Here's the thing with me.

758
00:27:03,509 --> 00:27:04,009
So

759
00:27:04,630 --> 00:27:06,390
that's that came up. That came up in

760
00:27:06,390 --> 00:27:09,109
the conversation, because we had already discussed the

761
00:27:09,109 --> 00:27:10,650
bill of transgender

762
00:27:11,190 --> 00:27:11,690
veterans.

763
00:27:12,335 --> 00:27:13,855
Right? They get a they get the first

764
00:27:13,855 --> 00:27:14,914
cut of the pie.

765
00:27:15,295 --> 00:27:18,275
So so the the the problem with this

766
00:27:18,494 --> 00:27:18,994
is,

767
00:27:19,775 --> 00:27:20,335
there's there's

768
00:27:21,535 --> 00:27:23,234
I think women veterans

769
00:27:23,775 --> 00:27:24,835
have the same

770
00:27:25,375 --> 00:27:25,875
priority

771
00:27:26,414 --> 00:27:27,555
as male veterans.

772
00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:28,880
Right?

773
00:27:29,259 --> 00:27:30,640
When you start classifying,

774
00:27:31,420 --> 00:27:33,820
they're they're no longer veterans. They're veterans of

775
00:27:33,820 --> 00:27:35,980
this class, veterans of this class, veterans of

776
00:27:35,980 --> 00:27:38,220
this class kind of thing. It's the whole

777
00:27:38,220 --> 00:27:38,720
concept.

778
00:27:39,019 --> 00:27:40,779
This is this is a probably a weird

779
00:27:40,779 --> 00:27:42,464
way to answer, but this is my thing

780
00:27:42,544 --> 00:27:43,505
this is my heart on this. This is

781
00:27:43,505 --> 00:27:44,244
my thinking.

782
00:27:44,944 --> 00:27:47,184
When you look across America, you you should

783
00:27:47,184 --> 00:27:48,085
say Americans.

784
00:27:48,464 --> 00:27:50,484
When you put something in front of that,

785
00:27:51,184 --> 00:27:52,085
you're changing

786
00:27:52,704 --> 00:27:55,424
the whole concept of America. So in other

787
00:27:55,424 --> 00:27:56,964
words, African American.

788
00:27:57,829 --> 00:27:59,750
That that's not a that's not a real

789
00:27:59,750 --> 00:28:02,329
thing for almost all of the black community.

790
00:28:02,789 --> 00:28:04,890
They they didn't move here from Africa.

791
00:28:05,190 --> 00:28:06,009
They're Americans.

792
00:28:07,109 --> 00:28:09,109
In fact, my father-in-law used to say this

793
00:28:09,109 --> 00:28:10,789
all the time. He lived in Africa longer

794
00:28:10,789 --> 00:28:12,325
than he lived in America. He said, does

795
00:28:12,325 --> 00:28:13,945
that make me an African American?

796
00:28:14,325 --> 00:28:14,825
Well,

797
00:28:15,365 --> 00:28:17,445
we we got these weird definitions. Okay? So

798
00:28:17,445 --> 00:28:18,505
anytime you say,

799
00:28:19,205 --> 00:28:21,785
that this type of veteran should get

800
00:28:22,085 --> 00:28:23,065
more access

801
00:28:23,445 --> 00:28:25,765
or should have extra benefits just because of

802
00:28:25,765 --> 00:28:28,200
some classification, you've already messed the whole system

803
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:29,559
up. It's not it's not

804
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,940
nothing is designed to work that way. K?

805
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,480
The idea of affirmative action in veteran thing

806
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,640
is stupid. Affirmative action is stupid to begin

807
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:38,140
with,

808
00:28:38,759 --> 00:28:40,845
when we start in doing this. And now

809
00:28:40,924 --> 00:28:42,924
now when it comes to this specific bill,

810
00:28:42,924 --> 00:28:44,845
it's not that broad, but I believe what

811
00:28:44,845 --> 00:28:46,204
they're doing is they're trying to lay the

812
00:28:46,204 --> 00:28:46,704
foundation.

813
00:28:47,005 --> 00:28:48,605
Because we already saw that 2 years in

814
00:28:48,605 --> 00:28:50,765
a row where they're they're trying to change

815
00:28:50,765 --> 00:28:53,005
all the rules for veterans. They say we're

816
00:28:53,005 --> 00:28:54,900
trying to get more access, but you can

817
00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:57,700
give more access without trying to classify who

818
00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:00,420
gets first shot at it kind of thinking.

819
00:29:00,420 --> 00:29:02,740
And so Is it tax breaks? So are

820
00:29:02,740 --> 00:29:04,900
you saying you vote for it or not

821
00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:05,400
vote?

822
00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:07,400
I I believe in tax breaks.

823
00:29:07,940 --> 00:29:10,234
And I believe that veterans I have do

824
00:29:10,234 --> 00:29:10,734
what?

825
00:29:11,355 --> 00:29:13,295
See, there's the other part of the problem.

826
00:29:13,355 --> 00:29:15,595
I believe in tax breaks. When you say,

827
00:29:15,595 --> 00:29:17,535
okay. This group gets a specific

828
00:29:18,234 --> 00:29:20,394
tax break over another group, I struggle with

829
00:29:20,394 --> 00:29:21,134
that. Now

830
00:29:21,674 --> 00:29:23,914
I I don't struggle as much with veterans

831
00:29:23,914 --> 00:29:26,220
because I understand the the concept

832
00:29:26,839 --> 00:29:29,179
of what pay is and how that looks.

833
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,639
But here's the thing. Why can't we just

834
00:29:31,639 --> 00:29:33,740
give everybody a tax break?

835
00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:36,119
Why do we have to to to do

836
00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:38,039
this? Now if I say this about veterans,

837
00:29:38,039 --> 00:29:39,799
well, then I don't like veterans. That's not

838
00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:42,244
what it is. I think that everybody should

839
00:29:42,244 --> 00:29:43,384
get a tax break.

840
00:29:43,924 --> 00:29:46,005
What what we do, this is this is

841
00:29:46,005 --> 00:29:48,904
how people this is how government buys votes.

842
00:29:49,684 --> 00:29:51,845
You raise the taxes to this, and then

843
00:29:51,845 --> 00:29:54,164
you say, what is a big demographic that

844
00:29:54,164 --> 00:29:56,390
we could get votes that we don't have

845
00:29:56,390 --> 00:29:59,109
votes for now? The democrats say, well we

846
00:29:59,109 --> 00:30:02,549
don't usually get the military vote. Let's give

847
00:30:02,549 --> 00:30:05,269
them an extra tax break, and they'll vote

848
00:30:05,269 --> 00:30:06,009
for democrats.

849
00:30:07,349 --> 00:30:09,609
That's that's literally what this is.

850
00:30:10,515 --> 00:30:11,015
Okay?

851
00:30:11,315 --> 00:30:12,375
With that said,

852
00:30:12,914 --> 00:30:15,095
I don't mind veterans getting a tax break.

853
00:30:15,755 --> 00:30:16,255
And

854
00:30:16,914 --> 00:30:20,355
and along that same lines, whatever happened to

855
00:30:20,355 --> 00:30:21,575
Taber in this whole

856
00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:24,275
property taxing that you guys got called back

857
00:30:24,275 --> 00:30:26,519
in the special session for? Is it already

858
00:30:26,519 --> 00:30:27,019
gone?

859
00:30:28,279 --> 00:30:28,779
So

860
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,680
so we got called back in a special

861
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,160
session. It it came out to somewhere around

862
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:33,660
$85,

863
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:35,980
for the average,

864
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,420
Colorado

865
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:38,220
and,

866
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:39,580
$85

867
00:30:40,634 --> 00:30:42,174
property tax break

868
00:30:42,555 --> 00:30:43,295
a year.

869
00:30:44,394 --> 00:30:45,134
That's awesome.

870
00:30:45,515 --> 00:30:46,174
A year.

871
00:30:47,035 --> 00:30:47,535
K?

872
00:30:48,075 --> 00:30:50,875
But here's here's what here so Democrats hate

873
00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:52,234
Tabor. They say this all the time. They

874
00:30:52,234 --> 00:30:53,835
said this to us many times, and now

875
00:30:53,835 --> 00:30:55,500
I'd say that we're gonna tear down Tabor.

876
00:30:56,140 --> 00:30:58,059
Tabor is the only thing that has kept

877
00:30:58,059 --> 00:31:01,440
Colorado from literally just sinking, just sinking ship.

878
00:31:01,660 --> 00:31:03,980
Tabor is the only thing. Doug Bruce was

879
00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:05,839
a genius when he put this together.

880
00:31:06,299 --> 00:31:07,759
Still is a genius. But

881
00:31:08,150 --> 00:31:08,650
so

882
00:31:09,794 --> 00:31:11,154
here's one of the ways that they've been

883
00:31:11,154 --> 00:31:12,434
going they go around it with 4 or

884
00:31:12,434 --> 00:31:14,034
5 different things, and I've argued all of

885
00:31:14,034 --> 00:31:15,954
these in on the floor. But one of

886
00:31:15,954 --> 00:31:17,734
the ways is they make special districts.

887
00:31:18,595 --> 00:31:20,515
So in other words, a special district is

888
00:31:20,515 --> 00:31:21,015
not,

889
00:31:21,714 --> 00:31:22,454
is not,

890
00:31:23,234 --> 00:31:24,694
they're exempt from Tabor.

891
00:31:26,090 --> 00:31:28,670
So the so the concept of Tabor, taxpayer

892
00:31:28,809 --> 00:31:31,289
bill of rights, Tabor. The concept of Tabor

893
00:31:31,289 --> 00:31:32,430
is before anybody,

894
00:31:32,730 --> 00:31:35,950
me, Democrats, Republicans, before we can raise taxes,

895
00:31:36,170 --> 00:31:37,529
it has to come to the vote of

896
00:31:37,529 --> 00:31:38,110
the people.

897
00:31:38,444 --> 00:31:40,464
We cannot raise taxes by ourselves.

898
00:31:40,765 --> 00:31:43,505
California, they can raise taxes whenever they want.

899
00:31:43,565 --> 00:31:45,105
The legislature can.

900
00:31:45,804 --> 00:31:47,265
We can't do that in Colorado

901
00:31:47,724 --> 00:31:50,204
because Doug Bruce saw this coming 22 years

902
00:31:50,204 --> 00:31:50,670
ago.

903
00:31:51,470 --> 00:31:52,750
So we have to bring it to the

904
00:31:52,750 --> 00:31:54,509
vote of the people. So here's the way

905
00:31:54,509 --> 00:31:55,809
you get around it. You have

906
00:31:56,190 --> 00:31:57,410
tolls on roads.

907
00:31:58,190 --> 00:31:59,890
It's not a tax. It's a toll.

908
00:32:01,390 --> 00:32:01,890
You

909
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:03,740
so

910
00:32:04,945 --> 00:32:07,505
so you have tolls on roads. You have

911
00:32:07,505 --> 00:32:09,585
extra fees. I don't know if you've gotten

912
00:32:09,585 --> 00:32:11,205
your driver's license lately.

913
00:32:11,904 --> 00:32:14,224
You have extra fees. Those are fees. Those

914
00:32:14,224 --> 00:32:15,285
are not taxes.

915
00:32:16,065 --> 00:32:16,965
They're fees.

916
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,480
Yeah. Because what now are they? They're taxes.

917
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,559
Toll is a tax. Fees are taxes. But

918
00:32:23,559 --> 00:32:25,559
this is how we verbally get around Taber.

919
00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:27,400
Then you have special districts like,

920
00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:29,960
school districts, fire districts, water districts, all these

921
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,599
other things. They're not susceptible to taxes because

922
00:32:32,599 --> 00:32:33,099
Taber,

923
00:32:33,634 --> 00:32:36,355
taxes, yes. But Tabor, because we call it

924
00:32:36,355 --> 00:32:38,914
something else. They're they're a special district. They're

925
00:32:38,914 --> 00:32:39,974
a special municipality.

926
00:32:40,514 --> 00:32:42,274
So we got all these groups that are

927
00:32:42,274 --> 00:32:45,075
exempt from this. So then they lower property

928
00:32:45,075 --> 00:32:47,589
tax, quote unquote for the people, But then

929
00:32:47,589 --> 00:32:51,029
they backfill all of these districts because if

930
00:32:51,029 --> 00:32:52,789
if you're gonna pay less taxes, that means

931
00:32:52,789 --> 00:32:54,950
your school district gets less money. Your fire

932
00:32:54,950 --> 00:32:57,750
district gets less money. Your, water district gets

933
00:32:57,750 --> 00:32:58,889
less money. Now,

934
00:32:59,775 --> 00:33:02,255
on on paper, they get less money. But

935
00:33:02,255 --> 00:33:03,795
you understand how government

936
00:33:04,174 --> 00:33:05,234
budgets work?

