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Both David Platt and J.D. Greear have the same basic response to the documentaries exposing their deceitfulness. 1. Assume the church members are wrong. Ruslan assumes the lawsuits were dropped. Uh, one is ongoing and the other one was decided against McLean, but Platt just lets Ruslan tell a... lie favorable to himself. 2. Frame it as persecution. Both Greear and Platt frame opposition to their evil plans as in the same category as the persecution of brothers and sisters overseas. They make it sound pious, because they admit they're not experiencing the extent of persecution, but they put their plight in the same category. It's somehow persecution. 3. Don't give any actual answers. Neither Platt nor Greear answer any of the actual objections to their church takeover plans. They just try to give spiritual people connect with because we all go through trials in our own lives. 4. Imply the issue is over fidelity to Christ. Platt talks about how he couldn't compromise on justice, as if that's what he was asked to do. Greear makes out like he's offending people because he preaches the Gospel. He even conflates the law and gospel, which is another more serious matter. But, the point is, they are righteous, their critics are not.show more

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Jon Harris 🌲11 месяцев назад

If you want to see what really happened, watch "The Real David Platt," and "Defenders of Faith" at

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Jon Harris 🌲11 месяцев назад

Meant to say: "They just try to give spiritual advice for people to connect with because we all go through trials in our own lives."

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Tim Bushong11 месяцев назад

Both Greear and Platt are liars, no doubt. But personal loyalties and toxically giving the benefit of the doubt runs pretty deep.

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Joseph Agemy11 месяцев назад

I have seen this in too many churches. Men like David Platt use words like justice as a disarming mechanism while redefining it through a Marxist interpretive lense. All the while saying it’s what is in scripture. The spirit of the age is strong with this one.

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dabhidh m11 месяцев назад

Not surprising. I've seen this kind of thing in many forms and contexts over the years, and the upshot is always, "We are going to do what we are going to do. We will not accept advice or correctionm, nor take seriously concerns from outside our team. Resistence to our agenda is unholy rebellion and persecution, driven by a desire to disturb the peace of the body."

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Big_rock11 месяцев назад

If Ruslan is going to interview Platt, he should (and maybe he did, who knows) offer to bring someone on to talk from the side opposing Platt. Proverbs 18:17: The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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FungibleFani11 месяцев назад

I watched Faith Baptist Church hostile takeover by JD and his henchmen. Disturbing beyond words. Thank God there were brave men that stood up to this charlatan. Reminds me of Jesus calling out the snakes and vipers in Jerusalem...

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josephtoomey11 месяцев назад

On a somewhat related note, I like this documentary, and I find myself watching your channel more and more. Your reasonable

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Patriot Angler 🇺🇸11 месяцев назад

This is a bad look for charismatics. I am not surprised @RuslanKD hosted this guy. He also hosts Benny Hinn supporters.

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Barnard11 месяцев назад

Greear is trying to compare the politics of the time of Christ to the left/right divide in the U.S. today. How does anyone fall for this?

