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host Rams's job. The

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time has come for me to suspend

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my campaign. I have

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no regrets. This is a quote

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from former presidential candidate

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Nikki Hailey, and

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there are of course a lot of people who were expecting

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this to come. After Super

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Tuesday. I'll share a bit of

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the results from Yahoo News. Former

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President Donald Trump swept nearly all

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of this year's Super Tuesday primaries and

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caucuses, routing his last major

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rival for the Republican presidential nomination,

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former South Carolina Governor Nikki

1:02

Haley. Haley announced Wednesday

1:05

morning that she is suspending her campaign, clearing

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the way for Trump's rematch with President

1:09

Biden, the Democrat who beat him in

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twenty twenty. Biden also

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won lopsided victories on Tuesday

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across fifteen states. Trump,

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who gained several hundred delegates with major

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wins in states such as California and Texas,

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is now on the verge of becoming the GOP's presumptive

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nominee for the third straight election

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cycle. His only loss was in Vermont,

1:30

where Hailey scored a narrow upset.

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Quote, November fifth is right around the corner,

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Trump said from his mar Lago Club

1:37

in Palm Beach, Florida, referring to election day.

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He goes on to say, November fifth is going

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to go down as the single most important

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day in the history of our country. In

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a statement, Biden said that quote

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Tonight's results leave the American people

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with a clear choice. Are we going to keep

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moving forward or will we allow

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Donald Trump to drag us backwards into

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the chaos, division, and darkness

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that defined his term in office.

2:03

So not a

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lot in the way of real surprises there,

2:08

But now we have to

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deal with the reality. And a lot of people were

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expecting that more

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of maybe Trump's legal

2:19

issues may have affected

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his nomination prior

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to Super Tuesday,

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and that has not happened. So

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here we are with again what many

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people expected as

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a result.

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So onward,

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moving on.

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Our next story comes from your Web,

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a prominent megachurch pastor

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has asserted that Reverend Martin Luther King

2:49

Jr.

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Was quote not a Christian at all.

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John MacArthur, an eighty five year old white male

2:57

pastor of Grace Community Church

2:59

in Sun Valley, made the claim

3:01

during a sermon last month. LGBTQ

3:04

Nation reports and his remarks, he criticized

3:07

a group of evangelical pastors known as

3:10

Together for the Gospel or T four G

3:12

for honoring King several years ago. Right

3:15

Wing Watch reported quote

3:17

T four G brought into the deceptiveness

3:21

of the woke movement and the racial

3:23

baiting that it was going on a couple of years

3:26

ago, and it literally put

3:28

them out of existence.

3:29

MacArthur said it was.

3:31

On to say the strange irony was

3:33

a year later they did the same thing for Martin Luther

3:35

King was not a Christian at all whose

3:37

life was immoral. MacArthur

3:40

continued, quote I'm not saying King

3:42

didn't do some social good, and I've always

3:45

been glad he was a pacifist or he could have

3:47

started a real revolution, but you don't

3:49

honor a non believer who misrepresented

3:52

Christ and everything about the Gospel. Quote

3:55

for LGBTQ Nation, MacArthur

3:57

previously said quote, the Bible

3:59

is abundantly clear. Slavery

4:01

is the heart of what

4:03

it means to be a true Christian, and

4:06

Christianity does not free slaves.

4:08

Christianity does not give equal

4:10

social rights. Jesus did not propound

4:13

equal rights, and he did not upset

4:15

the social order. Rather, they all affirm

4:18

that, with great fear of God and great respect,

4:20

you are to be submissive to your masters, whether

4:22

they're good and gentle, or whether they are

4:25

unreasonable, you are to submit quote.

4:28

MacArthur also takes an anti LGBTQ

4:30

plus stance, claiming gay people don't really

4:33

exist. Quote, no one is. Gay

4:35

people commit adultery, they commit sins

4:37

of homosexuality. They lie, they

4:39

steal, they cheat, he said, according

4:42

to the Friendly Atheist. He

4:44

goes on to say, quote, that's like saying, you

4:46

know, I keep robbing banks, but I'm a robber.