937
00:33:05,535 --> 00:33:06,035
K.

938
00:33:06,414 --> 00:33:06,914
Everybody

939
00:33:07,215 --> 00:33:09,555
gets more money than they did last year.

940
00:33:10,494 --> 00:33:13,055
Fire department gets this much money. If they

941
00:33:13,055 --> 00:33:15,569
lower taxes, they get this this is what

942
00:33:15,569 --> 00:33:17,170
they got last year. This is what they

943
00:33:17,170 --> 00:33:18,529
get in this year. But when you lower

944
00:33:18,529 --> 00:33:20,230
taxes, this is what they get now.

945
00:33:20,529 --> 00:33:22,769
They still get a 60% increase or something.

946
00:33:22,769 --> 00:33:24,869
That's a big number. But an increase

947
00:33:25,329 --> 00:33:27,190
but it because it wasn't 62%,

948
00:33:28,835 --> 00:33:30,855
they say that they're getting a tax cut.

949
00:33:31,634 --> 00:33:32,775
That is a lie.

950
00:33:33,474 --> 00:33:34,695
That is a lie.

951
00:33:35,714 --> 00:33:37,634
That and everybody does. They do it the

952
00:33:37,634 --> 00:33:39,714
federal level, they do it state level. Every

953
00:33:39,714 --> 00:33:41,954
one of these groups get more money each

954
00:33:41,954 --> 00:33:44,049
year than they got the year before, but

955
00:33:44,049 --> 00:33:45,809
they don't just they just don't get as,

956
00:33:46,210 --> 00:33:48,049
as much as they were gonna get. So

957
00:33:48,049 --> 00:33:49,570
they call it a So then we come

958
00:33:49,570 --> 00:33:51,650
along as the state, and we say, well

959
00:33:51,650 --> 00:33:54,049
then let's backfill that. Let's give them that

960
00:33:54,049 --> 00:33:56,070
extra money that they weren't gonna give.

961
00:33:56,515 --> 00:33:57,255
Be given.

962
00:33:57,714 --> 00:33:59,875
They're already getting all of this extra money.

963
00:33:59,875 --> 00:34:01,634
And you say this to the there was,

964
00:34:01,875 --> 00:34:03,575
the fireman came up and and

965
00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:05,575
talked to us in special session.

966
00:34:05,954 --> 00:34:07,394
And I went at them. And there was

967
00:34:07,394 --> 00:34:08,994
even some Democrats that went at them and

968
00:34:08,994 --> 00:34:10,835
said, why should you have extra money when

969
00:34:10,835 --> 00:34:13,070
everybody else doesn't? I'm like

970
00:34:18,650 --> 00:34:20,750
because democrat even said it.

971
00:34:21,289 --> 00:34:23,450
The guys, they get they get 100 and

972
00:34:23,450 --> 00:34:25,450
100 of 1000 more money all the time

973
00:34:25,450 --> 00:34:28,355
constantly. Schools schools never get less money.

974
00:34:29,534 --> 00:34:31,695
They get more money. They just may not

975
00:34:31,695 --> 00:34:33,934
get as much more money if you get

976
00:34:33,934 --> 00:34:35,635
a property tax decrease.

977
00:34:37,135 --> 00:34:39,375
They still and here's the thing. They're still

978
00:34:39,375 --> 00:34:40,815
not when they get the more money, they

979
00:34:40,815 --> 00:34:42,114
don't give it to the teachers.

980
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,800
The teachers don't get all these raises. They

981
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,199
add extra administrators at 3 times what the

982
00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:49,280
teachers make. Did you realize in the last

983
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,659
10 years, 72%

984
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:51,699
of all,

985
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,219
increases in public education went to adding

986
00:34:55,599 --> 00:34:56,099
administrators?

987
00:34:57,974 --> 00:34:58,954
Not to teachers.

988
00:35:01,335 --> 00:35:03,815
The the the the balance has become there's

989
00:35:03,815 --> 00:35:05,195
a movie that's called,

990
00:35:06,535 --> 00:35:08,454
Whose Kids Are They? You should watch that

991
00:35:08,454 --> 00:35:10,295
movie. Whose Kids Are They? It was put

992
00:35:10,375 --> 00:35:11,035
it was

993
00:35:11,414 --> 00:35:12,315
made by

994
00:35:13,289 --> 00:35:15,230
Deborah Flora. She she,

995
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:16,349
ran for

996
00:35:17,130 --> 00:35:18,730
senate 2 years ago, and I think she

997
00:35:18,730 --> 00:35:20,809
was running for something this last time too.

998
00:35:20,809 --> 00:35:21,309
But

999
00:35:21,769 --> 00:35:23,789
her and her husband made the movie, documentary.

1000
00:35:24,730 --> 00:35:27,050
Very solid. You when you finish that, you'll

1001
00:35:27,050 --> 00:35:28,590
just you're you'll be floored

1002
00:35:28,965 --> 00:35:31,125
at how corrupt all of the school stuff

1003
00:35:31,125 --> 00:35:31,625
is.

1004
00:35:31,925 --> 00:35:34,565
How completely corrupt it is. Well, they get

1005
00:35:34,565 --> 00:35:35,385
extra money.

1006
00:35:36,164 --> 00:35:37,864
They're not gonna give it to teachers.

1007
00:35:38,325 --> 00:35:40,405
Why don't we go back to having like

1008
00:35:40,405 --> 00:35:42,965
30 teachers and one principal instead of having

1009
00:35:42,965 --> 00:35:43,829
15 teachers

1010
00:35:44,230 --> 00:35:45,530
and 38 administrators.

1011
00:35:47,030 --> 00:35:48,230
Why don't we go back to that and

1012
00:35:48,230 --> 00:35:50,630
give teachers the money? Because they don't care

1013
00:35:50,630 --> 00:35:52,950
about education. That's not the point. It's never

1014
00:35:52,950 --> 00:35:53,769
been the point.

1015
00:35:54,070 --> 00:35:54,570
So

1016
00:35:55,110 --> 00:35:55,610
that's,

1017
00:35:57,035 --> 00:35:58,875
my rant on that. Would you like me

1018
00:35:58,875 --> 00:36:00,414
to rant about anything else?

1019
00:36:01,114 --> 00:36:01,855
Yes, ma'am.

1020
00:36:02,715 --> 00:36:03,215
So

1021
00:36:03,515 --> 00:36:05,614
when you're talking about going Hold the microphone

1022
00:36:05,675 --> 00:36:07,755
up to you. I I don't like We

1023
00:36:07,755 --> 00:36:09,434
have to because they have to hear you

1024
00:36:09,434 --> 00:36:10,575
online. Okay.

1025
00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:13,500
So going on about

1026
00:36:14,279 --> 00:36:16,779
dropping down to 1 principal and 30 teachers,

1027
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,819
doesn't that shorten the building as is? Because

1028
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,799
given that if you're gonna drop down to

1029
00:36:21,799 --> 00:36:22,779
1 main principal

1030
00:36:23,079 --> 00:36:24,440
I came from a school that had 3

1031
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:24,940
principals.

1032
00:36:25,474 --> 00:36:27,235
We had 3 different principals given on how

1033
00:36:27,235 --> 00:36:29,954
many students were coming into that town, coming

1034
00:36:29,954 --> 00:36:32,034
in through different high schools, what is that

1035
00:36:32,034 --> 00:36:34,034
going to do for those buildings? If they

1036
00:36:34,034 --> 00:36:36,375
drop down to 1 being able to control

1037
00:36:36,434 --> 00:36:38,135
almost 400 students,

1038
00:36:38,909 --> 00:36:40,609
what power will they have there

1039
00:36:40,909 --> 00:36:42,530
to keep anything in order?

1040
00:36:43,549 --> 00:36:46,190
Adding you could have 50 principals. They have

1041
00:36:46,190 --> 00:36:48,429
no power. They're they have no discipline they

1042
00:36:48,429 --> 00:36:49,409
cannot discipline.

1043
00:36:49,710 --> 00:36:50,530
They have no,

1044
00:36:51,224 --> 00:36:51,945
any kind of,

1045
00:36:52,585 --> 00:36:55,465
disciplinary power power over the children, and they

1046
00:36:55,465 --> 00:36:57,865
don't actually have the power over the teachers

1047
00:36:57,865 --> 00:37:00,525
either. That's a teacher union lie. K?

1048
00:37:01,224 --> 00:37:02,585
Back in the day when I was in

1049
00:37:02,585 --> 00:37:04,285
school, my dad was a principal.

1050
00:37:04,730 --> 00:37:06,650
He didn't even have an assistant principal. This

1051
00:37:06,650 --> 00:37:08,650
was a decent sized school. Didn't even have

1052
00:37:08,650 --> 00:37:10,650
an assistant principal. He was it. And he

1053
00:37:10,650 --> 00:37:12,329
ran a school of 100 and 100 of

1054
00:37:12,329 --> 00:37:15,150
students by himself. Because why? The teachers

1055
00:37:15,529 --> 00:37:16,349
were paid,

1056
00:37:18,014 --> 00:37:21,074
decently back in those days, comparatively, I'm saying.

1057
00:37:21,694 --> 00:37:22,994
And they could discipline.

1058
00:37:23,694 --> 00:37:25,454
When you don't discipline, it doesn't matter how

1059
00:37:25,454 --> 00:37:27,614
many principals, how many teachers, how many have

1060
00:37:27,614 --> 00:37:29,775
anything. You are never gonna be in control

1061
00:37:29,775 --> 00:37:31,534
of that school. That thing is out of

1062
00:37:31,534 --> 00:37:32,034
control.

1063
00:37:32,539 --> 00:37:34,619
The more teachers you have that are that

1064
00:37:34,619 --> 00:37:37,260
are paid decent to do their job, the

1065
00:37:37,260 --> 00:37:39,659
more they're going to invest. Right now, we

1066
00:37:39,659 --> 00:37:41,980
see you can see videos online constantly. When

1067
00:37:41,980 --> 00:37:44,139
a fight erupts in a classroom, a teacher

1068
00:37:44,139 --> 00:37:46,614
will walk out Because they can't do anything,

1069
00:37:46,675 --> 00:37:48,675
and they're in danger. And the ones that

1070
00:37:48,675 --> 00:37:50,434
don't walk out get beat up by the

1071
00:37:50,434 --> 00:37:50,934
students.

1072
00:37:51,635 --> 00:37:54,054
That that we're not paying these teachers enough.

1073
00:37:54,114 --> 00:37:56,034
You don't need a bunch of extra administrators.

1074
00:37:56,034 --> 00:37:58,434
What does the extra administrator do? Walk around

1075
00:37:58,434 --> 00:38:00,610
the halls? They're not actually doing they can't

1076
00:38:00,610 --> 00:38:02,849
discipline the kids. They're not allowed to do

1077
00:38:02,849 --> 00:38:05,429
that. So what are they doing? Administrative

1078
00:38:05,730 --> 00:38:07,409
paperwork, all that kind of stuff. Things that

1079
00:38:07,409 --> 00:38:09,090
teachers used to do back in the day.

1080
00:38:09,329 --> 00:38:10,690
If I may ask, what do you mean

1081
00:38:10,690 --> 00:38:11,510
by disciplining?

1082
00:38:13,385 --> 00:38:16,844
Spanking kids, making them actually stay after school,

1083
00:38:17,144 --> 00:38:18,824
failing them when they don't know how to

1084
00:38:18,824 --> 00:38:21,164
read at 10th grade, things like that.

1085
00:38:21,784 --> 00:38:24,525
Our schools are are completely broken with this.

1086
00:38:24,984 --> 00:38:27,324
We we'll never go back to spanking students.

1087
00:38:27,385 --> 00:38:28,679
I I understand that.

1088
00:38:29,079 --> 00:38:30,359
But we don't have any other way of

1089
00:38:30,359 --> 00:38:32,760
discipline. We graduate you realize that most of

1090
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,239
the kids that graduate cannot read above a

1091
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:36,460
3rd grade level

1092
00:38:36,839 --> 00:38:38,920
now in public in fact, here's a big

1093
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,239
one. Do you guys remember when the Department

1094
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:42,440
of Education or the,

1095
00:38:43,215 --> 00:38:45,695
Education Administration was started in the United States?

1096
00:38:45,695 --> 00:38:47,155
What president started that?

1097
00:38:47,775 --> 00:38:48,275
Carter.

1098
00:38:48,735 --> 00:38:51,954
We were ranked what in the world educationally?

1099
00:38:52,894 --> 00:38:54,675
We were number 1 in the world.

1100
00:38:55,135 --> 00:38:58,170
America provided the best education in the world.

1101
00:38:58,329 --> 00:39:00,269
We started this national

1102
00:39:00,889 --> 00:39:01,389
Marxist

1103
00:39:01,849 --> 00:39:02,349
controlled

1104
00:39:02,650 --> 00:39:03,389
thought process

1105
00:39:03,929 --> 00:39:04,429
education

1106
00:39:04,730 --> 00:39:05,230
union.