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Neil, I understand that you love your pastor, but your love should cause you to call him to repentance instead of trying to justify his statements (Reader, click through and read Neil's small thread and his quotes from John Calvin before you read my response). Neil, 1) Greear does not mention the Apostle Paul's "thorn in the flesh" at all in this sermon. He does not mention 2 Corinthians 12 where Paul describes his "thorn." 2) Greear does not mention John Calvin. This is you trying to put Calvin's words in your pastor's mouth. And you misinterpret Calvin as well. 3) In the video, Greear says we must be compassionate towards "gay and lesbian people" because God has not answered their prayer. He says that they got effected with a different form of the curse than other people. He treats "LGBT folks" as victims. But afflictions do not require repentance and victims are not required to repent. Greear teaches in this sermon that same-sex attraction is an affliction, not a sin to be turned from and rejected. He only condemns homosexual behavior as sin. 4) Greear also softens the heinousness of "LGBT sin" and the beauty of God's design by saying in this same sermon, "The gospel message is not “let the gay become straight” but “let the dead become alive.” Imagine saying, "The gospel message is not "let the racist become loving" but "let the dead become alive," or, "The gospel message is not "let the murderer become loving" but "let the dead become alive." Whenever your pastor pits "straight" against the gospel, he's pitting God's design against God's design, which is only what the devil does in Christ's temptation. It's pure empty rhetoric and deception. And Greear says, "Let me say something very clearly: Homosexuality does not send you to hell. And here’s how I know that: Being heterosexual doesn’t send you to heaven." Again, Jesus came to fulfill the law, and part of His perfect fulfillment of the law was His obedience to loving God and His neighbor perfectly, including His perfect love for His bride, the church. Jesus' fulfillment of "heterosexuality" for the church and in the church is indeed part of what sends Christians to Heaven. Again, this is just empty rhetoric from your pastor. Imagine saying, "Being Trans doesn't send you to Hell because being male or female doesn't send you to Heaven." Or, "Being racist doesn't send you to hell because loving your neighbor doesn't send you to heaven." And Greear says, "I mean, in terms of frequency of mention and the passion with which he mentions it, it would appear that quite a few other sins are more egregious in God’s eyes than homosexuality...The Bible appears more to whisper on sexual sin compared to its shouts about materialism and religious pride. And we see Jesus demonstrating great sympathy for those in sexual sin and great animosity toward the religiously proud. Jesus never said it was hard for the same-sex attracted to go to heaven; he did say it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for a religiously proud or materially wealthy person to get there. This is not to say it’s not sinful--just to say we often present it differently than the Bible does." The Bible most certainly does not "whisper" about any sin, especially the sin of homosexuality. Ask anyone in Hell. Or ask Jesus about the cross. Such a statement diminishes God's law, God's righteous wrath, and what Christ endured for us on the cross. Plus, what about Sodom and Gomorrah? What about the Canaanite cleansing? What about the flood? None of that sounds like whispering! And, speaking of the "frequency" of sins, if we followed Greear's logic, it would mean that God whispers about pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, sado-masochism, etc, because they're all mentioned in Scripture less than homosexuality. This is preposterous! God doesn't have to mention every sin multiple times or more than once to condemn it. The heinousness of sin is not due to how many times God condemns it. The heinousness of sin is determined based on how far away man is from obedience to God's command. And homosexuality is the literal turning upside down of God's design for our bodies. In all of Romans 1, homosexuality is the only sin mentioned that Paul calls, "unnatural." That's why it's more heinous rebellion against God and more detrimental to the person and nations who embrace it; it's further from God's design. 5) Your pastor tries to argue that the end of Romans 1 is Paul condemning everyone because they commit some of those sins. Again, Greear is trying to say that Paul is arguing that homosexuality is merely as heinous as the individual sins listed at the end of Romans 1. But Paul's point is that those who worship the creature, turn sexuality upside down, and dive into all sin, "all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice" (Rom 1:29). The list at the end of Romans 1 should be taken collectively not individually as Greear does. Their lives are full of habitual sin. That does not describe any Christian. If Romans 1 describes anyone in your church, he or she is not a Christian according to Paul. But Greear uses the list at the end of Romans 1 to say that all sin is the same in heinousness, which is not what Paul taught in Romans 1 or elsewhere. 6) The bottom line is that your pastor in this sermon adopts the world's definitions of "LGBT people." He treats SSA as ontological, as an affliction, not as a sin that must be repented of, not as a pathological sin pattern that God can change through Christ. Your pastor actually rebukes the church for condemning LGBT as a sin: "Listen: We only grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know (1 Tim 1:15)— and that if Jesus came to die for us, there is no one that he would not die for. When you realize that, you’ll cease being a Pharisaic teacher of the law and you’ll become a gospel witness. You’ll start loving your neighbor as someone made in the image of God and feeling compassion for them in their weakness." So, LGBT is weakness? That's not how the Bible describes sin. And Jesus never had compassion for sin or even sinners in their sin. He had compassion for image bearers in spite of their sin. That's the opposite of what Greear is doing. Greear softens the Bible's language against LGBT throughout this sermon in the name of "compassion." But Christ does not soften the law in the name of compassion; He does the opposite. He slays with the law to send the sinner running to Him. Remember how Christ addressed the self-righteous rich young ruler? As John Mark writes, "And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions" Mark 10:21-22). It's an indefensible sermon that even Greear would not have preached 10 years earlier. What changed? It wasn't the Bible. The culture got soft on LGBT and now your pastor is as well.