4:48

I'm a bank robber. What am I gonna do? I'm

4:50

a bank robber. That's not

4:53

an excuse for what you do. MacArthur added,

4:55

are there certain kinds of impulses that lead

4:57

people in that direction?

4:58

Yes?

4:59

But I think I think one of the really deadly aspects

5:02

of this is to let people define themselves

5:04

as gay.

5:04

Okay, so.

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A lot going here, and obviously you can see why

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this gentleman ended up

5:11

in the news. First, let's

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break down this Martin Luther King

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stuff. So

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I want to make sure that we say his name

5:23

fully because it wasn't stated

5:25

fully in the article.

5:27

Reverend Doctor Martin

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Luther King Junior.

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He was educated

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in theology,

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and as

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a result we have regarded him

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as such, not just one

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of the great ministers, one of the great speakers

5:50

of all time of humanity.

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So that's

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a great starting point. As far as

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him saying that doctor King was a moral

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I can't name one human being that.

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Was perfect.

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I'm sure that even John MacArthur has

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not lived a perfect life, with

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the exception of Jesus, and

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of course Christians accept that by

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faith, because there's no way to know entirely

6:29

what Jesus's life consisted of. But

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we accept by faith that Jesus was the only example

6:33

of humanity that was perfect.

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And outside

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of that, the presumption

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or Christians is that everyone is

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born into sin, and we are all

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sinners, and there's no way to get to Heaven

6:51

except through Christ. So for this

6:53

gentleman John MacArthur to condemn

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doctor Martin Luther King Junior,

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Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jrean as

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a non Christian and as immoral.

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Sounds like he is the one who is without

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sin casting.

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The first stone.

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It's not his position to decide whose

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life is moral or immoral. I

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believe that that is up to his God.

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And you know he's

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just talking nonsense. To be honest with you, there

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are many, many pastors and preachers

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who live

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human lives and they

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seek the kingdom, if you will.

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And it doesn't mean

7:36

that they always get it right, but the

7:38

point is that they seek to

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be the best version of themselves as often as

7:43

they can. They are

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guided by God

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and they do their best to instruct

7:52

their followers as best as

7:54

they know. And that's the

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most that anybody can expect of anyone else, including

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John MacArthur. So I

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wanted to make sure we got that out of the way. As

8:04

far as this stuff about slavery, this really

8:06

does sound like super

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old school. I'm talking sixteen

8:11

seventeen hundred's slavery

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talk.

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Slavery is a moral.

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There's a lot of things that are immral that are in the

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Bible that Christians

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either follow or don't follow. Just

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because it's in the Bible does not mean that

8:30

it is necessarily

8:32

right, nor does it mean that Christian people adhere

8:35

to it. And

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I'd like to add to it that I

8:42

know this is just a small technicality, but the slavery

8:45

in the Bible was not chattel slavery

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like the slavery practice in the United States.

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It's a very different type of slavery. It

8:53

was the enslavement of a rasive people, not

8:57

the enslavement of someone who owed you money and could

8:59

not pay it back, and you could

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work as a slave until

9:04

your debt was paid, or

9:07

that you were a slave but your children were not, or

9:12

that you had a permanent legal status

9:14

in society as a

9:16

slave and

9:18

could be transferred as property

9:21

upon the death of your master. Like

9:23

these things were. Elements

9:26

of these things were added later. Some

9:28

of these I'm sure were present in Biblical times,

9:31

but certainly not the chattel element. That

9:33

was something that came about

9:36

later in this country. In

9:39

addition to that, to

9:41

enslave a tribe of people was one thing,

9:44

but to enslave a race of people based on their

9:46

color is something entirely different. And

9:48

for him to try to use again

9:51

the parts of the Bible that were

9:55

probably in the Old Testament under

9:58

the guise of Christianity. To

10:00

go back and suggest that doctor

10:02

King was immoral because

10:04

perhaps he spoke out on slavery,

10:07

or maybe this guy's trying to go back to that time,

10:09

who knows, just

10:13

kind of shows that this guy's

10:15

either off his rocker again, he's

10:17

how old is he? Let me make sure I say this right, eighty

10:20

five years old, So he's

10:22

from a different time. He probably felt this

10:24

way for a long time, and gives you an

10:26

idea of exactly

10:31

the type of thinking that Christian

10:34

white men can

10:39

find themselves revisiting.