1107
00:39:05,609 --> 00:39:07,069
And now where are we ranked?

1108
00:39:09,369 --> 00:39:12,170
In the in the high forties. 47, 48

1109
00:39:12,170 --> 00:39:13,710
right now across the world.

1110
00:39:14,424 --> 00:39:15,885
Well, I'm glad we did that.

1111
00:39:17,224 --> 00:39:18,984
At the same time Yeah. If I was

1112
00:39:18,984 --> 00:39:20,585
president, I would do away with that day

1113
00:39:20,585 --> 00:39:22,764
1. That is a Marxist organization.

1114
00:39:23,065 --> 00:39:24,744
Well, here's the thing that we that we

1115
00:39:24,744 --> 00:39:27,224
did with that. Is when that started, the

1116
00:39:27,224 --> 00:39:29,224
union started doing all this and that's where

1117
00:39:29,224 --> 00:39:31,699
you started seeing major major philosophical

1118
00:39:32,159 --> 00:39:34,500
changes in what education was.

1119
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,039
K? Now it's easy to look from that

1120
00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:40,239
time until now, and see how vast and

1121
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,719
drastic these changes became to the point where

1122
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,195
we're not actually educating kids anymore. We're not

1123
00:39:45,195 --> 00:39:45,675
we're not,

1124
00:39:46,394 --> 00:39:48,655
there is no such thing as, as,

1125
00:39:49,755 --> 00:39:51,994
critical thinking. And and even all of the

1126
00:39:51,994 --> 00:39:54,074
common more common core math and all the

1127
00:39:54,074 --> 00:39:56,315
stupidity that we've added into schools, this is

1128
00:39:56,315 --> 00:39:58,494
all part of this this Marxist mentality.

1129
00:39:58,889 --> 00:40:00,750
But you couldn't see it systematically.

1130
00:40:02,089 --> 00:40:03,869
It seemed it seemed ambiguous.

1131
00:40:04,329 --> 00:40:05,630
But when you look now,

1132
00:40:06,089 --> 00:40:07,869
we we are failing children.

1133
00:40:09,130 --> 00:40:11,849
Now, what what they've actually started doing is

1134
00:40:11,849 --> 00:40:13,309
now there's a lot of universities

1135
00:40:13,835 --> 00:40:16,234
that will not use the SAT or the

1136
00:40:16,234 --> 00:40:17,295
ACT anymore

1137
00:40:17,594 --> 00:40:18,734
for, entrance,

1138
00:40:19,594 --> 00:40:20,094
requirements.

1139
00:40:20,954 --> 00:40:21,454
Why?

1140
00:40:22,795 --> 00:40:24,815
It's too hard. They can't pass it.

1141
00:40:25,594 --> 00:40:27,934
But we still need all of the diversity

1142
00:40:28,154 --> 00:40:29,295
within the universities.

1143
00:40:29,809 --> 00:40:31,809
And so we are This is what Harvard

1144
00:40:31,809 --> 00:40:33,489
was doing when they were when they were

1145
00:40:33,489 --> 00:40:33,989
stopping,

1146
00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:35,349
Asians

1147
00:40:35,730 --> 00:40:37,349
from coming into Harvard.

1148
00:40:37,969 --> 00:40:40,070
There were too many Asians in Harvard.

1149
00:40:41,250 --> 00:40:41,750
What?

1150
00:40:42,965 --> 00:40:43,465
Maybe

1151
00:40:43,765 --> 00:40:46,085
they had the best scores. Maybe they had

1152
00:40:46,085 --> 00:40:48,105
the best test. Maybe they were

1153
00:40:48,485 --> 00:40:49,304
more driven

1154
00:40:49,605 --> 00:40:51,765
than all of the other groups. But Harvard

1155
00:40:51,765 --> 00:40:54,485
started discriminating against Asians because it didn't look

1156
00:40:54,485 --> 00:40:55,304
good in pictures.

1157
00:40:57,420 --> 00:40:59,359
Now we don't even do entrance examinations

1158
00:40:59,739 --> 00:41:00,719
the same way.

1159
00:41:01,179 --> 00:41:03,260
Because why? Guys, these are things This is

1160
00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:05,179
when I get up and say stuff about

1161
00:41:05,179 --> 00:41:07,359
how the average 40 year old and above

1162
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:08,639
has no idea

1163
00:41:09,099 --> 00:41:11,434
how much the country has changed. That this

1164
00:41:11,434 --> 00:41:12,795
is the thing. We just assume all the

1165
00:41:12,795 --> 00:41:14,474
stuff is still the same. When you when

1166
00:41:14,474 --> 00:41:16,235
you hear like Harvard and Stanford and all

1167
00:41:16,235 --> 00:41:17,295
this, you assume

1168
00:41:18,394 --> 00:41:20,414
that that is the way that that those

1169
00:41:20,474 --> 00:41:22,474
Ivy League schools are always what they used

1170
00:41:22,474 --> 00:41:23,054
to be.

1171
00:41:23,434 --> 00:41:24,414
They're not.

1172
00:41:25,109 --> 00:41:26,089
These are indoctrination

1173
00:41:26,469 --> 00:41:28,170
camps like you would not believe.

1174
00:41:28,949 --> 00:41:31,670
They don't educate them. They don't do this

1175
00:41:31,670 --> 00:41:32,569
stuff anymore.

1176
00:41:33,670 --> 00:41:35,849
This is where we have so much change.

1177
00:41:36,469 --> 00:41:38,789
And it starts it starts in the public

1178
00:41:38,789 --> 00:41:40,605
schools in, you know,

1179
00:41:41,085 --> 00:41:42,304
kindergarten to 12

1180
00:41:43,324 --> 00:41:44,065
with this.

1181
00:41:47,244 --> 00:41:48,525
I can't hear I didn't hear what you

1182
00:41:48,525 --> 00:41:49,025
said.

1183
00:41:50,684 --> 00:41:52,925
That's the point. You you bring them in

1184
00:41:52,925 --> 00:41:54,465
and tell them, you deserve

1185
00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:57,619
to be there. But, oh, by the way,

1186
00:41:57,619 --> 00:42:00,339
you'll never pass this test. You would not

1187
00:42:00,339 --> 00:42:01,159
have the qualifications

1188
00:42:01,460 --> 00:42:03,139
to be here. So what we're gonna do

1189
00:42:03,139 --> 00:42:05,219
is we're gonna run this down. Then the

1190
00:42:05,219 --> 00:42:07,699
answer to why you're so unsatisfied and give

1191
00:42:07,699 --> 00:42:10,179
you a Harvard education, no one will hire

1192
00:42:10,179 --> 00:42:12,394
you. No one will hire you just because

1193
00:42:12,394 --> 00:42:14,715
they're discriminating against you. Yep. And so but

1194
00:42:14,715 --> 00:42:17,355
it's easy to just radicalize people. And this

1195
00:42:17,355 --> 00:42:19,135
is what the this is what the Muslims

1196
00:42:19,195 --> 00:42:21,994
have been doing from day 1. Yeah. So

1197
00:42:21,994 --> 00:42:23,855
really it's it's okay

1198
00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:26,900
to go into this place and break these

1199
00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:28,900
people and shoot them and cut their heads

1200
00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:31,079
off because you've been radicalized.

1201
00:42:31,460 --> 00:42:34,179
The whole world's against you. Yeah. This is

1202
00:42:34,179 --> 00:42:36,179
one of the things. Thomas Sowell, has a

1203
00:42:36,179 --> 00:42:38,405
whole book about this. If you if you

1204
00:42:38,405 --> 00:42:40,005
guys do not know who Thomas Sowell is,

1205
00:42:40,005 --> 00:42:41,364
you need to figure out who this guy

1206
00:42:41,364 --> 00:42:41,864
is.

1207
00:42:42,244 --> 00:42:44,324
He's in his nineties now, and you need

1208
00:42:44,324 --> 00:42:45,704
to start reading his books.

1209
00:42:46,405 --> 00:42:48,244
The man is one of the the the

1210
00:42:48,244 --> 00:42:51,304
best thinkers that has ever lived in America.

1211
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,180
And he talks about this. He says

1212
00:42:54,559 --> 00:42:57,300
that we're doing a disservice to people

1213
00:42:57,599 --> 00:42:59,219
when we let people

1214
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:00,260
into

1215
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:01,219
these,

1216
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,440
elite schools. Now he said this back when

1217
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:04,820
the schools were still educating.

1218
00:43:05,355 --> 00:43:05,855
K.

1219
00:43:06,554 --> 00:43:07,454
Now they're disindoctrinating.

1220
00:43:08,394 --> 00:43:10,554
But he says we do a disservice when

1221
00:43:10,554 --> 00:43:12,635
we lower the standard so that somebody can

1222
00:43:12,635 --> 00:43:14,474
get into the school because of skin color

1223
00:43:14,474 --> 00:43:15,775
or because of something else.

1224
00:43:16,074 --> 00:43:17,755
He said because the problem is is they

1225
00:43:17,755 --> 00:43:18,894
cannot achieve

1226
00:43:19,434 --> 00:43:20,414
at that level.

1227
00:43:21,679 --> 00:43:22,500
Doesn't matter

1228
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,900
who they are, what color they are, whatever.

1229
00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:27,199
If they can't achieve at the level, don't

1230
00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:29,199
let them in. It does a disservice to

1231
00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:31,440
them, and it does a disservice to the

1232
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,859
school. And then what happens is the businesses,

1233
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:34,739
the corporations,

1234
00:43:35,385 --> 00:43:38,045
begin to not trust that school anymore.

1235
00:43:39,144 --> 00:43:39,945
Alright? Is there

1236
00:43:40,744 --> 00:43:42,944
Yeah. Yeah. Any in California will hire none

1237
00:43:42,944 --> 00:43:45,405
of those IT companies will hire from Stanford.

1238
00:43:45,784 --> 00:43:48,905
That's that has become so, I just read

1239
00:43:48,905 --> 00:43:50,284
JD Vance's book.

1240
00:43:51,610 --> 00:43:53,949
I I don't necessarily recommend it, but,

1241
00:43:55,690 --> 00:43:58,110
it it was I'd either way. But,

1242
00:43:59,369 --> 00:44:01,769
but he talks about this. That used to

1243
00:44:01,769 --> 00:44:03,210
be if you were a lawyer coming out

1244
00:44:03,210 --> 00:44:05,070
of Stanford, you could pick your job.

1245
00:44:05,625 --> 00:44:08,505
Doesn't exist anymore. Why? Because the school's not

1246
00:44:08,505 --> 00:44:09,644
what it used to be.

1247
00:44:10,265 --> 00:44:11,864
It's not the same that it used to

1248
00:44:11,864 --> 00:44:12,364
be.

1249
00:44:13,144 --> 00:44:15,304
The it is better for this student let's

1250
00:44:15,304 --> 00:44:17,465
say that the student is a low a

1251
00:44:17,465 --> 00:44:18,445
average student.

1252
00:44:19,559 --> 00:44:21,160
You let them into a school that is

1253
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,000
a high a average student, and they will

1254
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,320
always be behind. They can't perform. They can't

1255
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:26,140
do the stuff.

1256
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:26,940
So

1257
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,960
they're they're killing themselves trying to get there.

1258
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,719
They can't get there. It would be better

1259
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,059
if they went to a an Ohio state

1260
00:44:34,235 --> 00:44:36,875
or a Michigan or something like that that

1261
00:44:36,875 --> 00:44:38,494
I'm not saying there were schools,

1262
00:44:38,875 --> 00:44:41,135
but their their overall understanding

1263
00:44:41,434 --> 00:44:42,875
is more of the low a or the

1264
00:44:42,875 --> 00:44:43,614
high b.

1265
00:44:52,890 --> 00:44:53,869
You you won't.

1266
00:44:54,570 --> 00:44:56,590
Where you can be in the top half,

1267
00:44:56,969 --> 00:44:59,130
your whole rest of your career will be

1268
00:44:59,130 --> 00:44:59,630
better.

1269
00:44:59,930 --> 00:45:00,430
Yes.

1270
00:45:01,414 --> 00:45:03,574
You'll learn you'll learn more instead of just

1271
00:45:03,574 --> 00:45:04,934
trying to make sure you make the next

1272
00:45:04,934 --> 00:45:06,234
grade you're actually learning.

1273
00:45:06,614 --> 00:45:08,534
All these different things. And and Thomas Dole

1274
00:45:08,534 --> 00:45:10,534
Thomas Dole has done study after study after

1275
00:45:10,534 --> 00:45:12,454
study on this. But when he says something

1276
00:45:12,454 --> 00:45:13,835
like that, he's called a racist.

1277
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:15,619
Oh, by the way, he's black.

