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So several things.

Everyone has to follow their conscience before God based on Scripture.

My conscience, I register as an independent to say I'm not aligned with either party, even though I voted Republican for years and years and years and years and years and couldn't consider voting Democrat for policy and other things.

But I just want to make a statement.

For me, I'm not saying everyone has to live by this.

Um, Why is Israel important to you? And how should Christians view the importance of Israel when it comes to politics and government? So America

Mm-hmm.

Like, "This is not going to be sustainable.

This is not helping either of our spirits, you know, thrive in these human bodies, in this existence.

This is not going to allow us to bring our gifts to the planet and actually do good the way that we are designed," right? You know, if we're continually breaking each other down, you know, we're in- essentially driving ourselves into the ground.

We need to be lifting one another up and supporting one another.

I think that's really the key in any relationship.

You know, I see it with our children.

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I mean, I thought maybe it would even go to a runoff, but she won outright this Kuros.

Doesn't surprise me the least.

I've known Diana Gatt.

Look, it's been 20 years since I was the undersecretary.

And I knew Pat Schroeder, her predecessor.

I know Diana.

She was, you know, actually, she's a very likable person.

When did that happen and when did it all go south for Colorado?

I don't wanna spend a lot of time on it, but do you think especially since October 7th, 2023, it is a media propaganda kind of thing where they're taking maybe 10, five, 10% truth and, and ballooning it to make it seem like a genocide? Is it a few bad apples? What is your characterization of what's actually going on?

It is a libelous exaggeration, and it has been systematically spread and deployed.

Documentation has been uncovered from the earliest days of the war in Gaza, where the talking points were being put out by Hamas and other strategists saying, "Make sure you use words like famine and genocide on a regular basis." And f- in the minds of Hamas, and you even have quotes to this effect where they've admitted it, that the, the more civilians that die, the better for their cause, because that's, that's the only, only way they're gonna win a battle ultimately is, is in PR.

And if you think of this for a moment, okay, genocide is the intentional destruction of, of a people or people group, right? That, that's, that's what it is.

Okay, so if Israel...

It's reported that maybe 75% of the buildings in Gaza, be it homes, be it apartments, be it s- you know, all kinds of structures, 75% have been damaged or destroyed.

That sounds quite horrific.

And if not, uh, can we determine it in, in other ways that that's the case? You know, does Satan know his time is short, for example, because of 1948 nation being born in a day?

And so wherever you would like to start with kind of the early church and eventually it was Origen and his Alex- um, Alexandrian school, right? Bringing in the allegorical interpretation, and these things led to disregarding, uh, the promises that the Bible talks about with regard to Israel, and that affects what's coming in eschatology hugely.

Yeah.

So let's, let's think of it from several different dimensions.

Um, th- the Bible can be applied in many different ways, and we know in ancient Jewish interpretation, there were different levels of, of reading scripture, understanding scripture, and it could be taken literally, it could be taken metaphorically, it could be taken allegorically.

You see the New Testament authors writing in that same Jewish context, sometimes interpreting scripture allegorically or metaphorically, and, and again, making spiritual application.

But the overriding understanding, especially in the Jewish world, was y- you would not override the literal meaning of scripture or the plain meaning of scripture.

So you might make spiritual application, et cetera, but you wouldn't override the plain meaning of scripture ultimately.

Amen.

But isn't the technology advancing so that they can kind of stop this?

Well, they have the technology, but it's a numbers game.

And the cartels know that there's no way Customs has the personnel to search roughly hundreds of thousands of vehicles that are coming across the border every day.

They use a term called shotgunning, where they realize one or two trucks may get stopped, but the majority of them carrying narcotics will not.

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The issue is those cartels generate between $50 billion a year in financial proceeds, which flow through the Mexican economy.

If Shimbom, President Shimbom, was to effectively neutralize the cartels, that would be devastating to the Mexican economy as well as the U.S. trade relationship.

So she's in a very difficult position at this point in time.