10:44

But you know, down here at the end for him to

10:46

say that no one is gay. People commit

10:48

adultery, people commit sins,

10:51

you know, And it's the same as someone

10:53

saying I keep robbing banks because I'm

10:55

a bank robber. Of

10:57

course, that's a false equivalency. People are born

11:00

and gay people. That there's a scientific

11:02

basis for all of this. It's

11:04

well documented, and this just shows you

11:06

know, ignorance, and you

11:09

know, to see three examples of this in

11:11

one sermon, I

11:13

think it just goes to show that either this guy's

11:15

trying to get attention.

11:16

Or he's just someone

11:19

who has

11:21

a.

11:24

Somewhat theological basis

11:26

for what is he is he's saying, but

11:29

obviously he's taking these things to the extreme.

11:32

You know, the truth is he really doesn't have any

11:34

basis for any of this, if I'm being honest. But you

11:37

know, to those people who are seeking to

11:40

gain some sort of understanding or insight

11:42

or something to reaffirm their view of the world,

11:45

you know, for him to have a scripture

11:47

or two taken out of context

11:50

to share with those people, they could

11:52

see that as having some sort of biblical

11:55

basis somehow it's based in theology,

11:59

and they can feel

12:01

more comfortable in their bigotry. But

12:04

the rest of us in the know are obviously

12:07

very clear on this that these

12:10

false equivalencies. They sound good in a sermon,

12:12

I'm sure, but without a scientific

12:14

basis for it, it's just fluff.

12:17

And you know, eighty

12:19

five years old, fingers crossed,

12:21

we don't have to put up with too much more of this from this guy.

12:26

This is your midweek memo on the Black

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Information Network Daily Podcast with me

12:31

your host ramses Ja. All

12:37

right, this comes from newsweek. Independent

12:39

Senator Kirsten Cinema announced

12:42

Tuesday that you will not be running for reelection

12:44

in Arizona, opening the door for a potential one

12:46

on one race between failed gubernatorial

12:48

candidate Carrie Lake, a Republican,

12:50

and Representative Ruben Diego,

12:53

a Democrat. In December twenty nineteen, Cinema

12:55

again changed her party

12:57

affiliation from Democrat to Independent,

13:00

joining two other independent senators, Bernie Sanders

13:02

of Vermont and Angus King of Maine,

13:05

who both caucused with Democrats. She has

13:07

also been compared politically

13:09

to Senator Joe Mansion of West Virginia

13:11

due to more moderate positions. Diego,

13:14

a former Marine who served in Iraq and as

13:16

the second Columbian American elected to

13:18

the US House of Representatives, has been in the Congress

13:21

since twenty fifteen. He has

13:23

criticized Cinema for betraying

13:26

Arizona families, saying that

13:28

she continuously quote put her own interest

13:30

ahead of getting things done for the people of Arizona

13:33

unquote. He also scrutinized her

13:35

for accepting huge campaign contributions

13:37

from the wealthy and well connected. Poles

13:41

have varied in Arizona due to the political

13:43

sorry, the potential for a three way race that now

13:46

won't come to fruition and had to head matchups

13:48

between Diego and Lake. The

13:50

pair splits numbers based on the poll. Most

13:52

recent polls conducted in late February by

13:55

Rasmussen show Lake with a four point lead with

13:57

one thousand and one registered voter survey.