1278
00:45:18,079 --> 00:45:20,179
But he's called a racist for this.

1279
00:45:20,799 --> 00:45:22,579
One of the people I read his biography

1280
00:45:22,639 --> 00:45:25,280
too is, Clarence Thomas. He says the same

1281
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,199
thing. He said, we've got to make sure

1282
00:45:27,199 --> 00:45:29,505
that we that we help people succeed,

1283
00:45:29,885 --> 00:45:31,804
not just get into a school so that

1284
00:45:31,804 --> 00:45:32,385
the picture

1285
00:45:33,005 --> 00:45:35,405
of the graduating class has a lot of

1286
00:45:35,405 --> 00:45:37,565
different color in it. A lot of different,

1287
00:45:38,204 --> 00:45:41,405
mentalities behind it. It doesn't matter. If they're

1288
00:45:41,405 --> 00:45:43,585
all Asians, Harvard, okay.

1289
00:45:44,820 --> 00:45:45,800
They got in.

1290
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:49,140
It's stupid what we're doing with this kind

1291
00:45:49,140 --> 00:45:49,890
of stuff.

1292
00:45:59,094 --> 00:46:01,175
Yes. This is by the way, this is

1293
00:46:01,175 --> 00:46:03,255
how when Carter started the,

1294
00:46:03,815 --> 00:46:06,454
the NEA, this is this is the concept

1295
00:46:06,454 --> 00:46:08,375
of how it started. It was started with

1296
00:46:08,375 --> 00:46:10,394
the communist, but I would say more Marxist,

1297
00:46:10,614 --> 00:46:12,030
principles that guide this.

1298
00:46:12,829 --> 00:46:15,309
And and it's written this I I would

1299
00:46:15,550 --> 00:46:18,050
I'm being reminded of this documentary a lot.

1300
00:46:18,110 --> 00:46:20,610
Go watch the documentary whose children are they?

1301
00:46:20,989 --> 00:46:22,210
It'll it'll floor you.

1302
00:46:33,335 --> 00:46:36,075
Right. Democratic world Right. Have control.

1303
00:46:37,494 --> 00:46:37,994
Yeah.

1304
00:46:38,614 --> 00:46:40,535
That that's the concept is it's the the

1305
00:46:40,614 --> 00:46:42,934
and that's what the, World Economic Forum is

1306
00:46:42,934 --> 00:46:44,869
doing, guys. They're trying to take over the

1307
00:46:44,869 --> 00:46:46,650
whole world. They're not trying to hurt America.

1308
00:46:47,430 --> 00:46:49,030
Trying to take over the whole world. America

1309
00:46:49,030 --> 00:46:50,489
is just their biggest obstacle.

1310
00:46:51,750 --> 00:46:52,969
Somebody else? Yes.

1311
00:46:56,789 --> 00:46:57,289
Okay.

1312
00:46:58,194 --> 00:46:58,694
Alright.

1313
00:46:59,155 --> 00:47:00,855
Let's let's talk about the Lord.

1314
00:47:04,755 --> 00:47:05,255
Yeah.

1315
00:47:05,554 --> 00:47:07,234
That's they let's bring Jesus back to the

1316
00:47:07,234 --> 00:47:08,514
school. We don't have to worry about any

1317
00:47:08,514 --> 00:47:10,514
of this. But you can't have this this

1318
00:47:10,514 --> 00:47:12,855
communism, Marxism cannot have a god

1319
00:47:13,430 --> 00:47:13,930
because,

1320
00:47:14,710 --> 00:47:16,170
the system is the god.

1321
00:47:16,630 --> 00:47:17,769
You cannot have

1322
00:47:18,550 --> 00:47:20,230
you know, this is something that gets lost

1323
00:47:20,230 --> 00:47:21,210
on people sometimes.

1324
00:47:21,989 --> 00:47:23,590
Jesus says that he did not come to

1325
00:47:23,590 --> 00:47:24,329
bring peace.

1326
00:47:24,869 --> 00:47:26,630
Right? You guys know that he Jesus said

1327
00:47:26,630 --> 00:47:27,289
that. Right?

1328
00:47:27,750 --> 00:47:28,489
We think

1329
00:47:28,885 --> 00:47:31,144
that Jesus came to bring peace on earth.

1330
00:47:31,525 --> 00:47:32,905
Goodwill to all men.

1331
00:47:34,005 --> 00:47:34,505
Right?

1332
00:47:35,204 --> 00:47:37,864
He came to bring peace in our spirit.

1333
00:47:39,204 --> 00:47:41,385
He came to bring freedom in our spirit.

1334
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,719
That's why I don't think that that the

1335
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,559
sermon that I preached about this a few

1336
00:47:47,559 --> 00:47:49,400
months ago, I don't think Jesus is as

1337
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,300
concerned about freedom of religion as we are.

1338
00:47:52,519 --> 00:47:54,680
The reason Jesus gets concerned about freedom of

1339
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,219
religion is so that we can,

1340
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:57,260
witness.

1341
00:47:58,364 --> 00:47:59,724
So that we can propagate it. But that

1342
00:47:59,724 --> 00:48:02,784
happens in very controlled countries too. In fact,

1343
00:48:02,844 --> 00:48:05,885
Chinese Christians and North Korean Christians and and,

1344
00:48:06,204 --> 00:48:07,264
Iranian Christians

1345
00:48:07,644 --> 00:48:10,139
witness a lot better than American Christians do.

1346
00:48:10,940 --> 00:48:11,920
They just do.

1347
00:48:12,219 --> 00:48:14,460
Fastest growing church in the world right now

1348
00:48:14,460 --> 00:48:15,119
is where?

1349
00:48:16,460 --> 00:48:17,519
Iran. Iran.

1350
00:48:19,179 --> 00:48:20,000
Yep. Alright.

1351
00:48:21,099 --> 00:48:21,599
So

1352
00:48:21,980 --> 00:48:23,440
Jesus came to bring

1353
00:48:24,324 --> 00:48:25,385
peace in our spirit.

1354
00:48:25,765 --> 00:48:27,765
Freedom in our spirit. Well, you can't have

1355
00:48:27,765 --> 00:48:28,664
that in communism.

1356
00:48:29,684 --> 00:48:31,525
When you're free in your spirit, it's amazing

1357
00:48:31,525 --> 00:48:33,065
how your conversations change.

1358
00:48:33,525 --> 00:48:35,704
It's amazing how your world view changes.

1359
00:48:36,579 --> 00:48:38,019
Everything changes. And all of a sudden, the

1360
00:48:38,019 --> 00:48:39,559
government's not your god. And

1361
00:48:40,659 --> 00:48:42,980
communism can't have that. Marxism cannot have that.

1362
00:48:42,980 --> 00:48:44,760
Socialism can't even have that.

1363
00:48:45,059 --> 00:48:47,300
Right? You understand socialism will always end up

1364
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:47,880
a communism.

1365
00:48:48,980 --> 00:48:49,480
Always.

1366
00:48:51,635 --> 00:48:53,175
Okay. Alright. Psalms 51.

1367
00:48:56,755 --> 00:48:58,434
Somebody give me a little bit of background.

1368
00:48:58,434 --> 00:49:00,614
Where why did David write Psalms 51?

1369
00:49:04,039 --> 00:49:06,920
He was a murderer. Yeah. Not just a

1370
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,260
murderer. What else was he? An adulterer.

1371
00:49:09,559 --> 00:49:10,300
An adulterer?

1372
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,159
And not only did he murder this has

1373
00:49:13,159 --> 00:49:14,699
always been the thing for me.

1374
00:49:15,305 --> 00:49:16,664
And I think some of this is I

1375
00:49:16,664 --> 00:49:17,785
don't know if this is because I'm a

1376
00:49:17,785 --> 00:49:19,224
guy. I don't know if girls see this

1377
00:49:19,224 --> 00:49:19,885
the same.

1378
00:49:21,144 --> 00:49:22,825
Maybe because I was in the military. I

1379
00:49:22,825 --> 00:49:23,565
don't know.

1380
00:49:24,905 --> 00:49:27,244
But not only did David murder

1381
00:49:27,704 --> 00:49:30,285
Bathsheba's husband, but Bathsheba's husband

1382
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,739
was one of his 30,

1383
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:35,539
one of his elite

1384
00:49:36,159 --> 00:49:37,219
military men.

1385
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,139
It would be the equivalent

1386
00:49:39,839 --> 00:49:40,159
of,

1387
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,940
of a navy seal unit and the commander

1388
00:49:45,045 --> 00:49:46,824
killing one of his

1389
00:49:47,605 --> 00:49:48,105
elite

1390
00:49:48,405 --> 00:49:49,464
seal soldiers

1391
00:49:51,284 --> 00:49:53,144
because he slept with the guy's wife.

1392
00:49:56,164 --> 00:49:57,224
Come on, David.

1393
00:49:58,859 --> 00:49:59,359
How

1394
00:49:59,739 --> 00:50:01,839
how horrible do you have to be?

1395
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:05,760
How horrible do you have to be?

1396
00:50:06,539 --> 00:50:08,699
Well, he's the king. King can do anything

1397
00:50:08,699 --> 00:50:09,359
he wants.

1398
00:50:10,855 --> 00:50:12,695
I know and I love it when he's

1399
00:50:12,695 --> 00:50:14,394
confronted by Nathan later.

1400
00:50:15,175 --> 00:50:17,015
And and I and before he wrote this,

1401
00:50:17,015 --> 00:50:18,954
he's confronted by Nathan, I believe.

1402
00:50:19,494 --> 00:50:19,894
And,

1403
00:50:21,414 --> 00:50:23,094
and he tells the story and and they

1404
00:50:23,255 --> 00:50:25,789
and then Nathan says, it was you, David.

1405
00:50:25,930 --> 00:50:26,829
You did this.

1406
00:50:27,930 --> 00:50:29,930
And he said, you could have anything you

1407
00:50:29,930 --> 00:50:30,430
wanted,

1408
00:50:31,130 --> 00:50:32,590
and you had to go take,

1409
00:50:33,289 --> 00:50:35,690
the sheep from the, the guy that only

1410
00:50:35,690 --> 00:50:36,590
had 1 sheep.

1411
00:50:38,605 --> 00:50:39,565
You get up all the sheep in the

1412
00:50:39,565 --> 00:50:40,765
world, but you had to take the sheep

1413
00:50:40,765 --> 00:50:42,465
from the guy. That's my I'm paraphrasing.

1414
00:50:43,164 --> 00:50:44,605
You had to take the sheep from that

1415
00:50:44,605 --> 00:50:45,105
guy.

1416
00:50:46,125 --> 00:50:46,625
Man,

1417
00:50:48,045 --> 00:50:49,345
the good thing about David,

1418
00:50:50,605 --> 00:50:51,664
when God says,

1419
00:50:52,650 --> 00:50:54,589
you're a man after my own heart.

1420
00:50:56,489 --> 00:50:57,549
That this is

1421
00:50:58,250 --> 00:50:59,230
this is why.

1422
00:51:00,409 --> 00:51:03,130
David was a scoundrel. He was. I love

1423
00:51:03,130 --> 00:51:04,889
David. I think he's one of the most

1424
00:51:04,889 --> 00:51:06,954
amazing guys in scripture, but he is also

1425
00:51:06,954 --> 00:51:09,295
one of the worst guys in scripture.

1426
00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:11,135
Probably

1427
00:51:11,675 --> 00:51:14,175
I would love to see David in battle

1428
00:51:15,114 --> 00:51:16,734
because that's when he was David.

1429
00:51:17,434 --> 00:51:19,034
I would love to see David in the

1430
00:51:19,034 --> 00:51:20,414
30 in battle.

1431
00:51:21,289 --> 00:51:22,650
I would like to see,

1432
00:51:23,769 --> 00:51:24,269
David's,

1433
00:51:25,210 --> 00:51:26,589
warrior that fought

1434
00:51:27,609 --> 00:51:28,510
the fought the,

1435
00:51:29,289 --> 00:51:31,550
lion on a snowy slope,

1436
00:51:31,929 --> 00:51:33,309
in a snowy pit.

1437
00:51:35,005 --> 00:51:35,505
Man,

1438
00:51:37,085 --> 00:51:39,184
would you like to have seen that? Yeah.

1439
00:51:40,764 --> 00:51:42,364
David was an amazing guy, but man, he

1440
00:51:42,364 --> 00:51:44,224
was a scoundrel. But here's the thing.

1441
00:51:44,844 --> 00:51:45,664
Is he

1442
00:51:46,204 --> 00:51:48,525
he was a very tender hearted toward God

1443
00:51:48,525 --> 00:51:49,425
and he repented.