Neil, I understand that you love your pastor, but your love should cause you to call him to repentance instead of trying to justify his statements (Reader, click through and read Neil's small thread and his quotes from John Calvin before you read my response). Neil, 1) Greear does not mention the Apostle Paul's "thorn in the flesh" at all in this sermon. He does not mention 2 Corinthians 12 where Paul describes his "thorn." 2) Greear does not mention John Calvin. This is you trying to put Calvin's words in your pastor's mouth. And you misinterpret Calvin as well. 3) In the video, Greear says we must be compassionate towards "gay and lesbian people" because God has not answered their prayer. He says that they got effected with a different form of the curse than other people. He treats "LGBT folks" as victims. But afflictions do not require repentance and victims are not required to repent. Greear teaches in this sermon that same-sex attraction is an affliction, not a sin to be turned from and rejected. He only condemns homosexual behavior as sin. 4) Greear also softens the heinousness of "LGBT sin" and the beauty of God's design by saying in this same sermon, "The gospel message is not “let the gay become straight” but “let the dead become alive.” Imagine saying, "The gospel message is not "let the racist become loving" but "let the dead become alive," or, "The gospel message is not "let the murderer become loving" but "let the dead become alive." Whenever your pastor pits "straight" against the gospel, he's pitting God's design against God's design, which is only what the devil does in Christ's temptation. It's pure empty rhetoric and deception. And Greear says, "Let me say something very clearly: Homosexuality does not send you to hell. And here’s how I know that: Being heterosexual doesn’t send you to heaven." Again, Jesus came to fulfill the law, and part of His perfect fulfillment of the law was His obedience to loving God and His neighbor perfectly, including His perfect love for His bride, the church. Jesus' fulfillment of "heterosexuality" for the church and in the church is indeed part of what sends Christians to Heaven. Again, this is just empty rhetoric from your pastor. Imagine saying, "Being Trans doesn't send you to Hell because being male or female doesn't send you to Heaven." Or, "Being racist doesn't send you to hell because loving your neighbor doesn't send you to heaven." And Greear says, "I mean, in terms of frequency of mention and the passion with which he mentions it, it would appear that quite a few other sins are more egregious in God’s eyes than homosexuality...The Bible appears more to whisper on sexual sin compared to its shouts about materialism and religious pride. And we see Jesus demonstrating great sympathy for those in sexual sin and great animosity toward the religiously proud. Jesus never said it was hard for the same-sex attracted to go to heaven; he did say it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for a religiously proud or materially wealthy person to get there. This is not to say it’s not sinful--just to say we often present it differently than the Bible does." The Bible most certainly does not "whisper" about any sin, especially the sin of homosexuality. Ask anyone in Hell. Or ask Jesus about the cross. Such a statement diminishes God's law, God's righteous wrath, and what Christ endured for us on the cross. Plus, what about Sodom and Gomorrah? What about the Canaanite cleansing? What about the flood? None of that sounds like whispering! And, speaking of the "frequency" of sins, if we followed Greear's logic, it would mean that God whispers about pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, sado-masochism, etc, because they're all mentioned in Scripture less than homosexuality. This is preposterous! God doesn't have to mention every sin multiple times or more than once to condemn it. The heinousness of sin is not due to how many times God condemns it. The heinousness of sin is determined based on how far away man is from obedience to God's command. And homosexuality is the literal turning upside down of God's design for our bodies. In all of Romans 1, homosexuality is the only sin mentioned that Paul calls, "unnatural." That's why it's more heinous rebellion against God and more detrimental to the person and nations who embrace it; it's further from God's design. 5) Your pastor tries to argue that the end of Romans 1 is Paul condemning everyone because they commit some of those sins. Again, Greear is trying to say that Paul is arguing that homosexuality is merely as heinous as the individual sins listed at the end of Romans 1. But Paul's point is that those who worship the creature, turn sexuality upside down, and dive into all sin, "all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice" (Rom 1:29). The list at the end of Romans 1 should be taken collectively not individually as Greear does. Their lives are full of habitual sin. That does not describe any Christian. If Romans 1 describes anyone in your church, he or she is not a Christian according to Paul. But Greear uses the list at the end of Romans 1 to say that all sin is the same in heinousness, which is not what Paul taught in Romans 1 or elsewhere. 6) The bottom line is that your pastor in this sermon adopts the world's definitions of "LGBT people." He treats SSA as ontological, as an affliction, not as a sin that must be repented of, not as a pathological sin pattern that God can change through Christ. Your pastor actually rebukes the church for condemning LGBT as a sin: "Listen: We only grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know (1 Tim 1:15)— and that if Jesus came to die for us, there is no one that he would not die for. When you realize that, you’ll cease being a Pharisaic teacher of the law and you’ll become a gospel witness. You’ll start loving your neighbor as someone made in the image of God and feeling compassion for them in their weakness." So, LGBT is weakness? That's not how the Bible describes sin. And Jesus never had compassion for sin or even sinners in their sin. He had compassion for image bearers in spite of their sin. That's the opposite of what Greear is doing. Greear softens the Bible's language against LGBT throughout this sermon in the name of "compassion." 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Sometimes we are asked why missionaries in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spend their time, talents, and funds to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. The answer is simple: They love God, they love His children, and they know the gospel of Jesus Christ is true.

