Birthright

There's a m- there's, to me, a longer list of cases, big cases Trump has lost than won.

Birthright, tariffs, National Guard, mifepristone, mail-in ballots, uh, post-voting counting of mail-in ballots, his executive order.

Um, I mean, it goes on and on.

There's big ones he's won, immunity being number one, um, you know, slaughter, whatever.

So, uh, in your opinion, uh, what do you think or see with this event in the garden? Is these, these coverings, is this just, you know, skins of the first animal that had to die to cover the sins of humanity or is there something deeper here in your opinion?

Well, there could be, but we don't have the detail in the Bible that really sort of explains what this clothing were, what it was, and it, was it more than just clothing? Was it just more than just skins? Um, so the language isn't really providing a lot, but these skins are also attributed in an apocrypha book, of the book of Jasher, as to being the clothing that was passed on down through the lineages after Eden into Noah, and then ends up in Nimrod's hands, that, uh, in that account provides the additional strength like a giant would have so that he could become like a Gibborim, a mighty one.

And so but again, we don't have that scripturally either.

Interesting, but we don't have that.

And even when in Ezekiel one, three, and ten, where you have the chariot of God, you have the cherubim there as well, along with the ophanim and the wheels.

Hmm.

And with my book too, and of course, I mean, I like to look at stuff, but I don't care to hypothesize and theorize, but I try to tell people up front, you know, this is my opinion because whatever.

But I had stumbled across looking through these, you know, these ephods and these, the lineage of the birthright, the passing of these garments and the priesthood and stuff.

It comes to me naturally, like to just like, do like just like story tell like quite economically but densely like there's a lot to it and sometimes it's like you just gotta give stuff space to breathe and so this felt like a really natural breathing point but it's like okay here's where like a musical idea that maybe people can't even articulate they can't even say like I understand exactly what this is doing but you feel it you feel what it's trying to accomplish in kind of marrying what covenant and vow actually means to a greater extent

You then take us to the story of Isaac and then Jacob in the song Birthright, telling the story again in such a unique way.

Some of the lyrics here you write, and if I wrestle with you till sunrise, will you bless me? Would you bring me peace? If I have cheated every vow in your eyes, is there hope to be the man I've dreamed I'll be? the man I dreamed I'll be.

Take us into Birthright.

Yeah, so Birthright kind of actually covers three generations.

We start with Isaac, and then we shift in verse two to Jacob, and then we go finally to Joseph, and we end at Joseph.

And I find a lot of hope in the notion of how not cleanly the narrative of God's redemption arc is sometimes because it'd be very easy to tie a pretty bow on the end of like God answering the promise to Abram and going, Hey, here's your son.

They are getting ready for their tag team title match or to go for the tag team titles, I should say.

But Birthright comes in to say that the titles are theirs and they will not jump them in line.

We then have Cruz Montana in Robert Stone's office to talk about last week's six-man tag.

EK Prosper came in to say that the loss was his fault, which Montana respects.

with Robert Stone making a match between the two teams for later tonight.

We then have Dark State of Osiris Griffin and Cutler James defeat Dorian Van Dukes and Shawn Legacy when Dion Lennox interferes, which allows Griffin and James to hit the toss powerbomb on Van Dukes.

After the match, Birthright is here to say they are tired of the disrespect.

and are going to start asserting their dominance pretty much by beating down Legacy and Dukes here.

And that led to Dark State getting the victory there.

And then we had Birthright show up.

Right after this match, Lexus King's yelling about Zillow fought too.

They spoke about dropping Zillow and wanting the championships.

what is your question?

My question is, so similar to the birthright citizenship that was discussed earlier today, a lot of the issues regarding birthright citizenship, it's been flip-floppy in terms of the Minor v. Happerstatt case in 1875, all the way to the Slaughter v. Trump case that just happened.

Birthright isn't a solidified issue.

So how do you see kind of the progress in the race, sex issues and intersectionality within the Constitution kind of mirroring birthright issues? Right now, there's some progress with Bostock versus Clayton County and States versus Gemetti.

So do you see that being translated into tangible long-term progress, especially with the removal power ruling this past June?

When did it happen under? Who did it happen under? Hold on.

Birthright was also upheld under Trump.

Okay, thank you.

So under Trump, a conservative value was upheld, right? Birthright was upheld under Trump.

So is Trump pro-birthright?

All right, everybody calm down.

Now let him respond, please.

Thank you.

Someone who I'd met in the first organization that I was running knew Michael really well.

And Michael had this idea, a bunch of philanthropists at the time had this idea that they wanted to create the follow-up to Birthright, to Taglit.

And they weren't sure what it should be, but they thought it should be a two-year fellowship where they brought technologists to make Aliyah.

And what I was doing at the time was somewhat similar.

And after four months, I came and did probably the scariest thing I've done since founding Nouveau, which was tell Michael it was a bad idea, right? I had to come to this person who himself invests in ideas and say this idea that he had come up with wasn't the right one.

It was super expensive and the ROI was very unclear.

And at the same time, Birthright had had someone doing very similar work, and we both kind of told them at the same time it was a no-go.

Michael and I walked out of that meeting, and he looked at me and goes, do you have another idea? And I was like, I do.