1444
00:51:50,909 --> 00:51:52,929
He repented of stuff. If there's anything,

1445
00:51:53,389 --> 00:51:55,389
I think the number one thing that should

1446
00:51:55,389 --> 00:51:57,710
always stand out to us in the story

1447
00:51:57,710 --> 00:51:59,889
of David is no matter what you've done,

1448
00:52:01,150 --> 00:52:02,849
no matter what you've done,

1449
00:52:03,494 --> 00:52:05,574
the Lord will forgive you if you just

1450
00:52:05,574 --> 00:52:06,074
repent.

1451
00:52:07,414 --> 00:52:09,734
And I've had so many conversations with people

1452
00:52:09,734 --> 00:52:11,335
over the years. Well, you don't know how

1453
00:52:11,335 --> 00:52:13,414
bad I've been or you don't know the

1454
00:52:13,414 --> 00:52:14,954
things I'm done I've done.

1455
00:52:15,414 --> 00:52:17,114
And I don't wanna know.

1456
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:19,260
But god

1457
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,260
knows, and he will forgive you.

1458
00:52:22,599 --> 00:52:24,840
Why would god send his son to die

1459
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:25,579
on the cross

1460
00:52:26,119 --> 00:52:28,220
if he's not going to forgive us?

1461
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,340
Wouldn't it be better to send Fred

1462
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:32,780
to die on the cross?

1463
00:52:35,695 --> 00:52:37,394
You say, who's Fred? It's irrelevant.

1464
00:52:38,894 --> 00:52:40,914
The reason Jesus dies on the cross

1465
00:52:41,454 --> 00:52:43,295
is because he wants to forgive us. David

1466
00:52:43,295 --> 00:52:45,155
says, have mercy on me, oh god,

1467
00:52:45,775 --> 00:52:48,414
because of your unfailing love. Not because David

1468
00:52:48,414 --> 00:52:49,394
deserves mercy,

1469
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,219
but because of your unfailing love.

1470
00:52:52,599 --> 00:52:54,920
The reason the lord forgives you is because

1471
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,079
he loves you, not because you've done something

1472
00:52:57,079 --> 00:52:57,980
to earn it.

1473
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,760
The reason he forgives you is because you've

1474
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,380
done something that needs it,

1475
00:53:03,284 --> 00:53:05,864
Not because you've earned something or done something.

1476
00:53:06,484 --> 00:53:09,284
Because of your great compassion, god, blot out

1477
00:53:09,284 --> 00:53:10,664
the stain of my sins.

1478
00:53:11,605 --> 00:53:13,625
Wash me clean from my guilt.

1479
00:53:14,565 --> 00:53:16,184
Purify me from my sin.

1480
00:53:17,619 --> 00:53:19,139
I I I think you hear me say

1481
00:53:19,139 --> 00:53:19,800
this regularly.

1482
00:53:20,739 --> 00:53:23,059
That I think that one of the things

1483
00:53:23,059 --> 00:53:24,980
as a Christian that has to be one

1484
00:53:24,980 --> 00:53:25,800
of our main

1485
00:53:26,260 --> 00:53:26,760
guiding

1486
00:53:27,460 --> 00:53:29,320
things in our life constantly

1487
00:53:30,355 --> 00:53:31,414
is repentance.

1488
00:53:32,434 --> 00:53:33,815
A repentant heart.

1489
00:53:34,594 --> 00:53:36,195
And I and I've said that in different

1490
00:53:36,195 --> 00:53:38,594
settings. First time this happened to me, I

1491
00:53:38,594 --> 00:53:41,155
wasn't expecting. I said this something similar to

1492
00:53:41,155 --> 00:53:43,075
that. I was going to Denver Seminary at

1493
00:53:43,075 --> 00:53:43,894
the time and

1494
00:53:44,269 --> 00:53:45,570
and, and there's

1495
00:53:46,109 --> 00:53:47,250
there's a lot of,

1496
00:53:48,250 --> 00:53:50,829
one saved always saved Calvinist there. And,

1497
00:53:51,469 --> 00:53:52,829
the fact that I would say that you

1498
00:53:52,829 --> 00:53:54,670
need to repent regularly or you should have

1499
00:53:54,670 --> 00:53:55,650
a heart of repentance,

1500
00:53:56,429 --> 00:53:58,510
oh, they they took umbrage with that. Deep

1501
00:53:58,510 --> 00:53:59,010
umbrage.

1502
00:53:59,724 --> 00:54:01,184
We don't need to be repenting.

1503
00:54:02,605 --> 00:54:04,625
What do I need to repent of? Sin?

1504
00:54:06,925 --> 00:54:08,444
I think that's what you need to repent

1505
00:54:08,444 --> 00:54:10,844
of. Sin? The Lord's already forgiven me of

1506
00:54:10,844 --> 00:54:11,585
my sin.

1507
00:54:12,230 --> 00:54:14,469
That that you haven't repented of? Scripture doesn't

1508
00:54:14,469 --> 00:54:15,130
say that.

1509
00:54:15,829 --> 00:54:17,510
Scripture says that he forgives you when you

1510
00:54:17,510 --> 00:54:18,010
repent.

1511
00:54:18,710 --> 00:54:20,789
He didn't just forgive you because he wants

1512
00:54:20,789 --> 00:54:22,789
to forgive you. If he's gonna do that,

1513
00:54:22,789 --> 00:54:24,089
we should believe in universalism.

1514
00:54:24,869 --> 00:54:26,889
Everybody's forgiven. Doesn't matter.

1515
00:54:28,005 --> 00:54:28,744
You repent.

1516
00:54:29,924 --> 00:54:31,684
This is why it says confess your faults

1517
00:54:31,684 --> 00:54:32,505
one to another.

1518
00:54:33,444 --> 00:54:35,764
Why would he say that if you're already

1519
00:54:35,764 --> 00:54:37,224
forgiven? It doesn't matter.

1520
00:54:38,484 --> 00:54:38,984
Right?

1521
00:54:39,940 --> 00:54:42,179
For I recognize my rebellion, it haunts me

1522
00:54:42,179 --> 00:54:43,860
day and night. One of the things that

1523
00:54:43,860 --> 00:54:45,780
I think isn't that comes along with the

1524
00:54:45,780 --> 00:54:46,280
repentant

1525
00:54:46,579 --> 00:54:47,559
spirit and attitude

1526
00:54:47,940 --> 00:54:49,960
is that you recognize who you are.

1527
00:54:50,660 --> 00:54:53,484
You recognize your frailty. You recognize the the

1528
00:54:53,484 --> 00:54:55,585
potential you have for this one. Paul says,

1529
00:54:56,045 --> 00:54:59,005
I'm the chiefest of sinners. I've literally sat

1530
00:54:59,005 --> 00:55:00,525
and listened to people say, well, he didn't

1531
00:55:00,525 --> 00:55:02,304
mean that. He wasn't really a sinner.

1532
00:55:03,244 --> 00:55:05,085
Well, then that means you just made him

1533
00:55:05,085 --> 00:55:06,065
also a liar,

1534
00:55:06,829 --> 00:55:07,730
which is worse.

1535
00:55:08,909 --> 00:55:09,409
Right?

1536
00:55:10,030 --> 00:55:11,630
Carrie, did you just wanna hold the microphone

1537
00:55:11,630 --> 00:55:12,909
or were you gonna say Yeah. I did

1538
00:55:12,909 --> 00:55:14,429
just wanna hold it so no one else

1539
00:55:14,429 --> 00:55:15,090
can talk.

1540
00:55:17,230 --> 00:55:20,590
As you're as we're, you know, reading this

1541
00:55:20,590 --> 00:55:21,329
and everything,

1542
00:55:22,805 --> 00:55:25,364
I can't help but think about the story

1543
00:55:25,364 --> 00:55:26,505
you shared this morning

1544
00:55:27,364 --> 00:55:30,025
on the Joshua Nation stuff about the guy

1545
00:55:30,565 --> 00:55:32,805
that was doing the 3 day thing and

1546
00:55:32,805 --> 00:55:34,265
talked to the teenage girl.

1547
00:55:34,900 --> 00:55:36,820
But that and what you said hit me

1548
00:55:36,820 --> 00:55:38,420
really hard, and it was right before I

1549
00:55:38,420 --> 00:55:39,400
walked into work.

1550
00:55:40,019 --> 00:55:41,000
But you said

1551
00:55:43,860 --> 00:55:46,820
he the guy said something like or can

1552
00:55:46,820 --> 00:55:48,179
you just share that story first? I don't

1553
00:55:48,179 --> 00:55:50,664
want I'm gonna completely chop it up. Yeah.

1554
00:55:51,304 --> 00:55:53,085
So I was at a breakfast with,

1555
00:55:54,105 --> 00:55:54,844
3 guys,

1556
00:55:55,545 --> 00:55:56,844
2 really old guys,

1557
00:55:57,464 --> 00:55:57,784
and,

1558
00:55:58,505 --> 00:55:59,724
one younger guy.

1559
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,599
So Moments of a story. Well, one of

1560
00:56:04,599 --> 00:56:05,820
them is in the room. So,

1561
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:09,000
but but he he was talking about this

1562
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:10,360
story. He was at a conference. I'll try

1563
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,300
to make it quick, get the main details.

1564
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,119
But he's at this conference. He was speaking

1565
00:56:14,119 --> 00:56:15,960
at this conference. He comes across this young

1566
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,784
girl that had grown up in an atheist

1567
00:56:17,784 --> 00:56:18,284
household,

1568
00:56:18,585 --> 00:56:20,184
but her parents let her come to this

1569
00:56:20,184 --> 00:56:20,684
conference.

1570
00:56:21,704 --> 00:56:23,405
And, and he he had presented

1571
00:56:24,025 --> 00:56:25,405
Christ in his

1572
00:56:25,784 --> 00:56:26,284
message.

1573
00:56:27,224 --> 00:56:27,545
And,

1574
00:56:28,265 --> 00:56:30,025
he didn't know this girl, but he had

1575
00:56:30,025 --> 00:56:31,945
interacted with her. We're just walking down the

1576
00:56:31,945 --> 00:56:32,445
hall.

1577
00:56:33,130 --> 00:56:35,050
And so she'd been raised in an atheist

1578
00:56:35,050 --> 00:56:37,849
mentality for I think I think she's 14,

1579
00:56:37,849 --> 00:56:38,750
15 years old.

1580
00:56:39,530 --> 00:56:39,849
And,

1581
00:56:40,889 --> 00:56:43,530
so she'd been indoctrinated with atheism for that

1582
00:56:43,530 --> 00:56:44,030
long.

1583
00:56:44,489 --> 00:56:45,929
In the 3 days of the con by

1584
00:56:45,929 --> 00:56:47,335
the time they left the conference, he had

1585
00:56:47,335 --> 00:56:48,454
a time to talk to her for a

1586
00:56:48,454 --> 00:56:49,835
little bit, talk to her about Jesus,

1587
00:56:50,375 --> 00:56:52,215
prayed with her, but didn't know exactly how

1588
00:56:52,215 --> 00:56:53,035
it turned out.

1589
00:56:53,655 --> 00:56:55,574
He got word later from one of the

1590
00:56:55,735 --> 00:56:56,795
his people that

1591
00:56:57,175 --> 00:56:59,414
that the girl had gone to an another

1592
00:56:59,414 --> 00:57:00,315
lady afterwards

1593
00:57:00,900 --> 00:57:02,500
and and said that she had given her

1594
00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:03,480
heart to Jesus.

1595
00:57:04,420 --> 00:57:06,739
That's a great story. Right? Amazing story. But

1596
00:57:06,739 --> 00:57:08,839
what what got me is when he said,

1597
00:57:09,460 --> 00:57:12,179
you know, it took how many years? 15

1598
00:57:12,179 --> 00:57:12,679
years

1599
00:57:13,655 --> 00:57:14,315
of indoctrinating

1600
00:57:14,775 --> 00:57:16,775
her day after day after day for this

1601
00:57:16,775 --> 00:57:17,755
atheist mentality.

1602
00:57:18,614 --> 00:57:20,295
He said, but it took the Holy Spirit

1603
00:57:20,295 --> 00:57:22,214
3 days to break that down and she

1604
00:57:22,214 --> 00:57:22,875
got saved.

1605
00:57:24,214 --> 00:57:26,315
As we gotta keep that in our minds,

1606
00:57:26,809 --> 00:57:28,489
we gotta that's basically am I right about

1607
00:57:28,489 --> 00:57:30,289
the stupidity? Yeah. That's that's the story. Well,

1608
00:57:30,289 --> 00:57:32,010
I was asking the other old guy that

1609
00:57:32,010 --> 00:57:33,389
was behind you.

1610
00:57:36,090 --> 00:57:38,090
Oh. But just as Todd, I was looking

1611
00:57:38,090 --> 00:57:38,750
at Todd.