Sometimes we are asked why missionaries in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spend their time, talents, and funds to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. The answer is simple: They love God, they love His children, and they know the gospel of Jesus Christ is true.

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A little girl brings a Crucifix to a couple who are getting married—a beautiful marriage tradition. When the bride and groom go to the church to be married, they carry a Crucifix with them. The priest blesses the Crucifix, and instead of saying that they have found the ideal partner with whom to share their lives, he exclaims, “You have found your Cross! It is a Cross to love, to carry with you—a Cross that is not to be thrown off, but rather cherished.” When they exchange their marital vows, the bride places her right hand on the Crucifix, and the groom places his right hand over hers. Both are bound together and united to the Cross. The priest covers their hands with his stole while they pronounce their promises to love one another in good times and in bad, proclaiming their vows to be faithful according to the rites of the Church. Then, they first kiss the Cross—not each other. If one abandons the other, they abandon Christ on the Cross. They lose Jesus! After the wedding, the newlyweds cross the threshold of their home to enthrone that same Crucifix in a place of honor. It becomes the reference point of their lives and the center of family prayer, for the young couple believes deeply that the family is born of the Cross. Video: Júlia Carvalho

A little girl brings a Crucifix to a couple who are getting married—a beautiful marriage tradition. When the bride and groom go to the church to be married, they carry a Crucifix with them. The priest blesses the Crucifix, and instead of saying that they have found the ideal partner with whom to share their lives, he exclaims, “You have found your Cross! It is a Cross to love, to carry with you—a Cross that is not to be thrown off, but rather cherished.” When they exchange their marital vows, the bride places her right hand on the Crucifix, and the groom places his right hand over hers. Both are bound together and united to the Cross. The priest covers their hands with his stole while they pronounce their promises to love one another in good times and in bad, proclaiming their vows to be faithful according to the rites of the Church. Then, they first kiss the Cross—not each other. If one abandons the other, they abandon Christ on the Cross. They lose Jesus! After the wedding, the newlyweds cross the threshold of their home to enthrone that same Crucifix in a place of honor. It becomes the reference point of their lives and the center of family prayer, for the young couple believes deeply that the family is born of the Cross. Video: Júlia Carvalho

Sachin Jose

130,640 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

“Bobi Wine is not at the same level as the President. He is on the same level as Bebe Cool and Jose Chameleone — he is a musician and will always be one. That is why members of the opposition are struggling. They are suffering because they have refused to accept the reality that they are dealing with an artist, not a politician.” — Bebe Cool (🎥: Rising Star)

“Bobi Wine is not at the same level as the President. He is on the same level as Bebe Cool and Jose Chameleone — he is a musician and will always be one. That is why members of the opposition are struggling. They are suffering because they have refused to accept the reality that they are dealing with an artist, not a politician.” — Bebe Cool (🎥: Rising Star)

Patro Uganda

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Grace and Peace (PCA) in Austin is part of the South Texas Presbytery, moderated by Joshua Torrey. They have deaconesses, and they insist these are not ordained to an office. Okay, fine. But here’s what they actually say: “The role of Deaconess is not an ordained office of the church. However, they are charged with assisting the Deacons in all their work and should be held to the same standards as the men.” And again: “Deacons and deaconesses are elected by the Grace + Peace members based on the qualifications in 1 Timothy 3:8–16.” So let’s review: - Not the same office as deacon. - Yet must meet the exact same qualifications. - Elected by the congregation in the same way. - Charged by the session to do the same work (“assisting in all their work”). In other words—deacon in everything but the name, just without ordination.