14:00

An Emerson College poll around that

14:02

same time showed Diego with a seven

14:04

point lead. Lake, a strong Donald

14:07

Trump supporter, still has to defeat

14:09

Republican challenger Panow County

14:11

Sheriff Mark Lamb prior to facing Diego. She

14:13

is viewed as a strong favorite against Lamb.

14:16

Arizona Senate seat is currently considered

14:18

a toss up by the Cook Political

14:21

Report.

14:22

Okay, so.

14:25

For those that don't know, and I have a little bit more

14:27

insight into this because I actually lived in Arizona,

14:30

Kirsten Cinema

14:32

was enthusiastically

14:36

elected by her supporters.

14:40

I remember this time, and

14:43

we thought that she was going to be one of the heroes

14:47

in the story of

14:50

this country. Obviously,

14:52

she was elected at a time when there

14:55

was a lot of pushback

14:58

against the MAGA movement

15:02

and Donald Trump personally, and

15:06

really the conservative Republican

15:10

shift further right, and

15:14

we thought that Kirsten Cinema was going

15:17

to be our

15:20

voice, those of us who are left

15:22

leaning, which I have admitted many times on

15:24

this show if you haven't noticed that, I

15:27

am a left leaning voter.

15:31

And once

15:36

she was elected, she started

15:38

to move a little

15:40

funny, a little different, and

15:43

a lot of people on the ground felt like that was

15:45

a slap in the face because

15:48

again, a lot of people elected her to represent

15:50

their interests. And

15:54

on the heels of the

15:58

Trump presidency, when we saw all

16:00

these extreme

16:02

political maneuvers

16:05

and we saw this extreme behavior, really

16:07

it was that and this this very aggressive

16:10

get it done or else type of mentality, a

16:14

lot of us felt like we were going to need

16:16

to have

16:19

a similar strategy of our own in

16:22

order to make sure that we are evening

16:26

the playing field.

16:31

There were a lot of things that we

16:34

felt were changed

16:36

in a semi permanent manner, not

16:38

the least of which was Trump's electing

16:44

of you know, folks to the Supreme Court,

16:47

breaking precedent. You

16:50

know, certainly his last

16:52

appointment of his presidency to

16:55

the Supreme Court was something that had

16:57

it been under

17:00

a prior president, that president

17:02

would have waited until the next administration,

17:05

and then the following administration would have elected

17:07

a person to the Supreme Court. But after Ruth

17:09

Bader Ginsburg passed away, Trump

17:12

had a wide open opportunity

17:14

to get another conservative on the

17:17

Supreme Court, and he did exactly

17:19

that. And

17:23

now there.

17:25

Is a.

17:27

Decisive majority of Conservatives

17:29

in the Supreme Court, which Donald

17:31

Trump and Republicans are still using in

17:35

their favor. Obviously,

17:38

Kirsten Cinema famously failed

17:40

to support the

17:46

workaround for the filibuster

17:49

that you know, going back to doctor King, people

17:51

have been pushing to get rid of the philibuster

17:54

and you know, for her from

17:57

this place to be

17:59

the person or one of the two people standing

18:02

in the way of that, that felt very hurtful.

18:04

And again it felt like a slap in the face. But she's

18:07

stepping aside, having done the damage

18:09

that she's done, or in her opinion, having

18:12

served the country as bes she

18:14

could. And

18:16

again this clears the path for a

18:19

one on one matchup between Diego

18:21

and Carrie Lake. And I'm

18:23

sure you know the name Carrie Lake.

18:25

She is.

18:27

Admittedly, you know, Donald Trump

18:29

in a skirt

18:33

and she, you know, plays from his playbook. And there's a

18:35

lot of people in Arizona who

18:38

like that playbook. They like a bully in office.

18:40

They like when the guy gets

18:42

up there and says, this is what

18:45

I'm going to do, come hell or high water.

18:48

And Carrie Lake suggests

18:51

that she will be a similar representative

18:55

if elected, and

18:58

she certainly takes rather more out of his place book

19:00

two, you know, obviously denying the

19:02

fairness of elections, you know, suing

19:05

and losing and making herself

19:07

into a national embarrassment and so

19:09

forth. But

19:12

again there are people who don't mind that, people

19:15

that sincerely feel like, you

19:17

know, she was.

19:20

Robbed of the election.

19:23

Just because she says it, not because there's been any proof,

19:25

not because any courts have verified

19:27

any of this stuff, not because her lawyers have been able

19:30

to substantiate any of the claims, but because

19:32

they accept on faith what

19:34

they want to hear, which is, well, if my candidate

19:37

lost, it must be because

19:39

someone is cheating, not because most

19:41

people don't want.

19:42

A person like this to represent them.

19:45

So we have that to look forward

19:47

to here in Arizona, and of course nationally because

19:49

there are national implications there, so we'll

19:52

keep.

19:52

An eye on it.

19:52

And finally, you

19:54

know, I'm not the biggest fan of Fox News,

19:57

and they are extremely biased,

20:01

which in and of itself isn't the worst thing

20:03

in the world, but they are also often

20:06

not factual in their reporting. But

20:09

I felt like this one is normless.

20:11

And that, by the way, is not my opinion. You

20:14

can look up, you know, several independent

20:18

resources that will suggest that about Box

20:20

now, so that is not, again, not my

20:22

personal opinion. I like to use fact

20:25

based journalistic sources for

20:27

the content for this show and indeed

20:29

the entirety of the bi in. But for

20:32

this story,

20:35

you know, I've been looking to cite a Fox News article,

20:37

and for this story, I feel like it works just fine. NBA

20:40

Hall of Famer Charles Barkley did not like former

20:42

President Trump's remarks this past week, and he gave a

20:44

warning to others that might be on the former

20:47

president's side.

20:48

Trump spoke Friday in Columbia.

20:49

South Carolina, where he said his mug

20:52

shots and indictments appeal

20:54

to African American voters. Quote,

20:56

you know who embraced me more than anybody

20:58

else, the black population, Trump

21:01

told the crowd. He goes on to say, it's

21:03

incredible. You see black people are walking

21:05

around with my mug shot. You

21:07

know they do shirts. Quote

21:11

Barkley sitting down with CNN's Gill King took

21:13

a long sigh before sharing his thoughts.

21:15

Quote.

21:16

First of all, I'm just going to say this, he began. If

21:18

I see a black person walking around with a Trump

21:20

mug shot, I'm going to punch him in the face.

21:24

King quickly tried to shut it down, saying, you don't

21:26

mean that. Barkley was quick to

21:28

retort, Oh, I mean it, sincerely,

21:30

he said. When King said that Barkley

21:33

would be arrested if that happened, he did

21:35

not mind that being a possibility. Quote,

21:38

I'm going to build myself out and go celebrate, Barkley

21:40

said, as the crowd laughed. He

21:43

goes on to say, first of all, if I was at

21:45

that conference, I would have got up and walked

21:47

out. That was an insult to all

21:50

black people. To compare black history, where

21:52

we've been discriminated against, to his

21:54

plight. Quote, it's not a

21:57

fair comparison.

21:58

He said.

21:59

He's a billion in there, he's had a great

22:01

life, he's been president of the United States.

22:04

To insult black people who have been discriminated

22:06

against all these years and put them

22:08

in the same category.

22:10

I was just defended. So

22:14

not a whole lot to add to that one.

22:16

Just to shout out to Charles Barklay for saying

22:18

is truth and you know, for speaking up

22:20

for black people, because you know that isn't

22:23

insulting, and that is pandering and that is performative.

22:26

And there are a handful of black

22:28

people that will say, yeah, see Trump gets us,

22:30

he understands us. He made shoes and T shirts. And they're

22:32

just kind of playing into the stereotypes. But

22:35

still very much the majority

22:38

of black people see right through this, and

22:41

we know that Donald Trump is.

22:45

A bad look. So

22:49

we'll leave that one right there. Don't forget.

22:50

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22:53

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