1612
00:57:39,735 --> 00:57:41,575
Just as we're reading this, like, it's making

1613
00:57:41,575 --> 00:57:44,235
me think of that that we, I believe,

1614
00:57:44,295 --> 00:57:45,994
need to be in that constant

1615
00:57:47,095 --> 00:57:47,595
mentality,

1616
00:57:48,135 --> 00:57:50,315
you know, of allowing Christ to

1617
00:57:50,855 --> 00:57:52,934
renew us. You know? Because like you were

1618
00:57:52,934 --> 00:57:54,315
talking about this morning,

1619
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:55,420
that

1620
00:57:56,119 --> 00:57:58,539
American Christians are just so comfortable

1621
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:01,900
with where we're at, you know, and,

1622
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,480
but now I really like that story. And

1623
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,160
then with what you said about the 3

1624
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:08,700
days, like that hit me,

1625
00:58:09,305 --> 00:58:11,305
pretty hard. And as we're reading this, it

1626
00:58:11,305 --> 00:58:13,945
just reminded me of of that. You know,

1627
00:58:13,945 --> 00:58:15,625
we kinda have this thinking, and I've even

1628
00:58:15,625 --> 00:58:16,345
kind of given,

1629
00:58:16,744 --> 00:58:19,164
allude alluded to this a different time. But,

1630
00:58:19,545 --> 00:58:21,065
you know, that we gotta just keep working

1631
00:58:21,065 --> 00:58:22,525
on somebody, keep working on somebody, keep working

1632
00:58:22,525 --> 00:58:23,965
on somebody, and someday they get saved.

1633
00:58:24,940 --> 00:58:26,800
I've also seen it happen instantaneously

1634
00:58:27,099 --> 00:58:28,239
with somebody that has

1635
00:58:28,539 --> 00:58:29,679
no has no history.

1636
00:58:30,780 --> 00:58:32,880
Because you have to remember the Holy Spirit

1637
00:58:33,179 --> 00:58:34,860
is the guy in charge of everything. He's

1638
00:58:34,860 --> 00:58:36,160
the power of the universe.

1639
00:58:37,655 --> 00:58:39,655
K. If you wanna put some kind of

1640
00:58:39,655 --> 00:58:42,954
equating to it, God is the judge. Jesus

1641
00:58:43,014 --> 00:58:43,914
is the word

1642
00:58:44,295 --> 00:58:45,514
and also the lamb.

1643
00:58:46,135 --> 00:58:47,994
And the Holy Spirit is the power.

1644
00:58:48,534 --> 00:58:49,994
When Jesus, the logos,

1645
00:58:50,730 --> 00:58:52,510
speaks creation into existence,

1646
00:58:52,809 --> 00:58:54,250
the holy spirit is the one who makes

1647
00:58:54,250 --> 00:58:56,190
it happen. He's the power

1648
00:58:56,809 --> 00:58:57,630
of the universe.

1649
00:58:58,329 --> 00:59:00,730
Right? When Elijah calls fire down from heaven,

1650
00:59:00,730 --> 00:59:02,090
the holy spirit is the one who brings

1651
00:59:02,090 --> 00:59:04,405
the fire down. He's the power of the

1652
00:59:04,405 --> 00:59:04,905
universe.

1653
00:59:05,605 --> 00:59:07,684
If if the power of the universe can

1654
00:59:07,684 --> 00:59:10,085
keep the planets going around the sun and

1655
00:59:10,085 --> 00:59:11,605
all you say, oh, no. That's the laws

1656
00:59:11,605 --> 00:59:13,464
of physics. Okay. Who made those?

1657
00:59:14,324 --> 00:59:14,820
Right?

1658
00:59:16,019 --> 00:59:17,539
If the holy spirit can keep the whole

1659
00:59:17,539 --> 00:59:19,940
solar system running, don't you think he can

1660
00:59:19,940 --> 00:59:22,180
dig into your neighbor's spirit and soul if

1661
00:59:22,180 --> 00:59:23,239
you'll just say something?

1662
00:59:23,940 --> 00:59:25,940
If you just if you just step out

1663
00:59:25,940 --> 00:59:26,440
there,

1664
00:59:27,219 --> 00:59:28,599
do this, say this,

1665
00:59:29,525 --> 00:59:30,505
pray for him.

1666
00:59:31,525 --> 00:59:33,605
Holy spirit, man, he he'll get on that

1667
00:59:33,605 --> 00:59:35,305
horse and ride that thing.

1668
00:59:36,164 --> 00:59:38,164
All you gotta do is just what you

1669
00:59:38,164 --> 00:59:38,664
can.

1670
00:59:39,605 --> 00:59:41,605
And the holy spirit can change somebody instantly

1671
00:59:41,605 --> 00:59:42,105
overnight.

1672
00:59:43,630 --> 00:59:44,130
Overnight.

1673
00:59:45,309 --> 00:59:46,929
I I I know I've told this

1674
00:59:47,469 --> 00:59:48,829
story here, but I think it's been a

1675
00:59:48,829 --> 00:59:49,570
while. But,

1676
00:59:51,230 --> 00:59:52,530
when I was a youth pastor,

1677
00:59:53,389 --> 00:59:55,010
I needed my lawnmower fixed.

1678
00:59:55,505 --> 00:59:57,265
And, so a guy in the church said,

1679
00:59:57,265 --> 00:59:59,025
go down to this guy. This is in

1680
00:59:59,025 --> 01:00:01,025
East Texas. And when he said go down

1681
01:00:01,025 --> 01:00:01,925
to this guy,

1682
01:00:02,625 --> 01:00:03,985
he didn't give me an ad. That that's

1683
01:00:03,985 --> 01:00:05,825
that's East Texas talk for there's gonna be

1684
01:00:05,825 --> 01:00:07,585
a little shed, and there's gonna be a

1685
01:00:07,585 --> 01:00:09,239
guy sitting out in front of that shed,

1686
01:00:09,239 --> 01:00:11,787
and he will fix your lawnmower. That's what

1687
01:00:11,787 --> 01:00:14,335
that meant. K? But I knew that. I

1688
01:00:14,335 --> 01:00:16,883
grew up there. So so I go down

1689
01:00:16,883 --> 01:00:19,750
to this little shed and and this I

1690
01:00:19,750 --> 01:00:22,297
walk in, got my lawnmower, and I'm walking

1691
01:00:22,297 --> 01:00:24,454
in. And and there he's sitting there, and

1692
01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:26,055
there's, like, 5 or 6 other guys. And

1693
01:00:26,055 --> 01:00:27,735
this was the hangout for all these guys.

1694
01:00:27,735 --> 01:00:30,614
That's it's like, that happens. Okay? When you

1695
01:00:30,614 --> 01:00:32,454
see that on movies, that really happens. And

1696
01:00:32,454 --> 01:00:32,954
so

1697
01:00:33,255 --> 01:00:35,335
I walk in, and as I'm walking in,

1698
01:00:35,335 --> 01:00:36,155
this guy

1699
01:00:37,250 --> 01:00:38,869
just starts cussing at me.

1700
01:00:39,809 --> 01:00:41,409
I don't know him. I've never met him.

1701
01:00:41,409 --> 01:00:43,489
I don't know anything about him. But he's

1702
01:00:43,489 --> 01:00:46,130
screaming at me and yelling and cussing at

1703
01:00:46,130 --> 01:00:48,210
things I didn't even know. Things about my

1704
01:00:48,210 --> 01:00:50,690
family I didn't know. All kinds of stuff

1705
01:00:50,690 --> 01:00:51,750
that he's saying.

1706
01:00:52,835 --> 01:00:54,855
And and I'm just standing there like,

1707
01:00:56,434 --> 01:00:57,734
did I do something?

1708
01:00:58,355 --> 01:00:59,494
And one of the old,

1709
01:01:01,795 --> 01:01:03,474
guys, homeless people I don't know who he

1710
01:01:03,474 --> 01:01:06,434
was. Just sitting there chewing tobacco, drinking, you

1711
01:01:06,434 --> 01:01:06,934
know.

1712
01:01:07,299 --> 01:01:09,380
And, he said, don't worry. That's just who

1713
01:01:09,380 --> 01:01:10,039
he is.

1714
01:01:11,699 --> 01:01:13,400
I don't know even know what that means.

1715
01:01:13,460 --> 01:01:15,299
That's just did I do something? I still

1716
01:01:15,299 --> 01:01:17,059
don't know. So he said, well, come on.

1717
01:01:17,059 --> 01:01:18,260
Bring that thing in here. You're just gonna

1718
01:01:18,260 --> 01:01:19,380
stand there and blah blah blah blah blah.

1719
01:01:19,380 --> 01:01:21,059
You know? I'm like, you know, I'm I'm

1720
01:01:21,059 --> 01:01:22,579
almost in tears. I don't know what to

1721
01:01:22,579 --> 01:01:22,994
do.

1722
01:01:24,035 --> 01:01:26,055
K? And this guy is

1723
01:01:27,394 --> 01:01:27,894
91,

1724
01:01:28,355 --> 01:01:30,135
92, I think it was.

1725
01:01:31,555 --> 01:01:31,795
And,

1726
01:01:33,715 --> 01:01:35,715
well no. He would have been, like, 89

1727
01:01:35,715 --> 01:01:36,535
at this point.

1728
01:01:38,090 --> 01:01:39,530
And so I I go in there and

1729
01:01:39,530 --> 01:01:41,610
he's asking about this, and I said, well,

1730
01:01:41,610 --> 01:01:42,730
so and so told me to come down

1731
01:01:42,730 --> 01:01:43,949
or you'd fix my lawnmower.

1732
01:01:44,650 --> 01:01:46,329
And then he just starts cussing so and

1733
01:01:46,329 --> 01:01:48,170
so. That was at our he's a guy

1734
01:01:48,170 --> 01:01:48,989
in our church.

1735
01:01:50,090 --> 01:01:50,570
And

1736
01:01:51,585 --> 01:01:53,505
but the whole time he's, like, looking at

1737
01:01:53,505 --> 01:01:55,284
my lawnmower doing all this kind of stuff.

1738
01:01:56,385 --> 01:01:58,144
And and he said, where'd you meet that?

1739
01:01:58,144 --> 01:01:59,425
So and so and so. And I said,

1740
01:01:59,425 --> 01:02:01,025
well, he goes to my church. I'm the

1741
01:02:01,025 --> 01:02:02,625
youth pastor of the church. Oh, man. I

1742
01:02:02,625 --> 01:02:03,764
shouldn't have said that.

1743
01:02:05,344 --> 01:02:06,964
It got really bad then.

1744
01:02:08,039 --> 01:02:09,180
So I I leave.

1745
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:11,079
Come back a couple days later, he's got

1746
01:02:11,079 --> 01:02:12,920
my lawnmower fixed. I walk up soon as

1747
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:14,780
I walk up, he starts cussing me

1748
01:02:15,079 --> 01:02:16,300
and cussing the church.

1749
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,260
Because he knows he remembers that.

1750
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:20,940
This guy is vile.

1751
01:02:22,204 --> 01:02:22,704
So

1752
01:02:23,565 --> 01:02:24,704
this gets in me.

1753
01:02:26,284 --> 01:02:27,265
Challenge accepted.

1754
01:02:28,445 --> 01:02:28,945
Right?

1755
01:02:29,965 --> 01:02:30,465
Alright.

1756
01:02:30,925 --> 01:02:33,105
Bring it, old man. We're doing this.

1757
01:02:34,539 --> 01:02:36,460
So I just start every time he says

1758
01:02:36,460 --> 01:02:38,139
something, I just start talking to him about

1759
01:02:38,139 --> 01:02:39,679
Jesus and preaching at him.

1760
01:02:40,059 --> 01:02:42,059
He's being as rude as any person has

1761
01:02:42,059 --> 01:02:43,519
ever been to me in my life.

1762
01:02:44,059 --> 01:02:45,500
And so I just take it back to

1763
01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:47,179
him. And he'd say something. I said, you

1764
01:02:47,179 --> 01:02:48,780
know, you need to shut your mouth. God

1765
01:02:48,780 --> 01:02:49,605
doesn't like that.

1766
01:02:51,764 --> 01:02:53,125
Looks at me and then he starts off

1767
01:02:53,125 --> 01:02:54,664
again. And I said, no.

1768
01:02:55,045 --> 01:02:57,364
First, don't talk don't use my god's name

1769
01:02:57,364 --> 01:02:59,525
when you're making those kind of statements. My

1770
01:02:59,525 --> 01:03:01,284
god is holy and he's just and you're

1771
01:03:01,284 --> 01:03:02,644
not any of these things. And I'm just

1772
01:03:02,644 --> 01:03:04,559
going at him. I'm tearing him up just

1773
01:03:04,559 --> 01:03:06,400
as much. And all these old dudes sitting

1774
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:08,260
over there are loving this.

1775
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:10,739
They're hollering,

1776
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:13,760
you know, that kind of thing. And I

1777
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:15,140
just go at this guy.

1778
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:16,420
And,

1779
01:03:18,864 --> 01:03:20,325
take my lawnmower, leave,

1780
01:03:21,105 --> 01:03:22,005
and I'm thinking,

1781
01:03:22,545 --> 01:03:24,085
what else do I need fixed?

1782
01:03:28,305 --> 01:03:29,985
I didn't have anything else to get fixed,

1783
01:03:29,985 --> 01:03:31,605
so I just went back to his shop.

1784
01:03:32,159 --> 01:03:32,980
I just showed

1785
01:03:33,359 --> 01:03:35,039
up. He starts screaming and cussing me again.

1786
01:03:35,039 --> 01:03:36,319
He says, what do you need fixed this

1787
01:03:36,319 --> 01:03:38,319
time? I said, I don't need anything fixed.

1788
01:03:38,319 --> 01:03:39,920
You need fixed. And I just go at

1789
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:40,579
him again.

1790
01:03:42,799 --> 01:03:43,299
Guys,

1791
01:03:44,744 --> 01:03:46,045
I never thought

1792
01:03:46,824 --> 01:03:47,804
this would happen.

1793
01:03:51,545 --> 01:03:52,605
A month later,

1794
01:03:53,065 --> 01:03:55,005
4 or 5 weeks, something like that later,

1795
01:03:55,545 --> 01:03:57,085
he shows up at church.

1796
01:03:59,670 --> 01:04:01,429
Came in, sat at the back, just sat

1797
01:04:01,429 --> 01:04:01,929
there.

1798
01:04:02,710 --> 01:04:03,769
You know, the whole time.

1799
01:04:05,670 --> 01:04:07,989
When our pastor gave the altar call for

1800
01:04:07,989 --> 01:04:08,489
salvation,

1801
01:04:09,030 --> 01:04:10,010
he got saved.

1802
01:04:11,945 --> 01:04:13,724
He died 6 months later.

1803
01:04:15,144 --> 01:04:17,724
But in that 6 months, he completely transformed.

1804
01:04:20,105 --> 01:04:20,605
I

1805
01:04:21,385 --> 01:04:23,005
I I wasn't expecting that.

1806
01:04:23,739 --> 01:04:25,340
And I'm not saying I'm I get the

1807
01:04:25,340 --> 01:04:27,980
credit for that. I I I somehow somehow

1808
01:04:27,980 --> 01:04:29,280
obviously, I'm involved,

1809
01:04:30,619 --> 01:04:31,900
but it could have been that other guy

1810
01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:33,739
that he was cussing that recommended him. I

1811
01:04:33,739 --> 01:04:35,260
mean, I I don't know. I'm not trying

1812
01:04:35,260 --> 01:04:37,119
to figure that out. Here's what I know.

1813
01:04:37,795 --> 01:04:40,195
The holy spirit can change anybody in an

1814
01:04:40,195 --> 01:04:40,695
instant.

1815
01:04:41,235 --> 01:04:43,414
This dude had 90 years of being that.

1816
01:04:44,514 --> 01:04:46,295
In the last 6 months of his life,

1817
01:04:46,594 --> 01:04:47,815
he was a good Christian.

1818
01:04:48,675 --> 01:04:50,434
And people said they never heard him cuss

1819
01:04:50,434 --> 01:04:50,934
again.

1820
01:04:52,170 --> 01:04:54,589
Never. The old man got bored with him.

1821
01:04:56,650 --> 01:04:58,329
Yeah. It was why be here if he's

1822
01:04:58,329 --> 01:04:59,789
not gonna go out? Alright.

1823
01:05:01,130 --> 01:05:02,589
I recognize my rebellion.

1824
01:05:03,050 --> 01:05:04,589
It haunts me day and night.

1825
01:05:05,255 --> 01:05:07,735
Guys, recognize recognize. I'm gonna I'm gonna talk

1826
01:05:07,735 --> 01:05:09,195
a little bit about this Sunday.

1827
01:05:09,655 --> 01:05:12,135
But recognize who you are. Own up to

1828
01:05:12,135 --> 01:05:13,655
who you are. One of the biggest problems

1829
01:05:13,655 --> 01:05:15,735
we're ever gonna have in our life is

1830
01:05:15,735 --> 01:05:16,235
us.

1831
01:05:17,574 --> 01:05:19,914
You're you're you're you are your biggest enemy.

1832
01:05:20,789 --> 01:05:22,329
Satan just uses you,

1833
01:05:22,789 --> 01:05:24,250
but you're your biggest problem.

1834
01:05:25,110 --> 01:05:27,349
Because nobody else can make you do something,

1835
01:05:27,349 --> 01:05:29,190
you're doing it because you're choosing at some

1836
01:05:29,190 --> 01:05:29,690
level.

1837
01:05:30,150 --> 01:05:32,070
Recognize that. When you when you know you

1838
01:05:32,070 --> 01:05:34,309
have an issue with something, get before god

1839
01:05:34,309 --> 01:05:35,930
and ask him to work on it.

1840
01:05:36,924 --> 01:05:39,505
Repent and ask him to work on it.

1841
01:05:40,125 --> 01:05:41,964
I I've given you different examples over the

1842
01:05:41,964 --> 01:05:43,744
years, but the biggest one for me

1843
01:05:44,045 --> 01:05:45,905
back in the day was my anger.

1844
01:05:46,444 --> 01:05:48,764
I I had such a major problem with

1845
01:05:48,764 --> 01:05:49,264
anger.

1846
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,159
Such a problem. And I and I and

1847
01:05:52,159 --> 01:05:53,760
every now and then it rears its head.

1848
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:54,260
Right?

1849
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:56,319
But for the most part, I had that

1850
01:05:56,319 --> 01:05:57,219
thing whooped.

1851
01:05:57,839 --> 01:06:00,079
I spent hours and hours and hours and

1852
01:06:00,079 --> 01:06:02,559
hours praying and pleading with God and asking,

1853
01:06:02,559 --> 01:06:04,385
going through scripture. How do you deal with

1854
01:06:04,385 --> 01:06:05,824
anger? How do you deal with this kind

1855
01:06:05,824 --> 01:06:06,304
of stuff?

1856
01:06:06,704 --> 01:06:09,344
Talk to people. I've had mentors and counselors,

1857
01:06:09,344 --> 01:06:10,644
and I've had my wife.

1858
01:06:11,025 --> 01:06:12,945
She's really helped me a lot over the

1859
01:06:12,945 --> 01:06:13,984
years with that.

1860
01:06:14,304 --> 01:06:16,244
She has a vested interest. And so

1861
01:06:16,545 --> 01:06:18,224
the all all these different things. And every

1862
01:06:18,224 --> 01:06:19,960
now and then, I tell you I tell

1863
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:21,340
you when it hit me again,

1864
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:25,019
it's standing in the well in the capital.

1865
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:29,500
But in my defense a little bit,

1866
01:06:30,119 --> 01:06:32,059
a lot of it is actually righteous indignation.

1867
01:06:33,434 --> 01:06:35,675
And so I I kinda let it I

1868
01:06:35,675 --> 01:06:37,055
kinda let it take its

1869
01:06:37,914 --> 01:06:38,735
course sometimes

1870
01:06:39,594 --> 01:06:40,954
in ways that I wouldn't do in the

1871
01:06:40,954 --> 01:06:41,454
church.

1872
01:06:43,675 --> 01:06:45,375
I figured they don't come to church.

1873
01:06:46,555 --> 01:06:47,695
They're getting both barrels.

1874
01:06:49,489 --> 01:06:51,409
Look at this. This is important. This is

1875
01:06:51,409 --> 01:06:51,909
important.

1876
01:06:52,609 --> 01:06:54,949
Against you, who's who's David talking about?

1877
01:06:55,570 --> 01:06:56,070
God.

1878
01:06:56,690 --> 01:06:57,670
Against you

1879
01:06:58,050 --> 01:06:59,750
and you alone have I sinned.

1880
01:07:00,130 --> 01:07:02,710
I struggled with that for years years years.

1881
01:07:03,045 --> 01:07:03,784
Because I

1882
01:07:04,164 --> 01:07:06,184
thought, if if I do something against Daniel,

1883
01:07:06,484 --> 01:07:09,864
I've sinned against Daniel. David sinned against Uriah,

1884
01:07:10,005 --> 01:07:10,744
didn't he?

1885
01:07:12,244 --> 01:07:14,505
How can you how can you just negate

1886
01:07:14,565 --> 01:07:15,065
that?

1887
01:07:16,309 --> 01:07:17,210
But what

1888
01:07:18,550 --> 01:07:21,110
what David is saying is a spiritual truth

1889
01:07:21,110 --> 01:07:23,530
that transcends our understanding sometimes.

1890
01:07:24,230 --> 01:07:25,369
When you sin,

1891
01:07:26,390 --> 01:07:28,329
you can't sin against a person

1892
01:07:28,974 --> 01:07:31,375
because they're not god. They are not a

1893
01:07:31,375 --> 01:07:31,875
holy

1894
01:07:32,255 --> 01:07:32,755
god.

1895
01:07:34,014 --> 01:07:35,074
When we sin,

1896
01:07:35,375 --> 01:07:37,534
we're sinning against the person that made the

1897
01:07:37,534 --> 01:07:38,034
rules.

1898
01:07:40,335 --> 01:07:42,675
If I do something wrong to to Daniel,

1899
01:07:42,974 --> 01:07:45,010
I've I've wronged Daniel. But I can't sin

1900
01:07:45,010 --> 01:07:47,030
against him because he didn't make the rules.

1901
01:07:47,490 --> 01:07:49,890
He's not the holy judge. I'm not gonna

1902
01:07:49,890 --> 01:07:51,510
stand before him someday.

1903
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I sinned against God. But you say, well

1904
01:07:54,130 --> 01:07:54,869
that's kinda

1905
01:07:55,170 --> 01:07:57,590
getting out of it. It's the opposite.

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01:07:58,425 --> 01:08:00,824
If I sin against Daniel, it's only between

1907
01:08:00,824 --> 01:08:01,965
Daniel and I.

1908
01:08:03,704 --> 01:08:05,545
I can take care You know when that

1909
01:08:05,545 --> 01:08:08,045
stops? When Daniel dies or I die?

1910
01:08:08,824 --> 01:08:10,664
But if I sin against God, it doesn't

1911
01:08:10,664 --> 01:08:11,965
matter when I die.

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I'm gonna stand before him for that.

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Daniel will never be my judge,

1914
01:08:19,289 --> 01:08:21,310
but God is always my judge.

1915
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And that's what David understood. And and here's

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01:08:25,130 --> 01:08:28,024
the amazing thing about it. David understood this

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01:08:28,024 --> 01:08:30,125
before the concept of the cross.

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01:08:31,545 --> 01:08:34,444
That's that's big. That's powerful in my opinion.

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He says, against you and you alone have

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I sinned. I have done what is evil

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01:08:39,385 --> 01:08:40,444
in your sight.

1922
01:08:41,239 --> 01:08:43,239
You will be pro proved right in what

1923
01:08:43,239 --> 01:08:45,800
you say. And your judgment against me is

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01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:46,300
just.

1925
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:48,600
And basically, he's just saying, God, I want

1926
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:50,860
you to forgive me. But you're the judge.

1927
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:53,260
You're the judge.

1928
01:08:53,935 --> 01:08:55,954
Now be careful with that after the cross.

1929
01:08:56,494 --> 01:08:59,375
Because if you assume that maybe Jesus won't

1930
01:08:59,375 --> 01:09:02,194
forgive you, now you're going against the word.

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01:09:03,215 --> 01:09:04,594
K? That's important.

1932
01:09:05,295 --> 01:09:06,274
That's an important,

1933
01:09:08,510 --> 01:09:09,010
differentiation

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01:09:09,550 --> 01:09:11,250
after cross before cross.

1935
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Right?

1936
01:09:14,590 --> 01:09:16,909
Don't ever don't ever let Satan tell you

1937
01:09:16,909 --> 01:09:18,765
that Jesus will not forgive you.

1938
01:09:20,364 --> 01:09:22,545
That's a lie that goes against scripture.

1939
01:09:24,604 --> 01:09:25,104
K?

1940
01:09:25,725 --> 01:09:27,485
For I was born a sinner. Yes, from

1941
01:09:27,485 --> 01:09:29,965
the very moment my mother conceived me. You

1942
01:09:29,965 --> 01:09:33,109
desire honesty from the womb. I, the the

1943
01:09:33,109 --> 01:09:34,789
best I can tell, I don't think womb

1944
01:09:34,789 --> 01:09:35,609
is the right,

1945
01:09:36,789 --> 01:09:38,710
translation here. I think it means from in

1946
01:09:38,869 --> 01:09:41,109
the inside of you, not from the inside

1947
01:09:41,109 --> 01:09:42,090
of your mother.

1948
01:09:42,710 --> 01:09:44,710
K? It doesn't seem to fit the rest,

1949
01:09:44,710 --> 01:09:46,935
and that's not really how the Hebrew says.

1950
01:09:47,015 --> 01:09:48,454
I don't think it's bad that it says

1951
01:09:48,454 --> 01:09:49,895
womb, but I think we miss the bigger

1952
01:09:49,895 --> 01:09:51,414
point. And I don't think that's what the

1953
01:09:51,414 --> 01:09:54,295
Hebrew was the Hebrew says. But you desire

1954
01:09:54,295 --> 01:09:57,435
honesty from my inner parts, teaching me wisdom

1955
01:09:57,494 --> 01:09:59,435
even there in in here,

1956
01:10:00,935 --> 01:10:01,914
not in the womb.

1957
01:10:02,890 --> 01:10:05,689
Okay? That's just that. Alright. We're gonna start

1958
01:10:05,689 --> 01:10:06,670
with verse 7

1959
01:10:07,289 --> 01:10:08,109
next week.

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01:10:08,569 --> 01:10:10,270
And we're gonna go down through it.

1961
01:10:10,649 --> 01:10:11,149
Alright?

1962
01:10:12,329 --> 01:10:14,649
So here's the obvious question of the evening,

1963
01:10:14,649 --> 01:10:16,890
but it seems to be a little stronger

1964
01:10:16,890 --> 01:10:17,710
for us tonight.

1965
01:10:18,505 --> 01:10:20,125
How how are we gonna pray about this?

1966
01:10:21,545 --> 01:10:23,064
Let me let me not use the word

1967
01:10:23,064 --> 01:10:25,225
we. Because that kinda gives us a little

1968
01:10:25,225 --> 01:10:26,125
bit of a

1969
01:10:26,585 --> 01:10:28,045
a transference potential.

1970
01:10:29,225 --> 01:10:29,725
Right?

1971
01:10:30,824 --> 01:10:33,725
How are you gonna pray about this? Wisdom.

1972
01:10:34,079 --> 01:10:36,560
I think wisdom is very appropriate because everything

1973
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,320
you said Start over, Aidan, so they can

1974
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:39,859
hear you at home. I think wisdom.

1975
01:10:40,399 --> 01:10:42,720
Because everything you said earlier about the political

1976
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:44,739
thing affects us in the here and now.

1977
01:10:45,119 --> 01:10:45,520
And,

1978
01:10:46,635 --> 01:10:48,635
I could understand the right to say indignation

1979
01:10:48,635 --> 01:10:50,015
when you have to go to the capital.

1980
01:10:50,154 --> 01:10:51,755
I get that. And I think a lot

1981
01:10:51,755 --> 01:10:53,515
of whiz mess to go into that. And

1982
01:10:53,515 --> 01:10:55,114
looking at what you just shared on the

1983
01:10:55,114 --> 01:10:57,135
second half of the set of the service

1984
01:10:57,354 --> 01:10:58,574
was very, very spiritual.

1985
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,239
What you said about the womb and it

1986
01:11:00,239 --> 01:11:01,139
means interbeing

1987
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:03,920
and about finding out about I don't sin

1988
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,559
against this person. I sin against god, the

1989
01:11:06,559 --> 01:11:08,739
ultimate judge. When we have responsibility

1990
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:11,725
to our brothers and sisters, but it's against

1991
01:11:11,725 --> 01:11:14,284
God. And David understood that. I never realized

1992
01:11:14,284 --> 01:11:15,025
that before.

1993
01:11:15,725 --> 01:11:18,045
That's important. So I think the discernment and

1994
01:11:18,045 --> 01:11:19,985
wisdom Yeah. In this message.

1995
01:11:20,445 --> 01:11:22,364
I like you attaching discernment to that. Because

1996
01:11:22,364 --> 01:11:23,805
to me, wisdom and discernment need to go

1997
01:11:23,805 --> 01:11:24,704
hand in hand.

1998
01:11:25,569 --> 01:11:27,109
How else are you gonna pray?

1999
01:11:28,689 --> 01:11:29,590
Somebody else?

2000
01:11:31,489 --> 01:11:33,090
Did I see somebody over here? Raise your

2001
01:11:33,090 --> 01:11:33,590
hand.

2002
01:11:34,210 --> 01:11:34,710
Oh.

2003
01:11:37,810 --> 01:11:39,729
Here here is what always comes to my

2004
01:11:39,729 --> 01:11:40,229
mind

2005
01:11:42,425 --> 01:11:42,904
Is,

2006
01:11:43,305 --> 01:11:45,145
Lord, let me let me be honest with

2007
01:11:45,145 --> 01:11:45,645
me.

2008
01:11:46,505 --> 01:11:47,564
In your spirit,

2009
01:11:48,104 --> 01:11:49,085
convict me

2010
01:11:49,625 --> 01:11:51,085
and let me be honest.

2011
01:11:52,585 --> 01:11:54,345
I I don't wanna ever get to the

2012
01:11:54,345 --> 01:11:55,164
point where

2013
01:11:55,699 --> 01:11:58,179
I brush my sins under the rug, and

2014
01:11:58,179 --> 01:11:59,560
then I preach to you guys.

2015
01:12:00,899 --> 01:12:02,439
I don't I don't wanna do that.

2016
01:12:02,819 --> 01:12:04,659
And by the way, that's a lot easier

2017
01:12:04,659 --> 01:12:05,560
than you think.

2018
01:12:06,899 --> 01:12:08,840
I I want the lord to I wanna

2019
01:12:09,475 --> 01:12:10,135
I wanna

2020
01:12:10,595 --> 01:12:12,675
truly be open with the Lord. I wanna

2021
01:12:12,675 --> 01:12:13,815
know where my

2022
01:12:14,195 --> 01:12:16,375
rebellion is. I wanna know where my attitude,

2023
01:12:16,675 --> 01:12:17,735
pride, selfishness,

2024
01:12:19,155 --> 01:12:21,155
lust. I wanna know where all those things

2025
01:12:21,155 --> 01:12:23,715
are in my existence, so that I can

2026
01:12:23,715 --> 01:12:24,935
get them before God.

2027
01:12:26,319 --> 01:12:28,340
Sometimes I fight with god about things.

2028
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:30,420
Because I try to justify, but

2029
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:33,219
I I wanna be honest and open.

2030
01:12:34,159 --> 01:12:35,619
I'm I'm talking about that

2031
01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:37,300
some Sunday.

2032
01:12:37,605 --> 01:12:39,625
I think that's why I switched to to

2033
01:12:39,765 --> 01:12:42,345
Psalms 51 here tonight because it's

2034
01:12:42,965 --> 01:12:45,385
it leads us very well into this weekend.

2035
01:12:47,284 --> 01:12:48,164
But I I just

2036
01:12:48,965 --> 01:12:51,625
I don't wanna be I don't wanna be

2037
01:12:52,460 --> 01:12:54,939
an intentional hypocrite. I think we're all hypocrites

2038
01:12:54,939 --> 01:12:56,140
at some level, but I don't wanna be

2039
01:12:56,140 --> 01:12:56,640
intentional.

2040
01:12:57,420 --> 01:12:59,420
Joy? I was just gonna say that too

2041
01:12:59,420 --> 01:13:01,579
is that, you know, help me to just

2042
01:13:01,579 --> 01:13:03,579
really see my sin because it's really easy

2043
01:13:03,579 --> 01:13:05,260
to read about David and think, well, I've

2044
01:13:05,260 --> 01:13:07,020
never done a lot of things he's done.

2045
01:13:07,020 --> 01:13:08,835
So, I must not be such a bad

2046
01:13:08,835 --> 01:13:09,814
guy. And so

2047
01:13:10,194 --> 01:13:10,935
it's like

2048
01:13:11,314 --> 01:13:12,034
we really

2049
01:13:12,435 --> 01:13:13,335
I I wanna see,

2050
01:13:14,274 --> 01:13:16,595
you know, how I'm sinning against God in

2051
01:13:16,595 --> 01:13:18,835
a in a really way that I can

2052
01:13:18,835 --> 01:13:19,335
change.

2053
01:13:19,875 --> 01:13:23,074
We we always rationalize. Human nature rationalizes our

2054
01:13:23,074 --> 01:13:25,069
sin by assessing it,

2055
01:13:25,449 --> 01:13:27,149
toward who we think is worse.

2056
01:13:28,170 --> 01:13:30,270
Right? We never pick somebody better.

2057
01:13:31,609 --> 01:13:33,529
We don't ever do that. Right? We don't

2058
01:13:33,529 --> 01:13:34,270
ever say,

2059
01:13:34,649 --> 01:13:36,170
you know, I wish I was more like

2060
01:13:36,170 --> 01:13:36,989
mother Teresa.

2061
01:13:38,564 --> 01:13:41,204
Right? We always say, I'm just glad I'm

2062
01:13:41,204 --> 01:13:43,545
I'm not as bad as these 3 Democrats

2063
01:13:44,005 --> 01:13:45,625
sitting here on the front row.

2064
01:13:47,284 --> 01:13:49,524
Alright. Let's pray. God, we thank you for

2065
01:13:49,524 --> 01:13:50,185
your grace.

2066
01:13:51,045 --> 01:13:52,664
Lord, that you truly are

2067
01:13:53,300 --> 01:13:54,360
you are grace.

2068
01:13:54,980 --> 01:13:55,800
Your your

2069
01:13:56,180 --> 01:13:58,739
you fill us with your presence and your

2070
01:13:58,739 --> 01:13:59,239
spirit

2071
01:14:00,500 --> 01:14:02,260
to soften our hearts so that we can

2072
01:14:02,260 --> 01:14:04,659
first respond to your grace and then then

2073
01:14:04,659 --> 01:14:05,720
also give it.

2074
01:14:06,805 --> 01:14:08,744
Lord, help me to realize that

2075
01:14:09,284 --> 01:14:11,385
that when I sin, I sin against you.

2076
01:14:12,805 --> 01:14:14,744
Lord, I don't wanna sin against you.

2077
01:14:15,604 --> 01:14:17,784
I don't wanna wrong anybody else either.

2078
01:14:19,045 --> 01:14:20,824
Or there's no one on this planet

2079
01:14:21,869 --> 01:14:23,649
that I wanna see hurt,

2080
01:14:24,670 --> 01:14:25,170
harmed.

2081
01:14:26,909 --> 01:14:27,890
Lord, I I

2082
01:14:28,350 --> 01:14:29,729
I wanna see people judged.

2083
01:14:32,270 --> 01:14:34,130
Lord, I don't want anybody go to hell.

2084
01:14:34,784 --> 01:14:36,784
So I want your grace for me and

2085
01:14:36,784 --> 01:14:38,244
I want your grace for others.

2086
01:14:39,185 --> 01:14:40,625
I don't want you to create a clean

2087
01:14:40,625 --> 01:14:42,145
heart in me and then give me the

2088
01:14:42,145 --> 01:14:44,405
ability to help somebody else see that.

2089
01:14:46,619 --> 01:14:48,239
Lord, help every one of us here

2090
01:14:48,539 --> 01:14:50,239
to realize and recognize

2091
01:14:50,939 --> 01:14:51,600
our rebellion.

2092
01:14:53,500 --> 01:14:55,199
And then get it right with you.

2093
01:14:56,539 --> 01:14:58,380
Lord, I don't wanna be convicted just to

2094
01:14:58,380 --> 01:15:00,585
be condemned. Wanna be convicted so that I

2095
01:15:00,585 --> 01:15:02,104
can change it and I can serve you

2096
01:15:02,104 --> 01:15:02,604
better.

2097
01:15:03,864 --> 01:15:05,484
Lord, I pray that for our church.

2098
01:15:06,024 --> 01:15:07,645
Pray that for every one of us.

2099
01:15:08,984 --> 01:15:11,005
Help us to let your holy spirit

2100
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,239
get inside our minds, and our spirit, and

2101
01:15:14,239 --> 01:15:15,619
our heart, and just

2102
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:17,539
just wreak havoc in there

2103
01:15:18,239 --> 01:15:19,460
and change us.

2104
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:23,520
We pray all of this ultimately for your

2105
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:24,579
glory, lord god.

2106
01:15:25,655 --> 01:15:27,275
And in the name of your son, Jesus.

2107
01:15:27,574 --> 01:15:28,074
Amen.

2108
01:15:29,175 --> 01:15:31,994
Amen. Alright. Don't forget men's breakfast, Saturday.

2109
01:15:34,055 --> 01:15:35,435
Looking forward to,

2110
01:15:36,935 --> 01:15:39,175
There Better Be Bacon. I don't know who's

2111
01:15:39,175 --> 01:15:40,235
planning this, but

2112
01:15:42,229 --> 01:15:43,668
alright. We'll see you guys. Have a great

2113
01:15:43,668 --> 01:15:44,649
rest of your night.