Grace and Peace (PCA) in Austin is part of the South Texas Presbytery, moderated by Joshua Torrey. They have deaconesses, and they insist these are not ordained to an office. Okay, fine. But here’s what they actually say: “The role of Deaconess is not an ordained office of the church. However, they are charged with assisting the Deacons in all their work and should be held to the same standards as the men.” And again: “Deacons and deaconesses are elected by the Grace + Peace members based on the qualifications in 1 Timothy 3:8–16.” So let’s review: - Not the same office as deacon. - Yet must meet the exact same qualifications. - Elected by the congregation in the same way. - Charged by the session to do the same work (“assisting in all their work”). In other words—deacon in everything but the name, just without ordination.

Michael Foster

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Gabor Maté on why he worries about "very nice" people and the hidden cost of people-pleasing People-pleasers didn't choose to be that way. According to physician and trauma expert Gabor Maté, they gave something up far earlier before they even had the words for it. "People pleasers are the ones who gave up not by conscious choice, but as a matter of survival, their authenticity in order to stay liked and accepted and attached." And once that pattern is set in childhood, it doesn't stay there. "They carry that on in the rest of their lives." And the consequences, Maté says, go beyond relationships they become a health risk. "I always worry for the very nice people." He draws a crucial distinction between two kinds of niceness: "There are two places to be very nice from. One is just genuine human compassion and concern for others but you're still grounded in yourself. That's great." The second kind is where it gets dangerous. "A lot of people are very nice because they are afraid not to be because they weren't liked who they were. They weren't loved for who they were. Being nice was their way of getting the love and the attention they needed." The difference isn't visible from the outside. Both people smile. Both people help. Both people say yes. But one is rooted. The other is running.

Gabor Maté on why he worries about "very nice" people and the hidden cost of people-pleasing People-pleasers didn't choose to be that way. According to physician and trauma expert Gabor Maté, they gave something up far earlier before they even had the words for it. "People pleasers are the ones who gave up not by conscious choice, but as a matter of survival, their authenticity in order to stay liked and accepted and attached." And once that pattern is set in childhood, it doesn't stay there. "They carry that on in the rest of their lives." And the consequences, Maté says, go beyond relationships they become a health risk. "I always worry for the very nice people." He draws a crucial distinction between two kinds of niceness: "There are two places to be very nice from. One is just genuine human compassion and concern for others but you're still grounded in yourself. That's great." The second kind is where it gets dangerous. "A lot of people are very nice because they are afraid not to be because they weren't liked who they were. They weren't loved for who they were. Being nice was their way of getting the love and the attention they needed." The difference isn't visible from the outside. Both people smile. Both people help. Both people say yes. But one is rooted. The other is running.

Kevin Tanaka

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So, providential moment in church today. Yesterday, Jon Harris 🌲 and I discussed how the proponents of "third way" will often use uncharitable speech with their critics even as they demand charitable treatment. I used the example of JD Greear famously calling those who objected to his bringing social justice ideology into the SBC a "synagogue of Satan." Today, my pastor went over the passage in Revelation 2 that uses this phrase and explained its context. The Apostle John calls a subset of Jews a "synagogue of Satan" because they were encouraging the Romans to persecute the Christians because the Christians would not worship Caesar as Lord. They would not assimilate into the culture. They would not synthesize the culture's values with Christian values. So, in fact, those who were resisting Greear's efforts to bring influences from BLM, antiracism, CRT, etc. into the SBC were the ones behaving like the church of Smyrna, who the Lord commends. GREEAR was the one behaving like the synagogue of Satan by 1) seeking to incorporate worldly trends into the church. And 2) going to the platforms of our societal powers (various media outlets) and condemning his brothers and sisters before the world for not joining in their religious practices, so to speak. This clip is kind of long, and I want to be CRYSTAL CLEAR here, this is my application of my pastor's teaching. He has never applied it to this particular incident. This is just me making that application. Because I think it's an apt one.

So, providential moment in church today. Yesterday, Jon Harris 🌲 and I discussed how the proponents of "third way" will often use uncharitable speech with their critics even as they demand charitable treatment. I used the example of JD Greear famously calling those who objected to his bringing social justice ideology into the SBC a "synagogue of Satan." Today, my pastor went over the passage in Revelation 2 that uses this phrase and explained its context. The Apostle John calls a subset of Jews a "synagogue of Satan" because they were encouraging the Romans to persecute the Christians because the Christians would not worship Caesar as Lord. They would not assimilate into the culture. They would not synthesize the culture's values with Christian values. So, in fact, those who were resisting Greear's efforts to bring influences from BLM, antiracism, CRT, etc. into the SBC were the ones behaving like the church of Smyrna, who the Lord commends. GREEAR was the one behaving like the synagogue of Satan by 1) seeking to incorporate worldly trends into the church. And 2) going to the platforms of our societal powers (various media outlets) and condemning his brothers and sisters before the world for not joining in their religious practices, so to speak. This clip is kind of long, and I want to be CRYSTAL CLEAR here, this is my application of my pastor's teaching. He has never applied it to this particular incident. This is just me making that application. Because I think it's an apt one.

Megan Basham

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Listen to this segment of the New Statesman Podcast (Sep 26, 2025). While attempting to couch their language in such a way as to imply the right is wrong about everything, they fully admit that Liz Truss was completely snaked by the Bank of England and this raises a constitutional crisis in our country: Should it be the elected government who dictates economic policy or should it be the unelected Bank of England? This is a serious and weighty question to which there is actually an obvious answer, and they admit that the cruelty by which Truss was dealt with by the left was wholly inappropriate because Starmer's government is facing the exact same problem. It's quite a shocking listen because it reveals the sheer partisanship of the them-vs-us attitude of the liberal elites and their worship of the system as opposed to any normal Brit who actually thinks the country ought to work for the people first. If the system is not serving us then the system must change, but instead they admit the system decided it would take action against the government instead to protect itself. This is completely unacceptable, and they admit it.

Listen to this segment of the New Statesman Podcast (Sep 26, 2025). While attempting to couch their language in such a way as to imply the right is wrong about everything, they fully admit that Liz Truss was completely snaked by the Bank of England and this raises a constitutional crisis in our country: Should it be the elected government who dictates economic policy or should it be the unelected Bank of England? This is a serious and weighty question to which there is actually an obvious answer, and they admit that the cruelty by which Truss was dealt with by the left was wholly inappropriate because Starmer's government is facing the exact same problem. It's quite a shocking listen because it reveals the sheer partisanship of the them-vs-us attitude of the liberal elites and their worship of the system as opposed to any normal Brit who actually thinks the country ought to work for the people first. If the system is not serving us then the system must change, but instead they admit the system decided it would take action against the government instead to protect itself. This is completely unacceptable, and they admit it.

Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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“ Today, we need to realize that these people, no matter where they are, are all the same. They are opponents of order, emissaries of violence, but most of all, they are enemies of the true cross, and we need to be clear: their escalation in violence is not because their influence is increasing or because their power is growing. Quite the opposite. It is because they see good people waking up. They see young men in every single one of our countries choosing to reject their lies and live in the truth. Charlie Kirk is the reason that is happening. Now, the fate of our children, the future of our countries, the destiny of our entire civilization hinges on whether we will carry on his legacy.” Santiago Abascal 🇪🇸, thank you for the opportunity to address Europe’s conservative leaders at this turning point in Western civilization.

“ Today, we need to realize that these people, no matter where they are, are all the same. They are opponents of order, emissaries of violence, but most of all, they are enemies of the true cross, and we need to be clear: their escalation in violence is not because their influence is increasing or because their power is growing. Quite the opposite. It is because they see good people waking up. They see young men in every single one of our countries choosing to reject their lies and live in the truth. Charlie Kirk is the reason that is happening. Now, the fate of our children, the future of our countries, the destiny of our entire civilization hinges on whether we will carry on his legacy.” Santiago Abascal 🇪🇸, thank you for the opportunity to address Europe’s conservative leaders at this turning point in Western civilization.

Kevin Roberts

10,963 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад